[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] urpmi-4.0-15mdk

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:17, FranXois Pons wrote: * Fri Sep 06 2002 François Pons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.0-15mdk - fixed previous fix not correctly fixed. ROFL :). Best changelog ever? -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Typo in license agreement]

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:58, Brad Felmey wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 05:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 06:30, Quel Qun wrote: Since then I also noticed during the install the description of partmon service: Checks if a partition is close to full up. Please

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Typo in license agreement]

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:46, Elliott Martin wrote: The reason its sounds screwy to the non-english speakers, and alright to the english, but totally screwed to the americans, is because of the up on the end. Is close to full up vs Is close to full. I can't remember exactly what that's

Re: [Cooker] more translation comments

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 21:42, Elliott Martin wrote: It seems that mentioning any translation issues on anything in mandrake linux is a real sore spot for some reason, but it has to be said, so i'm ready to take the flak. in the latest rpmdrake, the main banner at the top reads Software

Re: [Cooker] AutoInstall: no keyboard, no mouse in X

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:59, Pixel wrote: This also happens of course with a combination of USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard. i can't reproduce this. It works fine here And for me. Never had a problem with a PS/2 keyboard and USB mouse on Cooker. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] [RC1]

2002-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 03:19, Tom Whiting wrote: ask that Mandrake go to standard iso's (between 650 and 690m)?? In this case, it wouldn't even involve much more than moving a few files around from one iso to the next. there's 3 cd's, 2 of which are packed so full they can't see straight,

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion cdrom recognition

2002-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 12:26, Buchan Milne wrote: Needing to be able to do CD-to-CD copies is normally illegitemate use of a CD-RW drive, and IMHO, legitemate use should take preference (being able to backup data on the hard disk or master CDs, or write ISO images, as opposed to being able

Re: [Cooker] to full up, really?

2002-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 11:16, Quel Qun wrote: I am just a French native, so please allow my lack of knowledge about all you said before ;) I really did not think it would generate such a traffic. However, I carefully looked at my Harrap's and I cannot find to full anywhere. I wish one could

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion cdrom recognition

2002-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 13:14, Buchan Milne wrote: But if you have to choose between users being able to: 1)Write CDs, and change an option to be ablee to CD-to-CD copy or 2)Possibly be able to CD-to-CD copy, but possibly not be able to write CDs at all I think it would be idiotic to use

Re: [Cooker] [RC1]

2002-09-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 18:13, David Walser wrote: We've covered this, very recently. The third CD contains empty space for good reason. The cheapest bought edition is also 3 CDs in size, and contains all the software from the download edition plus a small amount of commercial

Re: [Cooker] [Contrib-RPM] quake2-3.21_r0.13.1-1.src.rpm

2002-09-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 02:08, Michael Holt wrote: Alright, I'm confused - is this the quake2 that I bought off the shelf with just driver changes and optimisations for the newer libs contained in newer systems? Or is this some other game using the q2 title? Well, pedantically put it's

Re: [Cooker] more translation comments

2002-09-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 11:14, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: in the latest rpmdrake, the main banner at the top reads Software Packages Installation, and i believe the plural is used in error. i think it should read Software Package Installation. Grr it has been that way for ages (that

[Cooker] Nvidia 3.3.6 / 4.2.0 choice on install

2002-09-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 10:43, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: (13) 3D acceleration: whatever does this refer to? why would 3.3.6 give 3D, but not 4.2.0, and why is it experimental? There is no free software 3d acceleration for nvidia in XFree-4, while there was an experimental one in

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia 3.3.6 / 4.2.0 choice on install

2002-09-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:12, Buchan Milne wrote: AFAIK, this option (3d acceleration for 3.x) only appears in an expert install off the GPL edition, so IMHO, the user asked to be treated like an expert. Experimental should be good enough? Ah, in that case it's less of an issue - wasn't aware

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia 3.3.6 / 4.2.0 choice on install

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:09, Philip Webb wrote: i've been using Mandrake for 2 years ( 6.1 , 8.0 briefly, 8.2 , 9.0rc1 ), but i have no idea what the strengths or weaknesses of 3.3.6 4.2.0 are. Well, here's a quick summary - 4.2.0 is good, and 3.3.6 is rubbish. There may be a test later.

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia 3.3.6 / 4.2.0 choice on install

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:51, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 10:43, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: (13) 3D acceleration: whatever does this refer to? why would 3.3.6 give 3D, but not 4.2.0, and why is it experimental

Re: [Cooker] Still a problem with urpmi and athlon built packages.

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 02:49, allen wrote: Please allow me to ask... What packages are a good idea to rebuild with --target athlon ? Makes a big difference somewhere in particular ? BTW, GCC 3.2 added a target specifically for Athlon XPs, so if you have one of them, use athlon-xp . Does

Re: [Cooker] GeForce 4 Ti 4200 issues...

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:06, Valéry Raulet wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:43:07 +0100 Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a fix to get console fb working with this card, or do I have to wait for an update to the fb stuff in the kernel ?

Re: [Cooker] Tuxkart Not Working Properly

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:19, Crispin Boylan wrote: Hi on my tuxkart (0.1.0-4mdk) when you start the game Tux and his kart just plummet downwards through the track - why is this? nVIDIA (29.60) drivers loaded and working, XFree86 4.2.1, Mesa 4.0.3-6mdk Try one of the other tracks - this

Re: [Cooker] My faith in mandrake has returned

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:52, Richard Burt wrote: Just installed and tested RC2. Wow! After the dismal failures of B1,B2, B4 and RC1, I was not looking forward to installing RC2 but I have been proven wrong. Everything appears to work fine. A couple of bugs/gripes though: 1. After

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB and less to download

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:51, Tom Whiting wrote: It's not that simple. Yes, it is. Mandrake overpacks the CD's plain and simple. No, it doesn't. While 650 is starting to be the low standard, umm, 700m is pushing the limit. Personally, my burner can handle 689m (that's the most i've

Re: [Cooker] Re: XF86_SVGA 3.3.6 by default - 4.2.1 !

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 16:36, Pixel wrote: Florent BERANGER[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a DELL Latitude CPI A366XT laptop and the default install have installed XF86_SVGA 3.3.6. I've changed it with Drakconf and Xfree 4.2.1 works fine. Why install XF86_SVGA by default ? neomagic

Re: [Cooker] Linksys WPC11 Version 3

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:50, Simon Ree wrote: Hi, Works great with the iwconfig and the hermes.conf file. I had to add the the following to: wireless.opts # Activate with cardctl scheme linksys # Pick up any Access Point, should work

Re: [Cooker] got firewire camer t work under MDK9.0RC2

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:43, Byron Poland wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:40, faraj Meir wrote: I want to save video from my cam and compress it to divx/xvid, canI do it , and if yes how? Try kino from contrib, and then transcode available at plf. For transcode, look at its

Re: [Cooker] RC2 install: some corrections to UK English

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:53, David Walluck wrote: Alastair Scott wrote: ii. (Various) 'something is available on mandrakecom' - 'something is available from mandrakecom'; 'on' is fine in this context (at least in my American english). Personally, I might even use 'at'. I

Re: [Cooker] bad string in menu-messages.po

2002-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:12, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: In menu-messages.po, the string Change GTK1 Theme should be Change GTK+ Theme no? Not necessarily. GTK+1.x and GTK+2.x themes are separate and must be changed separately, so the message probably refers to

Re: [Cooker] floppy disk - freespace not updated, etc.

2002-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 07:25, Rick Stockton wrote: In the Changelog for the newest 2.5 kernel, Linus talks about a bunch of floppy fixes. Perhaps this code can be back-ported to MD 9.0? I'm not qualified to judge the difficulty of doing this. I have had the freespace problem with 8.2 as

Re: [Cooker] Linksys WPC11 Version 3

2002-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 14:30, Frank Griffin wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: Nope. Read archives. Mandrake (in common with some other distros) doesn't parse the wireless.opts file. Instead, there are wireless keys for the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files (where ethX is eth0

[Cooker] Crusoe i586/i686, kernel 2.4.20-pre6

2002-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
From the 2.4.20-pre6 changelog: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o Patch: Make Transmeta Crusoe processors report i686 Wasn't there some kind of problem a week or so ago relating to this processor's identification, as i586 or i686? Is this relevant? -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Crusoe i586/i686, kernel 2.4.20-pre6

2002-09-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 16:42, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:34:34 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: From the 2.4.20-pre6 changelog: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o Patch: Make Transmeta Crusoe processors report i686 Wasn't there some kind of problem a week or so ago relating

Re: [Cooker] Mdk9.0 and SMC WIRELESS - help please

2002-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 05:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If all that sounds like too much work, you could also try again with orinoco_cs as described in a recent posting. Just replace wvlan_cs with orinoco_cs in /etc/pcmcia/config and run drakconnect. I'm not sure whether orinoco_cs supports

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation - Problem with upgrade

2002-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 08:24, François Pons wrote: 9.0 beta has problem with upgrade as well as rc1 and rc2 on some case, expect rc3 to work correctly (at least it should so). rc3? Is this what's known in the Windows world as a stealth announcement? :) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] PS2 mouse problem during install

2002-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 09:24, Buchan Milne wrote: (And yes, I have made sure to move the wheel first.) What happens if you: 1)read the instructions 2)Scroll the wheel as the first thing you do (assuming you have a wheel). Buchan, what happens if you: 1)actually read the mail before

Re: [Cooker] Minor visual glitches in Mandrake gtk2 theme

2002-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
Another couple: 1. If I drag a scrollbar in a GTK1 app, the scrollbar background (with the little darker grey groove gets wiped and replaced with a sold, smooth grey block. If I then move the cursor out of the window and back in (making the app non-active then active again), the background is

Re: [Cooker] Minor visual glitches in Mandrake gtk2 theme

2002-09-18 Thread Adam Williamson
followup - after an urpmi.update (though nothing obviously related got installed) and a reboot, both my problems went away - scrollbar backgrounds now work, and the scrollbar block (come on, there HAS to be a proper name for this :) now has a minimum size so it always displays right. -- adamw

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 20:00, Guillaume Rousse wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: hot-babe Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.1.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Fri Sep 20

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:44, Guillaume Rousse wrote: I see absolutely *no* need to turn Mandrake into a porn distributor. It could eventually be qualified of bad taste, but not of porn. Have you only had a look at homepage ? Anyway, it has already been wiped out from contribs, and

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 04:20, Levi Ramsey wrote: This thread from one of the Debian ML's is the classic in this subject: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg00829.html They seem to have been discussing a package which actually had some use, though. My argument

Re: [Cooker] Really Stupid Question

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 08:59, Robert Fox wrote: Why is there an option for LSB in the Package Group Selection? Isn't 9.0 already certified? Why would someone NOT want LSB? That package just contains the LSB test suite and docs, I think, which most people aren't going to have any use for. --

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:46, Guy.Bormann wrote: Is it true after all what they say about British men? :-))) *jumping in my flamesuit* Huh? What's that? That we enjoy marmite? That we discuss the weather a lot? That we're not terribly good at cricket? -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] cron.daily: rpm

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:24, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Freitag, 20. September 2002, 13:58:31 Uhr MET, schrieb rcc: do we need to have rpm in cron.daily? Because like slocate it brings older computers almost to a halt. Stop whining. How long can a rpm -qa take? Not more than 10 Seconds on an

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 04:31, Digital Wokan wrote: Mandrake is right to move it to PLF from a business point of view (and let's face it, we all want to be paid for our work, no matter what that work is). Of course, adding PLF to the list of software install sites for URPMI during the use

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hot-babe-0.1.0-1mdk

2002-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 04:41, Digital Wokan wrote: I just remembered after sending this that they don't officially support contribs anyway, so why be worried about what shows up there, as long as it isn't under an incompatible license. Because of appearances. It's in some sense linked to

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 final when ?

2002-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:51, Felix Miata wrote: Regarding the mouse, no one yet on the list has even made an applicable suggestion. Someone did mention combining /usr onto the same partition as /, but I don't use a separate /usr to combine, and I seriously doubt that could possibly be a fix

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 - Voodoo 3 - No devices detected

2002-09-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 16:18, Ron Stodden wrote: Another important point. A full expert install installs no simple command line editor (pie, joe, emacs, etc.).command line emacs cannot run because of the famous missing libjpeg library in 9.0. Can I *please* have some of whatever Ron's

Re: [Cooker] Sony-Vaio-FX-Users - How to adjust screen brightness? A feature for control panel?

2002-09-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 18:51, ja connor wrote: By any chance did you also figure out how to adjust the brightness and/or contrast? Actually, I think adding a laptop brightness setting in control panel would be a nice touch for some future release. My Sony Vaio laptop FXA59 is stuck at

[Cooker] DrakSync bug - help points at the wrong place

2002-09-30 Thread Adam Williamson
The Help link in DrakSync points at a file in /usr/share/doc/DrakSync, but the correct directory is /usr/share/doc/draksync . So if you try to go to the help page, you'll get your default browser opening and complaining about not being able to find the file. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] devfsd.conf

2002-10-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:36, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Guy.Bormann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, according to Inspector Morse, not using the z-spelling shows you're not educated (at Oxford :-). I guess he's no authority on spelling though:-))

Re: [Cooker] GNOME2 bugs/remarks - metacity problems? - more info

2002-10-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:00, Michal Bukovjan wrote: Here is some more info: - the WINDOW_MANAGER in .bashrc wouldn't work. Always metacity. I tried to log into KDE session, though, to see if there is any difference. Try this: killall metacity ; exec sawfish Then save session on exit (or

Re: [Cooker] VIA686a sound problems

2002-10-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 18:12, Michal Bukovjan wrote: ALSA modules, which worked for a long time for me, seems broken after I enabled those by hand. But perhaps they are fixed in Alsa 0.9rc3, MDK9.0 ships with Alsa 0.9rc2. Are you sure they're broken? Remember you don't have to enable ALSA

Re: [Cooker] How to add new ttf fonts in gnome2 ?

2002-10-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:03, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Frederic Crozat wrote: For AA fonts, modify /etc/X11/XftConfig (or ~/.xftconfig) I'm excited about the new fontconfig. Just having to copy your new fonts to ~/.fonts is lovely. Will Cooker make the transition to

Re: [Cooker] How to add new ttf fonts in gnome2 ?

2002-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 07:58, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: On 3 Oct 2002, Adam Williamson wrote: Frederic mentioned Cooker was going to update to Xft2 / fontconfig after it unfroze... Good news. Anyone, btw, who knows when/if Mozilla will start to use fontconfig? I believe it can

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: PCMCIA network cards WEP

2002-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 08:20, Frederic Soulier wrote: Hi I've 3 ennoying issues on my laptop: 1) The possibility to associate an interface (ethx) to a PCMCIA card does not seem to exist. I've been trying to find info on the Track network card id option you get during install without

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:59, Philip Webb wrote: Maybe the time will be reached to use a --expert option on commandline, but I'll be inflexible on the UI of the default rpmdrake. 'inflexible' was the dying word of the dinosaurs ... (smile) Yup, but the dinosaurs managed a few million years

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 17:49, David Sansome wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 3:13 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:59, Philip Webb wrote: Maybe the time will be reached to use a --expert option on commandline, but I'll be inflexible on the UI of the default rpmdrake

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations? (ACPI patches please?)

2002-10-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 04:59, Jason Straight wrote: Ogle doesn't seem to care about the regioning - I'm using the redhat rpms from ogle's site. No regioning BS required, works great. Although I still see little use in playing DVD on computer (just not smooth enough) except for the ability

[Cooker] bad package signature

2002-10-18 Thread Adam Williamson
Doing an urpmi --auto-select, from the ftp.club-internet.fr archive: The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-common-ldap-2.2.6-1.2mdk.i586.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) N What's up with this package? I don't normally get signature errors from

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:52, Igor Izyumin wrote: These are GOOD fonts. Apple uses professionally-made fonts with an excellent renderer. Freetype is nice, but it isn't half as good at small font sizes, even with good fonts, and the antialiasing that it does is pretty bad - it looks like

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:57, Igor Izyumin wrote: KDE is nothing like windows, btw. Gnome looks pretty barren and is about as polished as sandpaper. *sigh* GNOME(2) is themable, just like KDE. You can make it look like Aqua if you really *want* to. Frederic happened to choose a quite

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:25, Austin Acton wrote: So as Mandrake folk mentioned earlier, the immediate plans for 9.1 are bugfixes and package updates. What I'm seeing on the cooker list is a desire for: better fonts, better font control, better hardware support, fancier widgets. So the

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:50, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions as what brands work well and which ones don't. I've always had good luck with Dell, but every company has their good days and bad, I guess. The IBM ThinkPad's look good, too. Was also

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:38, Curtis H wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:51, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:57, Igor Izyumin wrote: And they STILL haven't fixed the f***ing file selector box. Just try to pick a file with XMMS in a crowded directory, you'll see

Re: [Cooker] good fonts / bad fonts

2002-10-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:51, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: Does anybody know what is the difference between a good font and a bad font? (The rendering engine has an important job, but the font is important too.) I have found that the program pfaedit is included by default in

Re: [Cooker] Re: Xft hack

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 04:20, Han Boetes wrote: actually what's the status of that hack? will it get included into the standard freetype2 rpm? It's not up to me to decide that. I am not a mandrake employee, but I like the patch very much. I think that the patch will make it into the

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] gd2-2.0.4-1mdk

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:06, FranXois Pons wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: gd2 Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.0.4 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Fri Oct 25 17:37:55

Re: [Cooker] Re: Xft hack

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:32, scott chevalley wrote: I thought that Xft2 depends on freetype2 as well, so using the hack should generate better fonts under xft2 as well. Just a thought. Xft2 and Fontconfig are, from what I understand, just config and access interfaces into the freetype2

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.19.17mdk-1-1mdk

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:34, Juan Quintela wrote: --=-=-= Name: kernel-2.4.19.17mdk Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Oct 24 22:26:11 2002 Install

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.19.17mdk-1-1mdk

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 18:59, David Walser wrote: --- Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I disable ACPI? Seems my laptop only partially supports it, so I don't get battery status, so I'd rather go back to APM. I tried adding pci=noacpi to the append line in lilo.conf

Re: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:01, Quel Qun wrote: Two different machines: 1. A Dell dimension with a TNT2. The machine boots but crashes as above when I try to start X. Booting with the pci=noacpi option, the machine runs fine. 2. An ASUS-7N266 with Athlon 1700, embedded GeForce2, the machine

Re: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia

2002-10-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 02:21, Quel Qun wrote: acpid starts OK for me. Are you sure? No error in /var/log/messages? Do you have any rule set in /etc/acpi/events? How are these rules generated? Ah, I see - I didn't check for error messages, I assumed your report meant acpid wouldn't start

[Cooker] aspell broken?

2002-10-28 Thread Adam Williamson
Trying to urpmi --auto-select: starting installing packages Installation failed: libaspell15 == 0.50.2-1mdk is needed by aspell-0.50.2-1mdk libaspell-common-0.50.2.so is needed by aspell-0.50.2-1mdk libaspell.so.15 is needed by aspell-0.50.2-1mdk -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:07, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:37:59PM -0500, David Walluck wrote: In my previous email I pointed out some serious usability problems with double-click that need to (should) be fixed before enabling double-click in KDE. Double-clicking in a tree

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.19-17 is definately broken

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:08, Mario Vazquez wrote: Mine is a Dell Latitude CPi, and double check and it's not working when using kernel 2.4.19-17 First, define not working. The difference between -16mdk and -17mdk is that -17mdk uses ACPI by default. There could be several reasons for your

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:31, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:17:50PM +, Adam Williamson wrote: Windows uses the slightly ugly hack of the little plus signs on tree views. To open a tree view level, you either double click the entry, or single-click the tiny plus sign

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 21:30, David Walser wrote: windows, I normally click, and then hit shift or contol, and then continue selecting. This doesn't work in KDE in single-click. In Windows you normally have to do a lot of keyboard crap just to copy and paste. You're in Linux. Yes

RE: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:49, Mcleod, Ian wrote: so what is the 'official' status of what kernel we should be using for Mandrake 9.0? I normally just install the latest RPM kernel build from the Mandrake mirrors and it works fine... Err...for 9.0 you should use the 9.0 kernel. This mailing

Re: [Cooker] RE: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:51, Mcleod, Ian wrote: I have heard that the prism2-utils package installs and sets to run the wlan-ng driver for PRISM2 cards.. The wlan_cs driver is obsolete? No. The wlan-ng drivers are already in stock Mandrake kernels. The prism2-utils package includes some basic

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:57, David Walser wrote: GNOME uses double-click by default, and I don't have a problem with doing things that way. A lot of keyboard crap? Huh? You yourself admit that doing a multiple select with a double-click model involves one *fewer* keyboard press.

[Cooker] compiling mozilla?

2002-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
Has anyone succeeded in compiling a stock Mozilla on current Cooker? I wanted to try Galeon 1.3.0, so I got Mozilla 1.2b, applied the GTK2 patch from the Galeon archive (as recommended by their INSTALL file) and tried to compile Moz (using the recommended configure options) and it quit out quite

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 05:14, David Walser wrote: Really, I understand all of our tendencies to get emotional, but I honestly hoped to start a technical discussion. Someone is trying to change policy behind our backs, I think it's a stupid change, and I'm trying to get a discussion out in

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:13, Guy.Bormann wrote: Linux you just highlight and middle click. And yes ^^ what has Linux got to do with it??!!! You meant KDE? No, actually, I think he was right. From my understanding, the concept of middle-click pasting in *nix OSes predates KDE.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:06, David Walser wrote: Uh, in what way is submitting a new package with the change in the log, and elaborating on the change when asked about it, doing anything behind our backs? Well, given it's one of the huge things that RH got criticized for with 8.0,

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:42, Guy.Bormann wrote: No, actually, I think he was right. From my understanding, the concept of middle-click pasting in *nix OSes predates KDE. Anyone know for sure? No, this is X behaviour (and gpm on Linux) in combination with three-button mice, common hardware

[Cooker] KDE conflict

2002-10-31 Thread Adam Williamson
Trying to urpmi --auto-select currently: Installation failed: file /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/kpackage.png conflicts between attempted installs of kdebase-3.1-0.rc1.2mdk and kdeadmin-3.1-0.rc1.1mdk -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] gnome-panel: still no shutdown from the menu possible

2002-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:32, Götz Waschk wrote: Hi everyone, even with the latest gnome panel I cannot shut my system down as user by clicking on the moon button in the panel. This doesn't seem to be a permissions problem, as I can type poweroff or reboot on the command line. Is this

[Cooker] request for update - gstreamer

2002-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
Gstreamer 0.4.2 is out. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] request for update - gstreamer

2002-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 08:10, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Sonntag, 3. November 2002, 14:40:02 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: Gstreamer 0.4.2 is out. Yes, it's out but it's not working, same as 0.4.1. If you managed to compile it on Cooker, please send me your changes. Ah, no, didn't check, I

Re: [Cooker] Removable media icons in Nautilius

2002-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 10:03, Michal Bukovjan wrote: Hi, when mounting and subsequently unmounting a CDROM (dev/hdd, via Nautilus right click menu on desktop), the CD-ROM gets mounted, but when unmounting, the CDROM icon stays on the desktop. Upon subsequent mount of another or same CD,

Re: [Cooker] Nautilus bug

2002-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:49, John Johnson wrote: Upgraded to nautilus-2.0.7-1mdk. Now each time I log out of gnome2 and log back in, I'm presented with another desktop icon for my floppy, cd-rom and cdrw. I now have 5 of each! As you can imagine, my desktop has become quite cluttered :(.

Re: [Cooker] shortcuts

2002-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 21:13, Buchan Milne wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sérgio Martins wrote: how can i make shorcuts in linux mandrake? This is not a support list, try newbie, expert, alt.os.linux.mandrake or some other place. And when you ask your question there, give more detail

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:41, Faraj Meir wrote: There is a lot of things Still to do : * first font are Very Ugly * Hebrew doesn't apear correctly (squares instead of letters) in all browers for a lot of site example http://ynet.co.il I'd guess this a font issue not a browser

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 07:40, Faraj Meir wrote: I'd guess this a font issue not a browser issue...Mozilla / Galeon at least seem to be good at rendering non-Roman characters when they actually exist in the font... So it will be good to put good hebrew font , so it will work like in IE

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] gstreamer-0.4.2-1mdk

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 08:45, GXtz Waschk wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: gstreamerRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.4.2 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Tue Nov 5 09:43:11

Re: [Cooker] fontconfig docs?

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:03, Texstar wrote: After you install fontconfig and Xft-2 ,edit your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file and add dir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf/dir or where ever you have your ttf fonts installed. We've been playing with this for about a 3-4 weeks now.

Re: [Cooker] fontconfig docs?

2002-11-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:19, Frederic Crozat wrote: !!! When do we get that nice Xft2 / GTK2 build of Mozilla, Frederic? =) I'm waiting for Mozilla 1.2 to be released (end of this week or next week) before activating xft and GTK2 in mozilla package.. Cool :). Will Galeon go to 1.3.0 then,

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 21:12, Wim Horst wrote: Op maandag 4 november 2002 23:35, schreef Leon Brooks: We have most of the technology, we can do it... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/135233 Question for those on the list who still use Windows for soem things (e.g. work

RE: [Cooker] FW: [lwlan-user] wlan-ng Warning for Mandrake Users: module conflicts

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 02:10, Mcleod, Ian wrote: FYI on follow up.. I look forward to trying this when I get home.. I installed the prism2-utils package from Mandrake and I still can't start the eth1 device (operation not supported when I try to start kismet_monitor) and lots of errors

Re: [Cooker]

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:17, Luca Olivetti wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: Lots of people have had one problem or another with the 3123 nvidia drivers. Can you try going back to the 2960 and see if they do the same thing? FYI 2960 did scary things here (like random memory corruption)

Re: [Cooker] harddrake dependencies pbme ?

2002-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:49, Pascal Cavy wrote: installation de /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-1.1.11-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-newt-1.1.11-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/harddrake-1.1.10-4mdk.i586.rpm L'installation a échoué: drakxtools-newt ==

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] gnurobbo-0.56-1mdk

2002-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:47, Lenny Cartier wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: gnurobbo Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.56 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Fri Nov 8 16:05:38

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