Re: RHCE and RHCT

2003-01-16 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jason Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so I am looking for a Red Hat 8 book to buy that I can use to develop a high degree of 'real world' competency in Linux , an can also be used to effectively prepare for the RH exams. If you want real world competance with Linux, be aware that most of it

Re: xmms and Redhat 8.0

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Den N Shilkin wrote: Diego, Emil wrote: I have run into a little problem with redhat 8.0 and xmms.It it the same machine as before but I cant get the mp3's to play. every time I try adding my mp3's to the playlist they dont get added, so I am unable to play them. I have problems with X

Re: An interesting problem

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Joshua Dolan wrote: The modem dials up great and connects to the ISP reliably. But when I try to get email or go to websites, sometimes it works and sometimes not! Has anyone had problems with unreliable dialup connections and how have you solved them? Funny you mention this, I've noticed an

Re: LVM problems at boot

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michael Robbert wrote: I've recently setup LVM on a couple of standard Red Hat boxes and in both cases they will not boot once the LVM partition is in /etc/fstab, unless I edit /etc/rc.sysinit. I see the exact same thing, except on a 7.3 system. When I'm running kernels 2.4.18-18 & 2.4.18-24,

KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Is anyone using a motherboard based on the Via KT400 chipset? I'm specifically looking at the MSI KT4VL (stripped down version of the KT4 Ultra) and wanted to know if there were any horror stories associated with such a new board and chipset. I won't be using too many of the new features (I've

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Stephen Mah wrote: you might want to try this forumn: http://www.amdforums.com Thanks, that's a good resource. So far I've found one post from a guy who was successful and another by one who said it wouldn't work without kernel 2.4.20. ;) Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michael Fratoni wrote: I'm running an ASUS A7V8X (DDR400 RAM, AMD Athlon 2600) I've had no problems at all. Thanks for sharing that info. I bought the MSI KT4 Ultra and a couple of DDR333 DIMMs, installed the new hardware, and booted up 8.0 without any hassles. The only flaw I noticed was t

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michael Fratoni wrote: AGP works here with the stock kernels, just a matter of a little convincing to make it behave. In /etc/rc.local, I have: modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 I'll give that a shot. Might be the better way to go. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: still installing 8.0 on HP Kayak

2003-02-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Steve Strong wrote: 6. The Red Hat install only found one of the SCSI hard drives, even though it loaded the proper SCSI driver without displaying any error messages 7.After trying to get Red Hat 8.0 installed the system hangs with what I believe is a POST message: "error loading operating system"

Re: still installing 8.0 on HP Kayak

2003-02-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Steve Strong wrote: Doesn't this isolate the problem to Red Hat not being able to see the hard drives? Maybe. It could be as simple as a boot loader record in the wrong place, or a bios setting, or it could be complicated and any number of other things. Getting the OS installed on the system

Re: Cd Copy

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:09, Marek wrote: What are you guys using to to copy data/bootable data Cd's ? I have no luck with xcdroast. I've used xcdroast to make copies of red hat CDs for friends for years and have never had any problems. error running cdrecord -sca

OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I'm kinda surprised that this hasn't come up on any of the Red Hat mailing lists I'm subscribed to, but does anyone have credible info on how much of an effect SCO's patent enforcement lawsuits would/could have on Red Hat Linux? It's my understanding that is involves some libraries that provid

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ed Wilts wrote: There's hopefully a good reason why it's not being discussed here, and that's because we're mostly techies, not lawyers. We can leave the slamming, guessing, and threats to the Slashdot crowd, There are a lot of intelligent people on this list whose opinions and advice mean a

Re: Redhat 8.0 and 2Gb RAM

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: That sounds just like me. I guess there is nothing else to do besides working with less than 2Gb, right? Any experiences with 1.5Gb? Are your stable systems also dual Athlons? What system would you recommend for 2Gb RAM? FWIW, I've got a single CPU Athlon XP 2100 syste

Re: Redhat 8.0 and 2Gb RAM

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: DDR Corsair memory CMX512-3200 (2 dimms) added: DDR Corsair memory CMX512-3200C2 400MHz (2 new dimms) I coulda sworn that I read on anandtech.com that DDR400 isn't stable unless it's the only DIMM in the motherboard. I think that's your problem. DDR Corsair memor

any chance on evolution 1.4 preview1 RPMS?

