Re: [expert] gdm

Armisis Aieoln wrote: how do you edit gdm? i mean i installed helix-gnome, and it took gnome off of the login session manager selection, now all i get is kde and the others but no gnome or sawmill... I'm assuming you are running mdk 7.2? Same thing here, actually I tried 3 times.. Seems

Re: [expert] gdm

Armisis Aieoln wrote: Yep... ive emailed them... no reply yet... and unlike kdm i cannot find a control setup for gdm to allow configuration. I've emailed them also.. I miss helix.. I'm currently running KDE2 ( which is not bad.. ).. But I got used to helix and to ME, gnome without it

[expert] win4lin w/ mdk 7.2

Has anyone got win4lin to work with 7.2.. I just found this today and tried it.. However, upon install, it stated I was using a non-standard kernal ( yea, 2.2.17-mdk ).. I would appreciate any help from anyone who has done this.. Alan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

On Monday 06 November 2000 03:02, Dennis Robertson wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:01:08AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it -

Re: [expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

On Sunday 05 November 2000 23:01, you wrote: much deleted. I just printed a document from SO 5.2 last night under Mdk 7.2.. No problems here.. Alan -- +++ Coming to you from Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and/or BeOS. No windows involved

[expert] some 7.2 problems!

Hey all.. I have few more little bitty problems with 7.2 that I hope can be answered.. First, I was the one who posted a few days ago about the voodoo banshee card not installing right with 7.2 or RH 7 beta using Xfree 4.0. I never did solve it, but solved it by buying a new Matrox G400.. Not

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System - BeOS M0andrake

Gavin Clark wrote: Speaking of BeOS, I want to check it out but their docs keep mentioning windows when installing it. This box is just mandrake. Can I get BeOS to install without MS? Thanks, Gavin Sure, thats the BEST way to do it.. Matter of fact many BeOS "tryer outers" are

[expert] grub help needed!!!!!!

Hell all, I need some assistance.. I removed win98 and installed win2000. I had been using PowerQuests boot magic to boot win/linux/beos but it will not work in win2000. So I tried to move grub from hdb1 ( where it was ) to mbr.. This works but will not boot win2000.. I get: booting 'windows'

Re: [expert] APC Backup's software

Stephen Bosch wrote: Alann: Many people have had difficulties with APC's own BackUPS software. I would recommend you use the non-APC open source daemon apcupsd which you can find by searching for this term at www.google.com/linux. I am currently using this daemon to support

[expert] APC Backup's software

Has anyone gotten APC's Backups software to work? I've tried both RPM and source, both with same result.. I'm connected to the UPS with ttyS1.. Upon the install script, the software tries to init the ups com port ( Light goes out ) and reports an error, the ttyS1 port must be set up as a

Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde

Asheesh Laroia wrote: Now I'm using the following KDE RPMS from cooker; it works fine, though KOffice seems a bit more crash-prone than it had been earlier: The magazine ( Linux Magazine ) that I *just* got in the mail has an article on howto install KDE correctly. However, had not time

Re: [expert] About to upgrade mdk6.0 from kde1.1.1 to 1.1.2

Sarang Lakare wrote: my suggestion, don't bother with 1.1.2, either directly upgrade to 2.0 (which is heaven!) or wait for Mandrake 7.2 -sarang I'm dying to try KDE 2.. But after 2 attempts at installing ( following the instructions religously ) KDE2, twice, both times resulting in a

Re: [expert] Can anyone answer this?

Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:52:05AM -0400, alann wrote: What is the purpose? Why is it better ( I'm sure Mandrake people have a reason ). Up to netscape 4.74 Mandrake used the libc5 version of netscape. To be able to load such a program, you had to load it via

[expert] Can anyone answer this?

Can anyone tell my WHY Mandrake uses the ld.linux.so2 to load Netscape? Where as RedHat and others just load NS as an executable? What is the purpose? Why is it better ( I'm sure Mandrake people have a reason ). I'm just really lost as to why and what purpose.. Thanks! Alan Keep in touch

Re: [expert] firewalls - what is good - port sentry?

Andy Judge wrote: I was curious what firewall software (preferably free) is considered powerful and somewhat easy to use. I wrote my own with ipchains and ipmasqadm. Mandrake comes with gfcc, but I might as well write the thing by hand. I've read about the port sentry firewall and that

Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out

Phil Risby wrote: Wilson wrote: I downloaded and installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta but everytime I try to boot it stops at: Would some kind person tell me what to do with the iso file? Do I burn it straight to CD or what? Please instruct a first time iso downloader :-) Thanks

Re: [expert] Netscape Navigation/Location toolbar color

Dale Morris wrote: I changed the screen resolution on my Mandrake 7.0 configuration to 32b at 1024 and the system froze and I had to do a hard reboot. When I reconfigured X to 24 at 800 and brought up Netscape, the navigation/tool bars at the top were in black relief. ?? This is a noted

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems

Larry Sword wrote: RRPotratz wrote: Hello, I've upgraded my motherboard and CPU and now can not get my SB64AWE to work correctly. As the modules are loaded as it boots the card starts to buzz and does not stop. The only way to get it to stop is to edit anything having to do with

Re: [expert] tape backup

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to tape drives in linux and actually have no clue on how to install them. I got myself sony superstation ide drive and mdk 7 detected it as disk drive? mind telling me abouth the how tos you've read? thanx You can find them under the LDP icon.. How-to's

[expert] tape backup

Hi, I'm trying ( unsucessfully ) to get my Colorodo T-3000 to work under linux. I have read a number of how-tos, but am a little lost in trying to configure it under /etc/fstab. Most of the how-to's I have found have dealt with inserting ftape in the kernal. Ftape seems to be present on my MDK

Re: [expert] Re: Scanner

"Michael G.Moore" wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: I have a scanner manufactured by KYE called the Genius, "Color Page-EP" which supports Twain, Recognita OCR, EPP. I believe it is a SCSI emulator as there is no card, just software. I can daisy chain it to the printer or connect

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

Harshal Pradhan wrote: Hi, We have just installed Mandrake 7.0 in our computing lab at college. Users home directories are mounted over NFS and authentication is over NIS. Everything is up and running fine except this irritating problem we have been having with netscape. Even after a

[expert] connecting mdk 6.1 to ms outlook server

I posted this a while back and sort of got off track. I have a linux box at work and I'm trying to get it to ftp thru the MS proxy machine.. Had no luck. 2 days ago, an internet company brought another linux box in for real time video streaming output to the net. They ( who are better at

[expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there a lot of things ( bugs ) creeping around.. Some of the main things I've got

[expert] Cheap Bytes release

Is Mandrake 7 REALLY based on Debian?? The following is what I got from the email list on cheap bytes tonite. This caught me off guard..?? Is it true? Alan Linux-Mandrake (Air) 7.0 is now released! You are receiving this e-mail because you have joined the CheapBytes mailing list for

[expert] ftp thru firewall

I am back working on my on again, off again linux project at work. I need to ftp some files thru our firewall, but so far have been unsucessful. I cannot connect to any site. I'm on the network, and can surf via Netscape using proxy settings. I have ftp in netscape set up and cannot ftp, I get

Re: [expert] Mandrake SSH ...

Shane Owenby wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 11:38:01PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote: "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: Michael Flaig wrote: Hello ! How can I get SSH for Mandrake 6.1 ? It is needed for Servers ... to get

[expert] printer

Last week I bought a new printer ( HP 895Cse ) and inquired about some drivers. TO make a long story short, there's one that works out of the box for these newer color printers. Just choose the cdj550 driver. I was using the HP Deskjet driver and it worked for BW but no color. The 550 works

Re: [expert] Printer

Civileme wrote: alann wrote: Try this http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html Make sure you have Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 or later and it should work. Grant Taylor's Database lists this as a "partially" working printer. Civileme Co

[expert] More on Printer problems.

