Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 (login problem SOLVED)

2003-05-27 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:07 am, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: On Monday 26 May 2003 05:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday May 26 2003 11:33 am, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 I have to enter into a console as root, change to init 3, then login as my user

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 (login problem SOLVED)

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 03:07 am, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Well, runnin cooker all the time, lately it's gotten to be a problem for me too. Usually due to a bad .kdmrc after updates. Not corrupt, just stuff missing. Since I seem to have lost my only good backup copy of .kdmrc due to a

Re: [expert] KDM greetstring in 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas K. Gamble
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 09:43 am, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:53 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:29 am, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: Anyone know how to get kdm to display the greet string in 9.1? This worked fine in 9.0 and it is not obvious (to me at

Re: [expert] Radeon: Anyone using: Option AGPFastWrite true with VIA KT400 ??

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 03:59 am, John Vickers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: [...] Try puttin 'mem=nopentium' in your lilo or grub append line. Don't forget to run 'lilo'. Since it's a kernel parameter, you'll need to reboot. You appear to be making an oblique reference to the AMD AGP

Re: [expert] KDM greetstring in 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
rant Switching to KDM fixed the problem. Mandrake should have kept *all* of KDM's functionality in MdkKDM along with any enhancements they might want to add. Breaking KDM's configuration just leads to aggravation. If this funcionality *is* in MdkKDM somewhere, it should be made more

Re: [expert] mount -o remount,ro / still shows up as (rw)in mdk9.0

2003-05-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:03, J. Grant wrote: Hi James, JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only? 5 is reboot right? yeah, it complains, can't write to /var while it is going down :( 6 is

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have really messed up my main box- probably my own fault, but as yet I've not figured it out, and nothing I've learned at pclinuxonline has worked so far. Tex

Re: [expert] mount -o remount,ro / still shows up as (rw) in mdk9.0

2003-05-27 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Grant wrote: Hi James, JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only? 5 is reboot right? yeah, it complains, can't write to /var while it is going

Re: [expert] mount -o remount,ro / still shows up as (rw) in mdk9.0

2003-05-27 Thread J. Grant
on the 27/05/03 19:25, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:03, J. Grant wrote: Hi James, JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only? 5 is reboot right? yeah, it complains, can't write to

[expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have really messed up my main box- probably my own fault, but as yet I've not figured it out, and nothing I've learned at pclinuxonline has worked so far. Tex

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Just you need to have all the dependences covered. Put the ibiblio textar reservory as a source using urpmi; start installing with urpmi to solve all the dependences and you will get a whole operative 3.1.2 El Martes 27 Mayo 2003 22:05, Björn Lundin escribió: James Sparenberg wrote: On

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread Robert Crawford
Thanks guys, but all of this doesn't work for me- even with all dependencies taken care of. Tex has replaced the 5 kdebase rpms as of today, to fix these problems. My problems remained after reinstalling kde 3.1 from Mandrake cds, and even after a complete reinstall 0f 9.1 and kde, except for

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-05-27 Thread elPunishar
hi all, i wrote to this mailing list some time ago. i had this problem that i could not add a new harddisk to my system. the answer of the fellow below had me confident that my problem was solved.. temporarily i just replaced an existing harddisk with the new one. that worked okay. but now i

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-05-27 Thread bascule
the fellow below being me:) hi! adding ide hard disks should be straightforward assuming that a) it's not connected to a seperate io card but to a motherboard connector b) your cmos settings are ok - note, i've known some os's detect drives that are not shown in cmos, winxp for one and i think

Re: [expert] mount -o remount,ro / still shows up as(rw) in mdk9.0

2003-05-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 13:02, J. Grant wrote: on the 27/05/03 19:25, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:03, J. Grant wrote: Hi James, JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only?

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:29, Mark Weaver wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have really messed up my main box- probably my own fault, but as yet I've not figured it out, and nothing

Re: [expert] KDM greetstring in 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:02, Rob Blomquist wrote: rant Switching to KDM fixed the problem. Mandrake should have kept *all* of KDM's functionality in MdkKDM along with any enhancements they might want to add. Breaking KDM's configuration just leads to aggravation. If this funcionality

Re: [expert] How many DIMMS for DDR

2003-05-27 Thread Joeb
On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:56:13 +0200 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise if you build in one DIMM a 512 MB now you can easy extend your memory by adding another. But that is not what I meant. For nforce2 boards you need two symmetrical memory sticks, you will get bad

[expert] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound

2003-05-27 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id:

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:45 pm, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound

2003-05-27 Thread Larry Sword
Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec: