Re: [expert] 9.2 and BootDisk

2003-11-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Forgive me if this has been discussed. I tried it with 3 different machines, 4 different floppies. A Error Occurred. mkbootdisk failed or Unable to properly close mkbootdisk, No space left on device My problem is that I have dualboot scenarios..with winblows.and

Re: [expert] Interesting problems installing 9.2 on desktop

2003-11-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [..] The biggest problem, and it is unacceptable, is that I could not get 9.2 to format my partitions as ReiserFS. 9.0 and 9.1 could. SuSE 9.0 could. 9.2 would error out almost immediately as soon as it tried to format

Re: [expert] club cont urpmi

2003-11-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Bown wrote: I was referring to the club contribs as listed on the club download page, all I get is this, this site goes a little further but never downloads [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# urpmi.addmedia -h ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel

Re: [expert] programms disapearing..

2003-11-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Markus Gonaus wrote: Am Fre, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Vtucatz elPunishar um 03:48: that would be ugly :( but whats speaking against that is that if i re-install X, the XFree86 binary is still not there. well, here is what i did, perhaps someone can tell me if that was good and if it should

Re: [expert] sound in 9.2

2003-11-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jack Coates wrote: You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an actual problem, but here goes :-) Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since installing/upgrading to 9.2? I have two systems with this problem, one using the stock 2.4.22-21 kernel and AC97 sound

Re: [expert] Mozilla flash and shockwave plugins not working in MDK9.2

2003-11-03 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed MDK9.2 with the upadtes w/o problems. However, I can't make flash (and shockwave was unavailable for MDK9.2) plugins work in Mozilla. I eve tried to install an rpm from http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html but didn't work, either. Any clues as

Re: [expert] urpmi won't install kdesdk/kdevelop

2003-11-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anguo wrote: Hello, Thanks to your help, I have solved my autoconf/automake/BerkeleyDB requirements, but I still fail to install kdevelop. I have tried everything I could think of, including installing from source. After a few hours of compiling, the latest cvs snapshot won't compile. After

Re: kernel and public keys Re: [expert] SOLVED: urpmi won't install kdesdk/kdevelop

2003-11-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anguo wrote: Hello Rolf, On Monday 03 Nov 2003 12:39 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] and a gpg signature check failure. What does the following query give you: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ rpm -qa gpg-pubkey* gpg-pubkey-d7c32450-3cbb6966 gpg-pubkey-70771ff3-3c8f768f$ rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-22458a98 gpg

Re: [expert] fstab question (was broken xmms)

2003-11-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reposting this under an improved title. What should I change in the following fstab line to allow non-root users read/write access to the drive? /dev/hdd2 /mp3 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 TIA This is what the install gives me: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c

Re: [expert] Re: Mount: error 19 / Kernel panic booting 2.4.22

2003-11-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Paul wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:10:01 +, Paul wrote: I get a kernel panic when I boot kernel-2.4.22. When I boot from kernel-2.4.19, everything is fine. Someone suggested switching the filesystem stype from 'auto' to 'ext3', but I'm still having the problem... There is a cooker thread

Re: [expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver

2003-10-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I

Re: [expert] [dvd::rip] subtitle2pgm is missing or to old

2003-10-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, to copy DVDs I use dvd::rip and everything works fine, except copying the subtitles. It complains that the programm subtitle2pgm is missing. Does anyone know where I can find this programm? TIA, Helge There is subtitleripper in plf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ urpmq

Re: [expert] install from hard disk?

2003-10-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all It already bothered me for a while since mandrake 9.0 to current 9.2. Usually I mirror a copy of mandrake linux and install from that hard disk partition. I works well and really fast. But when I tried to add some package,software manager always told me that file was

Re: [expert] GL screensaver crash

2003-10-25 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:25 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop

Re: [expert] Update procedure not fully working - am I doing something wrong?

2003-10-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, I'd like to be able to pull down the new kernel and it's source. I've added numerous update mirrors (not at the same time ;-) using MandrakeUpdate but although I can see the kernel source, I don't have the option of downloading the kernel itself using urpmi, e.g. # urpmi

[expert] GL screensaver crash

2003-10-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with mouse or keyboard activity. I have the screensaver set to activate after 7

Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jack Coates wrote: cool! What's in powerpack that isn't in download? What's convenient for me is stuff like acroread, FlashPlayer, j2re for java plugin. I see RealPlayer, some modem drivers, nVidia, and ati video doodads I don't use. Rolf On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:57, JOHAM,DAVID

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
OK, I see why this didn't show up on the list. Please, also, read about setting reply-to in the wiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Rolf Pedersen wrote: Bill Dearing wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 17:15, Greg Meyer wrote: I think the official 9.2