OK, to recap, my Canon BJC-4200 died. I bought a new HP 895Cse printer. Parallel, not a win printer. I can print from printtool to ASCII test page, and directly to lp0. I cannot print a Ghostscript test page. Cannot print from Netscape or anything else like SO5.1 or Maxwell, etc. Even KDE's

[expert] X memory use

Axalon or anyone else? Any thoughts as to why my X is using 80Meg's of ram? KDE seems consistant to use 59Meg or so.. Whats wrong?? Is this an XF86 Banshee bug? Mandrake Bug? I hate to try another disto! Mandrake has been so user friendly for me and allowed me to get things DONE!! But I'm

Re: [expert] X memory use

Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Denis Havlik wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, alann wrote: :Something seems really wierd here.. :I'm hopeing somebody can give me an answer as to why X uses so much :memory.. : : 477 root 12 0 76300 74M 2216 S 0 1.4 59.6

[expert] X memory use

Something seems really wierd here.. I'm hopeing somebody can give me an answer as to why X uses so much memory.. 477 root 12 0 76300 74M 2216 S 0 1.4 59.6 0:35 X 606 alann 8 0 3720 3720 2592 S 0 1.4 2.9 0:00 gnome-terminal 609 alann 17 0 1040

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks, i was wondering why is it when i run top i can see ld-linux.so.2 running occassionally. Isn't it a library file? Should it be running as a process?? Attached sample log: This might not be exact correct syntax but I also noticed this, especially

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2 and amd

WH Bouterse wrote: I too have seen a recent reawakening of the dreaded netscape induced 'ld-linux.so ' with 95% CPU usage. L-M 6.1, netscape-common-4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm and netscape-communicator-4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm installed This will cause netscape to basically cease to be usable at

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

Steven Smith wrote: The SMP circuitry was 'disabled' by Intel (on Celeron processors). There are motherboards and 'sockets' that 'enable' the circuitry... -Original Message- From: Jason Antonacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL

[expert] .asx player

Does anyone know if there is anything out there that will play a win .asx file for linux?? I looked for about and hour on my sys and the net and came up with zero. As usual, the answers probably on my HD, but I couldn't find one.. Thanks! Alan -- ==

Re: [expert] Kmail and Netscape Messenger

R_Yeo wrote: Hi, I've noticed in the mail headers that there are quite of few of you using kmail, so perhaps some guru can help me. I have been using Netscape. Recently, during my travel home, I accumulated in excess of 800 mails. Netscape seems to choke on that and I am

[expert] Question!

Hey all.. I have a trivial question but I'm curious. Dloading many mandrake cooker packages, I have noticed a difference in some .mdk names. For instance foo.bar.1.1.1-mdk5.tar.gz What is the designation ( if any ) of the 5 after mdk.. I have seen mdk1,mdk3, mdk5, and mdk6.. Does this mean

Re: [expert] licq-0.70-1mdk.i586.rpm

Fabien Deschodt wrote: Hello, I was attempting to upgrade my licq to licq-0.70-1mdk and recieve an error: failed dependancies: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 I would like to try the new licq version but have been unable to find this library. Could anyone please assist me in

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

root wrote: Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to http://nitco.linuxberg.com/x11html/com_messengers.html get gaim in rpm and install it. Tik can be installed by tar zxvf tik-0.70.tar.gz This will create a directory called tik. change to that directory. type ./tik.tcl there

Re: [expert] Re: 6.1 installation

John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 05 Mar 1992, you wrote: Hell, I just upgraded Mandrake6.1 over Mandrake6.0. For a day and a half I havre gtried to configure X with no luck. Mandrake6.0 worked like a champ. Also, my dialer works, but I cannot ping. Have you configured

[expert] CD-R ( RW )

I am planning to buy a CD R ( and RW ) soon. I was hoping any of you can tell me specific models that work perfectly with MDK.. And also models to avoid like the plague.. Also as an added Bonus, any of you running MDK and BeOS on the same machine. A drive that would work on BOTH would be the

Re: [expert] PPP disconnect woes

rooker wrote: Please help with a perplexing problem... I used the RedHat Control Panel element netcfg to create my PPP connection to my ispthat is all fine and good... I can use usernetctl ifcfg-ppp0 up to activate my PPP connection from a console prompt... However because I only

Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length

Lee Wilson wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? We've got some runs in our building that are at least 250 Ft. They seem to work OK. I dunno what the "official" spec is on that but back in the old days, we had

Re: [expert] Here is a dumb question.

