Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2846] [mtools] Floppy formatter incompatible with supermount

2003-07-29 Thread Danny Tholen
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:00, François Pons wrote: tell Juan to include my supermount to make it possible :) Ah, does it means the current kernel doesn't support this functionnalities ? Well, I have been trying to harrass Juan about this for a few months now. It would probably fix all

Re: [Cooker] Contrib package: zero-inst

2003-06-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:32, Buchan Milne wrote: (What if you're using kernel-multimedia? kernel-multimedia-source should provide kernel-source. Danny? In 9.1 it provides alsa-source and kernel-multimedia-source. (BTW, I require kernel-source for the win4lin kernel packages I am working

Re: [Cooker] Contrib package: zero-inst

2003-06-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 05 June 2003 21:02, you wrote: Once again, win4lin-multi-media is a bit different, from say ltmodem, NVIDIA etc kernel modules, which should be able to build against any kernel-source. I see kernel-multimedia does not provide kernel, is there any reason why I should not be able to

Re: [Cooker] Contrib package: zero-inst

2003-06-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:23, you wrote: Unless kernel-multimedia provides kernel, which AFAIK it doesn't. My logic was that if kernel-multimedia provides kernel, then kernel-multimedia-source should provide kernel-source ... it does provides kernel But at present, one has to --nodeps to

Re: [Cooker] Contrib package: zero-inst

2003-06-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 06 June 2003 13:24, Buchan Milne wrote: You sure? no :) $ rpm -qp --provides /var/ftp/pub/mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS/kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1 mdk.i586.rpm kernel-multimedia = 2.4.21 alsa module-info kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk = 1-1mdk well, seems i was wrong.

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-06-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 30 May 2003 00:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: Do you have any pointers how to do this ? I would love to lay this on my alt-ctrl-- or similar. If it can be done on commandline it can be done in a script right ;)? shouldn't have to tell you this? man xrandr? bye d.

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-05-30 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 14:28, Steffen Barszus wrote: *** RandR *** What I have not found yet is a RandR applet for KDE. Has someone experience here yet. How functional is RandR support yet ? This would be a nice thing to have. You can try it from the commandline. Still has a few bugs

Re: [Cooker] ramdisk

2003-05-30 Thread Danny Tholen
hmm.. did you already got an answer? whats wrong with: mke2fs -i 1024 /dev/ram0 4096 mount -n -t ext2 -o defaults, nocheck /dev/ram0 /mnt/ram ? you might want to think abit about decent checks on the size, the amount of memory available and whether there already is a ramdisk, etc Ofcourse, is

Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: Re: [CHRPM] mplayer-0.90-0.rc5.2mdk

2003-04-04 Thread Danny Tholen
I agree with David, default fullscreen sucks. It is not usefull at all. d. On Friday 04 April 2003 08:43, David Walser wrote: Götz Waschk wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003, 20:07:19 Uhr MET, schrieb David Walser: framedrop by default is maybe OK, but fullscreen by default is really bad.

Re: [Cooker] kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 04 April 2003 01:09, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - on some videocards/mobo's there is a panic when using framebuffer if you have above 1GB memory. Booting vga=normal tends to work well for these people. known at least since #3198 :(. I

Re: [Cooker] Re: Fatal crash of X server with i810

2003-04-04 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:19, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: G == Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G .. in all 4 cases, I found the following in the syslog just 9 G seconds before the crash G kernel: [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 65520 wanted 65528 well,

Re: [Cooker] mplayer: several small probs

2003-04-04 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 04 April 2003 14:50, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: rcc wrote: current cooker but applies to 9.1 too mplayer always plays web URLs twice. Happens both in standalone (via konq) and embedded (galeon) mode. Moz plugin also has the odd habit of scaling up to browser page size (fs=no) which

Re: [Cooker] Emulators menu stuff esp VICE and XWine

2003-04-04 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 04 April 2003 20:01, rcc wrote: About XWine, even though people might see XWine as only a configuration frontend for wine, I think it is a proper app in its own right and should be moved out of Configuration/Other into Applications/Emulators. Since I packaged it I am responsible

Re: [Cooker] Re: [XFree86] Fatal crash of X server with i810

2003-04-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:33, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: G == Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G .. in all 4 cases, I found the following in the syslog just G 9 seconds before the crash G kernel: [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 65520 wanted 65528 Google

