[Cooker] wish list for 9.2 - joystick configuration
seeing the wishlist flyby got me thinking... ...it would be really cool if there were a drak tool for joystick configuration... anyway, it's just an idea! -elliott
Re: [Cooker] kernel-multimedia 13mdk
Hi, I'm getting the same thing with 13mdk... $ jackstart jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable kernel would have printed something like =eip I have recompiled the kernel source ensuring that the preemptible kernel and low latency schduling were enabled and I still get the same thing. I hope this helps, -Elliott On Thursday 06 March 2003 7:19 am, Austin wrote: Sorry to offend. Seemed like the logical explanation. Acham's Razor. (Is that how to spell his name?) That's odd though, becuase jackstart works fine for me. But I'm using the mm-smp kernel. Can anyone else please try to run jackstart as a regular user with the mm kernel? Thanks, Austin On 2003.03.05 23:18 Quel Qun wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 19:22, Austin wrote: 90% chance you're not running the mm kernel. uname -a? Austin On 2003.03.05 20:35 Quel Qun wrote: get this message when I try to use jackstart: jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable kernel would have printed something like =eip Does not look good, does it? Am I missing anything? 90%! I feel a bit offended :) There would have been a 10% chance I booted the wrong kernel if I had not checked before sending this message. uname -r was enough for me: 2.4.21-0.13mm-mdk Since I have to rebuild the NVidia drivers, I pretty much know when I boot a new kernel... -- Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] blender 2.26
Hi, OK, the buildrequires thing should have been a different paragraph, they were unrelated comments, but in order to compile blender, you need those headers, so the spec file should represent that. The reason I suggest the nvidia drivers is because you don't seem to be having troulbe and because the whole thing uses opengl...anyway, it was just an idea, and I know that somebody else confirmed having the same problems so I'm not the only one. Maybe we could find out what is different between our setups and start resolving the problem? -Elliott On Monday 24 February 2003 11:41 pm, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: exactly what does libpython2.2-devel have to do with this?:) try with the binary drivers or the non-binary drivers to check=) - Original Message - From: Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:07 AM Subject: [Cooker] blender 2.26 I noticed that the blender rpm needs buildrequires: libpython2.2-devel to get it to compile, and even after recompiling it on my computer I'm still getting weird artifacts all over the screen... could it have to do with the nvidia drivers? -Elliott
[Cooker] blender 2.26
I noticed that the blender rpm needs buildrequires: libpython2.2-devel to get it to compile, and even after recompiling it on my computer I'm still getting weird artifacts all over the screen... could it have to do with the nvidia drivers? -Elliott
[Cooker] KDE Help Index does not work
Hello, I submitted an email to the cooker mailing list back in January on this subject and unfortunately I got no replys, but I feel it's important enough to bring up again before 9.1 is shipped. The problem is that KDE has not been configured to allow searching of the help files by default, and attempting to set it up manually from the KDE control center on the Help Index applet does not work. I have installed htdig and set the paths accordingly, but the Build Index button still doesn't seem to do anything. Being as Mandrake linux has been refined in numerous places to be easy to use for first time linux users, I feel that being able to search the help files in KDE would only help mandrake. -Elliott Martin
[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] blender-2.26-1mdk
On Thursday 13 February 2003 9:15 am, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: blender Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.26 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Feb 13 16:22:14 When I run blender I get all sorts of strange artifacts on the screen when navigating the menus. Here's a link to a picture of what I'm talking about: http://web.pdx.edu/~elliott/snapshot1.png Is this a problem specific to my setup or do other people see this too? -Elliott
[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdenetwork-3.1-4mdk
On Friday 31 January 2003 4:46 am, Laurent MONTEL wrote: --=-=-= Name: kdenetwork Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 4mdk Build Date: Fri Jan 31 13:39:41 . . . - kppp: dialer and front end for pppd . . . * Fri Jan 31 2003 Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.1-4mdk - Split package create new package kppp Hi, I noticed that the description got overlooked, so it should probably be updated. -Elliott
[Cooker] KDE Help Index does not work
Hello, I'm not sure if this has been around for a while, of if it just crept in, but with KDE 3.1 the Help Index control panel applet does not seem to be working. I changed the htdig database directory to /var/lib/htdig and added the indexer program of /usr/bin/htdig, but clicking the Build Index button does nothing. Anyway, I'm going to keep fiddling with this, and hopefully it will be possible to search the help before 9.1 is out! -Elliott
[Cooker] X server locks when viewing very wide jpeg in konqueror
