[Cooker] Congrats
I have finally gotten the latest 7.2b(3?) installed and I must say that I'm impressed. Everything is comming together now. While I have not had a chance to really get in and play with it, I have found that during installation, I was unable to print a test page using lp and the hp 970cse. I haven't hahd a chance to print yet under Linux, hopefully later today. Glad to see that the ide-scsi is now fixed, along with the xscreensaver. Now, if creative labs would finish their Live driver so I can get my line in working again, I'd be in heaven. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Congrats
Glad to see that the ide-scsi is now fixed, along with the xscreensaver. ^ you kidding right ? Well, it recognized my cd drive. Loads the module. Haven't tried burning a cd yet. This is a definate improvement over what it's been doing since b1 or so. Where it would recognize it, but wouldn't load the driver. Had to do it manually. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France --Chmouel
RE: [Cooker] old Eterm in Linux-Mandrake
Personally, I find that 9.0 is highly stable and very useable. In fact, I always install this version. Has several features that 8.10 does not. Anyway, that's my 1.5 cents (deflation ya know). Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Reser Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] old Eterm in Linux-Mandrake No it doesn't. If you go look at the site. The latest *STABLE* release is 0.8.10. Which is what Mandrake has in it. 0.9 (per normal Linux style versioning) is a development version and shouldn't be considered stable or usable. On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:39:26PM +0200, Joakim Bodin wrote: I've noticed for a while now that Linux-Mandrake includes a pretty old/deprecated Eterm version. Are there any reasons to this? If there isn't a maintainer for it I'd gladly become it's maintainer. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org "EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING: Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should have never been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets" - Neal Stephenson, Crytonomicon
[Cooker] IDE-SCSI Problem possible source
I think I may have found the problem with loading ide-scsi. For some reason, the /etc/modules file is not being processed as it should be. I have added some others to the list the other day and found that none of the modules I listed had gotten loaded. Has the /etc/modules been degraded and something else used in it's place? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] OSS Drivers specifically SB Livw
Guillaume, I've already been there, and found patches and such. But, when I attempted to patch the source, the patch failed. Thus, I don't think the driver is very up to date, at least not against the cvs which is what the patch is looking for. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] OSS Drivers specifically SB Livw "B. K. Barley" a écrit : Ok, I asked earlier and didn't get a response... Just how up to date is the EMU10k1 driver for OSS? I would like to know so that I can figure out what I need to do to get the digital channel working. Here is an excellent information source for Linux SB live: http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/ -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Plus petites unités de mesure - de longueur : le millimètre - de volume : le millilitre - d'intelligence : le militaire
RE: scsi-ide was RE: [Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago
The scsi bus does not appear to show. Here are the files you asked for: Modules.conf alias net-pf-4 ipx alias char-major-107 3dfx pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq alias scsi_hostadapter sd_mod alias eth0 3c59x alias scsi_hostadapter1 scsi_mod alias scsi_hostadapter2 ide-scsi And lspcidrake: Oh I forgot to send that. But the scsi emulation is not listed in that either. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scsi-ide was RE: [Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago "B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: more on the scsi-ide problem: I checked tonight and found the following: cdrecord -scanbus results in no scsi interface s found. lsmod reports that no scsi emulation modules are loaded and they are not even in the lib/modules directories. can you check your /etc/modules.conf and your `lspcidrake`? -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
RE: [Cooker] Cups /n latest cooker version as of 2300 gmt
I have been having the exact problem with the 970CSE. LP has the same problems. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Armisis Aieoln Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Cups /n latest cooker version as of 2300 gmt (BTW, I dont know if this will get through, but i know ive subscrivbed to the cooker distro several times yet i no longer get it) anyway I have a HP 970C printer and during the install of the latest cooker, it detects it then hangs up my system I sent my system on downloading the latest version of cooker as of NOWSto see if this fixes it (hope to get back on the distro soon!!!)) david stanton -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Linux - Cause I dont do windows or ovens! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Registered System: 83659
[Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago
I must say that Cooker keeps getting better and better. However, after a mirror update and download from two days ago, and a fresh install I notice the following: #1: SCSI emulation seems to be messed up. In attempting to enter into the director for my cdburner (set to mnt/cdrom) on my system, I get input/output error. Doing an lsmod, and I notice that ide-scsi is not loaded, nor are any of the other modules needed for scsi emulation I need this for my cd burner. #2: LP is still messed up. During install, when selecting lp for the print daemon, the install simply hangs. Setting up Cups works fine, but I'd rather use lp. After install, an attempt to set up LP for an HP Deskjet 970CSE, I attempted to print a test page and got an error message from print tool saying that resource is not on this system. 3#: What version of the oss drivers are being used. Specifically, the emu10k1 driver?There is a patch available to use the digital channel, but when I applied the patch to the source, it failed. #4: The menu on gnome is empty. It shows kde menus, but does not show the gnome menus like it use to. #5: Mon still has issues. Not exactly sure what it is doing. #6: I agree with a previous post today about all the deamons started by default. Things like 4 webservers (Why enable any by default), hylafax, pcmcia (not needed for a desktop), acups (the power back-up), a deamon to monitor battery status (again, not needed for a desktop). Perhaps a simple step in the installer that asks if you are installing on a desktop or notebook could help. #7: Aurua seems pretty cool. But, it seems to need a little more work done on it. Boot mode always seems to be in single-user. The progress bar at the top (I assume that's what it is) is just a white line. That's about it for now. I haven't had much time to play with it. I'm sure I'll find something else over the next couple of days to comment on. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago
Ok... #1: SCSI emulation seems to be messed up. In attempting to enter into the director for my cdburner (set to mnt/cdrom) on my system, I get input/output error. Doing an lsmod, and I notice that ide-scsi is not loaded, nor are any of the other modules needed for scsi emulation I need this for my cd burner. tried "cdrecord -scanbus"? No, I haven't tried that yet. But, it's not reading a regular cd in that drive, so there is a problem. [...] #6: I agree with a previous post today about all the deamons started by default. Things like 4 webservers (Why enable any by default), hylafax, It's fun I didn't even know we had 4 webservers in the distro. Could someone name them to me so I'll be less ignorant? Roxen, httpd, zope, and something else, I forget the name off the top of my head. pcmcia (not needed for a desktop), acups (the power back-up), a deamon to monitor battery status (again, not needed for a desktop). Perhaps a simple step in the installer that asks if you are installing on a desktop or notebook could help. You ask expert and you want everything. You get everything. Okay, you got me on that one.
