Re: [Cooker] sparc 7.2beta3 ???

2000-10-07 Thread Antony Suter
Cooker is a good alternative to 7.2beta at the moment. Michael O'Rourke wrote: I don't think you're going to find it... Only 7.1 Beta is out for the Sparc processors. Mike Michael Shuey wrote: My apologies - I assumed you specifically wanted the 7.2beta. Here is the link

[Cooker] UPDATE: XFree86 4.0.2 NOT 2b released anytime soon

2000-10-07 Thread fhj
Below is copy of email Mr. Dawes was kind enough to send me. On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:26:27AM -0500, I wrote: Hello, The rumor is that xFree4.0.2 will be released in a few days. Is that why this page That rumour is incorrect. http://www.xfree86.org/releaseplans.html#40 still contains "

[Cooker] Ssamba on Alpha Fix proposal

2000-10-07 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
Hi, Recently quota support for samba has been enabled, this caused the samba compilation to cease on my alpha: Compiling smbd/quotas.c smbd/quotas.c:55: parse error before `quotactl' smbd/quotas.c:55: warning: data definition has no type or storage class make: *** [smbd/quotas.o] Error 1 Bad

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Warren Doney
Graham Percival wrote: Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it, Warren Doney? This is a good idea, things that seem simple to us can baffle beginners. I recall, for instance, when asked to "specify the mount point of the root partition" I repeatedly tried

Re: [Cooker] compiling drakx

2000-10-07 Thread Pixel
"m" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: stuff.xs:146: `CDC_CD_RW' undeclared (first use in this function) CDC_CD_RW comes from /usr/include/linux/cdrom.h, check you have uptodate kernel sources

Re: [Cooker] network.img

2000-10-07 Thread Pixel
"m" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/pci-scan.o fixed in latest version.

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: If somebody really wants to get away from MS, it's possible. They might have to spend a week learning that you only need to single-click in KDE instead of double-click, but anybody who seriously tries can do it. Or to find the

Re: [Cooker] Still want to use gcc-2.95.2-7mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:34:35PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote: hackgcc is only in contribs. Once upon a time, Chmouel put it in for main but it was too unstable so we reverted to 2.95. While I prefer 2.95, too, I wonder if this has consequences on binary compatibility. As far as I know, C code

Re: [Cooker] network.img

2000-10-07 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"m" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/pci-scan.o The dependences on pci-scan and some network drivers has been removed with the last BOOT[89] -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France

Re: [Cooker] XFree bug

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
Ed Wilts wrote: The XFree on the beta 3 CD contains a bug in configuring the SiS 6326 card. I wouldn't call that a bug. Your mileage varies *enormously* in getting hardware acceleration to go on the 6326 cards, even identical cards with consecutive serial numbers. Without accel, everything is

[Cooker] kde-1.99, something better something wrong... KVIRC: seg_fault

2000-10-07 Thread Claudio
Hi All! ;) Well I installed kde-1.99 on 7.2 beta 3... It finally happen that aktion can open some files with no crash! On the other side, all I obtain lunching KvIRC-1.99 is the **usual** segmentation fault. Still I may not compile kvirc from srpm or from .tar.gz so I guess it's a

[Cooker] Installer still won't build RAID when partioning filesystem!

2000-10-07 Thread Claudio
Hi again! OK, I tryed to build a small /boot partition as someone suggested. The I tryed to install such a system: /dev/hda1 512MB SWAP /dev/hda2 60MB/boot /dev/hda5 + /dev/hdb5 8.0GB / (raid 0) /dev/hda6 + /dev/hdc6

Re: [Cooker] kde-1.99, something better something wrong... KVIRC: seg_fault

2000-10-07 Thread Daouda LO
Claudio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All! ;) Well I installed kde-1.99 on 7.2 beta 3... It finally happen that aktion can open some files with no crash! On the other side, all I obtain lunching KvIRC-1.99 is the **usual** segmentation fault. Still I may not compile kvirc from srpm or from

Re: [Cooker] Ulysses does not install

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
"Ernesto [ErneX] Gonzalez Aroca" wrote: I've tried to install Mandrake 7.2 with no success, the cd loads ok and then gives an error trying to mount the cdrom drive. I have installed redhat, mandrake 7.0 - 7.1 with no problems on the same machine. Have had what appears to be the same problem.

Re: [Cooker] UPDATE: XFree86 4.0.2 NOT 2b released anytime soon

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
neognomic wrote: Below is copy of email Mr. Dawes was kind enough to send me. That was our plan, but it didn't work out that way. I've changed that page to say "sometime in late 2000." A little more precision would be nice. (-: Does Mr Dawes have even a definite month in mind? Can you ask,

[Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread Salane
does anyone have instructions on how to get quake2 working in mandrake 7.2b3? I an having trouble getting it to start. i am using instructions in linuxquake howto with demo quake added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files) couldn't exec default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg Console

Sv: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel

2000-10-07 Thread Zeljko Vukman
I appologize to Mandrakes, I was in very bad mood. I downloaded aproximately 3 Gb KDE2 (when I count all downloads of KDE2 beta) and then with kdebase-1.99-10mdk everything went wrong. After login kicker crushed, and kcontrol crushed, and there were missing items in start menu (there was only

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread Khawar Zia
hey, It seems you are missing your default config files. re-copy the quake2 baseq2 directory and try again. --Khawar Zia - Original Message - From: "Salane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 8:33 AM Subject: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake

Re: Sv: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
Zeljko Vukman wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: More detail would be useful. They don't start? Crash out? Is there an error message? Menu-edit is replaced by menudrake, but this beautiful thing doesn't work. It doesn't crushes, there isn't an error message, it starts, but when I change icons and

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread Dan Geer
Make sure your permissions are set correctly (e.g., root) - Original Message - From: "Salane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3 does anyone have instructions on how to get quake2

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread salane
was in root Dan Geer wrote: Make sure your permissions are set correctly (e.g., root) - Original Message - From: "Salane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3 does anyone

Re: [Cooker] About a good editor for java .......

2000-10-07 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach david jenkins : I've found that Borland JBuilder Foundation works very well for this, and it's also free... you just have to register on their site It is not Free ! It is just downloadable without any cost ! Moreover, their "foundation version" has just very basic function

Re: [Cooker] XFree bug

2000-10-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Francois Pons wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The XFree on the beta 3 CD contains a bug in configuring the SiS 6326 card. It's set for no_accel, when in fact acceleration has been supported since XFree 4.0 first came out. I reported this a long time ago, but

[Cooker] Problem with updating mandrake_desk-7.2-16mdk.noarch.rpm

2000-10-07 Thread Christian Wahlgren
Hi I try to upgrade mandrake_desk-7.2-16mdk.noarch.rpm from MandrakeUpdate on my beta3 and now does some intensive disk access for over 2.5 hours (PII 400) - the system is almost freezed, only the mouse can be moved from time to time, the clock in the corner has freezed, no keyboard response

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread Warren Doney
salane wrote: was in root Dan Geer wrote: Make sure your permissions are set correctly (e.g., root) - Original Message - From: "Salane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake

[Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] lyx-1.1.5-4mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 04:31:16PM +0200, Daouda Lo wrote: --=-=-= Name: lyx Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.1.5 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 4mdk Build Date: Sat Oct 7 14:49:43 2000

Re: [Cooker] Still want to use gcc-2.95.2-7mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Vox
During the bombing raid of Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:26:13 +0200, somebody heard Jan Niehusmann mumble in fear: On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:34:35PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote: hackgcc is only in contribs. Once upon a time, Chmouel put it in for main but it was too unstable so we reverted to 2.95.

[Cooker] Why no sound config in setup?

