Re: [expert-it] sis 630 su notebook

2001-12-13 Thread Valerio Spadoni
At 16.31 06/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: Alle 15:32, giovedì 6 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, ho il seguente problema: ho comperato un portatile (non marcato) con chipset Sis 630 (perfettamente riconosciuto) ed LCD 14,1 TFT. Ebbene quando devo selezionare il monitor non

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread Tim Holmes
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tdh --

Re: [expert] motherboards

2001-12-13 Thread Tim Holmes
Looks like everybody has joined the 'bandwagon!' AMD is the way to go. They do as much, if not more then lower end P4s. They're also, in some cases 40% of the price. (Depending on speed of course!) I mean I bought 1.2 Ghz Athlon for like $120 I believe. That's with 266 FSB as well. I

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2001-12-13 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 05:34, Mark Weaver wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:43:59 -0500 I'm currently experiementing with header filtering with postfix and I was wondering about something. the regex for doing this goes roughly something like this: /^HEADER_NAME: stuff you don't

Re: [expert] kapm-idled consuming all cpu

2001-12-13 Thread Oscar
El mié, 12-12-2001 a las 23:47, Bill Kenworthy escribió: Also on a laptop is supposed to create power savings and reduced heat output from the cpu. Anyone know where the docs are for this? man kapm-idled produces nothing - easy to find documenmtation on the system via man, info etc is

RE: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-12-13 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
BTW: The @ sign while permitted in the Workgroup Field, is reserved and causes problems for Netbios Samba for reasons I will not go into here, spaces and certain other characters are also no-no's. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of

Re: [expert] SCSI-emulation

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Naish
If cdrecord doesnt work try it as root as this prog isnt available to non root as standard. Change its group to cdwriter and add yourself to cdwriter group to be able to use it from your standard user. si -Original Message- From: skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001

[expert] Strange ES1370 sound problem

2001-12-13 Thread Phil
Hello All, This problem has only occurred still MDK 8.1 was installed a couple of months ago and is something I have been able to live with until now. When my system is first started /dev/dsp does not exist and if I try to run kmix a message is displayed that says something like invalid

RE: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-12-13 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Windows logs into Samba utilizing the USERNAME and PASSWORD you enter when Windows first comes up. You must FIRST create Linux user accounts on your machine, using the same naming. Then use smbpasswd -a USERNAME for EACH Linux Account. Also make sure that SAMBA and your Windows machines are

Re: [expert] motherboards [OT]

2001-12-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Tim: Mandrake Forum ran a poll last week that showed that about 60% of those responding use some kind of AMD CPU; only about 35% use Intel (Macs and others accounted for the rest). Evidently Linuxers aren't impressed by those little blue critters in the Intel TV ads. -- cmg On Wednesday 12

RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations

2001-12-13 Thread Robin
Hi all, It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of only Channel 14. The picture and sound are very fuzzy only on my computer, it's fine with the TV in the living room. I think it is a hardware

Re: [expert] Strange ES1370 sound problem

2001-12-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Phil wrote: Hello All, This problem has only occurred still MDK 8.1 was installed a couple of months ago and is something I have been able to live with until now. When my system is first started /dev/dsp does not exist and if I try to run kmix a message is displayed

[expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?

2001-12-13 Thread J Grant
Hello I would like to pose a question, what can KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface? I am interested to know if the KDE developers have looked at OS X and other interfaces for ideas? After using OS X in a shop there are some nice features, when you are logged in for instance browse to the

[expert] telnets on port 992

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Sourmail
Hi, I just ran nmap on my machine and it shows 'telnets' listening on port 992. Of course, telnet is disabled and there is no trace of telnetd or whatever running when doing ps -ef. Any idea what this could be ? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] fun with vi. search command

2001-12-13 Thread mike
The first ones, then when you hit n the next sequence and so on. This is, of course, dependent on the position of your cursor. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 23:23, Nguyen H.Vu wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:24:16 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nguyen,

