Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update

Re: [expert] Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3 just didn't take the

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
. It was used to install an embedded system with a canned set of packages. There are a couple other files associated with it that I've long lost, but it's easy enough to figure out. http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/install_system -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http

[expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO (dev 0x1600): invalid argument and i didn't find any way to install lilo so I decided to use grub and started without any problem any idea? What size hard drive do you have? -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear All, Can we make menu in bash script just like in DOS' batch file? Such as: === [Menu] Pls select what you want to do: 1. Copy /etc/dhcpd.conf 2. Copy /etc/wvdial.conf 3. Make directory /var/log/nullmailer 4. Do all of above == Could you please give

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
but if you learn dialog, then you can readily port the same script to xdialog, which is keen :-) Yes -- xdialog has effectively replaced 90% of my tcl/tk needs. It's still not a complete substitute, but the ease of generating interfaces makes up for its inflexibility. -- The Digital Hermit

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. Generally they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is one that uses the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the actual proper spelling. Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would

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

2003-11-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
I would LOVE to be able to do this in OpenOffice. I would LOVE for the document on the screen to appear as it does when I print it out (Lyx gives no indication of what the output will actually look like). LyX and LaTeX not WYSIWYG editors and actually make it a point in their documentation.

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

2003-11-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what this means. I write a paragraph in OO, in Lyx, and in Abiword. Same paragraph. I then print it. It looks identical regardless of what I used to generate it. The text is whatever quality the printer can produce. There is

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 Installation Problems

2003-11-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
Now, in thinking about the problem, it would seem that there is some problem with how the ide drivers attempt to attach to the CDROM. Or is it that the download images are different from the purchased CDs? Does anybody have any ideas with this problem? Has anybody successfully installed

Re: [expert] I need to Port Foward 443 internally

2003-10-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
Does anyone have a simple approach to forward the 443 port to an internal machine? Assuming your running some sort of Linux router with IPTABLES, you should be able to do something like this: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -d w.x.y.z --dport 443 -j DNAT --to-destination a.b.c.d

Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem

2003-10-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
OK. On my laptop I use a global /etc/fetchmailrc file because I like the cleanliness of running fetchmail as a daemon at startup rather than as a cron job as a user (Ugh. Crude. Ugly). I decided to experiment on my desktop and try to use fetchmail in daemon mode but instead of an

Re: [expert] KDE copy and paste not working properly in 9.2?

2003-10-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hi, has anyone else had some problems in KDE apps with copy and paste? I'm noticing some strange errors, e.g. copy a full screen of text, and paste in another window in the same application, and getting text from a privious copy / cut. It seems to work when only a small amount of text is

Re: [expert] missing kde features

2003-10-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
Here's a couple KDE features I miss. a) Konqueror starting up with the sidebar by default (in file manager mode). This should work: a) In file manager mode, configure your konqueror session as you want it. Then do a Save View Profile from the Settings menu. -- The Digital Hermit Unix

Re: [expert] TCP receive window

2003-10-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hi folks ! I'm looking for information about how to configure TCP receive window in a Linux based system (Mandrake 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp) because I have an application which needs to download huge data pieces in small time frames. Does anyone know how to do that ? Here's a good link:

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
Thanks. I'm new to developing where I have to play with anything remotely resembling a makefile. I didn't know that in the additional libraries I had to put the -l in front. Ooops. I, uh, did the same thing at first :D. Let me know if i can help anytime. -- The Digital Hermit Unix

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
Unfortunately, this how-to doesn't seem to have been updated since the 1.x days of KDevelop, and I don't know enough about how KDevelop works to figure out how to translate the differences. For example, there's no acinclude.m4.in or libtool.m4.in, and even though I've got every SDL library

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
Not trying to complie KDevelop, no. I'm trying my hand at writing a couple small games (hopefully, with experience I'll try my hand at some larger games as well), but I can't even get the SDL equivalent of 'Hello World' to compile. I get an 'undefined reference to 'SDL_*' error for each

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
The project is a simple 'Terminal C++' project, with the only changes being an added #include SDL/SDL.h, and the contents of main() [below]. Hmm.. Seems to build fine on mine, though execution fails because I don't have a sound device. To build this I did: New C++ terminal project, accepted

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
Just installed 9.1 from 9.0 ( I know I'm a little behind) and I can no longer access my mounted windows drive as a normal user. # ls -l total 16 drwxrwxrwx1 root root Oct 19 19:25 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root Oct 19 19:25 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
Bleah...Sorry. Ignore that last message. Not enough coffee. Too early. I was responding to a Samba question in another email and just replied to the wrong thing (saw Windows in the subject). Need coffee. Please. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com

