Re: [Cooker] kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE
It seems that /proc/cpufreq is not created when powernow-k7 is insmoded... any ideas??? Cheers, Emmanuel Olivier Blin wrote: Hi I've built a new release of 2.6-test9 with bootsplash support (yeah), fixed framebuffer (CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y, not m) and built-in ide chipsets support. As kenobi is down and the upload script is broken, all my packages were lost during upload from klama, I've kept the up package before my upload attempt, you can find it here : http://compil.mandrake.org/~blino/kernel-2.6/ Changelog : * Thu Nov 13 2003 Olivier Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6.0-0.test9.6mdk - add bootsplash patch (patch3) - builtin console framebuffer (CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y) - builtin ide chipsets What would you like to have in next release ?
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
Right, I've created the ISOs, updated all the packages from the update site. Have also updated Mozilla to version 1.5, included Thunderbird and Firebird and updated k3b to 0.10. I'll bittorrent the isos tomorrow and wil release them tomorrow. Manu
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
I'm using chrips' from http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms Manu P.S: Just realised that isolinux still uses the old kernel (with LG problem). Tried to update it by copying vmlinuz across but then got a CD-ROM access error. Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emmanuel Moll wrote: Right, I've created the ISOs, updated all the packages from the update site. Have also updated Mozilla to version 1.5 If you're using my packages for mozilla 1.5, note that I didn't include the 110n stuff, as it wasn't available at the time. Regards, Buchan - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/np5urJK6UGDSBKcRAiaLAJ4i1xEEvwRvcL7sS/2cyAzwwsjJNQCgoZTE jwMFnIBkgn6F1D/EYypTQBQ= =BWpg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
done :-) Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: Right, I've created the ISOs, updated all the packages from the update site. Have also updated Mozilla to version 1.5, included Thunderbird and Firebird and updated k3b to 0.10 and if you are using my k3b rpms, 1.) have in mind that there are 3 negative votes (without resons :( ) 2.) and make sure to include k3b-plugins - not existent in k3b-0.9-11mdk - existent in k3b_0.10cvs, but in wrong group? svetljo
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
Unfortunately I do not work for Mandrake and have no associations with them at all. I am just creating those CDs for myself and myself only. I will be releasing to you guys through here because some people have shown interest. I'll let u all know what has been updated but cannot guarantee that they will work (they work on my laptop, which is a start). Manu Francisco Alcaraz wrote: They will be released as the previous isos, for MandrakeClub members and via Bitorrent? Regards Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Martes, 28 de Octubre de 2003 16:28, Emmanuel Moll escribió: Right, I've created the ISOs, updated all the packages from the update site. Have also updated Mozilla to version 1.5, included Thunderbird and Firebird and updated k3b to 0.10. I'll bittorrent the isos tomorrow and wil release them tomorrow. Manu
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
Right, won't release anything today, I'm going to wait for the kernel that solves teh LG drives problem. Manu Emmanuel wrote: Hi all, More and more people I talk to about Mandrake are interested in trying it out. Now, I'd like them to be able to try it out without having to install 220MB of updates once it's installed (they're all mainly on dial-up). Would it be possible to re-package the ISO with the updates included and/or point me towards instructions to tell me how to make the new ISO (with included updates) myself?? I have a broadband connection and wouldn't mind doing it. Cheers, Emmanuel
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
Righto, the isos are created and I'm just about to test them. If I cannot find any problems, I'll bittorrent them on Monday under the name of Manudrake-9.2.1 (I'm fairly sure i cannot use the name Mandrake and 9.2.1 is better than 9.2SP1 (in my opinion)). Also, since I'm a bit strapped for cash this month, I'm planning to sell these on CDs in the UK for people with slower connections (kinda like cheapbytes) - probably for £5 for 4 CDs including shipping (will get back on Monday). Anyone interested??? Cheers, Manu
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
