Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: Erm...is 1024x768 actually your laptop's native resolution? Reason I ask is I see no problem at all with the 1024x768 images on my CRT. Unless you mean the white lines which become more prominent in a spherical pattern in the top and slightly to the

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread Buchan Milne
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: On 09/05/2003 09:14:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: okay - see my reply to your other post, i think between that and the other replies in this thread I think we have it all sorted out, yeah? :) Yeah I understand the problem... I think I always did. I was

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I'm not sure Pixel will want to spend the necessary time to make this real. Changing steps in the installer has always been buggy. It's complicated and not really designed for it. Removing it completely allowed us to do things like deleting image files for language

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: Erm...is 1024x768 actually your laptop's native resolution? Reason I ask is I see no problem at all with the 1024x768 images on my CRT. Unless you mean the white lines which become more prominent in a spherical pattern in the

[Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when he screws up. 2. Draksound chose trident() as my soundcard driver, which is OSS. I thought alsa was the default.

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Austin wrote: 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The 'real' text mode fonts look fine though. Did you run the vgahi install? I did, and the graphical install looked good on my 1024x768 (native) LCD. -

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when he screws up. postponed to mdk10 2. Draksound chose trident() as my

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when he screws up. postponed to mdk10 This is now

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
On 09/05/2003 12:37:59 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: anyway, since alan cox won't maintain much OSS drivers in the short term, sound card default drivers may be progressively switched from OSS to ALSA. Sure, that's cool. 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
On 09/05/2003 12:13:46 PM, John Keller wrote: Did you run the vgahi install? I did, and the graphical install looked good on my 1024x768 (native) LCD. Well, no. I was just testing the installer like Joe User. Personally I don't care how drakx looks. As long as I can get basesystem installed,

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The 'real' text mode fonts look fine though. maybe can you upload a few screenshots on some site and post their urls?

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
On 09/05/2003 01:33:44 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The 'real' text mode fonts look fine though. maybe can you upload a few

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thierry Vignaud wrote: Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Austin wrote: On 09/05/2003 01:33:44 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The 'real'

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:02, Austin wrote: I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when he screws up. 2. Draksound chose trident() as my soundcard

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
On 09/05/2003 08:06:46 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Erm...is 1024x768 actually your laptop's native resolution? Yes. Reason I ask is I see no problem at all with the 1024x768 images on my CRT. Neither do I. Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Austin wrote: On 09/05/2003 08:06:46 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Erm...is 1024x768 actually your laptop's native resolution? Yes. Reason I ask is I see no problem at all with the 1024x768 images on my CRT. Neither do I. okay - see my reply to your other

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread Austin
On 09/05/2003 09:14:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: okay - see my reply to your other post, i think between that and the other replies in this thread I think we have it all sorted out, yeah? :) Yeah I understand the problem... I think I always did. I was just bringing it up to see if it has to be

[Cooker] [RC1 bug] apache-conf and esperanto

2003-09-04 Thread Grgoire Colbert
Saluton! There is an internationalisation problem with apache-conf-2.0.47-3mdk, which is very easy to fix. In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf, you cannot find the line : AddLanguage eo .eo which would allow to use content negociation with esperanto web pages. This is not a surprise, because

Re: [Cooker] [RC1 bug] apache-conf and esperanto

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Scherer
On Thursday 04 September 2003 16:09, Grgoire Colbert wrote: Saluton! There is an internationalisation problem with apache-conf-2.0.47-3mdk, which is very easy to fix. In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf, you cannot find the line : AddLanguage eo .eo which would allow to use content

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-09-01 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 13:57 schrieb Buchan Milne: David Coe wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. This is the same site that had the bad review of 9.1? Jep, It is the same site. Only if you use debian or better gentoo and

Re: [Cooker] rc1 and cooker freeze when selecting software to be installed

2003-09-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Bernard Varaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in rpmdrake cooker updates or in software selection when installing rc1 from scratch the system freeze. Well not all the time but cannot find exactly what is causing it. it is doing it on my cooker notebook and onmy server (which I am reinstallign

[Cooker] rc1 and cooker freeze when selecting software to be installed

2003-08-31 Thread Bernard Varaine
in rpmdrake cooker updates or in software selection when installing rc1 from scratch the system freeze. Well not all the time but cannot find exactly what is causing it. it is doing it on my cooker notebook and onmy server (which I am reinstallign from scratch following multiple hardware failure)