Hello, I was wondering if someone could please try to reproduce this crash I am having. When I try to view any of the full size screenshots on, http://distrowatch.com/review-mandrake.php the mdk 9.1b2 review, using konqueror, and then scroll to the right side of the image using the mouse wheel on the scrollbar, X locks up (only a killall -9 X from another computer will free the machine up again). I tried it a few times and it did the same thing each time. I'm using v 1.0-4191 of the nvidia drivers and kernel 2.4.21-pre2.1, with XFree86-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk. Thanks, -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] X server locks when viewing very wide jpeg in konqueror
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:50, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Keskiviikko 22. Tammikuuta 2003 02:44, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti: Viestissä Keskiviikko 22. Tammikuuta 2003 02:19, Elliott Martin kirjoitti: Hello, I was wondering if someone could please try to reproduce this crash I am having. When I try to view any of the full size screenshots on, http://distrowatch.com/review-mandrake.php the mdk 9.1b2 review, using konqueror, and then scroll to the right side of the image using the mouse wheel on the scrollbar, X locks up (only a killall -9 X from another computer will free the machine up again). I tried it a few times and it did the same thing each time. I'm using v 1.0-4191 of the nvidia drivers and kernel 2.4.21-pre2.1, with XFree86-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk. Thanks, -Elliott No problem here, on full cooker... kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1TmB-1-1mdk NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191 XFree86-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-devel-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-libs-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-xfs-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk XFree86-server-4.2.99.4-0.20030110.2mdk So it seems that the only difference is the kernel... try with latest kernel, and see if you can reproduce tit... Bummer... I forgot that I just updated kde* kdelibs-common-3.1-0.rc6.10mdk kdelibs-3.1-0.rc6.10mdk kdebase-3.1-0.rc6.19mdk but... as I said before, I cant reproduce it on full Cooker... Now that I'm home I tried it my home computer and X didn't lock, so I guess it has to be something specific to my work pc. Thanks for checking though! -Elliott
[Cooker] k3bsetup default group change
Hello, The default group that k3bsetup chooses for users that can use the cdr is by default cdrecording, and in mandrake linux the default group is cdwriter. I figured it was time for a this to be fixed so it will be easier for people who are new to linux to use this great program, so i have attached a patch that changes the default group to cdwriter, hopefully it can be included. -Elliott k3b-default-cdwriting-group-change.patch.bz2 Description: Binary data
[Cooker] scannerdrake crash
Hello, I have been having consistent crashes with scannerdrake after a fresh install of 9.1b1. When I run scannerdrake, I am told my HP ScanJet 3400C is not in the scanner database, and am asked if I would like to configure it manually or not. No matter what I choose nothing seems to happen except for the program to crash. the output, though fairly useless, is: # scannerdrake TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff # I hope this helps, -Elliott
[Cooker] kde nspluginviewer
Hi! I have been wondering, would it be possible to get nspluginviewer to be called by soundwrapper or something? Konqueror is constantly locking up on me while it waits for nspluginviewer to get its hands on /dev/dsp while artsd has it. -Elliott
[Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement
Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push me off mandrake linux :P -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] harddrake2 bug / joystick woes
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 19:11, Elliott Martin wrote:
Hello,
I have just stumbled upon a bug in harddrake2 that I feel should be
reported.
I have harddrake-ui-9.1-0.3mdk installed, and when I open up the Module
Configuration dialog for my Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] soundcard and
enter a value for the joystick address, the address is added correctly as
'options joystick=0x200' to /etc/modules.conf, however if I open the same
dialog again it does not read that line in from the modules.conf and if I
do put anything in the joystick feild it is appended to the modules.conf
(instead of overwriting that line).
Thanks for all your work!
-Elliott Martin
I hate having to reply to my own post, but these things must be done. The line
added to modules.conf, was not correct, as a matter of fact there is no
joystick option for the snd-ens1371 module (which I'm using). So there still
is a bug with harddrake2, it's just a little different from the one I
reported. This leads me to another point...
Is there anyway the whole endeavour of setting up a joystick in mandrake linux
could be simplified? The only way I could see to enable the gameport on my
sound card was to store the current alsa config to a file (`alsactl store -f
/etc/asound.state`), modify the part about the gameport being
disabled('control.1-value = true'), and then restore that config file so I
could load the ns558 module, then I could load the module for my joystick
(analog js=175003).
This all could be a little simpler if there was a 'default' alsa config file,
or if there was an existing asound.state file, which should get loaded each
time the alsa service starts (right?).
Maybe all that's really needed is some documentation on the procedure (which
I'm working on), because finding information about this is like finding a
needle in a haystack even with google on your side.
