[expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
test I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
All was fine for a while. I run postfix, procmail, and fetchmail on my local box (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I was able to send emails without problem to myself, to the list, wherever. Now, all I get are deferred messages and timeouts on any smtp server I try to connect to...or nameserver

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
A little more info from my syslog, showing what happens when I try a test message to myself (to my yahoo account): Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3396]: 208C882E: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=3849, status=deferred (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[66.218.86.253]: Network is

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Jumping in late, I want to reiterate that you must remove MesaGL rpms if they are installed. They will dork up your nvidia. praedor --- R N dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an idea of what to look at, feel free ;-) Only to try: do you have alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia into

Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I actually have now tried and failed to build kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker). I upgraded kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel. No go. First off, xconfig doesn't work so I had to go with menuconfig (no problem with

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have run into this insanely annoying behavior before too. I have LOTS of hdd space but I did not give /tmp it's own multigigabyte partition, just an unreasonably large 800 MBs. I download to /usr/local/download, period. It exists on my system for downloads because it has LOTS of space

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Question...I have built/tried the 2.4.21-0.17mm-mdk kernel and found it to be too slow for most activities. Perhaps it is great for multimedia but anything else... Is the previous version -0.16mdkmm somehow superior to -0.17mm-mdk? --- Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB) and you would be set for all 2D and DVD viewing. It seems

[expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1

2003-07-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but I have no sound and it looks to be a libSDL issue of

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with

[expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
supermount doesn't cause any problems? praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor In fstab

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you trying to use a frame buffer? vga=normal? On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build

Re: [expert] Newsflash: Gentoo has forked.

2003-06-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
Didn't gentoo itself derive from a fork (of Sorcerer) some year or so ago? praedor --- Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo has been one of MDK's greatest competitors so far, maintaining fourth place at Distrowatch.com right behind Red Hat. Mandrake of course has almost

Re: [expert] Multimedia-Kernel

2003-06-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
I tried the mm kernel and then went back to the regular kernel (built from source with some of the grsecurity features enabled). The mm kernel is slower than the rgular kernel for most non-mm stuff, so unless you do a lot of mm work, it isn't worth the switch. praedor --- KevinO [EMAIL

Re: [expert] [OT] Open/StarOffice and MS-office

2003-06-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
Then, in OO at least, it should be possible to disable this disabled import (re-enable unprotected import of pword m$ docs). --- Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.hos.horizon.ie/staroffice/techfaq.html#1q21 22. Q. Why can I not import password protected MS

Re: [expert] Failed compilation of kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm

2003-06-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
When KDE was young (1.x to 2.0 days) I would rebuild the KDE source rpms without problems. Since late in the 2.x and into the 3.x versions I have given up on rebuilding the rpms. Somewhere along the line the complexity and just plain difficulty of getting the rpms to build got to be too much. I

[expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support the chip but...in any

[expert] Lyx for Mandrake 9.0 with QT UI

2003-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried posting this to the list yesterday but it never appeared in the list(?). If any of you are lyx users you may appreciate the Qt frontend in place of the ugly/clunky xforms frontend. An individual in the lyx-users list has produced a

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem - resolved in OO

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I submitted a bug report to openoffice.org about this problem and it has now been resolved in the latest build. There was a bug in the code that allowed for/created an empty OLE object on one of the slides and this prevented the export. It has

Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade failure :(

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 February 2003 08:14 am, stefmit wrote: [...] busybox: unresolved symbol drop_super_Rc64cc0dd4 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k reiserfs, errno=2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k freereiserfs, errno=2 kernel panic: no

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:41 am, SainTiss wrote: I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-04 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
happens to be quite quick with responses (usually), thus I made use of the best resource I had available. praedor On Monday 03 February 2003 09:39 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 04:06 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus

[expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output error. Is there some limitation/issue with these packages

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:08 am, Thomas Sourmail wrote: with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems

[expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help fast. Anyone with

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Hell's

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
Zirin wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:59, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
. On Monday 03 February 2003 04:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-02-02 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:47 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 [...] I haven't been able to successfully build KDE sources since somewhere

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is WAY offtopic and would be better suited for an alt.* newsgroup. As a US Desert Storm veteran and now reservist, I think I can speak for EVERYONE that Bush is an idiot, in fact, he truly is the most ignorant, ill-educated president that the

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:08 am, tarvid wrote: I like my horse, even though he is over 30 now. 30?! Wow. What kind of horse is he? Have you retired him to pasture grazing or do you actually still ride him? - -- Conservatives of all

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:27 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:36 -0600, Chuck Burns wrote: FACT: The French have oil contracts with Iraq. Aha! Now we are seeing some real beef. The French have and the US have not?

