Re: [newbie] Reporting a bug.

[Marek Pawinski]

Andy Allen wrote:
Can someone please tell me how, in very simple steps, how to report a
bug/issue.

You can report a bug here http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/
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Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

[frankieh]

Vincent Voois wrote:
"Quality and being 100% ML compatible" are pretty high demands.
The most known brands have their problems and issues, but if you 
always handle a laptop with care, the most will remain good.

I don't know about 100% ML compatability, but about quality of the 
known brands:
I recall a Dutch magazine did a test with 7 different brands of 
laptops and this was not just a laboratory test, they took 'em into 
the heat of the Saharah, the cold of the Artic and the wets of the 
jungle.
The purpose was eventually to get them really broken and most of pack 
couldn't handle the heat, two couldn't handle the extreme cold, just 
one unknown japanese brand survived the test.
And the test-team expected to make it the honorable award-winner by 
smashing it with a sledgehammer.
Though the TFT screen and the keyboard both were totally carnage, when 
an external monitor and keyboard were connected, the laptop was still 
performing like nothing happened :P

The moral of the story:Quality is not hidden in the name of the beast.
Marc wrote:
  I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop.  Quality and 
being 100 ML compatible are both very important.  as is wireless 
networking.
  Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number.

Thanks
Marc

They say that 95% of laptops are made by only 3 or 4 big manufacturers, 
and that includes all the big brand names..
The manufacturer of Dell laptops is usually Quanta, and Compal make a 
good many of the others.

Rgds
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Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

[frankieh]

John Layt wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:05, Marc wrote:
 

 I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop.  Quality and being 100
ML compatible are both very important.  as is wireless networking.
 Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number.
   Thanks
   Marc
   

I have a Dell Inpiron i8600, and it works well, almost all the features now 
supported out of the 10.1 box or with a little tweaking.  IBM is obviously 
another well suported brand, and HP has actually started selling a linux 
laptop.

A couple of excellent on-line resources with lots of reviews and configuration 
hints are:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/

As for wireless, there's the chipsets for which we have real drivers, then 
there's Intel's Centrino chips and Broadcom's chips which are very common and 
for which you would need to use NDISWrapper from 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ .

Any specific questions, feel free to ask.
John.
 

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 and it is 99% functional. only thing I 
couldn't get running was the dialup modem.
The wireless is broadcom, so the same ndiswrapper is needed to get that 
working..
Nvidia driver for 3d video and the sound needed some tinkering, but then 
worked fine.

rgds
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Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0] SUCCESS!!!! :)

[Merlin Zener]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 05:01, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 23:06, Merlin Zener wrote:
> > - wish me luck!
> 
> You don't need luck, you've got Linux...you need a clear head and a slow mouse 
> hand.
> Read everything carefully and check the options before you click  and 
> you'll be fine:)


Hi all,
well I did it!!! :)
it was almost painless - not exactly as smooth as it could have been,
but the important thing is it boots and connects etc, the rest I fix up
as I go...

The first thing was the CD wouldn't boot, so I made a boot floppy and it
would only get half way through before crashing, so I burnt a CD from
the boot.iso image and that one worked.

It detected everything except my modem, I had to go in and tell it where
it was connected. And then [after I found my login and password details
for my ISP] it wouldn't browse or get email. I had to go back and reset
the static address for my LAN to get that working again. Weird, isn't it
- I'm still scratching my head over that one. What's the lan got to do
with the modem???

Oh, and I had to go back and reinstall Mozilla and Evolution from the
CDs - and delete and re-create the desktop shortcuts: the old ones
didn't work. Mozilla loads flash pages "out of the box", but no java.
I'll have to look into that later...

All in all, not too bad - the new fonts look better, I *think* it seems
a little faster, most things are where I expect them.

Considering how little I know about Linux/Mandrake, the fact that I
managed to get it installed and connected speaks volumes for the
progress Mandrake etc are making to the masses...


Thanks again to all that helped and gave advice.
:)

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Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

[Vincent Voois]

"Quality and being 100% ML compatible" are pretty high demands.
The most known brands have their problems and issues, but if you always handle a 
laptop with care, the most will remain good.
I don't know about 100% ML compatability, but about quality of the known brands:
I recall a Dutch magazine did a test with 7 different brands of laptops and this was not just a laboratory test, they took 'em 
into the heat of the Saharah, the cold of the Artic and the wets of the jungle.
The purpose was eventually to get them really broken and most of pack couldn't handle the heat, two couldn't handle the extreme 
cold, just one unknown japanese brand survived the test.
And the test-team expected to make it the honorable award-winner by smashing it with a sledgehammer.
Though the TFT screen and the keyboard both were totally carnage, when an external monitor and keyboard were connected, the 
laptop was still performing like nothing happened :P

The moral of the story:Quality is not hidden in the name of the beast.
Marc wrote:
  I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop.  Quality and being 100 ML 
compatible are both very important.  as is wireless networking.
  Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number.

