[expert] Mandrake 9.1rc1 install on Dell C400 - mostly success

2003-03-01 Thread mike . berkley
I installed ML 9.1rc1 on a Dell C400, with mixed success. The Good: - Network and graphics now work correctly. They did not under ML 9.0. The Bad: - When selecting individual packages to install, it was easy to crash the GUI. I did it twice. - On another system (a

[expert] Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0

2003-03-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to install tnef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi tnef package

[expert] Re: Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0

2003-03-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 03:38 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to install tnef: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:32, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:26:55PM +1100 : Surely no-one these days is still using text-only browsers, or, worse, non-GUI operation. If so, long past time to update.

[expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Azrael
I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be subconscious). Also several times copying files has

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:04, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:52:04PM -0800 : Hmvery interesting indeed. Since dhcp was a concept in and of itself to ease configuration problems, and then zeroconf is

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-03-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Correct. I have 'beep' set and automatic checking. Works well when I'm in the room, and I just look anyway if I've been out for some time. Anne Ditto here. My question is, can

Re: [expert] mailman problem

2003-03-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:45, Tibor Pittich wrote: Da 28. feb 2003, 10:17, Jack Coates napsal(a): more info, sorry I was in a hurry last time. MDK9.0, mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm, the cron jobs fail because they're trying to find lockfiles and such in /home/vdanen.

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote on Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:42:58AM +1300 : Have we pretty well convinced you yet? If you've followed this list for a couple of years, you'll know the answer to that is no. And it won't happen. Ron is set in his ways, just as

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 28 February 2003 02:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 6:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: yada, yada, yada snipped He's got two choices, Greg. If he doesn't turn it off a large proportion of the list won't read them, so he won't get as much help. It's up to him. Anne

[expert] Question on KDE

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all the dot

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:00, Ron Stodden wrote: Simone Riccio wrote: Dear Ron, html is of course nice 2 see and maybe look professional but please consider that not everyone on this list has broadband, and goes on with 56Kbps modems. So, that's more than a cosmetic or geek or old fashion

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head html crap deleted . . . href=http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/;http://members.optusnet.com.au /ronst//a Empty warhead

Re: [expert] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1

2003-03-01 Thread Trevor Rhodes
linux-2.4.21pre4-Xmdk Where X is the version number of the kernel it's source for... IF I'm right VMware needs this to match the number of the running kernel on you box. Make sure it does. If not it's worth it to install the upgraded kernel (they have improved it a lot) also make sure

Re: [expert] mailman problem

2003-03-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Feb 28, 2003 at 10:17:59AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sudo grep -r vdanen /var/lib/mailman/ | grep -v logs vincent.txt produces the attached needless to say this plays hell with the cron jobs. more info, sorry I was in a hurry last time.

Re: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-03-01 Thread flacycads
Todd, I figured it was good- and I'm not overclocking the ram or the KX7 FSB, and am running serial presence detect ram timings. That Crucial PC2700 is excellent, and is known to do much better than rated, and the Abit KX7 is known to reach a 180-190MHZ FSB. However, if I started doing that

Re: [expert] missing file?

2003-03-01 Thread g
James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:20, g wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As a result of reading an earlier mail from Greg I got curious about the config for dhclient According to the man pages there should be a curious about is that either the man page is wrong or

Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:27, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:07, James Sparenberg wrote: Took me a moment... Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure it has the directory your libraries are in listed For example /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib are the defaults on my

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:09, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David McGlone wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:04:28PM -0500 : I never had a problem setting my hostname with Red Hat, but since I switched to Mandrake, some things are just so different.

[expert] Re: Low latency kernel [was: Mandrake Out of Control?]

2003-03-01 Thread Luca Olivetti
flacycads wrote: Oh yeah- I notice you're running 2.4.21pre4. I installed that too (the cooker rpm), on a fresh 9.0 install, and it seemed to work fine. I just noticed that there is a preemptive kernel patch for 2.4.21pre2- do you think that would work on a vanilla pre4 with a stock 9.0? And is

[expert] voice messaging

2003-03-01 Thread mycal62
are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK

[expert] test, please don't open

2003-03-01 Thread Francisco
-- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:06 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: HTML e-mail is always more than likely to be spam than a real message. In fact, I typically have a filter set up to automatically send mails with html to the trash. After I saw civileme's post, I had to go retrieve

Re: [expert] voice messaging

2003-03-01 Thread tarvid
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:28 am, mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Look under Networking, Instant Messaging in the menu. one of my guys had gnomeeting talking to MS NetMeeting. Jim Tarvid

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'morning, everyone... On Friday 28 February 2003 02:34 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Correct. I have 'beep' set and automatic checking.

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread tarvid
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is rather sluggish (could be

Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package

2003-03-01 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Friday 28 February 2003 22:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:27, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:07, James Sparenberg wrote: Took me a moment... Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure it has the directory your libraries are in listed For example

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:41 am, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head html crap deleted . . .

Re: [expert] voice messaging

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Voice messaging is in vocp but I have not used it. It requires mgetty-1.30, which has just been added to cooker and will be in 9.1 or you could compile it

[expert] sametime in lotus notes

2003-03-01 Thread Tom
I was able to observe sametime operating in Lotus notes. It looks like an instant messager clone. Is there a Linux equivalent which can correctly communicate with sametime? And what needs to be done to get it working? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Re: Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 03:38 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Azrael
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, and also when coping files to the new partition..

