Re: gnome-control-center
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:34, Luis M wrote: very good... is anybody working on the gnome 2.0 betas ( 3 ) for Mandrake PPC ? /.../ The Mandrake's Gnome packager is at the Guadec at present time, so nobody is working on Gnome 2.0 packages until he is back. Please also note that there will be no Gnome 2.0 packages in 8.2 PPC but 1.4. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: Install on early 2000 iMac 400 MHz DV
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:21, Jeroen Diederen wrote: Hi all, did anyone of you try to install the beta2 on an iMac 400 MHz DV (early 2000) ? /.../ I did. It worked fine (except for the dri/r128 problem). I haven't any of problems you had. About mouse: check that /dev/mouse points on /dev/usbmouse which should point on /dev/input/mice. Please also check that your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 contains something like that if you use the Apple mouse: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection About Xpmac: you don't need to use it. XFree 4.2.0 should work on your iMac. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Ati cards: new XFree to test
Can people using Ati card(s) can test new XFree86 packages available here: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ and report bug at cooker-ppc@. I'm very interesting to know: - if X works ;-), especially with Mach64 and Radeon cards (and other Ati cards if you have one). Rage128 should work but I will be very happy if someone can confirm that - if dri is used - if dri is used, then if the problem with KDM is fixed People using other video cards than Ati cards doesn't need to test these new packages because I have only modified Ati support. Thanks for your help. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
French keyboard - Console
Can people using a french keyboard with linux keys test the attached keymap? It should solve most of (if not all) problems which exist at present time. This keymap is based on the mac-fr3 keymap but I nearly rewrote it from scratch (at the begining at least ;). So, if there is something wrong with it (I'm nearly sure there are bugs), don't hesitate to say it. Now I know how this 'thing' works, it will be easy to fix bugs. To use it, copy the attached fr-latin1-mac.kmap.gz file in /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/ If you are using mac keycodes use the keymap.sh script to switch to linux keycodes. As root, do: [root@athena root]# sh keymap.sh linux loadkeys fr-latin1-mac To back to your old configuration, note what keytable you are using by default (please do it BEFORE switch to linux keycodes! - it is in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard) and do: [root@athena root]# sh keymap.sh mac loadkeys your_default_keymap For exemple: [root@athena root]# sh keymap.sh mac loadkeys mac-fr3 If your are already using linux keycodes (it should be the case if you have installed a 8.2 beta 1 or 2 and if you have modified nothing), you simply need to: loadkeys fr-latin1-mac To back to your old configuration, note what is your default keymap (please note it BEFORE use the new keymap - it is in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard) and do: loadkeys your_default_keymap For information, a new keymap for X should be available tomorrow (or the day after). Thanks for your help. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com fr-latin1-mac.kmap.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data keymap.sh Description: application/shellscript
Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost
On Saturday 30 March 2002 20:44, Colin Ward wrote: On 3/30/02 6:48 AM, David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 March 2002 01:46, Colin Ward wrote: /.../ Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed though once I installed a newer kernel (2.4.19-pre4). /.../ Please give more information here. It seems (I'm sure) that the r128/KDM/dri problem is related to the r128.o kernel module. I tried to use 2.4.19-pre4 like you did and I saw like you that KDM looked nice. But, it looked nice only because r128 module was not used (even if it was loaded). Did your r128 module was used? What contains your /var/log/XFree86.0.log when you use 2.4.19-pre4? From what I can see yes it is. I can even get the openGL screen savers to work. The display seems fine to me, only 16bit color, but its crystal clear. If you tell me what I'm looking for I could give you more info Warning, have OpenGL screen savers working doesn't mean dri is used. You really need to examin output of /sbin/lsmod and XFree logs to know if dri is used. My main problem is with Gnome, I get bonobo-moniker- rchive(process 2005) has caused crash), anyone else getting this? I can reproduce it here. I'm trying to understand what happen (I doesn't know Gnome very well). I don't really use gnome anyway, but I'm one of those people that has to have everything working. /.../ Don't worry, it will be fixed in final release. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: New Mandrake ppc Beta 2
