Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 8:40 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Meanwhile, could someone give me some ideas on the problems I had with loss of root password (which is ok now, so it must have been lost access to it, not corruption), what I need to do in the way

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-07-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 10:14 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: /etc/fstab: [snip] /dev/hde10 /holding ext3 user,defaults 1 2 [snip] Yup. Get rid of that user, option. Unmount and remount (as root). Then: rm -fR /holding/* cp -a /usr/* /holding

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote: looking at this more closely, what I would do is: This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake. telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ umount /holding

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 12:12 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: If I understand you, when I mount the new /usr, the directory /usr under / will be ignored (after a reboot?). But then when I remove the /usr directory, the system will temporarily not be able

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
and its pics means var grows. - mail and news may be stored in var/ IMHO usr/ grows very slowly... ie only as you install new software. On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 7:50 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: ... telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030730 14:53]: telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding

Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:15 pm, Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Anne, telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? This is strange, you shold have all the content of /usr copied inside /holding

Re: [expert] OT: What is BBCode?

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 2:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 9:36 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: BBCode? A pseudo-HTML type of code usable only within the message posting area

[expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics

Re: [expert] Write to ext3 data partition

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 10:23 am, charlie wrote: Hoping someone might be able to help me. Mandrake 9.1 Created 2 data partitions previously vfat to ext3 on install I was able to mount and write to them as root right from the start, but not as user, then :- I have been able to mount them as

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 2:25 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Sorry I'm at it again but just spotted in syslog this, SWAT is still saying smbd not running but Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: [2003/07/29 14:21:32, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(804) Jul 29 14:21:32 gb7tf smbd[5114]: bind failed

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 3:09 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:13, Anne Wilson wrote: What is the easiest and safest way of making more space here? Anne If you've got enough spare space on your HD: make a nice big (5gb or more) new partition, format it ext3 and call

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:34 pm, Richard Bown wrote: I think the hostss file is OK Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /etc/hosts 192.168.1.1 gb7tf.org.uk gb7tf 127.0.0.1 localhost I checked the process list and nmbd -D is running , but no sign of smbd. Looks like

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:32 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 08:07, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: ... Use extreme caution when messing with partitions!! Always double check and using diskdrake; Don't go back on your steps too often, diskdrake gets messy.bail out with cancel

[expert] KMail filter oddity

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Since it's coming to that time again, there is going to be a lot of traffic about 9.2, so I decided to filter them to a separate folder for the time being. I set the filter to subject or message contains 9.2 move to folder 9.2. I have just got 7 messages in that folder, and they have nothing

Re: [expert] KMail filter oddity

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 6:38 pm, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:00 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Since it's coming to that time again, there is going to be a lot of traffic about 9.2, so I decided to filter them to a separate folder for the time being. I set the filter

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95

Re: [expert] KMail filter oddity

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Fwd: Re: [newbie] DVD writing software Hopefully this should arrive complete with headers. I am still trying to find out why this is being filtered to the 9.2 folder Anne---BeginMessage--- On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:48 am, you wrote: I can point you in the right direction to get software to

Re: [expert] KMail filter oddity

2003-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 9:11 pm, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:10 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Fwd: Re: [newbie] DVD writing software Hopefully this should arrive complete with headers. I am still trying to find out why this is being filtered to the 9.2 folder Anne

[expert] OT: What is BBCode?

2003-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
BBCode? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: What is BBCode?

2003-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 9:36 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: BBCode? A pseudo-HTML type of code usable only within the message posting area of certain types of websites which contain forums, of the sort that are provided by several packages like phpBB. While

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 2:01 pm, Miark wrote: Try deleting the .xcdroast/ directory. Miark Good thought, but didn't work :-( It still took around 1 minute on the image info tab even though no images exist in the directory and no disk is in the drive. Ah, well. It must be a but in this

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 9:23 am, R N dev wrote: Hi I have this version installed xcdroast-0.98-28.alpha14mdk After having re-configured all the cd-devices (deleted and re-scanned) all works well. Angelo Maybe this is the answer, Angelo. I see that I have Version: 0.98-27.alpha13mdk.

