Re: [expert] 8.2: Upgrade or clean install?

2002-03-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I'd agree. Save any special configs and do not reformat/destroy your /usr/local (if you can avoid it - ie, have it on its own partition) nor your /home (if you have things you want to keep). You may want to delete your ~/.kde directory and .kderc just to avoid any wierdness that might pop up

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost)

2002-03-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
This brings up a question that has bothered me, though I have never run into the problems Oscar is seeing. I have always selected the XFree86 4.x version during install - which Xfconfig file is THE file? It seems that some things I add to Xfconfig-4 don't take or to be safe, I usually add the

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I own several domain names and wanted to give my system an alias to match with my domain names (they're all related). This is on a laptop running MDK 8.1. If I open up linuxconf and go to the networking, then adaptor 1 (my eth0 card) and in the aliases box enter ANYTHING (it is blank), it

[expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I have always been stuck with either localhost or whatever name my dhcp server gives me (today I am d152-159). I would LIKE to give myself an alias of my choice but every time I've made any moves in that direction, it borks my system. KDE chokes and cannot connect to itself anymore, no

[expert] Any monospaced sans serif fonts?

2002-03-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
To follow up with the message I posted about problems with kontour and eps output, here is a question about fonts. Are there ANY monospaced sans serif fonts out there? I have tried kontour, sketch, xfig for drawing graphics and graphic tables for data presentation and to do this right I need

[expert] How about a security fix?

2002-03-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
So...when is Mandrake going to release a security fix for zlib? All it needs to be is a mandrake zlib-1.1.4 rpm. When is one forthcoming? I do NOT want to install a tarball of the lib, this dicks up dependencies (using tarballs instead of rpms) for such a widely used lib. praedor Want

Re: [expert] How about a security fix?

2002-03-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: So...when is Mandrake going to release a security fix for zlib? All it needs to be is a mandrake zlib-1.1.4 rpm. When is one forthcoming? I do NOT want to install a tarball of the lib

Re: [expert] How about a security fix?

2002-03-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: So...when is Mandrake going to release a security fix for zlib? All it needs to be is a mandrake zlib-1.1.4 rpm. When is one forthcoming? I do NOT want to install a tarball of the lib

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just bought Hancom Office last night. Now I await its arrival in the mail. In the meantime, I downloaded the test drive Hancom Office 6.0 package and installed it. MUCH faster than Staroffice/Openoffice and other than the annoying letters in parentheses with every command/menu title, etc,

Re: [expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
As another noted, devfs is broken. You could rebuild the kernel with devfs set off OR you could blow off the rebuild and simply add the append = devfs=nomount statement to your lilo file for each kernel version and your devfs problems will go away. Kind of funny. I have no real problems

Re: [expert] Damn DCOP, damn ARTSD!!!--And a reply abot Open Office

2002-03-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] First, the linux kernel isn't really designed for sound. It does not use a very high bandwidth for sound events. Next, the sound drivers are fragmented and in disarray. I have helped numerous individuals who somehow managed to be running

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
I would DEFINITELY go with StarOffice. You cannot get the 6 beta anymore, unless you know someone with it. I just tried the latest Openoffice and, damn, it was buggy and slooow. DAMN slow. I ended up reinstalling StarOffice 5.2. It is faster and has more working features/few bugs.

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:55 -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Praedor Tempus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would DEFINITELY go with StarOffice. You cannot get the 6 beta anymore, unless you know someone

[expert] No sound from crossover plugin

2002-03-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running Mandrake 8.1, updated, and KDE 2.2.2 on my IBM thinkpad with esssolo1 sound. Sound works. I have the crossover plugin installed along with quicktime 5 and the windoze media player. They both start and show movies fine but there is no sound at all from them. How do I get sound

[expert] Damn DCOP, damn ARTSD!!!

2002-03-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
As usual, KDE DCOP strokes out on a new login/restart. Doesn't matter if I shut down normally or not, upon the next startup here we go again...and of course artsd is broken too. It frickin' refuses to work at better than every so once in a while. I am running KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1.

OT: was Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Here is a basic question, new to me. I recently bought a few domain names. At this point I am still trying to learn how (or if) I can use them...I have no idea as yet. I would like to be able to name my box permanently based on one of my domains but do not know how to go about it. I'd also

[expert] backing up system - big problems

2002-02-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have Mandrake 81 with updates on my desktop I have recently purchased a big harddrive that I want to put in my desktop, replacing 2 current and smaller drives I presently have, actually, 3 hdds, 1 CDROM, and 1 CD-RW drive The 3 hdds and the CDROM use up both the onboard IDE ports I

Re: [expert] Choosing the right filesystem

2002-02-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Simple. I use Reiser. Works great, is fast and stable. You can also trust ext3 (which is essentially a slightly modified ext2 fs) but it is still slower than Reiser (not much but it is). Either one will do it. On Thursday 28 February 2002 11:16 am, you wrote: Hello out there... I hope

[expert] No rpm database

2002-02-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
GREAT!!! Somehow, I've lost my rpm database. I've tried doing an rpm --rebuilddb but it doesn't do squat. According to rpm, I have NO rpms installed. Is there ANY way to fix this short of reinstalling EVERYTHING? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] No rpm database

2002-02-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
This is an updated Mandrake 8.1 system. I was perusing the cooker rpm list to see if it had any newer kde 3.0 beta release rpms. When I decided to check a few new rpms against what I already had, I got this: [praedor@d152-159 praedor]$ rpm -qa |grep kdeartwork error: db3 error(-30988) from

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Not yet. I'll let you know if/when I do. I am presently trying to find/build a koffice version that will work with KDE 3. --- Balaji Ramani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you figured out how to get more themes? I too see just the default qt stuff and would love to use something different.

Re: [expert] KDE3 styles

2002-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thanks. And oops. I did as you instructed, selected System++ and pop, KDE crashed and now I cannot log back into it. Once again it seems that System++ makes KDE unstable (Why? Why would a STYLE have squat to do with stability?!). It crashes out to the kdm login screen upon trying to load

Re: [expert] KDE3 styles

2002-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, well. Doing this and selecting System++ nicely wrecked my setup. It not only crashes KDE before it can start, it also apparently wipes out all my settings NOT related to style. I get to start over, with the color scheme, background, rebuilding my addressbook, etc, etc. Styles simply

Re: [expert] Wireless networking with Linux

2002-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Access points, I don't yet know but I would go with one that supports web configuration so that it does't require windoze at all. The cards...there are many good ones. I have a netgear ma401, cheap and works up to 128 bit wep (you can always use vpn or encryption other than builtin wep with

Re: [expert] konqueror startup problems still... ... Any more ideas truly appreciated otherwise its reinstall time :(

2002-02-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
When I've had bizarre/obscure kde problems that I have been unable to fix, from blackbox (or CLI) I: delete ~/.kde (AFTER copying my addressbook.kab and bookmarks.xml to my home directory), delete all instances of .DCOP* in my home directory. Delete all my /tmp entries (as user, just do rm -rf

[expert] koffice - new?

2002-02-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
Is there not any builds of KOffice for KDE 3.0/QT 3.0? I have been looking and looking for even a beta version but cannot find it. I am really suprized that koffice would so divorce itself from kde proper that it wouldn't (apparently) even TRY to keep up with the soon-to-be-released KDE 3. I

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
The window resizing problem is mostly not there, so it seems. Huh? I mean that SOME windows have done this to me, particularly if I start a configuration utility outside of the kcontrol. If I configure the same things from within kcontrol, it fits properly within the window and screen and

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I now have KDM properly starting up and properly starting KDE now (hurrah!). I have stopped the damned kde wizard from starting every login (editing the startkde script appears to have worked) as well. If only I could get KOffice to work/build I'd be golden. I certainly have no more sound

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
Oh I certainly understand what beta means. I was posting this here just to let ya'll know what I ran into in case anyone else was considering trying it. It DOES work for me rather well but for a few glitches. Sound works. Virtually everything else I've tried has worked. There are a few rare,

