[expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia card. What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-28 Thread eric huff
> And we get our mail from a "foreign" server (sbc=pacbell) Oh, man. I own this computer because my friend got sbc dsl and it installed so much crap (dsl modem "drivers", etc) that he never got anything to work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:43, David Rankin wrote: > Well, .. way back in 8.0 .. is still relatively new! Some Mandrake > fanatics, myself included, are still singing the praises of our odyssey > servers... Show me 600+ days uptime on anything else! FreeBSD 2.2.1 721 days and the power

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread David Rankin
Well, .. way back in 8.0 .. is still relatively new! Some Mandrake fanatics, myself included, are still singing the praises of our odyssey servers... Show me 600+ days uptime on anything else! Todd Lyons wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > flacycads wrote on Fri, M

Re: [expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount

2003-03-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:55, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > >> > >> > >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to > >> http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > I think i have a workaround > > > > still chec

Re: [expert] uprmi do just download rpms

2003-03-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi List! > > If possible, is there a way of using urpmi do download rpms but not > install'em necessarily? Not saying that you can't but I couldn't find a way. > > Where urpmi puts rpms downloaded to install? /var/cache/urpmi/rpms

[expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-28 Thread dfox
Hi. I'm posting this on behalf of our worksite which has been inundated with lots of spam. At home of course I can install Spam Assassin and get rid of most of this stuff. But at work we are at the mercy of POP mail and Outlook on Windows machines. Of course I am trying to suggest Linux but I don

Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:08, Jack Coates wrote: > so far, not so good... > > it still won't install from a firewire DVD-ROM, as documented at > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88. I've just finished making my El > Torito boot disk, will proceed from there tonight. Is there another way > to do t

[expert] anyone got Tin newsreader to install in mdk 9.1 ? i got acompiling error during make build

2003-03-28 Thread Arthur Rosene
Tried to install the latest stable release of Tin newsreader in mdk 9.1 and during make build i got a error at the end of the make build process. Unfortunately I dont have the error handy since i've rebooted since then however if anyone knows how to get Tin working on mdk 9.1 please let me know.

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:04, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - but this will install, not upgrade, won't it? If so, I'll try it this > weekend. Thanks Yes ... and you want to install.. not upgrade. Also to Once it's done be sure to edit the lilo.conf on your box. Your old kernel says image=/boot/vm

[expert] Leadtek TV2000XP / modules.conf alteration -- same problem

2003-03-28 Thread Arthur Rosene
i made the changes to /etc/modules.conf for the Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP card and i still get back and white shady screen. i will repeat them below #Leadtek WinFast TV 2000XP options bttv p11=1 radio=1 card=34 options tuner type=2 not sure how to fix this one.. thank you ! Want to buy y

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Tom, Charles, Thankyou for your responses. My point is that mandrake 9.0 suppports all my IDE combinations, Mandrake 9.1 does not. I do not use any raid. Therefore, ipso facto, plainly, without doubt, as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we have Mandrake retrogressio

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct

2003-03-28 Thread Robert W.
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:32, Tru64 User wrote: > That was it. I was using sudo. > > keyring?? I gotta read about that. 'sudo -H urpmi ...' uses the proper keyring from root's home directory. -- Robert W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End."

[expert] Leadtek TV2000/XP double grey images mdk 9.1 sound OK, defaults atinstall

2003-03-28 Thread Arthur Rosene
I am getting grey black and white picture with double ghost images on a new install of Mandrake 9.1 but i do have sound (out from TV2000/XP to line-in of soundcard). Just need to know what to do so i can have color non shaded images. thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread flacycads
Correct. If you wanted to upgrade, you would use rpm -Uvh *.rpm. But if it failed, you wouldn't still have your original working kernel to fall back on. I would never use -U with a kernel rpm. Read the docs at muo, especially page 2. It's a little outdated (headers are now in glibc, I believe),

[expert] samba poor performance

2003-03-28 Thread Lorne
For some reason I've noticed in 9.0 and now in 9.1 that samba has extremely poor performance. I thought it was just 9.0 and waited until 9.1 came out. It took me longer to copy the iso image files over to an XP box from my linux box than it took to download them! Has anyone else noticed poor

Re: [expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount

2003-03-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think i have a workaround still checking to make sure. ok, false alarm. My test machines /etc/amd.conf file got corrupt. :(

[expert] bluetooth keyboard and ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-28 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
I just got a Fujitsu-Siemens "Celsius Mobile H" laptop from my firm and of course, first thing to do was to repartition and install linux. :) My problem is that everything runs well including graphicscard drivers and all, but I cannot make my bluetooth keyboard work. It just doesn't react. I had to

[expert] Fwd: [MandrakeClub RPM Voting] rpmdrake 1.4 is in done status!

