On Monday 02 December 2002 07:48 pm, Paul Fotheringham scribbled in crayon on
a yellow legal pad:
The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that
Would that be Multi Processor Specification?
http://www.uruk.org/~erich/mps.html
It seems like an APIC issue. I had
On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow
legal pad:
1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of
them up to use the same urpmi sources.
But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or
directory that I can
There has been a recent release of an improved freetype2. The announcement is
at: http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/announce/2002-November/17.html
The Cooker package seems to apply to Mandrake 9.0 without problems. I modified
it to enable the bytecode interpreter and it looks very nice.
On Monday 18 November 2002 09:03 am, Jim Tarvid scribbled in crayon on a
yellow legal pad:
Of course, but it does explain why amounts charged vary slightly from
amounts posted on the web site. Obviously this bothers some people.
As it should.
I don't know an easy fix other than to route US
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 09:35 pm, you wrote:
I'm not disabled (unless stupidity counts :) ), but back when I used
Windows I found a particular piece of their Accessibility Tools to be very
useful. This 'feature' would make a beep with the PC speaker whenever I hit
the Num Lock, Caps
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:23 am, you wrote:
try starting from a terminal window and see
what output is said when it dies.
more server delete your ~/.kde
directory. (while not running kde)
Perhaps just the knoqueror part
This will mean you have to reset up everything
so only do after
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:38 pm, you wrote:
This has been a real blast. I've got total latitude on the desktop, plus
I can mooch the apps from whatever environment has the best one. Abiword
is a gtk app (I think) that I use also, more often that kword.
Just for information,
How do I get cut and paste from other desktop apps to work with AbiWord? In
other words, If I want to cut a url from Konqueror or the text in an xterm
and paste it an AbiWord document, how do I do it? Highlighted text will not
paste into the document.
I didn't see anything in the AbiWord docs
I have the following messages in the syslog:
Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp
memory: 691M
Feb 7 02:52:13 marvin kernel: agpgart: Unsupported AMD chipset (device id:
700e),
On Friday 08 February 2002 11:52 am, you wrote:
add options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
to /etc/modules.conf
Regards,
Onur Kucuk
Thanks, Onur.
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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:08 pm, you wrote:
Thanks for the replies re: PCAnywhere. Will check out Wine and see if it
works.
Next question: I just installed 8.2beta on a machine. Where is HDPARM?
Isn't that a program that comes with the kernel?
IIRC, that has an rpm all its own
Where are the settibgs kept for Konqueror that relate to:
1. The items available from the drop-down menus (Location, Edit, View, etc.)
2. The settings for the Terminal Emulator.
3. Is there a written reference to these and related settings?
I've looked and must be looking in the wrong place.
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:42 pm, you wrote:
And so it goes... the
problem isn't with the office suites, it's the specialized apps that are
going to give you troubles.
Which is why Win4Lin is busy developing its application server Tarantella
that is supposed to deliver any app from any
On Monday 17 December 2001 10:56 am, you wrote:
At 11:47 AM 12/17/2001 -0300, Alexander Arzberger wrote:
Hi,
how can I play WMA (Windows Media Audio) files in Linux.?
Also, I was looking for a converter, without success.
Alex
I think WMA is a Microsoft proprietary format. If it is,
On Saturday 15 December 2001 01:55 pm, you wrote:
Is removing StarOffice a simple matter of just removing /usr/local/office52
(which is where I installed it), or does the installer do other things
behind the scenes that need to be undone as well? Maybe a /uninstall
option or something?
You
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 10:14 pm, Ashada Karunaratna wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to compress a file( zip, tar, etc.) into multiple
diskettes such that we can uncompress it in Windows.
Ashada
Look at zipsplit.
It should create diskettes that can be re-combined with zip on a Windows
On Friday 14 December 2001 03:40 pm, you wrote:
2.) I find when you download a rpm file from the internet and want to
install it, it won't let you install it because of some error with db3
stuff..
You get that error when you try to install software as a regular user.
