[expert] Digital camera: fstab changes

2002-12-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Following with the FinePix S602 Zoom and Mandrake 9.0, I have added the next line to fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user,noauto,nosuid 0 0 after do mount -a, now I have added a new hd mount icon for /dev/sda1 and anyuser can mount the /mnt/camera, look the pictures and copy, erase them. Is

[expert] Digital camera: fstab changes success!

2002-12-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Following with the FinePix S602 Zoom and Mandrake 9.0, I have added the next line to fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user,noauto,nosuid 0 0 after do mount -a, and later have added a new hd mount icon for /dev/sda1 and anyuser can mount the /mnt/camera, look the pictures and copy, erase them.

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread David Robertson
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: 021221 John Wilson wrote: The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database,

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: Mark Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the problem. 1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely different. 2. as root cd to /var/log/ then do tail -f XFree86.0.log (yours might be 1 or 2 but for most is

[expert] Installation Problem

2002-12-22 Thread Laurent Mesuré
Hi, when i try to install Mandrake 9.0 on a IBM Thinkpad 390X with a 20 Gb hard drive i get the following error messages: Hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda:

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: | James Sparenberg wrote: | | Mark | | Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the | problem. | 1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely | different. | 2. as root cd to

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems... Solved!

2002-12-22 Thread Marcio Cordero
It's done!!! OK, tried disabling the firewall and that's what I got: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted. So I checked in groups.google and that was some hint the machine and it's gateway are in different subnets. I should either make sure they are in the same subnet or enable ip forwarding.

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 22 December 2002 17:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was

Re: [expert] Installation Problem

2002-12-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Laurent Mesuré wrote: Hi, when i try to install Mandrake 9.0 on a IBM Thinkpad 390X with a 20 Gb hard drive i get the following error messages: Hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread James Sparenberg
Just don't tell my wife I did something useful She'll never believe it *grin* Glad it worked. James On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 05:05, Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: | James Sparenberg wrote: | | Mark | | Getting this

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: Just don't tell my wife I did something useful She'll never believe it *grin* Glad it worked. James not to worry my friend...your secret is safe with me. I can totally relate! ;) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread Jack Coates
Well, it's only useful within the realm of those computer things which are inherently non-useful, so the paradigm is safe :-) Though mine's been quieter since I pointed out that our friend the construction contractor is a house hacker instead of a computer hacker, and his wife has to deal with

RE: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread Brian York
If you make all the root passwords on every machine (17 linux machines) you are asking for more trouble than my way because if an unauthorized user gets the root password then they can shut down everthing. Were I work we have 83 machines (linux, VMS, windows) the root/administrator password is

[expert] draksound

2002-12-22 Thread Serge
Hi I have a SB Live 5.1 value. During the install , the driver chosen was the alsa driver. Because of the bad quality of the driver, i changed to the OSS driver. First it went ok, had all my channels working except the center one. Then wanted to try again the alsa driver, everything went OK

Re: [expert] Which Wine?

2002-12-22 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Thanks, I will download it immediately. Just to know, I heard that not every wine release is equally stable. Could someone confirm this and suggest a way to know which one is stable (compared to others: wine is in development status). Thanks again Olaf At 06.03 22/12/2002, you wrote: Olaf

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread Philip Webb
021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might

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

2002-12-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Noyes wrote on Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 06:06:09PM -0500 : Do you make mrproper as the first step? Move .config out of the way if you want to use it or use /boot/config but mrproper should be the first step. Sorry but I have no idea what

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

2002-12-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:38:40AM -0500 : Guys, I'm not using a laptop but I'm having serious problems with 9.0 on my desktop. It installs great, but will only bootup or shutdown correctly after numerous attempts. I passed

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks But V9.0 otherwise working fine (so far).

2002-12-22 Thread John Wilson
On Sunday 22 December 2002 08:53 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I

Re: [expert] Can't find my D: and E: ANOTHER THING

2002-12-22 Thread Jim C
Oh, no. What I was saying was that due to the fact that I can get access anywere becuase of sftp etc. that I have no use for one. As a consequence I've not acquired one and therefore haven't had much opportunity to learn about them. Any standard laptop should be *able* to use the protocols

RE: [expert] can anyone advise on Prism 2.5 based PCI card configuration?

