Re: [Cooker] A Potential Mandrake Failure - Documentation (repost from NG)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:59, you wrote: Along this line, I can see a lot of potential value to simply rearchiving this existing data in its raw form into a topical treed structure which would eliminate the need of text searching to find answers. From that point on, comments could be posted and existing data could be more easily edited into detailed documentation which at this point in time, simply doesn't exist. When I first started using LinuxPPC, I used to use the resources at linuxppc.org, organised in just such a manner as above. The resource used FAQ-O-Matic, available: http://freshmeat.net/projects/faqomatic/ The entries in the hierarchical structure can be submissible, can be made subject to approval before publication, and can have more than one administrator, organised in hierarchical manner, if desired (one super-site admin, one or more admin for each section) Might be worth a look, but even if not, it's certainly a worthwhile project - I have so many bits of email, pdf's README's HOWTO's, that it's really not that efficient any more -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 34 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] Linux Gamers = please test my new game Frozen Bubble
Test report: kant tipe 2 wel, coz my wrists hurt - y is lvl 51 sooo difficult??? Exec summary: excellent waste of working hours!!! -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 6 hours 31 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] Continued problems with latest Cooker install
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 20:57, you wrote: 1) The Xircom Realport ethernet card during install starts up in 100Mbs mode - but after install and reboot, it only boots in 10Mbs mode This is similar behaviour to 8.1 (which I have just installed on my laptop). Interestinly, the staus light shows a 100 connection, while the transfer only shows (and is) 10. This is on a Compaq combi-card, using the xirc2ps_cs.o.gz module. The same card on the same machine/network worked at a flat-out 100 under RH 7.1 previously. Hmmm... -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 36 minutes =
[Cooker] [install message] filesystem
And why would it want to do that? [root@thang rpms]# rpm -Uvh /home/john/filesystem-2.1.3-4mdk.noarch.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:filesystem error: unpacking of archive failed on file /mnt/cdrom: cpio: chown failed - Read-only file system -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 5 hours 59 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] Using Kword for PDF output error
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:22, you wrote: Am using Ghostscript 6.51-38. I have used this technique before as it automates the process of converting various doc formats to ps prior to conversion to PDF. It works great for publishing work quickly in PDF format but it's broken now. I don't know what other things the ps2pdf process requires so therefore don't know possible sources of conflict. Any others experiencing same problem? Works here, with ghostscript-6.51-37mdk, koffice-1.1.1-5mdk, kde almost the latest (just updating a coupla kde bits now, but all libs are the latest) -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 3 hours 22 minutes =
[Cooker] libORBit0.5.13-1 not flagged?
Installing the latest ORBit galeon does *not* flag libORBit0.5.13-1 as required (which it is!) Thus both the above install perfectly, but galeon refuses to run -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 1 hour 12 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center Dead
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:38, you wrote: remove the package wizard to test. By the way, sorry about all these bad versions, but it is due to an upload that should not have been done. So the version uploaded was deeply broken. Anyway, I upload some new package shortly Well, it finally launches again - I particularly like the 'Network bla bla Internet section' ! It still doesn't like the missing wizard package, and complains about unitialized values a lot (part extract below : Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf.real line 187, VERS line 1. Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf.real line 448, VERS line 1. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 453, VERS line I must say that this is all trivial (to me) in comparison to the sluggishness of KDE2 (compared with both texstars the standard 8.1 rpms which I used previously), *and* the loss of Crossover (still there, but to all intents and purposes inaccessible as the .kde/share/applink directory had to be deleted on my system in order for KDE to reliably start up at all. blast bring on KDE3, I guess... -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 0 hours 31 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] Cooker/Netscape 6.2 bug
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:25 am, you wrote: I run Netscape 6.2 for email/browsing and I had a bug today that I have never encountered before with Cooker. I updated today to the latest cooker and now, when I run Navigator and click on links within web pages the app dies/closes. This happens EVERY time I click on a link, not just occassionally. This is frustrating as I can't think of a thing in Cooker that might affect Netscape yet it's only since I updated that I had this problem. Any ideas? You might try starting netscape from a command line, and then looking at the output - or even running 'strace netscape' . In my own similar case, there seems to have been a font issue with the windows arial font hth john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 7 hours 30 minutes =
Re: [Cooker] New COOKER install (26.11.01) PCMCIA.IMG NOGO
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:52, you wrote: Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) Interesting that it's that particular card. I spoke with David Hinds (PCMCIA kernel guy) a while back, about a different issue with that particular module, and he replied that the module is buggy - so there might be an issue there... -- john in syd
Re: [Cooker] The penguin's gotta go.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:59, you wrote:
Oden Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There's a new logo for you to use if you want, but the initscripts
package haven't kept up.
