Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

2003-11-01 Thread OS
$ users are generally not a forgiving lot, especially when their mental picture / world order is under threat !!! The idea of using any kind of suspend does not address the key issue, neither does the argument that Linux is not designed as a reboot OS. Linux is going to get rebooted and all the more

[Cooker] Boot Linux Faster

2003-10-24 Thread OS
Hello, I don't know if any one else saw this article but it seemed very good to me. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html A chap at IBM Hursley, in the UK, has come up with a way to make Linux boot faster using make. I have not got around to trying it out. However,

[Cooker] Demand dialling - how to please !

2003-10-22 Thread OS
Hello, I have just run through the drakconnect stuff and successfully connected to the internet. However, there is no indication as to what to do next, nor is there and advice given on how to use this newly setup internet connection. Apparently it configures wvdial and writes some of the usual

[Cooker] Off Topic: Which USB CDRW works best with Mandrake / Linux

2003-08-22 Thread OS
Hello, I want to buy a USB CDRW. Within my budget I have found the Lacie Fusion F40 and the Iomega Predator 40. Does anyone know if either or both these drives will work with Mandrake / Cooker. Or does anyone have any better suggestions ? Thanks, Owen

[Cooker] CUPS slow startup with no network

2003-08-14 Thread OS
Hello, For a while I've been wondering why CUPS is so darned slow at startin up. The system boots just stops for about 11 seconds while the CUPS deamon is starting. I now believe that it is because it expects to find a network out there. Mine is a stadalone laptop with a PCMCIA network card

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support

2003-08-14 Thread OS
Here's a challenge for someone ! Get suspend / resume working on the Acer Extensa range of laptops, especially the older ones !!! Owen On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:21 pm, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Thanks! I will test ASAP. Since most of this discussion was around post install for

Re: [Cooker] More laptop support stuff

2003-08-06 Thread OS
Have you tried to update the BIOSes on those guys? ACPI is the replacement for APM. BIOS updates don't appear very common for `older' laptops. After all they would much rather you bought a new one. The last BIOS update for my Inspiron 7000 was about 2 years ago. I modded the processor, RAM

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support

2003-08-06 Thread OS
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Only other feature I would be interested in is support for creating hibernating partitions in diskdrake. Can't this be done with fdisk ??? Owen

Re: [Cooker] More laptop support stuff

2003-08-06 Thread OS
Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 with an aging ATI Rage Mobility Pro. As far as I know the stock XFree does not support 3D accelleration for the ATI Mobility range. However those nice people over at RetinalBurn (http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_xv.html) are working on this and it can be

Re: [Cooker] Laptop suspend doesn't work

2003-08-02 Thread OS
Errrm, 'fraid you'll need to be a bit more specific than that ! - What exactly are the `problems' - Does it happen every time ? - Do these `problems' occur with a Suspend to RAM ? - Do these `problems' occur with a Suspend to Disk ? - Was it suspending before ? - What make and model is it ? - At

[Cooker] Usability issues

2003-06-27 Thread OS
Hello, Don't know how many saw this - `Linux: it's the Desktop, Stupid!' (http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/31435.html) Food for thought maybe, given recent threads about ease of use issues ? Maybe we are all so used to using Linux as it is that we have lost sight of what is required to

[Cooker] Cooker and Crossover

2003-04-02 Thread OS
Hello, Before submitting a full bug report I thought I would just check that it's not something I'm doing ! Having installed a new hard disk I did a completely fresh install of everything including Cooker from 1st March. Now neither Crossover Office nor Plugin work ! Plugin installs but then

Re: [Cooker] Cooker and Crossover

2003-04-02 Thread OS
for the info. Owen On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 11:21 am, Mathias Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:13 OS wrote: Hello, Now neither Crossover Office nor Plugin work ! Plugin installs but then just reports Unable to get information on installed DLLs and aborts when running

[Cooker] Cannot connect to Palm m130

2003-03-11 Thread OS
Hello, I have recently tried connecting a Palm m130 device to the USB port for the first time and it doesn't appear to work with Cooker. Having read the pilot-link web pages, how-tos, man pages etc. I was expecting to `lsmod' and see usbcore, usb-uhci, usbserial and visor. All I see is

Re: [Cooker] ati.2

2003-02-25 Thread OS
Yes, me too. I have been using the Mach 64 dripkg as it targets the older Mach 64 chipsets an other Mach 64 chipsets not catered for by the ati.2 drivers. I too have found it to be both excellent and stable. Unfortunately all my contact / site details were left behind when I was made

[Cooker] DrakConf -- Software Management -- Software Source broken ?