2000-10-07 Thread Jason Straight
I just wondered why sound isn't setup at setup time? 7.2 install just rocked with perfect detection of my voodoo3 card in one machine TNT2 in another, installed accellerated X4 or X3 for the right card, my HP 812C printer detected and installed perfectly, of course my network card ran perfectly,

[Cooker] Latest KDE2 :(

2000-10-07 Thread John C. Reddersen
I rsync'ed (using Ron's no_rsync.pl) last night and installed all the new stuff (I'm running Cooker) and boy did KDE2 take a step backwards in the latest release. Sorry I can't give the version, but I'm runinng in Win98 at the moment. Stuff that did work, but now doesn't: In the panel, half the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] gimp-1.1.25-12mdk

2000-10-07 Thread root
Don Head wrote: Where can I download your updates (I got your anouncement-email 5 hours ago )? Which time do you need to get the primary mirror (sunsite.uio.no) in sync ? What is the best time to get a complete mirror of Mandrake/RPMS (without missing a bunch of rpm's)? I've

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread root
Tom Brinkman wrote: Honda civics are for people who can't use 1970 Chevy's with 454 big blocks, blowers and keep dual Carbs tuned. '69 396 CI Chevelles were a LOT faster ;) Folks, I believe y'all under estimate the audience. I know the feelin. I just mailed off my 7.1 CD's this

[Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] bluefish-0.5-6mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Daouda Lo wrote: --=-=-= Name: bluefish Relocations: (not relocateable) Group : Networking/WWWSource RPM: (none) Summary : A WYSIWYG GPLized HTML editor Again: I don't think that this is the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] gimp-1.1.25-12mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Antony Suter
root wrote: It doesn't matter which mirror you use the .rpm's won't install (kpackage was fixed HaHaHa) and rpm -Uvh filename.i586.rpm FAILS ALSO, don't try to upgrade to memu 2.1.5 as it will completely f*uckup your system. even rpm Uvh --nodeps filename.i586.rpm doesn't work most of the

Re: [Cooker] Latest KDE2 :(

2000-10-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:39:52AM -0700, John C. Reddersen wrote: Stuff that did work, but now doesn't: In the panel, half the beautiful new icons from the previous relase (Konqueror, etc..) are now gears and don't work, saying the applink they point to doesn't exist. You also installed

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Michael Powell
Warren Doney wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it, Warren Doney? This is a good idea, things that seem simple to us can baffle beginners. I recall, for instance, when asked to "specify the mount point of the root

Re: [Cooker] Why no sound config in setup?

2000-10-07 Thread Pixel
Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: network card ran perfectly, modem was nice. But why not setup sound during setup and have totally configured/installed system hardware on boot? if it's a isa card, use harddrake if it's a pci card, it should be ok, otherwise please give the output of

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Michael Powell
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: If somebody really wants to get away from MS, it's possible. They might have to spend a week learning that you only need to single-click in KDE instead of double-click, but anybody who seriously

[Cooker] Netscapes dependencies

2000-10-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Why does Netscape 4.75-8mdk require XFree86 = 4.0 ? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191

[Cooker] MandrakeUpdate/grpmi problems

2000-10-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have the latest grpmi and MandrakeUpdate installed but am seeing a couple of weird issues. First of all, I have seen in the recent changelog for MandrakeUpdate that userhelper is supposed to be used instead of kdesu. Mine still brings up kdesu. Any idea why? Second, MandrakeUpdate/grpmi

[Cooker] [RPM] openuniverse-1.0beta3-1mdk

2000-10-07 Thread ASkwar
Hello! I've uploaded this file to ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming/. Until it appears at the mirrors, you can download it from ftp://ftp.dp.ath.cx/pub/downloads/RPMS/mandrake, or use the rpm2html database at http://www.dp.ath.cx/rpms --- Name: openuniverse

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Jason Straight
Oh - is a beta considered released? Yeah, by default it looks like windows I guess, but if you look at my windowmaker desktop you wouldn't call it windows looking. Mandrake gives windows look and feel to people who need it to make use of linux, but linux (and a lot of it) is still there for

