Re: [Cooker] two big software issues

2001-10-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:46, Robert L Martin wrote: Given a stock 8.1 install (soon to be a box set install) how would one 1 get a functioning dvd playing program running Can't speak to that, don't have a DVD drive, never set one up, would expect it to work out of the box. Playing

Re: [Cooker] Wishlist item. Where to inquire?

2001-10-31 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 01 November 2001 07:54 am, David wrote: I have two computers testing cooker stuff. I share a monitor and keyboard between them. I can't share the mouse, cause when X loses the mouse, well you know. I would figure that XFree86.org would be the best place, but maybe someone knows

Re: [Cooker] OT: ClearType under WinXP

2001-11-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 02 November 2001 06:47 pm, Han wrote: Borsenkow Andrej ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I switched on ClearType. It is really impressive even on CRT terminal - Is it based on the grc stuff? No idea. The technique is the same. I have a friend with a acorn electron that does that stuff.

Re: [Cooker] /dev/psaux not working in 8.1 and cooker

2001-11-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 02 November 2001 10:28 pm, Roach, Mark R. wrote: for me, /dev/mouse does not work either, I tried running mousedrake, with same results, I deleted /dev/psaux /dev/mouse /dev/psmouse /dev/misc/psaux and ran mousedrake, it did recreate the devices, but they still did not work. Had

[Cooker] root.exe

2001-11-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 03 November 2001 05:13 am, Yura Gusev wrote: Warning: Failed opening 'root.exe' for highlighting in /var/www/html/default.ida on line 14 Do i need root.exe on the server? Where can i get one? Set up an unpatched IIS webserver, and you will have one within a few hours.

Re: [Cooker] CD-Rom kernel panics in 8.1

2001-10-25 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:14, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: I'm not certain how I might gather more information about this bug, but the upgrade of 8.0 to 8.1 on a stock Dell L700cx lost the CDROM (which obviously worked during the upgrade ;) Looks like a supermount problem, maybe the

Re: [Cooker] Whanare we going to see a 2.4.x with the AA VM?

2001-11-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 22:36, John Allen wrote: svetljo wrote: you should wait till Alan Cox releases a stable 2.4.14 or maybe 2.4.15 Linus has merged ext3 intermezo zisofs mgag550-framebuffer and a lot of other things from Alan The only problem I can see with breaking from AC, and

Re: [Cooker] Whanare we going to see a 2.4.x with the AA VM?

2001-11-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 22:36, John Allen wrote: svetljo wrote: The only problem I can see with breaking from AC, and going with Linus is that Redhat will *always* be AC ...oh, and Alan will not be maintaining 2.4 or any other kernel in particular after 2.5 forks away. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mozilla-0.9.6-1mdk

2001-11-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 26 November 2001 18:01, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:34:59 +0100, Blue Lizard wrote: On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 03:47, Frederic Crozat wrote: - Lower optimizations What now (specifically)? -O3, fastmath, and friends are working well for stock builds... Crash when

Re: [Cooker] Kernel Upgrade

2001-11-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:32, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: le lun 26-11-2001 à 20:11, Ron Secord a écrit : I would like to upgrade the kernel to kernel-2.4.13-10mdk.i586.rpm to see if it will better detect my video card. Nothing to do with kernel. It's XFree area. The two intersect. There

Re: [Cooker] why does doc install in /usr/share/doc/name-version

2001-11-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:24, Guillaume Rousse wrote: You can't have two different version of foo installed simultaneously (unless they bear different names), Why not? It works for me. (-: I have machines with two versions of (g)libc installed at once, two kernels, etc. No worries.

Re: [Cooker] JFS-support in Cooker 2.4.16-kernel?

