Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?

2002-02-08 Thread James
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:42:30 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ric Tibbetts grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 06:57, Kevin wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:43 pm, you wrote: Hello all, Hopefully, *someone* can help me out here

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-08 Thread James
J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can find it all the time *double grin* James On

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Mandrake Expert Mailinglist
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 05:40:37 +0200 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can tell me a better way to make the module permanent please tell me. There is the Mandrake way to do this... As stated before add to /etc/modules.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx and then add to /etc/modules:

RE: [expert] Xdos crashing in kernels 2.4: SOLVED

2002-02-08 Thread falcaraz
Well, the problem seems to be different, is the package of xdos-dos of mandrake. If I use the packages from Mandrake 7.2 (xdosemu-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm) Xdos runs fine, but if I use the packages of 8.0, 8.1 (is the number 8) or 8.2 (I don't remember the number, perhaps 10?) xdos crashes. BTW; if

Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Mitch Thompson
If using vnc is not an option, I would recommend downloading and evaluating vmWare for Linux (www.vmware.com). That will allow you to run an Windows system under Linux, where you can run PC Anywhere to do what you want. If it works, the price for registering vmWare is fairly reasonable. On

Re: [expert] HDPARM in 8.2Beta

2002-02-08 Thread Mitch Thompson
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 19:08, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: It would be really nice to have some searchable database that you could scan to find what RPM has a given file... Bob If the RPM is already on your system, a simple rpm -q --whatprovides path_to_given_file works. If the RPM is not

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-08 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:58, you wrote: J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can

Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash

2002-02-08 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Mike, Thanx, I stupid, it's right in front of me! But what exactly does [ctrl+alt+SysRq] do? On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, mike wrote: It share a key with PrtScn. On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:46, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Oh, great subject. I have a Toshiba

RE: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-08 Thread Dwaine Felch
Thanks, I will download and get it a try. Dwaine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install. 8:57pm... Dwaine Felch

RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:46 PM To:

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Can anyone help? Thanks minbari Hey, another B5 fan, eh? Cool. Anyways, if you are just wanting to start an application (for example Starcraft), then it would go

RE: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-08 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I copied kmatrix from RH disc. Besides the kss file you also need the kmatrix.desktop file. My system locked up once and I had to power down. Mandrake seems to have some script to check on things cause after reboot kmatrix.desktop was gone. I now keep a copy in my home dir, just in case. Brian

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
David Joham wrote: With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a I tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions? Email might be more constructive :) Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand. My experience with winex has been very good. It doesn't

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. I don't get it. WineX is supposed to be REAL compatible with

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Praedor Tempus wrote: I'm venting. What I am trying to accomplish is to simply get it to work, period. I install it, run winex, and it doesn't do anything - OK, it DOES create a config file in my .transgaming directory but it does NOT create a fake c:\windows drive and it apparently

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread jarmo kettunen
On Friday 08 February 2002 15:17, you wrote: Why not modprobe aic7xxx. It loads all other modules for aic as well. For some reason on my MDK 8.1 box, rc.local won't run anything I have added into it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Is your rc.local file executable? Jarmo Want to buy

RE: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
yes lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 30 15:34 /etc/rc.local - rc.d/rc.local -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1766 Dec 15 17:31 rc.local Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: jarmo kettunen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002

[expert] L/M 8.0 FTP

2002-02-08 Thread Joseph Gardner
Gentlemen ( Ladies), I've got several L/M 8.0 boxes on a LAN along with a couple of other linux boxes (web/email servers) on the same LAN / different segment. With the L/M 8.0 boxes I can ping all machines on the LAN and ftp to the web and email servers but I cannot FTP from one L/M box to

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to how well it will likely do the job. Basically,

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 07:34 pm, J. Grant wrote: I dont remember exactly, but i seem to remember there was a command to regenerate the module list? like ldconfig does for shared libs or something similar? Better than having to add it to rc.local for every module i thought.. In this

Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?

2002-02-08 Thread David Guntner
James grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:42:30 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may also be a CUPS error log somewhere. Look in /var/log or /var/spool/cups or lpd. I did find /var/spool/cups, which had a error_log file in it. I checked

[expert] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?

2002-02-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
I have the following messages in the syslog: Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 691M Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Unsupported AMD chipset (device id: 700e),

Re: [expert] How to set up a printer with CUPS/KUPS?

2002-02-08 Thread David Guntner
Followup to myself, but directed to James or anyone else with a clue (since I'm definitely lacking one here :). While looking at /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic, I descovered that it has a debug option that writes tons of stuff to an output file. I tried running another test printer function

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread mike
Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it the proper Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case for some reason. Until figuring out

Re: [expert] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?

