Re: [Cooker] VM related question
le dim 16-12-2001 à 07:47, Ian C. Sison a écrit : On 16 Dec 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: claudio == Claudio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: claudio The latest official kernel for 8.1 is 2.4.8-34.1mdk, so I wonder: does it claudio use the good Andrea's stuff for VM (officially introduced in 2.4.10 as far as claudio I can remember) or the buggy one? claudio Any hope to have a 2.4.17 for 8.1 then? Yes, just wait that I have a moment to compile a kernel for it. Hmmm, does this mean that the 2.4.17 you are releasing does not have the AA VM patches? But isnt that included in the stock 2.4.17 already? Can you clear this up? I think he talks about releasing a 2.4.16/17 kernel as update for 8.1 cooker kernel doen't aim to be an update to official releases. -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - AAAaaackk! You brute! Knock before entering a ladies room!
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk??
On Saturday 15 December 2001 21:57, Juan Quintela wrote: I don't know what happened, but here is the Changelog: (as a bonus, the 2.4.16-10mdk that I have just released). Oh Yeah! By the way, I got the Changelog for 2.4.16-10mdk a zillion times. What is up with that? Feast or Famine I suppose! ;^) -- *Chuck*
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
So sprach »Han« am 2001-12-15 um 17:08:42 +0100 : But can you correct the error with rsync if there is an md5 error? Sure, just re-rsync the image. That's what's so great about rsync! If there's a 1 byte error somewhere, rsync should detect it and correct it. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 8 days 22 hours 32 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
Alexander Skwar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So sprach »Han« am 2001-12-15 um 17:08:42 +0100 : But can you correct the error with rsync if there is an md5 error? Sure, just re-rsync the image. That's what's so great about rsync! If there's a 1 byte error somewhere, rsync should detect it and correct it. Nice, last silly question without looking the documentation. Does it run on windows? And is it implementable by any newbie? Cya, Han.
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail bounced (twice) and said it was not accepted. Your filter might not accept mail from my personal IP as the return address is at yahoo. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:05:04
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
So sprach »Han« am 2001-12-16 um 12:28:45 +0100 : Nice, last silly question without looking the documentation. Does it run on windows? And is it implementable by any newbie? Yes, there is a rsync binary for Windows ... or so I thought. However, compiling a rsync for Windows should not be a big task for Mandrake. Is it implementable by any newbie? Uhm, I don't think so. Newbies are usually to much afraid of the command line, so that even if the correct syntax would be written out on the page, they wouldn't get it. Anyhow, the command line would be: $ rsync --verbose --partial --progress rsync://server/path /target/dir Explanation: --verbose --progress: By default, rsync doesn't print anything at all. This might cause the newbie to think, that nothing happens. With these params, rsync prints stuff. --partial: By default, if a connection goes down before the file is completely transferred, rsync will delete it. With this option, rsync will keep partially transferred files. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 8 days 23 hours 15 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Abiword Docs
On Sunday 16 December 2001 7:00 am, Michael Golden wrote: With the latest cooker and abiword 0.9.5 as provided by cooker Abiword does not open documents correctly. I just created a document, closed abiword, restarted abiword and tried to open the document and it told me It appears to be a bogus or invalid document I just tested what you did, and wrote a line in Swedish, saved it, closed abi and started abi and opened the doc and it came up allright. But abi complained it could not load the dictionary for en-GB. But locale have never been installed nicely for me as I use en-GB as language but Stockholm as time-zone. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:05:04
[Cooker] urpmi feature request
I think urpmi needs a dependency resolution system for the existing install. This would essentially cause urpmi to install packages that satisfied missing depends in the rpm database as can exist when packages are forced or the installer skipped missing packages. Perhaps call the option --sane as it would (theoretically) put the system into a saner state than it was in before. This ability to repair broken installs (particularly user-created breaks) would certainly be beneficial for both newbies who may delete something without understanding and experienced users who force an occasional package only to have it bite them in the rear. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. -- Francis Bacon, Of Death
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 13.02, guran wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail bounced (twice) and said it was not accepted. Your filter might not accept mail from my personal IP as the return address is at yahoo. That's odd..., IIRC I put another address in the reply-to. I get so much spam from yahoo, and I got tired of it. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 11 hours 45 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +29C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +28.5C
[Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
[root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 hours 30 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +30.0°C
[Cooker] On 'setting locale'
