[Cooker] Install issues and XFree86 V4.0 item.

2000-04-30 Thread Randy Welch
1. Nice overall improvement on the installer! 2. But... One thing that seems to halt the installation dead in it's track is theinclusion of more than one Windows ( FAT or NTFS ) file system. My system has 3 Windows file systems ( NTFS, FAT, NTFS for VMWare ) and I could not

Re: [Cooker] A couple issues

2000-04-30 Thread Greg Sarsons
dam I hate it when I forget things like that .. switched to 32bit and it worked. tks Greg Michael Holt wrote: > > I've heard that Netscape doesn't work with 24bit color? Anyway, I'm > using 32bit and I have all my Netscape color. > Mike > > Greg wrote: > > > > Noticed similar with regard to i

[Cooker] 7.1b

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Hello again, I just tried installing WordPerfect Office 2000 on the 7.1b (did work on 7.0-2) and the install went ok, but when I try to launch any of the programs, they start then just die. I did get one message about not finding any running font servers. I wish I could give you more inf

Re: [Cooker] XF4 S3 driver module

2000-04-30 Thread Vox
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens David wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Jens David wrote: > > > > Michael Irving wrote: > > > > > As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli > > > > > like reinstalling. How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and > > > > > XF 4.0 installed

Re: [Cooker] A couple issues

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
I've heard that Netscape doesn't work with 24bit color? Anyway, I'm using 32bit and I have all my Netscape color. Mike Greg wrote: > > Noticed similar with regard to inability to retrieve cryto packages. > Also notice when running Netscape the frame or skin, what ever you want > to call it, has

Re: [Cooker] imwheel / XF86Config

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Francis GALIEGUE wrote: > > > 2. The second computer I installed to (IBM Aptiva AMD K-6/2 350 with an > > onboard ATI RAGE pro 4MB video card and an old 14" Sony monitor) flips > > out when you use the screen saver. The screensaver comes on just fine, > > but after a few minutes, it starts to

Re: [Cooker] A couple issues

2000-04-30 Thread Greg
Noticed similar with regard to inability to retrieve cryto packages. Also notice when running Netscape the frame or skin, what ever you want to call it, has no colour. It is sort of like black and white. The icons are the same way. Greg Phil wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been using 7.1 beta for

[Cooker] A couple issues

2000-04-30 Thread Phil
Hi, I've been using 7.1 beta for the past several days on my personal machines and think it's awesome. There's a couple oddities I've noticed, my apologies if they've already been mentioned. I've installed it at least five times on three different machines, just finished an FTP install

Re: [Cooker] Question: kernel (xconfig, secure, and module)

2000-04-30 Thread Marc Childress
This script won't really help, because make xconfig never finishes. Here it is: [root@childm linux]# make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.15/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse <

[Cooker] More notes on Mandrake 7.1b install bugs

2000-04-30 Thread Randy McCaskill
The error message I get when I try and select the "Hercules->Dynamite 128->Video" is: An error occurred XFree86- rpm not found at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 272. ...propagated. Another problem I noticed is that when I am setting up the partitions the "Mount Point" button is hid

Re: [Cooker] XF 4

2000-04-30 Thread ptah
> > Check out the new driver from Nvidia. It will make your GeForce DDR work like > dynamite. > > -Chris > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > At 12:01 AM 5/1/00 +0200, you wrote: > > >As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > > >How do I get to have both XF 3

Re: [Cooker] XF 4

2000-04-30 Thread Necrotica
Check out the new driver from Nvidia. It will make your GeForce DDR work like dynamite. -Chris On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: > At 12:01 AM 5/1/00 +0200, you wrote: > >As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > >How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 in

Re: [Cooker] SBLIVE Sound in 7.1b?

2000-04-30 Thread Ken Murray
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, qumak wrote: > and when i run sounddrake > it detects it and has it selected (with -1's for each field at bottom) > when i click test I hear linus torvald's pronounciation skills, all seems good, > but when i click OK it says: > Error in play call! > sox: Can't open output

Re: [Cooker] XF 4

2000-04-30 Thread ramses
At 12:01 AM 5/1/00 +0200, you wrote: >As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. >How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time >without doing a reinstall.. (pain to get everything right again) > >Michael > Yeah well if anyone has goten

Re: [Cooker] IDE Problems

2000-04-30 Thread ramses
At 06:08 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, ptah wrote: >The problem that I am referring to is the ide drives not being >recognized. Also, this is NOT an ISO problem. The ISO works fine. It >is/was a problem on at least one of the mirrors in the cooker >directory. the exact file i