You should be root
On Friday 14 December 2001 06:18 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 14 December 2001 06:10 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
Time to move past socket 7. I
Is everyone getting new mobos for Christmas? 8)
Hoyt
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On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:33 pm, you wrote:
I've got an old Toshiba portege that lacks both a network adapter and a
CD-ROM drive. I'm considering putting LM on. Which option do people think
will be easiest with Mandrake?
1) Installing it via PLIP through the parallel port?
2)
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:35 am, you wrote:
Hi everybody!
I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop compap presario 1200,
apparently successfully. However, the kapm-idled is consuming 80% of my
CPU!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
It's not a problem --
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:49 pm, you wrote:
I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe
I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any
recommendations? The more PCI slots, the better. But, I want a board
that's 100% Linux compatible - I
On Sunday 09 December 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote:
El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió:
The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the
time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a
straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:52 am, you wrote:
DOS FDISK /MBR writes a brand new boot sector, nothing more, nothing
less. It doesn't know anything about anything other than writing a new
boot sector. The new boot sector on subsequent boots will shift control
to the active partition by
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote:
I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user,
only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership
but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute
it. Anyone
On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote:
What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something
about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with
something. Also, I had to change the permissions of the bin file in
order to run it.
That installs the
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:00 pm, you wrote:
BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer!
Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word
processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the
presentation software).
All I use is the word processor and
Has anybody gotten the Linux binaries runing?
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 with a Matrox G450 and the Matrox (not Mandrake)
drivers for it.
I get this error message:
...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or
current dir: /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/libGL.so: cannot
On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:38 am, you wrote:
.
I know I can see the X display using vnc, but, There are another option?
Look at xmove.
http://www.ensta.fr/internet/unix/misc/xmove.html
Hoyt
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On Tuesday 04 December 2001 07:05 pm, you wrote:
Hi All,
we are looking for help to test
the new version of our agent in Mandrake Linux machines.
We are wiling to give free licenses to
those who help us during this phase.
Thankful in advance,
Andre Fonseca
Work: (408) 725 7141
Mobile:
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 06:35 pm, you wrote:
Hi Hoyt,
The agent is a small file which collects performance-related data
directly from the O/S kernel and sends it, via the internet, to our
backend. Even though we have supported Linux for some time, we would
like to evaluate the agent on
On Friday 30 November 2001 10:12, you wrote:
Hi Tom, Thank you very much.
I'm quite familiar to some notes that you emphasised. I also well
know how bad are Asus becoming. Soyo-K7V (Dragon+ I think) is my first
option but here it is not easy to find (and I'm not question about
On Friday 30 November 2001 17:21, you wrote:
Well, I can now confirm that KDE/X crashes on more than one system...
just experienced yet another crash just as I do a left mouse click. This
has happened 5.-6 times on my main desktop and once on a remote system
that I use when away from home.
On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:32, you wrote:
I've got this from the list history, worked fine here:
When I try mounting it says /dev/fd0 is not a block device. I was able to
solve this by appending nobiospnp to the kernel boot parameter.
This worked for me as well, but _why_ does it
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:30, you wrote:
Ok - how do I uninstall Mozilla? I'm pretty much a newbie at this.
Fisrt, get a large hammer . . .
No, that's not right.
# urpme mozilla
should do it
Hoyt
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I get the following miscellaneous error messages in Mandrake 8.1:
Nov 26 10:56:21 wind devfsd[80]: error calling: unlink in GLOBAL
I found an earlier post about this on the cooker list (25 Sep 2001), but no
reply.
Nov 26 10:56:43 wind kernel: mtrr: base(0xde00) is not
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 13:17, you wrote:
Hi!
Thank you very much for your attention.
So, since I didn't buy anithing what mobo should I buy to run
Athlon 1.4/266 with DDR Mem and ATA100.
Is there anyone running GA-7VTXE?
Some mobos are quite hard to be find
On Monday 26 November 2001 18:07, you wrote:
Hi people,
Is there someone using MDK 8.0 and/or MDK 8.1 with Asus mobo A7A
(Ali chipset) and/or A7M (AMD chipset)? I intend to mount a Athlon 1.4
with DDR memory and I want to be sure it will work fine. I would use a
RIVA TNT graphic card
On Monday 26 November 2001 21:28, you wrote:
try mandrake 7.1... Just correct the script typo on logrotate and you have
something light and solid and the latest update kernel for it works fine,
and so does the latest apache.
