Re: [Cooker] cdrecord and Mandrake iso image

[John Muir]

Ed Wilts wrote:
 Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I would suggest trying XCDRoast, which is a GUI interface around cdrecord. On
typical Mandrake installations you must run it as the root user. The GUI is not
stellar but it seems better than most alternatives at the moment. As long as you
use SCSI interfaces or SCSI emulation (ide-scsi), it works quite well; I
successfully burned the Mandrake 7.2 iso images onto some CDs just the other
day.

..John

-- 
John Muir - 393-2463 - External: 613-763-2463
NORTEL Networks - SDM Platform Software Design

[Cooker] alsa 0.5.10 SRC RPM?

[John Muir]

Hi All,

Is there an alsa-0.5.10-mdk.src.rpm?

I wouldn't mind upgrading my alsa (I want to install the 2.2.18 kernel), but I
can only find the following source RPMs:

alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk.src.rpm
alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk.src.rpm
alsaplayer-0.99.32-12mdk.src.rpm

When I try to --rebuild these, it complains that I've go the wrong version or
missing the alsa drivers.

Thanks,

..John

Re: [Cooker] KDE 2.0

[John Muir]

Do these RPMS include all of the mandrake goodies, or are they straight from
KDE.org?

..John


civileme wrote:

 Look in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported and you will find what you seek.
 
 Civileme

-- 
John Muir - 393-2463 - External: 613-763-2463
NORTEL Networks - SNM Base Software Design

Re: [Cooker] KDE 2.0

[John Muir]

Well, as far as I can tell, mandrake includes all kinds of icons and a default
desktop setup that are not part of kde.org's distribution. Am I correct?

I once tried to upgrade to some RPMs which didn't have the icons included and I
had to re-install the originals from the CD-ROM to get them back (I just *love*
those icons... ;-))

..John

Daouda LO wrote:

  Mandrake-devel/unsupported/
 
  Do these RPMS include all of the mandrake goodies, or are they straight from
  KDE.org?
 
 What you call mandrake goodies ??

-- 
John Muir - 393-2463 - External: 613-763-2463
NORTEL Networks - SNM Base Software Design

[Cooker] HD Parms, and DMA?

[John Muir]

Hi,

I seem to remember isntalling in 'expert' mode a few times, and being
asked whether or not I wanted DMA on my Hard Disks set on.

Now, since I've been short on time, I've been using the 'recommended'
install, and there was no question about DMA, and now I'm trying to
determine how to get that setup again.

I know that the 'hdparm' command will set this up for me, but I'm not
sure what parameters to use. Are there any 'auto-probe' tools that will
'guess' the most optimal hdparm settings for my system?

Anyways, I'd like to use DMA on my system as it give a HUGE performance
increase on disk access (at least the rest of the system doesn't bog
down even if the disk access isn't noticibly faster).

Where is that performance tuning stuff gone?

..John

Re: [Cooker] Login from KDM/KDE fails?

[John Muir]

Tim,

Thanks, that did the job (I updated pam).

..John

Tim McKenzie wrote:
 
 John Muir wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I've recently installed my system with the 7.2Beta3 images, and then I
  updated KDE to 1.99-x from the 7.2beta cooker directories.
 
  As a result, kdm and KDE will nolonger accept my password(s) for various
  logins, and I'm using gdm and Gnome (which seems even more buggy...).
 
  Is there a package which contains the libraries called for password
  verification from KDE which I must update?
 
  Has anyone else seen this problem?
 
  ..Joh
 Last time i had this problem I upgraded pam and it fixed the problem...

-- 
John Muir - 393-2463 - External: 613-763-2463
NORTEL Networks - SNM Base Software Design