-Elliott
[Cooker] flightgear-0.9.1-1mdk
The data files of the new package are in the wrong directory. All the files in /usr/lib/FlightGear/data should be installed in /usr/lib/FlightGear instead. -Elliott
[Cooker] harddrake2 bug
Hello, I have just stumbled upon a bug in harddrake2 that I feel should be reported. I have harddrake-ui-9.1-0.3mdk installed, and when I open up the Module Configuration dialog for my Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] soundcard and enter a value for the joystick address, the address is added correctly as 'options joystick=0x200' to /etc/modules.conf, however if I open the same dialog again it does not read that line in from the modules.conf and if I do put anything in the joystick feild it is appended to the modules.conf (instead of overwriting that line). Thanks for all your work! -Elliott Martin
[Cooker] astronomy program menu locations
Hi, There are 3 astronomy type programs (that I have installed anyway) that have different menu locations: Amusement Toys OpenUniverse Applications Edutainment Science KStars Applications Sciences Astronomy Celestia I think they would be happier living together -Elliott
[Cooker] LSI PERC 3/QC, PERC 3/DC, PERC 3/DCL and PERC 3/SC Device Drivers
The SCSI controller driver from Dell has been updated to support the newest PowerEdge servers, and it would be nice if Mandrake Linux could incorporate them. They can be accessed here: http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R51844sid=PWE_PNT_XEO_1600SClang=ENlib=35os=LINsearchtype=filterdevid=1567type=DRVR That link might not work, but the filename is: perc3-118c-73e.tar.gz I'm not sure how the licensing works, but being as the older version is shipped with Mandrake 9.0, I can only imagine the newer verison would be acceptable also. -Elliott
[Cooker] printing to a Canon BJC-8500
Hello, I'm having something really strange happen with my printer here at work. I set up the printer, a Canon BJC-8500, for the purpose of sharing it on the network for my windows based friends. No problem. I used printerdrake, it found the printer right off the bat, I opened up webmin, went to samba configuration, made sure my friends had accounts, shared the printer, they mapped the printer, printed some test pages, the test pages came out fine, so I was done, right? Not exactly. When I print from my computer, the print jobs only take up about 2/3 of the page if I set the resolution to 360x360, and at 720x360 the pages come out taking up the same amount of space vertically, but horizontally they are stretched wider than the page (yuck). How could it be that the windows share to the printer works fine, but printing directly to the printer looks like crap? Could someone tell me where to start looking so I can try to fix this? -Elliott
[Cooker] newt package
After doing an install from many a slow ftp site, I decided to install only the bare minimum and build things back up to the install I like one package at a time. I have come across a few problems, but the only thing really getting in my way is the newt package. ldd /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/Newt/Newt.so libnewt.so.0.50 = not found libnewt0.51 is what's installed, so newt should probably be updated. -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] newt package
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Elliott Martin wrote: After doing an install from many a slow ftp site, I decided to install only the bare minimum and build things back up to the install I like one package at a time. I have come across a few problems, but the only thing really getting in my way is the newt package. ldd /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/Newt/Newt.so libnewt.so.0.50 = not found libnewt0.51 is what's installed, so newt should probably be updated. -Elliott actually, what needs to be done is to have a symlink to libnewt.so.0.51.0 named libnewt.so.0.50 in the libnewt package (this is to get things like XFdrake to work, btw) -Elliott
[Cooker] kde rc1
I'm getting a whole slew of conflicts trying to update kde to rc1... Problems occurred during installation: file /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/actions/view_choose.png conflist between attempted installs of kdebase-3.1-0.rc1.1mdk and kdelibs-3.1-0.rc1.1mdk file /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/actions/view_detailed.png conflist between attempted installs of kdebase-3.1-0.rc1.1mdk and kdelibs-3.1-0.rc1.1mdk etc, for all of the icon sizes. -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk
for example: i highlight a http-address in an e-mail.. now i switch to mozilla/konqueror/whatever and want to paste the link. but first i have to clear the old address, so i have to click at the end of the old address and clear the whole line with backspace... of course i could highlight the old adress and press DEL, but that will erase the new-address from the clipboard... this isn't that related, but here's (yet another) peice of totally undocumented coolness related to mozilla/konqueror. instead of all that crap, just highlight the url and middle click it into the middle of the browser window and KAZAM, it's loaded. I found that out a couple of years ago and I'm still amazed by how cool it is (except with konquerors new tabbed browsing where it doesn't work on a new tab). -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 3:58 am, Pascal wrote: Le Mercredi 23 Octobre 2002 12:36, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Lyall Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages, something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I have made. I have to repeat them all again for the next attempt (really bad if you are doing wildcard searches then have to individually de-select packages due to conflicts/space) I reckon this problem but the solution is not simple. I add it in my todo and try to think of an elegant solution for 9.1 if I have time. I like the new rpmdrake (yes I said it !), but I agree with the point above. Btw it seems that the MAIN problem in rpmdrake is when an error occurs during download which seems not to be recognised by rpmdrake which signals only a bad package signature problem (of course the package is zero sized in this case !). So the first question is : Is rpmdrake aware of the download return code, or does he test the minimum requirements for a valid package ( size 0 ...) ? A temporary solution might be to add a 'RETRY DOWNLOAD' popup (Yes I know one more popup !) each time a package download fails due to a server error (too many users for example). I don't know if this is easy for you to implement. Is people dont like popups then this feature could be an optional advanced one ? Please (i'm on my knees here!) don't add another popup window! Just automatically retry the download like urpmi does (it works there, and the two programs should be consistent in operation). -Elliott
