Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

2002-10-14 Thread David Krider
Chris Kloiber wrote: > Easy. The "nv" driver doesn't work with all nVidia cards, and those that are known to be problems, as well as those that just aren't known at all, will use "vesa" by default. Furthermore, I have found that "vesa" only works in certain combinations of resolutions and color

OT: Cable Modems (WAS Re: Redhat 8 missing smp-kernel as stated by a bugzilla op, but aguy says something else?)

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: "Chris Kloiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Redhat 8 missing smp-kernel as stated by a bugzilla op, but aguy says something else? > My cable modem has gone to hell (again) so I haven't been foll

Re: Dual-Head System w/o Xinerama

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Kittredge
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:43, Peter Boy wrote: > James Kaufman wrote: > > > I have two monitors and two video cards. One is Matrox G400. The > > other is an S3/Virge. I have run them as two separate monitors under > > Psyche and KDE, but haven't figured out how to do this using GNOME. > > The curr

Re: (no subject)

2002-10-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Pierre Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Well I did an upgrade install from 7.1 to 8.0 so now > my thinkpad A22m works in X, but a fresh install of > 8.0 will not properly install. It doesn't even give > you the option of a LCD monitor. Under 'Generic' there are options for various LCD displays, i

Re: Where is my terminal text editor?

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Becker
In addition to nano and joe, there is a text editor in Midnight Commander (the "mc" package). Also, if you want to know an editor that is on every linux system without exception, vi (AKA vim) is the one. It doesn't take much time to learn a few basic commands (less than 20) and you could be

RE: Hard disc re-partition question

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Muhammad, Thanks for your detail advice. At 09:52 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: You have 3 partitions... How big are these partitions and what are these partitions mounted on? I guess partition /dev/hda1 is "/" and /dev/hda2 is the physical which holds the logical /dev/hda3 swap partition.

Re: latitude suspend

2002-10-14 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, I wrote: > On 13 Oct 2002, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > > > > On my Latitude L400 the standby (Fn+Suspend) works fully > > > > The Suspend/Hibernat (Fn+A) doesn't doesn't work at all. > > To enable the apm suspend-to-disk function (Fn+A), you need to prepare a > special partition o

Re: cannot record sound

2002-10-14 Thread Ryan Camick
Stephan André Schmidt wrote: > Ryan Camick wrote: I have a PCI Soundblaster Live! card. I have looked at the man page for sox and checked my microphone volume in aumix (it's completely turned down, and must get turned up for sox to record?). I cannot find anything that you could have set wrong.

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Robert L. Cochran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4 > I'm new to the CPU-level stuff and don't have much background in them. > So some of the terms are new for me. Let me ge

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Justin Zygmont
this shouldn't have to be the case, when the P-pro came out it was like that because of it's new features and intel just wanted to get it out the door, but when the P-II came out it had optimization for 16 bit code + a lot of other bug fixes. If it is slower, that's likely to change eventually

Re: Observations

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Pierre Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Observations > > Also the requirement to have iso file on and non VFAT > or NTFS file system. Many users will download using > WIN200 or XP using VFAT o

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
- Original Message - From: "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: RE: media players > Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. > Why is everyone so hot on rpms? I do so because it

Re: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Warren Togami
Please post the output of the following commands: lspci -v lspci -vn Please also attach a working /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:34:41 -0400 "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # I have always been a die hard compile from source person. I don't # quite understand how rpms work, no doubt i will soon enough tho;) # (Sorry i come from a Slackware background). I hope so. Trying to stay so

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 20:35, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > I'm new to the CPU-level stuff and don't have much background in them. > So some of the terms are new for me. Let me get really basic: why would > you want multiple processors on a motherboard as opposed to a single > fast processor? I take

Re: up2date

2002-10-14 Thread Norman Nunn
I could not repeat the process of my previous email but adding the suggested line to my .bashrc worked very well so far. Any problem with that. Thanks Norm On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:09, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:25, Marek wrote: > > Hi > > > > The little up2date (auto update)