2003-03-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
WellWhat the hell is this. Denis Havlik's Shock and Awe campaign? I'm suitably impressed. Now to figure out how to download it without going through URPMI. FTP sites for 9.1 on Mandrakeclub, I reckon. BTW, hate to have been away, but I've got a bunch of irons in the fire right now. C yas

[expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-28 Thread Patrick Mayer
Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in the process but still managed to get it done properly. 1st roadblock: Sound did not seem to work in KDE. Solution: ALSA does not work on my machine for some reason. This is odd since everything was OK in

Re: [expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount

2003-03-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Bryan Whitehead wrote: The new kernel patch breaks am-utils amd service. Normally amd workd like this: cd /net/// and it works. Now, /net is totally broken. :( It does not work at all. Do you have a workaround? I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. --

[expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount

2003-03-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
The new kernel patch breaks am-utils amd service. Normally amd workd like this: cd /net/// and it works. Now, /net is totally broken. :( It does not work at all. Do you have a workaround? I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Opti

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:27:56PM -0500 : > I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels. This was a problem way back with 8.0. Since then there have been two important things added to urpmi: skip.list and ins

Re: [expert] 9.1 SMP and apic

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:33:32PM -0500 : > I did just that the last 9.0 kernel and you can see from the output that > apic is operating properly with the 2.4.19-16mdksmp kernel. > 0: 11000 9597IO-APIC-edge timer I don'

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:01:07AM -0500 : > Thanks, Todd. I guess I must have missed something when trying to do 2.5 > kernels on 9.0- it's back to the drawing board for me, now that I know it can > be done. BTW, did you like the res

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread Anne Wilson
OK - but this will install, not upgrade, won't it? If so, I'll try it this weekend. Thanks Anne On Friday 28 Mar 2003 9:27 pm, flacycads wrote: > I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels. > > What I do is download the kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and > kerne

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
As a followup to provide more information, I've found that the "aplay" process shows up whenever I backspace enough to go past the beginning of the line that I'm on, in one of those Konsole shell windows that KDE provides you with. When I back up enough, an icon at the bottom of the window cha

[expert] uprmi do just download rpms

2003-03-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! If possible, is there a way of using urpmi do download rpms but not install'em necessarily? Where urpmi puts rpms downloaded to install? I have modem at home. I intend to use fast Internet connection at College. Many thanks in advance, Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S.

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread flacycads
I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels. What I do is download the kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm to their own directory in /home. You can find them here. http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mand

[expert] MDK 9.1 cursors

2003-03-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like the look of the cursor elements in 9.1 generally but at least on my laptop (don't know about my desktop yet) I find the cursors hard to see. Too hard in many cases. The text input cursor with its nifty shadow is particularly hard to see. Is

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread Anne Wilson
Thanks, Robert. I presume I need to add a new source to my urpmi to get these - could you tell me how to find the new source? Anne On Friday 28 Mar 2003 7:59 pm, flacycads wrote: > Anne, > I installed a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel and added a preemptive patch, and it > worked fine- all programs worke

Re: [expert] 9.0-->9.1 - successful experience ... and also a minor question

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stefmit wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:36:37AM -0600 : > As I explained in my earlier post: I have done all that, i.e. removed the old > urpmi config entries and re-updated them from the 9.1 "section" of the > awesome http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/

[expert] 9.1 smp questions

2003-03-28 Thread et
I have upgraded to 9.1 from 9.0, the family boxes, with no hitch (celerys, 333, 500, 1200) and see no problems yet but those boxes are built to be linux friendly anyway. my "real" concern is _my_ SMP box (dual 1gig P111 coppermine) as the only posts I have seen mention problems with apic, which

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread flacycads
Anne, I installed a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel and added a preemptive patch, and it worked fine- all programs worked as before. I did lose supermount, as it is not enabled in the vanilla kernel. I also installed the mandrake 2.4.21.0 cooker kernel (now in 9.1) rpm with 9.0, and all 9.0 programs still

Re: [expert] Just a curiosity.