Re: [expert] Scripting question - deleting old backups when disk capacity exceeds athreshold

2003-10-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
It seems that each time I attempt to write a script for something like this, the next day I see one that replaces my 46 lines of code with one (and actually works). So before I create my usual kludge, can anyone point me at a good way to do the following? I create backups each day in

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
Even quicker is: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] appname ie: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakconf The username is only required if you have a different username on the remote box. Works even slicker if you are using ssh keys. If you're not launching from an xterm and you're not using keys, you

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process,I know that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I check if swap is on? How can I check how much of swap linux is using and

Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have receive over 100 of these today alone. Nothing i've tried with procmail recipes has worked. I cannot stop this nonsense. The from address is my own fetchmail-daemon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am considering having all fetchmail-daemon emails sent to dev/null but fear the

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut I was thinking about this

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
When I apply this IP using the wizard on install it all takes and seems to be there .. If I try and ping anything on the LAN I get destination unreachable, and if I ping the unit from another machine on the LAN it times out. But from the 9.1 machine, I can ping 192.168.0.200 (it's NIC ip) ..

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have a corrupt tar file from way back: /stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ tar -xvf KEEP.TAR keep/ keep/c/ keep/c/arrays.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [...] Any idea how to get around this? I

Re: [expert] decoding DTMF

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Could you tell me how can I decode DTMF codes with a sound card? There's a project in the following link that might do what you're looking for: http://telephonectld.sourceforge.net/ -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
/stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ file KEEP.TAR KEEP.TAR: POSIX tar archive On a tar i made just now, i get: /stuff/keep_huff_sort $ file tmp.tar tmp.tar: GNU tar archive Any idea if POSIX tar is actually different than GNU tar? Hmmm.. I have some possibly bad news. Gnu tar can

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. using RPMfind that version seems to the same vintage as RH 6.2, about the time of the change from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Make sure that you have both svgalib and svgalib-devel installed. But where are they sourced Kwan ? I hav'nt been able to find them on any of the mandrake sites , including cooker. There are a couple of references to svgalibs on LUNI and MDK7.2 and they are dated between 1997 and the last

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also

Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?

2003-10-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello - I was wondering how to enable the thinkpad buttons under Mandrake 9.1 ? Things like volume control and screen brightness settings do not seem to function under X. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut It depends a lot on your particular window manager, but here is a start: Run xev in a

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
What I've been told in the past (albeit on Red Hat, but that shouldn't matter much) is, that with a 2.4.x kernel you do indeed need 2xRAM due to the way 2.4 allocates memory. Under 2.2.x, I happily used swap just up to the amount of total memory I envisaged to be necessary. Unfortunately,

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
I don't have many pages to edit, so adding it to each and every page would be a simple matter of copy and paste. Just a suggestion: If you're editing multiple pages, even just a dozen, you might consider making the pages PHP based. You can enable .html as a PHP script in apache then just insert

Re: [expert] Fwd: Two Linuxes on the disk

2003-10-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have two Mandrakes on my disk - one localised (CZECH) and the other US. How can I instruct LILO to boot on of these two instances ? I can boot only the latest installed. The important thing is to have the same version of lilo available on both. Boot into the latest then mount the root

Re: [expert] icewm

2003-10-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
Is there anyway I can save my theme when I start icewm? I Really like this GUI since it uses less resources than gnome or kde. Here's a link that has some information: http://media.theare.giointernet.co.uk/XP_like_desktop_with_IceWM.html Check out part 2 about editing the .icewm prefs file.

Re: [expert] KDE start up is too slow!!

2003-10-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
Now the configuration, installation is the same as before but now KDE is starting up too slow. Please help me to find out the reason. Slow startup of the window manager (be it Gnome, KDE or something else) is usually caused by a network misconfiguration such as a bad hosts file, incorrect

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
Is there a tool for converting wav files to mp3s enmasse? Right now I am using Lame at the command line, but it is getting old. I would like to point Lame at a directory of wavs and have it encode the mp3 files using the same name. Any thoughts beyond a shell script? There's a program

Re: [expert] 9.1: partition device busy on shutdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine. One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates. When I tried to shutdown the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on. Get a device

Re: [expert] alphabet characters

2003-10-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hey, How do I go about using cyrillic, greek, or any other characters in my outgoing email? I messed around pasting the characters, but when I viewed it, it only showed the ascii character code ''. -- Not very easily :( Here's a web resource for some information:

Re: [expert] Storing snippets of info

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
I like to collect snippets from the lists into a file, in the hope that I can find them when I need them g For some time now I have been putting them into TreePad, which is supposed to be a sort of free-form database. You can create parent/child categories, which feels satisfactory.

