Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread Jerry
Hello, I have a major problem with 8.0 that I didn't have with 7.2. Here is the problem: I just casually do things etc like just scrolling down a page or something and Red Hat suddenly kicks me out of the OS (so I have to login again) every once in awhile, I was thinking of reinstalling but just

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:02 AM Subject: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out! > problem: I just casually do things etc like just scrolling down a page > or something and Red Hat suddenly kicks m

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread Jerry
Yeah it kicks me out of KDE/Gnome (depending on which one I am on)... I will try that... Thanks Jerry On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 21:24, Mike Chambers wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:02 AM > Subjec

Compiling xmms in psyche

2002-10-27 Thread Neil Hodge
All: I am having various gettext problems compiling xmms in psyche. Anyone done this successfully? Thanks. Neil Hodge

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread richard
yep happens to me as well. i can also be doing anything and it seems xserver just reboots. Why i have no idea and can happen at anytime and not in any particular thing. i thought it likely it has something to do with my optical mouse but may be mistaken so jerry is not the only one with this proble

Re: What WM and how to change?

2002-10-27 Thread Adam Haupt
That is subjective. IMHO Gnome2 looks far more professional than KDE.(and feels much much faster) Tobias, try Blackbox or one of its derivatives(fluxbox, hackedbox). IMO its the best WM out there. Another good one is PWM(smaller and faster than even blackbox) On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 02:34, Malc

Re: any interest in a multimedia red hat list?

2002-10-27 Thread Paul Gear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Smith wrote: >> is there, somewhere, a mailing list/forum devoted strictly >>to multimedia under linux -- audio stuff, dvd playing, digital >>video, and the like? if not, what are the chances of establishing one? >> >> given that red hat has ma

Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #318 - 17 msgs

2002-10-27 Thread Marcos
Hi Tobias, Go to http://neomundi.com.br/usuarios/mab/redhat8.html and download Xine and/or Totem. Regards, Marcos > From: Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mpeg/divx > Date: 26 Oct 2002 14:10:35 +0200 > > There is no app in RH8.0 that plays mpeg

smb:// not working in Galeon

2002-10-27 Thread Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq
When I type "smb://" in galeon, I get a message that tells me: "smb is not a registered protocol". [imoq@home imoq]$ rpm -q gnome-vfs2-extras gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1 [imoq@home imoq]$ [root@home root]# service smb status smbd (pid 861) is running... nmbd (pid 865) is running... [root@home roo

xmms-mp3 - Xine

2002-10-27 Thread Marek
Hi I had xmms working quite nicely with good volume. I installed Xine and Mplayer and the volume of xmms is very soft, but Xine's volume is the normal good and loud, anyway to get xmms volume back up ? -- Marek __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread Tino Meinen
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:37, richard wrote: > yep happens to me as well. i can also be doing anything and it seems xserver > just reboots. Why i have no idea and can happen at anytime and not in any So it logs you out because the xserver restarts. That might indicate something with the video card.

Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All, On KDE Konqueror if I accidental delete a file or directory how can I recover it (undelete) Thanks Stephen Liu

Re: any interest in a multimedia red hat list?

2002-10-27 Thread Adam Huffman
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there, somewhere, a mailing list/forum devoted strictly > to multimedia under linux -- audio stuff, dvd playing, digital > video, and the like? if not, what are the chances of establishing > one? > > given that red hat has mailing lists de

Re: Do you have to install Apache Webserver 2.0 under root?

2002-10-27 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 01:50, Anthony Colon wrote: > Or could you install it under a shell account? > One of the reason it runs under root (at least in a default install) is that it binds to port 80. Ports <1024 need root privileges. You could bind to port 8080 and not need to be root. There may

Re: smb:// not working in Galeon

2002-10-27 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:33, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > When I type "smb://" in galeon, I get a message that tells me: > > "smb is not a registered protocol". > > [imoq@home imoq]$ rpm -q gnome-vfs2-extras > gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1 > [imoq@home imoq]$ > > [root@home root]# s

Re: console key mappings

2002-10-27 Thread Miloslav Trmac
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:13:30PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote: > I think it in /etc/inputrc > > But I don't see any documentation on it. info bash, section Command Line Editing. Mirek

Re: Firewall Probs.

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen H Carbin
lol, I'm aware of the risks, this is a test machine, on it's own sub-network, behind a smoothwall firewall box At 08:27 PM 10/26/2002, you wrote: From: "Kevin McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- Stephen H Carbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How and what do I need to edit manually to disable

Re: where to find "test page"

2002-10-27 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> You know what? I just checked my installation and found that > /var/www/html/index.html was not owned by any package. I then looked > in all the psyche httpd rpm files and didn't find any references to > that file. > > The only reason I have a sample index.html fle is it *was* included > in the

Evolution Problem

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen H Carbin
I am having a problem with evolution. For incoming mail I need to make a POP3 connection to mail.carbinworld.com, and for outgoing I need to connect to smtp.myisp.com. Outgoing mail works fine but I cannot get incoming working. I have double & triple-checked my settings, same as on my windows b

Re: How to remove/replace Gnome2

2002-10-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 19:07, mike wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 23:55, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > You are the second person to suggest this fix. Unfortunately, it doesn't > > improve anything. Whatever is wrong is REALLY buggered. > > > > --Doc Savage > > Fairview Heights, IL > > couple

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread jdow
From: "Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On KDE Konqueror if I accidental delete a file or directory how can I > recover it (undelete) Stephen, for some one at your level of expertise the answer is basically, "There is no way." With any OS of the level of complexity of Windows NT, Linux, BSD, or

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:42:19PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All, > > On KDE Konqueror if I accidental delete a file or directory how can I > recover it (undelete) > > Thanks > > Stephen Liu With ext2 systems there were three ways. A program called recover (must be installed) , mc and debug

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread Jerry L
Well my Video card is ATI Rage Pro (yes its a little old but its 32 Megs and it works fine for what I need), the settings I put is 1028 X 800 and 24 BIT Color (don't want to go lower than that).. Vesa Server?? How do you try that??? Thanks On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 02:53, Tino Meinen wrote: > On Su

Re: What WM and how to change?

2002-10-27 Thread dTd
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:57:06 +0200 Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run RH8.0 > > I really dont like KDE nor Gnome. They look to much as Windows and similars. > I would like something alot less "amature-looking" (as in not alot of fancy > animations and such shit). The WM should not take to

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your response. RH8.0 has both mc and debugfs installed but unfortunately they work for ext2 only. I am not aware of 'recover'. It can't be found in RH8.0 google search found that the kind of file system used is eg.ext2, reiserFS, vfat not ext3. Its version is "v1.3c" An

Re: gnome-terminal settings

2002-10-27 Thread Dale
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:16:04PM -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: > Since the upgrade, gnome-terminal has been making me a little crazy. > The new version doesn't play friendly with the RS6000s at the office. > > When I run vi on an RS6000 the arrow keys don't work. This is odd, > because in previous

System Hanging -- ixinet boot log error messages

2002-10-27 Thread John P Verel
Since upgrading to 8.0, I am getting the following messages in /var/log/messages. Sometimes the machine hangs and I'll have to reboot from console 1: Oct 27 09:34:07 John xinetd[1019]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 27 09:34:07 John xinetd[1019]: libwra

Re: More keymapping questions

2002-10-27 Thread Tom Diehl
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jay Turner wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:33:16AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > Hi all, > > In KDE the key combination switches between desktops. I have > > mapped the above key combinations in gnome and it does not seem to work > > properly. In order to get it to work I h

Re: any interest in a multimedia red hat list?

2002-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > > is there, somewhere, a mailing list/forum devoted strictly > > to multimedia under linux -- audio stuff, dvd playing, digital > > video, and the like? if not, what are the chances of establishing one? > > > > given that red hat has mailing lists dev

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread Thomas Molina
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:04:49PM -0600, John Weber wrote: > > I was able to install Psyche on an Athlon 233 with 64 MB Ram without X > > and it seems to run fine. I tried graphic install, but it would always > > lock up part way through the install. Text mo

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread Jerry
YOu must be lucky... Jerry - Original Message - From: "Thomas Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Installing RH8.0 > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:04:49PM -0600, John Weber wrote:

Bug in man: man -t

2002-10-27 Thread John P Verel
There would seem to be a bug in man. When one does man -t foo | lpr, the top margin is screwed up. Has anyone else noticed this? John

rootless

2002-10-27 Thread anthony baldwin
Hi, I'm new to the list. I have been using the Redhat 7.2 based K12os for about 7 months and just installed Psyche. I have also dabbled with RH 7.1, Blue Linux, Lycoris and Corel OS, but my only extensive experience has been the last 7 months using the k12 os. So, I am essentially still a newbie

Re: What WM and how to change?

