Re: [Cooker] NVIdia Gforce2 X server fails

2000-09-26 Thread Larry Hignight
Spencer, Note that I removed the solves from you Subject line. Typically, you will only want to include that in the subject line when you've found a solution. Here's a quick checklist hopefully you only missed something easy. Did you install both Nvidia drivers? Run

Re: [Cooker] Failed/missing depedencies check in pybliographer-1.0.4-1mdk (from Cooker/Contrib)

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach Servio T P Amarante : Hi I got pybliographer-1.0.4-1mdk. I found that it requires librecode.so.0 installed to run propely (provided by recode rpm package). My box did not have it installed (I've fixed it), and the rpm or kpackage did not complain about it. Ok, my fault.

Re: [Cooker] Trident laptop video chip

2000-09-26 Thread Udo Weber
Pixel wrote: Vincent Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a Gateway Solo 9100 with the newer chassis (E6). This configuration has a Trident Cyber 9397 PCI. The Beta 2 install program detects this as Trident - Other, which doesn't work. If I tell the X

Re: [Cooker] kernels

2000-09-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Jean Meloche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi... I notice that the recent kernel packages for cooker do not include new initrd images. They still link to the old kernel's initrd images. Is that an omission? Are we supposed to do the mkinitrd ourselves? Last kernel call the installkernel who

Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New Beta Matrox Linux Drivers For X 4.0.1 Posted by rezn on Thursday September 21st 2000 at 06:05:29 PM New beta drivers for Matrox cards have just been released. You can read the readme here. These drivers support 2d, 3d, flat

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 Comments

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Spencer wrote: /me blush. That worked. :) BTW, I am extremely impressed with the new product. All the Mandrake developers deserve a big pat on the back. Thank-you! Still allowing http://... and being redirected would have been a nice

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 Comments

2000-09-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still allowing http://... and being redirected would have been a nice migration aid... If you can tell me how to do that.. http://server/index.html the index.html contain : !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN" html head

Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved - ClanBomber 1.01-6mdk and VM problems

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I managed to get ClanBomber going with the fbdev and x11 targets. It shows some promise, with sound, speed and graphics all impressive. I haven't found a way to play it yet though - it seems to just have a demo mode. I'll watch this space with

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 Comments

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still allowing http://... and being redirected would have been a nice migration aid... If you can tell me how to do that.. http://server/index.html the index.html contain : !DOCTYPE HTML

Re: [Cooker] Mesa-devel?

2000-09-26 Thread Francois Pons
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um we are missing an rpm.. we have Mesa-common-devel but no Mesa-devel wich is a req of Mesa-common-devel can we find where this rpm dissapered too? No, this is XFree86-devel package which contains the necessary stuff. ;) François.

Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New Beta Matrox Linux Drivers For X 4.0.1 don't know if you guys cought this but here's the heads up;) they provide lots of new fetures but mostly they up the clock to the production level (ie

Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So not OpenSource. so not for Mandrake.. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France --Chmouel

Re: [Cooker] Trident laptop video chip

2000-09-26 Thread Pixel
Udo Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Gateway Solo 9100 with the newer chassis (E6). This configuration has a Trident Cyber 9397 PCI. The Beta 2 install program detects this as Trident - Other, which doesn't work. If I tell the X config program that it is an SVGA

Re: [Cooker] ulysses-3 iso's

2000-09-26 Thread Pixel
salane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are there any other mirrors of these files? It seems that the two are overloaded. rh7 effect? :)

Re: [Cooker] wishes for installer

2000-09-26 Thread Pixel
Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1 drive math ability: if i have two hd's in my system i want to be able to say ignore hda and split hdb @ %50 use upper half for linux root (could also be useful for auto install disk) in natural language? ;p 2 a real upgrade ability: if the

[Cooker] a7v motherboard with promise Ultra100 controller

2000-09-26 Thread Deno
a7v motherboard with promise Ultra100 controller (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2926042417) MrFatback writes "How can i get my linux Os (Mandrake 7.1) to recognize my Promise Ultra100 disk controller wich is built in my a7v motherboard. I have one 30Gb udma-5 IBM hardisk

Re: [Cooker] bttv and kernel 2.2.17-12

2000-09-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a TV card studio PC TV RAVE form pinnacle, and it still does not work with kernel 2.2.17-12. what the definition of doen't work ? kwintv and xawtv run, but as stated in previous bug reports : - sound is sometimes jerky, but pretty

Re: [Cooker] can anybody in US burn me a set of CD's?