Hi I have always found the following in my report.bug: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_GB:en, ... Here is one possible cause: When I enter en-GB as my language I am automatically met by the proposed time-zone London. I change this to Stockholm. Is it possible that the logical step, concluded by the installation, is broken, when London is not confirmed? To me it is obvious that en-Gb is spoken at more places than within the time-zone of London. The other data that might confuse this algoritm is the 'added' language of swedish. This data should according to my understanding only influence a db of dictionaries. Is the 'setting of locale' in Cooker all fine for everybody? regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:05:04
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
I dunno, the regular stock kernel worked fine for me. NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk [root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 hours 30 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +30.0°C
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
My Bad, I meant to say that the 2.4.16-10mdk kernel worked fine for me. NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk [root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 hours 30 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +30.0°C
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
On Âñê, 2001-12-16 at 15:05, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Han« am 2001-12-16 um 12:28:45 +0100 : Nice, last silly question without looking the documentation. Does it run on windows? And is it implementable by any newbie? Yes, there is a rsync binary for Windows ... or so I thought. However, compiling a rsync for Windows should not be a big task for Mandrake. rsync is part of current Cygwin distribution that is POSIX emulation layer atop of Win32 subsystem. www.cygwin.com -andrej
Re: [Cooker] urpmi feature request
On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 15:54, Anton Graham wrote: I think urpmi needs a dependency resolution system for the existing install. This would essentially cause urpmi to install packages that satisfied missing depends in the rpm database as can exist when packages are forced or the installer skipped missing packages. Perhaps call the option --sane as it would (theoretically) put the system into a saner state than it was in before. It will defeat current installer. Installer specifically runs with --nodeps - e.g. it alows you to skip Nautilus that is near to impossible otherwise. This ability to repair broken installs (particularly user-created breaks) would certainly be beneficial for both newbies who may delete something without understanding and experienced users who force an occasional package only to have it bite them in the rear. Experience users know how to correct it. And if newbie ever runs --nodeps he does it usually on advice of so called experts. Normal nebies do not even know rpm flags. But what would be _really_ useful is the ability to recreate installation profiles (already discussed w.r.t. to sungle CD installation). But tat is not part of urpmi task. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] On 'setting locale'
On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 17:49, guran wrote: Hi I have always found the following in my report.bug: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_GB:en, ... Here is one possible cause: When I enter en-GB as my language I am automatically met by the proposed time-zone London. I change this to Stockholm. Is it possible that the logical step, concluded by the installation, is broken, when London is not confirmed? To me it is obvious that en-Gb is spoken at more places than within the time-zone of London. The other data that might confuse this algoritm is the 'added' language of swedish. This data should according to my understanding only influence a db of dictionaries. Is the 'setting of locale' in Cooker all fine for everybody? It is too general question - but what we need is separate installation language and system locale. Currrently I have no way to run installation in English while configuring default Russian locale for system. There is localedrake but it is half-broken. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 15.59, Nelson Bartley wrote: My Bad, I meant to say that the 2.4.16-10mdk kernel worked fine for me. NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk [root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch I tried the ones found at uninett and at sunet, I got the same error. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +32°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +32.0°C
Re: [Cooker] DevFS, kernel and Irda
On óÂÔ, 2001-12-15 at 23:08, Michal Bukovjan wrote: Hi list, I guess there is another problem with devfs - there are no irda devices registered. When devfs is disabled, I can use my /dev/ircomm* devices. With devfs, there seem to be no Irda devices around. (no ircomm*, no irda , nothing) Am I missing something? is it a bug? /dev/ircomm* are created by ircomm-tty module. I have zero knowledge about IrDA on Linux so I have no idea when this module gets loaded. But if you want it to be automatically loaded on access to /dev/ircomm* - add the following to the /etc/modules.devfs: alias /dev/ircomm ircomm-tty alias /dev/ircomm* /dev/ircomm Thierry, what about adding it to next devfsd? Using: kernel-2.4.16-9mdk irda-utils-0.9.14-5mdk devfsd-1.3.20-1mdk BTW, upgrading to this version of kernel/devfsd seems to partially solve my problems with CDROMs, the SCSI emulated CD burner is now found under /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (previously it was not). Very unlilkely it depends on kernel version. Something else has changed. The burner is still not present under /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun (aka /dev/hdc) - are these mutually exclusive? Yes. The entries are created by corresponding driver - and we have either ide-cd or ide-scsi active for a given device. This may be considered a bug, I miss the ability to use hdparm in this case. -andrej
[Cooker] opl3 problems
I am still seeing opl3 synth/midi module failing to function on two different mobo/sound chip combinations. Anybody else having this problem? Anybody having success with opl3?