Eosnet Team wrote: I recently purchased an AGP voodoo banchee card (upgraded from a diamond viper PCI card) and I can't for the life of me get it to change resolutions above 320X200 and 16 colors. It's almost as if it ignors the mode setting all together. I have tried all of the drivers

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

Steve Philp wrote: William Ahern wrote: only tip i've found so far is just to set the date back. date --set='-n seconds/minutes/hours/days/months/years' ex: date --set='-1 days' On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: My RealPlayer G2 has been working just fine for quite awhile. Today

Re: [expert] IBM Aptiva and Linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased a IBM 500 MHz Pentium III Aptiva, with 128M, RW-drive, 17 G hard drive, and a DVD. IBM's technical support just told me that if I try to put linux on the system, they can not guarantee that I can get anything ever running on the computer again,

Re: [expert] Boot hang with 2 eth cards

rq=x,y io=a,b -- this line is for if u have to similar cards and uneed to separate out the irq/io. in factt u can pass these arguments to lilo lilo: linux ether=irq #, io #, eth0 ether=irq #, io #, eth1 alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/11/99 12:00:21 PM Plea

Re: [expert] Is there a linux offline news reader

Harald Schreiber wrote: P A N - A Newsreader for X: http://www.superpimp.org/ ftp://source.rebelbase.com/pub/pan/pan-0.4.9.tar.bz2 Translation: "pan" is a real offline newsreader for GNOME/gtk+. I don't use it. So I can't give you any comments on it. Regards Harald -- I've got

Re: [expert] Boot hang with 2 eth cards

paul johnson wrote: I was successfully running Mandrake 6.0 with no problems until I tried to use linuxconf to add a second ethernet card, eth1, an Intel Pro/100. When I tried to activate the changes the machine hung. I powered off and now the boot process never gets beyond activating

Re: [expert] Work Project

"Ji-Haw, Foo" wrote: Regarding your dual network card problem, it is a well known issue for many people (like me) who use Linux as a router. I assume your 2nd NIC has PnP built in. What you can do is run this program called isapnp (from somewhere in your harddisk, or look it up on the

Re: [expert] Work Project

Steve Philp wrote: alann wrote: I have been challenged with a task at work and we hope to use Linux for this. This will be the first Linux machine in the building. Let me try to describe what I want to do and what I have done allready. I am a TV engineer. Our TV station's

Re: [expert] Work Project

Dan Brown wrote: alann wrote: 2 network cards residing in a machine. These are ISA cards BTW, so I cannot set IRQ like PCI's. Actually, you've got it backwards. Typically, ISA cards need particular IRQs set, not PCI cards. I'm not 100% sure about the EtherExpress, but my

Re: [expert] OT Wiring ethernet

Ramon Gandia wrote: Aaron W. wrote: Pairs are usually a color, and the second wire is white with trace of the color. As in blue and blue/white. It is easy to figure out which wires are the pair. However, in the RJ-45 connector, the pairs are NOT 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. They are in some

[expert] SB PCI 128 FIXED! READ THIS!!

First, let me say THANKS to the many people who have responded with ideas.!! I TRULY thank all of you.. But I stumbled across this myself and think I found a bug. First, the fix. To refresh, I had partial sound, but NO CD sound, and no realplay. I did have .wav and sounds in

Re: [expert] SB PCI 128

Thierry Vignaud wrote: Civileme wrote: Didn't work on what? There are some alternatives for sound setup, for the really weird hardware Well, for "special" sound stuff, here is a doc i wrote for a poor lonesome linuxer who cannot get its sndcard working. -- MandrakeSoft

[expert] SB PCI 128

I have this problem thats really driving me nuts and cannot resolve. It deals with my SB PCI128. I *have* sound, except CD audio. I can play .wav's ( although many seem to be terribly distorted, and play fine in windows. ). Can play .mp3s, movies, etc, except CD's. I get NO sound. Yes,