Re: [expert] Re: MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-12 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2003 23:43 schrieb James Sparenberg: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:03, Steffen Barszus wrote: I think it would be better to have a new wiki. I don't think that the german wiki should be an exact copy of the english one, They are seperate. Kinda like how one apache server

[expert] Request on pricing for CS2.1 without Support

2003-06-12 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Mandrake Soft, as Proposed - could I request such a support-less version of CS2.1 ? How much would it cost ? Thx for our Input. Cheers Joerg On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: Start making requests for a support-less version of CS2.1 for $200 or $250 and maybe you'll get

[expert] Updated 18mdk update kernel...

2003-06-12 Thread Thomas Backlund
Since the official MDK 9.1 update kernel still lacks some features, I decided to add some of them myself with the following changes: - Keep version/release to not breake 3:rd party modules / addons... - My latest vesafb patch that you can find in 2.4.21-rc7-ac1 - nForce2 UDMA/133 reporting (but

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Tango Echo
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error after following your instructions... The gnu pg seemed to install fine. I'm also running mdk 9.1 BTW. Any other ideas?? -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11,

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
login as root instead of using sudo or MandrakeUpdate as a user -- the keys are in root's keyring. Or find them on the web and add them to your own ring. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:59, Tango Echo wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error after following your

[expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
Anyone familiar with lufs know where it's looking for these files so I can link or something. $ lufsmount sshfs://[EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt liblufs-sshfs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory unsupported file system: sshfs $ locate liblufs-sshfs.so

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[..] On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:59, Tango Echo wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error after following your instructions... The gnu pg seemed to install fine. I'm also running mdk 9.1 BTW. Any other ideas?? [..] I believe you will find that certain contrib

[expert] tip command

2003-06-12 Thread r.
Dear all ! I'm trying to connect to remote system using a modem ... but the software that I'm trying to use, uses the tip command . Tip comes with Solaris workstations, and some linux distributions ... but, Does exist a linux-mandrake rpm ? ... Does exist a source code available on internet ?

[expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Jim C
I've never run a windows emulator before and I wanted to see if I could get some Blizzard (StarCraft, WarCraft etc...) games to run under Mandrake 9.1 What I discovered is that 9.1 comes with only 1 emulator (that I've found so far) and it is a freakin Alpha. We were not amused. So. What is

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully on mandrake to run half-life and its mods. The last try, i could install half-life. but i could not run it. So, I'd give up. - Original Message - From: Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:22

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remove the supplied wine and either spend a little and get the very good (for gaming) WineX rpm from Transgaming (or you can freely download the source and build it yourself, but it is a royal PITA). You could try Codeweaver's Wine (for a small

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Dave Sherman
Jim C wrote: I've never run a windows emulator before and I wanted to see if I could get some Blizzard (StarCraft, WarCraft etc...) games to run under Mandrake 9.1 What I discovered is that 9.1 comes with only 1 emulator (that I've found so far) and it is a freakin Alpha. We were not amused.

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
Wine never worked for me, but crossover (a commercial thing based on wine) did. I'm running photoshop, macromedia flash, and several other windows-applications which I need for work on my linux box. Yes, I paid for it, but it was (and is) worth every cent. Since wine is published under GPL,

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
If you want non-alpha software for running Windows applications and you are willing to pay for it, hop on over to one of the following sites: http://www.vmware.com http://www.winforlin.com/ If you're looking for a more polished version of wine for gaming and are willing to pay for it, hop on

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
And how is the performance of those applications runing under crossover? almost as windows or too low? Do you think directx based games can run great with this program? - Original Message - From: Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:38 PM

[expert] Re: Request on pricing for CS2.1 without Support

2003-06-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 11:48:11AM +0200, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Mandrake Soft, as Proposed - could I request such a support-less version of CS2.1 ? How much would it cost ? Thx for our Input. You should send this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I actually have no control over the

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
Those apps run smoother with crossover than they do in windows :-) For games (forgot to mention that) you're better of using wineX I suppose, but I'm not familiar with it. I'm not much of a gamer. Crossover Office is developed especially for the use of desktop applications, and I don't think it

[expert] insmod

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
Isn't there a switch for insmod to list active mods? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread SainTiss
Hi, actually, I've managed to get starcraft running using the pre-built free rpm (normal + glibc2) on http://wine.dataparty.no/ It's always the latest CVS of the free version of wine (the one that is included with MDK actually). What's even nicer, I don't even need an existing windows

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-12 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Ummm... Where can I get such patches? Sounds interesting... Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:49 PM Subject: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch For those interested,

Re: [expert] insmod

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 13:17:37 -0400 Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a switch for insmod to list active mods? ls -- If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.1mdk

[expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 (vim I think) to another one. How can that be done? I have been looking around and been asking on IRC, but I am not able to make it work. To be clear: I *never* want vim to open any file. I want another editor to simply

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 06:19, Jack Coates wrote: login as root instead of using sudo or MandrakeUpdate as a user -- the keys are in root's keyring. Or find them on the web and add them to your own ring. The other possibility is that is has a bad sig. Let me test it out here and see what I get.

Re: [expert] insmod

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:26, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 13:17:37 -0400 Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a switch for insmod to list active mods? ls ah yes, lsmod... Thanks!! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] Vmware kai IPAQ

2003-06-12 Thread manolis
12 2003 06:01, / James Sparenberg : Question here... is it a USB device? Really dirty way might be to do /etc/init.d/usb stop before loading then /etc/init.d/usb start after it's discovered. Don't have one to test this theory on ... just an idea. yes it is a usb device. I don't want to

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:21, Brian V Bonini wrote: Anyone familiar with lufs know where it's looking for these files so I can link or something. $ lufsmount sshfs://[EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt liblufs-sshfs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory unsupported file system:

Re: [expert] Bad trouble here (db stuff)

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:56:28 -0400 darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to force a hard reboot, whereupon a I got a message about some xfont being not there, and the xserver will not start now, so X won't work. Is the xfont error the only 1 you get or to also get an error for a missing .so

Re: [expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...

2003-06-12 Thread Guillaume Marcais
Does it depend on the processor? We have a double PII and a double Xeon (which shows as 4 processor). On the PII, it is balanced, on the Xeon, CPU0 does all the work. Just wondering, Guillaume. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:20, Mark Watts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:43, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:59, Tango Echo wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error after following your instructions... The gnu pg seemed to install fine. I'm also running mdk 9.1 BTW. Any other

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:30, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully on mandrake to run half-life and its mods. The last try, i could install half-life. but i could not run it. So, I'd give up. - Original Message - From: Jim C

Re: [expert] insmod

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:17, Brian V Bonini wrote: Isn't there a switch for insmod to list active mods? lsmod instead of insmod __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:30, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully on mandrake to run half-life and its mods. The last try, i

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 11:53:00 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, but my understanding from Warly during the various beta and rc cycles was that anything in release contrib is resigned with MDK's sig before release. (at least there where a lot of people checking

Re: [expert] Vmware kai IPAQ

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 11:32, manolis wrote: 12 2003 06:01, / James Sparenberg : Question here... is it a USB device? Really dirty way might be to do /etc/init.d/usb stop before loading then /etc/init.d/usb start after it's discovered. Don't have one to test this theory on ... just an

[expert] lilo ?? install 9.1

2003-06-12 Thread richard bown
Hi all I've had a real bad experience using a hard drive that previously had winxp on it. I ran very low on HD space so I took the 60GB HD out of the winxp machine , installed as hdc and backed up what files I needed off that drive. next step was to delete the ntfs partitions and repartition with

[expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
030611 Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:38 pm, Philip Webb wrote: so i will look seriously at the AMD processors, You should have no problem as long as your motherboard supports it. I'd get the Barton (newer core). The processors you mention should run pretty close to Intel

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:14 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030611 Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:38 pm, Philip Webb wrote: so i will look seriously at the AMD processors, You should have no problem as long as your motherboard

[expert] Problem with eth0: eht0:9 ?????

2003-06-12 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
A friend of mine is trying to have Internet runing Mandrake 9.1; it has a cable-modem very similar to the mine and the same internet provider. dhcp-client also installed, but until now it has been impossible to have the network runing :-(. I have tryed to help him but I have seen some rare

Re: [expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 12:59:52PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 (vim I think) to another one. How can that be done? I have been looking around and been asking on IRC, but I am not able to make it work. To be clear: I *never*

Re: [expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:59:52 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 Here's an example which fires up an emacs window if local, or runs emacs in the xterm if the session appears to be remote (I don't like running an X

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
Crossover office is a little unstable on mandrake 9.1, and the performance of some fucntions is not as good as native windows (many actions perform quite well though). However, the performance beats the pants off of running the same applications in Win2K on VMware. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:52,

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:06, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 11:53:00 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, but my understanding from Warly during the various beta and rc cycles was that anything in release contrib is resigned with MDK's sig before

Re: [expert] Vmware kai IPAQ

2003-06-12 Thread manolis
thanks for the help. 12 2003 22:06, / James Sparenberg : On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 11:32, manolis wrote: 12 2003 06:01, / James Sparenberg : Question here... is it a USB device? Really dirty way might be to do /etc/init.d/usb stop before loading then /etc/init.d/usb start after

Re: [expert] Problem with eth0: eht0:9 ?????

