Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it just me... or would it be easier for everyone if Mandrake could just
have a check box along with the Boot Loader choices to let us choose Aurora
or not? Personally I hate the thing and prefer my nice ugly text boot and it
would solve everyone's problems
I know that I can turn off aurora after I install Mandrake, but how hard
would it be to just put a menu option DURING the install. I agree that to
most every day computer users the graphical boot up is much more attractive
than the traditional text one. Just would be nice for those of us running
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know that I can turn off aurora after I install Mandrake, but how hard
would it be to just put a menu option DURING the install. I agree that to
most every day computer users the graphical boot up is much more attractive
than the traditional text one. Just
On Monday 13 August 2001 19:32, Tim wrote:
I know that I can turn off aurora after I install Mandrake, but how hard
would it be to just put a menu option DURING the install. I agree that
to most every day computer users the graphical boot up is much more
attractive than the traditional text
Yves Duret wrote:
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know that I can turn off aurora after I install Mandrake, but how hard
would it be to just put a menu option DURING the install. I agree that to
most every day computer users the graphical boot up is much more attractive
than the
Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
in expert mode, boot configuration(lilo/grub), choose a non fb entry.
--
Yves Duret
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instant slut; just add alcohol Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
No way, Yves. I finally have a text mode of greater than 80x25 and I'm
not
There's an alphabetical list? I've only seen that
workstation/server/blah/someotherblah breakdown of RPMs. How do I
choose my RPMs alphabetically during the install?
andre wrote:
On 10 Aug 2001 17:40:38 +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
I've tried to deselect everything and Aurora is still
I believe he refers to post install in urpmi
That sucks. I was hoping to bypass that graphical bootup from square
one and actually see what Kudzu's finding that the install didn't. Or
they could fix Kudzu to play better with Aurora (or the other way around
even).
Blue Lizard wrote:
I believe he refers to post install in urpmi
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:
That sucks. I was hoping to bypass that graphical bootup from square
one and actually see what Kudzu's finding that the install didn't. Or
they could fix Kudzu to play better with Aurora (or the other way around
even).
Blue Lizard wrote:
I
Digital Wokan wrote:
There's an alphabetical list? I've only seen that
workstation/server/blah/someotherblah breakdown of RPMs. How do I
choose my RPMs alphabetically during the install?
In package selection there is one icon that switches view (tree/flat).
It is in the lower left
I cannot even find Aurora in tree package view when installing. I was
lucky I started text install once and Aurora was on the first screen -
else I would not even notice it is there.
-andrej
I've tried to deselect everything and Aurora is still installed. WTF
this is the last thing I'd expect to be installed BY DEFAULT. It belongs
to fancy useless broken GUI toys group ...
... sorry, but it is the second day I try to install cooker just to find
out that my locale is not supported.
On 10 Aug 2001 17:40:38 +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
I've tried to deselect everything and Aurora is still installed. WTF
this is the last thing I'd expect to be installed BY DEFAULT. It belongs
to fancy useless broken GUI toys group ...
Problem is there isn't a fancy useless gui toys group
] [mailto:cooker-owner@linux-
mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Gr§Ûgoire Colbert
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] Aurora cosmetic bug
Hello,
I had to hard-reboot my system after a freeze, and since fsck could
not
correct the problems alone, I went
You mean that nobody will correct this? I thought it was only a matter
of changing a string (which is not translated btw)... Or even better,
above the change mode stuff at the left, write Use TAB to
select
Still, this requires somebody to do it. Aurora was not touched (I mean,
really
What about copying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aurora maintainer if I'm
not wrong) ?
Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
Still, this requires somebody to do it. Aurora was not touched (I mean,
really touched) in at least half a year.
1. Major - any program that tries to do something interactively at
What about copying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aurora maintainer if
I'm
not wrong) ?
