Re: [expert] Problems in shuttind down

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Miark, your suggestion works, THANKS a lot. Sorry for asking this further question. I thought that autofs was useful for mounting ANY filesystem, including read-only NTFS and CD-ROMs. Now, I removed autofs, it properly shuts down and I STILL (fortunately) can read my NTFS filesystems and

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:04, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:29:15PM + : Bottom line is hardware is a moving target, always has been. Unfortunately, specially with other than with M$, it's a downhill

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:32, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:39:07 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm have problems finding this anywhere on the IBM web site or by search. Can you please provide the source document you have for this?? This all came about

Re: [expert] maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:37, Lorne wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Check the archives.. but I do seem to remember that if you are willing to put up with the slower access times. (depending on what you do you might not even notice that it's slower.) you

[expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Jim C
OK, I set up a dns server on my gateway. It works fine from the clients but using the dns names I can't ping any of the clients from the server. I can ping the IPs. I've tried adding this to resolv.conf: nameserver 127.0.0.1 That is how I fixed it last time, but it doesn't help. I've also

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread silkythreads
I have 2 Maxtor's and 1 Seagate All work "like a champ" ! No problem with any of them ! But... I also have a couple of computers with WD drives in them. no problems to speak of ! What seems to be their "bane"? At YA later ! Donna - Original Message - From:

[expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
It seems that Evolution 1.2 is available through Ximian Red-Carpet. I see that, in order to get the new Evolution, other Gnome RPMs should be downloaded. I am wondering if these other packages, with a ximian suffix (instead than a mdk suffix) would be compatible with packages that will become

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-18 Thread flacycads
Jack, I was getting ready to try 2.4.20, either vanilla (with preempt patch, and a modified Mandrake .conf), or cooker 2.4.20-2. Could you advise me in on as to why you aren't happy with 2.4.20? I was under the impression it fixed some USB problems, of which I am having. Thanks, Robert Crawford

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:04 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:29:15PM + : Bottom line is hardware is a moving target, always has been. Unfortunately, specially with other than with M$, it's a

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Goshko
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 07:06, Stefano Pogliani wrote: It seems that Evolution 1.2 is available through Ximian Red-Carpet. I see that, in order to get the new Evolution, other Gnome RPMs should be downloaded. I am wondering if these other packages, with a ximian suffix (instead than a

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Rob, where is this FTP site? Which packages did you download from that site? Thanks a lot for your help. Best regards /stefano P.S.Do you know if/how Evolution could use a Thwate Digital Certificate for signing mails ? Robert Goshko wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 07:06, Stefano Pogliani

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread kwan
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: 50/50 mix of Simple Green and Water, a 2 wide paint brush, and a soft-bristled toothbrush. Wash it down, rinse it with bottled water (or any other finely filtered water). Force air over it and let it dry overnight. A simple fan is really all that's

Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread kwan
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jim C wrote: OK, I set up a dns server on my gateway. It works fine from the clients but using the dns names I can't ping any of the clients from the server. I can ping the IPs. I've tried adding this to resolv.conf: nameserver 127.0.0.1 That is how I fixed it last

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Goshko
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 07:40, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Rob, where is this FTP site? Which packages did you download from that site? Thanks a lot for your help. Best regards You can check http://ximian.com/mirrors.html for the list of FTP sites. From 1.2.1 I downloaded all the

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
the swsusp included is beta 16, which is broken per the swsusp and acpi-sppt lists -- not like beta 15 worked, but apparently beta 16 is even more broken :-) This could be related to swsusp, but hotplug has quit working, rendering my memory-stick slot broken (this is USB, so proceed with

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Rob, if you downloaded all the packages, then you manually did what Red Carpet did ! I mean, you installed some other packages that could, one day, conflict with the ones from Mandrake. Am I correct ? /stefano Robert Goshko wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 07:40, Stefano Pogliani wrote:

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Toshiro
El Lun 16 Dic 2002 23:04, PlugHead escribió: On Monday 16 December 2002 08:32 pm, Toshiro wrote: El Dom 15 Dic 2002 23:55, PlugHead escribió: Have you installed the kernel-source rpm appropriate to your kernel? -Jason Yes, I installed the RPM that comes with MDK9 I would do a