2002-10-27 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:42, dTd wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:57:06 +0200 > Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I run RH8.0 > > > > I really dont like KDE nor Gnome. They look to much as Windows and similars. > > I would like something alot less "amature-looking" (as in not alot of fancy

command line applet

2002-10-27 Thread cfraz
It seems that the command-line applet macros are not saved when deleting the applet from the panel. Is this normal ? or how can I save my macros ? I've not found any clue in the gnome documentation. Thanks

rhn-register

2002-10-27 Thread anthony baldwin
Let me correct one thing from my previous post When I try to run /usr/sbin/rhn_register I am told there is no such directory or file. Tony http://www.School-Library.net Read, Connect, Learn! _ Select your own custom email address for FRE

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:04:49PM -0600, John Weber wrote: > > > I was able to install Psyche on an Athlon 233 with 64 MB Ram without X > > > and it seems to run fine. I tried graphic install, but it would alw

Re: [Fwd: Wireless Question]

2002-10-27 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Donald E. Stidwell wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's for my wife's laptop which she's using in a university environment > > where the APs only do 40/64-bit. She's researched it a bit and found that > > the security asp

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > Perhaps you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > > 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. > > How is it I am able to install and run on a machine wi

Re: rootless

2002-10-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:04, anthony baldwin wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the list. > I have been using the Redhat 7.2 based K12os for about 7 months and just installed >Psyche. I have also dabbled with RH 7.1, Blue Linux, Lycoris and Corel OS, but my >only extensive experience has been the last 7

Re: Evolution Problem

2002-10-27 Thread Ryan Camick
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 09:07, Stephen H Carbin wrote: > I am having a problem with evolution. For incoming mail I need to make a > POP3 connection to mail.carbinworld.com, and for outgoing I need to connect > to smtp.myisp.com. Outgoing mail works fine but I cannot get incoming > working. I have

Re: Evolution Problem

2002-10-27 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 13:47, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 09:07, Stephen H Carbin wrote: > > I am having a problem with evolution. For incoming mail I need to make a > > POP3 connection to mail.carbinworld.com, and for outgoing I need to connect > > to smtp.myisp.com. Outgoing mail

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread jdow
Well, give 'em a try. Ext2 is Ext3 plus a journal. Or do they simply refuse to run if the journal is present? (If you've written much of anything to the disk since you deleted the files recovery COULD be iffy. Try anything you can as soon as you can while preventing writes to the disk with the del

Re: rhn-register

2002-10-27 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:27:59 -0800 (PST) anthony baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Let me correct one thing from my previous post # When I try to run /usr/sbin/rhn_register # I am told there is no such directory or file. up2date --register -- Jesse Keating For Web Services and Linux Consulti

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:17:12 -0800, jdow wrote: [recover] > Well, give 'em a try. Ext2 is Ext3 plus a journal. Or do they simply > refuse to run if the journal is present? Last time I tried "recover" on an ext3 partition (long ago -- I think with Se

Re: Undelete command

2002-10-27 Thread Andrew Smith
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:17:12 -0800, jdow wrote: > > [recover] > >> Well, give 'em a try. Ext2 is Ext3 plus a journal. Or do they simply >> refuse to run if the journal is present? > > Last time I tried "recover" on an ext3 partition (long ago -- I > think with Seawolf or Enigma), I got a segme

Re: cd burning with cdrecord (Steve Dum)

2002-10-27 Thread Chris Lee
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > after typing something like this > > cdrecord -v disc1.iso > > I get something like this: > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) > 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev: '0,0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > L

Xine

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello psyche-list, Can anybody suggest me how can I install Xine on my machine? I have downloaded all the RPMs. Most of the libraries have been installed. Then I got stuck with the glut*.rpm. Trying to install it, I get the message about dependancy problem with OpenGL. No details,

MPlayer

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello psyche-list, While I am having problems installing Xine, I've tried to use MPlayer. Well, first I was unable to run the sound via Alsa, but it went OK via OSS. The biggest problem, though, is the actual "screen" size. Even in full-screen mode, I still get only very little win

