Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:36, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: The good: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, *which* games??? :) Add to this automatic installation of the nVidia drivers. I could add Enemy Territory and America's Army as well, most importantly I forgot to include Frozen Bubble ;) -- Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _
Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 00:01, Guy McArthur wrote: You say VMware? Can you describe how you got it working? Did you use the 9.1 rpm from MandrakeClub? It didn't work for me, some indecipherable error about region and rpm signatures -- I'll try to reproduce it when I get home. Does anyone know if we can expect a 9.2-compiled version of vmware? I downloaded from www.vmware.com VMware-workstation-4.0.5-6030.tar.gz and ran the install script. No prob whatsoever. -- Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _
Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I just wanted to tell you guys at Mandrake and all the contributors that you produced a very nice release indeed! thx :) [...] Minor ennoyances (using Powerpack Edition): - during the installation, the windows for the individual package selection were unusually small (I had to use the right-left scrolling to see anything) This was not happening in RC2. - during the summary, same pbm. This was not happening in RC2. - during the services activation/deactivation, same pbm This was not happening in RC2. Arnaud de Lorbeau also had this one time I think. But this happened too late and few for us to be able to reproduce/fix. - during the disk partitioning (custom partitioning) the external USB storage was recognized as sda1, the firewire drives were recognized as sdb1, sdb2 and sdc1 Trying to assign mount points like /mnt/multimedia, the installer tried to mount /mnt/mnt/multimedia during installation, which should be normal, since normal system lives in the /mnt prefix. I reported the pbm in bugzilla for beta2 I believe. sdb1 was indicated as being FAT32 when it's EXT3... ouch. pixel could make use of /root/drakx/report.bug.gz maybe. After changing the mount point to something the installer would accept the rest of the installation was pretty straight forward (except for the small windows pbm). - upon reboot the external devices caused some troubles as they could not be mounted and I was presented with the fsck option or Ctrl-D (kind of going circles here). This may be due to the fact that during the boot up sequence the firewire modules seem to be activated after the mounting sequence. sucks :(. that need a workaround or a fix in the initscripts :/. The only solution was to somehow find a way to edit the fstab to remove the definitions for these drives... or substiture defaults by noauto so they are not automatically mounted at boot time. [...] The good: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, *which* games??? :) -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, You say VMware? Can you describe how you got it working? Did you use the 9.1 rpm from MandrakeClub? It didn't work for me, some indecipherable error about region and rpm signatures -- I'll try to reproduce it when I get home. Does anyone know if we can expect a 9.2-compiled version of vmware? Also, OT, for the person who said he'd never seen a Windows box fail to get through safe mode, I have one for you. Last week, I ran windows update for the five latest remotely-exploitable root holes in Windows. Well, upon shutdown the machine became stuck in a permanent reboot mode -- none of the safe mode or recovery options worked except for the W2K cd, which undid many patches and broke many applications including office, acrobat and cd creator. The problem was replicated by going to windows update again :-( It sounds like a work, but the machine is given a clean bill of health by symantic virus checker (with the latest definitions) and I had kept it up to date with respect to MS patches religiously. Oh well A funny moment occured the other week as I was VNC-ing into my work machine from home. My wife said, They make you run Windows at work? Are they retarded?!?! ;-) -- Guy
Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
DOn't know which version of vmware in on mdk club but the verison I use 4.0.1 works fine with cooker and 9.2 The install/setup recompile some modules to suit your kernel version but other than that there is no need for a 9.2 version .. BErnard Guy McArthur wrote: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, You say VMware? Can you describe how you got it working? Did you use the 9.1 rpm from MandrakeClub? It didn't work for me, some indecipherable error about region and rpm signatures -- I'll try to reproduce it when I get home. Does anyone know if we can expect a 9.2-compiled version of vmware? Also, OT, for the person who said he'd never seen a Windows box fail to get through safe mode, I have one for you. Last week, I ran windows update for the five latest remotely-exploitable root holes in Windows. Well, upon shutdown the machine became stuck in a permanent reboot mode -- none of the safe mode or recovery options worked except for the W2K cd, which undid many patches and broke many applications including office, acrobat and cd creator. The problem was replicated by going to windows update again :-( It sounds like a work, but the machine is given a clean bill of health by symantic virus checker (with the latest definitions) and I had kept it up to date with respect to MS patches religiously. Oh well A funny moment occured the other week as I was VNC-ing into my work machine from home. My wife said, They make