Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Williamson
Tried that, and it didn't change Evolution.. Cheers Mark On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 16:08, Woody Green wrote: It should use the Gnome defaults as listed in the Gnome Control Center. Woody Mark Williamson said: Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up

Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution

2002-11-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Evolution is a GNOME 1 application, so you need to change the setting in the GNOME 1 Control Centre. Unfortunately, I don't think that comes with Mandrake 9 (I can't check now), since it is based on GNOME 2. On 24 Nov 2002 22:07:17 +1100, Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that, and

Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Williamson
The change of Evolution's default web browser is via editing a file called ~/,gnome/Gnome Looks like this has been mailed to the expert mailing list before... http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-09/msg01415.php It looks like that Evolution is still using the Gnome 1.2 configs

Re: [expert] iptables help?

2002-11-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:06 am, Woody Green wrote: On the sharing machine, run iptables-save and post the output here. Hello, After some fiddling I managed to get things working again, though I only barely understand what I did. Below is

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-24 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Miark, here we go. The XF86Config-4 file has the Following Section-Module Entry: Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. Load

[expert] Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread stefmit
Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my recent Netgear MA401 email, you know what I am talking about) - to recap: I am at the point of having to use two different DHCP servers (at home and at work), with two different

[expert] Problems with wireless...unknown source (long)

2002-11-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am having problems with wireless connectivity between an IBM Thinkpad with prism2-based wireless card using hostap_cs and my desktop with a wusb11 v2.6 wireless device using the atmel driver. Both systems are running Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am posting this to three lists

[expert] rebooting and modifying ppp0

2002-11-24 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: rebooting and modifying ppp0 Hi All, I have setup a custom ppp0 configuration file so I can connect to the internet with an uncommon modem. Everytime I have to reboot the machine, take down ppp0 or modify the network, ppp0 gets either modifyed or deleted. In Mandrake 8.0 and Redhat

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-24 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 November 2002 4:05 pm, Miark wrote: :-) Yes, I got the splash screen. I know when the nVidia drivers aren't working becuase TuxRacer is simply unplayable. But it's a-rockin' right now. By the way, here's my relevant system info:

[expert] gnome 1.4 proxy settings

2002-11-24 Thread Angus Beath
Hi guys, I'm running mandrake 9.0 - any ideas how I change the above settings? I've been using gnome-network-preferences but it does not seem to be working. Does anyone have any suggestions? Angus -- -- | Angus Beath | Support

[expert] wierd FS situation

2002-11-24 Thread Tom
This message is just information only. I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j device (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and read them just fine. Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM.

[expert] Konsole segfaults and core-dumps

2002-11-24 Thread Frank Lohmeyer
(FYI--mdk 9.0 on an i686) I have had problems with Konsole after upgrading to the full Qt (Qt3, in my case). Someone on the mandrake newbie list said he also had the same problem with Konsole and Kmail after building and installing Qt2. His problem went away with a reboot. [I don't use kmail,

Re: [expert] wierd FS situation

2002-11-24 Thread Brian Schroeder
Also - just for information: I saw something similar over the weekend. Due to problems with an install (another story!), I rebooted in rescue mode, and the root fs couldn't be found. I did fsck.ext2 on the actual partition (it is an ext3 partition), fixed some problems, and then mounted it. ls

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for locating manpages. Eh? You get exactly

Re: [expert] html front end to pine?

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Michael Holt wrote: Sunday, David Guntner mused: Michael Holt grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [...] I would like to make an html front-end to access the mail program (or pine) something similar to yahoo or hotmail but without all the crappy ads and weird email you get on those. I know I can

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:36:42 +, Tommy Wareing wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power

Re: [expert] Broken Java support in Mozilla

2002-11-24 Thread Mark Weaver
scribbled wildly after reading Charles A Edwards On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:14:10 -0800 Walter Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reviewing Mozilla Bug #116444, it appears that java support in Mozilla with Mandrake 9.0 is broken. Has to do with Mozilla compiled with GCC 3.0 being

[expert] Screen Blanker

2002-11-24 Thread Greg S
Hi, Could someone please tell me how to disable the screen blanker (not KDE). I have tried the following without success: setterm -blank 0 echo -e \33[9;0] I'm using mandrake linux version 9. I was unable to read replies from my previous message, so appologies if you have already replied.

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread PlugHead
A co-worker of mine experienced a similar problem w/ a Compaq laptop. I believe that the solution turned out to be re-building the kernel w/ the latest ACPI driver. I'll ask him if he has any additional insight... -Jason On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:58 pm, Donna and Matthew Persico wrote:

Re: [expert] Process of bringing up wireless networking -pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:50, stefmit wrote: Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my recent Netgear MA401 email, you know what I am talking about) - to recap: I am at the point of having to use two different DHCP

[expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-24 Thread Jack Coates
dropped a new 40GB IDE drive into one of my MDK9 boxes and used diskdrake to do one big partition and format it as ext3fs. This went successfully and it reported 38GB usable, so I proceeded to copy my mp3s over -- which halted at 1.3GB with disk full. df -h verified that the volume was in fact

[expert] DVD sharing using samba

2002-11-24 Thread x~o
Hi Im using a MDK 8.2 updated with cookers an I try to share my DVD via samba to look movies with PowerDVD on my PC. My Pc can acces file on the DVD with explorer but when I ask PowerDVD to lauch DVD from Harddisk pointing the the share, the kernel general errors like this : Nov 25

[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread stefmit
Thank you very much for the speedy answer and help. Comments inline: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:00 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:50, stefmit wrote: Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my

[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread stefmit
On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, both containing my office address (172.x.y.z),

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Larry Sword
Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL

[expert] Mdk 9.0: Gnome Control Center and URL Handler; where, what RPM?

2002-11-24 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I know this a FAQ: I am using Evolution under KDE and what to change the default browser, i.e., the browser used to open an URL. I've found a number of answers to this on the net, and they all suggest that I change the ``Default URL handler'' using Gnome Control Center. However, when I run

Re: [expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking -pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old,

[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-24 Thread stefmit
On Monday 25 November 2002 12:14 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I

[expert] gcc that can't build executables?

2002-11-24 Thread James Sparenberg
I've just hit an error for the first time ever with my 8.2 box. I've compiled a number of applications on this box and now all the sudden while trying to compile ajunta it tells me that it find gcc but that gcc can't compile executables and configure errors out. Running MDK 8.2 with all

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0: Gnome Control Center and URL Handler; where,what RPM?

2002-11-24 Thread James Sparenberg
Under Advanced Prefered applications seems to have worked for me. (In gnome-control-center) James On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:52, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I know this a FAQ: I am using Evolution under KDE and what to change the default browser, i.e., the browser used to open an URL. I've