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Robert L Martin
Let me save this message and boot into Hydrogen and see what success I have there (insert Jeopardy music here) still the same kfm, still the same behaviour - just works for me. Anything I can do to help??? by "(insert Jeopardy music here)" did you mean [embed src "jeomain.mid" autostart

Re: [Cooker] XF4 S3 driver module

2000-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens David wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Jens David wrote: > > > > > > Michael Irving wrote: > > > > > > > > As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > > > > How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time > > > > without doing a

Re: [Cooker] imwheel / XF86Config

2000-04-30 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Michael Holt wrote: > > 1. I wasn't able to dial out with kppp as user until I first SUID on > kppp. I don't know if this was the proper thing to do, but it worked. > Yes, this is a bug in kpp which I have to solve - but I cannot do it until may 10th :( QA, can this bug b

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Civileme
Geoffrey Lee wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > > Try and access that site with KFM and you will be greeted by a blank > > > KFM window. > > > > Actually, I get a huge list of RPMS. Who the hell uses KFM > > for ftp'ing > > anyway? Heeheehee--impresses the baj

Re: [Cooker] Question: kernel (xconfig, secure, and module)

2000-04-30 Thread Robert L Martin
okay first thing i use a script to do kernels. ie create a file named hackernel with cd /usr/scr/linux make xconfig && make dep && make clean && make bzImage >/usr/src/hack.log 2>/usr/scr/hackerr.log && make modules && make modules_install EOF just make it executable BY ROOT ONLY and run as root

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[Cooker] Re: [Notice] distribution wishes

2000-04-30 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:13:30AM +0300, Yotam Medini wrote: > * Most of us using Linux on a PC. We may have forgotten but P is for > _Personal_. That is a computer without dedicated administration ... > + PPP > So many README's and Usenet posts. Why can't 'pppusers' group wo

Re: [Cooker] XF4 S3 driver module

2000-04-30 Thread Jens David
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jens David wrote: > > > > Michael Irving wrote: > > > > > > As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > > > How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time > > > without doing a reinstall.. (pain to get everything ri

[Cooker] Invisible mouse pointer in XFree 4.0 + crypto

2000-04-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
This may have been fixed, but I just installed hydrogen from the iso. Problems: In XFree 4.0, the mouse pointer is invisible. I'm running it with a matrox millineum G200, 8 MB RAM, Voodoo II, with a logitech firstmouse+ PS/2, SMP kernel on a dual celeron Abit BP-6. The mouse isn't exactly invisi

[Cooker] Question: kernel (xconfig, secure, and module)

2000-04-30 Thread Marc Childress
Don't know if this is the appropriate channel to send this- if not, please notify me. Thanks! OK, I've got 3 questions about the cooker kernel. I have installed: kernel-2.2.15-0.28mdk kernel-fb-2.2.15-0.28mdk kernel-secure-2.2.15-0.28mdk kernel-headers-2.2.15-0.28mdk kernel-doc-2.2.15-0.28mdk k

[Cooker] dependency imlib

2000-04-30 Thread andre
when i do rpm -Fvh imlib-*9md* error: failed dependencies: libImlib.so.1 is needed by fnlib-0.4-14mdk etc i get a lot more but u will get probably the same ___ GO Network Mail Get Your Free, Pr

Re: [Cooker] XF4 S3 driver module

2000-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens David wrote: > > Michael Irving wrote: > > > > As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > > How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time > > without doing a reinstall.. (pain to get everything right again) > > > > Michael > > Hi,

[Cooker] XF4 S3 driver module

2000-04-30 Thread Jens David
Michael Irving wrote: > > As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. > How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time > without doing a reinstall.. (pain to get everything right again) > > Michael Hi, whwre can I find the XF4 S3 driver

Re: [Cooker] text mode installer

2000-04-30 Thread Alexander V. Voinov
Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: > > I tried the text-mode one. I see however that it lacks some > > functionality of the former. E.g. in the expert mode the individual > > package selection became impossible, it also seems to ignore my > > 'large-scale' selection. > > > > Alexander > Select 'Customer' mo

Re: [Cooker] IDE Problems

2000-04-30 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, ptah wrote: > Could you be a little more clear? Which IDE problems. The ATA/66 > problems (not being able to pass controller info to mandrake) or > what are you refering to. Also your solution basically > means redownload an entire ISO, because you can't just > copy the mo

[Cooker] XF 4

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Irving
As I already have cooker installed I don't really feeli like reinstalling. How do I get to have both XF 3.3.6 and XF 4.0 installed at the same time without doing a reinstall.. (pain to get everything right again) Michael

Re: [Cooker] IDE Problems

2000-04-30 Thread ptah
Christopher Molnar wrote: > There have been quite a few issues regarding ide drives posted over the > last few days. It appears that a mirror site has a corrupt version of the > /lib/modules.cz file. > > If you are having IDE drive problems please try grabbing a new copy of the > modules.cz file,

[Cooker] SBLIVE Sound in 7.1b?

