Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]

2003-10-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:24, Eric Fernandez wrote: > FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > > > > > > >not all people have an internet connection and/or a DSL link > > > > Why not in a rpm then : "screenshots" that could be part of > documentation. They don't need to be huge or finely detailed. JPG with a >

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia driver messes up console mode (framebuffer?)

2003-10-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 10:41, Juan Quintela wrote: > Can people please mail me the output of lspcidrake -v and telling me > what versions work/don't work for you? > > I have found that machines fail with PIII, PIV and athlons, both with > NVidia IGP and normal cards. > > Only pattern found until

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Hi, > all of you with an nVidia nForce2 or Via KT400 board.. > please try this one out... Just booted with ACPI, seems fine! USB is working great (it didn't before), and all the stuff in /proc/acpi seems to work nicely. Thanks a lot Thomas, go

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:40, Duncan wrote: > Robert L Martin posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:15:28 -0400: > > > 3 a trio of SUID ROOT scripts to : a shutdown the system b reboot > > Xwindows only (user switch) c do a full system reboot || note on system

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Eric Fernandez wrote: > I agree it is a strange move to desynchronise "main" or Mandrake/RPMS > with the 3CD download edition. It would be better to remove some It's been "desynchronised" for a while. The download edition hasn't contained everything from main for qui

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:41, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > > I agree it is a strange move to desynchronise "main" or Mandrake/RPMS > > > with the 3CD download edition. It would be better to remove some > > > > It's been "desynchronised" for a whi

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:51, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:03 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > The 3-CD bought edition has exactly the same free software as the > > 3-CD free edition. The only added stuff is non-free stuff (Nvidia > > drive

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

2003-10-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:46, Ron Stodden wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > > Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron > > always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a > > release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...). > > Not

Re: [Cooker] !! 9.2 issues -- help

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > You should read the erratas. Your problem is described and there Quick language point, Guillaume - "errata" is already plural. The singular is "erratum". -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Mescalero

2003-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:29, Götz Waschk wrote: > Stuff like this often depends on the CD-ROM drive, it's best to try > several models. I haven't found a CD yet that I couldn't copy. I guess > the copy protection sticker often is a placebo, if I can simply rip > the CD with cdparanoia. Nope, it'

Re: [Cooker] Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:32, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > OOo did five RC which were truely Release Candidate. > However OOo is far less complicated as a full distro. Well, yeah. That's the problem. OO.o is far less complicated than a full distro...yet even THEY think five release candidates are nec

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 02:20, Liam Quin wrote: > If you're paying for a print run of 5,000 pictures of nude politicians, > the cost of the colour pallette is relatively small. I don't know where you live, but this idea combined with the corpus of British politicians leaves me with a truly horrific

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] xine-vcdx-1-0.rc2.1mdk

2003-10-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:18, Götz Waschk wrote: > [Contrib-RPM] > > -=-=-=- > Name: xine-vcdxRelocations: (not relocateable) > Summary : VCD and SVCD Navigation plugin for xine > Description : > This is a xine Video CD plugin for the xine media player. Its aim is >

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: move 9.2 to 9.2b or 9.2.1 and CHANGE the kernel!

2003-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:02, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Claudio wrote: > > >Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > >Since many of us are having BIG problem with the 9.2 tree on the mirror > >(expecially for the LG-bug), imho it would be safe to REMOVE the actual > >9.2 and upload a new "9.2b" or similar, with th

Re: Re[4]: [Cooker] You really screwed up this time: Inconsistency between mirrors and packages in ML 9.2

2003-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:39, Galileo wrote: > BTW i checked this with 9.1 and its the same thing (except for the > versions mess). A lot of packages are missing from the first 3 cds. > I have seen discussions that there should be a 4th cd, but if we are > going to stick with 3 cds then please tran

Re: [Cooker] When can we finally get X to fall back to XFdrake??

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:37, Buchan Milne wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > >>I think Buchan's point is that if one tries to start X and it f

Re: [Cooker] When can we finally get X to fall back to XFdrake??