Re: [expert] pre-emptible kernel patch

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here installed the Pre-emptible kernel patch? I've been testing it with a Mandrake 8.0 machine with kernel 2.4.17. It seems to improve sound and video playback and minimize skipping. Video [...] Is it only available

[expert] KDE 3.0 beta 2 rpms

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
Is anyone playing with the latest/current cooker kde 3.0 beta2 rpms? If so a couple questions... First, does the latest beta2 rpms support proper kmail addressbook conversion? I read a review of the beta2 last week and one of the problems then was its inability to transfer over your kde

Re: [expert] KDE 3.0 beta 2 rpms

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Saturday 16 February 2002 01:47 am, Nguyen Hung Vu wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Is anyone playing with the latest/current cooker kde 3.0 beta2 rpms? If [...] I tested Kde3beta2 on Lm8.1 After install kde from rpms, kdm dissapeared and have only gdm left . All the applications k* crash

[expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
Oh man...I installed kde3 beta 2 from cooker (new rpms) and it works but it does have a few issues. Man, the default look for menus is butt-ugly and designed like it is for a blind retard (Kmenu in particular). Some app windows also tend to be bigger than the screen and guess what? You

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
the System++ look. I cannot find it now. All I can find are gnarly/ugly qt stuff. praedor On Friday 15 February 2002 03:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Oh man...I installed kde3 beta 2 from cooker (new rpms) and it works but it does have a few issues. Man, the default look for menus is butt-ugly

[expert] KDE 3.0 beta2

2002-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, now that I almost have it working 100% I can say I am not displeased with KDE 3.0. I have run into just a few annoyances/problems. First off, perhaps someone could tell me what rpm is required for kpm to work? That app is actually no longer existent, if you run kpm from a CLI you get

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You may wish to do a check on the web for a review of Yellow Dog. I read one recently but cannot recall where (one of the linux sites, somewhat obviously). There were a couple of issues with installation, as I recall, so just be prepared for a

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 08:05 am, sda wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:17:22PM -0500, Terry Mathews wrote: I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think [...] Not to rain on Mandrake here, but have you looked into Yellow Dog Linux? [...] Actually SuSE is

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:47 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: [...] Hmmm, while I'm here, can anyone explain why www.saltlake2002.com gives a blank screen in konqueror? I've run

[expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
What does it take to make this work? I have the latest plugin installed, it is properly associated with the proper suffixes, the netscrape plugin finder properly found it, it resides exactly where it is supposed to, yet most of the time that I open up a page that has shockwave garbage

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know if it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories so the plugins have a home. I do have lesstif installed. This is KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1. praedor On Tuesday 12 February 2002 02:49 pm, David

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:56 pm, Omnus Necromancy wrote: Mandrake boasts an installation for powerpc but not only is it difficult to use it isn't even nearly as easy as its x86 counterpart! I have been trying over the last several days to get linux working on my new powerbook titanium

Re: [expert] Totally lost here

2002-02-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
Bah! Sound problems continue. I finally got alsa to actually work with my laptop's Solo1 card but there are still artsd/KDE problems with sound. After the initial fix and bootup, sound worked fine. On all subsequent bootups sound fails upon loading KDE with a bunch of messages: MCOP

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
the alias to the modules.conf doesn't do it, that passing a scsi-related append statement is called for. I must do this to get my CDRW to work (IDE). praedor On Friday 08 February 2002 09:53 am, mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
of the chocks than winex has ever proven to be for me. I paid money for this (winex). THAT irritates me no end. On Friday 08 February 2002 06:32 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 07:34 pm, J. Grant wrote: I dont remember exactly, but i seem to remember there was a command to regenerate the module list? like ldconfig does for shared libs or something similar? Better than having to add it to rc.local for every module i thought.. In this

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:48 am, no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. Just do wine path and app name Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. I don't get it. WineX is supposed to be REAL compatible with Mandrake 8.1 (it is the

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 12:45 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. Boy, months of work

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:43 pm, David Joham wrote: With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a I tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions? Email might be more constructive :) Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand. I'm venting. What I am

