Re: [Cooker] pcmcia and kernel 2.4.7-1

2001-08-01 Thread Alan Olsen
tly.) There are two ways to provide pcmcia support. One through the kernel code and one through the pcmcia-cs code. Which direction is Mandrake taking for the 2.4.x kernels? I think this is a question for Mandrake... > > :( > > > Alan Olsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Aug

Re: [Cooker] pcmcia and kernel 2.4.7-1

2001-08-01 Thread Alan Olsen
" to "PCIC=yenta_socket". 3) Run "depmod -a" just to be sure. 4) Make sure no pcmcia modules are running. (lsmod will give you a list.) The modules you are looking for are pcmcia_core, i82365, yenta_socket, and ds. 5) Run /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart. 6) Should run after that, unless something else is not right. Look at /var/log/messages for details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

Re: [Cooker] pcmcia and kernel 2.4.7-1

2001-07-31 Thread Alan Olsen
els for the ide pcmcia module. (And no, you cannot just rename the module.) Of course, i cannot get it to work at all, but that is another problem. (I think...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

Re: [Cooker] re: article on slashdot - AOL not getting along withMicrosoft

2001-06-20 Thread Alan Olsen
t; software in a box next to the beany bin? Linux CDs for Halloween is better than giving out packets of chinese hot mustard and taco sauce. Maybe why no one stops at my house anymore... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, j

RE: [Cooker] Mirrors? Whats up

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
to mention the seven versions of bad luck... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Reading DVD's from Matshita SR-8171

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Olsen
ogram to set theose codes under Linux, but I have not tried it yet. (I have not had the bandwidth to do it...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

[Cooker] Re: [livid-user] Reading DVD's from Matshita SR-8171

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Olsen
rive works OK in > windows. > > Thanks, in advance, for any help > > V. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] DANGER: WinME update may trash all non-Windows partitions

2001-05-10 Thread Alan Olsen
Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc > Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com > "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] DANGER: WinME update may trash all non-Windows partitions

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Olsen
on? > > > >It's pretty bad news for Linux if we must tell dual-boot users that by > >running Linux, they can never update their Windows partition. > > > >-- > >Gary Lawrence Murphy TeleDynamics Communications Inc > >Business Innovations Through Open So

Re: [Cooker] PICO?

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Olsen
ed with Pine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia RPMs for 8.0

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Olsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric Bothamy wrote: > Alan Olsen a écrit : > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Rich Thompson wrote: > > > > > Can someone post a pointer for the Nvidia RPMs for 8.0? > > > > Go to http://www.nvidia.com/. Follow the li

Re: [Cooker] Nvidia RPMs for 8.0

2001-04-25 Thread Alan Olsen
shee drivers working or my Matrox G400 Max with two monitors.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] where is 8.0

2001-04-20 Thread Alan Olsen
gt; -- > > Get $$$ just for being online > > No clicking - no limits - no catch > > http://www.DesktopDollars.com/default.asp?id=Gilesx > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

[Cooker] Need a pointer to a current cooker archive

2001-04-20 Thread Alan Olsen
I need to find a cooker archive that has SRPMs and is not slashdotted all to hell with the 8.0 downloads. (As well as being fairly current. At least 8.0 release level of SRPMs.) Suggestions? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen

Re: [Cooker] MD5 sums and RC1

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Olsen
t;Dyslexia -- Name for it by ask!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

RE: [Cooker] Matrox G450 driver opensource'd

2001-04-10 Thread Alan Olsen
drake Cooker List > > Subject:[Cooker] Matrox G450 driver opensource'd > > > > > > Seen this news in linuxgames.com. > > Is it an appropriate time to incorporate the new opensource'd driver into > > XFree86 package? > > > > [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

2001-04-07 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2001 15:56, Alan Olsen wrote: > > Another reason to use Mandrake is that programs actually compile under it. > > (I have been more than a bit frustrated with the odd collection of things > > that will not compile co

Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

2001-04-06 Thread Alan Olsen
nux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind > of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ > technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. > > Vox populi, vox deii > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] wu-ftpd Anonymous uploads

2001-04-05 Thread Alan Olsen
= root > server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd > server_args = -l -a > log_on_sucess += duration userid > log_on_faliure += userid > nice = 10 > > > I never could get this to work in inetd also > > Tim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note

Re: [Cooker] Matrox G450 Dualhead support

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Olsen
like to show > others how functional, stable and even beautiful Linux can be. > > Cheers: > > Me. > > Michael Perry. > R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal. > <<<>>> > The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a > manager who cod

Re: [Cooker] new XFree....

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Olsen
ve seen that behaviour reported with the frame buffer in the current version of XFree86 on the xpert list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Olsen
at if you have access to the source to libhal, you can also turn off macrovision protection for the DVD decoder. There is work being done to ignore the need for libhal, but I am not certain at what point it is at. Again the DVD copy protection scam has unintended consiquences. Sigh. [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Olsen
side of the second head though. Are you sure you are running 4.0.3? That was fixed for me in that version. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Olsen
ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 2" Device "Matrox G400_2" Monitor "ctl 7dln" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # ** # ServerLayout sections. # ** # Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes # the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout # section may be specified from the X server command line with the # "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used. # When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section # is used alone. Section "ServerLayout" # The Identifier line must be present Identifier "Simple Layout" # Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally # the relative position of other screens. The four names after # primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right # of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the # right of screen 1. Option "xinerama" "On" Screen "Screen 1" Screen "Screen 2" RightOf "Screen 1" # Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and # optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be # used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and # "SendCoreEvents". InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] cd burner is not identified.

2001-03-19 Thread Alan Olsen
I emulation needs to be working for cdrecord to see the cd-r. What does "cdrecord -scanbus" tell you? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

[Cooker] Current version of Pan?

2001-03-08 Thread Alan Olsen
"core and die just because I feel like it" bug. It also adds a few more features. If it has not been updated, I would recommend it. It is a very useful news reader. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, a

[Cooker] Re: [Xpert]Anti aliasing

2001-02-11 Thread Alan Olsen
longer. > I know that people have done 'trials' on xterm's, Evolution, Mozilla etc., > but when will it be available for the 'masses'. I think it depends on what X toolkit(s) are being used. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Ol

Re: [Cooker] cdrecord problems

2001-01-23 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > I don't know if this is a Cooker issue, a kernel issue, a cdrecord issue, or > > if I'm clueless - this is my first experience with a CD recorder on Linux. > > Try running

Re: [Cooker] cdrecord problems

2001-01-23 Thread Alan Olsen
ers: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] rtl8139 module for SMC network card.

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Olsen
k what he is trying to get around to saying is that detection is not working quite right for this card. (I know it has problems with that card, because I have the same model on one of my main servers.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| t

Re: [Cooker] kernel 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Alan Olsen
neck.) I expect there will be a cleaned up version in a week or two. (After Linus recovers.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

RE: [Cooker] Alan has electric eyes?

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Steve Wray wrote: > > Alan Olsen wrote: > > > > > I am getting a consistant 1265 frames per second on Mesa gears! > > > > Are you, now? How, pray tell, did you get (1) your monitor to do 1265 > > FPS and at what resolutio

[Cooker] The problem is Descent3...

