Re: [expert] OT: Databases

2001-03-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.18 Pupeno wrote: On Monday 19 March 2001 14:11, you wrote: I think MySQL (included with MDK 7.2, probably earlier releases also) would fit your needs, running on the local workstation. It is open source, free, and (from what I have been told) has pretty good performance. I cannot

Re: [expert] Helix-Gnome supports Mandrake! -- Official Word

2001-03-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.19 Benjamin Sher wrote: There are some bugs in helix-update that prevent us from releasing the most critical package (an updated gdm) through normal channels, so at this point it looks like we're waiting for Red Carpet to mature a bit more. In the meantime, the updated gdm package

Re: [expert] hi all

2001-03-18 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.18 Clint Olson wrote: --snip-- anyways the new nvidia drivers are cool ! i've just installed them to my 7.2 mandrake box and it's stable and fast. ---snip I agree. I don't know what everybody means about NVIDIA's Linux drivers being

Re: [expert] Wget as a mirroring utility

2001-02-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.26 Tom Eastman wrote: Hi there all, I'm currently using wget to mirror the Mandrake cooker ftp, but I was wondering... Wget has a lot of functions of a mirroring program, eg time-stamping and stuff, however, what it DOESN'T seem to do, is delete a local file that no longer exists

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.23 J . A . Magallon wrote: Then configure netatalk in the linux box to hang on the same AppleTalk network. Quoting to myself, there is a flag -zone "My zone" in /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf. -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mai

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.22 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am connecting my laptop into my work/university network which is dominated by windoze and some unices. There are a scattering of Macs around, including those in the lab I work in. I do not have a "name" for my computer - it is whatever IP address I get

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.24 Tom Strickland wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide slot. AFAIK, hdd is the slave in the SECOND ide channel... If fdisk says no response, then it is truly missing! how many

Re: [expert] rpm/deb files

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 Ted Wager wrote: Is there a way to view the contents of a .rpm and a .deb file as you can with a .tar file or a way to strip the .deb or rpm file down so as to see the contents without installing it ?? rpm -ql *.rpm, for an rpm. for a deb, i dunno... -- J.A. Magallon

Re: [expert] X and monitors - how to switch?

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 Neal Lippman wrote: I notice, for instance, that if you change the monitor on a Win system, you don't seem to need to worry - is that because Windows is better at PNP detecting the monitor and properly setting it up or because by default it uses such conservative settings that it

Re: [expert] ssh reverse mapping problem

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 Bug Hunter wrote: This is an indication that reverse dns does not work for user from ip address aa.bb.cc. try adding that ip address in /etc/hosts. that might help. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Svante Signell wrote: Shall I take this seriously? Which programs to check? Where to

Re: [expert] FW: RPM annoyance

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 Lou Baccari wrote: vvv only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM ^^ error: xfig-3.2.3c-3.i386.rpm cannot

Re: [expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 PBone wrote: I am trying to get temperature monitoring for my athlon/epox 8kta2/Mandrake 7.2 system. I have been to the lm_sensors site but the latest Mandrake rpms are for Mandrake 7.0. Is there an easy (ie rpm) way to install lm_sensors- (I have had low success rate trying

Re: [expert] FW: RPM annoyance

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 Altoine B. wrote: "J . A . Magallon" wrote: On 02.02 Lou Baccari wrote: vvv only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version

Re: [expert] An observation on this Mandrake list

2001-01-31 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 01.31 Simon Cousins wrote: What I'm seeing more and more, however, and what makes me a little sad and nostalgic for the pioneering days, is a general movement towards "complaining to the developers" 'cause something doesn't work to a user's full expectations. I don't think so. Apart

Re: [expert] rh6.1 to mandrake 7.2 makefile porting

2001-01-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 01.29 Stefano Perticoni wrote: Hi Assume makefiles are included by another in the main() dir. Also assume the RedHat makefile is correct couse it compiles. Perhaps it works (compiles), but you are using things that are messing up the compilation process and can break your Makefile even if

Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition

2001-01-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 01.26 David Dennis wrote: why take a chance your links or dot files will be missed with a mv or cp when tar gets it all and preserves everything 100% with one command ? just curious. 'cp -a' does it all right, I used it to change my drive and cloned all my system. It works ok with

Re: [expert] How dost one mount a Mac drive?

2001-01-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 01.23 Praedor Tempus wrote: How do I connect to and mount a Macintosh harddrive that is networked AND has filesharing enabled (and tcpip enabled)? In short: YOU CAN'T (afaik). You want this scenario: macs are servers, share their files, and you want to see them from the linux box.