Re: CrossOver

2002-10-27 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 08:42, Michael Knepher wrote: > There are also some issues with some Flash sites not > detecting the flash plugin properly, but there's no reason not to use > the Linux version. The solution is to edit ~/.crossover/config and look for the following lines: [NPSWF32.dll] R

Re: Xine

2002-10-27 Thread Marek
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello psyche-list, Can anybody suggest me how can I install Xine on my machine? I have downloaded all the RPMs. Most of the libraries have been installed. Then I got stuck with the glut*.rpm. Trying to install it, I get the message about dependancy problem wi

Re: cd burning with cdrecord (Steve Dum)

2002-10-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:45:12 -0500 (EST), Chris Lee wrote: > > ATIP info from disk: > > Indicated writing power: 6 > > Is not unrestricted > > Is not erasable > > Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) > > (6) > > ATIP start of

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, M A Young wrote: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > > Perhaps you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: > > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > > > 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. > > >

Re: Xine

2002-10-27 Thread Fabricio Cândido
Can I use Xine downloaded from freshrpms.net with CSS Decryption ?!?!? How ?!??! Thanks Fabricio. - Original Message - From: Marek To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Xine Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello psyche-list, > > Can anybody suggest me h

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-27 Thread jim
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:02, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:40, jim wrote: > > > > // TrueType /// > > > > pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); > > > > pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); > > > > > > > No,

Re: Evolution and reply-to header

2002-10-27 Thread jim
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:45, Bernd Kunze wrote: > Hi, > > anyone out there knowing how to set the reply-to header in evolution > permanentely? > > Thanks, > Bernd I am not really sure what you want to do but the filters under the tools menu does most things I want to do. Jim Scott Of course ma

Gnome panel keeps crashing

2002-10-27 Thread Warren Togami
I can't reproduce this report. Is this a known bug? Any workaround? http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166948 "After feeling that redhat 8.0 was good to go I have run into a problem. The menubar/panel in gnome keeps crashing. Thought it was a fluke and reinstalled the OS fresh

Restoring partition table

2002-10-27 Thread Dušan Đorđević
Hi all, I have a huge problem. By accident i deleted partition table on my comp. It is still running, but fdisk shows that partition table is wrong. Is there any idea how to bring partition list back ? From /proc/partitions i have sizes, but problem is that partitions are not in order (/dev/hd

Re: Gnome panel keeps crashing

2002-10-27 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 18:08, Warren Togami wrote: > I can't reproduce this report. Is this a known bug? Any workaround? > > http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166948 > > "After feeling that redhat 8.0 was good to go I have run into a problem. > The menubar/panel in gnome keeps

Re: Gnome panel keeps crashing

2002-10-27 Thread Paul Gear
Warren Togami wrote: > I can't reproduce this report. Is this a known bug? Any workaround? > > http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166948 > > "After feeling that redhat 8.0 was good to go I have run into a problem. > The menubar/panel in gnome keeps crashing. Thought it was a fl

gnome startup screen problem

2002-10-27 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
Hello. I have just started using psyche, BIG leap from limbo. Much faster! But I think I must have messed something because i am getting mostly foot icons on startup screen. My guess is they are not found. Anyone knows what package has them? Thank you.

Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!

2002-10-27 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
Since you upgraded, something might have gone wrong. Try uninstalling XFree packages and reinstalling them. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 00:02, Jerry wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a major problem with 8.0 that I didn't have with 7.2. Here is the > problem: I just casually do things etc like just scroll

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-27 Thread jim
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 15:14, jim wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:02, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:40, jim wrote: > > > > > // TrueType /// > > > > > pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); > > > > > pref("font.freetype2.shared-l

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > > They don't say it won't work with so little memory, but presumably they > > consider performance deterioration due to extra swapping to be > > unacceptable, particularly with a minimum spec processor as well. > > Then it shouldn't be called a "require

UTS bugs?

2002-10-27 Thread anthony baldwin
>- >Too many issues for one email. > >I will tackle the first. > >You need to kill all rpm / up2date processes. If you don't know how to >do that - restart. > >Log on as root (or su to root) > >rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* > >then up2date --register > >then up2date -u > >Craig > > Thanks, Craig,

RE: How to Uninstall Linux 8.0?