Re: [expert] Storing snippets of info

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
I've never actually looked at kjots before, but it looks reasonable. Have you got the file size up to a point at which it becomes a problem? TreePad managed fine until it approached 1MB, then it became reeeaaalllyyy slow. I have about a dozen books which are stored as separate files. Each

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a file. Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it shows up as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer. EXT3 file system, file system check shows no problem. The file shows OWNER: 35327

Re: [expert] /proc/kcore

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
Why is this file size 148180K, when all other files in /proc are size 0? I'm in runlevel 3 no less. -- kcore is not a real file but is an image of your memory. Do an 'ls -lh /proc/kcore' and it should match your physical RAM size. It's not taking up any space on your disks. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] /proc/kcore

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
free -m shows the same as top, 24000K swap in use. Neither explain the 17M discrepancy. -- How much memory is on your graphics card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-28 Thread kwan
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:01, ed tharp wrote: In MDK 9.1, with an NVidia Ti4400 vid card, I have just started having a problem with my winTV card (an early bt878) that as soon as it starts to display it kicks Xfree right down to a re-login. any ideas? to add,,, It works fine when started

Re: [expert] What do I need to program with ncurse ???

2003-09-27 Thread kwan
I need to code a program that uses ncurse gui, what software i need ? is there documentation on somewhere ? what do I need ? In addition to the links that James provided, there are some examples in the /usr/share/doc/ncurses-devel directory (once ncurses-devel is installed) that show how to do

Re: [expert] Copied Audio CD's - 70 Minutes of Silence!?!?

2003-09-25 Thread kwan
This is bizarre. I've copied some of my audio CD's (for back-up purposes, of course ;-) using the copy CD facility in K3B on 9.1. The copies completed without error, but when I go to play them in a CD player, the disc is identified, the number and lengths of tracks reported OK, the tracks

Re: [expert] Machine Name resolution

2003-09-24 Thread kwan
Hello, We're having trouble getting machine name resolution from an DNS server. If we try to ping, for example, a machine named Mach1, we get an unknown host Mach1 error. If we ping the FQDN, Mach1.domainname.com, we get resolution. Oddly, windows boxes can resolve the machine name, from

Re: [expert] Memory Leak in XFree updates

2003-09-20 Thread kwan
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:40:47 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Here is some output from top. See how X is using 212M. Way more than it used to. Has anybody else experienced anything like this? Here's mine. 1628 root 14 287m 29m 3732 R 1.3 7.9 1:42.01 X I have

Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-19 Thread kwan
I need to be able to get at the screens that are displayed when you enter the key sequence CNTRL/ALT + F1 etc on a remote machine. I know that VNC will give me a display of my desktop, but is there a facility in VNC that isn't obvious or is there a text equivalent of VNC. There are a couple

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-17 Thread kwan
Whereas you could well be right. You wouldn't know it here. Compusa now has a Linux aisle dominated by RH and SuSE box sets Fry's has put RH both in the aisle and on an endcap (which by the way was the way they sold MDK up through 7.2) The key seems to be the 3 disk sets as far as a

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread kwan
With all due respect to you all, but I don`t like the idea one bit. It means Mandrakesoft has a line into my taskbar which I did not ask for. Just as I don`t like Microsoft working interactively with my computer, or other adware/spyware calling home when I still used Windows, I wouldn`t

Re: [expert] Before I start cursing at python or perl

2003-09-17 Thread kwan
I've got a situation where I'd like to be able to take the output from lm_sensors (temp and voltage) and read it constantly and graph it as it's going, into a web page. So two questions. 1. Does something that does this exist? (don't want to re-invent the wheel.) I've used gnuplot to do

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-16 Thread kwan
This is great ... I was looking for qa way to do this :) I did you say and put in a script in /etc/init.d/idedma (the script you attached). I wonder ... if there a way to see that the script is starting correctly and the settings are really made to my system? I'm not in front of my

Re: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?