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:49, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:37 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > >>I think Buchan's point is that if one tries to start X and it fails,

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 19:41, Han Boetes wrote: > mayor problem since linux is not a reboot OS. Well. It's certainly designed to be capable of running more or less perpetually, that's true. That doesn't mean that's how people use it, though. I boot my system at a minimum once a day, because I powe

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:29, Han Boetes wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 19:41, Han Boetes wrote: > > > > > mayor problem since linux is not a reboot OS. > > ^^^ > please quote carefully. This hardly reflects what I said. Uh? It&#x

Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates

2003-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 03:14, Robert L Martin wrote: > to be honest my french is nonexistant (i used BabelFish to get the > french version) I think it gave you presses as in wine presses, not presses as in publishing presses...:) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Shuttle SK41G : First screen of install (F1 / Enter) is not readable.

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:24, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Main board FX41 > Video VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266] > > When booting on the CD1, the first screen ( F1 or Enter ) is not readable. it > shows only > horizontal blue stripes. > The monitor iiyama Pro451 is not the problem, because it occ

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.6-test8 rpms

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 02:23, Olivier Blin wrote: > > > I really need to browse all kernel config options, the initial > > > config was done by Nanar months ago :) > > > > Everybody is free to update it, I made a basic config to make the > > package, but I am not good with kernel stuff, and my conf

Re: [Cooker] kernel pb with ext3 and kernel -23mdk

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:23, arakeis wrote: > wtih -18mdk no pb. > > here are my partitions and fs : > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on / type ext3 (rw) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /home type ext3 (rw) > /dev

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: > As the "proof is in the pudding", somebody in 2.4 era, created an http Quick colloquialism fix - actual phrase is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". :) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:36, Juan Quintela wrote: > >>>>> "adam" == Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > adam> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: > >> As the "proof is in the pudding", somebody in 2.4 er

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 01:45, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Sun Nov 02 22:46 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: > > > > > As the "proof is in the pudding", somebody in 2.4 era, created an http > > > > Quick c

Re: [Cooker] test9.4mdk with ext3 as module

2003-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 21:25, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:12:30 +0100 > Olivier Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment: > > > > My mistake, it's a "bug" in kernel packaging. > > > No depmod is done in %install, so mkinitrd find the first time an > > > empty modules

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] xmms-sid-0.8.0-0.beta5.3mdk

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:25, Götz Waschk wrote: > [Contrib-RPM] > > -=-=-=- > Name: xmms-sid Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 0.8.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 0.beta5.3mdk Build Date: Wed Nov 5 10:24

Re: [Cooker] kernel 23mdk panic

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:49, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > There is more power in your music than you know - is this the "music hath > charms to sooth a savage beast" thing going here?!?!? Since I'm on a correcting-colloquialisms kick on this list...:) That's a misquote. The original is: "Music hath cha

Re: [Cooker] FHS 2.3 (fwd)

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:56, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > > I'd like to take a look at this proposals, but the URLs don't work. > > Can you put these documents somewhere I can access them? > > I can't reach the domain either. We didn't need the attachment. Please don't post binaries to this list, p

Re: [Cooker] Re: No more fpons

2003-11-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:40, Levi Ramsey wrote: > In the US, it's a similar overall ratio, but most of the female > enrollment is in the mushy liberal arts... CS and a few of the As a historian, I feel bound to say... watch it, pal ;) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Creation of a community ( was : the end is inevitable )

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:06, Pixel wrote: > Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS: Some friends have always argued that the debian way is the only > > sustainable way to go. If mdk is going to do it just like debian, why not fold > > and move the idea's and effort into making de

Re: [Cooker] Where did hpijs go?

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:34, Ron Stodden wrote: > Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > >I've been having problems printing to an HP Deskjet 970C using the > >Foomatic+hpijs drivers ever since an update to printer-drivers a couple > >weeks ago. I had this happen once before due to some interface change, >

Re: [Cooker] Creation of a community ( was : the end is inevitable )

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:06, tarvid wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:06 pm, Pixel wrote: > > Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS: Some friends have always argued that the debian way is the only > > > sustainable way to go. If mdk is going to do it just like debian, why

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:10, et wrote: > these decisions are made by corporate lawyers based on previously accepted > contracts, and no letter from anyone with out either Judge or Esq. in their > name is likely to make dodidly for a thought of change. > I don't wish all drivers stay closed,,, q

Re: [Cooker] XawTV segfaults now

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 04:30, Chuck Shirley wrote: > On Monday 10 February 2003 08:49, Robert Fox wrote: > >Latest version installed: > > > >[rfox@localhost rfox]$ xawtv > >This is xawtv-3.84, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-pre2.1mdk) > >Segmentation fault > > > >Thx, > >R.Fox > > > Not to be a jerk,

Re: [Cooker] I want my MTV (was xawtv-3.84-1mdk.i586.rpm segfaults!)

