Re: [Cooker] Mount points for hda1 hda2 etc.....
Hello! --- stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: sorry, my opinion, nothing against wine, get vmware and do it properly. memo: must try vmware on a box You mean that you are recommending a software that you have yet to use? I've installed it on Oxygen (I actually have a license that costed me 75$US back in july 1999) and countless other distrib before it. Its really quality software in the sense that it is user friendly and install everytime without problems. The engineering is nice too. But there's no hiding that Win'98 is still too slow on my dual Celeron with 128mb RAM... The problem seems to lie in disk accesses... The other emulated subsystems are pretty fast according to benchmarks. One other big disavantage is that you need a Windows license too (except if you're a pirate of course! ;-) ). I'm guessing that the performance you get from Wine are superior - the problem being that it does not support the whole API. We're not helping by using proprietary and closed software that's for sure! So I wouldn't spread the word that VMWARE is the solution to all problems in Linux (lack of Office software, lack of great games) because it isn't. bye, = Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
[Cooker] Usage report on Oxygen...
of the kde su popup. -Most script-fu fonts needed by Gimp are not available. Either add those fonts as dependencies or remove the non-working script-fu... Gimp is one of the better apps and it would just be too bad to let users think that it doesn't work... -I noticed some weird behavior with the International Keyboard the first time I used it to add the cf keyboard: although I pressed ok and apply, it didn't take the setting... I had to do it again to make it work. I also remember a demo I did awhile ago where I fought hard with it to add a new keyboard. Don't know exactly where's the bug... -netscape crashed again but... [rngadam@pc165 rngadam]$ netscape-communicator /usr/bin/netscape-communicator: pidof: command not found Thanks, = Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] Usage report on Oxygen...
Hello! --- Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: -rpmdrake is confusing to me (how do I install packages from the CDROM?) and there's no Help in the menu... what problems excatly ? Well, I'm just saying that it is not entirely intuitive to install packages from the CDROM using rpmdrake (or the other package software). I tried adding the CDROM location but can't seem to make the available packages on the CD-ROM appear in the tree. I'm also confused by the fact that DrakConf links kpackage instead of rpmdrake. Are they or aren't they the same thing? Personnally, I usually do this at the command-line, but it is not really something acceptable for some of my friends - so I'm trying to find out about the GUI way. -balsa, gnome-xbill and perhaps other appears in the Gnome and X apps submenu but are not installed. Is the menu static or custom generated?? should be good client but too late for 7.0. Your answer is confusing! Do you mean that we will only see menu reflecting what's actually installed in 7.1? -Many menu program are missing icons - it does not look very professionnal. Is this the way they are or is this a bug? under windows you have only a few applications by default, your linux comme with a lot of applications and nobody want menus with 1000 applications. Hmmm... Again, I'm confused: how is the quantity of apps related to the facts that some items in the menu are missing icons or are not actually installed? -Linux-mandrake should have a bugtracking software such as the one RedHat has... Perhaps with an extra KDE app to submit bug reports with full hardware specs and software configuration from the desktop. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/bugs/ the best bug tracking system. Hmmm... So should I start reporting bugs/wishlist stuff to that bug tracking system instead of polluting the mailing list? There doesn't seem to be any variable related to which version the user has (RedHat keeps track of rawhide beta bugs thru their bug tracking system). -initial window size for ktop doesn't let you see the % in the Performance meter. hugh, take your mouse an resize the window ? no ? sorry. Funny guy, hey! Just something I thought for new users who don't usually read the documentation and can't know they have to resize it to see the whole information. Isn't there a way to specify a larger initial window size? Anyway, I know it's an extremely minor thing - just nitpicking so that the next version of Mandrake is perfect ;-). what do you call menu structure. Well... KDE menus of course... bye bye, I have to download oxygen-3 now ;-), = Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] IDE CD/RW