2003-02-02 Thread OS
Hello, Is it just me or is DrakConf -- Software Management -- Software Source completely hat stand ?!?! Start it up and you are presented with CD1, CD2 and CD3 all unchecked. So far so good. On my last day at work (I was made redundant on Thursday - sympathy please - so back to the old 56K

[Cooker] DrakCronAt completely empty

2003-02-02 Thread OS
Hello, As I hate having my system brought to its knees every bloomin' time it is powered up by run-parts, slocate, rpmq, awk, sed, msec-find etc I now usually disabled them using DrakCronAt . But using drakcronat-0.1.3-1mdk the list is completely empty !! Could some nice person remind me how

[Cooker] SanDisc USB kernel patch - what's happening ?

2003-02-02 Thread OS
Hello, Having been made redundant on Thursday I cannot retrieve the original message I posted about the kernel patch for the SanDisc USB disk caddies. Has any descision been made about the patches inclusion into future Mandrake kernels ? Thanks, Owen

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-15 Thread OS
And this is not the place to discuss it. It's as good a place as any, considering how much love, time and money we've all put into it. Owen On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 3:30 pm, Austin Acton wrote: -Forwarded Message- From: Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edward Tandi [EMAIL

[Cooker] Re: X appears to slow down all on its own

2002-12-17 Thread OS
Doh ! Sorted out why X slows down. There is a little setting in the BIOS about smart CPU that drops the speed to the CPU to preserve power. I never paid it any attention; when this machine was a Windoze machine it never had any visible effect. Don't know if Windoze was just slow anyway or if

[Cooker] X appears to slow down all on its own

2002-12-16 Thread OS
Hello, I have reported this before with Mandrake Cooker at about version 7.2 and it still happens in the latest Cooker ! Basically when doing specific things both X and the frame buffer slow down all on their own. I really don't know what is doing this and would appreciate any help. It would

[Cooker] Off Topic: How do I switch off console blanking !

2002-12-07 Thread OS
Hello, Could someone tell me please how to stop console and X blanking ! Basically I have a requirement to produce a laptop that requires no display balnking. Niether X nor the console can be allowed to blank ! I have tried everything but the console goes blank and so does X, but even quicker

Re: [Cooker] Root and /

2002-10-06 Thread OS
I agree ! I had to install a root directory in / and then copy it to a partition called /root !! Owen On Saturday 05 Oct 2002 6:24 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 05 Oct 2002 17:37, Bob Walker wrote: According to Version 2.2 of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), /root is not a

Re: [Cooker] Zip Drive won't write

2002-09-23 Thread OS
May be completely wrong but even though the disk is only part filled the FAT table is not ! Even though Window$ can't do it Linux can make a VFAT partition with a much bigger FAT table. It worked for me, hope it works for you Owen On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 11:31 pm, -L- wrote: When trying to

Re: [Cooker] CUPS takes forever !

2002-09-03 Thread OS
: Which beta are you using? I had this problem from 8.2 through 9.0 beta 2. It went away in beta 3. Rich On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 15:58, OS wrote: The USB printer worked fine after I had installed it, but when I came back the next day and re-powered the machine all I could get were

Re: [Cooker] hotplugging usb hard drives

2002-09-03 Thread OS
(Sorry buy I my ISP e-mail went down so I have no idea if these got through or if any nice people replied so please bear with this if you've seen it before, thanks) I have a USB disk drive caddy and it gets no /dev entry either. With this one though if I plug it in at boot time the boot

Re: [Cooker] Default language for OOo documents always US English

2002-08-26 Thread OS
The last time I looked the spell checker was only available with the US English language selection. I presume this is why OO defaults to US English. Owen On Monday 26 Aug 2002 1:58 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:38, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On 26 Aug 2002, Alastair

[Cooker] CUPS takes forever !

2002-08-25 Thread OS
Hello, While on holiday I used an HP USB printer. I think there are too many potentially conflicting ways of doing printer installation !! Kups, LinuxConf, localhost:631, printerdrake and cups-config !!! I have yet to get the printer done with one to appear correctly in all the others !

Re: [Cooker] hotplugging usb hard drives

2002-08-25 Thread OS
I have been away on holiday and my mail box filled up on the 15th !!! and I most certainly got up to date with the latest Cooker downloads either !!! So forgive me if this has already been resolved. I have noticed this with PCMCIA hard discs as well. There appears to be 2 distinct device

Re: [Cooker] USB devices

2002-08-25 Thread OS
Was this ever resolved ? and if so how ?!?! I have exactly the same problems. I have been away on holiday and my mail box filled by the 15th !! so I will have missed any previous replies Thanks, Owen On Monday 05 Aug 2002 1:09 pm, rcc wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:47:23 +0200 Michal

[Cooker] Problems devfsd devices

2002-08-25 Thread OS
Hello, I have been away on holiday and my mail box was filled by the 15th !! So I appologies if this has already appeared on this list. It appears that some DevFsd devices are not assigned until accessed manually. Assuming that makes no sense at all :-) here's what I mean At boot the message

[Cooker] Why ?

2002-07-05 Thread OS
Please, please could someone tell me exactly why it is considered a good idea to thrash the disc and clobber the system by doing all this : run-parts medusa.cron msec msec_find run-parts makewhatis.cron makewhatis awk sed bzcat sort uniq initlog rpm

Re: [Cooker] pcmcia modem kernel problem

2002-06-18 Thread OS
I have also noticed kernel panics when ejecting PCMCIA modems and network cards Owen I noticed today that there is still a problem which has been there for at least the last few kernel revisions. Using a pcmcia serial modem - either my Zoom one or a brand new Creative Labs one,

[Cooker] diald

2002-06-12 Thread OS
Hello, Its been a long time since I used diald, but now it doesn't seem to work for me any more. Has anyone got diald to work ? The only hint I get is in /var/log/errors where it says : Jun 12 22:40:05 localhost pppd[2888]: not replacing existing default route to tap0 [0.0.0.0] The last

Re: [Cooker] A few woes that are still present - popping out PCMCIA cards

2002-05-27 Thread OS
Both my laptops produce no output what so ever ! A few kernel versions ago I used to get Kernel panics, but not any more. Owen On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:33 pm, OS wrote: Hello, Here are a few bug bears that are still present in the latest Cooker: Popping out the most PCMCIA cards

Re: [Cooker] A few woes that are still present - APM

2002-05-27 Thread OS
Hello, I am using an old Acer Extensa 670CDT and a Dell Inspiron 7000. Someone else aske me if I had a patched kernel ? Well, only if the stock Cooker kernel is patched (that's what we are here for isn't it ? :-) ). I am currently using kernel-2.4.18.16mdk-1-1mdk. Another couple of

[Cooker] A few woes that are still present - freetype

2002-05-27 Thread OS
Naughty Red Hat !!! OS wrote: Non document fonts in Open Office look really bad, but on RH 7.2 at work they look just fine. That's because Redhat ships with a bytecode-interpreter-enabled freetype . The bytecode interpreter is patented by Apple, and thus this is actually illegal, unless

[Cooker] A few woes that are still present

2002-05-21 Thread OS
Hello, Here are a few bug bears that are still present in the latest Cooker: Popping out the most PCMCIA cards - complete system lockup with no output at all. Suspending to Disk - complete system lockup with no output at all, even with latest Cooker software. Suspending to RAM - system

[Cooker] NFS hangs during shutdown

2002-05-21 Thread OS
Hello, I've been a little out of contact lately so excuse me if this problem was solved ages ago. It sounds like you need to use the soft option in fstab. By default NFS mounts are hard which I believe means they will keep retrying for ever ! The soft option only retries a number of times

Re: [Cooker] speed improvments

2002-05-19 Thread OS
Given the current state of hibernation on laptops (usually involving a Kernel panic due to NULL pointer exceptions) why on Earth would desktop users want to be subjected to that ! Owen On Friday 17 May 2002 2:34 pm, you wrote: On Fridayen den 17 May 2002 12.47, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: On

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread OS
I'll go along with that. I was about to submit a report about this but then saw this thread. I have noticed the system will degrade in the same way if my parprt Zip drive is attached after the system has booted. When installing 8.2 / Cooker I had the Zip drive attached. Having never done this

[Cooker] Problem during install of 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread OS
Hello, I came accross the following problem doing an Update intstall of 8.2 : Install had reached the Load Bootloader phase. I was asked where to put the boot loader and I selected MBR. A dialog appeared stating installation of the boot loader had failed due to a syntax on or after line 28 in

Re: [Cooker] XF 4,1 3D accelleration

2002-02-27 Thread OS
16:15, OS wrote: Hello, I still have no accelleration here on my Rage Mobility Pro chipset using kernel-2.4.17-21mdk and XF 4.2.0-7mdk. glxinfo reports direct rendering: No and gears reports a frame rate of 90/sec ! agpgart is loaded but reports no users. If I manually load r128 agpgart

Re: [Cooker] XF 4,1 3D accelleration

2002-02-26 Thread OS
Hello, I still have no accelleration here on my Rage Mobility Pro chipset using kernel-2.4.17-21mdk and XF 4.2.0-7mdk. glxinfo reports direct rendering: No and gears reports a frame rate of 90/sec ! agpgart is loaded but reports no users. If I manually load r128 agpgart then reports 1 user,

Re: [Cooker] happy kernel for Inspiron 8000 - but not for Acers

2002-02-22 Thread OS
Well, try as I might - built kernel, booted to runlevel 1, stopped PCMCIA, stopped APMD, followed all other ideas on the list - I am delivering an Acer Extensa laptop on Sunday with Mandrake 8.1 installed so it can be displayed for all to see at trade fairs. Quite what an impression it will

Re: [Cooker] The top CPU consumers after install

2002-02-17 Thread OS
Hello, Maybe I'm feeling sensitive since my road accident, but how come this guy gets nice sensible comments when he raises this point and I just get a load of there, there - maybe you should try the newbie list. Cooker is for the real developers you know type of comments !!! ;-) Owen On

[Cooker] Re: 8.2beta2 feedback

2002-02-15 Thread OS
I think you'll find there are a LOT of people with laptop suspend / resume problems ! Both my laptops lock hard when trying to do a resume. Both report a kernel NULL pointer exception either in apmd or swapper :-( I'm not holding my breath for this one any more ! Owen Here's something I

Re: [Cooker] Where have PCMCIA IDE devices gone ?

2002-02-14 Thread OS
I upgraded to pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-2mdk but the same thing happens. Do you see a modprobe of ide_cs module ? No, except when booting ! I discovered today that if I boot the box with the drive in the PCMCIA socket it is detected and ide-cs is modprobe'd. When the system has booted the device can

Re: [Cooker] Where have PCMCIA IDE devices gone ?

2002-02-13 Thread OS
disk) Socket 1: no product info available So it knows what it is, just not what to do with it ! Thanks, Owen On Wednesday 13 Feb 2002 7:06 pm, you wrote: OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just plugged in my PCMCIA IDE Hard Disc and nothing happened ! There was a beep when I removed

Re: [Cooker] happy kernel for Inspiron 8000

2002-02-12 Thread OS
Hello, Do you think this was just a Dell problem ? My Inspiron 7000 suspends just fine ! But I am due to ship an Acer Extensa 670CDT shortly and it just dies when trying to resume. Did you see a kernel oops ? I am seeing one in apmd. If I remove / disable apmd the oops reports swapper as