Hint:
less /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Yeah :) remove the -c
Yup - and get a butt-ugly Mandrake Star instead of a butt-ugly penguin!! :{
--
john in syd
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (2)
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:26, you wrote: Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything without searching for an hour or two.. shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control Center, Print Queue, etc, etc.. ??? i d'ont understand. On the desktop ? n No, not desktop. I mean something like Mandrake Control Center but for a user. Mandrake is very nice distribution as long as you have the root privileges. But if you try to use Mandrake as a normal user, it's just horrible. How to change your language, photo, password? They are very hard to find from menu (because most of the configuration tools need root privileges) if they can be found at all (Ctrl + Alt + +/-). Even I don't try to find some configuration tool from the menu, because it's much faster to run it directly from a terminal. My Control Panel would fix this together with Mandrake Control Center if they are both well made. Your point is well made, from a single-user perspective. In this case, access to what are essentially (in a *nix world) administrative functions, are somewhat hidden and require root access for many. However, I feel you are missing the point somewhat, inasmuch as any *nix system is really designed for multi-user and multilayer security, integrated into a network. Sure, we could allow all and sundry the ability to change their gdm/xdm 'face' or whatnot, but in a lab full of budding hackers, or a company environment, I for one wouldn't want to be the administrator!!! Perhaps there is another way forward, without breaking the security model which (though I may occasionally curse it) I have come to value over any MS Garbage on offer - how about a sudo wizard on install? Haven't thought my way through this one yet, but it would appear to be exactly what sudo is designed for just a thought -- john in syd
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:43, you wrote: No. Nobody uses a central database for mime type handlers, because there isn't any. Even applications inside Gnome/KDE have their own mime files..:( But I would like this to change and the only thing towards working pick a file and choose the program to run it would be this kind of sollution. Of course the programs and users would have their own preferences, but in the case where there aren't any, they could pick _some_ application to run the file instead of letting the novice user to guess which application he/she needs to see a pdf document etc.. I just looked at gnome-vfs, galeon and mozilla. They have all their own mime files, but as thay all are in text/xml, exporter would be quite(?) easy to make for them all. And of course the implementer could always go to talk mozilla/gnome/kde people. :) So essentially, we're talking about a linux equivalent of Internet Config under MacOS, which allows apps to refer to a common mime-dbase, holds userspace stuff such as email address, news server, sigfile, local ftp mirrors etc. The good thing (?) about Internet Config is that, while apps have to be IC-aware in order to use it, they can also opt out, or use their own schema (there's usually a check box in the prefs saying 'use Internet Config'). Another design feature is that it comes chockers with predefined mime-types, mirror sites helper apps, but still lets you (or an installer package) add to the db. -- john in syd
Re: [Cooker] kudzu: failed
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 05:09, you wrote: Fresh install. I have changed my video card to a AGP one and still have kudzu to fail and have to use nonfb install. 1. As this is a cooker list, could you tell us which version of cooker stuff (kudzu, kernel etc) you are running? 1a Does the card run w/framebuffer under a standard distro (MDK 8.1 or the like)? 2. Have you changed the video prefer = AGP (or something like that) in your BIOS? 3. You haven't told us which card it is, nor have you said if your current card is supported under either Linux or framebuffer (not all are - some are both some run under Linux, but not with fb support) With all these details, it's going to be easier to help -- john in syd
Re: [Cooker] Mesa-packages
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:05, you wrote: Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The glut-libraries seem to be unimportant for quake3 but what the hell. Anyway this seems to bee a much more consistant way of packaging the Mesa-stuff. Thanks, glut3 is problably not needed by a lot of GL stuff (especially games). This allows reducing potential error and allow using other library without too much error (libGLU for example), this one comes with libGLU 1.3 from SGI incorporated with Mesa 3.5. François. So, in summary, what packages are needed with what? For example, as J . A . Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, is this combo correct? : I think you only should install Mesa if you have XFree 3.3.x. With XFree 4.1.0, you already get a libGL. So the two possible setups are: - XF 3.3 + libMesaGL + libMesaGLU + libMesaglut - XF 4.1 + libMesaGLU + libMesaglut (same for the devel packages). And further, is this true for *all* video cards (hidden agenda, I have a 3dfx G), or just non-Glide? cheers -- john in syd
Re: [Cooker] Mesa-packages
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:24, you wrote: Ok let me get this straight cause I still don't quitte understand what has to be done: When I try to update the Mesa-rpms I get: error: failed dependencies: Mesa-common = 3.4.2 is needed by Mesa-common-devel-3.4.2-2mdk This is the list of new rpms: libMesaGLU1-3.5-2mdk.i586.rpm libMesaglut3-3.5-2mdk.i586.rpm And this is the list of allready installed rpms: Mesa-common-devel-3.4.2-2mdk Mesa-common-3.4.2-2mdk Now what is the right way to get it straight? On my system - Mesa is at version 3.5.2, and there are no more Mesa-common packages: [root@thang john]# rpm -qa | grep -i mesa |sort libMesaGL1-3.5-2mdk libMesaGLU1-3.5-2mdk libMesaglut3-3.5-2mdk Mesa-3.5-2mdk xmms-mesa-1.2.5-5mdk --so looks asthough you might be missing the Mesa package -- john in syd
[Cooker] AppleTalk kernel 2.4-12-5mdk
Just installed kernel-2.4.12-5mdk. .and Appletalk seems to have gone where? Up till now 'twas to be found under: /lib/modules/kernel vers/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o.gz but now, no longer. In fact it is not anywhere - has something taken over the function, or is this just an oversight?? -- john (Mac-less) in syd
Re: [Cooker] AppleTalk kernel 2.4-12-5mdk
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:05, you wrote: John Haywood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just installed kernel-2.4.12-5mdk. .and Appletalk seems to have gone where? Up till now 'twas to be found under: /lib/modules/kernel vers/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o.gz but now, no longer. In fact it is not anywhere - has something taken over the function, or is this just an oversight?? [~]$ l /lib/modules/2.4.12-6mdk/kernel/net/a atm ax25 Nope also missing in 2.4.12-6mdk Thanks Han - time to stop *that* dowload and off to bugzilla -- john in syd