scsi-ide was RE: [Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago
more on the scsi-ide problem: I checked tonight and found the following: cdrecord -scanbus results in no scsi interface s found. lsmod reports that no scsi emulation modules are loaded and they are not even in the lib/modules directories. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Cooker Comments as of two days ago "B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] #1: SCSI emulation seems to be messed up. In attempting to enter into the director for my cdburner (set to mnt/cdrom) on my system, I get input/output error. Doing an lsmod, and I notice that ide-scsi is not loaded, nor are any of the other modules needed for scsi emulation I need this for my cd burner. tried "cdrecord -scanbus"? [...] #6: I agree with a previous post today about all the deamons started by default. Things like 4 webservers (Why enable any by default), hylafax, It's fun I didn't even know we had 4 webservers in the distro. Could someone name them to me so I'll be less ignorant? pcmcia (not needed for a desktop), acups (the power back-up), a deamon to monitor battery status (again, not needed for a desktop). Perhaps a simple step in the installer that asks if you are installing on a desktop or notebook could help. You ask expert and you want everything. You get everything. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] OSS Drivers specifically SB Livw
Ok, I asked earlier and didn't get a response... Just how up to date is the EMU10k1 driver for OSS? I would like to know so that I can figure out what I need to do to get the digital channel working. Bryan
[Cooker] Install crashes
Greetings all, I updated my local mirror on Sunday from the primary mirror. Went to install and after the partition is mounted and the install attempts to go into the next stage, it unmounts everything then tells me it's okay to reboot. This occurs at the stage when the graphical menu is loaded...not exactly sure of the terminology here. Not sure if it has been fixed yet, since I haven't updated anything since sunday morn. Bryan
[Cooker] 7.2 Beta 1 Issues
Finally got a good download of Beta 1 ISO installed and found the following problems that are of immediate concern to me: 1. Printer list empty, unable to configure printer. 2. Sound--Using a soundblaster live MP3 with the soundworks FPS2000 speaker system has some problems. Unable to hear audio cd's and line in. I must have line in working for my job. I've checked the mixer settings and they were up all the way. PCM works great. This is a problem with both the oss-lite and alsa drivers. 3. Mon deamon is whacked. Causes the system to stop booting when it tries to locate X stuff. Not exactly sure what the problem is, just pretty much prevents loading of Linux. Disabling the Mon deamon fixes the problem. That's about it, other then the 3 hour install time to get it up and running...did an expert full install. I don't remember it ever taking that long to setup before. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ...
This is a problem, that occours on my machine also since I use a pre 17
Kernel. It als showed up with the vanilla Kenel I got by Chmouel, so
I don't know if it is wise to use a pre17 Kernel for the upcoming
release ... (don't look very professional to fore people using a
_known buggy_ kernel to run their apps on. This is a more M$ way of
life ...)
Actually, these errors have been around since around pre15 or so. It
usually occurs on my machine when I run VMWare or really have the server
stressed out. Does anyone know exactly what causes these errors? Is it
Bigmem support or something?
Bryan
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[Cooker] System freezes after fresh mirror install
Last time I update from the mirror was friday morning around 5AM. Did a fresh install yesterday afternoon and now get the following error durring boot: Starting mon deamon ,deamon.critmon[3251]: failure for servers ping 9767906020 Which no fping in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr:/usr/X11R6/bin) The init then goes into detecting disks and takes for ever to do anything else. Other current install issues: Can't test my display for XFree86 3.3. No printers listed in printer list. I am also a little confused on the network configuration. It's now asking specifically what kind of connection I am using in expert mode. I would like to know what changes are made by selecting cable (which is what I have). If it is setting up DHCP I may have a problem since I could never get Linux to work with DHCP on the @Home network. Bryan
[Cooker] Alsa or OSS?
Hey, Just a quick question. For the Soundblaster Live cards, which is better -- Alsa, or OSS Lite? I'm using the default OSS Lite drivers and have a problem. Sound comming from a source other then wave input only goes to one speaker. I have both front and rear speakers set on line out and line out 1. I'm wondering if Alsa better supports the card. Bryan
[Cooker] Current Install Problems
During fresh install from latest cooker mirrors the following occurs: Install hangs during printer setup. Select install printer --- Local. It scans the parport, finds the right printer then nothing happens. Have to reboot. Install does not create boot image needed when /boot is installed on a resierfs partition. Also, there is still a problem with the Spool file not found issue that I reported the other week. Other then that, looking real good! Bryan
[Cooker] Resolution and Vodoo card
Hi, Ok, I figured out what the problem is with XFree86 4 and my vodoo card. The server works fine with any resolution 1280x1024 or lower. But, when a higher resolution is selected it gets all messed up. Was wondering if there is a fix or should I drop back down to Xfree86 3.3.*? Bryan
[Cooker] Printing problem
With the latest packages available something is not getting set right for printing. When I print a file my printer shoots out a page saying "No Spool file found" I'm not sure what the problem is here. Any suggestions? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Printing problem
"B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the latest packages available something is not getting set right for printing. When I print a file my printer shoots out a page saying "No Spool file found" I'm not sure what the problem is here. Try "ls -l /var/spool/lpd" and you should see all printer queue configured as directory where there should be some files. Check access right too (root.lp or lp.lp). I checked it. The following exists: /var/spool/lpd/lp As near as I can tell, and if memory serves me correctly, the lp directory has root and lp groups. This is configured for the hp 970CSE using the 870 filter. It has worked under this configuration before but with the latest updates and installs it doesn't work. I'm wondering if it's not a fiter problem. François.
RE: [Cooker] Permissions and sticky bits
I have my normal user account added to the Audio group but Aumix dosen't
load. I have to open a terminal and su to load it. The Grip problem turned
out to be a bad link in the dev tree. Setup set up a ling /dev/cdrom to
/dev/scd1 when it should have been /dev/scd0. This is an ide cdrom drive
set as scsi for burning.
Bryan
-Original Message-
From: Frederic Crozat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Permissions and sticky bits
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("B. K. Barley") writes:
The real problem that still remains is permisions set in the dev tree.
When
logged in as a user, grip will not access a disk in any drive. And esd
doesn't like starting when not loging in as root...which of course is a
nono... Anyway, I'm not sure what the problem is or really how to fix it.
My temporary solution was to add my user account to audio. That fixed the
esd problem. The grip problem, I don't think is fixed yet.
To correct your audio problem, you must add your user account to
"audio" group..
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[Cooker] Permissions and sticky bits
I must say that the version on the mirror is mostly stable now. I'm very impressed. All the VM problems are gone with the kernel, the gcc issue is now resolved and various other problems are fixed. The qt-addon problem is a problem for those upgrading. Guess a clean install will fix that, but I'm hesitant to do that now that everything is somewhat fixed, and fast. The real problem that still remains is permisions set in the dev tree. When logged in as a user, grip will not access a disk in any drive. And esd doesn't like starting when not loging in as root...which of course is a nono... Anyway, I'm not sure what the problem is or really how to fix it. My temporary solution was to add my user account to audio. That fixed the esd problem. The grip problem, I don't think is fixed yet. Bryan
[Cooker] Menus
From a user perspective in regards to this menu issue, I just would like to know how to add things to the default menus that don't get added. For instance, when I install Star Office, or Compupic, or some other app that is not included with the distribution, I can not add it to the menus. I have looked at the documentation for 7.1 and searched all around the docs in cooker but found nothing. Bryan
[Cooker] MandrakeUpdate
I've started using the Mandrake Update tool and am really pleased with how we can now update from a mirror site or local mirror, or directory. However, I get an error on many packages that I try to update that says: Can't open package *** Not sure what is up with that. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Finally a good install, but some issues
#1: GCC is really messed up. It will not compile any source. Downgrading to the version shipped with 7.1 fixes it all. Well at least I am not alone in this... I already reported the problem with GCC I can't compile anything and I was told that my machine is all screwed... all I did was to install the latest cooker ;-) Sergio, The only way I got things to compile was to downgrade to gcc sent with 7.1. If you need a copy of it and can't download it from a mirror, I can send it to you. Bryan
[Cooker] Finally a good install, but some issues
Okay! I finally got a working install of cooker done from the mirrors, however I have the following issues: #1: GCC is really messed up. It will not compile any source. Downgrading to the version shipped with 7.1 fixes it all. #2: could there be a missing paramater in the menu entry for grip? It complains about there not being a valid drive. Launching from the command line with -d and the device works. #3: Device3DFx is totally messed up. Had to downgrade to the version sent with 7.1 to get X to work. Pixel, thanks for fixing the net configuration issue. Works fine now. KDE2 is really comming together now. Thanks so much. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Net configuration during install
When I do a reinstall, I'll copy the host and resolv file as install configures it and send it out. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 6:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Net configuration during install "B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Reboot, do a ping, and host can not be found. Check the netconfiguration and I notice that the search path in dns is blank, and you mean /etc/resolv.conf is bad? the gateway (which is needed for us @home users) has the right ip address but is not enabled. you mean route(8) doesn't show it? Is there an error in the script that will not enable the gateway ? in cooker? can you find out what the pb is?
