Just updated to latest cooker.
Colours on XEmacs have changed to something horrendous and ugly. The
ordinary defaults that blend well with the rest of the desktop are
*much* better. Could you change back, please, please?
- D.
Civileme wrote:
> OK NOW I can say kdf is not at fault, but we have one helluva bug in the filesystem
> persisting through 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1. This is PARTITIONED for
> 6388704 blocks and allows use of only about 200 of them
>
> Why didn't you see this?
>
> My guess is that you didn't
Derek Wildstar wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, John Cavan wrote:
>
> > Well now that input has been requested about improvements/additions...
> >
> > The graphical installer is nice and all, but it has a very irritating
> > tendency to have treeviews disappear when expanded or collapsed,
> > requir
Wish List:
Since the distro is getting so big and we have some space free on the
2nd disk, would it be legal and or possible to set all the crypto stuff
on it and somehow encrypt it with a password or disclaimer prior to
using it?
How about including Star office 5.X on it? That is a free program
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:06:25AM -0400, Hoyt wrote:
> BTW, there should be a better way to access the docs and READMEs that are installed
>during the installation. They are everywhere and hard to find unless you are good at
>grepping - and then you need to know almost specifically what you are
Wish List:
Make it clear to newbies that they can return back during the install to
redo something if they need to. I found out quite some time ago, but
only after reading an article that stated how easy it was.
OS wrote:
>
> All the best developers say with the upmost certainty that there is no bug
> because it cannot be reproduced on their system. Surely it is not correct to
> say that a situation is 'disproved' simply because you cannot reproduce this
> problem on your machine. If this is your code (I
During the installation, after the package group selection you are given
the option to choose the packages you want to install. At the bottom
left is 4 buttons. One is a toggle between flat and group sorter. If
you click this you will get an error that says "an error occurred died".
It then dumps
Wish List:
Have a beep sent to the speaker several times when it is time to change
to CD #2 so time isn't wasted.
Wish List:
How about do like one of the distro's and give the user the option to
play a game while waiting.
I set up the new RaiserFS (SP?) and boy did it take longer! It took
twice as long to install!! 2 hours instead of the 1 hour on the last
beta 3 install I did.
Wish List:
More Hot keys in Xwindows for a mouseless operation!
I made the stupid mistake of selecting a Kensington mouse and I have an
"expert mouse". It went nuts, and using the new setup program didn't fix
my Xfree 4.0. I had to manually go into the config file to fix it.
Jan Dittberner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently bought a Wacom Graphire Pad.
>
> It's supported by XFree86 (I currently use 3.3.6) and
> gpm (I use 1.19.1), but It's not listed in the Mouse
> configuration Dialog.
>
> For X one needs to add a xinput section to XF86Config
> but for gpm o
Nothing is more annoying than to try and intall an rpm and have it fail because of a
dependency issue, only to 1)have =that= rpm fial because of another dependency issue,
or 2) have the dependency be some library buried in an rpm that isn't easily
discernable. The program ezrpm address some of
- Original Message -
From: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:29 PM
Subject: [Cooker] [discuss] Windows binaries in Mandrake
>
> OTOH Mandrake is, of course, a *Linux* distro. And if you start sticking some
> Windows programs
Hoyt wrote:
> Pay less attention to adding features and more to fixing problems.
>
> It seems everything but the kitchen sink is finding its way into Mandrake, but I
>regularly read comments from people who cite bugs that hve been around for a while
>and have not been fixed.
Ahhh!
You are righ
The new Mandrake User Guide is a great step forward, but how about throwing some
resources at updating poorly maintained HOWTOs?
BTW, there should be a better way to access the docs and READMEs that are installed
during the installation. They are everywhere and hard to find unless you are good
Include the contents of the mandrakeusr.org site on the second CD in browseable form.
It is a well-done site, kept up to date and provides useful info. If I can't get
dial-up working, how am I going to get help form the internet.
