Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

2001-06-13 Thread George Abdo
For the mkinitrd*.tar.gz files, I did a google search, and got a lot of hits. Here's the link to the search: http://www.google.com/search?q=mkinitrd+.tar.gz&btnG=Google+Search Hope this helps. George On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:01, jef wrote: > reply Chuan Bo - nobody's answered to me too (plug fo

Re: Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

2001-06-13 Thread Chuanbo Xu
I have installed: tcl-8.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm tclx-8.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm tcllib-8.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm tk-8.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm what do I install? >You probably do not have Tcl/Tk installed correctly on your system. You may want to >try reinstalling the Tcl/Tk packages from the RPM's, and see what that

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread Juha O Mustajarvi
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Aleksey Naumov wrote: > But which driver do you use for your 3C905B: "3c90x" or "3c59x"? > > I am trying to decide if it's worth putting more time into trying to > compile > the "3c90x" module (I also tried it but got no further than Juha) and, > hopefully, get it to load, or

[expert] OpenOffice and StarOffice freeze system

2001-06-13 Thread Digital Wokan
I was looking to edit a spreadsheet in StarOffice, so I downloaded it and proceeded to run the .bin file (after chmod +x of course). It brought up the KDE window for the first next to click, but everything was frozen. Mouse wouldn't move. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp did nothing. I couldn

RE: [expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

2001-06-13 Thread kapitany
Thanks, but it was not working... I rerun ldconf and it says that ldconfig: warning: /usr/local/webdb/webdb-2.2/lib/libclntsh.so.1.0_ is not a shared library, skipping And than I have the same error again; bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared object

Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

2001-06-13 Thread jef
reply Chuan Bo - nobody's answered to me too (plug for help - I wanna upgrade my kernel, but due to problems with RPM from some "version <= 3" problem, I cant take RPMs. Does anybody know where to find the source tar.gz for mkinitrd?) ANSWER for Chuan Bo : have you tried other options? like make

Re: [expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

2001-06-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, Scott, Rob wrote: > Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single > file from within an rpm? rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -i ...will extract all the files in the .rpm to the current directory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, Ope

[expert] Multi-Link PPP on Mandrake?

2001-06-13 Thread Scott
Hi- I am trying to move my dial-up connections over the Mandrake box. Currently using Win 2K for multi-link ppp connection. Two USR modems dial in for 112K. Has anyone done something similar under Mandrake or Linux in general? Can you point me to some documentation? Thanks, -Scott

Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

2001-06-13 Thread Chuanbo Xu
I think that there are many experts, but nobody give answer to me. I don't know who is a expert. >I wanted to compile a kernel of Mandrake 8.0, but failed. > >[root@mandrake linux]# make xconfig >rm -f include/asm >( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >make -C scripts kconfig.tk >make[1]: Enteri

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
May not apply, but saw some problems with slow transfer rates from 3c905c cards in dell machines under redhat 6.2 at work (caused problems with timeouts on nis, automounts etc. - was a lot of "slot allocation" errors in /var/log/message). A kernel upgrade from 2.2.14 to 2.2.19 fixed the problem

Re: [expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

2001-06-13 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 14 June 2001 04:26, istvan bereti wrote: > HI, > > I'm about to install WEBDB on mandrake 7.2. > I'm stuck.. > I have to enter this command: > bin/wdblsnr localhost 8088 > > and instead of executing it says: > bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: > cannot o

[expert] US sites for Mandrake Update

2001-06-13 Thread Alan N.
Can anyone point me to a site to enter in Mandrake Update in the US instead of the ft.rpmfind.net? I've tried just rpmfind.net but cannot get it to work.. I know this sounds like a REALLY stupid question, but I'm really getting frustraited with mdk update.. Simply cannot get it to wor

[expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

2001-06-13 Thread istvan bereti
HI, I'm about to install WEBDB on mandrake 7.2. I'm stuck.. I have to enter this command: bin/wdblsnr localhost 8088 and instead of executing it says: bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I added the lib dire

Re: [expert] more ati radeon ve dual display edition problems.