RE: [Cooker] Odd Netscape Behavior
I have tried launcing it from a terminal, using the run menu command in gnome, the links in menus etc. No matter how i do it, netscape will not load. I'm reinstalling from soon after re-mirror. -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Odd Netscape Behavior On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:11:50AM -0400, B. K. Barley wrote: Sorry, The versions are: 4.73-7mdk And the crypto version which always worked best for me is: 4.73-6mdk And how do you launch it? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
[Cooker] Best way to update after mirror
Hey all, I read over the recent faq, and checked stuff out on the mandrake site but I'm still confused as to the best way to update new rpms downloaded after mirroring. I tried looking at autoirpm but that seems to be an install on demand type utility. What I'm looking for is something that will scan an installation, compare installed rpms with the local copy of the mirror and update installed rpms (plus changed dependent stuff) automatically. Any suggestions, information/instructions? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Best way to update after mirror
Thanks Stefan, I'll give that a try -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan van der Eijk Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Best way to update after mirror Try autorpm (without the "i"). It's in the contribs. Stefan I read over the recent faq, and checked stuff out on the mandrake site but I'm still confused as to the best way to update new rpms downloaded after mirroring. I tried looking at autoirpm but that seems to be an install on demand type utility. What I'm looking for is something that will scan an installation, compare installed rpms with the local copy of the mirror and update installed rpms (plus changed dependent stuff) automatically. Any suggestions, information/instructions? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Odd Netscape Behavior
Sorry, The versions are: 4.73-7mdk And the crypto version which always worked best for me is: 4.73-6mdk Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David BAUDENS Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Odd Netscape Behavior B Barley écrivit : Nope, still get the bus error. Again: what version and how do you launch it? -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com PARIS, FRANCE --David
[Cooker] Boot loader problem
Just downloaded a new cooker dist from the sunsite.uio.no mirror, installed and came up with some strange behavior: #1: even when Grub is selected in expert mode, it will still configure and install lilo as the boot loader. #2: With rieserfs used on root partition, kernel panics becuase of bad media discriptor on root partition. For some reason, it is expecting ext2 filesystem. Not sure what is causing the second problem. Will try to install reformating the partition to use ext2 and see what happens. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gnome-core-1.2.1-8mdk
But what for users that have a soundcard that has drivers still in development? I do not believe that alsa has support for the vortex chip yet. It's on the Dimaond monster sound cards. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anton Graham Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gnome-core-1.2.1-8mdk Submitted 24-Jul-00 by David Walluck: I don't need or want ALSA and I'm on x86! I don't know why they are doing this! I have an SBLive! which does not sue ALSA, why requre it?? And this isn't the only package either, lots of stuff now needs ALSA :( ALSA has one major advantage over OSS and OSS/Free (which your SBLive! does use): it's genuinely free. While your particular soundcard has excellent support from the manufacturer which allows it to use the OSS/Free interface quite effectively, OSS/Free itself provides only rudimentary support for many cards. It exists, primarily, as a marketing tool to license more copies of the better, commercial OSS. (Which for your card would be superfluous). But, before dismissing ALSA entirely because it isn't needed for to get good support for your card, you should consider that the same driver that you use now, originally provided by Creative, is also integrated into ALSA. And ALSA generally provides better sound quality than even the commercial OSS drivers. That said, perhaps it would be wiser to take advantage od ALSA's OSS compatibility instead of building support into the packages. We have already seen at least two packages that had to have alsa support disabled for various reasons. It is also important to consider those users who have paid for the commercial drivers. I know that if I still used the drivers I purchased, I would be more than a little annoyed at having to install a second set of drivers that I was not going to use. So, while I don't necessarily agree with your choice to not use ALSA, it _is_ your choice and another should not be forced on you. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
[Cooker] KDE2 Question
Hi all, I'd like to move up to the KDE2 packages but I need to know all the packages I need to get a complete install including the depend packages. Sorry if this was already posted. Bryan
[Cooker] gmc bug
Ok, this happens quite a bit for me. If I am in Enlightenment and I start gmc, I will get a seg fault and it will crash. Re-starting gmc and it may crash or work. Eventually, if I try enough it will work. The package is 4.5.46-1mdk Bryan
[Cooker] compupic
Well, I have a huge image collection and really need a good program to handle, sort, and browse my collection. GPhoto is good, GQView is better, but Compupic is simply the best. I'd love to see this included with Mandrake, although I'm not sure about the licensing issues. I know that the personal version is free. However I don't know if they like the program to be included in a distro. Bryan
[Cooker] Net configuration during install
Ok, I've noticed a problem in configuring the network during install. I know this affects myself and am not sure if it affects anyone else. During configuration, install recognizes my network card and then moves on to configure ip, subnet, dns, and gateway. After all that is done, it moves on to installing the crypto stuff. At this point, the installer has a problem finding the server and loging in. If I skip this step and finish the install, all is ok. Reboot, do a ping, and host can not be found. Check the netconfiguration and I notice that the search path in dns is blank, and the gateway (which is needed for us @home users) has the right ip address but is not enabled. Is there an error in the script that will not enable the gateway ? Bryan
[Cooker] I may have the same problem
Ok, I sent out a couple of emails to the list yesterday and they didn't show up either. Checked my settings and yes, it went to cooker with a small c. Maybe this will make it out. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] test - ignore
I'm having the same problem Bryan -Original Message- From: Geoffrey Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] test - ignore hours ago, one to "Cooker" and one to "cooker". The first appeared within a few minutes, the second has yet to appear... same. as far as i know the messages with small "c" in the cooker that i posted yesterday all ent to the bit bucket ... :-( Of course, two messages is not a statistically significant sample. It could just be a coincidence. same for me.. and yesterday every messages was with a big C. most probably there is a big problem with the mailing lists but the responsible (denis) are in vacations, and it seems that no one would like to go deep inside his procmail/sympa configuration (actually I think that Jean-Loup tried to have a look yesterday but abandonned after seeing how deep the mess is..)
[Cooker] Update tools
is there, or could someone create a tool like the update tool under a normal mandrake distribution that poles the cooker mirrors instead of the normal distribution mirrors? This would greatly help in installing rpm's that have changed instead of mirroring or rsyncing. Or perhaps I misunderstand the whole mirror process.
