Re: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby!
Thursday, James Sparenberg mused: Mike, You may be on to something there. I had a friend who's daughter was looking for win98 CD so that here kids could run some educational games they just bought. Seems that they were all DOS based (looked to be about DOS 4 by the quality of graphics.) and wouldn't run right on XP or 2000 she had at home. Education is an area sorely missing in the industry. Oh and I might mention squeak here. They actually have a programing IDE type interface aimed at 5 year olds. James Yeah, I've got some of those games and since I've got a couple of boxes hooked to a kvm, I don't mind having one of the boxes load win98 on at least one partition. I just hate to get the kids used to using that stupidware. As far as the IDE, all I can say is wow. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready for my kids to be *that* advanced! :-) Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby!
Tuesday, Jean-Michel Dault mused: Date: 11 Feb 2003 04:16:52 -0400 From: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby! 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 Install date: (just installed) Build Host: CHUS.qc.ca Group : System/Diapers Source RPM: parents-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 53.5cm, 4.170kg License: GPL Packager: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.advx.org/baby Summary : A new Mandrake baby Description : Little Gabrielle Dault-Deblois was born January 22nd 2003 at 10:39 am at the Sherbrooke University Hospital Center (CHUS). At 9 pounds 3 ounces (4.170kg), 21 inches (53.5cm), that's not what I call little ;-) Congrats! It's awesome to have a new little one in the house! Mike
Re: [Cooker] A new Mandrake Baby!
Tuesday, Jean-Michel Dault mused: We'll need a Kids group eventually. Is there any good alphabet-learning programs or such? Jean-Michel Debian has a debianJr release I believe. Maybe Mandrake has a new arena to consider? www.linuxforkids.org has some great stuff! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] MU (9.0)
When you did the install / upgrade, you should have seen a screen at the end that asked you if wanted to connect and get updates - could this be where you first connected? Mike 12:44pm, Pierre Fortin mused: Hmmm... this is a newly acquired laptop on which I installed 8.2 for a few days (no 8.2 updates), then upgraded to 9.0... I accessed the MCC/MU for the first time on 9.0 and got this... I'll see what I can find; but again, this is from a fresh install/upgrade... Thanks, Pierre -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] MU (9.0)
3:23pm, Pierre Fortin mused: When you did the install / upgrade, you should have seen a screen at the end that asked you if wanted to connect and get updates - could this be where you first connected? Mike No, I would have booted up to do the upgrades... remember, I'm the guy that has a long-standing wish for the ability to install *while* running the current distro -- see http://pfortin.com/Linux/live_install.html for an 8.0 install on a running system (this was done with some minor mods to the install scripts)... :^) Pierre My bad :-( That would be a pretty interesting setup. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers
Yesterday, J. Greenlees mused: shocked that it isn't all console. ~lol~ (don't want to show them a screenshot of KDE3 yet to much like windows ) lol... yeah kde3 is pretty cool, eh? -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: you need to raise your children in a proper way; don't want to use linux? Yell at them, if that does'nt work, hit them with a stick;) I just can't wait to get my own children to manipu.. ehhr.. raise :o) hehe... well that approach may fund the counselors of the world more than the IT staff :-) -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, J. Greenlees wrote: the majority of people running ms have no clue as to what is really happening, and are lost with the amount of data available for linux when booting and when an app crashes. I started with Mdk 6.1 and not connected to the net at all, so had to read and figure out problems myself ( which I prefer to do anyway ) but I watch as people I know flip when they see my noquiet text mode boot on both my linux boxes. they can't get over the amount of information being presented and realize how much like morons ms has always treated their users. Well, that's what I'm talking about. There already IS a system out there that does everything that the user wants without any interaction and looks pretty and that's it - it's called an iMac running OS X. I LOVE it! Have you seen these? Wow - a really slick system. But that's just it - I have an iMac that I use for some things. My kids use it, my wife uses it. You just sit down and start working. I always come back to my linux though; because I like the configuration that's available. Somewhere along the line you have to make a choice: 1) Do you want to go out and eat at a fancy restaurant and pay the money to get that great meal? 2) Do you want to take it out of the freezer, put it in the microwave and have it ready in 3 minutes? See, both have their advantages, but you can't have both of them. If you put some kind of prompt for every possible configuration choice - it would take you two days to install a system! How many people are going to sit through that? Let alone know the answers. There is a system out there that uses a central database though; everything you install goes into that db and the entire system is tied into it - Windows and the registry. And if you make one wrong move, forget it, you are NOT going to recover that system. while a lot of ms users like that, anyone that has to fix computers after the ignorant user has blown it up doesn't like it. ~g~ make an install option for windows like use, but never make windows like changes to tool sets. after all when they blow it up then we can make a bit of money fixing their system and with the tools available with linux that should only be a few minutes unless the user got root access and destroyed everything. See, again, I don't think it's even possible to make an install windows-like. The apps that are written out there (like messaging clients for example), are written by different people. Everybody approaches getting the job done from a different angle. All Mandrake does is build the packages to install on Mandrake systems - they don't do complete re-writes of all the packages. Look at video players - mplayer, xine, ogle and a few more that I can't remember right now. You've got a choice as to which one you want to use, but setting them up to read dvd's, like it or not, is going to be tougher. I think the perfect answer is already out there: urpmi.addmedia plf and contrib. You may not like the idea, but somebody is going to HAVE to read some howto's to get the job done. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Wim Horst wrote: I am still trying to convince my kids to use linux. They dont buy it. They learned how to use windows and do not want to put much effort in learning how to work with linux. To fool them, programs must resemble those of windows and should not need ( much ) configuration. So the problem is, because they are used to windows linux has to be even more user friendly ( and faster ). Nevertheless i agree with you mandrake has don a lot and things are getting better rapidly. Not everyone is going to use Linux. My mom's computer runs windows 98 and one day, she got an error message while trying to print something and then it just started printing page after page of raw data - jiberish to her - certainly not the picture she had wanted to print. Earlier that day, I had printed some stuff from her computer and so I bought some paper to replace the paper I had used. She was CONVINCED that the error was caused by that paper I bought. I also got my mom to switch from aol to verizon dsl - she swears that she's never had so much problem with aol and I went to see if I could help her with her problem. She somehow managed to make the default windows page not found error her permanent home page. Now I'm not trying to make my mom look dumb, but there are definitly different levels of users out there and you are just NOT going to be able to appease all of them. Sometimes you just have to say read the manual -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers
I don't know, I've been using Linux for about 4 years or so and I still have trouble with certain things and have to consult lists or google - that's sort of a right of passage I think. I know plenty of Windows users who can't even figure out Windows - I don't care what you do, there will still be that person who says I don't get it. Sometimes it's good to have to struggle a bit to get the answer - it's good for people to exercise that brain muscle! Mike On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: However, that suggests another thing, if not already done: would it be possible to fake up WINE enough that new Windows apps appear automagically in the Mandrake menu system when they're installed? (And disappear when they're uninstalled?) Cheers; Leon -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users
I disagree :-) You're here - I'm here - we all got here somehow. I DON'T want to be presented with a 'wizard' interface everywhere I go. Sometimes it's OK for people to have to learn a few things before jumping in the driver's seat - no? I think mandrake has really made some great strides towards ease of use in the past couple of years - I just tried slackware 8.1 on my laptop last week... that lasted about two days. I used to build custom computers for people; I would recommend that new users get a book called 'windows 98 for dummies' - I couldn't get ANYONE to read that book - but about once a month or so, they would pay me to come over and reinstall their system because they blew it up. That was WINDOWS 98 I think that time and energy would be better spent writing good howtos and docs so that the people who aren't going to read them anyway can pay those of who will! Mike On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Wim Horst wrote: Most windows users and future linux users dont read manuals. This is just an example. A lot of programs need a finishing touch. Preferences should not have to be set ( cdburning programs), features complete ( msn messenger programs ). Desktop users want to work with there pc and when it is linux they want it to work as easy as windows. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Buchan Milne uttered these words of wisdom: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: so how about ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer? and why? The advantages vs. disadvantages? That's something I would also want to hear opinions on ... Since we got ACL support for ext3, they are mostly similar in features, except: 1)Intermezzo doens't work with XFS yet, but then again I haven't managed to compile intersync ... 2)XFS has xfsdump, which keeps all metadata, including ACLs. But, since amanda can't span tapes, this doesn't really help us, since our tapes are smaller than the partitions we need ... 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... (ie from a windows box via samba). I have seen the odd file corruption in XFS when the power dies, usually the kdmrc gets mangled if yuo have root or /usr on XFS and the power dies, but if you have a UPS (which we do on our servers, but not on my home machine), it shouldn't be a problem. I don't think there is much between them performance-wise. Buchan This looks more like a personal message, but since it's on cooker, I'll go ahead and add a comment. I've been using XFS since it became available in Mandrake and I've never been happier! I haven't tried ext3 (which maybe invalidates my opinion), but I know that SGI has been around for years and their product has had the time to mature. In other words, I've not had any problems with it and I have it on all partitions except /boot on all my linux boxes (4 including my laptop). Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 - 9.0 = NV/X troubles!
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Tom Brinkman uttered these words of wisdom: I've got the same hardware as the original poster. 1.4 Tbird (oc'd to 1.55), 512MB RAM, NVidia GeForce2 DDR. Never had a problem as was described, I normally don't use the closed source nvidia crap. Tho I have tested them (3123) as recently as a few days ago. Even compiled a 'sacrifice' kernel so that my regular one (2.4.19-16k7, LM 9.0) couldn't be tainted. The only problem I did have was gettin nvidia's B$ uninstalled (drivers were compiled from their src.rpms). The XFree 'nv' driver does support 3d accel as of XF 4.2.1. It appears this is due to some help from VA Linux and SGI. Back to the untainted kernel and the 'nv' driver, Why all the bad words about nvidia? I'm using their drivers for my GeForce3 card and it works great - no problem at all setting it up or using it. I love my q3a and rtcw (3d games) - which both work without a hitch. Is there something better out there? Let me know, eh? Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, J. Greenlees uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, denis uttered these words of wisdom: just a joke : Windows 2003 !? oooh, I don't know if the m$ lawyers would go for that - it would hold the bar WAY to high for future REAL windoze releases! ~looking at my wife's xp system booting~ hey, thier copyright on the name expired two years ago. maybe get tons of sales cause windoze peopes think it is a m$ product. ~g~ M$ let their copyright expire? -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] `death ears' (-:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy.Bormann uttered these words of wisdom: battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!). Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens?? A few things like this helped to soften the blows of an otherwise traumatic experience. Leon, I'm very sorry to hear of your experience. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] `death ears' (-:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks uttered these words of wisdom: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:50, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy.Bormann uttered these words of wisdom: battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!). Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens?? A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that matter A, AA, AAA and C as well) is not actually a battery, but the little square 9V models and the ones in cars are. A battery mill is a bank of cam-driven hammers for crushing rock. A gun battery is several cannon all lined up next to each other (in concept, if not in practice). A Mandrake distro image could be called an RPM battery. Battery farming is the practice of lining lots of animals up together (typically chickens in cages) to achieve very high farming densities. It also makes it easier to replace their betteries... (-: Cheers; Leon hehe... thanks for the laugh! (and the explaination!) Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename
On 22 Sep 2002, Austin Acton uttered these words of wisdom: It's weird for us, cuz most distros change the working codename for their development branch (potato, woody, roswell, null), but we use cooker eternally. Actually, Redhat calls their 'cooker' 'rawhide'... they still use a codename for the release. I stumbled over similar naming schemes for other distros but can't remember them at this point. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Ben Reser uttered these words of wisdom: I vote for done :P hehe, good one Ben! -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, denis uttered these words of wisdom: just a joke : Windows 2003 !? oooh, I don't know if the m$ lawyers would go for that - it would hold the bar WAY to high for future REAL windoze releases! -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] application/x-msword
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Leon Brooks uttered these words of wisdom: On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:40, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: Is there some program that Mandrake could select as default application for viewing (or editing) Word documents? OpenOffice.org Writer There are other Word-aware tools, but they're no more likely to be instaklled than oowriter is. Cheers; Leon Considering that both StarOffice and OpenOffice are so big (and consequently take much longer to open) isn't there something more similar to either m$ notepad or wordpad? I have vi setup to view source from websites, but something similar in weight would be great for opening docs, etc. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think?