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 8:44 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Just a quick one. Sorry to send to expert, but have tried to newbie one and it has not appeared for some reason. How do I get rid of a manually configured scanner which I setup with Control Centre. It does not exist on the parallel

[expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a fix? I think it has been ever since I installed the version in 9.1, but I'm not

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
which sane is picking up which I just cannot find. Peter On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 8:44 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Just a quick one. Sorry to send to expert, but have tried to newbie one and it has not appeared for some reason. How

Re: [expert] Kmail +shortcut for send all mails in outgoing folder

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 10:58 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I use more and more shortcuts in Kmail. What I really miss are two things. 1) fetch mail before send Don't know about this 2) a keyboard shortcut for sending all mails in outgoing folder The File menu has 'Send Queued

Re: [expert] Kmail +shortcut for send all mails in outgoing folder

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 9:52 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 10:21 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 10:58 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I use more and more shortcuts in Kmail. What I really miss are two things. 1) fetch mail before send

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 11:58 am, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Annee No it is still there, must be a file somewhere... Peter In /home/peter/.sane/xsane there will probably be a .drc file that relates to your scanner. Try adding .sav to the extension, so that you can get it back if you need it.

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 1:32 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:33, Anne Wilson wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 1:52 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Anne, you should give K3B a shot. It's very nice! Get the 0.9 version from the cooker. I had k3b running under 9.0, but never got on with it quite as well as xcdroast (opposite to what many people find, I know). It simply doesn't run

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:29 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it reappears as if by magic. So where does it get it from, sending me nuts Sorry, Peter, right out of ideas now :-(. If I think of anything I'll get back to you. Anne

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 7:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:01 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Hmm - I think it still holds on a while even if there's nothing in the drive. I must admit I do sometimes put a blank in before firing up, though. Anyway

Re: [expert] redirect to /dev/null...how?

2003-07-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 3:34 pm, Mark Watts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am now very confident in my spamassassin filtering - I haven't had any misidentified spam for weeks. I have set a kmail filter to direct spam as identified by spamassassin into my kmail

[expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm trying to follow instructions to install a new ov511 driver, as there is a problem with the one included in 9.1. I'm extremely green at this. I'm getting errors referencing include files, and I know I have to edit the Makefile to show the correct path to the kernel source - but where are

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 4:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 17:00 schrieb Anne Wilson: I'm trying to follow instructions to install a new ov511 driver, as there is a problem with the one included in 9.1. I'm extremely green at this. I'm getting errors referencing

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 6:51 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 18:55 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 4:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 17:00 schrieb Anne Wilson: I'm trying to follow instructions to install a new ov511 driver

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 7:31 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 20:09 schrieb Anne Wilson: Ok . # Change this to /usr/include if you get header file errors #INCLUDEDIR = /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include INCLUDEDIR = file:/usr/src/linux `uname -r`/build/include

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 8:02 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 20:45 schrieb Anne Wilson: Yep there are no errors so i guess it compiled fine. There should now be some ovxxx.o files. That or some of them are the kernelmodules. From what I have read in the makefile

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 9:08 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:55, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 4:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2003 17:00 schrieb Anne Wilson: I'm trying to follow instructions to install a new ov511 driver

Re: [expert] Internal mail

2003-07-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:29 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 04:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I'll try to help, with two caveats: I'm not a regular Kmail user (actually, I just set it up to see what you may see ... it's not half bad these days g), and also I'm running 9.0 w/ KDE

Re: [expert] Re: perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 5:47 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: I am now quite sorry I ever brought the whole thing up. My apologies to all concerned, and I will not raise the issue again in this forum. Bill, there obviously has been some misunderstanding, but personally I'm glad you did bring it up, and

Re: [expert] Internal mail

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 1:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I would like to set up KMail to bring these messages into a new folder, but don't know how to set up internal mail accounts. Is it possible without using extra services

Re: [expert] Internal mail

2003-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 1:03 am, bascule wrote: i set up a receiving account in settingsconfigure kmailnetwork thse are my details: name:bascule-local location:/var/spool/mail/bascule locking method:none destination folder:system obviously i made the 'system' folder! i didn't alter

Re: [expert] Re: perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)

2003-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 4:16 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ... which you really ought to do something about, Norman. I know that Outbreak Express is a brain-dead mail app, but surely it has some sort of way to

Re: [expert] uprmi.addmedia

2003-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 6:33 pm, Jim C wrote: I'm trying to add a source for the texstar stuff at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mand rake/9.1/rpms/ I've tried it with urpmi.addmedia but I think I am getting the with path wrong. Pointers anyone? Jim C. Go to

Re: [expert] Re: perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)

2003-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 7:30 pm, haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... which you really ought to do something about, Norman. I know that Outbreak Express is a brain-dead mail app, but surely it has some sort of way to turn off

Re: [expert] uprmi.addmedia

2003-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:28 pm, haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:11:44 -0700 Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 22 or signal 0 I've gotten that before, just run it again and see if it's successful. Otherwise, use wget instead of curl,