Hoyt
Mandrake is becoming larger with each install -- at least give us a choice to install
the bare minumum to get a functioning system and then add what we need afterwards.
There seems to be too much installed in the base system. If I can get Linux plus X
plus tools on a 50MB CD from the LinuxCare
Provide a script to delete the many internationalization files that bloats the install.
I'm speaking primarily from an English language perspective. I think it's a strenght
of Mandrake that there are so many language choices, but it's a shame that it chews up
space on my hard drive. If yiou can
Pay less attention to adding features and more to fixing problems.
It seems everything but the kitchen sink is finding its way into Mandrake, but I
regularly read comments from people who cite bugs that hve been around for a while and
have not been fixed.
Sebastian Dransfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25 May 2000, Frederic Lepied wrote:
>
> > I don't understand why you have no more xpm installed!
> > $ rpm -qp --provides xpm-3.4k-8mdk.i586.rpm
> > libXpm.so.4
>
> Isn't libxpm included in the XFree4 packages? So if one downgrades from 4
>
Why was ata/66 support taken off of the 7.1 feature page?
What X-resource entries do i put in "/usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Netscape" to
get scroll to work ...where do i find this info?
On Thu, 25 May 2000, John Cavan wrote:
> Well now that input has been requested about improvements/additions...
>
> The graphical installer is nice and all, but it has a very irritating
> tendency to have treeviews disappear when expanded or collapsed,
> requiring some scrolling to bring it visi
New package suggestion: create BugDrake, a place where users can submit a bug
report about any arbitrary problem. These reports would be checked by the
distro company. If it was an actual bug (as opposed to a misconfiguration or
non-RTFMer) they could send it to the appropiate team.
This way th
Eugenio Diaz écrivit :
[...]
> And that is exactly what I am pointing out, that the
> Xresource entries for button 4 & 5 are missing from
> the netscape application defaults resource file in the
> current cooker packages! I guess somebody updated the
> file to 4.73 and forgot to add those.
No.
Bobby Dowling écrivit :
> I did read your e-mail, but it didn't help me.
>
> I have no .Xresource file
It seems normal.
> and no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape directory.
??? What version of Netscape do you use?
--
MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com
PARIS
(I'm of two minds of this, but I thought it was worth bringing the subject up)
What about the possibility of having a few windows programs on the Mandrake
CDs apart from the ones directly related to installation (rawrite and the
like)? The two that come to mind immediately are the Windows client
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:55:29PM -0400, Andrew M wrote:
> I have one issue with the installer: colors. The default blue scheme can
> be somewhat confusing (for example, small status boxes that pop up (like
> in the partitioner), tend to get "camouflaged"). And I don't think
> multiple themes for
I have one issue with the installer: colors. The default blue scheme can
be somewhat confusing (for example, small status boxes that pop up (like
in the partitioner), tend to get "camouflaged"). And I don't think
multiple themes for the installer are really necessary. How about just
creating one V
Take a look at what Mac OS X is doing with it's shared libs by using
'bundles' and 'frameworks'. I think this is a good idea and others might
agree. There is an article about it at:
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-1.html
I hate to say it, but as our systems get
Civileme wrote:
> Denis HAVLIK wrote:
>
> > :~> The alert window that appears after choosing an expert install says:
> > :~>"Are you sure you are an expert? You will be allowed to make powerfull but
> > :~>dangerous things here".
> > :~>
> > :~> How about something like:
> > :~>"Are you sure yo
I did read your e-mail, but it didn't help me.
I have no .Xresource file and no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape
directory.
2000, you wrote:
> --- Bobby Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > Dude, I have been using a wheel mouse in Linux
> > since
>
--- Bobby Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> > Dude, I have been using a wheel mouse in Linux
> since
> > before Mandrake existed!
> >
> > First, my wheel mouse is working fine.
> >
> > What I pointed out was that the latest netscape
> cooker
> > (let me remin
Hi,
Here are my opinions ( modestly ).
I am both a Linux and a Win98 user.