2001-12-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:56 pm, you wrote: I know that if I want to use cooker, I should update my whole distribution to cooker. (I have done this in my computer at work) Unfortunately I have only a modem-connection at my home, and updating Mandrake to cooker in my home computer would

Re: [Cooker] REQ: Konqueror

2001-12-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 December 2001 07:53, Han wrote: Hoyt Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 04:22 pm, you wrote: Yura Gusev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, is it possible to move Konqueror and KDM from kdebase to the seperate packages? /me thinks konqueoror resembles IE

Re: [Cooker] REQ: Konqueror

2001-12-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 December 2001 10:16, Han wrote: Leon Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Konqueror and KMail run fine for me under Enlightenment, Gnome and BlackBox. Conversely, Galeon and Evolution seem happy under KDE. As long as everyone has enough libraries, there doesn't seem

Re: [Cooker] 2.4.16-6mdk on an IBM 600E

2001-12-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 December 2001 17:30, Myles Byrne wrote: I just downloaded kernel-2.4.16-6mdk and am attempting to install it, in order to get sound and networking going on a IBM 600e. Sound... wlll... your mileage is likely to vary from chip to chip. The 600E uses a NeoMagic chipset for

[Cooker] Mandrake Out-Mandraked?

2001-12-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Not that I want this much Windows integration by default, but it's a nice option to offer, perhaps as a ``make my computer more like Windows but without the crashes and security holes'' check-box during install and/or as a new-user window manager option for those who do:

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Out-Mandraked?

2001-12-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 December 2001 22:54, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: le lun 10-12-2001 à 14:01, Leon Brooks a écrit : Not that I want this much Windows integration by default, but it's a nice option to offer, perhaps as a ``make my computer more like Windows but without the crashes and security holes

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Out-Mandraked?

2001-12-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 00:29, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: They seem to have a KDE desktop with a My Computer and a Network Neighbourhood, hardly much more (the rest pretty much looks like RH stuff). Not hard to reproduce in an Mdk distro then? (-: Cheers; Leon

[Cooker] Suggested new game for Mdk distro: Overflow

2001-12-18 Thread Leon Brooks
http://overflow.sourceforge.net/ Very small (100k exe, 14k docs), needs only Qt (it expects 1.4 but works with 2.3.1 although I had to edit the configure script to make it search /usr/include/qt2 for the header files before it would compile), it looks like Othello but works completely

Re: [Cooker] Fast User Switching done right

2003-01-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 January 2003 07:47 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Likewise the text console mod would blank the console when it lost focus, and demand a password before unblanking when focus returned. Umm.. there should be an easy way to disable all of this stuff, right? Yeah, just leave root

Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1? cost of extra CD

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 January 2003 05:09 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Maybe Mandrakesoft should consider shipping something like GnuWin2 or whatever it's called in Pro-Suite? Not a bad idea. How much does it cost them to label, wrap and include one more CD? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1? developing for windows

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 January 2003 07:57 pm, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my proposal. Why not ship distributable win32 applications like WinSCP, cygwin, etc? i don't belive that's our job to develop for others OS than the one we create :-). Not develop,

Re: [Cooker] [OT] win32 for 9.1? working for M$

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:27 pm, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Michael Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, the fact is some others OS need your help, since it would be too easy without it :) ask MS to hire us 8-p `Special rate* for Microsoft' Cheers; Leon * 3x normal rate

Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1? migration tools

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:07 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: I belive MS ship migration tools for moving away from Novell? And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply many of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows). If we had such a boxed collection

Re: [Cooker] win4lin (was: hdparm)

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:40 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Oden Eriksson wrote: but it's ok, I'm real quick doing my internet banking (which is mainly why...). For that, I would use win4lin :-). Boots windows faster than any machine I have ever seen ... About 3 seconds on a dual P3/1000

Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1? migration tools

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:00 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply many of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows). And they still complain about the GPL? Yup. Chutzpah

Re: [Cooker] LCA2003 writeup (was: migration tools)

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:16 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: I assume we have you to thank for this entertaining write-up of linux.conf.au: http://linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/LCA2003-wrapup.html ^^ that's me! Cheers; Leon

[Cooker] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry (200,000ft), lots of links at http://news.google.com/ Interesting that the news is out _before_ the shuttle was due to land. Astronauts almost certainly all dead. That'll knacker NASA for a while too, but maybe they'll try more

Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1? migration tools

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:26 pm, andre wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:00, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply many of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows

Re: [Cooker] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:48 am, J. Greenlees wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: That'll knacker NASA for a while too, but maybe they'll try more imaginative launch vehicles now. maybe they'll get rid of legacy tech and go state of the art in design? naw, NASA turned that down when starting

Re: [Cooker] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

2003-02-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:26 am, J. Greenlees wrote: definately a better way to go, but most effective location is either peru or india. the distance to a geosync orbit being reduced by the altitude of the base. the US government will never approve of a system that could not be based in

