Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 and helix/realplayer

2007-02-09 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 09 February 2007 08:32, Angus Auld wrote: I was able to get previous versions of helix to work on past Mandriva systems, why is it not playing nice now? :-( I installed Firefox 2.0 and RealPlayer on 2007 yesterday, and noticed that I didn't have sound until I manually ran the real

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvidia drivers

2007-02-06 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 05 February 2007 21:32, RickS wrote: Russ Kepler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] (II) LoadModule: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia_legacy/libglx.so (glx) (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia_legacy/libglx.so (II

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvidia drivers

2007-02-06 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 04 February 2007 10:22, Russ Kepler wrote: In an effort to see the 3D effects I tried loading the Nvidia supplied drivers. After a series of semi-comical mishaps and screwups I tried uninstalling them and reinstalling the dkms drivers from Mandriva. In the middle I manages

Re: [newbie] Okay... Apache and php

2007-02-06 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 14:10, Paul wrote: Hello Rick, check the httpd.conf for these: --8 LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so Unfortunately, for some reason this file is not on my machine. Is there some magic RPM where it is hidden? I installed

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvidia drivers

2007-02-05 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 04 February 2007 10:22, Russ Kepler wrote: Perhaps someone has an idea what I borked in here - wrong Nvidia libglx.so, maybe? I removed all the rpms that referred to Nvidia and went with the dkms version of the legacy drivers, and am still having the trouble. I can switch between

[newbie] Trouble with Nvidia drivers

2007-02-04 Thread Russ Kepler
In an effort to see the 3D effects I tried loading the Nvidia supplied drivers. After a series of semi-comical mishaps and screwups I tried uninstalling them and reinstalling the dkms drivers from Mandriva. In the middle I manages to really bork up my X config, to the point that the display

Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

2006-12-02 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 02 December 2006 09:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:14:32 -0600, Chris wrote: So, have I got too many of the same kind installed? I think so, yes. Get rid of all the Flash 7 stuff. Where are you getting Flash 9 for Linux?

Re: [newbie] Argument list too long

2006-11-19 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 19 November 2006 08:12 am, Chris wrote: Quick question maybe someone can answer. I'm trying to grep a number in a group of messages in my maildir file. There are 4000 messages in this folder and when running grep -l 20773 * I get an Argument list too long which I've come to realize

Re: [newbie] Argument list too long

2006-11-19 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 19 November 2006 11:29 am, Chris wrote: Rather than a for loop the best way to handle this is to use xargs(). xargs() collects the list as input and doles it out in maximum argument list length pieces. The advantage of this is that you're not starting one copy of the command

[newbie] 2007 performance

2006-10-05 Thread Russ Kepler
I've got 2007 Free running on my Dell Latitude C840 with the Nvidia drivers installed from Nvidia, all talking to my 2405 display through a KVM. Sweet, even w/o the 3D stuff working. I guess that I'll have to get the non-free version to get that going. Only remaining 'problem' is the

Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

2006-10-04 Thread Russ Kepler
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 04:36 pm, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have difficulty finding my video card Video problems here as well, after upgrading a working 2006 install. I can't find a display like my Dell 2405 (1920x1200 LCD, and LCDs are picky about

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run: /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator expected[ OK ] [FAILED] What's on line 32 of the file

Re: [newbie] udev

2006-09-30 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:25 pm, Miark wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote: No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run:

[newbie] Upgrading 2005LE

2006-08-11 Thread Russ Kepler
I'm still running 2005LE (10.2) and am wondering about the least painful way of upgrading to something still getting updates. Anyone have a pointer to something online that will walk me through the process? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Weird system slow-down

2006-04-07 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 07 April 2006 12:58 am, Abraham E. Mandac, Jr. wrote: Any idea on what triggers it? mhonarc keeps restarting for some reason. Did you install sympa as a mailing list server? That's the only user that I'm familiar with, it builds the archive display web pages from mail message

[newbie] Shutdown for regular user

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Kepler
After installing 2006.0 I found that my standard user account doesn't have shutdown on the login or logout window. Changing the system settings with msec doesn't bring it back, changing the specific setting (through one of the draks, can't recall) to allow any user to invoke a shutdown doens't

Re: [newbie] Shutdown for regular user

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Kepler
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 03:02 pm, David wrote: On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:43:31 -0600 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing 2006.0 I found that my standard user account doesn't have shutdown on the login or logout window. Changing the system settings with msec doesn't

Re: [newbie] Shutdown for regular user

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Kepler
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 07:07 pm, David wrote: Russ, under Session Manager 'General' (top of page) if you have selected 'Offer Shutdown options' then that should give you the choices of rebooting, shutting down, or new session. If that is not working then sorry no further ideas from here.

