Re: Crashing with video drivers on dell inspiron 2650

2002-10-23 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
my system from the serial port I would find X at 99% and killing -9 X would render the system totally unresponsive (I would loose my serial link) I would have to pull the power cord. This all disappeared when I moved to RH 7.3 and I have never seen it since Samuel Monsarrat On Fri, 2002-10-18 at

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

2002-10-30 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Well I seem to recall having a similar problem a year ago. Shortly afterwords my graphics card burnt out. (the fan had stopped working and I had not noticed). One should open the box every few months and make sure all is OK... Sam. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:53, Tino Meinen wrote: > On Sun, 2002-1

Re: cyrilic?

2002-11-02 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Well this is due to the fact that RH8 is now using UTF-8 as a system wide charset. Certain apps will not work properly if you do not change the charset back to something simpler, acroread or easyTAG to name two. You can either use $ env LANG=C or change the system-wide setting in /etc/sysconfig

flac & xmms ?

2002-11-02 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Been trying to get the xmms flac plugin working but I cannot get it to show up in xmms! I pulled the following rpms from freshrpms.net: flac-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm flac-devel-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm flac-xmms-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm I installed them, encoded a file from the command line, so far so good. But wh

Re: flac & xmms ?

2002-11-02 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Sorry, Answered my own question, I was having problems with id3lib for some reason, reinstalled that package and got things working. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 20:59, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Been trying to get the xmms flac plugin working but I cannot get it to > show up in xmms! >

Re: playing MP3 and Format(CLI)

2002-11-03 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
For the mp3 problem, look at the archives, there has been extensive discussion about this. RH do not ship mp3 s/w for copyright reasons, you can get it all back at freshrpms. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 09:01, Brian York wrote: > 2 problems that I have came across so far. First redhat descided to f

Re: Backup

2002-11-03 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Yup, works fine, use this every time I reinstall my system, to restore, I generally am careful, I tend to run tar xvfz backup-file.tgz in a temp directory and then copy my real data, and things like my mozilla and/or evolution profile etc manually back to my home directory as between two different

Re: nvidia driver for RH8

2002-11-03 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Why not just use the tarballs? I have never had any problems with those. Sam On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 23:50, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Fri Nov 01 2002 at 14:07, Roger wrote: > > > > > Around Fri,Nov 01 2002, at 03:51, Louis Garcia, wrote: > > > This is what I get when installing the package: > > > >

Re: security level not changing

2002-11-04 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 03:53, w wrote: > > I also notice that the security window always says 'High' regardless of > current status .. but that's ok now that I know it's not supposed to be > an indicator. > I seem to remember this as being "by design" (this was discussed at the beginning of thi

Re: logout

2002-11-04 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:33, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Javier E. Tia Marin wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > I have same problem, PLEASE HELP???, any siggestions? > > > > I am having a problem with login when i logon to GUI mode it works > > fine but when i try to goto terminal

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have seen so far): - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is just annoying to me - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audio support to the virtual machine then the w2kpro (my guest system) does

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
> 1. Late in the development cycle RH introduced a scheduler-fixes patch to the > kernel which causes vmware to panic/crash when you shutdown/poweroff the > guest. The fix is to use a replacement for nice(). This is available at: > http://www.angelfire.com/linux/ylai/ > > This is needed to r

Re: vmware support

2002-11-06 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
> - Accessing filesystems on the Linux host from a Win9x client via Samba > is awfully slow. Same setup on RHL 7.3 worked flawlessly. I am using the samba server that came with RH, not the one that vmware offers, and it does not seem too bad, I noticed on the other hand that the guest system is

Re: vmware support

2002-11-07 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:33, Gene C. wrote: > > vmware does not have compiled kernel modules for either the base 8.0 kernel or > the errata kernel (they are usually do not for errata kernels and the 8.0 > errata kernel should be considered a must). Therefore, when you run > /usr/bin/vmware-con

Re: Bash trivia question

2002-11-12 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Am reading it at the moment. Well worth it! On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:18, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 11 November 2002 06:03 pm, John wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, irc wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Probably this isn't the right place

Re: XMMS from source under RH8

2002-11-26 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
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Re: CF card reader for RH8?

2002-11-27 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Hi there, And has anybody got experience with PCMCIA cf readers? I have RH8 on a Dell laptop and a PCMCIA reader seems to be a more elegant device for a laptop. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 10:52, Christopher M. Taylor wrote: > Hello, > Anyone know of a good quality CF card reader that is compat

Re: strange font display in man and info

2002-11-28 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
7.3 and 8.0? Suggestions? -- Samuel Monsarrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Unable to activate dma on dvd drive

2002-09-30 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
I am trying to get Ogle working again on RH8.0 and I am up against a problem when I try and activate dma on my dvd drive: [root@touzi root]# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) A

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-01 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
Since 7.3 I have always used the tar balls and did so yesterday with no problems for my Geforce 4mx card. unpack the kernel and GLX tarballs an run make install as root in each then edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to replace "nv" or in my case "versa" with "nvidia" and also look for the other thi

Disappearing entries in fstab

2002-10-01 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
I am having a hard time adding my USB Iomega peerless to RH8.0. If I add: /dev/sdc4 /mnt/peerless auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 to /etc/fstab and create /mnt/peerless/, things work up to a point: root can mount the peerless drive fine and users can use it but users cannot mount the peerless the

Re: Disappearing entries in fstab

2002-10-02 Thread Samuel Monsarrat
at 15:58, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:56:29AM +0200, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > > I am having a hard time adding my USB Iomega peerless to RH8.0. > > If I add: > > /dev/sdc4 /mnt/peerless auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > to /etc/fstab and creat