Re: [Fwd: Re: libasound.so.1]

2002-10-05 Thread Alejandro Matos
Ok, i do a "System Configuration" and then packages y then in "detaills" there is an error: "Unknow error" and i can't do anything :-( Don't know what else do before i did install mplayer but after a reinstall it doesn't work anymore :'( Thanks Alejandro El sáb, 05-10-2002 a las 20:06, [EMAIL

enable dma with cd rom

2002-10-05 Thread Knut J Bjuland
This is my rc.local file, I have enable DMA through modules.conf options ide.cd dma=1. #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. if [ -f /etc/redhat-r

kpackage

2002-10-05 Thread Steve Howard
I've noticed kpackage is missing from KDE in Redhat 8.0. Kpackage has more functionality than the new Redhat package manager and thus I would like to update KDE to include this package. Steve

RH: Some user feedback

2002-10-05 Thread Bernd Kunze
Hi, without bragging, I bought every single version from 3.03 up to 8.0. There were up's and down's but no version before 8.0 left mixed emotions on my end. If I would be allowed to voice a wishlist I'd go for: 1. Allow the user to decide about the look of kde/gnome. While I congratulate RedHat

rsync to dulug.duke.edu

2002-10-05 Thread Thom Paine
I'm getting an error while trying to rsync to dulug.duke.edu. Is anyone else experiencing this? root@zeus root]# rsync rsync://rsync.dulug.duke.edu rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(162) I'm not sure what it means. I don

Re: Dependencies for xine

2002-10-05 Thread Matthew J. Axsom
You could just use apt-get as well. http://apt.freshrpms.net then just apt-get install xine it will retrieve all dependecies, etc. automagically. Matt. Quoting Gerry Tool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 09:23 am, James Allman wrote: > > Here is the complete list of RPM's ne

Re: rsync to dulug.duke.edu

2002-10-05 Thread Jim Hayward
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:01, Thom Paine wrote: > I'm getting an error while trying to rsync to dulug.duke.edu. Is anyone > else experiencing this? > > root@zeus root]# rsync rsync://rsync.dulug.duke.edu > rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data strea

sound recording not working with cmpci

2002-10-05 Thread Emanuel Mair
I have sound output/playback working fine, but I can't seem to be able to record anything. I have tried gnome-sound-recorder and the method described in the Sound-HOWTO; cat'ing from (and to) /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. I tried with a microphone attached both to the mic and line-in inputs. Silence. T

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Depends on what your /etc/syslog.conf contains. It is one source of > log messages on the console. > > Another source is klogd, see "man klogd". > > Hi Sir After reading the klogd man, I see the default limit level value is 7. Klogd makes al

Re: Frustrated at a higher level with RH 8.0

2002-10-05 Thread Jens Knutson
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 09:42, Chris Ricker wrote: > > 2. The login display is dull and boring. Why would one want the options > > such as SYSTEM and SESSIONS floating in mid screen at the bottom of the > > screen. > > More importantly, it's much more awkward to use with that stuff at the > bottom

Re: rsync to dulug.duke.edu

2002-10-05 Thread Thom Paine
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 15:15, Jim Hayward wrote: > Works for me. Maybe just a problem in your area. Thanks for checking Jim. I found a faster one now since I needed to go looking. I'm working on some autoupdate scripts with rsync. It's working better now. -- -=/>Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.

Re: kpackage

2002-10-05 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 05 October 2002 02:55 pm, Steve Howard scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > I've noticed kpackage is missing from KDE in Redhat 8.0. > Kpackage has more functionality than the new Redhat package manager and > thus I would like to update KDE to include this package. > > Steve K

Re: RH: Some user feedback

2002-10-05 Thread Warren Togami
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 08:58, Bernd Kunze wrote: > > 2. The menu structure is driving me nuts. Some are in System Settings, > others in Extras-System Settings. I am in agreement here. To make matters worse the distro is lacking a menu editing tool, so you're forced to edit things by hand. This

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:41:28 +0200 (CEST), Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: > After reading the klogd man, I see the default limit level value is > 7. Klogd makes all logging messages below this limit appear to the > console. > > At first time, It seemed to me this was the level number I could

Anyone seen my "Q" ??