2001-06-13 Thread dany allard
David I haven't used an ATI Radeon card, but I did a search at www.rpmfind.net and found some ATI Radeon drivers dated May 28 2001. You may want to give them a try. Thanks Dany Allard David Savolainen wrote: > I everyone, > > I posted some more info a few days ago, but didn't hear fro

[expert] more ati radeon ve dual display edition problems.

2001-06-13 Thread David Savolainen
I everyone, I posted some more info a few days ago, but didn't hear from anyone so I thought I woud ask again. Does anyone know how to get an ati radeon ve dual display edition video card working? When I tried configuring it using XFree86 4.0.3, X would crash on startup. I upgraded to 4.1.0 an

[expert] Re: [Announce] MDKA-2001:010 - mandrake_desk update

2001-06-13 Thread Marco Marcelli
My friends, I have a great problem in installing Mandrake 8.0: fonts appear me too little, impossible to read. Of course I tried to correct them by configurating desktop, but fonts in application remain unreadable. What can I do? Thanx in advance. == Marco Marcelli - Gen

[newbie] PROBLEM WITH rsh

2001-06-13 Thread José Alberto Valle Cid
I can't do rsh as root from a machine with Mandrake 7.1 to a machine with Mandrake 8.0 , i need do this , how i can do?

[expert] spelling

2001-06-13 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, My spelling could be better and I use spelling checkers alot, however, I can only get the ammerican way of spelling words using any application in KDE. I know the differences are only minor like color and colour, neighbor and neighbour etc. Can somone point me in the right direction plea

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:27, Aleksey Naumov wrote: > Civileme, > > I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and > just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup > (but it works in both ways > under Win98). > > civileme wrote: > > I have three of those cards, identica

Re: [expert] After MandrakeUpdate upgraded imap, I have 2 imaps

2001-06-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jun 13, 2001 at 12:46:42AM -0400, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Now after the security upgrade, I have versions 2000c-4.4mdk and 2000-6mdk. > Anyone else notice this? Are both necessary? Both are not necessary. Did you install imap from cooker? That's where -6mdk is from. You can delete one

Re: [expert] Sound SiS 7018 Problems in a Laptop with LM8

2001-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:21 -0400, Pere Castañer wrote: > I have a Laptop Ahtec 2200 with the next configuration: > > Intel Pentium III 1000 Mhz (Coopermine) > 512 Mb Ram > SiS Integrated Sistems Motherboard > 20 Gb HD > 14.1" TFT on a SiS 630 Video Adapter Shared Memory > SiS 900 Network Adapt

Re: [expert] flickering

2001-06-13 Thread Sevatio
Edit file:/etc/X11/XF86Config to change MonitorSection to reflect the proper Horiz and Vert refresh rates. Then restart X. >> Original Message << On 6/11/01, 9:11:40 AM, Serdar Ozler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [expert] flickering: > Hi all. > I have

[expert] Atsar -D on Mandrake 7.2

2001-06-13 Thread dany allard
Everyone In the atsar man page the following is listed: ### -D Statistics about utilization of disk-partitions. For 2.2 kernels a kernel-patch is needed in order to get extended counters from the file/proc/partitions. Thispatchca

RE: [expert] WYSIWIG HTML Editors

2001-06-13 Thread David Joham
Hello George, I'm not much of a WYSIWYG HTML programmer, I have taken a look at coffecup. Its available for both Windows and Linux and may be close to what you're looking for. CoffeCup for Linux is available at www.coffeecup.com/linux If you really would like your older editors, you may be able

[expert] cupsd dies at boot when smb is started at boot

2001-06-13 Thread Glenn Johnson
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 and have everything working but have one problem. The cups daemon dies shortly after boot if I also have smb set to start at boot time. I need to have samba so a Win98 client can print. What can I do to fix this? -- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC

Re: [expert] How to make sure md5ums on download ISOs are ok

2001-06-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Ron, Found this thread in the archives, thought you might be able to help me. Main question: If md5sum /dev/cdrom doesn't work, can I recreate the iso file (in Linux or Windows (Easy CD Creator)) and get a reliable MD5 checksum? Aside: When I run md5sum /dev/cdrom the cdrom spins for a little w

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread Aleksey Naumov
Civileme, I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup (but it works in both ways under Win98). civileme wrote: > I have three of those cards, identical in model number and > decignation 3C905C types. > > All three run l

Re: [expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

2001-06-13 Thread Oscar
You can use mc Salu2, Oscar. "Scott, Rob" wrote: > > Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single > file from within an rpm? > Reason being I wish to install xine but it requires libXv.so.1 . A quick > search on rpmfind reveals it to be in XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i5

Re: [expert] xinetd...still not fixed and more...=)

2001-06-13 Thread Florian
Scuse me again ...=) I have 2 weird problems first of all i just did a fresh install (MDK8) after installing i went right away to update all available packets including glibc after a boot i got following mail from cron: sh: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_debug_f

[expert] xinetd...still not fixed and more...=)

2001-06-13 Thread Florian
iI have 2 weird problems first of all i just did a fresh install (MDK8) after installing i went right away to update all available packets including glibc after a boot i got following mail: >From nobody Wed Jun 13 17:38:26 2001 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0

2001-06-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, CHARDON,LUIS (HP-PuertoRico,ex1) wrote: > Hi, finally last night I could get it working as you said, using Mandrake > Configuration Tool, but I had to erase first the connection created by > Linuxconf. Oh yeah, I gorgot to mention you need to remove the one you create

[expert] Re: Can't get nut to compile the CGI support; was [Can't make nut-0.44.3 into RPM]

2001-06-13 Thread David Rankin
Matthew Dharm wrote: > You also need the -devel libraries for those rpms. Looks like, in > particular, you're missing gd-devel-1.8.1-4mdk > > gdImagePng is a function in a library, not a filename. > > Matt > Matt, I have gd and gd-devel installed. Do I need to recompile gd now that gd-devel is

[newbie] X 4.x freezes on Neomagic

2001-06-13 Thread Nico Krzebek
Has anyone else experienced spontanteous freezes under XFree86 4.x with an Neomagic chipset? I've tried out almost all 4.x releases. The last one was 4.1.0. At first I thought it was a KDE problem because I'm still able to move the mouse pointer but WindowMaker produced the same result, it only

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts & anti-aliasing

2001-06-13 Thread Praedor S. Tempus
This is how I do it...force of habit: Open a konsole or xterm, go to superuser, run drakfont. From that point, it is pretty self-explanatory with the nice GUI. You will select the fonts you want, if not all of them. You can go with normal or strong verification - the strong verification is s

[expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

2001-06-13 Thread Scott, Rob
Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single file from within an rpm? Reason being I wish to install xine but it requires libXv.so.1 . A quick search on rpmfind reveals it to be in XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm from Mandrake cooker I don't want to have to risk br

[expert] Problem upgrading (and relatedl problems) to Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-13 Thread bass
hi, I'm currently using Mandrake 7.0, and trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.5 A quick (but not that elegant) fix might be to just simply install Mandrake 8.0, and choose upgrade, but that would entail having to deal with the installation of a host of packages all over again - most of which i do

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:03, Juha O Mustajarvi wrote: > Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of > messages lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them. > > And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual > problem remains still. > > My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Ethe

[expert] two problems. one with kcontrol one with shared memory usage

2001-06-13 Thread Orkunt Sabuncu
Hi folks, I have just installed LM8.0 on my PC. It can be really slow (P 200 48mb ram) compared to newer PCs but I was really expecting better performance from LM8.0. I am using KDE as a desktop manager. when i use top i see that nearly all of the ram is used. At first I thought it is in fac

[expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread Juha O Mustajarvi
Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of messages lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them. And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual problem remains still. My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100 adapter, and is connected through DHCP. And the pr

[expert] Antialiasing

2001-06-13 Thread Praedor S.Tempus
I don't recall which file it is that one must edit to make antialiasing work for different font sizes. I would like to reduce the minimum sized font that gets antialiasing but cannot recall which file... Could someone please tell me?