[Cooker] kernel

2003-04-03 Thread Danny Tholen
Just to summerize some intteresting 9.1 kernel problems. I strongly encourage the kernel team to give comments ;) Perhaps an update will come or some errata? - No ACL support - on some videocards/mobo's there is a panic when using framebuffer if you have above 1GB memory. Booting vga=normal

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3606] [kernel-source] New: kernel has too many patches, should be closer to standard kernel

2003-03-31 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 31 March 2003 14:38, Bruno Prior wrote: I think Simon has a point. There are plenty of occasions (e.g. IDE problems in the past) when the recommended solution is to get hold of a vanilla kernel, that's why there is kernel-linus? If there were a clear path that showed which patches

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3615] [xfsprogs] no acls in XFS

2003-03-31 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 31 March 2003 20:13, Buchan Milne wrote: Ha, and why didn't anybody notice this before?! Also, you can't mount ext3 with the acl option, so I guess acls are toasted on ext3 too. Not really toasted, just not enabled. Patches are applied, but ACL is missing from the

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3615] [xfsprogs] no acls in XFS

2003-03-31 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 31 March 2003 20:26, Danny Tholen wrote: Not really toasted, just not enabled. Patches are applied, but ACL is missing from the 2.4.21-pre4q13/configs/ files. oops, mea culpa, the addition CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL itself is not in any patch anymore it seems. d.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 30 March 2003 12:02, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to build. huh? no, that's incorrect, but it just won't compile under mandrake ATM, and the project does'nt really seem to be that active, no stable release since 2001... no it is only sligtly

Re: [Cooker] [RFC][PATCH] New supermount

2003-03-30 Thread Danny Tholen
And at least to up to 1.1.3 I have tested it (sorry Andrey that I did not yet got back to you, was a bit busy) on a number of different hardware, and have to say it works much better and stabler than 9.1 supermount :) I have not yet found a way to break it. Although I recall that Jan Ciger

Re: [Cooker] [RFC][PATCH] New supermount

2003-03-30 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:49, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: - fs=.. option now takes list of filesystem types like fs=ext2:vfat. Using auto gave large delay sometimes (specifically for floppy). Pixel, if you're reading this, and the patch gets applied, it would be good to make it default for

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:57, Leon Brooks wrote: * Falling-off-a-log-easy WINE, with useful help on getting Windows apps to work under WINE (even if this is a link to an internet site, good general help for getting things working should be available, both in the form of a newbie

Re: [Cooker] mmx and such

2003-03-22 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 21 March 2003 18:26, Oden Eriksson wrote: If this bug hasn't been fixed yet, Pentium compatiblity doesn't seem to be that important for Mandrake :-) Exactly. And my point is that Mandrake cannot state i586 compability. runs fine here on a k6-2, which is definately not i686

Re: [Cooker] kernel-source and kernel-source-includes

2003-03-18 Thread Danny Tholen
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 17:52, Austin wrote: Also, a win4lin/multimedia kernel would be impossible (I tried it, with much hand-editing). They both try to patch the scheduler, and I couldn't find any way to get the two patches to apply against each other. can I have a look at this win4lin

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-03-17 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 17 March 2003 08:56, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. März 2003, 19:11:15 Uhr MET, schrieb Danny Tholen: On Sunday 16 March 2003 18:59, Götz Waschk wrote: what if you turn off depmod at boot and run it manually + verbose later? normal/smp, any special drivers? Hmm, after

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-03-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 14 March 2003 15:38, Adam Williamson wrote: * Thu Mar 13 2003 Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.4.21.0.16mdk - supermount 1.1.1 (a great job, by Andrey Borzenkov) - small snd-emu10k1 patch - dmi_scan fixes (Thomas Backlund) - custom config should now have patches enabled I

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-03-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 16 March 2003 18:59, Götz Waschk wrote: what if you turn off depmod at boot and run it manually + verbose later? normal/smp, any special drivers? d.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-03-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 16 March 2003 19:14, Andi Payn wrote: On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:51, Adam Williamson wrote: It's just that the kernel is an important package, and I think it gets a bit confusing if there's one that's getting quite a bit away from the other five versions...sure it's in contribs,