2003-09-16 Thread kwan
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? Just use startkde. Works fine for me: #!/bin/sh startkde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread kwan
hi i am currently using Mandrake 9 and kernel 2.4.19 which came with it... so far my experiences recompiling the kernel have only been limited to using the kernel source rpm for mandrake... now when i try to compile the kernel source (2.4.18 and 2.4.20) from www.kernel.org, it

Re: [expert] bios data check failure

2003-09-15 Thread kwan
the thing is i did everything up to make modules on a fast machine on the network... and then went back to my laptop... mounted my home directory with the linux-2.4.20 directory on it... and proceeded with make modules_install and make install... could that be a problem? my supervisors say it

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-11 Thread kwan
Does it show you all running processes?? No matter which way I try it, it just shows me a few of my users processes and *postfix* (?!). top requires read permissions in /proc, so if your msec level is set too high you will only be able to read your own information. You can also specify the

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-06 Thread kwan
Hey, I was reading and got inspired by this 'root-tail' program. Any suggestions on how to pipe the output of 'top' to this? Sure, use top with the '-b' option for batch mode. You can then monitor with any program that uses stdin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-06 Thread kwan
Cool! But here's another stupid question: since root-tail seems to be designed to read log files - how do I make it read stdin? I've not used root-tail so this may not work: I'd create a named pipe and send the output of top to the pipe. You can then use root-tail on the named pipe. E.g.:

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-06 Thread kwan
IIRC, the nohup is so that when you close the term that started all this, the process keeps running, no? Yes. BTW, someone else mentioned redirecting the top output without the named pipe. This will also work, but you'll need to periodically clear the file or it will grow. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-06 Thread kwan
nohup -b top-output Duh! I meant, of course, to type top -b... Not enough caffeine yet. Gotta brew another carafe or two. root-tail +whatever parameters you need to pass Awesome! That did it - instead of 'nohup -b' I did 'top -b' and it does exactly what I was hoping for. Now I

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-05 Thread kwan
I run several tail commands to monitor several log files everyday. Instead of typing all the commands one by one on each terminal, is there any way I can make this automatic or I can make some kind of shortcut for the job? Have you ever tried the screen program? I use it to set up multiple

Re: [expert] howto edit a pif file in linux

2003-09-04 Thread kwan
Well, I was under the impression that windows decided how to handle a program based on the extension; i.e., if you call a .jpg a .blah, even though it has photoshop installed on the machine, it will choke and say it doesn't know how to open a .blah file. Yes... Winders will use the extension

Re: [expert] howto edit a pif file in linux

2003-09-04 Thread kwan
For comparison, if I specify the bash shell in a shell script and make it executable, I can use any name or extension that I want and the file will remain executable and if I issue the command ./command.whatever it will still execute. On a side note, you can register unknown binary formats

Re: [expert] capturing packet

2003-08-29 Thread kwan
I've setup to Real Player to stream through Squid. May I ask how to capture the Real Audio packet from Squid to web or vice versa? I tried tcpdump host some.realaudio.site, but nothing happens. You kind suggestions are greatly appreciated. Are you looking to capture the sound or inspect

Re: [expert] XMMS crashing

2003-08-20 Thread kwan
mpg123 on that system plays them fine, but says (on both systems): Playing MPEG stream from Ronan Keating - InThisLife.foutemp3 ... Junk at the beginning 49443303 MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo A lot of my MP3 files have this problem, but they have always played fine (they

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread kwan
the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore installer like. So without having to install linux first. This might also prove

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread kwan
Mandrake has no hardware requirements for monitor size or resolution. I have a 13 inch monitor which supports only a resolution of 640x480. . . . hardly had such a problem, at least not with M$ programs, but I never want to go back to Windows, if I can avoid it. A larger video monitor I

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-18 Thread kwan
About as OT as it comes, sadly... I'm needing to use an RH system, and I find that urpmi has me massively spoiled. Is there anything like it or a port of it for RH7.3? The old rpmfind/google dependencies hunt for every library and program under the sun is taking hours out of my day, and

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?

2003-08-18 Thread kwan
I am being offered this laptop, and I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts about running 9.1 on it. It is a '98 3200 Inspiron, Pentium2-266, 512 mb Ram, with a 4G hard drive. It seems a little slow to me, as my current computer is almost 10x as fast. But with a lightweight window

Re: [expert] rpm database corruption -severe

2003-08-14 Thread kwan
/usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ /usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages (now, I don´t get the command here) = What is the final command above? Why the \ just after the pipe? It was probably a line continuation character. The \ was probably meant to go on the

Re: [expert] Motherboard recommendation

2003-08-14 Thread kwan
I'm looking to replace an Abit KT7 RAID motherboard (the RAID features are unimportant), that died due to capacitor leakage. It's for a webserver, so I don't need super speed, I just want a motherboard-CPU-RAM combination that's rock solid under Linux. Anyone have any recommendations? I

Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio

2003-08-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:41, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: The stock MDK kernel shipped with 9.1 is not able to recognize it, I get no sound. Does the latest kernel solve the problem? In that case, which file should I download from the ftp site? I had a similar problem with the 2.4.20 kernel on a