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4 - a bit long

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Pete, thanks a lot! I'm learning. Bob Pete Huckelba wrote: At 07:35 PM 10/14/2002, you wrote: I'm new to the CPU-level stuff and don't have much background in them. So some of the terms are new for me. Let me get really basic: why would you want multiple processors on a motherboard as oppos

Re: Win2000 Smb shares Mounten

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:05, Johan Hendriks wrote: > I want to mount an smb share from our Win200 Server at the office > > i added this to my /etc/fstab > > //server/username /mnt/server smbfs > noauto,username=johan,password=12345,rw 0 0 > > I can mount the thing (only as root) but could n

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Thanks, Jason. I'm learning and I appreciate the help! Bob Jason wrote: My apologies for my cut off email. As I was saying... there is an article at Tom's Hardware here: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/0203131/dual-02.html which details a bit about Hyperthreading, along with what it does

Re: Redhat 8 missing smp-kernel as stated by a bugzilla op, but a guy says something else?

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Don't feel bad. My homegrown computer is down until I replace the memory. Have only myself to blame for it. Only Samsung or Elpida brand Rambus memory is certified for my motherboard, and I was using Kingston ValueRAM which my reseller had said would work. I made a mistake trusting the reseller

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4 - a bit long

2002-10-14 Thread Pete Huckelba
At 07:35 PM 10/14/2002, you wrote: I'm new to the CPU-level stuff and don't have much background in them. So some of the terms are new for me. Let me get really basic: why would you want multiple processors on a motherboard as opposed to a single fast processor? More is always better, unless y

Re: general system benchmark/perf test?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
The hardware compatibility scripts I use are not designed to do this, but it would be fairly easy for you to cause them to time the tests since it is all written in bash. http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=files On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 13:20, Randall J. Parr wrote: > Is there a general system

Re: up2date

2002-10-14 Thread Norman Nunn
I had the same issue in KDE. Found that removing check in "show windows from all desktops" in the -control center - look & feel - taskbar screen generated the same result. I think a bug may have been reported. Rechecking the box and logging in again may correct the problem. I prefer to leave it

RE: Password Length

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:58, John Raif wrote: > Although /etc/login.defs says the minimum password length is 5 useradd > complains that it is to short but accepts it. redhat-user-config gui will > not accept a 5 character password. When you are root at a console prompt, the passwd command will

Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:16, David Krider wrote: > I have two dual Athlons with a GeForce 4 and a GeForce 2. On both of > these machines, the installer correctly identified the video cards. > However, when it came time to configure X during the installation, every > resolution and color depth I tri

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Jason
My apologies for my cut off email. As I was saying... there is an article at Tom's Hardware here: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/0203131/dual-02.html which details a bit about Hyperthreading, along with what it does and does not get you... 'cpu cache bound' (correct me if I'm wrong) is ref

Re: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
Yes or the redhat program  "Robert L. Cochran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You mean /etc/X11/XF86Config (for an 8.0 system)?Bob CochranGreenbelt, MarylandRobert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:>Pierre,>>I have a similar A22p. Check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for Section>"Monitor". >> >> >-- Psyche-list mailing lis

Re: Rescue CD

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:14, Dušan Đorđević wrote: > Can ISO image of card size rescue CD, which is shipped with professional > version of RH Linux be downloaded from somewhere ? I successfully > broken mine :( Here (source also available): ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd/sysadm-i38

RE: Hard disc re-partition question

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
Stephen Liu wrote:> >The hard drive has 3 partitions with sufficient free space for resizing and >adding new partitions. I will use CD-Writer to backup. You have 3 partitions... How big are these partitions and what are these partitions mounted on? I guess partition /dev/hda1 is "/" and /dev/hd

Re: Suboptimal packaging, was:Where is ... text editor?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:59, Marco Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:56, John BouAntoun wrote: > > > I really want a light weight curses text editor like pico. > > No problem, I thought, just install the rpm. > > > > Then I went through all 3 cds and couldn't find the rpm for pico on >