[expert] Clean-up

2003-03-01 Thread Tom
I had a HD crash and the normal recovery at boot up fixed 99% of the mess. However, I have a directory which resist efforts to delete it. Have a look-see at this ls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mine]$ ls -al BAD-DIR total 116 drwxrwxrwx4 tko tko 4096 Mar 1 12:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x7 tko

Re: [expert] Question on KDE

2003-03-01 Thread diego
Sorry, no guru here so no idea too :-(( But... when I want to open a full kde2 environment through command I do: 1) kwin (window manager) 2) kdeinit (some basic kde stuff) 3) kicker (panel bar) 4) kdesktop (obvious) Might be this solves about missing render... El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread diego
If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! El sáb, 01-03-2003 a las 18:27, Azrael escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at

Re: [expert] voice messaging

2003-03-01 Thread diego
I had gnomeeting working against a netmeeting (no webcam on my side and a cheap one on the Windows side). It was real damn sluggish but I would swear it was connection (we were on different operators) because similar delays/jitters in TCP packets were similar with ftp. I got video and sound

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Azrael
DMA works on my other 2 hard drives on the highpoint controller, without patching or any fuss. Just the new maxtor drive played up. But I put it onto a normal IDE (non highpoint) channel, and works fine. So my problem is gone. On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:42, diego wrote: If I'm right HighPoint

Re: [expert] Question on KDE

2003-03-01 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
diego wrote: If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! Alan Cox's ide patches from 2.4.20-ac1 were merged in the cooker

Re: [expert] Clean-up

2003-03-01 Thread Philip Webb
030301 Tom wrote: Have a look-see at this ls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mine]$ ls -al BAD-DIR total 116 drwxrwxrwx4 tkotko 4096 Mar 1 12:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x7 tkotko 4096 Mar 1 12:30 ../ drwsrwx--x2 2182807566 4606451 49152 Jan 11 1970

Re: HTML (was Re: [expert] Contribs)

2003-03-01 Thread Philip Webb
030228 Luca Olivetti wrote: Philip Webb wrote: my home-made c 99 % effective spam filter via .procmailrc contains: # Try to filter Kleze :0 * ^Content-Type:.*html kleze :0 * ^Content-Type: multipart kleze Except the second rule would catch: a) all messages on this

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:27 pm, Azrael wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 15:55, tarvid wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. Formatted ext3 etc. When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition,

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Jim C
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:06 am, Ron Stodden wrote: ... Ron, It's not a matter of whether or not the mail program will read html, it's that the folks on *this* list DON'T want to read html. I want mine to read html but I want it OFF by default. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Question on KDE

2003-03-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:00, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will

[expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-01 Thread John Haywood
I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-01 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 02 Març 2003 01:43, en John Haywood va escriure: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. You haven't told us what Radeon you have, but the Ati's drivers are for 8500 to

Re: [expert] RPM help -- finding library in source package

2003-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:51, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hmm I'm not aware that such an app is available. Butit should be possible: a) write a perlscript that urpmf all librarys and checks if the rpm that contains it is installed = spit out the libraries, that are not installed by rpm and

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
John Haywood wrote: I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver,

Re: [expert] OT chatter

2003-03-01 Thread -Glenn-
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I am seeing more and more OT chatter on threads that have long since strayed from their original subject. The content of these conversations is many time personal and it would be better if they were taken to a private e-mail conversation

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread tarvid
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: Until I can migrate my clients over to Postfix I have been using the access lists in Sendmail to block certain repeat spammers. I am wondering if I could just use iptables to block them and take the load off Sendmail? My question

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread David E. Fox
Bottom line is tho, the Welcome to the [Mandrake} mailing list email that automatically is sent to each new subscriber specifically And then the mailing list admins add a bunch of MIME gibberish at the end of *every* message. It's not HTML, but it's about as bad. And as far as I know

[expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

2003-03-01 Thread Mark
Hi Everyone, I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs, I am using mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g .. the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x with out having problem like ./cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi

Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:43 pm, Mark wrote: I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs, I am using mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g .. the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x with out having problem like Mandrake is

[expert] Screensaver woes

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I tried this on the newbie list and got little help so: I have a stock install of Mandrake v9.0 Powerpack and I upgraded the Nvidia drivers to the 4191 release. I've got 3D acceleration in games and apps - with the exception of screensavers. None of the 3D screensavers work now. I'm sure

[expert] UT2003 help?

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone else having problems with this game under v9.0? I can play it just -so- long then, always...it segfaults out. Whats puzzling is that this game, running under 9.0 on my 2 sons computers runs for hours flawlessly. We all use Nvidia Geforce cards. One is running the 4191 drivers, 2 are

[expert] Remote Linux printer problems:

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, with the 9.0 Powerpack, I setup 2 comps on my 3 comp lan to use my one and only Epson C62 printer on my main comp. Using CUPS on the 2 comps worked just fine. I could print with no problems. I've not a clue as to what I've done but now, I get this message when I attempt to print from

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block an entire network this: iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP I added this, however traffic

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread .
209.8.161.0/24 will get 209.8.161.0 - 209.8.161.255. /16 will get 209.8.0.0 - 209.8.255.255 Is iptables running on your firewall, with the mail server behind it, or on your mail server? If the former, you might need to add this on the FORWARD chain, not INPUT. Keep in mind that you're

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening... On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:48 pm, . wrote: 209.8.161.0/24 will get 209.8.161.0 - 209.8.161.255. /16 will get 209.8.0.0 - 209.8.255.255 Is iptables running on your firewall, with the mail server behind it, or on your mail