[Cooker] Sounds good: Use EDID/DDC data to set better refreshrates on VBE3.0+ videocards

2003-08-04 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=105995833314611w=2 anybody tried it already? Else it sounds really good and is claimed to work on gf2mx that I have :) -andrey

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] convertfs-0.20020318-2mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
måndagen den 4 augusti 2003 01.30 skrev Per Øyvind Karlsen: - rebuild Why? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Blindauer Emmanuel
Le Sunday 03 August 2003 16:37, Ken Thompson a écrit : I hope Mandrake get's the hint, I see a lot of dislike for mdkkdm showing up here and on the experts list. I personally detest mdkddm!!! HEY Mandrake - Listen to your users this time around.. At least give a choice during install, leave

Re: [Cooker] Serial ATA support in MDK 9.2

2003-08-04 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: Well actually there is: http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/2_SATALINUXSRC1.00.0.8.zip Thanks, I will know a happy opteron system. ;-)

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Beta 1 LILO Issue during install...

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I go into the bootloader settings at the end of the install and make a few changes (changing from graphic lilo to text mode), hit apply, then gen an I/O error

Re: [Cooker] problem with glibc header /usr/include/libintl.h?compiling stardict

2003-08-04 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: I was working on it, and had a fixed RPM with patch: http://deaddog.org/Mandrake/cooker/stardict/SRPMS/stardict-2.2.1-1mdk.src.rpm Indeed, fix stardict as it does seem to include some header that #defines gettext to nothing.

[Cooker] tetex

2003-08-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
file /usr/bin/texi2html from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk file /usr/share/man/man1/texi2html.1.bz2 from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk Which one is to be nuked? -- Regards //

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 596] [nedit] segfault when splitting windows

2003-08-04 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, [udo] wrote: will this bug ever be fixed? it is _very_ bad to see that some (easy to fix) mdk-specifiy problems obviously don't get any attention by the package maitainers for such a long time (this bug is more than 7 months old!) This is a lesstif problem, I had

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 596] [nedit] segfault when splitting windows

2003-08-04 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, [udo] wrote: the easy bug fix or better workaround is to do the same that the authors are doing for their package: link it statically against a working version of LessTif. Indeed, statically linking against a working version can't be a fix. That's a workaround.

Re: [Cooker] tetex

2003-08-04 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Oden Eriksson ha scritto: file /usr/bin/texi2html from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk file /usr/share/man/man1/texi2html.1.bz2 from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk Which one is to

Re: [Cooker] problem with glibc header /usr/include/libintl.h? compiling stardict

2003-08-04 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-08-04(Mon) 09:32:28 +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: I was working on it, and had a fixed RPM with patch: http://deaddog.org/Mandrake/cooker/stardict/SRPMS/stardict-2.2.1-1mdk.src.rpm Indeed, fix stardict as it does seem to include some

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 596] [nedit] segfault when splitting windows

2003-08-04 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, [udo] wrote: I recall it right, the problems started in 9.0 cooker and nothing has changed since. IIRC, initial problem got fixed but authors introduced a regression elsewhere. Anyhow, please try the packages here: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gbeauchesne/lesstif/

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 06:20 pm, Robert L Martin wrote: I think something along this line is what I was trying to get accross.. I wasn't at all emotional, just pointing out that many others don't like mdkkdm and that I

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] nas-1.6-10mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 August 2003 12:30, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: * Mon Aug 04 2003 Gwenole Beauchesne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.6-10mdk - lib64 fixes, some 64-bit fixes thx! I was meaning to really fix that soon:) - -- Regards, Per Øyvind Karlsen Sintrax

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM (was: free choice?)