Win98 --> Games like Dynamix StarSiege Tribbes
--> For my TV card
--> Office97 apps
Linux --> To experience and learn Unix/Linux programming paradise.
-- And try to get the F$#@$#@ XF
Okay,
Now that I'm thinking of it, and keeping the post to one topic at a
time...here is my next one...
WEB BROWSERS AND PLUG-INS and other related software.
The one thing that causes me to shift over to microtrash more often then not
is reliable feature rich internet utilities. Mail clients a
In one post on games and hardware, the writer mentioned that he would really
like to see information included in the RPM's such that "If you have this
card, you should install these packages."
I'd like to see it go a little further. My biggest problem with just about
any distribution of Linux, i
Well now that input has been requested about improvements/additions...
The graphical installer is nice and all, but it has a very irritating
tendency to have treeviews disappear when expanded or collapsed,
requiring some scrolling to bring it visible again. Fixing this would be
a huge blessing fo
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> Dude, I have been using a wheel mouse in Linux since
> before Mandrake existed!
>
> First, my wheel mouse is working fine.
>
> What I pointed out was that the latest netscape cooker
> (let me remind you this *is* the cooker mailing list,
> it just happens it get
Kaixo!
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:21:58PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Bingo!. You are right, language is the problem. I have renamed
> > /etc/sysconfig/i18n to /etc/sysconfig/i18n.old and KDE works well now (in
> > English). I have not tested other languages. How can I change the
--- Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He must check that he hasn't set the "emulate 3d
> button" option.
> 99% of the reports of mouse wheel not working are
> due to that reason.
I know, I myself must have pointed that out four more
than four people in this list before.
=
Dude, I have been using a wheel mouse in Linux since
before Mandrake existed!
First, my wheel mouse is working fine.
What I pointed out was that the latest netscape cooker
(let me remind you this *is* the cooker mailing list,
it just happens it gets also used for debugging
Mandrake pre-releases)
Include more games, different packages for different installations.
For example, include Quakeforge for different targets (Glide, OpenGL, SDL whatever) so
that people just have to fire it up.
Include descriptions for that ("Install this package if you want to play
quake and you have a voodoo3 300
Kaixo!
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:52:29PM -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Stefan/Eugenio/OwenI've been using IMWheel and a Logitech
> Trackman Marble + successfully with all versions of Mandrake
> from 5.3 to 7.1. Perhaps the 4 of us could go private and
> attempt to solve Eugenio & Owens pro
cooker is now 2 cd's. if you look at the current beta, it's an installtion
cd and an "extensions" cd.
978M is about right for the entire cooker.
- Original Message -
From: "Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: [Cooker] cooker
Hi ppl,
I've jsut finished mirroring the cooker dir at college and finishing
it at home. I used ncftpget -R and then mirror -T -d then mirror -d.
The cooker dir I have now is a massive 987MB according to du -sh.
How am i supposed to get this onto an installation CD?.
I have probably messed
The packages that have been fixed / arched out
have been removed. I've installed make 3.77 on my
alpha and compiled the troubled packages, only gtk+
benefitted from this. I'm going to do the same on
the i686 later this week / weekend.
For the complete faulty buildoutputs see:
http://d10179.dtk.c
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of
> our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the process of
> improving our next distro.
>
> - NOW is a time to ask us whatever you want: tell us what you like, tell
> us what y
(I hope you do not get this twice on cooker)
Hi, folks!
What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on
these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
[ANNOUNCEMENT]
We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of
our distributions NOW. We
Stefan/Eugenio/OwenI've been using IMWheel and a Logitech
Trackman Marble + successfully with all versions of Mandrake
from 5.3 to 7.1. Perhaps the 4 of us could go private and
attempt to solve Eugenio & Owens problem(s)?
