Re: [expert] Re: Mozilla 0.9.8 MDI / SDI Question

2002-08-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning. I regularly run out of swap with gnumeric (often uses over a gig of it) and a quick swapon saves the system from coming to an abrupt halt. Windows dynamic swap is actually a

Re: [expert] Re: Mozilla 0.9.8 MDI / SDI Question

2002-08-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SwapFileTemporary See also: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter regards, Randy Kramer Bill Kenworthy wrote: Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning

[expert] drag and drop dropping the ball

2002-07-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Something thats driving me mad. How can I drag and drop a file onto an icon in gnome on a RH 7.0 system and have the program process the file? I have a perl script that cleans up a file for some very non-linux people so I created an icon for it on the desktop and want to be able to drag a file

Re: [expert] Sendmail and relaying

2002-07-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Use something like zebedee to tunnel your mail ports (in my case 25 for sending and 143 for imap) and feed that through httptunnel if you get firewall problems - that way if you use the tunnel, the mail IS to all intents coming from your home machine. Great for laptops that travel, but cannot

Re: [expert] setting up sound in 8.2

2002-07-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On an old sound blaster type card I had once, there were some pins for attaching the motherboard speaker output direct to the sound card. For louder beeps I guess! BillK On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:46, J. Craig Woods wrote: James wrote: On 08 Jul 2002 12:45:26 +1000 Darren King [EMAIL

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' sameas 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-07 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Seti on my system (athlon 1.4 t-bird) can give up to a 10 deg C rise in temp - however, I believe burn-in is a term that is not totally related to heat - it means to to stress or exercise the CPU or other part of the system. Each of memtest, GCC and Seti stress different parts of the system

Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Error from apache update on 8.1

2002-06-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
down httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ] []# -- Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Mount your win32/ntfs(ro) partitions (where the files reside) and either serve from them or symlink into the path if required. BillK On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:11, Femme wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 19:43:23 -0300 WOOkY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a ftp-like thing for ppl on

Re: [expert] Screen capture with tv / xine: SOLVED

2002-05-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can you put em on a web server somewhere - then all who are interested can have a peek BillK On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 02:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, with ksnapshot I have the same blue window; but I solved the problem in the next way: I looked for help in the xine mailing-list, they

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Mandrake has long had the problem where they ship a dirty kernel that requires a make mrproper before you are ready to compile (not sure bout 8.2, but 8.1, 8.0 etc). Also there is one or more versions where you actually had to load a setup file before you had a match between what you are running

Re: [expert] Raw_add: partition table full error

2002-04-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Use fdisk to check the partitions. On a recent install of 8.2, I slid the slider for disk size in diskdrake to the far right (allocate all disk space) and ended up with a partition that went past the end of the disk. Was the devils job fixing it. Did not think it was a Mandrake problem at the

Re: [expert] The original (was UDMA/ATA no running at fullpotential)

2002-04-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Ok I'll bite - what package reference are people getting the arguments from? (0x1F0, floppy=daring etc). I would like to find out what they are before blindly adding arguments to the boot line that I dont understand! BillK On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 06:06, Hoyt wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002

Re: [expert] Failing - first Boot after installation of Mdk8.2beta2 forPower PC on Mac TiBook

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 8.1, I seem to remember you could stick the cd in a windoze machine and the docs pop up in a browser. Its in the root of the cd as index.htm BillK On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:07, Rick Thomas wrote: I found my problem. After booting the rescue from the CD, and using it to reading the yaboot

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem

2002-03-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Suppose I should put in a bit about reiser - I have had two problems. The minor one was an infinite directory that was fixed by reserfstools, the other more serious. I woke up one morning after leaving the machine happily downloading mdk8.2RC1cd1 overnight to a hung machine. Investigation

[expert] how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console?

