Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:36, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 6:31 am, Jack Coates wrote: Well, I found that the problem is not with the sound card, thanks to you guys. Bjorn gave me a tip in the options cs4232 line with the mpuirq=10, and I got it up and running

Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:50, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Your sound system is virtually identical to mine. I have also installed aumix and maxed out all the sliders. All I can say is that when I use 2.4.21 kernels, sound works flawlessly. If

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use just grows and grows (slow but

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:41, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 9:22 am, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:50, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs

Re: [expert] java in my path?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:16, Michael Holt wrote: Hey, I need to know where to go to add the java binary to my path - who do I modify? just you: edit ~/.bash_profile JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/ export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin everyone -- edit /etc/profile and add the same. --

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:57, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 08:29 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Now I'll have to beat the Sparenberg drum - this clearly deserves a bug report. I can't do it yet, since I've just ordered my 9.2 boxed set, and don't have 9.2 installed on any

[expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks okay... but . is effectively in my path!! I discovered this

Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
so, it sounds like you don't intend to use automount... you've got automount daemon installed, probably from urpmi'ing something else that brought it in as a dependency. Since the config file is the default, it's got bad information in it. service automount stop chkconfig automount off On Mon,

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:59, Eric Huff wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbi n/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/loca

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:31, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:32, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . is effectively in my path!! I see the same on 9.2rc2 :^P should be bugged as a security flaw IMO Interesting... this was an rc2 system that I upgraded

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... This is because of the :: that appears about 2/3 of the way into the $PATH - this is the functional equivalent of :.: ... and that is a Bad Thing to have in there, as you know. ah-hah -- missed that. I'd suggest hunting through the

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:42, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I can safely say that this is not set in any file in /etc/*. Since it isn't there (:: in path) for root, but only for user, I suspect it is somewhere in $HOME (?). praedor I

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:16, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This brings me to the maddening thing about linux over the last year or two. There used to be two files (as I recall) within which PATH was set: /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile. Now

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:21, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not. It's not that big a deal I suppose, but it's

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:35, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 11:14 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was it. Thank you. /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc contains: SystemPath=/usr//bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote: ... if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a no

Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
It's fixed now. I updated all the KDE stuff, ran updatemenus -v as root, and ran menudrake as the affected user, then chose save. It took a few minutes to take, and it may not have been until the next time I installed an RPM. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu,

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:01, Bill wrote: That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make things a little screwy. yeah, it'll basically just round robin. An additional wrinkle is that

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:13, R N dev wrote: hi, i've just upgraded my mdk 9.1. At the end of installation i had this error during lilo installation: lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO (dev 0x1600): invalid argument and i didn't find any way to install lilo so I decided to

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 14:04, R N dev wrote: Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno why, but grub isn't bad so I'm not complaining too loudly. Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be nice to give feedbacks yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student

Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] shore wall

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Jack Coates at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... You'll work

[expert] Evolution auto-signatures

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
Anyone mess with Evo's script signatures? It's formatting badly, as so: -- Jack Coates at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... As I went down to Glasgow city, just to see what I might spy, what should I see but Nancy Whiskey, a playful twinkle in her eye... I bought her a drink I

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
, checkbox, radiobox, etc.. If dialog is cumbersome but you do like the interactivity, take a look at the newt package. It has some very easy ways of generating similar menus. but if you learn dialog, then you can readily port the same script to xdialog, which is keen :-) -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] Evolution auto-signatures

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:09, Michael Holt wrote: ... echo /pre ba-da-boom. thanks! -- Jack Coates at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... Remember that fell evening when you heard the banshee's howl, there was lazy drunken bastards singing 'Benny and the Belle.' They brought you

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
I have three production Shorewall installs, two of which are on 9.2. If it was broken, I wouldn't have been online for the last month :-) I'll buy that Webmin's configuration of Shorewall is broken, or that drakfw's configuration is broken, but 9.2's Shorewall is just fine. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at