You are welcome. I personally consider 6 months long enough to declare
package no more maintained. I check every new RPM of Aurora of course,
and I stubbornly continue to report the same bugs over and over
]
Subject: [Cooker] Aurora cosmetic bug
Hello,
I had to hard-reboot my system after a freeze, and
since fsck could
not
correct the problems alone, I went into the
interactive mode. Having
Aurora installed, it took me a moment to
understand that to activate
the
Yes
I can get the others to work, as traditional wslib is my favorite. The gtk version
requires the creation of some tmp lock file or something as i recall, and thus
requires that you have your filesystem mounted rw. This screws up e2fsck and a few
others. When filesystem is ro, aurora waits a
I have no idea why my others don't work and gtk does.
I do know that it has to try twice before it will work
properly but that might have to do with the
file-locking you are talking about.
--- Blue Lizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can get the others to work, as traditional wslib
is my
Hello,
I had to hard-reboot my system after a freeze, and since fsck could not
correct the problems alone, I went into the interactive mode. Having
Aurora installed, it took me a moment to understand that to activate the
Yes / No buttons, I had to use the TAB key (and not the mouse or the
y
-
mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Gr§Ûgoire Colbert
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] Aurora cosmetic bug
Hello,
I had to hard-reboot my system after a freeze, and since fsck could
not
correct the problems alone, I went into the interactive mode. Having
On 6/1/01 3:54 PM, Andrej Borsenkow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
May be, Aurora development is not under Mandrake control, but packaging?
Maybe so, but doesn't anyone at Mandrakesoft *use* Aurora, at least during
the beta cycle? Particularly if such a problem was reported before?
Harry
OK, I'll speak up since I started this uproar by updating the package.
All I did was add some patches to WsLib, so Aurora framebuffer would work
on PPC, and add a BuildRequires for PPC in Aurora to insure the
appropriate WsLib is used. I've noted the circular Requires mentioned
before, and
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
There was no updates to Aurora for a long time. Not that there are many
bugs, but still I'd like to see my Intellimouse finally working in
Aurora ...
then it is of bad taste. Updated Aurora - and again link
/etc/aurora/Monitor broken. Something that was reported
Digital Wokan wrote:
I got tired of Aurora trying to make status and errors look pretty. I
finally rpm -e'd the Aurora packages, and I intend to continue doing
so after every system install until they become an optional part of the
install (kinda like starting X at boot is
Digital Wokan wrote:
I got tired of Aurora trying to make status and errors look pretty. I
finally rpm -e'd the Aurora packages, and I intend to continue doing
so after every system install until they become an optional part of the
install (kinda like starting X at boot is optional... hint,
Well, all I need to do is fire up Mandrake Control Center and under Boot
-
Boot Config, uncheck the Launch Aurora at boot time option, and it
goes
away!!! Seems kind of optional to me!
point being in expert mode those kind of
Yes, and I can have IE stop being my default browser after I've
installed Mozilla. That doesn't mean I don't wish I had the option not
to install Internet Explorer in the first place.
Joseph T Watson wrote:
Digital Wokan wrote:
I got tired of Aurora trying to make status and errors look
There was no updates to Aurora for a long time. Not that there are many
bugs, but still I'd like to see my Intellimouse finally working in
Aurora ...
-andrej
I could only get one theme to work within aurora...
and if kudzu popped up, it sent a bunch of junk onto
the screen and I had no way to get to it.
--- Andrej Borsenkow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There was no updates to Aurora for a long time. Not
that there are many
bugs, but still I'd like to
I got tired of Aurora trying to make status and errors look pretty. I
finally rpm -e'd the Aurora packages, and I intend to continue doing
so after every system install until they become an optional part of the
install (kinda like starting X at boot is optional... hint, hint,
Mdksoft).
SI
The problem is not free disk space and once remounted, aurora should
have started up for real. Just a deal with the gtk+ness I suppose.
Can't tell you about kudzu though, after reading all the stuff about
that+aurora on the list I decided to leave out of startup.
On 13 Apr 2001 03:27:01 +0200,
SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aurora also does not seem to work well with kudzu. I
got a horrible bunch of gibberish when kudzu was
activated
I only noticed one setting that seemed to work and
that was traditional + GTK Monitor, yet I got the same
error message as mentioned below.