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Oh and one more thing...since installing WineX on my system, it has slowed to a miserable crawl. Lots and lots and lots of disk-thrashing even if I am not running wine/winex. It has done something evil to my system - almost like trying to run Mandrake on a 64 MB system. LOTS of swapping

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:43 pm, David Joham wrote: With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a I tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions? Email might be more constructive :) Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand. I uninstalled and

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 05:40 pm, mike wrote: mike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't add it to rc.local. The correct place is in modules.conf with a line similar to: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx Have this already in modules.conf alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:06 pm, mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Go ahead and put it in your /etc/rc.local file (if it wont take)...why NOT add it to rc.local? It will remain with every reboot. I used to have to do that several linux iterations ago for alsa, as I recall. Ok

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:12 pm, mike wrote: sorry Praedor didn't work still lost it at reboot. Mike Say what? I mean simply add the statement insmod your desired module to rc.local, right at the top before everything else. You could also go with modprobe your desired module too.

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:31 pm, mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: simply to do the automatic insmod bit from rc.local. I added ( does it matter where? ) insmod aic7xxx and saved. Hi. When I have done this before, it would be to add an entry at the top of rc.local after all

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:39 pm, mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Say what? Sorry Praedor but I'm not the expert , you are right? I apologize. I did not intend to insult. I did not realise originally that you were the one needing the help. Brain fart. I thought someone else

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:25 pm, David Joham wrote: I haven't tried 1.02, but I have tried 1.03 with good success. I don't have a libMFC42.so either, so maybe that's a change between versions. Can you remove 1.02 and install 1.03? When you do, you *should* get lots of stuff in

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Your applet runs fine. mspaint.exe doesn't run with winex *only*. I CAN run it with codeweavers wine and with winehq's wine. I can also run IE, wordpad, notepad, etc - just not with winex. The other wines work and the winex complains about libMFC42 and/or mmx. I can only conclude that

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've had VMWare before. It's OK but on my laptop memory and hdd space are somewhat at a premium. Basically, VMWare is too much for my laptop but I just confirmed it, codeweavers wine works perfectly. I just downloaded the latest preview release (no. 5) and it runs mspaint, notepad, IE just

Re: [expert] Totally lost here

2002-02-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
to CPU overload. Cockamamy $@##!! On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:29 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:55, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I have yet again recompiled my kernel (2.4.17). This time, instead of building the oss solo1 module into the kernel, I opted to make it a module

Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?

2002-02-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:59 am, Mike Leone wrote: What about the guy that needed help communicating with the PCAnywhere host? There was a suggestion to that already. One of the first in this thread. Try running PCA under WINE, as there doesn't seem to be a pcAnywhere for Linux,

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
I may give that a shot myself (used to do it that way). I noticed that devfs seems to be REALLY broken now rather than just experimental and buggy. I built the 2.4.17 kernel and created an initrd for it - and it works ONLY if I do the 'append= devfs nomount' deal in lilo. Change it to devfs

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Monday 04 February 2002 06:42 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:55:27 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:04 am, David Joham wrote: Hello, aRts is doing the best it can with the silly limitation of only one application able to access the sound driver at a time using the OSS drivers. Hmpf. OK, so right now it seems I HAVE to use the OSS driver and I have to build

Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?

2002-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 11:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a PC Anywhere client (NOT a host) port for Linux? I'd like to be able to stay in Linux when having to dial-in to various Winders machines I have to take care of. Yes, I know about the various other programs that exist

[expert] Totally lost here

2002-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I have yet again recompiled my kernel (2.4.17). This time, instead of building the oss solo1 module into the kernel, I opted to make it a module and also build alsa. Done and done. Now, when I bootup alsa starts, it is clearly running, starts without complaint. The soundcard is also

[expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. Please don't tell me it wont play properly with the retarded arts? Please? praedor Want to buy

Re: [expert] SSH

2002-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Sunday 03 February 2002 01:54 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:27 AM 1/30/2002 -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Thomas Sourmail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sshd: ALL Sure; that lets you access via SSH from anywhere in the world. I did that and I still con't connect via ssh over the

Re: [expert] TEST

2002-02-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 01 February 2002 02:39 pm, Charles Davant wrote: Test, please ignore. We're having some difficulty with the mailing list. Thank you for your understanding SHIT! What should I do? I didn't ignore it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Mandrake pages crashed?