Re: [Cooker] How to replace Stock Mandrake Kernel With Custom KernelAfter Install

2000-10-07 Thread Craig Van Degrift
Nigel, Next, I ran /sbin/lilo and gota warning: 'scd1 is not the first hard disk on the system'. This seems to me like your lilo.conf specified boot=/dev/scd1, a SCSI CD-ROM drive. If it is your first SCSI hard disk, it should be /dev/sda for lilo to put the boot stuff in the MBR of the

Re: [Cooker] Why no sound config in setup?

2000-10-07 Thread Jason Straight
No, that's not what I mean - I can setup my soundcard fine. I just wonder why it's the only common hardware that's not setup during install? When my systems done installing the only thing that I have to configure is my soundcard. Pixel wrote: Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Michael Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum Warren Doney wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Millions of electrons died to bring me this message.

Re: [Cooker] How to replace Stock Mandrake Kernel With Custom Kernel After Install

2000-10-07 Thread frank
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next, I recompiled the kernel on the SCSI drive, adding the SCSI patch for my hardware. Made and installed the modules, and new kernel and editited /etc/lilo.conf to add an entry for my new kernel. Next, I ran /sbin/lilo and got a warning: 'scd1

Re: [Cooker] 7.2b3 and KDE Kcontrol

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: Installed 7.2b3 on an Abit BP6 W/2xIntelCeleron 366. Really looking good. Have noticed one problem so far: The Icon on the tool bar for the Kcontrol center would not open. A look at the proprieties showed the "Execute" was indicated as "kcontrol "%c" which

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Giuseppe Ghibo'
Jason Straight wrote: Just like the hot-rod isn't for the average driver linux shouldn't necesarilly be for the average computer user. If it works out that way through evolution fine, but I don't think we should push it and change focus from what brought linux where it's at now. Amiga died

[Cooker] Konqueror doesn't use corectly java when tell it to use jdk 1.3 from sun....

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
Hi , Konqueror doesn't use corectly java when tell it to use jdk 1.3 from sun I've told it : x enable java globally x enable javascript globally x show java console o automaticaly detect java x user specified java path to java : /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin the console run but not

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] bluefish-0.5-6mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Daouda LO
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Daouda Lo wrote: --=-=-= Name: bluefish Relocations: (not relocateable) Group : Networking/WWWSource RPM: (none) Summary : A WYSIWYG GPLized HTML

RE: [Cooker] UPDATE: XFree86 4.0.2 NOT 2b released anytime soon

2000-10-07 Thread neognomic
I agree that preciseness would be an advantage, but lack thereof IS the nature of software releases. I think that if Dawes had a definitive month this year he would have put that. I'm happy he said "this year"; aren't you? I don't think contacting him is prudent/required. His response to me

[Cooker] Problems with compiling OMS dvd player ....

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
Hi , I've downloaded from livid the oms player and all is ok but two of the plugins (those that display video to screen:-( ) doesn't compile with this error : (they need mlib's library ) yuv2rgb_mlib.c:32: mlib_types.h: No such file or directory yuv2rgb_mlib.c:33: mlib_status.h: No such file

Re: [Cooker] problem with usb .

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Matt Steven wrote: On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: I doesn't know why but eatch time I reboot : first time the running usb the computer doesn't respond @all and only the secon time is successfull any idea ? I have experienced it hanging up at the point where the USB

[Cooker] Still about KvIRC on 7.2-beta3

2000-10-07 Thread sorcla
Hi again people! ;) Well, finally KvIRC (kvirc-2.0.0-1.99-2mdk) starts without a "segmentation fault", but indeed it's not very usable because the rpm's-install script does not create the directory /usr/share/kvirc which contains many files, expecially the icons. It seems to work fine if I copy

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread junfan
I know - I was hinting more along the lines of what started the majority of Amiga's money problems, besides Ali putting 9 bills in hit pocket every year while the company suffered. ;) On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: Jason Straight wrote: Just like the hot-rod isn't for the average driver

[Cooker] Aurora, rc.sysinit Matrox Millennium 8MB

2000-10-07 Thread Craig Van Degrift
This appears to be a bug, although I can't understand why everyone doesn't get stopped by it: When I boot, Aurora shows a menu on the left side and then stops with no way to interact with it. Looking at the output on console 12 indicates that it started Aurora before root was remounted as rw.