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Is there any chance of Red Hat providing some RPMs for Evolution 1.4 preview 1? Sure would be fun to see a Gnome2-ish Evolution... :[=] Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Athlon kernel?

2003-03-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
reg hughson wrote: Ok, might as well be me who asks stupid question of the day...the athlon kernel...is it for all athlons, the original Athlon, Athlon XP's or should I just stick to the 686 kernel? It works for all Athlons, Durons, and Athlon XPs. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Oisin C. Feeley wrote: The rpm doesn't appear in /var/spool/up2date until it is 100% downloaded. Out of curiosity, do you have up2date configured to save the RPMs on disk after they are installed? Tom

Re: RH 8.0 upgrade install hang after disc2--recovery??

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Mike Blatchley wrote: I was upgrading my IBM Thinkpad A21p system from 7.2 to 8.0, and after I inserted disc3, the machine failed to mount it and refused to eject iteventually had to reboot machine. I can attempt to restart upgrade, but install scripts hang at the "Finding packages to upgrade

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Herbert Rutledge wrote: The set of RPMs that actually do enable Xft are timestamped at four minutes before midnight on Friday. Once installed, you don't have to edit any files at all. They just work, right out of the box. Yup, I can vouch for that. Everything looks really *smooth* now. ;)

Re: geforce 4 mx440 on rh8

2002-10-31 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jim Christiansen wrote: My @$%%# nicely running RH8 install will NOT work with geforce 4 mx440 cards. My son's computer, a little old ecs k7sem rips along just fine when he sticks it in his. Is your son running RH8 when he tests the GeForce 4 card? If so, is he using the nvidia binary drive

Re: GOOD Internal Modem

2002-11-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Mohamed Abubakkar Siddiqu wrote: Pls suggest one Internal PCI modem with FAX support. I use a US Robotics/3Com 2977 PCI modem. Haven't had a single problem with in daily use or in initial configuration. Tom

Re: GOOD Internal Modem

2002-11-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Dams wrote: Are linmodems (pci modems) supported officially in rhl ? Do i need to pathc my kernel if i want a support for theese modems ? FYI: Not all PCI modems are linmodems. The model I mentioned is a hardware modem. That said, I don't think linmodems are officially supported. Tom

Re: GOOD Internal Modem

2002-11-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Osvaldo Macias wrote: Where can I get a driver for US Robotics/3Com 2975 Internal Modem for Linux ??? I dunno, you might try searching google as a start. Tom

Re: OT: latest (nov 4) xft mozilla builds

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ron Olsen wrote: These builds include xft, and are identified as Mozilla 1.3a in the "About" screen. I've been using the latest gtk2 builds with no problems. Nice! Anyway you can grab a screenshot of it and post it somewhere so I can see the gtk2 look? Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EM

success with 3Com 3C996B-T gigabit ethernet card?

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Checked the Red Hat HCL for the 3Com 3C996B-T but didn't find any info on it. Anyone had success/failure with that gigabit ethernet card on 7.3 or 8.0? Tom

Re: Gnome start: stalling at Metacity

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
krieg stanz wrote: How can I troubleshoot this? Where can I look for details as to the "why" of this, and how can I fix it? It sounds like you may have a problem with a saved session. Try mv ~/.metacity ~/.metacity.bak and restart gnome. You may also try the same operation with other ~/.gnome

Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Bernd Kunze wrote: Maybe a bit off topic here but how about a FAQ or something like SuSE's SDB? At the very least, Mike's original email would be a good addition to the RH 8.0 tips & tricks page. Tom

