[expert] 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
It's running...ok... But installation didn't go here as I wished... I did fresh install...Cd1 in and start,normal beginning,but in first stage,where it startet looking PCMCIA cards...Installation hung...totally... Namely I have Lucent technology wlan adapter and orinoco silwer card.I did hear 2

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 03:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm amazed that this is the Expert list and yet no one in this thread as of today has suggested using plain old dd and the partition devices. I just completed a ghosting operation a while back on some proprietary hardware running nt4 partitions

[expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL

2002-03-21 Thread Oscar
Hi all Yesterday I installed LM 8.2, and I have a problem with my graphics card ATI XPERT XL (Match64). The display is very unstable and blinking using XFree 4.2.0 It works ok under XFree 3.3.6 but is very slow in comparison with 4.2.0 (or the 4.1.0 version that come with LM 8.1). Anybody has the

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-21 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Ashley Moore wrote: hi, i've been trying to get Mdk 8.1 to connect to the internet via ADSL for the last 2 days on a friends computer with no luck. i installed Mdk 8.1 from the Powerpack boxed set on an old AMD-233 with 64 MB RAM and 2Gb Hdd. the telco (TELUS in BC,canada) installed the line

[expert] Single network firewall install problem

2002-03-21 Thread John Bodden
I am trying to install the Mandrake Single network Firewall. The machine is an AMD k6-2/450 with 128 Mb Ram (2 64 MB DIMMS) and a 10 GB Hard drive. The board has video integrated on the board that uses 8 mb of Ram for video. The problem is when I start the install it gets to the loading 2nd stage

[expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for an athlon using the standard mandrake sources (tried the standard 2.4.8-26 and that

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:25:56 +0100, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To add last thing, you can try LVM to alocate your partitions (at least relatively) dynamically. You wold probably have to put LVM on top of RAID devices (and not the other way) to use both ;-) That was

[expert] Flash

2002-03-21 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
Does anyone have Flash working in konqueror in Mandrake 8.2? If yes...please info how...? I don't get it working...Downloaded Flash-player and installed it as recomended in README and then opened konqueror and settings and netscape-plugins and scanned them ok,but if I go forinstance

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:53 am, JOHN HEMMER wrote: Anyways, if I leave my computer on constantly, it freezes after 20 hours or so, even running Linux; however, I can fix Linux by running fsck. As a result of all this I turn my computer off each night, so it usually only runs 16 to 18

Re: [expert] geforce go

2002-03-21 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, It works fine here - needed to get the rpms off nvidis's site, changed the config file as direcrted on the site and all ok. Mine is on a Dell Inspiron 8100 and wouldn't work at all before the installation of new rpm's. On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 08:16, Mark Dvoo wrote: I was actually hoping

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I own several domain names and wanted to give my system an alias to match with my domain names (they're all related). This is on a laptop running MDK 8.1. If I open up linuxconf and go to the networking, then adaptor 1 (my eth0 card) and in the aliases box enter ANYTHING (it is blank), it

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread carl
Hi, I don't like windows buit i'm really disappointed with ML8.1. My machine is a PIII 1Ghz with 384MB of RAM, i dual boot ML 8.1 and Windows 2k pro. It's been 4 months I installed ML8.1 and i keep having problems,I reinstalled ML8.1 10 times at least. Right now I have a problem when I try to

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread Matt . Carpenter
I personally like Caldera and SuSE. carl

Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL

2002-03-21 Thread Wayne Stout
Well, I'm afraid I can't help you with 4.2.0, but I have one of these video cards and it works great under 3.3.6 and 8.2 rc1. Hardware accelleration works just fine, and it's much faster under 3.3.6 than 4.2.0 (to the tune of 2 to 3 times faster). I've looked around in the past and have yet

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread Terry Tremaine
You might try going to the security section on the Mandrake site and upgrading. I noticed what you mention until I upgraded the initscript rpm. TT - Original Message - From: carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: [expert] Mandrake

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-21 Thread Ashley Moore
hi again, i am using the mdk 8.1 power pack edition. all software versions are according to whats on the CD. (no internet to get any updates...yet) the ADSL-howto mentions that now most ISP's have changed to the pppoe protocol in favour of Dhcp. the howto also mentiones that after the link

[expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread joe
Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2. The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some reviously pretty ugly experiences. This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too recklessly. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] cannot set DMA to my HD.