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
On Saturdayen den 15 December 2001 02.18, Han wrote: Hiya, Reading a lot of dramatic stories of people on 56k modems downloading the iso images. After days of downloading they have nothing but a broken image. And they were so enthousiatic by all the good news on the site. Why not have people with a cd burner selling cheap cd:s to the modem users, and put a list with these persons on the mandrake site?. I can sell home burned Cooker cd:s in Sweden ;) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 14 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +32°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +32.0°C
Re: [Cooker] possible devfs problem
On Fridayen den 14 December 2001 20.02, skidley wrote: What do you mean, put sg from where to where? I don't have /dev/modules. He he he, I'm lost here... I would say he meant /etc/modules where you can put any modules you want loaded at boot. Well, I had to stop using devfs because of unknown lockups, the only cure was a hard reset (the reset button). -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 23 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +30.5°C
Re: [Cooker] On 'setting locale'
On Sunday 16 December 2001 5:20 pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 17:49, guran wrote: Is the 'setting of locale' in Cooker all fine for everybody? It is too general question - but what we need is separate installation language and system locale. Currently I have no way to run installation in English while configuring default Russian locale for system. There is localedrake but it is half-broken. That implies that Mdk has given up on constructing something similar to the xserver, where you may change resolution yet map the same GUI in the new environment. What I am looking for is a db of locale, that may easily be changed - something similar to the use of English on this list, but letters should be able to be constructed within any installed system of language. I am guessing, but I assume that many ex colonies have more than one 'locale'. As it is now, I am never explicitly asked for a locale, this is inferred from steps taken during installation. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:05:04
Re: [Cooker] urpmi feature request
On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 08:18, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: It will defeat current installer. Installer specifically runs with --nodeps - e.g. it alows you to skip Nautilus that is near to impossible otherwise. Not really. urpmi already allows you to skip nautilus through proper use of provides/requires. Yes, the installer intentionally runs the equivalent of the --nodeps flag. But, if you've ever done a cooker install via ftp, (sometimes even by mirrored hd :p) you know that sometimes packages just aren't there. Keeping track of missed packages last time yielded a full dozen important packages (including urpmi). Experience users know how to correct it. And if newbie ever runs --nodeps he does it usually on advice of so called experts. Normal nebies do not even know rpm flags. Ah, but urpmi/rpmdrake give the option to --force. Eager young Joe Newbie will gladly push that button, too, because he doesn't understand how much potential there is to break your system with that one button. Which brings up another point. urpmi's dependency check needs to recurse into packages that it has selected to fulfill depends. Frequently package abc requires package def. They both require ghi, but abc doesn't list it as an explicit requires because def does. This works fine if rpm's are being installed manually, but urpmi handle it as follows (output isn't exact, but you get the idea): $urpmi abc In order to satisfy dependencies the following packages will be installed (256k): abc-1.1.0-1 def-1.2.3-1 Is it ok? y Preparing ### ghi = 1.3.4 is required by def-1.2.3-1 Some dependencies could not be resolved, force? But what would be _really_ useful is the ability to recreate installation profiles (already discussed w.r.t. to sungle CD installation). But tat is not part of urpmi task. -andrej -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- Somerset Maugham
