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

2002-12-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ben Reser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:58:40AM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: IMO : the code source is GPL, so you can use it, fork it sell it, etc.. using the terms of the GPL, which are : you have to display the authors of the program and clearly indicate the changes that you made

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

2002-12-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ben Reser wrote: Frankly, I think this guy is smoking crack. What he's saying is that you can't download it from his site for commercial use unless you pay him a fee. If I download it from another site then I can use it for commercial purposes as much as I like. After a discussion with RMS

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

2002-12-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Eric Fernandez wrote: I totally agree with you. The first sentence shows For all non-commercial use DansGuardian 2 can be downloaded under the GPL http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html This is a complete non-sense : the first part introduces a restriction, which is incompatible

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

2002-12-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mandrake has clarified the status of the MNF licensing on that page : http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf/license I think this is clear enough now. Eric

Re: [Cooker] Offensive message in KDE

2002-12-09 Thread Eric Fernandez
Philippe Coulonges wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In KDE 3.1 in french, when opening an FTP connexion, you can read in the progression window (default size) Ouverture d'une conne, the remaining of the message being cut. Anybody speaking french may see it's not the

[Cooker] Disk performance decrease with kernel-2.4.20.0.5mdk

2002-12-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have a computer with the i845g chipset. Since the 2.4.20 kernel, that chipset is supported and I can activate udma mode and 32 bit transfer using hdparm. With kernel-2.4.20.0.3mdk, performance (tested with hdparm -tT) was excellent, 23k/s. Unfortunately, with the new kernel-2.4.20.0.5mdk

[Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
I don't know if it has been discussed here, but since there are so many problems with supermount, why to not use an alternative ? Like autofs ? Is there any technical reason to stick to supermount ? Eric

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Robert Denier wrote: You may want to check this but I think supermount -i disable will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember if you mess up fstab your machine may not boot.) Clearly you now have to mount everything by hand, but considering I use a cd at most

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Alan Hughes wrote: The problem is that AFAIK other auto mounters are user-space applications that work by periodically checking to see if a mount point is no longer used, and if so then unmounting it. Typically this check occurs at 30 second intervals (although I understand that most allow you

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, but what is the relationship between the language and the GUI concept ? I can understand the changes : they wanted to integrate rpmdrake to the whole control center, which is a good idea. Actually, the tabs

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Eric Fernandez
Gary Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 October 2002 06:55 pm, Stephen Pickering wrote: rpmdrake should return to the original single installer / uninstaller with options to force install/remove only (for the unexperienced). First, Guillaume has

[Cooker] Font size in K logon manager screen sometimes wrong at startup

2002-10-15 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have a problem since mandrake 8.0 with KDM. When the login screen appears, sometimes the font is smaller than it should really be. I have to restart X, sometimes several times, before obtaining the correct font size. And if I logon in KDE with these smaller fonts, all the KDE desktop has

[Cooker] Some cosmetic suggestions for the installer

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Fernandez
Now that cooker is in full development, there are some ergonomic and cosmetic remarks : At the installation, the menus are not so convenient : - to choose a user : you have to enter name, nickname and password, the icon and then type accept or terminate. First, the user icon is not very

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and i845

2002-10-07 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: As far as what I can see, here are the information I've collected about 9.0 and i845: - official Linux support for the dma stuff of i845 appeared sometime in the 2.5.something branch - it was hacked together in our 2.4 for 9.0 by Juan, it worked sometime in the

[Cooker] synthesis.hdlist2.cz not updated in contrib/cooker

2002-10-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
The synthesis file in the contrib of 9.0 has been correctly updated to the current version, but the contrib of cooker has still the 21st Sep version and is not updated. This is not a big problem, but I just wanted to warn ! Eric

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

2002-10-01 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have got also problems downloading pictures from my usb camera (canon powershot a40). The camera is correctly set up and I can access the image directory with konqueror. But sometimes it hangs during the copy and I have to do it again. Eric Borzenkov Andrey wrote: I am really sorry but from

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.0 and I845G and DMA

2002-10-01 Thread Eric Fernandez
Wes Kurdziolek wrote: I remember seeing a message on lkml that this is fixed in 2.4.20-pre7. On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:12, Ibukun Olumuyiwa wrote: No, I don't have a solution to the DMA problem yet. I remember trying hdparm, but not even hdparm could enable DMA on the hard drive (try it --