2002-03-21 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi, I tried 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda' and I got: /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Help if I said that I'm using an own compiled kernel? When using original MKD 8.1 kernel I have no problem (my HD flies high). I'm

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:24:41 -0800 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2. The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some reviously pretty ugly experiences. This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Brad Felmey
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 21:35, civileme wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec Is this good, bad, or average? That is great for UDMA100... in fact the best I have seen. dpt_i2o, 256MB cache, 64-bit PCI (8)

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-21 Thread civileme
Wim wrote: Hello, Which version do you use? I had some problems on RH7.1... I downloaded the latest version of rp-pppoe from roaring penguin and atfer the installation, everything woked fine! Do you have a default gateway towards ppp0? Success! Wim Ashley Moore wrote: hi, i've

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 03:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm amazed that this is the Expert list and yet no one in this thread as of today has suggested using plain old dd and the partition devices. You are amazed because you are relatively new to the list. You will soon find

Re: [expert] Cooker Subscription

2002-03-21 Thread Armisis Aieoln
I subscribed to get the latest cookers via mail some time ago (pre 8.1) and was suppose to get 10 cd's in total for like $100.00. Ive gotten three. and have no idea who to ask whats going on? thanks dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-21 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Look at 'dmesg' you should see a line like this, Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Yea, I've seen those. When you go into bios, those idle statements aren't being sent to the cpu, and neither is the cpu under much if any load. Plus,

[expert] ATTENTION! Bug in new mandrake kernel 2.4.18 and sis900 driver

2002-03-21 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Hello together, We have two pc's which are connected with two sis900 lan cards and crosswire. one pc runs with win98, the other with kernel 2.4.18.6mdk. After every reboot of the win98 pc, the eth0 device is only dropping and very slow, pings are hanging, kernel shows messages like following

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
Hi, I don't like windows buit i'm really disappointed with ML8.1. My machine is a PIII 1Ghz with 384MB of RAM, i dual boot ML 8.1 and Windows 2k pro. It's been 4 months I installed ML8.1 and i keep having problems,I reinstalled ML8.1 10 times at least. Right now I have a problem when I try

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuilddb core dumps, and (at one time) rpm -a -q gave reasonable output. ARGH

2002-03-21 Thread RC on MandrakeExpert
I said: Well, I tried using the other subject, and have heard silence since then. So, I'l ltry with a new subject. H E L P! Im dead in the water as far as RPM goes. Um, never mind. Turned out to be a problem with reiserfs... rc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread David
I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I needed to. I tried to just re-do the install, but the argument didn't take. My question How do I uninstall an app that was installed from a tarball? tia Dave --

Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
At least I am not alone! No ximian but a mixed bag of cooker stuff compiled from srpm. Some gcc3.0 as well as I have tried (and failed so far) to build openoffice. Looks like I will have to resort to a windoze box :( BillK On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 00:32, Damian wrote: El jue, 21-03-2002 a las

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:56, Brian Parish wrote: On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec Is this good, bad, or average? cheers Brian Since we are all sharing [root@tamriel elx]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdg /dev/hdg: Timing buffer-cache

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
The EBDA too big message is usually caused by a mismatched kernel/boot sector. You need to reinstall the boot sector to match. This begs the question - what setup/extras/recompiles are you using? This could be the cause of your instability rather than Mandrake as such. Reliabilty usually

Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL

2002-03-21 Thread Oscar
Thank you very much, Wayne, I have the impression that my card was more fast with the 4.1 version, though I can't play with 3D games with that version. I still need help. Can someone tell me how can I fix the 4.2 version (if I can), or how I can install 4.1 from LM 8.1?. OTOH, Wayne, where I can