Hey, I had a quick look at the patch but I'm not sure how to apply it to the tree. If you have any ideas, please let me know and I'll apply it no problem. Manu Vedran Ljubovic wrote: --- Emmanuel Moll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Righto, the isos are created and I'm just about to test them. If I cannot find any problems, I'll bittorrent them on Monday under the name of Manudrake-9.2.1 (I'm fairly sure i cannot use the name Mandrake and 9.2.1 is better than 9.2SP1 (in my opinion)). That's great! When you release I'll download at work and leave the torrent up for others. Question: is it possible also to update the installation procedure itself (re: issue no. 3 on the official errata)? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates
I am quite newbie with the whole signing the packages thingy. How do I check all the packages signature and (if failed) how do i resign the packages with a given signature??? Cheers, Manu P.S: Good feedback. I agree with getting new distro CDs every so often and i am willing to do it (fast net connection helps) every so often (so expect Manudrake 9.2.2 etc...). i just need a bit of help setting it all up (e.g. signing packages)... which packages to ad etc... P.P.S: I am thinking of adding PLF's dvd packages, what do you think?? Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 06:57, Emmanuel Moll wrote: Righto, the isos are created and I'm just about to test them. If I cannot find any problems, I'll bittorrent them on Monday under the name of Manudrake-9.2.1 (I'm fairly sure i cannot use the name Mandrake and 9.2.1 is better than 9.2SP1 (in my opinion)). Also, since I'm a bit strapped for cash this month, I'm planning to sell these on CDs in the UK for people with slower connections (kinda like cheapbytes) - probably for £5 for 4 CDs including shipping (will get back on Monday). Anyone interested??? Cheers, Manu This is a fantastic idea, I wish somebody had done this a long time ago. What would be nice is that every so often, a snapshot of the distro with the latest bug fixes be released; for use when you are installing new and you don't want to bother with a fourth download cd or you don't have an internet connection handy. In my opinion this is a real market gap and it's something I'd be willing to pay for. Right now 9.1 has a huge amount of updates that would better be integrated into a new set of installation cd's, instead of a tag-along cd as I'm doing it now. The only suggestion I have is that before you master them you do all your Gpg checks on the packages and make sure all the rpm's pass. LX
Re: [Cooker] Remastering-with-updates HOWTO?
Look for an earlier post called New ISO with updates. I'ver worked on this this week-end and should have ISOs ready by Monday (fingers crossed). Manu Leon Brooks wrote: Is there a simple HOWTO somewhere with the steps I need to walk through to produce new Download Edition ISOs but with the updated RPMs in place of the originals? Yes, I know it's slack to ask first and search afterwards but it's late here and I'm tired and would want to fetch the RPMs ASAP and get this done tomorrow. Cheers; Leon
Re: [Cooker] And next ?
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 9:19 am, Warly wrote: It may be a good idea, before cooker opens again, to take these days to have some brainstorm. May you give your opinion on : - What was wrong in 9.2 development process? For me, it was the relative closeness of it all. It would be nice to add something to Bugzilla to indicate that a developper has looked at the bug (amthg like being processed...). Also, how about having each user entering a bug report their configuration (a la Mandrakeexpert) - surely that would make it easier fo you guys. - We though a bit late in the 9.2 developement process to split cooker ml, we should do it now. Aye - What could we do to improve 9.3/10.0 development. A more specific timeline available on Wiki. I.e. a lot of testers found that they did not know when cooker entered a frozen state etc... Why not have some rounds e.g. -Suggestion round -Features round -Packages round (in accordance with the Club, of course) etc... so that user know when their opinion will be heard. At the moment, the whole oh i think this package should be added or this feature would be cool at a RC1 stage is very messy. Providing the users with a time frame (2-3 months) in which they can submit their ideas for features would be good. Also, I love Mandrake and I really would like to help with the development (I think I have a few good ideas - especially regarding drakconnect) but unfortunately my PhD is taking most of my time and I don't have time to write software. It would be nice if a group of testers could be linked to one or more developpers and work with them on the project - that way you increase the number of people working on something (and it makes thing a lot tidyer). - What should we do to improve the Wiki. c.f. above - Should we have cooker snapshot ISOs? Don't mind since I have broadband (thank you Uni) but it is true that having a time reference to the bugs would be good (e.g. this bug is valid in cooker-20030707 etc...) - What could we do, as a community, to increase the acceptance of mandrakelinux? C.f. my next post (when I have time to write it) - How to have more contributors? c.f. above And anything related to the mandrakelinux distro.