2000-04-30 Thread qumak
I installed 7.1b from burnt iso's today..seems pretty nice...however: i can't get any sound... in kde control center it says no info available - and in HardDrake it detects it, says Creative Labs SB Live! under Soundcard, but when i click Run Configuration Tool, it brings up an error window: Confi

[Cooker] IDE Problems

2000-04-30 Thread Christopher Molnar
There have been quite a few issues regarding ide drives posted over the last few days. It appears that a mirror site has a corrupt version of the /lib/modules.cz file. If you are having IDE drive problems please try grabbing a new copy of the modules.cz file, it solved my install problem here.

[Cooker] 7.1b

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Hi all, Found another minor thing; when I had the default theme for kde installed, numlock stayed on in X. When I changed themes, somehow something broke. Now when I boot into X, numlock comes on (the link is in the autostart folder) then after X is finished loading, it goes back off. I

[Cooker] imwheel / XF86Config

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Hello, I just installed 7.1b and I'm really impressed! Most everything works great on both machines that installed, just a few minor things to iron out. 1. I wasn't able to dial out with kppp as user until I first SUID on kppp. I don't know if this was the proper thing to do, but it work

[Cooker] ppp conection

2000-04-30 Thread John Grange
on boot up of the system (this bug has been around since 7.0b) the system says "FAILED" retrying in background" even though it connects fine and everything is fucntion normaly for the conection.. I tested this on the console, and found the ./ifup ppp0 dose not display this message, but if I do ./

Re: [Cooker] X server problems

2000-04-30 Thread OS
Rats ! On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Perhaps it's a problem with the ATI drivers in X? I'm using a Voodoo3 > 2000 AGP card and I get amazing acceleration all the time. > > John > > OS wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have, on a number of occasions, reported the fact that the Mesa demos > >

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread bilbrey
Ron Stodden scrawled with the keyboard: > diablero wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 12:05:19PM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > > So it isn't really open, is it?For compatibility with Linux, > > > you need to choose another server. > > > > You have forgotten the :-). Or ... > > ftp://ft

[Cooker] Problems with XFree during install

2000-04-30 Thread Bill
I get an error msg when setting up X during install. GD5446 Panasonic S15 hd install from FAT32 Graphics install is 640 x 480 which makes it blocky Errors and warnings from install.log: kernel-2.2.15-0.28mdk.i586.rpm perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your

Re: [Cooker] X server problems

2000-04-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with 8Mb video RAM and an AIT Rage Mobility Pro card. I am running the Mach driver with a straight "out of the box" Mandrake 7.0 install. I have never seen this "mouse-dependent" behavior. I tried xgalaga just now it worked fine. I have seen another oddity--namely t

[Cooker] Re: Suite de la conversation sur LinuxFR

2000-04-30 Thread yoann
Luc Stepniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Deja apprendre a lire, c'est pas mal... > > mais bon, je vais repondre ici. > > Je te remercie :-) Desole, je n'aime pas le ton agressif que tu as pris dans ton commentaire. > > 1- Prelude est en developpement depuis plus de 2 ans, > > le devel

[Cooker] Install problems

2000-04-30 Thread John Grange
Here are the bugs i have noted as of 4-29-2000 I did multiple rysncs before install and made sure everything was updated correctly;) Install Class Expert / Server using hd.img installing from ext2 partion System is as follows- Asus P5A MB AMD k6-2 380 128 meg pc100 ram Adaptec 2940u 3com 90

Re: [Cooker] X server problems

2000-04-30 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, John Cavan wrote: > > I have, on a number of occasions, reported the fact that the Mesa demos > > only run at full speed when the mouse is moving. > > > > Well it still happening !!! > > > > I've just downloaded xgalaga. Game play is extremely difficult when everything > >

Re: [Cooker] X server problems

2000-04-30 Thread John Cavan
Perhaps it's a problem with the ATI drivers in X? I'm using a Voodoo3 2000 AGP card and I get amazing acceleration all the time. John OS wrote: > > Hello, > > I have, on a number of occasions, reported the fact that the Mesa demos > only run at full speed when the mouse is moving. > > Well it

[Cooker] RE: any ideas?

