RE: [Cooker] MouseDrake no longer working
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Have been having problems using mousedrake to change my default mouse in KDE. I can >"set" the new mouse apply it but nothing happens even on a reboot. This is really >suprising since it was working in all betas and rc's(most of them) I've tried. I >tried to troubleshoot it but I don't know Perl well enough. > > >On a related subject, would it be possabile to support multiple mice(at least two) at >the same time. This would be great for laptop users who attach external mice when >they're at a desk.It's really annoying to keep switching back and forth. > As soon I complain it starts working. I have a feeling (re)installing 1.1.9-53mdk of drakx packages did the trick. The only problem I'm having is that it won't allow me to set my USB mouse as a wheel mouse. Any ideas? __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?
Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Dell - ugh. > >2 of the guys here have to take theirs apart and reseat cables regularly, a >friend of mine and I both had lemons (his actually fell to pieces in his >hands when he ejected his CD-ROM) they wouldn't replace either of them. I >sent 5 letters to them, and Greg filed a complaint with the BBB, I got no >response. I finally contacted the dell folks listed on the BBB page and told >them off and got 2 replacement laptops, Greg's was fine. Mine had a display >anomoly right out of the box, so I opted for the refund they offered, which >took them forever to get to me. They tried to bill me for the one I sent >back, they said I didn't send it back but their webpage form said they had it >for weeks. Finally after a long time I got my refund money. I'll never do >business with that company again. > >However if you do go with Dell everything worked for me on the 8000, the >8100/8200's used nvidia graphics and 3com winmodems, so the modem and suspend >didn't work. > >I got a sony GRX-570 with the 16.1" display, it totally rocks and I haven't >had a single problem with it, took some patching the kernel for ACPI and >memstick reader but everything works great - no suspend here either though >with the ACPI - yet. I have a PCG-FX47 (15" display and Athlon). I picked it because it felt real solid and has stood up to a bit of abuse.Linux seems to pickup all the importants devices. I don't know about modem since I only use the NIC. I don't have the memstick slot because of the limited use and increased price. I do use a external zip drive which works fine but it is a bit bulky. The only real problem is that because its Sony they had to put regioning on the DVD drive. I have yet to see if matters under Linux. It also needs ACPI because it tends to run a hot. ACPI seems to be really solid though I haven't tried suspending with any version of the patch. It would nice it was included in the default(or an alternate) mdk kernel. > > >On Thursday 17 October 2002 01:58, J. Greenlees wrote: >> depends on the model of dell. >> I have an inspiron and do have a couple of problems with it. >> minor, like the missing save to ram file their proprietary bios looks >> for ( unless you have their windows still on the system you lose this file >> ) and no support from dell for the inspiron in canada. ~g~ >> but as far as linux on it, runs great. > >- -- >"Having no way as way, having no limitation as limitation." >Bruce Lee > >PGP Keys: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~junfan/pubkey.asc >Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ICQ: 1796276 >-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > >iQCVAwUBPa7BGhFHZPcobeHxAQJ/FgP/Z8yssRLYobdldziV1NNnQ+kL6xlLiUDU >qZEwF+siXXmMk9EX593I09w40jWDIOZYjT/Vf+TLpEVVQUgxnOK7BuLfg5AP/10h >hWi36s39KfpRWKrOz7s9iZI/fngqF/EfYunNdGSC9aIr0l+7lvWxUd41dgtS7lfQ >ue2ZantC3ms= >=B1Oh >-END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[Cooker] MouseDrake no longer working
Have been having problems using mousedrake to change my default mouse in KDE. I can "set" the new mouse apply it but nothing happens even on a reboot. This is really suprising since it was working in all betas and rc's(most of them) I've tried. I tried to troubleshoot it but I don't know Perl well enough. On a related subject, would it be possabile to support multiple mice(at least two) at the same time. This would be great for laptop users who attach external mice when they're at a desk.It's really annoying to keep switching back and forth. __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [Cooker] cooker updates and so much more..!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (François Pons) wrote: >Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > 3. [Usability] During updating sources, show site current so >> > users know that the RpmDrake is "working". Its slso useful >> > because it shows how long it takes to read each site. It might >> > even be worth it to add a "skip" button. The user can then move >> > to the next mirror on the list. >> >> Well they all get updated at the same time and we're in the urpmi >> API at that time. I don't know if adding a callback for that in >> the urpmi API would be worth the trouble as well. Francois, >> what's your idea? > >Is is planed to do something like multiple download at the same time and >fallback to other mirror automatically, this could hurt such behaviour. > >But displaying all mirrors used at a time could help. > >François. > I like the mirror fallback behavior and the progress bar someone mentioned would be great improvements. There should still a way to kill the whole package update process. This is need because on either slow machines/connections someone might be able to wait for it to finish. Now that I think of it "skipping" would not have worked for that purpose away. __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [Cooker] VIA EPIA 800 C3 processor: 486sx
Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 15 October 2002 04:18 am, rowland wrote: >> On Monday 14 Oct 2002 11:23 am, J. Greenlees wrote: >> > Thierry Vignaud wrote: >> > > also, the 486sx (at least the first ones) did has a coprocessor; it >> > > was disabled but was still there (though i don't rember if it was >> > > missing pins or some silicon hack). > >> > actually, it was a bad bit of circuit if I remember correctly, the co >> > pro was completely un-usable because of it and the cpu was a lower price >> > for that reason. > >> if I remember rightly it was a batch of i486dx's that had this problem, >> the fpu just couldnt add up properly given the right set of circumstances >> and intel had to change all the affected chips! > >486sx was 486dx sans FPU and on a skinnier buss. To add an FPU, you bought a >487sx chip, which was really a 486dx that had failed some factory tests and >been packaged for the skinnier buss. For a little while, some motherboards >had an option to run with _only_ a 487sx, because they were significantly >cheaper than a 486sx and usually worked fine (sometimes faster, because a >486sx had no CPU cache at first but many of the 487sxes did). > >Cheers; Leon > Its alway nice to know marketing to make a royal screw-up in product development seem like a great thing! Whats worse is when outrageous claims are made by marketing for products that don't exist. :)) -Ian __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [Cooker]General problems
In an attempt to get out some of my grevences with an overall damn good distro, I lay them all out and see what everyone thinks of them. RpmDrake family: noted in past post Note-I have been tring to use a Linksys WPC-11 wireless card. It is recongized by cardmgr after I added a entry for in pcmcia.conf(forget actual file name). HardDrake: Doen't try to check pcmcia cards, should atleast show info on card and the fact that it's unsupported. Devices can not be configured. This makes them useless until harddrake is updated.In the case of my wireless card, I could just tell harddrake which driver to use inorder to setup the device correctly. MouseDrake(?):Should be able to have two(atleat) or more mouse-like configured at a time. This especially frutsataing on my laptop. My setup is a wheel USB and a built-in to my laptop is a glide style mouse. As it works now only one can work at a time depend on if the USB mouse was plugged in when I started up the machine. If I happend to config a mouse, then only the configed one works unless I mess with the gpm deamon and config file. There should be a way to configure two or more mouse like devices(drawing tablets, other pointing devices) to work simitaniously if available. I know gpm can easily handle multiple devices. Network setup:I have been unable to get my detected wireless card to be setup by Drakconnect a eth1. It seems to pick up the card after told look for a (orinoco_cs based) wireless NIC. It then setup up my primary NIC wireless. I thought the was going to be some sort of feedback. Either for new devices and/or other items? I'd be happy to help out with fixing these problems but I need some direction on how the apps are setup. __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [Cooker] cooker updates, Clarification..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Stephen Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi, >>Need some help updating over mandrake control center. When I add my >>closest mirror, Paris, I have no issues downloading the >>synthesis.hdlist*.cz files. The problem lies in when I go to download a >>file from the synthesis.hdlist2.cz list. urpmi basically tels me it >>cannot resolve the host. any sugestions? > >I'm not sure if this is related, but it doesn't show new packages after I setup a >"Update" mirror. Well, actually the packages show up in "Install Packages" but "Update Packages" says "the list of updates are void". I have a feeling the problem is with Mandrake Update instead of the core rpmdrake. __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [Cooker] cooker updates and so much more..!
Stephen Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >Need some help updating over mandrake control center. When I add my >closest mirror, Paris, I have no issues downloading the >synthesis.hdlist*.cz files. The problem lies in when I go to download a >file from the synthesis.hdlist2.cz list. urpmi basically tels me it >cannot resolve the host. any sugestions? I'm not sure if this is related, but it doesn't show new packages after I setup a "Update" mirror. I have some other problems with RpmDrake: 1. Why isn't setting up other mirror types automated too. 2. [Wish/debug] Include a entry. Users can remove "dead" mirrors inorder to cut down on update time. 3. [Usability] During updating sources, show site current so users know that the RpmDrake is "working". Its slso useful because it shows how long it takes to read each site. It might even be worth it to add a "skip" button. The user can then move to the next mirror on the list. 4. [Annoyance] The default mirror should be http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