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-30 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 14:24 schrieb Guillaume Cottenceau: David Coe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoted from the top-right corner of http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ which also was hurriedly corrected yesterday to remove reference to RC2. More haste less speed :-) Argh, an error from

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-30 Thread w9ya
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:25 am, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Keller wrote: Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:45 am, John Keller wrote: w9ya wrote: I think that the Wiki serves an

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-30 Thread danny
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, w9ya wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 10:25 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: snip Bob, you are free to ask for write access to the Wiki, and CHANGE IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] All I have seen coming from this

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-29 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wanted us to know: to your poor download rates. Then again, it could be because you were one of the first out of the gates too. I reckon'd that too Todd. I figured I already had more than could That sounds pretty reasonable. But

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-29 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Fri Aug 29 0:19 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Don't know what you mean ... ISOs are on sunet.se at the usual lag of one day, and my mirror which is one day behind sunet.se has been working find with 'urpmi.pdate -a;urpmit --auto-select --auto' in cron.daily. Granted, it (sunet) was behind

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread David Coe
Steffen Barszus wrote: pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. Is that true ? I haven't read anything about that and don't know where they got that information from. A typical pro-linux misinformation ? Quoted from the top-right corner of

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread w9ya
On Friday 29 August 2003 05:02 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. Is that true ? I haven't read anything about that and don't know where they got that information from. A typical pro-linux misinformation ? regards Steffen

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:19, w9ya wrote: 1 - Config files for pcmcia-wlan are reported to be messed up. This is *not* Uh? Reported where? I missed this... -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Coe wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. This is the same site that had the bad review of 9.1? Is that true ? I haven't read anything about that and don't know where they got

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 13:57 schrieb Buchan Milne: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Coe wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. This is the same site that had the bad review of 9.1? Jep, and I don't like

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: w9ya [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 29 August 2003 05:02 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. Is that true ? I haven't read anything about that and don't know where they got that information from. A typical pro-linux

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Bernard Varaine
Well I can confirm they are messed up. Since my last update my D-link pcmcia card stop working properly... iwconfig show there is there but no HW address...for example. Bernard Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:19, w9ya wrote: 1 - Config files for pcmcia-wlan are reported

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread w9ya
On Friday 29 August 2003 06:45 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:19, w9ya wrote: 1 - Config files for pcmcia-wlan are reported to be messed up. This is *not* Uh? Reported where? I missed this... Here ! (Several messages/bug reports) Um, btw, the ifplugd dying stuff

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread w9ya
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:11 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: w9ya [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 29 August 2003 05:02 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! pro-linux reports that rc1 nay be the last rc before final version. Is that true ? I haven't read anything about that and don't know

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Coe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoted from the top-right corner of http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ which also was hurriedly corrected yesterday to remove reference to RC2. More haste less speed :-) Argh, an error from our webmasters. Reported. Thanks. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones time on my impressions of wikis. Yes, since a lot of others realise the benefits, and contribute, regardless of the extra effort required to write good

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
w9ya wrote: No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones time on my impressions of wikis. In any event; I think the timetable *needs* to reiterated on the mailing list as milestones approach as stuff on a wiki is easily missed. I think that the Wiki serves an

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:45 am, John Keller wrote: w9ya wrote: No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones time on my impressions of wikis. In any event; I think the timetable *needs*

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Keller wrote: Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:45 am, John Keller wrote: w9ya wrote: I think that the Wiki serves an important role in presenting information that might normally be

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:42 am, w9ya wrote: Actually, ALL email programs I am aware of can deal with this just fine. I have considered changing them, but most emailing lists I subscribe to replace that field on incoming messages to the reflector itself. I need this setting for other work.

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 27 2003 09:51 am, Warly wrote: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/ To download it with bittorrent: btdownloadheadless.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586. iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso Please put the

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:45:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bittorrent is the quickest way to turn a fast DSL connection into a 14,4 dialup Try --max_upload_rate=8kb or something like that. -- Michael Reinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mr.uue.org

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 16:45, Michael Reinsch wrote: Hi! On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:45:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bittorrent is the quickest way to turn a fast DSL connection into a 14,4 dialup Try --max_upload_rate=8kb or something like that. Nope my dsl has a

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:45, Brook Humphrey wrote: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Currently getting at 38kB/s and giving at 3kB/s over a 512/128kb ADSL link (ArachNet in Western Australia). Most of this morning that was about 6/13 so I

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 27 2003 07:45 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Yep, it sux. That's about the incomin I was gettin too This was my first and last use of bittorrent. First time, tho I right'a way figured

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wanted us to know: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Yep, it sux. That's about the incomin I was gettin too I'm maxing my line out at 110 kB/s down and 14 kB/s up. That's maxed.

