Re: [Cooker] appdefaults for Netscape 4.76 and wheelmouse

2001-03-11 Thread David BAUDENS
Con Kolivas écrivit : > The Netscape 4.76 package included in the current cooker 4.76-2mdk > includes > an appdefaults file that doesn't support wheel mouse scrolling in X > (neither did the updates available for mandrake 7.2). It's normal. You need to use imwheel if you wish to use the wheel of

[Cooker] When I close DrakConf...

2001-03-11 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
When I close DrakConf by clicking on the [X] I get my desktop's background color with nothing on. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to continue. (Cooker from last Friday, running on a Dell OptiPlex GX110, i810) Mattias

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Giles Hamlin
Well I for one would love an X-rated Mandrake 8.0 complete with Pamela and Tommy Lee grabs during installation Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Or what about advertise Linux Mandrake features in the PNG files, forexample:- Linux Mandrake is awarde

[Cooker] Beta 8.0 experiences

2001-03-11 Thread Collins Richey
Well, as I'm sure others may know by now, Beta 8.0 is not quite ready for prime time, but it is remarkably stable. Here are the major problems I encountered during install (recommended approach, all packages except mathematics stuff): 0) Don't try this at home without a floppy boot for your curre

Re: [Cooker] Kmail and hell

2001-03-11 Thread David BAUDENS
guran écrivit : > Hi > > Why the hell is Kmail in settings, set as default empty trash on exit. Ask Kmail authors. > I moved all my Kmail to this new installation in order to do a clean up of > some of my partitions and lost my whole history. I'll disable this feature by default. -- Mandra

[Cooker] linuxjournal review

2001-03-11 Thread Armisis Aieoln
Anyone else check out the Linux Journal review of 7.2? (March 2001) Its very harsh... Dave

[Cooker] kpm,kbiff,X,keyboard oddities

2001-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
Strange things I've noticed with the latest cooker (11th March 2001) kpm shows very odd %cpu usage for most programs - either 0 or 99%, it seems to show any sign of demand as 99%. Now memory usage on X is 6230% ! even though it is using about 8meg of ram on a 128Mb machine. gtop does not appea

Re: [Cooker] Flash in Konqueror?

2001-03-11 Thread Eric MC D
Since konqueror and kmail I use no more netscape. The pb with konq is that it segfaults when loading /usr/bin/nspluginviewer. Wihen tryng netscape there seems no pb. Eric MC On Sunday 11 March 2001 19:01, you wrote: | Hmmm ! May have mislead there. I don't usually browse with konqueror. I | tried

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or what about advertise Linux Mandrake features in the PNG files, for > example: > > - Linux Mandrake is awarded in 1999 as Best Server/Workstation > - To speed up your Linux Mandrake, use hdparm ... > > etc.. what do you think? Of course, this feature

Re: [Cooker] Advancing: Build 449 contains a 2.4 boot kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Ron Stodden
Pixel wrote: > > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here are just some of the non-existent RPMs called for by the > > yesterday's installer: > > you're wrong about saying install should be in sync with RPMs. The install > doesn't care what packages are there, except that hdlist.cz an

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 11 March 2001 14:30, christopher campbell wrote: > Where/Where is this package that you speak of by Keith? > [...] http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/ -- Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586

[Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread christopher campbell
Where/Where is this package that you speak of by Keith? On Sunday 11 March 2001 17:44, you wrote: > On Sunday 11 March 2001 12:59, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > No matter where I put fonts I can select only fixed for konsole and > > > > it's un-u

Re: [Cooker] 2.4.2 for Mandrake 7.2

2001-03-11 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.11 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > i'm going to fix this soon.. this dependencies on db is cumbersome, i'm > going to workaround it... > The latest version of aic7xxx from Justin Gibbs does not rebuild the sequecer ucode on each kernel build, so it does not build aicasm so no db needed by de

Re: [Cooker] Is it possible to bundle XFS support?