Re: [expert]

2001-01-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.20 je gianopoulos wrote: subscribe expert Send this to 'majordomo@', not 'expert@.' -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ more beer Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac10 #1

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4 versus supermount

2001-01-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.19 Chris Spencer wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mogens [iso-8859-1] Jger wrote: Hey list. I am running a system with a dual Celleron, so I use the -smp- kernel. So far I can only use the 2.2.17.. because the pppd is NOT supported by the kernel, when I install the

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.0 and the reiserfs and supermount patches (and the mdk rpm)

2001-01-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.19 Jay Woods wrote: I had understood that the kernel wouldn't compile with gcc 2.96 but rather no later that 2.95 (according to Linus). ---Jay The only compiler that is granted to compile kernel 2.4 ok is egcs-1.1.2. It is guaranteed that it generates correct code. For 2.95.2,

Re: [expert] RPM updates

2001-01-18 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.18 Andrew George wrote: The gotcha is (of course there is one) that RPM dosn't handle dependancy problems that well and you can run the command and just get a screenfull of broken dependancy links thrown back at you for your trouble Especially when package conventions have

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.0 and the reiserfs and supermount patches (and the mdk rpm)

2001-01-18 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.18 Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: I entered the 2.4.0 src dir and did "make mrproper ; make xconfig ; make dep ; make modules ; make modules_install ; make bzImage", however, during make modules I got this error: snap In file included from

Re: [expert] RPM updates

2001-01-18 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.19 Mark Weaver wrote: So then it's better to do the -Uvh instead of the -Fvh? When moving from 7.2 to Cooker, yes. Once all your system is a mess^H^H^H^HCooker, -F will be usefull again. -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] arrrrgh!!! (/usr/sbin/update-alternatives)

2001-01-13 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.14 Tib wrote: This is getting frustrating I tried to update the bzip2 rpm, and this is what I get: [root@unica seq]# rpm -Uvh bzip2-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.0 is needed by ImageMagick-5.1.1-9mdk Now, I could not find a libbzip2

Re: [expert] Multiple video adapters

2001-01-09 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.09 Anthony Russello wrote: Has nyone ever set up multiple monitors under linux (using two separate video cards)? Would I be able to run a console on one screen, and an X session on another and be able to somehow switch between the two? Or will both monitors only be available

Re: [expert] Sounblaster PCI 128

2001-01-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.05 Richard Humphrey wrote: Someone just gave me a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Card and I was wondering if this card will work with Linux Mandrake? I am currently using v 7.2. Thanks Yes, fine. If the installer does not detect it automatically, try with es1371 or es1370 sound modules.

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.02 Larry Marshall wrote: Mandrake. By version 7 of anything things like print services should be stable, period. This is especially true if the features have been stable through the previous few versions and no increased facility is being provided by the change. Well, don't

Re: [expert] mkisofs

2000-12-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.28 Roger Sherman wrote: Prolly a bit OT, but I find I have to change most mp3 filenames...most of them are way too long to mess with if you do anything with them that involve a terminal... man mkisofs: - ISO cds allow up to 31 char names. But dos only reads 12 (8.3). So by

Re: [expert] Disappearing Gnome

2000-12-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.28 Traci Collins wrote: Hi! I have a perplexing problem with a Mandrake 7.2 installation. Everything seems to go well, I have installed both Gnome and KDE but always boot graphically to Gnome, until I have a reason to reboot. Obviously I can go some time without needing to do that

Re: [expert] Dialup Trouble...

2000-12-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.26 Mark Weaver wrote: That is correct ergo the reason for using chmod 4755. that way nromal users can access the file owned by root. -- .. On Tuesday 26 December 2000 05:02, you wrote: I believe you must be *root* to ifup or ifdown. Pj Hey all, I've just started

Re: [expert] Uh-oh. Helixcode has not exactly improved my Foot menu...

