Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:32:29 +0200 : I took my Mozilla and downloaded from a server in the Netherlands [1], did a fine job. Seems to be the server then. I may have picked the 2 servers which have broken ISOs as James pointed out. I just came back from breakfast

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:26:09 +0200 : On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:16, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be ok (nluug). My personal experience is that the surfnet one is more reliable but that might

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I thought you have cafés in NL, too? And morning papers? Yeah, but the bread is usually horrible if you've gotten used to the German choices. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:26:09 +0200 : On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:16, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be ok (nluug). My personal

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-10 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 05:39 am, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:55, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Brant Fitzsimmons Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:55:31 -0400 : Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:31:54 -0700 : I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had aborted. when I started the download if found the original and asked what I wanted to do with resume as the recommended option. Same here! You saved my day! Now I'm trying to

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:32 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject

Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:06, Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with

Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 9:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:00 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints

Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-10 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:25 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the

Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-10 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:05 am, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:23, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Brant Fitzsimmons Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:55:31 -0400 : Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31:24 -0700 : Of course you can always just set the new main contrib etc etc urpmi points for your install and just run urpmi --auto --auto-select No need to re-install .. you'll have final. (no disks but final) I did that from 9.0 to 9.1 on this

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Michael Lothian
What I don't get is why it isn't shared using MLDonkey or xMule as this kinda makes people have to share the files once they're downloaded - unlike bittorrent. I have a feeling htat most people who use it stop thw upload as soon as it all downloads. You'd also find bit torrent would be a

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:13:18 +0200 : I looked at the logs and gftp showed a cache of 1.2GB. Which was the reason my home partition was full! Now gftp-log shows Error: Unvalid line in cache index file Logfile is growing by the second! WTF! I cleaned out the index file and

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Michael Lothian Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:52:02 +0100 : What I don't get is why it isn't shared using MLDonkey or xMule as this kinda makes people have to share the files once they're downloaded - unlike bittorrent. I have a feeling htat most people who use it stop thw upload as soon as it

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Michael Lothian
At least it's designed for sharing. And I also seem to remember downloading the new tomb raider film with bittorrent and the buffy eps before they were released in the UK. It's all a matter of what you share. Mike Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Michael Lothian Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:52:02 +0100 :

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:31, James Sparenberg wrote: Of course you can always just set the new main contrib etc etc urpmi points for your install and just run urpmi --auto --auto-select No need to re-install .. you'll have final. (no disks but final) I did that from 9.0 to 9.1 on

SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 10 Sep 2003 13:18:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space issues in my partitions. I already moved /home to a separate partition which was easy.

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:32:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space

[expert] Panasonic DVD-RAM a Linux Backup?

2003-09-10 Thread Mark
Hello Everyone. I am a little confused about the Panasonic DVD-RAM drives.. I see that the DVD-RAM disks can hold 9.4GB, and in theory with good compression they could make a very good backup device.. Well that's in theory, but there are a few things that i don't know, does the 9.4GB RAM disks

[expert] OpenGroupware Questions......

2003-09-10 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I'm trying to setup an OpenGroupware server for a client for a demo and possable deployment. It will be on a mandrake 9.1 box. The setup needs to be as follows: 1. Needs to authenticate users from a WinNT box. 2. Needs calendaring with Outlook/Express or Mozilla/Netscape mail. Where

[expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? Thanks,

Re: [expert] USB key drives and linux

2003-09-10 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) right-click - mount makes it tick I love Linux I love Mandrake On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 05:28, James Sparenberg wrote: From the Why I like Mandrake column Saw this over on extreme tech

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:06:04 +0800 (CST) Vincent Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my

[expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and

Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]

2003-09-10 Thread David Rankin
Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-10 Thread Miark
Ah! Okay fixed. Boy, is that going to make life a whole lot easier! Miark On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:43:27 -0700, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, Being a member should allow you to send IF you send from the same e-mail return address you receive on. For me if I send from

[expert] Cyrus-imapd and postfix.....

2003-09-10 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all does anyone have cyrus-imapd and postfix working together? If you do could you help me get things going on my Mandrake 9.1 box. I have cyrus and postfix installed but thing aren't working. Any help would be great. Thanks Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2003-09-10 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Hi, Since i build my own kernels from www.kernels.org, patch them with openMosix, do i still need to apply Mandrake's kernel patch? _Thanks Richard. Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread diego
I'd bet it's not using DMA With IDE drives: man hddparm would tell you the command, but no idea about how to get it when at scsi emulation :-(( El mié, 10-09-2003 a las 17:25, HaywireMac escribió: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:06:04 +0800 (CST) Vincent Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Guy Van Sanden
First of all, what kind of system are you on (CPU - RAM), which burner are we talking about? Is it an IDE burner with SCSI emulation? What could help a lot is tune your disc devices with hdparm (I got a huge boost out of this). Install hdparm with 'urpmi hdparm'. First turn to your hard drive

Re: Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 4:59 pm, David Rankin wrote: Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items I'm not too

[expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK

RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
you need to update your version of QT. You can do this in your mandrake control center... David -Original Message- From: James D. Parra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:04 AM To: Mandrake-List (E-mail) Subject: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK

Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-10 Thread Richard
On Tue September 9 2003 11:03 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town (Acarigua, Venezuela) with my computer tenders get crazy and said that they can not receive customers property inside their local, i void to argue for hours with 'em.