2002-10-27 Thread jim
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 19:20, Anthony Abby wrote: > well then boot your system with a win 9x boot disk and perform a fdisk > /mbr fdisk /mbr (master boot record) as described will make it so that the disk is prepared to boot windows but that is all. It does nothing to the rest of the disk. This wi

Re: gnome startup screen problem

2002-10-27 Thread Norman Nunn
I assumed you right clicked on the panel icon and checked properties or preferences to eventually select an icon. I believe these icons are in /usr/share/icon or /usr/share/pixmaps. My setup added the correct icons during installation but I frequently have to set the icon after the program is add

Re: smb:// not working in Galeon

2002-10-27 Thread Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:50, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:33, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > > When I type "smb://" in galeon, I get a message that tells me: > > > > "smb is not a registered protocol". > > Who said you that galeon who happens to be a web

Re: Gnome-terminal font frustrations

2002-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:20, James McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For Gnome2 and fontconfig and Xft2, you really only need to copy the > fonts into one of the font directories (ie ~/.fonts) and run fc-cache. On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 07:20, Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Frida

Re: UTS bugs?

2002-10-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 17:37, anthony baldwin wrote: > > > > > > >- > >Too many issues for one email. > > > >I will tackle the first. > > > >You need to kill all rpm / up2date processes. If you don't know how to > >do that - restart. > > > >Log on as root (or su to root) > > > >rm -f /var/l

Re: Restoring partition table

2002-10-27 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-2] Du¹an Ðorðeviæ wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a huge problem. By accident i deleted partition table on my comp. > It is still running, but fdisk shows that partition table is wrong. Is > there any idea how to bring partition list back ? From /proc/partitions > i have

cd burning with cdrecord

2002-10-27 Thread Rigoberto de la Cruz
I tried with diferent media.. and I getting the same results, all of them say that I can write at 16x... strange Rigo >It's the cdrw you're using. Look at the package the >cdrw came in. Does >it say something like 1x-4x or 4x Multi Speed? If it >does the max speed >you can write to the cdrw i

Re: Creating ones own keyboard shortcuts

2002-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2002-10-25 at 10:36, Kevin McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm xev looks good, but it doesn't register anything > > at all for 7 out of > > 8 of my 'extra' keys on the keyboard. For the > Use xev to find out the keycodes and use xmodm

Re: gnome startup screen problem

2002-10-27 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 18:45, Norman Nunn wrote: > I assumed you right clicked on the panel icon and checked properties or > preferences to eventually select an icon. I believe these icons are in > /usr/share/icon or /usr/share/pixmaps. My setup added the correct icons > during installation but I

Re: MPlayer

2002-10-27 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 October 2002 04:39 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello psyche-list, > > While I am having problems installing Xine, I've tried to use > MPlayer. Well, first I was unable to run the sound via Alsa, but it > went OK via OSS. Th

searching function inside 'man'

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All, After starting 'man' command on a document say e.g 'man mozilla' what command shall be used to search a line/word containing e.g.'window' Thanks Stephen Liu

Re: searching function inside 'man'

2002-10-27 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:36:47AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All, > > After starting 'man' command on a document say e.g > > 'man mozilla' > > what command shall be used to search a line/word containing > e.g.'window' '/' (forward slash, like many other Unix type utilities). '?' to search

Re: searching function inside 'man'

2002-10-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Hal, On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:51, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:36:47AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > After starting 'man' command on a document say e.g > > > > 'man mozilla' > > > > what command shall be used to search a line/word containing > > e.g.'windo

Re: searching function inside 'man'

2002-10-27 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
man works like so many editors in Unix, so you can use /window to find the window word. However, I tend to use info instead of man, who can open both man and info pages, and uses 's' or Ctrl+s for searches. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 20:36, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi All, > > After starting 'man' comman

Re: No sound in TuxRacer

2002-10-27 Thread Robert D. Arendt
I tried rebuilding the RPM, but it required the smpeg package for the sound mixer. Missing smpeg, it builds without sound. This package isn't provided in RH80 (provides libsmpeg.so). Got the smpeg src.rpm, but it had problems with g++3; So I built it with 296: setenv CC gcc296 setenv CXX g+

Re: searching function inside 'man'

2002-10-27 Thread Robert D. Arendt
man generally pipes the output through "less", using it as the pager. Read the man page for less to find out all your options. Read the man page for man, and you can see how to change your default pager. -Bob Arendt David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: man works like so many editors in Unix, so yo