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:55:27 -0300 Toshiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, your were right :), the kernel-headers version is 2.4.18-41mdk and the other packages are 2.4.19-16, but that's what's on the Mandrake CDs, is the 'kernel-headers' rpm the wrong version? The kernel-header rpm is

RE: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I had the same thing. So I'm not nuts, right? Right? ;) ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toshiro Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm El Lun 16 Dic 2002

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-18 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres 18 Desembre 2002 15:28, en flacycads va escriure: Jack, I was getting ready to try 2.4.20, either vanilla (with preempt patch, and a modified Mandrake .conf), or cooker 2.4.20-2. Could you advise me in on as to why you aren't happy

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL - which cooker kernel?

2002-12-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:29 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Yes, you are right, 9.0 totally F***ed up Supermount, even for me (I disable it on all vanilla 9.0 installs). It was broken on every install I tried (probably 5 or so, including and

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-18 Thread flacycads
I guess I need to rethink my plan for kernels. I thought 2.4.20 with preemptive patch would be a good move, but now I'm not so sure. I guess it's back to the research boards for me. My main complaint with Linux so far is the performance on high-end PC's, like my KX7-333 Board and Athlon XP

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Goshko
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:09, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Rob, if you downloaded all the packages, then you manually did what Red Carpet did ! I mean, you installed some other packages that could, one day, conflict with the ones from Mandrake. Am I correct ? Stefano, In

Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Jim C
Brian wrote: what happens if you try this: host name of client name of dns server The following: [jcolling@enigma jcolling]$ host spartack enigma ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached [jcolling@enigma jcolling]$ host spartack.microverse.net enigma Using

RE: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Jane
Title: RE: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0 Does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file have 'dns' for hosts? -Original Message- From: Jim C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0 Brian

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread Ken Hawkins
Or some places just have STUPID architects. Our College had a new satellite campus built in a small town. The architect claimed to be an expert on designing for communications equipment and computer labs. When we went to set up all the servers and computers, we found a server room no bigger

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Jack and Melissa McSwain
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 10:18 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: No, I don't think so. It is a brand new motherboard. however... it DID come with a special ide controller card. Seems that WD drives are junk based on another thread. :( Do you know the make of the special IDE controller card?

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 10:45, Robert Goshko wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:09, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Rob, if you downloaded all the packages, then you manually did what Red Carpet did ! I mean, you installed some other packages that could, one day, conflict with the ones from

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Ok, I understand your point and I sympathize. But, let's put my question in another form: which is the risk of installing some of the GNOME packages that are said to be required by the new Evolution 1.2 and which are not signed by Mandrake ? If I install libgtkhtml20, 1.0.4-6.ximian.1 as

Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Jim C
Grr!! It just started working again. Friggin thing is haunted or something. Hmmm... Either that or perhaps I was just tired lastnight. I did notice that this syntax for clients works: hostname1IN AXXX.XXX.X.252 hostname2 IN AXXX.XXX.X.251 hostname3IN A

Re: [expert] Problems in shuttind down

2002-12-18 Thread Miark
Stefano, Miark, your suggestion works, THANKS a lot. Great to hear it. Sorry for asking this further question. I thought that autofs was useful for mounting ANY filesystem, including read-only NTFS and CD-ROMs. I suppose it is--many people on this list run it. But when you're running

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread kwan
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ken Hawkins wrote: Or some places just have STUPID architects. Our College had a new satellite campus built in a small town. The architect claimed to be an expert on designing for communications equipment and computer labs. When we went to set up all the servers and

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
Speaking from experience, something will break. I've been there. There's a reason why Red Carpet includes system update channels for your distro in addition to the desktop channel and any products you purchased... it's because they're creating an update path which has potential to be (and therefor

Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Albert E. Whale
Jim C wrote: Grr!! It just started working again. Friggin thing is haunted or something. Hmmm... Either that or perhaps I was just tired lastnight. I did notice that this syntax for clients works: hostname1IN AXXX.XXX.X.252 hostname2 IN AXXX.XXX.X.251

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-18 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 December 2002 12:37 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dimecres 18 Desembre 2002 15:28, en flacycads va escriure: Jack, I was getting ready to try 2.4.20, either vanilla (with preempt patch, and a modified Mandrake .conf), or cooker