Re: [expert] Setting sb.o to use IRQ 5

2003-11-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 18:50, Rob Blomquist wrote: On my Dell Inspiron 3200 I can use sb.o as my sound driver if I can point it at IRQ 5. How can I do that? You can pass options when you modprobe it, and if they work then put them into /etc/modules.conf. In theory this shouldn't be necessary

Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
which does help with basic desktop networking. It's running a server on it that makes the problem :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
was really bored at work :-) LOL :) Cool. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
that aren't on any BL is broken behavior. Well thanks everyone for all the info -- I've definitely learned some stuff (including that I need to do some studying!:) ) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
in. Failing that, an off-hand comment about how their email system doesn't seem to accept mail from your home address and see if they'll introduce you to the sysadmin. Point of contact may not need to know that it's widely broken, the sysadmin can help them to that knowledge. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:56, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:47, Jack Coates wrote: you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. LOL I'm working on the 'NMCI' project in Bremerton, WA right now - the 'Naval Marine Corps Intranet'. I

Re: [expert] Sarg

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] a stuck postfix

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
. -- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:26, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:51, Jack Coates wrote: Cisco routers are actually very dumb. If the router or a regular firewall is blocking the mail, then the three way TCP handshake will never complete. If a proxy-using firewall (Raptor

RE: [expert] Sarg

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
.. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:26 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Sarg I'm going to try real hard not to be sarcastic... failed. oh well. Maybe because your squid log isn't in that location

Re: [expert] Squid Proxy

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
of the original __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

RE: [expert] Squid Proxy

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto

RE: [expert] Squid Proxy

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:38 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Squid Proxy as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
be pleasantly suprised at the growth that's happened since then. There are some newbie-unfriendly rough edges in Mandrake, but overall it's an ideal power-user's desktop or server. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
that situation, too, even though that doesn't fully explain that server's rather eccentric behavior. HTH! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
, you can change a score from 6 to 8 just by using \r\n line endings instead of \n and inserting spaces between Name and email in the To and From headers... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [newbie] Register programs in MDK 9.1 - Mozilla?

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Coates
? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] firebird / evolution new session

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
this attached script as your default browser instead -- it opens new tabs if there's already a browser open, or opens a new browser if necessary. Set up for Mozilla now, but making it work with Firebird or whatever would be fairly simple from the examples. Thanks to Ciff Wells, who wrote it. -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
expectation :-) I apologize for your time spent reading this, Stef __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
! ... reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 1 (3252 octets) fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
to mdk9.2 here soon - just waiting to make sure enough release bugs are squashed :) Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Jason Thanks so much for your help! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:16, Michael Holt wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:38, Jack Coates wrote: Try watching a mail session with ethereal sometime... it's just telnet to port 25, though a server is faster and has fewer typos than a human. You can send mails though, -- I posted an example

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
listed in their zone, they're self-blackholed. My guess is they're whitelisting, which IMHO is The Beginning Of The End. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:49, Michael Holt wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:34, Jack Coates wrote: Their server won't accept connections from anything that I have access too, and I have access to some pretty high traffic (and legit :-) mail servers -- I don't see how they can get mail from

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
, but it doesn't act like any real world mailserver I've ever seen. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Jack Coates
that no one else got it because two hours later someone else gave a similar answer and continued the thread. You guys will probably get mine in about four days... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
. On Tuesday 11 November 2003 00:55, Jack Coates wrote: try rpm -e --nodeps suspend-scripts. On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:45, Mofeed Shahin wrote: reply-to still a problem. Yeah must be something I've done with kmail. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28

Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 8:10 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type pkill gpilotd -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:42, Michael Holt wrote: Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
-install the loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off. Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different things? Thanks though, it works now! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
still need to hit the 'ok' button each time. I just want it to start silently in the background. I can't seem to find any documentation that covers what I want it to do. What I gave you is what you need. Did you try it and have it not work? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] Modem for Mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
winmodems.. there are mandrake rpm's available for them off the net. rgds Franki -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:14, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:57, Jack Coates wrote: no it isn't, that's the control panel applet, which happens to start gpilotd for you if it isn't already running. Just run gpilotd from a startup script. Ok, if I do 'which gpilotd' it's