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? Occaisionally I get an X crash which leaves the consoles in a weird state. X restarts ok, but all other screens show two copies of whatever console was running on it before (text is in green!) on the top half and the bottom half

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Just a thought - you have added the users doing the burning to the crom and cdwriter groups? BillK On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 02:03, Darren King wrote: Guess burning cd's is an obscure thing only 1 or 2 of us do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
the warning. Also, you can change the path in the vmware-config.pl to point to some other gcc version: 3667 $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin'; John Bill Kenworthy wrote: At least I am not alone! No ximian but a mixed bag of cooker stuff compiled from srpm. Some gcc3.0

[expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for an athlon using the standard mandrake sources (tried the standard 2.4.8-26 and that

Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
10:05, Bill Kenworthy escribió: I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for an athlon using the standard mandrake sources

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

2002-03-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
The EBDA too big message is usually caused by a mismatched kernel/boot sector. You need to reinstall the boot sector to match. This begs the question - what setup/extras/recompiles are you using? This could be the cause of your instability rather than Mandrake as such. Reliabilty usually

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I havent seen anyone mention NVIDIA drivers yet. Are you using this card? Its a known problem, particularly if you have other openGL stuff (Mesa) around. Also, my old K6 would keel over every start of summer with dirt clogging the cpu/power supply fans that builds up over winter. First warm

[expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 21:51, Nick Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts - Thankyou

2002-02-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I do not have an adsl connection, but a ppp dialup, but some of the solutions I use here may be applicable: The system I use is run from etc/ppp/ip-uplocal, a file that is run automatically when a ppp connection comes up - there are also network scripts that run when other interfaces come

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
How old/what speed is the cdrom device you are doing the install from? (apolgies if this has been covered as I have not been following this thread) I have an old unit which will either read some brands of cdrw unreliably or not all - could this be the problem (older cdroms aparently have lower

Re: [expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)

2002-02-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Ok, the easiest is to use rsync like an ls command and navigate to the directory you want if you do not know the path up front: e.g., rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/ will list all the top level modules (directories) available. Note the last / and no target directory - without this nothing is

Re: [expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)

2002-02-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
The way around this is to keep a copy of the iso and tail -c +no_of_Bytes_needed+1 copy.iso rsync_truncated.iso test this out first as its late and I am too tired to check the syntax and test it!, but it works a treat. BillK On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:21, Randy Kramer wrote: Ron Stodden

Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3

2002-02-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Check out rsync. Resumes downloads plus checks and updates what you already have. Note that you can also change beta 2 into beta 3 using it. It checksums the iso file and only downloads changes. I usually just rsync the whole iso (via a modem!), but there is a rsync script that can just

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or long mp3 encode

[expert] Whats the hassle with rsync://ftp.uninett.no

2002-02-06 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Whats the hassle with rsync://ftp.uninett.no - I have not been able to connect for a couple of days now coz max connections is reached? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] missing package

2002-02-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can someone tell me what package contains sys/asoundlib.h. It was on my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] missing package

2002-02-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Nope, not for me in this case! BillK On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:08, H.McM wrote: cant tell you, but if you just enter the file name into rpmfind, it will return the package name (thats rpmfind.net) Can someone tell me what package contains sys/asoundlib.h. It was on my old 7.2 system,

RE: [expert] missing package

2002-02-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
to cobble up the sources to be able to do what you're trying to accomplish... David -Original Message- From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:40 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] missing package Nope, not for me in this case

[expert] Recording vcd's

2002-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am trying to record video (.mov format) using xawtv's streamer app but keep getting the error neither audio nor video format specified/found. Recording to avi format works fine. I suspect I am missing the quicktime4linux library but efforts to track this down have failed. Does anyone

Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error

2002-01-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
upgrade to the cooker rpm stuff. It fixed much of the probs for me. Note that mixing cooker and 8.1 can lead to big problems in some areas (libpng for one!) as well as rpm hell! BillK On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message.

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Your right, its a mystery on what is a nice way to do this. I usually edit an existing entry and save it under a new name. If you change an entry, you need to delete the original and copy the changed entry to the directory before the changes are noted (or exit/relogin gnome!). You can set the

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1

2002-01-06 Thread Bill Kenworthy
What is the output of lsmod - looks like the scsi emulation is not loaded. For me I have (extraneous modules cut out): sg 28016 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 14208 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi8112 0 scsi_mod 90880 3 [sg sr_mod

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1

2002-01-06 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Ric, grab the cdwriter howto and extract the test script and modify/run it and see what it shows. I still think you are missing some modules - I believe not all not all the ones normally loaded are ide specific, but sit on top of the scsi layer (which may be real scsi or ide-scsi. The test

Re: [expert] How can I shutdown a PC from telnet?