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ken Hawkins wrote: Or some places just have STUPID architects. Our College had a new satellite campus built in a small town. The architect claimed to be an expert on designing for communications equipment and

Re: [expert] Problems in shuttind down

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Thanks a lot, Miark. Last one: which is the service associated to supermount ? /stefano Miark wrote: Stefano, Miark, your suggestion works, THANKS a lot. Great to hear it. Sorry for asking this further question. I thought that autofs was useful for mounting ANY filesystem,

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Jack, what you say makes perfect sense to me. It was not what I wished to hear, but it is very logical and wise. So, anyone has an idea of when Mdk will package its own Evolution 1.2 ? /stefano Jack Coates wrote: Speaking from experience, something will break. I've been there. There's a

[expert] shorewall / connection sharing: solved

2002-12-18 Thread Brett Buckingham
I was unable to get connection sharing to work with 9.0, and suspected that shorewall was the culprit. I browsed through the documentation at http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq15 which led me to check the configuration in /etc/shorewall/masq. I changed eth0

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Biddulph
Texstar has Evo 1.2.1 available if you wish to go the apt/synaptic way for Mandrake. Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 6:05 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jack, what you say makes perfect sense to me. It was not what I wished to hear, but it is very logical

Re: [expert] CGI session management.

2002-12-18 Thread Mark D. Weaver
Franki wrote: I ended up using CGI::Session.. The access is all via 128 Verisign cert.. so no probs there.. CGI::Session also has an ip check feature you can turn on to make sure a login ID has the same IP each time. It also allows me to expire a session if its not been used for 15 minutes..

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread Jim C
You could try Everclear. James Sparenberg wrote: All, Ok ... here's one for you As you may or may not know California ... song? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Thanks a lot, Michael. Do you know how to add both the RPMS and the Contrib directories of a Texstar mirror to the MandrakeUpdate program available in MDK 9.0 ? Thanks a lot indeed. /stefano Michael Biddulph wrote: Texstar has Evo 1.2.1 available if you wish to go the apt/synaptic way for

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
021218 Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. like many people, i use recommend Mutt, which is simple powerful. of course, if you've got to

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Biddulph
As far as I know apt/synaptic only work for his repository on ibiblio. I just downloaded apt, apt-devel and synaptic via ftp. Ran apt-get update Then you can use either apt-get or synaptic to install packages plus their dependencies. Steer clear of dist-upgrade, it may remove a whole lot more

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread milosh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:31:46PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 021218 Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. like many people, i use

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
I will try Mutt. My kmail crashed every day, with no sideaffects, luckily, so I am ready for new stuff. Netscapes mail client looks pretty, anything I should know about before tossing 20 IMAP accounts onto netscape? hehe Philip Webb wrote: 021218 Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Other

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
urpmi.addmedia Texstar http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with ./hdlist.cz On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:26, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Thanks a lot, Michael. Do you know how to add both the RPMS and the Contrib directories of a

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Vox
This time Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Ladies and Gents, Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. If you want a powerful

RE: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0

2002-12-18 Thread Adolfo Bello
I will assume that the domain you have set in your DNS is network.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim C Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DNS trouble on MDK 9.0 Grr!!

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ken Hawkins wrote: Or some places just have STUPID architects. Our College had a new satellite campus built in a small town. The architect claimed to be an expert on designing for communications

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday December 18 2002 11:16 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:55:27 -0300 Toshiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, your were right :), the kernel-headers version is 2.4.18-41mdk and the other packages are 2.4.19-16, but that's what's on the Mandrake CDs, is the

Re: [expert] USB hard drive as backup

2002-12-18 Thread AFernando
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 01:05 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I'm thinking of buying a USB hard drive to use as a backup. Any reccomendations would be helpful. Brands, compatabilty, etc. I was considering Maxtor since it seems to be the drive du jour. BTW, I'm using LM9, two WD drives, ASUS

Re: [expert] USB hard drive as backup

2002-12-18 Thread AFernando
On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:29 am, AFernando wrote: I use a spare 2.5 notebook hard disks for my portable / external USB drive casing when i upgraded my notebooks' HDD. It's convenient if you are on the go since it's smaller but a little slower in rpm (4800 rpm) compared to 3.5 minimum of