Re: [expert] sending openoffice document as fax with kdeprintfax

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:38 pm, R N dev wrote: the point is: not to pass per openoffice i.e. i'd like to print the document without opening it. I found KWord so much easier to set up and use than OOo for this. If efax is installed KWord automatically offers print-to-fax as an option. When

[expert] Internal mail

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I would like to set up KMail to bring these messages into a new folder, but don't know how to set up internal mail accounts. Is it possible without using extra services? What do I need to do? What should I read? If I can

[expert] Mandrake 7.0

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
I've just come across a disk containing Mdk 7.0. Wasn't someone recently asking for this? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Internal mail

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 2:54 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:39:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I Due to entries in /etc/aliases -- adjust and run newaliases if you want to keep root stuff

Re: [expert] Internal mail - next step

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 3:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I would also like to be able to send internal mail to other users on the lan. At the moment I have to use their address on our domain, sending it externally, which seems silly when we could communicate through a few walls. Well, I found

Re: [expert] Internal mail - next step

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 9:00 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 3:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I would also like to be able to send internal mail to other users on the lan. At the moment I have to use their address on our domain

Re: [expert] sending openoffice document as fax with kdeprintfax

2003-07-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 6:41 pm, Larry Sword wrote: R N dev wrote: Hi, A friend of mine need to send documents by fax using kdeprintfax (trying to forget windoze;-) Is there a way to send an openoffice document with it? do i Have to suggest to add a filter? something like soffice/*

Re: [expert] Bug about Gigabyte motherboard?

2003-07-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 8:14 pm, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Now he has a Intel motherboard with Serial ata.2. Pricks up ears Has he noticed any difference? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:36 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:37 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:58, Anne Wilson wrote: The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 12:08 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK- I registered, but I haven't got time to go through all the pages and learn how to post to it right now. I'm still not sure I see how it's better than a regular list where

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 3:53 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB)

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
Now that's interesting, because that one isn't listed on their linux pages either. It's looking more hopeful. Anne On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 4:17 pm, Jim C wrote: I'm using a Radeon 9100 PowerColor and it has TV Out, CRT and DVI . Seems to work OK in Linux. Jim C. Anne Wilson wrote

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 10:43 pm, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Hi, This is a little guide I published on: long snip Juan Luis, I think this would be of interest to many people. Would you consider putting it onto the TWiki pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome Anne Want to

[expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 11:53 am, arocho wrote: For my installation the install software wrote the supermount fstab entries incorrectly. It does not seem to be quite fool proof yet. I have been using it since it was first available in the Mandrake distribution and it has yet to deliver on the

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 4:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like Lite-On. Few things I need to ask, are the Lite-On's made by Lite-On, or are they rebadged from other manufacturers? Can the firmware be flashed from DOS, and are

[expert] Help!

2003-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm trying to suspend mail for my list traffic whilst I'm away on vacation. I haven't tried anything yet for the expert list, but have tried twice for the newbie list. This is the latest reply: Results of your commands Date: Today 10:10:34 am From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Monitor refresh rates

2003-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Jun 2003 12:08 am, Larry Sword wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I want to put a lcd monitor onto my old box. The refresh rate, as it was on the ancient monitor is too high for this, so it won't let me boot into x. I tried failsafe + text mode, and tried to run XFdrake from

Re: [expert] Monitor refresh rates

2003-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Jun 2003 12:15 am, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, first thing to do - is to not boot into X... So - The Failsafe Option is a first part. Just - at the Lilo prompt - give: init 3 in - it should start the system without X. The Problem - is that you most probably need to start

Re: [expert] Help!

2003-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Jun 2003 11:34 am, Peter Watson wrote: try just newbie - no quotes That did it, Pete. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 11:16 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Adrian Golumbovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel 2.6 would have been cool. at least as a side choice even a 2.5.xx would have been ok as a side choice when installing. :) AFAIK there could be a 2.5.xx (or 2.6.x), since Juan

[expert] Sympa commands

2003-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm going away for a couple of weeks, and the amount of mail during that time would be way too big for my isp mailbox. I don't want to leave the mail program running here, either, so... I want to suspend mail delivery for the lists. Last time I tried to do this I got messages about the

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 6:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:05, Anne Wilson wrote: I know that I can run higher point versions of a kernel with existing mandrake distros, but will 2.6 mean changed libraries, etc., so that it won't be compatible? Anne Anne I'm