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:31, Robert Fox wrote: > Working in my cold, dark basement without my on screen TV blaring in the > background is depressing. > > I tried to go back to a previous version (I only had Mandrake 9.0 CDs) > but it failed. > > This will teach me to not update so quickly! > > L

Re: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby!

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 10:03, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le mar 11/02/2003 à 06:17, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > > tisdagen den 11 februari 2003 09.16 skrev Jean-Michel Dault: > > > Name: Gabrielle Relocations: (not relocateable) > > > Size: 53.5cm, 4.170kg License: GPL >

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1278] [kdebase] Default launch action for RPM files in KDE

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:49, Buchan Milne wrote: > The big arguments against linux for home use are that software > installation is too difficult. We can counter that, and say that it's > just as easy. Download an rpm, double-click on it, and if you know the > root password, you can install it. I

Re: [Cooker] Something for Götz?

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:34, Austin Acton wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 04:25, Quel Qun wrote: > > > > http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 > > > It is in PLF. > > It is in PLF only becuase it has LAME MP3 encoder embedded in it. If > he/we could modularize the two, Cinelerra would be a gre

Re: [Cooker] XawTV segfaults now

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:56, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You guys do know there are *other* TV apps, don't you? I use > > Zapping, it kicks XawTV's arse... > > humm, xawtv is simple, no decorations overhead,

Re: [Cooker] urpmf bug

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:58, François Pons wrote: > Le mar 11/02/2003 à 17:12, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : > > > > > humm i reported this humm bug to libstdc++ but that's a feature to let > > > > you use perl regexp in file searching. Try to but backslash before the > > > > +. > > > > Probably

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

2003-02-11 Thread Adam Williamson
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 at least) hardware sucks. Sad but true. VIA? -- adamw

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many things need to be changed with the default mixer settings, but I have > had still no time to look into it (==modifying draksound to do this). > > Thierry, if you have time :-P, this really needs some works. Many bug > reports stem fro

Re: [Cooker] OT umlauts

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:17, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Ben Reser wrote: > > > Yeah well US keyboards don't even have a key. > > My bottom row is: > > Ctrl Win Alt Space Alt Win Menu Ctrl > > Your rightmost Alt key will be interpreted as AltGr when a keyboard

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:43, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > the big problem being that alsa insists on muting everything by > default whereas enabling right switches by default would be a lot > better and reduce the "alsa sucks; oss rulez" messages bag we all have > seen there among the years. Maybe as

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:33, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003, 14:20:15 Uhr MET, schrieb John Allen: > > I have a 9 year old girl and I don't want her reading shite like > > this. Its not fucking necessary, and has no bleedin bollockin > > functionality, its not even fucking funny

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:24, Austin Acton wrote: > > > we do have man sex > > > > And it would be nice if it were removed. I have children using Mandrake and > > would be apalled it they view the "sex" man page. > > $man sex > is not half as bad as the spam I get every twenty minutes or so... >

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:54, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe as a basic start you could just set it so that Master, PCM and > > CD volumes are unmuted and set to, say, 70 by default on *all* > > cards? I can't

[Cooker] galeon needs a rebuild

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
[adamw@aw280 adamw]$ galeon Cannot find mozilla installation directory. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your mozilla directory [adamw@aw280 adamw]$ galeon-bin galeon-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Looks like

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 12 Feb 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:43, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > > > Maybe as a basic start you could just set it so that Master, PCM and CD > > volumes are unmuted and set

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:18, scott chevalley wrote: > This all reminds me of the old apple II adventure game. If you type > "fuck you" when playing it would respond "your place or mine?" And that > was in the early '80s! That's different. In that case, the *user* generates the possibly-offen

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:29, Austin Acton wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:15, Brook Humphrey wrote: > > Wow they fixed it since the last time I used it but then you are probably the > > only other person on the face of the planet with as much email. We are the > > email elite. I still wont use

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:49, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > so if the man page were named "fuck", it would be okay? Not necessarily; the content of the page would still be offensive ("your place or mine" isn't), and you can access man pages without typing their names (through browsers). -- adamw

