Re: [expert] Gnome+nVidia - slightly OT

2003-01-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:06, Antoine wrote: > No, GNOME works fine here. I have a GeForce4MX with the NVidia drivers. > Maybe you should try to reinstall them ? I have, does the same thing. It doesnt have this problem with the nv drivers that come with X, just the nvidia provided ones. Chuck

[expert] SGML Hell

2003-01-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok, I've now found the worlds most obscure format for documentation... At least from the standpoint of converting ONE document into something I can read just to find out if it's worth converting... Does anyone know of a way I can read this piece of work, without spending hours installing config

[expert] ACPI modules

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
Message on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list suggests that kernel panics at shutdown on ACPI-based systems might be related to unloading modules: "On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:16:16PM -, Michael Treacy wrote: > (1) When I try to close down the Vaio, the shutdown hangs. It unloads the > ACPI modules wit

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Larry Sword
Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would only burn the mp3 file as a data file no matte

Re: [expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems

2003-01-05 Thread s
On Sunday 05 January 2003 7:11 pm, David Savolainen wrote: > A second side effect is my stb tv card (bt878) stopped working, and > the tv card configuration utility does not seem to work. What can > be done? try modprobing bttv and see if it works. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

Re: [expert] Gnome+nVidia - slightly OT

2003-01-05 Thread Antoine
Le lun 06/01/2003 à 03:55, Chuck Burns a écrit : > I've got a bit of a problem here that I can't quite figure out. When I > use the nVidia *nix drivers 4191(i think. downloaded em 2 days ago), it > seems that every time I open a window, move a window, close a window, > etc.. My system pauses for a

Re: [expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Greenwood
You have to modify the XF86Config-4 (in /etc/X11) file by hand as I found out on my laptop. There was a thread on this around 12-12-02. I got helped by several on the list but also had to do some searching of my own. I have a laptop and I wanted my touchpad AND USB optical scroll mouse to be fu

[expert] Gnome+nVidia - slightly OT

2003-01-05 Thread Chuck Burns
I've got a bit of a problem here that I can't quite figure out. When I use the nVidia *nix drivers 4191(i think. downloaded em 2 days ago), it seems that every time I open a window, move a window, close a window, etc.. My system pauses for about a half-a-second. When I am moving the window this pa

[expert] IDE CD-burner randomly fails to initialize

2003-01-05 Thread Antoine
Hi, My Mandrake 9.0 works fine, apart from a small problem. I have an IDE CD burner (Yamaha CRW 3200 E) that sometimes doesn't initialize properly. Symptoms follow : - when I start Gnome, it freezes during 30 seconds to 1 minute before actually launching the desktop (apparently Nautilus depends

[expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems

2003-01-05 Thread David Savolainen
Hello all, I performed a clean install of MDK9 and now the mouse wheel does not behave properly anymore. The wheel used to nicely scroll window contents. Now except for Galeon, it performs page up, page down operations. Also in programs like pan with multipane program windows, the pane with the

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Greenwood
K3B is your friend. So is eRoaster. Regards, Jason Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome To

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
I just like the look :-) What would be extra neat is if I could get my web pages to act like my terminals: aterm with a blue-tinted transparent background and grey text (or green-n-yellow for important remote shells, or red-n-orange for root shells). Someday browsers will support this through PNG,

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:20, Lorne wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:34 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > Now you know why rates for security analysts are so high :-). It's not > > impossible to do, it's just very very tedious and requires a very good > > knowledge of your system. For a firewall it

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Ken Thompson
Gcombust has always been the best for me, easy to setup and easy to use for all your burning needs. On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:34 am, Phil wrote: > Hello All, > > While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to > burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where m

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Lorne
My intent wasn't to get a "my firewall is" debate. I am a HUGE fan of Mandrake and I've set up the new Mandrake security firewall and it is awesome. All gui based. I just want firewire on it before I put it out in the wild. my lrp based firewall has some sort of buffer overflow in it and they ke

[expert] ZIP drive not working

2003-01-05 Thread Ken Thompson
After a lot of research, question asking and heartaches I finally figured out what the trouble was. Recap: ZIP worked fine in 7.2 and up to 8.1 but is not mountable under 9.0. Tried all the tricks in Mandrake forum and Mandrake users plus what I could get from Google. Nada, nothing worked. Soluti

[expert] writing /dev/loop files across the network with scp

2003-01-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hallo all, I'm a bit puzzled/lost here: I've got a .img file mounted with "-o loop" on /x directory. The files copy fine on the localhost using "cp -a /x/ /home/harm/whatever/ but across a network using "scp" I get:"Read-only file system". What I use: $:"scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/x/ /mnt/hd/"

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread jipe
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 17:34:46 +1000 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried mpg123 to convert the mp3 file to a wave file but that failed also. > mpg123 -w mp3file wavefile does nothing except display the help screen. > mpg123 --wav mp3file wavefile at least does something if only to create a

[expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Phil
Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would only burn the mp3 file as a data file no matter what setting