2002-12-22 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Thanks I will try that!! -Original Message- From: Simon Ree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 8:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] can anyone advise on Prism 2.5 based PCI card configuration? Mcleod, Ian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

RE: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 05:47, Brian York wrote: If you make all the root passwords on every machine (17 linux machines) you are asking for more trouble than my way because if an unauthorized user gets the root password then they can shut down everthing. Were I work we have 83 machines (linux,

Re: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
John McQuillen wrote: Yeah, but under your plan, your admins won't even have an unprivileged account to experiment with even if they wanted or needed to. The first thing most n00bs are taught about *nix, is 'DON'T LOG ON AS ROOT', and you're considering worse than this, you're considering

Re: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
LOL! Merry Christmas, Dr J. You too, John McQ. ;) --- J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McQuillen wrote: Yeah, but under your plan, your admins won't even have an unprivileged account to experiment with even if they wanted or needed to. The first thing most n00bs are taught

[expert] Any info on Orinoco Silver card configuration?

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Shaw
I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver card that requires the wavelan2 driver, but harddrake sees it as a wavelan(1) card. I looked and only the wavelan(1) module is in /lib/modules . . . Anyone know if there is a separate RPM for the wavelan2 driver or do I have to wedge it in? Regards, Mike =

Re: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:57, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hey John, How do you really feel about this? drjung CRACK UP!!! My wife says this to me all the time - Tell me how you really feel :) Sorry if I got a bit carried away... I do tend to get a bit emotional at times. Kindest regards,

[expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-22 Thread PlugHead
Anyone know how to get wine to work under KDE w/ Sound that Doesn't Suck(tm)? I'm using the latest WineX from transgaming, as well as regular wine, but the sound under KDE is lousy. It's so full of dropout and static that it's unusable. I've had this problem with other non-KDE apps, but

Re: [expert] Any info on Orinoco Silver card configuration?

2002-12-22 Thread Nelson Bartley
No I'm pretty sure it will work fine with the wavelan driver. I believe at one point they were two seperate drivers but (IIRC) they were merged when the old wavelan code was updated. Just give it a try with the wavelan driver, if it doesn't work, try compiling from source. I would suspect that

[expert] MNF boot

2002-12-22 Thread Marek
Hi Is there any way to install MNF without a bootloader ? Just want to boot off floppy. -- /Marek //Pawinski.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- PlugHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to get wine to work under KDE w/ Sound that Doesn't Suck(tm)? I'm using the latest WineX from transgaming, as well as regular wine, but the sound under KDE is lousy. It's so full of dropout and static that it's unusable. I've had

[expert] mdkupdate

2002-12-22 Thread Marek
Hi What ports have to be open on a firewall to allow Mandrake update ? I also get a forbiden error with urpmi -a so looks like the firewall is blocking something. -- /Marek //Pawinski.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mdkupdate

2002-12-22 Thread Brett Buckingham
What ports have to be open on a firewall to allow Mandrake update ? I also get a forbiden error with urpmi -a so looks like the firewall is blocking something. On my Mandrake 9.0 system, which uses Shorewall / iptables, nothing special needs to be done with the firewall to permit Mandrake

Re: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
John McQuillen wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:57, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hey John, How do you really feel about this? drjung CRACK UP!!! My wife says this to me all the time - Tell me how you really feel :) Sorry if I got a bit carried away... I do tend to get a bit emotional at

RE: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-22 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi all well if i may jump into this discussion ... id like to share alternative ways instead of giving out root passwords... we have several machines with several admins and we use 'sudo' to give root priveleges to the admins. we dont even have to know the 'root' password to do root commands.

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

2002-12-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:37 pm, you wrote: He's disabling acpi (power management), you're quoting messages about apic (interrupt controller). Two totally different things. It's a shame the acronyms are so damn close to each other :-/ Todd, thanks for the reply. Yes - since you read

Re: SOLVED(?): [expert] test command

2002-12-22 Thread ath1410
Solved! I should have read man bash pages! (B (BOptions are one of the Arguments. (B (Btest arg1 arg2 arg3 .. (B (BSo, (B (B$test -nCR or $test -zCR is just like $test abcCR. (B-n, -z, or abc is handled as arg1 and as 'a string'. Then (Btest deos not think that -z or -n is an option

Re: [expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-22 Thread PlugHead
Well, pretty much anything... Morrowind (tm) is the Ultimate Goal, but at this point, I'd be happy if I could view the Two Towers trailer with sound (via Crossover/QuickTime.) Planescape - Torment, is another experiment that I've been toying with (without much success.) These programs (well,

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-22 Thread James Sparenberg
Like the old adage about how you find the auto mechanic in the neighborhood look for the worst car. *grin* James PS. Never refer to a doctor as a biological hacker (or a Bio Technician) they don't understand... (But the Nurses seem to.) On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 10:05, Jack Coates wrote:

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread James Sparenberg
I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do

[expert] garnome

2002-12-22 Thread Azrael
Just ijstalled the latest garnome under mdk 9.0, however the usage instructions are a little on the thin side, and I amnot sure how to configure mandrake to allow me to log in with the new gnome. Anyone able to help? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._