Re: [Cooker] [OT] plurals (was: migration tools)

2003-02-02 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:48 am, Levi Ramsey wrote: Leon wrote: (francophones: any idea how I pluralise that?) And it's pluralize, Leon... ;o) You -ing Americans are all the -ing same! It's listen-to-me this and let-me-tell-you that... At least we don't need context to differentiate

Re: [Cooker] [OT] Macs in movies

2003-02-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 February 2003 05:50 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Levi Ramsey wrote: Anyone who watched Independence Day knows that aliens run Macs... ;o) That doesn't just apply to aliens, it really applies to most movies and many TV shows where props are ordered by the arty-type people, who don't

Re: [Cooker] [OT] plurals (was: migration tools)

2003-02-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 February 2003 06:29 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:00, Leon Brooks wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 08:48 am, Levi Ramsey wrote: Leon wrote: (francophones: any idea how I pluralise that?) And it's pluralize, Leon... ;o) You -ing Americans are all the -ing

[Cooker] nForce patch (was: Intel 845 chipset)

2003-02-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 05:09 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: I had some spare time so I decided to try to make a kernel with support for the Intel 845 IDE chipset... ( meaning (U)DMA support ...) I have a machine which still hasn't recovered from your nForce patch. (-: I'd foolishly assumed

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Beta 3 and Dual Processors

2003-02-06 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:50 pm, Ross Ferson wrote: please do. I hate not using what i have. anyone advise what i should do ? reinstall? or ? You could simply install the -smp kernel if it hasn't been already (rpm -qa | grep kernel) and make that the LILO default if it doesn't claim

Re: [Cooker] nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:30 am, Preston Cody wrote: My Problem: I have an Nvidia TNT2, so I need to get the nvidia drivers from their website, compile them, and manually edit my XF86Config-4 file. The average user shouldn't have to do this. They have RPMs which work flawlessly out of the

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes

2003-02-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:45 am, David Walser wrote: We do not include proprietary software in the downloadable version of the distribution, period. In the boxed sets, we do include a package of the nVidia modules, and if you have an nVidia card, DrakX (the installer) will use it

Re: [Cooker] beta3 OpenOffice troubles

2003-02-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: OpenOffice is very picky about fonts. It might be helpful for you to read this: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html For a devil's-advocate opinion, I've thrown over 300 different fonts at OOo 1.0.2 (DrakFont is great) and it

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 February 2003 05:06 pm, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: Maybe NVidia, now that they lost the crown of faster 3D card even on newer GeForce FX against ATI, can think to release freely their drivers freely (which I doubt) trying to conquer other markets, like those of Linux 3D workstations.

[Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-10 Thread Leon Brooks
the world-wide Open Source community wholeheartedly, please spell them out to us, as we may be able to do something about some or all of them. Thanking you in advance Leon Brooks -- Member, Perth Linux User Group http://plug.linux.org.au/ Committee Member, Linux Australia

[Cooker] NVidia request progress

2003-02-10 Thread Leon Brooks
...was fielded by an automated system which (apparently) discarded the email and referred me to a web page form. So I pasted the email into the form and sent that, will relay the results as they arrive. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 February 2003 11:07 pm, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 09:00:32 Uhr MET, schrieb Narfi Stefansson: Götz:There must be something missing in your statement, such as you can only get accelerated AGP with the closed nvidia graphics drivers or something of that nature.

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote: I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not buy nVidia hardware. Because the competing (SiS, here in Oz at least) hardware sucks. Sad but true. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:05 am, Ben Reser wrote: Microsoft chose nVidia's chip for the Xbox and can't really switch chips in mid-stream. Don't bet your last dollar on that. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:32 am, Austin Acton wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:05, Ben Reser wrote: Seems to me the truth is nVidia just is paranoid about competitors learning something from their drivers. b) don't release code, keep secrets from competition What secrets? Just how much

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:10 am, et wrote: I don't want my inclusion in this lists archives seen as approval to petition anyone in my name. I said `many', not `all'. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:37 am, Narfi Stefansson wrote: I believe that we should only ask them for the specs. That's a very modest thing to ask for and it's much harder to come up with arguments for why they shouldn't release them. OK, when (if) they say `no' to the drivers, I'll fall

