Dear members,
This involves devfsd, the PCMCIA subsystem and the Mandrake-specific (I
believe) tool dynamic, so I chose to write here. Please correct me if
you think this is the wrong place.
I use a laptop and Flash card connected through the laptop PCMCIA
connector.
It used to work with
Hello,
It often happens that during a Mandrake Update I discover that one
program installed on my system is actually unneeded. Upgrading it is
useless, but if it is a security threat it should not stay there.
It may be a good idea to have in the Mandrake Update UI an option that
means don't
On 9 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Yes, though if the flexibility costs so much,
It doesn't cost that much.
One hard prerequisite is to think it right. But Mandrake doesn't have to
do this job themselves: that's what the FHS is for.
Standards make things clear. Following them is not
Hello,
On 22 august, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using the MDK 8.2 on my laptop (Inspiron 8200), where I'm using
DHCP. But when I start my laptop outside of my network, the eth0
activation make a bunch of retry to find a DHCP server before cancelling
( Time-out after 1 minute or something
Hello everyone,
It seems that the boot process could be accelerated somehow by using
serel (http://fastboot.org). The basic idea is: you can run in parallel
the initialization of some services, especially those who have to wait
for something external.
The prerequisite: you have to describe
Hello,
Mandrake aims at being easy to use. There is a spot that needs
improving, and it is important for laptop users.
It would be nice to unplug your laptop at work, go home, plug your
laptop to the local net, and have it reconfigure itself correctly.
Several programs exist that use arp
On 20 Aug 2002, SI Reasoning wrote:
I know it already exists in Linux. What I liked about XP was how it was
implemented. GDM allows you to pre-open several X sessions at once,
regardless of whether they are used. You would also have to know the
keystrokes to get to each x session and any
On 19 Aug 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
[4] if the checkbox could be at the left of the name instead of the
right, you'd see it even if the widest package name was wider than
the sub-window listing packages.
There are hardcoded sizes so that the box must never disappear.
For a few years, I've been doing some Linux advocacy to a number of
people around me, installing RedHat, then Mandrake (when Mandrake
started existence) on their machines, talking with them. The mileage
varied.
A lot of work has been done to have Linux easier to use. The desktop
gains maturity
I agree with David Grant's five points. But read on after the quote.
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, David Grant wrote:
I sort of agree, although my criticism of the new version is not so
harsh. Simplicity is always better, although not at the sacrifice of
necessary features. My main points:
1) The
In relation to the recent rant about the new rpmdrake...
* One more disappearing regreted feature:
In previous releases (7.1 I think) there was a primitive rpmdrake tool,
that allowed an interesting feature, though it was not intended by the
developper, and disappeared in the 8.x.
Imagine you
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ramon Casha wrote:
The Internet Connection Sharing utility in Mandrake Control Centre (8.2) does
not list eth0 or any aliases. Apparently there is an assumption that the
internet connection won't be on the same interface card. However, this can
easily be the case with,
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Pascal Terjan wrote:
warning: /etc/group created as /etc/group.rpmnew
warning: /etc/passwd created as /etc/passwd.rpmnew
setup ##
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17599: line 1: 3517 Segmentation fault
On 16 Mar 2002, Byron Poland wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but, I think it is a
usability issue.
I now have 3 external removable storage devices, 1 acomdata 80 gig
firewire drive (dev1), 1 firewire enclosure with a 30gig drive in it
(dev2), and 1 usb smartmedia
Hello,
I've had some problems with beta4, but they may still exist in rc1.
I've installed a vanilla beta3, then upgraded to beta 4. Standard kernel
included in the ISO, no special modifications (expect switching from oss
to alsa sound driver).
At beginning it worked ok.
Then I noticed some
versions while people only
have time to download one or two candidate isos. ;-)
(Ok, the right thing to do is to maintain a local cooker repository, but
I have to get started first.)
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Stephane Gourichon wrote:
Hello,
I've had some problems with beta4, but they may still exist
I just burned a 8.2rc1 from a mirror.
I checked the md5 of the ISO using md5sum -c - OK.
I boot it on a laptop that has mdk8.1
I chose french, upgrade recommended, and ... window no longer refresh
(only the colored background remains, and the Mandrake Linux 8.2
bitmap on top of screen). X
Beware of excessive assumptions in programs.
Remember that Ariane 501 rocket exploded because programmers assumed
some circumstances without first verifying that they are true...
The new msec package fiddles quite a lot about file permissions, and
assumes for certain things that are common but
On 6 Mar 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Keld Jørn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wish: I have a number of file systems, and I would like
the install program to find them automatically. DrakX
already does so for standard partitions like / /home
/var etc. I thought if there was in
I have designed a tool that I think will be useful to some people.
It's named transitmount.
I have a data disk that I often move from one computer to another. I
was tired to mount it as root each time, so I designed a program that
automatically checks at boot if some partitions are not
On 5 Mar 2002, richard bown wrote:
Mike try downloading from another mirror, I found on the swedish site
cellose cd 2 on beta 3 must have been corrupted, the file size was
correct on download, but during a burn it always stopped about half way
through the write cycle,
A second download from
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Mickey Newman wrote:
Since I have installed mdk 8.2 b I have not been able to export the display
from other machines and get it to work. Has the display numbers changed?
What should I be using on the host side and server side.
I used to do a xhost + on my local machine
Hello,
During install of 8.2 beta 3 I chose French (UTF-8) as default locale.