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread mike
On Sunday 05 January 2003 01:34 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:57, Lorne wrote: > > On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > I just so happen to be a certified Tripwire something-or-other, which > > > means that an employer or two ago I was sent to a class and took a

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Jack, Sorta off topic here but out of curiosity you didn't happen to be a user of the old Wang terminals did you. The reference is to the fact that your website is green on black...*grin* James On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:20, Lorne wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:34 am, Jack Coates wrote:

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:34 am, Jack Coates wrote: > Now you know why rates for security analysts are so high :-). It's not > impossible to do, it's just very very tedious and requires a very good > knowledge of your system. For a firewall it's reasonable because the > system is so constrained

Re: [expert] Update Mirroring

2003-01-05 Thread Ron Stodden
Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Guru Types and others, Having numerous Mandrake 9 installations here it can be a rather large amount to download to do the updates for all machines. Would anyone know how I could mirror the updates to my system and do the updates from there? At least that way I onl

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:57, Lorne wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > I just so happen to be a certified Tripwire something-or-other, which > > means that an employer or two ago I was sent to a class and took a test. > > They do sell a nifty GUI for managing policie

Re: [expert] anyone have Hp 820cse working in MDK9?

2003-01-05 Thread Eduardo S. Libardi
I have this printer and apparently had the same problem. It started to work when I downloaded pnm2ppa from sourceforge, compiled and copied the binaries over the mdk ones. Edu On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:11, mycal62 wrote: > have tried these as well and nothing. only has a parallel port. > > some

Re: [expert] [OT?] Apache and virtual hosts config

2003-01-05 Thread Molotov
Le dim 05/01/2003 à 17:53, Jack Coates a écrit : > Test your NameVirtualHost setup from the local box using links and some > simple /etc/hosts aliases to make sure that everything points to > 127.0.0.1. That address shouldn't change :-) Once you're sure you've > done virtual hosts right, then you c

Re: [expert] tripwire

2003-01-05 Thread Lorne
On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: > I just so happen to be a certified Tripwire something-or-other, which > means that an employer or two ago I was sent to a class and took a test. > They do sell a nifty GUI for managing policies; however, said GUI > promptly drops you into the

Re: [expert] [OT?] Apache and virtual hosts config

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
Test your NameVirtualHost setup from the local box using links and some simple /etc/hosts aliases to make sure that everything points to 127.0.0.1. That address shouldn't change :-) Once you're sure you've done virtual hosts right, then you can get into the address change. The default Apache instal

Re: [expert] Update Mirroring

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 01:29, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello Guru Types and others, > > Having numerous Mandrake 9 installations here it can be a rather large amount > to download to do the updates for all machines. Would anyone know how I > could mirror the updates to my system and do the updates

Re: [expert] I know this is a repeted question on cloning but...

2003-01-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 18:05, mycal62 wrote: > Thanks Jack , I think you have almost got me there, just a couple of > questions remain. > > Jack Coates wrote: > > >If it were me, I'd mkfs those partitions first. It's your funeral > >though, might as well try it and see how badly things get hosed

[expert] [OT?] Apache and virtual hosts config

2003-01-05 Thread Molotov
Hello everybody Sorry for this kind of OT.. my question is not really mandrake-specific, but may be related (or not) to the mdk 9.0 apache package. I encounter difficulties with virtual host settings. In fact, I'm trying to host a domain at home, with a DSL line and a dynamic IP. So, I have a re

Re: [expert] Small speed increase

2003-01-05 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 04.15 05/01/2003, you wrote: > Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from > kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ patches) Dunno. But you might be able to use ideparm on your dvd drive and speed up its access - which may or may not be th

Re: [expert] I know this is a repeted question on cloning but...

2003-01-05 Thread mycal62
Thanks Jack , I think you have almost got me there, just a couple of questions remain. Jack Coates wrote: If it were me, I'd mkfs those partitions first. It's your funeral though, might as well try it and see how badly things get hosed up by that handful of 8.2 binaries that don't get replaced b

[expert] 9.0 to Cooker upgrade problems

2003-01-05 Thread Jason
Hi all, I will try and keep this brief, I have been running cooker and updating it almost daily (unless it totally fuscked up my system) via either freshen or urpmi or whatever, since 8.x. No major problems except sometime after 9.0 my sound died (I have a SB16) and I couldn't get it to work

Re: [expert] DHCP and DNS interaction

2003-01-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 01:32, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > I've read the DNS Howto and I've installed the bind and caching server RPMS. > > What I do not understand is how DNS works with DHCP? In short, I have a DHCP server running on an Linksys Router. My XP boxes all figure out what their names ar

[expert] Update Mirroring

2003-01-05 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello Guru Types and others, Having numerous Mandrake 9 installations here it can be a rather large amount to download to do the updates for all machines. Would anyone know how I could mirror the updates to my system and do the updates from there? At least that way I only have to download the

[expert] cannot minimize KSnapshot (KDE3.1rc5)

2003-01-05 Thread W. Kasberg
I am using Mdk9.0 and KDE3.1rc5 and cannot minimize KSnapshot. Is this common with KDE3.1rc5 ? Does anyone know to solve this problem? W. Kasberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com