Re: buttons on KDE panel don't function after RH7.3-RH8.0 upgrade

2002-10-16 Thread Boris Gorelik
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 20:14, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: After updating RH7.3 to 8.0, all the buttons on the kicker (the KDE panel) stopped functioning: when clicking on them, I get message instile of the file or directory file:/blah/blah does not exist. What was the issue indeed? Program

PCI MODEM for MDK 8.0?

2002-10-16 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi IGLUs ! Due to the financial situation, I have to give up my ISDN line. Any sugestion for a standard PCI Software MODEM I can use with my MDK 8.0? I thought of buying an Intel Chipset MODEM, like the one's you get with new PCs. 10x Amichai Rotman.

Fw: Re: How much free RAM do I have ?

2002-10-16 Thread Michael Sternberg
Comments anybody ? Why it's so hard to get amount of free memory available for application in Linux ? Begin forwarded message: From: Guy Baruch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How much free RAM do I have ? Total -(Free+cached) regarding the buffers I'm not sure what the policies of the OS

Re: Fw: Re: How much free RAM do I have ?

2002-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote: Comments anybody ? Why it's so hard to get amount of free memory available for application in Linux ? Simply run 'free' (look at the second line) I thought you were aiming at a bit more than that. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Switching the GNOME 2 WM to Sawfish

2002-10-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
How can I switch the GNOME 2 Windows Manager to Sawfish? I'm using Mandrake 9.0 and Metacity is the default, but it is quite limited in its configurability. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL

KDE 3.0.4 RPMS for Red Hat

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Hi People, KDE 3.0.4 RPMS for Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 (the normal KDE look, not the new redhat's look) can be retrived from: http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.4/RedHat/ most of the hebrew related bugs were fixed there (thanks lars) and it should be very stable. Enjoy, Hetz

Re: KDE 3.0.4 RPMS for Red Hat

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Nope, won't run - seems like not all the mirrors has synced yet.. try this direct link: http://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/RedHat/ - both 8.0 and 7.3 are there, and if you want Meni's hebrew translation - don't forget to take it from the noarch directory. Hetz On 16 Oct 2002

root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Toros Yosi
Title: root password lost Hi, I have computer that has RH7.3 on it and I don't know the root and any other users password ,can someone please tell me waht is the best way to login :)

RedHat pisses me up!!

2002-10-16 Thread Boris Gorelik
Sorry for being rude, but ... This is the storry Several weeks ago, I updated RH7.3 to 8.0 version using update all option. Even though I didn't asked the installation program to remove any programs from my disk, I was astounded to discover that KPackage and GnoRpm have gone, and now the only

Re: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Amir Tal
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 02:17 pm, Toros Yosi wrote: Hi, I have computer that has RH7.3 on it and I don't know the root and any other users password ,can someone please tell me waht is the best way to login :) boot from the RH install cd, login as single user, and use the passwd

Re: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/16/2002 2:17 PM, Toros Yosi wrote: Hi, I have computer that has RH7.3 on it and I don't know the root and any other users password ,can someone please tell me waht is the best way to login :) Boot in single user mode (append 1 to the kernel parameters, 'linux 1' in lilo prompt

Re: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Chen Naor
Title: root password lost if you use lilo as your boot loader. reboot your system and type: single or linuxsingle on the lilo options. change the password and reboot again. Chen - Original Message - From: Toros Yosi To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: KDE 3.0.4 RPMS for Red Hat

2002-10-16 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
All I see there is 7.3. Are these also good for 8.0 ? Hetz == Hetz Ben-Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hetz Hi People, KDE 3.0.4 RPMS for Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 Hetz (the normal KDE look, not the new redhat's look) can be Hetz retrived from: Hetz

RE: RedHat pisses me up!!

2002-10-16 Thread e-tie
Good on you! I have similar concerns about the road that RED HAT is choosing to take, looks like the thickness part in red hat's brain is growing, I hope its benign. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Boris Gorelik Sent: Wednesday, October

RE: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread e-tie
Title: root password lost It worked for me once so if nothing changed since then you can try: At the lilo prompt type:linux single boot single user, there is no need to delete theroot password from /etc/shadow. The passwd command works perfectly welland you can just set a new password.

Re: RedHat pisses me up!!

2002-10-16 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:27, you wrote: Sorry for being rude, but ... This is the storry Several weeks ago, I updated RH7.3 to 8.0 version using update all option. Even though I didn't asked the installation program to remove any

Re: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Max K.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Toros Yosi wrote: Hi, I have computer that has RH7.3 on it and I don't know the root and any other users password ,can someone please tell me waht is the bestway to login :) if nothing above helps: boot from the cd switch to the console (Ctl+F1/2/3/4/5 - i don't know

A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi list, After a recent partition table oops, I had to reinstall my entire HD :-(. I chose mandrake, partly to see what all the fuss is about, and mostly because my previous distro (debian) didn't carry KDE 3 in any conceivably convinent manner. Follows is my impressions from the

Re: PCI MODEM for MDK 8.0?

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Intel's modem are good and supported well under Linux. Connexant based (HSF and HCF) are also supported well, but with the HSF variant you cannot send faxes. Old winmodems which uses the Lucent chipset can be used as well under Linux with the LTmodem module. Thanks, Hetz On Tuesday 15

Re: RedHat pisses me up!!