2000-09-26 Thread Antony Suter
Vincent Meyer wrote: Hello all. Sorry to be a pest. Spent the last three days downloading the Beta 3 ISO - only to find that somewhere along the line the file got corrupted and the image is no good. Before trying to download for ANOTHER 3 days, and chance I could

Re: [Cooker] ulysses-3 iso's

2000-09-26 Thread Matthew R. Sprague
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote: salane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are there any other mirrors of these files? It seems that the two are overloaded. rh7 effect? :) Are people still using their product? I thought Mandrake had put them out of business.

[Cooker] X

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! I've some problems configuring X. The Mandrake installer assumes that my card runs with XFree86 4.0.1 - at least it always uses 4.0.1, even when telling it to use 3.3.6 in expert mode, after running XFdrake, I'm at 4.0.1 again. My card also isn't supported by XFree86 3.3.6 but there exists

[Cooker] gnome and sawfish

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! Sawfish (together with gnome) isn't working in latest cooker. Michael Reinsch

Re: [Cooker] kpackage

2000-09-26 Thread Pfenniger Daniel
Sorry if it was already mentionned, kpackage is broken in Mandrake 7.2beta. It typically stops when trying to upgrade a package. Dan

Re: [Cooker] gnome and sawfish

2000-09-26 Thread Christian Bricart
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:15:05PM +0200, Michael Reinsch wrote: Hi! Sawfish (together with gnome) isn't working in latest cooker. Yep, crashes with the following message: Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0". error-- (bytecode-error "File needs recomiling for current

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk

2000-09-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Michael Stucki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Name: kwintv Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.7.99Vendor: MandrakeSoft 0.7.99 was just a short step to get back from 8 months of no changes. Since 1 or 2 weeks, there is

RE: [Cooker] Divide by Zero in Latest Cooker

2000-09-26 Thread Koloseike, Jason
I reran the install with the same results: Version: Linux_Mandrake Cooker-i586 2924 23:17 Ctrl-Alt-F3 revealed the following: * running: insmod_2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/tulip.o * adding: alias eth0 to tulip * writing host information to /mnt/etc/hosts * warning: Illegal division by zero at

Re: Re[2]: [Cooker] Beta number 3 !

2000-09-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm in the same situation : I don't know why a BETA is always changing like cooker!!! For 2 days I have downloaded the same files for get 1 mirror to work for CD burning... after that I have simply copied files from 7.2beta to Cooker... Yesterday I have

RE: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Matthew Brealey
You wrote: Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So not OpenSource. so not for Mandrake.. Not so. (Netscape?).

Sv: [Cooker] kpackage

2000-09-26 Thread Zeljko Vukman
Yes, it's already mentioned. - Original Message - From: Pfenniger Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] kpackage Sorry if it was already mentionned, kpackage is broken in Mandrake 7.2beta. It typically stops

[Cooker] test - ignore

2000-09-26 Thread Eugenio Diaz
test - ignore -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WHY DON'T YOU GIVE THE CODE BASE IT IS FROM??? ever heard of rpm -qpf hackkernel-2.4.0-0.25mdk.src.rpm ??? ie when hackkernel 25 comes out is it going to be test8 test9pre something or test9?? and what base is hackkernel 24? suggestion you may want

Re: [Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-26 Thread Thierry Vignaud
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having some serious kernel problems in both 2.2.17-11 and 2.4.0-24.. i'l start with the 2.2.17 I need to have agp compiled into the kernel not as a module as it is very unstable as a module on my mb (ali154x) when compiling in the kernel i

Re: [Cooker] xfs start script still buggy ?

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach Frederic Lepied : Could you try: sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start script is executed and result is echoed on the standard output. I can't understand everything, so here comes the extract about xfs (between start and retval) : + start + echo -n 'Starting X Font Server: ' Starting

[Cooker] DPT and AMI Controllers still not recognized.

2000-09-26 Thread Edward J. Cooley
DPT and AMI Controllers still not recognized as of beta2. We tried manually selecting and it still would not work. RH 7 works ok. This problem has existed since we started using Mandrake. --- Edward J. Cooley - President Strategic Concepts, Inc. 501-271-7400 Fax: 271-7401 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Matthew Brealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so not for Mandrake.. Not so. (Netscape?). should i forward you the thousand mail where we explain for netscape it's different ? no ? so try to grep the archives -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France

Re: [Cooker] install error

2000-09-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 26, 2000 at 10:27:16AM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Me as well thanks god I had an old slackware copy around so I could do a quick install and at least get into my box.. =) BTW, I noticed that none of the mirrors I checked had sysklogd now.. I also noticed a security fix

[Cooker] I wish cooker was cooker and cooker only!

