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

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 also

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

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
; On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 15:50, 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 - have

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

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
append statement be a problem? It doesn't bother the basic 2.4.17 kernel as regards to its ability to boot. 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 T

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

2002-01-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
ne. I'd like to try the patch, however, 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 downloa

[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 built

[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 driver

[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 driver

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
VM right 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

Re: [expert] Supermount

2002-01-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
s Dissabte 26 Gener 2002 00:41, 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

[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 ~/tmp/ksock

Re: [expert] Supermount

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
you just have to unmount and remount them... and if you have done the > supermount -i enable > you should be off and running.. > > > let us know if it works... > > > > rgds > > Frank > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [expert] Supermount

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
emount them... and if you have done the > supermount -i enable > you should be off and running.. > > > let us know if it works... > > > > rgds > > Frank > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prae

[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] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
a laptop (other than maybe an external mouse > 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 > &g

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
ternal mouse > 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 sa

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 M

Re: [expert] Confirmed dead 2.4.27.8

2002-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
t; for that matter), > it's available at ftp.kernel.org. > > Cheers, > > -Charlie > > Praedor Tempus said: > > I have wondered but then dismissed this. My new, > fresh reinstall of > > 8.1 (6th or 7th time in 3 days) properly > recognizes and uses m

[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

2002-01-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
installed on my system broke it so badly that it was easier to reinstall from scratch than to try to untangle the mess. praedor On Thursday 24 January 2002 14:27, you wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:17:12 -0800 (PST) > > Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake thes

[expert] netscape plugin finder

2002-01-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I feel silly for asking this...I'd swear I saw a button for this somewhere but now I cannot find it. I have finished another full reinstall of 8.1 and am trying to get my netscape plugins (like flash) properly recognized and used. How? I cannot find the old button for "Scan for new plugi

[expert] Font antialiasing

2002-01-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I believe there used to be a file in one's home directory that had information as to what font sizes would get antialiased. Where did it go? I've looked at all the likely dot files in my home directory and nothing mentions antialiasing. I ask because I select antialiasing in kcontrol b

[expert] Confirmed dead 2.4.27.8

2002-01-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, when I got a usable 8.1 system with kernel-2.4.8-26mdk running, I decided to try one more time with kerne-2.4.17.8. This time, instead of doing a source build I just installed the binary and rebooted. It booted up and...jus as with my own build attempts, pcmcia failed miserablely and sound w

[expert] What now with konqueror?

2002-01-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I gave up on my system and wiped it and then reinstalled 8.1 from scratch AGAIN (3 times in so many days). It booted up, identified my pcmcia 3c589 OK and got me a connection. Sound still dead. I just can't get konqueror to startup as a user - I CAN start it as root. My .xsession-errors

[expert] gcc 3.0

2002-01-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
How is gcc 3.0 these days? Has its problems been corrected enough to make it a worthy compiler? praedor _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

Re: [expert] Sound...what does it take?

2002-01-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
27;t verify. > > Add to your rc.local to get it to install at boot. > > HTH, > Bill. > - Original Message - > From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mandrake Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:26

[expert] Sound...what does it take?

2002-01-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am pulling my hair out trying to get my damn sound working. I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 soundcard. The default 2.4.8 kernel in Mandrake 8.1 can't make it work. It loads the correct modules (snd-es1938, for instance) but it doesn't DO anything. Instead, my /var/log/messages fi

[expert] Javascript failure in KDE/Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I was perusing space.com's site (http://www.space.com) and decided to take a look at satellite images (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php). I clicked on the image to expand it and it brings up a javascript window...with nothing in it. It doesn't appear to work in linux wi

Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade

2001-11-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, /usr/local alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything doing it this way and save a ton of time and pain. It also gives you the simp

Re: [expert] WinXP and SAMBA

2001-11-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
It's more likely that M$ altered samba on XP (again) and you will have to wait for the SAMBA crew to reverse engineer a fix. Alternatively, but I am not sure personally, but if you installed/have the "home" variant of the XP virus, I believe it is crippled in many (network and server) ways and