Just curious - Why 7.1 instead of 7.2?
Hoyt
Want to buy
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 23:45, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
The problem is not with the ALiMagik or Via chipsets at all!
It's with the brain damaged Winbond Clock chip used on almost all Via
and ALiMagik motherboards.
YECCH!
Thanks for the info.
Your only recourse is to disable this error
I'm using an ASUS A7A266 mobo with an ALi M1647 South Bridge, yet I get the
error message:
probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686A
motherboard
Is there a bug in the ALi M1647 South Bridge as well? If so, it goes back to
the store.
Hoyt
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Has anyone sucessfully used USB storage devices (both hard drives and ZIP
drives -- as well as that cool little key fob device) with Mandrake 8.1?
If so, did you have to do anything special to get them working?
Thanks,
Hoyt
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On Thursday 15 November 2001 06:20 pm, you wrote:
If you find that you need append=quiet back into lilo.conf, I think
only white space is needed.
What does quiet do?
It it still useful to use
ide0=0x1f0
and
floppy=daring
with Mandrake (both are suppose to force the use of faster ide
On Monday 12 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote:
Harold Hartley wrote:
I was wondering if anyone on this list could point me to more info about
how to get a windows app ( a ham radio program winaprs) to work under
wine.. The winaprs has all its own files so I don't need to worry about
any
dont forget there's also the product from netraverse, win4lin, much lower
cost than vmware, but with disadvantage, of the kernel patches being a
long way behind the current kernels
A long way? I don't think so.
There is a kernel available as a drop-in-replacement for the stock Mandrake
On Thursday 25 October 2001 07:20 am, you wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've checked the archives and I fear there may be no answer to this.
I'm trying to install 8.1 on a 40mb ram laptop. As has been stated in the
past, ramdisk fails and the installation dies shortly after level 2 (just
after drakX but
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 06:41 pm, you wrote:
Anyone can tell me how can i create the device /dev/scd0
or...scd1or ...i delete it by mistake :-(
The file /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/Documentation/devices.txt will list the major
and minor device numbers for character and block devices.
On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:50 pm, you wrote:
KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP
More info I found about it:
http://bugs.kde.org/db/31/31758-b.html#m5
Deleting the .DCOPserver_* files solves this Problem only temporary. is
correct.
I am, however, not using an NFS mount like the bug
I am not able to launch Konqueror and get this message:
KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP
So, what's broken? How do I fix it?
Hoyt
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I kept my old /home directory and re-installed Mandrake 8.1.
All my kmail filter settings were lost. Most other settings seem to have been
kept.
Why did that happen? What can I do to stop it from happening next time?
Hoyt
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I'm using 8.1 and a Matrox G450 with X configured for independent displays.
While display :0.0 is fine, display :0.1 presents the fonts as scrambled (it
looks like the bitmaps are just random data). The display is unusable and
drop-down menus all contain the scrambled fonts, so it's
On Sunday 30 September 2001 08:25 am, you wrote:
El Dom 30 Sep 2001 13:54, Hoyt Duff se atrevió a decir:
I kept my old /home directory and re-installed Mandrake 8.1.
All my kmail filter settings were lost. Most other settings seem to have
been kept.
Why did that happen? What can I do
I am unable to use ispell in Kmail, receiving the error Ispell cannot be
started; it suggests a configuration problem or a path problem.
[hoyt@wind hoyt]$ whereis ispell
ispell: /usr/bin/ispell /usr/lib/ispell /usr/share/man/man1/ispell.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man4/ispell.4.bz2
[hoyt@wind
On Sunday 30 September 2001 09:40 am, you wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 08:00:10 -0400
Hoyt Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using 8.1 and a Matrox G450 with X configured for independent
displays.
While display :0.0 is fine, display :0.1 presents the fonts as scrambled
(it looks like
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