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2 and StarOffice 6
4:25pm... Frederic Bastok ran for the door shrieking: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 13:28, you wrote: So is MDK paying the license fee then? No comment What's that supposed to mean? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] Star Office
Yesterday... Mathias L Bjorkman ran for the door shrieking: The cost of OEM Version of Office XP SBE $199. Then you have to add the markup on a new computer system which in our cause is 25%. then you can easely come up to $250. /MattB On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 18:37, Brad Felmey wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:33, Mathias L Bjorkman wrote: its not like $250-$300 for MS Office. You haven't priced MS Office lately. -- Brad Felmey Buy.com lists OfficeXp pro for $450 and developer version for $595 CompUsa lists those same for $580 and $750 respectivly, and $470 for the Standard edition -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] No logout option in blackbox...
5:53pm... Baal ran for the door shrieking: Hi, I just tried blackbox en from beta 3 and the logout option is not in the menus... Regards Baal Easy, somewhere at the end of your blackbox menu file, add the entry [exit] (Exit) without the quotes. [exit] is for blackbox to read and know that you want that to be there; (Exit) is the way it will appear in your right-click menu so you can write anything you want here (logout)... (outta here)... (whateveryouwant). You'll need to have it somewhere before your final [end] statement. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] No logout option in blackbox...
9:12pm... Murray J. Root ran for the door shrieking: Baal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just tried blackbox en from beta 3 and the logout option is not in the menus... Session-WindowManagers-Exit. Silly place, huh? First thing I do is edit the bb menu. Sounds like someone forgot to include an [end] statement after Session-WindowManagers- so that (Exit) would appear in the main menu instead of under the Window Manager [submenu]? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] No logout option in blackbox...
7:18pm... Garrick Staples ran for the door shrieking: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:10:05PM -0800, Michael Holt alleged: 5:53pm... Baal ran for the door shrieking: Hi, I just tried blackbox en from beta 3 and the logout option is not in the menus... Regards Baal Easy, somewhere at the end of your blackbox menu file, add the entry [exit] (Exit) without the quotes. [exit] is for blackbox to read and know that you want that to be there; (Exit) is the way it will appear in your right-click menu so you can write anything you want here (logout)... (outta here)... (whateveryouwant). You'll need to have it somewhere before your final [end] statement. But it *was* there before. It was a nice touch, and mdk is supposed to be pre-configured. Can it be added back in? Yes, I understand that. As I recall, the guy who did the rpm was simply in a hurry but was aware of the problem. I imagine it will be corrected before a release to the general public. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] Is there a Sparc Cooker?
9:55pm... Leon Brooks ran for the door shrieking: I see cooker-PPC and cooker-AXP, but is there one for Sparc/UltraSparc? Would Sun be interested in such now? Cheers; Leon Sorry to add the OT, but I'm wanting to get some sparc hardware to play with and I'm wondering power / speed wise, what's the comparison to intel? To be more specific, how slow a sparc / ultrasparc could you run the current mandrake cooker on? (if it were compiled for sparc). Would a 110 Mhz box be really slow? What would be about comparable to something like a k6-2/500? Thanks for your advise! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
RE: [Cooker] Kernel Rebuilding
12:42pm... Borsenkow Andrej ran for the door shrieking: I strongly believe that kernel-source should be delivered without .config to force proper (re-)configuration. -andrej ok, my bad ;-) Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
RE: [Cooker] Kernel Rebuilding
Thursday... Borsenkow Andrej ran for the door shrieking: the original .config is already under /usr/src/linux; no need to create it. no. do not use this one. I hope to find time to send clean patch for kernel-source that finally removes it. Original config for running kernel is in /boot/config ??? I'm confused, why not use that .config? I was under the impression that this file was created when the system is installed? When was this file created? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] Kernel Rebuilding
8:41pm... Guillaume Rousse ran for the door shrieking: Ainsi parlait David Christensen : Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, so please excuse my ignorance. I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility which will read the current kernel in order to give a default starting config for building a new one. I'd like to be able download the latest kernel (or any source for that matter) and use my working kernel as a model to start from. Then make any new modifications for new hardware and settings enabled by the new kernel source. It would seem it would make the process a lot easier as I always tend to leave some obscure thing out of my new kernel builds and don't notice it until I go to use it, usually USB or power management related. Then I have to rebuild all over again and reboot. Thanks for your help, kernel-source packages come with the same default configuration as default binary kernel. So you can safely start from it, and happily remove everything useless for you. the original .config is already under /usr/src/linux; no need to create it. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] windows booter on mandrake kernels
Thursday... Joseph Wang ran for the door shrieking: Hi, Wondering if anyone has been able to boot to linux from windows with the recent mandrake kernels? Loadlin doesn't seem to work because the kernels are too big, and there is another booter linld which I haven't gotten to work. any suggestions? You can use the nt loader to boot linux, is that what you're talking about? If so, do this: install lilo to your /boot partition - say /dev/hda6 just for kicks. Now do dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Now mv bootsect.lnx to your windows boot partition - C? Append the following to the bottom of your boot.ini: c:\bootsect.lnx=Mandrake the best OS in the world - why am I dual booting? You should be able to select linux from the boot menu now. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] OpenBSD kernel
10:27am... Hoyt Duff carefully chose these words: Is the BSD kernel superior to the Linux kernel? Is Italian cooking better than French? When and if we can benchmark cooking, we may know. Even then, I'll gladly have both. 8) Which filesystem is better? Which window manager is better? These subjects have been debated on their merits, so why ridicule the kernel question? Let me rephrase it: Are there any benefits to using the BSD kernel rather than the Linux kernel? If so, is it something Mandrake should consider? Hoyt Curious, but wouldn't it be better to just use some version of BSD in order to get that kernel rather than trying to put the BSD kernel into Mandrake? I've messed with freeBSD a little and I know you can get it to look and feel almost identical to Linux - and if you were a coder, I imagine you could even get all the neat mandrake programs working there also (drakconf, etc...) On the other hand, I do think the original question was in the spirit of curiosity and not a plea for changing anything - does anybody *really* know what the answer might be? Just a quick comparison of the major points would be illuminating. Anybody up to the task? TIA, Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] Blackbox
12:42pm... Han carefully chose these words: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:42:08 +0100 From: Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Blackbox Marcel Pol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After more then a year a new version of blackbox is released. Could it be upgraded? http://sourceforge.net/projects/blackboxwm This is not blackbox, this is blackboxwm. It is a codefork, just like fluxbox. Groetjes, Han. Well, they have just released (as of Jan. 30th, 2002) blackboxwm 0.62.1 and since they use the words 'blackbox' and 'blackboxwm' interchangeably, and since we are using blackbox 0.61.1-3mdk, could we 'fork' over to 0.62.1? It should be a pretty easy switch ;-) Although they do recommend grabbing the newest bbkeys. Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
Re: [Cooker] Cooker Mouse Support
7:18pm... Quel Qun carefully chose these words: IntelliMouse® 1.1A PS/2 Sorry for the stupid question; how did you get that little 'R' with the circle around it? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank...