Re: [Cooker] DevFS, kernel and Irda
Hello Andrej, I tried this and it does not work. The modules in question - related to irda - are irda, irtty, tekram. I think the modules are loaded when irda is loaded via /etc/init.d/irda start I tried both ircomm-tty and irtty, neither works. Perhaps the reason could be that the Irda drivers are not converted to use devfs yet? I was able to mknod /dev/ircomm0 c 161 0, though... But this is not something an ordinary user will do :-) Michal Bukovjan Borsenkow Andrej wrote: On óÂÔ, 2001-12-15 at 23:08, Michal Bukovjan wrote: Hi list, I guess there is another problem with devfs - there are no irda devices registered. When devfs is disabled, I can use my /dev/ircomm* devices. With devfs, there seem to be no Irda devices around. (no ircomm*, no irda , nothing) Am I missing something? is it a bug? /dev/ircomm* are created by ircomm-tty module. I have zero knowledge about IrDA on Linux so I have no idea when this module gets loaded. But if you want it to be automatically loaded on access to /dev/ircomm* - add the following to the /etc/modules.devfs: alias /dev/ircomm ircomm-tty alias /dev/ircomm* /dev/ircomm Thierry, what about adding it to next devfsd? Using: kernel-2.4.16-9mdk irda-utils-0.9.14-5mdk devfsd-1.3.20-1mdk BTW, upgrading to this version of kernel/devfsd seems to partially solve my problems with CDROMs, the SCSI emulated CD burner is now found under /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (previously it was not). Very unlilkely it depends on kernel version. Something else has changed. The burner is still not present under /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun (aka /dev/hdc) - are these mutually exclusive? Yes. The entries are created by corresponding driver - and we have either ide-cd or ide-scsi active for a given device. This may be considered a bug, I miss the ability to use hdparm in this case. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] opl3 problems
There is a new version of ALSA 0.5.12b which claims to fix some problems with loading on 2.4.16 kernels. Perhaps this is a related problem, just a thought. Michal Bukovjan George Mitchell wrote: I am still seeing opl3 synth/midi module failing to function on two different mobo/sound chip combinations. Anybody else having this problem? Anybody having success with opl3?
Re: [Cooker] possible devfs problem
On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 19:35, Oden Eriksson wrote: On Fridayen den 14 December 2001 20.02, skidley wrote: What do you mean, put sg from where to where? I don't have /dev/modules. He he he, I'm lost here... I would say he meant /etc/modules where you can put any modules you want loaded at boot. Well, I had to stop using devfs because of unknown lockups, the only cure was a hard reset (the reset button). When these lockups happened? On bootup/login? Why do you think they are related to devfs? BTW what kernel are you using? -andrej
Re: [Cooker] DevFS, kernel and Irda
On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 20:30, Michal Bukovjan wrote:
Hello Andrej,
I tried this and it does not work.
What `this' and what `it'?
The modules in question - related to irda - are irda, irtty, tekram.
I think the modules are loaded when irda is loaded via /etc/init.d/irda
start
Well, you need somebody who knows IrDA stack better than me. I repeat,
ircomm* nodes are created by ircomm-tty driver but I have no idea which
modules are actually needed in your case.
I tried both ircomm-tty and irtty, neither works.
Perhaps the reason could be that the Irda drivers are not converted to
use devfs yet?
They are.
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
zsh: no matches found: /dev/irc*
{pts/1}% sudo modprobe ircomm-tty
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
crw---1 root root 161, 0 ñÎ× 1 1970 /dev/ircomm0
crw---1 root root 161, 1 ñÎ× 1 1970 /dev/ircomm1
...