2000-12-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.23 Simon Cousins wrote: In a fit of Xmas Cheer I have installed Helixcode's GNOME over a box running a schweet 7.2 system, via the Lynx go-gnome technique. The GNOME foot menu is now a mess. Helixcode has created a bunch of duplicate and mostly redundant menus. The mdk

Re: [expert] Question about OpenSSL: RPM vs sources

2000-12-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.23 Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... These install a few binaries, two libraries (libssl.so and libcrypto.so), and documentation. Dynamic libraries, loaded at runtime. OpenSSL sources (version 0.9.6) ---

Re: [expert] cups not working properly

2000-12-21 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.21 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page and

Re: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.20 Rusty Carruth wrote: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? I have used 'cp -a' to clone a full mdk install. The only thing you have to do is a boot diskette to boot cloned system the fist time and re-run lilo. -- Juan Antonio

Re: [expert] Mandrake in production

2000-12-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.19 Scott Parks wrote: A guy who works for me tells me that Mandrake can not cut it when it comes to production web work and he favors, very strongly, Debian. Telling me that it is the strongest for production environments. I have been using Mandrake for several years and

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.19 Praedor Tempus wrote: I need javascript. The pages I am unable to use at my university are an ordering site for DNA sequencing - it uses javascript up the ying-yang. Not even the latest Mozilla can deal with it and Konqueror fails just as miserably. No error messages,

Re: [expert] Getting Mails from this list twice

2000-12-10 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:57:16 Jeff Malka wrote: We all are! And since the traffic on this list is voluminous, this makes it doubly voluminous. I wish someone would fix it. I am thinkin it has something to do with the headers in the mails. For example, this reply was done in balsa with

Re: [expert] Alsa and ES1688

2000-12-06 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:58:33 Dom Savage wrote: Hi all, got a problem getting my sound card working as it's in a laptop and it's not plug and play. It works fine with OSSFree, but I was trying to get the alsa modules from mdk 7.2 to work. So far everything works fine, as I can play audio

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 02:13:09 Ken Thompson wrote: SnipBad attempt. As in MDK 7.2, 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 can live together, the file named XF86Config is for 3.3.6, and XF86Config-4 for 4.0.1. So you should put your new file in place of -4Snip How in the world does a fella get 4.01 installed, or

Re: [expert] Hack Kernel - which version is it?

2000-12-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:39:21 Larry Tobos wrote: TRY uname -a it should print the name of the system, It just prints the name that the packager put in the kernel Makefile. And it usually is consistent with the name of the package. For example, take mandrake. Ship the 2.2.17 kernel. It

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:52:42 Balaji Ramani wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2000 12:24, you wrote: stephen boulet wrote: Yes, but it shouldn't really be necessary should it. I did a quick check and I didn't find very many -joy modules of any kind. cu;-) Spence The problem is that the

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:06:19 Stew Benedict wrote: You might try using alsactl: [...] You can then just add one line in rc.local - alsactl restore In 7.2 it is done automatically. See: Launch 'alsamixer' in a terminal. It is not very fancy, but works fine. Adjust your settings. Save

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 02:10:11 Tim Faehnle wrote: Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) It comes both with 3.3.6 and 4.0.1, that is the part that can be confusing you. install is

Re: [expert] Finding files based on date

2000-12-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 05:05:41 Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't work. At least in the form: find /etc/* -amin 8 Seems to return some files that have been created long ago. The actual files do seem to change with time. Example: [root@main postfix]# date

Re: [expert] ALCATEL ADSL-modem and linux

2000-12-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 23:51:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked the log and it said unable to establish a connection ppp0 -- /dec/pts/0 ^^ Check your pppoe config. That should be /dev/pts/0, i suppose... ^ -- Juan Antonio Magallon

Re: [expert] Finding files based on date

2000-12-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:34:45 Kelley Terry wrote: On Friday 01 December 2000 02:15 pm, you wrote: Question: how do I do a locate (whereis), based on date? What I want to do is display ALL files that have been created or modified SINCE a certain date.. like 2 days ago. man find. more

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:29:28 Tim Faehnle wrote: I would like to get my Viper 550 AGP working with Nvidia drivers, but I need to update XFree86. So, I installed XFree86 4.0.1 with the RPM included with the Mandrake disk (I used the "mandrake update" program or whatever it's called. I think

Re: [expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP

2000-11-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:28:50 root wrote: Thanks for your reply. I tried this but unfortunately isapnp does not scan the address I am using or in fact any of the other adrresses that my card can use(I guess my card is pre-proper isapnp). Your reply was a I don't know if that makes a

Re: [expert] URGENT:X-server produces a system breakdown.

2000-11-25 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 01:37:42 fabian wrote: Hello, I have a SiS 6326 video card in my system running LM 7.0. It was not very well configured, so I followed the advices posted in the newbie list. I added to the Section "Device" the "pci_burst_on" Option in the XF86Config. At

Re: [expert] soundcard problem...conflicting irq?