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le dim 03/08/2003 à 12:41, Leon Brooks a écrit : On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What the heck was the problem with either gdm or kdm? Dunno, perhaps looks too complex to a newbie, huh ! I'd rather use gdm : beautiful, beautiful, and ... beautiful and this even all the users

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le dim 03/08/2003 à 19:53, Dave Cotton a écrit : Just to show a non negative approach, I went into MCC and enabled mdkkdm and it was installed, as I had kdm set up _not_ to show icons and to use the last login, I must say mdkkdm picked up this config. So the problem for me, from the last time

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le dim 03/08/2003 à 17:41, Buchan Milne a écrit : On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Ben Reser wrote: As far as I know mdkkdm doesn't let you type in a user name (I haven't tried it in a long time). That's the one thing that bugs me. I prefer to keep the list of users displayed down but there are some

[Cooker] [Bug 4370] [Installation] Printer detection mandrake 9.2 beta 1

2003-08-04 Thread [guy.abossolo]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4370 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-08 13:53 --- Only /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0 exists but all autoprobe files are empty. The printer is installed but it doesn't work. -- Configure bugmail:

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le dim 03/08/2003 à 12:41, Leon Brooks a écrit : On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What the heck was the problem with either gdm or kdm? Dunno, perhaps looks too complex to a newbie, huh ! I'd rather use gdm :

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le dim 03/08/2003 à 17:41, Buchan Milne a écrit : I don't even want to look for it. I'd rather swith to gdm just for cosmetic reasons. IMHO, when the user select auth by NIS or LDAP or Samba, DrakX should disable list view

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 04/08/2003 à 03:15, Ken Thompson a écrit : I think something along this line is what I was trying to get accross.. I wasn't at all emotional, just pointing out that many others don't like mdkkdm and that I personally detest it. NO, the reason I detest it is not because I can't log in

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le lun 04/08/2003 à 03:15, Ken Thompson a écrit : But it's a good point. I set up several workstation and /home is an NFS share. So as during isntall I can't specify NFS share, I have to log with the user with a local

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le dim 03/08/2003 à 19:53, Dave Cotton a écrit : Just to show a non negative approach, I went into MCC and enabled mdkkdm and it was installed, as I had kdm set up _not_ to show icons and to use the last login, I must say

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] starfighter-1.00-4mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Robert L Martin
uhr, not really, you've got dependencies for that one dependencies don't work if you are looking at downloading the rpm to a Windows system (for later install on a disconnected Linux system)

Re: [Cooker] tetex

2003-08-04 Thread Michael Scherer
On Monday 04 August 2003 10:22, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: Oden Eriksson ha scritto: file /usr/bin/texi2html from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk file /usr/share/man/man1/texi2html.1.bz2 from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts

[Cooker] Re: dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread David Walser
Buchan Milne wrote: FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le lun 04/08/2003 à 03:15, Ken Thompson a écrit : But it's a good point. I set up several workstation and /home is an NFS share. So as during isntall I can't specify NFS share, I have to log with the user with a local account, and the only one is

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:07, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: IMHO when using NIS/LDAP/Samba auth, all dm should default too no users list I have systems set up using LTSP, in a school there may be well over 200 users, but perhaps only 15 terminals are active at one time. IMHO too many people are

Re: [Cooker] urpmc-1.2-2mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Berra wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:03:15PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: Despite the name urpmc is not officially part of urpm*, nor is it written by Mandrakesoft. It's a contrib package that I wrote. So if you don't have a contrib source

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] scorched3d-35-1mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 21:30, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: scorched3d Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 35Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Sun Aug 3

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select

2003-08-04 Thread Franois Pons
Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:42, Dave Cotton wrote: What is going on? urpmi --auto-select suddenly in the middle of everything there's this installing /mnt/Cooker/libfreetype6-2.1.4-5mdk.i586.rpm removing

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:20, Robert L Martin wrote: And personally i would strip all of the You are logged in as Root You are a Bad and Foul Person dialogs from the distro. (now i would not enable auto log in for Root like certain companies do) Why? Logging into a GUI as root *is* bad and

[Cooker] Wireless PCMCIA card recommendations

2003-08-04 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
Hello, Fellow Cookers Maybe the timing isn't too good for asking this in the midst of all that's going on, as everybody's pretty busy.. but can anybody recommend a 802.11 triple mode (a/b/g) card that works, or even looks like it MAY work SOON Mandrake? We're going wireless in the

Re: [Cooker] Re: dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Walser wrote: Well luckily one can get to a console during DrakX so you can get your automounter maps set before first boot. Yes, putting those maps in LDAP or NIS is nice, but not always feasible. In my sysadmin job in college, the maps

[Cooker] drakxservices doesn't work if...