Hello! --- Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: could everybody having an ide burner test this: [rngadam@pc165 rngadam]$ dmesg | perl -ne 'print /(\w+)/, "\n" if m|ATAPI.*/RW|' hdb [rngadam@pc165 rngadam]$ cat /var/log/messages | perl -ne 'print /(\w+)/, "\n" if m|ATAPI.*/RW|' cat: /var/log/messages: Permission denied [rngadam@pc165 rngadam]$ su Password: [root@pc165 rngadam]# cat /var/log/messages | perl -ne 'print /(\w+)/, "\n" if m|ATAPI.*/RW|' Jan [root@pc165 rngadam]# cat /var/log/messages.* | perl -ne 'print /(\w+)/, "\n" if m|ATAPI.*/RW|' cat: /var/log/messages.*: No such file or directory [root@pc165 rngadam]# from dmesg: hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CDROM drive Thanks, = Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] report on using Linux-Mandrake 7.0b BETA
Hello! --- Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I then configured the sound card using sndconfig (Lothar doesn't seems to have anything for this). Why are the mp3 coming out mono on my speakers? Which card? AWE64 More stuff I picked up today: -Apache configuration looks great, it has everything I need in it - I don't have to recompile to put PHP3. Now, how about Zope? ;-) I do think however that the httpd.conf is possibly overkill; I mean, this is an ISP class configuration for mostly single users/developers... 10 daemons? Woahhh... -I get a constant repeating warning in my Apache error_log: [Sun Jan 2 18:14:52 2000] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] Midgard: host record for pc165.ext.etsmtl.ca:80 not found [Sun Jan 2 18:16:24 2000] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] Midgard: host record for pc165.ext.etsmtl.ca:80 not found [Sun Jan 2 18:16:28 2000] [notice] [client 127.0.0.1] Midgard: host record for pc165.ext.etsmtl.ca:80 not found [Sun Jan 2 18:16:29 2000] [notice] [client 142.137.141.165] Midgard: host record for pc165.ext.etsmtl.ca:80 not found -The refresh rate sucked at 1280, so I went to 1024x768. Looks great now, but I have this bug that's been following since I first used KDE: The buttons on the titlebar on the right (minimize, maximize, close) disappear outside of the screen now that I changed resolution. Not very practical and user-friendly; I have to use the manual resize everytime. Big boo boo! -it would be nice to put the public_html dir with proper permissions in the user /etc/skel. Useful for users who don't want to fiddle around; same could be said for an automatic Samba share subdir as interoperability is usually the first thing you want to show off on a MS network and it is not very obvious to configure as it is now (ah, for the day when I can right now in the file explorer and share...). -The courier font seems to have problems at size 14 and up in at least kedit (pattes de mouche)... Strangely, it looks great in Netscape. Not the same font? -The KDE background could be cooler. How about some self-promotion for Mandrake? -There should be some option in the install with warnings or "do not install" for software that are not yet even 1.0... -I have to say, more impressive then I first thought. Apart from the quirks in the install, the tons of extraordinarily not useful software that got installed (The Tea Cooker? kpilot?) and the lack of support for newer hardware (the usual curse for Linux!) Mandrake will stay my preferred distrib... Now, for the day when we'll have Xfree4.0+KDE2.0+kernel 2.4 ;-) It would be cool it there was some hardcore experimental iso out there with 2.3, Mozilla, Xfree 3.9 and stuff like that... I'll continue testing it, can't wait to try the beta-2 thanks, ===== Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
[Cooker] Cooker Mailing List Archive
Hello! "When you find a bug, first check that it wasn't already described and fixed on the previous" Where IS the archive for the previous mailing list messages? I'd much rather browse then receive a bunch of emails. There doesn't seems to be any URL to the archive on Linux-mandrake.com web site! Thanks, ===== Ricky Ng-Adam Capitaine du projet S.O.N.I.A. Montréal (Québec)[École de Technologie Supérieure] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
[Cooker] report on installing Linux-Mandrake 7.0b BETA
This is my report on installing Linux-Mandrake 7.0b BETA on my computer
*Hardware*
-Abit BP6 with dual 366Mhz celeron
-128 megs of RAM
-2 Quantum HD
9.1G, Win'98 already installed
13G, target drive
-Viewsonic 17PS with G400 Matrox
-OKIDATA OL400e printer
-UMAX Astra 1220S with bundled SCSI card
*General comments*
I don't know why this is called BETA... It's too buggy to be a beta.