[Cooker] Why the smpeg plugin of xmms doesn't ......

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
Hi , I've downloaded the latest xmms from the mirror but when I put always on top for the player is ok but not for the plugins .

[Cooker] yay all packages are now signed

2000-10-07 Thread Antony Suter
Woot! All .rpm files in cooker and contrib are now GPG signed! How about the source .rpm files? Can they also be signed? -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"

Re: [Cooker] kde-1.99, something better something wrong... KVIRC: seg_fault

2000-10-07 Thread SHadowX
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: Claudio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All! ;) Well I installed kde-1.99 on 7.2 beta 3... It finally happen that aktion can open some files with no crash! On the other side, all I obtain lunching KvIRC-1.99 is the **usual** segmentation fault. Still I

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] bluefish-0.5-6mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Reinhard Katzmann
Hi Daouda! On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:21:56PM +0200, Daouda LO wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Daouda Lo wrote: --=-=-= Name: bluefish Relocations: (not relocateable) Group : Networking/WWW

[Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
Hi: I wast to transfer the 7.2beta from rpmfind.net via rsync. I already have the directory off of rpmfind downloaded, but I wish to update it using rsync. I tried using this command: rsync -av rpmfind.net:linux/MandrakeCooker/7.2beta/i586 /mylocaldir and I get a 'unexpected EOF in

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
I figured it out... rsync -av rsync://rpmfind.net/linux/ sorry. ;) On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Nick Webb wrote: Hi: I wast to transfer the 7.2beta from rpmfind.net via rsync. I already have the directory off of rpmfind downloaded, but I wish to update it using rsync. I tried using

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread junfan
You may want to consider your choice of mirrors even though you are inside the USA. rpmfind seems to LAG behind all the others. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: I figured it out... rsync -av rsync://rpmfind.net/linux/ sorry. ;) On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Nick Webb wrote: Hi: I

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
Which would you reccommend? I've had good speed with rpmfind.net (usually around 70K/sec over DSL), and that is why I use them. _Nick On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, junfan wrote: You may want to consider your choice of mirrors even though you are inside the USA. rpmfind seems to LAG behind all the

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread junfan
Best bet is to experiment - I get my best speed from rpmfind too, but I usually go with a sunite mirror. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: Which would you reccommend? I've had good speed with rpmfind.net (usually around 70K/sec over DSL), and that is why I use them. _Nick On Sat, 7 Oct

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
Where can I get an up to date list of these mirrors? Mandrake's site only lists two in the US: rpmfind and wtfo. On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, junfan wrote: Best bet is to experiment - I get my best speed from rpmfind too, but I usually go with a sunite mirror. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote:

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
Could you also give me a command that you are using... I seem to be having way too much trouble using rsync. I use to use lftp's mirror command, but I'm tired of downloading a whole package for a small change... On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, junfan wrote: Best bet is to experiment - I get my best speed

[Cooker] initscripts-5.27-37mdk conflict: kernel = 2.2?

2000-10-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Is this really true? initscripts 5.27-37mdk cannot(should not) be installed on kernels 2.2 and previous? b. -- Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc. North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX Platform and

Re: [Cooker] Netscapes dependencies

2000-10-07 Thread OS
It doesn't, it just says it does !!! Install with --nodeps and it will probably run ok. 75-7mdk certainly did, but I haven't tried 8mdk yet :-) On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi! Why does Netscape 4.75-8mdk require XFree86 = 4.0 ? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

[Cooker] Problem with kfloppy ...