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I wouldn't judge RH as harshly as you but there is one very important technical comment that I would like to make: NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER trust upgrades Says who? few weeks ago I upgraded my Pentium 350 Gateway from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.3 - guess what? I only needed to modify reboot,

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I was VERY impressed with the install process. I chose Advanced mode installation, but the bottom line is that everything was autodetected (except for the fact that my mouse has a wheel, for some strange reason). This even includes a USB HP scanner! Very impressive. The only problem I found

Re: RedHat pisses me up!!

2002-10-16 Thread Eli Marmor
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I wouldn't judge RH as harshly as you but there is one very important technical comment that I would like to make: NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER trust upgrades Says who? few weeks ago I upgraded my Pentium 350 Gateway from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.3 - guess what? I only

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 17:09, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: for typing? KDE 3 and QT 3 are full unicode. Just define your keyboard to hebrew and type away. You can also set locale and hebrew translation of KDE from the kcontrol. Yes, that's exactly why there is now even no possibility to choose

Re: root password lost

2002-10-16 Thread Shahar Dag
Title: root password lost this will work only if lilo.conf don't contain a password. The good news are that the password is not encrypted, so as someone already suggested you can boot with the cd mount your HD and see the password - Original Message - From: Chen Naor To:

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. urpmi. RTFM urmpi.addmedia to see

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-16 Thread Diego Iastrubni
áéåí ùìéùé 15 àå÷èåáø 2002, 03:08, Amir Tal ëúá: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 02:49 am, voguemaster wrote: Mind my ignorance for a second, but I wasn't even aware linux supports bttv based video capture cards, i'm dying to use mine on it as well!! Any pointers ?

Re: buttons on KDE panel don't function after RH7.3-RH8.0 upgrade

2002-10-16 Thread Diego Iastrubni
in rh7.3 kde was installed in /opt and rh8 in /usr? anyway Boris: rm -f -r ~.kde rm -f -r ~.kde3 or if you fell more expereinced delete just the kickerrc. (find it first). This will solve reversed hebrew problems in mdk (also remember to use system menus and not mdk menus. is it solved yet?

Re: Printing from kword

2002-10-16 Thread Diego Iastrubni
áéåí ùìéùé 15 àå÷èåáø 2002, 19:36, Tzafrir Cohen ëúá: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ely Levy wrote: I tried printing hebrew docs from kword but it keep trying to look for time or whatever font in hebrew and ofcourse doesn't find them. did anyone had any luck in it? I ran out of ideas.. I

problem mounting /

2002-10-16 Thread Lior Kesos
I'm experiencing problems on mounting an exported / directory (I know it's not safe practice - no choice and in secure intranet). I can export the / but when I try to mount it I get a permission denied error. I've looked for configuration flags both on the export and on the mount. Has anybody

Re: PCI MODEM for MDK 8.0?

2002-10-16 Thread Diego Iastrubni
áéåí øáéòé 16 àå÷èåáø 2002, 16:45, Hetz Ben Hamo ëúá: Hi, Intel's modem are good and supported well under Linux. Connexant based (HSF and HCF) are also supported well, but with the HSF variant you cannot send faxes. Old winmodems which uses the Lucent chipset can be used as well under

Re: buttons on KDE panel don't function after RH7.3-RH8.0 upgrade

2002-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: in rh7.3 kde was installed in /opt and rh8 in /usr? anyway Boris: rm -f -r ~.kde rm -f -r ~.kde3 Hey: Boris said most of the configuration worked, and only one tiny part of it didn't. After he re-created the buttons, they worked. Why kill the

Re: Printing from kword

2002-10-16 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí ùìéùé, 15 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 18:55, Ely Levy ëúá òì 'Printing from kword': I tried printing hebrew docs from kword but it keep trying to look for time or whatever font in hebrew and ofcourse doesn't find them. did anyone had any luck in it? I

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-16 Thread voguemaster
Hi, My card is an AverMedia AverTV card. From what I could tell when playing with VirtualDub (for some vid captures I did), and from the filenames of the drivers themselves I think it's a bttv based card.. Regarding the kernel: I'm not looking into compiling a new kernel or DLing a diff one, if

Re: problem mounting /

2002-10-16 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:45:19 +0200, Lior Kesos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing problems on mounting an exported / directory (I know it's not safe practice - no choice and in secure intranet). I can export the / but when I try to mount it I get a permission denied error. I've

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-16 Thread Amir Tal
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 09:59 pm, Diego Iastrubni wrote: áéåí ùìéùé 15 àå÷èåáø 2002, 03:08, Amir Tal ëúá: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 02:49 am, voguemaster wrote: Mind my ignorance for a second, but I wasn't even aware linux supports bttv based video capture cards, i'm dying to use

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-16 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 19:36, voguemaster wrote: Hi, My card is an AverMedia AverTV card. From what I could tell when playing with VirtualDub (for some vid captures I did), and from the filenames of the drivers themselves I think it's a bttv based card.. I have the same card here.

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-16 Thread Oleg Kobets
bttv 848 under Video For Linux I think. just compile it as module and your set. - Original Message - From: voguemaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:36 PM Subject: Re: bttv and emu10k1 Hi, My card is an AverMedia AverTV card. From what I

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øáéòé, 16 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 15:04, Shachar Shemesh ëúá òì 'A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions': After a recent partition table oops, I had to reinstall my entire HD Sorry for your loss.. :-(. I chose mandrake, partly to see

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Wed, 16 Oct: mostly because my previous distro (debian) didn't carry KDE 3 in any conceivably convinent manner. Follows is my impressions from the deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.3/Debian ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3