[Cooker] 8.1 beta i probs
I'm mentioning these as some were also in Freq 3. I am at present awaiting beta 2, which I will install midweek at the latest. Graphics card S3 Virge 86c325, 4096 kb video ram. Successfully tested x, but when I came to the question about wanting to start from runlevel 5, everything froze. I checked on the console the next time it happened, and the only message was 'installation completed, exiting instal'. Reiserfs, initrd not loaded. ext2, works, but have to run fsck and do a lot of repairs, then use xf86cfg or xf86configure to set up X. This even happened after I upgraded with a working xconfig file, the new installation deleted the working one and replaced it with rubbish. Rpmdrake. After upgrading everything rpm to the latest, it worked long enough to install two packages from cd. On next boot, even rpm was dead until I did --rebuildb. I then found that I no longer had a copy of rpmdrake, according to rpm and kpackage. Installed again, and I'm back to the old problem of rpmdrake claiming it is extracting packages (in a terminal) but nothing is installed and rpminst doesn't work at all. Gnorpm is broken. So much memory is used that even when using Blackbox, I run out of swap space at times. I have 160MB sdram and have used 120MB of swap for a long time with no problems. Now it seems as if I will have to increase swap by at least 100MB. Resolv.conf defaults to root as user with read and write permission for user only, no permissions for group or others. So for every internet session I have to open a root console and chmod before I can connect to my ISP's nameservers. I tried using the caching nameserver package, no luck even on urls I visit at least once a day. So I have to su to root and enter root password with an internet connection open. I'll let you know if I think of anything else really annoying before I install 8.1 beta 2. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] automounter
OS wrote: > > Hello, > > Has anyone actually got autofs working ?!?! If so how ! > > Thanks, > Owen Does this count as working? I installed it and got a 'bad fstab' message saying it couldn't mount my fs. Then when I rebooted I got a message saying that it couldn't unmount the mountpoints it had told me it couldn't mount earlier. Makes any sense? So I disabled it. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Xwindows install failure solved?
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > "L.A.Lawless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > As I have a slow modem connection I can't download the entire cooker, > > With "rsync", I think this is feasible to maintain an up-to-date Cooker > tree if you run rsync in background when you check your mail or browse the > web :-). > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ My ISP disconnects me every 2 hours. It's the price of 'free' connection. I've always assumed that rsync wouldn't be usable with repeated disconnections. If it is and I keep automatic reconnections going, it should be possible to get a full cooker in 48 hours. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] eth1-9
michael wrote: > > Here's a new one for me...when I start up my machine I get > modprobe:modprobe: Can't find module eth1 > ... > modprobe:modprobe: Can't find module eth9 > > Which package would have done this? About the only thing I haven't > updated is the kernel here. > -- > -m- Same here. I updated all the base packages except the kernel, and I don't have any ethernet cards. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Can't install Mandrake 8.0 with S3 Virge
> quitedown wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently trying to install mandrake 8. I have a s3 vrige > chipset. Whenever the installation reaches > the X- config the computer just freezes. I booted into my linux,since > the only thing that didn't get configured was the X server so the > rest was working fine. I tried to configure x again and it is just > hanged my computer. Does anyone know how I can fix my problem? > I just can't get X to work. I think this is a common problem with > mandrake and i think it should be fixed or atleast till the next > version a workaround should be provided. > THX I have the same chipset and I haven't even been able to get it to work using command line tools in 8.0, although I could in 7.0 and 7.1. If you have 7.2, which does not have this bug you can install that and do an update. It will still hang, but after you reset and fix the partitions with fsck if necessary, it'll work. Or I could send you my copy of XF86config for S3 Virge 86c325, if that is your chipset. It's set for a generic monitor that can do 1024x768 at the moment, with 4096 KB of video memory, a generic ps2 mouse and a 105 key GB layout keyboard. Or you could try running xf86config or XConfigorator from a text console. The former usually works, eventually. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Help needed with 8.0 install
Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:14, civileme wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > I started this thread Wed, 20 Jun 2001 and I'm still trying. I > > > can't believe it's this difficult. I made a brand new local mirror > > > of > > > sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/8.0/i586/ using rsync, without exclusions, > > > on my main machine, and tried installing from network.img floppy > > > using NFS export. > > > > > > The repository was found, 2nd stage install started, used existing > > > partitions and formatted /. Selected packages (recommended, no > > > individual) then the installer crashed: > > > * reading /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc > > > * done > > > * segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install > > > crashes > > > > > > This is reproduceable. I have a