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Olsen
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Olsen wrote: > Has anyone been able to get GLX to work correctly on 4.0.2 with anything > that uses multi-textures? (Descent3 and Quake are two examples.) > > I get a nasty smearing effect on multi-textures with 4.0.2. I have tried > multiple option

Re: [Cooker] Matrox G400 and XFree86 4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Alan Olsen
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Olsen wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get GLX to work correctly on 4.0.2 with anything > that uses multi-textures? (Descent3 and Quake are two examples.) > > I get a nasty smearing effect on multi-textures with 4.0.2. I have tried > multiple opt

[Cooker] Matrox G400 and XFree86 4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Alan Olsen
Descent3. I am going to test Quake III as soon as this rebuild is done.) Any luck with this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] problem with XFree 4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Alan Olsen
lfunction? How X is trying to connect to your font server is in the font lines in /etc/XF86Config. What does that look like? Maybe you have a typo? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. &quo

Re: [Cooker] Sound Card Problems

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Olsen
Alsa drivers better, though they are a pain to set up for that card.) Also, remember to turn down the microphone on the sound as soon as possible. The feedback will hurt otherwise. (And don't try configuring sund drivers on a bus. It only annoys the passengers when this happens.) [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Cooker] Sound Card Problems

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Olsen
r you) or get the Alsa source and install the modules in the tree for the currently running kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] master list of modules.conf settings

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I asked to be remove Why are you telling me? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 mi

Re: [Cooker] Voodoo 4500

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Olsen
akes a difference. I seem to remember that not all of the modes are accelerated with the 3dFX cards. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Replicated messages have multiple causes... PLEASEREAD.

2000-12-18 Thread Alan Olsen
I recieved two copies of this message. Attached is the diffs. Either the mailer software is stripping headers or you sent this twice. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the f

Re: [Cooker] master list of modules.conf settings

2000-12-18 Thread Alan Olsen
I just hack the modules.conf. For a newbie, I expect this is a big headache. (I have already seen more than one post on the local list about it.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the fut

Re: [Cooker] blt fails dependencies

2000-12-16 Thread Alan Olsen
.1) > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) > libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) > rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AO

Re: [Cooker] Installer says it's formatting when you chose Upgrade

2000-12-09 Thread Alan Olsen
t;rpm --rebuilddb" before starting to add files. This will help clean up accumulated cruft in the databases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

[Cooker] RPM corruption and/or problems

2000-12-08 Thread Alan Olsen
e problems...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Server install !? Shouldn't that be somehow different?

2000-12-06 Thread Alan Olsen
efault) > Another option: file-server only. To use that server as File Cabinet ... :-) > In this case, even Apache is not necessary ! I can see a whole series of "Custom Install" options that are pre-selected. "Firewall box", "FTP server", "Kerberos Keyserver

Re: [Cooker] Server install !? Shouldn't that be somehow different?

2000-12-05 Thread Alan Olsen
pe. (It is used by PHP.) Not certain why this could not be statically linked though... When I set up a server box, I do not want X. Over the years it has been harder and harder to get an install to do that cleanly. (Other than "rm -r /usr/X11R6".) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: f

Re: [Cooker] Why Doesn't Mandrake Install Sound During the InitialInstall?

2000-12-05 Thread Alan Olsen
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Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
> > The same happens with many other packages, but not all. > > Looks like rpm dies on a read!?!? > > Thanks! > > > > -- > Jean Meloche > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > e-gold # 133947 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

[Cooker] Something else to check

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
luded with the man RPM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate dies with devel RPMS

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
a shell prompt in an XTerm and see what error messages you get. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] Lilo RPM small problem

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
nated with the RPM development team. (I have been hit by it as well.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: [Cooker] A Few Recomendations...

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, David Walluck wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alan Olsen wrote: > > > 1) When doing an install (say, because the upgrade corrupted the RPM > > database), do *NOT* say "Please wait while formatting disks" when the user > > has specifically

[Cooker] A couple of questions...

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
Upon install (not upgrade) does the rpm database in /var/lib/rpm get deleted if there is a preexisting set of rpms? Is there a good way to determine if the rpm database is corrupt? If so, is there a tool to repair it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan

[Cooker] A Few Recomendations...

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Olsen
lete" version that they will not be able to select individual packages. So they will not come after your children in the night.) Sorry if I sound snippy. I am trying to fix a big mess the 7.2 upgrade did to my main production machine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shor