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
when I execute kloppy I got this : kfloppy kfloppy: error in loading shared libraries: kfloppy: undefined symbol: setGroup__11KConfigBasePCc any idea

[Cooker] Fwd: I found something on that Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 issue...

2000-10-07 Thread Servio T P Amarante
I found this anouncement at dejanews. Maybe it helps to solve the Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 dead keys issue. Note that the packagere is a French guy, so... I've tried to install it, but with no success. Maybe it needs the new version of rpm. Also, I got no aswer from the packager, until now. I will keep

[Cooker] helix gnome

2000-10-07 Thread Ray
I want to try helix gnome under 7.2. Has anyone done this and how do you start it? I can't even find where to start gnome anymore.

[Cooker] suggestion for upgrade ....

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
SDL version 1.1.5 is out but with a crash but he telling that in few day it will release an 1.1.6 but there are already a fix in the cvs

Re: [Cooker] helix gnome

2000-10-07 Thread Khawar Zia
hey, If u want to use gnome just select gnome from the drop down menu list when logging into linux. That is if u use graphical boot up. I am not sure about how to change the desktop under the console though. --Khawar Zia - Original Message - From: "Ray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] update-menus and 'cannot get shared lock on database' error

2000-10-07 Thread Robin Turner
Robin Turner wrote: I'm having what may be a similar problem - can't install the latest KDE2 without menu-2.1.5.-35, can't update menu without the new rpm, can't install rpm-3.0.5-24 (even with "--force") because it conflicts with menu-2.1.5-29. To answer my own question ... Silly me -

[Cooker] login problem

2000-10-07 Thread Robin Turner
This is probably another dumb question, but ... After finally successfully installing the latest KDE2 stuff, I find I can only login from runlevel 3 - runlevel 5 gives me a "login failed" message every time. Presumably there is some other package I should have upgraded, but I don't know what it

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] gimp-1.1.25-12mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Robin Turner
root wrote: Don Head wrote: Where can I download your updates (I got your anouncement-email 5 hours ago )? Which time do you need to get the primary mirror (sunsite.uio.no) in sync ? What is the best time to get a complete mirror of Mandrake/RPMS (without missing a bunch

Re: [Cooker] helix gnome

2000-10-07 Thread Ray
well I would if it was there. There was a choice in 7.1 but not in 7.2. All that I have is kde anf the desktops like enlightenment, blackbox, and such... No gnome On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: hey, If u want to use gnome just select gnome from the drop down menu list when logging into

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Robin Turner
root wrote: Gee man...haven't you noticed that 7.2beta3 looks and acts and sounds more like wintendo more and more everyday! except when Microsoft releases an upgrade it works. The difference is that Mandrake call 7.2 "beta", rather than "2000" or "millenium". And when MS release an

Re: [Cooker] helix gnome

2000-10-07 Thread root
Hi I put helix over 7.2 and had reinstall 7.1 t get machine to run gnome agian. ROY Ray wrote: I want to try helix gnome under 7.2. Has anyone done this and how do you start it? I can't even find where to start gnome anymore.

Re: [Cooker] helix gnome

2000-10-07 Thread Gepper
Ray wrote: I want to try helix gnome under 7.2. Has anyone done this and how do you start it? I can't even find where to start gnome anymore. Hello Ray. You can start gnome by editing your .xinitrc file (located in your home dir) If it does exist, then comment out whatever is in there and

Re: [Cooker] A thought on 7.2 ad. infinitum

2000-10-07 Thread Robin Turner
Graham Percival wrote: Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it, Warren Doney? This is a good idea, things that seem simple to us can baffle beginners. I recall, for instance, when asked to "specify the mount point of the root partition" I repeatedly tried

Re: [Cooker] A little rsync help?

