[Cooker] FVWM2 suggestion
Hello all! I really like the cooker fvwm2 that has had menudrake updates included. Thanks you! The only problem that I can conceive of is that after you edit system.fvwm2rc-menu you do have to run menudrake to have the changes put into system.fvwm2rc or not run menudrake but edit both system.fvwm2rc-menu and system.fvwm2rc every time (if you just edit system.fvwm2rc then next time you *do* run menudrake you will lose any changes made as it reverts back to the contents of system.fvwm2rc-menu + menu). The other problem is that with /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 having the lines: rcfile= system.fvwm2rc; examplercfile=system.fvwm2rc-menu; that now we get a system.fvwm2rc added to the user's ~/.fvwm directory. That is out of step with fvwm's conventions, which would have you use the file ~/.fvwm2rc for a user config file. Here's a couple suggestions of how to fix this problem. Both rely on a simple bit of functionality from fvwm2- adding a line like so to system.fvwm2rc to source another file: Read menu If this suggestion is taken on it will allow to change config file permanently not have to rerun Menudrake. Here's 2 ways to do this: 1...Cleanest A.Make /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc have only these 3 lines: Read system.fvwm2rc-config Read menu Read system.fvwm2rc-menu To do this we would leave the static menu stuff from the current system.fvwm2rc-menu there put all the config stuff in a new file system.fvwm2rc-config. B.Change /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 by commenting out last 2 lines: #rcfile= system.fvwm2rc; #examplercfile=system.fvwm2rc-menu; 2...Easiest more robust A.Make system.fvwm2rc like on 9.1 release but with this before rest of menu part that doesn't change: Read menu B.Change /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 by commenting out last 2 lines: #rcfile= system.fvwm2rc; #examplercfile=system.fvwm2rc-menu; C.Get rid of system.fvwm2rc-menu If you feel this would be a good change, I'd be happy to send in the changes needed- really, the couple of changes are very small... p.s. Another nice addition would be to change Root Menu title to Mandrake or Mandrake-FVWM in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 instead of Root Menu Thanks for your great work on the best distribution out there! -- Drew Stile -+- johnnydeppert at myrealbox dot com -My browser blocks popups and has tabbed browsing- does yours? Download Mozilla at www.mozilla.org! -101 things that Mozilla can do that IE cannot: http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html
Re: General Mounting question
Yes, you can do this. You'll need to know the drive number (e.g. hda6, etc.) and then you can use the mount command (do a 'man mount') you can also set this drive up in /etc/fstab Drew Nick Texidor wrote: Sorry for the slightly off-topic post, although it does involve Macs! :^) Is it possible to access Mac shared volumes from Linux? For example, we have a G4 Mac running OS 9, and a Powerbook running Mandrake 8.0. I have an external firewire drive mounted, and shared, on the G4. Is there any way of mounting and accessing this drive from the Powerbook? I can access shared drives on Windows and other Linux boxes but am not sure how (or if) I can mount a Mac drive. Thanks Nick On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:41, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:36:41 +1100 (EST) Nick Texidor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeeh!! Got the modem working!! Ok, originally, it was appearing in dmesg as the serial driver, after adding the macserial line to the modules.conffile and modprobing, the Internal Modem message appeared. However, kppp still said it couldn't find the modem. After reading through the kpp help doco, I found the reference to the pre- and post-initdelays. These both default to 50. I messed around with these a bit, and found that when I set them to 100, the modem suddenly started to bedetected. So I'm not connecting though 8.2 and kppp!! One thing I did find in my travels.. not sure if I'm meant to run it standalone or not, and that is detect. It seg-faulted. Also Harddrakewasn't working for me. linuxconf (in the ppp connection section) was doing some strange things when backspacing in the fields too. Whetherthis is just on the powerbook I don't know, I don't have any other machine to try it on. Thanks Nick I just had got done playing around with this and came up with the same solution, thanks Nick. Minicom and dip were fine with the modem, but kppp needs those delays. Yes - running detect, it looks like it segfaults reading /proc/cpuinfo. I'll have a look at it. Harddrake is calling detect, so it's failing in the same manner. I wasn't able to duplicate any problem with linuxconf, aside from the usual fear of it trashing my config files for me ;^)
Support for Sonnet Upgrade Cards in Mandrake PPC?
Is there any chance Sonnet processor upgrades cards can be supported in Mandrake PPC? I have tried getting this to work with several distributions of Linux PPC, but no luck My best guess is that there is a SCSI or IDE driver conflict, but it's just a guess Sonnet has said they won't support OS X with most of their cards and Linux is a good alternative for many older Macs that have these cards What would have to be done to make this work? Thank you, Drew
Re: [Cooker] permissions and devfs
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 21:32, Nathan A. Smith wrote: How do you change the permissions that are set by devfs? For example, scd* are given permissions of brw-rw, I need brw-rw-rw-. I would like devfs to give these devs (and this maybe useful for future reference) the correct permissions. So how do I do that? Thanks Doing a really quick net search, it appears to me that you'd want to set up any desired defaults using the PERMISSIONS option in /etc/devfs.conf, but not using devfs myself, I can't be of much more help than that. Try man devfsd and see what that tells you. Drew
Re: [Cooker] /usr/local and /opt
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 21:06, George Mitchell wrote: I can only tell you how we used them with Unix. We would put our local stuff in /usr/local and third party vendors would put there stuff in /opt. But in reality, who knows? They are just two different places to put stuff that doesn't come with the system. Some distributors like To quote the FHS 2.0 doc: /opt - Reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. (ie: StarOffice) /usr/local - The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by system admins when installing software locally. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. Typically, /usr/local will be empty after the initial install of a FHS compliant system and will remain safe from being over-written in the event of a base system upgrade. The FHS standard can be obtained (text, postcript and dvi formats) at : http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/fhs/ or you can read it online at http://paradigm.uor.edu/linux/standard/ /usr/local and /opt are both a somewhat gray area in their implentation in that most distro's don't get their implementation quite right. Read the standard, check out a few distro's and you'll see what I mean. Hope it helps, Drew.
Re: [Cooker] Aurora crash at boot
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 21:12, Dave Fluri wrote: Aurora is unneeded, hides useful boot-time system messages, and is oft broken. So why not -CAN-IT- once and for all? I'm so happy to hear that I am not alone in my assessment. I've often wondered precisely WHY we have Aurora. What purpose does it serve? I, certainly, can find none. cuz it looks pretty? Disabling Aurora is one of the FIRST items on my post install list of things to do. Drew