Re: [Cooker] Please fix euro-keys in xkb us and uk

2002-02-12 Thread OS
Hmmm ! this UK keyboard doesn't have it. altGr-4 produces ΒΌ !!! Owen On Tuesday 12 Feb 2002 10:24 am, you wrote: A while ago we talked about missing the eurokey in the us keyboard definitions. Can the maintainer please add the Eurosign on altGr-5 for us keyboards? Also I hear uk keyboards

Re: [Cooker] Wishlist: GATOS ati.2 binaries

2002-02-12 Thread OS
I would like to echo that sentiment please, Owen On Tuesday 12 Feb 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: Good Day, I was wondering if the latest ati.2 binaries from gatos.sourceforge.net, that enable tv in on Radeon and other cards, could be included with the next Mandrake, and automatically installed

Re: [Cooker] Please stop my system from being crippled !!!

2002-02-12 Thread OS
Thanks for that. The problem I have with running crons in the early hours is that my system is not up 247. However I am interested in msec. I had been concentrating on rpm and rpmv since I could see why it would want to run grep, sed and sort. I could also understand the length of time

[Cooker] Running processes are bringing my system to its knees.

2002-02-09 Thread OS
Hello, Every day these : 1947 ?00:00:00 run-parts 2103 ?00:00:00 msec 2181 ?00:01:44 rpmv 2182 ?00:00:00 grep 2183 ?00:00:00 sed 2184 ?00:00:00 sort bring my system to a complete halt while they thrash the disc and seem to occupy every IO

[Cooker] Where have PCMCIA IDE devices gone ?

2002-02-09 Thread OS
Hello, I have just plugged in my PCMCIA IDE Hard Disc and nothing happened ! There was a beep when I removed it, but absolute silence when I inserted it. Is there something I need to do with the newer PCMCIA stuff ? The last time I used this device we were still on kernel-pcmcia-cs. Thanks,

Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta laptop power management

2002-02-04 Thread OS
:26 + OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: Yes ! Me and now several others have started threads on more than one mailing list stating that the old Linux power management was bad, but the new systems (APIC and APMD beta 3) REALLY suck !!! What really intriques me is how Linux

Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta laptop power management

2002-02-04 Thread OS
is the Linux kernel). This time it is in swapper. This applies to Suspen to RAM and Suspend to Disk. Owen On Sunday 03 Feb 2002 6:18 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:53:26 + OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words: Yes ! Me and now several others have started threads on more than one

Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta laptop power management

2002-02-04 Thread OS
the way back to Mandrake 6.0 and it still behaves the same. I dont' know when APIC came in ? Stopping APMD from starting at boot seems to move the Kernel NULL pointer to swapper. Thanks, Owen On Monday 04 Feb 2002 8:54 pm, you wrote: William Bouterse wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:53:26 + OS

Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta laptop power management

2002-02-02 Thread OS
Yes ! Me and now several others have started threads on more than one mailing list stating that the old Linux power management was bad, but the new systems (APIC and APMD beta 3) REALLY suck !!! What really intriques me is how Linux is being positioned as the OS for all platforms, and yet

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Xpert]How exactly do I get DRI working ?!?!

2002-01-28 Thread OS
I'm using kernel-2.4.17-8mdk. (I'm not very good with home spun kernels !!! :-( ) Owen On Monday 28 Jan 2002 2:07 pm, you wrote: Ainsi parlait Fabrice FACORAT : [..] I couldn't find a module called mtrr, perhaps Mandrake doesn't ship with that module ? there's no module called

Re: Chmouel Boudjnah - Re: [Cooker] Laptop hangs when laptop suspends

2002-01-28 Thread OS
this patch is already included in our kernel. Install the kernel with APM-support and set the kernel-parameter apm=acertm5 at the bootprompt: LILO: linux apm=acertm5 Owen On Monday 28 Jan 2002 2:40 pm, you wrote: Did you read : http://odin.prohosting.com/~extensa/ ?? OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

[Cooker] Re: [Xpert]How exactly do I get DRI working ?!?!