2002-10-05 Thread Olafur Sigurgeirsson
I lost the letter "Q" on my keyboard in X. Its there in run-level 3 and I see it in GDM but as soon as X is up it does not work. I've edited XF86Config for keyboard type, changed key-table to almost-everything-except-Klingon and its always the same. In all lang.this letter is missing, making VI a c

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > It seems you have misunderstood it. Read "man syslog.conf" on what > gets logged via syslogd and how you can control it. > > If you choose a '--log-level level' which is not covered by > /etc/syslog.conf, the netfilter LOG target won't log anything

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
On another vt8233a topic: it seems there are more people than us who are having problems - here's what bugzilla says: 11 bugs found. ID Sev Pri Plt Owner State Result Summary 54905 nor nor i38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASSIUnable to get sound from VIA VT82C686(Appollo Super AC97/Aud 56505 nor

Re: Gnome... ARGH!

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
Havoc Pennington wrote: Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So what are the advantages of VTE? The big reason we use it is that it works in character sets other than ASCII. Zvt doesn't even work in Latin-1. VTE also uses the new font system and redraws more correctly (fewer bugs, no

Re: Anyone seen my "Q" ??

2002-10-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
Olafur Sigurgeirsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I lost the letter "Q" on my keyboard in X. > Its there in run-level 3 and I see it in GDM but as soon as X is up it > does not work. I've edited XF86Config for keyboard type, changed > key-table to almost-everything-except-Klingon and its always th

Re: garbled locale

2002-10-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I probably did that, sorry. Is there a simple way to make sure I write a > file as ISO-8859-1. > I guess you could recode-file from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 ;-) (Seriously I think the way you would do this is to have your terminal in a Latin-1

Re: Know any Enterprise PM platforms? (How Microsoft Screws Us)

2002-10-05 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 15:44, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > 1) Even though we are officially not a Microsoft shop, we will now run > only Microsoft software on company systems that customers *might* see > because we are apparently trying to cozy up to the Redmonians. If a MS > rep sees Red Hat

Re: RH: Some user feedback

2002-10-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
Warren Togami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Havoc, is there any documentation of the syntax structure of these > .desktop files and how they are supposed to layout within the Red Hat > menu structure? Somewhere in xdg-list list archives, I guess. > Is there beta source code existing today of the

Re: Anyone seen my "Q" ??

2002-10-05 Thread Olafur Sigurgeirsson
You are so right Havoc...it was there :) And that opens up another questionHow do you reset a Keyboard Shortcut to be "Disable", and since we are on the subject, how do you add new Action to the list ?? Thanks Oli On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 00:03, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Olafur Sigurgeirsson

Re: Package Manager

2002-10-05 Thread mike
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 22:59, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Carlos 'Fjrb' Almeida wrote: > > Yeah, it's really beneficial to rip off a tool that works and replace it > > by one that doesn't. > > Before Mike Harris sees this again: > > Check the limbo-list archives. It was discussed in great detail th

Re: Package Manager

2002-10-05 Thread Gerry Tool
On Friday 04 October 2002 11:01 pm, mike wrote: > As gnorpm is removed Carlos is still right - even if > redhat-config-packges worked right it still does not give you a snapshot > of rpm on your system as gnorpm (and previous packaes) did It also doesn't allow finding packages alphabetically by na

Re: Where is gnome.ui python module

2002-10-05 Thread mike
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 03:50, Chip Turner wrote: > > This is in the 'gnome-python2' package. Note that this is required by > the redhat-config-services module, so it sounds like you have > unsatisfied dependencies. 'rpm -Va --nofiles' to see what isn't > satisfied, then, if you are registered wit

Re: Panel crash using Xinerama.... window borders stopped working too

2002-10-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
Heiko Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can crash the panel, every time continuous crash, by placing it on the > right hand side of screen 0 (which is right of screen 1) and logging out > and them back in. I am running Xinerama with 2 videocards. The only way > to get out of this catch 22 is to

Re: making Galeon the default

2002-10-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
"Philip A. Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This seems to work for the menus. However, evolution still insists on > starting mozilla when I click on a URL. There is a "Preferred > Applications" settings dialog found in the GNOME Control Center's Extras > list. In the "Preferred Applicat

DVD Tree Shown IS in README File

2002-10-05 Thread Robert L. Cochran
'Nuff said. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Initial notes on Red Hat 8.0 + LTSP