The problem is after aurora is up and running and then
kudzu is run. The kudzu message is a bunch of
gibberish within aurora and I don't know how I could
activate it.
--- Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aurora also does not seem to work well
SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is after aurora is up and running and then
kudzu is run. The kudzu message is a bunch of
gibberish within aurora and I don't know how I could
activate it.
rpm -e kudzu, but it shouldn't be run :-(
--
MandrakeSoft Inc
Aurora also does not seem to work well with kudzu. I
got a horrible bunch of gibberish when kudzu was
activated
I only noticed one setting that seemed to work and
that was traditional + GTK Monitor, yet I got the same
error message as mentioned below. I also got the
message (during the first
I also have an Aurora problem. During startup it's fine, but I only get the
old text shutdown.
Owen
On Monday 09 April 2001 9:44 pm, you wrote:
I am having a real weird time using aurora, both in the boot process and in
the shutdown. Booting, it tells me it can't open aurora, then after a
I am having a real weird time using aurora, both in the boot process and in
the shutdown. Booting, it tells me it can't open aurora, then after a few
lines of the familiar boot sequence go by, it goes into aurora and seems to
begin again (ie the services already indicated to have started).
bor@localhost% rpm -qa | grep Aurora
Aurora-8.2-5mdk
Aurora-Monitor-Traditional-Gtk+-8.2-5mdk
Aurora-Monitor-Traditional-WsLib-8.2-5mdk
Aurora-Monitor-NewStyle-WsLib-8.2-5mdk
bor@localhost% ll /etc/aurora
ÉÔÏÇÏ 4
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 43 áÐÒ 6 21:45 Monitor -
On 08/03/2001 11:37:25 -0300 Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 18:35, Alexander Skwar wrote:
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:57:47AM +0300:
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
I have a few doubts on aurora.the version I had installed does not seem to
start a Xserver.happy about that as it reduses the memory used
drastically.but what interface does it actually use svga lib?or what.and
still it hogs around 1.5MB of memory.can we reduse this.I think 1.5MB for a
So I finally tried Aurora. I've choosen the NewStyle-WsLib monitor. But,
it is not showing much, that is, there are only 5 icons shown and clicking
on those icons doesn't do anything much either. Is this behaviour known?
Alexander Skwar
--
How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german)
Hi!
I'm trying all the Aurora monitors. Now I'm at Traditional-Gtk+. When
booting, it prints out a lot of errors. Most of the time it complains that
it cannot load icons - no wonder, it's looking for something like
/./.xpm.
And right at the beginning it was looking for
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 18:35, Alexander Skwar wrote:
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:57:47AM +0300:
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
imagine how
could I live with these 80x24
bor@localhost ~/.kde $ rpm -q -a | grep Aurora
Aurora-gMonitor-8.1-0mdk
Aurora-8.1-0mdk
Aurora-mwsMonitor-8.1-0mdk
Aurora-wsMonitor-8.1-0mdk
bor@localhost ~/.kde $ ll /etc/aurora
ÉÔÏÇÏ 4
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 35 íÁÒ 8 13:21 Monitor -
../../lib/aurora/Monitors/wsMonitor*
I've tried X11 monitor in Aurora-8.1. It has a couple of gotchas - first,
it cannot be started at boot time because root is still read-only and X
server tries to create /tmp/... file. Aurora starts later, but error
messages are confusing. It has very nasty flickering when updating screen
(here,
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 18:35, Alexander Skwar wrote:
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:57:47AM +0300:
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
imagine how
could I live with these 80x24 ugly super-large characters on 17"
monitor
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:57:47AM +0300:
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
imagine how
could I live with these 80x24 ugly super-large characters on 17" monitor
before :-)
So how do you change the number of lines you can
So sprach Armisis Aieoln am Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:49:45PM -0500:
The old Aurora in 7.2 was ok cause showed a list not just
flashing words so
fast one cant read it like the new one. The new one is of no use
to me and i
cant figure out how to get rid of it.
rpm -e Aurora
BTW: How
[root@fulgore:/home/ftp/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]#
ls -l A urora-*
-rw-r--r--1 7382 300548806 Mar 2 09:15
Aurora-8.0-121mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r--1 7382 300280067 Mar 2 09:31
Aurora-gMonitor-8.0-120mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r--1 7382 300
Andrej Borsenkow said:
Enable framebuffer - add vga=xxx to boot section in lilo (do not ask about
grub). Look in frambuffer howto how modes are computed.
