Re: [Cooker] PPP
catv modem ISP here, same thing Michael Doyle wrote: > G'day > > On boot, I'm getting a "FAILED" to start in background on starting PPP, when in > fact it has dialed and connected??? > > -- > > Michael Doyle > Adelaide, South Australia
Re: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
how about geForce - detect ? new athlon box here . Patrick Goetz wrote: > I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: > > 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact > that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). > I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, > and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer > should be given a choice between amd and autofs. > > 2. > I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For > example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I > can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want > was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? > > 3. > Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes > IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any > gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde > desktop. :(p > > > PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR > ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: > "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, > they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. > And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they > started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the > economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, > it seems to me." >-- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee > >_Patrick Goetz > _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics > \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] >\( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
Re: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
GREAT.. sound blaster detected here and operational.. someone thought ahead here Lee Cronin wrote: > I have also finished installing m 7.0 > > Immediate comments pretty cool. > > No problems at all and BEST OF ALL... my Sound blaster live value sound card > worked fine... all I had to do was compile a new copy of emu10k.o and put > it in the modules dir and load the module. > > I am a real NEWBIE to LINUX so this is really great if I can get this > card to work > anyone can..., however but do not be fooled by the soundconfig utility this > did not help. > > Well done all whom helped construct Mandrake 7.0 - its gonna be a winner. > > Now I have sound... windoze is going bye-bye!! > > Lee > > -Original Message- > From: Patrick Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 08 January 2000 01:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3 > > I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: > > 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact > that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). > I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, > and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer > should be given a choice between amd and autofs. > > 2. > I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For > example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I > can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want > was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? > > 3. > Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes > IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any > gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde > desktop. :(p > > > PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR > ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: > "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, > they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. > And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they > started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the > economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, > it seems to me." >-- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee > >_Patrick Goetz > _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics > \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] >\( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
[Cooker] unsubscribe
unsubscribe Derek Wildstar wrote: > OK, hopefully this info will help someone somewhere =) > > I have run a few installs/upgrades: > > 1) Dell Inspiron 7500 192M/15g, ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (8m), > 3ccfe575ct (3com 3c575 CardBus NIC), Gold Card Global PCMCIA v.90 modem, > dvd/floppy module, 1400x1050 LCD display, Cel 466 > > First I installed on a spare 6g partition, originally used for windoze > variants for crash-tests, etc. The Custom/Expert install with everything > selected ran and booted fine, except for the following problems: > > I had to copy a self-compiled XF86_Mach64 binary before X would > work without using the fbdev server. This binary was created using > a patch by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> located at the following URL: > http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/XMa64-3.3.5-steveh.diff > This patch extends the capability of the Mach64 server to work with > this and other Rage Mobility cards. The normal XF86Config lines work, > except I added the following for 1400x1050 support: > Mode "1400x1050" > DotClock 220.00 > HTimings 1400 1488 1904 2072 > VTimings 1050 1053 1069 1102 > Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" > EndMode > or if you prefer the old format: > modeline "1400x1050" 220 1400 1488 1904 2072 1050 1053 1069 1102 -hsync >-vsync > > Since many more people are installing on laptops it would be great to > get this into the distro. If you would like my binary let me know and > I'll put it up for ftp (the binary on steveh's site leaves out a few > things like XXA and ttf support) > > The second try on this machine was an upgrade from Mandrake 6.1. I > was disappointed to find that the update first removed all packages it > didn't know about, so the only things left was custom stuff in > /usr/local. sgmltools seems to be completely missing, as well as > ghostscript. I can come up with a more detailed list if needed, but > looking at the system after 7.0upgrade got to it gave the impression > that the update process was removing everything. Wouldn't it be > better to only remove packages it knows about? This was also done in > expert mode, and I was not offered a choice of packages. > > When the machine was rebooted my X config had been wiped, as well as > my network config, and all the entries in resolv.conf were commented > out. The 3c575 was not detected properly by the pcmcia utils bundles > with the distribution, I used pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 from my /usr/src > directory (about the only thing in /usr that wasn't wiped) then the > network came up flawlessly > > 2) Unknown Sagar laptop, 2g disk, 80m ram, unknown 32-bit video (assuming > NeoMagic or some variant), P-200 > > First I tried the Worlstation/Recommended install. The partition > process turned up the following: > 10m /boot > 995m / > 995m swap > > I would have done: > 150m / > 100m /var > 50m /tmp > 1540m /usr > 160m swap > > Do we all agree that almost 1g swap is a bit excessive on an 80mb > system =) We can get the ram from /proc/meminfo, seems it would make > more sense to double that and make it swap by default, and split out > /var so logs don't overrun the system. > > After seeing the partition layout from the console while the install > was runing, I promptly killed the install and restarted with my own > partition layout, susing a Workstation/Expert install so I could > control the partition layout and what was going on. I was not offered > any package selection screen before the install process started, but > was asked questions before other steps in the install process. The > video card was probed successfully by the install process, and the > default resolution was properly maxed out at 800x600x32bpp. Network > is untested because there wasn't a spare pcmcia NIC immediately > availible. > > 3) Dell GX1p pIII-550, 256mb/10gb, 3c905 onboard NIC, onboard ATI > Mach64 variant video (not used but active) STB nvida agp video (active). > > Same install problems noted above. > > The only other known problem is netscape will completely lock up the > machine if 1) dns is not configured or 2) the site is not found > alt-sysrq still passes to the kernel but ping from the network, > ctrl-alt-bksp and ctrl-shift-f1 in an attempt to get a console are all > ignored. There are no oopses printed or logged. > > Otherwise the installation looks great! Mandrake 7.0 is going to be the > _only_ distro capable of talking to laptop graphics cardscorel won't, > redhat needs extreme tweaking.. > > -dws
Re: [Cooker] unsubscribe cooker
I un-subscribed a week ago - why am I back on the list.. David Walluck wrote: > Rick Collette wrote: > > > > Well.. I guess I'm next on the unsubscribe list.. evidently people with > > Bel backgrounds aren't welcome.. bummer.. we liked mandrake too... > > I agree. He didn't need to be bagered because he can't speak English. > Granted, he isn't going to do too well on this list if he can't read > English, but the fact that he is Belgian shouldn't make a difference. I, > for example, can read Frech quite well, but can't write it too well. I > understand that it is easier to read than to write, so I'd be willing to > answer French questions in English, as long as the French-speaking > person could understand what I wrote. > > -- > Sincerely, > > David Walluck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