I believe that the testing process would be much better if Mandrake
provided a printable evaluation form with point by point walkthrough.
Once the tester has written down the various comments and bugs with the
various options selected (or a copy of an install log?), he could then
input it in a equivalent web form to input the bug reports.
*Attempt #1*
I first tried with the French language install. First of all, it would
be nice to have a "French (Quebec)" instead of just a "French (France)"
selecting automatically the keyboard Canadien (Québec). I also wonder
if the official keyboard is available in KDE?
http://w3.olf.gouv.qc.ca/banque/technolinguistique/claviernorm.htm
"À quelle utilisation destinez-vous cette machine?"
Multiple and more choices would be nice!
The help at the bottom of the screen does not always follow the dialog
at the screen. I think every dialog should have it's own help.
No support for my logitech mouse with the wheel.
"Questions diverses"
The "niveau de sécurité" Welcome to crakers should be changed to
something french (Gruyère?)
On the help panel at the bottom of the screen, last line, "Démarrage"
is screwed up.
"Partionnement"
10 gig for /home? 243Meg for 128 meg of ram? Isn't that crazy? where's
/usr/local and /etc? Aren't they the poster child for partionning?
Clicking quickly at randoms on the partitions froze the computer...
*Attempt #2*
It would be nice if HPT366 would be supported directly.
Chinese Big5 doesn't work at all (every text tags on the screen
disappear!!)
This time, I went for english.
"What usage do you want?"
No explanations as what each usage does
"Developement" should be Development!
"Various questions"
Didn't find my 128 megs RAM (didn't notice this the first time around:
why can Windows detect it and not Linux?)
Choose auto-partionning, even if I think the values are crazy.
The "Going to install 726Mb, choose the size you want to install" is
cryptic and useless.
"Choose the package you want to install"
Clicking and selecting cause whole parts of the tree to disappear!!
"Installing..."
I think the install could be better, it would be nice to have the
description of package scrolling at least or have an highlight of the
various features, some screenshots.
The install time estimate went from 30mn to 28, 35 and finally 37. It
would be nice to fudge the estimate so that it is more conservative.
While installing, I had a look at the consoles:
Console 1: the same error repeated over and over: [date] GDK-LOG **:
file gdkwindow.c: line 1233 (gdk-window-set-background): assertion
`window!=NULL` failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm
line 369, get_file chunck 3677
Console 7: Again an error repeating: Please check that your local
settings: LANGUAGE="en_us:en" LC_ALL="en" LANG="en" are supported and
installed on your system. Perl warning: falling back to the standard
locale ("C")
"Cryptography install"
The top mirror I first tried didn't have a single package (Norway).
The only thing display was the welcome.msg but the install didn't seem
to realize this. It should display an error message instead and get
back to the mirror selection screen.
The next mirror worked fine but it would be nice to have a dowload
progress report!!
Once everything seemed to be done, I got an error message: An error
occured /^ libstdc++-\d/: nested *?+ in regexp
"Clock"
"Is your hardware clock set to GMT?" It would be nice to show the
current time kept by the hardware clock - I have no idea if it's GMT!
"What type of printer do you have"
Where's the option "not on list", I have an Okidata OL-400e. Printer
support is quite limited!!
"Enter user"
"Error: the password is too simple..." Ok fine, but what are the
specs?
"Choose resolution and color depth"
The max. available is 800x600 32 bits??!!!
"At boot"
"FS type supermount not supported by kernel"
That's when I realized that I had only a single processor kernel!! Why
wasn't it detected?
Error message once booted: INIT: Id "x" respawing too fast: disabled
for 5 minutes.
Logging at the console, trying startx, the xserver starts but only to
display a blue screen. Shutting down the X server, I then looked for
KDE:
rpm -qa | grep kde
3 files: kdesupport, kdevelop, kdelibs... H
That