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: First time, tho I right'a way figured out how to get all 3 iso's goin at once. Even a 3x, bittorrent SUX. After 5 hours, you've hardly left the starting gate. Plus now I reckon they're not resumable either. Further suckyiness Well I

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 21:28, Todd Lyons wrote: Yes, they are resumable. It scans through the file comparing the md5 hashes and starts downloading at the spot where it stops matching, doing its scatter/gather from the available sources, constantly updating the master node letting it know

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread parag shah
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:27:42AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:45, Brook Humphrey wrote: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Currently getting at 38kB/s and giving at 3kB/s over a 512/128kb ADSL link (ArachNet in

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 27 2003 11:28 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: I'm maxing my line out at 110 kB/s down and 14 kB/s up. That's maxed. I'd guess there was congestion elsewhere that contributed to your poor download rates. Then again, it could be because you were one of the first out of the gates

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Deryk Robosson
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:27 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday August 27 2003 07:45 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Yep, it sux. That's about the incomin I was gettin too Bittorrent is a tit for tat system.

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:28, Todd Lyons wrote: I'd be curious to see what the traffic for those ports are on the master server. Even hits/day on the .torrent files would be informative. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday August 27 2003 07:45 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max and most the time it was sitting at 0. Yep, it sux. That's about the incomin I was gettin too This was my first and last use

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday August 27 2003 11:28 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: I'm maxing my line out at 110 kB/s down and 14 kB/s up. That's maxed. I'd guess there was congestion elsewhere that contributed to your poor download rates. Then again,

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Byron Poland
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:49, Leon Brooks wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:28, Todd Lyons wrote: I'd be curious to see what the traffic for those ports are on the master server. Even hits/day on the .torrent files would be informative. Well with torrentsniff (availible in contribs) you can

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 27 2003 11:39 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: Well I restarted many times hoping it was just some error or something and it does indeed resume the downlaod and does not do it from the start again. I've got a 1457byte/s connection to a ftp server now (sunet). Usin d4x to d/l

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 28 2003 06:40 am, Adam Williamson wrote: Why are games played on iso releases? What do you mean? Previously, ISOs were released on mirrors. Now, ISOs are released on mirrors and also on BitTorrent. Who's losing out? What is there to get angry about? Even if you don't

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday August 28 2003 06:40 am, Adam Williamson wrote: Why are games played on iso releases? What do you mean? Previously, ISOs were released on mirrors. Now, ISOs are released on mirrors and also on BitTorrent. Who's losing out?

Re: [Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-28 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote: I don't like my experience with BT, YMMV. To me tho, it's an ever increasing trend into obscurity. Not mine, Mandrakes. Sort'a like the usual trend lately with urpmi.update -a -f --wget on cooker mirrors, includin sunsite and sunet, the

[Cooker] rc1 torrent

2003-08-27 Thread Warly
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/ To download it with bittorrent: btdownloadheadless.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso -- Warly

Re: [Cooker] RC1: localized OpenOffice1.0.2 not ocmplete

2003-03-03 Thread utuhiro
W. Kasberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No help-de is installed (the rpm is not on the CDs). See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=104565416810770w=2 OpenOffice doesn't have the Help files installed. No OpenOffice.Org-help RPM files weren't included in RC1 ISOs because of lack of

[Cooker] RC1: localized OpenOffice1.0.2 not ocmplete

2003-03-03 Thread W. Kasberg
This should be a hint to Mandrake team: This hold at least for localization de_DE: No help-de is installed (the rpm is not on the CDs). Instead of spellchecking de_DE myspell de_CH is installed. Also no hyphenation-de is installed. Besides: The same happened with beta3 and also OOO1.0.1 with

[Cooker] RC1 BUG: Supermount hard-locks system

2003-02-26 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
Hi! I've installed MDK 9.1 RC1 on a machine with the following ID drives configuration (extracted from installer stage1.log): * IDE/1: hda is a WDC WD43AA * IDE/1: hdb is a WDC WD150EB-00BHF0 * IDE/1: hdc is a ST3120023A * IDE/0: hdd is a CDU5211 When trying to access /mnt/cdrom, I get following

