[expert] artsd hogging cpu

2002-11-27 Thread Brian Parish
When my main desktop system is quiet - just XMMS doing it's thing, evolution and mozilla running, maybe a console session or two, but nothing much going on - I'm used to seeing total cpu usage of 2 - 4% (excluding setiathome of course). Today I noticed artsd using 15% of the cpu consistently.

Re: [expert] traffic control

2002-11-27 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:06, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: It is realy a version mismatch. I grabed the tc-patch from http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/ and replaced the patch in the src.rpm with it and after a rebuild it runs like a charme. So it seems to be a bug in the iproute2 package. Do

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

2002-11-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running one system in AP mode with DHCP turns out not to avoid the problem. I tried AP/DHCP and the wireless connection went dead just like it does with ad-hoc after several hours. Me thinks it must be related to USB driver/support issues. I am

[expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I don' t have access to root and therefore no rights to write anything on libs, include etc. In order to run a program I had to compile a specific lib on my home dir ($HOME/lib and $/HOME/include). Is there a way to set a variable (or change path etc) so as to make the program see

[expert] Heretic2 and NVIDIA

2002-11-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Anyone here know how to get heretic2 working with hardware rendering for NVIDIA cards beyond the tnt? I have a Geforce 4 Ti4200 and can't find a suitable GL lib to use. The game came with libMesa31.so and libMesa30tnt.so (for TNT cards) but neither is usable. I do have Mesa 4.0.3 built but

Re: [expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread Rui Maia
In the Makefile of your program use the following compiler options : -Lpath of the .a and -Ipath of the .h --- Rui Maia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~rfpm --- - Original Message - From: Eduardo Mendes

Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.

2002-11-27 Thread Ron Stodden
Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: Ron Stodden wrote: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is

Re: [expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hello I don' t have access to root and therefore no rights to write anything on libs, include etc. In order to run a program I had to compile a specific lib on my home dir ($HOME/lib and $/HOME/include). Is there a way to set a variable

[expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread David Guntner
I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me that my password would expire in 6 days. I suspect it's something under /etc/security somewhere, but I'm not sure which file, and what has to be

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me that my password would expire in 6 days. I suspect it's something under /etc/security

[expert] Serious problems with GTK2 on 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
I have had 9.0 installed for over a month now, but since yesterday every GTK2 app (menudrake, userdrake) that I try to start hangs and locks up X. Keyboard no longer functions and I have to reset. I have reinstalled every GTK2 lib and app I could find, without succes. GTK1.2 functions normally.

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Larry Sword
David Guntner wrote: I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me that my password would expire in 6 days. I suspect it's something under /etc/security somewhere, but I'm not sure which

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Larry Sword
Larry Sword wrote: David Guntner wrote: I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me that my password would expire in 6 days. I suspect it's something under /etc/security somewhere, but

[expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Marek
Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get the same

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread David Guntner
Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Oh, and the setting is in /etc/sysconfig/msec file. TMOUT=0 # for never expire Actually, that environment variable is for setting the shell timeout. I.E., if you're inactive for a given period of time, the shell closes. Setting to 0 disables that.

Re: Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.

2002-11-27 Thread Joe Braddock
Maybe it's not Linux clobbering the active partition but something occuring at boot. Is it possible that the drive in question has some software installed to make it seeable by your bios? I know some of the WD drives come with software to make it compatable with older BIOS chips. What boot

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote: Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the plugins so i

Re: [expert] Serious problems with GTK2 on 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Joe Braddock
I am not at a Linux box right now, but in your home directory, there should be some hidden .gtk directories. I know .gtkrc is for gtk1.2 I'm not sure the exact directory for gtk2. Regardless, these directories hold configuration information for gtk. If one of them has bad data, then no

RE: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Have you tried changing the browser identification? That works for me a lot of times, though this pages seems to have a lot of java, my java is real bad with both IBM, and Sun versions. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jack Coates

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Marek
Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote: Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:03 -0800, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote: Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:21, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:03 -0800, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:51, Marek wrote: Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the

Re: [expert] Install trouble with ML9

2002-11-27 Thread engage
Narfi Stefansson had the solution to my problem. I had to turn on the APIC in the BIOS. I did get ML 9.0 to install but I had a lot of trouble with the network plus I had a heck of a time getting some other apps to work (especially xsane). I think most of my trouble was with setting too high of

