Re: [expert] samba, browsing windows
you can try lineighborhood which can be downloaded at: http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ or you can use Gnomba: http://online.linuxberg.com/internet/preview/31546.html --- Jorris Graad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed samba 2.2.7a and can make the windows hosts at my local network access to a folder in my Linux machine. I want to access all windows hosts at my local network, but I don't know what command to use. Just for information, all the windows hosts got IP address from my Linux machine using dhcp. thanks in advance Ivo. _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plusref=lmtplus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0
. wrote: Has anyone had success with mplayer and mencoder on 9.0? I got a basic mplayer and mencoder compiled, but the functionality is extremely limited ... especially for mencoder. For example, I can not seem to do anything to make the configure script find libmp3lame, which is crucial for doing anything with mp3's in mencoder. I'd appreciate help from anyone with success. Make yourself a favour and go to http://plf.zarb.org Bye -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS or other RBL. They arbitrarily IP addresses not related in any way to spam, disrupting Internet connectivity. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 and http://theory.whirlycott.com/~phil/antispam/rbl-bad/rbl-bad.html msg65394/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Hmm.. I had to wrestle with beta3 :( during install it couldn't modprobe hptraid after install kdm and gdm wouldn't run, I think X was pooped. so I did a clean install of 9.1beta1 - then upgraded with 9.1beta3 And all seems nice now. My sound card still installs as audigy.. (rather than live 5.1 plat) so I need to manually change that to use emu10k whatever.. but that's no big deal for me. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hi Gwenole, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then configured automatically? This would save time for all users. Deps already exist. Global configuration is already performed. i.e. updates to dictionary.lst. Deps are broken for en_GB then, myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk is not installed my my 2 mdk9 systems, I installed with en_GB as my locale. So, I installed manually, but as there were still problems I tried to remove. # rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk The removal dep is there. To be honest there should be no dep, but the dictionary it *should* be selected for install automatically as this is user friendly. The same for rpm -e myspell* etc, if someone is trying to remove it it should be allowed. Also, myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was installed on my system by default! I did not select any en_CA locales during install or after. I just removed all OO and myspell-*, trying to install OO again required the en_CA myspell dictionarys. So another dep is broken. myspell-en_JA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was also required, as I said above I belive this should be selected for install, but not forced (i selected JA as second locale during install). OpenOffice.org-l10n-ca-1.0.1-9mdk was not reqired to reinstall, this is atleast correct. Again myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020315.4mdk was installed though. myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was not selected for install by rpmdrake, I installed it manually after. I saw the rpm script that updated /usr/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst, but if the rpm is not installed it won't matter that it is updated correctly. Note that MySpell dictionaries are in /usr/share/dict/ooo/ so that our Mozilla can also see them. Still the dictionary needs to be switched on internally in OO, I do not know a work around for that one yet. What do you mean by switched on internally in OOo? The user will enable dictionaries *he* wants and those that are actually available. I can't force a default for a user especially for a dictionary it wouldn't want and also because the dictionary wouldn't exist. When OO is loaded it is neccessary to go to OO Tools- Options - Language Settings -Writing Aids, select OO MySpell SpellChecker, click edit and enable for English(UK). Also in OO the Tools- Options - Language Settings - Languages I have to set Locale to English(UK) and Default language to English(UK). The later is required to be set for each new document, for some reason it is not saved; and the default is no western locale! These are minor configuration problems compared to the other issues, but would be very nice to have initalised with a sensible default, as MS-Word and etc has. If I install en_GB and I open en_GB OO documents, it is fair to assume I would like to check them with an en_GB dictionary. I think that is obvious. Hopefully you can answer some of these queries and improve the next version of mdk. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Ron is correct about the KDE failure. However, the updates may or may not be relevent. I had the very same thing happen. Only I was editting the menus via menudrake and did something with showing only KDE items. I ended up reloading 9.0 and have been very careful with the menus since then. On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Ron, Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software installed you do. James On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 15:13, Ron Stodden wrote: Dave Laird wrote: O my GOD! Mandrake 9.1beta3 installed without one single hitch, error, or problem of any sort. This is AWESOME! When it's finished it's going to be the best Mandrake version ever. For the benefit of those of us sitting this dance out, could you please tell us more about what makes it so awesome? What has really changed from 9.0? Has the problem with attempts to apply a selection of 9.0-updates (supposed to be well tested compulsory security fixes) totally clobbering 9.0 as something useful been guaranteed fixed? This has happened consistently on 3 of my 9.0 partitions so far, and the only remedy is to go to another distribution until Mandrake has it corrected. So much for the wisdom of development and QA layoffs at MandrakeSoft. The first symptom is loss of most of the KDE task bar icons and abbreviation of the KDE menu. Mozilla printing and other things , like no longer any service command, get clobbered too. Stay release until this is absolutely corrected. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] 20030119 Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ No Penguin Liberation Front (plf) access - no plf rsync server. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:36:12 + J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk The removal dep is there. To be honest there should be no dep, but the dictionary it *should* be selected for install automatically as this is user friendly. The same for rpm -e myspell* etc, if someone is trying to remove it it should be allowed. The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA. That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st listed en dictionary. Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB Charles -- You will always forget the most important item if you don't make a list -- Murphy's Food Laws n°10 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-1mdk - msg65398/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs
On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 I didn't get syntax errors but this system fails to compile and has done so as far back as I can remember somewhere in kio/kdoctools or some such within kdelibs. I have always gotten unresolved _dl_* libraries in /lib/libc.so.6 from the linker at this point and basically gave up on compiling kde. I thought I'd give 3.1 sources another try but the same results occur with the 9.0 development stuff as has happened with different gcc/binutils and different distributions, going back, if I recall correctly, to Mandrake 7.2 or 8.0. I've since upgraded to gcc-3.2 as part of upgrading to kde 3.1 on cooker, but that upgrade broke some other fundamental things and it will be sometime before I can get back to what I was doing. :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs
Hi list, Has anyone successfully managed to compile any of the new KDE packages. (the 3.1 final release) there aren't any rpm's yet for Mandrake so I I haven't. I got as far as arts from the src on ftp.kde.org last night. kdelibs got as far as the kdoctools component, after a large number (way more than normal in my experience) of segfaults in the ld step. It happened quite a number of times in kio. These ld sig11 segfaults happen from time to time on my system (Asus motherboard, AMD Athlon 1ghz processor, 256M RAM) but I can redo the 'make' and keep going. This morning I woke up to another segfault and had to do several 'make's to get through kdelibs/kio, only to find that kdoctools has yet again failed to compile, emitting a page's worth of _dl_* link errors. This is something I've never been able to get around for over a year at least. As of this morning (Feb 2) I still don't see RPMs for 3.1 on ftp.kde.org, but I upgraded the packages via urpmi on cooker, and 3.1 seems to be there, which is a good thing. However, after the upgrade, I'm stuck on the KDE login/Mandrake splash screen, and can't login to KDE (or any other GUI) and have to log in via console. Perhaps I missed something? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9
Hola Francisco! I did what you suggested but it didn't work. When I press the button in the camera dock, it appears in the desktop GTKam icon, but I don't see any device in /dev/sd*. Saludos, Toshiro. El Sáb 25 Ene 2003 12:14, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escribió: It uses CompactFlash. OK, then you need to conect it as a scsi device, those are the step you should follow (I hope it will work for you): A) be sure the next modules are loaded (as root with lsmod): usb usb-core usb-storage ide-scsi If some of then are not loaded, you shoud probe them (modprobe usb-storage, for example); if not error message the next time you must install with insmod usb-storage (for the same example). B) It is a good idea to create a dir to mount the camera in: mkdir -777 /mnt/camera (for example; you can select other montage point if you like). C) conect the camera to the computer using the usb cable; put the camera in the position of download images (usually the same position to see in the visor the images, if you have one). D) The first time you should test as root the montage: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera If everything has gone well, as root you can open konqueror, nautilus or other file-explorer and going to /mnt/camera see the images stored in the CompactFlash. You can now copy the images or avi files to any directory in you HD. ARemember to umount (umount /mnt/camera) E) If D has run for you, you can make a change in the /etc/fstab file to allow any user mount and umount /mnt/camera. For this add the next line inf /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user,noauto,nosuid 0 0 Remember that a blank line should be at the end of the fstab file (add it if is needed). Now, still as root: mount -a And any user will be able to mount and umount the camera when conected. As I use KDE, it is easy create a new icon (create---new hd-- and select as montage point /dev/sda1), so you can mount and umount easily the cameras as a removable media. Good luck and don't forget to tell me if its run :-) -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=3873forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. /soapbox trip Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. /trip James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better. I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason Greenwood James Sparenberg wrote: All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=3873forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. /soapbox trip Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. /trip James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:01, Ron Stodden wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software installed you do. My goodness, how would anyone possibly know? I usually read error messages and logs but then that's just me. and over the course of an update series I hit about 90% of them( the updates that is.) Actually IMHO MDK's job is to make sure that the software works the way the developer made it to work... which often is not the way I hope it will. But the only way as I see it for MDK to know of a problem is for us to complain about it effectively. As solid as 9.0 is on my desktops, and some of my laptops I control on my personal laptop it bytes. My question about what clobbered you was really intended to find out if I could offer some help. James There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs.I would have installed about one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly to discover it is not one but some combination. That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas? -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] 20030119 Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ No Penguin Liberation Front (plf) access - no plf rsync server. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.