-andrej
[Cooker] PATCH: apm.c - runtime parameter for APM Idle call
After investigating kapm_idled problem here it turned out quite simple - BIOS neither slows down CPU nor halts it so kapm_idled enters busy loop doing basically while !system_busy do nothing eating away CPU. This applies to patch of Andreas as well. I do not like an option of recompiling without CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE because I think about distribution kernel in the first place. I have ASUS CUSL2 motherboard - it is not unusual brand and obviously many people have the same problem and you cannot expect all of them to recompile kernel. So this patch adds runtime parameter (no-)apm-idle that has the same effect - enabling/disabling usage of APM Idle BIOS calls. It is initialised according to CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE and should be 100% compatible. If Andreas patch is accepted it needs the same treatment. I thought once about run-time detection - if BIOS reports that Idle does not slow down CPU try Idle call once and compare jiffies (probably repeat several times to be sure). Is it sensible? Patch is agains 2.4.16-9.dk but should apply to any version I guess. -andrej --- arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.org Sat Nov 10 00:58:02 2001 +++ arch/i386/kernel/apm.c Sun Dec 16 21:23:27 2001 @@ -383,6 +383,11 @@ static int allow_ints; #endif static int broken_psr; +#ifdef CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE +static int apm_idle_enabled = 1; +#else +static int apm_idle_enabled; +#endif static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(apm_waitqueue); static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(apm_suspend_waitqueue); @@ -1366,7 +1371,8 @@ */ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); apm_event_handler(); -#ifdef CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE + if (!apm_idle_enabled) + continue; if (!system_idle()) continue; @@ -1393,7 +1399,6 @@ apm_event_handler(); timeout = 1; } -#endif } remove_wait_queue(apm_waitqueue, wait); } @@ -1814,6 +1819,8 @@ if ((strncmp(str, realmode-power-off, 18) == 0) || (strncmp(str, realmode_power_off, 18) == 0)) apm_info.realmode_power_off = !invert; + if (strncmp(str, apm-idle, 8) == 0) + apm_idle_enabled = !invert; str = strchr(str, ','); if (str != NULL) str += strspn(str, , \t);
Re: [Cooker] On 'setting locale'
On Sunday 16 Dec 2001 14:49, guran wrote: Hi I have always found the following in my report.bug: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_GB:en, ... Here is one possible cause: When I enter en-GB as my language I am automatically met by the proposed time-zone London. I change this to Stockholm. Is it possible that the logical step, concluded by the installation, is broken, when London is not confirmed? To me it is obvious that en-Gb is spoken at more places than within the time-zone of London. The other data that might confuse this algoritm is the 'added' language of swedish. This data should according to my understanding only influence a db of dictionaries. Is the 'setting of locale' in Cooker all fine for everybody? regards guran I've been getting those warnings for months - en_GB:en and London. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 2 days 22 hours 42 minutes. --
Re: [Cooker] possible devfs problem
On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 19.30, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 19:35, Oden Eriksson wrote: On Fridayen den 14 December 2001 20.02, skidley wrote: What do you mean, put sg from where to where? I don't have /dev/modules. He he he, I'm lost here... I would say he meant /etc/modules where you can put any modules you want loaded at boot. Well, I had to stop using devfs because of unknown lockups, the only cure was a hard reset (the reset button). When these lockups happened? On bootup/login? Why do you think they are related to devfs? BTW what kernel are you using? I have not had any lockups prior enabling devfs, so I assume that's why. The lockups occured while running X+KDE. I'm using 2.4.16-9mdksmp. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 3 hours 50 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +29C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +29.5C
[Cooker] Gnome FIle Manager
A little while ago I found out that by making a 'Documents' directory within a users home created a button withing gnome while using 'Open', 'Save', 'Save As'. By default there is 'Home' and 'Desktop' buttons, if that directory is there a new button will appear called Documents. Maybe cooker can utilize this for the desktop user by creating a Documents directory when creating a new user? Just a thought. -- Gary Chisholm System: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20011214 14:49 2.4.16-9mdk
[Cooker] Maybe too newbie but...
