Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-09 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 09 November 2002 06:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work under linux? Same reason as other stuff: inadequate device driver support. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A train stops at a train

Re: [expert]

2002-11-08 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 08 November 2002 02:13 pm, Piero Piutti scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Time to buy a GeForce 4 MX 440... Skip the MX cards unless you don't have the money. And you _have_ to have an AGP card. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A train stops at a train station. A bus

Re: [expert]

2002-11-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:35 pm, Piero Piutti scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. The answer was no farther away than the README.Linux file found in your installation of

Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 03 November 2002 02:02 am, Todd Lyons scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: No room. Especially for a statically compiled binary. Build it statically and let me know how big it is (just curious, I don't actually have any say in it). Blue skies... The one used

Re: [expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?

2002-11-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 03 November 2002 10:00 pm, Igor Izyumin scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: but the scanner does not show up in the displayed list in drakconf. Are you trying to configure the scanner or modify scannerdrake to support a scanner it doesn't already? If you want the latter, I

[expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?

2002-11-03 Thread HoytDuff
How do I add a scanner to scannerdrake? In other words, where is the database file that the list shown in drakconf when you attempt to configure a scanner? ANd how do I get drakconf to recognize it? I added the appropriate line to /usr/share/ldetect-lst/usbtable: 0x04a9 0x2206 scanner

Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-01 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 01 November 2002 09:42 am, logic7 scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: MC is a command line tool. Doesn't need X at all. I make sure it's installed on every linux box I have primarily because of the editor. Yes, and a statically compiled version would be a nice addition to the

Re: [expert] Putting Mandrake 9.0 on a LAN for FTP installs

2002-11-01 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 31 October 2002 05:23 am, HoytDuff scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I would like to put the three CDs on my private FTP site to do local installations. I copied the contents of the first CD to a publically accessable directory and then added the RPMs from the second

[expert] Putting Mandrake 9.0 on a LAN for FTP installs

2002-10-31 Thread HoytDuff
I woudl like to put the three CDs on my private FTP site to do local installations. I copied the contents of the first CD to a publically accessable directory and then added the RPMs from the second and third CDs to the RPM directory. Obviously this was not correct sinec I can't install from

Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:54 am, D. R. Evans scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Ah! That wasn't the answer, but to find out what chip it uses (since it sure ain't obvious on the mobo) I went to the HP web site and there saw a reference to ProSavageDDR KM266 graphics. So I switched

Re: [expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, Jan Hendrik Mangold scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I am dying to not have to boot into XP anymore, so please throw me a bone here ... :) Try the newest Cooker kernel. I hear that it features ACPI support. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A

Re: [expert] Acomdata 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread HoytDuff
On Monday 21 October 2002 06:23 pm, Todd Lyons scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Larry Nguyen wrote on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:18:49PM -0500 : Thanks for the quick reply, Todd. I'm thinking of buying one. $99 at my local CompUSA store. It's USB 2.0 so it should work rite? Any

Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:26 pm, Barry Michels scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Well, Windows has a limit of 23 usable drive letters and I know of no way to mount an ISO to a directory like in Linux... Paragon CD Emulator. http://www.paragon-gmbh.com You have access to more than

Re: [expert] shareable mails kmail-evolution ?

2002-10-01 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:24 am, Randy Kramer scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Watch this page: Steatlh page, Randy? 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Remember that amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 (dolphin) and X configuration errors

2002-09-25 Thread HoytDuff
I'm using 9.0 (doplhin) with two Voodoo3 PCI cards. The auto X config during installation assigns an option of AGPMode true to the primary card -- it's a PCI card, not an AGP card. Aslo, the monitor for the second card is not detected at all. If I cut and paste the following lines from

Re: [expert] Bad signatures on 9.0rc3 RPMS?

2002-09-23 Thread HoytDuff
On Monday 23 September 2002 11:26 pm, PlugHead scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Is it just me? I'm seeing alot of things like: [root@jack-in etc]# urpmi chkrootkit The following packages have bad signatures: /mirror/sunet/cooker/RPMS2/chkrootkit-0.37-1mdk.i586.rpm Do you want to

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 07 September 2002 01:53 am, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Does anybody else here know how to use a sliderule? (or maybe I shoud say did.. been so long I've probably forgotten.) sliderule joke Yes, and I can even subtract on a sliderule. /sliderule

Re: Re[2]: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:18 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Hello Alastair, Saturday, September 07, 2002, 6:42:50 AM, you wrote: AS Considering DOS, I began with 5.25 floppy disks on IBM ATs, which were AS built like tanks - green screens, enormously

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 06 September 2002 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: ASR teletype These were very nice; wished I had one at the time to relace my Model 19. paper tape Chadless paper was a major improvement. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 06 September 2002 03:47 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Used to play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken Ken, I know the guy who wrote that one... it was

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 06 September 2002 04:40 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere. I guess I need to start looking... http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/f_dos.htm US$14.95 --

Re: [expert] X display resolution problem

2002-09-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:45 am, Tony S. Sykes scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: how can i change resolution of X to load linux?? that's all, see ya... http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/index.html That should provide some tools to troubleshoot the problem. --

Re: [expert] requests for update 8.0 to 9.?

2002-09-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 03:38 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I wouldn't recommend doing it as an upgrade from even 8.1 to 8.2 upgrades tend to cause more problems than they solve. However if your /home directory is on a separate partition. Then

Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages

2002-08-18 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:06 pm, Darren King scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and any messages that came up during the boot. When I boot

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 09 August 2002 04:09 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Fingers crossed for you. *grin* James Seems to be holding so far. 8) !!! Now I just need to apply the Win4Lin patches and do the same thing, Where did you stumble upon this bit of advice? And

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - Instability problem solved

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:50 am, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Don't know who to tell about this or where to place a bug report. It seems to be inherent in the kernel not Mandrake. I installed RH 7.3 and FreeBSD on partitions on this box and RH is even

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:44 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 03:48 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches the g++, gcc and cpp files. Did you try to symlink those two? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks.

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-09 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 09 August 2002 01:54 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I had to build a new kernel. Under character devices there is an option to build DRM with old (4.0) drivers (as apposed to the new 4.1 versions) It's sure worth a try. Everything else has failed

[expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff
How can I set the IRQ on a pci card? I have a conflict between an on-board ethernet device and a PCI soundcard: both want IRQ 5. I have attempted to use pirq=, but no luck there. Any advice? Thanks, Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:46 pm, et scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: do you have a cd or floppy that came with either the mother board, or the sound card? No. Sound card is a SoundBlaster with aCreative CT5880 can you move the sound card to a different slot on the

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:01 pm, Chuck Shirley scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: What about adjusting the irq of the onboard NIC in the manboard BIOS? The Tyan Tiger MP S2466 I am using does not have such an option. 8( Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - some error messages

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:36 pm, Jose M. Sanchez scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: When there is a conflict, it is because both slots share the same signaling lines to the CPU. If you change one in the bios, you change the other as well. He'll need to move one of the devices

[expert] Weird X crashes

2002-08-02 Thread HoytDuff
I am experiencing very weird X crashes. Here is my .xsessions-error file. Can anyone point me in the right directoion ofr more debugging? 10 DCOPServer up and running. Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 20 25 30 36 41 47 52 58 63 69 75 80 85 90 ICE default IO error handler