[Cooker] cpio error
Hello, I'm trying to install slmdm for my laptop ut when i'm rpming the package, I et the following: /dev/ttySL0: cpio: rename failed - Operation not permitted Any knows how to fix this problem (I've googled a bit and apparently it's MDK problem) but I couldn't find a fix. Cheers, Emmanuel
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 5917] [Hardware] Mandrake does not load on Machines without floppy drive
Could you check that acpi is enabled on the kernel you're booting (i.e. acpi=on not acpi=ht) cause that's when the problems arise. It would be interesting to see if this is the case or not. Emmanuel P.S: could you post the next message on http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5917 Simon Oosthoek wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:39:40AM +0200, [emmanuel.moll] wrote: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5917 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 00:39 --- Oh man, it must have been late in the evening. What I meant was: Mandrake does not load on machines with no floppy drives... so please change parallel port in my first statement to floppy dive :-D Very sorry about that I have no floppy drive in my laptop (Compal ACL-10). I don't know if I have a parallel port (I think not), I don't think I ever checked. But Mandrake, although not without problems, loads fine on that machine! Are you sure it's the floppy drive, or is it a kernel bug for a specific piece of hardware on your machine(s)? Cheers Simon
[Cooker] Xprint and Mozilla
Hello all, How are you meant to use xprint with Mozilla in cooker??? I have installed Mozilla, I have installed Xprint, started the xprint server (etc/init.d/xprint start), I have some printers setup with CUPS but when i go to Mozilla - Print, I still only have Postscipt/default and not the printers I have setup. Any help??? Thanks, Emmanuel
[Cooker] MDKKDM colour???
Hey there, Is there any way to change the default MDKKDM colour??? I'm not keen on grey (think it's been over-used) Thanks Emmanuel
[Cooker] Font colour suggection
Hi, I think black does not have a high enough contrast with the default background to be readable - white or grey would be good. Cheers, Emmanuel
Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support
I will test it asap but unfortunately i'm on dialup for the next two weeks. I'll only be able to test speedstep. Emmanuel On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:34, Michael Scherer wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:26, Emmanuel Moll wrote: Features that would be interesting in a laptop installation class though are: -enable cpufreqd by default and make it easy to configure it ok, packaged, and uploaded. can you please test it ? I was unable to load the powernow modules on my laptop ( sony pcg fx702 ), so, i guess the daemon work, but i was unable to use it.
Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support
Features that would be interesting in a laptop installation class though are: -enable powernow and speedstep module by default -enable cpufreqd by default and make it easy to configure it -make sure pcmcia and usb are loaded BEFORE network - too many times have i needed to restart my network because of that (so easy to fix as well) Cheers, Emmanuel On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:09, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:32, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: I know it's kind of late in the game and it's been discussed before but I was wondering if we could have a Laptop Installation class. For now, all it would have to be is: a kernel with ACPI enable and things like SCSI and other stuff not found in laptops turned off. Then for software, just enable ACPI by default and install/configure the suspend scripts. Currently, as an (ignorant) user, I have to make sure to enable ACPI during install, and remember to install the other scripts post install... SCSI turned off? I'm not entirely sure how it works, but would that cause any inconvenience for, for example, a USB2 CDRW drive? And USB flash drivers, usb-storage camers, PCMCIA-SCSI cards (we have one, though it currently only gets used under Windows, but still ...) And don't DrakX and drakboot install the necessary packages if you use them to enable ACPI? I haven't had to mess with any things. Really, I don't see that you can differentiate between laptops and any other machines (besides possibly the hard disk patch ...), since a number of laptops now ship with 1GB ram, and many users do development work with many server components installed ... It would be nice though to have DrakX detect laptops, and install relevant packages (such as tpctl, tpb etc etc), but a lot of the packages are in contrib anyway. Features I *would* like to see are things like the ability for diskdrake to create a suspend-to-disk partition on laptops with a compatible BIOS. Regards, Buchan - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/L4JqrJK6UGDSBKcRAprCAKDKuENtO2y/HJYcz4T817p+QE/6iACfXIdK mGsWRl4ESfaJHs47Jl6jP/g= =3lfY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. **
Re: [Cooker] MdkKDM (was: free choice?)
