Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread mike
Don't tell IBM and Boscov's Department store and Amazon and the city of Largo Fla. they think it's pretty stable. Go figuah. mg On Friday 30 November 2001 23:50, ltiu wrote: Your mileage varies. Everyone has a story to tell. It's open source and QA is not very good. That's why it bahaves

RE: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread Arnab_Ganguly
It has never crashed on me in 1 1/2 years. That should be stable enough!! -- From: mike[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ltiu Subject: Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread Ed Tharp
hey ITU, why not say that is your opinion. cause it ain't mine. and damn that was the least helpful reply I have seen. I am suprised you would waste your time typing that. It's open source and the QA is tons better than a company that keeps it's stuff secert, but the secret probly keeps know

[expert] Network problems

2001-12-01 Thread Syed Irfan
hi i have 2 computers connected to each other via a 5 port hub, i can ssh to the other machine and vise versa withouth any problems but if i try to transfer any file with about 1 or more mb tail -f /var/log/messages gives me Dec 1 23:34:24 Main sshd: succeeded Dec 1 23:34:45 Main

Re: [expert] Slow

2001-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
James Sparenberg wrote: Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:53 PM 11/29/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: Its not noticably slower then 7.2 on my box here, which is an old piece of crap Pentium Pro200, 96MB ram... Lucky you. I found 8.1 significantly slower than 7.2. I'm using it on

Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:42, you wrote: Hello I am having a funny behaviour with KDe and Gnome. If I click on any icon on desktop, I can see that the programme is running but nothing happens after that. If I want to create a terminal, again nothing happens. All windows simply disappear.

RE: [expert] Anyone else seeing these crashes...?

2001-12-01 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I'm running KDE continuously for weeks without logging out. This is using the Nvidia drivers for TNT and GeForce cards, w/Microsoft PS2 mice. Left click, right click, nada... No probs. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pierre

[expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Is there a way to make several hard drives look like one big drive? Something like spanning over several drives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 1:29 pm, you wrote: Is there a way to make several hard drives look like one big drive? Something like spanning over several drives. I belive that is what LVM is for - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing,

Re: [expert] Where to find a model to setup...

2001-12-01 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 17:49, Grouwels Daniel wrote: µHi, I'd like to set up my own domain controller for windows XP. This can be done with Sambe. I just need to know how to set up a DNS server (with bind) and how to configure my ports. Can someone tell me where i can find all

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Dennis Myhand
Just for some added info, I have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an FIC 503+, 256 megs ram, AMD k6-2 333MHz, and I also have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an old, Pentium MMX 166MHz, 96 megs of ram, and the cheapest MoBo that NEC could find. The Pentium machine is at least TWICE as fast as the AMD box, no

Re: [expert] Performance

2001-12-01 Thread Felix Miata
Dennis Myhand wrote: Just for some added info, I have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an FIC 503+, 256 megs ram, AMD k6-2 333MHz, and I also have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an old, Pentium MMX 166MHz, 96 megs of ram, and the cheapest MoBo that NEC could find. The Pentium machine is at least TWICE as

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Jason Guidry
On Saturday 01 December 2001 08:24 am, you assembled: Just for some added info, I have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an FIC 503+, 256 megs ram, AMD k6-2 333MHz, and I also have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on an old, Pentium MMX 166MHz, 96 megs of ram, and the cheapest MoBo that NEC could find. The Pentium

Re: [expert] printing in 8.1 and kde

2001-12-01 Thread Joseph Braddock
What printer are you trying to print to? Sounds like a winprinter (maybe a lexmark). If so, then the driver is the problem. Joe On Friday 30 November 2001 07:49 am, you wrote: OK, I have decided devfs isn't for me. I have the nomount option upon boot My question is how do I get printing

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Jason Guidry
On Saturday 01 December 2001 07:50 am, you wrote: On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 1:29 pm, you wrote: Is there a way to make several hard drives look like one big drive? Something like spanning over several drives. I belive that is what LVM is for OK. i read sistina's page about LVM and I'm still

Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread emammendes
Hello First thing to try: in Gnome or command line mode (NOT from within KDE), delete or rename the .kde directory in your home directory, then re-start KDE, see if that makes a difference. I have deleted the whole .kde directory but it didn't do any good. Kde stands beautifully on the

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I belive that is what LVM is for OK. i read sistina's page about LVM and I'm still not quite sure I understand. Is this just a version of software raid striping? why couldn't this guy do what he wants with raid? I'm not debating your

Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-12-01 Thread Robert Boggs
- Original Message - From: Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!! Well, I have so explaining to do. I have the linux box, with win xp, and 98. I have a raid system for the

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Franki
Don't do that, you will only hurt yourself.. We used to sell motherboards at the manufacturer where I worked, we had one for Cyrix 686 200+ CPU's and on that mainboard, the performance was equiv to a P120,(I think the chipset was based on an Apollo pro) but on a VX chipset the Cyrix686 killed

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Franki
speaking from experiance here... Thats not true, no-one doubted that the x86 Cyrix 200+ (which was a 166 chip) cained the intel P200 in everything bar floating point.. And K6-2 was likewise definately faster then P233mmx of the same clock speed. k6-2 was also compariable in speed in some

[expert] Proper Naming Conventions on Mandrake RPMS?