[expert] Woot woot. 8.1 went in smooth as a coot

2001-10-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, I must say that I am impressed and pleased with 8.1 installation. I had installed it some few weeks ago on my laptop but that system is nothing to get excited about. Midlin video, weak audio, no printer (just network printers). It went in OK and runs fine. The thing that impressed me

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Yep. I have plugger-3.3-1mdk. I can play the test "All your base" flash movie but not the Osama movie...again, except with Netscape or Mozilla. On Friday 19 October 2001 02:29 pm, Texstar wrote: > This is a shot in the dark but have you installed the plugger rpm? > > On Friday 19 October 2001

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I walked through the tutorial again to make sure I hadn't missed something. Nope. I can play the tester flash movie (cool, it is) but not the Osama flash. Poopie! On Friday 19 October 2001 02:21 pm, Mark D'voo wrote: > my still running 8.1 beta 3. konqueror will play all flash except that o

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
owsky wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: [...] > > The flash plugin doesn't work with this flash file. Why? What's up with > > this file? It works with IE or Netscape on a Mac or Windoze. It is not > > viewable on linux. > > > > http://www.madblast.com/oska/h

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have all the prereqs...but selecting to view in embedded viewer doesn't work. Konqueror will NOT play the vid/cartoon but netscape and mozilla will. On Friday 19 October 2001 02:09 pm, Texstar wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote: > > The following is a link to a humorous Os

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Player 8.0 or later > > you must have real player to watch it > > mark > > On Friday 19 October 2001 02:53 pm, you wrote: > > On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: > > [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? > > >

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Ya, just after sending the message I tried netscape 4.7 and it works there too. It will NOT work from konqueror. On Friday 19 October 2001 01:53 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: > [expert] What's wrong with linux flash v

[expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking you if you want to save it or open it. Opening it brings up the dialog b

Re: Re[3]: [expert] Flash for Konqueror

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I believe the required package is lesstif. On Friday 19 October 2001 10:31 am, Onur Kucuk wrote: > EPRO> I try to install but; i get this; > EPRO> [root@epro-movil RPMS]# rpm -ivh > kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm EPRO> error: failed dependencies: > EPRO> libXm.so.2 is needed by k

Re: [expert] Flash for Konqueror

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
VERY common problem, it seems. I just fixed it on my system. During installation, Mandrake will not load kdebase-nsplugins. You need this, in addition to the normal nsplugins rpm. Install the kdebase-nsplugins rpm and flash will work. On Friday 19 October 2001 10:03 am, Eduardo P.Roman O.

[expert] Hostname question

2001-10-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I have been wondering about this for a while and finally seek an answer. My laptop, as is proper, gets moved around a lot and connects to various networks. I have left the hostname on it as localhost.localdomain because this, so far, is the only name that hasn't caused problems of some sort

Re: [expert] I want to be able to CHOOSE !

2001-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Part of the deal is that the install system will take a look at your system - harddrive space, for instance - and then selectively restrict the packages that can fit (with their dependencies) and that meet a general install. I ALWAYS go to expert mode and manually select specific packages. I

Re: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?

2001-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
No conversion is possible. You can only reformat to Reiser. The only non-destructive filesystem change possible is from ext2 to ext3, which might also provide many/most of the benefits of Reiser. If you have space, you could backup your system into tarballs(piecemeal if you have multiple par

Re: [expert] What's with this?

2001-08-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hi, I applied a diff file to the tarball. I then bziped this tarball back into the originally-named xpdf-0.92.tar.bz2. Running the rpm -bb command, it properly un-bzips and untars the xpdf file and creates an xpdf-0.92 source directory in the /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES directory. It just wont do

[expert] What's with this?