[Cooker] kdebase-3.1-0.beta2.13mdk and desktop background image
Hello, I just stumbled upon a small bug. As of the 13th rev of this kdebase, I can no longer set a desktop background image. Every time I try, the background gets changed back to /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/default.png. I created a new user and logged in and had the same trouble (so it's not the old config files) and I tried it on a different computer and the same thing happened. -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows
On Friday 18 October 2002 16:08, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 2002.10.18 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a slight side note, the fact that rpmdrake stops downloading while it waits for you to decide to continue given a bad or non-existent gpg key should definately be changed. The number of popups could be drastically reduced just by doing the gpg check at the end of the downloads, and could be placed in one dialog box with check boxes next to each package with a bad sig allowing you to choose which ones you still want to install, if any. I put that in my todo. It sounds reasonable, logical, and good for people using it like you. If there is no technical problem, I'll do it. An idea: the common dialog+progress bar could be integrated in a GtkStatusBar in the bottom of the window, and you get rid of the popup window most used allthe time. And an option something like '--unattended' would be nice: install what you can, if some pgk fails don't install it nor anything that depends on it. So you can start the update, go back in 2 hours and see what happened (I know, urpmi supports something like this, but it requires to update _everything_, not just select a bunch of packages) The only problem with having that sort of thing be changed by a command line option is that you really have to know what you're doing (open a console and run the command with a --help) to get to these options. I guess I just don't agree with having a graphical program have settings that can only be modified non-graphically, especially since if you run the program from the control center the command line options can't be altered. -Elliott
[Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows
I have put off writing this email for quite some time because of the flak I'm sure to get, but here goes. rpmdrake has been driving me nuts for months now because of one 'feature', that being the popup windows. I'm not the greatest video game player in the world, but having these windows barge their way to the foreground all the time is definately not helping! And watching movies...what a great time to run an update, but no, rpmdrake will make you want to sit down and read a book instead. I would use urpmi, but hey, I dont like typing everything out all the time when --auto-select would update something I'm in the middle of using. There are so many different ways to have the program behave that I have to ask for it to be changed. Why not use a wizard style interface (thus not telling me in a new window that everything worked)? That way it could ask about all the bad signatures at once at the end instead of halting the download until you come along to press, yes, install the thing anyway. I know, there's --no-verify-rpm, but I do want to know, but I'd like to be able to leave the room and come back when the downloads are done. anyway, i think I made my point clear enough -Elliott
[Cooker] drakxservices
now that 9.0 is done, I would like to make some suggestions for the drakxservices program. it would be nice to have a way to sort the list by running services and services started on boot, in addition to the sort by name. -Elliott
[Cooker] The windows key and KDE
I just spent an hour or so reading about xmodmap so that I could change my windows key back to a meta key rather than F13, which it's set to by default. After logging back in to KDE though, all my changes were gone. The startkde script, or more specifically, the /usr/bin/test-windows-key script, overrides any changes you make to the /etc/X11/Xmodmap, which I don't think is a very good idea. Right now the script simply checks /etc/sysconfig/keyboards for DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY and then calls xmodmap to set the key to F13. It would be nice if /usr/bin/test-windows-key checked /etc/X11/Xmodmap for keycode 115, 116, 117 as well, so that the documentation all over the web that tells you how to fix this would work, and so that I wouldn't have to comment out that script to prevent it from running. -Elliott Martin
[Cooker] rfbdrake-0.8.3-7mdk
Here's something for after 9.0 is done... There's a small typo on one of the buttons on the main dialog of rfbdrake. 'connection' - 'connect' -Elliott
[Cooker] civil war game
I decided to give the game civil a shot today, but unfortunately I didn't get too far. The game ran fine, but the help was missing so I didn't have any idea how to do anything. When I press F1 for help it tells me could not open help topic! ... the missing topic is: ../doc/help/index.xml -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] Unwanted icon keeps coming back
On Thursday 19 September 2002 8:43, Jason Straight wrote: On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:58 pm, Kenton Groombridge wrote: I would really like this icon that keeps coming back on all my users desktops to go away. It is called Removable media and it has a cdrom icon. It started after updating some packages about a week or so ago and has been anoying me since. I looked through the init scripts and such but haven't found where it is coming from. It comes back even after deleting it. All it takes is to log off and on again for it to return. Thanks, Ken I'd like to know how to rid myself of this permenantly also - for some reason if I mount my CD using the icon provided in this folder I can't eject my CD with the right click menu, eject from shell, or the button on the CD/DVD rom. However if I mount the CD from shell or my own made KDE icon it works fine. I use my own kernel and fstab, I hate supermount. I was having this problem and I fixed it by deleting the 'hidden' files from the desktop and then re-deleting all the mandrake icons that come back when you log back on. give that a shot. -elliott
Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Typo in license agreement]
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Brad Felmey wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 05:26, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 06:30, Quel Qun wrote: Since then I also noticed during the install the description of partmon service: Checks if a partition is close to full up. Please check, but I think is close to fill up would sound better. or is getting full. Nope. Is close to full up is fine, and standard English usage. You could also use Is close to being full or even just Is nearly full, but Close to full up is just fine. I think this is one of those times when en_GB and en_US diverge a bit. It may sound completely appropriate to you, yet in the US it sounds quite awkward. The reason its sounds screwy to the non-english speakers, and alright to the english, but totally screwed to the americans, is because of the up on the end. Is close to full up vs Is close to full. I can't remember exactly what that's called, but there's a name for that type of grammatical error. -Elliott
[Cooker] more translation comments
It seems that mentioning any translation issues on anything in mandrake linux is a real sore spot for some reason, but it has to be said, so i'm ready to take the flak. in the latest rpmdrake, the main banner at the top reads Software Packages Installation, and i believe the plural is used in error. i think it should read Software Package Installation. after all, isn't it all about the little things? :) -Elliott ((about the whole 'full up' issue, i work at a university, and this morning i got a call from an english prof whose groupwise account died, so i asked, and it was a dangling participle problem like somebody else said.))
[Cooker] Re: cd writing in RC1
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 1:12, you wrote: I have been having a lot of trouble recording cds in RC1, it looks like xcdroast is defaulting to the xcdwrite group and I can't find a place to change that anywhere. K3B, my personal favorite, has also been having trouble in RC1, k3bsetup configures things right, but when I open k3b as my user it doesn't see either of my cd drives. My two cd drives are hdc and hdd, and work(ed) fine in linux. Let me know if more information would help. -Elliott It looks like the file xcdroast.h needs to be patched to change line 78 like so 78c78 #define NONROOTMODEGROUP cdwriter --- #define NONROOTMODEGROUP xcdwrite -Elliott
[Cooker] xscreensaver menu entry
I just noticed that the menu entry for xscreensaver is only for gnome. Being as it's pretty easy to get kde to use the screen savers from xscreensaver, could the menu entry be changed to display the menu item in kde as well? -Elliott
[Cooker] artsd seg faults
Is anyone else getting artsd to seg fault when they use artsbuilder? -Elliott
[Cooker] rpmdrake maximum informations
I'm not sure if I'm the only one having this problem, but with rpmdrake-13mdk when I right click on the description of the rpm, and choose 'maximum informations' rpmdrake dies saying Undefined subroutine main:: called at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 541. on another note, informations is not a word. Perhaps something like 'full rpm details' or the like. on a further note still, right clicking on the description does not seem that intuitive, and I don't think I would have tried if I hadn't read about it on this mailing list. It also appears to be the only right clickable part of the program, which makes it inconsistent with the rest of the interface. Thanks for all your hard work on rpmdrake, it's come a long way! -elliott
[Cooker] rpmdrake focus question
Is there an easy way to make the grpm windows that are displayed during the installation of the package stay on top of the rpmdrake window? Having the focus follow the mouse causes the rpmdrake window to come to the top easily, and then it takes a sec to bring the progress bar up if you're curious. -Elliott
[Cooker] new contrib package qinx-0.3.src.rpm
I have uploaded an rpm for the Qinx KDE style to the contrib dir, in case anyone else wants to use it. -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] urpmq
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:28 am, François Pons wrote: Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I stumbled upon something interesting today while trying to update the XFree86* packages. For some reason, urpmi --auto-select is telling me that everything has already been updated, but rpmdrake lists a good number of packages that have updates, but that's another issue... I ran the command: rpm -q `urpmq Xfree8 | cut -d ':' -f 2` | grep -v not to get a list of the installed packages so I could update them, but urpmq is spitting its' output somewhere other than stdout, and rpm tells me to provide it with some arguments. It is not a problem of urpmq, you use it badly, it exits with error so it is normal stdout is not used. The following script should do what you are expected to have I guess : rpm -q `urpmq --list | grep -i Xfree8 | sort | uniq` | grep -v not François. Fair enough. On a small side note, the man pages and the --help command line options are not in sync (--list is not in the man pages). -Elliott
[Cooker] urpmq
I stumbled upon something interesting today while trying to update the XFree86* packages. For some reason, urpmi --auto-select is telling me that everything has already been updated, but rpmdrake lists a good number of packages that have updates, but that's another issue... I ran the command: rpm -q `urpmq Xfree8 | cut -d ':' -f 2` | grep -v not to get a list of the installed packages so I could update them, but urpmq is spitting its' output somewhere other than stdout, and rpm tells me to provide it with some arguments. -Elliott