[expert] Monitor refresh rates

2003-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
I want to put a lcd monitor onto my old box. The refresh rate, as it was on the ancient monitor is too high for this, so it won't let me boot into x. I tried failsafe + text mode, and tried to run XFdrake from the command line, but only got a blank screen. There must be some way to get to

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 2:36 am, Nisco wrote: Hi all, I've written a small dcoumentation page about installing Mandrake 9.1 onan Acer Aspire 1300xc Lpatop. Here: http://www.angelfire.com/blog/madrid/lap-ing.html Comments appreciated :) Cesare When you are completely happy, would you

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Jim C wrote: Man, if they did nothing else, I would just want the KDE help search engine to work. It's not to much to ask. Could be a kde problem, of course. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 7:00 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the list, finally, dead? Has it expired, given up the ghost, gone to meet its maker? Is sympa under assault? Anybody out there? Hi, Praedor - it was quiet this morning. But it's

Re: [expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:33 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 11:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 7:00 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the list, finally, dead? Has it expired, given up the ghost, gone

Re: [expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:18 pm, David Rankin wrote: Don't feel bad, I haven't seen any message I have posted in the past 2 months show up in my inbox from the listserve. Evidently, they do get through to some people. Anne, Praedor and others seem to get them. I just get absolutely no

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 11:57 am, Colin Close wrote: richard bown wrote: If I can find a way of getting K3b top burn audio cd for mp3 files or even better vcd's, the old windows machine is redundant as win4lin ver 5 can handle all the other win apps I use TIA Richard Hi, If you

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 1:53 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2003 14:04 schrieb Anne Wilson: Hi, If you mean burning mp3 files to wav (cd-audio) then I can tell you that is does this automatically. Just start an audio project,select some mp3 files and then just burn

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 3:40 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: k3b is running without probs here. Two possibilities: 1) you are using gnome as primary windowmanager (I have seen that it can make problems) No. 2) you have not configured the right driver inside k3b. The value auto makes sometimes

[expert] Printing puzzle

2003-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
In both xpp settings and kprinter settings I have margins set to 1 all round, yet when I print from kmail I have no margins at all - which means that I lose the subject line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there a different control that I need? Anne Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 Jun 2003 5:53 pm, richard bown wrote: I edited out the previous post as it was getting long. Like others I want to dump using winxp and nero and K3b is very similar in style to nero. I'm trying to run K3b in Gnome, some seem to be getting success with K3B while others like my

Re: [expert] NO MAIL TODAY?

2003-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 7:20 am, Vox wrote: Yes, it's sympa...I hate that POS! :P Vox I don't think so this time. It seems that a lot of servers were taken down. Practically the first thing that came in to me when service resumed were 3 mails with 100 recipients each. There was

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 10:09 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:10:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:03 pm, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: Fat16 has suport to 4gb, but its not recommended to driver greater than 512mb, i

Re: [expert] Auto logoff on idle

2003-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 6:06 pm, Jim C wrote: I want to rig up an automatic logoff for users who have forgotten to log out. Thing is that I have a Samba-LDAP deal and I'ld have to find a way to log the user off from a WP Pro box as well as linux and unmount the Samba/NFS shares. Couldn't be

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 11:52 pm, Vox wrote: Actually, that's only part of the whole thing :) A martian packet is one that comes from a network that shouldn't be sending packets to that interface. If you get a packet from 192.168.1.54 on your public (ie. internet) interface, it'll get marked

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 2:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I had an experience with martians recently. I was getting connection attempts from 192.168.100.1. I initially told my firewall to block all invalid addresses, but a day later I

Re: [expert] Web site guru needed - CLOSURE

2003-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 2:58 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 1:43 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Discuss the problem with the Mozilla developers on irc://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla. There may need to be a bug filed. Sorry - I said I was not very savvy on irc

Re: [expert] Mailing List mis-management?

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 1:48 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 20:18:23 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:45, Pierre Fortin wrote: How does that old saying go...? Something about not attributing foresight to an unexpected [side-]effect... If

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 2:45 pm, David Hlacik wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation no it is not true. David Hlacik fat16, I think. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert](2) Suggestions to help Minimize List Email Traffic

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 2:54 pm, Tru64 User wrote: Additional Notes: The list I am talking about has been in existence long before Linux mandrake was popular. Before HPQ bought Compaq, and b4 Compaq bought DEC. DEC Alpha -Tru64 Unix List. This is getting tiresome. No doubt your *other* list

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 4:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11:11 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I'm getting martians on my box : martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0 my ifconfig is: I found this in my /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-lo file

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