2000-09-26 Thread Eugenio Diaz
I wish we dedicated this list (cooker) for the development version of Mandrake Linux, namely cooker! Every, three or four months we have this thing called "Beta Release", and good God does cooker and cooker development die ... we get like 1dB noise to signal on cooker issues! All kinds of

Re: [Cooker] gnome and sawfish

2000-09-26 Thread Frederic Crozat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Bricart) writes: On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:15:05PM +0200, Michael Reinsch wrote: Hi! Sawfish (together with gnome) isn't working in latest cooker. Yep, crashes with the following message: Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0".

Re: [Cooker] bttv and kernel 2.2.17-12

2000-09-26 Thread pgeorges
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : I tried both inserting bttv with or without specifying vidmem option, but get the same result. My config used to work well under LM 7.1. As I use XFree 4 + NVidia driver, I wonder if anybody managed to make its TV card work under cooker. enable DGA. comment

RE: [Cooker] I wish cooker was cooker and cooker only! (really.. any sparc people out there at all?)

2000-09-26 Thread Leif Sawyer
Eugenio Diaz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Another thing I would like to see from Mandrake is a "**real** database driven web-based public bugtraking system" like bugzilla or Double Chocolate. [...] It provided a real way for contributors to contribute resolutions without duplicating

[Cooker] Bugzilla for Cooker (WAS: I wish cooker was cooker and cooker only!)

2000-09-26 Thread Matthew P. Barnson
I am a Mandrake fanatic, (one of the quiet ones who usually only reads this list, not a poster) and one of the the maintainers for Bugzilla. I will happily contribute my time to making a Bugzilla installation available for Cooker issues. However, were I associated with Mandrake I would have

Re: [Cooker] Curious Issue with Beta and win98 (maybe)

2000-09-26 Thread Franco Silvestro
I've seen strange thing like that with "bad" partitions created with dos fdisk or windows tools and after people install linux on that "bad" partitions without checking before with linux fdisk (problem of overlapping partitions consequence of create-delete-recreate partitions without attention

[Cooker] new and shiny FlightGear

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Hi, On `contribs' I just uploaded the new 0.7.5 version of FlightGear, the famous Flight Simulation Program. This new version includes bugfixes that now make the software really usable; additionally I included a menu entry now. If your line can download easily the 15 Mbytes worth of the

[Cooker] [RPM] recover-1.1-1mdk

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume . Rousse
Yet another contribution to useless wasting CD space... --- Name: recover Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: mar 26 sep 2000 22:36:55 RET

Re: [Cooker] ulysses-3 iso's

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
"Matthew R. Sprague" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] rh7 effect? :) Are people still using their product? I thought Mandrake had put them out of business. Then -- I would be happy to hear some comparisons from third party, between let's say RH7.0 and upcomming LM7.2 in terms of:

Re: [Cooker] can anybody in US burn me a set of CD's?

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Antony Suter wrote: Vincent Meyer wrote: Hello all. Sorry to be a pest. Spent the last three days downloading the Beta 3 ISO - only to find that somewhere along the line the file got corrupted and the image is no good. Before trying to download for ANOTHER 3

Re: [Cooker] can anybody in US burn me a set of CD's?

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Antony Suter wrote: Vincent Meyer wrote: Hello all. Sorry to be a pest. Spent the last three days downloading the Beta 3 ISO - only to find that somewhere along the line the file got corrupted and the image is no good. Before

[Cooker] sawfish doesn't start

2000-09-26 Thread Sami Nieminen
Hi! I upgraded my cooker installation to the newest available and sawfish doesn't start anymore with gnome. I am left without a window manager ): I have sawfish-0.30.3-14mdk installed. When I try to start sawfish from a gnome-terminal under gnome I get this error message: Xlib: extension

Re: [Cooker] new and shiny FlightGear

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : On `contribs' I just uploaded the new 0.7.5 version of FlightGear, the famous Flight Simulation Program. This new version includes bugfixes that now make the software really usable; additionally I included a menu entry now. If your line can download

[Cooker] Mirror?