[expert] S3 Trio, Voodoo2, and XFree86 4.2.1

2002-12-18 Thread Brian Schroeder
(Sorry if you've seen this before. I asked about this a few days ago, but didn't see my message on the list, or any replies.) I am trying to configure a PII system that has an S3 Trio3D graphics chip, and an added Voodoo2 3dfx card. According to the documentation, these are both supported by

RE: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Franki
yup, I'd agree with that.. So far the only drive brand I've not had issues with.. is IBM.. I have had one IBM drive fail, but it was a travelstar.. (laptop drive) and it had been hammered for 3 years. dropped twice and generally misused. and it still gave me time to copy all the important stuff

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread PlugHead
On Monday 16 December 2002 09:55 pm, Toshiro wrote: Well, your were right :), the kernel-headers version is 2.4.18-41mdk and the other packages are 2.4.19-16, but that's what's on the Mandrake CDs, is the 'kernel-headers' rpm the wrong version? Updating to a later kernel-headers packages has

[expert] timestamp info in bash script

2002-12-18 Thread bascule
is there a way to obtain the time and date of a file without having to parse the ls command output? bascule -- 'I think, if you want thousands, you've got to fight for one.' (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread mycal62
I found the 2.4.19-16 headers rpm and installed the nvidia rpms just fine . would you like me to send it to you? Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 8.0 kernel 2.4.3-20; MDK 9.0 kernel

[expert] test command

2002-12-18 Thread ath1410
$echo $? returns 0 after these test commands. (B (B$test -z "" (B$test -z (B (BBut it returns different value after followings. (B (B$test -n ""-- echo$? returns 1 (B$test -n -- " " 0 (B (BCan someone explain why it goes as above? Especially (BI don't figure out why

Re: [expert] timestamp info in bash script

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 19:29, bascule wrote: is there a way to obtain the time and date of a file without having to parse the ls command output? bascule Sure, parse the stat output instead :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Narfi Stefansson
I know there are very likely valid technical reasons against WD drives in linux, everything that I have heard about WD drives bothers me deeply. On the other hand, if my Maxtor drive crashes tomorrow, that does not mean that Maxtor is a bad brand, absolutely not. We cannot infer anything about

Re: [expert] timestamp info in bash script

2002-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 19:29, bascule wrote: is there a way to obtain the time and date of a file without having to parse the ls command output? bascule okay, serious answer this time. man bash and look for -ot and -nt -- older than and newer than, respectively. -- Jack Coates

[expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Ladies and Gents, Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473-2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Jason Greenwood
I use Mozilla Mail happily every day. I find it perfect for my needs with excellent filter functionality. What exactly are you looking for in your perfect mail client? I used to use Eudora and find Mozilla beats it hands down for my needs. Cheers Jason Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread _nasturtium
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:25 am, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, Other than Kmail and trash like that, is there FINALLY a good mail client anyone using? I am dying here guys :(. I hope eudora grabs this open and empty market. Hello, [checks mail headers] You're using

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there are very likely valid technical reasons against WD drives in linux, everything that I have heard about WD drives bothers me deeply. On the other hand, if my Maxtor drive crashes tomorrow, that does not mean that Maxtor is a bad

Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

2002-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:15, Jack Coates wrote: urpmi.addmedia Texstar http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with ./hdlist.cz First thanks for the above... worked like a charm... second if anyone else does this there is a hitch.

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Guy Van Sanden
That is very strange... Although I use Evolution, both my wife and my mother are running Kmail, my wife has to see a crash yet. My mother did have prolbems with the kmail package build by SuSE (it was the KDE 3.0.4 upgrade). The RPM's from the KDE site worked fine however. Kind regards Guy On

[expert] [repost] Evolution Weirdness

2002-12-18 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I'm having a very weird problem with evolution... Currently, I'm running 1.2, but it was there too on 1.0.8. My system is Mandrake 9.0. My mail-list-display shows times in 12 hour format, where my locale is set to use 24 hour. All other apps (like sylpheed) detect this correct. But here

[expert] [repost] XFree 4 resolutions

2002-12-18 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I have a slight problem with XFree. I set up my parent's PC to watch DVD's on a TV. To to this, the resolution needs to be switched to 800x600 under their USERID's (no root). This works by pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- The monitor switches to 800x600 but the desktop doesn't. It is now larger