Re: [Cooker] Bug with us_international
When using keymap us_int you have to press ' twice to get a ' . But the works :) I might be wrong, but its my undestanding that thats the way a us_intl keyboard is meant to work - it allows for the entry of all the letters with dots and \ / and another symbols on the top. If you want that behaviour to change, then you need to edit your xfree4-config file and change your keyboard to us
[Cooker] beta 3 and printerdrake
Hi, I'd like to report an issue with printerdrake. The quick and the short of it is that if you change the mount points of your cd drive from what they were during the initial Mandrake install, then printerdrake fails. To explain: :During the intial mandrake install I did not choose to install a printer. :After installation I edit my fstab and create different mountpoints for my cd drives. :At some later stage I run printerdrake from the command line. It asks for the 1st :mandrake cd and politely ejects my cd tray. I then insert the (correct) cd, and click :on ok in the dialogue box thats asking for the cd to be put in /dev/cdrom. This is when the fun starts. It ejects the tray again, asking for the cd. This will go on endlessly, cause it doesnt recognise that cdrive as containing the right cd. To overcome: :In rpmdrake, choose define sources, select the existing entry for cd1 and cd2, and :alter the url to reflect the new mountpoints I have defined in my modified fstab. Rerun printerdrake and all is happy and well - it works in other words. Possible solution? Is it possible to get printerdrake to provide another option besides the ok and cancel buttons in the dialogue where it asks for the cd? A third option that allows you to specify the location of the cd its asking for. Its not immediately obvious that in order to fix printerdrake you need to edit settings in rpmdrake Hope this helps, am willing to provide further info as needed!! Hamster.
[Cooker] beta3 and konqueror file manager
Hi! Really short silly problem in konqueror when used as file manager: When you start konq for the first time, the filenames are displayed underlined. If you then choose to configure konqueror and choose appearance, the box with the option underline filenames is *not* crossed. ie - there is a discrepancy between the setting and what is actually displayed. In order to turn underlining off, you have to tick, untick and then choose apply. Hamster
Re: [Cooker] NS4 and banks
I think you will have to wait for snow to come to Oz, get some skis, and get buy some horns, your down under enough to qualify for the rest then ... It already does snow in oz... in winter ;-) In which case, the only way to get them to see the light is if enough customers threaten to stop paying fees to them, but to another bank that doesn't dictate what software they must use. That would be nice, only there *are* no alternatives. Pretty much all the banks I have dealt with (both in Oz and in Europe) only support IE on the win platform. Other browsers do work. Sometimes. Hamster
Re: [Cooker] mdk8.2b2 bug: userdrake
Its not missing... You just have to make sure you select during the package selection process.. Userdrake is missing under mdk8.2b3. Is this a bug or should it replaced by another tool?
[Cooker] 8.2 beta 3 comments
Hi All, Installed beta 3 this morning, and then updated it with the freshest rpms from my local mirror. I have a few comments/suggestions that you may or may not choose to ignore :) 1. Are the samba-swat, samba-winbind and samba-doc packages going to appear in the list of packages during installation? At the momemnt I had to add them manually after the install. 2. Is it possible to improve the description for the package kdebindings? At the moment all it say is kdebindings. Perhaps though this is a problem for the KDE developers? 3. The lilo config part of the install has changed. Previously you got a window with a list of the installed bootable images that you could select to modify. Now you get a drop down box, which I personally find plain annoying. Being able to select images out of the window was much faster than having to continually drop down a box. 4. Same as 3, except for the X-setup phase. Previous you got a window with the options to change monitor, card, resolution etc etc. Now its a drop down box. I hope there might be some discussion generated about 3 4 with a view to possibly changing them back, depending on majority opinion. 5. Would like to try to raise another discussion about how the X-install phase works. A the moment in order to change your videocard, monitor and other settings, you have to remember to choose test settings and then to click on NO when it asks you if this configuration is correct, even though to all appearances there is nothing wrong with it. I think it would be much more sensible to place the menu for card/monitor/etc selection before do you the initial test configuration. (And to reiterate, make it a window with a list again, not a dropdown box) 6. Another problem with X-setup. When choosing my video card (an ASUS v7700 - not listed) I accidentally chose NVidia geforce 2 integrated instead of the correct (for me) geforce2 dds generic. When I went to test the card, I got an error Cant call method 'set active' on an undefined value. I was unable to go back and reselect the correct card, and had to abort the installation and start again. I feel there needs to be some way to go back to the beginning of the X setup phase and have the installer forget any settings youve chosen previously. The following points are regarding an installed system 1. Any time you make changes to lilo.conf and run lilo -v, it shows an error message menu scheme not supported by bootloader. 2. A bit of eye-candy... I think it would be more aesthetically pleasing if a logo was included by default on the kde logon screen. I mean its not hard to change (kde control panel, login manager), but it might be a nice touch to include one by default, maybe even a nice picture combining both the mdk and kde logos or something. 3. While trying to change the logo, you can select from logos in a directory called /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics In that directory (emphasis on a dir called pics!) there is a file called kde-mdk-logo.png, which to all outward appearances looks like a nice pretty png file you could choose to use as a logo. But nope. Its an installer file!! Is there anyway this file could be moved to another, more appropriate directory? Anyway, if anyone is still reading this far, hope this might have been some help, please respond if anything is not clear or I dont make much sense! Hamster
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 beta 3 comments
Heya, thanks for ploughing through my email :) 2. Is it possible to improve the description for the package kdebindings? At the moment all it say is kdebindings. Perhaps though this is a problem for the KDE developers? yep, find a KDE developer and shoot him down :) Target acquisition phase... :) it's not my choice. try to bother [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this. I'm not going to commit a faux pas by contacting him directly? can you give the /root/drakx/report.bug.gz ? Absoultely. I think the line youre looking for is right before the section *install.log* but then again I could be wrong! :) Hamster report.bug.gz Description: Binary data
Re: [Cooker] sndconfig, tetex, apache and a text browser.