On Friday 29 March 2002 19:43, Ben Reser wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:49:35PM +0200, Arto Leskinen wrote: I have no sound now, had it with 8.0 and 8.2 beta 1. The error is Failed: invalid agrs , SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT. It is not very crusial for me. artsd is broken. We're not sure why. You can turn arts off in your KDE Control Center under Sound|Sound Server. aRts never worked on PPC in 16 bit. Set it to 8 bit and it will work. Then just have your programs like xmms use something other than arts to play sounds. Some KDE programs might not work at all but something is better than nothing. Sound will work in KDE but in 8 bit. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: New Mandrake ppc Beta 2
On Friday 29 March 2002 18:49, Arto Leskinen wrote: I got the isos and managed to burn them after some trouble. I could not get them burned with Toast 5.x, but it worked woth 4.x. Complained somthing that theyt are not multiple of some size. Installation went well, the only problem was cups, which I managed to get to work by getting the qtcups stuff and installing it with urpmi. I had top use forse install twise, complained about conflict with some other package. I could not get printer installed with Mandrake control center, but typing printtool in console helped. Hum strange. I'll test that on Tuesday at office (I have no printer at home). I have no sound now, had it with 8.0 and 8.2 beta 1. The error is Failed: invalid agrs , SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT. It is not very crusial for me. Configure aRts to use 8 bit sound and it will work. New KDE packages will be available on Tuesday. Cosmetic problem in kde: I selected default kde look, but it opens with dark red background and only icons visible are home and trash if I remember correctly. You were loged as root. It is normal. Don't use root but a normal user account to work on your computer. I changed the display resolution with mandrake and it worked. Sorry? So after first try only problem I found was missing sound. My computer is dual processor G4 with ATI rage 128 pro. Only in KDE or in the whole system? -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost
On Saturday 30 March 2002 01:46, Colin Ward wrote: /.../ Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed though once I installed a newer kernel (2.4.19-pre4). /.../ Please give more information here. It seems (I'm sure) that the r128/KDM/dri problem is related to the r128.o kernel module. I tried to use 2.4.19-pre4 like you did and I saw like you that KDM looked nice. But, it looked nice only because r128 module was not used (even if it was loaded). Did your r128 module was used? What contains your /var/log/XFree86.0.log when you use 2.4.19-pre4? -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: %make failed and beta2 report
On Thursday 28 March 2002 19:09, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Le Jeudi 28 Mars 2002 18:56, Gwenole Beauchesne a écrit : On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: 4) The most important, I am rebuilding some plf package for ppc, but the make failed if %make is invoked in spec file. The make directive work properly but I think this is a bad optmisation flag but I can't help you for that. I have just the message fg, no job running. rpm --eval %make should yield make [-jnumprocs] If --eval %thing returns %thing, that's simply because rpm doesn't know about %thing. Please check /usr/lib/rpm/ppc-mandrake-linux/macros or /usr/lib/rpm/macros for %make definition. On x86 side, the %make macro is defined in /usr/lib/rpm/i586-mandrake-linux/macros Bye, Gwenole. Thanks, I forgot to inform cooker-ppc: cd /usr/lib/rpm ln -s ppc-mandrake-linux ppcpseries-linux fix the problem. Thansk to David B. One thing I forgot to ask you is: have you done a upgrade or a clean install? I also have the problem after an upgrade (need to test with a clean install). So maybe is it related. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: kdm and kde 3.0 beta packages
On Thursday 28 March 2002 22:21, Peter R. Wood wrote: David tells me it seems to be associated with using DRI with r128. You might try disabling it. Hmm, I'll give that a try. Sure, send it over. Looking over the control-center and bonobo SRPMS, it looks like this problem is not new on x86 either. Frederic has several iterations of patches that have been applied/removed. Ok. Also, I just downloaded KDE's 3.0-beta2 MDK-PPC RPMS and tried to install them, but it looks like it was built for a slightly earlier version than mdk 8.2beta2. They're looking for libpng.so.2, but libpng.so.3 is included with 8.2beta2. Yep, I builded them for 8.0 PPC. So it is normal they don't work on 8.2. I am downloading the SRPMS right now and I'm going to try to build them myself. Well, I don't know if it is really a good idea. These packages are very old now and KDE 3 final packages are building (not yet for PPC, I'm still fixing some bugs in KDE 2 packages which will be available in 8.2 PPC). Anyone else tried to use these KE 8.0beta2 packages on mdk-ppc? I did. It worked but a lot of work needed to be done to have good KDE 3 packages (it is not PPC related). -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: gnome/kdm problems