2000-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! What's the most current mirror for cooker out there? I used to use ftp.sunet.se but this mirror got somewhat outdated so I switched to sunsite.uio.no. But for the last ~7-8 hours it just keeps telling me that all the login spots are taken. So, where do you guys mirror from? Alexander

Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-26 Thread Bryan Whitehead
OpenSource ??? here's from the readme.txt: "This driver is based on the open source development being done within the XFree86 Project. The driver remains unmodified, with the exception of the display adapter initialization, which has been replaced with a closed source Matrox library. This

[Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kimon-1.1-6mdk

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Stucki
This is Version 1.1 of kimon, a ISDN-Monitor for the KDE Desktop Environment. This program opens a small window in the taskbar showing the status of two ISDN-channels. I do not think this will be needed, because LM 7.2 only ships with KDE2, not KDE1. KDE2 does not support docking of

Re: [Cooker] Mirror?

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach Alexander Skwar : Hi! What's the most current mirror for cooker out there? I used to use ftp.sunet.se but this mirror got somewhat outdated so I switched to sunsite.uio.no. But for the last ~7-8 hours it just keeps telling me that all the login spots are taken. So,

Re: [Cooker] Some bug reports for Beta 3

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Stucki
- LILO is loaded with option "hdd=ide-scsi". This is okay, since this device is a cd-burner. But the problem is that the ide-scsi module is not loaded automatically. After doing it manually everything works fine. isn't scsi_hostadapter written in /etc/modules? isn't "alias

Re: [Cooker] new and shiny FlightGear

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : On `contribs' I just uploaded the new 0.7.5 version of FlightGear, the famous Flight Simulation Program. This new version includes bugfixes that now make the software really usable; additionally I included

Re: [Cooker] Television Cards

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Gareth Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, I was wondering about television card support. I saw it mentioned in the setup program, but nothing is mentioned about which actual cards are supported. Does anyone have a list of supported TV cards, so I can have a rather cheap excuse

Re: [Cooker] wishes for installer

2000-09-26 Thread Robert L Martin
1 drive math ability: if i have two hd's in my system i want to be able to say ignore hda and split hdb @ %50 use upper half for linux root (could also be useful for auto install disk) in natural language? ;p more or less yes you can do this with partion magic (does take swap from linux

Re: [Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-26 Thread Robert L Martin
Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WHY DON'T YOU GIVE THE CODE BASE IT IS FROM??? ever heard of rpm -qpf hackkernel-2.4.0-0.25mdk.src.rpm ? okay now what KERNEL.ORG tarball is that from since test7- test9pre6 have no sound support (at least its way broken).

Re: [Cooker] Mirror?

2000-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:48:13AM +0400, Guillaume Rousse wrote: I just used ciril.fr, not very up-to-date, but still better than sunet.se. Does anyone here know what's wrong with sunet.se? This is one of the primary mirrors, or is it no more? It is in Lorraine, so it must be quite close

Re: [Cooker] new and shiny FlightGear

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : On `contribs' I just uploaded the new 0.7.5 version of FlightGear, the famous Flight Simulation Program. This new version includes bugfixes that now make the

Re: [Cooker] new and shiny FlightGear

2000-09-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : On `contribs' I just uploaded the new 0.7.5 version of FlightGear, the famous Flight Simulation Program. This

[Cooker] Problems with nautilus

2000-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I jsut got around to try out nautilus. When I start it, I get this error on the console: nautilus: error in loading shared libraries: /usr//lib/vfs/modules/libhttp.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_inet_connection_create nautilus: error in loading shared libraries:

Re: [Cooker] Mirror?

2000-09-26 Thread David Foresman
probably everyone out downloading redhat 7.0. sunsite is probably a redhat primary mirror also. - Original Message - From: "Alexander Skwar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mirror? On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at

[Cooker] Lilo

2000-09-26 Thread Edward L. Culbreath
I just tried to reboot into windows for the first time since I installed beta 3 to play a game, and noticed that lilo wont let me boot into it. when I choose that particular option, it freezes. Can anyone clue me in?

Re: [Cooker] I wish cooker was cooker and cooker only! (really..anysparc people out there at all?)

2000-09-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Leif Sawyer wrote: Eugenio Diaz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Another thing I would like to see from Mandrake is a "**real** database driven web-based public bugtraking system" like bugzilla or Double Chocolate. [...] It provided a real way for contributors to contribute resolutions

Re: [Cooker] can anybody in US burn me a set of CD's?

2000-09-26 Thread NeoGnome
Hi: A little update on buying beta CDs: lland doesn't list Mandrake betas. Maybe you can email them and request ulysses-3. lsi has the Beta ulysses-2 listed; so does cheabytes; I contacted cheapbytes. They will have the beta-3 "in a day or so". I suppose they're trying to download it too.