2002-10-05 Thread Warren Togami
Hi folks. I spent the last few days experimenting with Red Hat 8.0 plus Eric Harrison's LTSP packages. Here are my initial notes. UNRESOLVED * Sometimes when I "X -query" into the server and login to Gnome, all of the icons and background becomes corrupted and unusable until I log out and log ba

Installing to JFS File System

2002-10-05 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I want to install 8.0 this weekend to a new drive, using the jfs file system rather than ext3. Can it be done even though Disk Druid doesn't seem to support jfs? Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Re: Package Manager

2002-10-05 Thread Tom Diehl
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Gerry Tool wrote: > On Friday 04 October 2002 11:01 pm, mike wrote: > > As gnorpm is removed Carlos is still right - even if > > redhat-config-packges worked right it still does not give you a snapshot > > of rpm on your system as gnorpm (and previous packaes) did > > It also

Re: Where is gnome.ui python module

2002-10-05 Thread mike
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 05:29, Chip Turner wrote: > > [cturner@magneto cturner]$ rpm -ql gnome-python2 | grep gnome/ui > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gnome/uimodule.so > > Since it is a C python module, it has the 'module.so' appended, but > that's where it comes from. this is site-packages l

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > >On 4 Oct 2002, Peter L. Hurd wrote: > > I'm using a Gigabyte 7VRX (same chipset as the Asus, IIRC) with an > Athlon 1800+, and i'm experiencing the same problems with IDE errors > that Peter is (see below). > ... > It still doesn't seem to be right. Here'

Re: [K12OSN] Initial notes on Red Hat 8.0 + LTSP

2002-10-05 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 18:29, Warren Togami wrote: > Hi folks. I spent the last few days experimenting with Red Hat 8.0 plus > Eric Harrison's LTSP packages. Here are my initial notes. > > UNRESOLVED [SNIP] > * StarOffice 6.0 seems to be broken in RH 8. Installation works fine, > but it simply f

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
David wrote: ... VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdc: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdd: LI

Re: icewm working?

2002-10-05 Thread Jim Hubbard
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 23:00, Paul Gear wrote: > Anyone using icewm successfully on Psyche yet? I've been persisting for > a few days with metacity (BTW, is it pronounced "mEtacity" or > "metAcity"?), but the lack of a menu that can be invoked with the > Win/Tux key is really annoying me. I had

Browser Selection

2002-10-05 Thread Sean Bossinger
Good evening: My wife wanted to play some games on Yahoo this evening (on her windows machine, vs. me on my RH8 machine), so I attempted to get the Java VM installed using the 1.0.1 Mozilla that ships as default with RH8. To make a long story short, I failed abysmally at getting the VM to work wi

Re: assorted problems/issues with GNOME

2002-10-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:53, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > 2. How do I switch among window managers? Specifically, how do I > > switch among Metacity, Sawfish, and Enlightenment? (The > > "switchdesk" application won't do this, and the old "Window > > Manager" GNOME pre

845GL Chip Set..

2002-10-05 Thread Mohamed Abubakkar Siddiqu
Hi.   Any tried RH8.0 on 845GL chipset. i am facing lot problem in X windows.   Thanks in advance     Siddiqu.T  DISCLAIMER:Information contained and transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to Wipro Limited and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, a

Installation fails with Compaq Smart-2/E controller

2002-10-05 Thread Jim Hubbard
My target system is a Compaq Proliant 1500 with a Compaq Smart-2/E array controller (eisa based). I have bugzilla'd this issue already for RH72 and for the Limbo beta. The bug id's are 70311 and 71403. Redhat7.2 installed fine, but an updated kernel 2.4.9-34 would not load the cpqarray module.

Re: Gnome... ARGH!

