On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
anyone have any luck installing mandrake on a sparc ipx box?
There's a Mandrake distribution for 32-bit SPARC machines? I thought they
only had an UltraSPARC version. Also, isn't the IPX a sun4c machine? Linux
does not handle these machines very well
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FYI, I mirror the cooker hourly on my system just to keep up to date on
some packages (and to help me with building RPMs).
Should I just make my ISO from cooker? Is this equivalent to the current
7.1 beta? I guess I'm asking if cooker has become
"Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
anyone have any luck installing mandrake on a sparc ipx box?
There's a Mandrake distribution for 32-bit SPARC machines? I thought they
only had an UltraSPARC version. Also, isn't the IPX a sun4c machine?
"Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -
From: "Daouda LO" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Riyad Kalla" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Hey!
Riyad Kalla a écrit :
I'm new to the list, what is the status
Burkhard Zombronner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello there,
there is a test of 6 linux-distros in the new linuxmagazine in Germany called
Linux-User. The ranking of Mandrake 7.0 is second. Their website could be found
under www.linux-user.de.
The list:
1. easy Linux 2.000 note:1,8
2.
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Actually, there is a third beta which have been made up by us last week. I
think it's just a matter of hours it appears on mirrors as an ISO-image,
at least this was my information from our Quality Assurance team, at the
end of last week :-).
Current cooker
Hi there,
I have get some trouble with using F1,F2 etc.. keys.I needed to run a
terminal software on a machine running
SCO Unixware via telnet from a PIII running 7.1beta. I can't use these
keys (F1,F2...). Is tehere any body have a idea there.
Thanks ..
just looked at the processes that are running and am wondering why I
have 5 identd running? See attached.
Greg
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 1064 476 ?S08:22 0:00 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?
The
VIA8C686A on-board sound card will only work if configured through
ALSA, which is not installed by default. It would be nice if this was
done if this card is detected (which it is during the install but the
OSS module only is used which doesn't work).
What
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you not realise how silly this approach is for beta testers? If
Could you be less insultant, and more constructive? Please respect us, as
we respect you. It's no use flaming us.
you have distribution room for the 2 iso image files (which are of
Actually, I can think of one reason why being able to make an ISO image is
nice. I have a high speed connection and mirror Cooker (which I install
from the hard drive). I then create CDs for my friends (who only have 56k
modems) about once a week so that they can also play with the new beta.
My friends with T1 connections are frustrated when attempting to download
the 486 iso from the current links because of slow transfer speeds. Is it
possible to have the 486 iso mirored on more sites? I would be delighted to
be able to install Mandrake rather than RedHat on my 486 machines .
- Original Message -
From: "Guillaume Cottenceau" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Hey!
Rumored for release on June 1st - but I would be glad to wait if it
meant
fixing some more bugs.
hey, interested in such
"Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My friends with T1 connections are frustrated when attempting to download
the 486 iso from the current links because of slow transfer speeds. Is it
possible to have the 486 iso mirored on more sites? I would be delighted to
be able to install Mandrake rather
I've just installed the cooker beta, and have some feedback and (potential)
bug reports.
Could someone please let me know if this is the appropriate place to post
them, or point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Marc Sitkin
Marc Sitkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just installed the cooker beta, and have some feedback and (potential)
bug reports.
Could someone please let me know if this is the appropriate place to post
them, or point me in the right direction.
yes, this is the place for development of
Package maintainer in charge of perl-Digest-MD5, please take a look
this .diff file... This solves a problem with building perl-Digest-MD5,
Processing files: perl-Digest-MD5-2.09-5mdk
File listed twice: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/auto/Digest
File listed twice:
you have the right place.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Sitkin
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 7:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] New to list
I've just installed the cooker beta, and have some feedback and
(potential)
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
If you wish to work on the i486, sparc, and alpha ports without
disturbing the beta, keep them in-house until they have passed their
alpha tests. The beta test of them will then require additional
separately-named distribution space separate from Cooker. If
James Tucker wrote:
Actually, I can think of one reason why being able to make an ISO image is
nice. I have a high speed connection and mirror Cooker (which I install
from the hard drive). I then create CDs for my friends (who only have 56k
modems) about once a week so that they can also
Some people want ISO's to install on computers that dont' have network
connections.