2001-12-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
when you su to root, use su - so you inherit roots environment. BillK On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 07:27, Roger wrote: Hi, I am trying to make an old PC into a keyboardless, mouseless, monitorless server. It boots and starts up OK and I can access it from telnet and vnc, but it refuses to

Re: [expert] kppp == memory HOG == swap the crap out of system!

2001-12-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Beat you - 104megs! I have 750M memory so never noticed before ... This machine has been up and online for a few days - memory leak? BillK On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 04:46, Pierre Fortin wrote: How to get a HUGE performance boost on a low-mem dial-up machine: since this dumb little utility

[expert] World Writable files

2001-12-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, the program that does the security checks each night keeps finding the devfs files: Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /lib/dev-state/console - /lib/dev-state/ttyp0 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp1 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp2

Re: [expert] kapm-idled consuming all cpu

2001-12-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Also on a laptop is supposed to create power savings and reduced heat output from the cpu. Anyone know where the docs are for this? man kapm-idled produces nothing - easy to find documenmtation on the system via man, info etc is getting worse as Linux grows up! BillK On Thu, 2001-12-13 at

Re: [expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 8.0 and 8.1 I had to put an option line specifying the base address as 0x300 (the defaut) in modules.conf before either version would find it. Problem is that the driver needs to be told what its parameters are and does not seem to autoprobe for them. On 7.2 there was no such problem. box is

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Be aware that some versions of xntpd have a security hole. I think you need to go back and reread the documentation for ntpd - ntpd is a daemon, used to set both the time on your machine and can act as a server for your network (I use it for both). Ntpdate is similar to rdate (which uses the

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 03:02, Charlie Bebber wrote: Bill Kenworthy said: So if you go through your syslog, can you find where ntpdate periodically syncs on its own with the server you've listed in your ntp.conf? Everything you've said makes perfect sense and it work{s,ed} for me when

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I should have added this: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)10 l 43 64 3770.0000.000 0.015 *core-sw1.wa.iin tictoc.tip.CSIR

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Isnt ntpdate just a client like rdate? You need ntpd runnung. try service ntpd start and see what happens. # rpm -qa|grep ntp ntp-4.1.0-1mdk # ntpd (and ntpdate) are part of the above package. Usage is the same as xntpd (and seem so similar it may just be a rename?) BillK On Sun,

Re: [expert] GLX - NVIDIA drivers

2001-11-24 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Of this I am not sure - some programs modify the config fiole directly, try man xvidtune and see if it has the option. BillK On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 22:18, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Thanks a lot! I followed your instructions and TUXracer works great now! (As smooth as one might

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
No one? A while ago I was forced to partially open 113 again as apparently some irc servers require an ident before allowing a connection to be established. A bit of experimentation found that they were happy with an ipchains reject, but failed if the packet was just dropped (DENY) BillK On

[expert] transparent proxy with bastille-firewall

2001-11-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have implemented squid as a transparent proxy with bastille-firewall. It is working, but where is the best spot to add the proxy redirect statement so it gets loaded when bastill-firewall is reloaded etc. (i.e., which is the standard script to add it to as bastille-firewall uses a number

Re: [expert] cups again

2001-11-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
The bjc-250 does work without the extra lines that seem to effect the other drivers. However, there is no colour and quality is poor on a bjc-620. I have just noticed that the foomatic drivers (which I used on Mandrake 7.2) are not present in kups, qtcups, web interface etc, even though I have

Re: [expert] X Windows Wont Run

2001-11-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
usually wrong xserver or video card parameters. Run XFdrake and select the proper settings. If no luck, post details of what video card, monitor etc and someone may be able to be more specific. BillK On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 23:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, Does this error message

Re: [expert] cups again

2001-11-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have tried most of the gimp print drivers as well as downloaded turboprint. Still does it. Problem seems to be in cups, but a grep of the disk shows those strings in libgimpprint.so. I am lost as its a real pain. I think I'll try a forced reinstall of all the cups rpm's and see if that

Re: [expert] cups again

2001-11-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
to look. This link should take directly to the a cupsomatic PPD file for the bjc620: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-o-matic.cgi?driver=bjc600printer=62080;. submit=Generate+CUPS+PPD You must also install the cupsomatic program also available from linuxprinting. Nick Bill