2000-11-25 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:31:57 praedor wrote: I have an AudioPCI es1371 card and a PCI 3com 3C900B card presently sharing an irq. The soundcard has worked fine in the past, no cricket noises, no problems. I have now found that the same problem occurs under windoze, which made me think

Re: [expert] soundcard problem...conflicting irq?

2000-11-25 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:53:30 Alan Shoemaker wrote: JAjust so you know, my Creative SB PCI128 uses an Ensoniq1370 chip which takes a different driver (es1370.o). -- Alan Mess of versions... -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta # cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] gdm

2000-11-25 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 01:48:21 alann wrote: But I got used to helix and to ME, gnome without it is lacking a lot of things in which I learned to do.. But what are you talking about ? 'Helix' is only the group of packages to run gnome,

ld.so+glibc22 [was Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate]

2000-11-24 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:30:15 Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Nov 23, 2000 at 09:13:46AM -0800, Jean Meloche wrote: If anyone did manage to download and install the ld.so that was briefly on updates, I would recommend downgrading to the release version of ld.so (ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk) or if you are

Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:38:42 BillK wrote: Used to have this on an old 486: the "Li" is actually a message saying "I got this far through the boot". There are fixes but I have not the time to search for them. Try "man 5 lilo.conf" for how to set the verbose flag for progress messages. I

Re: [expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:16:46 Tejinder Singh wrote: 2) Duplicate the contents if the existing drive on the new one. The new one may have extra partitions if the partitions on it are exactly the same size as on the old disk. 3) Take out the old disk, or maybe even leave it in there as an

Re: [expert] Upgrading glibc on MDK 7.2

2000-11-21 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:02:42 Jasenko Blazevic wrote: I did the same thing and upgraded to RehHat 7.0, it worked so well that i formatted the drive and installed Mandrake 7.2, don't do this, new glibc is so buggy, I couldn't compile and start any new application not to mention stability

RE: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:45:52 RaEl wrote: NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work fine. I'm playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at all. As far getting a V5500 I ask why? A

Re: [expert] Has anyone ever clustered Mandrake servers?

2000-11-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:11:47 James Little wrote: We have 4 identical poweredge Xeon 550 machines. They each have two network cards, and are on their own 10 port switch. The database we had them running has now moved to a single quad processor 733 machine. They're sitting there now with NT

Re: [expert] in which RPM can I find update-alternatives

2000-11-16 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:18:04 Jon wrote: update-alternatives). Now I'd like to know if anybody knows where I can find this binary or a RPM which includes this, or another way how I can get opensshd working again. werewolf:~ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/update-alternatives rpm-4.0-4mdk So I

Re: [expert] AMD motherboards

2000-11-16 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:46:29 Sridhar G wrote: Can anyone suggest me good Mb's for AMD 850 Socket A chip. Choose: http://www.via.com.tw/support/partnerskt133.htm -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta # cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] why does KDE change to user home for running apps ?

2000-11-13 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:13:44 Asheesh Laroia wrote: You could, alternatively: Boot up into runlevel 3 ("linux 3" at the lilo prompt) log in to Linux on a text console "xinit" At the XTerm you now see, cd to the dir you want and "startkde" Then minimize the XTerm. But if you launch

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

2000-11-13 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:18:30 pgeorges wrote: Tom Berkley a écrit : ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a* oops /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so@

Re: [expert] Removing Extraneous E-mail Header Information

2000-11-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 06:44:04 Arcana wrote: Hello! I want a program that will save large numbers of E-mails into one large file for the purpose of archiving messages from a Mailing List in my inbox and putting them on a web site in a Plain-Text format. Try:

Re: [expert] Cable Modem Connection 7.2

2000-11-10 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:00:06 Wayne Stout wrote: I had a few problems with my cable modem setup as well, but mine all turned out to be caused by me. I found that when I had set up the eth0 interface under linuxconf, I had specified a different IRQ than what the isapnp file was setting up. As

Re: [expert] Zip drives and supermount in MDK 7.2 does not work.