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-03-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 16 March 2003 19:31, Adam Williamson wrote: Ah, in that case, apologies - I thought you were adding stuff that wasn't going to be in main kernel. If it's all stuff that's going to end up in main anyway then I don't see a problem, cool =) And my apologies for my , as usual, agitated

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3245] [Hardware] New: No sound since 8.2

2003-03-13 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 13 March 2003 20:07, Jason wrote: but that doesn't work anymore either, (though it used to). When I run sndconfig and choose my card and run the probe and it says: An error occurred opening /dev/audio if I try the SB16 test which used to work for the same card it says the same. I

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3284] [drakxtools] New: add windows fonts fails -perms wrong on ttf2pt1

2003-03-13 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 13 March 2003 22:17, Thierry Vignaud wrote: sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/ttf2pt1: Permission denied. An ls -l for the file shows permissions of -rw-r--r--. @resolution=fixed fixed in -10mdk haha, some bugs are really annoying. Third try should work:) cheers, d.

Re: [Cooker] [NEW] freetype2 library + OpenOffice.org

2003-03-12 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:07, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: 1) Should we let in new freetype2 which fixes crashes with 3rd-party fonts, i.e. not provided by MDK? well, IMO fixing crashes is more important than (a few) badly readable fonts. So by all means, try to get it in. d.

Re: [Cooker] New Testkernel for SMP...

2003-03-12 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 11:30, Thomas Backlund wrote: Could someone verify this,... is the IRQ routing problem only P4 / Xeon specific... or does it happend on dual P3 too... if it does fix the problems, can you send a patch to me? I'll try to get it in kernel-multimedia. If it is to late

Re: [Cooker] 9.1RC1 - acrobat plugins + Galeon

2003-03-12 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 18:36, Buchan Milne wrote: When one of them has a working find function (try the ~1600-page wxWindows manual for example). kghostview does not seem to handle landscape well (xpdf does it ok). True, I find the free pdf view tools useless, because they do not have a

Re: [Cooker] Bug fixed, how to get it upstream ? (634,3142)

2003-03-12 Thread Danny Tholen
mail patch to maintainer? d. On Wednesday 12 March 2003 15:38, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi! I fixed a bug in isdn4net. isdn4net is a package of shellscript and actually 29k big. Is there any way to get this in ? I have even the source-rpm ready to send it to somebody to get it in. It solves

Re: [Cooker] font tools/conversion

2003-03-10 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 10 March 2003 21:38, Austin wrote: When I run drakfont, I get the error many times: sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/ttf2pt1: No such file or directory eh..Austin, you did not study the list well enough:-P I reported this a long while back, and Thierry promised to fix, but misunderstood me and

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-10 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 10 March 2003 21:33, George Mitchell wrote: I have nothing against proprietary software in general or soundfonts in particular. I only find it odd that cards that provide /dev/sequencer support under free software should see that support discontinued when the source is freely

Re: [Cooker] Re: drakxtools dependencies/font-tools

2003-03-08 Thread Danny Tholen
Thierry, you forgot!!! ;-P Danny On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: drakfont depends on ttf2pt1, which should be in font-tools. It is not, only the man page is. Thierry, my rpmmon says font-tools has no maintainer, which

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] ati.2-4.3.20030307-1mdk

2003-03-08 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 08 March 2003 23:12, Spencer Anderson wrote: It is almost impossible to keep that straightened. There are four drivers that ati.2 replace and XFree86 will overwrite them everytime. The only thing I can think of when we are in beta or RC stage like now, is to add ati.2 to urpmi

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 07 March 2003 20:32, Adam Williamson wrote: Sorry, but this characterisation is wrong. There's some trivial bugs currently; there's also some that ought to delay the distribution on their own. See the bug which means anyone who has a PPP connection and tries to activate Mandrake's

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:37, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe more overworked than I am? People may also have different views on how cooperation must happen with external contributors.. Or maybe they use ineffective mail client programs? :) yes

Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia 13mdk

2003-03-07 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 07 March 2003 18:21, Jan Ciger wrote: I originally thought that my bash is acting up, because on 'ls' I have got tar: *.spec: Not found in archive :-))) well, I am looking at 14mdk now, but there is really no such file in the rpm... d.