Some people want ISO's because they don't have space to mirror cooker all
the time, (or the bandwidth to get updates all the time) but do have the
space to download the iso's temporarily and then burn and delete
Actually, that's what I'm doing. I may have misunderstood what you were
saying in your earlier message. I thought that you were saying that ever
creating a beta ISO was silly and unnecessary. I agree that it pointless to
download both the tree and the ISO. The only time I've ever wanted to d/l
- Original Message -
From: "David Foresman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Beta2 ISOs: followup
Some people want ISO's to install on computers that dont' have network
connections.
Some people want ISO's because they
This also applies to:
perl-Digest-MD5-2.09-5mdk.src.rpm
perl-HTML-Parser-3.05-4mdk.src.rpm
perl-HTML-SimpleParse-0.08-2mdk.src.rpm
perl-IO-stringy-1.209-1mdk.src.rpm
perl-MD5-1.7-11mdk.src.rpm
perl-MIME-Base64-2.11-4mdk.src.rpm
perl-MIME-tools-4.124-2mdk.src.rpm
perl-MP3-Info-0.80-1mdk.src.rpm
My experiences (with beta 1) were mostly great - I did a recommended
installaton without any problems at all. Using ftp straight from a cooker
mirror.
Only problem is that you choose a language right at the beginning but this
does not give you a chance to use a different keyboard (in my case
On 21 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Should I just make my ISO from cooker? Is this equivalent to the current
7.1 beta? I guess I'm asking if cooker has become 7.1 beta until 7.1
final is out and it resumes cooking?
Actually, there is a third beta which have been made up by us
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
If you wish to work on the i486, sparc, and alpha ports without
disturbing the beta, keep them in-house until they have passed their
alpha tests. The beta test of them will then require additional
separately-named
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Should I just make my ISO from cooker? Is this equivalent to the current
7.1 beta? I guess I'm asking if cooker has become 7.1 beta until 7.1
final is out and it resumes cooking?
Actually, there
Hi!
I installed recently a kernel with framebuffer console in order to avoid the
resolution changes which always occurs when I switch from the console to
X11. That is, my consoles are now 1024x768, which is my X11 resolution too.
Everything is quite perfect, except that there is still a change
Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[..]
perl-MIME-tools-4.124-2mdk.src.rpm
perl-MP3-Info-0.80-1mdk.src.rpm
perl-MailTools-1.14-1mdk.src.rpm
perl-Msgcat-1.03-4mdk.src.rpm
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.78-1mdk.src.rpm
[..]
-/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/*/*/auto/*
Date sent: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:22:00 +1000
From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Facts and Rules
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [Cooker] Beta2 ISOs: followup
Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First tried to use the iso, but couldn't get a reasonable download speed
off either mirror. Maxed out at 30kbs from the France ftp site.
Decided to try a network install, downloaded network.img and used
rawrite to burn a boot floppy. Boot floppy did boot the computer, but
then asked for another
Date sent: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:16:43 +1000
From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Facts and Rules
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [Cooker] Beta2 ISOs: followup
Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grégoire Colbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So my question : is there a way I can rise the refresh rate of the
framebuffer console in order to have 107 Hz everywhere? That way, my monitor
as far as i know, you can't change the refresh rate in framebuffer :-/
Okay,
Before I worry about attempting to download two cd's worth of images I have
two actually a few questions:
#1: Is the ata66 issue fixed for the abit be6 motherboards using the HPT366
interface?
#2: Will I be able to get my Adaptec AHA1520B PNP card to work?
#3: And finally, is
"B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#1: Is the ata66 issue fixed for the abit be6 motherboards using the HPT366
interface?
fixed for both hpt and promise.
One can do it!
See
/usr/sbin/fbset
man fbset
/etc/fb.modes
man fb.modes
I hope that fbset exists in Mandrake, I know it from Conectiva Linux
(www.conectiva.com).