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:19, Mark wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:17, alan wrote: > > > On 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > > > Just curious here. Why is it since MDK is no longer a "cleaned up" Red > > > > Hat with KDE but a rea

[expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Coates
so far, not so good... it still won't install from a firewire DVD-ROM, as documented at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88. I've just finished making my El Torito boot disk, will proceed from there tonight. Is there another way to do this? I've been told that using expert mode will produce a me

[expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread Anne Wilson
Someone suggested that my camera was supported by kernels >=2.4.20. Naturally, I'm anxious to see if 9.1 will get me working. I've ordered my disks, but am wondering if I can install an additional kernel and boot from it with an additional stanza in lilo. If I did that, am I correct in assu

Re: [expert] Just a curiosity.

2003-03-28 Thread Mark
On Fri, 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:17, alan wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > Just curious here. Why is it since MDK is no longer a "cleaned up" Red > > > Hat with KDE but a real distribution in it's own right. Why is it that > > >

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday March 28 2003 11:23 am, flacycads wrote: > Thanks Tom! That's just the info I've been looking for. If I may > ask, what is the source of this information? > > Robert Crawford I've got kio_rpm-0.0.6-6mdk installed. With that, and usin 'rpm:/' as the URL in a browser, you can browse th

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread flacycads
Thanks Tom! That's just the info I've been looking for. If I may ask, what is the source of this information? Robert Crawford On Friday 28 March 2003 09:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday March 27 2003 10:53 pm, flacycads wrote: > > I found both the multimedia 2.4.21 rpms and srpm in the

[expert] Mandrake 9.1 fresh install - X resolution and icons

2003-03-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
So far so good for the most part after installing 9.1 on my IBM Thinkpad 1412. Very nice installer. In any case, I find that I am unable to change X's resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. During initial install I tried but then decided against the higher resolution, going with 800x600, but afte

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday March 28 2003 09:34 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:36:11 -0600 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Seems simple to me, avoid buying Win-motherboards with built > > in fake raid. Add on a real controller on a motherboard suitable > > for Linux if you

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:36:11 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Seems simple to me, avoid buying Win-motherboards with built in > fake raid. Add on a real controller on a motherboard suitable for > Linux if you need so many ide's. Though completely true, Tom, the statement is n

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday March 27 2003 11:29 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: > Configuration differences: > > 1st machine (fails) has a Promise chip on the Gigabyte motherboard > which supports IDE0 through IDE3. motherboard with Windoze-controller, software driven > 2nd machine (succeeds) has a Soltek motherboard

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday March 27 2003 10:53 pm, flacycads wrote: > I found both the multimedia 2.4.21 rpms and srpm in the regular > ibiblio contribs mirror. Does anyone know if those indeed have the > preemptive patch, kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk Description "This kernel includes patches

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
Mike grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Friday 28 March 2003 12:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: > > > I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. > > > In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed,

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread Mike
On Friday 28 March 2003 12:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: > > I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. > > In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so > > I'm kind-of hard pressed to figure ou

Re: [expert] 9.0-->9.1 - successful experience ... and also a minor question

2003-03-28 Thread stefmit
As I explained in my earlier post: I have done all that, i.e. removed the old urpmi config entries and re-updated them from the 9.1 "section" of the awesome http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php ;) ... no big deal, though. I am tempted to think that something may be lingering from a non-std (c

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Menola
I solved this by commenting out the "above" option for my sound card in modules.conf. -jm On Friday 28 March 2003 6:20 am, David Guntner wrote: > Anne Wilson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Friday 28 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote:

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
Anne Wilson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Friday 28 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: > > > I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. > > > In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has chan

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: > > I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. > > In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so > > I'm kind-of hard pressed to figure out w

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > > > > > I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used > > > to run 9.0. In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. > > > No hardware has changed, so I'm

[expert] Anybody knows ?

2003-03-28 Thread Jarmo
Hi Just wonder if anybody on the list is familiar with this: Mar 28 09:55:25 oh1mrr kernel: ipt_unclean: Zero TCP ports 39067/0. Mar 28 09:55:34 oh1mrr last message repeated 2 times Mar 28 09:55:41 oh1mrr kernel: ipt_unclean: Zero TCP ports 39209/0. Mar 28 09:55:44 oh1mrr kernel: ipt_unclean: Zer