Hello, Last night i noticed sndconfig is no longer checked by default. If the installer doesn't detect the sound card (and on my machine it doesn't ) is going to be needed. Does SoundDrake detect your soundcard? Mine doesnt get installed during the intial installation phase, I need to run harddrake and then configure the soundcard manually afterwards - I havent needed sndconfig in order to get my card working. H
Re: [Cooker] msec, security.conf
What I meant was, we need either good documentation how to customize configuration or use simple file, not Python script (who is going to learn Python just to customize msec)? Please, do not do it. -andrej Couldnt agree more. I think the level.local file should take the same syntax as the security.conf file. At the moment, in order to write a level.local file you need to use python syntax, whereas it would be *much* easier to be able to just write FEATURE=yes FEATURE_2=no etc. In the documentation there is a table (page 6 of the .pdf file) of the various features (ie user in audiopath or . in $PATH or only root can ctrl-alt-del etc) There needs to be in that table a correlation between these feature and the variable name to use in level.local in order to override the setting for that feature at your chosen security level. Am I making sense? To illustrate by example, in level 3, the default setting for . in $PATH is set to no, but if I want to override that, I have no idea the syntax for that particular feature. H
Re: [Cooker] I cannot believe!!! Is it Windows or Linux?
2) In /home. First of all we are going out of any Unix philosophy: since 1970 homedirs are 700, now they are created as 711. I don't think this is the right default, anyway it's just a personal opinion, so I simply run chmod 700 homedir. OK. NO! It seems OK, but it will be 711 again after a system reboot I cannot believe it!!! MSEC is causing the change of permissions on home directories. If you are not happy with the current permissions, then either: 1) select a security level with the permissions you require. You can see the what permissions used with each level are by looking in /etc/security/msec 2) create a perm.local file in /etc/security/msec with the directories and permissions that you require. This file overrides the default msec permissions. 3) remove msec. Or just cleany explain during installation how to disable this disgusting behaviour. So now auto-mount, auto-device-generation, auto-permission, auto-script-generation auto-* If you dont like these auto packages, deselect them during the install phase.
Re: [Cooker] 2.4.17.18 - Install report
Only countries that use the euro currency have been switched to iso-8859-15 by default. As that is not the case of the United Kingdom it still remains in iso-8859-1. I could add an iso-8859-15 entry for it, if needed. Can I second the motion to add 8859-15 for the UK? Even though the money in my wallet is still pounds, in day-to-day stuff I use the euro an awful lot.
Re: [Cooker] msec, security.conf
I think you need to create a file called level.local in /etc/security/msec In the file just add the line RPM_CHECK=no and you should be cooking with gas. Hamster Hi, Could someone explain me the current state of msec? The documentation obviously does not reflect the current state of this package. I'm running my laptop with security level 3 but I don't want to run the RPM_CHECK. I tought that this was easy; I changed RPM_CHECK=yes to RPM_CHECK=no in /etc/security/msec/security.conf. But this file gets rewritten on every reboot!
Re: [Cooker] 2002-02-14 Cooker Bug Report
But doing this can trip you up too, cause restarting the daemon often causes the cupsd.conf to be reverted to the generic one (with browsing on). You either need to add the line CUPS_CONFIG=manual to the /ustc/sysconfig/printing file OR do a chmod a-x to /usr/sbin/setcupsconfig. Maybe a tweak of the cups daemon script? This is compulsory if you dont use printerdrake to setup printing. (Which I dont - cause I cant get it to work unless I setup printing during the actual install process). Hamster Can you check the permissions of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? To turn of browsing manually add the line Browsing Off to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and restart the CUPS daemon (service cups restart). Till Claudio wrote: *) KUPS / PRINTING MANAGER IN KCONTROL Configure Cups server always produce an error: error while loading configuration file. So no way to disable the fucking cups browsing...