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

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:21, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le mer 12/02/2003 à 15:03, Steve Fox a écrit : > > > Running Evolution 1.0.8 here, many mailing lists, all split into about > > 1.2.x will greatly improve the speed of POP3 downloading, better IMAP > > handling, and it even *greatly* reduced t

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:47, Sascha Noyes wrote: > I think a wiki is definately needed. It is at the moment probably the most > flexible and yet powerful collaboration tool available for an open community > like the Mandrake community is. (Witness www.wikipedia.org) > The sooner - the better ;-)

[Cooker] new initscripts messes up network interface startup

2003-02-13 Thread Adam Williamson
The new initscripts had a bad effect on network interface startup on my laptop. It has a bog-standard PCMCIA network card. Whether this is inserted or not, bringing up eth0 now takes an *age*. I don't know what change is causing this (possibly "wait for ifplugd completion in network service"?), bu

Re: [Cooker] new initscripts messes up network interface startup

2003-02-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:52, Buchan Milne wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Another change which is bad for me is that it used to disregard files in > > this format: > > > > ifcfg-xxx.yyy > > > > That is, ifcfg files with an extension. Now it does

Re: [Cooker] new initscripts messes up network interface startup

2003-02-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:59, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > That is, ifcfg files with an extension. Now it doesn't. Since I > > sometimes use a WLAN card, I have an alternative ifcfg-eth0 file, which > > I called ifcfg-eth0.wlan, and a backup of the current ifcfg-eth0 file, > > called ifcfg-eth0.lan.

solution to pcmcia network problems (was Re: [Cooker] Bug report on initscripts-7.06-3mdk)

2003-02-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:03, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:04, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:12, Joseph Wang wrote: > > > > My orinico wireless PCMCIA card will not start up with 7.06-3mdk. It > > >

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gabber-0.8.7.12-0.20020214.1mdk

2003-02-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:15, Frederic Crozat wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: gabber Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 0.8.7.12 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 0.20020214.1mdk Build Date: Fri Feb 14 21:09:13 2003 Fred,

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

2003-02-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:41, James Sparenberg wrote: > Which begs the question. Is cooker an extension of the previous distro > or is it a distro in and of itself. The former IMHO is the preferable > situation and I might add the more profitable alternative. The latter > yields more problems an

Re: [Cooker] Realtek RTL8029(AS) doesn't work

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:21, utuhiro wrote: > I use Realtek RTL8029(AS) ethernet board and I cannot connect to the internet. > It works fine on mdk9.0, but it doesn't work on the latest cooker. > > I did "drakconnect" with: > kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.6mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm (latest cooker kernel) > ker

Re: [Cooker] gnome/metacity: can't move window upwards off screen

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:33, rcc wrote: > On 15 Feb 2003 03:04:00 -0800 > Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 02:54, rcc wrote: > > > > > I could understand it. > > > > > > I don't, though I haven't yet seen what the author gives for > > > reasons. I'll do that today.

[Cooker] ACPI problem (Gigabyte GA-7IXEH)

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
When we first switched to ACPI, it wouldn't work on my desktop at all, so I switched back to APM. Thought I'd give it another try with the newest kernel (-6mdk). Now it boots, but it doesn't seem to power up the USB bus properly. That is, my M$oft Intellimouse Optical normally turns itself on (you

Re: [Cooker] Realtek RTL8029(AS) doesn't work

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 13:51, utuhiro wrote: > > Remember to always run lilo (as root) after editing lilo.conf. Changes > > aren't applied until you do this. > > I've already done it. > I don't think it's a kernel problem, because > RTL8029(AS) works well on the kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk in mdk9.

Re: [Cooker] Realtek RTL8029(AS) doesn't work

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:37, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Chuck Burns wrote: > > > *snip* it's not a problem with mandrake, it's a problem with the kernel. I > > also had problems with a different network card similarly. acpi=off in > > lilo.conf worked on the newer kernels. > > > >

[Cooker] status of moz / galeon gcc 2.9...