Re: [Cooker] buying new fans for RaQ3

2002-09-30 Thread Eric Fernandez
Kim Schulz wrote: hi Does anyone know of a good place to buy new Fans for the RaQ3 model? Preferebly in Denmark, Scandinavia or central Europe? My RaQ's are starting to get too hot and teh Fans have started to make more noice than normal. I do not think this is the corrct mailing list, this

Re: [Cooker] Creating ISO from cooker mirror

2002-09-30 Thread Eric Fernandez
Trent M. Gunnarson wrote: Would someone please create a script that would create a set of ISO images from the cooker and contrib archives ? Warly has done a great job with mkcd but judging by the lack of documentation and confusion regarding use of the script, something could be done to make

Re: [Cooker] Creating ISO from cooker mirror

2002-09-30 Thread Eric Fernandez
Trent M. Gunnarson wrote: Thanks for the link, I've used that info and created usable ISO images but in my situation, even the install scripts are different than the downloadable ISO. Now before you start asking questions, I'll tell you what I did to create my local mirror and then the ISOs

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0 Download Edition (Contrib ISO?)

2002-09-27 Thread Eric Fernandez
Not exactly: urpmi examines if /mnt/cdrom needs to be mounted. In case of supermount, /mnt/cdrom is seens as always mounted. But there are performance issues when accessing many files on a supermounted cdrom so it's useful to umount it and mount it as a plain normal iso9660 filesystem. I

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0 Download Edition (Contrib ISO?)

2002-09-26 Thread Eric Fernandez
Actually the contrib CD has never been downloadable as an iso, but as separate packages in a contrib sub-directory in the distribution directory (there was one in the 8.2 directory) The question is if it will be available in the 9.0 directory ? Eric Olivier Thauvin wrote: This is a good

Re: [Cooker] rc3 : changing the name of a file/folder located onKDE's Desktop does not display the new name

2002-09-24 Thread Eric Fernandez
Right. A simpler way is to move the folder to another one, and then put it back to the desktop. Icon and name are then updated. This is a very annoying bug. Even if it is a problem with KDE and not Mandrake, it is such kind of issues that make newbie people think that Linux is not as good as

Re: [Cooker] RC2 Kernel 2.4.19 and Intel I485G chipset

2002-09-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
Me neither it does not work with rc3. Would be nice if it could be fixed for the final. Thanks. Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got same problem with i845 ( Dell dimension 4500). A fix was tried in kernel mdk-13 but still don't work on my box (maybe someone was sucesfull). I also tried

[Cooker] flightgear 8.0 on RC3 : display problem

2002-09-19 Thread Eric Fernandez
I know this is minor, but the new flightgear 0.8.0 package in contribs has a display problem : the panel instruments does not contain instruments ! It seg faults a lot (system with Radeon 7500 mobility) too. This has been tested on RC3. Eric

Re: [Cooker] 9.0rc3

2002-09-19 Thread Eric Fernandez
Could it be problem with your burned image of the install disk ? Ron Stodden wrote: Re: The cooker version of: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020919 12:04 The installer defines this as 9.0 RC 3, but it will not install: Expert, Install, No package selection. There was an error installing

Re: [Cooker] Problem with DMA

2002-09-11 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have been reported this bug since the first beta, but we had no feedback. It seems that this problem is difficult to correct, since the IDE code is completely rewritten for the 2.5 kernel (and subsequently the future 2.6). It seems that there are patches from Alan Cox, or Andre Hedrick on

[Cooker] RC1 : once again, the same problem with i845g chipset !!!

2002-09-06 Thread Eric Fernandez
There is still a problem with the i845G chipset and this new 2.4.19 kernel, preventing hdparm to setup the UDMA5 mode for hard drive (HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted). Moreover, there is an error message at boot : PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions

[Cooker] beta3 install BUG : usbmouse and devfs

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
Fresh install of beta 3, with a Logitech USB mouse optical + wheel. That mouse is correctly detected at install, but is not working at boot. The /dev/usbmouse symbolic link is correctly created at boot, but it has not target. It points to dev/input/mouse0, but this file is missing. I run

[Cooker] beta3 install BUG : SB Live not correctly configured

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
My SB Live sound card is detected, but wrong modules are loaded at boot. /etc/modules.conf contained after install : alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci which is wrong. Should be : alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

[Cooker] beta3 install Request : usb group 43

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
Please create a usb group corresponding to the group ID 43. It would help the users of digital cameras, because they need to belong to that group 43 to have access, as users, to their digital camera. Thanks Eric

Re: [Cooker] feature request - multiple X sessions through kdm/gdm

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
There is still a problem with the i845G chipset and this new 2.4.19 kernel, preventing hdparm to setup the UDMA5 mode for hard drive (HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted). Moreover, there is an error message at boot : PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions

[Cooker] beta3 install BUG : i845g and resource collision/hdparm issue

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
There is still a problem with the i845G chipset and this new 2.4.19 kernel, preventing hdparm to setup the UDMA5 mode for hard drive (HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted). Moreover, there is an error message at boot : PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install BUG : usbmouse and devfs

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
Did not try that. Thanks for the tip. Eric David Sansome wrote: Same here, except unplugging the mouse and then plugging it again works. David Sansome On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 09:04, Eric Fernandez wrote: Fresh install of beta 3, with a Logitech USB mouse optical + wheel. That mouse

[Cooker] dri drivers for ATI r200 ?

2002-08-02 Thread Eric Fernandez
Will the dri drivers for ATI R200 (Radeon 8500 series) be available in mandrake 9.0 to enable the accelerated 3D ? I know they are still in heavy development, but it is better than nothing ? Thanks Eric Fernandez

[Cooker] some bugs in 7.2 final

2000-11-01 Thread Eric Fernandez
perfectly : mouse, CD writer in scsi0, and zip usb when mounted was in scsi1, correctly working (module usb-storage was correctly loaded when needed). Perhaps a conflict between modules ? Eric Fernandez-Bellot CNRS-CGM Gif-sur-Yvette, France

[Cooker] some bugs

2000-09-25 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have tried ulysse beta 3 and i would like to report some problems : - minor bugs : - kcontrol center does not run from the icon on the KDE panel. The shortcuts adds a "%c" to the command kcontrol that is invalid. - when using a zip drive, the mount point /mnt/zip is incorrectly

Re: [Cooker] Beta3 Install on machine with Voodoo 3 card.

2000-09-25 Thread Eric Fernandez
points, they are not correct anymore ! Eric Fernandez

[Cooker] usb devices

2000-09-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
, supermount, is created. The problem is that i have no access to my drive (i/o error). Is it due to the presence of both USB mouse and zip ? How can i test whether the device /dev/sda4 is the good one ? Eric Fernandez-Bellot CNRS-CGM Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Re: [Cooker] usb devices

2000-09-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi I have tried to install 7.2beta-1 with a USB mouse and a USB iomega ZIP 250. During installation, my USB devices are recognized correctly (the mouse does not work however, but it works after installation). For the Zip drive, a /mnt/zip is created, and in fstab an entry with

Re: [Cooker] XFree4 and XFdrake

2000-05-12 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi ! Yesterday i reported a problem to run XFdrake --xf4. Unfortunately, i could not reproduce the bug today ! It worked perfectly, i do not understand what the problem was ! sorry... A remark : if i try to compile a CVS version of freeciv, it does not find the gtk-configure script (to check

[Cooker] XFree4 and XFdrake

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi ! A problem using XFdrake with XFree86 4 : After installation of mdk with XFree86 4, display is really faster. Problem : if i use XFdrake to change color depth or resolution, the XFree 3.3.6 server replaces the version 4. Using XFdrake --xf4 does not work. I have the iso beta 1. Eric

Re: [Cooker] XFree4 and XFdrake

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Fernandez
two messages (in french it was something like 'deja fait') and after an error message (i will give you tomorrow the exact message), and it does not reconfigure X to use the Xfree86 4 server. Eric Fernandez-Bellot CNRS-CGM Gif-sur-Yvette, France

[Cooker] partitioning bug in DrakX ?

2000-05-04 Thread Eric Fernandez
to use ? How to switch between both server versions ? 3) If i change the PATH variable in /etc/profile file, the changes are not considered after relogging. In which file the PATH variable is finally defined ? Thanks Eric Fernandez

[Cooker] MF8617T bug !

2000-05-02 Thread Eric Fernandez
, it works correctly by choosing a compatible monitor (MF8617 ES) (and in this case XF86Setup runs correctly). Eric Fernandez

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