you run Windows at work? Are they retarded?!?! ;-) -- -Quote of the day -- Spirituality is like a medecine. To heal the illness, it is not sufficient to look at themedecine and talk about it. You have to ingest it. (His Holiness The Dalai Lama) Digital Objects Ltd Internet security / Web hosting design / Web enabled applications PO Box 60510, Titirangi Waitakere City Phone: 0800 LETS DOIT (538736) Fax: +64 9 8128 368 www.digitalobjects.co.nz smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:32 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: My hardware is: 2 x P3 733MHz (Supermicro mobo) 512Mb Ram 3 x HD (2 are connected to a Promise Ultra100TX2) ~150Gb total SB Live! 1024 PCI card with 3 x USB2 ports and 2 x Firewire 400 ports Internal CD-RW (SCSI using an Adaptec 29140N) Internal Pioneer DVD-R106 (IDE) Internal Tape drive External USB Storage (6Gb HD) External Firewire enclosure (1 x 120Gb HD + 1 x 20Gb HD) iPod 30Gb Sony Digital Camera DSC-F505 on the bright side I have a happy report using this hardware. Win xp cant even do this without using a heavily modified installer that has taken me a few months to get working. epox 8rda3+ nforce motherboard: the installer found the chipset and also the sound and it worked great. ati radeon 8500: again proper drivers were installed and it was working great but I do believe this was working well before. sata on a silicone image controller: this worked great also installing onto a maxtor sata 80 gig drive. Hercules game theater xp sound card: For the first time this worked great also and I was able to record with it using audacity. Now in past releases some of this stuff did not work at all or not properly. I would say all in all this is a very fine distro. 9.2 is the best one I've seen since about 6.0 or 6.5. Not to say the others were not good but rather to say I'm highly impressed at this time the same way 6.5 impressed me back then for what it could do and what it included. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
[Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!
Hi I just wanted to tell you guys at Mandrake and all the contributors that you produced a very nice release indeed! I upgraded to a silver membership from my standard one on the day the ISOs were made available to the club members to be able to get the Powerpack Edition and I do not regret it one bit! In less than 24h I had both the Download Edition and the Powerpack Edition downloaded and ~4Gb were uploaded from my BitTorrent (so I'm about even here). My hardware is: 2 x P3 733MHz (Supermicro mobo) 512Mb Ram 3 x HD (2 are connected to a Promise Ultra100TX2) ~150Gb total SB Live! 1024 PCI card with 3 x USB2 ports and 2 x Firewire 400 ports Internal CD-RW (SCSI using an Adaptec 29140N) Internal Pioneer DVD-R106 (IDE) Internal Tape drive External USB Storage (6Gb HD) External Firewire enclosure (1 x 120Gb HD + 1 x 20Gb HD) iPod 30Gb Sony Digital Camera DSC-F505 Minor ennoyances (using Powerpack Edition): - during the installation, the windows for the individual package selection were unusually small (I had to use the right-left scrolling to see anything) This was not happening in RC2. - during the summary, same pbm. This was not happening in RC2. - during the services activation/deactivation, same pbm This was not happening in RC2. - during the disk partitioning (custom partitioning) the external USB storage was recognized as sda1, the firewire drives were recognized as sdb1, sdb2 and sdc1 Trying to assign mount points like /mnt/multimedia, the installer tried to mount /mnt/mnt/multimedia I reported the pbm in bugzilla for beta2 I believe. sdb1 was indicated as being FAT32 when it's EXT3... After changing the mount point to something the installer would accept the rest of the installation was pretty straight forward (except for the small windows pbm). - upon reboot the external devices caused some troubles as they could not be mounted and I was presented with the fsck option or Ctrl-D (kind of going circles here). This may be due to the fact that during the boot up sequence the firewire modules seem to be activated after the mounting sequence. The only solution was to somehow find a way to edit the fstab to remove the definitions for these drives... (I used another Linux installation to mount / and edit /etc/fstab) - Once in KDE I changed the fstab to include all my drives (hardcoded) without using the hotplug stuff (although I need to re-visit this area as it's still a mistery to me how it really works). - I've noticed that if my external USB storage is switched on during the boot up sequence, it sometimes appears on the SCSI bus before my hdc (with SCSI). It's kind of odd that an external device ends up registered before an internal device... and it causes pbm with the way the fstab is setup. - I had the menu disappearing pbm when doing software installation. This was repaired everytime by doing update-menus as root. The good: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, iPod, VPN access to my company (with Cisco modules), etc... - Encoding CDs to MP3 while at the same time using VMWare, uploading MP3s to my iPod and transfering files from internal HD to external firewire HD did not cause any troubles at all. (I cannot say it was really fast, they're only old fashioned P3 after all but it was moving along rather nicely). It's too early to say it will stay stable in all conditions (plus I haven't tried everything yet) but I had a lot of pbms (crashes once a day at least) with LM9.1 and more recently Gentoo doing these things so right now I'm a very happy silver member. Thanks Mandrake (and contributors of course). -- Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