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 06 March 2003 14:45, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Let it clear: we all want the most bug-free release possible. Generally, I agree with all your points. What you say is as far as I can just mostly right. And people on this list will probably always complains about certain desission.

Re: [Cooker] still alsa sound and KDEInit problems

2003-03-06 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 06 March 2003 20:44, Serge Plüss wrote: Hi Still with the latest cooker sound on SB Live is awfully choppy. I had read that some of the latest alsa is supposed to fix this but as of kernel-2.4.21.0.12mdk-1-1mdk it is still reporting using alsa 0.9.0RC6 Juan knows. I cannot help

Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia 13mdk

2003-03-06 Thread Danny Tholen
oopssounds like I screwed up. will check if the patch went in... ...patch went in. checking if it was enabled... ooops CONFIG_CAP_SETPCAP is not set. waaa..it is even worse, also preempt and lowlat seem disabled. (so much for doing things in a hurry). will rebuild asap (possibly with juans

Re: [Cooker] Re: RC2, first impression

2003-03-05 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:32, Oden Eriksson wrote: As far as the problem being XFree drivers, I find that strange...I wouldn't expect driver display bugs to show up in a screenshot that goes through software and shows what what the system is really trying to display... Yes it's

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 22:07, Timothy R. Butler wrote: For instance, since he has an integrated AC97 sound card, Mandrake won't let his SB Live! work properly that has worked in every other GNU/Linux distro he has tried (including 8.2). what exactly are you referring to here? Or could you

Re: [Cooker] (Cooker] kernel-multimedia problem building vmware modules

2003-03-04 Thread Danny Tholen
yeah I know. Try with 13mdk. It should work now. Danny On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:32, Torstein Hernes Dybdahl wrote: The kernel-multimedia-preempt source kode says it is smp but the kernel is built for uniprocessor. This makes vmware to refuse to build new kernel modules. Vennlig Hilsen

Re: [Cooker] Upload frozen

2003-03-04 Thread Danny Tholen
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 16:01, Eric Fernandez wrote: Maybe, but there is a problem with emu10k1 Sound Blaster cards and mplayer. I would be sad if any reviewer reported that problem after the final release... Actually I don't know if that problem is because of some compilation options rather

[Cooker] kernel-multimedia 13mdk

2003-03-04 Thread Danny Tholen
If all goes well, this should be on mirrors soon. - It will fix module building - drakfont+ntfs hangs (untested) - low snd-emu10k1 pcm stream size causing sound artifacts I did not include highmem for smp (sorry): if you have a workstation with more than 900 MB, you can build it from

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mozilla-1.3-0.final.20030228.1mdk

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:37, Frederic Crozat wrote: Mozilla package is already taking care of a lot of plugin package (look at the triggers...) yes, but not correctly for at least java. Anyway, I'll probably move the non-versioned directory naming but AFTER 9.1 is out.. hmm, ok:( So I

Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 12:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: kernel-multimedia-preempt-2.4.21.0.12mdk-1-1mdk Why is this 0.12mdk rather than 0.11mdk as is current kernel? With it set as 0.12mdk, unless it is added to skip list, --auto-select requires that a kernel-multimedia be installed.

Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 14:23, Marcel Pol wrote: If it's based on kernel-blah-0.11mdk, call yours kernel-blah-multimedia-preempt-0.11mdk, that should be clear enough, right? yes it is clear. But not possible. I need to be able to make several updates per 'juan-version' 11. So I need a way to

Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 15:21, Charles A Edwards wrote: Would it not work as kernel-2.4.21.0.11mdk-multimedia-prempt-1-#mdk if we do that, it is not possible to keep old kernel when installing new one. (ie 2mdk will replace 1mdk). That was the whole point of this silly 1-1mdk naming scheme.

Re: [Cooker] Xfree 4.3 and RandR

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 13:39, andre wrote: name one? tsk... Loki's Kohan runs only in 1024x768, but I hate using my desktop in that resolution (low refresh, small fonts). Switching during session would be nice. And certainly easier compared to starting a new xserver. Also, since many

Re: [Cooker] Upload frozen

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
I think that was the sblive problem? I send a patch to the list a while ago, it is a one liner. Just bug juan with it. d. On Monday 03 March 2003 18:31, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 16:24, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are we going to get

Re: [Cooker] Upload frozen

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 19:18, Eric Fernandez wrote: It is probably an issue with the way emu10k1 drivers are loaded/managed by the kernel, don't know more. a bit vague? I posted a fix here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=104567821415024w=2 d.

