This time I finished installing oxygen from the cd I made from the ISO image.
Some more observations:
* when there is a problem detecting a PCI device, it keeps asking to try
and find PCI devices. This continues after each step in the installation
(very annoying!)
(I suppose it is a good
Hi all,
I'm not sure why, but somehow my bugreport on Oxygene-1 was ignored, so all
the bugs I reported earlier are still in the graphical installation program.
Here's the list:
* when there is a problem detecting a PCI device, it keeps asking to try
and find PCI devices. This continues
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:05:57PM +0200, Steffen Barszus wrote:
Hi!
I just read about a laptop-kernel-patchset. Maybe it is of interest for some
people here ?
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/
Very interesting :-)
hopefully I can make some time to try this, I'm having
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not totally convinced every sysadmin needs something like this, in our
network we have an internal ftp mirror of main+contrib+updates for any
realease we have on any machines (well, we had to write 8.2 to DVD since
we only
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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Warly wrote:
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There have been a number of threads relating to requests for
enhancements / new features for 9.2, and I think it's about time
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:22:45PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
On Monday 02 June 2003 15:00, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as
software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory
test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:02:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll for registered users, but that will
be more expensive).
I don't like mandrakeclub much.
why? This is ofcourse a bit oftopic. But club
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 12:20:10AM +0200, Troels Liebe Bentsen wrote:
Hey i have been toying with antivirus and spam filtering with postfix,
and have made some packages for mandrake, think this would make things
much easier to setup and make Mandrake more Enterprise ready,
amavis-new scales
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:23:31PM +0200, Daouda LO wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] userdrake2]$ cat RELEASE_NOTES
A new version of userdrake is released. It is completly
rewritten from C to Perl (More precisely Gui is now in perl-Gtk2
and backend is in XS). the XS part relies on libuser.
The new
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Warly wrote:
Dalton Calford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On July 1, 2003 06:35 am, Warly wrote:
Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is making a cooker DVD as easy as using the cd-rom image to make the DVD
bootable and just straight putting
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Warly wrote:
Well, it explains you that the arguments to the auto option are
repository extra RPMS directory 1 extra RPMS directory 2 ... extra RPMS
directory n
and you simply provided nothing.
./MakeCD --discsize 700m -a /cooker_path/
I'm
Hi all,
just budding in to add my vote...
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:37:21PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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Olivier Blin wrote:
A tray applet that notifies update would be a good feature, and not
very hard to do. This applet just have to
Hi All
Although I'm not a developer for Mandrake packages, I do know something
about software and development.
I observe:
- There still isn't a snapshot of cooker
- I believe there should have been a first beta now
- There are a lot of problems with the current compiler (gcc 3.3.1)
Wouldn't it
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:08:57PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
[simon] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While detecting the hardware, the insmodding of ohci1394 fails at
perl-install/modules.pm line 398
ok, discarding this error message
@resolution=fixed
While I don't think it's a problem to
Hi
I'm sorry if this is already in 9.2(beta), I haven't checked (lack of time),
but in 9.1 the Gimp doesn't automatically come with gimpprint installed.
This can be very confusing if you're not familiar with the gimp and you want
to print a jpg file
So whenever the gimp is installed,
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:44:30PM +, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
It seems that we will enter soon in feature freeze period. Maybe it's
time to include OO 1.1RC3 and test it in order to see if we can provide
it and there will not have pbs.
OO 1.1 provide several interesting features and
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:34:00PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 19:15, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
Actually, I notice that the kernel in beta2 was the old 9.1 kernel and at
sorry, I meant 2.4.21-xxx, whereas the current cooker kernel is 2.4.22-xxx,
seems like a major change
Hi all
Although some things went wrong (more about that later), the upgrade to
9.2rc1 resulted in a system (laptop, P4 i845 ICH3 NVIDIA) that worked with
the mandrake kernel, I could install the NVIDIA drivers without problems and
both sound and graphics on the TV-OUT worked perfectly after
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:21:25AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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Bryan Whitehead wrote:
Thanks for the kick in the pants. Looks like autofs can do what I need.
Looks like this feature slipped in during 9.0 (or 8.2) and I didn't
notice.