[Cooker] kdevelop and automake
There have been a few people asking for automake1.5 to be resurrected for compiling KDE apps, and I have some questions about that. Kdevelop cannot compile anything unless you have automake1.5 installed, so why is it not a requirement of the rpm (I see it requires automake, but it should require automake1.5 specifically)? Would it be possible to setup something similar to what had to be done with the whole autoconf2.5 mess and WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5? I have a automake1.5 rpm sitting here that works fine with kdevelop, so lets see if we can figure something out. -Elliott
[Cooker] x windows trouble
I just reinstalled the latest cooker, and I'm having the strangest trouble with X. Every time I ctrl+alt+f1 over to a different terminal and then come back into X my mouse stops working until I go back over to another terminal, login as root, and modprobe usbmouse. I am using the nvidia drivers, but this hasn't happened for quite a while (it used to happen whenever X would crash, and also take out eth0, but that was several months ago and disappeared with some updates)
[Cooker] network install
Would it be possible to add some default mdk and cooker mirrors to the network installation? I don't mind the way it's set up, but it would be a lot more useful if it could pull the same cooker list that rpmdrake does (used to?) pull. -Elliott
[Cooker] kdeaddons kdebindings
while doing a clean install yesterday, i went to manually select kdeaddons kdebindings (why kdeaddons isn't selected by default is another issue, it includes a lot of cool additions to konqueror) and I couldn't find them from anything but the flat view of the packages. I took a look at the spec file and the Group is correct, so why would this be? -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] Ugly and nonergonomic rpmdrake !!!
On Monday 12 August 2002 09:04 pm, Christoffer Olsen wrote: Have you looked better at it? It has new features, like the update availability sorting, new stuff for grpmi which makes things look nicer. And, i feel dependencies are not a problem anymore, as most is checked upon selection, as it wasnt before. You can set the mirrors, but not in rpmdrake. Removing and editing is done outside. I think that is a step forward for ease of use. My rpm package management _is_ easier, now than before. I have to disagree with you. When I did a clean install of cooker the other day I couldn't get into runlevel 5 because of a missing file, lang.sh, which is supposed to be in the initscripts rpm. I figured it was something that would be fixed pretty quickly, so I updated the sources and wanted to do a search by file for lang.sh, which could be done with the old rpmdrake, and found that it couldn't be done anymore, so i looked around on google and found the rpm lang.sh was supposed to be in and installed the updated initscripts and my problems were fixed, but the process was definately more complex with the new rpmdrake than the old. As for the look of the update availablity thing, that was there before, and easier to get to imho. My only real complaint with the new rpmdrake is that it was introduced in the beta stage of mdk 9 development instead of way earlier on when it could have been tweaked and fixed and argued about with a lot less pressure from the clock. -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] flash and konqueror
On Saturday 10 August 2002 6:39, Blindauer Emmanuel wrote: What is exactly needed for having flash inside konqueror? i have mozilla installed , libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1b/plugins I try http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf with mozilla, it works fine (using about - plugins, I see I'm using the plugin) I try with konqueror: configure, look for netscape plugins , external modules after adding the path /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1b/plugins and pressing search new external modules, I see one entry with the good path etc ... doing konqueror http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf; don't work: unable to load plugin is written, and in shell: konqueror: Looking up plugin for mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1b/plugins/libflashplayer.so konqueror: Couldn't create plugin instance nspluginviewer (part): - PluginPart::openURL = false libkonq: ## addToHistory: http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swfTyped URL: http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf, Title: konqueror: KonqMainWindow::openView ok=true bOthersFollowed=false returning true konqueror: slotPartActivated 0x8213700 plugin konqueror: New current view 0x8207370 kparts: MainWindow::createGUI for kparts: ReadOnlyPart::guiActivateEvent - http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf konqueror: KonqMainWindow::setCaption(http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf) konqueror: KonqMainWindow::setLocationBarURL: url = http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf konqueror: slotPartActivated 0x8213700 plugin konqueror: New current view 0x8207370 kparts: MainWindow::createGUI for kparts: deactivating GUI for kparts: ReadOnlyPart::guiActivateEvent - http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf konqueror: KonqMainWindow::setCaption(http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf) konqueror: KonqMainWindow::setLocationBarURL: url = http://mamaeditions.com/03pollen.swf konqueror: DCOP application nspluginviewer-18042 just registered! konqueror: DCOP application anonymous-18042 just registered! konqueror: DCOP application nspluginviewer-18039 just registered! konqueror: plugin now running konqueror: KonqMainWindow::slotRunFinished() konqueror: KonqRun::~KonqRun() nspluginviewer (part): PluginPart::pluginResized() konqueror: Viewer process terminated does someone have same problem or a solution ? I'm using cooker, updated at 12h GMT with latest packages. i didn't see any follow ups on this, but i am having the same problem after doing the exact same thing.
