RE: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0 slowdown

2002-09-29 Thread Franki
nope, but I can tell you that it takes only about 20 seconds on my old Pentium Pro 200 with 96MB so might be something specific to your system/install. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: Sunday, 29 September

RE: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-29 Thread Franki
Strange, I burnt my CD's at 4 and 8x on really cheap no name CD's... worked fine.. I have a HP9500 internal 12x burner, and I rairly burn faster then 4x just because I want the disks as readable as possible as I use them on a number of really old 8x CDROMs rgds franki -Original

[expert] problems starting kde

2002-09-29 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi list, have now an updated kde3 and am having now discovered that after starting my mdk8.2 box - it is starting automated, I get always the old startsymbol of kde2 - then starts the kde3, but an old layout as well as in english, not in german. logout again and login a newone time I get the

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote: Hi gang, I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Sorry, I did not read the original message so I use this one to answer: I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is written but at the end.. I wouldn't like to

[expert] mandrake-control-center ...

2002-09-29 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, got a strange behavior within mandrake-control-center : thats what I found out : notmally I call mandrake-control-center, then network-internet and then connect. After finishing my surfing or sending the mail a hit the button Connect to pptp-adsl again cuts the connection, but now I always

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:06 -0500, s wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote: Next time it happens you could use stat to at least pin point when the file was created and/or modified. This information may help you identify the process that is creating the file.

[expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

2002-09-29 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi list, is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ? have now 2.4.18 thanks and bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ipv4 forwarding disabled again when bringing up eth1

2002-09-29 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I'm having an odd problem here: during /sbin/service network restart, ipv4 forwarding is being enabled as it should be... just after the Enabling ipv4 packet forwarding [ OK ] has appeared, I did cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and the output was 1... Then after eth0 had been

Re: [expert] ipv4 forwarding disabled again when bringing up eth1

2002-09-29 Thread SainTiss
Hi again, After some more research, I'm quite sure this line in /etc/init.d/network is what's causing the problem: # Run this again to catch any interface-specific actions sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf /dev/null 21 because in /etc/sysctl.conf, ip_forward is set to 0 Now the question

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

2002-09-29 Thread newslett
It is possible (I have done it) but there are a couple of dependencies that must be resolved as well (can't remember those off the top of my head) but other than that, no sweat. Cheers, Jason hans schneidhofer wrote: hi list, is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ? have now 2.4.18

[expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0: 1- With supermount enabled, when I try to copy several files sometimes, after few minutes, some of the files in the cdrom are not recognized (the file Toshiba... is not valid). 2. I have dissabled supermount in my dvd-drive; now

[expert] I have been able to install 9.0 in my Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT; just

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
some problem with the screen solved using an special tdr driver. But when I open a console as normal user the prompt appear:bash-2.05b$ and not the usual [username@hostname francisco]$ bash-2.05b$ prompt? X-Accept-Language: es Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition:

Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

2002-09-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:58, Ralph F De Witt wrote: Hi: I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am looking at are, one a MSI KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a MSI KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary workstation. I am

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:02 am, you wrote: Don't 8.2/9.0 use different kernel images? the defualt kernel in either 8.2 or 9.0 is a 2.4.x kernel, while earlier versions (7.2 and back for sure, others may or may not have,) installed a 2.2.x series kernel. one of the differences was in how

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

2002-09-29 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi jason, as you wrote, you have done that - is it worth to do that ? is it more stabil ? - that is really interesting for me, because have some problems with stability with kernel 2.4.18 now. thanks and bye hans Am Sonntag, 29. September 2002 12:40 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is possible

Re: [expert] problems starting kde

2002-09-29 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, have to answer my own question here: after removing the old kickerc-files in /usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/kickerrc and in my userdirectory the the startphase is fine - no old kde-looksalike and no stucks of kde during runtime. thanks anyway to this expert-folks for helping and spent

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Tim C
On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type: 'make' as root

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

2002-09-29 Thread kwan
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi list, is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ? have now 2.4.18 Works fine. You might also want to look at the low-latency and pre-emptible kernel patches if you're using the stock Linus kernel. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Themes in Mcc 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
Have the themes for Mandrake control center dissapeared in 9.0?; I have used the rpms for 8.2 from plf, but the menu of mcc doesn't show themes anywhere? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:32, Tim C wrote: On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 28 Sep 2002 23:07:25 -0400 Randall Jonasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which printing system are you using? I've only used CUPS without any problems. If you're using CUPS, direct your browser to http://localhost:631 You can manage your printer from there. Sheesh... sorry; I was pretty

[expert] where's libqt.so?