2001-08-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am trying to build xpdf from source. I installed the src rpm and ran a diff on it and then tried "rpm -bb /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/xpdf.spec". It dies immediately with a message that the /var/tmp/xpdf-0.92 directory can't be found. Of course not! That directory is in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES where

[expert] kde 2.2tex and speed

2001-08-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been using kde 2.2 tex rpms for about a week now (no problems or instabilities) which are supposed to be prelinked for speed optimization. Frankly, I don't really notice a difference. Konqueror starts within 6 seconds, as does most of the other apps I start but this isn't really diffe

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
It still appears you are missing something. You should have: XFree86-4.0.3 XFree86-server-4.0.3 XFree86-100dpi-fonts XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-libs-4.0.3 --- MAYBE want XFree86-xfs-4.0.3 (I see some posts indicating that this is optional but not having it will certainly remove some functionalit

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2, printing of single, selected pages fails...

2001-08-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have found it impossible to print from kghostview (don't know about kdvi). Kghostview renders pdfs fine but no matter how I try to print it, to a postscript file or to the printer or too a pdf, it fails every time. The printer produces one blank page regardless of how many pages the actual

Re: [expert] Upgrading WINE

2001-08-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
It's a safer bet to uninstall the codeweavers version first, then install the new version. If you are going to change providers, you may also see a different set of paths for installation so that if you leave the previous version on your system you may end up with a mishmash of libs, etc. If

Re: [expert] Kde-2.2 "tex"

2001-08-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am not having any problems with the tex kde rpms. All I did was create symlinks. I have rpm-4.0.3-0.17mdk and all its relatives installed. I installed the rpms and all works without any problems. If your rpms are complaining about librpm.so.0, etc, then just make the symlinks and ignore t

Re: [expert] OT:Little Stars

2001-08-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am assuming that you are running aurora (the pretty graphical startup/shutdown screen). Before shutdown actually occurs, move the little red arrow cursor over one of the stars and click. It will then display a message associated with that star/other icon in the field next to it. You will

Re: [expert] Kde-2.2 "tex"

2001-08-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
I ran into that as well and got around it without difficulty. First, I did a "locate librpm" and saw that, for instance, librpm.so.0 does not exist per se. Instead, it exists as librpm-4.0.3.so or something like that. All I did was create symlinks: ln -s /usr/lib/librpm-403.so /usr/lib/libr

Re: [expert] Increasing speed of app startup

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you. The site is getting nailed hard with people trying to download. It is virtually impossible to do it. They are asking for people to mirror their site (eastwind). On Thursday 16 August 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2001 21:39 schrieb Praedor Tempus: > &

[expert] Fwd: Increasing speed of app startup

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
Incidently, in case it isn't known already, but SuSE is incorporating this into their KDE rpms now - and it should also work for any other... -- Forwarded Message -- There is a thread on the kde-linux mailing list about a kde-developer who came up with a very simple means of

[expert] Increasing speed of app startup

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
There is a thread on the kde-linux mailing list about a kde-developer who came up with a very simple means of gaining between 30-50% decrease in startup times for kde and its various apps by prelinking object files in a build. The actual link to the messages describing it is: http://lists.kde

Re: [expert] mkbootdisk wont

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
I figured out the problem. It was wine. I was running (codeweavers) wine and trying to make a bootdisk at the same time. Wine grabs hold of floppy, even when it is not specifically using it, and prevents access to it by mkbootdisk. Shutting down wine and then doing it worked. On Thursday 16 A

Re: [expert] Why 2 menu editors?

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
mplete reinstall from scratch of Mandrake 8.0. After upgrade to (essentially) Cooker. In no case has the menudrake app worked properly for me. On Thursday 16 August 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:55, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I am running KDE 2.2 on my Mandrak

[expert] Why 2 menu editors?

