Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 20:49, Damian G wrote: >Snip___ > > > > you're kidding, right? since installing kde3.x when the first packages > > came out and I discovered, as many others did, this strange unwanted > > behavior of the taskbar konsole shorcut hanging up upon execution, I've > >

Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:32:37 -0400 Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damian G wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:07:28 -0500 > > Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by > >>now the KDE people woul

[expert] Via Driver Site

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Found this and thought it might be useful to some ...or many. VIA has a page up with drivers and kernel patches for Mandrake. (8,2 and 8.1 only.) Might help. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88 James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandra

Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Damian G wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:07:28 -0500 > Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by >>now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still >>there. You try to start konsole

Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Praedor Tempus wrote: > What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by > now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still > there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the panel freezes and > become useless until you close konso

Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:07:28 -0500 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by > now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still > there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the p

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
My compliments to you your one of the few people I've met who could see what you just saw. 90% of the time this works... the other 10% it's either too low level or it's actually wanting to see a specific glibc to run. (For example a compiler front end or RAD) James On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 14

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread Todd Lyons
James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:40:21PM -0700 : > Todd, > >I see your point but I have a number of programs compiled on 7.2 that > still run on 9.0 This is the compatibility I'm speaking of. Whereas 4 > months ago we compiled a Linux from scratch compiled it with gcc3.0 and

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 ncftp eats cpu

2002-08-28 Thread Dave Narotam
I have a problem with 8.2 and ncftp 3.0.3 I start a Konsole session, do a su - and then start ncftp. I close the window and then see with top my cpu going to 99% Thanks Anil (Dave) Narotam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Clients can't connect to net through server

2002-08-28 Thread Larry Sword
Nick Baker wrote: >AARGH... >I have just reassembled my mixed network (mdk 8.2 server; mdk 8.2., macintosh >9.x and X, and windows 98 clients) which worked in it's former location. >Now, while the server can connect to the net, and all boxes can ping each >other, and all boxes can connect local

Re: [expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Praedor Tempus wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:07:28PM -0500 : > What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by > now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still > This has been a ridiculous problem since kde 3 beta. Does anyone have

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread Todd Lyons
James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:52AM -0700 : > My understanding from the discussions I've seen on the net is that the > developers who do gcc listened and did include backwards compat for > programs previously compiled under gcc 2.2 or greater. So far my > results on a box ru

Re: [expert] RPMFIND.NET - Status?

2002-08-28 Thread Albert E. Whale
Chuck, Well, I might consider those things, but my ISP is Speakeasy. I do my own DNS. Chuck Shirley wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 08:25, Albert E. Whale wrote: > >I cannot seem to connect to the traditional RPM Databases at > >rpmfind.net, speakeasy.rpmfind.net, fr.rpmfind.net > > > >Does

[expert] Just installed KDE 3.03...still broken!

2002-08-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
What is up with this? I installed KDE 3.0.3 (stable) thinking that surely by now the KDE people would have fixed the konsole-noxft problem. Nope. Still there. You try to start konsole from the panel and the panel freezes and become useless until you close konsole at which point you get an e

[expert] apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk: bug fix in locking X on suspend

2002-08-28 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
The apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk package contains various scripts to be run on suspend. One if them is /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/5XFree which includes code to lock the X display on suspend. Unfortunately, the author is under believe that if one user is running KDE, they all are. So if there

Re: [expert] how to change from Xserver 3.3.6 to 4.2.0

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
Here's what I would do 1. cp /etc/X-11/XF86Config to /etc/X11/XF86Config.bkp (always good to backup) 2 ctrl-alt-f1 to a console. 3.telinit 3 switches you out of X and into runlevel 3 4. Run drakxconf from the command line 5. Choose Change Monitor (or it may be change monitor resolution

[expert] IT"S STABLE!!!!

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, Eugene, Hoyt and others. I once again have a stable box. 9.0beta4 and the daily cooker updates, did it. It sits here like a rock for sure. One question. In 8.0,1,and 2 it only recognizes my VGA as having 4096k of video ram 9.0 recognizes 16megs. (i815 chipset onboard video) Bios

[expert] mandrake 8.2 ncftp eats cpu

2002-08-28 Thread Dave Narotam
I have a problem with 8.2 and ncftp 3.0.3 I start a Konsole session, do a su - and then start ncftp. I close the window and then see with top my cpu going to 99% Thanks Anil (Dave) Narotam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread James Sparenberg
My understanding from the discussions I've seen on the net is that the developers who do gcc listened and did include backwards compat for programs previously compiled under gcc 2.2 or greater. So far my results on a box running cooker have proven this to be true. James On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 0

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread fabsah
Le mer 28/08/2002 à 15:52, Praedor Tempus a écrit : > Erm...how can you get all your 8.2 apps working nice together if you are > using gcc 3.2? Are you building everything in 8.2 from source? I was under > the impression that gcc 3.x was severely broken with regards to pre-gcc-3.x > apps. A

[expert] Clients can't connect to net through server

2002-08-28 Thread Nick Baker
AARGH... I have just reassembled my mixed network (mdk 8.2 server; mdk 8.2., macintosh 9.x and X, and windows 98 clients) which worked in it's former location. Now, while the server can connect to the net, and all boxes can ping each other, and all boxes can connect locally to the web site on th

[expert] how to change from Xserver 3.3.6 to 4.2.0

2002-08-28 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi list, have successfully rpm -U updated from XFree86-3.3.6 to 4.2.0, but how can I activate the running server from 3.3.6 to the new 4.2.0-release ? as you can see, the active Xserver is : XFree86 3.3.6 X-TT 1.3, patchlevel 21mdk thanks for your helps and ideas, hints and tips bye hans Wan

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE ./configure

2002-08-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Erm...how can you get all your 8.2 apps working nice together if you are using gcc 3.2? Are you building everything in 8.2 from source? I was under the impression that gcc 3.x was severely broken with regards to pre-gcc-3.x apps. Are there now some compat libs? On Tuesday 27 August 2002 1

Fwd: Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-28 Thread Randy Kramer
(Hope this is not a duplicate -- it appears that I originally sent it to myself -- oh, the hazards of experimenting with multiple mail clients. ;-) I guess I should have mentioned that joe and dummy are not in a common group. (joe is in a group called joe, dummy is in a group called dummy, a

Re: [expert] Compiling KDE 3.0.3 - ERRORS during KDEBASE./configure [SOLVED]

2002-08-28 Thread fabsah
Le mer 28/08/2002 à 05:29, James Sparenberg a écrit : > Can't help on the compile but ... I can help you kde3 on the box. If > you aren't compiling for a special reason. Try this link > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/kde/stable/3.0.3/Mandrake/8.2/ > > Faster server (for me) than kde.o