Re: [expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello Many thanks. It worked just fine. regards Ed On Wednesday 27 November 2002 03:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hello I don' t have access to root and therefore no rights to write anything on libs, include etc. In order to run a

Re: [expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 engage wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:12:19PM -0700 : It seems that my hosts.deny file keeps getting modified with ALL:ALL You selected security level of standard and msec is enforcing the permissions that go along with that. You can edit files

Re: [expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-27 Thread engage
That was my problem. I simply executed msec 3 from the CLI and that resolved this issue. But, it was my understanding from the installation instructions that msec 4 was a good choice if you are going to run servers. I didn't expect it to prevent access to the servers! What good is having that

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread zephod
Quick konqueror 3.0.3 hack: when you click right, pick 'open with' and choose konqueror you can follow the links. regards, Z. On Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:28, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:21, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:03 -0800, Jack Coates wrote:

Re: [expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 engage wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:26:44PM -0700 : That was my problem. I simply executed msec 3 from the CLI and that resolved this issue. But, it was my understanding from the installation instructions that msec 4 was a good choice if you

[expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
This is my fstab: /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/bootwindows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto

Re: [expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-27 Thread engage
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 01:02 pm, you wrote: engage wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:26:44PM -0700 : That was my problem. I simply executed msec 3 from the CLI and that resolved this issue. But, it was my understanding from the installation instructions that msec 4 was a good choice

Re: [expert] Xineramia extensions with kde

2002-11-27 Thread ddc_prueba
No idea about it indeed, but... if you are using NVIDIA, how did you get it? I only got it to be seen as a log desktop that goes beyond the phisical screen... quite a bit unusable :-(( El mar, 19-11-2002 a las 16:15, Dalton Calford escribió: I have a fully working dual head system, but, KDE

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Ken Hawkins
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:51 am, Marek wrote: Worse yet... To access some of the support forums and/or services at Hewlitt-Packard, you MUST have IE 5.x..no Opera, No Netscape. Their help desk solution when I complained? Install IE. Considering that HP is now building GARBAGE

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
Marek, I think the problem is that it's being served from a winIIs server using asp that isn't correctly configured. (I can achieve the same result on Apache if I don't configure it correctly.) IE is designed to work around the bugs and mistakes designed in by M$ products... Mozilla is

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:05:46 -0500 Have you tried changing the browser identification? That works for me a lot of times, though this pages seems to have a lot of java, my java is real bad with both IBM, and Sun versions.

Re: [expert] Making an optimized kernel

2002-11-27 Thread ddc_prueba
Oppss!! I missed this one Thanx for the response. Now I'm having troubles because of a failed update to 9.0 try, so by now I'm not playing with this, but when I can I'll tell you how it was. Thanx and sorry for this delaygiving a feedback! O:-) El jue, 31-10-2002 a las 06:53, dfox

Re: [expert] Select wich partition upgrade qhen installing to MDK 9.0]

2002-11-27 Thread ddc_prueba
Nope. The raid is software raid. I managed to remove the disk with the root partition and tried to install on antoher drive and finally found out why it was unsuccesful: Although the partitions were formated in ext2 and reiserfs, disk partition table was indicating that it was a FAT fs!! It was

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Mohammed Sameer @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:55:56 +0200 My Inbox Happily Received This From Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN @ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:05:46 -0500 Have you tried changing the browser identification? That works for me a lot of times, though this pages

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
Well did some fun checking... copied the source by saving the page. and low and behold. The guy created the pages by (apparently via asp) inserting the code as text Even Dreamweaver sees the page as text not as an actual html page. Now I can recreate this by taking the following html head title

Re: [expert] Serious problems with GTK2 on 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-27 10:09 * Incoming subspace signal from Joe Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I am not at a Linux box right now, but in your home directory, there should be some hidden .gtk directories. I know .gtkrc is for gtk1.2 I'm not sure the exact directory for gtk2. Regardless, these

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread ddc_prueba
If you check th html standard with http://validator.w3.org/ you will see why it does not work, here it is the message: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because its content type is text/plain, which is not currently supported by this service. So the problem is simply that they have

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread ddc_prueba
My experience with HP has also been quite bad lately. In the past I have bought some items for personal use and been happy (specially about a HP48GX calculator ;-) but now I think I'm **NOT** going to buy a thing from them, not anymore: - I bougth a HP815C printer... no drivers for linux for half