2001-12-01 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, I was wondering about the naming conventions of RPM's on MDK. I am working up a spec file to build Mosfet Liquid into an MDK rpm, but should the release be a plain 1 or 1mdk? I notice most Mandrake apps have the mdk appended to the version, but should a third party packager use

[expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-01 Thread jason-snyder
*Warning - The following may sound inflammatory, but it is meant as constructive criticism.* Main Linux box info: CPU: 800 MHz Athlon (old) SlotA M/B: ASUS K7A BIOS 1007 RAM: 256 MB PC133 ECC (swap turned off) Samba (2.2.1a and below): One thing that I noticed a little while back is that

Re: [expert] Slow

2001-12-01 Thread dfox
You people with older motherboards and lotsa RAM needs to do a little investigating before complaining about how long anything takes to do. The amount of cache RAM can affect performance in a very big way. My VIA Not only that, but complaining about how long it takes to boot (how often do

RE: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-01 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On |Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:52 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 |(relative to other things) | | More recently my

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 Nov 2001 10:07 pm, you wrote: Randy Donohoe wrote: My fstab floppy entry is set to auto, shouldn't that take care of it? Thanks, Randy Donohoe Even if you set it to auto,vfat or ext2 it will not mount using the floppy icon on

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:52 am, Franki wrote: I have an AthlonXP1800 and it rocks, try 2700 Bogomips, (might have been more, can't remember) but anyway, its lightning fast.. 1.4 Tbird runnin at 1.55 (11.5x135) using old left over pc100 sdram on an inexpensive Soyo k7vta pro, $ cat

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Larry Sword
Bill Beauchemin wrote: Is there a way to make several hard drives look like one big drive? Something like spanning over several drives. Try LVM. The how-to is the place to start. LVM-HOWTO.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Beauchemin
LVM is exactly what I want! Thanks! One thing though whay hasnt someone written a graphical version like what MDK has for partioning. No big deal I do enjoy hackin on the keyboard more than most. I miss DOS for that when admins were admins not mouse clickers. On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 1:29

[expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Charlie Bebber
I had this working many moons ago, but with new upgrades/installs, it's all been lost and I can't remember what I did (but I know it's not that hard -- that's why it's driving me crazy). So here's what I've got going on: - ntp installed on all of my machines - ntp configured on fileserver to

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Chris Gisela Slater-Walker
I don't know about the NTP client/server you are using but I use a piece of freeware called Chrony. It's easier to set up than xntpd, although it doesn't have certain options like broadcasting time to a subnet etc. I have found it very reliable. Chris Slater-Walker - Original Message -

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Charlie Bebber
Chris Gisela Slater-Walker said: I don't know about the NTP client/server you are using but I use a piece of freeware called Chrony. It's easier to set up than xntpd, although it doesn't have certain options like broadcasting time to a subnet etc. I have found it very reliable. Hi Chris,

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Are you sure the ntp package has the NTP *server*, not just the client? -- Asheesh. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Charlie Bebber wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1007244412-31033-738 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-12-01 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:02, you wrote: A bud of mine picked up an old IBM PC server 500, and unless it is not a bios problem, the stupid thing keeps asking for a Reference disc I don't know what it wants exactly, I tried formatting a Linux boot disc for it, but its too stupid to read it I

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-12-01 Thread Expert
Many thanks for the info. I found the file, copied it onto a 1.44 Mb disc, its all I had formatted, does it require 2.88 drive or is it backward compatible? I searched the IBM site, but I could not find anything that tells you how to make the file work. I copied the .exe file onto the disc but

[expert] gcc downgrade has killed apache?? How?

2001-12-01 Thread Expert
I had to downgrade my gcc compiler to 296 Apache has ceased to function. I don't understand the relation. What can I do to fix it? Please advise. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Charlie Bebber
Asheesh Laroia said: Are you sure the ntp package has the NTP *server*, not just the client? Since when have there been two different packages? Thanks, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I was thinking along the lines of telnet and telnet-server. If the ntp package (you can check in /usr/share/doc/ntp-whatever/) has the server stuff, oops. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Charlie Bebber wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1007249750-31033-754

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Brian
Try ntpq -p and see what it says. Should have something like this: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == *yourserver.yourdomain.com ntp-0.cso.uiuc. 3 u 417 1024 377

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread dfox
1.4 Tbird runnin at 1.55 (11.5x135) using old left over pc100 sdram on an inexpensive Soyo k7vta pro, $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Hmm. Any extra special cooling beyond the stock heatsink/fan? same way we endured 7.2 Piece of Crap!, I'm going back to 7.1 a while back. current version Mandrake

RE: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-01 Thread Franki
Yes, I would concur with that, I have samba setup here, and the performance has been great, I did some tests with a 16mb zip file I made for the tests... copied it to and from the linux box (8.1, 2.4.13-9kernel) and it was very responsive, and that was on my crappy Ppro200 system, which is also

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Franki
yep, right you are, just went and checked... the 2700 must have been the score of the 1.4 I had before this one. vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1538.840 cache size : 256

Fwd: Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-12-01 Thread mike
Interestingly, I use Linux now because I decided to try it, as a dual boot, and was amazed how smoothly it installed and just ran, compared to Windows 2000 Professional, which I had installed just about a month before. This was a pre 6.5 version of Mandrake, I couldn't get over it! I work a

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Isnt ntpdate just a client like rdate? You need ntpd runnung. try service ntpd start and see what happens. # rpm -qa|grep ntp ntp-4.1.0-1mdk # ntpd (and ntpdate) are part of the above package. Usage is the same as xntpd (and seem so similar it may just be a rename?) BillK On Sun,

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Charlie Bebber
I just went back and installed xntp3 on the server and life is good. I have no idea why xntp3 stopped being bundled and was replaced with, what IMHO, is an inferior ntp package. Can anyone shed some light on this? Cheers, -Charlie Bill Kenworthy said: Isnt ntpdate just a client like rdate?