RE: [expert] Re: Mail Delivery Status Notification

2001-11-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I think a number of email scanners object to the method Mandrake use to attach their message. You can see by the bottom of this that Anomy does so for me, so did did the windoze based scanner system at one of my employers. Must give some people a fright tho when they see a virus warning message

[expert] cups again

2001-11-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
It appears that Mandrake 8.1 doesnt support my canon bjc620 printer. The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any of the Foomatic drivers used on Mandrake 7.2 in the software manager so I am stuck

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Try su - -c 'command' Normal su (and kdesu I think) inherit the current user environment, the dash tells it to spawn a new one based on root. There are differences in the default path etc when running programs in this way which can cause obscure failures. BillK On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 07:27,

[expert] raid and mandrake

2001-11-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
With the release of motherboards such as the ABIT KT7A-raid (highpoint chip) and and addons like the promise ide raid cards, will Mandrake be supporting these boards out of the box in the next version - 8.2 (that is, install and boot from the raid device) BillK Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Evolution on Mdk 8.1

2001-11-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Works great - if you build from source and are *very* carefull which rpms you install and which you build outright (from src tarball) The one system I tried using rpm's (from cooker) is still totally screwed, with libpng problems amongst others. The tarball way is a bit tedious but eventually

[expert] cups again!

2001-11-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have a cups problem under mdk8.1. I am getting a single page with: BJLSTART CONTROLMODE=Common AckTime=Short BJLEND before the printjob proper. Banners are off and I cannot find any settings that would do this. The printdiver is set to BJC6200. BillK Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] USB mouse

2001-11-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am getting the following errors from my USB mouse (MS intellieye). It was originally on a ps2 port (via an adaptor) on anopther motherboard and would occaisionally lock up (once a fortnight). On the new board on a USB port, it locks up quite regularly (twice whilst typing this!). The fix is

[expert] Unable to specify cooker for software manager

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am having problems adding a cooker source to the software manager. Security sources are ok, just (any) cooker. Running from a terminal I get the following: ___ 21:42:51 (10.55 KB/s) - `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.cz' saved [12773295] parsehdlist:

RE: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Actually it quite often does fail. I installed with a serial mouse and then changed to a usb mouse when the system went into use. It was a couple of frustrated reboots before the hardware realised that the serial mouse had gone and removed it and then on the next boot it found the usb mouse.

Re: [expert] Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 Bad System Clock (was Re: [newbie]gigabyte GA-7ZXH)

2001-10-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Or use ntp! BillK On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 04:47, Sevatio wrote: Jose, I rebooted my GA-7ZX-1 to Windoze98 and have had it there for more than a day. The time remained accurate to the second. As far as I know, Windoze98 uses only the hardware clock for its timekeeping. OTOH, LM8.0

Re: [expert] Unable to burn SCSI CDR/W using Mandrake 8.1

2001-10-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Have a look at the cdwriter howto. There is a simple script in the middle of it which uses cdrecord and modprobe to setup the configuration (for me the problem has always been to load the modules without manual intervention). The error messages can point to the problem if it fails. On my 7.2

Re: [expert] Now: nslookup (and RE: Software Manager)

2001-10-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
nslookup has been deprecated (sounds painfull!) - use the host and dig commands instead. BillK On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 16:46, H McM wrote: you need a package called bind-utils. On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:03:40 -0600 Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't have a username/passwd

Re: [expert] terminal problem with period char

2001-10-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hit the key twice and it will appear! Also other puctuation may happen similarly. Fix is to select your language and keyboard within KDE. In my case I use UK English and US int kb (am in Oz) and mdk 7.2 and 8.0 required this. Not up to that stage with my new 8.1 system so dont know if its

Re: [expert] Out of inodes

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
cd problem_directory find . -exec rm -f {} \; man find BillK On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 13:41, stephen wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:34, you wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21, Dave Salovesh wrote: My /var partiton is out of inodes on my DNS server. I've tried variations of rm

Re: [expert] closing ports

2001-09-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
ahh ... scanning yourself from the same box is *almost* irrelevant! You need to do it from another box, preferably outside firewalls, ISP's etc to actually see what is exposed to the world, rather just *open* to itself. Whist free scans from grc.com and the like are windows biased, they can at