[Cooker] TDFx
I saw on the cooker mirrors that there is a new 3dlabs rpm that is newer then the one included in 7.1b3. I downloaded it, tried to do the normal upgrade stuff and it came up with an error that it was unable to execute the script. Could I have a dependency problem?
RE: [Cooker] Burners
Thanks Cicileme and Kevin. It's not that i mind rebuilding a kernel, but for somereason I always loose features in the mandrake and usually have a heck of a time getting the kernel installed. Anyway, I'm glad that I won't need to rebuild the kernel after all. Kevin, You have a zip drive as a slave to the burner? Hmmm...does that drop your burner performance? I thought that two IDE devices on the same bus can only go as fast as the slowest device connected. And I know that Zip drives are terribly slow when it comes to transfer speeds. At least that's how I understand it. So I will probably set my burner as a slave to my dvd drive. Not sure yet really. Bryan -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Burners No kernel rebuilding you need append="ide-scsi" in your boot routine (Drakboot can help you) and modprobe ide-scsi somewhere, as in a console or xterm or /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules is probably the best place to put it as alias block-major-11 ide-scsi postinstall modprobe ide-scsi Anyway, one of those techniques will work for you. Remember also that you burn unmounted and also blank in that condition. If you leave a blank in the burner and it is supermounted, your system may not come back from power saver. Civileme root wrote: Hi, I'm going to be upgrading to a new ide burner...the HP 9300I and need to know some information. #1, how well does it work in Linux #2, will I have to recompile the kernel to make it into an emulated scsi device? If the kernel must be recompiled, I have a recomendation for the kernel crew: Build the kernel so that atapi devices such as burners are automatically setup as scsi emulation. I know how to build the kernel, but always end up pulling my hair out when I build a custom kernel. B. K. Barley
RE: [Cooker] U66 solved
I have reported the same problem even with the -X option. I've tried various settings on the X flag and when I turned on DMA Transfer, it would crash also. B. K. Barley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] U66 solved "bobby dowling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean the -d flag without the -X flags? So, you can say -dX and those WD drives that froze the system before would work? nope, froze anyway here :(
[Cooker] Aureal Drivers was Very Nice
The AUreal drivers really do work excelently under linux. And yes, I believe that they sound better under linux since linux has the output gain that windows does not. However, one needs to be aware that as of 1 month ago, even the aureal dirvers for the developmental kernels do not work with 2.99 pre 8 or 9. They will compile and install ok, but when you run gnome or kde it will crash your system. They are aware of such problems. It lies in the ESD and KDSound Daemon. Or something like that. Bryan -Original Message- From: Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Very nice I do hope you know that the Aureal 8830 card works wonderfully under linux if you install the right drivers for it. http://linux.a3d.com I believe it almost sounds better under linux than it does in Windows. ;) Incidently the card I tested this on was a Diamond MX300 but it should should with any Aureal 8830, 8820, 8810 card. Make sure you read the install instructions base on which chipset your card has... And I'm not so lazy that I can't type "make install" to install a sound card. Beats the heck out of the things you used to have to do in DOS! hehe - Original Message - From: Necrotica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:33 PM Subject: [Cooker] Very nice Kudos to the Mandrake developers. Until tonight I had been using an Aureal 8830 sound card. Tonight I broke down and picked up an SB Live!. I removed the old card, inserted the new one, Kudzu caught it, configured it, and it was done. First boot - there was sound. It took longer and was slightly more complicated to get it working under Windows. Its features like this that seperates Mandrake from other distros. I'm extremely impressed! Good job! Thanks!! -Chris
RE: [Cooker] Re: [kde-alpha] kde2 -20000531
Ok, I know I am using an older build of KDE2, but I'm having a problem getting it up and running. I followed the instructions on getting kde2 and 1.X to work together and this is what happens: I export all the directory paths and lib paths, execute kdm and it loads kdm from kde2.0. It will load kde1, not kde 2 and the only selections in kdm is kde, failsafe, and default. I then rebooted, did the path exports and loaded gdm. KDE2 shows up in the options, but when I select it, it backs me out to gdm again. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Could someone please post exact directions for Mandrake 7.1B? Bryan -Original Message- From: Matthew R. Sprague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 3:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: [kde-alpha] kde2 -2531 On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Matthew R. Sprague wrote: What differences exist between your rpm's on http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html and those in Mandrake cooker contributions? Are the rpm's on us.mandrake using /usr/lib/qt2 or /usr/lib/qt2.1.1? This is also an issue that needs to be addressed. Why is Mandrake using qt2 and Redhat qt2.1.1.? This is a classic example of the need for the LSB. This is a real pain in the ass from the end user standpoint. As far as qt goes.. The current version in cooker is qt2.1.1 (qt2-2.1.1). I really am not sure waht you are talking about here. I upgraded cooker to qt2-2.1.1 the day after it was available from the trolls. I don't think anyone can ask much more. I wasn't very clear here in what I was trying to get across. The qt difference that I was talking about was where RH and Mandrake are putting the qt2 files RH ---/usr/lib/qt2.1.1 Mandrake/usr/lib/qt2 Maybe I'm over reacting but from the end user point of veiw this is a pain in the butt. Does this not cause a problem if a someone using Mandrake decides to grab binary RPM's made by bero for RH and install them? This is was I meant by a good example of the pressing need for a linux standard base. Mandrake claims 99.5(?)% compatability with RH but right now as it stands won't this lead to potential conflicts?. This is not KDE's fault directly, but you might want to suggest that Mandrake and RH agree on a common library directory. It is a tiny difference but it is the kind of thing that can leave a sour taste in the mouths of new users. The other option is that there is no problem and I'm pulling my hair out over something that has a solution allready built in to Mandrake. If I'm correct in the directory naming conflict then isn't the following a problem? http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html #!/bin/sh export KDEDIR=/opt/kde2 export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2.1.1 (does this need to be changed to /usr/lib/qt2 for a Mandrake distribution?) export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib I am still confused as to why your RPM's won't uninstall. I think this is a Mandrake specific problem as other packages (ie pine)are also not uninstalling. rpm -e foo.rpm = not installed, rpm -qa | grep foo = bingo installed??? Chris, is this a problem with your RPM's or is this a Mandrake problem? I am cross posting this to the Mandrake cooker list and KDE-alpha list as parts of this thread pertain to each team. Is this OK to do or would the developers prefer that I not cross post? On a more upbeat note... I got the 0608 builds installed and I am very impressed with the quality, look and feel of KDE2. You got me hooked as a die hard fan of KDE. Keep up the good work.