Hi all
I just tried rc2 on my laptop (Compal ACL-10) and I found the following
issues:
in decr. order of seriousness:
- expert install hangs (after asking for 3rd party drivers and me answering
no) (same as RC1)
- konsole is not installed after upgrade of 9.1
- no dialogue is displayed when
Hi again
here's part 1 of part 2
I got as far as the overview, but after testing the X configuration
(Geforce4 1400x1050 lcd), I accidentally selected no (don't know if that
matters), even though the screen looked fine. Back in install mode, the
screen was garbage (although you could see some
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:10:51AM +0100, Emmanuel wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question for all of you guys: will Mandrakesoft release 9.2 even
if it is not ready??? i.e. is Mandrakesoft desperate to get a version
out before the end of Septembre or is there any chance for a RC3 ?? i.e.
does
couldn't have
known that from my face, which you didn't see ;-)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
Simon Oosthoek wrote:
Based on past experience, 9.2 will be released on schedule on 20th of
September even when it doesn't install for some people who have reported
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:05:51PM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
Emmanuel wanted us to know:
I agree with you but I find it so frustrating that such a good distro
misses being a great distro on every releases. I have tried Redhat and
Please do not use the mailing lists for trolling. It
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:16, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
Maybe something should be done (put on the Wiki) to have a more measurable
quantity to verify for a release?
Why? Why should some entirely arbitrarily defined quantities
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:54:23PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
I saw that there are now a test entry in my mirror for updates/9.2
So I tried it out. Problems... The screen said that I would be able to
chose my mirror, but I never got a screen to do that. I got a black
screen for about 5
Hi
I'll file a bug if you agree it is one...
Both in the installation (Advanced) section for lilo and in mcc, I was
unable to add a second linux installation to the lilo config using the
wizard. I could select an alternative vmlinuz file on another partition
(which was mounted), but I couldn't
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
for myself I'm happy with either size.
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible as
possible. It's not always
Wow!
That's a very detailed description and it looks like it would improve
network configuration (at least for experts) by unmeasurable amounts!
Some additional suggestions:
- use nameif to assign names to mac addresses (no more ambiguity!)
- have a simplified version for non-experts (attempt to
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:55:55PM +0200, Jan Ciger wrote:
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http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-September/010103.html
Seem that something is going on :-(
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=106371592604940w=2
This
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:00:02AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
if you ask cooker , i think the answer is We need a RC3
but Mandrakesoft ?
You think? I see no need for one.
me thinks, as i said :-)
Instead of
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:39:03AM +0200, [simon] wrote:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5372
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I have the same on my compal ACL-10
pcmcia just hangs in 9.2rc2. This is a regression from 9.1 and even from
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:01:09PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
IMHO, drakconnect's job is to ensure:
1)The hostname is never set to localhost if there is any networking
device
attached to the machine in question
2)Reverse lookups will always work. In the case of DHCP, drakconnect
should
Hi all
I'm wondering if reducing the amount of silent failures (something goes
wrong, but no error is displayed) is something to focus on for ML++?
During install, a lot of problems happen unnoticed, because the results of
install actions aren't always checked and considered blocking of failed.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:39:40AM +0200, [emmanuel.moll] wrote:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5917
--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 00:39 ---
Oh man, it must have been late in the evening. What I meant was: Mandrake does
not load on machines with
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:21:22AM +0100, Emmanuel Moll wrote:
Could you check that acpi is enabled on the kernel you're booting (i.e.
acpi=on not acpi=ht) cause that's when the problems arise. It would be
interesting to see if this is the case or not.
I don't think I changed anything yet
Hi
I just read this on the mplayer site, there's a security hole in almost all
recent versions of mplayer. A fix-release 0.92 has been made to fix this...
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html
Cheers
Simon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Warly wrote:
- What was wrong in 9.2 development process?
I think the targets for a release should be set much earlier in the process.
Especially targets for nr of major bugs in the software to be released.
Focus more on a small set of features that
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Warly wrote:
- What was wrong in 9.2 development process?
I think the targets for a release should be set much earlier in the process.
Especially targets for nr of major bugs in the software to be released.
Focus more on a small set of features that
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:38:15PM -0500, Brad Felmey wrote:
For God's sake, a urpmi proxy, like apt-proxy. Corporations are not
going to want each box pulling packages separately, and they don't want
to mirror, either. They just want to pull the stuff they need - once.
I don't know if God
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:06:21PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
Suddenly I'm getting very tired of all of this again. Seems no matter how
hard you try, someone has something negative to say without contributing
something useful.
Oh yeah, I know this attitude ;-) I also know where your
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:09:58PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 08:53:55PM +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
Oh yeah, I know this attitude ;-) I also know where your annoyance comes
from. But you shouldn't feel threatened by or superior to cooker people
trying to help
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:42:47PM +, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
Le mer 01/10/2003 ? 20:07, Felix Miata a ?crit :
jokerman64 wrote:
You can find an (en home only) version legible without need to use zoom,
regardless of default font size, resolution, or DPI at:
Hi all
In the process of thinking about the next release, it might be a good idea
to have a look around. Debian seems to be in a kind of revolution w.r.t.
their release process. At the same time they have, as usual, a very strict
set of rules to abide by for the release.
an interesting (lengthy)
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:43:07PM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
I agree. Also seeing rc4 beta2 on a running system does look bad.