2001-03-11 Thread Randy Welch
Steve Fox wrote: > > On 08 Mar 2001 14:10:09 -0800, r j wrote: > > I would like to see JFS too since it is an Open Source project( > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/ ) and part > > of the Linux Technology Center(LTC). > > (What is LTC?: > > http://www.linuxworld.com/li

Re: [Cooker] Advancing: Build 449 contains a 2.4 boot kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > (2) usr/share/VERSION in Mandrake/mdkinst tree > > Alas, the latest download from my planetmirror mirror is build 498! I'm afraid it's not possible. Latest one on our build machine is 1.451. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesof

[Cooker] 2.4.2-10 - install

2001-03-11 Thread guran
Hi VERSION (rsync sunsite.no) Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010311 23:30 /ChangeLog/1.451/Fri Mar 9 02:21:48 2001// Installation went nice and so did sndconfig. When I did an updatedb I got Attached scsi CD-ROM Sr0 at scsi1, channel0, id0, lun0 Sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa

Re: [Prana ] [Cooker] Is this true rtl8139 vs 8139too ??

2001-03-11 Thread Jason Straight
Stay away from those cheap cards alltogether and get intel or 3com - I have stopped using realtek based cards in my machines, I orginally started with 7 machines with realtek nics in them, over the last year when one went bad I would replace it with 3com or intel, I have 1 machine running a rea

Re: [Prana ] [Cooker] Is this true rtl8139 vs 8139too ??

2001-03-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:04:54 -0500 > From: Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Cooker] Is this true rtl8139 vs 8139too ?? > I've been asking myself why there's this thing called "8139too" .. Why > is there such double?? That's kind funny, not to mention that 8139too is > kinda slow in my H

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread guran
On Sunday 11 March 2001 18:07, you wrote: > Or what about advertise Linux Mandrake features in the PNG files, for > example: Yes, I like that idea - I for one which behaves like old folks and seldom reads the documentation until when calling for an ambulance - could read some smart tricks while

[Cooker] httpd-perl startup errors

2001-03-11 Thread Digital Wokan
I've been getting the following error several times in a row since reinstalling Cooker (after my little 2.4.2-8 fiasco). Can't locate object method "new" via package "HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler" at /etc/httpd//conf/addon-modules/mason_handler.pl line 19 I've been watching for some kind of perl r

[Cooker] SSL over Imap?

2001-03-11 Thread Franck Martin
Anybody has some pointers on how to implement SSL over IMAP/POP using the openssl and imap rpms or other?   Please reply directly as I'm not  subscriber...   Franck MartinNetwork and Database Development OfficerSOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience CommissionFijiE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]W

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Digital Wokan
I definitely would NOT go recommending hdparm to anyone who hasn't chosen the expert install. The misuse of hdparm can screw up things bad, too. Prana wrote: > Or what about advertise Linux Mandrake features in the PNG files, for > example: > - Linux Mandrake is awarded in 1999 as Best Server/Wo

[Cooker] apt-get

2001-03-11 Thread Giles Hamlin
Hi I get the following messages when using apt-get: WARNING: 'rep-gtk-gnome' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. This usually means a packaging bug. I also get this message for pinfo python flex docbook-dtd31-sgml rep-gtk-libglade gnuchess gnome-core zsh ext2ed taper

Re: [Cooker] gnome-vfs-devel

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Daniel Serodio am Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 07:34:48PM -0300: > Can someone tell me why we have gnome-vfs-0.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm in > cooker but not the corresponding -devel RPM? I need the devel package to > compile galeon (it's wonderful, should be included in the distro). It is include

[Cooker] ipop3d from imap package

2001-03-11 Thread Jason Straight
It seems ipop3d won't allow me to login. On further inspection the xinetd startups for both pop3s and ipop3d are exactly the same. pop3s is supposed to be the secure mode one, I am guessing that what's going on here is that ipop3d is trying to use ssl when in fact I don't want to. -- Jason St

Re: [Cooker] gnome-vfs-devel

2001-03-11 Thread Jason Straight
galeon is in cooker. On Sunday 11 March 2001 17:34, you wrote: > Can someone tell me why we have gnome-vfs-0.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm in > cooker but not the corresponding -devel RPM? I need the devel package to > compile galeon (it's wonderful, should be included in the distro). > Also, if I tr

[Cooker] Doing ls in nfs dir hosed my system.