2002-09-29 Thread SainTiss
Hi, it seems like libqt.so isn't included in MDK9... I can only find libqt-mt.so, which is the threaded version... It might just work fine, but the problem is that qmake.conf lists: QMAKE_LIBS_QT = -lqt QMAKE_LIBS_QT_THREAD= -lqt-mt so any non-threaded app built with qmake, still

Re: [expert] Postfix configuration question??

2002-09-29 Thread Randy Kramer
I consider myself a newbie, but I did (finally) manage to get a mail server installed using postfix in a situation somewhat similar to yours. (I have a private LAN without a registered domain name and need to relay my mail to my ISP for (SMTP) delivery.) Try looking at

[expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread Carlos Cifuentes
I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i can print files of this server in my local printer? Is possible some like to cat file /dev/lp0? Thanks ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis!

[expert] Digital Cert, ALA Webmin

2002-09-29 Thread Franki
Hi guys, Got a small problem, we have a test server, using http over a high port. (eg mydomain.com:10001) its actually a win2000 box, but I the question is basically a linux one.. If i generate a keypair request on the win box, can I use that to create a self signed Cert that I can install on

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is the same. there's no difference in

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 020929 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a native english speaker so for me the

Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

2002-09-29 Thread tarvid
Much wisdom in the reponse but... 1) Stability is an issue but most of my problems show up in the disk subsystem. I have had some nasty crashes which went away when I replaced the drives. 2) Performance is an issue but I suspect that too is in the disk subsystem. Processing HTTP logs is the

[expert] Unable to sync Handspring Visor on 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Morris
I am unable to sync my handspring visor on Mandrake 9.0. I know I don't have it set up properly, but can't find what USB port to link it to. There is no /dev/USB* listed to make the symlink to /dev/pilot. Is there a different way of doing this in 9.0? Is there something I need to change in

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 and kernel 2.4.19 ?

2002-09-29 Thread Rick Friedman
I would think that it most certainly is possible to run 8.2 with the 2.4.19 kernel. I'm running 8.1 with that kernel. Rick On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 04:34, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi list, is it possible to run 8.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ? have now 2.4.18 thanks and bye hans Want

[expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 8.2 I had no problems at all...! Here is the blurb:

[expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

2002-09-29 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, I'm in the process of installing 9.0 on my laptop. Unfortunately, the installation bums out at: Enabling PCMCIA extension cards... and decides to go no further! My laptop (Chicony MP995) is: Celeron 333 64Mb RAM 6Gb HD Not too sure what the problem is here... Any help would be

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-29 Thread Joseph Stegner
How would I go about doing that? Joe - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:02 am, you wrote: Don't 8.2/9.0 use

[expert] Drakprofile for 9.0???

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, One of the more impressive things we cand did with Mandrake was swicht the internet conection profiles on laptops using drakprofile. I had two profiles, one for home and the other for office and was very eassy change the internet parameters using drakprofile. But, under 9.0 there is

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-29 Thread Randall Jonasz
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 08:49, Pierre Fortin wrote: Sheesh... sorry; I was pretty tired when I wrote this... using CUPS. I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all from the printer... Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get along... No problem. Have

RE: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
Dear Andy; I had a similar problem with my laptop using Mandrake 7.2 and the problem arised in the fact that the BIOS had the PCMCIA configurated as automatic; I changed this and it runed well. I hope this will help you to solve the problem; mandrake 9 is really impressive. Francisco Alcaraz

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:05:00 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] The trick is to install 2.96 as well as 3.2 by doing, as root, The software is looking for 2.95 not 2.96. This might be an issue to the software. In my experience software demanding 2.95 does not accept 2.96.

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:51 am, John McQuillen wrote: directory. Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and change nv to nvidia under the graphic section for your driver. If you are in X, please log out and back in. While you're editing XF86Config-4 add a line:

Re: [expert] Themes in Mcc 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the themes for Mandrake control center dissapeared in 9.0?; I have used the rpms for 8.2 from plf, but the menu of mcc doesn't show themes anywhere? No, I have it in mine. I did notice that the screensavers were sparce

RE: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop

2002-09-29 Thread falcaraz
Dear Andy; I had a similar problem with my laptop using Mandrake 7.2 and the problem arised in the fact that the BIOS had the PCMCIA configurated as automatic; I changed this and it runed well. I hope this will help you to solve the problem; mandrake 9 is really impressive. Francisco Alcaraz

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On my system this was fixed by instaling gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm From the disk... (along with and dependencies it had.) James On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 09:20, Andy Weller wrote: Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my

Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

2002-09-29 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hi, I've changed my fstab file to eliminate problems with supermount on my cdrom to the following /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 man fstab will give you the particulars Hope that helps Randy On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 06:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I am having

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
Been running them both on 8.2 and 9.0 without conflict since beta 2 ... James On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 10:05, Alastair Scott wrote: On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
thank you very much for the information form all of you. I'm not ignoring you. I have downloaded the files and will work on them as I have time. I will report back on how it goes. On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:09 pm, you wrote: Please try these:

[expert] lpd isn't running but works??