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

2003-02-25 Thread Pixel
Aleksander Adamowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Currently there are places in installer where the user has to select a hard drive for some operation (e.g. installing the bootloader). However, the selection is ony possible by device node filenames (like /dev/hda) - one cannot always be

[Cooker] RC1 RFE: ability to specify partition size using a textbox, not onlyslider during partitioning phase

2003-02-24 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
Hi! In the 9.1 RC1 installer, the partitioning editor only has a slider for setting partition size. I have a large disk (120GB) and when I want to set a fine-grained size for my swap partition, I am completely unable to do it! The size jups between 0 MB and 711 MB when I drag the slider only

Re: [Cooker] RC1 RFE: ability to specify partition size using a textbox,not only slider during partitioning phase

2003-02-24 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aleksander Adamowski wrote: Hi! In the 9.1 RC1 installer, the partitioning editor only has a slider for setting partition size. I have a large disk (120GB) and when I want to set a fine-grained size for my swap partition, I am completely unable

[Cooker] RC1 RFE: show drive description strings along with device nodes ininstaller

2003-02-24 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
Hi! Currently there are places in installer where the user has to select a hard drive for some operation (e.g. installing the bootloader). However, the selection is ony possible by device node filenames (like /dev/hda) - one cannot always be sure what drive does a particular node correspond

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;

files missing from kernel-source (was Re: [Cooker] RC1 install reporton IBM 600X)

2003-02-24 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wrote: I had some issues which I would like to air on cooker before I file bugzilla reports. I installed on my 600X which had a dualboot win2k/Mandrake 9.0 on it before. 1-4 (and probably 5) dealt with by Pixel (thanks!). Any takers

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

2003-02-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:07, Leon Brooks wrote: 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

[Cooker] RC1 install report on IBM 600X

2003-02-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had some issues which I would like to air on cooker before I file bugzilla reports. I installed on my 600X which had a dualboot win2k/Mandrake 9.0 on it before. 1)Screenshots did not work, console errors were something like fb2png relocation error

Re: [Cooker] RC1 install report on IBM 600X

2003-02-20 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hi Buchan, On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: me). It asked me if I was sure I wanted no X, left the default No enabled, click next, and the installation died there. My RC1 installation also died after the summary screen, I suspected it was because I have no network configured. Is there

Re: [Cooker] RC1 install report on IBM 600X

2003-02-20 Thread Pixel
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1)Screenshots did not work, console errors were something like fb2png relocation error (some png function) in libpng yeah, fixed [...] 2)I did not see the authentication dialog (ldap,winbind etc). Did I just miss it (I actually wanted to test

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Warly
Serge Plüss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2/18/2003 08:04 PM, you wrote: Serge Plüss wrote: OpenOffice doesn't have the Help files installed. Shouldn't that be part of a default OpenOffice installation instead of having to go install it manually later? No OpenOffice.Org-help RPM files

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warly wrote: Serge Plüss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really do not know what to do about this, and moreover the final decision will not be mine. Has the seperate commercial CD (for software that used to be on CD3 in 9.0 packs) with hdlists on

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Warly
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warly wrote: Serge Plüss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really do not know what to do about this, and moreover the final decision will not be mine. Has the seperate commercial CD (for software that used to be on CD3 in 9.0 packs) with hdlists on the

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warly wrote: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forward it to decision makers. I do not really favor the fact of using proprietary things to lead user to mandrakeclub. Mandrakeclub is mainly to help Mandrakesoft develop free software, and if

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 15:48, Buchan Milne wrote: Warly wrote: I do not really favor the fact of using proprietary things to lead user to mandrakeclub. Mandrakeclub is mainly to help Mandrakesoft develop free software, and if we need to use proprietary arguments to have enough

[Cooker] RC1 and dhcp problems SOLVED!!!

2003-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
My system are networked and all connect to the net via DHCP through a windows box, short story but don't ask. All systems on my home LAN, but 1 use, Linskys' nics and tulip driver. The system I use to test the betas and today the RC1 has, with each, been unable to connect to the Internet. eth0

[Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-18 Thread Serge Plüss
Hi just installed RC1 on a Dell Dimension 4550. Configuring printers during installation doesn't show/discover the jetdirect printers on the local network. Have to install and configure them manually. 9.0 discovered them correctly. Choosing reboot from KDE causes a drop to the console login

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-18 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Serge Plüss wrote: OpenOffice doesn't have the Help files installed. Shouldn't that be part of a default OpenOffice installation instead of having to go install it manually later? No OpenOffice.Org-help RPM files weren't included in RC1 ISOs because of lack of space. Bye. Giuseppe.