Re: Bios - No access

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 12:48, webmaster wrote: > Since I have installed ver 8, I can > no longer access my bios. When the box > was NT, I had not problems. Anyone else > experance this problem? Some systems (some Compaq ProLiant's are especially famous for this) has only a stub of a bios in the

RE: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
I have always been a die hard compile from source person. I don't quite understand how rpms work, no doubt i will soon enough tho;) (Sorry i come from a Slackware background). M:) -Original Message- From: Jesse Keating [mailto:hosting@;j2solutions.net] Sent: October 15, 2002 1:24 AM T

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Jason
Xeons are workstation/server processors. They can be used in uni or multi processor systems. You can in fact run just one. Random google seach on "xeon" and "workstation" brings up: http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/winnt/x4000/summary.html As you can see you can happily run it as a singl

Re: QuickTime 6, CrossOver and SMP (RE: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP)

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 06:12, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > Hmm, it's actually Quicktime 6 running under CrossOver Plugin 1.1.0, for > the benefit of anyone with the same problem. Crossover Plugin is up to version 1.1.3, with many fixes, especially for Quicktime 6 -- *

Re: Bios - No access

2002-10-14 Thread webmaster
Was able to find the bios disk online. Boot from FD, did the bios check, found that the sleep was turned on, change and havent had a problem since. -- Original Message -- From: Malcolm Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15

Re: Redhat 8 missing smp-kernel as stated by a bugzilla op, but a guy says something else?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
Oh! A wise guy... (slap,bonk,tweak!) Nyuk,Nyuk,Nyuk! :) On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:32, JCS wrote: > On Saturday 12 October 2002 13:49, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > I just read through the kernel.spec file for kernel-1.4.18-14.src.rpm, > > I say! That's not a very recent kernel at all. My cable modem h

Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

2002-10-14 Thread Rick Forrister
On 14 Oct 2002 07:16:45 -0500 David Krider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two dual Athlons with a GeForce 4 and a GeForce 2. On both of > these machines, the installer correctly identified the video cards. > However, when it came time to configure X during the installation, every > resolution

Re: Playing Ogg files with Xmms

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Kittredge
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 09:21, Mikkel Riis wrote: > man, 2002-10-14 kl. 13:40 skrev Brad Kittredge: > > > > > > Don't feel so bad. I did the same thing! Grip want's Lame as it's > > default encoder. > > > > Hi Brad, > > Exactly! The default extension for newly encoded files is also fixed > reg

RE: palm sync

2002-10-14 Thread Gregory Malsack
thank you... Greg On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 14:11, Carter, Shaun G wrote: > Run this from a command line > > gpilotd-control-applet --cap-id=1 > > Shaun > > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Malsack [mailto:gmalsack@;classic.net] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Where is my terminal text editor?

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
Pico is actually a part of the Pine mail client, and there is no seperate Pico package... although someone on the valhalla list said that Nano is a very good clone of pico and it is alot smaller in size... M:) -Original Message- From: Aaron Konstam [mailto:akonstam@;Trinity.Edu] Sent:

RE: Cisco VPN and GCC 3.2

2002-10-14 Thread Brad Kittredge
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 16:26, Robert Claeson wrote: > lör 2002-10-12 klockan 22.22 skrev Brad Kittredge: > > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 00:38, Robert Claeson wrote: > > > fre 2002-10-11 klockan 02.51 skrev Brad Kittredge: > > > > > > > > I don't know anymore than this, but someone posted to our internal

Re: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
You mean /etc/X11/XF86Config (for an 8.0 system)? Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: Pierre, I have a similar A22p. Check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for Section "Monitor".