Thanks, I will do!
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot imagine how
could I live with these 80x24 ugly
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
imagine how
could I live with these 80x24 ugly super-large characters on 17" monitor
before :-) -andrej
Actually I do not like framebuffer - it's noticeably slower than pure text
output.
It's a matter of taste. It is
bor@localhost ~ $ rpm -q -a | grep Aurora
Aurora-8.0-121mdk
Aurora-gMonitor-8.0-120mdk
Aurora-mwsMonitor-8.0-120mdk
Aurora-wsMonitor-8.0-120mdk
bor@localhost ~ $ ll /etc/aurora
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx1 root bor30 íÁÒ 5 21:07 Monitor -
/lib/aurora/Monitors/wsMonitor*
-rwxr-xr-x
On Monday 05 March 2001 00:59, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
So sprach Armisis Aieoln am Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:49:45PM -0500:
BTW: How do I ENABLE Aurora? I've installed the Aurora RPM, what should
I do next?
Enable framebuffer - add vga=xxx to boot section in lilo (do not ask about
grub).
Actually, I like framebuffer independently of Aurora - I cannot
imagine how
could I live with these 80x24 ugly super-large characters on 17" monitor
before :-)
So how do you change the number of lines you can scroll back and
review with
shift/pageup?
Sorry? Can you elaborate? I could
Updating Aurora-7.2 - Aurora-8.0 gives no error and results in unusable
Aurora because all monitors were splitted out. I am not sure what is the
correct way to handle it ... you probably cannot express "requires at least
one of the" in RPM ...
-andrej
Have a nice DOS!
B
All of the Aurora monitor programs require 8.0-120mdk when Aurora itself is
8.0-121mdk
--
Thanks
Jorg
The old Aurora in 7.2 was ok cause showed a list not just flashing words so
fast one cant read it like the new one. The new one is of no use to me and i
cant figure out how to get rid of it.
Once it is informitive for troubleshooting (expecialy always running a
cookerversion like i do) then i
Thank you Alexander, that took care of my problem!
Dave
On Sunday 04 March 2001 18:45, you wrote:
So sprach Armisis Aieoln am Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:49:45PM -0500:
The old Aurora in 7.2 was ok cause showed a list not just flashing words
so fast one cant read it like the new one. The new
So sprach Armisis Aieoln am Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:49:45PM -0500:
The old Aurora in 7.2 was ok cause showed a list not just flashing words so
fast one cant read it like the new one. The new one is of no use to me and i
cant figure out how to get rid of it.
rpm -e Aurora
BTW: How
So sprach andre am Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:38:29AM +0100:
There are 4 Aurora packages. Install one of the 3 left
The *monitor packages? Doesn't work, since they are, like someone else
already said, still at -120mdk and require Aurora -120mdk, which is not
available.
But okay, assuming that
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:17:58AM +0300, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
drakboot contains placeholder to select Aurora look'n'feel (older layout with
messages or new, icons only). Is it really possible currently (how?) or just
FFR?
BTW drakboot does not request root password and, of course,
drakboot contains placeholder to select Aurora look'n'feel (older layout with
messages or new, icons only). Is it really possible currently (how?) or just
FFR?
BTW drakboot does not request root password and, of course, cannot change
anything.
-andrej
Have a nice DOS!
B
The problem was due to a bug in the initscripts, resulting from the move
of several Aurora files from /etc/aurora to /lib/aurora (where they do
belong). The problem have been fixed by Frdric Lepied. So just upgrade
your initscripts package and it should work again...