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:35 am, tarvid wrote: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:07 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:08 am, tarvid wrote: I like my horse

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:53 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:38, Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 29 2003 8:32 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *snip* Yes, I know that one and I just love it. It's a very good example

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:29 am, Franki wrote: 3. Oil, I don't recall hearing that the Oil fields that the US liberated in Desert storm are now owned by the US did I miss some important news flyer here??? who is running Kuwait now??? I wasn't aware it was the No oil fields were

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:46 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I beg your all pardon but I could not keep my fingers away from the keyboard after such a stupid things written below. [...] Pardon Praedor, but I could not help myself

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:57 am, Alfredo C. López wrote: El Mié 29 Ene 2003 11:54, Chuck Burns escribió: We never SIGNED kyoto, because it was nothing more than a ploy to LOOK GOOD to ecologists. The WORST polluting countries are the 3rd

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:23 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] Last polls in USA show that nearly half of the American people don't want war against Iraq in any case. In Germany our chancellor wouldn't get away with

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish you people would quit cluttering my mailbox with all this crap. There are other lists where this would be appropriate. Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. first of all...

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar...

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:45 pm, Franki wrote: [...] believe it or not.. often a dictator is better economically then a democracy (at least initially).. simply because the leader need not worry about public opinion.. but that certainly

Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:13 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:57:31 + Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AT LEAST TAKE IT OFF THIS LIST. Agreed!!! Thankfully using claws I can set an ignore flag. What is

Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:26 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:06:42 -0500 Praedor Tempus Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is claws? sylpheed-claws, a damn great email program. Ah. I know of sylpheed and have

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? Last word for me on this topic

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:14 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: of US citizens with contrary views to those of the court-appointed US president and his apologists - I count

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:24 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: I've been attempting to set up an enviroment that will let a user use sftp, but not allow them to 'walk' the rest of the system. I've tried _numerous_ different variations (created a

Re: [expert] OT crap about Iraq, etc

2003-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For my part I apologize for letting myself getting involved and helping to stretch this stupid thread beyond its useful lifetime. In order to prevent getting bumped off the list, I promise to hold my keys and respond never again to any portion of

Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question

2003-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
? Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: Some of what I have found with regards to messages like: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01100112 [...] Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many with 2.4.19 (and higher) kernels? I encountered this problem with Mandrake

Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question

2003-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:03 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I am curious as to Which OS Version you encountered this? [...] Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many

Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question

2003-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:31 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: [...] Are you indicating that 9.0 doesn't support anything other than ext2 or ext3? If so, Where's the BEEF? Do you have any Documentation available

Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Monday 27 January 2003 11:08 am, JP wrote: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What. The. F*CK?!!! please grow up, and let me know when you succeeded so i can stop filtering the crap you send to this ml. Offended by !@##!@ F*CK are we? How about s;lolnoneoitjn;ongponre? --

[expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
Some of what I have found with regards to messages like: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01100112 is that it is thought to be related to memory/cache problems. Does anyone know one way or another? I have been running memtest86 for over an hour on the problem system

Re: [expert] Yenta Socket and Compaq Laptops

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
On Monday 27 January 2003 12:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Nothing like talking to oneself here *grin*. I think I've tracked the blocking down to hotplug.. Seems that there is a device that exists in newer compaq desktops at /dev/compaq/cpqphp. This of course doesn't exist in a 2 year old

Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 January 2003 01:43 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: What is wrong?! Why? Why!? WHY!? I REALLY need wireless to work for me to get work done. Anyone have anything to offer? A sledgehammer for both my

[expert] X forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am extremely new to x forwarding. I can x forward certain apps like gkrellm, staroffice, and several other self-contained apps (over wlan). Is it possible to x forward opengl apps? Can one x forward (via ssh) glxgears? An opengl game? It

Re: [expert] X forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 January 2003 05:02 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I don't seem to have any problem running KDE apps in remote X windows. Usually I ssh in rather than telnet. What kind of errors are you seeing? Can you post the output of

[expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?