Re: [Cooker] NVIDIA - kernel-multimedia

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 19:09, Jan Ciger wrote: I tried to compile the Nvidia driver with the multimedia kernel and have got unresolved symbols on loading the NVdriver module :-( Yes, I know. It is because /etc/init.d/kheader does not know about kernels with a preempt tag. I will try to drop

Re: [Cooker] Upload frozen

2003-03-03 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 03 March 2003 20:01, Adam Williamson wrote: Try playing a sound with xmms, with the ALSA output plugin enabled. xmms just freezes solid. Someone else confirmed this happens to them, also. For me it does not happen. Which sound card? Trying to run Quakeforge (Quake source port) in

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:26, Buchan Milne wrote: How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia? yes, split off a small package into contrib, with the script. Does the script need to be setuid root? Why not become

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mozilla-1.3-0.final.20030228.1mdk

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 20:33, rcc wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:47:05 +0100 (CET) oh no, not again a change of the dirname. Wouldn't it be possible to have /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and a symlink to that in *agree* it would be a lot easier for my java rpms on mdk club as well. d.

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read something about a kernel patch that makes it possible to use jackit with capabilities without running it as root. eh thac, you might have missed we already did this. The only problem was getting the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mozilla-1.3-0.final.20030228.1mdk

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:36, Todd Lyons wrote: mozilla finds the plugins that I have in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I don't have to do anything in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3b/plugins for it to find the other ones (though it does symlink to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins for a few things). yes, but

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:34, Buchan Milne wrote: I was wanting to answer that most of the software is already in Mandrake contribs in preparation for 9.1, but it seems we do not have the low latency/multimedia kernel in contrib yet. well, I do hardly have the time to put up with contrib

Re: [Cooker] Cannot change volume in any multimedia programs (snd-emu10k1)

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
From Kmix I can use the following sliders to adjust the volume: Wave, Emu10k1 PCM only changes the volume on the left speaker. All other sliders (including master/base/treble) don't do anything at all. Ok, do I get it correctly that 'wave' is adjusting the volume of both speakers? In that case

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 16:50, Buchan Milne wrote: Austin Acton wrote: Chmouel/Juan, are you guys able to give an answer on this? I am sure if you Danny can be told This will be the final kernel for 9.1 a few days in advance, he should be able to get a the multimedia kernel working. I am

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:26, Buchan Milne wrote: How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia? yes, split off a small package into contrib, with the script. Does the script need to be setuid root? Why not become

Re: [Cooker] Cannot change volume in any multimedia programs (snd-emu10k1)

2003-02-26 Thread Danny Tholen
known problem (sort of). We really need some configuring for the alsa mixer, but I do not have the time to do it before 9.1. Also, I do not own digital speakers, so I'm not sure which mixer setting you should use. Can you try 'wave surround' in kmix to see if it helps? d.

[Cooker] drakxtools dependencies/font-tools

2003-02-26 Thread Danny Tholen
drakfont depends on ttf2pt1, which should be in font-tools. It is not, only the man page is. Thierry, my rpmmon says font-tools has no maintainer, which is why I bug you with it:) Danny

Fwd: [Cooker] [Bug 1280] [XFree86-libs] /tmp/.ICE-unix/ not owned by root

2003-02-23 Thread Danny Tholen
This has been brought up so many times now, that I wonder why it does not get fixed? It really is trivial to do so? Danny -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Cooker] [Bug 1280] [XFree86-libs] /tmp/.ICE-unix/ not owned by root Date: Sunday 23 February 2003 19:02 From: ndeb

Re: [Cooker] Two questions on font rendering

2003-02-20 Thread Danny Tholen
Hope this makes you feel slightly better: On Thursday 20 February 2003 09:30, Frederic Crozat wrote: And I'm almost sure this problem is not the same as the previous one, since Xrender doesn't care AT ALL of encoding.. have to admit I didn't check on the previous bug. But i think freetype2 does

[Cooker] rpmdrake 100%cpu: an observation

2003-02-20 Thread Danny Tholen
I noticed something about this bug that I think did not get noticed yet (I do not know if you already know what goes wrong gc, so perhaps this is not of use): rpmdrakes _only_ hangs when the dependencies it tries to resolve are not actually visible in the window. My dirty guess is that when

[Cooker] kxine

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
Kxine crashes with a dcop communication error on startup. It also needs libfam-devel and libart_lgpl2-devel as a buildreq. The 0.5rc1 version (http://kxine.sourceforge.net/kxine-0.5-rc1.tar.gz) crahes with a segfault:( haven't tried cvs yet. Danny

[Cooker] Re: preempt rejected?

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:23, you wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is *this*? putting this kernel in contrib or update the version number? kernel-preempt may works in contrib, but not for the main preemption in kernel is not a feature we can get for now Hmm

[Cooker] preempt rejected?

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
2.4.21-0.pre4.6mdk. But I can change the name completely if that makes everybody happy? I take it that this rejected message not only applies to kernel-doc but also to kernel-preempt and source? * Mon Feb 17 2003 Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.4.21-0.pre4.6.1mdk you cannot do stuff like

Re: [Cooker] alsa bug

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:26, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Aurélien Bompard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same thing here. It occurs also when switching worspaces. x11 probably eats too much pci bandwith, thus competiting with the app that fill the sound buffer you may want the pcinotry

Re: [Cooker] alsa bug

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 15:40, John Allen wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 22:47, Danny Tholen wrote: Latest alsa driver contains a bug, at least for emu10k1: heavy scrolling causes sounds artifacts (possibly quick windows resising to). I get the same problem using XMMS and the KDE

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 15:48, Buchan Milne wrote: Warly wrote: I do not really favor the fact of using proprietary things to lead user to mandrakeclub. Mandrakeclub is mainly to help Mandrakesoft develop free software, and if we need to use proprietary arguments to have enough

Re: [Cooker] alsa bug

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:26, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Aurélien Bompard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same thing here. It occurs also when switching worspaces. x11 probably eats too much pci bandwith, thus competiting with the app that fill the sound buffer you may want the pcinotry

[Cooker] kopete jabber plugin?

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
Any reason why the only really free protocol is not in mandrakes kopete? Danny

[Cooker] PATCH: alsa-emu10k1 pcmstream size

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
I found the bug that causes the emu10k1 to sound bad when X is busy with other things. The fix is a one liner (below). Danny diff -Paru linux-2.4.20/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c emu10k1/emupcm.c --- linux-2.4.20/sound/pci/emu10k1/emupcm.c 2003-02-17 15:46:22.0 +0100 +++

Re: [Cooker] Two questions on font rendering

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 19:55, Michal Bukovjan wrote: Frederic Crozat wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:22:34 +0100, Michal Bukovjan wrote: You don't use cooker, do you ? I *DO* use cooker. And it is not fixed - try to go to that (any) site in the bug report - http://underground.cz ;

Re: [Cooker] preempt/lowlat kernel

2003-02-18 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 17 February 2003 19:30, Buchan Milne wrote: +1 just uploaded d.

[Cooker] alsa bug

2003-02-18 Thread Danny Tholen
Latest alsa driver contains a bug, at least for emu10k1: heavy scrolling causes sounds artifacts (possibly quick windows resising to). It is not a heavy load issue, it only occurs for some screen activities (scrolling, perhaps resizing). It occurs with both nvidia and nv drivers. It does not

Re: [Cooker] alsa bug

2003-02-18 Thread Danny Tholen
All of you using a sblive? Or also other cards? If so, I will try newer and older cvs versions of ALSAs emu10k1 to see if it gets fixed. d. On Wednesday 19 February 2003 07:02, Aurélien Bompard wrote: Latest alsa driver contains a bug, at least for emu10k1: heavy scrolling causes sounds

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 17 February 2003 10:30, Warly wrote: Currently the machine running bugzilla is quite underpowered (PIII 700 with 256 MB of ram). As soon as I find some time and a more powerfull computer, I switch it and decrease the processing to something like 5 minutes). While you are at it.

[Cooker] dosemu in contrib: license problem?

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Tholen
I had a look at dosemu recently. And although I never really used this software I think I can put it back in contrib. Question is: Debian put freedos in non-free because the dos programs are compiled with a very old borland compiler, and supposedly therefore link against a (closed source) C

[Cooker] nvtv

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Tholen
I accidently build nvtv, but than I saw it was already in contribs. I think it could be improved a bit: - libgtk+1.2-devel should be added to build requires - Currently the binaries are setuid root, I think this is a bad idea (its easy to crash your machine with it). Perhaps using

Re: [Cooker] nvtv

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Tholen
On Monday 17 February 2003 17:42, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Currently the binaries are setuid root, I think this is a bad idea (its easy to crash your machine with it). Perhaps using conselehelper would be better: i would not. it *is* You lost me

[Cooker] preempt/lowlat kernel

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Tholen
I have a preemptive lowlatency kernel (2.4.21pre4-6.1mdkpreempt) sitting on klama (including capabilities patch for getting lowlatency with jack). It works stable here, with very low latencies. I hope nobody objects to putting a kernel into contrib? Chmouel, you are welcome to take a look at it

Re: [Cooker] Restart problem

2003-02-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 16 February 2003 18:08, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Jon wrote: I'm running a frequently updated cooker and for the past week or so attempting to restart the machine logs me out and sends me to a konsole requiring me to re-log in and then typing 'reboot' in order to

Re: [Cooker] Restart problem

2003-02-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 16 February 2003 21:14, Jon wrote: running KDE. The problem happened with both mdkkdm and kdm and the problem was as rcc stated in the paths to the RebootCmd. When I replaced: RebootCmd=/usr/sbin/rebootin with: RebootCmd=/sbin/reboot things acted as they should and

Re: [Cooker] 2 Problems: Mozilla (crash) OpenOffice (badly displayed fonts)

2003-02-14 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 14 February 2003 01:17, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote: Hello, I am using a MDK 9.0 system that I have been updating with cooker RPMs since I installed 9.0. No, you do not update your 9.0 system with cooker. Instead, it is called 'screwing your system'. cooker rpms were never made for

Re: [Club-Volunteers] Re: [Cooker] urpmi.setup in main ?

2003-02-13 Thread Danny Tholen
I agree with you. Opening a bug is a good idea. I do not give it much change to be fixed however :( Danny On Thursday 13 February 2003 16:51, Narfi Stefansson wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 05:33, Denis HAVLIK wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: + Furthermore, I think it

Re: [Cooker] No Audio with SBlive and digital Speakers

2003-02-13 Thread Danny Tholen
Perhaps it works with this info: Module snd-emu10k1 -- Module for EMU10K1/EMU10k2 based PCI soundcards. * Sound Blaster Live! * Sound Blaster PCI 512 * Emu APS (partially supported)

Re: [Cooker] urpmi.setup in main ?

2003-02-12 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 18:34, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about puting this package on main instead contrib. It seems lot of poeple want or need it: why is not done in rpmdrake ? Do you mean 'why is it not done in rpmdrake'? I think it

[Cooker] PATCH: check tmp permissions for xfs + Xsetup_0 should be updated

2003-02-02 Thread Danny Tholen
Since this message seems to have been ignored I just sent it again. Also, since the KDE team doesn't care to comment on whether (ugly) new kdm is there to stay: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 checks for kdmdesktop, which does not exist anymore... the message about xfs: There have been some reports of

Re: [Cooker] Contributing a non-contrib package

2003-02-01 Thread Danny Tholen
bug [EMAIL PROTECTED] with it :) I think he has his reasons for not configuring it like this though. Danny On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:35, Daniele Pighin wrote: I've just rebuilt a kde package fort qt (qt3-3.1.1-9mdk.src.rpm and binaries) adding full xcursor support to qt. This is not a

Re: [Cooker] Re: [cooker] PATCH: 2.4.21-0.pre3.1mdk: supermount - fix ESTALE on media change wth busy files

2003-01-29 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:01, Borzenkov Andrey wrote: 0.pre3.1mdk has the same supermount. Version that was intended for 9.0 update has the same bug as 9.0. ha...seems that I make better updates than Juan :-P Not that I understand much of supermount anyways. Thanks for investing your

Re: [Cooker] HOWTO help adding new hardware to ldetect-lst ??

2003-01-27 Thread Danny Tholen
another monitor for the list: Iiyama; Iiyama HM704UTC, Diamondtron; 0; 30.0-96.0; 50-160; 1 d.

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