RE: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive
I thought you needed to set -c3 when using dma...maybe I should set mine to d1 and then try again. I've tried several dif combos but it always locks when dma is turned on. And my WD was bought in Jan. Bryan -Original Message- From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive I wonder how current it has to be ...got my drives about 6 months ago. From: "Don Krause" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:42:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB0838ED0007D820F3C6D847542336470; Wed Jun 07 17:50:53 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15294for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:50:20 -0500 Received: from proton.llumc.edu (proton.llumc.edu [143.197.200.1]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11998 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:36:32 -0500 Received: from ankaa (ankaa.llumc.edu [143.197.200.81]) by proton.llumc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00463 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:42:31 -0700 (PDT) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 07 17:52:38 2000 Message-Id: 000d01bfd0e2$6fad5500$[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Importance: Normal X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 557 Precedence: list X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMA works fine on CURRENT Wd disks. There was an issue with an earlier disk. just a simple test on my Mandrake7.0 box with a single WD 27 GIG drive. (Using bonnie) Fresh reboot, no hdparm: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 4261 73.5 5092 7.5 1776 19.8 2928 71.9 3956 18.5 288.7 8.3 Reboot again. Then hdparm -d1c1 /dev/hda (then run bonnie again) ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 7919 99.3 28024 30.9 9332 20.8 7509 86.8 19223 16.9 440.1 2.4 That's a pretty good improvement for a drive that isn't susposed to work at all in UDMA mode. -- Don Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: bobby dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive Well, it looks like you got lucky. I have a 13 gig and an 8 gig WD and they are both slow. The funny thing is that the 8 gig is a 5400 rpm drive and hdparm says it is a shade faster than the 13 gig drive, which is a 7200 rpm drive...go figure. ...around 4.7 megs/sec each. I wish I knew this before I bought the drives. I got them at Best Buy and they sale both WD and Maxtor drives ...it was a flip of the coin then ...should have done my research ...maybe next time!! :) From: Sebastian Dransfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB08171F00A3D82197E5D8475423685B0; Wed Jun 07 15:26:39 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04424for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:25:41 -0500 Received: from elefant.stud.ntnu.no (elefant.stud.ntnu.no [129.241.56.22]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03805 for[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:24:01 -0500 Received: from jeeves.stud.ntnu.no (jeeves [129.241.56.14]) by elefant.stud.ntnu.no (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id e57MOqC05818 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:24:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (sebastid@localhost) by jeeves.stud.ntnu.no (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id e57MOa219068 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 07 15:29:33 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: jeeves.stud.ntnu.no: sebastid owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 548 Precedence: list On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote: So, there is no way to use DMA on WD drives? Man, this stinks.
Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive
As far as how much slower the drive is with dma turned off...well, I have an older 3 gig fugistu that is non ata66. With the dma turned on, I get about 12meg/sec transfer. With my wd 13gig I get about 1.3 or so. So it is seriously hurting the drives performance. B. K. Barley
Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive
I have the same problem enabling the dma on my wd hard-drive. I check the kernel and it seems that dma and bus mastering for the hpt controllers are not finished yet. So, the support is not built into the kernel that ships with 7.1. Bryan "Jonathan M. Prigot" wrote: I'm not sure whether it is a problem for all or just some chipsets (mine's an HPT366 on a Soyo 6BA+ IV mobo, BTW.) I always assumed the latter and shrugged my shoulders. --- Brian Fleischman wrote: I do can do a -c1 just fine also. If I do a -d1 (dma)...locks up...harddrive light on constantly, even with the -X66 or -X68. I have a WD 20.5 ata/66 7200 rpm drive. I wonder what's up with the dma stuff. -Brian Jonathan Prigot wrote: What happens if you don't do the -d1? I can do -c1 just fine (and it speeds things up 50%), but if I do -d1 my system locks solid. --- On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: I am trying to change the 16 bit i/o seetings for my hard drive to 32 bit to drive to speed up access with the following command: hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hde (I have ata/66 drives working on hde/hdg) I wait a good 5 minutes and nothing ...just hangs, but I can close the x-terminal. Any ideas here/ BTW, I got this tweak tip from: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and Women's Hospital 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East Boston, MA 02215-1213 -- Brian Fleischman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Jonathan M. Prigot
[Cooker] Menus
Ok, This may not be the best time, or even the right place but I have a problem with the menus. This is not a bug per say...but more of an annoyance. How is it possible to add menu items for programs installed that are not part of the distribution? I would like to add star office, word perfect, and some other stuff that does not get automatically added when installed. Could there be a possible utility created that would allow this? Say drakmenu? B. K. Barley
RE: [Cooker] XFree 4.0 and DPMS and USB happiness
Yes, I get this problem also. But I assume it's because the ldconfig is not run and it is not loading the dri module in the xf86config-4 file. Pixel, is it possible to get the xconfig file updated so it will work on Vodoo3 3000 cards? Once I finished the install, without knowing X is configured properly or not, I shut down, rebooted into the os and ran ldconfig, then I added dri to the module section and it started x. Now, I have a white block going down the right hand side of the screen. It doesn't matter what resolution or color depth I change to, it's always there. I think it's a configuration issue. Or perhaps it's the frame buffer enabled kernel I installed that's causing the problem? I'll try doing a fresh install later today with the regular kernel. I'm using a Vodoo 3 3000 AGP, and a relisys monitor. I installed the fb kernel. B. K. Barley -Original Message- From: Lorne Shantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] XFree 4.0 and DPMS and USB happiness How ironic. I have the exact same set up as you do! 32mb of ram but only a single head setup. I found that even though I selected 1024x768 I got 1600x1200. It took me awhile to figure out how to lower the resolution, since none of the old utilities for changing resolution work yet. But it seems a little faster, it is a LOT less hard on my eyes. It always used to give me a headache and fuzzy eyes. now it seems great! Randy Welch wrote: Does it actually work? I can't seem to get it to do anything with my Matrox G400 and Viewsonic PS790. (3.3.6 seems to work or at least under Mandrake 7.0) On another front I am happy that USB seems to work. I can get photos off my Kodak DC290 camera with ks. I can skip using the wife/kids Windows PC if I so choose! -randy
[Cooker] Vodoo3 3000 and XF86 4.0 information
Anton, I tried all the changes you suggested and I was still having the same blasted line. It turns out it wasn't the the fb kernel but is an error with the tdfx driver itself. I found this surfing the newsgroup linux.3dfx.driver (or something like that). Others report the same problem with the screen size is set for 1600x1200. I moved down to a lower res and sure enough it was fixed. The people at 3dfx are aware of this problem and our presumably working on. Bryan -Original Message- From: AG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:13 AM To: B. K. Barley Subject: Re: [Cooker] XFree 4.0 and DPMS and USB happiness Hi B.! On Tue, 30 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: | Yes, | | I get this problem also. But I assume it's because the ldconfig is not run | and it is not loading the dri module in the xf86config-4 file. Pixel, is it | possible to get the xconfig file updated so it will work on Vodoo3 3000 | cards? | Once I finished the install, without knowing X is configured properly or | not, I shut down, rebooted into the os and ran ldconfig, then I added dri to | the module section and it started x. | Now, I have a white block going down the right hand side of the screen. It | doesn't matter what resolution or color depth I change to, it's always | there. I think it's a configuration issue. Or perhaps it's the frame buffer | enabled kernel I installed that's causing the problem? I'll try doing a | fresh install later today with the regular kernel. | I'm using a Vodoo 3 3000 AGP, and a relisys monitor. I installed the fb | kernel. | | B. K. Barley I had the same problem with the white stripe on a Voodoo3 2000 PCI. It does seem to be related to the use of frambuffered video on the console, because it does not appear when using ``regular'' text modes. I switched to the regular video because there seems to be some corruption of the console displays while X4 is running. (i.e. not scrolling parts of the right side of the screen or the bottom line). -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