[Cooker] drakxservices
Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
On Thursday 08 August 2002 01:44 pm, Pixel wrote: Jure Repinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel wrote: Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? alphabetize? what do you mean? Make an option to order/sort them by name. well, it's already done so, and that's also what i get when testing! When I run drakxservices here's the ordering i get of the services (i'll just list the first letter...) c,d,e,f,l,r,s,t,a,c,d,g,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,r,s,u,w,x now after looking at it, it appears that all the scripts in /etc/init.d are in order, but make up the second half of the alphabetized list. maybe you could put all those in a frame or something if you are going to keep them separated like that, or just alphabetize the whole list.
[Cooker] network.img and reiserfs module
i have found an annoying bug with the network.img image that is preventing me from being able to fix my linux install after installing 9.0b1, and that is that when I go into the rescue mode with the network install disk and go to a console and run modprobe reiserfs i get a message saying that the module was compiled for 2.4.19-6MDK and the running kernel is 2.4.19-21MDK or something along those lines. in any case, the modules and the kernels should match... -Elliott Martin
[Cooker] possible logrotate problem
Hello, I have been updating one of my test computers at work with the latest cooker for quite sometime now, and I have been having a problem that has been really tough to pinpoint, but has been present all along, so i figured it's now time to call in the dogs. Here's what's happening. I use the computer to provide me with a high speed cooker and contrib mirror for all the computers that are running mdk at work and it seems that every week or so (for some reason i'm thinking it only happens on saturdays, but i can't really verify that) the machine stops authenticating any logins. I can't ssh in, nfs dies, the ftp server works if you log in annoymously, but if you give it a user name it dies. when i go back into work to fix it and try to log in i type a username and password, and then that terminal locks up. so i started paying more attention and it happened again this weekend on saturday sometime and i was digging through the log files and the last few entries in syslog.1 were May 26 04:01:00 host-134-170 CROND[6952]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 26 04:01:59 host-134-170 CROND[6970]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily) May 26 04:01:59 host-134-170 anacron[6973]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2002-05-26 and then the logs were rotated and the next entry in syslog is after the reboot on tuesday. does this mean that the rotation of the logs was the culprit? I'm not sure how to interpret that, so any help would be nice. -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] speed improvments
I have little to add to this, however a friend and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago and were wondering if it would be possible to run many of the init scripts in parallel. There seem to be several scripts that could run simultaneously, like bringing up the network and say starting gpm. anyway, it's only an idea to be thrown on top of the heap. -Elliott On Thu, 16 May 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote: On Thursdayen den 16 May 2002 19.31, Cosmic Flo wrote: Hello, There is an interesting post at mandrakeforum.org An user say that his Mdk is slower than a Win98. I thing he's not wrong. By default, there are too many services who are launched at startup The only thing I can add to this thread is that the actual boot process takes longer time the more initscripts and such improves. Just for fun I installed RH5.2 a couple of months ago, and was amazed how fast it was up and running. I know it's not a fair comparison between ML8.x and RH5.2, but I experienced almost the same with a LFS system I built. It would be cool with a sort of speedstart system, much like the M$ W2K hibernate stuff (shouldn't be that difficult?). Or, maybe less intricate boot scripts, options to not have the kernel modules gzipped, etc, etc... ? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson
[Cooker] urpmi formatting
Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to have some \n's added to urpmi so that when I run urpmi --auto-select and there are several packages to install they aren't all clumped together on one line. As it is I find it very hard to skim through the list of packages that it's going to want to upgrade (which makes a difference if I'm running X and a slew of programs...). I understant that it could easily take up several screens full of file names with the newlines in there, but that's what ctrl+pgup is for, right? -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] urpmi formatting
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 12:00, David Walser wrote:
--- Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if it would be possible to have some
\n's added to urpmi so
that when I run urpmi --auto-select and there are
several packages to install
they aren't all clumped together on one line.
Try:
urpmi --auto-select | awk '{for(i=1;i=NF;i++){print
$i}}'
that's insane.
think about it. having to type out --auto-select instead of maybe -as is
already too much typing for such a frequently used command...yeah, i could
use rpmdrake, but most of the time i have to drop back to the console anyway
to update some part of kde or whatnot.
I understant
that it could easily take up several screens full of
file names with the
newlines in there, but that's what ctrl+pgup is for,
right?
Shift-pageup you mean, but yeah.
perhaps in kde, but not at the console
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Re: [Cooker] java and Konqueror have not worked so far...