Re: [Cooker] RC1 issues thoughts

2003-02-18 Thread Serge Plüss
At 2/18/2003 08:04 PM, you wrote: Serge Plüss wrote: OpenOffice doesn't have the Help files installed. Shouldn't that be part of a default OpenOffice installation instead of having to go install it manually later? No OpenOffice.Org-help RPM files weren't included in RC1 ISOs because of lack

[Cooker] RC1 install kernel - Installation on KT400 Soyo Dragon Ultra

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This I am sure is related to the ongoing saga of acpi. Upon attempting to install from rc1 cds tonight, I got the missing interrupts error for hard drives connected to the Highpoint controller. The controller is configured as a ide device rather

[Cooker] RC1 - Install X configuration

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When testing the XFree configuration after changing to a higher resolution from the default selected for my hardware, a couple of issues came up 1) the test screen has no image, just a grey background. 2) After the test completed, the mouse cursor

[Cooker] rc1-rc2 upgrade: printer problems

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Tango-Lowy
The rc2 upgrade recognized my already-installed hpoj D135 printer, but wouldn't print a test page. No errors, but no print. I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer and it now works. btw, like rc1, rc2 still selects the wrong driver for my OfficeJet D135. (It chooses the OfficeJet Pro driver).

[Cooker] RC1 lilo boot

2002-09-10 Thread Hubert
Unable to change the default OS to boot Windows 2000 instead of Linux message error with the size 1023

[Cooker] (RC1) Gnome: panel; folder sharing

2002-09-10 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hello, I observed in RC1 that when I right-click on a launcher in the panel and click Properties, the gnome-panel crashes. The output of .xsession-errors is attached. Furthermore I plead that the updated Dutch translations for gnome-panel be included; they can be got from

Re: [Cooker] (RC1) Gnome: panel; folder sharing

2002-09-10 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:20:25 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info.

Re: [Cooker] rc1: typo on installation

2002-09-09 Thread Daouda LO
Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 15:21, Daouda LO wrote: Richard Tango-Lowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the Become a Mandrake Expert screen during the installation, the word technical is misspelled as tehnical. fixed. Would you mind fix LICENSE.TXT

[Cooker] RC1 bug: problem3: No boot options in KDM's restart

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. My home machine info can be found here: http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/9.0/rc1/home_machine/ machine.html describes

[Cooker] RC1 bug: problem4: Unsatisfied dependencies for RPMs after a freshinstall

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. My home machine info can be found here: http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/9.0/rc1/home_machine/ machine.html describes

[Cooker] RC1 bug: problem1: Bootloader installation vs. restrict and passwordoptions in lilo.conf

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. My home machine info can be found here: http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/9.0/rc1/home_machine/ machine.html describes

[Cooker] RC1 bug: problem2: X dies after 1st boot

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. My home machine info can be found here: http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/9.0/rc1/home_machine/ machine.html describes

[Cooker] RC1 bug: problem5: Entries in fstab deleted during upgrade

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. My home machine info can be found here: http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/9.0/rc1/home_machine/ machine.html describes

Re: [Cooker] RC1 bug: problem4: Unsatisfied dependencies for RPMs after a fresh install

2002-09-09 Thread Franois Pons
Aleksander Adamowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On saturday, 07-Sep-2002, I've made test runs with RC1. First, clean install of 8.2 and upgrade to 9.0 RC1. Second, clean install of 9.0 RC1 from scratch. There have been fixes on RC2 about incorrect upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0RC2. Old kaffee is

Re: [Cooker] RC1 bug: problem5: Entries in fstab deleted during upgrade

2002-09-09 Thread Pixel
Aleksander Adamowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those entries pertained to a device which was not present at the time of upgrade - it's a removable hard drive. You can see the original fstab here

Re: [Cooker] RC1 bug: problem4: Unsatisfied dependencies for RPMsafter a fresh install

2002-09-09 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
François Pons wrote: Old kaffee is installed on your system, this is a possible bug, especially if you have been somewhat tight on disk space of /usr. After the upgrade I had 2.2G free space in /usr, I think that's not tight? See df -h executed after upgrade:

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