Re: [Cooker] Re: urpmi features
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 01:25, James Sparenberg wrote: Yes, better use of rsync in software manager could REALLY save some serious bandwidth. I don't understand why there is not more widespread use of rsync?? I know that modem users would love it. h gets me thinking.. Even with broadband connections, it get the job done faster. In any event, it's a more efficient use of resouces. I'm for it. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com/ Nothing is impossible to the man that doesn't have to do it himself.
Re: [Cooker] Mailing lists with KMail
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2003 08:38 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: Middle-click the mailing list folder name. This makes a new message addressed to the list. =) You learn something new everyday. Thank you, I like this much better than the context sensitive new message button. I used it to send this. It does not create a blank, new message, but just replies to whatever message is already selected in that folder. 8( Shift-L does the same thing. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] 9.1 final
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: And what do I do if I don't have an old kernel installed? Punt? How about using mc to extract the kernel from the correct kernel rpm and install it manually? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] kernel-source and kernel-source-includes
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:07 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: It is if they have to fetch it down a modem. Wehn I used dial-up and wanted to play at that game, I always obtained the source CD's. Updates were always a bitch, however. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: War
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:24, Levi Ramsey wrote: french has a (deserved) history of meaning fancy in the annals of American marketing. Like French kissing? What do they French call that? Not English kissing, I hope. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com/ Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
[Cooker] Re: toward community-ruled website ?
On Sunday 09 March 2003 21:10, Sascha Noyes wrote: There needs to be a place people can point to and say: this is the info that is needed when reporting eg. a sound bug And what info is needed to add new hardware to the database, etc. And _excellent_ idea. I'll be glad to assist with this! -- Hoyt Duff http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software
On Saturday 01 March 2003 15:02, Charles Shirley wrote: These packages are able to support the writings of any religeon? If so, it may require some effort to collect the writings of some of the more obscure belief systems in the correct format. If sword provides an agnostic frontend for comparative litereature study (meaning it does not care about the content of the text it uses, only the formatting of it), then it is only incumbent on the community of interested people to provide texts formatted for use with it. The texts could be religious or secular. It would be simply a tool; others provide the material to be examined using it. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] MDK9.1rc1 buglets
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: This new one looks very sparse and amateurish - kinda like something I would dream up. It sucks. Hard. I disagree. The reviewers and the GP are looking for nice fonts and a clean, minimalistic look and I think this accomplishes that. They needed a change that increases the wow factor anyway. Maybe Eugenia will be happy now :-D We're in trouble if we have to please her. 8) I agree that it looks motif-ish, aka _ugly_. Visually, it's an unrewarding experience; just unappealing. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] synaptic driver for laptops
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:39, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Could it be possible to include this driver in XFree package ? http://www.mobilix.org/touchpad_driver.html This site has trademark trouble with its name MobiliX and is therefore not available. So where did it go since yesterday? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:10 am, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't seem to have those in Mandrake :o( we do have man sex Are you sure that was phrased right? well ... just add the needed quotes ... Too funny. I found the entire set at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/funny-manpages-1.1-1.noarch.html A few of them are offensive to many people, but several are funny as well. Mandrake 9.0 has man pages for sex and baby. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:00 am, Leon Brooks wrote: So I guess Mandrake has to omit them. But there's always PLF. (-: Cheers; Leon Well, then, here's a source RPM ready to be Mandrakeized: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/noarch/SRPMS/funny-manpages-1.1-1.src.rpm It contains what I suppose are the full set of funny man pages. The man page for RTFM is my favorite. I didn't intend for this to get out of hand; these are probably best left to PLF. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:20 pm, Ben Reser wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:37:31AM -0500, HoytDuff wrote: Mandrake 9.0 has man pages for sex and baby. Not in English at least. I have a few cooker packages in there as well, although I don't recall ever installing new man pages. Looks like sex is available for Italian though. They always get the good stuff. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
[Cooker] UNIX Lore
What's the origin of the man pages for baby and sex? Are there others? I see some references at http://listserv.externet.hu/lists/linux/9812/msg00084.html I have a man flame, but it's for an X screensaver that is not installed.. The Mandrake installed man page for sex is a bit raunchier that this one: http://faq.linux.ms/wiki/sex -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby!