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-13 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 16:49, Tom Brinkman wrote: best solution (I've tried both) is GC's rpm's for mplayer http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ Do you mean that you not only want a wrong answer, but a certain

RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
re:earlier comments on TV cards the ideal PC for using a tv card would be an old 286 machine, with nice slow clocks so the harmonmic content is limited to less than 100 MHz, catch 22 is that you need a fast graphics card which needs fast clocks. you could'nt put a tv receiver in a worse EMC

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread H.McM
Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion, and yes its something I had tried. It still gives the same result, ie Monday on the left. Thats why I am convinced I want to have a look at the source, which is something I cant find. H H.McM wrote: I have been looking at this problem too, cause its

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread Brian
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:48:14 -0700 Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas H.McM wrote: Andreas Andreas I have been looking at this problem too, cause its something that bugs me as well. Andreas Andreas After looking at the man page for cal, I saw that start on Sunday is the

Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations

2001-12-13 Thread Jun Liu
are you sure 'scantv .xawtv' found the right TV channels? On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:31:07PM -0800, Robin wrote: :Hi all, : :It seems people are talking about TV cards reception here. Maybe someone :can help me with my problem. I am having a problem with reception of :only Channel 14. The

[expert] LM 8.1: Installing multiple versions of C++ compiler

2001-12-13 Thread D. R. Evans
I have LM 8.1 installed and am experiencing problems with the gcc 2.96 compiler. I tried using the 3.0.1 version that also says that it's installed (gcc -V 3.0.1 ...) but that gives an error, saying that it is incorrectly installed :-( (I didn't install it explicitly; it simply appeared when

Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?

2001-12-13 Thread Jun Liu
It takes time to polish everything, :) On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: :Hello : :I would like to pose a question, what can KDE learn from the Mac OS X :interface? : :I am interested to know if the KDE developers have looked at OS X and :other interfaces for ideas? :

Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Wenninger
It could be something causing interference on that specific frequency. I would try turning off any items near the pc... see if you can find the culprit. Also disconnect anything from your TV cable system which might be feeding back into the system. It could be that your TV has a stronger

[expert] Fwd: cups and windows shared printer - stumped

2001-12-13 Thread Kathy Montgomery
I posted this to the newbie list and didn't receive any suggestions. Anyone care to take a stab at my problem? Thanks, Kathy Original Message Subject: [newbie] cups and windows shared printer - stumped Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:25:01 -0500 From: Kathy Montgomery [EMAIL

[expert] files starting with -

2001-12-13 Thread Oscar
Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character, for example: -testfile.txt Commands like grep, rm... does not work properly. (LM 8.1 with XFS filesystem) Any comment? Salu2 óscar. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Usuario // \ \ de Linux (|

Re: [expert] telnets on port 992.. more

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Sourmail
Netstat indicates that ypbind is listening to this port. Any clue why nmap identified it as 'telnets' ?? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread J. Craig Woods
Tim Holmes wrote: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-12-13 Thread Mike Leone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW: The @ sign while permitted in the Workgroup Field, is reserved and causes problems for Netbios Samba for reasons I will not go into here, spaces and certain other characters are also no-no's. -JMS First thing I thought of, too. Also try

Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:52:17 +0100 Jun Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: never had such a problem before, make sure there is no other dying netscape processes, use 'ps ax | grep netscape', if any, 'killall -9 netscape', then netscape should work happily. Jun,

Re: [expert] files starting with -

2001-12-13 Thread Oscar
El jue, 13-12-2001 a las 19:00, Oscar escribió: Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character, for example: -testfile.txt Commands like grep, rm... does not work properly. (using wildcards like *) (LM 8.1 with XFS filesystem) Any comment?