2002-10-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 07:44, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Not 100% true; the official GNOME release uses Sawfish by default, and Whoohoo! ;) > the Zvt terminal emulator; we use Metacity and VTE. So what are the advantages of VTE? It seems to eat up an *awful* lot of CPU time. I don't even lik

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > David wrote: > >Does it work okay if you unplug the DVD drive? Have you tried replacing > >or re-positioning the ATA cable? > I'll try some of these after i've finished my assignment for college... ;-) Good idea. :) > Have you shared a bus between a DVD &

Re: making Galeon the default

2002-10-05 Thread mike
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 05:13, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > "Philip A. Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > This seems to work for the menus. However, evolution still insists on > > starting mozilla when I click on a URL. There is a "Preferred > > Applications" settings dialog found in the

Re: RAM

2002-10-05 Thread Dennis Gilmore
> One of my work colleagues (an ex-mainframe guy) coined a phrase well > worth repeating here: > "All good operating systems will use all the memory you give them." > > :-) One of the servers where i work has 1Gb of ram doesnt actually do much never goes over 200mb of physical ram used but

Flash plugin for konqueror

2002-10-05 Thread ron_olsen
I'm having trouble getting the flash plugin to work with the KDE web browser konqueror; it works fine with mozilla, galeon, and netscape 7. I downloaded the latest flash plugin from Macromedia and installed the two files (libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlass.class) in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Th

Re: Flash plugin for konqueror

2002-10-05 Thread Evan Read
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone gotten the flash plugin to work with konqueror on RH 8.0? I wouldn't have thought so (gcc3 vs gcc2 issues) but: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000466.html https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psy

Re: RAM

2002-10-05 Thread Justin Zygmont
does anyone know if you really need swap if you already have a lot of RAM? On 5 Oct 2002, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > One of my work colleagues (an ex-mainframe guy) coined a phrase well > > worth repeating here: > > "All good operating systems will use all the memory you give them." > > > >

Re: RAM

2002-10-05 Thread Evan Read
My understanding is that it is a good idea ;) Even a little swap is handy, otherwise Linux kernel code exhibits bad performance. Though bad is relative. There is a document on the web discussing Linux vs FreeBSD database performance with 0 swap space. FreeBSD was ok (obviously designed to deal

Re: RAM

2002-10-05 Thread Justin Zygmont
I wish someone from RH could confirm this, I have a lot of ram but not a lot of disk space and i'd hate to waste it:) On 5 Oct 2002, Evan Read wrote: > My understanding is that it is a good idea ;) > > Even a little swap is handy, otherwise Linux kernel code exhibits bad > performance. Though

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
On 4 Oct 2002, Peter L. Hurd wrote: > The kernel in 8.0 does not play well with the southbridge vt8233a > chipset. That's not been my experience; I just installed Psyche on Wednesday, and in my (admittedly brief) tests, I haven't noticed any problems. My (main) system is: Asus A7V333 mother

Re: garbled locale

2002-10-05 Thread Emanuel Mair
On 01 Oct 2002 22:12:33 -0400 A.D., Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved the following runes about "Re: garbled locale": > Emanuel Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, what do I have to do to get my Swedish characters back outside > > of X/GNOME, and why does redhat-config-language th

Re: GNOME2 issues

2002-10-05 Thread Emanuel Mair
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:39:31 -0600 (MDT) A.D., Chris Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved the following runes about "Re: GNOME2 issues": > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Emanuel Mair wrote: > > I love the speed. Nautilus is actually quite usable (i.e. on a > > killer SMP Athlon box it runs as fast as the excell

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > Here's what happens on my system on IDE initialization: > > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 > PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 14 for device 00:11.1 > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide: Assuming 33MHz system

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Bradley Tate
Hi. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP. Upgrading from 7.3, I now have DMA on my hard drives (yay!) but I've lost my USB hi-fi link device. usbview doesn't even see it (boo). I've not noticed stability problems, but I'll leave it running to see how it goes. b Peter L. Hurd wrote: Hey All, I've se

Re: Warning: Another Bait and Switch! (LONG - Sorry)

2002-10-05 Thread Emanuel Mair
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 04:12:17 +0200 A.D., Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved the following runes about "Re: Warning: Another Bait and Switch! (LONG - Sorry)": > For completeness, this thread is about this page: > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/features/pl_appCD.html >From that pag

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David wrote: > > > I had some major stability problems at first with my A7V333, > > > until I worked around the BIOS bugs. No problems since. :) > > > > What BIOS does the A7V333 use? What were the symptoms of your > > stability problems? > > Automatic configuration of the

Re: garbled locale

2002-10-05 Thread Emanuel Mair
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:03:17 +0200 A.D., Emanuel Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved the following runes about "Re: garbled locale": > There's a screenshot depicting my misery at > http://amiga.medicinareberget,studenthem.gu.se:8080/lager/garbagedump.png > , if anyone's interested. That's of course ht