On Thursday 28 March 2002 22:48, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Le Jeudi 28 Mars 2002 21:48, Stew Benedict a écrit : On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Peter R. Wood wrote: It's interesting, sometimes it looks totally fine. For example, if I switch to VT 1-6 from KDM, and then back to VT 7/KDM, KDM looks totally fine. There are varying degrees of ugliness, from KDM login window totally absent, to multi-colored, to totally fine. David tells me it seems to be associated with using DRI with r128. You might try disabling it. Yes, But actual x86 8.2 use DRI with r128 and all work ! I don't know who, when and how this bug was corrected for x86. It was not. ix86 version use ati2 drivers, which doesn't work at all on PPC. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: screem/sysV-Init Editor
On Sunday 17 March 2002 14:28, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: SysV-Init Editor - crash after i chose mandrake Not familiar with this one. What package? Stew Benedict ksysv or Configuration-Boot and Init-SysV-Init Editor allows you to start/stop/restart/edit services, and other stuff. i don't use it myself but it is an interesting program.. Confirmed, KCrash on launch here. Fixed (but not uploaded). -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: KDE3 (knotify crashes)
On Friday 01 March 2002 02:28, Ian White wrote: I know Stew is probably busy with the beta cycle and hasn't tried yet but has anybody else tried compiling kde3 on PPC? Yep, I did For information, KDE packages are very often builded first on a PPC computer (my laptop) It is more easy to test them when I'm at home :-) Whenever I run it knotify repeatedly crashes The backtrace looks like this: // No idea and no time to try to find the bug Sorry -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://wwwmandrakesoftcom
Re: netatalk
On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:49, you wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Larry Blodgett wrote: Is there some source of mandrake documentation that we have all missed? What page of the documentation is this command given? I guess we have all been out of contact with that page. Thanks for opening our eyes? Is there anything else about implementing netatalk, are is this everything? I have searched the Mandrake site for this kind of information on netatalk and I guess I just wasn't smart enough to find it. Most netatalk info (on the net in general) is dated and difficult to understand for most of us. Thanks again for your help. OK, I guess I'm rubbing everyone the wrong way today. All I was saying is netatalk is included. I really don't have the time to create additional documentation, that should be what the netatalk authors do. It's not installed by default, we don't install any servers by default afaik. I built the package and tested it here, /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf is the default, with no interface defined, and it doesn't segfault when run. It accepts guest logins and password logins. I did not get a chance to test printing. I did it two weeks ago. It worked. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: Security update causes ldconfig to dump core
On Sunday 23 December 2001 23:15, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:10:46PM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: Downgrade at present time. BTW, this is a strange problem because it worked fine at office when I tested it. But I have the same problem on all my home PPC boxes. No problem! Now, should I just downgrade ldconfig or should I downgrade the whole set (ldconfig, glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-profile and nscd)? If the latter, what is the proper way to downgrade glibc? Remove new packages then install old ones or force install old ones over new ones? I think you can safely downgrade only ldconfig. I'm stressing my computers since some hours now and there is no problem at present time. But I am not a glibc and Co. expert. So, if someone can confirm/infirm what I'm writing, it could be a good idea. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: Wheel Mouse
On Friday 26 October 2001 05:58, you wrote: I have a Logitech 3 button mouse, with a wheel, plugged into the USB port on my tiPB. The three buttons work correctly, but the wheel doesn't. I have tried selecting Wheel Mouse within the Hardware section of Mandrake Control Center but my changes aren't being saved. I figured I could hack the XF86Config-4 file but I am unsure what to put into the mouse section. Any ideas? You can use: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device/dev/mouse EndSection It works fine here. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: [francisco perez perezgarzon@hotmail.com] HI