Alan
Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
>
> > Wheel mouse, wheel mouse ! I
Ron Stodden wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, kdiskfree seems to be seriously bugged. I like it and use it in
> > 6.1 but on partitions of 6 G or so I am always shown 1.86G. Another problem is
> > accurately representing nfs mounts I am not among those who believe a
> > broken
Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> --=-=-=
> Name: netkit-base Distribution: Linux-Mandrake
> Version : 0.11 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release : 24mdk Build Date: Thu May 25 12:18:50 2000
> Install date: (not installed)
OS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been submitting bug reports to Sun because these and many other problems
> still exist in 5.2.
>
> As far as I know java appletts have never worked with StarOffice, but java
> scripts appears to be okay.
>
> StarOffice 5.2 will not even start except when launched as
> Wheel mouse, wheel mouse ! I reckon all this wheel mouse stuff is just a myth !
> :-) I have never managed to get my wheel mouse to work on Linux, and probably
> never will ! :-(
Well, it works fine here... I've got a logitech wheel mouse (M-S48)
and it works like a charm. Even remote X-session
Hello,
I have been submitting bug reports to Sun because these and many other problems
still exist in 5.2.
As far as I know java appletts have never worked with StarOffice, but java
scripts appears to be okay.
StarOffice 5.2 will not even start except when launched as root ! Every time it
freez
Wheel mouse, wheel mouse ! I reckon all this wheel mouse stuff is just a myth !
:-) I have never managed to get my wheel mouse to work on Linux, and probably
never will ! :-(
Owen
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> What happened to the wheel support in the netscape app-defaults file?
>
> --
> Eu
> As I informed you when you made this claim before, neither of these
> situations occurs here. I am surprised that once disproved you would
> persist with them?
All the best developers say with the upmost certainty that there is no bug
because it cannot be reproduced on their system. Surely it
Thanks.
I am using libXpm from XFree86-libs 4.0-5mdk ! I did not know they were in xpm
for XFree86 3.3 - oops !
Owen
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Attempting to rpm -Uvh XFree86 3.3.6-15mdk results in :
> >
> > libXpm.so.4 is n
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> :~>sers!
> :~>What can i do, to compile from ext to reiser=?
> :~>after upgradind to beta3 from 7.0 II, its again ext filesystem!
> :~>can you help me?;_)
> :~>thanks
> :~>!
>
> WDYTWA? Magiciens?
>
> 1) You have an ext2 partition full of thingies
> 2) You want to keep this
When "high" security is selected, would it be a good idea to drop many of
the suid bits on programs like ping, traceroute, passwd, chsh, etc...for
example /usr/sbin/usernetctl IMHO should not be availible for anyone on a
high-security server...network configuration should be taken care of on
boot
OK here goes =)
System: intel dual pIII, 512M ram, Mylex DAC960P V4 RAID5
Mylex is configured with write-thru cache
When installing in expert mode with all ReiserFS partitions, the install
proceeds flawlessly but when the system reboots the DAC960 and ReiserFS
modules appearently collide, causi
What happened to the wheel support in the netscape app-defaults file?
--
Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew wrote:
> I encounter problem in adding user in Linux-Mandrake v.7 Deluxe.
> I use to add user using other shell such as tcsh,csh and zsh but error
> occured when the user login (invalid aliases). Beside's I'm installing
> StarOffice 5.1 and it should be installed in user level not as su. W
Hello,
this morning I asked a friend of mine who never installed linux so far
to install the 7.1 beta3 on my box (I plugged my external scsi disk
(an excahne disk with nothing usefull on it)). He tried to install it
with cdrom.img which I made under my working linux ...
* Frist problems arise
hi,
I uploaded a source rpm of lincvs in incoming
see also:
http://ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de/~trogisch/lincvs/lincvsen.html
cu, tilo
Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed Mandrake 7.1 beta2 iso (new installation) and I have
> found that KDE applications, including kwm, don't work at all. All of them
> (besides kwm, I have tested several in gnome) return:
>
> QFont::load: Intern
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 beta2 iso (new installation) and I have
found that KDE applications, including kwm, don't work at all. All of them
(besides kwm, I have tested several in gnome) return:
QFont::load: Internal error
I have just updated to beta3 today (upgrade)
Lorne Shantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I haven't found a list I can read the old messages on, but want to
> get out what I have found so far on the beta 3 hydrogen image.