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does

RE: [expert] setting up CVS server on mandrake9.1

2003-08-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:17, James D. Parra wrote: An ls displays the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la home/cvs total 3 drwx--3 500 cvs72 Jul 31 16:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 216 Jul 31 09:17 ../ drwxrwxrwx3 root cvs 1112

Re: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:50, Sevatio wrote: thanks, but that still doesn't work. Something tells me that I need to do a fresh install of LM9.1 instead of upgrading from LM9.0 to LM9.1. I just can't think of anything else that could be the problem. Sorry if this sounds harsh -- I don't mean

Re: [expert] Setting PATH

2003-07-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:25, Jure Repinc wrote: How do I set system wide PATH for bash? edit /etc/profile And how do I set PATH for individual users? edit ~/.bash_profile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 21:57, John Haywood wrote: gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h and for the pci-scan module: cc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 06:01, John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] Thanks for that, Brant. Let me state as exactly as possible what I am trying to do: The file in question is a corrupt Microsoft Entourage message file. It is 1.8Gig in size (approx). I need to step through it and convert it to

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:33, Anne Wilson wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a fix? I think it has been ever

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
Anne Wilson wrote: Hmm - I think it still holds on a while even if there's nothing in the drive. I must admit I do sometimes put a blank in before firing up, though. Anyway, I'll not do that next time, and see if it cuts the waiting time. Yup, it will do that even if empty. But it'll

Re: [expert] init.d

2003-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 05:56, David Hlik wrote: Hi ... i wrote my own script ... and i want it to start at boot ... how? Take a look in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directories (as you've seen). The scripts all follow the same basic setup. These are some of the requirements: # chkconfig: 2345 95 05

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candythoughts

2003-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:33, Jim C wrote: Anyway, I remember way back when... I ran a screen saver as a background for my desktop. It was especially cool. This was quite a long time ago... I've long since fogotten how to do this but if anyone can give me some tips I sure would appreciate

Re: [expert] How to transfer from standard input to remotehost

2003-07-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 11:08, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:20, diego wrote: I want something similar to ftp but accepting input file to transfer from standard input to be able to do something like: tar cz * | ftp remotehost man ncftpput netcat will also serve this

Re: [expert] Backup Remote Windows 2000 Box with Linux

2003-07-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 23:12, Sevatio wrote: The connection has a max data-rate of 256Kb/sec. Rsync for Incrementals? How does Rsync connect to a Windows box? There's a Windows rsync client that you could use. I've never tried rsync to a Windows rsync server, but the reverse seems to work

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 13:31, dfox wrote: Is it pretty much a plug-n-play situation these days? I'm likely going atapi, and have a spare connnector (/dev/hdd). I've seen combo dvd readers/cd rws. are these supported? There a several out there that are 'bare bones' it seems - prices under

Re: [expert] command line to be executed every reboot

2003-07-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
Octavi Fors wrote: Hi, I would like that a certain command line as chmod 666 /dev/v4l/video0 is executed every time I reboot my PC running MDK8.2. What should I do? In which script under /etc should include such command line? There should be a file called

Re: [expert] Unknown problem

2003-07-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:22, Leonardo Sá wrote: My mdk9.0 server was running fine (almost fine, it had some freezing problems that i've posted in this list sometime ago) until the moment I tried to access the webpage. I figured out that it went offline. So, when I turned on the server

Re: [expert] booting a kernel compiled with athlon results inkernel panick :/

2003-06-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 04:21, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi all, Have a funny problem. I tried optimising my system by recompiling the kernel to gain a tad of speed. And since I have an Athlon XP 2400+ I thought it might make sense to select athlon in the config. I didn't change at that

Re: [expert] Building RPMs for NVIDIA

2003-06-25 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:55, Greg Meyer wrote: What exactly does a dummy %prep and %build section look like? It would just be an empty statement, such as an 'echo Doing prep'. In other words, you build and install the NVIDIA script normally on the first box. Find all the modules that the

Re: [expert] Building RPMs for NVIDIA

2003-06-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:23, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I have to compile my own linux kernel and I can build a RPM to install in others boxes. However, NVIDIA drivers seems to not allow me anymore to rebuild RPMs as it used to be. It's not practical to compile a kernel at

Re: [expert] slow samba

2003-06-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 03:31, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me why it's not possible to get a transfer speed of more than 3 to 4 MBps when transferring files to or from a Windows file server using a Linux client, or to or from a Samba server to a Linux client, when you can

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