Re: [expert] Problem with Urpmi/RpmDrake under 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: I am not able to access my installation CDs nor any of the usual sites at PLF, Texstar, or Club_comm after the upgrade. How can I fix this problem. I remember it after the 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade, but forget how to fix it. Rob This sounds like a case of urpmi sources not

Re: [expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing between 70 to 90 K/sec. I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to: ('max_upload_rate', 0, 'maximum kB/s to upload

Re: [expert] help for cups

2003-10-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
stephlub wrote: Le Lundi 20 Octobre 2003 10:28, stephlub a écrit : I know it's not the newbie list but I really need help to have a cups server up and running quickly. I spent hours with this and can't bypass the problem. This is an 'ancient' Mandrake updated to 9.1 running on an an 'ancient',

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I just finished my install and have the exact same problem. Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand. I've sent emails

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. Well one hates to seem like an idiot, but exactly what is the point of these scripts if when one does

Re: [expert] Qmail RPM for Mandrake

2003-10-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
James wrote: Can anyone direct me to a site where I can download a Mandrake RPM for Qmail? I tried the www.qmail.org site which has a link to Mandrake RPMS, but the link doesn't work. I also tried http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/ and the two links for Qmail there don't work, either. I also

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Oct 2003 at 21:17, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I went to the club site, clicked the Downloads box, and then the MandrakeClub mirrors script link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to: http

Re: [expert] 9.2 and GIMP ???

2003-10-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Bown wrote: Hi this is minor but damn annoying After trying to print a jpeg from gimp-1.2.5-6mdk to an Epson C82 printer using CUPS, instead of a nice piccy of a swiss steam engine I got 1 line of about 20 characters mix of german, greek , math symbols. on page after page after page.

Re: [expert] urpmi: get summaries, etc

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eric Huff wrote: Hello, How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. The more you specify a file path to urpmf, the less it will return as relevant, and vice-versa. However, if urpmf returns nothing for a specific library,

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Fred Albrecht wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ top quote snipped ] I went to the club site, clicked the Downloads box, and then the MandrakeClub mirrors script link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to:

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. You should now see all the menu items in MenuDrake as they should be. Now all you do is click Save and voila you menu items are back. Greg That

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Type mcc. Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd as urpmi source. Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It will not be accepted without! Good luck, HarM You can

Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
AS Reginvest wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mandrake has mozilla-firebird in contrib/ for 9.2 and I had it installed in 9.1, so it is probably also in 9.1 contrib/. Nope, can't find it. It might be in plf which seems to be broken (at least for me) right now. Will have to try Dave's suggestion

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

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: 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 - Turgut

Re: [expert] dualboot 9.2 + XP Pro on laptop

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, a really simple question: where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on a laptop that already has XP on it, in such a way that one can boot either OS at the end of the installation? There are

Re: [expert] dualboot and need to reinstall windows

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil G. wrote: I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K. I think this will this screw up the bootsector so that I can't boot into Linux. And if so, how do I

Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
AS Reginvest wrote: Hey all! Are there Mdk packages available for those mentioned in subject? Could not urpmi them, even though tex, plf and contrib sources have been configured. Wahur Mandrake has mozilla-firebird in contrib/ for 9.2 and I had it installed in 9.1, so it is probably also in

Re: [expert] 9.2 md5sums

2003-10-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: I got the following md5sums. Does anybody concur? 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372 MandrakeLinux-9.2-19-Download-3.i586.iso Miark

Re: [expert] LM9.2: MD5 sums for Download Powerpack editions

2003-10-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Frederic Soulier wrote: Hi I've seen the MD5 sums for the Download edition and the ones I have have the same MD5 sums. Could someone post their Powerpack edition MD5 sums? Thanks. For the Download edition: 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
I think that mirror is congested. Loading any of the parent directories in a browser is pretty slow and the RPMS/ directory has not loaded after several minutes. I always check the mirror in a browser if there are problems with MandrakeUpdate; sometimes you will find it is refusing new

Re: [expert] konsole settings

2003-10-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mike Rambo wrote: Ever since I upgraded my system from 8.1 to 9.0, and now 9.1, I have found that settings are not saved with konsole (schema, fonts etc). It looks like they should be saved in ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc but it doesn't seem to happen. I prefer to keep several konsoles open but

Re: [expert] konsole settings

2003-10-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mike Rambo wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:59, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Ever since I upgraded my system from 8.1 to 9.0, and now 9.1, I have found that settings are not saved with konsole (schema, fonts etc). It looks like they should be saved in ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc

Re: [expert] icewm

2003-10-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Kwan Lowe wrote: 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

Re: [expert] GRUB / booting in 9.1

2003-10-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
skippi wrote: Howdy. I am trying to install 9.1 on a brand new MoBo. It's a Intel D865GBF. Info is here: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/ The install process seems to go just fine, until the very end. When I reboot, I get my Win98 start up menu. GRUB is not installing. On top of that, I

Re: [expert] How to make adsl-start available for users?