I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its the Columbia we should be remembering.. Challanger happened 17 years ago. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2003 6:55 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] A moment of Silence. In honor of the men and women of the space shuttle challenger. Please a moment of silence. And an awareness of the tragic effect a small problem can bring. I respectfully submit that to properly honor these men and women from many Nations, no replies or additional comments be made on this list. Please, hold your replies and your prayers in your hearts so that your God may see them and be with the families of those we have lost. James Sparenberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. Actually, you stand corrected. Maybe you shouldn't type at 6pm either :) -Mark On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its the Columbia we should be remembering.. Challanger happened 17 years ago. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2003 6:55 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] A moment of Silence. In honor of the men and women of the space shuttle challenger. Please a moment of silence. And an awareness of the tragic effect a small problem can bring. I respectfully submit that to properly honor these men and women from many Nations, no replies or additional comments be made on this list. Please, hold your replies and your prayers in your hearts so that your God may see them and be with the families of those we have lost. James Sparenberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hi, The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA. That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st listed en dictionary. Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB OK, I just tested. So, the correct myspell should be selected for install, this seems simple to me, select from the locale of the installer. What do you think Gwenole? Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.
No I was sitting when I typed this so I sat corrected James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 16:04, Mark Belanger wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. Actually, you stand corrected. Maybe you shouldn't type at 6pm either :) -Mark On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its the Columbia we should be remembering.. Challanger happened 17 years ago. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2003 6:55 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] A moment of Silence. In honor of the men and women of the space shuttle challenger. Please a moment of silence. And an awareness of the tragic effect a small problem can bring. I respectfully submit that to properly honor these men and women from many Nations, no replies or additional comments be made on this list. Please, hold your replies and your prayers in your hearts so that your God may see them and be with the families of those we have lost. James Sparenberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:36, James Sparenberg wrote: No I was sitting when I typed this so I sat corrected Oh, OK. I crouch corrected. -Mark James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 16:04, Mark Belanger wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:42, James Sparenberg wrote: I sit corrected and shouldn't type at 6am...I apologize. Actually, you stand corrected. Maybe you shouldn't type at 6pm either :) -Mark On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:23, Franki wrote: Ok, I will go along with that, except to say that its the Columbia we should be remembering.. Challanger happened 17 years ago. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2003 6:55 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] A moment of Silence. In honor of the men and women of the space shuttle challenger. Please a moment of silence. And an awareness of the tragic effect a small problem can bring. I respectfully submit that to properly honor these men and women from many Nations, no replies or additional comments be made on this list. Please, hold your replies and your prayers in your hearts so that your God may see them and be with the families of those we have lost. James Sparenberg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0
Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's provides them. Once you've located them, you can run rpm -q --whatprovides fully qualified file name to find the rpm. Thanks, Cory Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:08 am, . wrote: Has anyone had success with mplayer and mencoder on 9.0? I got a basic mplayer and mencoder compiled, but the functionality is extremely limited ... especially for mencoder. For example, I can not seem to do anything to make the configure script find libmp3lame, which is crucial for doing anything with mp3's in mencoder. I'd appreciate help from anyone with success. Thanks, Cory Hey Cory. I've not tried to use Mencoder with 9.0 yet (worked fine here under 8.2) but looking at the files after I configured it, it looks like it found libmp3lame: MENCODER = yes ENCORE_LIB = -lxvidcore -lmp3lame -lvorbis -logg I just installed that as a RPM, IIRC...and the developer RPM from the PLF web site... Hope this helps! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:47 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package=20 kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple synta= x=20 [...] I haven't been able to successfully build KDE sources since somewhere around kde 2.2.x days. No matter what I do, no matter that I install ALL possible development tools and libs. KDE refuses to build. I ultimately gave up trying to build it from source, unfortunately. The KDE package is by far the most problematic source to build of anything I have ever tried. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue I have wireless working OK with 8.2 and 9.0 (though 9.0 was a struggle). I use, on my IBM Thinkpad 1412 (old celeron 366 system), currently MDK 8.2 with a Zoomair wireless card (prism2) that has worked perfectly with both the linux-wlan-ng driver and my personal preference, the hostap driver which lets it also act as an access point (works well). On my desktop, I currently have 9.0 running with kernel 2.4.18 from 8.2 (I rebuilt it from source) and have a WUSB11 v2.6 usb device using the Atmel driver. It is working fine right now and has for days. I AM afraid to shutdown the system because I am not certain that when it comes back up that the USB wireless will still be working (what an ordeal). Neither system locks up nor loses connectivity. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0
. wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's provides them. Once you've located them, you can run rpm -q --whatprovides fully qualified file name to find the rpm. Thanks, Cory It appears you need to add a 9.0 contrib/ source. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0
On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:04 pm, . wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's provides them. Once you've located them, you can run rpm -q --whatprovides fully qualified file name to find the rpm. Thanks, Cory libdv.so.1 is not on my system. The other 2 are, and are covered by: libdv2-0.98-1mdk As far as I can tell... Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
110% of the WiFi drivers/updates have been put into the 2.5.x kernel, you can patch the 2.4.x kernel and still work finei have. But WiFi is a new technology that is not even finalized yet. The companies through the HW out to users without ANY of the standards to be completedeven for Winblows. BUT you can still patch the 2.4 and still work fine, it just takes for effort. I personally havent done the 2.5 yet. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Atrebates Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1 On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue I have wireless working OK with 8.2 and 9.0 (though 9.0 was a struggle). I use, on my IBM Thinkpad 1412 (old celeron 366 system), currently MDK 8.2 with a Zoomair wireless card (prism2) that has worked perfectly with both the linux-wlan-ng driver and my personal preference, the hostap driver which lets it also act as an access point (works well). On my desktop, I currently have 9.0 running with kernel 2.4.18 from 8.2 (I rebuilt it from source) and have a WUSB11 v2.6 usb device using the Atmel driver. It is working fine right now and has for days. I AM afraid to shutdown the system because I am not certain that when it comes back up that the USB wireless will still be working (what an ordeal). Neither system locks up nor loses connectivity. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]
. wrote: Can you elaborate on what a contrib/ source is? I have the CD sources, an ftp source of the original 9.0 distro, and ftp update source, and the PLF source. I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks, Cory Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0 Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:37:24 -0800 From: Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] . wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's provides them. Once you've located them, you can run rpm -q --whatprovides fully qualified file name to find the rpm. Thanks, Cory It appears you need to add a 9.0 contrib/ source. It's a directory on the Mandrake mirrors full of rpms. It is for downloaders a source of software that is included in the commercial pack. Not sure if there is a one-to-one correspondence but it is software in addition to what is available on the 'gpl download edition'. Some non-gpl stuff and some stuff excluded for space considerations. This is stated at the plf site that you need to add the contrib source. I used the same syntax as the plf urpmiefier gave for the plf source but changed the name from plf to contrib, gave a url for the contrib/RPMS directory, and gave 'with synthesis.hdlist2.cz' for the hdlist location. You will see this file is included in the RPMS directory. Funny thing, addmedia failed the first time but completed the second try. I think it has to do with busy mirror or borderline problems negotiating a login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
Another thing that has been done/updated to the 2.5 kernel. You guys do NOT know how to do your research and are requiring things NOW that is almost impossible to do overnight. Most companies have not given their HW specs to open source programmers and therefore have to reverse engineer and take apart windows items in order to get it to even be possible on Linux. Unfortunately I understand where you guys are coming from. Especially on WiFi...which i have been learning for the last 6+ months and up until about 2 months it changed almost weekly. Havent dealt with USB yet since i have been semi unemployed for a while to buy new equipment but most of this has been completed in 2.5 and semi backported to 2.4. Rob -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason GreenwoodSent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:34 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better.I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way.My .0002c worth.CheersJason GreenwoodJames Sparenberg wrote: All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=3873forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. /soapbox trip Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. /trip James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:03, Robert Wideman wrote: Another thing that has been done/updated to the 2.5 kernel. You guys do NOT know how to do your research and are requiring things NOW that is almost impossible to do overnight. Most companies have not given their HW specs to open source programmers and therefore have to reverse engineer and take apart windows items in order to get it to even be possible on Linux. Unfortunately I understand where you guys are coming from. Especially on WiFi...which i have been learning for the last 6+ months and up until about 2 months it changed almost weekly. Havent dealt with USB yet since i have been semi unemployed for a while to buy new equipment but most of this has been completed in 2.5 and semi backported to 2.4. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Greenwood Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1 I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better. I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason Greenwood James Sparenberg wrote: All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=vi ewtopictopic=3873forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. /soapbox trip Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. /trip James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]