>
> This is installed on a 200mhz Pentium Pro with 128meg of ram, 9
> gig barracuda drive, adaptec 2940u2w, LS120
>
> I
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I enable telnet access to my system from other computer?
>
> Andrew
Maybe you just did not installed the package telnet-server ? you need it.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
:~>sers!
:~>What can i do, to compile from ext to reiser=?
:~>after upgradind to beta3 from 7.0 II, its again ext filesystem!
:~>can you help me?;_)
:~>thanks
:~>!
WDYTWA? Magiciens?
1) You have an ext2 partition full of thingies
2) You want to keep this partition intact, so you do upgrade
AFA
Ho veramente bisogno di un genio per questo problema:
Dopo mesi e mesi (tre settimane) di tentativi sono riuscito a far
"vedere" a Linux il mio modem passivo.
Tuttavia, nonostante stabilisca la connessione (uso la porta ttyI3) e
faccia partire la telefonata, al momento di usare Netscape il comput
Scott Balmos a écrit :
> Would it be safe to simply grab the standard vanilla Gnome RPMs from the
> Gnome site, or should I try building RPMs on my own from sources? I'm
> thinking about getting rid of the Helix extensions, as I've traced GTK
> program incompatibilities as best as I can to variou
Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This version solves the "make" problem it seems:
The bug is not a bug, the problem is :
make 3.79 don't permit to do something like that :
FOO=$(shell )
nota the space between the seconde parenthese you have to close it to
get work, since most of
Kaixo!
This version solves the "make" problem it seems:
- Forwarded message from Tim Janik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Tim Janik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 04:30:53 +0200 (CEST)
To: Gtk+ MList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Gtk+ Developers <[EM
I recently bought a Wacom Graphire Pad.
It's supported by XFree86 (I currently use 3.3.6) and
gpm (I use 1.19.1), but It's not listed in the Mouse
configuration Dialog.
For X one needs to add a xinput section to XF86Config
but for gpm one needs to set "-t wacom" only so this
should be no problem
During the selection of what services to run, linuxconf doesn't seem to have a
popup description like all the other services do.
In addition (probably post 7.1) it would be nice if "Y" and "N" could be used
for yes/no questions during the install process. A minor thing, but no harm in
asking. :
Civileme wrote:
> Unfortunately, kdiskfree seems to be seriously bugged. I like it and use it in
> 6.1 but on partitions of 6 G or so I am always shown 1.86G. Another problem is
> accurately representing nfs mounts I am not among those who believe a
> broken tool is better than no tool at
"Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> shouldn't we downgrade the one in cooker back to 3.78.1 then ?
> it works fine with that one ...
fix make is my thought :)
--
MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com
In travel.--Chmouel
Hi there,
going to install 7.1b on my notebook this evening.
just not to waste time with installing and not able to boot after that,
i want to ask if the apm patch is included in the kernel.
(Its a well known bug that freezes several types of notebooks while
booting, don't know the exact messag
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> "Bobby Dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Sorry to be dumb, but what is the second iso for? Is it just more software?
> >
>
> it is.
...haha ... great !!!
sers!
What can i do, to compile from ext to reiser=?
after upgradind to beta3 from 7.0 II, its again ext filesystem!
can you help me?;_)
thanks
!
--
Yours sincerely
Kai Graf
RZ-Online
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http://themasterofdesaster.de
Penguin powered!
On 25 May 2000, Frederic Lepied wrote:
> I don't understand why you have no more xpm installed!
> $ rpm -qp --provides xpm-3.4k-8mdk.i586.rpm
> libXpm.so.4
Isn't libxpm included in the XFree4 packages? So if one downgrades from 4
-> 3, xpm has to be installed along width XFree3?
seb
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