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 03:16 am, Jean-Michel Dault scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I'm now a new daddy.. it's a girl, Gabrielle. See all the pictures at http://www.advx.org/baby Name: Gabrielle Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.0 Vendor: Similac Advance with iron Release : 1mdkBuild Date: wed 22 jan 2003 10:39:00 EST Congradulations. Look at the man page for baby if you need any help. $ man baby -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes
On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:45 pm, David Walser scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: In the boxed sets, we do include a package of the nVidia modules, and if you have an nVidia card, DrakX (the installer) will use it automatically. Do you include a Win4Lin enabled kernel as well? That would make me want one. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Run with scissors.
Re: [Cooker] Installation beta 3 - Servers installed
On Sunday 02 February 2003 03:41 pm, Pixel scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Brad Chamberlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: instead of listing them like cups, proftp, ..., etc I think it would be more useful to actually list them and give a brief description of what they are used for and what packages they selected to get them installed...something like: what you propose is alike services configuration. Isn't services configuration enough? I think he raise a valid point. At this jucture, you are being asked to make a decision without being told (to the newbie, at least) what you must make the dicision about. (What is proftp? cups? What do they do?) Is the discussion of the different servers and what they do available in the manual? If so, then perhaps just a reference to the manual, or even its inclusion as a Help item would suffice. If not, then this is an area that needs further examination from a usability standpoint. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] DrakConf -- Software Management -- Software Source broken ?
On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:06 pm, OS scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I am probably doing this all wrong ! In order to add a urpmi repository, it must provide a hdlist. That is done with tools related to genhdlist. The process is not well documented as far as I know. I cd to the directory containing the files and # genhdlist `pwd` And then add it to the media list. You _should_ be able to do it with urpmi.addmedia using the -f option, like: # urpmi.addmedia -f repository name file://path to your local files but I always get an error like: Can't use string (MyRPM) as a HASH ref while strict refs in use at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 914. I have no idea what to do about that and I'm probably doing this all woring as well. The following links might help us if they were in English: http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html http://linux-wizard.tuxfamily.org/howto_cooker.html#urpmi I would really like to find a site similar to: http://www.linuxworks.com.au/redhat-installer-howto.html -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] re:Mandrake mdk9.1 beta 2
On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:35 am, Rudolf Koendering scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Is it possible, without burning cd's, to download and install mdk9.2? Download the rpms to a hard drive. Download the hd.img and make a floppy with dd. Boot with it to do a hd install. Is that what you were looking for? -- Hoyt
Re: [Cooker] Cooker community meeting
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:12 pm, Jason Komar scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I'd love to go, but Calgary is a long way from Paris. The French have that ultra-cool, fast airliner . . . -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks.
Re: [Cooker] ATI AIW 7500 tuner config???
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:50 pm, Robert martin scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I found everything I needed for the video card (and tuner) in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv. Kwintv (now QTview) seems nice. --- -- then I assume you could email me a copy of your modules.conf (and any other needed config files) and my ati aiw 7500 will just work? (btw what kernel version[s] do you have this working on?) Ah . . . in my haste reading Cooker mail, I misread your initial post. I use the ATI Wonder card, a stand-alone bttv card that is well-supported, unlike your card. I believe that you need the ati.2 drivers from http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ to enable the TV function for your card. Also look at http://www.reades.com/radeon.html as well. XiG makes drivers available for your card that appear to offer substantial improvements over the XFree86 drivers in addition to supporting TV/video capture. They aren't free, however, at $119 for the version you want (http://www.xig.com/Pages/Atop/DX-DesktopSeries.html). But they do offer a free demo (http://www.xig.com/Pages/Atop/Demos-SummitLine/Demos-DX-PlatinumLinux.html). The XiG drivers for your card also permit you to run Unreal Tournament 2003 (http://www.xig.com/Pages/PrReleases/PROct02UT2003.pdf) if that matters to you. If I owned your card, I'd buy the XiG drivers. (And no, I don't work for them, but I use their driver in my HP ze1210/S3 ProSavage-TwisterK laptop with excellent results.) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] ATI AIW 7500 tuner config???