2003-01-22 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use it. Anyway, I would like to add

Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?

2003-01-22 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely

Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?

2003-01-22 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 04:16 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote

Re: [expert] wireless cards

2003-01-20 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 January 2003 07:47 pm, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 06:21 am, KevinO wrote: I just want to be able to get a connection without having to pay $20 a day for an ethernet connection. I will be traveling through

Re: [expert] wireless cards

2003-01-19 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 January 2003 05:02 pm, KevinO wrote: I am looking to add an 802.11b card to my older laptop (P-150) in preparation for a trip to Europe I am about to make. I currently have Mandrake 8.0 on this laptop but I can install 8.1, 8.2 or 9.0

[expert] RPM screwed and worthless

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm except make simple queries. VERY simple queries. And I cannot do a database rebuild either. I have been trying to install/reinstall all the latest Mandrake rpm-* rpms but I

Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 12:14 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 16:05, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm

Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 11:25 am, Azrael wrote: Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones? There are no rpm processes running at all.

Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 11:38 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Azrael wrote: Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones? Also, rm

[expert] Staroffice setup

2003-01-17 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I last had to do this and now I don't recall the procedure for installing staroffice for EVERYONE. What is the command after initial rpm install to install staroffice 6.0 such that everyone can use it? praedor - --

[expert] It's official.

2003-01-15 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mandrake has officially filed for Chapter 11. Done deal. Hopefully they will pull out of this reorganization of payments and...still exist. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein

2003-01-14 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 04:34 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 13 January 2003 05:58 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I was playing RTCW on my 8.2 system without too much problem (worked perfectly if started in a non-KDE environ prepended

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 urpmi broken?

2003-01-14 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not finding urpmi very functional nor impressive in Mandrake 9.0. In Mandrake 8.2 it works like a charm but in 9.0 it chokes on virtually EVERY query I make. Latest: urpmi recode In 8.2 this immediately turns up a hit and seeks permission

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein

2003-01-13 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was playing RTCW on my 8.2 system without too much problem (worked perfectly if started in a non-KDE environ prepended by soundwrapper, wouldn't work with sound at all no matter what in KDE). I have an NVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200. In 9.0, the game

[expert] Mandrake 9.0, XFree86, Nvidia, glxgears

2003-01-13 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prior to upgrading to MDK 9.0, my 8.2 system (NVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200) would produce upwards of 6000 FPS in glxgears, default size (1024x768, 16 bit color). Since upgrading to 9.0 (and rebuilding/reinstalling the NVidia drivers), I get a

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday January 12 2003 08:48 am, Azrael wrote: [...] I've been using 9.1 since cooker unfroze shortly after 9.0's release. It's been solid all along ... on ReiserFS. From what I

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is

[expert] testing...ignore

2003-01-02 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 checking mailserver problems - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FFsr1i/6R1B/Yh0RAiDqAJ9aeKSf8MHGZDnr4uvJdFW+IxgK5QCeLBxA

[expert] routing/DNS problems - wireless connection sharing

2002-11-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am getting mixed success with my wireless connection sharing. I am finally figuring out certain aspects that need to be handled to get it working but one baffles me still. I get a modem connection on box 1 which is ad-hoc wireless connected to box 2. After the connection, box 1 can use the

[expert] Postfix/kmail problem

2002-11-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have recently setup postfix on my desktop to be my MTA, both sending and receiving (with fetchmail). I get emails in /var/spool/mail/praedor as expected and can see them with pine and if I do ls /var/spool/mail I see the praedor mailbox. In

Re: [expert] iptables help?