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:54 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 01:31, Leon Brooks wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:25 am, Ben Reser wrote: I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not buy nVidia hardware. Because the competing (SiS, here in Oz

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:28 pm, Thierry Vignaud wrote: David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't seem to have those in Mandrake :o( we do have man sex Are you sure that was phrased right? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:36 pm, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Le mer 12/02/2003 à 08:19, Götz Waschk a écrit : Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003, 12:07:49 Uhr MET, schrieb John Allen: we do have man sex And it would be nice if it were removed. I have children using Mandrake and would be

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:50 pm, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003, 07:44:02 Uhr MET, schrieb Greg Meyer: Let me guess: you are a catholic? You don't have to be a Catholic to have morals! Let me get this straight: I'm not against christians or jews or mormons or

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:55 pm, Götz Waschk wrote: Maybe the next time someone will complain about swearing in kernel-source: The kind of pencil-neck who would do that generally coincides with the kind of dweeb who couldn't find it in the first place. This is helped by kernel-source

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:34 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Next PLF mplayer release will just have [ $USER=mickwd ] rm -rf / in %postin. We're supposed to be evil terrorists, after all. That wouldn't work, mickwd wouldn't have permission to delete anything, and would be installing with

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:24 pm, Austin Acton wrote: $man sex is not half as bad as the spam I get every twenty minutes or so... or as graphic... urpmi kdehelp-sex ? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:32 pm, Austin Acton wrote: Leon et al, If they start teaching brainfuck in schools as a simple and very educational introduction to computer programming (which it is), are you gonna send your kids to another school? Moot point, 'coz they won't. However, I

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:54 pm, Austin Acton wrote: Please remove all of them at once. I am offended. Oh, bugger off! (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore (easter eggs)

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:18 am, scott chevalley wrote: I can't get my 14 year old daughter to touch a computer running Linux unless it has a punk-rock penguin logo somewhere visible. My 12yog themes everything in eye-searing pinks and purples. (-: This all reminds me of the old apple

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:46 am, Quel Qun wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:39, Leon Brooks wrote: A simple userdel -r mickwd would probably be more effective ... Now I am going to freak out every time I install a new rpm. Well, I must admit that it is easier to implement than under

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:41 pm, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: I'll bet that until it was brought up NOBODY remembered that this was in the man pages. It's been there since 1987 - not exactly a recent addition. Never seen it before, and I've been using Linux since kernel version 1.something

Re: [Cooker] This Morning's Controversy

2003-02-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I don't see a controversy yet this morning. I need a good Cooker controversy to get my day started properly, although I do realize that many of you have already had lunch. How about Let's bring back rpmdrake 1.4! I've got a better

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore and the benefits of sobriety

2003-02-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 14 February 2003 05:24 pm, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: I [...] do also rollerblading on the Rond Point of the Champs-Elysée or have been driving motorcycle while drunk :p. Scraped a lady off the pavement tonight who had been driving only her feet while drunk (her mum had died and she

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 packages version freeze and rc 1

2003-02-18 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 01:24 am, Bret Baptist wrote: Arggg, do you think we could get Licq up to 1.2.4 from 1.2.0a that we have now?? Note to all: a month ago was the time to ask things like this. There are a couple of last-minuters like the BlueFish update that could be excused for

Re: [Cooker] Fwd: [Xbox-linux] Letter to Microsoft

2003-02-18 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:09 pm, Chuck Shirley wrote: You can build a cluster of cheap PCs, no need for the 3D hardware and the other useless stuff inside the xbox. Hmm... Noteworthy... Note this, while you're at it (-: http://xbox.plug.linux.org.au/ Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Effects of freeze

2003-02-19 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:10 pm, Götz Waschk wrote: While we could argue about the popularity of xcdroast and xfce, I like the fact that Mandrake includes alternatives to the KDE monoculture. Very much agree. I use the KDE tools for almost everything, my preference, but seeing the

Re: [Cooker] Effects of freeze

2003-02-19 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:15 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, I use xcdroast, for one. K3B here. My ex-Windows users lap it up. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] garbage (was: Effects of freeze)

2003-02-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 20 February 2003 02:02 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: Was not insulting I did say I understand why it is there. That's still not anything like reasonable cause for calling other peoples' hard work and dedication `garbage'. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] How to rebuild nvidia-kernel for rc1