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: A friend of mine is trying to have Internet runing Mandrake 9.1; it has a cable-modem very similar to the mine and the same internet provider. dhcp-client also installed, but until now it has been impossible to have the network runing

[expert] HP 315 Digital Camera

2003-06-12 Thread Derick Schmidt
Hi Does anyone know how I could get my HP 315 Digital Camera to work with Mandrake 9.1 Which program should I use? Thanks Derick Schmidt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:33, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:21, Brian V Bonini wrote: Anyone familiar with lufs know where it's looking for these files so I can link or something. $ lufsmount sshfs://[EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt liblufs-sshfs.so: cannot open shared object

Re: [expert] Problem with eth0: eht0:9 ?????

2003-06-12 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Thanks so much James, I wil comunicate this to my friend (Angel); I hope he will finally be able to start internet under mandrake 9.1; hi has a computer shop and it thinking about offer some computers with linux installed. Regards, it means it can't do anything else so it creates this by

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:01 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:30, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully

Re: [expert] HP 315 Digital Camera

2003-06-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:47, Derick Schmidt wrote: Hi Does anyone know how I could get my HP 315 Digital Camera to work with Mandrake 9.1 Which program should I use? I have the hp318 which I understand to be compatible with the HP315. I use gphoto2 to extract images from the camera. Before

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:50, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:33, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:21, Brian V Bonini wrote: Anyone familiar with lufs know where it's looking for these files so I can link or something. $ lufsmount sshfs://[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Problem with eth0: eht0:9 ?????

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:52, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Thanks so much James, I wil comunicate this to my friend (Angel); I hope he will finally be able to start internet under mandrake 9.1; hi has a computer shop and it thinking about offer some computers with linux installed. Regards,

Re: [expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread David Guntner
Christian Dysthe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 (vim I think) to another one. How can that be done? I have been looking around and been asking on IRC, but I am not able to make it work. To be clear: I *never* want vim to open

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:08, James Sparenberg wrote: Your kernel is good I know I've got it working on boxes with this kernel. Also too if it didn't build right the module wouldn't load. or rather shouldn't. *grin* One question are you going through a firewall? Better yet can you do

[expert] ATTN: James Sparenburg

2003-06-12 Thread bascule
hi james, i accidentally deleted your reply to my popup query, saw it on the archives :) thanks for getting back, is it possible to block such things generally or do i just have to either disable java or block the popup ip? bascule -- Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:08, James Sparenberg wrote: Your kernel is good I know I've got it working on boxes with this kernel. Also too if it didn't build right the module wouldn't load. or rather shouldn't. *grin* One question are

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 13:34:29 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I'm reading correctly doesn't re-sign say that if you sign a package and I sign a package then if the end user has either key it will show up correctly? I would think that instead of --resign that --addsign is

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:08, James Sparenberg wrote: Your kernel is good I know I've got it working on boxes with this kernel. Also too if it didn't build right the module wouldn't load. or rather shouldn't. *grin* One question are

Re: [expert] ATTN: James Sparenburg

2003-06-12 Thread bascule
and i spelt your name wrong, sheesh! bascule On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:32 pm, bascule wrote: hi james, i accidentally deleted your reply to my popup query, saw it on the archives :) thanks for getting back, is it possible to block such things generally or do i just have to either disable

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:46, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: Oh yes, the firewall, I did not even think of that. I just assumed that if SSH was working this would as well. I can do mount -t shfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt successfully. But, I

Re: [expert] ATTN: James Sparenburg

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:32, bascule wrote: hi james, i accidentally deleted your reply to my popup query, saw it on the archives :) thanks for getting back, is it possible to block such things generally or do i just have to either disable java or block the popup ip? bascule Bascule..

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:54, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 13:34:29 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I'm reading correctly doesn't re-sign say that if you sign a package and I sign a package then if the end user has either key it will show up correctly?

Re: [expert] ATTN: James Sparenburg

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:04, bascule wrote: and i spelt your name wrong, sheesh! bascule so used to it I don't even notice everyone spells it British instead of German. *grin* James On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:32 pm, bascule wrote: hi james, i accidentally deleted your reply to

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:03, James Sparenberg wrote: Went a little further, I tried to use. shfsmount [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/disk. didn't work but I got a permission denied error. but shfsmount [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/james /mnt/disk did mount my home directory... could

[expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-12 Thread Brian Schroeder
There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D, so I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working. I've got 2 boxes I am trying to configure with this chip in, and 2 very different monitors - and both produce the same problems. I would really like to

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:19 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am seriously looking at an Epox 87RD+ nvidia nforce2 board. It has EXCELLENT specs and an truly excellent price...but now I am given pause. I have no problem downloading an NVIDIA driver (I use the binary NVIDIA driver for my

