[Cooker] Can't install XawTV RPMs in 9.2RC2
Well, having a rather fresh install of 9.2RC2, I went to install XawTV so I could capture some images from my webcam. So, went through Mandrake Control Centre, and went to Install Software Packages. Did a search on XawTV, and all that was listed is: xawtv-control-3.88-4mdk xawtv-misc-3.88-4mdk xawtv-web-3.88-4mdk Thinking that the dependencies would be satisfied, I just clicked on xawtv-web-3.88-4mdk. Then got the wonderful popup window informing me: "Sorry, the following package(s) can't be selected: xawtv-web-3.88-4mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied xawtv-common[== 3.88]) " Selecting the xawtv-control-3.88-4mdk package doesn't alert me of a dependency failure. But selecting the xawtv-misc-3.88-4mdk package gives a similiar response like the xawtv-web package selection. It's acting as if the XawTV package doesn't exist. -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt Coming soon ... - http://www.wildgirls.ca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [inbox] Re: [Cooker] um.
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 06:26, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:17, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > > > >My point wasn't really about whether it affected us directly. Obviously > > >it won't - given that we use Cooker, I don't know if we'll even ever > > >*see* the offending adverts. The point is I think it's a horrible way of > > >generating revenue which is being introduced by stealth - I only found > > >out about this because OSNews discovered the page and flagged it up in a > > >news story, I haven't seen anything from a Mandrake source announcing > > >this, and it hasn't been mentioned on this list at all, which seems a > > >little odd. I'm more concerned with the horribly unprofessional > > >impression that an installation and first boot sequence plastered with > > >adverts will have on a new user, compared to distributions which have > > >none. > > > > > > > > Interesting. People on this list seem only mention how *not* to generate > > cash. > > > > This product is being developed by a company, i.e bills, salaries and > > taxes need to be paid. > > > > Instead of complaining on how not to generate cash, could we perhaps > > focus on finding an acceptable way for the $$$ to flow into mdk. We > > (contributors) will also benefit from it. > > Charge more, sell books, make the Club better, go busking on the streets > of Paris...anything but adverts. ADVERTS. guh. *sigh* I love this distro, but ads as screensavers for products other than mandrake products is rather disappointing. I hope someone in PLF comes up with an easy package to get rid of the ads. But once I see an ad for Starbuck's, McDonald's or some other non-Linux or technology related product I'm changing distros. -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt Coming soon ... - http://www.wildgirls.ca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [inbox] [Cooker] 9.2 rc2 and bittorrent
I've got 70KB/s upstream to spare if that qualifies as 'good'. :-) On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:21, Warly wrote: > In order to have a more solid base, would some of you with good > bandwith could get the ISO in advance and let their client up do have > everything spreading faster ? -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt Coming soon ... - http://www.wildgirls.ca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Cooker] via-rhine, noapic, RC1...
Since Mandrake 9.1 I've had to add the line 'noapic' into LILO so I can get the onboard network card to work. KT400 chipset, so it's the via-rhine modules. I'm running Mandrake 9.2 RC1 right now and I'm surprised this is still an issue. What can be done to have this fixed for the final release? -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt Coming soon... http://www.wildgirls.ca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Cooker] 9.2 RC2?!?
The main Mandrake webpage indicates that Mdk 9.2 RC2 is available later today. I'm assuming this is incorrect: From: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ August 28th, 2003 - Mandrake 9.2RC2 - Yes it's going to be available soon :-) Anyway, many mirroirs aren't ready yet, so more details about this first release candidate later. If you can't wait, use BitTorrent to catch the ISOs. And you can even already discuss the RC. -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Cooker] Radeon 9xxx + Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2 ....
Well, today I managed to get my Radeon 9xxx working w/ Mandrake 9.2 beta 2! Now, when I say "working" , I mean with high performance OpenGL support using the FireGL drivers. The issue has long been ATi not releasing drivers for Xfree86 4.3.0, but Schneider Digital has Xfree86 4.3.0 drivers: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html For most people these drivers work great, unless ... you have a KT400 chipset. With the KT400 chipset, you'll continually get errors when X starts up stating "unable to determine aperture size". Anyways, after some digging around on google, I found this site: http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/ This site contains a patch for that ATi driver, and it works quite well as long as you follow the simple steps closely. Summary of files I used: GLX1_LINUX_X4.3.ZIP (this extracts into an RPM,and a README) fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i586-kt400agp3.patch My hardware: Athlon XP 1800+ 512 MB DDR PC333 ATI Radeon 9500 ECS L7VTA mainboard (KT400 chipset) I'm off to benchmark UT2K3 now. :-) -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] Onboard LAN VIA-Rhine problems solved
I'm so happy I archive all these emails. I just forgot to run lilo after I did those changes. But yes, I'm just confirming, that this DEFINITELY works for this problem. People just need to remember that they may need to reconfigure their network settings. -- afxgrin Nicholas Bolibruch On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:55, John Allen wrote: > For those of us who have problems with onboard VIA-Rhine ethernet cards the > fix appears to be to append "noapic acpi=off" to the kernel boot parameters. > > You can do this in you lilo.conf with > append="noapic acpi=off ..." > > > -- > John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: [Cooker] Religious Taboos - LOL
LOL - That's a great quote. Since when is HeavyMetal against Jesus/God? What about those Christian metal bands like P.O.D.? Blasphemy! > >If you want to use this program to make music that is against God and > >Jesus (like HeavyMetal, NewAge,..) STOP and think that you'll be > >judged someday by God Himself for causing people to lose the way to > >Salvation and go to hell. This will happen, no matter if you'll use my > >program, else's program or anything else against Jesus's name. By making music one can cause people to lose the way to Salvation and go to hell ... hmmm... Well, if making music allows some people to think, and God intends us to think, then the person making the music should be absolved of all those evil sins. It seems to me that if Jesus existed today, he'd be condemned as being against God. "Uh oh! Jesus turned water to wine - alcohol is evil! Hence Jesus is evil!" "Look at Jesus hanging out with those hookers, I bet he's their pimp." People really need to grow some balls and stop getting offended at every little stupid thing. There's only a handful of things that should be offensive to any of us, and they should probably be: War, Exploitation, Slavery, Poverty, Murder, Rape, Racism ... Anything else is probably not worth the time and effort to bother whining about. :-) My apologies, I just needed to rant something for once.
Re: [Cooker] Radeon M6 and switching from X to Console
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 16:23, Robert Fox wrote: > I have a new notebook I'm testing with latest Cooker (RC3+) > > The notebook is a Compaq Evo N600C with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY graphic > chipset. > > I have noticed that BZFlag locks up and I can't recover but even more > annoying is when I try to switch from Ctrl-Alt-F1 (console) and the > running X server (Ctrl-Alt-F7) > > Sometime I get a disturbed display where I get half graphics - half > meshed text and I can't switch anymore between graphics and text (have > to reboot) > > Are there known problems with this chipset and XFree 4.2.1 as presented > in Mandrake? > > Thx, > R.Fox > I'll have to second this lock up. I've been actually getting those lock ups on my machine for quite sometime now. (Since 8.2) I have yet to try BZFlag on Beta3. I'll attempt to do so, but it'll most likely crash my machine. Anyways, I have a Radeon VIVO 64MB DDR (same chip as the Radeon 7200). -- -- Nicholas Bolibruch (aFXGRiN) Key fingerprint = 17CE F06A 60F6 7039 0884 04E9 17BA E6A6 A2EB D50E Public PGP/GPG Key: http://afxgrin.com/my_key.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] aha152x scsi adapter and cdrom.img
I can't even get it working after an install - I get similiar problems. This has been the issue since Mandrake 7.2 - but I can't complain too much cause I haven't reported the bug until now. :-) On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 13:23, Roger wrote: > Just tried to install Mandrake 8.2 via scsi cdrom attached to my adaptec > 152x isa card using the cdrom.img floppy. > > Kept coming up with an error stating "...maybe a wrong irq 9?" > > aha152x.o with following options: > 0x340,9,7 > > also tried irq 11 and io 0x140 options to no avail. > > -- > Roger > - > Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my HomePage: > http://www.alltel.net/~rogerx/about/index.html
Re: [Cooker] ATI TV out support for Linux
w00t! w00t! :-) I was wondering when someone was going to do this. I would have liked to take the initiative myself but I lack the knowledge to program a driver. On this note - what would be a good resource to start reading if I wanted to learn how to write drivers for Linux? (assuming zero experience writing drivers). On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 10:55, Cosmic Flo wrote: > The project : > http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ > > > _ > Discutez en ligne avec vos amis, essayez MSN Messenger : > http://messenger.msn.fr > >
Re: [Cooker] xmms doesn't seem to work anymore
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 11:16, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > > > I know the exact directory which is the problem too, but I can't figure > > out why it crashes on that one specifically. I have a feeling it has to > > do with the file names ... Check the attachment. For some reason, > > those file names cause XMMS to segfault: > > > > Segmentation fault > > > > You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit > > http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report. > > > > oh well - heading off to bugs.xxmms.org now :-) > > > Did you try to eliminate the zeroth in size file > Propagandhi_TodaysEmpires_TomorrowsAshes.txt ? > > Stef > heh - it just says zero there cause i directed the ls output to that txt file. ls > Propagandhi_TodaysEmpires_TomorrowsAshes.txt So when that appeared, the file had no info in it at the time, but was already created. I have a feeling that has NOTHING to do with this problem, since it existed before that file was created (it was created to make this bug report). -- aFXGRiN
[Cooker] Install crashing
Found an interesting bug while upgrading from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 beta. While doing the graphical install, everything was going on just fine until I entered the "Install System Updates" step. (While it's downloading the files, it really needs some way of notifying the user that it is downloading files. I only knew from my cable modem lights blinking.) Anyways - at that stage of the install it asks me to reinsert Disc 1 (Disc 2 was in the CD-ROM at the time), which it just kept refusing the CD. So I thought I'd hit CTRL-ALT-F3 and see what interesting info would be provided to me. This is what I get, repeating each time I did 'retry' for reading the CD: calling mount(/dev/hdc, /tmp/image, iso9660, 3236757505,) getFile passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586.rpm errorOpeningFile: passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586.rpm getFile XXX: calling umount(/tmp/image) accepting medium 1 So I then went back to the install screen and hit cancel instead of trying to get the install to accept the CD. At this point the entire installer halted and I couldn't do anything. The magical CTRL-ALT-F3 screen gave me this beautiful info: * default cancel_clicked * refusing medium 1 * bad package passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586 * bad package htdig blah blah and a few more packages * opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1 package only * rpmRunTransactions start * getFile passwd-0. :Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.1 * getting crypto file passwd .. on directory /pub/linux/distributions/mandrakeupdates/8.1/RPMS with login * getFile XXX: * calling umount (/tmp/image) * warning: error unmount /tmp/image: Invalid argument @ /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line645. If that was any use. Also, hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 gave me this interesting info as well regarding the state of the installer... * Entering step 'Install sstem updates' * perl: rpmio_internal.h:410: c2f: Assertion 'fd&& fd->magic == 0x04463138' failed. * Xlib: sequence lost (0x3 > 0x249cb) in reply type 0x0! I avoided this whole mess by not doing the System Update portion of the install. I think this whole mess occured cause it tried to look for 8.1 rpms and I was installing 8.2beta. Anyways - I tried this whole thing on my machine again, and the whole problem occured again. Hopefully this was enough detail for you. :-) -- Nicholas Bolibruch (aka: aFXGRiN)