Ok this may be too newbie but I dont seem to able to find latest 2.4 kernel on cooker mirrors anyone have suggestions? thnx in advance
Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:05, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Han« am 2001-12-16 um 12:28:45 +0100 : Nice, last silly question without looking the documentation. Does it run on windows? And is it implementable by any newbie? Yes, there is a rsync binary for Windows ... or so I thought. However, compiling a rsync for Windows should not be a big task for Mandrake. Is it implementable by any newbie? Uhm, I don't think so. Newbies are usually to much afraid of the command line, so that even if the correct syntax would be written out on the page, they wouldn't get it. Anyhow, the command line would be: $ rsync --verbose --partial --progress rsync://server/path /target/dir Explanation: --verbose --progress: By default, rsync doesn't print anything at all. This might cause the newbie to think, that nothing happens. With these params, rsync prints stuff. --partial: By default, if a connection goes down before the file is completely transferred, rsync will delete it. With this option, rsync will keep partially transferred files. Are all of the windows versions still supporting .bat or .cmd scripts? If so, someone could write a script that did of the hard work, like prividing the user with a choice of rsync mirrors, and offering to create a target directory, etc. With this method, a newbie would see the minimum amount of the command line. IIRC, in old versions of windows (up to 95 and nt=4) such scripts could be executed by couble clicking I have to search my fading memories for this, as all I have done with windows in the last several years is scoff at it. ;^) -- *Chuck*
Re: [Cooker] DevFS, kernel and Irda
Hello Andrej,
by 'it' and 'that' I meant adding aliases to /etc/modules.devfs as you
suggested.
However, doing what you suggest:
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
zsh: no matches found: /dev/irc*
{pts/1}% sudo modprobe ircomm-tty
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
works for me as well - there is about thirty devices created and working.
So now is the question - where and what fix should go (I am using Tekram
dongle, this may apply to others as well):
- when irda starts via initscript, only tekram, irda and irtty modules
are loaded. This combination works OK on systems without devfs.
- to work on devfs enabled system, ircomm-tty module has to be loaded as
well (it creates actual devices). I am somewhat puzzled about what the
difference is between irtty and ircomm-tty.
Possible places that I am thinking about one of the following:
- patching irattach (which is responsible for loading the tekram, irda
and irtty modules as I found) to load ircomm-tty as well
- modifying /etc/modules to preload ircomm-tty module when irda/irtty
module is loaded?
- modifying /etc/modules.conf to load ircomm-tty alongside irtty
- modifying irda initscript to load ircomm-tty when starting
- perhaps there is something that may be done in /etc/devfsd.conf,
(definitely at least to fix perms, so that port is rw for all)
Which would be the best solution? Any ideas?
Michal
Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
On ÷ÓË, 2001-12-16 at 20:30, Michal Bukovjan wrote:
Hello Andrej,
I tried this and it does not work.
What `this' and what `it'?
The modules in question - related to irda - are irda, irtty, tekram.
I think the modules are loaded when irda is loaded via /etc/init.d/irda
start
Well, you need somebody who knows IrDA stack better than me. I repeat,
ircomm* nodes are created by ircomm-tty driver but I have no idea which
modules are actually needed in your case.
I tried both ircomm-tty and irtty, neither works.
Perhaps the reason could be that the Irda drivers are not converted to
use devfs yet?
They are.
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
zsh: no matches found: /dev/irc*
{pts/1}% sudo modprobe ircomm-tty
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
crw---1 root root 161, 0 ñÎ× 1 1970 /dev/ircomm0
crw---1 root root 161, 1 ñÎ× 1 1970 /dev/ircomm1
...