2002-09-29 Thread SainTiss
Hi, Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a Generic UNIX LPD printing system, and it works! Also, lpr works (I thought that was an lpd command too?) I thought MDK used cups (which *is* running) Or are all lpd related things just redirected to cups? Thanks Hans

Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0: Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears. Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee solved? yeah, I get that too. I've noticed it since at

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:17 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Modify: 2002-09-26 00:11:19.0 +0200 Change: 2002-09-26 19:47:40.0 +0200 OK, what's the difference between 'Modify' and 'Change'? I'm not a native english speaker so for me the meaning of the words is

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:33 pm, Lorne wrote: I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that came with the driver. The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about what my config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading between the lines. the

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: OOPS! Let me try this again. If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without rebooting the system? For some reason every now and then my mouse process is dying. ?? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert]

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:49 pm, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: OOPS! Let me try this again. If the mouse process dies, how does one restart it without rebooting the system? For some reason every now and then my mouse process is dying. ?? The mouse is

Re: [expert] Unable to sync Handspring Visor on 9.0: SOLVED!

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Morris
Not sure what I did, tryed to sync with kpilot and got a connection, after that I am able to sync with with j-pilot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

2002-09-29 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hi, yes, if you chose CUPS during install lpr is a symlink to lpr-cups Cheers, Randy On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:05, SainTiss wrote: Hi, Lpd isn't running on my system, but yet KDE seems to be configured as a Generic UNIX LPD printing system, and it works! Also, lpr works (I thought that

Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its the same as if you were on the console of that remote box. In other words it has none of the facilities of the box your keyboard is attached to. In short a telnet or ssh session is really just like having a very very long cable from that

RE: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Shirley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:22 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its the

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
OOPS! Let me try this again. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:32:19 -0700 From: Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:32 am, you wrote: On September 29, 2002 03:09, s wrote:

[expert] well done - mandrake 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread jerry
i have a laptop (dell inspiron 8100) i had bought the 8.2 Pro and i tried over and over trying to get the right X Config to make it work and couldn't no matter what the settings i tried. I downloaded the 9.0 ISO images out of desperation and voile' it came up with flat panel display and it

Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

2002-09-29 Thread SainTiss
Actually, I can select CUPS printing system in KDE, but when I do that, it no longer works well... I just get faulty output... Hans On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:14, James Sparenberg wrote: Hans, I don't think cups printer list is in the code for KDE, so it does just say the Generic... works

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 22:08 +0200, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I have 2SCSI Adaptors for the Hard Disks. The CDW is IDE. /stefano Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:27 pm, you wrote: cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following: 2,0,0 200) 'SONY' 'CD-RW

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-29 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I have 2SCSI Adaptors for the Hard Disks. The CDW is IDE. /stefano Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:27 pm, you wrote: cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following: Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version:

Re: [expert] 9.0 Supermount nightmare

2002-09-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:30 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 05:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0: Ah!; in my laptop the problem also appears. Any idea about where the problem arises and how can it bee

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote: I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. Ok, see here, one should XFdrake with mandrake - really! I'm not gonna name

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Randall Jonasz wrote: On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 08:49, Pierre Fortin wrote: Sheesh... sorry; I was pretty tired when I wrote this... using CUPS. I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all from the printer... Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get along...

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line. When this process dies, then I can no longer do that

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote: Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line.

[expert] [Help!]Can't Print on MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread g884414 his
[Sorry, I use Linux for a long while, but I'm not a expert, so I send this to newbie Expert.] Mandrake 9.0 is a really nice distribution. I think it's a important milestone that Linux is also good to be used for End Users, at least in Chinese environment. As a loyal Linux fan, I will not feel

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 September 2002 02:09 am, you wrote: Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.g z ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type:

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:18 pm, et wrote: with a geforce 4 and MAndrake before 9.0, you are not going to have a working Xfree -4 setup, you will be useing framebuffer and xfree3.3.6 he can have one if he uses the nvidia drivers. I upgraded to gf4 from and gf2 while running 8.2 and

[expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?

2002-09-29 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it the application are alway in the

Re: [expert] lpd isn't running but works??