2000-10-07 Thread Ron Stodden
Nick Webb wrote: I wast to transfer the 7.2beta from rpmfind.net via rsync. I already have the directory off of rpmfind downloaded, but I wish to update it using rsync. I tried using this command: rsync -av rpmfind.net:linux/MandrakeCooker/7.2beta/i586 /mylocaldir and I get a

[Cooker] Switching default Window Manager?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Webb
How do I switch the default window manager in the 7.2beta? It is loading Gnome from the 'startx' command and I would like WindowMaker (I hate Gnome ;). Thanks. -- **** Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] bluefish-0.5-6mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Yo, On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:21:14PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:45:00PM +0200, Daouda Lo wrote: --=-=-= Name: bluefish Relocations: (not relocateable) Group : Networking/WWWSource RPM: (none) Summary :

[Cooker] KDE miscompiled?

2000-10-07 Thread David Walluck
konsole: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/konsole.so: undefined symbol: readEntry__C11KConfigBasePCcRC7QString I'm getting these kind of errors for every KDE app (which means I can't even start kwin). I made sure I had the latest packages and --verify'ed they are not corrupted. What's

Re: [Cooker] Switching default Window Manager?

2000-10-07 Thread Franco Silvestro
'echo WindowMaker ~/.xinitrc' else try see 'man chksession' cu ...;o) On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Nick Webb wrote: How do I switch the default window manager in the 7.2beta? It is loading Gnome from the 'startx' command and I would like WindowMaker (I hate Gnome ;). Thanks. -- - Franco

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] gimp-1.1.25-12mdk

2000-10-07 Thread Tim
It doesn't matter which mirror you use the .rpm's won't install (kpackage was fixed HaHaHa) and rpm -Uvh filename.i586.rpm FAILS ALSO, don't try to upgrade to memu 2.1.5 as it will completely f*uckup your system. even rpm Uvh --nodeps filename.i586.rpm doesn't work most of the time. mikey

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3

2000-10-07 Thread Dan Geer
Also, make sure your quake2.conf file is in /etc. salane wrote: was in root Dan Geer wrote: Make sure your permissions are set correctly (e.g., root) - Original Message - From: "Salane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October

Re: [Cooker] voodoo5 and beta

2000-10-07 Thread kallador
Yo i gotz a question. Will this version be supporting Voodoo5 also? - Original Message - From: "Dan Geer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3 Also, make sure your quake2.conf file is

Re: [Cooker] login problem

2000-10-07 Thread William H Bouterse
Robin Turner wrote: After finally successfully installing the latest KDE2 stuff, I find I can only login from runlevel 3 - runlevel 5 gives me a "login failed" message every time. Me too, same problem ! Is it the new menu.rpm or ? No matter what WM I select at the RL 5 it always "login

[Cooker] KDE Konqueror

2000-10-07 Thread Ron Stodden
There is an error in the very latest Konqueror: When the HTML calls to load an image from a remote URL and that site is not accessible, Konqueror does not bother to display anything. The problem with that is that usually these images are click points which invoke stuff unrelated to the

Re: [Cooker] update-menus and 'cannot get shared lock on database' error

2000-10-07 Thread Antony Suter
Robin Turner wrote: Robin Turner wrote: I'm having what may be a similar problem - can't install the latest KDE2 without menu-2.1.5.-35, can't update menu without the new rpm, can't install rpm-3.0.5-24 (even with "--force") because it conflicts with menu-2.1.5-29. To answer

[Cooker] Bug: http setup

2000-10-07 Thread Hal Black
When doing the HTTP setup, when the install program goes to the http server to retrieve the list of packages, (compssUsers) it instead requests "compssUsers." (with an erroneous trailing period character).

[Cooker] bug: backing up in install

2000-10-07 Thread Hal Black
Backing up from either ftp install or http install from the source information screen to the static ip setup screen causes install to crash when re-verifying the static IP information. (today's 7.2beta - http extra "." bug was also today's 7.2beta)