[expert] _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

2003-06-12 Thread Greg Meyer
All of a sudden I am getting this message all over my log files. _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message I've done a google search and found a couple of vague references to network, but no real answers. Anybody know anything about this? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 19:18, Brian Schroeder wrote: There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D, so I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working. I've got 2 boxes I am trying to configure with this chip in, and 2 very different monitors -

Re: [expert] _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

2003-06-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: All of a sudden I am getting this message all over my log files. _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message I've done a google search and found a couple of vague references to network, but no real answers. Anybody know anything

Re: [expert] _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: All of a sudden I am getting this message all over my log files. _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message I've done a google search and found a couple of vague references to

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-12 Thread kb
On Thursday 12 June 2003 05:18 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D, so I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working. I'm using 9.0 and had to set it up for it. I had the same problems with 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2.

[expert] Progear?

2003-06-12 Thread PlugHead
This is probably a dumb question, but... Has anyone managed to get 9.1 (or any other MDK for that matter), running on a Progear 1050? (It's an older tablet style gadget w/ a transmeta (3200?) processor.) From what I'm reading, it _should_ work, but it'd be nice to hear from anyone with

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:58, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:03, James Sparenberg wrote: Went a little further, I tried to use. shfsmount [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/disk. didn't work but I got a permission denied error. but shfsmount [EMAIL

Re: [expert] _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

2003-06-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: All of a sudden I am getting this message all over my log files. _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

Re: [expert] Bad trouble here (db stuff)

2003-06-12 Thread darklord
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:43 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Is the xfont error the only 1 you get or to also get an error for a missing .so file use rpm -q and verify that XFree-libs is still installed. If you Are getting the missing so error use rpm -q and verify that XFree86-libs is still

[expert] Ultimate background.

2003-06-12 Thread James Sparenberg
Hoping to inject a bit of humor with this one It's intended for all who worship Linux. http://www.penguinisto.serverpro2.com/CG_Gallery/humor/worship001a.html James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:44 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Jason Guidry
Rob Blomquist wrote: # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file X (cdrom.img in this case) onto the primary master, I'm gonna guess in his case it was

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-12 Thread Brian Schroeder
Thanks Kelley. I will look forward to hearing. Do you have any hints for me to try out over the weekend - pointers in the, hopefully, right direction? Brina. From: kb [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 12 June 2003 05:18 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: There was a thread recently about running XFree

[expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
is there some reason why there's no 2.5 SA RPM for Mandrake? Not even in Club, which is surprising. I'm about ready to get off my duff and do it myself, but first: is someone else working on it? has someone else given up because it wasn't feasible? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] Progear?

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:31, PlugHead wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but... Has anyone managed to get 9.1 (or any other MDK for that matter), running on a Progear 1050? (It's an older tablet style gadget w/ a transmeta (3200?) processor.) From what I'm reading, it _should_

Re: [expert] Ultimate background.

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:18, James Sparenberg wrote: Hoping to inject a bit of humor with this one It's intended for all who worship Linux. http://www.penguinisto.serverpro2.com/CG_Gallery/humor/worship001a.html James Dunno, I've always been a fan of:

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:20, Jason Guidry wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file X (cdrom.img in this case)

Re: [expert] HP 315 Digital Camera

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 19:47, Derick Schmidt wrote: Hi Does anyone know how I could get my HP 315 Digital Camera to work with Mandrake 9.1 Which program should I use? Thanks Derick Schmidt mine's a 318, pretty close. On the camera you set this PC access mode that tells it to be a

Re: [expert] Gnome and Nautilus configuration

2003-06-12 Thread Jonathan Alberto Rivera Gomez
I am constantly stumbling against GNOME themes configuration. I am trying to add a new icon theme (Conectiva Crystal, included with Mandrake 9.1) to Gnome, but I can't find the way to do it... I tried dragging it from Nautilus to the theme window, pointing to it in gconf... I wish GNOME

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file X (cdrom.img in this

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-12 Thread Jack Coates
Here I go having another conversation with myself... Hi self, how's it going? Not too bad. Spot of trouble with an RPM, but can't complain overall. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:09, Jack Coates wrote: is there some reason why there's no 2.5 SA RPM for Mandrake? Not even in Club, which is surprising.

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:28:12 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:19 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am seriously looking at an Epox 87RD+ nvidia nforce2 board. It has EXCELLENT specs and an truly excellent price...but now I am given pause. I have no

[expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...

2003-06-12 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * IRQ balancing has been fixed for SMP Incorrect. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a Linux mail1 2.4.21-0.18mdkenterprise #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 11:44:12 MDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/interrupts