2001-08-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running KDE 2.2 on my Mandrake 8.0/Cooker system. I find that I cannot use the default menu editor to do anything useful with my menus if I get to it via the panel by either right-clicking the panel and selecting the panel menu -> menu editor or if I do it via the kmenu button. I get the

[expert] mkbootdisk wont

2001-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
What the hell? I cannot make a bootdisk because every time I try I get: [root@localhost praedor]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.3-20mdk Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press to continue or ^C to abort: mount: /dev/fd0H1440 already mounted or /tmp/mkbootdi

Re: [expert] Non-destructive Linux Partition re-size

2001-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
2001 05:47 pm, Michael Leone wrote: > From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2 > >partition. > > Partition Magic can do it, and has been able to, for a long time now. > WELL worth

Re: [expert] Non-destructive Linux Partition re-size

2001-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
Ah... I hadn't looked at parted for a long time. It appears there IS a way to non-destructively resize ext2 partitions with the stipulation that the start of the partition must remain fixed. You can only play with the end of the partition. On Sunday 12 August 2001 08:46 am, Praedor T

Re: [expert] Non-destructive Linux Partition re-size

2001-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2 partition. For this I generally tar and bzip2 the partition that I will be resizing and save the tar.bz2 file to another partition that has the temporary space to allow this - or I copy it to a zip drive or burn it into a cd.

Re: [expert] System not successfully shutting down

2001-08-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
uld successfully shut down. No error > messages that I could see, just would stop for a few minutes. How long > did you wait? > > BillK > > On 08 Aug 2001 13:04:47 -0300, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > So far I can find no error logs

Re: [expert] vmlinuz v. bzImage

2001-08-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Just rename your bzimage to vmlinuz - or better yet, create a symlink called vmlinuz and have it point to your bzImage kernel. As for initrd, look into mkinitrd. I generally don't dork with initrd images but it isn't difficult. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote: > are there dire

[expert] Sound problems with Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have mandrake on an IBM thinkpad with essolo1 sound. I cannot get sound to function properly. First, when I login to kde, I get a message that /dev/dsp doesn't exist (Does too! Does too!). I delete all the sound module crap from /etc/modules.conf and try to run sndconfig with the intent of

[expert] kernel-2.4.7 supermount?

2001-08-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
So...does kernel 2.4.7-12mdk have supermount support in it yet? This is the kernel for Cooker at the moment. Up til now, supermount hasn't been in 2.4.6 or higher. Does anyone know if it has made it into 2.4.7-12mdk?

[expert] System not successfully shutting down

2001-08-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
So far I can find no error logs to indicate what the problem/hangup is but every time I shutdown my Mandrake 8.0 system, it gets to the "shutting down system logger" and then just hangs and never powers down. I wait and wait but finally just kill the power. Of course, next time I boot up I ha

Re: [expert] CD Writing and the Via 686b southbridge

2001-07-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
Err...I don't believe that. I have this chipset and I burn CDs without problems (CDRW) on my IDE2 interface. On Monday 30 July 2001 06:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, all. > > Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip, > that the LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE

Re: [expert] KDE list doesn't answer so here it is...

2001-07-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, then this is likely a REAL bug. In any case, for the first time I tried gkrellm - kindof a nifty toy - but it doesn't appear to work for me in kickstarting kmail once it has crapped out. I still have to exit it and then restart it. Off to kde for a bugreport... On Friday 27 July 2001 05

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
for it. > > i will try to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.7 on monday... > and see what happens to supermount. > > good day! > > --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Supermount is not quite the same. It takes autofs a > > step further. If you > >

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
2001 12:12 pm, DM wrote: > how is supermount different from autofs? > doesnt autofs/automounter achieve the same thing? > and yes, there is really no option for supermount on > the new kernel. > > --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Err...unfortunately, supermoun

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Err...unfortunately, supermount support does not exist in this kernel. I have downloaded it and have xconfig up right now and there is no option to enable supermount. [...] > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > Up until the 2.4.6 kernel (I am not certain about 2.4.5

Re: [expert] KDE list doesn't answer so here it is...