2002-01-27 Thread OS
significant bits in color specification:8 bits And still no DRI :-( Thanks, Owen On Saturday 26 Jan 2002 8:23 am, you wrote: See http://gatos.sf.net/dri-debug.php Vladimir Dergachev On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, OS wrote: Hello, I have an ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP

[Cooker] How exactly do I get DRI working ?!?!

2002-01-25 Thread OS
Hello, I have an ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x card. I get mixed messages reading the XFree86 and DRI documentation ! In fact within the same document it says it is supported and then it isn't !!! I've put the following stuff into XF86Config: Load glx Load dri Section DRI Mode 0666

[Cooker] msec doesn't work and I can't login as root any more

2002-01-24 Thread OS
Hello, Typing msec produces the following : /usr/share/msec/.py not found or not executable. Aborting This is a shame since I quite like being able to log in as root (no su from an account). And anyway, why did just installing msec do this ? Does the msec rpm think it knows best and overwrite

Reinhard Katzmann - Re: [Cooker] Laptop hangs when laptop suspends

2002-01-24 Thread OS
% with this laptop - just not with any other. I doubt very much that I still have it :-( Hope this helps ! What can I do next ? Thanks, Owen On Wednesday 23 Jan 2002 10:48 am, you wrote: Hi! On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:20:50PM +, OS wrote: Hello, I am about to deliver a laptop which

[Cooker] An idea for msec

2002-01-24 Thread OS
Hello, I'll admit I haven't run msec custom with msec-0.17-15mdk because custom appears to not be a valid option any more !!! However, if memory serves, it asks loads of questions and sets ALL parameters. It would be nice to have a Leave as is option, in the likely event that you want to

Re: [Cooker] scanner does not work: problem with sane or devfs?

2002-01-21 Thread OS
(old AVA1505 ISA card), to use my scanner. Now sane-find-scanner does find it: [root@Jupiter dev]# sane-find-scanner # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS

Re: [Cooker] Upcoming bug report

2002-01-21 Thread OS
I presume that you have a login to get this message displayed !!! However, if memory serves me : 1) The username / password was implemeted due to the amount of SPAM and other e-mails of no relavence to Mandrake development stuff. 2) Last time I tried to send an e-mail from a non-login session I

[Cooker] ACPI 101 please

2002-01-19 Thread OS
(Sorry if this is in some weird font I am having a few problems with fonts right now !!!) Hello, Could some kind person give me an ACPI how-to please. APMD seems to get worse with every release ! However, I understand that the latest kernel has ACPI built into it. How do I use it ? Is it

[Cooker] Kernel threading

2002-01-19 Thread OS
(Sorry if this is in some weird font I am having a few problems with fonts right now !!!) Hello, I have been looking at the latest proposed changes for the 2.15 kernel tree for the IBM initiated Next Generation Posix Thread (NGPT) changes that were supposed to be making there way to a kernel

Re: [Cooker] scannerdrake updated -- please test it

2002-01-16 Thread OS
Just a quick follow up. As I mentioned before using the Mandrake scannerdrake / XSane / xscanimage my Agfa SnapScan 1212U doesn't work at all. The same device not found message is produced regardless of whether the scanner is attached or not ! Today I uninstalled all the Mandrake SANE stuff

Re: [Cooker] scannerdrake updated -- please test it

2002-01-12 Thread OS
Hello, My Agfa 1212U appears to be configured but will not scan. Running scannerdrake results in correct detection and the question Should it be configured. Answering yes results in the dismissal of the Yes / No dialog and no further output from scannerdake. Assuming that whatever

[Cooker] AA Fonts look smudged

2002-01-12 Thread OS
Hello, I am using a 14 TFT 1024x768 LCD screen and I am trying out AA fonts for the first time on a Mandrake system. I have used them on RH 7.2 at work with a 17 CRT display and the result using Open Office makes even the most hard line Windows user go Wow !. At home on Mandrake I am trying

[Cooker] Kernel Panic shutting down USB File System

2002-01-12 Thread OS
Hello, I've just noticed that during shutdown I get a Kernel Panic style assertion output when trying to shut down the USB File System and the message illegal seek is displayed. I only enabled USB at boot time to try and get my scanner working, I have no USB File Systems (that I am aware of).