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a crc checksum; the controller receives the data and notices the data is corrupted via the checksum.

iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
Hi all I fully apologize for my previous post, that's a mistake. I apologize this should be adressed to the vahalla-list, but this is an iptables problem, wich is the same for the 8.0 version. Simple problem: I wish in the same rule, set both the 'LOG' and 'DROP' targets. Either do I m

Installation and vesa driver

2002-10-05 Thread Henrik (InetSoft.dk)
Hi, I have a GeForce 2 MX onBoard on a nForce motherboard.. It's known, that that Graphic card don't work with the normal nv-drivers, and therefore you have to use them from nVidia. So, when i try to start the Graphical installation, it chooses the nv-drivers. But the screen turns black.. Now,

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
Arjan van de Ven wrote: hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a crc checksum; the controller receives the data and notices the data is corrupt

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
James Ralston wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: ... hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide1: reset: success The dma_intr errors and the ide reset repeat several times during the boot. After it's booted, a

Very poor performance on a Dell Inspiron 8200

2002-10-05 Thread Joris Struyve
Hi, I've just installed RH80 on a Dell Inspiron 8200. Performance is extremely poor when working in a gnome or kde session. Starting mozilla or openoffice (or any other app that does lots of disk access on startup) takes more than one minute. When I start a failsafe session however, performance is

Re: Mozilla and flash plugin

2002-10-05 Thread Klaasjan Brand
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 22:05, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Some of you had trouble with the flash plugin > I did notuntil i starting xmms and play some mp3 files at that > moment mozilla hangs when trying to open a flash site > > stop playback from xmms and return to mozilla and it loads the page

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Jean Francois Ortolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 05 Oct 2002 11:11:49 +0200 (CEST) > Hi all > I fully apologize for my previous post, that's a mistake. > > I apologize this should be adressed to the vahalla-list, but this is an > iptables problem, wich is the same f

Re: DVD player?

2002-10-05 Thread Klaasjan Brand
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:41, Gerry Tool wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I'll try the freshmeat packages. > > Why is xine not included in 8.0? I discovered it is in 7.3. > -- > gerry Maybe because it's useless without the encrypted dvd player plugin? (I guess red hat doesn't want to ship the

Re: Quick and easy guide to get NVidia hardware 3D acceleration

2002-10-05 Thread Bernd Kunze
Maybe this is related to my piece of hardware however after installing the kernel driver rpm I had to reboot, else restart of X would freeze the box. Bernd Daniel Borgmann wrote: Hello, I wrote this little guide at osnews.com and thought it might be usefull for some people. I would be happy if

msi-k7n420pro-nforce

2002-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i hope that rhl 8.1 (2003) can handle this hardware while *installation* and please `mike harris`, no flames `nvidia, only binary, not a bug, ...` knoppix and suse can handle the gpu! nforce - gpu (geforce 2, onboard): knoppix 3.1beta (2002-09-10) no problems suse 8.1 (2002

playing a DVD using freshrpms rpms

2002-10-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm trying to play a DVD using the freshrpms RPMs, and here's how far i get. based on the dependencies, i've installed: libdvdcss libdvdread alsa-lib ogle ogle_gui when i brought up ogle and tried to open and play a DVD, i did in fact get the first s

Re: Anyone re-compile the kernel?

2002-10-05 Thread Mats Lidell
> Mike wrote: Mike> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 14:39, an unknown sender wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: "Chris Ricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:08 AM >> Subject: Re: Anyone re-compile the kernel? >> >> >> > On 1 Oct 2002,

Re: playing a DVD using freshrpms rpms

2002-10-05 Thread Patrick
Iirc, RH8 uses OSS sound drivers so when ogle tries to access alsa it crashes because there is no alsa active on RH8. Try using OSS sound drivers or playing without sound to see if it works then. Cheers, Patrick On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm trying to play a DVD

Re: Installation and vesa driver

2002-10-05 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 23:28, Henrik (InetSoft.dk) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a GeForce 2 MX onBoard on a nForce motherboard.. > > It's known, that that Graphic card don't work with the normal > nv-drivers, and therefore you have to use them from nVidia. > > So, when i try to start the Graphical ins