2002-09-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've run into a bit of a problem concerning printing myself so I'll jump into this thread and ask away. I always go with cups anymore. I don't even care to install anything for the old lpr/lpd system. I don't know when or how this occured but lately I am stuck with lpr and cannot go back to

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread becklesw
An easy way out is use: Driver 'vesa'. Another way is to download the drivers from nvidia.com; uncompress them and run 'make', then use: Driver 'nividia' I have a laptop with the geforce4 420 chipset. - Original Message - From: Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 29, 2002

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:00 pm, s wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 04:11 pm, Lorne wrote: I'm sure I'm close. Perhaps you can see something that jumps out at you. Here is a copy of the config file and error log file. # File generated by xf86config. Ok, see here, one should

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:44 pm, Lorne wrote: WOW! I was of the mistaken opinion that running that config tool would rewrite/overwrite the XF86Config. NOT! I did as you suggested and renamed the original files this time. Still no go. Same thing as before. What happens is X starts to

[expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: Modem for MDK9.0 Hi All, I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem. Can you recommend any. Also, I am trying to find some reviews on

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 RC2 problems

2002-09-29 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hey, Thanks a lot for answering my question. Didn't think anyone would answer it after this long. Yes, I had already figured out the relevant things a couple of days back and had it working. Thanks anyways. Altough, The upgrade is working fine over the past 2 weeks. But, I still feel that a

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Vox
Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All,     I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements.  But the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem.  I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem.  Can you recommend any. None.

Re: [expert] [Help!]Can't Print on MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Larry Sword
g884414 his wrote: [Sorry, I use Linux for a long while, but I'm not a expert, so I send this to newbie Expert.] Mandrake 9.0 is a really nice distribution. I think it's a important milestone that Linux is also good to be used for End Users, at least in Chinese environment. As a loyal Linux

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm going to disable firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what happens. ?? On

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Sridhar G
Are internal PCI modems not linux friendly, or is there any perfromance problems? Sridhar - Original Message - From: Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0 Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] apache modules install -how?

2002-09-29 Thread bascule
i'm looking onto Namp!: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=105929 and it seems i have to install some apache modules, i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do here, i think i know the modules concerned - MP3::Info but all i can seem to find to download is a .pm file? is this

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:11 pm, Damian G wrote: well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one. I'm on my second one. this is the only review I've run into so far. http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1y=2002m=09d=28 -s did you read the one comment at the end? is anybosy having

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread tarvid
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:41 pm, Vox wrote: Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Vox
Sridhar G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are internal PCI modems not linux friendly, or is there any perfromance problems? Most PCI modems are winmodems, which means either they don't work or only work with propietary drivers, with a very few exceptions. Vox -- Pain is the gift of the

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Damian G
well, the 3com/usr 5610 is a good one. I'm on my second one. this is the only review I've run into so far. http://laxton.net/blog/archive.php?blogid=1y=2002m=09d=28 -s did you read the one comment at the end? is anybosy having problems with USB and 9.0 ?? Damian -- boot

Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 08:19 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem. Can you recommend

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 September 2002 12:41 pm, you wrote: How would I go about doing that? can you boot from cd2? Joe - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum

[expert] USB CD Writer

2002-09-29 Thread PlugHead
Has anyone managed to get a USB (1.1) cd-rw working with Mandrake? I have an Acer (6424, I think--6x4x24 anyhow) and I can _read_ CDs from it, just fine. However, cdrecord -scanbus hangs (with usb-uhci) or (with uhci) says: [root@jack-in jdyer]# cdrecord -scanbus debug=9 dev: '(NULL

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:11 pm, you wrote: Well, number one, you're logging into window manager as root. please try user. Also, add Option NvAGP 1 to your config file Section Device and try again as user. This didn't seem to make any difference. I'm going to reboot again and see if

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think I'm going to disable firewire, usb and some

Re: [expert] Motherboard Question

2002-09-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 11:22, tarvid wrote: Much wisdom in the reponse but... 1) Stability is an issue but most of my problems show up in the disk subsystem. I have had some nasty crashes which went away when I replaced the drives. The only time I have noticed this phenomenon is when

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:34 pm, Lorne wrote: Hmm... well there seems to be more to it. Since normally you can use the mouse services from the bash prompt too. I mean, since I'm only at the bash prompt, it is nice to be able to mouse over a work and then paste it to the command line.

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:31 pm, s wrote: I'm so stinking close to getting X to start, but no joy yet. If I use that config took you suggest, it says it works fine in test mode, but then when I try to fire up the xwindows it dies. I've been tweaking the config file for over an hour

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread s
On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory. HOT DAMN! You are the man Thank you thank you thank

[expert] GTK Font Override in 9.0?

2002-09-29 Thread Jerry A!
I set a custom font in my .gtkrc (via gtk-switch-themes) and I'm noticing incosistent behavior applying the custom font. For instance, xmtr, Samsung's printer utility, SJog, all work correctly. However, aumix, gkrellm, AbiWord, Gnumeric don't respect the .gtkrc setting. Now the odd part is

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:46 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 11:33 pm, Lorne wrote: Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to 2960 and everything's hunky dory. HOT

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-29 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm beginning to think I have some sort

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