Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 ¡Works!

2003-03-30 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
James, Now is runing!!, thank you very much for your help!!! pmsuspend make the difference, I tought that putting down the pannel was the way to resume as it was until now. Now I must run pmsuspend from a console; I know. Unfortunately I haven't started to test wireless cards. At the

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 6:36 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine The problem may not exist with an install from CDs. I have the 9.1 tree but not the ISOs. I plan

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: 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

Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090¡Works!

2003-03-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 02:06, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: James, Now is runing!!, thank you very much for your help!!! pmsuspend make the difference, I tought that putting down the pannel was the way to resume as it was until now. Now I must run pmsuspend from a console; I know.

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 6:36 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine The problem may not exist with an install from CDs. I have the 9.1 tree but not the ISOs. I plan now to run 9.1 mkcd from

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-30 Thread SainTiss
Hi, surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:54, James Sparenberg wrote: Hans sounds like you caught contribs in the middle of the update. The mirror

[expert] ipv4 forwarding deprecated?

2003-03-30 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I noticed that the /etc/init.d/network script mentions ipv4 forwarding is deprecated. If that is so, then what's the correct method for setting it up? Thanks, Hans -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Is the essence that the light pulse lives longer? Hans

Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 ¡Works!

2003-03-30 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Very interesting, James!, Nevertheless I have had several crash after resume and launching kde. I don't know if I am doing something badly or is a problem between my computer and acpi. I will do some more test Regards El Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2003 01:53, James Sparenberg escribió: On

[expert] a stupid question - Samba???

2003-03-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi List, I've been seeing the following in my logchecks for a little while now and I'm somewhat at a loss as to whats up. I've been all over Samba and it's settings, but can't make it stop. Any suggestions? by the way... everything appears to be working correctly. still these log entries

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 01:19, SainTiss wrote: Hi, surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans Apologies... didn't realize it had been that long. Submit a bug report through

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-30 Thread Torstein Hernes Dybdahl
Maybe the most important setting for me in smb.conf is the security setting Setting this to share use to solve the problem with problem with win2k machines not being able to mount network drives. try to add security = share Vennlig Hilsen Torstein Hernes Dybdahl

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday March 29 2003 10:33 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: In what way should one notice any enhancements with the multimedia kernel? What apps might I test/run to compare with the default kernel? praedor Audio recording, professional studio quality, multi channel. Search the

[expert] Linux Active Directory

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Kaplan
I'm looking for some detailed help on connecting a Mandrake 9.x client to an NT network at work. The network is a mix of NT volumes and Active Directory stuff (are these shares?). I have an account on the network and (obviously can connect from a W2K Pro client on the same machine). I have

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday March 29 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: It can be done in the manner Tom used but I have a strong aversion to doing a force install. I prefer editing XF86Config-4, rpm -e the current nvidia rpms, rebooting the new kernel to init 3, rebuild and then install the nvidia

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-30 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
I tried what you mentioned in this thread (I've been following it b/c normal suspends don't work on my computer). However, when I uncomment the line in the suspend file, and add suspend=/dev/hda6, my laptop will suspend on its own 2 or 3 times just during startup (??), each time shutting down

Re: [expert] acpi and acpi on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-30 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
James, With acpi activated if I close kde and try to run it (or other windows manager again) the computer hang completely. Also after a resume if I try to run xine, I get a blue windows, sound but not image. As soon as I disable acpi xine start to run again. I will investigate more on acpi,

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday March 30 2003 06:21 am, James Sparenberg wrote: surely that phenomenon should disappear in a few hours at maximum then, right? Fact is that it's been like that for at least 3 days now... Cheers, Hans Apologies... didn't realize it had been that long. Submit a bug

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-30 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Hezekiah, I don't know if you are a member of the Mandrake Club, but if so, I put a rpm request of the toshutils that I have used until 9.0 without problems for hibernation, fan and so on (if you don't know it, have a look at www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba). Unfortunately I haven't been able to

Re: [expert] kdeinit

2003-03-30 Thread Jay
These were fresh installs, and I am still having problems, I killed the process in top and the problem went away temporarily. But once I opened clicked on my Home icon, or opened any folder the problem starts up again. I'm going to re-install the absolute minimum for KDE and see it I can isolate

[expert] 3dfx Voodoo4 Support in Mandrake 8.2PPC?