Cory, Contribs are rpms that aren't officially in the distro and are semi-supported by MDK in that they are actually packaged by the community not by MDK's people. (Rough explanation... sorry for any inaccuracy.) A good place to find info on mirrors and get the instructions you'll need for adding them to urpmi is http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) just click in the box on the left choose your mirror and at the bottom it will spit out the string you need to enter to make urpmi aware of it. Contribs btw is the second one from the top. James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:03, Rolf Pedersen wrote: . wrote: Can you elaborate on what a contrib/ source is? I have the CD sources, an ftp source of the original 9.0 distro, and ftp update source, and the PLF source. I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks, Cory Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0 Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:37:24 -0800 From: Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] . wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's provides them. Once you've located them, you can run rpm -q --whatprovides fully qualified file name to find the rpm. Thanks, Cory It appears you need to add a 9.0 contrib/ source. It's a directory on the Mandrake mirrors full of rpms. It is for downloaders a source of software that is included in the commercial pack. Not sure if there is a one-to-one correspondence but it is software in addition to what is available on the 'gpl download edition'. Some non-gpl stuff and some stuff excluded for space considerations. This is stated at the plf site that you need to add the contrib source. I used the same syntax as the plf urpmiefier gave for the plf source but changed the name from plf to contrib, gave a url for the contrib/RPMS directory, and gave 'with synthesis.hdlist2.cz' for the hdlist location. You will see this file is included in the RPMS directory. Funny thing, addmedia failed the first time but completed the second try. I think it has to do with busy mirror or borderline problems negotiating a login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:29, James Sparenberg wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. I think your problem is more basic than the card; is PCMCIA working properly? In other words, does a wired NIC in the same slot work? I once had to work with RH6.2 some nasty Toshibas that had a PoS O2 PCMCIA bridge that would work for about 20 seconds before resetting itself. Luckily I was using them to demonstrate a high-availability networking product, so all I had to do was tail -f syslog in one window and explain what was happening :-) Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. It does have this; it detected mine and set it up successfully. However, I did need to edit /etc/pcmcia/config first and change the module loaded by my card before it would work reliably, and more importantly I had to get ACPI going (non-trivial, documented at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88) before anything would work. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? Er, about as fast as they move to Apple for being better at all the things that Apple people say it's better at :-) My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:48, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:29, James Sparenberg wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. I think your problem is more basic than the card; is PCMCIA working properly? In other words, does a wired NIC in the same slot work? I once had to work with RH6.2 some nasty Toshibas that had a PoS O2 PCMCIA bridge that would work for about 20 seconds before resetting itself. Luckily I was using them to demonstrate a high-availability networking product, so all I had to do was tail -f syslog in one window and explain what was happening :-) Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. It does have this; it detected mine and set it up successfully. However, I did need to edit /etc/pcmcia/config first and change the module loaded by my card before it would work reliably, and more importantly I had to get ACPI going (non-trivial, documented at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88) before anything would work. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? Er, about as fast as they move to Apple for being better at all the things that Apple people say it's better at :-) Good point but Linux runs on existing hardware with big numbers (27.8ghz or some such nonsense) so it wouldn't be as unfamiliar as OSX. My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. Valid and in affect tied in with this. I mean heck if we can vote on apps maybe we can vote on direction as well. *grin* -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. Ye, no joke. I wasnt meaning to be bash anyone. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! Now you state which kernel you were using, would have been helpful earlier. so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. Technology wise 802.11b is still new, 11g has NO standards whatso ever at the moment and looks to be another standarization like 11b...5 million of them. Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) I would totally agree. There are so many HOWTO's for wifi its not even funny and some work and some do not, some are even WAY TOO OLD. that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. I agree, RH 7.3 had this and its a year old. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. I agree. The problem is the HW companies wont release the specs to opensource unless they pay royalties so we have to wait to RE the Windows drivers to understand the HW. Atleast this is how it was a while back, dont know about now. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? It already is. I am personally still running Win2k as my main OS. BUT this is only b/c i have a XP 2k+ on my win2k compared to all scsi p3-450 on my linux box. Then again i am too used to windows. I am in the transition period though. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) THIS SITE IS WONDERFUL. I actually found it this morning before it was posted to the group. I loved it. There are only a few sites that dont work that are listed thought. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. As far as suspension...I just power my MDK9 laptop off (no shutdown or anything) and it comes back up with no problem, then again that is EXT3 working. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:36, Robert Wideman wrote: Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. Ye, no joke. I wasnt meaning to be bash anyone. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! Now you state which kernel you were using, would have been helpful earlier Mdk 8.0 came with 2.4.3... i'v also played with 2.4.16-21 so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. Technology wise 802.11b is still new, 11g has NO standards whatso ever at the moment and looks to be another standarization like 11b...5 million of them. True enough it's about 2 years old. Nice part is like you said the standard is mid - lat 90's pre M$ what me standards attitude. Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) I would totally agree. There are so many HOWTO's for wifi its not even funny and some work and some do not, some are even WAY TOO OLD. that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. I agree, RH 7.3 had this and its a year old. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. I agree. The problem is the HW companies wont release the specs to opensource unless they pay royalties so we have to wait to RE the Windows drivers to understand the HW. Atleast this is how it was a while back, dont know about now. My point the orinoco and prismII have been opened. orinoco a while back. check out the Linux Wireless Lan project at wlan.org. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? It already is. I am personally still running Win2k as my main OS. BUT this is only b/c i have a XP 2k+ on my win2k compared to all scsi p3-450 on my linux box. Then again i am too used to windows. I am in the transition period though. True but just like the old joke about women... we have to be 10x better to be seen as just as good. BTW how is win2000 never tried it (seriously) Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
BTW how is win2000 never tried it Usaability, a monkey can use/admin it easily. Security, its a M$ product, security?...HAHA. I used to run it as my desktop (Win2k Server) but then i bought an ATI 7500 AIW and the TV Tuner software would NOT install on a Server b/c of Terminal Services. Their explanation is it is not legal to export live audio/video, BUT it worked fine over VNC, HEHE. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
On Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:01:34AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on
any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software
installed you do.
My goodness, how would anyone possibly know?
There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs.I would have installed about
one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct
the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly
to discover it is not one but some combination.
That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas?
Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and
with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can
we fix it? You presume too much.
Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0 machines, with all updates
applied, are rock solid.
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RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:38, Robert Wideman wrote: My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. As far as suspension...I just power my MDK9 laptop off (no shutdown or anything) and it comes back up with no problem, then again that is EXT3 working. I use ext3, have used it for some time. I've used Reiser too, and NTFS, and I've specified VxFS countless times. I've lost enough data to each of these that I will not trust the journaling to do more than it is intended to do: that is, to guard against occasional failures. Rob __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
there was one with apache getting loaded with apache 2 updates.. or at least
trying...
don't know of any other...
rgds
Frank
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On Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:01:34AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on
any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software
installed you do.
My goodness, how would anyone possibly know?
There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs.I would have installed about
one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct
the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly
to discover it is not one but some combination.
That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas?
Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and
with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can
we fix it? You presume too much.
Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0 machines, with all updates
applied, are rock solid.
--
MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/
lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import
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