On Monday 22 April 2002 14:07, Maksim Orlovich wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jerry A! wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:06:07PM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote: : I've been in cooker for about 6 months and so far i have not seen Java : work PROPERLY with Konqueror ... : : I did get jsse installed so that that problem is fixed but sites like : chat.yahoo.com have never worked and some others. The odd thing is : that i can go to all of those sites with no problem using Mozilla with : the same Java runtime. Define properly. I've successfully used konqi with both the IBM and Sun JDK's. Now, if you're talking about konqueror spawning the Java applets in a separate window instead of embedded in the page, I believe that's a limitation with konqueror. It's a limitation if you use a window manager other than KWin. (Although an another NetWM compliant WM might work -- not sure of details..). If you do use KWin, then it is a bug. -Maks Orlovich I've been having trouble with java applets too, not the ones that load in separate windows, but embedded ones. There is a nifty web site that has satellite image animations, http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/index.html and that used to work in kde2.2.2, but hasnt worked once with kde3.0.0. I've tried dinking around with it but no success. If someone has the time, maybe they could take a look at the page and see what happens. Maybe it's kde3, maybe it's specific to mandrake...at least knowing that much would be a start. -Elliott Martin
[Cooker] menudrake, crossover and kde3
The other day I went to install crossover and see what all that hub-bub was about, got it installed and working no problem, but then went to run a different program from the K-menu and all the menu entries were gone. It turns out that it adds the directory ~/.kde3/share/applnk/CrossOver/... and then for some reason nothing gets read as the menu for kde3. After running menudrake again and saving everything the directory ~/.kde3/share/applnk-mdk/ has all the menu items that the global applnk-mdk should have and still nothing gets displayed in the k-menu. Only after I delete the contents of applnk-mdk, move the applnk/CrossOver dir to applnk-mdk and then remove the applnk dir does the k-menu function the way it should. (all those references to applnk dirs are .kde3 applnk dirs, not /opt/kde3...) I'm not sure if the problem is with kde3 rc3 not being able to handle 4 different applnk dirs (/opt/kde3/share/applnk, /opt/kde3/share/applnk-mdk, ~/.kde3/share/applnk, ~/.kde3/share/applnk-mdk), or with menudrake putting all the menu items in ~/.kde3 although I'm sure it should be adding some menu entries there for the per user customization what not from menudrake. The problem could also be with crossover's install script, but no one over on their mailing list has complained of this problem... -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] scsi generic devices and devfsd.conf
On Thursday 14 March 2002 4:38, you wrote:
Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First off, I'm using an Adaptec 2930CU SCSI host adapter with three
devices attached, one of which is a Sony CDU926S CD recorder. The drive
works fine for mounting discs etc., however there are no /dev/sg* entries
for it. After I run modprobe sg, I have a device node,
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic
for it, and if I create the symbolic link,
ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic /dev/sg0
and then run a program such as xcdroast everything works fine. I have
jerry-rigged my devfsd.conf to do this for me with
LOOKUP ^sg0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink
${mntpnt}/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic $devpath
but as with all my 'fixes' I'm sure there's a correct way of doing that.
bad way.
does devfsd-1.3.24-17mdk works smoothly for you ?
yepeverything seems to work fine now; I now have /dev/sg0,1,2 entries.
The main problem I am thinking was with the /etc/init.d/devfsd script not
starting devfsd on occasion, I'm going to try to see why that was.
-Elliott
[Cooker] scsi cdrecorder not in fstab
Hello all, I have been having trouble with my sony CDU926S cd recorder with both 8.2b1 and beta 2. Most of the trouble I had with beta 1 has been taken care of, however with beta 2 the drive still doesn't appear in harddrake and there is no mount point set up for it in /etc/fstab. Also diskdrake doesn't see the addition I have made to the fstab. Here's a copy of some files that might be of interest: /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-508Rev: XS03 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-R CDU926S Rev: 1.1e Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.4 aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs Channel A Target 0 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Channel A Target 1 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Channel A Target 2 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Channel A Target 3 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Channel A Target 4 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Goal: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Curr: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Channel A Target 4 Lun 0 Settings Commands Queued 2287 Commands Active 0 Command Openings 1 Max Tagged Openings 0 Device Queue Frozen Count 0 Channel A Target 5 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Channel A Target 6 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) Goal: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Curr: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings Commands Queued 14552 Commands Active 0 Command Openings 1 Max Tagged Openings 0 Device Queue Frozen Count 0 Channel A Target 7 Negotiation Settings User: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 255) /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdwriter auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 If any more info would be of help, let me know, -Elliott
[Cooker] software manager error messages
The software manager has a small problem when dealing with busy ftp servers, that being when a server responds saying for example that the maximum number of anonymous users has been reached, the software manager spits out the message Bad, unreadable or not found packages, which is technically correct, but it does not give the option of retrying...anyway, you get the picture. The problem gets a little worse when you click on cancel at which point the package is listed as installed, that is, until you hit reload lists, but if instead of hitting cancel you hit back and then cancel the package remains listed in the installable side of the world. -Elliott