A security update or just update will be a good idea IMHO.
I'm sure the final of 9.2 will have no sign of a RC on oo.o 1.1 (that was
the case on the rc2 of 9.2) I
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:39:56PM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
áùáú, 4 áàå÷èåáø 2003, 19:14, ðëúá òì éãé Simon Oosthoek:
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:43:07PM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
I agree. Also seeing rc4 beta2 on a running system does look bad.
A security update or just update
Hi Vedran
I hope your ideas get some attention, most of them would improve usability!
Maybe, when installing a program, give the option to read the
readme/documentation and/or to run it after installing.
Cheers
Simon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:55:05PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
So could rpmdrake
provide info on packages, even if there is no media available for it?
How? Telepathy?
Of course ;-)
But until then, why not have a textfile or a *db* file with the following:
package-version.rpm, Summary,
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:37:27PM +0100, John Allen wrote:
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8 Oct 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
And I'm sure many other persons use rpmdrake2 and are very happy
with it.
rpmdrake2 is wonderful. But, it still keeps
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
It does provide the list. The first CD should contain all the hdlists
for the
3 CDs.
and why not for contrib as well?
1)It's not supported (remember last weeks thread?)
hmm, yes...
2)If we were to use hdlists, we would
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:53:47AM +0200, guran wrote:
I think that this thread should be read in two steps:
1 There is a problem for newbies to know 'programs'.
2 How best to fix i.
My proposal is a Howto that is linked to all installed programs doc and for
the rest calls mc to
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:58:02AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
Mandrake's menu system is based on the Debian menu package. KDE packages
are adapted to use the Debian global menu system, which then recreates the
KDE menu, including non-KDE Mandrake applications in it that wouldn't be
included in the
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:54:12PM -0700, Duncan wrote:
Simon Oosthoek posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:48:08 +0200:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:58:02AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
Mandrake's menu system is based on the Debian menu package. KDE packages
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:15:06PM +, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
using gnome is an NFS environment seems to be painfully.
Just have a look at #6138 and #6140 :
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6138
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6140
Even just using Evolution in an NFS
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:08:11PM +, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
Le mar 14/10/2003 ? 13:24, Frederic Crozat a ?crit :
This is because NFS locking in broken in your environment..
ok, how can I detect where it's broken and how can I fix it?
Evolution relies on working lock at filesystem level
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:01AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
Another 9.2 showstopper!
Post it at: bugs.mandrakelinux.com
/Simon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:47:07PM -0400, Rob wrote:
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 14:28, Jaco Greeff wrote:
AFAIK, this is really slang,
Yes, and as I said,
Gimp is one of those words whose American colloquial or vulgar
usage in no way resembles its dictionary definition.
Why not
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:46:36PM -0500, Brad Felmey wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:03, Galileo wrote:
Another proof that Mandrake releases unfinished products.
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKA-2003:020
More that 250 MB of updates excluding SRPMS. How the
I'm sure this was meant as sarcasm, but...
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:57:29AM +0200, Han Boetes wrote:
Nope, you guys are our test subjects. Our labrats. :)
This is the deal. We make packages and you make decent bugreports or you learn
to live with the fact cooker is broken.
What's the
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:25:03PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:03:28 +0200, Galileo wrote:
Another proof that Mandrake releases unfinished products.
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKA-2003:020
More that 250 MB of updates excluding
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:40:54PM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
john == John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
john What is needed is a committed (and known) BETA, RC
john testers. Each one committed to testing a know set of
john functionality (hardware software), and regression
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:15:55PM +0100, Emmanuel wrote:
Hey,
I posted the original message. From what I've read, I need to download
the whole 9.2 tree, replace the old packages with the updated packages
and run makecd.
Is that correct??? If so, I'll create the ISOs this week-end.
if
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 05:34:16AM +0100, BOUTELIER S?bastien wrote:
- Is it possible to have an ISO of update (in fact a copy of directory
- updates with some corrections if needed), and each week the ISO is
- updated with the new updates. During the installation, the installer
- asks to
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:59:24PM +0200, Harijs Buss wrote:
I have all the time this strange feeling that Mandrake could do even much
better with such a minimum of CRM efforts... Hope it will happen soon ;-)
CRM == Customer Relationship Management???
I don't know if that is such an important
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