[Cooker] alias?
Hello cooker, I've been looking throughout the day and I've been asking the expert list also; my last resort is to ask the guys who wrote it! I'm using mdk 8.1b3 and I've found that aliases are taken from /etc/profile.d/alias.sh. That being said, when I type 'alias' at the command line, I get entries that are neither from the /etc/profile.d/alias.sh nor from .bashrc in my home folder - could someone please tell me where these entries are being parsed from? Thanks in advance, Mike
[Cooker] utah-glx
Hello Cooker, I'm determined to get my copy of Quake 3 arena running on linux! My question is this: I see that there is a copy of glx.conf in /etc/X11 and it has references to Utah-glx and I'm trying to figure out if this version of glx is part of mdk 7.2 (I'm using beta 3). I would like to get XF86Config to load the glx module but I can't seem to find glx.so So, is mdk 7.2 beta 3 using Utah-glx and if so, where's the module located? Thanks in advance, Mike
[Cooker] Re: Mesa / XFree 4 (next questions)
Hello again, Ok, so far I've gotten rid of any Mesa and XFree 3.3.x rpms and upgraded to XFree 4.01. I've also upgraded to the latest hackkernel (2.4.0-0.8mdk) but when I try to run the mesa demos (did leave them installed) I get the following: gears: error in loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I'm also missing libGLU.so.1 so I'm wondering if I should have kept the Mesa rpms? Anyway, this is mostly an update of where I'm at. Tomorrow I will download the cvs dri and see what that does. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Re: Mesa / XFree4 (update)
Well, back to the drawing board! I just downloaded and compiled the DRI-CVS and everything went o.k. except there doesn't seem to be support for the 2.4 kernel yet (didn't leave me with the required mga.o after compile) - at least with my Matrox G400. I updated to the 2.4.0-0.8mdk kernel last night in preparation for dri because it wanted 2.3.51 - I assumed that newer would be better :( I guess the next step would be to download the 2.3.51 source and compile (could someone save me some time and point me to a 2.3.51mdk.rpm archive?) Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] More notes on XFree86 4.0.1
lol... ok, I guess that answers that! Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 2.4.0-test2-ac2 as my current kernel. I'm not sure where the hackkernel stands since I've never run the Mandrake kernel longer than it takes to recompile... :o) John Michael Holt wrote: When you say 'development kernels', are you talking about anything under cooker or are you referring to the 'hackkernel' packages? Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who are running the Linux development kernels, make sure that you grab the latest kernel drivers from the DRI site (dri.sourceforge.net). You'll have to pull them in from CVS, but acceleration won't work unless you do. Hopefully the development kernels will catch up. Specifically, you need to grab this directory from CVS: /xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel Compile it, in that directory, with: make -f Makefile.linux tdfx.o The tdfx.o is for Voodoo3 users, choose a different one for other card types. By the way, the latest appears to use the agpgart stuff finally and seems to be faster. Ignore the compiler warnings, it seems to be fine. Put it in the appropriate module location, modprobe it, and restart X. See my other email about the missing dri drivers for X and how to get them. Or redo the SRPM, I don't have the time right now for myself. John -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Mesa / XFree 4
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello cooker, I'm seeing the latest releases of Mesa and now hearing that XFree 4.01 is out and I still can't get quake3 working even though I've got the Matrox G400 that's supposed to be supported out of the tin. I've had a few people point me to some howto's that said 'install glxmesa then compile, etc' and I'm just wondering how hard it would be to include this in the next Mesa / XFree Mandrake builds? I've just got REALLY choppy video and audio in quake 3 and can't even attempt to play the game; I know people have been able to get it running, but it's got me stumped! First, uninstall the Mesa package. Mesa-3.3CVS is provided in XF4. Then, well.. if you have 3 minutes try to read this doc which is cool: http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html PLEASE report if this works for you, and what you did to make it work.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau You got it, I'll print it up right now! Question though, you want me to uninstall everything that says 'mesa' in kpackage? (mesa demos, etc) -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] More notes on XFree86 4.0.1
When you say 'development kernels', are you talking about anything under cooker or are you referring to the 'hackkernel' packages? Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who are running the Linux development kernels, make sure that you grab the latest kernel drivers from the DRI site (dri.sourceforge.net). You'll have to pull them in from CVS, but acceleration won't work unless you do. Hopefully the development kernels will catch up. Specifically, you need to grab this directory from CVS: /xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel Compile it, in that directory, with: make -f Makefile.linux tdfx.o The tdfx.o is for Voodoo3 users, choose a different one for other card types. By the way, the latest appears to use the agpgart stuff finally and seems to be faster. Ignore the compiler warnings, it seems to be fine. Put it in the appropriate module location, modprobe it, and restart X. See my other email about the missing dri drivers for X and how to get them. Or redo the SRPM, I don't have the time right now for myself. John -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Mesa / XFree 4
Hello cooker, I'm seeing the latest releases of Mesa and now hearing that XFree 4.01 is out and I still can't get quake3 working even though I've got the Matrox G400 that's supposed to be supported out of the tin. I've had a few people point me to some howto's that said 'install glxmesa then compile, etc' and I'm just wondering how hard it would be to include this in the next Mesa / XFree Mandrake builds? I've just got REALLY choppy video and audio in quake 3 and can't even attempt to play the game; I know people have been able to get it running, but it's got me stumped! Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] USB backport