2002-02-08 Thread Onur Kucuk
Thursday, February 07, 2002, 10:25:24 AM, you wrote: HD I have the following messages in the syslog: HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann HD Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp HD memory: 691M HD Feb 7

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Larry Sword
J. Grant wrote: I dont remember exactly, but i seem to remember there was a command to regenerate the module list? like ldconfig does for shared libs or something similar? Better than having to add it to rc.local for every module i thought.. please let me know if this command exists :)

Re: [expert] try agp_try_unsupported=1 ?

2002-02-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Friday 08 February 2002 11:52 am, you wrote:  add  options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1  to /etc/modules.conf  Regards,  Onur Kucuk Thanks, Onur. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Richard Wenninger
On Friday 08 February 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to

[expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox

2002-02-08 Thread skidley
I have been trying to get the flxubox artwiz fonts to work in mdk 8.1 and have taken the steps i could find about how to do it and asked questions on the fluxbox-users list w/o any success. This is what I have done: -put the fonts in /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts/ -ran mkfontdir in that dir

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Larry Sword
mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than to do it the proper Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in this case for some reason.

Re: [expert] no job control errors during compile src.rpm

2002-02-08 Thread Marc
Do you think an upgrade of RPM and RPM-BUILD would solve the problem as well? Sometimes rpm changes some things, for whatever reason, including incompatibility with certain packages. Regards, marc Brian Schroeder wrote: I have found this by trial and error, so I don't know if my solution

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »mike« am 2002-02-07 um 21:40:37 -0600 : and if it works fine what's the harm? Nice argument :( The correct way to do this, is to add the name of the module to /etc/modules in Mandrake. This file will be parsed at startup, and every module mentioned there will be auto loaded.

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread mike
Larry Sword wrote: If the correct entries are in the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules then you may want to preload the scsi device via initrd. mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for

[expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?

2002-02-08 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, After trying to use the Mandrake update tools urpmi, rpmdrake, etc and finding them more or less unusable (at least to follow cooker), I tried apt(-rpm) and these tools are. Or should be, as expected from the apt tools in Debian (used on my other boxes; no probs eg to follow unstable),

Re: [expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?

2002-02-08 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 08 February 2002 21:29, Svante Signell wrote: After trying to use the Mandrake update tools urpmi, rpmdrake, etc and finding them more or less unusable (at least to follow cooker), I tried apt(-rpm) and these tools are. Or should be, as expected from the apt tools in Debian (used

Re: [expert] Printer Issues.

2002-02-08 Thread William Bouterse
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:36:41 -0500 Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: I've just upgraded to 8.1, and I'm having printing issues again. The only driver I could get to work under Mandrake 8.0 for my setup (HP DeskJet 855c slung off the print server of my SMC Barricade

Re: [expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox

2002-02-08 Thread H. McM
you need to remove the font line from the line that starts unix/: and put it in another file, /etc/X11/fs/config running chkfontpath --add dirname will do this too. what sort of font is it? is it a true type? if so there is something else to be done. I have been trying to get the flxubox

Re: [expert] L/M 8.0 FTP

2002-02-08 Thread Gérard Perreault
What is the output of ifconfig -a on each L/M boxes. Do you have different IP addresses for each or did you use some default. How about your /etc/hosts file, do you ping these machines per name or IP address. And /etc/resolv.conf. Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 08 February 2002

Re: [expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox

2002-02-08 Thread skidley
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, H. McM wrote: you need to remove the font line from the line that starts unix/: and put it in another file, /etc/X11/fs/config running chkfontpath --add dirname will do this too. what sort of font is it? is it a true type? if so there is something else to be done.

[expert] FW: Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-08 Thread Dwaine Felch
-Original Message- From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Matrix screensaver install. Mike, I downloaded matrix from yours (ftp), put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ and made it executable

[expert] fetchmail problem - learning more, still not working

2002-02-08 Thread Skippi
Hi everyone. First, thanks for all the on list off list replies. Thanks to your input I have managed to fix a few little things with my fetchmail configuration (and for those who asked, yes I have been using fetchmailconf to set that up. I have made progress and fetchmail is now working.

Re: [expert] FW: Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Holt
3:49pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Mike, I downloaded matrix from yours (ftp), put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ and made it executable (chmod +x). But when I start xscreensaver I can't select it because doesn't appear in the screensaver as selectable. Do I need to do