report.bug - can I send it to > > > someone? > > > > Ummm, I have seen that statement many times... It almost always > > means one of three things. > > > > 1. Cable to HDD needs removal & reseating or outright replacement. > > > Bingo! I had an old SoundBlaster CD connected to the same cable and, of > course, it's not really an IDE but a proprietary interface, although it's a > 40-pin cable. Funny thing is, it has been working OK in Windows98 and > Mandrake 7.1 as an IDE CD-ROM. > Strange, I experienced exactly the same crash while doing a text expert install using CDs. I entered the amount of memory manually (160 MB and I had no problems apart from the normal total freeze on X installation. With a graphical install I've never had that message. The graphics freeze meant resetting, running fsck manually to fix the damage done, and copying my saved XF86config file. When will Mandrake fix the S3 Virge graphics install freeze? No other distros I've tried have it, and Mandrake had fixed it for 7.2, now it's back since 8.0 beta 2. > > 2. "Hole" in HDD (if you are using WD hard disks you never know till > > a verify step occurs (and WDs is where this happens from disk based > > problems) > > > > 3. Yep, like the proggie says, memory. /images/memtest-x86.bin is > > your friend. Just dd it to a floppy and boot with it on your install > > target. > > > That's what I suspected, so I ran memtest-x86.bin all night, all tests, > without any failures: > Pentium 166.2MHz > L1 Cache 8K553.9Mb/sec > Memory 64M 79.1Mb/sec > Cacheable 64M > Thanks for the tips! > -- > Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. > Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ) > Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 > Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1 > Uptime 4 days 1 hour 46 minutes
Re: [Cooker] rpm bombs out with unknown symbol
OS wrote: > > Hello, > > rpm-4.0.3-0.8mdk bombs out if anything like kpackage is run with : > > kpackage: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: > undefined symbol: fpHashFunction > > It's probably me not installing something vital !! If this is the case could > some kind person tell me what it is :-) > > Owen It does the same with me. There was a mail saying that everything had to be compiled against rpm-4.0.3-0.8 but when I tried it still bombed on all package managers. I couldn't even use rpm to restore the earlier version, so I ended up re-installing. I thought of compiling from source, but I could not remove the rpm first and I was afraid of conflicts so I didn't try it. But I'm no expert, maybe somebody else has the answer. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] kpackage, gnorpm, MandrakeUpdate & Apt
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > David Pilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Although RPM seems to work fine, many apps that use it result in the same > > error message; > > > > "error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: undefined > > symbol: fpHashFunction" > > Apps need to be recompiled against latest rpm. > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ I did that, downloaded and recompiled everything with the latest rpm. I still had the same error message and when I did rpm -q for anything the report was that it wasn't installed. But when I then tried to install it (rpm -Uvh) it told me that it was already installed. As a newbie thinking that compiling from source while I probably still had rpm packages installed, I chose to reinstall 8.0 rather than be stuck with no way of adding or removing rpms. If I get rpm 4.0.3 first and install that, will everything else work if added later? Harddrake (urpmi) doesn't seem to download and install in the correct order if that is the case. Got LM8.0 running again but no mta config yet, hence windoze. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Features in 8.1
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I know that it's stupid to ask "when" we will see 8.1, but I'm curious to > > > > know the main "goal" for next release. I mean: kde-2.2, latest Gnome and > > > > kernel and so on, but where will the attenction be placed mainly? > > > > Many thanks and sorry if it's a stupid question ;o) > > > > > > As already reported, next release should occur 6 months after previous > > > release. > > > > I know, that's why I've asked for "what's new" or "what are the main goals", > > not for a date! =:-) > > Sorry, I read your message too fast. > > Main goals for releases are mostly package updates and internal > developments. > > Package updates, that's very simple: we have no control. > > Internal developments are not yet finished to design, but afaik we will > work a lot on Mandrake Control Center (add more stuff in it), > rpmdrake/mandrakeupdate to "complete" what's been done for 8.0, urpmi for > more features, installation from adsl connection, more on auto_install, > and beautify drakx with some icons and some reworked steps. > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ What I would most like to see is an installer that doesn't freeze when it tries to configure my S3 Virge card in X, which took until 7.2 to get fixed in the last series, and RPMdrake and urpmi running as reliably as dpkg does for Debian.. i.e. no freezes or corrupted hdlists. I'm back in Windoze again due to rpmdrake freezing after installing the vanilla kernel hence having no ppp support. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont errors LM8.0
dam's wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("pablito") writes:
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> > It's not corrected in the 13mdk. It doesn't hang, but it doesn't install
> > the windows fonts either. I had to copy the windows fonts to the drakfont
> > directory and then run "add fonts" and then the font got installed.