Till
Pixel wrote:
Grégoire Colbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So my question : is there a way I can rise the
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have moved my install drive to reiserfs now, is there a possible hack
to get the hd install working in that way?
well, well... will i or won't it do it 4u ;p
ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/hd.img should do it. I don't know if it
works, i have not
Pixel wrote:
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have moved my install drive to reiserfs now, is there a possible hack
to get the hd install working in that way?
well, well... will i or won't it do it 4u ;p
ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/hd.img should do it. I don't know if
On 21 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Hmmm... well, I downloaded the ISO's from tucows 2 days ago and they were
still dated May 3.
Yep. New one very soon to be mirrored, our CTO confirmed it to me today.
Awesome. I'll snag them as soon as they're available then.
So to test 7.1
I just received this mail from the adns people:
Ian Jackson wrote:
Stefan van der Eijk writes ("building mandrake adns rpm on alpha"):
This is probably not a bug, but a alpha-platform specific
issue. I've been trying to build mandrake's adns 0.7 src.rpm
file on my alpha, but it exits
Ron Stodden wrote:
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Actually, there is a third beta which have been made up by us last week. I
think it's just a matter of hours it appears on mirrors as an ISO-image,
at least this was my information from our Quality Assurance team, at the
end of last week
[..]
perl-MIME-tools-4.124-2mdk.src.rpm
perl-MP3-Info-0.80-1mdk.src.rpm
perl-MailTools-1.14-1mdk.src.rpm
perl-Msgcat-1.03-4mdk.src.rpm
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.78-1mdk.src.rpm
[..]
-/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/*/*/auto/*
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/*/*/[A-Z]*
All this stuff
One thing I specifically did not do was choose to install KDE. While
working in Gnome today, I launched what must have been a KDE app, which
overlayed the KDE desktop over my gnome desktop. 2 Icons for everything!
What gives?
Marc Sitkin wrote:
Printer config picked up HP870CSE, but failed to install proper filter.
I also tried the latest cooker from rpmfind.net. I couldn't even
configure my printer the way I wanted. I got options for a HP LaserJet,
text or postscript. The ghostscript printer package didn't
Hello,
Well, I've just set my wife up with a user account and introduced her to her
own Netscape setup etc., ect.. However, just like me (many times already) she
asked "Why do I have to click on kppp, why doesn't it bring up kppp
automatically".
I have to agree with this. I have tried many
Hello,
Please excuse me banging on about this, but it seems to me that for laptop
users this issue is pretty fundamental.
The last time I reported this I blamed it on poor old apmd or kcmlaptop.
However I now beleive this is incorrect.
After running a few tests here are the results:
Running
OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This happens on X 4.01 and 3.3.6-14mdk (and many earlier versions too). I have
a Dell Inspiron 7000 with an 8Mb ATI Rage Mobility Pro chipset.
my laptop (HP/XE2) work find, sound like a kernel-apm bug for me
encountred also on some IBM laptop, i think it's time to
I've now downloaded TopPage, and what a Top Product it is ! This is just what
I've been looking for. Thanks very much. Considering this is a beta version and
runs on WINE it is still extremely good. Considering the Windows version only
costs $60 (as I suspect the realeased version for Linux may
Hmmm ! I don't buy that. But I will do what you suggest, is there a later
Mandrake kernel than 2.2.15-6mdk ? I've tried Red Hat's 2.3.99-3 as well.
Owen
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote:
OS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This happens on X 4.01 and 3.3.6-14mdk (and many earlier versions too). I
I'm trying to write to a CD-R and I'm making a lot of coasters.
I finally noticed these error messages when testing it a bit.
[root@drfickle drfickle]# gcombust
[1] 776
[root@drfickle drfickle]#
/usr/bin/cdrecord
-v
-eject
-pad
speed=2
dev=0,0,0
-audio
-swab
/mnt/hd/witch_doctor.wav
**
Hi,
I read that there should be a beta3 iso "ready to take out"
somewhere but I don;t remember - where -
( I regularly delete my mails since I re-install Linux Mandrake betas regularly
:-)))
I did not see it in ftp.free.fr ( the fastest site I found to-date
even if I connect from Quebec ...).