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: David Hedbor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just tried the USB syncing with my Visor and noticed that the backported code is rather old. To be exact, it spits out a lot of debug and if the hotsync is aborted prematurely, and the USB is disconnected while the devices are in use, just about all programs sigsegv and the kernel is left in a very unstable state. This is problems there existed in the very first Visor drivers and have since been fixed. i don't have any Visor to test, USB is very very unstable for some devices, what working is : Zip Mouse Modem Printer Keyboard Is there a howto somewhere to set up a usb Zip drive? Everywhere I look I keep seeing 'usb really isn't supported in Linux yet, so don't try'. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Re:OT [Contrib-Rpm] bluefish-0.4-1mdk
This has been one of my concerns as I'm running Corel Office 2000 which uses it's own version of wine (arghh!) Could you give me an idea as to what the procedure would be to switch back and forth between the two versions of wine? Thanks, Mike OS wrote: I've now downloaded TopPage, and what a Top Product it is ! This is just what I've been looking for. Thanks very much. Considering this is a beta version and runs on WINE it is still extremely good. Considering the Windows version only costs $60 (as I suspect the realeased version for Linux may be) it appears to be more capable than packages I have trialed that cost 2 - 3 times as much ! Having said all that though, StarOffice still has many features that which TopPage doesn't. For example the abiltiy to run java script and the abilty to choose whether to edit a link or open the page it points to. I hope all the Corel / IBM / WINE org. changes are being merged together. I currently have a version of WINE from each of the above and none of them are interchangeable !! The wineserver from WINE.org even has to be removed before the IBM version will run ! Thanks for the pointer. Owen On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote: Civileme wrote: Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for ANY op system? Most of the WYSIWYG editors I have checked out break down when viewed from different resolutions or different platforms, and FP will make you look dumber than a box of rocks from some browsers. Hippie comes closer, but unless you learn percentages Well, I am sure you know what happens. Civileme I've heard about Top page for Linux (from IBM), I haven't yet tried it, but I plan to as soon as I get the time. Here's IBM's web page about it: http://www.jp.ibm.com/esbu/E/toppage/features1_2.html Let me know what you think if you do end up trying it, k? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Website
Looks good from Netscape 4.73, what did you use for the graphics? Mike Chris Edwards wrote: This isn't related to the Cooker. But could you please check out 161.184.43.136 and tell me what you think. Send suggestions/comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a website I am working on. All I have finished is the topbar. Thank you. Also if you have the latest Netscape release check it out and tell me if it still looks fine. It works with IE4-5 and Netscape 6PR.. Not sure about Netscape 4.7x thanx. Chris -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Re:OT [Contrib-Rpm] bluefish-0.4-1mdk
Civileme wrote: Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG HTML editor for ANY op system? Most of the WYSIWYG editors I have checked out break down when viewed from different resolutions or different platforms, and FP will make you look dumber than a box of rocks from some browsers. Hippie comes closer, but unless you learn percentages Well, I am sure you know what happens. Civileme I've heard about Top page for Linux (from IBM), I haven't yet tried it, but I plan to as soon as I get the time. Here's IBM's web page about it: http://www.jp.ibm.com/esbu/E/toppage/features1_2.html Let me know what you think if you do end up trying it, k? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] file association
Thanks for your input David, that's what I was looking for as far as
fixing the problem. I would say however, this shouldn't have to be done
for every file every time you load this system on a new computer -
should it? (I use several different computers.) I don't remember ever
having to do it before, at least not for commonly used programs. Maybe
if I had an .xyz file in my directory and wanted it to open with some
home written program, then I would expect that - but an .rpm file? An
.mp3 file? Since the kmp3 icon gets stamped on the .mp3 file by
default, why not also associate the program by default? Then if someone
wanted to change from say kmp3 to xmms being there default, you could
point them to that very helpful kfm howto.
Thanks again, Mike
p.s. no sarcasm intended. =)
David Faure wrote:
Looks like you didn't configure the file associations properly.
(More exactly that the DefaultApp field for the mimetypes is missing).
Those mimetypes files (mimelnk/*/*.kdelnk) are not touched by the "menu"
thing, right ?
In this case I think it's just a problem in your configuration.
It's all very well explained with nice screenshots and all on
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/userguide/en/reference/004.html#38
Why not try to follow the instructions there, and we'll see to it
if there's still a problem somewhere ?
David.
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote:
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That would probably be the problem; I don't have the last part in my
/usr/lib/menu/kmp3 file (the part that says kde_mimetype=.)
Has that been changed in more recent packages? Or do I just need to
edit the file myself? The player works fine, and sound is configured
correctly, that is everything seems to be working (however, I don't have
a folder /usr/share/sndconfig on my system).
Yep, we changed that about one week ago.