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build;

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:06 am, Vincent Chen wrote: Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 7:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that

Re: [expert] Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2003-09-10 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 09:07:07AM -0700, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Since i build my own kernels from www.kernels.org, patch them with openMosix, do i still need to apply Mandrake's kernel patch? Only if you want to apply them all. If you use the absolute latest 2.4 kernel, you should be

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:18 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 1:18 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that

[expert] Re: USB key drives and linux

2003-09-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Guy Van Sanden wrote: On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) It used to do that on KDE 3.1.2 for me too, but when I got KDE 3.1.3 (Texstar), it doesn't show anymore :( (on the desktop) Any ideas? (Well it's not that big problem,

[expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2 (sorry, length)

2003-09-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 02:29 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:31:54 -0700 : I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had aborted. when I started the download if found the original and asked what I

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm

Re: [expert] Cyrus-imapd and postfix.....

2003-09-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all does anyone have cyrus-imapd and postfix working together? If you do could you help me get things going on my Mandrake 9.1 box. I have cyrus and postfix installed but thing aren't working. Did you read README.RPM in the cyrus-imapd doc directory? Bye -- Que les

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Q: When I move /usr and /var to separate partitions, what is the proper line in fstab? I guess something like: /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the

RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread James D. Parra
Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) : /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) Of course. I put it into fstab but forgot to mention it here! It wouldn't

[expert] Runs as root but not as user

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
Could someone please look over this exchange from the GnomeMeeting list and tell me what the equivalent file is in Mandrake. Or indeed, anything else that makes sense when you've read through. Anne On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:58 pm, Stefan Bruens wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 22:03

[expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-10 Thread Molotov
Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. In fact, I wanted to try at first the Medal of Honor linux beta client, and got an awfully slow rendering speed with missing textures. I then

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. In fact, I wanted to try at first the Medal of Honor

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 03:34 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:08 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Greg Meyer Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:18:31 -0400 : You can fix the iso's with rsynch without downloading all of them again. Instructions here: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html Thanks, but I found a nice person who will send the CDs tomorrow. But I'll keep all good advices

Re: [expert] Re: USB key drives and linux

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:02, Björn Lundin wrote: Guy Van Sanden wrote: On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) It used to do that on KDE 3.1.2 for me too, but when I got KDE 3.1.3 (Texstar), it doesn't show anymore :( (on the

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If

RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by

Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-10 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Felix Miata wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lots of info, yet no answer. So are you new or not? ;-) Define new. Please re-read my previous email. It's obvious that you are not new to Linux or to Mandrake. :-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:55, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:46 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-10 Thread J.C. Woods
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. François If you ran the NVidia

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any

[expert] Adding a header to KMail

2003-09-10 Thread deedee
I'd like to add an Approved: header to messages approving bounced posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? Thanks, deedee -- Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) : /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) Of course. I put it

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still unstable ? In case of yes, which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk Club ? I am using Texstar's packages and they work great. Unfortunately, I

Re: [expert] removing boot themes

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:42 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How can this be done? From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use themes check box, but this doesn't work. Just remove the bootsplash

Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:32 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber

[expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-10 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi all, Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search ways to get MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi and have quite a collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give 'em up! Alas! although I've progressed past utter silence and incomprehension from

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:05 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I get no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker I concur - audacity is good for mp3/wav editing - provided you have enough spare disk space. If you don't, don't try to save the project as a project file in

Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-10 Thread Luis Duran
Voy a tratar de bajarlo desde un cyber. Muchas gracias Richard saludos por alla tambien. Luis Duran On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:14, Richard wrote: On Tue September 9 2003 11:03 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town (Acarigua,

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:33:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 18:40 schrieb diego: I'd bet it's not using DMA With IDE drives: man hddparm would tell you the command, but no idea about how to get it when at scsi emulation :-(( It's the same. There are still the ide device names. So you can chenage de DMA via hdparm.

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 08:24 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: To the original poster, François, and to Charlie. There is a lot of confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I have

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:12:01 -0400 (EDT) : Looks fine to me; if it's reiserfs, you might want 'notail 1 2' instead. No, it's ext3 wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG