[Cooker] Euro symbol display problem in Kde applications with RC1

2002-09-07 Thread Gerard Patel
I can't see the euro symbol - the one displayed with Alt Gr + E - with any Kde applications (tested with konsole, kwrite, kword) under RC1. Instead is displayed a small circle with 4 little lines around - that is said to be the international symbol for money. I have choosen France in my setup.

Re: [Cooker] Printing in MDK9.0 RC*

2002-09-10 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:19 AM 9/11/02 +0200, you wrote: (...) IP and the name of the print queue on the server. To make the local CUPS queues available for remote LPD/LPRng clients, activate the cups-lpd mini daemon by chkconfig --add cups-lpd; service xinetd restart or by using the Services section in the

Re: [Cooker] lm_sensors

2002-09-11 Thread Gerard Patel
At 09:19 AM 9/11/02 +0200, you wrote: Where are gkrellm plugins in 9.0rc2 ? I saw in /etc/init.d a shell script which seems made by Mdk team to automatically install the necessary modules, am i wrong. In that case, what did i need to do ? i did sensors-detect, and copy the appropriate files in

Re: [Cooker] mozilla updown

2002-09-18 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:44 PM 9/18/02 +0200, you wrote: I see this all the time, but not on Linux but on Solaris! I guess this is more of a generic problem with X from Mozilla, though I haven't bothered to search bugzilla yet. I see bad scrolling since I use Mozilla 1.1 - that is, with a tar.gz version from

Re: [Cooker] Re: Finnish locale BUG

2002-09-18 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:02 AM 9/19/02 +0300, you wrote: (...) SYSFONTACM=iso15 LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro LANGUAGE=fi_FI@euro:fi LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro LC_COLLATE=fi_FI@euro LC_NUMERIC=fi_FI@euro SYSFONT=lat1-16 LC_TIME=fi_FI@euro LANG=fi_FI@euro LC_MESSAGES=fi_FI@euro (...) This way you have support for: ISO-8859-15

Re: [Cooker] RC3 Problem with network configuration tool in drakconf

2002-09-21 Thread Gerard Patel
At 09:58 PM 9/20/02 -0700, you wrote: (...) But this time I have a problem I use the network configuration tool in drakconf (text mode). So I change the address for 10.0.0.1 and I (a nouveauté) I have to choose wich card was an gateway. I really don't need that now... anyway I choose the lan one,

Re: [Cooker] Broken XFree86 4.2

2002-09-21 Thread Gerard Patel
At 05:09 AM 9/21/02 -0700, you wrote: it isn't just the ati mach cards, got an old sis 6326 with 8mb and only xfree 3.x runs it properly ( can get the xterm even with 4.x installed, just down to 256 colors ) FWIW I use a 6326 with 8 Mb and Xfree 4 worked fine for me under 8.2, and is still

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next

2002-09-25 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:35 PM 9/25/02 +0200, you wrote: snip Please comment on what you liked, disliked in the 9.0 building, testing and problem reporting process. I have followed cooker since beta3 and I have been badly surprised by the lack of reliability of the mailing list. Maybe replace it by a private

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next

2002-09-26 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:39 AM 9/26/02 +0200, you wrote: you have to understand that we receive lots of mails (i mean several thousands per day). we use scorring and the like to reduce the text volume to read but it still takes time. First thanks for the answer. All right, I understand it's a big load... how

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Pbm with /sbin/ifup script

2002-09-29 Thread Gerard Patel
At 09:48 PM 9/28/02 -0400, you wrote: sleep 5 mii-tool /dev/null 21 || return 1 for (( try=0; try10; try++ )) do sleep 1 if LC_ALL=C mii-tool $LINK $1 21 | grep -vqs no link; then What is the output of mii-tool on your computer if you launch it

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Pbm with /sbin/ifup script

2002-09-30 Thread Gerard Patel
At 10:59 PM 9/29/02 +0100, you wrote: [root@wallaby root]# mii-tool eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link Which is wrong. This is an onboard ethernet card (Intel Etherpro 100) and the link is fine. It looks rather more like a driver problem then (or a new version of the network hardware,

Re: [Cooker] edit-urpm-sources.pl bad behaviour

2002-10-01 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:01 PM 10/1/02 +0200, you wrote: urpmi database locked error is no handled and if it occure, the application don't work with no error message. your english is too broken, i don't understand what's your problem :-(.

Re: [Cooker] Any pointer to sue lm_sensors ?

2002-10-04 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:54 PM 10/4/02 +0200, you wrote: I used on 9.0 sensors-detect to check the sensors i have on my ABIT KX333-R and it found some. I put the detected modules in /etc/modules.conf. Now, i want to check what is the speed of the fans, temperature and so on, but i don't see anything in gkrellm

[Cooker] Sympa reliability

2002-10-19 Thread Gerard Patel
Hello, since the beta and the rc phase, I am receiving less and less email from Cooker. With the big OsNew thread, I have taken the time to count the mails I get : I have currently received exactly 24 mails for this thread, while the Marc archive counter is at 90. Either I am very unlucky with

Re: [Cooker] IPX doesn't work

2002-11-05 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:37 PM 11/5/02 -0800, you (David Walser) wrote: Unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem. ncpfs works on SuSE 8.1 and RH 7.3, but not Mandrake or RH 8.0. Could it be a kernel issue? Hum, it works fine (albeit slowly, but this is not new :-/) for me on Mandrake 9.0. I did not try it with

Re: [Cooker] IPX doesn't work

2002-11-07 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:12 AM 11/6/02 -0800, you (David Walser) wrote: I tried it sometime around 9.0 and it didn't work. Well, all this - me saying it works and you saying it don't - is not very productive. Here is what I can do : - setup cooker and test with it : done. No problem. - test against a newer brand

[Cooker] drakconf exits in network configuration

2002-11-10 Thread Gerard Patel
Hello Problem is in this change --- tools.pm2002-11-10 10:08:55.0 +0100 +++ tools.pm.orig 2002-11-07 17:33:00.0 +0100 -207,6 +207,7 } sub connected2 { +local *KID_TO_READ; my $pid = open(KID_TO_READ, -|); if ($pid) { # parent $kid_pid =

[Cooker] curl missing certificate

2002-11-11 Thread Gerard Patel
Hello, The problem can be seen with rpmmon.pl -p package curl -s https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/maints.cgi fails with the following message : error setting cerficate verify locations NOT FOUND (spelling error is in the code) It was working fine under 9.0. Curl was changed with version

Re: [Cooker] Bugzilla doc (was : Re: Re: vi in gnome-term loses arrow keys)

2002-12-03 Thread Gerard Patel
At 09:41 PM 12/2/02 -0500, you (Brian J. Murrell) wrote: I am just tired of going to the effort to do the bugzilla thing and nobody following up (to vote) (...) You don't have to use the web-pages! There is a reply-by-email interface that allows you to vote among other things. Very nice

Re: [Cooker] Bugzilla doc

2002-12-03 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:26 AM 12/3/02 +0100, you (Warly) wrote: Yes you are right some more detailed doc should be produced. However I sent some mails some days ago, look into cooker archives, to explain the mail interface basics. IMO references to archives don't quite cut it when it is about *guidelines*.

Re: [Cooker] [OT] MNF and licencing issues, who do I ask?

2002-12-18 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:21 PM 12/18/02 +0800, you (Leon Brooks) wrote: since all of the pieces except for a little blue Mandrake glue are available elsewhere, and usually under the GPL, it seems 100% legal to use all but the restricted `blue glue' software under the previous conditions of use. have

Re: [Cooker] [OT] DansGuardian Licensing (was: MNF and licencing issues, who do I ask?)

2002-12-18 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:23 AM 12/18/02 -0800, you (Ben Reser) wrote: (...) Frankly, I think this is an end run around the GPL. Well, I can't say if DansGuardian's license is GPL or not - IANAL. When you word a legal text such as a contract - a license or other - you have to be very careful, there are always

Re: [Cooker] undefined reference to `errno'

2003-01-05 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:37 PM 1/3/03 +0100, you (Gwenole Beauchesne) wrote: (...glibc 2.1.3 errno problem) Then maintainers must fix those packages. People should stop thinking that errno is a variable, which is not guaranteed to be so, which actually is not with recent enough libc. Note that in Debian a

Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.

2003-01-10 Thread Gerard Patel
At 12:01 PM 1/10/03 -0500, you wrote: ShoreWall is (IMHO) awful. I install it only because I think it was required by some other package, but I chkconfig --del it, and keep a copy of Bastille rpms handy to do the job. My guess is that Mandrake switched to Shorewall because the config files

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-15 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:16 PM 1/15/03 -0500, you wrote: I wouldn't know how to begin tracking it down. I asked for help on the subject: Login Takes An Eternity on 9.0 on the expert list Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:52:55 -0500. The thread produced no usable help. I am not subscribed to this list, could you be kind enough

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-16 Thread Gerard Patel
At 03:52 AM 1/16/03 -0500, you wrote: snip Two different boxes, both 550 Mhz. Last timed login: 17 seconds. Might be a devfs problem. During boot: Running DevFs daemon displayed on the screen for 2 minutes, 19 seconds. 28 seconds later, tty1 went blank as X started and changed to tty7.

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-18 Thread Gerard Patel
, under a console (X Window not started), with a floppy in the drive, and report the result. The script reports any open/close taking more than 0.1 seconds. On my system only /dev/psaux is reported (the script reports also numerous open errors) Gerard Patel import os import sys import time def f

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-20 Thread Gerard Patel
At 04:04 PM 1/20/03 +0100, you (Christophe Combelles) wrote: Here is another way to see what's happening during devfsd startup : snip Yes, you already posted this; I have seen your post. I understand that you may have explained why devfs start is slow in the general case all right; but the

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-23 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:49 PM 1/22/03 -0500, you (Felix Miata) wrote: Part 1.2 Name: test.py Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Right, so from this script the fact of opening all devices known has been rather fast I think ? about 5 seconds ? And this on one of these

Re: [Cooker] [YOUR INPUT NEEDED] help me know if we still use some old SCSI adapters to install from

2003-01-23 Thread Gerard Patel
At 01:21 PM 1/23/03 +0100, you (Guillaume Cottenceau) wrote: aha1542 I have still an Adaptec Aha 1542 in one old computer. wd7000 Western Digital Wd7000 It was not a big success I think. Western Digital has exited this market long ago. Gerard

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 03:02 PM 1/27/03 +, you (Adam Williamson) wrote: Not everyone uses KDE. As I say in my other message, GNOME is perfectly usable at 1024x480 on my laptop - the biggest obstacle is the Mandrake utilities. It's NOT a hard problem to fix. What makes you so sure ? are you a programmer ? If so,

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 04:24 PM 1/27/03 +, you wrote: See my other post. Sorry for the inappropriate reply, but I'm afraid that in my case the famous Sympa has eaten this mail. It doesn't NEED to dynamically adapt to anything. It needs... scrollbars. Got your post from the archive, if this can be enabled

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 05:17 PM 1/27/03 +, you wrote: I can't believe it's very difficult. I mean, take an example - I'm looking at Evolution right now, a GTK app. I have it maximised; the tree view on the left has no scrollbars. If I make it too thin for the whole tree view to be completely displayed

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:05 PM 1/27/03 +0100, you (Reinout van Schouwen) wrote: Well, you should have spent a few minutes more, because the document you're referring to covers GTK 1.x, and AFAIK Mandrake is now using GTK 2.2 for all of its tools. See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html Not

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 07:56 PM 1/27/03 +0100, you (Reinout van Schouwen) wrote: (...) You will get mocking press reports either way bah. Journos don't do their reviews on 486-25 computers. , but at least when you choose the 640x480 option, you don't make the control center unusable for some people. some people

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:12 PM 1/27/03 +, you (Adam Williamson) wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 18:53, Gerard Patel wrote: doing it but Mandrake, your opinion would be certain. But like another poster said, Evolution is a big app; it is probably not your typical open source software written by a few enthusiasts

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:37 PM 1/27/03 +, you (Adam Williamson) wrote: Well, don't urpmi gaim, cos Mandrake's still using 0.59, and CVS is way better (0.60) =). You're still sort of right as regards 0.60, though - it does use a fixed size preferences window. Which is odd, because I was referring to the contact

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-27 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:20 PM 1/27/03 +0100, you wrote: Look at GtkScrolledWindow. As I see it, it is just a three-liner to make everyone happy: - change the GtkWindow in mcc for a GtkScrolledWindow and 1 line add to set default scrolling policy I tried it : -my $window_global =

[Cooker] Drakconnect

2002-08-29 Thread Gerard Patel
Hello, Trying the beta 4, I see some problems with drakconnect. - the Alcatel URL for the Speedtouch (in adsl.pm) is obsolete, it is now : http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/dvrreg_lx.htm - the expert mode is not working at all - at least for my setup (ethernet pppoe) the values are not saved in

Re: [Cooker] Drakconnect

2002-08-29 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:38 AM 8/29/02 +0200, you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm interrested :o) All right, I have attached the stuff I have tried. First net_monitor and tools.pm; these patches go together. Comment : I have changed code a bit :-). My feeling is that the connected_bg routine, although elegant,

Re: [Cooker] dsl/pppoe setup is broken in 9.0 beta

2002-08-30 Thread Gerard Patel
Hum, the post I am replying to never made it to my inbox, I found about it by browsing the archive; so I'm Cc'ing you. (and the mail I sent to post code about drakconnect is not even in the archive : bah :-/) As you probably know (from /usr/share/doc/rp-pppoe-3.5/HOW-TO-CONNECT): DO NOT

Re: [Cooker] Drakconnect

2002-08-30 Thread Gerard Patel
At 11:38 AM 8/29/02 +0200, you wrote: I have tried to hack the code a bit to fix things, if someone is interested I can post the diffs here for review. I'm interrested :o) Well, I repost the thing since it seems the mailing list server ate it. All right, I have attached the stuff I

Re: [Cooker] dsl/pppoe setup is broken in 9.0 beta

2002-09-03 Thread Gerard Patel
At 09:38 PM 8/29/02 +0200, you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There are two problems with mandrake dsl setup in beta4: First, it assigns IP to the same network card that is used for pppoe. rp-pppoe doesn't with interface that already has IP. I don't understand what you are saying here... Second,

[Cooker] RC1 misc problems

2002-09-04 Thread Gerard Patel
Trying RC1, see a few problems. 1) a little mistake in a message in french while installing packages : - la duree de cette operation peut varié should be - la duree de cette operation peut varier 2) still problems with menus when installing packages; with Kde, when using the Mandrake tool to

[Cooker] lm_sensors script module count off by one

2002-09-05 Thread Gerard Patel
In RC1, the sensors start script count modules from 0 to n-1; the lm_sensors file generated by sensors-detect counts from MODULE_1 to MODULE_N. Gerard --- sensors.orig2002-08-23 10:48:23.0 +0200 +++ sensors 2002-09-05 11:51:39.0 +0200 -42,8 +42,8 test -r

Re: [Cooker] lm_sensors script module count off by one

2002-09-06 Thread Gerard Patel
At 06:59 PM 9/5/02 -0700, you wrote: Yeah, I reported the problem a couple days ago. I noticed your message in the web archive while searching if someone had responded to mine... I like your patch better than mine, though. Don't forget to patch both the start and stop loops. oops, I just

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 906] [Installation] Can't click on icons in Windows autorun app

2003-02-01 Thread Gerard Patel
At 12:33 AM 2/2/03 +0100, you (pixel) wrote: [Bug 906] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you insert a Mandrake CD into a drive under Windows the autorun app lunches. Here you can select among a list of options. But you can only click on a text description and not on the icon that is to the left

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community

2003-02-12 Thread Gerard Patel
At 02:15 PM 2/12/03 -0400, you (Jean-Michel Dault) wrote: I would recommend using a Wiki, just like the one we have for internal engineering. It's easy to install, manage, and very low on resources. What's more, anyone can create a topic and link it to a project page. Wiki are great for

Re: [Cooker] Realtek RTL8029(AS) doesn't work

2003-02-15 Thread Gerard Patel
At 10:51 PM 2/15/03 +0900, you (utuhiro) wrote: I don't think it's a kernel problem, because RTL8029(AS) works well on the kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk in mdk9.0. It works fine without extra kernel settings in mdk9.0. One of my network cards identify itself as a RTL8029(AS) and it seems to work.

Re: [Cooker] Realtek RTL8029(AS) doesn't work

2003-02-16 Thread Gerard Patel
At 12:41 AM 2/16/03 +0900, you wrote: I use Celeron850mhz+i815+RTL8029(AS). The most important thing is that mdk9.0 has no problem and in mdk9.1, I can't get the connection. I give up mdk9.1beta, and I'll try mdk9.1final. I can't enable ACPI on my computer because my bios is blacklisted, so I

Re: [Cooker] KDE packaging makes no sense

2003-02-21 Thread Gerard Patel
At 08:47 PM 2/21/03 +0100, you (Guillaume Rousse) wrote: Laurent, just refusing to discuss the problem won't fix it, Is there really a serious problem ? Is is realist to ask from Kde to be modular, since the _whole_ kde approach is to do a system whose parts work well together ? Theoretically it