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
from postfix via this myorigin setting? something else is wrong with your posting problems, but setting myorigin to yahoo.com is a Bad Idea(TM). Put it back, and edit /etc/postfix/aliases to point [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a valid email. praedor -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:02, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:13, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# urpmf gpilotd libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2.1.0 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
, looks like I'll have to stick with 9.1 until I can work out what is going on here!! Mof. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] Crashes during libgl initialization

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
something lighter, so as not to tax the video and processor so much. Rob Light weight window managers get pretty idiosyncratic (in fact, I even know someone who uses ratpoison :-) Have a look at XFce, IceWM, WindowMaker, blackbox. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to huh ?? (page times out) sorry, a power line snapped on our street and power's been out for thirteen hours. That page explains why setting your reply

Re: [expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
if any web stuff, and my log files are tiny - the other day they were over a megabyte. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:22, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:28, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
Winders flavor). More complex, more failure-prone, they love it. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
oh yeah, and if ftpmirror doesn't do it for you, man ncftpput or ncftpget (depending on direction of course). For bonus points, here's incremental support once you've sync'ed the tree: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/tools/backups -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
all arcade all the time instead of the educational software available under other platforms. So the compromise is turning out to be a OS X Mac to sit next to the Linux box. I refused to administer another Windows box. Put that in your pipe and smoke it :-) ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
the lid quickly, and it still locks up. The laptop worked fine under 9.1, if that helps... Mof. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] Problems, dma_intr, crc errors, crashing

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically doesn't work on modern laptops. ... that's actually not a fair comment, I should actually state

Re: [expert] Problems, dma_intr, crc errors, crashing

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
://www.freedom2surf.net/ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Problems, dma_intr, crc errors, crashing

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: motherboard. I haven't done much troubleshooting of that sourt of problem, but one thing you might try is some less aggressive settings in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks. Jack thanks a lot

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
). grep -r shows that pmsuspend isn't being called from anything in /etc... oh for crying out loud... acpid needs to be restarted. service acpid restart. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-07 Thread Jack Coates
, Stef ftp? why not use IPX too as long as we're talking dead tech. Anyway, freshmeat for ftpmirror. The real answer is rsync. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Laptop X/different configs

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
? Paul ... Ah, just occurred to me that MDK probably only puts one modeline in. You'll need modelines for all the resolutions you want to run for that trick to work, and you'll also need to check that DontZoom is disabled in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: ServerFlags -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
with postfix in the first place or gone to exim. (No, sendmail is not an option). Architecture, license, support community, and ease of installation/management have to be considered along with security track record. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] programms disapearing..

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Where to go from here...

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
and requests a good citizen effort to help with debugging. If you're okay with those, go with cooker. If not, stay on 9.2 and wait for the release, then debug that. cutting edge == buggy. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
tKZxRkF3Ixg55x6kbf2By/g= =yG6x -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy

Re: [expert] sound in 9.2

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:43, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Jack Coates wrote: You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an actual problem, but here goes :-) Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since installing/upgrading to 9.2? I have two systems

Re: [expert] sound in 9.2

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:43, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Jack Coates wrote: You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an actual problem, but here goes :-) Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since

Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:21, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Nov 2003 at 10:49, Jack Coates wrote: based on these scans and the vger results, I don't think postfix is misconfigured at all; the attacker is logging in and sending those mails from

Re: [expert] programms disapearing..

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] Konq/Moz Crash during Web Browse.

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) What could I do to explore this crash, or is there enough of an answer here? Rob -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
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Re: [expert] KGet is driving me crazy!!!!

2003-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
. I've never understood the desire for a download manager, except for modem users. Whatever. I don't use Konq much, but I'd imagine that right-clicking a link and choosing save-as would do the job. Rob -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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