RE: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread chris . haidinyak
Hi again, I still haven't heard a response as to why the program changed? Even so, it would have been nice to have a flag to put in the Sunday on the left scenario. Perhaps 8.2 won't be as invasive... Best Regards, Chris Haidinyak -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods

Re: [expert] files starting with -

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Marriage
You can rm it by using the -- option. rm -- -testfile.txt ls also has a -- option. See the man pages for ls and rm for this. Good idea is not to name a file beginning with a dash. Ron Oscar wrote: Hi all, I have seen a problem (?) when working with files starting with the - character,

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread H.McM
Brian, Bingo! Updating to the cooker version fixed it for me. Thanks for the suggestion!!! H I had util-linux-2.10s-3mdk installed on one system and it does the cal program correctly (you have a choice of starting day) while on another system util-linux-2.11h-3mdk did not. I downloaded

[expert] Modprobe configuration

2001-12-13 Thread guslist
I switched back to the kernel 2.2.19-20secure. Since, I have pb with modprobe my ethernet card. More precisely, modprobe try to load the old_tulip module (which doesn't work with my card, I tried) instead of the tulip one. Then, the interface eth0 doesn't load at boot time, even if told to do

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-13 Thread David Guntner
Scott grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? What exactly do you mean? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP

[expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD

2001-12-13 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an audio CD, but I don't want to use some application like CDRECORDER or NERO or something like these. I want to learn

Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...

2001-12-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark, Disable the home page (I prefer a blank page), verify your /etc/resolv.conf file (8.1 draknet can clobber it), make sure your DNS server(s) is responding; you can also use ethereal to monitor the IP traffic (use the all interfaces option) to see what the system is doing. If all else

Re: [expert] LM 8.1: Installing multiple versions of C++ compiler

2001-12-13 Thread Randall Jonasz
I've also had problems with the version of gcc mandrake installs. To install 2.95.3, I down loaded the source from gcc.gnu.org and compiled it. Just make sure to pass --prefix=/somedir/ to configure where somedir is not an install dir for your other versions of gcc. The install docs are pretty

[expert] SCSI Tape Issues

2001-12-13 Thread Albert E. Whale
I am having problems using my Sony SDT-9000 DDS3 capable drive. Recently it appears that the drive will no longer seek. One item which was brought to my attention was the following messages (from dmesg) on boot. aic7xxx: Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter at PCI 0/9/0 aic7xxx: I/O ports already

[expert] network starting scripts.

2001-12-13 Thread ForeveR
Problem I have encountered was generated by new kernel (no matter which one - everyone) when I'm downloading the new kernels (offical one from www.kernel.org) than the network script on system startup fails already on 'lo' interface with comment address familly not supported by kernel which

RE: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread Ivan Offalich
Just a random thought... Since someone brought up that you used to be able to make Monday appear by using... cal +m Has anyone thought of trying to run it using... cal +s It probably won't work, but it's worth a try. ;) Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?

2001-12-13 Thread David Guntner
Jun Liu grabbed a keyboard and wrote: It takes time to polish everything, :) Agreed. :-) But a few comments of my own, for J Grant (who you were replying to) On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: : :Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now

[expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-13 Thread Scott
Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread H.McM
Chris, I guess its cause noone knows *why* it was changed, only that you can fix the problem as I did by installed a cooker version of util-linux, or as another poster did by installing a previous version. I did try to have a look at the actual source code, but that didnt work as I could

Re: [expert] SCSI Tape Issues

2001-12-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Albert E. Whale wrote: I am having problems using my Sony SDT-9000 DDS3 capable drive. Recently it appears that the drive will no longer seek. One item which was brought to my attention was the following messages (from dmesg) on boot. aic7xxx: Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-13 Thread Mark D'voo
using kmail, under the identy section you can add a signature, i added /bin/uptime, then checked the box that said this is a program, then as your composing a messged you can chose attachappend signature, if you want the signature on every message, under the settings choose composer, and check

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:35 pm, Scott wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime. I do this with kmail by making my sig executable and placing