Thanks
Marc



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Re: [newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

[John Layt]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:05, Marc wrote:
>   I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop.  Quality and being 100
> ML compatible are both very important.  as is wireless networking.
>   Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number.
>
> Thanks
> Marc

I have a Dell Inpiron i8600, and it works well, almost all the features now 
supported out of the 10.1 box or with a little tweaking.  IBM is obviously 
another well suported brand, and HP has actually started selling a linux 
laptop.

A couple of excellent on-line resources with lots of reviews and configuration 
hints are:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/

As for wireless, there's the chipsets for which we have real drivers, then 
there's Intel's Centrino chips and Broadcom's chips which are very common and 
for which you would need to use NDISWrapper from 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ .

Any specific questions, feel free to ask.

John.


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[newbie] Reporting a bug.

[Andy Allen]

Can someone please tell me how, in very simple steps, how to report a
bug/issue.

I had real problems trying to install mdk10.1 on a Tyan Trinity
motherboard and AMD 500 Mhz K6 II CPU. The default kernel in mdk 10.0
and 10.1 and the 2.4 kernels will not load after the install. It gets
to the Bios check text message after lilo boot screen then immediately
reboots. (Details are on www.mandrakeexpert.com)

I got round this problem by recompiling the kernel specifically for
the K6 II processor and changing a couple of other things during
makemenu config process. This custom buit kernel boots up fine. (Just
takes forever to build it on this hardware ;-( ).

I have also since found that for mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 the Tyan
Trinity 1509S motherboard is listed as a 64 bit piece of hardware.
There is as far as I can see no simple way to notify mandrake or these
quite serious issues.


Andy


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[newbie] No Sound with Kobo Deluxe

[Phil Savoie]

Hi All,

Am running a Dell Inspiron 7500 with M10PP.  Seems that although sound works 
in kde and in say Frozen Bubble but not in Kobo Deluxe.  I have a my sound 
set to snd-es1968 with alsa as this seems to be the all round way to get 
sound working in all apps with the noted exception  of KD.

Would anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance,

Phil


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Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

[Eric Huff]

> >  Is Vincent still active?  

> having read a news release from Mandrake within the last few weeks
> that said Mandrake was getting a $3 mill. contract from the French
> Gov. to create a secure OS for French use, I would guess Vincent
> was about as active as he could stand, just not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> I would like to congrats him and Mandrake for pulling those teeth
> from the French Gov.

> http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2509

That's great!  I missed the article earlier, so thanks for
reposting.

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[newbie] Who makes a good laptop?( A bit off topic)

[Marc]

  I have a friend that is shopping for a new laptop.  Quality and being 100 ML 
compatible are both very important.  as is wireless networking.
  Can anyone here make some suggestions as to a brand or model number.

Thanks
Marc


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Re: reply-to stuff again, was Re: [newbie] Re: data cd's

[Bryan Phinney]

On Friday 01 October 2004 22:35, Eric Huff wrote:

> Since i found those (wy back) i have not been bothered by
> reply-to settings.
>
> For people that are just on mandrake lists it seems like a pain to
> switch habits.

For those who will eventually move to 10.1, Kmail has a few new features added 
in, including one that lets you specify certain folders as containing mailing 
lists.  One of the options when you do that is to specify the reply to action 
as either reply to individual or reply to list.  Once you specify, you don't 
need to worry about any of that, hitting reply automatically sends the 
response to where you want it to go.

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Re: [newbie] Sound & DVD problems

[Dennis Myers]