2003-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
I notice that Blackdown now have builds of Java 1.4.1 built with GCC 3.2. (ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin , for instance). Would this be enough to let Moz and Galeon switch back to GCC 3.2, and dump GCC 2.9.6 into contribs? Or are we wa

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1597] [Installation] New: new language list arrangement in installation

2003-02-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:37, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > English - Ireland etc.? > > There are only two different "languages" for english, which are > british and american - FYI this is only the case for english, > portuguese (portuguese and brazilian portuguese) and chinese > (traditional an

Re: [Cooker] Orinoco_cs and Linksys WPC11 speed loss | Vmware also broken

2003-02-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 09:58, bernard Varaine wrote: > on my HP XE3 with same kernel. > > VMWARE works fine after recomp of the modules > > D.LINK DWL650 is recognised. but cannot manage to get it configured > properly... In what way? What do you need to configure? -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Installation

2003-02-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:42, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > > > > > >>I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. > >>I have made major changes in disk drives & DVD reader. However, now > >>attempting an install, w

Re: [Cooker] Installation

2003-02-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:06, et wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 04:07 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > > > I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. > > > I have made major changes in disk drives & DVD reader. However, now > > > attem

Re: [Cooker] Orinoco_cs and Linksys WPC11 speed loss | Vmware also broken

2003-02-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:27, bernard Varaine wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > In what way? What do you need to configure? > > > SID, Mode , etc Well drakconnect ought to let you configure this stuff, I believe. If not, you can edit: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

Re: [Cooker] once again - Prism3 based cards

2003-02-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:41, Robert Fox wrote: > I have a Corega PCCL-11 PCMCIA wireless card and also the access point > (APL-11) > > The card is not recognised during install nor in MCC (drakconnect) > > What's the scoop with Prism3 based cards and 9.1? >From the web, it seems the drivers for

Re: [Cooker] Lastest install kernel 2.4.21-pre4.6mdk reboots on Chaintech Apogee

2003-02-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 18:43, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Requires noacpi acpi=off passed on the kernel otherwise the machine reboots. > > We're going to release 9.1 with acpi=off by default since that > "feature" is a total of . GD

Re: [Cooker] Lastest install kernel 2.4.21-pre4.6mdk reboots on Chaintech Apogee

2003-02-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 04:16, James Sparenberg wrote: > I've not one piece of hardware that acpi works on myself. Either MDK's > or FreeBSD's. However did do a Linux install to a Dell laptop for a > co-worker last week... He asked me if acpi worked so he could suspend > it. I said yes. Showed h

Re: [Cooker] Sound & kernel 2.4.21pre4-?

2003-02-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:19, PAOLACCI Sebastien wrote: > Hi all, > > I've lost soud in current kernel version (2.4.21pre4-6). I've tested all pre4 > kernels with the same (no) result. > > I only have one sound card (Intel 810, snd-intel8x0 module) and I'd like to > know, before reporting a bug,

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1749] [xchat] New: probleme with updating Xchat

2003-02-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:58, qateam wrote: > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749 > >Product: xchat > Component: packaging >Summary: probleme with updating Xchat >Version: 2.0.0-1mdk > Platform: PC > OS/Version: All >

Re: [Cooker] Lastest install kernel 2.4.21-pre4.6mdk reboots on Chaintech Apogee

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 04:24, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 05:52, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 04:16, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > I've not one piece of hardware that acpi works on myself. Either MDK's > > > or

Re: [Cooker] How to ask for a new version to go to 9.1

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:16, Christian Bricart wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:44:02AM +0100, Warly wrote: > > [..] > > However if you feel that a new version of one of your packages should > > really goes in, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in CC and include in your pa

Re: [Cooker] Re: RC1 issues & thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 12:09, John Keller wrote: > Gnome has a "Preferred Applications" panel that allows the user to the > default browser, text editor and terminal (though why not the mail client, I > don't know). I'm not sure of the internals, but besides a manual setting it > gives a list of re

Re: [Cooker] Effects of freeze

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 15:10, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003, 09:41:17 Uhr MET, schrieb Charles A Edwards: > > Not that it will make any difference but the RH rc, and in its time the > > final, Will include X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha13 can not say as regards xfce. > > Seems sad to me t

[Cooker] v. minor rpmdrake oddity

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Williamson
Just noticed - if you're installing a package through rpmdrake that requires another package to be removed, the progress window for the removal has the title "rpmdrake" while the progress window for the install has the title "grpmi". Shouldn't these be consistent? -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Effects of freeze

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 23:38, Leon Brooks wrote: > 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 For more simple stuff, though, I've been using nautilus-c