It looks like for now many applications can't display properly UTF-8
encoded text (gnome apps, kde apps, bash all display raw two-byte
chars, in menus as in the rest).
So I thought I'm testing it to report any bug or
Hello everybody,
Need:
We need to setup a local Mandrake mirror (sorry, it can't be public).
Moreover, disk space is limited and we'd like to mirror both ISO images
and the install by ftp server (because we burn CDs of it from time to
time).
Constraint:
But having both a copy of the ISO images
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, David BAUDENS wrote:
IMO, this should be turned off by default! (AutoReLogin=false in
kdmrc)
/.../
It have never been actived by default.
This is strange. I'm think I've never activated it (I discovered the
option yesterday) and it was activated anyway.
Thank you.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, SI Reasoning wrote:
Whenever a screen is xlocked (xscreensaver, etc...),
anyone just has to
press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get re-logged in as the
previous user, but
without the screen locked. (See
http://www.google.com/search?q=autorelogin%20security)
IMO,
Hello,
Mandrake 8.1 introduced a new feature, through the new kdm: AutoReLogin.
It is supposed to build back the user session if X crashes (or
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is pressed, which is a handy way not to wait for
eons for KDE to start when one actually wants everything else but KDE,
but sometimes
On 21 Jun 2000, Pixel wrote:
Stephane Gourichon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's available http://www.w3.org/Amaya/, and Daniel Veillard (
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) provides binary and soure RPMS.
can't find the .src.rpm
Sorry, I was convinced I saw it...
The binary rpm I tried worked out
Hello,
It may be a good idea, IMHO, to include the official W3C HTML
editor/browser, amaya.
An overview is available on http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html
The main URL is http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
"Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes
equipped with a WYSIWYG
On 14 Jun 2000, Pixel wrote:
The real problem occurs with
gendepslist2 $DIR/hdlist.* $DEPSLIST
use rpmtools 1.1-24mdk
tis fixed (not tested though, please report)
I'll try and report (i want a working urpmi/rpmdrake before inciting
friend to upgrade to 7.1).
But the friend with
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Diablero wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:01:41PM +0200, Stephane Gourichon wrote:
I tried urpmi.removemedia and urpmi.addmedia to reset all this, tried
another mirror... it downloads the hdlist correctly like in 7.0 (do I have
to specify the hdlist of hdlist.cz2 file
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Vincent wrote:
Try to delete all file in /var/lib/urpmi :
rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/*
and use urpmi.addmedia to rebuild the database information.
I tried this several times, with different ftp sites, burned a CD-Rom and
try urpmi.addmedia with it... no luck.
The real problem
On 12 Jun 2000, Pixel wrote:
Pixel and others did a good job improving installation. Great.
bootp/dhcp didn't work, though. Alt-F? said things like "/sbin/ifconfig:
not found" or the like, but manual config worked. (I should have written
that down...)
tell more!
I'll write down
On 9 Jun 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
We're thinking of something like HelixUpdate -- but we can't come to a
whole agreement at MandrakeSoft, some of us think we should only install
only applicative stuff,
some others think we should handle a full upgrade
process this way (with the
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Marc B. Sitkin wrote:
I'd also like to see any rpm install put an icon on the desktop to launch
the newly installed program.
Please /don't/, I can't imagine my desktop stuffed with 420 icons!
Aren't you satisfied with the KDE and Gnome menus ?
Work is underway to make
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Brook humphrey wrote:
Sorry to let you down but the most of the cyrix processors have had
stability problems. I see this problem allot in my computer store. The
problem is most likely not with the kernel but your processor.
BTW, there is a utility names "set6x86" or
Hello,
On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Cavan wrote:
I don't think that you want to remove the choice of selecting
individual, optional packages.
Yes, the expert user likes to precisely select what he wants to install.
What I recommend though is that you
remove all required packages from the
On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
A good idea -- only problem is that [IMHO, i almost never used wine] you
must be root to run wine no?
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
no you can be a normal user
the only reson for being root is if the config dir / and
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
just use rpm --force ...e.g. i don't insall the mandrake_desk package becuse
i don't ened it so i use --force for wmaker. it's only in some cases that
you should use --force anyway.
--nodeps is less ... forcing.
I often do just that =if= I understand
(I wrote about several ideas in this mail, but they are all about urpmi
and friends, so I think it is ok to have them in one mail.)
(Also, I use 7.0 but have not fiddled with 7.1 beta or cooker a lot, so
please pardon if I ask for something already done)
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
Once the 586 distro has gone gold, it should be trivial to re-compile
and produce the 486 distro. You lock yourself out of a large market by
not making the 486 version as available as the 586. I would love to
use it.
I need it, too :-), for my
Though Mandrake includes many improvements over previous distributions,
one user interface concern is still there: lack of stderr-like feedback
for X users.
Let me give some examples.
When a user under X runs a program from a broken window-manager menu
(still happens), the window-manager
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
I should have made myself more clear. There does exist a 486 version of
Mandrake 7.0, but it too low priority and is not available on fast servers.
I should also have made myself clear.
I downloaded and burned the 7.0 for my father's 486 laptop and already a
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Bobby Dowling wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
What X-resource entries do i put in "/usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Netscape" to
get scroll to work ...where do i find this info?
Can someone send me what is supposed to go in this so that my dang scroll wheel
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