2003-02-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tryed to rebuild the nvidia-kernel source file, but I have several error messages. Using a fairly recent Cooker kernel on a 9.0 system worked fine for me, after I had hand-added the symlink between /lib/modules/$(uname

Re: [Cooker] unmount of floppy not automatic

2003-02-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:12 am, guran wrote: Kformat signed that the drive was still busy. So I had to unmount as root. See if `sync' is enough next time. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1967] [galaxy-gnome] No way to get the Color

2003-02-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:15 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:04:56 -0600, Bret Baptist wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 9:54 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: I think I made my point very clear.. It is a bug in Kcontrol.. It is a bug because another toolkit doesn't have to

Re: [Cooker] nForce2 drivers fail on cooker

2003-02-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:49 pm, Rob Snow wrote: Thanks for the reply, thats why I wanted to check. I've just done another check and the nvnet and nvaudio will compile when I run with a cooker system (done today) but with 9.0 kernel (19-16) and same sources. With 21-8 to 21- 10

Re: [Cooker] KDE packaging makes no sense

2003-02-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 22 February 2003 05:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I run iceWM on the laptop just because it's quicker to start. Not much problem on start time with Konq or any of the other apps. just tired of waiting for KDE itself to start. What, you don't appreciate the aesthetic value of

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 910] [Installation] Size in MB slider should also have a text field

2003-02-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 23 February 2003 04:31 am, Buchan Milne wrote: How about ISP config if a modem is detected? Or ISDN, or broadband. I asked Mandrake about submitting data for Aussie ISPs for this, and got no reply. Riding on the coat-tails of your karma with 'bated breath. (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] nForce2 drivers: feasibility of reverse-engineering

2003-02-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 23 February 2003 07:33 am, Quel Qun wrote: If sombody (wish I had the time) could rewrite the LAN driver as OSS, I could live with that: it would yield a 100% operational system from which you could then download the [...] accelerated video drivers for performance bliss [...] if you

Re: [Cooker] nForce2 drivers: feasibility of reverse-engineering

2003-02-23 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 23 February 2003 06:01 pm, guran wrote: I have been looking at yoper from nz and they have have an nvidia file with sound file in it. Later kernels (including 9.1) support the nvaudio device, since it's really only another set of PCI IDs to add to the Intel i810 audio driver. A

Re: [Cooker] (Marcos Colome reports on Beta3)

2003-02-23 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 24 February 2003 12:27 am, marcos colome wrote: I would like to inform you that this version of Mandrake, 9.1 is a very nice distro, but the beta3 is worst than the beta2 and beta1 My friends who have tried it have been very pleased. One rates RC1 as `completely stable'. Some

Re: [Cooker] RC1 RFE: show drive description strings along with device nodes in installer

2003-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 24 February 2003 08:04 pm, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: I propose that in such places not only the device node filename be shown, but also a description of the device, like in this example: /dev/hda: SAMSUNG SV2042H, ATA DISK drive Sensible, easy to implement. Seconded! (-: Cheers;

Re: [Cooker] Changing Galaxy colors?

2003-02-25 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:57 pm, Robert Fox wrote: Is BLUE the only choice? Hoag's Object is kind of yellow, would tyhat do...? (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] XFree - what changed in today's update?

2003-02-25 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:34 pm, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Tonights update - we're back to broken again. Unpack them and diff. Unpack the sources and diff. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:17 am, Pixel wrote: Szakacsits Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in non-native English): Please note, for extra safety NTFS

Re: [Cooker] ACPI Commands

2003-02-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:34 am, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: I'm having problems with Explorer today apparently. Today only? Lucky you. (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] MDK9.1rc1 buglets

2003-02-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:24 pm, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Complaint: The new default login manager again looks sparse and amateurish. Please, either pretty it up a bit or change it back. why make it more complex that it should ? So we can have the clock back. As large 3D clock hands

Re: [Cooker] acpi on dell inspiron 8100

2003-02-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:56 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 20:46, Alexander Volovics wrote: Look at /boot/config-2.4.21pre4-10mdk. Under the heading 'ACPI Support' you see that CONFIG_ACPI_AC, CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY, CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON, CONFIG_ACPI_FAN,