Re: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
Well I finally tried an upgrade to 7.1 it worked. The 8.0 fresh install doesn't even offer the LCD option for screen. Pierre --- "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre, > > I have a similar A22p. Check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > for Section > "Monitor". Did you select an LCD di

(no subject)

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
Well I did an upgrade install from 7.1 to 8.0 so now my thinkpad A22m works in X, but a fresh install of 8.0 will not properly install. It doesn't even give you the option of a LCD monitor. Pierre __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performanc

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I'm new to the CPU-level stuff and don't have much background in them. So some of the terms are new for me. Let me get really basic: why would you want multiple processors on a motherboard as opposed to a single fast processor? I take it that the Xeon line is for multiple CPU motherboards -- yo

Re: Observations

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
The doc say at the boot: prompt you can type linux mediacheck then it supposed to ask the locaction of the iso files . It DOES NOT DO THAT. Also the requirement to have iso file on and non VFAT or NTFS file system. Many users will download using WIN200 or XP using VFAT or NTFS systems. The thinkp

RE: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
If I do a fresh install of rh8.0 X will not properly probe hte laptop for screen info or video borad data. But if I do a upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0 X is working. --- Muhammad Akhtar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any more info?? > > -Original Message- > From: Pierre Lamb [mailto:plamb_98@;yahoo

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:16:38 -0400 "Muhammad Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other # *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? Because rpms make life easier. You can just use the freshrpms.net rpms for Xine, and DVD's play just

Re: gnomecc - where is it?

2002-10-14 Thread mike
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 00:44, Alejandro González Hernández wrote: > I want to change an URL handler for galeon to manage "ed2k://" links. > > According to this > (http://ircnet.de/home/cru/ed2k_urlslave/ed2k_urlslave.html) page, I > must open "gnomecc" and add an "URL handler", but I don't have gno

RE: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
Why don't you compile xine from source? with all the other *optional plugins. Why is everyone so hot on rpms? -Original Message- From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@;mindspring.com] Sent: October 11, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: media players On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, J

Re: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Pierre, I have a similar A22p. Check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for Section "Monitor". Did you select an LCD display? I have trouble whenever I do that. For my 1600x1200 UXGA display I'm using "Generic Monitor, 1600x1200 @ 76 Hz". If the A22M display has a lower resolution, select the corresponding "Ge

Re: rhn-applet-tui: How ignore specific package?

2002-10-14 Thread Tammy Fox
I'm not sure why rhn-applet-tui doesn't accept your preferences. You should file a bug about that. I'll mention it to the maintainer as well. What about using up2date -l? It doesn't install anything, uses the up2date preferences set with up2date-config, and prints a similar output: [tfox@goofy t

RE: SMP Kernel

2002-10-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Wolf, Tyan S2468UNG K7X --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:26, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > What mother board are you running your 2 Athlon MP 2100+'s on?? > > Cheers, > > Wolf

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:34:28 -0700 (PDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # > # There seems to be a lack up media (mpeg, vcd, dvd, etc) players out > # there that install without screaming for deps. Does anyone know of > # anything that installs and runs

Re: Network card turning off

2002-10-14 Thread Malcolm Hunter
On Monday 14 October 2002 00:21, Mark C wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 17:02, webmaster wrote: > > I would check the Bios, but I can no longer > > access it after I installed ver 8. > > err why? > > Installing RH 8 will not effect entry into the bios at all. > (unless someone has removed you F2 or

Re: Bios - No access

2002-10-14 Thread Malcolm Hunter
On Monday 14 October 2002 00:43, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > Well, I finally understand what you're saying. How about the "F10" > button's gone bad? How about discharging the CMOS for 30 secs. or so (by > popping the battery if need be?...) This is a Compaq PC which, in Compaq's infinite wisdom, ha

Re: Startup Gnome

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On 14 Oct 2002 23:59:28 +0200 Duncan Rubinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # I'm looking for a startup folder under gnome like in windows # "Autostart"/"Startup". I would like to launch some progs after login # into gnome. My girlfriend e.g. would like to start gaim # automatically, I would like to

gnomecc - where is it?