[expert] pspell-config

2002-03-21 Thread David
While installing sylpheed claws from tarball I get an output that says that the pspell-config file was not found. I checked and sure enough I have no pspell-config file on my machine. I had a problem before with GTK+ not putting a config file in place. What is causing this, and how can I

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David wrote: I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I needed to. I tried to just re-do the install, but the argument didn't take. My question How do I uninstall an app that was installed from a

[expert] Sound broken in 8.2 works fine in 8.1

2002-03-21 Thread msh
I just installed MDK 8.2 on a empty partition of my computer. I also have 8.1 on a different partition. Sound works fine under 8.1 (using the default setup chosen by the installer). The system I use has sound built into the motherboard (MSI 845 Ultra) The MDK8.2 installer indentifies my

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread Terry Tremaine
If that doesn't work you could try 'make clean'. TT - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [expert] uninstall app ?? On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David wrote: I recently installed a

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Terry Tremaine wrote: If that doesn't work you could try 'make clean'. make clean will only zap object files and binaries from the build directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ATTENTION! Bug in new mandrake kernel 2.4.18 and sis900 driver

2002-03-21 Thread ngn
OK.At least for me, this is not new... I've tried with a Cnet NIC with a Davicom chipset and with a sis900. I could not make it work with: Mandrake 8.1 with ALL the kernels that are available on th CD, Mandrake SNF as well, SuSE 7.2, 7.1 and 7.3, Caldera 3.0, Coyote Linux and I guess that all

Re: [expert] How to install 8.2 with USB devices

2002-03-21 Thread mike
Well that answers that question! USB support IS getting worse and worse as Mandrake progresses. In 7.2 a simple kernel recompile was all it took, in 8.0 I have to switch to a console before I disconnect the mouse, and it seems it doesn't work in 8.2! There goes my plans to take another

Re: [expert] How to install 8.2 with USB devices

2002-03-21 Thread FemmeFatale
I did as Dave suggested. Works fine now. Femme mike wrote: Well that answers that question! USB support IS getting worse and worse as Mandrake progresses. In 7.2 a simple kernel recompile was all it took, in 8.0 I have to switch to a console before I disconnect the mouse, and it seems

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread Salane
what is the problem with doing a make uninstall it works if he didn't do anything else to the directory On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:23 pm, civileme wrote: David wrote: I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I needed to. I

[expert] rpm --rebuilddb core dumps, and (at one time) rpm -a -q gave reasonable output. ARGH

2002-03-21 Thread RC on MandrakeExpert
Well, I tried using the other subject, and have heard silence since then. So, I'l ltry with a new subject. H E L P! Im dead in the water as far as RPM goes. Here's my original message: On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:50:01 +0100 (MET) Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread civileme
Salane wrote: what is the problem with doing a make uninstall it works if he didn't do anything else to the directory On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:23 pm, civileme wrote: David wrote: I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I

Re: [expert] Gphoto 2 on 8.1

2002-03-21 Thread Phil
Hello All, I posted a similar question to this some time ago and didn't get a response. With the current interest in this thread I thought I'd try again. I have a Kodak DC3400 camera that works correctly under Linux if I use a serial port but not with the USB port. For instance, under gtkam

Re: [expert] Harddrake doesn't work in 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've seen a similar issue on my laptop, and the only thing I've got to do is hit ctrl+alt+F7 to switch back to the first X session. Not sure what the cause is though. - Theo Rob wrote: Christian Dysthe wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:15:57 -0600 Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-21 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thursday 21 March 2002 03:26 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:56, Brian Parish wrote: On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec Is this good, bad, or average? cheers Brian Since we are all sharing [root@tamriel elx]#

Re: [expert] ATTENTION! Bug in new mandrake kernel 2.4.18 and sis900 driver

2002-03-21 Thread pesarif
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:14, Juergen Hammelmann wrote: Hello together, We have two pc's which are connected with two sis900 lan cards and crosswire. one pc runs with win98, the other with kernel 2.4.18.6mdk. After every reboot of the win98 pc, the eth0 device is only dropping and very slow,