2000-11-09 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 20:26:42 Norman Carver wrote: Even without the icon, if you just cd into /mnt/zip in shell window, and then cd out or even close the shell window, pushing the eject button on the zip does nothing. I you can't spit the zip, try with 'lsof +D /mnt/zip' to see who has

Re: [expert] SMP

2000-11-06 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:38:13 Jeff Malka wrote: On mine too. Would not bootup that way till I changed lilo to boot to the up option. Maybe that is why it is not working correctly on my PC. Do you know how to force it not to load the smp kernel? Watch out for your motherboards. Some

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:32:38 Jason Straight wrote: I know this isn't Mandrake specific, at least I think not - but I tried to compile and run the 2.4.0test10 kernel (which I have compiled my own 2.4.0's from test3 without problems) and it get's to Uncompressing kernel ...ok booting linux

Re: [expert] Cannot Mount / (root) via NFS

2000-11-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:06:17 Jeremy Schaeffer wrote: Hi! I cannot seen to find anyone that can answer why I cannot mount / (root) via NFS on Mandrake 7.0/7.1. I have three 7.0 Machines, one with a 2.2.16 kernel , one with a recompiled kernel with CONFIG_ROOT_NFS turned on, one with the stock

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-11-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 04:11:06 Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: I am planning to set up a hub/switch. In that case do I need another eth card. Currently I have a win client connected to my server. Perhaps you don't. If you don't want to make an internal network, and just want to connect both

Re: [expert] VGA parameters at boot

2000-11-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:37:53 Marco Fioretti wrote: Hello, I am very interested in having my PC booting right into a high resolution mode, because I have a fixed frequency monitor. Right now I have runlevel 5, but this means that I cannot work in text mode, and that if some error message

Re: [expert] VGA parameters at boot

2000-11-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:48:53 Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Marco Fioretti am Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:41:16PM +0100: I have a fixed frequency monitor, so I have to be sure that the mode is right before doing that. What I was looking for is If I'm not totally wrong, the actual

Re: [expert] VGA parameters at boot

2000-11-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
Sorry, forgot the files. Here goes modeDB.txt, vbe3.pdf is too big, grab it at ftp://ftp.vesa.prg/pub/VBE/vbe3.pdf -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta # cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # more beer modeDB.txt.gz Keep in touch

[expert] Postfix with Cable

2000-11-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, everyone. A little question about postfix in mdk7.2. I have a modem-cable connection without a fixed IP, and want all my mail that has to go to outer world to be sent as coming from my address at my ISP "user@isp". I can send mail through my ISP smtp server, but From: name is that of the

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 04:29:12 Chris Spencer wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2000 19:57, you wrote: Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that Finding includes has nothing to do with PATH. are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing

Re: [expert] c++ standard header missing

2000-10-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:02:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #I check with webmin and kpackage to confirm this and my box have this package is this enaugh? or is there any more package i'm missing? - gcc-c++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm installed - libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm installed -

Re: [expert] c++ standard header missing

2000-10-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:48:59 Ronnie Whipp wrote: "J . A . Magallon" wrote: If this applies, use kpackage to uninstall ALL egcs packages. Then, from the 7.0 disk install the whole lot again. You have to do straight egcs first to avoid dependency problems. After this, MOVE the he

Re: [expert] HELP!!!! how do you give a user rights to stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?

2000-10-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:14:12 Larry Tobos wrote: How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user? man bash, look at option -r and info under section RESTRICTED SHELL. Make that user login shell bash -r. -- Juan

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-28 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:38:43 andy b wrote: ok... I bought 127 megs of ram to add to my 64 megs my bios recognises 192 megs... but Linux only recognises 64 (even if I only put in the 128 meg module) it would be nice to triply my ram... any ideas? Try booting with lilo: linux mem=192M If

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:20:49 Larry Marshall wrote: My question is: Is this a (stupid/simple) mistake from Mandrake, or it is done in purpose? For whatever reason, v7.1 doesn't come with the ANSI library stuff. You've found the library. Now you need the egsc++ tar that holds the

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:39:23 Austin L. Denyer wrote: I hate to compare Linux to Windoze (in general Linux rocks, Windoze quivers) but the 'add/remove programs' bit will automagically tell you if you need additional stuff in order to run an application (albeit only stuff on their CD) and

Re: [expert] WebCam device driver autoload

2000-10-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:52:51 Buchan Milne wrote: Ok conf.modules experts: First of all (don't want to be pedantic, just want to help...), if you use a recent modutils package, change all your stuff from conf.modules to modules.conf and delete the former. How do I auto load the driver for

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-15 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:53:36 Darin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running under LM 7.2 RC1 but I'm having a few problems. Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? The instructions on the nVidia site are cryptic at best. All I can get

[expert] Kernel 2.2.18 and GCC versions

2000-10-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, everybody. I have a little problem when compiling new kernels. Kernel 2.2.18-pre15 compiles fine under gcc-2.95.2. It is just plain 2.2.17 with Alan's patch to 18-pre15. I downloaded the gcc-2.96 rpms from rufus, and the compilation process breaks at: werewolf:/usr/src/linux# make bzImage