By
Hello,
This may seem like a strange thing to do but I have a requirement to have a
user who only has 16bpp, while everybody else will be on 24bpp. (This is so a
product which runs using WINE will run correctly.)
Is there a way of getting different XF86Config's for different users ? X says
it no
I downgraded my mkisofs and cdrecord* packages to the ones from 7.0 and
I can now write data CDs again, but I still cannot burn audio disks
(from WAV files).
--
Steve Fox
http://k-lug.com
asked "Why do I have to click on kppp, why doesn't it bring up kppp
automatically".
there is
no GUI to easily achieve this.
After all this time surely this is acheiveable !
I know this isn't quite the answer you're looking for but KDE 2 and the new
KPPP that comes with it will do that (and
Con Kolivas wrote:
asked "Why do I have to click on kppp, why doesn't it bring up kppp
automatically".
there is
no GUI to easily achieve this.
After all this time surely this is acheiveable !
I know this isn't quite the answer you're looking for but KDE 2 and the new
KPPP that comes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Yep, definitely. The cooker by now is "forked" from the future final
7.1
OK, where is the new "Forked" 7.1 tree for me to continue mirroring, I would
rather the non-iso my self - give me the bleeding edge.
:)
--
Randy Welch wrote:
Marc Sitkin wrote:
Printer config picked up HP870CSE, but failed to install proper filter.
I also tried the latest cooker from rpmfind.net. I couldn't even
configure my printer the way I wanted. I got options for a HP LaserJet,
text or postscript. The
This has been one of my concerns as I'm running Corel Office 2000 which uses it's own
version of wine (arghh!) Could you give me an idea as to what the procedure would be
to
switch back and forth between the two versions of wine?
Thanks, Mike
OS wrote:
I've now downloaded TopPage, and what
On Sun, 21 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
"Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
anyone have any luck installing mandrake on a sparc ipx box?
There's a Mandrake distribution for 32-bit SPARC machines? I
Hi guys,
Ran into a problem compiling the latest test kernels... the file
/usr/include/unistd.h has a little typo on line 468:
extern int execle`__P ((__const char *__path, __const char *__arg,
...));
But, AFAIK, it should be:
extern int execle __P ((__const char *__path, __const char *__arg,
I just tried the USB syncing with my Visor and noticed that the
backported code is rather old. To be exact, it spits out a lot of
debug and if the hotsync is aborted prematurely, and the USB is
disconnected while the devices are in use, just about all programs
sigsegv and the kernel is left in a
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
I just tried the USB syncing with my Visor and noticed that the
backported code is rather old. To be exact, it spits out a lot of
debug and if the hotsync is aborted prematurely, and the USB is
disconnected while the devices are in use, just about all programs
James Ray Kenney wrote:
And what if you do not have Linux on the machine you download
from?
Standard Windows software (eg the Adaptec utilities) can burn a CD
from a tree (but be careful about Joliet vs Rock Ridge for long
names).
Ron.
John Cavan écrivit :
Hi guys,
Ran into a problem compiling the latest test kernels... the file
/usr/include/unistd.h has a little typo on line 468:
extern int execle`__P ((__const char *__path, __const char *__arg,
...));
[...]
Seems fixed in Cooker (glibc-devel-2.1.3-5mdk)
--
Civileme,
Thanks for the illumination, but I venture to slightly expand upon it
inline in square brackets below.
By way of general background, I would add that Linus Torvalds is on
record as saying "The best management is no management", and
presumably he manages the kernel by that dictum.
That's what I have installed... weird.
David BAUDENS wrote:
John Cavan écrivit :
Hi guys,
Ran into a problem compiling the latest test kernels... the file
/usr/include/unistd.h has a little typo on line 468:
extern int execle`__P ((__const char *__path, __const char *__arg,
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