2001-03-11 Thread James, Rick
System: Pentium 4, 1500MHz, 2GB rdram. Kernel: from 8.0b1, 2.4.2-3mdk rebuilt for P-4 and highmem. nfs-utils-clients: 0.3.1-1mdk The remote directories appeared to mount just fine but then here's what happened: [root@mybox /root]# cd /remote_dir [root@mybox /remote_dir]# ls Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 E

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sunday 11 March 2001 12:59, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > No matter where I put fonts I can select only fixed for konsole and > > > it's un-useable right now with that one. Please watch your attritions - I did not write that but wrote a response to it.

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rrdtool-1.0.28-4mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Randy Kramer
May I suggest that you say: "RRD is an acronym for Round Robin Database." Randy Kramer David BAUDENS wrote: > > --=-=-= > Name: rrdtool Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1.0.28Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 4mdk

[Cooker] gnome-vfs-devel

2001-03-11 Thread Daniel Serodio
Can someone tell me why we have gnome-vfs-0.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm in cooker but not the corresponding -devel RPM? I need the devel package to compile galeon (it's wonderful, should be included in the distro). Also, if I try to compile it from sources, it complains about some packages w

Re: [Cooker] SRPMS

2001-03-11 Thread David BAUDENS
Roger écrivit : > Does somebody have a script that will compile all the SRPMS's for the > cooker? > > Right now, doing: > > rpm -iv *src.rpm > /usr/src/RPM*/SPEC/rpm -bb --clean *.spec [...] Beurk :( Use rpm-rebuilder (available in Cooker). It's designed for this job. -- MandrakeSoft

Re: [Cooker] DiskDrake during install

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > > > > Can I make / a Software RAID'ed FS right while installing? > > > > > > > > yes > > > > i should have said "yes if you have a /boot" > > Ah, I see. So if grub/lilo is able to load the initrd, everything is fine, > yes? And for grub/

Re: [Cooker] 2.4.2-10 - reiser -install

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > was met by when running sndconfig: > 'You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled > (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path) &c. fixed, thanks.

[Cooker] Kmail and hell

2001-03-11 Thread guran
Hi Why the hell is Kmail in settings, set as default empty trash on exit. I moved all my Kmail to this new installation in order to do a clean up of some of my partitions and lost my whole history. regards guran

Re: [Cooker] when will there be a beta 2

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea when there will be a beta 2 for mdk 8? something like tomorrow :)

Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
"Paul Giordano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also - could you change the line "boot=$device" that's written to the > $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf to read "boot=$rdevice"? Otherwise you get a device busy > condition using devfs - $device is /dev/fd0, $rdevice is /dev/fd0u1440. can you explain more?

Re: [Cooker] DiskDrake during install

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Pixel am Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:12:14PM +0100: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So sprach Pixel am Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:07:34AM +0100: > > > mkinitrd is ok. > > > The pb is to load the kernel and the initrd, lilo and grub don't like RAID. > > > > > > > Can I make

Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
"Paul Giordano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you put double-quotes around the [ -z $rootdev ] at the bottom please? ok, done

Re: [Cooker] i815 is identified as i820?

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I have i815e chipset. Not that I really care, but it is somehwat > confusing. This is with 2.4.2-7mdk. fixed. thanks.

Re: [Cooker] Mdk-8.0Beta Install Report (10/03/2001)

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Claudio (Sekko) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > 1. Trying to install "/" onto a SOFTWARE-RAID-1 partition, just saying "ok" > to DiskDrake, I'm prompted with "An error occurred: unknown device (md0)". I > tried to build the raid after installation and it's ok, so I guess it's an > install

Re: [Cooker] LILO Install failure

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
"Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tried to install last night and I'm not sure if I caught the mirror in the > middle of an update or what, but when the install got to the "Install Boot > Loader" option I got an error message to the tune of "NOT AN ARRAY VALUE." > Unfortunately, this means that

Re: [Cooker] installer error msg

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the summary section of the installer (current cooker), both my sound > cards are shown as having been correctly detected. Nice! But, when I click the > button for either of them, I get the msg, "An error occurred. Not a CODE > reference." fixed,