Re: [expert] kde 2.2.1 0n 8.1

2001-09-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Oh great ... just rsyncing the beta3 to update it ... What (and where) is the proper one (size in bytes perhaps?)? BillK On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 04:19, Tom Badran wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2001 4:50 pm, you wrote: So sprach »Tom Badran« am 2001-09-19 um 16:40:27 +0100 : RC1 contains

[expert] install failed

2001-09-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am having problems installing mandrake 8.0 on a dell inspiron 8000 laptop. It fails to boot after the install - stopping when it gets to the filesystem. It detects its reiser or ext2 (whichever I installed at the time) and then This does not look like a reiser file system and kernel panic, no

Re: [expert] Promise 'LI' at boot

2001-09-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Each letter of LILO is a stage in the lilo boot sequence. I cannot remember where I found it, but there is a list somewhere of what stage LI represents so you have a chance of finding what its hung on. BillK On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 10:17, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've changed my K6-III-400

[expert] mdk8.0 install using 2.2.19 kernel

2001-09-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am trying to install mdk 8.0 and have failed, I think due to a kernel 2.4 problem. How can I do an install using the 2.2.19 kernel, or one that will install a 2.2.19 kernel instead of 2.4.3? I have tried using the floppy image (cdrom) in cdrom://images/alternative/cdrom.img but that locks

Re: [expert] Which Packages?

2001-09-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Run MandrakeUpdate and see what packages it reccomends - Done push the button to download em - do that manually. ftp the packages it lists to /tmp and then cd /tmp and rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm (note the i) and let rpm work out what's needed. It will tell you if something is missing that it needs.

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21

2001-08-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have a nice shiny new Dell Inspiron 8000 an will dual boot mdk 8.0 on it in a week or so. The mdk hardware compatibility list just shows that install has been successful, not the detail. Is there a reference somewhere that shows if any special actions need to be taken - the lm-sensors

[expert] footer shows as an attachment

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Has anyone else been getting the footer that is attached to expert messages as an attachment? It triggers my virus scanner, as well as every expert message showing as having an attachment in the mail list! Mandrake, if you are making it an attachment, can you make it a signature or similar, NOT

Re: [expert] System not successfully shutting down

2001-08-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Had some redhat 6.2 boxes that randomly started doing that. However, if you left it some minutes, they would successfully shut down. No error messages that I could see, just would stop for a few minutes. How long did you wait? BillK On 08 Aug 2001 13:04:47 -0300, Leonardo T. de Carvalho

[expert] 8.0 X config fails

2001-07-24 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am inthe process of installing mdk 8.0 on a machine that has successfully been running 7.1 (XFree 4.0) for more than 12 months. Started with upgrade - locked up at X configuration. OK, probably some of the old files so I'll format and start afresh. Locks up at the same point. Trying to

[expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000 or 8000 laptop (which ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has anyone installed mdk 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It will have to live with win2000, at least for awhile, are there any gotchas (such as can mdk resize ntfs

Re: [expert] kmail and attachements

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Have a look at mimencode and uudecode BillK On 04 Jul 2001 13:00:07 +0300, Kernell32 wrote: I just got a mail from a friend and there is a picture attached but it doesnt show that to me. How can i fix that here are the first lines i see in kmail what do i have to do ??? This

Re: [expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Its a limitation of most current filesystems including ext2fs and reiserfs to do with handing 32 bit instructions within the code. Pipe the output of smbtar through split with the appropriate arguments to create a multivolume archive. BillK On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote:

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2001-06-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
May not apply, but saw some problems with slow transfer rates from 3c905c cards in dell machines under redhat 6.2 at work (caused problems with timeouts on nis, automounts etc. - was a lot of slot allocation errors in /var/log/message). A kernel upgrade from 2.2.14 to 2.2.19 fixed the problem

Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers

2001-06-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Maybe only a few ... but an important few (who obviously includes me!). Seriously, text based browsers are in use in various forms for handicapped people as well, and with Lynx you can check alt tags, and other access features etc. Also lynx/links are great if you want something very fast and

[expert] ximian mess

2001-05-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, Ive just installed ximian and have made a right mess of it!.. Does anyone know what the configuration applet is called. I hope to be able to start it from an xterm within ximian and undo the damage. The theory is I have selected multiple windows which are overlaying the main window

Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

2001-05-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
As well as this, I note you are using reiserfs. I had a related problem with a directory that contained files I could read but not write, and had size anomolies. Attempts to delete a file in this directory caused a total lockup, but I copied all data to another directory without a problem.

Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

2001-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
as root, cd / and du|sort -rn|less May take a while as will list and sort every file on the disk according to size, largest at the top. Note that it will include directory totals which is ok as you can pick up large numbers of small files that way such as occurs with the logrotate and mail

Re: [expert] CUPS again ...

2001-05-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
POWERED OFF, cancel the printjob (with kups or whatever), wait 5 minutes and then turn the printer on - it still prints. BillK Joan Tur wrote: Bill Kenworthy escribió: How does one delete a print job under cups? I have used lprm, the cups html interface etc but whilst they delete

[expert] viewer for user-guide.ps or .mif

2001-05-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am trying to read the user-guide.ps that comes with the berkely mpeg tools. None of the postscript viewers on Mandrake 7.2 will read it (it is postscript created with framemaker according to the header, a damaged file according to xpdf, others ask if it is encrypted(doubtful!), but I think it

[expert] CUPS again ...

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
How does one delete a print job under cups? I have used lprm, the cups html interface etc but whilst they delete the print job, the data from the current job keeps coming! One even says print job deleted, sending xxx bytes to printer! Needless to say this is a real pain on large documents one

Re: [expert] here now, gone tomorrow..

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Poor me - 19-22 fps in window, 3 fps full screen - bloody sis video chip and shared memory ... will have to see if dri etc is supported now but wasnt last time I checked. BillK Praedor Tempus wrote: I assure you it DOES matter. First off, gears by default runs in a small window on your

[expert] Kernel 2.2.19 fails to compile

2001-05-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi I upgarded my Mandrake 7.2 system to the 2.2.19 kernel but had to return to 2.2.17 as some modules needed by my system were not present. I have just tried to compile a custom kernel and xconfig, menuconfig etc all die with two missing parts. One is net/ipsec/Config.in from freeswan which I

Re: [expert] xanim doest not work (Can't Open /dev/dsp device)

2001-05-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Actually, I thought the correct procedure was to add the user to the audio group, allowing control over who can/cant play sound. I think there is a case to have audio added as a default group to any user created though. BillK Rial Juan wrote: Permissions. I usually make /dev/dsp world

[expert] anyone know where libfreetype.so.6 is ?

2001-04-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, can someone tell me what package contains libfreetype.so.6? The standard freetype rpms only seem to have the static library (.a). I am trying to install the unsupported kde 2.1.1 rpms and get the following errors: [root@Ralph kde-2.1]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm error: failed dependencies:

[expert] kde 7.2 unsupported.

2001-04-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am running kde 2.1-2(kde-base)/unsupported. Just tried to check for an unsupported directory to see if there have been any updates but cannot find one. I think the original I used was on sunet, but cannot find that one either. Can someone give a link to an unsupported directory

Re: [expert] BT848A and ftp client

2001-03-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Sounds like you you have the wrong or incorrectly set bttv modules loaded (probably tuner). Have you set up modules.conf for your tv card (particularly insmod parameters for the tuner)? If not let me know and I'll post my settings and some references. BillK Wayne Alexander wrote: All, I

Re: [expert] HELP: Installing a CD RW drive

2001-03-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Grub lilo dont interact, its either one or the other! In /boot/grub/menu.lst add something like title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk-A root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk-A.img

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Check out the "route" command. It is possible that your gateway is the wrong device. All installs of Mandrake on my machine (and recently a laptop at work) have had the gateway default to either the wrong device or ip number (.254) which kills network function stone dead - packets go out, but

Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can you do an "lsmod" and post the results along with those from "cdrecord -scanbus". A list of your modules.conf would also be handy. CDRW is a can of worms if you install it into an already running Mandrake system! Also have you run the script from the howto to check your setup (basicly what

Re: [expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, you say the problem is very large files - how large? Reiser along with most filesystems on 32 bit machines is limited to approximately 2gbytes per file. If they are trying to drop file files larger than 2gbytes onto the disk, you may need to take other measures ranging from user education,

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