[Cooker] 7.2beta, Xfree 4, Mach 64 no go
Hi, I've been trying out cooker for the last few weeks doing installations and I kept having a problem get XFree 4 to work with my ATI Mach 64 Xpert@Play card. I decided to wait for the 7.2beta to see if it fixed the problem, but it didn't, so here goes: My card is supported by XFree 4.0.1 with acceleration (2d, and 3d I think.) This is specified on the driver status pages: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status6.html#6 When I install it asks, "Do you want to keep X 3.3" and I always click on "no". In the packages section, I always pick the 4.x version of XFree86-server. Yet, despite this, it always winds up automatically installing XFree86-server-common-3.3.6 and XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6 without asking me. So, does the installer just not realize that Mach64 cards are supported by XFree 4, or is it something else? Thanks! Chris
Re: [Cooker] 7.2beta, Xfree 4, Mach 64 no go
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:58:37PM +0200, Pixel wrote: "Chris L. Mason" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86-server. Yet, despite this, it always winds up automatically installing XFree86-server-common-3.3.6 and XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6 without the thing to look at is what /etc/X11/X is pointing to. Is it XFree86 or XF86_Mach64? Definitely XF86_Mach64. The installer is deciding to install XF86_Mach64 and setup a link to it, even though it shouldn't even be installing and 3.3 packages. Now, I was able to fix the link myself, but I wasn't able to use the generated XF86config. I had to run xf86config. So, after fiddling around, I did get XFree 4 to run, although 3D acceleration still wasn't working. However, my main point in posting was to resolve the installation difficulties, not the runtime ones. I expect to be installing Mandrake 7.2 multiple times on multiple systems, so I want a clean install. :) Chris
[Cooker] Qmail
Hi, Are there any plans to add qmail to cooker? I really like this mailer, and it would be great if it was integrated into the system (fastforward for aliases, ezmlm mailing lists, Maildir format, mini-qmail for clients, etc.) I see that postfix is available, and that is great, but as with KDE and GNOME, people like to have a choice! Thanks, Chris
Re: [Cooker] Qmail
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 06:18:49PM +0200, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote: ... qmail license? Hi, Yes, I know this has been an issue in the past, but I think Mr. Bernstein has eased up a bit. I think the only thing absolutely mandatory still is using "/var/qmail" and that can be a symlink. Here is info on assembling a package: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/var-qmail.html And here is info for distributors: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/dist.html Is this incompatible with Mandrake policy? Dan makes some good points on the above pages, especially about the many different sendmail versions. It would be a shame is there wasn't a way to work this out. Chris (ps, If anyone knows of a distribution that uses qmail as the default MTA, please let me know. Maybe one of the new security-focused Linux distros?)
Re: [Cooker] NNTP
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 04:02:49PM +0200, Michael Irving wrote: It wouldn't be possible to move the cooker list to a news server.. would be a hell of a lot easier to follow the threads :) After all linux does threads so well :) Michael Irving Hi, You could just try using a mailreader with threading capabilities, like mutt. This is what I'm using, and it keeps the threads together quite nicely. Chris
Re: [Cooker] Panoramix Experience..
Hi, I just wanted to mention that I also had the new GUI disk partition thing completely hose my partition table. I have two IDE drives. My second drive had a SuSE install with a bunch of partitions, and one spare where I figured I would just put the cooker root, then I could mount my homedir. Anyway, the reason I'm able to report this problem rather than screwing around re-installing my system is because I found a wonderful tool called rescuept. This great little thing let me manually rebuild my partition table and get my SuSE back (along with all my MP3s and home directory!!) All I did was boot with the latest hd image (with the cooker distribution on another drive which thankfully didn't get hosed). I chose expert mode, no scsi. When the partition tool came up, all I did was hit "done" because I didn't want to do any partitioning (I already had my partitions setup, thank you very much!) Anway, I think I'll wait a few days before I try this again. :) Chris