Re: [expert] Poor OpenGL performance in LM 8.0

2001-06-13 Thread Nathan Callahan
Don't know what causing tuxracer to not report FPS correctly, but I think know what the problem with the Radeon is. The XF86 version that comes with LM8 does not support DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) on the radeon. You will have to obtain a new version of XF86 either from the DRI proj

Re: [expert] cvs and X forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi, My guess is that you are not starting ssh with the -X flag. This X11 forwarding. Possible other problems, the DISPLAY environment variable is not correctly set (although it should be in an xterm). If this is the case, assuming that you only have one X11 server running on one monitor, try

Re: [expert] WYSIWIG HTML Editors

2001-06-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Amaya is the only WYSIWYG HTML editor I've found. It's free and available for Linux and Windows. For some reason, I liked version 3.2.1 a little better than the current version, but I don't use either very often. It's not perfect (but what is?). Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hell

[expert] strange problem with Bind.... on Mdk 7.2

2001-06-13 Thread Franki
Hi everyone,,, I am having a little problem with Bind, which is now set up for our domain names and is seconded by our isp's dns,, I was sucessful with the main domain deligation, and got confiring results with a whois... BUT!! for many of the subdomains that I created, it works correctly and

Re: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0

2001-06-13 Thread Tommi
Bruno Damour wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed LM 8.0 (fresh install) after running LM 7.2 for some time. > I used to have my pppd configured with ON DEMAND (DEMAND=yes in ifcfg-ppp0) so > that i could just connect to the net (USR 56K Message Modem) pinging my fai. > This would also allow me

[expert] Problem IP Address and apache

2001-06-13 Thread pgoeldi
Hi all, I just installed LM 8 and basically it's great. But there are some problems I could not solve yet even searching in all possible archives and support sites. My environment: ADSL Router (Zyxel) which connects to the wan and, as dhcp server, leases ip addresses to our little lan consistin

[expert] battery monitor

2001-06-13 Thread ben s
hello how do i enable, or where do i get a battery monitor for kde2, running mandrake 8. running on a compaq armada. thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

[expert] cvs and X forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread Eivind Myrold Eriksen
Hi! I have several machines running Mandrake 8.0. When I use ssh (as normal user) between two of these machines and want to start an X application from the remote machine, I get: "Error: Couldn't find per display information". If I su before I initiate the ssh connection, there is no problem at al

[expert] Graphical printouts - unwanted!

2001-06-13 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
This is odd; here is my setup: We have an HP IIIsi printer on a machine. I have KDE finally set up right so KMAIL would print to it. However, when it prints, the text is printed faintly, the gray background is printed, so it's a mess. Any ideas how to get a decent clean printout? Thanks, -turgut

Re: [expert] cdrecord error [was: CDRW Drive Addition Addition]

2001-06-13 Thread Oscar Santacreu
On my computer this error appears after a dummy write (maybe the problem was fixating cdrom in this mode). Try rebooting your computer and burning a cd without testing dummy write first. Salu2, Oscar. Caleb Newville wrote: > > OK, no matter which program I use, they are all just a shell to cdrec

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts & anti-aliasing

2001-06-13 Thread Oscar Santacreu
Use DrakFont to uninstall any font you add. In mandrake 8, DrakFont has a problem with windows fonts. You must use MandrakeUpdate to update it. Then reimport windows fonts with strong verification. Maybe it helps. Salu2, Oscar. Frederic Soulier wrote: > > Hello, > > I had a lot of problem recen

[expert] LM 8.0 - Proxy client to access MS Proxy on W2000 Server

2001-06-13 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hello, We have this W2000 Server at the office with MS Proxy Server 2.0 on it On our workstations, we have a MS Proxy Client (I can't remember if it's winsock or something.. will check). In LM 8.0, I can access the Proxy Server from Netscape/Mozilla 0.9.1 for HTTP request but I can't get any SMT