2003-08-04 Thread Andre Lourenco
if there is a dead link in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ drakxservices does not work at all. it says that cannot enter that directory. 9.1 and cooker -AndyRock- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.21-6.5tmb

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally the next one is out:... ( but there is still *a lot* to do ) Sadly I dont have time before next weekend to do more updates, so I decided to push out the ones I had tested Have Fun !! Thomas Argh.. forgot the links...

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] starfighter-1.00-4mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 20:57, andre wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:16, Charles A Edwards wrote: Project: Starfighter is a is a Space/Arcade game which uses the SDL libraries. Why would i want to know what libraries it uses Probably idiosyncratic, but I can give you one situation where

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] heroes-0.21-4mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Pixel
Per Øyvind Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - don't use overuse wildcards in %files list [...] -%{_mandir}/*/* -%{_gamesbindir}/* -%{_menudir}/* -%{_iconsdir}/*.png -%{_miconsdir}/*.png -%{_liconsdir}/*.png -%{_infodir}/* +%{_mandir}/man6/%{name}* +%{_gamesbindir}/%{name}*

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Beta 1 LILO Issue during install...

2003-08-04 Thread Pixel
Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I go into the bootloader settings at the end of the install and make a few changes (changing from graphic lilo to text mode), hit apply, then gen an I/O error from

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] starfighter-1.00-4mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Michael Scherer
On Monday 04 August 2003 13:37, Robert L Martin wrote: uhr, not really, you've got dependencies for that one dependencies don't work if you are looking at downloading the rpm to a Windows system (for later install on a disconnected Linux system) rpmfind is here for this reasons :

Re: [Cooker] Re: urpmi error message

2003-08-04 Thread Franois Pons
Mike Dewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All: I did this morning urpmi.update -a and main cooker and contrib hdlist where downloaded. Then when I did urpmi --auto-select I got this error: urpmi --auto-select Can't use string (kdebase) as an ARRAY ref while strict refs in use at

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4425] [xcdroast] New: Xcdroast : core dump

2003-08-04 Thread Warly
[tulear999] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4425 Product: xcdroast Component: xcdroast Summary: Xcdroast : core dump Product: xcdroast Version: 0.98-27.alpha13mdk Platform: Other

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4425] [xcdroast] New: Xcdroast : core dump

2003-08-04 Thread parag shah
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +0200, Warly wrote: [tulear999] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4425 Product: xcdroast Component: xcdroast Summary: Xcdroast : core dump Product: xcdroast

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 04/08/2003 à 11:10, Buchan Milne a écrit : huh ! I'd rather use gdm : beautiful, beautiful, and ... beautiful and this even all the users in my network use kde. Yes they use kde but log with GDM ( right tools for the right things ). And then KDE logout only gives them the

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 04/08/2003 à 11:29, Buchan Milne a écrit : Well, then you must be using LDAP or NIS, so you should put automount maps in LDAP or NIS, and drakauth should add nis/ldap to the automount line of /etc/nsswitch.conf (which I will try and look at today). Then, you *never* have to worry

[Cooker] [Bug 4370] [Installation] Printer detection mandrake 9.2 beta 1

2003-08-04 Thread [till]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4370 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-08 14:31 --- What is the output of lsmod? It looks like that there is a kernel problem. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are

[Cooker] MakeCD broken again

2003-08-04 Thread Frank Griffin
As of last night's cooker, cd /data/cooker/i586/misc ./MakeCD -t /data -a /data/cooker/i586 ~/tmp/MakeCDOut 2~/tmp/MakeCDErr gives ..//Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It also

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Beta 1 LILO Issue during install...

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll re-do the install today (its a testing box) and see fi it appears again. maybe it was the broken lilo-22.5.6 which was going crazy. lilo-22.5.6.1 is much better Possiblly - I just wiped my boot sector (dd zero to the front 50M of the

[Cooker] devfs and df...

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any chance 'df' could be patched to display the partition name and the sizing info all on the same line? It was fine when you just had /dev/hda, but when you have /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1/cow4/banana3 it all gets a tad messy. Mark.

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM

2003-08-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 4. August 2003 18:03 schrieb FACORAT Fabrice: Le lun 04/08/2003 à 11:10, Buchan Milne a écrit : huh ! I'd rather use gdm : beautiful, beautiful, and ... beautiful and this even all the users in my network use kde. Yes they use kde but log with GDM ( right tools for the right

Re: [Cooker] drakxservices doesn't work if...

