Re: [Cooker] ICQ Program

2000-01-26 Thread Lenny Cartier
"Ian C.Sison" wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Sorry to mail the whole list, but I can't find the info elsewhere. I remember seeing a message a week or so ago about a program that would connect to ICQ and to AIM through the same interface. I can't find any info on this program

[Cooker] Upgrade notes

2000-01-26 Thread Sam
Well, After trying the different installation settings, I installed air using the upgrade selection. Here are some things that need work. 1. I couldn't remember the partition number for /root and there was no way to check it w/o exiting the install process. Suggestion- have a map of the hard

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Wed Jan 26 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2.14-3mdk - don't link to default vmlinu{xz} in %post. Damn! I liked this! What is/was the problem with it? OK, how about a compromise? How about

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damn! I liked this! What is/was the problem with it? OK, how about a compromise? How about having %post look for a script, maybe in do problems with DrakX. Ask pixel :). /usr/local/bin called "activate_kernel". If it's there, run it,

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damn! I liked this! What is/was the problem with it? OK, how about a compromise? How about having %post look for a script, maybe in do problems with DrakX.

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Pixel
"Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damn! I liked this! What is/was the problem with it? OK, how about a compromise? How about having %post

[Cooker] When is the new Gnome release going to be put in to cooker?

2000-01-26 Thread Keith Conger
When is the new Gnome release going to be put in to cooker? This is when I plan to install again. Thanks Keith

Re: [Cooker] Problems with Scsi-Emulation (Air)

2000-01-26 Thread Guy T. Rice
Tim Val Litwiller wrote: so if I just blew up my scd0 by using your command line below instead of checking to make sure that it was correct " it should have been ln -fs scd0 cdrom2" how do I get back my scd0? Oops! ./MAKEDEV scd0 (while root or su and cd'ed into the /dev directory, of

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do problems with DrakX. Ask pixel :). Pixel? What was the problem with it? Just so I understand. The DrakX code try to get the current kernel with /boot/vmlinuz, if kernel-linus is installed after kernel-classic the guys will reboot with the

Re: [Cooker] When is the new Gnome release going to be put in to cooker?

2000-01-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Keith Conger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When is the new Gnome release going to be put in to cooker? This is when I plan to install again. most of the package is updated. --Chmouel

[Cooker] Something funny going on with keyboards...

2000-01-26 Thread Guy T. Rice
Ever since I installed Air, some of the keys on my keyboard have stopped working the way they used to (they seem to have reverted to their default meanings). It appears Air ignores your .Xmodmap file. I need my Compose key back! Plus, having my control key act as a caps lock is really

Re: [Cooker] When is the new Gnome release going to be put in tocooker?

2000-01-26 Thread Keith Conger
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Keith Conger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When is the new Gnome release going to be put in to cooker? This is when I plan to install again. most of the package is updated. --Chmouel Sorry I meant the 1.1 core release. Keith

[Cooker] Re[2]: kernel-linus-2.2.14-3mdk

2000-01-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] The DrakX code try to get the current kernel with /boot/vmlinuz, if kernel-linus is installed after kernel-classic the guys will reboot with the kernel-linus which it's bad by default. Indeed. To expand on my

[Cooker] Annonymous FTP Access

2000-01-26 Thread Roger
ok...i'm back again...arrgghh...got me hooked on this list but would rather be posting to a newsgroup (whether passworded or public) I cannot get Annonymous FTP Access. get something like 530 incorrect password after it logs in as annonymous or i get an error when even trying to login (whether

[Cooker] LS120 for Rescue Disk Purposes

2000-01-26 Thread Roger
Using a "LS120" Superdisk drive cannot be used for rescue disk purposes still on mdk 7.0! There is a kernel patch which needs to be built into the kernel on my last search for this. Other than that, a user only has access to the disk drive after changing the fstab (or mtab also) for xserver

[Cooker] Keyboard Bug when doing a custom install?