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
Ken Hawkins wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:51 am, Marek wrote: Worse yet... To access some of the support forums and/or services at Hewlitt-Packard, you MUST have IE 5.x..no Opera, No Netscape. Their help desk solution when I complained? Install IE. More people need to make

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Azrael wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:26:26PM + : could anyone tell me how to make my NTFS partitions visible to all users (or at least 1 specific user), and writable by at least root. am guessing changing 'ro' to 'rw' does makes them

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, Question on this one ... In Samba if I share there, do I run into the same limitations. In other words if I samba mount a directory that is shared via a lose2k or or any other ntfs do I have the same rw restrictions or am I ok in this case? James On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:43, Todd

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
I was under the belief that NTFS was writable under linux, and that it simply required a scandisk under windows, not that it actually did any real damage. Still.. writing isn't as important as it being readable to users.. how do I do that? Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Alessandro Zarrilli
Have a look at: 1) PASS_MAX_DAYS, PASS_MIN_DAYS, PASS_MIN_LEN and PASS_WARN_AGE enties in /etc/login.defs 2) INACTIVE and EXPIRE entries in /etc/default/useradd 3) Previous entries are hourly modified by msec (at least on higher security levels), so you'd better create

[expert] WAS: Browsers HTML NOW:OT/on HP

2002-11-27 Thread Ken Hawkins
If I may go OFF TOPIC and rant a little: Our tech support group here went out on a limb, and lobbied hard to standardize on the HP 4xxx series printers to reduce maintenance and inventory costs. We had EXCELLENT service from HPIII's (some still in service!), HP4's, 4000n's, 4050n's. On this

[expert] gnomeicu

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
using mandrake 9, and wanted to have gnomeicu with the gnome2 panel applet.. however I think it has some dependancies that mdk9 doesn't provide. does anyone have any special mandrake9 rpm's for the latest gnomeicu that I could use? or should I go ahead and bite the bullet and start upgrading

Re: [expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-27 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Thanks for the replies. I'll give it a shot! Bill. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:39:06 +0100 Benjamin Michotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a radeon 7000 so I guess it's really similar. First, take a look at http://gatos.sf.net and install ati.2 xfree modules and at http://dri.sf.net for the

[expert] unable to resume download on files

2002-11-27 Thread Azrael
Ok, this is a weird problem. Downloaded a file with gftp, then lost connect. Wanted to resume it, but instead it wrote _over_ and would not resume. Later I am using xchat, someone sends me a file via dcc, connection drops, I re-request the file, and it doesn't resume, it picks a new name to

Re: [expert] Xineramia extensions with kde

2002-11-27 Thread Bill Beauchemin
How did you get KDE to see it as two seperate desktops? Mine sees it as one desktop spreed over two displays I would like it to be two desktops on two displays On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:49, ddc_prueba wrote: No idea about it indeed, but... if you are using NVIDIA, how did you get it? I only got

[expert] Libpcap and software based on it

2002-11-27 Thread stefmit
Short of installing libpcap from source, is there any other way to make all the libpcap-dependent software aware of where the Mandrake libraries are? I am talking about arpwatch, ethereal (from source), etc. NOTE: I still like to build packages from source, but - just as a side issue - for

[expert] Fwd: Libpcap and software based on it

2002-11-27 Thread stefmit
Sorry if this gets reposted ... I have been having problems with my email system lately :( -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Libpcap and software based on it Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:19:42 -0600 From: stefmit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ExpertMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Short

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Larry Sword
David Guntner wrote: Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Oh, and the setting is in /etc/sysconfig/msec file. TMOUT=0 # for never expire Actually, that environment variable is for setting the shell timeout. I.E., if you're inactive for a given period of time, the shell closes.

Re: [expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.

2002-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
021128 Ron Stodden wrote: Reminder. No response to the below serious situation: I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is

Re: [expert] Browsers HTML

2002-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
021127 Jack Coates wrote: Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma well, you've had some responses which might help, but the simple thing to test -- since the HTML

Re: [expert] traffic control

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 13:44 schrieb Alex Bennee: On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:06, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: It is realy a version mismatch. I grabed the tc-patch from http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/ and replaced the patch in the src.rpm with it and after a rebuild it runs like a

Re: [expert] Serious problems with GTK2 on 9.0

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Wohlfarth
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:15, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: I created a new user account, without the config files, but the same problem arose. There's nothing in the logs, xsession-errors looks like this: Look for an 'oafd' process. For some reason, OAF doesn't always exit properly. And it will