2002-02-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 01 February 2002 06:01 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 01 February 2002 07:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Well, if you lived in the eastern US, you would have...) From the noon I am trying without success conect to the mandrake url Is there any problem with those pages?

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 05:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan, at 16:36:14 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: [...] supervise: fatal: unable to start env/run: file does not exist supervise: fatal: unable to start root/run: file does not exist So do a ls

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan, at 07:19:59 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: run exists in the /service but not in root and not in env. The install script doesn't create them and as far as I can determine, it shouldn't. Well

[expert] test...ignore

2002-01-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
Having MUCHO prolems posting to the list...test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
. Any pointers or corrections? To publish my dns so my mailserver will really work, do I use 127.0.0.1 or my actual IP address, or do I produce an alias/virtual IP (or something)? On Tuesday 29 January 2002 07:02 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed postfix last night

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
box by domain name from your box. If you can, dns is resolving locally. James On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:33:29 -0700 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks...I have postfix running, I have tinydns built and installed, and I downloaded dhcp-dns from freshmeat. I've edited

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
M$ charges a premium. Schools get screwed even if they receive DONATED computers if they have M$ on them. Many schools are also on a tight and shrinking budget. Why oh WHY have them waste money on M$ software when they could do everything they really need to do on NON-M$ software? They

Re: [expert] Stay away from the cooker 2.4.17 kernels

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I would assume that supermount is still working/workable in the mandrake 2.4.17 kernel. I wouldn't know since I couldn't get any of them to run or boot properly on my laptop (kernel panics or pcmcia/sound problems). Supermount is still one of those patches that mandrake adds but which is

Re: [expert] Advice on Mandrake related to upgrading mobo/processor

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
Give it a shot...you may be suprised. I have changed mobo/processor before and not had to reinstall linux (though I did have to reinstall windoze). If you are moving from an intel to an amd, then you might have to...I don't recall if I had to when I went from celery to athlon. It doesn't

[expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am connecting via dhcp to a local network. Since my ip address CAN be different on any given day I have been assuming that it would be pointless to try to run a mailserver. It would serve me alone, no one else on the network, but my intent would be to be able to create my own email

Re: [expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use ricochet. Me like. It's simple and I simply build kmail filters as they appear required - and then pipe the spam through ricochet. It automatically analyzes the spam email headers, determines if the sending email is likely faked or not, determines the correct abuse address to send to,

[expert] New to Evolution mailer...

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I am trying to setup evolution as an alternative mail client to my primary kmail. I tried sylpheed but it just wouldn't work for what I am doing so I am now trying evolution. It works but with a problem...how does one get it to use a Reply to setting? I am sending via email address 1

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 12:06 pm, James wrote: Praedor, There are a number of services that offer dynamic IP DNS (dydns.org is one) with software available at freshmeat.net that autoupdates the dns for you. I don't use one of them because I have a dns server I control and so far I

Re: [expert] Sound problems

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hehe. I have an ESS Solo1 and was having the very same problem. In my case, the only way to get it working at all was to build sound support and the ess solo1 (oss) driver into the kernel. THEN I was running into the cup overload thing. What I did, by trial and error (I tried just about

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
to name my box whatever without breaking my internet connectivity? Do I have to setup masquerading? Or is it simpler than that? praedor On Tuesday 29 January 2002 12:28 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am connecting via dhcp to a local network. Since my ip address CAN

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
True enough...and I am presently running a mostly functional box with the kernel.org 2.4.17 kernel, but when I run into problems like I have mentioned, I wonder if there is something wrong with my box (a missing lib, screwed up config, bad hardware) and so I want to see it corrected. I am

Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use a basic ATI Radeon 32 MB video card in my box (OEM) and it works perfectly (now) out of the box. Before around Mandrake 8.1 I was downloading, building, and installing the DRM source but the XFree86 4.1.0 supplied with 8.1 works out of the box. At this time, the ATI Radeon 8500 isn't