/Egil
Hi,
After corrupting
Hi,
After corrupting several times my file system because of unclean unmount, I
discovered that if I terminate /sbin/mwsMonitorBin manually, the system
properly shuts down.
# rpm -qf /sbin/mwsMonitorBin
Aurora-7.3-84mdk
=-=
kk1
# rpm -U initscripts-5.54-1mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
Aurora = 7.2-17mdk conflicts with initscripts-5.54-1mdk
/etc/init.d is needed by xinetd-2.1.8.9pre14-1mdk
=-=
kk1
Get free
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Walluck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Today I just upgraded to an Asus A7V motherboard. Originally the serial
ports were not enabled, and some setting (I think PNP OS) was causing all
of the add-on PCI cards to get "IRQ 0", However, before I fixed all
Hello,
When e2fsck is being run somekind of progress indicator would be most
helpful. As far as the user is concerned there is a lot of nothing happening !
Owen
Hello,
When booting without Aurora a written description of PCMCIA card detection
failure was output to the screen. With Aurora the tick simply appears, even
though the sound indications were beep-boop (beep-beep being the 'card good'
indication ;-) ).
Owen
Today I just upgraded to an Asus A7V motherboard. Originally the serial
ports were not enabled, and some setting (I think PNP OS) was causing all
of the add-on PCI cards to get "IRQ 0", However, before I fixed all that
Aurora booted fine, and I could use the system, albeit not the serial
ports
Tell me, MandrakeSoft people, why is it that when I do a CDROM
install from CDs made from the latest ISO images, the bootup and
bootdown are both using Aurora to display the process commentary, and
it all looks quite wonderful,
Whereas when I do an hd install from the latest 7.2beta tree, which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Van Degrift) writes:
This appears to be a bug, although I can't understand why everyone doesn't
get stopped by it:
...
The output on terminal 12 is the following:
Init: Entering run level: 5
/etc/rc.d/rc: /var/run/runlevel.dir: Read-only file system
Aha!
Aurora
This appears to be a bug, although I can't understand why everyone doesn't
get stopped by it:
When I boot, Aurora shows a menu on the left side and then stops
with no way to interact with it. Looking at the output on console 12 indicates
that it started Aurora before root was remounted as rw.
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt advises to use the Matrox
framebuffer rather than VESA, which I presume is required by Aurora.
we can't put the Matrox frame buffer as default in the kernel but it
is as modules, i believe there can be some
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
"Khawar Zia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hey,
Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3
virge 3d 2000.
You need to boot with a Framebuffer kernel, and
"Khawar Zia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hey,
Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3
virge 3d 2000.
You need to boot with a Framebuffer kernel, and framebuffer-supported
videocard.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
"Khawar Zia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hey,
Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3
virge 3d 2000.
You need to boot with a Framebuffer kernel, and framebuffer-supported
videocard.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau --
Dr Michael Powell PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Framebuffer-supported video card?
and what would they be?? I have a simple and very very common (its in
every Intel Motherboard) SiS 6326 AGP 8M video Accelerater video chip,
and ever since someone started this framebuffer kernel
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
"Khawar Zia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hey,
Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3
virge 3d 2000.
You need to boot with a Framebuffer kernel, and framebuffer-supported
videocard.
Guillaume, am I
hey,
Btw how do u turn on aurora. I don't see any graphical boot up. I have a s3
virge 3d 2000.
Thank you
--Khawar Zia
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
Aurora needs framebuffer support. For a self-compiled kernel, i suppose
this means VESA framebuffer ? And is there a need for any special
low-level driver, or anything else beyond CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_FB_VESA ?
Aurora will (only?) work with the
Aurora needs framebuffer support. For a self-compiled kernel, i suppose
this means VESA framebuffer ? And is there a need for any special
low-level driver, or anything else beyond CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_FB_VESA ?
--
Guillaume Rousse
Iremia - Université de la Réunion
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