[Cooker] 2.4.2-10 - reiser -install

2001-03-11 Thread guran
Hi VERSION (rsync sunsite.no) Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010311 20:15 /ChangeLog/1.451/Fri Mar 9 02:21:48 2001// Installation went nice. Bootdisk: ( I have a hard disk like; swap, boot, /, /home reiser=/ other partitions. I

Re: [Cooker] Advancing: Build 449 contains a 2.4 boot kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here are just some of the non-existent RPMs called for by the > yesterday's installer: you're wrong about saying install should be in sync with RPMs. The install doesn't care what packages are there, except that hdlist.cz and depslist.ordered should be u

Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Install with DrakX 1.450

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Robin Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > All of the howto-html languages were selected [...] > FreeWnn, ami, ami-gnome, bg5ps, kon2, xa+cv, xcin, xvnkb, and libtab0 were selected sorry, 1.451 should fix this. > The images of the different tractors flickered a lot (nothing big >

Re: [Cooker] Draktools reset user settings

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It happened to me with mouse and keyboard. I looked at nerw version, > called mousedrake and keyboarddrake, pressed CANCEL!!! to be sure nothing > gets screwd up - and both my mouse and keyboard were reset. will see. > With keyboard > the problem w

Re: [Cooker] DiskDrake during install

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So sprach Pixel am Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:07:34AM +0100: > > mkinitrd is ok. > > The pb is to load the kernel and the initrd, lilo and grub don't like RAID. > > > > > Can I make / a Software RAID'ed FS right while installing? > > > > yes i should

Re: [Cooker] Bootdisk - how??

2001-03-11 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But how? I tried mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0u1743, because on a plain > 1440k disk, vmlinuz and initrd won't fit. That's bad. Is this really the > only way to make a bootdisk? gc will see what can be done about this size problem :-(

[Cooker] [RPM] galeon-0.10.2-1mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Guillaume . Rousse
What do you want to package today ? --- Name: galeon Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.10.2Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: dim 11 mar 2001 22:55:33 RET Install date: (not insta

[Cooker] 2.4.2-9mdk: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
I get this when booting: ... autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM IP-Config: No ne

Re: [Cooker] Power off problems in current 2.4 kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does not happen when I power down with Windows, so I suspect Linux > problem. The BIOS supports ACPI, I use default kernel without ACPI support > (I believe). I run the latest APM daemon if it matters. It happens > currently in 2.4.2-9mdk, happene

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] BasiliskII-0.9-0.2mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Randy Kramer
I like the description! ;-) Randy Kramer Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: > > --=-=-= > Name: BasiliskII Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 0.9 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 0.2mdkBuild Date: Sun Mar 11 19:

Re: [Cooker] Chmouel: rtl8139 is *Much* Faster than 8139too

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Note that I haven't tried the updated driver from 2.4.2 ac16 when Garzik > updated the 8139too driver. So, I'll wait until the new kernel comes out > with the updated 8139too driver. > > Maybe the performance of 8139too will be increased... well report

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Rob Snow
As Arnd reports, it appears that you can either have AA'ed font or _old_style_ fonts under QT 2.3. Further, it would appear that when using AA'ed fonts you need to define them with a XftConfig file or you will only get _FIXED_. So if we are to effectively use QT 2.3 in a workable manner, someone

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > No matter where I put fonts I can select only fixed for konsole and it's > > un-useable right now with that one. > It is even worse. Look in konqueror - all fonts are reset to "Abadi MT condensed Light". Both proprtional and fixed width! At least, here

[Cooker] Power off problems in current 2.4 kernel

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
I have weird problem that started recently. I have ASUS CUSL2 motherboard, i815e, BIOS 1006.A (and 1006 before). When I power down in Linux with 'init 0', it appears as if system is switched off. But just moving the mouse powers the system up again! (Yesterday my daughter was really frightened whe

[Cooker] Galeon core dumping...