You can edit the file by yourself and launch "update-menus", if you don't
want to d/l the new package.
forgot: and logout of KDE, re-login, at that time KDE will parse all the
mimetypes to build up its auto-association.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
Ok, this is still a problem. I tried editing the files myself, and they
still didn't work. Tried updating the 'menu' package (I assumed this
was the correct package to update) and rebooted, still no change. This
is a strange problem indeed; when I click on an .xpm file, the image
viewer program opens and displays the icon. When I right-click on the
same file, the menu gives me the option of opening that file with the
image viewer or the icon editor - that's the way it should be. When I
open a text file, same thing, I get the correct program opening up by
default to show the contents of the file. Now, when I open an .rpm file
(as user or root), the 'open with' browser pops up asking me what I want
to use to open that file - even though kde already assigned the the
correct 'rpm' icon to it - I'm assuming that kde does know what kind of
file it is. Same thing with .mp3 files, they are assigned the 'kmp3'
icon, but I still get the 'open with' browser asking what program I want
to use. When I right click on the .mp3 file, there are no options for a
program to open with, just the top of the menu which says 'open with'.
Same thing with .avi, they have the correct icon, they just don't know
that they should use 'aktion' to open up.
Does this make sense? To me, it seems like something in kde is broken;
some files work, some don't. Can you direct me to the correct package
for updating? I'm stumped.
Thanks for your patience, Mike
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http://home.clara.net/faure/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kirkland, WA
==
The Penguins are coming!!!
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Re: [Cooker] file association
Ok, got it now, thanks again for your time Guillaume! Mike Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, this is still a problem. I tried editing the files myself, and they still didn't work. Tried updating the 'menu' package (I assumed this My answer was not extensive, excuse my non-full knowledge of KDE :-( : The progs need also the corresponding entries in /usr/share/mimetype/ In the 7.1 we have a problem [which will be solved in next release only I'm afraid] : these mimetypes are not always provided by kdebase but sometimes by the apps themselves ; for example *.mp3 won't work properly with xmms if kmp3 is not installed, even if the menu entry of xmms have the kde mimetypes, because these mimetypes will not be known by KDE unless kmp3 installs them. We need to rework a lot of packages to clean up these mimetypes, extensively listing all the mimetypes possible, to include them all in package kdebase. was the correct package to update) and rebooted, still no change. This is a strange problem indeed; when I click on an .xpm file, the image viewer program opens and displays the icon. When I right-click on the same file, the menu gives me the option of opening that file with the image viewer or the icon editor - that's the way it should be. When I open a text file, same thing, I get the correct program opening up by default to show the contents of the file. Now, when I open an .rpm file (as user or root), the 'open with' browser pops up asking me what I want to use to open that file - even though kde already assigned the the correct 'rpm' icon to it - I'm assuming that kde does know what kind of file it is. Same thing with .mp3 files, they are assigned the 'kmp3' icon, but I still get the 'open with' browser asking what program I want to use. When I right click on the .mp3 file, there are no options for a program to open with, just the top of the menu which says 'open with'. Same thing with .avi, they have the correct icon, they just don't know that they should use 'aktion' to open up. Does this make sense? To me, it seems like something in kde is broken; some files work, some don't. Can you direct me to the correct package for updating? I'm stumped. You would need the package "menu" and packages for the software: kpackage, aktion, etc. I just made the test with the cooker, clicking on a .mp3 launches kmp3 just fine. Clicking on a RPM is fine, also.. I don't have a .avi under hands to test but apparently it also provides the mimetypes and have them in the menu entry, it should work. I suspect your problem was coming from absent corresponding mimetypes in /usr/share/mimelnk as I explained. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- ====== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] file association
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would probably be the problem; I don't have the last part in my /usr/lib/menu/kmp3 file (the part that says kde_mimetype=.) Has that been changed in more recent packages? Or do I just need to edit the file myself? The player works fine, and sound is configured correctly, that is everything seems to be working (however, I don't have a folder /usr/share/sndconfig on my system). Yep, we changed that about one week ago. You can edit the file by yourself and launch "update-menus", if you don't want to d/l the new package. forgot: and logout of KDE, re-login, at that time KDE will parse all the mimetypes to build up its auto-association. -- Guillaume Cottenceau Ok, this is still a problem. I tried editing the files myself, and they still didn't work. Tried updating the 'menu' package (I assumed this was the correct package to update) and rebooted, still no change. This is a strange problem indeed; when I click on an .xpm file, the image viewer program opens and displays the icon. When I right-click on the same file, the menu gives me the option of opening that file with the image viewer or the icon editor - that's the way it should be. When I open a text file, same thing, I get the correct program opening up by default to show the contents of the file. Now, when I open an .rpm file (as user or root), the 'open with' browser pops up asking me what I want to use to open that file - even though kde already assigned the the correct 'rpm' icon to it - I'm assuming that kde does know what kind of file it is. Same thing with .mp3 files, they are assigned the 'kmp3' icon, but I still get the 'open with' browser asking what program I want to use. When I right click on the .mp3 file, there are no options for a program to open with, just the top of the menu which says 'open with'. Same thing with .avi, they have the correct icon, they just don't know that they should use 'aktion' to open up. Does this make sense? To me, it seems like something in kde is broken; some files work, some don't. Can you direct me to the correct package for updating? I'm stumped. Thanks for your patience, Mike -- ====== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] file association
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I've been noticing with hydrogen, file types are understood but they don't automatically open with their corresponding program. For example; with an mp3 file I see a 'kmp3' icon in my /home/$user directory - kde knows that .mp3 files go with kmp3. When I click on the file however, the kfm browser comes up asking me to type (or browse) what program I want to use to open the file. It seems that wasn't the case with 7.0-2, do I need to edit something in order to have files opened with their corresponding program, or is that a bug? yes, it has changed, following the menu system. however, with mp3's, it should be working :-( if you see a "kmp3" icon it really should be working.. now, with the new menu system, programs provide their kde mimetype that way: [gc@obiwan ~] cat /usr/lib/menu/kmp3 ?package(kmp3): needs="x11" section="Multimedia/Sound" title="kmp3" longtitle="K Desktop Environment player for MP3 audio files" command="/usr/bin/kmp3" icon=kmp3.xpm kde_mimetype="audio/x-mp1;audio/x-mp2;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-playlist;" That would probably be the problem; I don't have the last part in my /usr/lib/menu/kmp3 file (the part that says kde_mimetype=.) Has that been changed in more recent packages? Or do I just need to edit the file myself? The player works fine, and sound is configured correctly, that is everything seems to be working (however, I don't have a folder /usr/share/sndconfig on my system). however, try to launch "kmp3" in a console, and see if you get a segmentation fault - this is a known bug of kmp3 when it has no access to the soundcard. It is probably what happened to you. Try this to verify that your soundcard is correctly configured: cat /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au /dev/audio if not, try to launch "hardware configuration" under DrakConf ; if it fails, try with "sndconfig". -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] Glide_V3-2.60.15-4mdk
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: --=-=-= Name: Glide_V3Distribution: Linux-Mandrake Version : 2.60.15 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 4mdk Build Date: Mon May 15 09:02:56 2000 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: alpha.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Libraries Source RPM: (none) Size: 4835041 Packager: Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.3dfx.com Summary : Glide runtime for 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 boards Description : This package now includes both Glide2x and Glide3x. Glide is a lowlevel API for accessing 3dfx Interactive's Voodoo Hardware. This version of Glide supports Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 based 3D acclerators. --=-=-= * Mon May 15 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.60.15-4mdk - ExclusiveArch: i386 i486 i586 i686 k6 k7 -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 I'm checking into graphics boards for a new computer and wondered if there will be Mandrake support for the Voodoo 4 5 series boards (or are these to new)? Thanks, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[newbie] USB zip drive
Hello, I'm using using hydrogen 7.1b (1st release) with the 2.2.15-3mdk kernel; I know (I've read) that people are successfully using USB zip drives with this setup, could someone please point me in the direction to get this setup going? I need something like; what /dev/ to use, what file(s) to edit, what file type to assign and any other variables to include. The reason I included cooker on this email is to verify that this will work? If I'm wrong on this, could cooker let me know if it will be included on 7.1 final? Thanks much, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[newbie] logitech trackball
Hello, I'm using a logitech trackball which has really nice drivers and software for windows, but according to the company, Linux just isn't worth supporting. Anyway, there's a really nice feature called 'smart move' that whenever you open a window, etc., the cursor automatically moves to the default button on that page. Example: when an 'alert' box pops up that says either 'ok' or 'cancel', with the 'ok' button highlighted by default, the cursor instantly goes there. It's a simple feature that I've grown to REALLY appreciate in windows, but I miss in Linux. It's supported in all versions of 'mouseware' by logitech, and I'm wondering if there's a comparable Linux program that would do that? If not, how hard would it be to create a program like that? Thanks all, Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Corel WordPerfect 2000 with Cooker ..
"Hassard, Stephen" wrote: Hi there, I just got my hands on a copy of Corel WordPerfect 2000 .. I've installed it, along with running a patched installer from the Corel FTP site for non-Redhat OS's. WordPerfect 2000 uses a funky font server called "FontTastic". Whenever I disable XFS and try to start X, I get an error when X can't find the 'fixed' font. Anyone know how I can get WordPerfect 2000 to work with Cooker? BTW: I'm running XF86 4.0 .. Thanks, Steve The first time I installed WP 2000 on hydrogen, it wouldn't even start. I reinstalled hydrogen (just trying different options) and then reinstalled WP 2000 (this time starting the install script as $user instead of root), now it works just fine. I'm still using the 1st beta of hydrogen, but I have updated quite a few programs as they've come out (including the kernel). I don't know if this has had an impact on anything or if I just got lucky! Mike -- ========== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[Cooker] file association
Hello, I've been noticing with hydrogen, file types are understood but they don't automatically open with their corresponding program. For example; with an mp3 file I see a 'kmp3' icon in my /home/$user directory - kde knows that .mp3 files go with kmp3. When I click on the file however, the kfm browser comes up asking me to type (or browse) what program I want to use to open the file. It seems that wasn't the case with 7.0-2, do I need to edit something in order to have files opened with their corresponding program, or is that a bug? Thanks, and sorry for such 'newbie' question Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.2.15-3mdk
Thank you Magnus!!! I updated mkinitrd like you said and all worked great! Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] 7.1b, kernel-2.2.15-2mdk and reiserfs
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, actually I just downloaded the latest RPMS from cooker and installed them. The original 7.1b was a downloaded iso image, then I upgraded to 2.2.15-1 from the cooker RPMS and then I upgraded to 2.2.15-2, also RPMS from cooker. I was just noticing that 2.2.15-3 is available, mentioning something about reiserfs; could this be the answer? maybe. 3mdk is working great with reiserfs, here. -- Guillaume Cottenceau Hi there, I was able to get things working after installing the latest mkinitrd and running same. Will that be the standard procedure for upgrading the kernel with the final release? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[Cooker] 7.1b, kernel-2.2.15-2mdk and reiserfs
Hello, Have been using 7.1b (1st release) with the reiserfs and the 2.2.15-1 kernel - it works great. Problem came with upgrading to 2.2.15-2; I got a kernel panic and reiserfs couldn't be recognized. I used my rescue disk to get my system back and reinstall my original kernel, any clues? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] 7.1b, kernel-2.2.15-2mdk and reiserfs
No, actually I just downloaded the latest RPMS from cooker and installed them. The original 7.1b was a downloaded iso image, then I upgraded to 2.2.15-1 from the cooker RPMS and then I upgraded to 2.2.15-2, also RPMS from cooker. I was just noticing that 2.2.15-3 is available, mentioning something about reiserfs; could this be the answer? Thanks, Mike Magnus Holmberg wrote: Did you compile it by youre self? If you complied reiserfs as a moduleyou have to make a initrd mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.15-2mdk.ing 2.2.15-2mdk and add a initrd entry to lilo. /M On Tue, 9 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: Hello, Have been using 7.1b (1st release) with the reiserfs and the 2.2.15-1 kernel - it works great. Problem came with upgrading to 2.2.15-2; I got a kernel panic and reiserfs couldn't be recognized. I used my rescue disk to get my system back and reinstall my original kernel, any clues? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.2.15-3mdk
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: --=-=-= Name: kernel Distribution: Linux-Mandrake Version : 2.2.15Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Tue May 09 11:28:58 2000 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: kenobi.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Kernel and hardwareSource RPM: (none) Size: 16964075 Packager: Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Linux Mandrake operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --=-=-= * Tue May 09 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.15-3mdk - Fix pcmcia. - Correct .config with UDMA66. - Fix version with reiserfs. -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 I've tried 2.2.15-1mdk -2mdk and -3mdk (with hydrogen), the only one that has booted correctly was -1mdk. Both -2 and -3 I believe have a problem with initrd.img. I get the following error while trying to boot: /lib/reiserfs.o: unresolved symbol (several lines of this) kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 When I look at /boot, the initrd.img file still points to the 2.2.15-0.25mdk initrd, no matter which kernel version I use. One thing I didn't do was download the source, headers and doc with the last two upgrades (I loaded utils, doc, source, headers and kernel with 2.2.15-1mdk - I don't know if this makes a difference). Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] scroll wheel on logitech mouse?
Bobby Dowling wrote: How do you get it to work? Edit the 'pointer' section of /etc/XF86Config adding the lines: Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 Then comment out (with #) the lines that say: emulate3buttons emulate3timeout add a copy of /etc/imwheelrc to your $user directory and a copy of /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel into your KDE autostart folder; then restart 'X'. The last part (your autostart folder) assumes that you're using Mandrake 7.0; if you're using 7.1b you don't want to do that part. Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] Netscape 4.72-14mdk
ramses wrote: At 10:15 PM 5/6/00 -0400, you wrote: Very nice. This has the best look of any Netscape I've seen running on a unix system. Web pages are actually legible. :-) This might be because of a couple of reasons. A.You copied TTF to a linux directory and added them using chkfontpath or some other method. B. You used DrakFont. C. Your using Enlightenment as a windows manager. D. Hell there could be more reasons. Netscape 4.72 is not the answer though, the fonts it provides suck, but Enlightenment does a good job with fonts.. It would be even better if you copied your windows fonts over to a linux directory and implemented them into your avialable fonts, if you have not done so already. I know this isn't the support list, but would you mind telling me how to do as you suggest above? (Copying the windows fonts to linux and using them) You can mail me personally if you don't mind. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA
Re: [Cooker] Netscape 4.72-14mdk
David BAUDENS wrote: Hoyt a écrit : - Original Message - From: "Michael Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Netscape 4.72-14mdk I know this isn't the support list, but would you mind telling me how to do as you suggest above? (Copying the windows fonts to linux and using them) Everyone should know about www.mandrakeuser.org Look at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html for info on installing Windows fonts to Mandrake. Or use the wonderfull DrakFont: it make all work for you. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com PARIS, FRANCE --David Thank you both very much, I've found Linux-Mandrake to be one of the superior distributions out there and am impressed with the new things I learn about Linux in general everyday. Mike -- = "Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." ========= Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] SBLIVE in 7.1b not working
qumak wrote: Hi, my SBLive will not work in 7.1b (the first release) hopefully this is fixed by now. It may be because chose to install the alsa stuff as well as oss or whatever...but when i try to config it in harddrak or sounddrak it can play a sample test but then tells me "sox: cannot open /dev/dsp for output" or something of the like and no progs can play sound... I'm using the SBLive without any problems - 1st beta. It was auto detected and I didn't need to do any kind of work around at all. Maybe it was a corrupted download? Just a guess. Good luck, Mike -- ====== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [Cooker] problem with rpm: cannot open database
I just had it happen with mdk7.1b after loading RealPlayer7.0 rpm - thought it was RealPlayer though. Rebooting did fix the problem. Mike David Aspinall wrote: Has anyone noticed an weird problem using the rpm command in quick succession to upgrade packages? I occasionally get the spurious error "cannot open database" between commands. This wasn't a problem until I started using autorpm to upgrade cooker rpms automatically from a local mirror directory. It keeps crashing part way through with "ERROR: RPM cannot open RPM database..." This happens with rpm-3.0.3-43mdk from M7 as well as current rpm-3.0.4-0.12mdk rpm bug? anything else it could be? - David -- = The Penguins are coming!!! ========= Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA.
[Cooker] 7.1b
Hello again, I just tried installing WordPerfect Office 2000 on the 7.1b (did work on 7.0-2) and the install went ok, but when I try to launch any of the programs, they start then just die. I did get one message about not finding any running font servers. I wish I could give you more info, but I'm not sure where to begin. This is sort of a big program for Linux (WordPerfect) and it would be ashame if it would be unusable on your next release. Thanks, Mike -- = The Penguins are coming!!! = Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA.
Re: [Cooker] Netscape in Mandrake 7.1b
Magnus Holmberg wrote: I try to get 128bit full strength 128-bit crypto in my netscape using Fortify (found on www.fortify.com) but Fortify says: It os either not a copy of Netscape or it is a version of Netscape that is not listed in the index file. Fortify works fine if i use it on the navigator-v472-export.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz installation. /M Go to a Mandrake crypto mirror (you can find a list on the Mandrake site and grab the Mandrake RPMS (common and communicator) -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Netscape in Mandrake 7.1b
Magnus Holmberg wrote: Go to a Mandrake crypto mirror (you can find a list on the Mandrake site and grab the Mandrake RPMS (common and communicator) The netscape-128 rpms seems to be much older than the natscape-navigator and netscape-communicator rpms so thats why i like to use fortify. Is the netscape-128 files just netscape that ar fortifyed or is they shipped from netscape whit 128 bits encryption? That, I don't know; however it does seems to work very nicely. I solved the problem by doing this rpm -i netscape-XXX.src.rpm then unpacked the navigator and communicator source in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES unpacked the netscape-x.nif file an run fortify on the netscape file i got and packed it again. Then i packed the navigator-xxx.tar.bz2 file and the communicator-xxx.tar.bx2 file again and run rpm -bb netscape.spec Sounds good! /M -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] netscape-128-4.72-3mdk.i586.rpm
Hello, About a month ago (I think) I saw a post for netscape-128-4.72-3mdk.i586.rpm packages and I've been checking the crypto sites but haven't found anything beyond the first release. Could someone direct me to where this package can be found? Thanks, Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