2002-10-14 Thread Alejandro González Hernández
I want to change an URL handler for galeon to manage "ed2k://" links. According to this (http://ircnet.de/home/cru/ed2k_urlslave/ed2k_urlslave.html) page, I must open "gnomecc" and add an "URL handler", but I don't have gnomecc (?) anymore. I had it in RHL 7.3, where did it go? Is there any other

Re: Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert L. Cochran wrote: I think a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 will be coming out later this year which will feature Hyper Threading. The definition of Hyper Threading that I've read in Maximum PC, November 2002, p.14 is: "...The technology helps a compatible OS utilize CPU resources more effectively b

Hyper Threaded Pentium 4

2002-10-14 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I think a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 will be coming out later this year which will feature Hyper Threading. The definition of Hyper Threading that I've read in Maximum PC, November 2002, p.14 is: "...The technology helps a compatible OS utilize CPU resources more effectively by splitting the chip into t

RE: Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Muhammad Akhtar
any more info?? -Original Message-From: Pierre Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: October 14, 2002 11:26 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Laptop 8.0 broke X on my laptop worked gret on 7.1 I have a thinkpad A22M with an ATI rage128 mobile. Do you Yahoo!?Faith

Re: rhn-applet-tui: How ignore specific package?

2002-10-14 Thread rruth
Thanks for the quick reply. It appears that rhn-applet-tui does not use the .rhn-applet.conf "IgnorePackages" line. Here is what I did for a test on a RH 8.0 system: 1. Replaced gnuplot with gnuplot-3.7.1-17 from RH 7.3 2. Started Xwindows 3. Looked at the window from rhn-applet-gui. It stated

Laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
8.0 broke X on my laptop worked gret on 7.1 I have a thinkpad A22M with an ATI rage128 mobile. Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com

Running netware server in RH 8 stable?

2002-10-14 Thread Anders Hagstrom
I've installed RH 8 as a server, including the Netware server Mars-nwe. Anyone know if the Netware server is stable. It's version 0.99pl20. After installing the Novell drivers in Win2K and Win98, the netware emulator only sometimes shows up when searching from Windows. I'm running server and clie

Startup Gnome

2002-10-14 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, I'm looking for a startup folder under gnome like in windows "Autostart"/"Startup". I would like to launch some progs after login into gnome. My girlfriend e.g. would like to start gaim automatically, I would like to start mozilla after login. We use gdm as login manager ... Any hints ? Cheer

Re: Setting up NFS for first time

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Gene C. wrote: > /etc/exports file. Once you have that created, then do "service nfs" and # service nfs start rday

Re: Beta testing Linux (was: Re: vmware on RH 8.0)

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bernd Kunze wrote: I see where you coming from, but that's the extra work included for what? I'm not sure I understand. What "extra" work? You going to have backups of any production system. You going to take notes during the beta. You going to take notes while configuring the new version. On

Re: how to fool redhat-config-packages?

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Danial Howard wrote: I use my local mirror all the time for NFS and HTTP network installs. I'm certain that it's a valid installation source. Here's what I use for NFS installs: server name: rhinstall directory: /exports/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386 Is everything in that path the same filesystem?

Re: Observations

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Pierre Lamb wrote: A few items: 1) STILL CAN'T READ A VFAT HARD DRIVE WHEN YOU USE A BOOTABLE FLOPPY. Not sure what you mean. During the install or after the install? 2) Docs say you can run "linux mediacheck" even when you boot from a floppy and the iso's are on a hard drive --- tried many

Re: Win2000 Smb shares Mounten

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Taylor, ForrestX wrote: Johan Hendriks wrote: I want to mount an smb share from our Win200 Server at the office i added this to my /etc/fstab //server/username /mnt/server smbfs noauto,username=johan,password=12345,rw 0 0 man smbmount and look for uid. the uid option sets the owner o

Re: Skip/Lag Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Arendt
The only way I know to elevate priority above zero is to use renice as root. The process is elevated in priority, but *does not* belong to root. Only root can elevate a process's priority above the 0 baseline. Here's a one-liner that should work: renice -15 `ps -eo pid,comm | grep -w xmms | cut

Re: cannot record sound

2002-10-14 Thread Ryan Camick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 16:02, Stephan André Schmidt wrote: > Am 2002.10.14 19:46 schrieb(en) Ryan Camick: > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:33, Stephan André Schmidt wrote: > > > now, from using RH 8.0, I cannot record sound anymore. I.e., my little > > > script `sox -V -c 2 -w -r 44100 -t ossdsp /dev/ds