On Friday 01 October 2004 05:50 pm, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh
> install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had
> this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is
> just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was
> trying to play a DVD and didn't have any sound. The Mandrake hardware
> control center detects my sound card right, but trying to run kmix fails
> because it can't find alsa, and the Gnome volume control doesn't have
> any channels to adjust either! Alsa is installed & configured to run in
> Init 3-5, so I don't know what the problem is there.
>
> I did a simple 'modprobe es1371' command from a root shell and the sound
> works fine now. I don't want to have to manually load the kernel sound
> module everytime I startup, so how do I fix the sound settings?
>
> Also, both Xine and Totem will not read my DVDs. Xine plays the first
> intro track (MGM Studio scene etc...) and then says the video is
> encrypted, and totem won't even play. MPlayer plays the DVD fine (with
> sound after the modprobe command), but I can't find an RPM for the gui
> version and I don't have time right now to compile the sourcecode. Where
> can I find the Xine DVD plugins and the gmplayer rpm packages? The urpmi
> says they can't be located.
You need to put the es1371 in modules.conf I believe. But 10.1 seems to be a 
bit different so I am not sure what the alias line should be  (alias sound 
es1371) , anyone on the list know where this stuff goes? 
As for the DVD problem install libdvdcss from the PLF web site or it is also 
on Mandrake Club RPMs  web site. This is the DVDJohn decoder library and  
your  xine should run then, maybe. HTH.
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Re: [newbie] Audio Query

[Thereidos]

W liście z sob, 02-10-2004, godz. 10:13, Lyvim Xaphir pisze: 
> That's not unusual if you have the MDK version, I was having problems
> also.
> 
> Download the PLF version and try that.  Tell us how it did.

I have tried the PLF version. After a day or two I have decided to go
back to my own compiled version. The program works a lot faster this
way. Fast enough to say that it's worth the time to compile it. The same
goes to xine.
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Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

[et]

On Friday 01 October 2004 01:14, Eric Huff wrote:
>  Is Vincent still active?  
having read a news release from Mandrake within the last few weeks that said 
Mandrake was getting a $3 mill. contract from the French Gov. to create a 
secure OS for French use, I would guess Vincent was about as active as he 
could stand, just not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I would like to congrats him and 
Mandrake for pulling those teeth from the French Gov.

here is the link

  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2509
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Re: [newbie] old_mmap & libfontconfig.so.1

[Richard Urwin]

On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 11:26 am, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Running Mandrake10 - mostly updated, Using KDE3.2.3 and some third
> party apps. [ Editpadlite etc.]
>
> I am trying to understand why it takes nearly a whole minute to open
> any of my apps, both kde and third party - such as OOo, and one of
> the things I've come across [ thanks Shawn ] is strace.
>
> Two things get to be "called" heaps of times: the first is the 'read'
> calls and there I see close to a 1000 calls for :
>
>  0.000588 old_mmap(0x407ea000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1a000) = 0x407ea000
>
> Anyone know what this is The online search produces heaps
> of text files listing exactly what I see in my 'strace' - but
> otherwise nothing very helpful to date.

mmap is the function that puts a file into RAM. It's used to load 
programs or to get fast access to files. It's my impression that Linux 
uses it a lot at the deeper levels. It's not got PROT_EXEC, so it's not 
(I think) a program. MAP_PRIVATE implies it's not going to be written 
to. A font would answer this description, but a lot of other stuff 
would too.

> The other is for the 'open' call, eg:
>
>  0.000680 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libfontconfig.so.1", O_RDONLY)
> = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> and this seems to go through a lot of files 'looking' and again, for
> heaps of times.

I don't know how the shared library resolution code works; I would 
expect a lot of these for stuff that follows a path, such as $PATH and 
$LDPATH, but it's my understanding that shared libraries are looked up 
in a database. Have you tried running ldconfig? In fact "ldconfig -v" 
may give you useful information.

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Re: [newbie] Audio Query

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 03:58, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote:
> > 
> >>Morning All,
> >>
> >>Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file 
> >>with an .asx extension?
> >>
> > 
> > Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer?
> > 
> > LX
> > 
> No, but then I can't get the version of Mplayer that I have to play 
> anything at all.

That's not unusual if you have the MDK version, I was having problems
also.

Download the PLF version and try that.  Tell us how it did.

LX
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Re: [newbie] Audio Query

[Graham Watkins]

Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote:
Morning All,
Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file 
with an .asx extension?

Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer?
LX
No, but then I can't get the version of Mplayer that I have to play 
anything at all.

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Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

[Eric Huff]

> > I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie
> > archive stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i
> > had assumed the same of the mandrake archives.

> IIRC, you're right that the archives stopped being maintained
> simultaneously with the mass unsubscribing.

> I just did a little
> more digging, and the expert archives are not only current, but
> they appear to be complete. This was definitely not the case the
> last time I checked early this year when there were no updates of
> either archive beyond November 15, 2003. 

> Somewhere along the line,
> Mandrake seems to have corrected the problem with the expert
> archives but the newbie list got missed in the shuffle. Curious.

Well, that is curious.  If they were able to recreate the expert
archives, maybe they can do the same for newbie?

I just sent an email to Vincent.  I'll report back with any answers.

eric

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