[expert] sound problems continue

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just cannot figure this out. I have an IBM ThinkPad 1412, Celeron 366, 96MB Ram, ESS Solo1 soundcard. The sound NEVER works if I just install default Mandrake kernels. It loads modules, even the correct modules, but sound never comes - so I always build my own kernels with the solo1

[expert] sound problems continue

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just cannot figure this out. I have an IBM ThinkPad 1412, Celeron 366, 96MB Ram, ESS Solo1 soundcard. The sound NEVER works if I just install default Mandrake kernels. It loads modules, even the correct modules, but sound never comes - so I always build my own kernels with the solo1

[expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running Mandrake 8.1 with updates on an IBM Thinkpad 1412. I downloaded and built the source rpm for the Mandrake kernel-2.4.17-10mdk. There were no errors, no apparent problems. It will not, however, boot. At bootup, it panics - cannot mount root fs at 01:00. I have a 2.4.17 kernel

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
, on the Mandrake kernel. thanks, praedor On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:39 pm, Michael Leone wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 15:37, Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running Mandrake 8.1 with updates on an IBM Thinkpad 1412. I downloaded and built the source rpm for the Mandrake kernel-2.4.17-10mdk

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: I'll take it...although I did specify the append= devfs=nomount option in lilo.conf. I tried turning it on and off for the mandrake kernel. I have it off for the kernel.org kernel - haven't tried turning it on. In any case, the basic kernel starts fine. I'd

[expert] KDE retarded about sound

2002-01-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
Perhaps someone who knows the silly ins and outs of KDE can explain exactly what I need to do to correct the Alzheimer's my KDE 2.2.1 is suffering from? Mandrake 8.1, kernel-2.4.8-34 and 2.4.17. If I totally wipe out my .kde directory plus ALL my entries in /tmp, all my ~/.DCOP-* and

Re: [expert] Supermount

2002-01-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
:41, en Praedor Tempus va escriure: I have kernel-2.4.17 and have tried activating supermount. I did supermount -i enable and then edited fstab to be correct - it has entries identical to yours. I stick a floppy in and try to view it and...pop, only root can mount it. I did the same: i

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
in the middle of the 2.4.x development tree and the stink that caused). praedor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus said: My next move will be to try to get the current kernel config I successfully used with the basic 2.4.17 kernel with the mandrake 2.4.17.8 kernel. I still want

[expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
Progress. I downloaded and built the source for kernel-2.4.8-34 and built the solo driver into the kernel. I commented out all the sound stuff in my modules.conf, rebooted, and viola...sound, and networking. I have also had success with kernel-2.4.17 now, with a couple caveats. The first is

Re: [expert] Confirmed dead 2.4.27.8

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
The reason I have resisted straight kernel.org kernels (up to now) is that the mandrake kernels integrate more features than the simple kernels...like the grsec settings in 2.4.17 that are not there in the kernel.org kernel. There are other niceties too. As for kernel-2.3.13, I had a working

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
/.config and ensure you've got CONFIG_PACKET=y and CONFIG_FILTER=y enabled before you recompile to get rid of those errors. Cheers, -Charlie Praedor Tempus said: Progress. I downloaded and built the source for kernel-2.4.8-34 and built the solo driver into the kernel. I commented out

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
being plugged in)? And you might check your /usr/src/linux/.config and ensure you've got CONFIG_PACKET=y and CONFIG_FILTER=y enabled before you recompile to get rid of those errors. Cheers, -Charlie Praedor Tempus said: Progress. I downloaded and built the source for kernel-2.4.8-34

[expert] Mandrake kernel-2.4.17...

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
Sheesh, I just took a look at the Cooker rpms again and they already have kernel-2.4.17-10. In the last 3 days they've gone from 17-6 to 17-10. Only problem is there is no kernel-source to go with it yet. praedor _ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: [expert] Supermount

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
if it works... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2002 6:59 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Supermount The old question...does supermount really work in Mandrake 8.1? I just

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