2003-08-04 Thread Pixel
Andre Lourenco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if there is a dead link in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ drakxservices does not work at all. it says that cannot enter that directory. 9.1 and cooker bug comes from chkconfig which comes from RedHat. fixed!

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 04/08/2003 à 11:34, Buchan Milne a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le dim 03/08/2003 à 19:53, Dave Cotton a écrit : So the problem for me, from the last time I updated and allowed mdkkdm, was that it defaulted to showing all the logins,

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4425] [xcdroast] New: Xcdroast : core dump

2003-08-04 Thread Dave Cotton
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 01:25, parag shah wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +0200, Warly wrote: @resolution=invalid Use cooker version. -- I confirm this bug and i thought the package versions listed are cooker versions? what version other then those listed do you mean to

Re: [Cooker] devfs and df...

2003-08-04 Thread Olivier Blin
Any chance 'df' could be patched to display the partition name and the sizing info all on the same line? It was fine when you just had /dev/hda, but when you have /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1/cow4/banana3 it all gets a tad messy. It's the same problem with mount, and probably

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM (was: free choice?)

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:47, Jay DeKing wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 8:41 am, Leon Brooks honored me with this communique: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What the heck was the problem with either gdm or kdm? Dunno, perhaps looks too complex to a newbie, perhaps they

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM (was: free choice?)

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 14:03, Emmanuel Moll wrote: KDm is very good but looks-wise GDM kicks ass. Here is what could be a compromise: -Keep the central window of KDM with the user display and all the buttons -Integrate KDM in the background (quite easy, use the same colour for the widget as

[Cooker] [Bug 4436] [foomatic-filters] set ps_accounting: 0 in /etc/foomatic/filter.conf

2003-08-04 Thread [olo]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4436 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-08 17:20 --- The problem exists with various printers on our corporate CUPS server, those are example ones (IP adresses substituted with X-es): Printer office_17p_HPLJ1100 Info HP

Re: [Cooker] Whatever happened to free choice?

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Cotton wrote: Tried urpmi --auto-select this morning and got:- kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 (due to missing mdkkdm-9.1-28mdk.i586) kdebase-nsplugins-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 (due to missing mdkkdm-9.1-28mdk.i586) libkdebase4-nsplugins-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 (due

[Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

2003-08-04 Thread Pascal Cavy
current cooker rpmdrake is unusable try playing with packages checkboxes, the behaviour is completly weird ! Select one package on updates opens the new package list select a package then another one unselects the previously selected ... etc... -- Pascal Cavy - VMF

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 4. August 2003 16:06 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:10, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: If I want to run kdm, I don't want the system telling me I can't uninstall mdkkdm because some marketing psycho freak at Mandrake thinks mdkkdm will be good for advertising. WTF? Choose

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:20, Robert L Martin wrote: And personally i would strip all of the You are logged in as Root You are a Bad and Foul Person dialogs from the distro. (now i would not enable auto log in for Root like certain

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 04 August 2003 04:13 am, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 06:20 pm, Robert L Martin wrote: I think something along this line is what I was trying to get accross.. I wasn't at all emotional, just

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If I want to run kdm, I don't want the system telling me I can't uninstall mdkkdm because some marketing psycho freak at Mandrake thinks mdkkdm will be good for advertising. You can uninstall mdkkdm, and since just before 9.1

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 04/08/2003 à 14:06, Lyvim Xaphir a écrit : The lack of choice in the matter is what pisses people off. It's the whole reason why there have been other problems elsewhere, like the rpmdrake fiasco. 200% agree with : - this say I need this, I do it install it ? - go to rpmdrake ... no

Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM (was: free choice?)

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 08:41, Leon Brooks wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What the heck was the problem with either gdm or kdm? Dunno, perhaps looks too complex to a newbie, perhaps they want to add an XP-style flowers-on-the-background user list. I immediately switch

Re: [Cooker] Whatever happened to free choice?