2000-01-26 Thread Roger
I did a custom developemnt install and found that my keyboard (which has a spacebar divided into 2 bars: one on left represents backspace and the left represents spacebar) was configured incorrectly. the spacebar was configured as a backspace adn the backspace was configured as a spacebar. Work

Re: [Cooker] Annonymous FTP Access

2000-01-26 Thread Ryan Wahle
Did you install the anonymousftp rpm package? Quoting Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ok...i'm back again...arrgghh...got me hooked on this list but would rather be posting to a newsgroup (whether passworded or public) I cannot get Annonymous FTP Access. get something like 530 incorrect

[Cooker] Multiple jobs with make and number of processors

2000-01-26 Thread John Cavan
Hey all, A number of specs use something like: numprocs=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc | cut -c7` But on some systems this is a little problematic... For example, the output of `cat /proc/cpuinfo` on my machine gives: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

[Cooker] Install bug

2000-01-26 Thread Sam Walker
I have 128MB on my machine. I entered 128 in the requestor for memory size during the install. There is no mem=XXX statement in lilo. What it did was put in my scsi, but no memory settings. Sam

Re: [Cooker] Creative Soundcards

2000-01-26 Thread Chris Cowan
python wrote: I am looking at buying a new soundcard for my Linux box. I currently have a Esolo chipset type of card but it does not seem to run stereo sound. I was looking at either the PCI 512 or the LIVE! value both from Creative. Have any of you been successful with using these

[Cooker] adduserdrake

2000-01-26 Thread Ryan Wahle
Hello, I was wondering where I could get the source for adduserdrake. It looks like it uses ncurses when in console mode, and I want to see how it uses ncurses. Thanks! Ryan Wahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] InnerCite

[Cooker] linux mandrake 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread Alidad Modjtabai
hi, I wondering where do i can download the mandrake 7.0? because when i went to the download.com and took me to the mandrake.com to download it, there are so many file in tree and not sure which file to download it. can you please help us to where do i can download easier one with one file to

[Cooker] 2 errors when installing anonftp*.rpm

2000-01-26 Thread Roger
Warning: /home/ftp/etc/group saved as /home/ftp/etc/group.rpmorig Warning: /home/ftp/etc/passwd saved as /home/ftp/etc/passwd.rpmorig continued installing. seems to work w/o problems Sent from: Lattitude (deg):32.7130 Longitude (deg):-117.1530 Altitude (ft):

Re: [Cooker] XFree, glibc, and S3 Trio 3D chipset

2000-01-26 Thread Steve Fox
I got some more info on this today. It appers that using XFree-3.3.6 on Mandrake 6.1 works fine, so my guess is that it is indeed a glibc-2.1.2 problem. After even more tweaking the cow-orker still cannot get it to work...he is quite intimate with modelines now :) John Cavan wrote: I don't

Re: [Cooker] 2 errors when installing anonftp*.rpm

2000-01-26 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Roger wrote: Warning: /home/ftp/etc/group saved as /home/ftp/etc/group.rpmorig Warning: /home/ftp/etc/passwd saved as /home/ftp/etc/passwd.rpmorig continued installing. seems to work w/o problems They are %config files, can you diff them plz. one of these days

Re: [Cooker] 2 errors when installing anonftp*.rpm

2000-01-26 Thread David Walluck
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Roger wrote: Warning: /home/ftp/etc/group saved as /home/ftp/etc/group.rpmorig Warning: /home/ftp/etc/passwd saved as /home/ftp/etc/passwd.rpmorig continued installing. seems to work w/o problems They are %config files, can you

[Cooker] gdk-pixbuf

2000-01-26 Thread Steve Fox
The MDK version of gdk-pixbuf-0.5.0 seems to be causing some problems with defining the libraries as gdk_pixbuf instead of gdk-pixbuf...this makes it difficult to use with gnome-core-1.1.1 . No biggie, I compilied gdk-pixbuf myself, but it would be nice to have fixed up for others lazier than

Re: [Cooker] gdk-pixbuf

2000-01-26 Thread Steve Fox
I don't know if I described the problem correctly...here's a paste from gnome.org --- Anyway, the Mandrake RPMS are broken. For some reason, if you type: gnome-config -- gdk_pixbuf it will say Unknown library `gdk_pixbuf' One way to work around this is to replace "gnome-config

[Cooker] problems with MASQ

2000-01-26 Thread Duncan Hall
Hi all. I'm running 7.0 on two machines. One macine has two network cards and is attached to my office Lan on eth0 and to the second machine via eth1. Masq seems to work for browsing the web but file transfers for files over a few hundred k stop after a few seconds. This happens using wget,