-andrej
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
the initrd install hasn't worked for me upon kernel installation lately, but mkinitrd still works. On Sunday 16 December 2001 09:58 am, you wrote: I dunno, the regular stock kernel worked fine for me. NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk [root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 hours 30 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +30.0°C -- Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx's last words
Re: [Cooker] Maybe too newbie but...
On Monday 17 December 2001 02:47 pm, you wrote: Ok this may be too newbie but I dont seem to able to find latest 2.4 kernel on cooker mirrors anyone have suggestions? thnx in advance /cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm check the mirrors
Re: [Cooker] Maybe too newbie but...
On 2001.12.16 23:32 Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Monday 17 December 2001 02:47 pm, you wrote: Ok this may be too newbie but I dont seem to able to find latest 2.4 kernel on cooker mirrors anyone have suggestions? thnx in advance /cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm check the mirrors grabbed it thnx
RE: [Cooker] php-imap
unneeded... you could use php's imap function to connect to a remote imap server. Hail, i have one question. Doest php-imap really need a imap server installed or it is just a unneeded dep? So can mandrake remove it from deps? BTW same thing for php-ldap.
Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk
mine was from either sunet or lip6. Not sure which one I was usin though... but those are the only cooker sources I use since Helios stoped updating NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 15.59, Nelson Bartley wrote: My Bad, I meant to say that the 2.4.16-10mdk kernel worked fine for me. NB - Original Message - From: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.16.10mdk [root@oden RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:kernel-2.4.16.10mdk ### [ 50%] mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) 2:kernel-smp-2.4.16.10mdkerror: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.4.16-10mdksmp;3c1cafae: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch I tried the ones found at uninett and at sunet, I got the same error. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 12 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +32°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +32.0°C
RE: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images
Same here in Taiwan... ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oden Eriksson Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images On Saturdayen den 15 December 2001 02.18, Han wrote: Hiya, Reading a lot of dramatic stories of people on 56k modems downloading the iso images. After days of downloading they have nothing but a broken image. And they were so enthousiatic by all the good news on the site. Why not have people with a cd burner selling cheap cd:s to the modem users, and put a list with these persons on the mandrake site?. I can sell home burned Cooker cd:s in Sweden ;) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 14 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +32°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +32.0°C
[Cooker] cipher-aes taints the kernel...
[root@oden oden]# modprobe cipher-aes Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.16-9mdksmp/kernel/crypto/ciphers/cipher-aes.o.gz will taint the kernel: no license -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 10 hours 40 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +29°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +29.0°C
RE: [Cooker] DevFS, kernel and Irda
by 'it' and 'that' I meant adding aliases to /etc/modules.devfs as you
suggested.
It works. Have you restarted devfsd?
However, doing what you suggest:
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
zsh: no matches found: /dev/irc*
{pts/1}% sudo modprobe ircomm-tty
{pts/1}% ll /dev/irc*
works for me as well - there is about thirty devices created and
working.
So now is the question - where and what fix should go
The fix must go into /etc/modules.devfsd:
#IrDA ircomm devices
alias /dev/ircomm ircomm-tty
alias /dev/ircomm* /dev/ircomm
[root@cooker root]# ll /dev/ircomm*
ls: /dev/ircomm*: No such file or directory
[root@cooker root]# lsmod | grep ircomm-tty
[root@cooker root]#
[root@cooker root]# ll /dev/ircomm0
crw---1 root root 161, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/ircomm0
[root@cooker root]# lsmod | grep ircomm-tty
ircomm-tty 20320 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ircomm 7900 0 (autoclean) [ircomm-tty]
irda 92428 0 (autoclean) [ircomm-tty ircomm]
-andrej
[Cooker] kernel request
hej guys just a quick request from a lazy git like me : ) any chance of enabling ip tunneling ?, when droping thge latest kernel onto cooker. it would save having to compile each time, especially on a machine 1000 miles away..remotely !!! keep up the great work, prison sentence here in Sweden expires in 4 days..god jul , Best Regards, mvh Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 UK Mobile +44 7850 865224 (24/7)