2003-10-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
suspect that syntax/spacing deal. Rolf On Sunday 05 October 2003 08:28 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I can only adsl-start by logging as root. How can I make adsl-start available for all users? I tried sudousers but no avail (It is more than likely that I did

Re: [expert] [OT] Reply-to

2003-10-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:14:55AM +, Dick Gevers wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! As the list archives don't seem to work[0], please allow me one question: *Why* does

Re: [expert] Getting rid of ¨Remember last session¨

2003-10-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello This is probably a silly question but here it is ... I want to turn off the option that makes KDE to remember what I did on the previous session. Actually KDE doesn't remember exactly what I did, it always opens some konqueror windows, a root command

Re: [expert] How to make adsl-start available for users?

2003-10-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I can only adsl-start by logging as root. How can I make adsl-start available for all users? I tried sudousers but no avail (It is more than likely that I did something wrong but I don't know what). Many thanks Ed As root in a terminal, call visudo.

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you can safely leave it open until you have finished and tested

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 09:46 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] I don't know how the menu item, FM Super User mode, will be resolved but you can always press alt-F2 and type in kdesu konqueror to run konqueror as root, after supplying the root

Re: [expert] gaim compile problem

2003-09-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
bascule wrote: i'm trying to compile gaim0.70 from the src rpm on their homepage i get the following error: GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+ *** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/. error:

Re: [expert] urpmi addmedia

2003-09-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, On 2 different PC's both with MDK9.1 on I'm geeting a prob with the MDK Club site. If I cut and paste the urpmi media config command I get this, It always fails with the same thing. Different mirrors tried as well and all the selections . Me confused [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] still struggling with the HP netserver E45, puhhhh

2003-09-25 Thread Rolf Pedersen
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 15:31, Terje Heen wrote: Have tried to install mandrake 9.1 for the 5 tile with no success. booting from the cd, installing everything and it looks good until I reboot. Then the machine goes to the login window (still ok) login, pass ok then appears

Re: [expert] re-installed mdk 9.1 now unable to use cdrw?

2003-09-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
resend; Please do not set a 'Reply-to' in your mail client when posting to the list. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette David James wrote: I have been using mdk 9.1 for a number of months now without any problems and of course I got bored and decided to fiddle

Re: [expert] re-installed mdk 9.1 now unable to use cdrw?

2003-09-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 3:33 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: resend; Please do not set a 'Reply-to' in your mail client when posting to the list. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquet te David James wrote: I have been using mdk 9.1 for a number

Re: [expert] grub-install won't

2003-09-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Felix Miata wrote: For reasons I won't get into, I had to reinstall 9.1 today. Ever since I first discovered it more than two years ago, I've used grub exclusively as my boot loader. During this install, as on the same machine about three months ago, I specified grub during installation. During

Re: [expert] grub-install won't

2003-09-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Felix Miata wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: Felix Miata wrote: How do I get grub back? FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed 9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4 00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:25:05 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:31 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 9.2 is supposed to go final RSN (Monday?), but neither the Mandrake home page nor the Mandrake Store have any mention about accepting

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough authority. HTML http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 Not to be a spoil sport but isn't this a bit much?

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution suggests that, notwithstanding the possibilities of a million monkeys typing

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:13, Rolf Pedersen wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 15:13, Rolf Pedersen wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution suggests

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:56:53 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] The moral of the story is. In order to sell a product the doors need to be open to customers. James My point exactly...entirely. I understand the passionate defense. I don't understand the

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 16:35, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Well, you attribute to me only what Haywire quoted for his ends; not really that was all that was quoted, but I feel pretty confidant that I was also replying to the over all tenor of your post, and only since you brought up

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
John Wilson wrote: Sadly, Rolf, having no visible distrubution channel, ie product on physical shelves in bricks and mortar physical stores, will reduce Mandrake to invisibilty in North Amercia. Like it or not, and that applies to MandrakeSoft not you, we North Americans like to hold

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark Weaver wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution suggests that, notwithstanding

Re: [expert] How can I make a RPM source after installed ?