2002-11-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:06 am, Woody Green wrote: On the sharing machine, run iptables-save and post the output here. Hello, After some fiddling I managed to get things working again, though I only barely understand what I did. Below is

[expert] Odd network situation

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I was misled. I was informed that one could not share an internet connection through an ad-hoc wlan connection. I have found I was wrong/misinformed and it is possible. At this point I am only partially sharing, however. I changed my wlan connection from my laptop to desktop to be ad-hoc and

[expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, it now appears that all is right with the world. I managed to get my wireless connections between desktop and laptop up and running so as to allow both machines to connection share a dialup account from the desktop. I also got my KDE slow startup problem resolved (my desktop hostname

Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just picked up junkfilter but cannot build it. I placed it in /usr/local/etc/junkfilter and set the path to point to this as well as my procmailrc file. I do a make create in the junkfilter directory and all I get is: [praedor@lapdog junkfilter]$ make create Makefile:49: *** target pattern

Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hmpf. I have/had procmail working on my system. I have a directory: $HOME/.procmail which contains a link to $HOME/.procmailrc. I read the somewhat confusing directions in the README with junkfilter and elected to install the junkfilter files in /usr/local/etc/junkfilter. I created a

Re: [expert] Procmail spam filter recipes?

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 22 November 2002 12:07 pm, David Relson wrote: [...] My procmail recipe is pretty simple. It checks for korean and japanese character sets and puts those messages into file spam-unreadable,then runs bogofilter to classify the message as spam or ham, and then takes appropriate

[expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running postfix on my system for a long time, primarily for sending mail, receiving mail from my yahoo pop mail account. I am now trying to setup fetchmail to work with postfix and procmail plus spamassassin to act for both incoming

[expert] A test-ignore

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Testing. Nothing to see here. Carry on. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

[expert] Testing once more

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Still nothing to see here. Keep moving. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

[expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears

Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
them. praedor On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail

[expert] Test-Final to group

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Final test here, promise - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93RQ91i/6R1B/Yh0RAuEmAJ9f/MWn31Z7sSQHeHsmvWhqbCvPTQCfXKMW

[expert] Postfix, procmail working now, I think. A few pointers

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I think I have fetchmail-postfix-procmail working now on my system but for one thing I miss. I use Kmail as my mail client and I like the color coding it does for new/unread messages vs read messages. Is there a way to bring back the coloration when one is using fetchmail + postfix as the MTA

[expert] CLI app/script for activating modem

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've always handled modem internet connections via a GUI app like kppp. What would be the method for doing this from the command prompt? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] patching kernel 2.4.18

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have never quite gotten how to patch kernels. I have a patch for upgrading wireless extensions to version 15 that I would like to apply to kernel 2.4.18 (unless someone knows of a 2.4.18 kernel that already contains this patch as well as

[expert] hostname

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself. How does one assign a hostname to their system without breaking it and so that it comes up every time one boots? I managed to get my laptop to be called lapdog.ravenhome.net but

[expert] IRQs

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just cannot believe this. I have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad) with absolutely no available IRQ resources. None. The only things attached to this is a phone cord for the modem (linmodem/winmodem). Every single IRQ is used up such that I cannot insert any pcmcia cards while connected via modem

[expert] Try another way to connection share via wlan

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have just about given up trying to share my laptop's modem connection via wlan connection with my desktop. I have picked up a modem for my desktop and would like to try to share a connection that way. Thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wlan

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

2002-11-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
A linksys WUSB v2.5 will, perhaps also a v2.0. I goofed my first time and bought a WUSB - it had been a while since it came out so I thought it likely to be a v2.x though there was no indication whatsoever on the box. I lost the receipt and was unable to take it back. a v1.5 will not work.

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

2002-11-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:22 pm, jarmo wrote: [...] Don't blow your head off... If you'd read better you'd figure that this is not a laptop.. Pse read again... As said with my orinoco silver card and wavelan pci adapter etc... I can get it working...but MDK's installation does

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:18 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I've done multiple installs on my laptop. (just testing some stuff before I settled down to do work conclusion Blue bytes ) (pun intended) and since installing more ram, I needed a larger suspend partition. I lost sound

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
in mdk9.0?? if there isn't, I might try compiling one myself.. I miss supermount..:-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:praedor;lapdog.ravenhome.net]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert

[expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 sound card. It has worked fine with most previous Mandrake kernels up to 2.4.18. I recently built and installed the Mandrake 2.4.19 kernel (with the correct sound settings selected in xconfig) and find it has totally croaked my sound. There is no

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