Re: playing a DVD using freshrpms rpms

2002-10-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 5 Oct 2002, Patrick wrote: > Iirc, RH8 uses OSS sound drivers so when ogle tries to access alsa it > crashes because there is no alsa active on RH8. Try using OSS sound > drivers or playing without sound to see if it works then. > > Cheers, > Patrick ok, i don't know enough about sound config

Re: playing a DVD using freshrpms rpms

2002-10-05 Thread dTd
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 07:41:51 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Oct 2002, Patrick wrote: > > > Iirc, RH8 uses OSS sound drivers so when ogle tries to access alsa > > it crashes because there is no alsa active on RH8. Try using OSS > > sound drivers or playing without

ownership of /dev/* gets mixed up when compiling garnome

2002-10-05 Thread Olafur Sigurgeirsson
Hi I am currently compiling garnome (Gnome2) as user "B". I login as user "A" to do other work while waiting and notice that I can not access /dev/audio | mixer | dsp. When I check I see that those devices are now owned by user "B". I have noticed this behavior before in RedHat 7.x and would love t

DVD

2002-10-05 Thread Duncan Rubinger
Hi all, I have a Gericom Laptop with a DVD Drive, but RedHat only recognizes a CDROM. How can I create a new DVD Drive ? MAKEDEV dvd in /dev doesn't work ... CHeers, Duncan

libasound.so.1

2002-10-05 Thread Alejandro Matos
Hi people, I'm looking for this package but i can't find it anywhere (google of course...) i just find "alsa-0.5.10-77.i386" and if i install it "arts" still needs the libasound. Does anyone know where can i download it? i have allready searched in rpmsearch.net and rpm.pbone.net Thanks in advance

Re: DVD

2002-10-05 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 15:27, Duncan Rubinger wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Gericom Laptop with a DVD Drive, but RedHat only recognizes a > CDROM. How can I create a new DVD Drive ? MAKEDEV dvd in /dev doesn't > work ... What does the information in /proc/ide/ say? You should have you're dvd driv

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: > > Either do I must set both same rules, first with a LOG target, second > with a DROP target, or may I set the two targets directly in one rule ? > > Example: Either 1) > /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d ${IPADDR} --s

Re: ownership of /dev/* gets mixed up when compiling garnome

2002-10-05 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:17, Olafur Sigurgeirsson wrote: > Hi > I am currently compiling garnome (Gnome2) as user "B". > I login as user "A" to do other work while waiting and notice that I can > not access /dev/audio | mixer | dsp. When I check I see that those > devices are now owned by user "B".

Re: libasound.so.1

2002-10-05 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:09, Alejandro Matos wrote: > Hi people, I'm looking for this package but i can't find it anywhere > (google of course...) i just find "alsa-0.5.10-77.i386" and if i install > it "arts" still needs the libasound. Does anyone know where can i > download it? i have allready se

Stopping Window Animation

2002-10-05 Thread Sean Bossinger
Good morning: In all of my searches through the preferences for the new Bluecurve desktop on RH8, I've not been able to find a place to turn off the animation that accompanies minimizing and maximizing windows. Could someone direct me to the right place, please? Thank you, Sean

Re: libasound.so.1

2002-10-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 5 Oct 2002, Alejandro Matos wrote: > Hi people, I'm looking for this package but i can't find it anywhere > (google of course...) i just find "alsa-0.5.10-77.i386" and if i install > it "arts" still needs the libasound. Does anyone know where can i > download it? i have allready searched in rpm

Not running ~/.bash_profile with keychain?

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, Whenever I log into gdm, I get the message along the lines of "you're session lasted only less than 10 seconds..' while the gnome-ssh-askpass.sh prompt appears. Then when I re-log in, I do not have access to my keys (ssh-add -l shows no keys). Running . .bash_profile works in each wi

Occasional bad label on upgrade with existing RH on other disk

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear team, In each of my classes of 20 students, about 2/20 have a problem: during an NFS install, the label allocated to the root partition on a removable hard disk hda is the same as the label on the existing Linux Red Hat 7.3 installation on the internal hard disk hdc. This requires me to boot

Hebrew support?