Re: Win2000 Smb shares Mounten

2002-10-14 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, > //server/username /mnt/server smbfs > noauto,username=johan,password=12345,rw 0 0 > I can mount the thing (only as root) but could not write to it > How can i mount the share and write to it as a NORMAL user??? add the option "user" or "users" to your fstab line, and have a look at the

Re: kontrol-panel

2002-10-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Hans Scheffers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > kontrol-panel: relocation error: kontrol-panel: undefined symbol: > __ti7QDialog > > Anyone knows how to solve this ? kontrol-panel is not in the final release; you probably have an older version built against older libs. Bill

USB printer keeps disappearing

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Knepher
I'm running Psyche on my system at work, and I am the custodian of our inkjet printer (an HP DeskJet 812C). I've had it running successfully off the parallel port for quite some time under limbo and null, but I need to test it on USB for our file/print server. plugged it into the USB port, and it

Re: RH 8.0 Trials - Bootable ISO Image Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Have I screwed the burn process, or is the new boot loader > sufficiently different that my configuration is no longer supported > (for that particular machine)? Can't answer the first definitively, but yes, the boot loader has changed. It supports so

Re: Behavior of mount

2002-10-14 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, > Read it again and look for umask... thx, yes I didn't recognize the umask part, with /dev/hda1 /WXP autousers,ro,umask=022 it works fine :-) Cheers, Duncan

Re: hmmmm ... rhlinux.redhat.com

2002-10-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Robert P. J. Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > perhaps an additional link can be put there to point to > the anaconda sub-page, since that's where it is. just a > thought. Hm, sure, why not. Bill

Re: Roaming Profile Mozilla

2002-10-14 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Netscape 4.x had a feature known as "roaming > profiles" that saves your bookmarks and settings to > either a web server or ldap. Is this feature > available in Mozilla? Actually, that is a good question... is it available in netscape 7.x too? = K

Re: Win2000 Smb shares Mounten

2002-10-14 Thread Taylor, ForrestX
Johan Hendriks wrote: I want to mount an smb share from our Win200 Server at the office i added this to my /etc/fstab //server/username /mnt/server smbfs noauto,username=johan,password=12345,rw 0 0 I can mount the thing (only as root) but could not write to it How can i mount the share a

kweather broken?

2002-10-14 Thread fortepianissimo
I've been trying to bring up the KWeather applet under KDE. I did right click and chose add|applet|kweather, an empty placeholder for the applet showed up, and nothing else. A quick google search told me to expect a config dialog box right after I bring up the applet the first time, but I got nothi

Re: up2date

2002-10-14 Thread Ryan Camick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:25, Marek wrote: > Hi > > The little up2date (auto update) icon by the clock has vanished, how do > i get it back ? I have just removed mine to experiment (to help reply). Have you still got the "Panel Notification Area"? It's hard to tell. The only evidence is a hash

Re: Behavior of mount

2002-10-14 Thread netopml
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Rubinger) writes: > I looked into the mount man page but I didn't found anything helpful ... Read it again and look for umask... -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a

Re: Beta testing Linux (was: Re: vmware on RH 8.0)

2002-10-14 Thread Bernd Kunze
I see where you coming from, but that's the extra work included for what? As I am quite generous to donate time for testing I still think that a straight upgrade path should be possible, especially with a sophisticated packager like RPM On another box I upgarded debian unstable to stable wit

Re: Behavior of mount

2002-10-14 Thread Taylor, ForrestX
Duncan Rubinger wrote: Hi, I try to mount a NTFS Partition from my Windows XP System under RH8. Here is my fstab entry: [root@devil /]# more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /WXP autousers,ro0 0 The partition will be mounted without any problems as user, BUT after i

Observations

2002-10-14 Thread Pierre Lamb
A few items: 1) STILL CAN'T READ A VFAT HARD DRIVE WHEN YOU USE A BOOTABLE FLOPPY. 2) Docs say you can run "linux mediacheck" even when you boot from a floppy and the iso's are on a hard drive --- tried many times never got it to work. 3) My laptop (ThinkPad A22M) will not properly setup under X