2003-08-04 Thread Olivier Blin
$rpm -qRp kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk.i586.rpm |grep kdm kdm kdebase-kdm-config-file BTW, why does kdebase require kdm ? We can also use gdm or mdkkdm to log in KDE. IMHO, gdm, kdm and mdkkdm should provide something like display-manager, then kdebase would require display-manager. -- Olivier Blin

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:10, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le lun 04/08/2003 à 03:15, Ken Thompson a écrit : I think something along this line is what I was trying to get accross.. I wasn't at all emotional, just pointing out that many others don't like mdkkdm and that I personally detest it.

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:20, Robert L Martin wrote: And personally i would strip all of the You are logged in as Root You are a Bad and Foul Person dialogs from the distro. (now i would

[Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
Here is a perfect summation of why it's absolutely correct to disable root login by default, from #mandrake IRC: WNxSquee Can someone please explain to me how to logon as root with Mandrake 9.1 using KDE? Need to install something and I want it for all users. Roobarb-Work WNxSquee: su to root

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:43, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If I want to run kdm, I don't want the system telling me I can't uninstall mdkkdm because some marketing psycho freak at Mandrake thinks mdkkdm will be good for

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: Logging in as root is really not the issue, being able to type the name/password pair of any user of my choice is the issue. As has been mentioned, with many users, which I don't have, the icon list is too big to be

[Cooker] 9.2beta documentation

2003-08-04 Thread José Afonso Assunção
Hello, I just installed mdk 9.2 beta 1 and the first thing I noticed is that there is no documentation at all or any default page for konqueror. Is this a bug, or is it simply the fact the docs aren’t ready yet, or being installed by default? Afonso smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Rob
On Monday 04 August 2003 11:11, Ken Thompson wrote: If security is in question, then simply configure mdkkdm to not show any user icons requiring the person logging in to know the username/password Actually, I had a client a few years ago who was a bank, and some bank examiners came in and

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: On Monday 04 August 2003 11:11, Ken Thompson wrote: If security is in question, then simply configure mdkkdm to not show any user icons requiring the person logging in to know the username/password Actually, I had a client a few years

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:51, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Montag, 4. August 2003 16:06 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:10, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: If I want to run kdm, I don't want the system telling me I can't uninstall mdkkdm because some marketing psycho freak at Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:38:18 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:51, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Montag, 4. August 2003 16:06 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:10, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: If I want to run kdm, I don't want the system telling me I can't uninstall

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Rob
On Monday 04 August 2003 11:33, Adam Williamson wrote: Had he been able to login as root by default, he would simply have done so, and probably carried on with this incorrect and dangerous practice. Since he couldn't, he asked for information on how he could, and the channel was able to

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:11, Ken Thompson wrote: Logging in as root is really not the issue, being able to type the name/password pair of any user of my choice is the issue. As has been mentioned, with many users, which I don't have, the icon list is too big to be comfortable. So, what I'm

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:30, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2003, Joe Baker wrote: Can we switch to using gdm. Sure you can. Mandrake Control Center-Hardware-Display Manager No wonder I'd never seen that setting before.

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:20, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: Logging in as root is really not the issue, being able to type the name/password pair of any user of my choice is the issue. As has been mentioned, with many users, which I

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Luca Berra
Yeah indeed. Could somebody give me a good reason why one should be able to login to KDE/Gnome as root, i.e. not being able to do the same thing as an ordinary user using su? on my laptop /home is encrypted if i foget to press a key when booting users cannot logon. and switching back and forth

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:47, Rob wrote: On Monday 04 August 2003 11:33, Adam Williamson wrote: Had he been able to login as root by default, he would simply have done so, and probably carried on with this incorrect and dangerous practice. Since he couldn't, he asked for information on how

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Rob
On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:30, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2003, Joe Baker wrote: Can we switch to using gdm. Sure you can. Mandrake Control Center-Hardware-Display Manager No wonder I'd never seen that setting before. Shouldn't that be under System rather than Hardware? I feel

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:53, Frederic Crozat wrote: More info on Godwin point : http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law Ahhh, it warms my heart to see people starting to cite Wikipedia :). Good article, that. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Adam Williamson wrote: Here is a perfect summation of why it's absolutely correct to disable root login by default, from #mandrake IRC: (...) Had he been able to login as root by default, he would simply have done so, and probably carried on with this incorrect and dangerous practice. Since he