2000-04-30 Thread Allen Bolderoff
Further to this, a hd.img install dies referring to an EOF in a partition.pm file I said: > [root@harper perl-install]# ./g_auto_install Can't load './auto/c/ > stuff/stuff.so' for module c::stuff: ./auto/c/stuff/stuff.so: > undefined symbol: fdio at /home/ftp/pub/mirror/mandrake/hydrogen/ >

[Cooker] any ideas?

2000-04-30 Thread Allen Bolderoff
[root@harper perl-install]# ./g_auto_install Can't load './auto/c/stuff/stuff.so' for module c::stuff: ./auto/c/stuff/stuff.so: undefined symbol: fdio at /home/ftp/pub/mirror/mandrake/hydrogen/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/.. /../..//usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 1

[Cooker] linux mdk contrib rpm -2.3 pre kernel

2000-04-30 Thread CPT KIDD
i tried d/l'ing and installing these puppies (since i'm into the usb stuff). needless to say, didn't know how to invoke the new "lay-out" features of the /dev folder etc. Am curious if there's a how-to on getting the 2.3 pre rpm's installed into mdk (the one's found in the /contrib dir of mand

RE: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Lee
> > that KDE 1.1.2 is Mandrake's preferred default GUI. > > > > 257 "/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/SRPMS" is current > directory. > -rw-r--r-- 2 johanftpadm 23600288 Jan 12 15:01 > install-drakx-source.tar.bz2 > > Thankyou! It looks as if sunet.se has changed its ftp serve

RE: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Lee
> > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > Try and access that site with KFM and you will be greeted by a blank > > KFM window. > > Actually, I get a huge list of RPMS. Who the hell uses KFM > for ftp'ing > anyway? yep, even though sometimes i've experienced probelms with su

Re: [Cooker] doing a upgrade from 7.0

2000-04-30 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 29-Apr-00 by Pixel: | Derek Podoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I am shore this question has be asked before but I did not see it so I | > shall ask anyways. I just download the 7.1 beta yesterday and installed | > it on my laptop and it works grate but when I went to install it o

[Cooker] first try

2000-04-30 Thread David Hart
Just tried a hd install from a local mirror current as of this mailing. Install-Expert-Low security-All groups-No individual package changes. In the individual package selection dialog (which, by the way is a huge improvement over 7.0 :), what's the deal with the "automa

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Geoffrey Lee wrote: > > Ron Stodden wrote: > > >ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/SRPMS/install-drakx-source.tar.bz2 > > > > Try and access that site with KFM and you will be greeted by a blank > > KFM window. There's nothing funny about that. Gotcha! Remember > > t

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread David Hart
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > Try and access that site with KFM and you will be greeted by a blank > KFM window. Actually, I get a huge list of RPMS. Who the hell uses KFM for ftp'ing anyway? -- David Hart Vincity Design *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*

Re: [Cooker] text mode installer

2000-04-30 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
"Alexander V. Voinov" wrote: > > Hi, > > My eyes quickly get tired of the videomode of the graphic installer, so > I tried the text-mode one. I see however that it lacks some > functionality of the former. E.g. in the expert mode the individual > package selection became impossible, it also seem

Re: [Cooker] (MDK7-Alpha) Minor bugs installing, packages that should be there.

2000-04-30 Thread Rick Stewart
I just discovered that Install left some decent error messages behind in /root ... Here's the log, detailing how creating a RAID-0 Array crashes Disk-Drake My partition table: (after getting it all working manually), /dev/sda is as Disk-Drak left it, and I had /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc emptied (by Di

Re: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 install

2000-04-30 Thread Allen Bolderoff
> Taras Glek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I tried installing 7.1 and failed to get it to work. > > > > Try #1. > > I already have Mandrake 7.0 installed, so I decided to install the beta on > > another partition(i have a 27Gig 7200RPM IDE Maxtor on a K7M MB with an > > onboard UDMA

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Ron Stodden wrote: > > diablero wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 12:05:19PM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > > BTW, that site is not accessible to users of the KDE GUI, which is > > > most of us. That's because KFM ftp lines require owner and group > > > fields which that server does not issu

Re: [Cooker] VERSION file

2000-04-30 Thread Ron Stodden
diablero wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 12:05:19PM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > BTW, that site is not accessible to users of the KDE GUI, which is > > most of us. That's because KFM ftp lines require owner and group > > fields which that server does not issue. (FYI, this is corrected in >