2002-10-05 Thread Barak Shoshani
In previous versions of RHL, I was able to configure my keyboard as "Israeli", and configure KDE to support two keyboard layouts: English and Hebrew. Then, I would configure my left "win" key to switch between the two keyboard layouts permanently, and my right "win" key to switch them while presse

Re: iptables with log

2002-10-05 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: > > > > Either do I must set both same rules, first with a LOG target, second > > with a DROP target, or may I set the two targets directly in one rule ? > > > > Example: Either 1)

Why old OpenLDAP, not new one? Bugs?

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, I was disappointed to see the old 2.0.x OpenLDAP with RH 8.0 instead of 2.1.5. Any idea why? Has 2.1.5 proven to be too bug-ridden? If so, what were the problems? I want to use it to authenticate our 2000-odd student number, but only if it is reliable. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE

Dependencies for xine

2002-10-05 Thread Gerry Tool
When I try to install the xine rpms from freshmeat, I get the following; [root@gstpc rpms]# rpm -ivh xine*i386.rpm warning: xine-0.9.13-fr5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b error: Failed dependencies: libaa.so.1 is needed by xine-0.9.13-fr5 aalib is needed by xine

Re: DVD

2002-10-05 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Just reference /mnt/cdrom whether or not the device is really a DVD. That is what I've done with all my DVD drives. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Duncan Rubinger wrote: Hi all, I have a Gericom Laptop with a DVD Drive, but RedHat only recognizes a CDROM. How can I create a new DVD Driv

Re: Stopping Window Animation

2002-10-05 Thread cfraz
On 05 Oct 2002 08:56:38 -0400 Sean Bossinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning: > > In all of my searches through the preferences for the new Bluecurve > desktop on RH8, I've not been able to find a place to turn off the > animation that accompanies minimizing and maximizing windows. > >

Re: assorted problems/issues with GNOME

2002-10-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:06:56PM -0400, James Ralston wrote: > Ok, I give up. I've been trying to customize the Psyche GNOME > desktop, and I can't figure out how to do the following: > > 1. How do I change the icon on the GNOME Menu? In 7.3, I could > right-click on the GNOME Men

Re: assorted problems/issues with GNOME

2002-10-05 Thread Gerry Tool
> On the other hand after many messages saying the menu editor is not > included in psyche I was surprised that right clicking on the Gnome Menu > showeed me a Menu Editor. What does this all mean? For me, right clicking on the KDE menu offers a menu editor, but right clicking on the Gnome menu d

Re: assorted problems/issues with GNOME

2002-10-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:00:20AM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote: > > On the other hand after many messages saying the menu editor is not > > included in psyche I was surprised that right clicking on the Gnome Menu > > showeed me a Menu Editor. What does this all mean? > > For me, right clicking on the

Re: icewm working?

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On 5 Oct 2002, Jim Hubbard wrote: > I've tried building an rpm from the fluxbox src rpm, but I got some > error about didn't have a gcc compiler? Whatever it was, it looked > strange, so I stopped. As you can tell, I haven't really found a window > manager I'm crazy about yet. Kde is nice, but

Re: where to find remaining docs on /etc/sysconfig files?

2002-10-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:07:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i just noticed that the documentation on the config files in the > /etc/sysconfig directory is (understandably) incomplete. even > combining the /usr/share/doc/initscripts stuff and the RHL guides, > there are a number of fil

automount/autofs shutdown issues

2002-10-05 Thread Brandon Yap
I've got my home directory automounted via nfs from another machine, now upon rebooting, automount almost always fails when trying to shut it down. When the last session was gnome, I see illegal seek errors and even netfs doesn't unmount the filesystems properly. When the last session was kde, auto

Re: Browser Selection

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Ricker
On 5 Oct 2002, Sean Bossinger wrote: > While I'm certain that I hacked this band-aid together at least > marginally correctly (otherwise it wouldn't be working), I'm still > curious as to whether this is, in fact, the "correct" way to do this? The "correct" way, IMHO, is to download the RPMs of 1

Re: Dependencies for xine

2002-10-05 Thread Olafur Sigurgeirsson
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 15:24, Gerry Tool wrote: > When I try to install the xine rpms from freshmeat, I get the following; > > [root@gstpc rpms]# rpm -ivh xine*i386.rpm > warning: xine-0.9.13-fr5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b > error: Failed dependencies: > libaa.so.1 i

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