Re: [Cooker] gFTP 2.0.11 bug

2002-01-09 Thread OS
Please don't be to mean about this man ! He has responded to bugs I submitted in previous versions, but said at the time that, like all of us no doubt, he was trying to juggle 1001 things and gFTP didn't always get the time he would like. Owen On Monday 07 Jan 2002 11:23 am, you wrote:

Re: [Cooker] CD Rom Mount Problem

2002-01-03 Thread OS
I've noticed that SCSI cdroms replicate themselves in fstab ever since I've used Linux (RH 5.2) !! I must admit I got so used to it I had forgotten !! Owen On Friday 04 Jan 2002 1:04 am, you wrote: It appears when using rpmdrake it keeps mouting the cdrom drive multiple times, which causes a

Re: [Cooker] PCMCIA gives warning at boot

2001-12-17 Thread OS
: Memory at fedfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: available only to root Hope this helps, Owen On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 2:42 pm, you wrote: OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, When PCMCIA is starting up

[Cooker] Can't CtrlAltDel

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, For some reason it no longer appears possible to CtrlAltDel from within X ! Sounds odd, maybe, but I have a good reason for wanting to do this ! This is probably a Linux 101 question, but I cannot find any documentation on how to get X to reboot like this (from XFCE for example there

[Cooker] Re: Kernel NULL Pointer

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, Sorry, forgot to add: I am using kernel-2.4.13-11mdk and apmd-3.0final-26mdk Owen

[Cooker] Linuxconf prevents bootup.

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, After running msec the httpd directories and linuxconf directories were removed from /var/log (yes, really !). This resulted in the system failing to boot because Linuxconf was not able to write it's log files ! It just keeps retrying, it just never gives up - if it ain't there don't

[Cooker] /etc/init.d/xinetd fails to start

2001-12-13 Thread OS
hello, /etc/init.d/xinetd start produces the following: Starting xinetd: Usage: xinetd [-d] [-f config_file] [-filelog filename] [-syslog facility] [-reuse] [-limit proc_limit] [-pidfile filaneme] [-logprocs limit] [-shutdownprocs limit] [-cc interval]

[Cooker] Dialogs and windows are begining to suffer from bloat

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, I have recently being setting up an old laptop for someone to use at trade fairs. It has an old 800x600 LCD display. For some time it has concerned me just how heavy weight Linux applications are becoming, with things like KDE, Mozilla and Open Office seeming to take an age to startup.

[Cooker] Aurora - lets scrap it ! ;-)

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, I have mentioned before that Aurora is the wrong way around, but here is another example: initscripts now asks if you wish to scan the disks if the system is not shut down correctly (incidently, when I said NO to this the disks were still scanned !). However, because Aurora only

[Cooker] /etc/init.d/cups has syntax error !

2001-12-13 Thread OS
Hello, Starting /etc/init.d/cups produces the following: ./cups: line 55: syntax error near unexpected token `127.0.0.1)' ./cups: line 55: ` gprintf Loopback device (\\nlo\, 127.0.0.1) needed by CUPS, starting it ...' Owen

[Cooker] PCMCIA gives warning at boot

2001-12-12 Thread OS
Hello, When PCMCIA is starting up at boot time it produces the following output : [876]: ./config.opts line 8: no functions binding PCMCIA still seems to start okay, but the message is concerning. Owen

[Cooker] Kernel NULL pointer !!!

2001-12-12 Thread OS
Hello, Whenever I put my laptop into Suspend to Disk I get the following output: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: *pde = Ooops: CPU:0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010046 eax:

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-02 Thread OS
doesn't behave correctly. What makes todays DOJ announcements even sadder is the fact that even if M$ ends up running every device that requires an OS, controls the net, e-commerce and every other transaction that takes place electronically and Linux and all other OS's disappear some of us

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-01 Thread OS
I believe it came from a uunet news group. The original was subtely different. It had something more like printf( \t\t\t\b\b\b\b). We tried it, and it works. You get no warning ! The PC just re-boots ! We tried various combinations but found the above worked on all PC's. It works in java too !