> >
>
> argh. I'll check that
>
I've installed a half dozen Windows fonts, no problem, but I can't get
it to accept symbol; fonts. Mdk 7.x did.
Lesley Lawless
> > -Original Message-
> > From: dam's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups: liste.cooker
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Drakfont errors LM8.0
> >
> >
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Rye) writes:
> > >
> > >> Drakfonts appears to hang during Windows fonts - strong verification
> > phase
> > >> Eventually (after 5 mins +/-) killed
> > >>
> > >> Messages as below:
> > >>
> > >> [root@john john]# rpm -qf $(which drakfont)
> > >> drakfont-0.58-11mdk
> > >
> > >corrected in the 13mdk.
> > >
> > >--
> > >dam's
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> dam's
Re: [Cooker] Cannot repair MandrakeUpdate or urpmi
François Pons wrote: > > Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After trying 4 different FTP sites, I'm wondering if my MandrakeUpdate > > is beyond repair: I just updated the rpmdrake and associated RPMs from > > the cooker, but still get the same behaviour. > > > > In MandrakeUpdate, selecting a Cooker source, running as root, I get a > > trace like the following, and what is particularly worrisome is the > > line "packdrake: cannot open archive file > > /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp.proxad.net.cz" because the file does not > > exist and yet there's no permissions problem to prevent it. > > > > > > no descriptions file for 'CD 1 Installation CD (cdrom1)' > > no descriptions file for 'CD 2 Extension CD (cdrom2)' > > * Connected to www.linux-mandrake.com (63.209.80.235) > > > GET /mirrorsfull.list HTTP/1.1 > > Host: www.linux-mandrake.com > > Pragma: no-cache > > Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* > > > > > > * Connection (#0) left alive > > * Closing live connection (#0) > > cooker: 'ftp.proxad.net' >'ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS' > 'with' '../base/hdlist.cz' > > --22:36:42-- >ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/descriptions > >=> `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing' > > Connecting to ftp.proxad.net:21... connected! > > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD >pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake ... done. > > ==> PASV ... done.==> LIST ... done. > > > > 0K -> > > > > 22:36:46 (317.65 B/s) - `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing' saved [324] > > > > Removed `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing'. > > --22:36:46-- >ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/descriptions > >=> `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/descriptions' > > ==> CWD not required. > > ==> PASV ... done.==> RETR descriptions ... > > No such file `descriptions'. > > > > --22:36:47-- >ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz > >=> `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing' > > Connecting to ftp.proxad.net:21... connected! > > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD >pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base ... done. > > ==> PASV ... done.==> LIST ... done. > > > > 0K -> . > > > > 22:36:51 (4.32 KB/s) - `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing' saved [1239] > > > > Removed `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/.listing'. > > --22:36:51-- >ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz > >=> `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.cz' > > ==> CWD not required. > > ==> PASV ... done.==> RETR hdlist.cz ... > > No such file `hdlist.cz'. > > > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD 1 Installation CD (cdrom1).cz] > > built hdlist synthesis file for medium "CD 1 Installation CD (cdrom1)" > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD 2 Extension CD (cdrom2).cz] > > built hdlist synthesis file for medium "CD 2 Extension CD (cdrom2)" > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp.proxad.net.cz] > > packdrake: cannot open archive file /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp.proxad.net.cz > > built hdlist synthesis file for medium "ftp.proxad.net" > > keeping only provides files > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD 1 Installation CD (cdrom1).cz] > > computing dependancy > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD 2 Extension CD (cdrom2).cz] > > computing dependancy > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp.proxad.net.cz] > > packdrake: cannot open archive file /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp.proxad.net.cz > > computing dependancy > > write depslist file [/var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered] > > write provides file [/var/lib/urpmi/provides] > > write compss file [/var/lib/urpmi/compss] > > write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] > > no descriptions file for 'CD 1 Installation CD (cdrom1)' > > no descriptions file for 'CD 2 Extension CD (cdrom2)' > > no descriptions file for 'ftp.proxad.net' > > > > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage): >assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed. > > > > (last error repeated thousands of times) > > > > > > If I run urpmi.addmedia from the command line, I get the same behaviour. > > When the installation was fresh, the CD lists had descriptions, and if > > I show all installed packages, I get descriptions. > > Strange as no descriptions file are available with CDs. > > > Is it possible to repair MandrakeUpdate so that it works again? I > > started into the man pages about urpmi, but quickly got lost in the > > files and formats. > > There is an error with medium ftp.proxad.net, check it is really ignored in > /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, if problems
Re: [Cooker] Can't make modules for kernel 2.4.3-20mdk in 8.0
I had exactly the same problem. As I was recompiling because for some weird reason I had no vfat or iso9660 support, either compiled into the kernel or as a module, it was sort of important to have a working kernel. Downloaded another binary version and it worked fine, except for a report of no isa.pnp module, but I've had that message thoughout all the 8 betas and it never stopped isapnp working (weird again). The really peculiar thing is that after my instal first non-beta of Mdk 8.0 I had nonsense in my fstab and modules.conf files. I'll post them to this group when I'm out of Windoze. Lesley Lawless Peter Ruskin wrote: > > Using CC=kgcc... > [...] > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast': > In file included from > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/linux/highmem.h:5, > from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/linux/vmalloc.h:7, > from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/io.h:110, > from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:14, > from floppy.c:160: > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:74: > `boot_cpu_data_R65dda927' undeclared (first use in this function) > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:74: (Each undeclared > identifier is reported only once > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:74: for each function it > appears in.) > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function > `free_pgd_fast': > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:85: > `boot_cpu_data_R65dda927' undeclared (first use in this function) > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function > `pte_alloc_one_fast': /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:117: > `boot_cpu_data_R65dda927' undeclared (first use in this function) > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function > `pte_free_fast': /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/include/asm/pgalloc.h:127: > `boot_cpu_data_R65dda927' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: > *** [floppy.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/drivers/block' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_block] > Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-20mdk/drivers' make: > *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2 > -- > Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 > Linux 2.4.3-20mdk, KDE: 2.1.1, Qt: 2.3.0 >Uptime 7 hours 50 minutes
Re: [Cooker] mdk install freezed!!
Mohammad DAMT wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:10:38AM +0100, Kritifile wrote: > > and that only worked using Expert. I've had no problems with other > > strange, > expert mode didn't work in my home installation (NVidia RIVATNT > 128/Athlon 800/256 RAM) > it always complaint about cannot find hdlist or something > when I switch to console #4 or #3, it said that it couldn't > mount / partition, no such file or directory... > > in non-expert mode, it worked well > Stranger still. I haven't attempted anything but expert mode since the first time my 7.0 system froze. Bit with beta 3 (and maybe the others, didn't try them) I had a segfault in the text install mode, when trying to give details of my network (modem) connection. In all 8.0 betas it just does nothing, as reported here, but using expert text install I had a segfault at that point. Could that be why it doesn't work? When I switched to console 3 at that point in graphical install it said it had failed. In a couple of days I'll have the download release version. I've downloaded menu, mdk menu-udpate and mdk kde 2.1.1 and I'm hoping that has cured the use of all memory and swap space, with disk thrashing, that I experienced with beta 2 and 3. Has anyone reported the X installation freezing to the bug list on the mdk web site? I don't seem to be able to find anything there and it is a big problem I think, affecting maybe all S3 video cards and maybe a lot more. -- Lesley Lawless
Re: [Cooker] mdk install freezed!!
I have an S3 Virge generic video card (86c325) and the ONLY Mdk distro that has allowed me to complete installation without problems was 7.2, and that only worked using Expert. I've had no problems with other distros (Red Hat, Definite, Caldera, Storm, Corel, Debian). This seems to be a very big problem with Mandrake as it took from my first ever Linux distro of 7.0 'till 7.2 to fix the problem. Mdk 8 beta 1 could complete X installation, but sometimes I got an unusable display (three copies of everything, very jagged). From beta 2 onwards the only way I've been able to test is by reinstalling 7.2 and doing an upgrade. I've ben reading of this problem in the Mandrake newsgroup ever since I first started using it. I have sent bug reports and posted to this group, but have never had a reply. Is anyone going to fix this problem, and the one that freezes the install in anything but expert when it trues to detect scsi (I have none)? Thank you for the reply I hope to get. Lesley Lawless Mohammad DAMT wrote: > > Hello, > tried to install mdk8 this afternoon, results: > - install freezed when I tried to look at hardware info at eth install > (autodetect on, eth card detected --> RTL-8029) > no mouse no keyboard, even sysreq magic was dead > I pushed reset button, update installation, and didn't have guts to look at the >hardware info > - install freezed when started to initiate X configuration > reset again (no mouse/kbd/dead again) > repeated install procedures until X, and freezed AGAIN > reset again, I took the CD out > boot to installed system, but couldn't login, > guess what ?? /etc/pam.d/passwd is corrupted as binary file, > /bin/login corrupted also, > so I reinstall those files with rpm from CDROM > so I can login... > then I ran drakexconf, freeze again, no mouse no keybd sysreq dead > reset > then I ran Xconfigurator, it called drakexconf too, dead again > reset > ran XFree86 -configure, goes perfecto... > > my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2x > > -- > Mohammad DAMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mdamt.net > "nyai dasime ngeglundung, glundang glundung, nyemplung ke kali ciliwung", Nyai >Dasime Kembang Pejambon, Benjamin S.
Re: [Cooker] Linux-Mandrake Web site
Mike Graham wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if they are having trouble connecting to Linux Mandrake > web site? > Thanks No problem at all. Now I get out of windoze and start a clean install of beta 3. Maybe this time it won't freeze as soon as I've set up X but before writing the config file (S3 Virge). -- Anna
[Cooker] Mandrake Update, no dial-up
I've just downloaded the latest cooker Mandrake Update Robot, and discovered that it can only be used with permanent connections. A lot of people still are stuck in the dial-up slow lane, so why isn't there a way for them to use the automatic update? I'd much rather use it than downloading packages manually. As long as someone with a dial-up makes sure they're online at the right time, why can't it be allowed? This is making all POTS and ISDN users second-class citizens, until permanent broadband is common, and that's still a long way off in many countries. -- L. A. Lawless
Re: [Cooker] Why do fonts rendered with xfs look SO bad !?
OS wrote: > > Hello, > > I have always used xfstt. Not being to sure what the current state of play > with anti aliased fonts were I decided to switch it off and use xfs. > > (Could someone tell me if it matters which font server you use as to whether > you will see anti aliasing ?) > > Boy, was I in for a shock ! I must be doing something wrong ! Surely ! Gone > were all the elegantly rendered fonts, gone were the nice curvey fonts, gone > was the sensible scaling. Replaced with spindly, jagged and 3/4 the size > fonts. Except for what should have been bold letters. These all went to the > other extreme, huge bloated squidgy letters that looked silly because the > were still 3/4 the size they should have been ! > > Has anyone else experienced this, and does anyone have a solution ? > > Owen The rendering of fonts in KDE2 was not that good... preview text from Konquerer was only readable by increasing the size, it was horrible an blobby. Now, with the Mandrake beta it has affected my shells in KDE. Konsole is unusable, I get bars across the text and it is very distorted. I am now using the Gnome terminal because that's the only one that doesn't distort text. I have my KDE display settings for text on large (which I hate, but at least can read) and only ten fonts are available in KDE (in spite of installing all the X fonts and importing some Windows ones). Plus, very poor language support for KDE. Drakfont crashes when importing Windows fonts as well. The windoze mail program is not good, but after the latest beta failing to install X without breaking it, not creating files for such minor things as Postfix, and other little init problems, I'm temporally using the dreaded Gates OS. -- Anna
Re: [Cooker] Use the free space on the Windows partition
I used DrakX to shrink a windows partition in Mandrake 7.0 and 7.0. It created funny partition errors for me that didn't seem to do anything. Then, when trying to install Mdk 7.2, DrakX couldn't read the partition table, although I could boot into Windows OK. So, as the default seems to be an extended DOS partition for all DrakX reformatting... even on an empty disk, I now select my partition type and keep away from the DOS extended. I'd love to install Windows on a reiserfs but without a cd burner... I don't want to lose my Windows system files and registry, as I did when I was using a part of it for a /usr/local partition and couldn't upgrade or reinstall Mandrake because of a corrupt, unreadable partition table. Will there come a time when DrakX is stable enough to use to shrink a FAT 32 partition and put a linux or reiser one there without risking the partition table? -- Anna pablito wrote: > > I have not tried to make a linux partition with anything past 7.2 but I > didn't find it a good idea to use DrakX. The program created a linux > partition as part of an extended Dos partition instead of shrinking the Dos > partition and making its own linux partition. Later examination with > various diagnostic utilities found funny errors in the partition tables, > which didn't seem to do anything bad but were worrisome. Maybe there is > nothing wrong with having a linux partition sit in the extended Dos > partition but it makes me nervous. I use a 3rd party utility to create > separate linux partitions and then use DrakX to reformat them to reiser or > whatever. maybe someone more knowledgeable about partitioning than me can > explain whether it really makes that much difference. > > -Original Message- > From: Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:16 AM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Use the free space on the Windows partition > > >"Mattias Dahlberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Does this option in DrakX work for anyone? I've tried it a few times > during > >> the last month (Cooker) and everytime it just freezes and I can't click > OK or > >> anything at the Warnings dialog. I've run scandisk and defrag in Windows > as > >> suggested. Is it just me or is it everyone? > > > >should be working. I will test... > > > >
[Cooker] Bugs in Beta 1
I don't know how many of these have been fixed in beta 2, as I'm waiting for the CD to be delivered (slow modem connection makes downloading iso images impractical). Here are the beta 1 bugs I've found so far, and some are biggies. I know that some of them have been reported for beta 2, but haven't read all the archives yet. 1. Installer will not allow changing from CD1 to CD2. CD1 stays mounted. 2. Modem connection. When configuring during instal, the same box reappears ad infinitum on a box without an NIS until 'configure networking' is canceled. 3. PPP module not compiled into kernel during install of kernel 2.4.2 (might work now I have the 2.4.2 source installed). 4.RPMdrake freezes. 5. Linuxconf freezes if more than one item is opened at once, and has to be killed. 6. Drakfont causes x server to crash when importing certain Windows fonts (wingdings?) in spite od using strong verification. 7. Fetchmailconf produces blank window when creating mail connection. 8. There appears to be no kernel headers or utilities for the 2.4.2 kernel. 9. Not all packages on the CDs seem to appear on Kpackage. 10. I cannot add a CD source to Gnorpm. 11. Xinetd fails to start on boot in kernel 2.2.18 (same as with 7.2) 12. XWindows setup hangs with s3Virge 86c325 card if install is not done in expert mode (as with all Mandrake distros since my first, 7.0. XF86 4.0.2 will not let me select the correct xserver for my card. The S3 Virge server breaks x and I do not get the option of choosing the svga server, so I've had to go back to xf86 3.3.6. Mandrake 7.2 ran on xf86 4.0.1 and installed the svga server. This is a long list, and possibly out of date now, but I believe that some of these bugs are still in the beta 2. I'm using the graphical methods because I'm a relative newbie and, although I can use the command line, I'm no expert at it and so avoid doing so for mission critical things if possible. -- Anna
