RE: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
It is definitely NOT an LICQ problem. I removed the Mandrake licq RPMs, downloaded the 85.1 tarball and compiled/ran it without any errors -- turned on the dock applet and it's working fine now. The only "non-stock" configure option I used with LICQ was with the qt-gui plugin, and I just added "--with-kde" to enable KDE2.0 support. This may be the missing link? Thanks, -Steven > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ray > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine > > > Just so you know I just downloaded version .85 from the licq site > and it does > the same thing on Mandrakre7.1. I tried the 7.2 beta and had this > problem so > I thought it was a problem with Mandrake but appears to be licq problem > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:47:39PM -0400, Steven Hatfield wrote: > > > LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked > > > "apply" > > > > Same thing here, I already reported that bug. See bugzilla and > search for > > licq, you'll find it! > > > > Alexander Skwar > > -- > Ray Carlino >
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
Just so you know I just downloaded version .85 from the licq site and it does the same thing on Mandrakre7.1. I tried the 7.2 beta and had this problem so I thought it was a problem with Mandrake but appears to be licq problem On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:47:39PM -0400, Steven Hatfield wrote: > > LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked > > "apply" > > Same thing here, I already reported that bug. See bugzilla and search for > licq, you'll find it! > > Alexander Skwar -- Ray Carlino
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:47:39PM -0400, Steven Hatfield wrote: > LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked "apply" Same thing here, I already reported that bug. See bugzilla and search for licq, you'll find it! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
Antony Suter wrote: > > > Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a > > fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think > > it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them > > on after installation of the system? > > I currently use "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda" for a hard disk and > "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hdc" for my IDE CDROM. "hdparm -i /dev/hda" will > tell you how high you can go with the "-m" command. My hard drives are > recent models from Quantum. > > These flags work fine for me, although my system is not under a heavy load - > to be able to stress test. Actually I should say that I have turned off "-u1" for now. It *might* be causing me a problem. Then again, I am using a self compiled hackkernel... -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
Steven Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > This mobo has built in Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI and Intel Ethernet 10/100 [...] > I then swapped the CD to the DVD drive, and it booted off of it just fine, > and installation went very well after that. i'd say the pb comes from the scsi adapter... Alas i don't know any fix :-( [...] > The installation progress meter on the top never really hits 100% while > installing packages. It gets to about 70% and then the next package starts > back at 0%. Do you think you could make a little effort to force it to flash > at 100% for each package, when it completes, even if it has to jump from 70% > to 100%? That way it gives the appearance that the packages really ARE being > installed 100% of the way... ok, i'm going to change this a little bit
Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
Hi Steve, In answer to a couple of your questions:- Steven Hatfield wrote: > > Hi all, > I just finished installing Beta3, and I wanted to go over some stuff that > happened and that I saw in the installation. > > First, my setup: > Tyan Thunder 100 (Dual processor- 440GX chipset) > This mobo has built in Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI and Intel Ethernet 10/100 > Dual PII/450 with 256MB PC100 SDRAM I have the same mobo, but I only have a single P3 (Katmai) CPU in it currently. > Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a > fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think > it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them > on after installation of the system? I currently use "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda" for a hard disk and "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hdc" for my IDE CDROM. "hdparm -i /dev/hda" will tell you how high you can go with the "-m" command. My hard drives are recent models from Quantum. These flags work fine for me, although my system is not under a heavy load - to be able to stress test. > LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked "apply" > and it seg faulted (same thing happened after restarting it 2 or 3 more times > and trying again). To test whether this was Mandrake specific, or a problem > with the app, I went out to www.licq.org, and downloaded the latest source > file. I removed all of the licq rpm packages and installed the source file, > and ran that one -- it didn't have a problem at all with the dock icon (it's > running right now). Also, you might want to take a look at the qt-gui plugin > configure option "--with-kde" -- since this distribution is KDE2 based, you > might want to turn that on, if you haven't already. I actually use the "gtk+licq" plugin from cooker for all my LICQ gui needs. Works well. -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"
[Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine
Hi all, I just finished installing Beta3, and I wanted to go over some stuff that happened and that I saw in the installation. First, my setup: Tyan Thunder 100 (Dual processor- 440GX chipset) This mobo has built in Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI and Intel Ethernet 10/100 Dual PII/450 with 256MB PC100 SDRAM 40GB Eide HDD Matrox G400Max Creative Labs SBlive! Platinum (with LiveDrive -- front panel extention) Creative Labs PC-DVD 6x Drive (I do not have the DXR3 decoder card installed) Plextor 40x Max SCSI2 CDROM Ok, now for my installation experiences: I put the Inst cd (#1) in my Plextor SCSI2 CDROM and booted -- it booted off of the CD, and the installation asked which CDROM I wanted to use (hdc|sdc) -- I chose sdc and it tried to initialize the CDROM. The cdrom light came on, and every 10 seconds I would hear a "clicking" sound. Eventually, the installer timed out with an "Invalid argument" error and when it couldn't mount the Ramdisk, it rebooted the computer. I then swapped the CD to the DVD drive, and it booted off of it just fine, and installation went very well after that. NOTE: If you plan on trying to fix the sdc booting problem, I can retest this for you as many times as you like, since it comes before any installation stuff and won't cause a problem just by testing it past this point. 2 things to note about installation: 1) I really like the "stopwatch" "system busy" mouse cursor -- nice touch :) 2) I want to adopt the little penguin with the help sign at the bottom of the screen -- my girlfriend would love him! :) Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them on after installation of the system? The installation progress meter on the top never really hits 100% while installing packages. It gets to about 70% and then the next package starts back at 0%. Do you think you could make a little effort to force it to flash at 100% for each package, when it completes, even if it has to jump from 70% to 100%? That way it gives the appearance that the packages really ARE being installed 100% of the way... Ok, now for post installation: During first boot up, a "Failed" message popped up for INND - citing "No such file or directory" for "execvp". I turned this off in system services, since I'm not running a News Server, but you may want to take a look at this for those who will be. LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked "apply" and it seg faulted (same thing happened after restarting it 2 or 3 more times and trying again). To test whether this was Mandrake specific, or a problem with the app, I went out to www.licq.org, and downloaded the latest source file. I removed all of the licq rpm packages and installed the source file, and ran that one -- it didn't have a problem at all with the dock icon (it's running right now). Also, you might want to take a look at the qt-gui plugin configure option "--with-kde" -- since this distribution is KDE2 based, you might want to turn that on, if you haven't already. Ok, that's all I have right now, thank you very much for making such a cool distribution, and have a great day! -Steven Hatfield