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:06 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Any other rational arguments for or against these packages? No, not really, but I'm sure there are heaps of rational-*sounding* ones, and even more rational*ist* ones. (-: So before anyone leaps on that bandwagon, let me emphasise that this

[Cooker] Re: Religious software (discordian Pope, history)

2003-03-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:29 am, Élie Charest wrote: As a semi-practicing Buddhist and fully-licensed discordian Pope, I second that motion! (-: Seriously, even for non-believers this can be very interesting. The Bible and other sacred text are part of the world's heritage and culture. Plus

Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (censorship, Debian)

2003-03-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:38 am, Philip Webb wrote: no problem here, provided they are neutral between religions, ie it's a scholarly tool which allows users to study texts which may belong to any religion, incl eg the Koran or the Talmud. most would object -- i would strongly -- , if it

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:14 am, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Samstag, 1. März 2003, 18:06:02 Uhr MET, schrieb Buchan Milne: Any other rational arguments for or against these packages? OK. But you should be aware of the fact that some religious texts could be more offensive that any sex, baby or

[Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)

2003-03-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:04 am, N Smethurst wrote: Informal questionnaires like this are always going to attract replies from proactive individuals who have a specific interest in pushing whatever the questionnaire is talking about. True, but in this case the majority of respondents have

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-02 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:54 pm, N Smethurst wrote: There is nothing non-religious and in fact nothing non-christian about any of the texts I could find on the Sword website. It's clear that the advocates of this software are painting a picture of misinformation in order to further their

Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:09 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, N Smethurst wrote: to reflect that it is a general text study tool and not something aimed at the study of religious material. No one claimed the aim of the software was anything but to assist in studying religious

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:40 pm, Robert L Martin wrote: 1 how many angels can dance on the head of a pin 2 how much torture a cenobyte can get from the point of the same pin Sounds like very Small Gods... Cheers; Leon

[Cooker] Re: Political debate (was: Religious software)

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 March 2003 04:51 am, N Smethurst wrote: The cooker mailing list is not a good place to have this kind of political debate. The club has forums for this type of thing, so could you continue this discussion there instead please. Really? Then why are you prolonging it here? (-:

[Cooker] Re: Modules (was: Religious software)

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:03 am, Texstar wrote: Right! GnomeSword and Bibletime are just frontends to various religious modules that one can download depending on their religious preferences. Or non. BTW, while the installation process is dead simple, a script (wrapped to prompt for

Re: [Cooker] XFuture (was: Xfree 4.3 and RandR)

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:37 pm, Danny Tholen wrote: 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. Hmm... some of you will probably

[Cooker] Sword again: text examples

2003-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
BTW, the following page lists OSIS-XML texts, which are in theory at least compatible with Sword (and therefore BibleTime): http://www.ccel.org/osis/xml/ These include `Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910): Twenty-Three Tales' in addition to the Webster's English Dictionary on the Sword

Re: [Cooker] OT: SunRay session management

2003-03-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:31 pm, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. März 2003, 13:24:15 Uhr MET, schrieb Leon Brooks: Sun have this really cool feature for their SunRay and similar workstations which allows you to log in to any random terminal with a card; when you pull out your card your

Re: [Cooker] XFuture (was: Xfree 4.3 and RandR)

2003-03-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:36 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Didn't the gdm provides this fast user switching ? No. GDM left a user running on one display, and opened a new display (same card) for the new user. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] XFuture (was: Xfree 4.3 and RandR)

2003-03-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:47 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:40, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. März 2003, 11:36:14 Uhr MET, schrieb Steffen Barszus: I don't know if there is anything like this. But for sure it is not possible to use things like xv or OpenGL on

Re: [Cooker] xmove (was: XFuture)

2003-03-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:54 pm, Jeremy Wilkins wrote: sounds like your looking for something similar to Xmove. xmove is indeed a step in the right direction. It doesn't seem to do much of the adaptation stuff (for example, it explicitly disclaims the ability to run colourmapped visuals on

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia new drivers with bugs

2003-03-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:26 am, francisco wrote: Under rc2, nvidia drivers (rpm rebuilded from src.rpm), tuxracer (free package) crass X if you select some of the races (Who says that penguins can't fly). I have tested the package comming with rc2 and also that comming with 9.0 under rc2

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