KDm is very good but looks-wise GDM kicks ass. Here is what could be a compromise: -Keep the central window of KDM with the user display and all the buttons -Integrate KDM in the background (quite easy, use the same colour for the widget as the background colout) -Add a bar at the bottom of the screen (a la GDM) -Add a cool background. Cheers, Emmanuel On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 13:41, Leon Brooks wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What the heck was the problem with either gdm or kdm? Dunno, perhaps looks too complex to a newbie, perhaps they want to add an XP-style flowers-on-the-background user list. I immediately switch to KDM every time. Cheers; Leon
Re: [Cooker] Network setup problems with drakxtools-9.2-0.25mdk
I can confirm this issue since I've had it aswell. Furthermore, would it be possible to configure the DNS without ALWAYS having to gro through the wizard. Wizard is good the first time but if I change anything in my network, I'd like to do it quickly and not bother with the wizard. Cheers, Emmanuel On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:50, Paul Misner wrote: Using drakconnect within MCC to set up a fixed IP address I ran into an interesting problem. I could configure eth0 by pressing the configure local area network button, and it initialized properly. I could also configure the gateway using the configure internet access button. This left two problems. 1) You have to go through the wizard to set up the DNS server, which should be readily available under one of the other setup buttons, probably the configure local area network button. Even then, if you have been in a zeroconf setup, the first DNS server is always set to 127.0.0.1, and the one you get to enter is set as the second DNS server. You can't enter more than 1 DNS server through drakconnect. 2) When you are done setting up the network, and you hit the Ok button to exit drakeconnect, it wipes out your configuration, and sets you back to a zeroconf state. If you close MCC instead of pressing the OK button to close drakconnect, your new configuration is in place, which is what you wanted. I think this problem has been around for a while. Paul Misner
Re: [Cooker] Network setup problems with drakxtools-9.2-0.25mdk
I can confirm this issue since I've had it aswell. Furthermore, would it be possible to configure the DNS without ALWAYS having to gro through the wizard. Wizard is good the first time but if I change anything in my network, I'd like to do it quickly and not bother with the wizard. Cheers, Emmanuel On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:50, Paul Misner wrote: Using drakconnect within MCC to set up a fixed IP address I ran into an interesting problem. I could configure eth0 by pressing the configure local area network button, and it initialized properly. I could also configure the gateway using the configure internet access button. This left two problems. 1) You have to go through the wizard to set up the DNS server, which should be readily available under one of the other setup buttons, probably the configure local area network button. Even then, if you have been in a zeroconf setup, the first DNS server is always set to 127.0.0.1, and the one you get to enter is set as the second DNS server. You can't enter more than 1 DNS server through drakconnect. 2) When you are done setting up the network, and you hit the Ok button to exit drakeconnect, it wipes out your configuration, and sets you back to a zeroconf state. If you close MCC instead of pressing the OK button to close drakconnect, your new configuration is in place, which is what you wanted. I think this problem has been around for a while. Paul Misner
Re: [Cooker] Network setup problems with drakxtools-9.2-0.25mdk
I can confirm this issue since I've had it aswell. Furthermore, would it be possible to configure the DNS without ALWAYS having to gro through the wizard. Wizard is good the first time but if I change anything in my network, I'd like to do it quickly and not bother with the wizard. Cheers, Emmanuel On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:50, Paul Misner wrote: Using drakconnect within MCC to set up a fixed IP address I ran into an interesting problem. I could configure eth0 by pressing the configure local area network button, and it initialized properly. I could also configure the gateway using the configure internet access button. This left two problems. 1) You have to go through the wizard to set up the DNS server, which should be readily available under one of the other setup buttons, probably the configure local area network button. Even then, if you have been in a zeroconf setup, the first DNS server is always set to 127.0.0.1, and the one you get to enter is set as the second DNS server. You can't enter more than 1 DNS server through drakconnect. 2) When you are done setting up the network, and you hit the Ok button to exit drakeconnect, it wipes out your configuration, and sets you back to a zeroconf state. If you close MCC instead of pressing the OK button to close drakconnect, your new configuration is in place, which is what you wanted. I think this problem has been around for a while. Paul Misner