RE: [Cooker] ATA 66 Issues
Eugenio: Do you have your ata66 drive set for 66 or 33? Just wondering. Bryan -Original Message- From: Eugenio Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ATA 66 Issues --- "B.Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ok, I finally got around to discovering hdparm, a very useful program. I got it to boost the speed of my old ata33 drive by about 10 Meg/sec. Now, I'm trying to get it to speed up my ATA66 WD drive and am having some serious issues. I was able to increase the speed by about 2 meg/sec with out turning on DMA. When I try to set the DAM bit to on, it locks I don't know why, but you can not specify the -d flag alone; you have to do something like this: hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda Which is UltraDMA 3, since I tried -X68 (UltraDMA4) and is not supported. = Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
RE: [Cooker] problem with beta3 iso
I downloaded and installed the iso's off of free.net last week and it seems to be ok. Bryan -Original Message- From: David Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] problem with beta3 iso On Tue, 30 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I had the same problem. It seems that start with gimp...rpm package all other packages are damaged. maybe a problem of the free.fr version :-( Nope, as stated earlier, tucows is the same. I haven't seen a list of any other mirrors with the iso's, but I would think that if the two main mirrors have bad iso's, then the original is bad. Warly wrote a short note on this list earlier today, acknowledging the problem, but I haven't seen a fixed iso pop up on the mirrors yet. -- David Hart Vincity Design *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
RE: [Cooker] HP 895cse
In the install, there is a catch all that should work for most of the newer models. It's towards the end of the hpdj list and is something like 850 or 860 something like that. It works with my 970CSE however it does not use the duplex cartridge that i have. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Walter Lee Queen II Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] HP 895cse does anyone have a driver for the hp 895cse I tried to ask HP but they don't seem intrested with my problem. the printer is both paralell and usb
RE: [Cooker] hydrogen 3
I have found that if you make a boot disk and pass the memory info to the kernel, installation then recognizes the full amount you pass to it and set's your boot manager up for it. -Original Message- From: Gary Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] hydrogen 3 Just downloaded and installed beta 3. For some reason, this build did not recognize some of my hardware. It only recognized 65 megs of RAM (I have 128 megs) and it did not recognize my video correctly (ATI Rage128 chipset). I did not have either of these problems in Oxygen or hydrogen beta 1 2. The above problems were easily overcome and the system is running fine. In fact, I really like the re-organization of the menus, etc. Gary Russell Maryville, TN Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Problem with PnP was RE: [Cooker] discussion of next distro
Ok, Perhaps the problem with the isa PnP flavor of the old 16-bit AWE32 is not a problem with the card, but with PnP in general. I have an Adaptec 1520B ISA PnP Scsi card. I did the pnpdump isapnp.conf, then ran isapnp isapnp.conf and I got an error saying error in io memory range. Not sure how to fix that one. Perhaps it's a more general problem with PnP, and not just my card. This is happening in Beta 3 and I'd really like to get it fixed. Bryan -Original Message- From: Lorne Shantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] discussion of next distro Did you get your tv card to work?? I'm almost ready to try. I had to change to a different sound card since the new distros don't work anymore with the Soundblaster AWE32 16bit isa PNP card. Been REAL busy, but am very anxious to try to make it work. That is one thing that I MUST make work before I will start using Linux full time. Any tips you care to share? Gary Russell wrote: Denis HAVLIK wrote: Hi, folks! What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully! [ANNOUNCEMENT] We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the process of improving our next distro. I know that what I'm about write maybe on the edge of impossible, but a great idea to strive for. I also know that support for ALL hardware is close to impossible, but... Would be nice that the install would recognize the hardware and install appropriate drivers AND software to use it. Example: My Hauppauge WinTV card. Yes, Hard Drake knows the card is there so why didn't the drivers get installed? the BTTV drivers have been around for awhile. If the install recognizes the card and installs the driver, it should also automatically install appropriate software to use it like a video capture or net conferencing software. Even Windows doesn't do this, but it would be nice especially for hardware that has been around for awhile. Gary Russell Maryville, TN Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [Cooker] memory
Gary, You know, I tried that and I don't think it set the boot installer up right. Don't remember though. Bryan -Original Message- From: Gary Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] memory Actually, it wasn't hard to set it manually DURING the install. Don't recall which section, but in the same dialog box where you set security level, it said recognized 65 megs, but you can type in a number. It then sets up boot to recognize it all. From: "B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] hydrogen 3 Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 13:56:09 -0700 I have found that if you make a boot disk and pass the memory info to the kernel, installation then recognizes the full amount you pass to it and set's your boot manager up for it. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [Cooker] hydrogen 3
Lorne, Yes, I clearly remember the problem with 6.1. I'm using Grub and have to manually change it everytime I boot over. Seems to be a pain, but I'm not familiar with how to permanently change grub. Anyone know of a site with info on how? The memory issue does not blow up lilo. I tried it with lilo also and it seemed to work. Bryan -Original Message- From: Lorne Shantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] hydrogen 3 That brings up a good point. My system has 170 and it only recognized 48 I think it was. In 6.0 and 6.1 I noticed that even if I told it 170 it never would recognize it. ?? This versin even though not recognizing it, properly loads it using GRUB. Not sure if it will blow up with lilo though. Still problems with the ls120 being seen as hda instead of ? hda1 maybe?, I've not had time to research that one, but will report back when I do have the time. Gary Russell wrote: Just downloaded and installed beta 3. For some reason, this build did not recognize some of my hardware. It only recognized 65 megs of RAM (I have 128 megs) and it did not recognize my video correctly (ATI Rage128 chipset). I did not have either of these problems in Oxygen or hydrogen beta 1 2. The above problems were easily overcome and the system is running fine. In fact, I really like the re-organization of the menus, etc. Gary Russell Maryville, TN Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[Cooker] Still having a problem with vodoo3 3000 + Xfree86 4.0 in Beta 3
Ok, I sent a help flag out yesterday on this, but think that it got burried in the avalanche of the cooker discussion thread. So, here it is again...I can't get my Vodoo3 3000 and Xfree86 4.0 set up and running. I really would like to use Xfree 4 but can't. This is what I get when I try: (==) Server Layout "layout1" (xx)|--Screen "Screen1"(0) (xx)||--Monitor = "" (xx)||--Device "Vodoo3 (generic)" (xx)|--Input Device "Keyboard1" (xx) xkb:rules "xfree86" (xx) xkb:FontPath set to "unix/: -1" (xx) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/x11/rgb" (==) Module Path set to "/usr/X11R6/Lib/Modules" (--) Using UT Number 6 It also recomends going into change settings. When I do this, it will not let me retest the server. When installation is complete, I reboot and X will not start. Complains with a fatal server error. I need to get this up asap. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Somebody, anybody, if you have a vodoo 3 3000 and got xfree 4 setup and running, let me know how you did it please?!? Bryan
RE: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit on the second CD
