Re: [expert] image editor for postscript?

2002-12-19 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am having a major problem trying to edit a postscript image. I have a > journal article, pdf format, that I've converted to postscript. There is a > > figure in this paper that I need. I ca

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:59:24 -0600 > Narfi Stefansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out > > Asus V7100 Pro Pure MX400 64MB AGP > > Gainward GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP > > Toss-up, they all use t

Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce

2002-12-16 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Williamson wrote on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:08:19PM +1100 : > > > > > On the installation of the Mandrake Linux just install as like any other > > PC, till the part were LILO is to be configured, an

Re: [expert] /var/log - apologies, a long one

2002-12-10 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:39, john wrote: > I tried this on newbie a while ago and got no joy, my /var/log/messages > and /var/log/syslog fill up and I have to delete the entries by hand (if > I try logrotate -f /var/log/messages I get a terminal full of "error: > /etc/logrotate.d contains cr

Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce

2002-12-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 05 December 2002 17:18, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Chou wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:46:15PM -0800 : > > I've been a Mandrake user for quite some time now, and I'm considering > > getting a nVidia nForce(2) motherboard. There were r

Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk

2002-12-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 02 December 2002 18:12, Ralph De Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 02 December 2002 04:03 pm, FRLinux wrote: > > > When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is > > > loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh

Re: [expert] problems with msec daily

2002-12-01 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 01 December 2002 16:10, Angus Beath wrote: > Hi, I've got this error from Cron each day. I'm not sure how to go about > fixing it: > > Subject: Cron nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily > Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:04:19 -0500 (EST) > > bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 28 November 2002 13:34, Ken Walker wrote: > Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all > ownership/permissions/groups. > > I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. > > many thanks > > Mr Smiley I'll take a stab at this. 1) you can have "tar' send to the standard o

Re: [expert] memory usage

2002-11-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 28 November 2002 13:54, Philip Webb wrote: > is there a command or utility which would show > which processes are using how much of which parts of memory? > 'free' gives some numbers, > but just what is using 'buffers' & 'cached' is unknown > nor does it show what is 'used +/- buffers/c

Re: [expert] xinitrc problem

2002-11-19 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 20 Nov 2002, Matthew Van Horn wrote: > > > Posted to newbie, but got no response. > > > > Since I upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0, I am having problems using my old > > (8.1) ~/.xinitrc > > > > If the file even exists, then startx will not work. I don't know what > > t

[expert] motherboard recommendations?

2002-11-04 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Hi, everybody. I managed to fry my motherboard yesterday (bad memory module) and I'm therefore looking for a new one. And I was hoping you could help me choose one :-) I'm looking for a motherboard for an Athlon, most likely based on the KT333 or the KT400 chipset and I'm very interested in hea

Re: [expert] floppy timeout and I/O error

2002-10-29 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:53, Larry Sword wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > |I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely > |unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed &g

[expert] floppy timeout and I/O error

2002-10-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed below. This is with supermount disabled. Does anybody know how I can get around this? Thanks, Narfi. Below are my /etc/fstab and a short segment of /var/log/

Re: [expert] mdk9.0 with japanese user

2002-10-13 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 13 October 2002 06:02 pm, you wrote: > Hi Narfi, > > I created a new acount, but it does not have an option to create it as > japanese as you did. I set it in the KDE control centre, menus where > japanese, but still no input. > > using my .i18n file in my english KDE i can input in japa

[expert] error in a kernel-header file?

2002-10-11 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Hi, can anybody here explain to me the rationale behind having /usr/include/linux/videodev.h include fs.h? This is done in kernel-headers in 9.0, but it's not done in stock 2.4.18, 2.4.19 or any of the pre-20 patches. I've emailed cooker to ask about this, but nobody has responded [it's a 9.0

Re: [expert] mdk9.0 with japanese user

2002-10-03 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Here's what I did in 9.0 final: 1) Selected Japanese as a second language during the installation 2) After I was running the 9.0 final, I dropped into a console and did # mv ~/.kde ~/.kde-old and kept my ~/.i18n file intact. 3) I logged into KDE and had it recreate my settings. That's it, I was

[expert] msec, kernel panic and zip drive

2002-06-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Summary: When msec is run (at 4:03 am) it seems to trigger a kernel panic. I have also got the same kernel panic when shutting down, right after Alsa has been stopped. In either case, when this happens, I have to resort to the SysRq sequence. This seems to be related to the zip drive: # uname

Re: [expert] Help! i18n and KDE problem on Mandrake 8.2

2002-06-04 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 18 April 2002 19:09, you wrote: > The problem: > KDE doesn't respect locale setting (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL...) > Description: >1. I installed Mandrake 8.2 using its CD1 and CD2. During its > installation, I chose Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.GB2312) as installation > language,

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 with japanese user

2002-05-31 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
41 -0500 > > "H. Narfi Stefansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 31 May 2002 04:00, you wrote: > > > Has anyone got 8.2 working sucessfully with Japanese input/display? > > Yes, > > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese > Anyone s

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 with japanese user

2002-05-31 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 31 May 2002 04:00, you wrote: > Hi, > Similar to how i setup my mdk8.1 machine to work with Japanese in KDE > etc I have now been trying to do the same on 8.2. However X either > crashes or the whole system crashes while starting X. If it does start > kinput does not work. > > I used the

Re: [expert] OpenOffice and libstdc++.so.4

2002-05-22 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:02, you wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 2002 07:06 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: > > I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm from cooker, > > but when trying to install it, it complains that it needs > > libstdc++.so.4. I have had a good look around, but haven't

Re: [expert] ps2pdf sorcery

2002-04-21 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 21 April 2002 12:48, you wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:26:02 -0500 > > Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any way to input multiple postscript files through ps2pdf and > > have them output to one pdf? the man page mentions nothing of this. > > > > Is there any other

[expert] experiences with K7T266 Pro2/K7T266 Pro2 RU

2002-03-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Hi everybody. I am thinking about upgrading my computer sometime shortly after 8.2 comes out. Right now I'm looking at MSI K7T266 pro2 or the pro2 RU. The RU version has on-board RAID which is a minus in my mind, but it also has USB 2.0 and I'm hoping that is a plus. Does anybody on the list