Re: Segmentation Fault

2002-11-08 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Scott Taylor wrote: I am trying to install the Webmin RPM, and have got the following errors: [root@localhost opt]# rpm -U webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm Segmentation fault [root@localhost opt]# rpm -U webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm Segmentation fault [root@localhost opt]# rpm -i webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Aaron Konstam wrote: Well I looked at the site abovew and discovered that RedHat does not know that we in the deep south use Linux. They are not coming withing 600 miles og Texas for example. A stop in Austin, Texas would've be nice. This town is full of Linux folks. Tom

Re: Segmentation Fault

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Scott Taylor wrote: Ummm, thanks but that's not much help. I have installed hundreds of RPM's. It must be something with the download or the RPM database. Did you ever kill an rpm process, now or in the past, while it was active? All the symptoms you are describing indicate that. Try this: cd

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Mythical Proportions wrote: 2 GNOME questions for you... 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome menu (both per user and globall

Re: OT: latest (nov 4) xft mozilla builds

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ron Olsen wrote: I also recently discovered that the gtk2 versions have a bug in displaying pdf and PostScript documents on my machine. I went back to the 11-04 xft version and the problem went away. OK, I'll stay put. :) Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.re

Re: OT: latest (nov 4) xft mozilla builds

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michael Knepher wrote: Here's a shot with the Bluecurve-Okayish theme: http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/mozilla-gtk2.png 1.3a build or a 11/4 1.2b build? I installed 11/4 1.2b and it looks almost exactly the same. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com

Re: OT: latest (nov 4) xft mozilla builds

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Tom Georgoulias wrote: Michael Knepher wrote: Here's a shot with the Bluecurve-Okayish theme: http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/mozilla-gtk2.png 1.3a build or a 11/4 1.2b build? I installed 11/4 1.2b and it looks almost exactly the same. Ignore that, it's plainly displayed in

Re: Video Card recommendation

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Nadim Bitar wrote: I need to buy a new Video Card, my ideal card would be well supported on RH linux, has good 2D performance, AGP4X based and has 64MB DDR memory. Any suggestion highly appreciated. An ATI Radeon 7500 is a good card that meets your criteria. It has hardware acceleration under

Re: Video Card recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Do ATI (or other vendors) open-source drivers support hardware 3D acceleration? I thought that only NVidia does this, as some linux games demand NVidia 3D drivers. Yes. The ATI Radeon 7500 has open source hardware 3D acceleration, thanks to DRI. Tom -- Psyche-list ma

large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? I was interested in using a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE card and attaching four Maxtor 160GB disks, but a search for the card on the hardware compatibility list at Red Hat

Re: Video Card recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Randy Kelsoe wrote: Nadim Bitar wrote: I just ordered the ATI Radeon 7500 powered by ATI I hope you mean "Built by ATI". As Mike Harris pointed out, the "Built by ATI" card is fully supported, whereas the "powered by ATI" cards are OEM cards with ATI chips and may work, but won't be fully su

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jesse Keating wrote: # Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, # specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? # Are those patches, or functional equivalents, already rolled into the # stock Red Hat kernel? You would need support for LBA-48. I'm not s

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
John wrote: I think you are going to have problems. I presume you want to do lots of I/O. Not necessarily. This setup is intended to store data for legacy projects that are currently taking up valuable real estate on some Sun storage arrays, which handle the bulk of the workload. The data

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Georgoulias
My original plans were to build an IDE raid using a 3ware controller card, but they had to be cut back because of budget concerns. Thanks for all the input. I think I've got a system config that will fit our needs until more money is approved for larger, better solutions. Tom -- Psyche-lis

Re: "Modem display" for my internet connection

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Charlie Hall wrote: What I'd like is one of those little displays (that could fit on my panel) that winks and blinks as data are being transferred. I'd appreciate someone instructing me as to how to add such a gadget -- I'm not that experienced in Linux yet, so please be verbose. I don't have

Re: "Modem display" for my internet connection

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Charlie Hall wrote: I had my display almost working after receiving instructions from Pavel Rozenboim. Great. For some reason the message I sent took forever to actually get posted to the list, so it looks like you got multiple responses before mine made it. Thanks very much for your time.

Re: [Fwd: Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards]

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Robert L. Cochran wrote: It's funny how my earlier post (see below) didn't make it to the list, maybe it will show up in the end after mailman burps? But large hard drives have been supported since 7.3. Yeah, one of my messages about modem panel lights was super late as well. I think our mailm

Re: RPM stalling?

2002-11-25 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Richard Nairn wrote: I just installed a 8.0 machine over the network, I am trying to install additional packages and rpm seems to stall... I can't use any rpm function, install, query... Yeah, this is a known problem. Here's the workaround: http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/modules.php?op=modl

Re: rdate command from RH to Solaris

2002-11-26 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Osvaldo Macias wrote: Hello Folks, I want to set the clock in a Solaris box from a RH server using the command rdate, but the connection is refused. I didn't found help about rhosts in RH in the man pages. Is your rhosts file in /root and not /? Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: apt-rpm vs. ximian red-carpet

2002-11-26 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michal Drozd wrote: I'am looking for some guidelines, which of package maganament tools/services to use. Did you look into up2date & redhat network? This is the easiest, best way to keep you system running the latest official errata packages. My advice is to try it out before apt-rpm or red

Re: Athlon XP - Segmentation fault issues

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Guy Edward Gallasch wrote: Has anyone else experienced problems wehn running Linux on an Athlon XP platform? After a recent hardware upgrade from a motherboard with a VIA KT266a chipset to one with a VIA KT333 chipset, I have found that I get segmentation faults all over the place. There are t

browsing mount points within automount maps

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Is there any way to do enable the ability to browse the mount points within an automount map, without having to cd into one of them? The behavior demonstrated below isn't present in the newer releases of Solaris, but I'm not sure how/if I can eliminate it on RHL. -- ponter:home$ cd /soc ponter

Re: browsing mount points within automount maps

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16:40 09 Dec 2002, Tom Georgoulias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is there any way to do enable the ability to browse the mount points | within an automount map, without having to cd into one of them? The autofs system doesn't supply this. Neither do some

Re: today's nightly gtk2 mozilla build

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Klaasjan Brand wrote: I installed everything from the mozilla snapshot directory _including_ the psm rpm. Still no go. I'll try again tonight with a newer snapshot... Any success using the xft build of 1.2.1? Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailm

Re: rsh daemon

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Rimas wrote: How to enable connection to Linux box via rsh? Canned reponse about using rsh: "rsh isn't secure, you should use ssh instead." If you still need rsh, here's how to do it: 1. Install the rsh-server RPM. 2. Add these lines to /etc/securetty rexec rlogin rsh 3. If you want these

Re: Upgrade XFree

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
J Kevin Martineau wrote: I'm currently using 2.4.18-18.8.0. Is the XFree86-4.2.99.2-0.20021122.2.i386.rpm compiled against the 2.4.19-0 kernel that is in Rawhide? Normally that is the case. If you grab a rpm from rawhide and it complains about deps, the most successful route is to grab those

Re: browsing mount points within automount maps

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Tommy McNeely wrote: Browseability is available on Solaris autofs. It doesn't create mount storms either. This feature may/may not show up in the v5 release: hehe... if you use Star Office 6.0 or Nautilus it does :) Thanks for the heads up. We aren't using Nautilus, but some folks are us

Re: modem lights confusion.

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Aaron Konstam wrote: I simply do not understand the working of modem lights. I tried RTFM but can't really find one. Search the archives of this list. There are a couple of good threads that cover all the fixes you need, including a bug report I referenced that covered all of this. 1. I put

Re: When RH 8.1 will be available

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Alessandro Oliveira wrote: I've been away for about 2 months, and I'd like to know how it is going the development of the new redhat distros, have RH released any new public betas since psyche ? Congratulations sir, you got "first post" in the "When is the next release coming out?" category.

Re: Tell GCC to optimize for a platform or src.rpm compiles.

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Lucas Albers wrote: How do you optimize it for a particular platform? Lets say I want to recompile my kernel from a src rpm, using the gcc 3.2 compiler. How do I tell gcc 3.2 to optimize for my p4 or athlon or whatever system? You'll need to install the SRPM, then edit the spec file (and possibl

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Raul Acevedo wrote: I searched and all I could see was that you have to hand edit the config files in either /etc/X11/desktop-menus/ or ~/.gnome2. That can't be right. Is it? Yes, that is the method. Is this a major GNOME 2 bug or what? Sort of. Graphical menu editing, which didn't work i

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
If you're looking for RPMs from the Red Hat maintainer, keep you eyes on this directory: http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/evolution/ or, of course, Rawhide. Jeremy had some 1.2 beta release RPMS up for a while. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mail

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Brian K. Jones wrote: I don't get it. What's so hard about installing red-carpet and getting it from there, like the ximian site says to do if you're running RH8? It's really not that hard, and it works well. I'm writing this in 1.2 now, which I've had since almost immediately after the release

Re: Rsync @ Red Hat

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Thom Paine wrote: Do you suppose that the purchase of an RHN subscription would get us access to redhat's rsync servers in addition to the instant ISO's? I was at around 450M of disc 1 and it died out and now I've lost the partial ISO. So I've hooked onto Duke to rsync them, that way I can resume

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ryan Camick wrote: That file, that is Red Carpet. It has ZERO dependencies. It does not conflict with any existing RH8.0 packages. It will not interfere with upgrades to the future version of RH, (if any exists, with no speculation as to the version number, if it even has one). That is what B

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Brian K. Jones wrote: Installing evolution *did* cause red-carpet to grab and install some other stuff that evolution depended on. However, it tells you EXACTLY what it's going to do before it does *ANYTHING*. So I don't think anything would stop me from getting the needed rpm's myself somewher

Re: PGI compilers not working on RH 8.0, 2.4.18-17.8.0

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Margaret_Doll wrote: I just upgraded my systems to RedHat 8.0 including the kernel patch on their web page. The systems are at 2.4.18-17.8.0. I get the following error when I run PG 4.0 on my systems. /usr/bin/ld: cannot open /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/crtbegin.o:

Re: Lowering CPU Speed To Avoid Memory Errors

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Robert L. Cochran wrote: I'm not sure what other components to replace. Right now I'm in favor of ordering a new P4T533 motherboard and tossing the old one. Asus has announced a new BIOS update, the 1005, for this board, but they haven't made it available for download quite yet. (It's like som

OT: latest (nov 4) xft mozilla builds

2002-11-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Anyone here running the latest xft mozilla build, dated Nov 4? (mozilla-1.2b-2002110408_trunk_rh8_xft.i386.rpm) http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/xft/2002-11-04-08/ Any comments about it? I've been playing around with the older 1.2b xft build and love the effect it has had

Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror.

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Linux-Lists.Red-Hat.Psyche wrote: Wow! That IS a fast mirror. I'm getting 510KB/s with my DSL connection. I think that's approaching my top speed. No kidding, I've never seen anything like it. It doesn't seem to get bogged down either. It's the mirror from a multi-dimensional internet in

rhn_register

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Was /usr/sbin/rhn_register moved to a different package? It used to be part of a standalone rhn_register RPM... Tom

Re: rhn_register

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
M A Young wrote: Tom Georgoulias wrote: Was /usr/sbin/rhn_register moved to a different package? It used to be part of a standalone rhn_register RPM... No it was dropped altogether. I believe up2date automatically registers now, but if you need to force it, use up2date --register . Michael