Ok, I can understand the download to avoid royalty fees, but that is a very large download for one program. Last time i downloaded SO 5.2B it was around 70M...and of course it was not on a mirror so even on a cable modem it took forever. If I go out and spend 50-100$ for an distribution, I expect it to have all the latest stable versions, and not have to download programs like SO. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan van der Eijk Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit on the second CD How about including Star office 5.X on it? That is a free program, but not sure if Sun would agree to it. This is not really free [for example, we pay royalties for each printed CD]. Fair, that's the way it is... For the moment our politics are to limit as much as possible the amount of non open-source stuff on main installation CD [which is, now, CD Installation and CD Extension] OK, what however could be provided is some kind of "rpm-wrapper" for these "closed software" programs. Maybe some kind of mechanism can be made which performs the following tasks: - An icon show up in a "to be installed closed software menu" - When you click the icon, the software will be downloaded from the software makers site ($un Micro$y$tem$ in this case) and an RPM will be made installed. - Key is that the rpm which is made is "taylored" for mandrake. Which means that the menu items are in place, the files are placed in a work-able place on the disk (according to the FS standards that mandrake lives to), etc. etc. etc. Goal of this mechanism will be: - Not needing to distribute this software with the CD's (royalties) - User performs "task" (one mouse-click) to download install the software. - User is provided with the "comfort" of a Mandrake packaged RPM. - Updates of new "closed software" packages (acroread, staroffice, WP??) can be provided with this mechanism. I know it goes far... Stefan van der Eijk
[Cooker]GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Software
Speaking of software... I don't know how long 7.1 has been frozen, but I'm highly irritated with some versions of software that is shipping with the beta. I use enlightenment as my wm most of the time and that has been in 16.4 since January. Ok, depending on when it was frozen, I can understand this. But, Eterm has 0.9.4 and this one has been around for a long time now. I know it's in development and is not considered to be stable by the developers, but I've never had a problem with it. The thing is, there are many programs around that get installed by default in standard locations like /usr/bin and this would not affect the standardization controls that Mandrake want's. So, why not include the latest available version of stuff if it works and requires no more tweaking? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION Internet Utilities
The big hang-up I have with Mozilla is that it is slow, crashes often, and has no java support built in. Site's that I go to to chat at won't even load the page with Mozilla. This was even with the latest build from last week. The best program I've been able to use for mail has been the mail client in Star Office. But, that has it's own set of issues. For an advanced office suite...it has a really crappy mail client. Sun knows it and promise to change it. I heard a roumer the KDE 2.0 is included on the Second CD. I'm going to try installing that tonight. Bryan -Original Message- From: Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION Internet Utilities On Fri, 26 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: WEB BROWSERS AND PLUG-INS and other related software. The one thing that causes me to shift over to microtrash more often then not is reliable feature rich internet utilities. Mail clients are the biggest problem that forces me to boot over to microtrash. The clients that are promissing are still in early beta (some in alpha even) and are very buggy. I have to second this. Since mail is one of the most often used applications today, it is kind of weird that the clients are still a bit immature. Okay, Pine works just fine ;-). But seriously this is an area that could see improvement. Kmail and Balsa are there, but seem to be a bit slow in their advances. Search functions would be nice. At this time, you can not search for specific messages in your mailfolder in Kmail. Kind of weird since the filters function by searching for keywords and Kmail does have filters (even if the filter function is not as smooth as one would like). Browsers: Sigh...this is a rough one for me. I know that Netscape has been actively courting the Linux community and has been working on a browser for the platform for several years now. The problem is, it's buggy and doesn't like some things like volcanoe chat (which is something I use regularly.) Browsers are important, since everybody uses them :-) But there is light at the end of the tunnel... Mozilla is slowly turning into something usable (still crashes a lot but the functionality is mostly there). Then we have KDE 2.0 coming next fall (presumably), with it's new and improwed Konqueror. And there are a few others as well... So basically this all could be covered simply by saying that strong and functional Internet apps with all the functions that one can think of would be nice. Most of the needed tools are already in development, but would probably benefit from a bit of help along the way... What's the deal with ~15 mail-clients for Gnome ? I could understand 5 clients or so, but 15 is a bit much. :-) Sebastian Vuorinen
RE: [Cooker] [discuss] wine configuration
Isn't the whole windows binaries/wine kinda pointless with VMWare around? I know that it's a very expensive piece of software, but I've used it and it really did much better the wine. At least it did run all my apps (except those crucial to timing) albeit a little slow. When I get the money, I do intend on buying a copy of it. Bryan -Original Message- From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] [discuss] wine configuration On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:04:07AM -0400, Gallagher wrote: 1. Preconfigured Wine 2. Associated Wine with .exe files in KDE/Gnome 3. Graphical config for Wine This is something that should be done eventually (though I'm expecting it to be hooked into the "support for other binaries" at the kernel level, rather than associations in file managers) but not in the very near future. The Wine group is currently discussing whether they can shoot for a version 1.0 and what needs to be done first; I don't think that they expect to reach that by the end of the year. I think that Wine is too volatile right now (not that it's a bad project; far from it.) -- Graham Percival
[Cooker] Voodo 3 3000 and Xfree 86 4.0 issue
Ok, I finally got the latest beta to install. What a job. However, in the installation, I get the following error when I select the server: (==) Server Layout "layout1" (xx)|--Screen "Screen1"(0) (xx)||--Monitor = "" (xx)||--Device "Vodoo3 (generic)" (xx)|--Input Device "Keyboard1" (xx) xkb:rules "xfree86" (xx) xkb:FontPath set to "unix/: -1" (xx) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/x11/rgb" (==) Module Path set to "/usr/X11R6/Lib/Modules" (--) Using UT Number 6 It also recomends going into change settings. When I do this, it will not let me retest the server. When installation is complete, I reboot and X will not start. Complains with a fatal server error. I need to get this up asap. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Bryan
RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION configuration issues
In one post on games and hardware, the writer mentioned that he would really
like to see information included in the RPM's such that "If you have this
card, you should install these packages."
I'd like to see it go a little further. My biggest problem with just about
any distribution of Linux, is trying to get my hardware to work. For
example, I have an Adaptec 1520B ISA PnP that I can't get working under
RedHat. All the information I can find says to read the SCSI how-to. Yet,
I can't find that how to anywhere.
I know that a lot of the problem with new hardware is not with the
distribution but with the manufactures of the hardware. But, even getting
kernel modules to work are a real hassel.
I have a Celeron 433 with 196M of Ram, Vodoo 3000, Diamond MX300 sound card,
A Richoh 2xCDRW attached to the SCSI Card. At first I had a heck of a time
getting linux to recognize the full 196M of ram under mandrake 7.0. The
only way I got it to work was recompiling the kernel with large memory
support (over 2 gig). The next issue I have is (and I haven't been able to
succesfully install a 7.1 Beta yet) is the ata 66 drive that is my main
drive along with the 1024 barrier issue. When I download and compile the
devolpmental kernel my esd and the K soundmanager lock up the system.
Finally, I can not get XFree86 4.0 installed correctly in RedHat, and if I
do sorta get it installed, I can't get the tdfx module to compile and
install correctly. Actually, it's glide that gives me the problem.
Another issue closely related to this one is documentation. I'm not a
software engineer, nor am I a programmer. Yet, every how-to doc around is
terribly confusing, often including much more information that I really
don't need at all. All this does is confuse me all the more. This has made
fixing all these problems a real pain. That's if I can even find a how-to
for my problem.
What I would like to see to help all this is revamping the whole
documentation problem. Along with working more closely with the vendors of
hardware so that more hardware can be supported easily.
What I would really like to see on the documentation issue is something
similar to the warp pharmacy. Users and devolpers helping each other. For
those not familiar with this website, it's like this: The site was set into
different areas for different affected componnents. Then there were message
boards, links, fags, and such with solutions and discussions. I would like
to see more formal solutions that are very easy to read in the format like
this:
Problems: If your system/device is doing this, this, or this, or has done
this since doing this...do this. I'd like to see this documentation
available both on and off line since sometimes the network configuration is
the issue. The documentation would then have links to the more complex
sources like how-to's, man pages, and such.
