Re: [expert] samba, browsing windows

2003-02-02 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
you can try lineighborhood which can be downloaded at: http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ or you can use Gnomba: http://online.linuxberg.com/internet/preview/31546.html --- Jorris Graad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed samba 2.2.7a and can make the windows hosts at my local network access

Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0

2003-02-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
. wrote: Has anyone had success with mplayer and mencoder on 9.0? I got a basic mplayer and mencoder compiled, but the functionality is extremely limited ... especially for mencoder. For example, I can not seem to do anything to make the configure script find libmp3lame, which is crucial

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread Azrael
Hmm.. I had to wrestle with beta3 :( during install it couldn't modprobe hptraid after install kdm and gdm wouldn't run, I think X was pooped. so I did a clean install of 9.1beta1 - then upgraded with 9.1beta3 And all seems nice now. My sound card still installs as audigy.. (rather than live 5.1

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant
Hi Gwenole, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then configured automatically? This would save time for all users. Deps already exist. Global configuration is already performed. i.e. updates to

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread Tom
Ron is correct about the KDE failure. However, the updates may or may not be relevent. I had the very same thing happen. Only I was editting the menus via menudrake and did something with showing only KDE items. I ended up reloading 9.0 and have been very careful with the menus since then. On

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:36:12 + J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk The removal dep is there. To be honest there

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-02-02 Thread David E. Fox
On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 I didn't get syntax errors but this system fails to compile and has done so as far back as I can remember somewhere in kio/kdoctools or some

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-02-02 Thread David E. Fox
Hi list, Has anyone successfully managed to compile any of the new KDE packages. (the 3.1 final release) there aren't any rpm's yet for Mandrake so I I haven't. I got as far as arts from the src on ftp.kde.org last night. kdelibs got as far as the kdoctools component, after a large

Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9

2003-02-02 Thread Toshiro
Hola Francisco! I did what you suggested but it didn't work. When I press the button in the camera dock, it appears in the desktop GTKam icon, but I don't see any device in /dev/sd*. Saludos, Toshiro. El Sáb 25 Ene 2003 12:14, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escribió: It uses CompactFlash. OK, then

[expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:01, Ron Stodden wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software installed you do. My goodness, how would anyone possibly know? I usually

RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its the Columbia we should be remembering.. Challanger happened 17 years ago. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Belanger
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. Actually, you stand corrected. Maybe you shouldn't type at 6pm either :) -Mark On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant
Hi, The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA. That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st listed en dictionary. Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB OK, I just tested.

RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
No I was sitting when I typed this so I sat corrected James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 16:04, Mark Belanger wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. Actually, you stand corrected. Maybe you shouldn't type at

RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Belanger
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:36, James Sparenberg wrote: No I was sitting when I typed this so I sat corrected Oh, OK. I crouch corrected. -Mark James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 16:04, Mark Belanger wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and

Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0

2003-02-02 Thread .
Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-02-02 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:47 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 [...] I haven't been able to successfully build KDE sources since somewhere

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been

Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0

2003-02-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
. wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf

Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0

2003-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:04 pm, . wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
110% of the WiFi drivers/updates have been put into the 2.5.x kernel, you can patch the 2.4.x kernel and still work finei have. But WiFi is a new technology that is not even finalized yet. The companies through the HW out to users without ANY of the standards to be completedeven for

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]

2003-02-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
. wrote: Can you elaborate on what a contrib/ source is? I have the CD sources, an ftp source of the original 9.0 distro, and ftp update source, and the PLF source. I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks, Cory Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Another thing that has been done/updated to the 2.5 kernel. You guys do NOT know how to do your research and are requiring things NOW that is almost impossible to do overnight. Most companies have not given their HW specs to open source programmers and therefore have to reverse engineer and

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
Cory, Contribs are rpms that aren't officially in the distro and are semi-supported by MDK in that they are actually packaged by the community not by MDK's people. (Rough explanation... sorry for any inaccuracy.) A good place to find info on mirrors and get the instructions you'll need for

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:29, James Sparenberg wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:48, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:29, James Sparenberg wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. Ye, no joke. I wasnt meaning to be bash anyone. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! Now you state which kernel you were using, would have been helpful earlier.

RE: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) THIS SITE IS WONDERFUL. I actually found it this morning before it was posted to the group. I loved it. There are only a few sites that dont work that are listed thought. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:36, Robert Wideman wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. Ye, no joke. I wasnt meaning to be bash anyone. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! Now you state

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Robert Wideman
BTW how is win2000 never tried it Usaability, a monkey can use/admin it easily. Security, its a M$ product, security?...HAHA. I used to run it as my desktop (Win2k Server) but then i bought an ATI 7500 AIW and the TV Tuner software would NOT install on a Server b/c of Terminal Services. Their

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:01:34AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software installed you do. My goodness, how would anyone possibly know? There are presently 180

RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:38, Robert Wideman wrote: My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop

RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread Franki
there was one with apache getting loaded with apache 2 updates.. or at least trying... don't know of any other... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 3:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]