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread H.McM
Yeah I did try that :)) But as you suspected it didnt work... H Just a random thought... Since someone brought up that you used to be able to make Monday appear by using... cal +m Has anyone thought of trying to run it using... cal +s It probably won't work, but it's worth a try. ;)

Re: [expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD

2001-12-13 Thread jipe
Le Jeudi 13 Décembre 2001 20:36, vous avez écrit : Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an audio CD, but I don't want to use some application like

[expert] HELP: Installing Dual Boot MDK8.1 + FreeBSD 4.4

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I have a computer with 2 20 GB hard disks, one each for mdk and freebsd. How do I go about doing this? For performance, would it be a good idea to use the other disk for the swap partition? i.e.: Disk 1 - Linux mdk8.1 - swap for freebsd Disk 2 - freebsd - swap for mdk8.1 I'm not sure

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Fargher
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:38, you wrote: Since xinetd tries to check ident for a pop connection, I would suspect that it the problem, and with the linksys blocking wan requests it would drop the packet for the ident request, and xinetd would wait for it to time out. So the other option

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server

2001-12-13 Thread Thumper
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:34 am, you wrote: In /etc/xinet.d/ipop3, it says: service pop3 { disable = no socket_type = stream wait= no user= root server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d

Re: [expert] creating a TOC for an audio CD

2001-12-13 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
thanks, jipe!! just what I needed :-) orlando jipe wrote: Le Jeudi 13 Décembre 2001 20:36, vous avez écrit : Hi! Somebody can point me to a site or documentation that can teach me how to create a TOC for an audio CD? I want to get a few .WAV files and create the TOC to burn them in an

[expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-13 Thread Fedneg
Hello: I've problems performing copies from first IDE channel to second one. After a few files copied the system freezes. I wonder if someone else has found similar problems because i cannot find any configuration error in the hardware. The box is an AMD Athlon 1.2 build with a

Re: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-13 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
Are you using a Western Digital HD??? If you are... sorry... welcome to the club... WD are prone to give trouble when used with other IDE devices... Fedneg wrote: Hello: I've problems performing copies from first IDE channel to second one. After a few files copied the system

Re: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Are you using a Western Digital HD??? If you are... sorry... welcome to the club... WD are prone to give trouble when used with other IDE devices... There's a reason why WD uses the term EIDE for their drives, while most other makers call theirs ATA. -- Those

Re: [expert] test message

2001-12-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:54:34 -0500 (EST) Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1

Re: [expert] What can Mandrake KDE learn from the Mac OS X interface?

2001-12-13 Thread J Grant
Hi! David Guntner wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:58:05AM +0900, J Grant wrote: : :Mandrake could you change the software manager application, now when :you have finished installing/upgrading it says Quit that's a little :abrupt, how about Finish Overly nit-pickey. Quit is no

Re: [expert] telnets on port 992.. more

2001-12-13 Thread J Grant
telnets is the SOCKified version of telnet I believe. Thomas Sourmail wrote: Netstat indicates that ypbind is listening to this port. Any clue why nmap identified it as 'telnets' ?? Thanks, Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake on an old notebook

2001-12-13 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:33 pm, you wrote: I've got an old Toshiba portege that lacks both a network adapter and a CD-ROM drive. I'm considering putting LM on. Which option do people think will be easiest with Mandrake? 1) Installing it via PLIP through the parallel port? 2)

Re: [expert] test message

2001-12-13 Thread nds
Mark Weaver wrote: is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Did

Re: [expert] Netscape just hangs there...

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:50:53 -0500 (EST) Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: Mark, Disable the home page (I prefer a blank page), verify your /etc/resolv.conf file (8.1 draknet can clobber it), make sure your DNS server(s) is responding; you can also

[expert] test message

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Weaver
is this thing on? I've been getting bounced messages every time I attempt to sentd something to the lists. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 2:05pm up 3 days, 16:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00,