2001-07-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I realise it is beta. I also know what this means. What I want to know is if this is something unique to ME and my system or is it a more broadly experienced problem. If it is just me, that may mean I have a problem on MY system and it isn't a software (beta) bug, per se. If other experienc

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
Can't answer the sound question - except ARE the modules actually in their appropriate location? Other than the "make modules && make modules_install" bit just mentioned. What I really want to know is does the 2.4.7 kernel have supermount support available to it? On Friday 27 July 2001 10

[expert] joystick

2001-07-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a basic Reveal 2 button joystick. I managed to get it working...sortof...in that if I run jstest on /dev/js0 it sees the joystick and joystick inputs are recognized. I have the game Terminus, the only game I have right now that rather needs a joystick to properly play. The game does

[expert] Some kde glitches

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a few glitches I am trying to fix. First three come out of kdm: 1. I have gnome and blackbox installed besides kde. The only things that show up in the login menu for selection are "default", "kde", and "failsafe". This now brings me to number 2. Selecting "default" causes the scree

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots. What is the difference between "make mrproper" and "make clean"? On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:17 pm, Oscar wrote: > Try this: > -Uninstall the kernel source.

[expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I don't understand why i am suddenly unable to build kernel-2.4.3-20mdk. Every time I try to build it, the kernel builds but the modules crap out on me. If not one module (invariably zatm.o) than another when I deactivate any and all ATM support in xconfig, in this case I am now unable to bui

[expert] kernel-2.4.6 and supermount

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am having video-related problems with 2.4.3 and my Radeon so I am wanting to build a newer kernel. I know that 2.4.7 was just released but it will be a while before we are likely to see it in cooker, I presume. Thus, at the moment I am left with 2.4.6. What I need/want to know before I go

[expert] Kernel-2.4.3-20mdk build problem

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I keep running into this but do not know where to go in xconfig to try to properly set this: /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast': In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/highmem.h:5, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/vmall

[expert] Supermount and kernel-2.4.6

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
Quick question...has supermount support made it into the latest cooker kernel-2.4.6-5mdk? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Some gtk apps mess with KDE

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running Mandrake 8.0 + (LM 8.0 with glibc2.2.3, XFree864.1.0, kde2.2 beta and deps). I have been running into a major irritation when running some gtk-based apps. One such app is scigraphica, a scientific plotting app from sourceforge (sorry, I don't have a link as yet...search sourcefor

[expert] postscript editor?

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been trying to find a graphics app that can actually handle postscript/eps images WELL. I used gtkgraph to produce a plot and regression curve. Problem is, it doesn't appear to allow one to set the output size so it produces a graph that fills the available print space on a page. To

[expert] Fwd: Problem with konqueror in kde 2.2 beta?

2001-07-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have recently found that with konqueror and kde 2.2 beta, I am unable to connect to the http://www.bbc.co.uk but with netscape I have no problems at all. Every time I try to access the bbc pages via konqueror I get a message about it being an unknown host. Why would konqueror have this problem

[expert] kernel-2.4.6 build problems

2001-07-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
So far, every time I've tried to build a 2.4.6 mandrake cooker kernel I have failed. I haven't previously failed with any kernel I've build since my first couple times around Redhat 5.1 days. Now (besides there being no supermount support) I keep failing to build the kernel because of damn at

Re: [expert] mandrake kernel-2.4.6-1mdk lacks supermount?

2001-07-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
latest crapout I was able to take advantage of the situation and almost completely switch my linux system over to ReiserFS. On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:11 am, Dennis Robertson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:19:48PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from co

[expert] Still no supermount support in 2.4.6 kernels?

2001-07-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just downloaded and am building kernel-2.4.6-3mdk source. I already built and installed 2.4.6-1mdk. In none of them is supermount support to be found. What has happened with supermount that it worked with 2.4.3, even 2.4.5, but is not an option in 2.4.6? When is supermount going to be suppo

[expert] Order for building kde?