Re: RHN Registration

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Becker
Thanks all for the prompt responses. I am sure I can get it done from this point. I had looked at up2date before (man up2date & info up2date) but saw nothing about registration. After the 1st reply today, I looked at "up2date --help" and saw the options needed. Al Becker Jesse Keating <[

Re: Behavior of mount

2002-10-14 Thread Tom Eastep
Duncan Rubinger wrote: Hi, I try to mount a NTFS Partition from my Windows XP System under RH8. Here is my fstab entry: [root@devil /]# more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /WXP autousers,ro0 0 The partition will be mounted without any problems as user, BUT after

up2date

2002-10-14 Thread Marek
Hi The little up2date (auto update) icon by the clock has vanished, how do i get it back ? -- Marek __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

Behavior of mount

2002-10-14 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, I try to mount a NTFS Partition from my Windows XP System under RH8. Here is my fstab entry: [root@devil /]# more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /WXP autousers,ro0 0 The partition will be mounted without any problems as user, BUT after it, the permissions will

Colors of Themes

2002-10-14 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi, ciurrently I'm using gnome with "Metal" as Theme. But I would like to change the default color from these slightly blue to a more intensiv blue, because I think it is a nice theme, but the readability isn't so good. I've searched but I didn't find a way to change the font color for the theme

RE: palm sync

2002-10-14 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Run this from a command line gpilotd-control-applet --cap-id=1 Shaun -Original Message- From: Gregory Malsack [mailto:gmalsack@;classic.net] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: palm sync Hi All, I have setup my palm to sync to my 7.1 box in th

Re: What's the deal with nVidia cards on install?

2002-10-14 Thread David Krider
Mike Chambers wrote: If the card isn't supported or not detected correctly, it defaults to the vesa driver to at least help you get a running system. Mike 1) Again, it correctly told me that the cards were generic nVidia GeForce 4 and GeForce 2 cards, respectively. 2) Using the VESA driver

Re: Skip/Lag Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Nick Gommans
I can't (not to mention won't) run XMMS as root, the easy answer is since my music is shared to this computer using NFS root doesn't have access to them. now i'm intersted in what you were saying about moving the audio processes up a notch. right now i have XMMS using the OSS Driver (used it in

Re: Skip/Lag Problem

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Arendt
Yes, X now runs with a nice of -10 (why? deadlocks? Mike Harris would know ...) Try using renice on xmms (as root): renice -15 You can also (as root): nice -15 xmms But xmms now runs as root. With renice, it still belongs to the user. If you're using esd, it should be renice'd as well. Eve

Re: more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tammy Fox wrote: > Did you add the swap partition to a second hard drive that was not > mounted? While writing this chapter, I remember being in runlevel 3 > and trying to add swap to the /dev/hda that was mounted already > because it contained / partition. The kernel did not

Roaming Profile Mozilla

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Mah
Netscape 4.x had a feature known as "roaming profiles" that saves your bookmarks and settings to either a web server or ldap. Is this feature available in Mozilla?

Re: rpm && digital signatures

2002-10-14 Thread Ryan Camick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:29, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > How do I configure rpm to do only consider gpg signatures when > checking, without having to add --nomd5 to the command line? Is there > something I can add to /etc/rpm/ that can set this by default? You could use an alias $ alias rpm='r

Re: cannot record sound

2002-10-14 Thread Ryan Camick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:33, Stephan André Schmidt wrote: > now, from using RH 8.0, I cannot record sound anymore. I.e., my little > script `sox -V -c 2 -w -r 44100 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp > /mnt/rip/video/radio/chill1.wav` does produce the file "chill1.wav" in the > spec. dir., but the "loudness" of

Re: "recent documents" in KDE menu

2002-10-14 Thread fortepianissimo
Okay maybe I missed something here: on the menu dialog box there're two places where I can enter a number, they're labeled with 1. "Maximum browser menu entries" 2. "Max number of "Quick Start" entries" None of this is for the # of entries of "recent documents"? (1 being the max # of entries you

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