[Cooker] APM causes a Panic

2001-10-22 Thread OS
Hello, Whenever I try to Suspend to RAM using apmd-3.0final-25mdk the system locks solid. Usually the system locks in a state that looks as if it is half way through going into Suspend but has then just failed. On a couple of accassions I have seen what can only be described as a series of

[Cooker] PCMCIA can't find function bindings

2001-10-22 Thread OS
Hello, Whenever pcmcia-cs starts up at boot time the message Cardmgr[611] error in config.opts, line 8. No functions binding is displayed. However, PCMCIA cards are still recognised and the relevant modules are loaded and unloaded. Owen

Re: [Cooker] less bloated kernel? - Laugh, I nearly cried !!!

2001-09-16 Thread OS
or 2000 ! At that point I new this was going to be good ! Is it not possible for M$ to do an OS check up front rather than half way through Copying files I managed to find a copy of Window$ 2000 in Micro Mart (you didn't think I would pay more than a few quid for M$ crap did you ? M$ obviously

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] XFree86-4.1.0-13mdk

2001-09-10 Thread OS
r128 does exactly the same thing :-( Owen On Sunday 09 Sep 2001 11:17 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Frederic Lepied wrote: - radeon updates from cvs (need feedback from r128 and radeon users) Hosed, badly. Sample error messages: ... Symbol vgaHWRestore from module

[Cooker] Off topic - polish__7KDialog

2001-09-10 Thread OS
Hello, I'm trying to get KDE 2.2 working at work but whether I use the Mandrake or RH rpms it always bombs out stating that libkssl.so.0 has an unknown sysmol polish__7KDialog. Could some body tell me which library this is defined in ? And it it is a required library why doesn't it show up in

Re: [Cooker] off topic - Linux threads

2001-09-03 Thread OS
Oooh ! They've got a nice shiny new page for this project. That must mean it's crept out of the bushes into the wide open !!! Any way, go to : http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/pthreads and have fun ! Owen On Sunday 02 Sep 2001 10:38 pm, you wrote: OS [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Cooker] Playing with DrakNet

2001-09-03 Thread OS
Hello, I thought I would give DrakNet a look. Two things struck me 1) No way of entering a login script, but then as it appeared to launch Kppp I guess that could be done there, and 2) No dial on demand option. You may not want to connect at boot but it's certainly nice to be able to connect

[Cooker] Strange output from RPM

2001-08-31 Thread OS
Hello, I typed rpm -Uvh i* forgetting that I had an i_foo_bar.sh in the same directory. Rpm ouput the following : i_foo_bar.sh: read manifest failed: Success and did nothing more. I seem to remember that the old rpm would have said i_foo_bar.sh not an rpm file and then carried on to update /

[Cooker] Strange output from RPM

2001-08-31 Thread OS
Hello, I typed rpm -Uvh i* forgetting that I had an i_foo_bar.sh in the same directory. Rpm ouput the following : i_foo_bar.sh: read manifest failed: Success and did nothing more. I seem to remember that the old rpm would have said i_foo_bar.sh not an rpm file and then carried on to update /

[Cooker] Problems with apm - a little clearer now

2001-08-31 Thread OS
Hello, I have been monitoring apm - because it's so appauling !! 1) Run the laptop on battery. Run the laptop on battery, Close the lid - should suspend see next PR ! - at a battery level of say 91%, Leave to simmer for a day or so, Plug the power lead in - turned on at the

[Cooker] off topic - Linux threads

2001-08-31 Thread OS
Hello, Does anyone closer to the kernel developers than I know what is happening with regards IBM Next Generation Posix Threads getting accepted and incoperated into the kernel ? Thanks, Owen

Re: [Cooker] CodeWeavers CrossOver Plugin

2001-08-31 Thread OS
Hello, I bought this product and it appears to have all the wine binaries it needs already in its directory structure. Owen On Friday 31 Aug 2001 3:16 am, you wrote: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-28-006-20-PR-SW http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/29/0233236

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