[Cooker] wikipedia and galeon

2003-08-04 Thread Rob
On Monday 04 August 2003 12:52, Adam Williamson wrote: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law Ahhh, it warms my heart to see people starting to cite Wikipedia :). Yeah, but I was disappointed to find that they disabled their search recently, since Galeon now uses it by default as its

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:44, Luca Berra wrote: Yeah indeed. Could somebody give me a good reason why one should be able to login to KDE/Gnome as root, i.e. not being able to do the same thing as an ordinary user using su? on my laptop /home is encrypted if i foget to press a key

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:53, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:38:18 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:51, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Montag, 4. August 2003 16:06 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:10, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: If I want to run

[Cooker] 2.4/2.6 ALSA initscript problem

2003-08-04 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
I do not know if it specific in 2.6 or just newer ALSA - but now (in 2.6) no /proc/asound/dev is created. It does not matter for devfs case because it stil creates /dev/snd/... as before. But for non-devfs case initscript assumes that no ALSA should be loaded if /proc/asound/dev does not exist.

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4488] [Hardware] New: X crashes omnibook XE3 on logging out to terminal

2003-08-04 Thread afonso
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4488 Product: Hardware Component: Video Summary: X crashes omnibook XE3 on logging out to terminal Product: Hardware Version: 9.2-0.3mdk Platform: PC URL:

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:27, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:20, Robert L Martin wrote: And personally i would strip all of the You are logged in as Root You are a

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Rob
On Monday 04 August 2003 12:32, Buchan Milne wrote: The only possible bug report for your experience is possibly requesting a default to kdebase-kdm instead of mdkkdm. All your other issues are addressed by tools made available to you for that purpose, you just didn't use them ... I was

Re: [Cooker] More on the obsoletes stuff

2003-08-04 Thread Franois Pons
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 01 Aug 2003 17:39:09 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (François Pons) wrote: The problem is the semantics we affect, a package provides a property and another obsoletes it, does we need to keep it or ignore it ? Does not using Provides: foo =

Re: [Cooker] tetex

2003-08-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
måndagen den 4 augusti 2003 13.39 skrev Michael Scherer: On Monday 04 August 2003 10:22, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: Oden Eriksson ha scritto: file /usr/bin/texi2html from install of tetex-2.0.2-3mdk conflicts with file from package texi2html-1.64-2mdk file

[Cooker] [Bug 4449] [gimp] Gimp doesn't start from KDE menu

2003-08-04 Thread [bgmilne]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4449 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed|

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] webuserprefs-0.5-1mdk

2003-08-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
måndagen den 4 augusti 2003 18.15 skrev Oden Eriksson: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: webuserprefs Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.5 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Mon Aug 4

[Cooker] [Bug 4436] [foomatic-filters] set ps_accounting: 0 in /etc/foomatic/filter.conf

2003-08-04 Thread [olo]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4436 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-08 17:22 --- Created an attachment (id=575) -- (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=575action=view) PPD for office_17p_HPLJ1100 printer -- Configure bugmail:

Re: [Cooker] 2.4/2.6 ALSA initscript problem

2003-08-04 Thread Svetoslav Slavtchev
Quoting Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not know if it specific in 2.6 or just newer ALSA - but now (in 2.6) no /proc/asound/dev is created. It does not matter for devfs case because it stil creates /dev/snd/... as before. But for non-devfs case initscript assumes that no ALSA

Re: [Cooker] More on the obsoletes stuff

2003-08-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 04 Aug 2003 19:38:21 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (François Pons) wrote: A new rpm (15mdk) has been uploaded, and such behaviour has no more effects in fact. A new perl-URPM is being done to handle this new obsoletes behaviour (as perl-URPM was trying to follow rpm bugs, which of course

[Cooker] [Bug 4370] [Installation] Printer detection mandrake 9.2 beta 1

2003-08-04 Thread [guy.abossolo]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4370 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-08 16:52 --- Created an attachment (id=574) -- (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=574action=view) lsmod_output -- Configure bugmail:

[Cooker] [Bug 3358] [lirc] lirc not correctly creating symlinks for serial devices

2003-08-04 Thread [fcrozat]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3358 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|

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