2003-03-30 Thread Varun Mehta
I've tried asking this on the newbie list with no response, so here goes! Well, I've fiddled with Linux before and my other machine is running OS X (which is a relative picnic), but this one problem has me climbing up the wall! I have a Power Mac 6500 (OldWorld) with 128 MB RAM, USB Card, Comm.

[expert] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Anne Wilson
I have been offered a PCChips M787CLM mobo, 1GHz VIA C3 cpu, pretty well everything on board. I can't find anything on the web about this exact model, but have seen a thread describing a Debian install on a related model, and VIA C3 chips appear to be used in some of the new quiet small boards

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Crawford
In my opinion, you can do much better for the same or just a little more money. I build all my own PC's, and for others, too. For example, in the U.S., you can get an Athlon 1700+ tbred B for $48 US, which is 3 times the cpu. Mobo/cpu combos run $80 and up- for instance a PC chips board/1700+

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Anne Wilson
This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system together. If I buy this for £50 I can get away by putting

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
On 29 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I /etc/sysconfig/ the file suspend have you tried to uncomment the last line SWSUSP_FORCE_SUSPEND_MODE=0 2 This uses your swap partition to suspend to hdd. I've tried it on my box and it worked like a charm... bit slow on the shutdown and

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system

[expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I got more Mem to my box and now my swap partition is not adequated. My main partition is ReiserFS. I could use DiskDrake to resize fat32 bits in the past (amazing tool!). Two question: - Is it true that Diskdrake at MDK 9.1 can resize NTFS partitions? - Is there any

[expert] Pctel HSP56 MR and MDK 9.1

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! My mobo chipset is Via KM266. I got Pctel winmodem to work with MKD 9.0 (stock kernel). Now I upgraded to MDK 9.1 (a dream!). Rebuild the modules for pctel but modem does not work anymore. Does someone else have this issue? I'm thinking if it could be a drawback due

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-30 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
Thanks for the pointer Francisco! I am a member, and I just added a vote for toshutils :-) I've used it before as well. I don't think I can suspend/hibernate with it b/c the model I have, 2805-s503, suspends to a file on the FAT32 partition under windows, and this apparently isn't supported yet

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Crawford
That mobo might not even have SDRAM, much less DDR. You will probably need new ram, whatever you do- which isn't too bad, since it's dirt cheap these days. You should be able to use everything else, except probably you'll need a better power supply. You need to do more research as to the ram

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 18:53, Robert W. wrote: 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. ah -- much easier than attempting to get the correct

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:30, dfox wrote: 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.

[expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
I had a rough upgrade on my laptop (basically it failed, but got far enough that I was able to upgrade the rest of the way via urpmi). Everything now works except the fonts in XFce. Presumably they don't work in Gnome either, but it was busted before I upgraded :-)

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Fox
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... use fetchmail to pop the mail from SBC, then deliver to a local postfix. Use postfix's tools to bounce via RBL if that floats your boat, or just I would figure that's the easier way to go -- at least for me, since I have already configured

Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
3612 and 3613 On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had opened bugs for both of these on cooker after RC1 came out, but because I didn't know I was supposed to lobby for people to vote for my bugs, they've been closed out of bugzilla and are still unresolved.

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Fox
- Is there any other way of resizing ReizerFS and Swap partitions without using another HD? AFAIK no with Reiserfs. I never tried it, but it's not really an issue if you can save off the orig data in the partition somewhere and then remake the partitions, and restore. I've done that a

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-30 Thread Joeb
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:12:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 12:16 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine Ann, unless

Re: [expert] Pctel HSP56 MR and MDK 9.1

2003-03-30 Thread Joeb
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:04:25 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! My mobo chipset is Via KM266. I got Pctel winmodem to work with MKD 9.0 (stock kernel). Now I upgraded to MDK 9.1 (a dream!). Rebuild the modules for pctel but modem does not

Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-30 Thread James Sparenberg
Done On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 20:42, Jack Coates wrote: 3612 and 3613 On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had opened bugs for both of these on cooker after RC1 came out, but because I didn't know I was supposed to lobby for people to vote for my bugs, they've