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have the kde beta src rpms from cooker and would like to build them. I first built kdelibs without problem and then tried kdebase but this failed late in the build. Before I fiddle around and try to figure out why, could someone tell me the appropriate order to build these rpms? Under my

[expert] mandrake kernel-2.4.6-1mdk lacks supermount?

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from cooker. It appears to lack any support for supermount. Doing "make xconfig" I find no entry anywhere for enabling support for supermount. Building and installing it anyway proves this lack to be true. I setup 3 drives to be supermount drives. None work and

Re: [expert] re: multiple problems with kde 2.2 beta 1

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hello, How did you install? Did you upgrade via RPM or did you download the kde source tarball and build the whole thing OR did you download source rpms and build them? Did you upgrade from KDE 2.2 alpha? If you installed it, as I did, on Mandrake 8.0 systems, and you did not build from sou

[expert] Help...kernel build problems

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have never had problems before now. I simply cannot build kernel-2.4.6. Actually, it builds fine, I get a bzImage out of it, but it will not install and I cannot get a modules directory for it. I get: sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.6-1mdk bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.6/System.map "" + '[' -x /root/b

[expert] Cannot do ftpd, webmin, linuxconf-web

2001-07-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
I don't get it. I have wu-ftpd installed (2.6.1), I have the latest webmin and linux-conf and all installed. I can start webmin but every time I try to connect to https://localhost:1 I instantly get a message that I cannot connect to localhost. I checked my hosts.deny and my local addres

[expert] Multiple problems with kde2.2-beta1 (and kernel-2.4.6-1mdk)

2001-07-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Just to give warning, KDE2.2-alpha is more robust than the latest beta. It would appear to be a good idea to stick with alpha and NOT upgrade to the current beta. Problems: 1. Sound is broken. Installing kde 2.2 beta and the concurrent arts and libarts breaks sound in kde. It dorks somethi

Re: [expert] Sound problems haunt me

2001-07-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hello, Unfortunately, I cannot even get arts to start, let alone deactivate it. Arts starting is what produces, I believe, the error message about /dev/dsp not being initialized. I have tried building and installing the alsa source included with the 2.4.6 kernel but sound is still toast. I

[expert] Alsa sound and /etc/modules.conf

2001-07-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Could some kind soul who is using alsa sound post the appropriate section of their /etc/modules.conf file? I am trying to get alsasound working on my system but am at a loss as to what to enter into the conf file...right now it is setup for oss (and doesn't work). I realize your actual soundc

[expert] Sound problems haunt me

2001-07-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to do this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet dependencies. Somewhere in all this I have lost sound. I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a sound. It has worked fine in

[expert] damn kernel build nonsense

2001-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have lilo. It works. It resides in /sbin just like it should. I downloaded and built kernel-2.4.5 from cooker. It built just fine but then craps out when it comes time to install it (via "make install") giving me: Cannot find a boot loader, you may have to see why detectloader has problem

[expert] kde 2.2 beta killed kdm and sound

2001-07-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
I upgraded from kde 2.2 alpha to the latest beta from cooker. All works fine, and kde looks great but on both my laptop and desktop systems, kdm has been killed. It wont run and doesn't start up after bootup. I am still looking for error messages to indicate why but so far I haven't found an

Re: [expert] Another MD 8.0 issue

2001-07-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
kmenu. The actual directory is in .kde/share/apps and has the "name" of "p?/". If I delete it with rm -rf "p?" it is eliminated until I startup the next day and login. It will not go away. On Tuesday 03 July 2001 16:43, you wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2001 1

[expert] Laptop fun and games...not.

2001-07-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
Just yesterday (Sunday) I used my IBM Thinkpad running MD 8.0 to try (unsuccessfully) to unlock my desktop system running 8.0 + some cooker stuff after the game, "Terminus" locked up the desktop HARD. It was working perfectly at the time, pcmcia and all. After failing to recover my desktop I

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