On Monday 27 January 2003 10:17 pm, Robert martin scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: im mostly looking for what needs to be done to get xawtv going (but i will take any tv thing) gatos is a joke! I found everything I needed for the video card (and tuner) in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv. Kwintv (now QTview) seems nice. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:14 am, Reinout van Schouwen scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: as for tools written interactive, they can be run in text mode, which is the solution for too low resolution boxes. I'm sorry, but from an unexperienced user point of view, this is no solution, but a reason to throw that stupid difficult Linux thing aside. Reinout's comment sounds to me like an excuse to justify his lack of continued interest and lack of persistence. Or pehaps he just has an argumentative personality or a need to control; it doesn't really matter. I don't like getting up early to be at work, especially since there is no logical reason for me to do my work during any specific part of the day and it would be easy for my boss to relent on her demands that I arrive at work at a certain time, but I adjust and get on with business. So should we and Reinout. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
[Cooker] Error in install.htm, INSTALL.txt
In the documents install.htm and INSTALL.txt, at the bottom, they state: For installation support see the Mandrake Linux diffusion list and FAQs at the web site: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ At the site referenced, there is no refernce to a diffusion list or a FAQ, so the link is useless. Perhaps a more useful replacement to the page would be: For additional support, see the following: E-Support at http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/ Mandrake Eratta at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 Mandrake Security Advisories at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/ On-line Documentation at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 Join the Mailing Lists at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/flists.php3 Easily Searchable Mailing List archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ Search the Internet using Google for Linux at http:/www.google.com/linux/ Search Usenet Groups using Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comphl=en Read and join the On-line Discussion Forums of Mandrake Club at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/ I know I would find that information useful. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1113] [Installation] New: ISA cards not detected.
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:54 am, Pixel scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: [Bug 1113] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: @resolution=wontfix Perhaps the inclusion of the foloowing README in the CDROM root directory woudl be helpful: ISA_card_README.txt ISA card configuration information for Mandrake. Mandrake no longer actively supports the detection and configuration of ISA cards. Information on configuring these cards can be found in the HOWTOs of the Linux Documentation Project, http://www.tldp.org/. Specifically, you should examine: The Linux Ethernet-Howto The Modem-HOWTO The Plug-and-Play-HOWTO The Linux Sound HOWTO You may find useful configuration information in The Linux BootPrompt-HowTo You may find useful configuraion information in the kernel documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/, if installed. Motherboards using ISA cards also may have BIOS issues relating to large hard disks, so the Large Disk HOWTO maybe useful as well. The Online Troubleshooting Resources : HOWTO can also be useful as a souce of additional information. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1113] [Installation] New: ISA cards not detected.
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:04 pm, Pixel scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: it never supported detection, at least not actively ;p as for configuration, it still supports it (AFAIK!) OK, so why not give the ISA folks some help with a README? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!
On Monday 27 January 2003 01:56 pm, Reinout van Schouwen scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: It's not *my* problem, but I shudder to think of the frustration this would cause to someone who had accidentally set his screen resolution too low and tries to use the control center to revert it back and finds that he can't do so because the frigging OK button is off the screen... Doesn't the holding Alt- key while grabbing the window allow you to move it around? Awkward, but useful as a workaround. -- Hoyt
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1023] [Installation] New: unable to go back to the start of the installation
On Friday 24 January 2003 06:57 pm, John Danielson, II scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (there may be some other way, but at least i know this one works :) Thank you, will contact her and yes, you do very well at integrating comments\remarks\ideas into reality. :) John. Oh, I got caught by this one before. 8) Camille is a dude, dude. -- Hoyt Duff http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 730] [XFree86] Savage driver does not work
On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:43 pm, [Bug 730] scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730 --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: __UNKNOWN__ description: XFree86-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.3mdk (I am up to date with cooker as of Jan 2). The Savage driver will partially load, but the mouse becomes dreadfully slow and GNOME cannot fully load (i.e. the panel never even shows up). It basically gets to the point where it feels almost locked up. Sawfish doesn't get any further. Window Maker will load but there are lots of screen artifacts and you can't even see what you are typing in an xterm. Eventually it gets to that semi-locked up state. Switching to the 'vesa' driver is a temporary work-around. I'm using a beta driver (1.1.27t) from this site (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html)on an HP ze1210 laptop. The driver works great! Except for a 60Hz refresh rate, 1.1.26t works fine as well; I get 85Hz with the newer driver. -- Hoyt Duff http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