[newbie] 2005LE Xlogin screen resolution

2006-03-27 Thread Russ Kepler
Anyone know where the screen resolution for the xlogin screen is set or selected? After a monitor replacement I have the user login working OK but the new display can't handle the xlogin screen (likely a frequency thing, but I don't get any real info from the display error message).

[newbie] Writable CD drive suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Russ Kepler
My 'other' system's CD drive is failing, and so I'm looking for a writeable CD drive for my Dell PowerEdge and Mandriva 2005LE setup. Anyone have suggestions for a drive that's likely to work and remain working for a few years? Want to buy

Re: [newbie] KVM Switch

2006-02-10 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 10 February 2006 07:05 am, OOzy Pal wrote: Hi I have two computer one Linux and one XP. I would like to use one keyboard and one mouse. I googled and found something called KVM switch. Can you recommend a switch that work with MDK and XP I can disrecommend one: don't get a

Re: [newbie] Re: Bounce test

2006-01-25 Thread Russ Kepler
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:32 pm, Margot wrote: The tag was missing from all list messages for about half an hour - just long enough for me to change all my filters - and then it mysteriously reappeared again. Somebody must have been fiddling with the list settings again. If you can

Re: [newbie] test

2006-01-23 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 23 January 2006 07:55 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 22, 2006 18:49, Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 04:29 pm, JoeHill wrote: gettin bounces. have my suspicions. I've been getting the bounces but the message is going thru Sympa Attack? I've been getting

Re: [newbie] test

2006-01-23 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 23 January 2006 09:16 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: No, I know it's not bouncing back to the list (and if you re-read my message, you'll see I never said that). But what's the point of sending the bounce back to me? (That's a rhetorical question.) I'm sending a message to the list. If

Re: [newbie] The evil sympa thing

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:12 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Laugh of the day. Sympa is now unsubbing cooker types. Being a sympa admin can be challenging sometimes. The trigger for auto removal from a list is buried in the code, and is somehow related to the bounce reply format, I haven't dug

Re: [newbie] The evil sympa thing

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:40 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Well, I'm having no problems receiving mail from anyone, so I don't know why a mail to me would have bounced. Yet, I got kicked from the list. Well, really, you don't know that. All you know is that no one is telling you that

Re: [newbie] The evil sympa thing

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 05:13 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Bottom line is that Sympa, or your particular install of Sympa, is broken. Everyone on the list agrees with that. That's why a mass migration to other independent lists is in progress right now. Unless you fix it very soon now,

Re: [newbie] 2006 mousewheel

2006-01-09 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:50 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: It's a Logitech PS2 on a Belkin KVM to the PS2 port. I can't change it. Thanks though. With the same setup I had to add psmouse.proto=bare to the lilo.conf kernel parameters in 'append'.

Re: [newbie] Question with monitoring system

2005-08-13 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 12 August 2005 08:42 pm, Ivo Perich wrote: Well, the fact is that our monitoring server has no problem doing the pings, because we are doing about 15 ping every 5 minutes to each machine. The server is ok, the network is ok. The point is that we think the monitoring system is ok and

Re: [newbie] Formatting CD_RW

2005-08-01 Thread Russ Kepler
On Monday 01 August 2005 05:13 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: Have you tried formatting them with K3b? I have had no problems using this program to format rw cd's and DVD's. I'll give it a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go

Re: [newbie] 2005 LE and Advansys SCSI

2005-07-24 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 24 July 2005 09:03 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just install the RPM, and it will create an entry in /etc/lilo.conf for you. You can then edit lilo.conf and change the default kernel used, or use MCC to set the default. (Or you can manual select that entry from the boot menu when

Re: [newbie] iptables modifying on boot

2005-07-22 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:25 pm, obu wrote: You can just make a shell script with iptables commands rules run it on boot.Look at http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/ That's pretty much what /etc/init.d/iptables save does - it establishes a save point that is saved into on shutdown and

[newbie] mdadm documentation

2005-07-12 Thread Russ Kepler
In setting up a new box using Mandriva 2005 I thought I'd get away from my tape backup by setting up a RAID1. It would seem that the current setup tool is mdadm, but the documentation on using it is pretty slack. I've got 2 identical drives on SATA, only one is configured with filesystems.

[newbie] Trouble feeding SCSI tape drive

2005-06-02 Thread Russ Kepler
Until recently my backup was running swimmingly, but when the tape drive started to act up I figured that it was time to replace it. I've got a pile of older DDS-2 tapes and use an HP SureStore 12000e with a cartridge, so I simply replaced the drive. Now I'm on another drive and the 4th