Re: [Cooker] Re: wine-20020219

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:11, Paul R Streitman wrote: > > > We have a much bigger problem than getting the current wine release > (although I agree it would be worthwhile) - currently wine does not work at > all because of some sort of X bug. There is already a report in bugzilla. > For what it i

Re: [Cooker] short list of fixes to make rc1 livable

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:06, tarvid wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:43 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > caps lock state on keyboard gets mucked up > > > > having kernel problems? tried acpi=off noacpi? > > this is a coppermine machine with a two

Re: [Cooker] Re: short list of fixes to make rc1 livable

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 19:08, David Walser wrote: > The Gateway PCs I admined last year work with ACPI and APIC. I dunno > what mobo they had, but it's an "ICH2" chipset. The machines were > purchased in early summer last year. ICH2 isn't a chipset, it's part of one - it's an Intel southbridge.

Re: [Cooker] short list of fixes to make rc1 livable

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 18:57, tarvid wrote: > I don't know of any motherboard/chipset it does work on. I'd pay a bit to have > the problem go away. Works on my laptop, for starters. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] ACPI Testing

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 19:07, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > I have been testing MDK on an HP Omnibook XE 4500. So far I have > gotten the ACPI stuff to work and the battery monitor applet runs > good. However, I had to manually insmod the ACPI modules. Is there a > way to do that through a

Re: [Cooker] Bitstream Vera Fonts Now Available: Is there Anyway to Add them To 9.1?

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:35, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The much hyped Vera Font Family ("Gnome Fonts,") high quality (and Free > Software compatible) fonts from Bitstream are now available in beta form! > This means that finally we have access

Re: [Cooker] Bitstream Vera Fonts Now Available: Is there Anyway to Add them To 9.1?

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:28, Marcel Pol wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:35:29 -0600 > "Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The much hyped Vera Font Family ("Gnome Fonts,") high quality (and Free > > Software compatible) fonts from Bitstream are now available in beta form! > > Ar

Re: [Cooker] Xine frontend

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 13:36, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2003, 14:29:47 Uhr MET, schrieb Reinout van Schouwen: > > Xine is a great media player but it's UI pretty much sucks and doesn't > > adhere to any guideline whatsoever. Fortunately Xine is modular by design > > and there are

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

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 15:44, Bret Baptist wrote: > do. "Windows handles color changes without a problem." The only way to I find this ironic. Windows is actually *really bad* in this very area. The problem is they change their appearance too often. There are lots of apps which were too lazy to

Re: [Cooker] ACPI Testing

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:45, Buchan Milne wrote: > Do not know. I am using acpi on my IBM 600X, which seems to work ok, > except that I do not see any benefit over APM (bseides the fact that I can > view temperatures and charge in mWh). Am I supposed to see my machine > suspend automatically (it d

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

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 03:19, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > I think the person commenting on Windows was missing the point. If I'm in an > app, and the tool bar buttons are 3D (Win95 style) rather than flat (WinXP > style), is that going to really catch my attention? Maybe a bit. If, instead, > h

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

2003-02-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 04:11, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > That's exactly what happens with many Windows apps... > > You have a lot of normal Windows applications where they won't change color? > I've never encountered any... Well, define "normal". Most Microsoft apps are fine, but when I ran

Re: [Cooker] [named / bind] named.conf template for forward first

2003-02-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 10:20, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, J S wrote: > > > I was wondering why there isn't a template - commented > > out section of code - in named for a forward first > > section. > > > > //this section is to allow dns requests to be > > forwarded > > //to your isps

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] drakxtools-9.1-5mdk

2003-02-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:16, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > drakgw: internet connection sharing > - clean up tools embeddeding in the mcc > o make it hard to freeze the mcc > o make tools loo better when embedded (no embedded wait messages, > ...) > - harddrake2: > o add "/dev" to devfs paths

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1968] [acpi] acpi works but modules not loaded automatically

2003-02-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 12:48, chmouel wrote: > shoud be fixed in latest. > > > > --- You are receiving this mail because: --- > You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. > > > > --- Reminder: --- > assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > status: UNCONFIRMED

RE: [Cooker] ACPI Testing

2003-02-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 18:35, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > You can't just put the names of the modules to load in the file. At least it > didn't work for me. Can you supply the correct syntax? As it stands I just > wrote a startup script that insmods the modules at boot... Well, that wor

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