2003-09-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Luis Duran wrote: I did installed the kgpg (gpg for kde frontend) but i found it in source rpm, I typed: rpm -i kgpg-1.0.0-3mdk.src.rpm. I found this list in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/ : kgpg-0.9.1-fix-libtool.patch.bz2 kgpg-1.0.0.tar.bz2 But now i don't know if must decompress this files directly and

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

2003-09-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Avi Schwartz wrote: [..] need this extra help. One nice touch SuSE has is a small icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates available. Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for updates, show the last update log or start the update process. very

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

2003-09-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Dick Gevers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:25:04 +0300, Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?: Vincent Danen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu 2003 22:07): { Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] } icon in the KDE

Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 15 Sep 2003 6:04 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'. assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item. nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone

Re: [expert] Re: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:25:05AM -0400, Miark wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:15:48 +0200, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logical conclusion: Don't buy Mandrake distros at all. Download them, remove the ads, be happy. As they're getting money that way anyway, I have

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Tom Brinkman schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:30:39 -0500: burnin checked. For the original poster, back when I ran cooker with a dialup and help with ocaissonal cooker CD's from friends, I often had trouble reading they're burned CDr's. Specially with a CDrom, tho

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Rolf Pedersen schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:04:09 -0700: Ah well, how do I do a hard disk or ftp install without a floppy drive? This machine in question has a DVD, a CD-RW but no floppy drive. Can I burn the hd.img to a CD-R and boot with it? wobo Take a look

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi all, Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search ways to get MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi and have quite a collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give 'em up! Alas! although I've progressed past utter silence and

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:05 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I get no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David E. Fox wrote: Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker I concur - audacity is good for mp3/wav editing - provided you have enough spare disk space. If you don't, don't try to save the project as a

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of what I am seeing are 9.0 contrib/ packages. I don't know how that happened

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:46 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday September 3 2003 05:39 am, Charlie wrote: I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this with Mandrake, though have to admit that I have never looked into

Re: [expert] imlib

2003-09-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
resending; please unset the reply-to in your mail program: replies should go to the list. Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install gwx,(a weather station simulator) when I do ./configure IO get the following: checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... yes checking for

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Remind me where to find the setting that allows users to shut down? I've found it in kde's control centre, where I have it set to allow everybody to shutdown, but still all I'm getting is a small square offering logout or

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Problems, here. I usually fdformat /dev/fd0 as normal user but, in 9.2 rc1, it seems I have to umount /mnt/floppy, as root, first. Kernel-2.4.22-1mdk. In 9.1,

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David E. Fox wrote: This just in 9.2 rc1 cooker... the software manager seems to be broken, and I can't add any sources - was trying to revamp the sources to include the new CDs as opposed to the old ones. Software Manager quietly dies after I tell it where to go for the CD. Also I tried to

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] urpmi lccked There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake.

Re: [expert] PC shutdown

2003-08-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
(resend, after 8 hrs. and not seeing the original) (three's a charm? ~11 hrs. now) Toshiro wrote: I know this has been asked a thousand of times :) but I'd like to know what should I do to make my pc power off properly; I've tried with acpi=off and apm=off in lilo.conf, but it doesn't work.

Re: [expert] PC shutdown

2003-08-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
(resend, after 8 hrs. and not seeing the original) Toshiro wrote: I know this has been asked a thousand of times :) but I'd like to know what should I do to make my pc power off properly; I've tried with acpi=off and apm=off in lilo.conf, but it doesn't work. The worst part is that this

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 5:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't think it's a heat problem. Besides, if it were so, just logging out wouldn't clear it, I think. Anne I donna know, but I think we have pretty much the same sound card

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Helge Hielscher wrote: Am Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:59:32 -0400 schrieb Byron Poland: You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. Where can I get the RPM? I couldnt find it in http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com Regards, Helge I am seeing it in

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Bryan Phinney wrote: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try each nameserver before giving up but the Net::DNS

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rolf Pedersen wrote: Just for reference, I have hooked the adsl modem, which uses dhcp also, back up, there is no problem with an altered $HOSTNAME and kprinter works immediately when asked to. I did not even re-run drakconnect or change any files. Seems to be how the cable modem/comcast

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:02 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:19 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: You *might* be able to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and make sure there is in entry that looks like: NEEDHOSTNAME=no You would

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jim C wrote: Thought of using the hostname command in a script executed at startup? That was one of my first thoughts and it does the trick in rc.local, with the side-effect of disabling auto-login. I just thought there should be a less-kludgy way of dealing with it. Thanks. Want to buy

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rolf Pedersen wrote: Jim C wrote: Thought of using the hostname command in a script executed at startup? That was one of my first thoughts and it does the trick in rc.local, with the side-effect of disabling auto-login. I just thought there should be a less-kludgy way of dealing

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