[Cooker] utah-glx

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Holt
Hello Cooker, I'm determined to get my copy of Quake 3 arena running on linux! My question is this: I see that there is a copy of glx.conf in /etc/X11 and it has references to Utah-glx and I'm trying to figure out if this version of glx is part of mdk 7.2 (I'm using beta 3). I would

Sv: [Cooker] utah-glx

2000-09-26 Thread Zeljko Vukman
As far as I know no. Glx.so is provided by glx-Mesa Mesa-glx (Caldera SuSe). Go to http://www.rpmfind.net and search for glx.so. - Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 5:12 AM Subject: [Cooker] utah-glx

Re: [Cooker] can anybody in US burn me a set of CD's?

2000-09-26 Thread Sergio P. Korlowsky
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi: A little update on buying beta CDs: lland doesn't list Mandrake betas. Maybe you can email them and request ulysses-3. lsi has the Beta ulysses-2 listed; so does cheabytes; I contacted cheapbytes. They will have the beta-3 "in a day or so". I suppose

[Cooker] Artsbuilder and mercury conflict in 7.2beta (sym link prb)

2000-09-26 Thread Allen Bolderoff
artsbuilder goes through, and scans directories for some reason when starting. When it gets to /usr/share/mercury, it just recurses through symlynks that are basically looped back to the /usr/share/mercury/ints directory - or something like that. anyway artsbuilder should handle this more

[Cooker] Ulysse 7.2 beta 3 feedback -- PLEASE DO NOT RELEASE THIS

2000-09-26 Thread Jean-Marc Valin
Hi, I have just tried the third beta of Mandrake Linux 7.2, which I would qualify as simply unusable for me. I have listed here some of the problems I've found so far (I've been using it for less than a day): (my hardware: an Athlon 500 with 256 Meg RAM) - The cable modem network installation

[Cooker] 7.2 beta2

2000-09-26 Thread Steve Martin
I'm new to this beta testing stuff so I hope this isn't a silly or repeat question. Ive been trying to install 7.2 beta 2 onto the second harddrive on my system but keep getting the error "can't call ask_warn on an undefined value". This appears at about the partition table stage (even when

Re: [Cooker] Mirror?

2000-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 06:19:04PM -0500, David Foresman wrote: probably everyone out downloading redhat 7.0. sunsite is probably a redhat primary mirror also. Ah, yes, makes sense... Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail?

[Cooker] Tcl/Tk 8.3.2-4mdk

2000-09-26 Thread Servio T P Amarante
Hey guys! Are you really intending to include tcl/tk 8.3.2 into 7.2? I've tried Tcl/Tk 8.3.2-4mdk and, one more time, dead keys did not work with it. It means no accented characters for anyone using Tcl apps. It includes the French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and so on. As far I know, Tcl/tk

[Cooker] better 72beta_mkcd.sh instructions

2000-09-26 Thread Leon Brooks
To clean off .listing files: * Change to the appropriate directory in your local mirror * Type: find . -name .listing -exec rm -vf {} \; If you want the instructions to clean off EMACSish backups as well, extend the second instruction to say: * Type: find . -name .listing -o

[Cooker] New printing stuff, lot of fixes.

2000-09-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
Here are some update tips, please update before reporting problems: cups-1.1.3-7mdk: Previous version did not print on a remote printer when options where supplied. cups-drivers-0.3.6-19mdk: boolean, numerical, and PJL options work correctly now. kups-0.8-18mdk, qtcups-1.0-10mdk,

[Cooker] Priviledged User

2000-09-26 Thread Edward L. Culbreath
I'm new to the whole beta use/bug testing progress, but...should this install process have skipped the option for me to create a root user and a priviledged user? I've got nothing now but a superuser without a password.

[Cooker] suggestion install-log

2000-09-26 Thread Nico
Hi, When I first installed the 7.2 beta2, some RPMS didn't install correctly. Wouldn't it be possible to have a logfile of which packages didn't install correctly? Maybe would it be also possible that create automaticly a script to reinstall those RPMS later? Also, during the install, how about

RE: [Cooker] Lilo

2000-09-26 Thread Paal Arne Hoff
I just tried to reboot into windows for the first time since I installed beta 3 to play a game, and noticed that lilo wont let me boot into it. when I choose that particular option, it freezes. Can anyone clue me in? Log into Linux as root and write 'lilo'. If you get error messages or the

Re: [Cooker] Lilo

2000-09-26 Thread Sergio P. Korlowsky
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just tried to reboot into windows for the first time since I installed beta 3 to play a game, and noticed that lilo wont let me boot into it. when I choose that particular option, it freezes. Can anyone clue me in? Use your windows floppy boot diskette and