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:05, you wrote: /.../ As far as DVD. Unfortunately DVD support on Linux as a whole is lacking. Without a legal version of the decryption version Mandrake can't ship a DVD player that would functionally play most DVD movies that are sold in a store. In the past I have attempted to make DVD work on X86 without much luck. I've never attempted on my Titanium. Though I would imagine any instructions that explained how to do it on Mandrake would be applicable to PPC so long as you recompiled everything that was X86. Look for Videolan. It's not yet perfect but it's on the good way. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: [francisco perez perezgarzon@hotmail.com] HI
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 00:10, you wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:40:52PM -0400, Jonathan Sailor wrote: Ouch. Apple can ? Yes because Apple licensed the patented or copyrighted (not sure which here) code to decode the the encrypted data on most DVDs. Mandrake ships very little proprietary software in the core distribution (and without Netscape in the PPC version I think there isn't any). AFAIK, there is only free softwares in PPC distribution (and without Netscape because totally outdated on PPC and can be safely replaced with Konqueror/Kmail or Mozilla). -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: sleep mode
On Friday 31 August 2001 02:12, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: Do anyone feel that 8.0ppc was rushed out the door? Sadly, given that there are problems with MandrakeUpdate (lack of archetecture path in the updates dir path). It's a know problem with primary server. Problem is currently same with Intel version. It should be solved soon. Among other little things. Which ones? Please give us feedback or we will not be able to fix them. If you can, please report bugs here: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/. If you can't, report them here. However, IMHO it's still the best PPC distribution out there. Thanks :-) -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: sleep mode
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 23:08, you wrote: QM pmud is for (older) laptops; I am almost certain that you will need QM somet other solution for a desktop... RE: desktop power management APM kernel stuff maybe ? I do not know whether this is supported on PPC architecture. There is an emulation in latest Benh kernels. What kind of power (battery, processor, screen) montor should I use for my iBook2? RE: portables You need two separate things: 1) something to put the machine to sleep, detect low-battery, report battery levels. This is pmud 2) some cool widget for your desktop which waves/flashes/makes sounds/draws ace pictures etc which includes some battery level report. I would recommend gkrellm w/ the gkrellm-pmu plugin for this. Apparently bronxe-key powerbooks, Titaniums are supported by pmud now. /.../ But for Titanium, you also need a recent kernel (2.4.8-benh0 or higher) if you want use sleep function on a Titanium. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: Problems getting XFree working
On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:33, you wrote: At 5:12 -0700 27/8/01, you wrote: [root@powerbook root]# XFdrake This is Mandrake's X configuration tool. I doubt the generic SVGA will do much for you. Do you know what video card is in this machine? In some cases adding the: Option UseFBDev is the trick to getting X working - I've added this as default now for Rage128. Thanks for this advice, but I can't seem to find XFdrake. I have used locate and can find a html doc and a .png file, but no XFdrake executable. When I type XFdrake at my input prompt - it tells me there is no such command. This is getting a bit annoying I am afraid. Yes I have an ATI Rage Pro 128 in the G4, but so far all I can use is a console. Install it using: urpmi drakxtools-newt -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: 8.0 ISO's; problems
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:02, you wrote: Just burnt and installed the 8.0 final version. Had one error with rpms: libxml2-devel could not be installed ? It can be without problem here. What is the error message? Same error as before with installing 4.0.3... couldn't find the FBdev rpm (stuck with Xpmac server). Also, the boot issues with yaboot are still there... using the recommended setenv boot-device hd:10,:\\tbxi with /dev/hda10 being my HDF(?) bootloader partition still fails. Works fine here -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: Internet Sharing
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:37, you wrote: According to Drakgw author you need one internet access (RTC/RNIS/Cable/other) and one ethernet card. So one ethernet card for the internet connection, and one ethernet card for the internal network you are sharing the access with? One Internet access (what you want) and one ethernet card. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Selection under KDE
Hi all, I wish to know if people who use KDE can say me if selection under Desktop is visible or not (if you only see few points, I consider it's not). If not, can you say me what is your video card and if you are using XFree or XPMac. I ask you because it's not visible or my computers and I wish to know if it's Qt related or not. Thanks in advance, -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