I realize that Linux is a very hand's on system and is not really geared for
that person who is somewhere in the intermediate to advanced knowledge
level. If you can't get the pre-built stuff to work--you are left on your
own. So, I guess I'd like to see information and utilities that are set for
that beginner to intermediate level while at the same time doesn't alienate
the advanced users.
B. K. Barley
-Original Message-
From: Denis HAVLIK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 2:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION
(I hope you do not get this twice on cooker)
Hi, folks!
What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on
these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
[ANNOUNCEMENT]
We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of
our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the process of
improving our next distro.
- NOW is a time to ask us whatever you want: tell us what you like, tell
us what you hate, tell us what you dream of!
- NOW is a time for you to influence the future company decisions - start
thinking, and if you come up with a briliant idea, post it here.
Starting NOW, I am going to stop sleeping, eating, or doing any other job
which would interfere with currently most important task: Making sure we
make the best decisions based on whatever input we can get.
[RULES]
* Basically everything you can think of is open for discussion, except
question of including non-free software in the core of our distro, which
is absolute NO-NO.
* Listen to what other people have to say. Try keeping the signal/noise
ratio as high as possible.
* One topic per e-mail and informative subject line help us a lot. ("125
Great ideas!!!" is a very bad subject line.)
* Please, try to avoid any kind of flaming on the list for the next 10
days.
* Finaly, If you have time and skills to pick up ideas from long
discussion threads and write a good summary, please do it, it will help us
a lot.
[TOPICS]
Topics we are particularly interest
RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION Internet Utilities
Okay, Now that I'm thinking of it, and keeping the post to one topic at a time...here is my next one... WEB BROWSERS AND PLUG-INS and other related software. The one thing that causes me to shift over to microtrash more often then not is reliable feature rich internet utilities. Mail clients are the biggest problem that forces me to boot over to microtrash. The clients that are promissing are still in early beta (some in alpha even) and are very buggy. Balsa is getting better, but kfm has problems. Webcameras...I have C-It USB camera, but can't get the modules to load and work with it. And even if I did, I haven't seen any conference softaware to work with it. Browsers: Sigh...this is a rough one for me. I know that Netscape has been actively courting the Linux community and has been working on a browser for the platform for several years now. The problem is, it's buggy and doesn't like some things like volcanoe chat (which is something I use regularly.) Also, plug-ins are a major problem. They are not as many as what's available for microtrash or even mac and what is available is always in beta or is several versions behind what's availabe for other platforms. News clients are little better. The default app with KDE is okay, but there is another one (that I can't remember off the top of my head) that works even better. I think it's either gtk or gnome...not sure. Finally mpg and avi apps are really poor in comparision to windows counterparts. The best one is xTheater and that has problems also. Often the video is choppy and slow, and sometimes it will refuse to play a file. And it really doesn't recognize the new codecs that offer better compression and performance. As far as a solution to these issues, I don't know. I know that Wine and one it's child is working on porting over microsoft apps, but I never really had much success using wine. Perhaps working closer with companies and devolopers would help the final goal of making more high quality software available. B. K. Barley
RE: [Cooker] BETA3 is available for download on the mirrors
Are free.fr and tucows the only mirrors for the iso? I have a cable modem and can only get a decent transfer speed on the free.fr server. Bryan -Original Message- From: Jean-Michel Dault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:28 AM To: Serge Lussier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] BETA3 is available for download on the mirrors Cable modem power! =) We definitely should ask Videotron to mirror the ISO! Serge, are you in Montreal? Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 23 May 2000, Serge Lussier wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Hi out, Finally! We got it! :-)) Okay, I just verified on free.fr and tucows.com, the beta3 is available on the mirrors. This version is closer than never to the future stable release. It should contain less bugs than never. Please feel free to download and test if you have time and bandwidth! :-) At that time, we will concentrate on testing the 7.1, and the ports to other architecture such as Alpha, Sparc32 and 64, and ppc. -- Guillaume Cottenceau Merci Guillaume. I am right now downloading the iso files from free.fr .:-) joke Notes: (sorry if I look stupid - my brain is exhausted - I'm computing since the last 13 hours! ) The wire in the ocean between north-America and europe must make the water boiling 'cause there is so much network busy-lag ! hehehe Current bandwidth on free.fr: 67.77 kB/s with lag. tucows.com : never give more than 50 KB/s.
[Cooker] In regards to the impending beta 3 iso
Okay, Before I worry about attempting to download two cd's worth of images I have two actually a few questions: #1: Is the ata66 issue fixed for the abit be6 motherboards using the HPT366 interface? #2: Will I be able to get my Adaptec AHA1520B PNP card to work? #3: And finally, is the vortex soundchip on the monster mx300 sound card supported or will I have to download the driver seperately? Thanks guys Bryan
[Cooker] making an iso
Hi, This may not be the best place to post this question, but I thought someone on here might know how to make an ISO under win 98? Or should I just burn the cd from the downloaded files and not bother with making an ISO? Bryan
RE: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working
Yes, 7.1 beta b. Under Mandrake 7.0 it worked ok, but with out the increased speed. It only recognized the drive and allowed you to use it. But 7.1 betas won't even recognize it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working "Jonathan M. Prigot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how yours is failing, but on my Soyo 6BA-IV+, it recognizes the HPT366 chip on the IDE2 and IDE3 interfaces, but it cannot find /dev/hde which is where my system disk is. Mandrake 7.0-0 (using the "new" boot floppy) didn't have this problem. with latest cooker ?
RE: [Cooker] ATA 66
Thanks, So where is Pixels site? Sorry for such a dumb question. Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ptah Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ATA 66 "B. K. Barley" wrote: Yeah, And they said it was fixed in beta 2. I'm tired of downloading the iso's and burning cd's only to find out it's still broke. Hey, can the iso's be burnt on to a rewritable cd and left open? All you need to do in order to install on your ata/66 drive is to download cdrom.img from pixel's home dir, use rawritewin from the beta CD to copy that image to a floppy, stick it it, reboot, chose text install.
RE: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working
then that could be the problem since my ata66 drive would be hde, actually my install partition would be hde6. Bryan -Original Message- From: Jonathan M. Prigot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working I don't know how yours is failing, but on my Soyo 6BA-IV+, it recognizes the HPT366 chip on the IDE2 and IDE3 interfaces, but it cannot find /dev/hde which is where my system disk is. Mandrake 7.0-0 (using the "new" boot floppy) didn't have this problem. --- On Wed, 10 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: Hi, Just downloaded the iso of 7.1 beta b. And setup still fails to recognize an ata66 drive on the a-bit motherboard. I tried passing the io address to the install kernel and it still will not work. I need to install linux on this partition. Thought it was fixed in beta b. B. K. Barley -- Jonathan M. Prigot (781-828-6606) 44 High Street Canton, MA 02021-3609
[Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working
Hi, Just downloaded the iso of 7.1 beta b. And setup still fails to recognize an ata66 drive on the a-bit motherboard. I tried passing the io address to the install kernel and it still will not work. I need to install linux on this partition. Thought it was fixed in beta b. B. K. Barley