2001-03-11 Thread Sekko
This his what happens when I try to run galeon with latest Mandrake 8.0 beta (10/03/2001)> [root@localhost RPMS]# galeon ** ERROR **: Couldn't open preferences file aborting... Aborted (core dumped)

[Cooker] clm-6006: writing inode 127046 on readonly FS

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
after converting root to reiser I get this in dmesg: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed clm-6006: writing inode 127046 on readonly FS clm-6006: writing inode 127046 on r

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] BasiliskII-0.9-0.1mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Randy Kramer
I'm new to this list (and fairly new to Linux). I'm curious, is the "Description" below the description that is displayed during install if you put your mouse over this package name? If so, can we submit descriptions for packages that currently have no description? How? (I currently have Mandr

[Cooker] Bootdisk - how??

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Okay, I just got very freigthened. For some reason, grub failed to boot all of a sudden. Maybe it was because I updated grub or whatnot, I have no idea. I ended up installing cooker firewall so that I could run grub again. This all worked well. Now, this is somewhat, erhm, complicated. To fi

Re: [Cooker] Flash in Konqueror?

2001-03-11 Thread OS
Hmmm ! May have mislead there. I don't usually browse with konqueror. I tried again with konqueror from kdebase-2.1-6mdk, and it now just freezes solid at the first sign of a Flash movie ! I'm sure it did work :-( Sorry, events seem to have overtaken my knowledge (not uncommon !), Owen On Satu

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Sekko
On Sunday 11 March 2001 16:48, you wrote: > Hi > > Mandrake has the chanse to show off people important to Linux development. > > Instead of tractors why not show pictures of developers? > > Everytime I start with a boot disk I see a name Peter Anvin, why not show a > picture of him and other you

Re: [Cooker] X4.0.2 & SiS6326 = invisible graphics

2001-03-11 Thread andre
You should use the cvs version for XFree86. In that one the problem is fixed.

Re: [Cooker] confused... lilo and grub

2001-03-11 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like Lilo, why would anybody like Grub? Is there a > significant advantage > over it? > For one, in GRUB the boot kernels are not hardwired and you can browse supported partitions for the kernel to boot. Good bye 'I forgot to run LILO after compiling my new kernel

Re: [Cooker] Chmouel: rtl8139 is *Much* Faster than 8139too

2001-03-11 Thread Prana
Hi, Note that I haven't tried the updated driver from 2.4.2 ac16 when Garzik updated the 8139too driver. So, I'll wait until the new kernel comes out with the updated 8139too driver. Maybe the performance of 8139too will be increased... Thanks, Prana Prana wrote: > > The other day I mentioned

Re: [Cooker] ImageMagick Errors

2001-03-11 Thread Giuseppe Ghibo'
Terry Nelms wrote: > > [root@sidewinder RPMS]# rpm -Fvh ImageMagick-* > error: failed dependencies: > liblcms.so.1 is needed by ImageMagick-5.3.0-2mdk > Install ImageMagick-5.3.0-3mdk and liblcms1-1.0.7-3mdk. Bye. Giuseppe.

Re: [Cooker] Chmouel: rtl8139 is *Much* Faster than 8139too

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other day I mentioned that 8139too is very slow. It is indeed, very > slow compared to rtl8139. I tried your kernel 2.4 in Mandrake 8.0 and > it's unbelievably slow and there's no module rtl8139. And in kernel 2.2 > network performance is greatly improved a

Re: [Cooker] Non-root init 0?

2001-03-11 Thread OS
Yes. Have a look at the man pages etc. for "sudo". I've set my system up so that it will allow execution of shutdown from my own account by adding the line : owenALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown to the file /etc/sudoers - part of sudo-1.6.3p6-1mdk. I was not to sure of the format, so if any

[Cooker] Chmouel: rtl8139 is *Much* Faster than 8139too

2001-03-11 Thread Prana
The other day I mentioned that 8139too is very slow. It is indeed, very slow compared to rtl8139. I tried your kernel 2.4 in Mandrake 8.0 and it's unbelievably slow and there's no module rtl8139. And in kernel 2.2 network performance is greatly improved about 150% when using rtl8139 rather than us

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Prana
Or what about advertise Linux Mandrake features in the PNG files, for example: - Linux Mandrake is awarded in 1999 as Best Server/Workstation - To speed up your Linux Mandrake, use hdparm ... etc.. what do you think? Prana Warly wrote: > > guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > >

Re: [Cooker] X4.0.2 & SiS6326 = invisible graphics

2001-03-11 Thread michel . fodje
The same with SiS530 Con Kolivas wrote: > With previous unsupported RPMS and a full cooker install with the most > current 4.0.2-8mdk rpms for xfree86 there is a problem with X and the > SiS6326 AGP card. Testing fails with a black screen (in 4.0.1 it > didn't) but does not hang the machi

Re: [Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread Warly
guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Mandrake has the chanse to show off people important to Linux development. > > Instead of tractors why not show pictures of developers? > > Everytime I start with a boot disk I see a name Peter Anvin, why not show a > picture of him and other you mig

[Cooker] Better than tractors?

2001-03-11 Thread guran
Hi Mandrake has the chanse to show off people important to Linux development. Instead of tractors why not show pictures of developers? Everytime I start with a boot disk I see a name Peter Anvin, why not show a picture of him and other you might fancy? regards guran

[Cooker] appdefaults for Netscape 4.76 and wheelmouse

2001-03-11 Thread Con Kolivas
The Netscape 4.76 package included in the current cooker 4.76-2mdk includes an appdefaults file that doesn't support wheel mouse scrolling in X (neither did the updates available for mandrake 7.2). Con __ Get your free Australian

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread junfan
So what changed all of a sudden in Qt to break the fonts? Seems like I should be able to chose from more than a list of 1 the font I want to use with a QT based program.

[Cooker] "Restart server" does not work in KDE login manager

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
Using current KDE 2.1 and bootinh into level 5 - pressing "restart X server" simply kills it. -andrej Have a nice DOS! B >>

Re: [Cooker] Non-root init 0?

2001-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sunday 11 March 2001 01:13, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > Is it possible to shutdown a system without being a superuser? I'd like to > retain Ctrl-Alt-Del as convinient method to reboot ... Yes! In /etc/inittab, I've got: # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now man sh

Re: [Cooker] confused... lilo and grub

2001-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sunday 11 March 2001 04:46, you wrote: Start by reading this recent article, which gives you a good introduction to grub: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/kohli.html > Further, it has a nice boot menu that is able to parse > > > filesystems, > > What do you mean under "parsing filesystem

Re: [Cooker] confused... lilo and grub

2001-03-11 Thread RA
On Saturday 10 March 2001 18:32, you wrote: > I like Lilo, why would anybody like Grub? Is there a significant advantage > over it? You can change the path to a kernel at boot time! So, grub can read ext2, reiserfs, ... So there is no problem, if you forgot to change your boot config or to run

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sunday 11 March 2001 07:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > * Go to http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/ and get truetype.tar.gz and > > > > > Are not those fonts just standard Windows fonts (at least, judging by > > file names)? Which means, anybody with dual-installatio

Re: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread junfan
Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > * Go to http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/ and get truetype.tar.gz and > > This could become a big problem. I'm not sure if it has been > > discussed before, but these fonts are really high quality and it > > would be helpful to include them in the distribution. The

[Cooker] unixODBC missing applications

2001-03-11 Thread Christian Zoffoli
I found that there aren't some applications in the unixODBC package (ODBCConfig, gODBCConfig, DataManager, odbctest)... Could you give a look to the copy uploaded in /incoming ? -- Christian Zoffoli LittlePenguin Team -- http://www.littlepenguin.org

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] openldap-2.0.7-3mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Christian Zoffoli
Vincent Saugey wrote: > > --=-=-= > Name: openldap Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 2.0.7 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 3mdk Build Date: Fri Mar 9 16:17:09 2001 > Install date: (not installed)

Re: [Cooker] rpm -e kernel doe not remove /boot/initrd-x.x.x

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to disagree, but even with 2.4.2-4mdk *I* did not get an "automatic" > initrd built. should be fixed with last installkernel (not yet commited in cvs), and the initrd will be removed by the %postun of kernel package.. -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [Cooker] strange info message

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Andrej Borsenkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm ... the info package I have is dated Nov, 24 2000 and is the latest on > ftp.sunet.su. Is there newer package somewhere? well actually i can reproduce the bug on a fresh cooker install, i upload a new info package.. -- MandrakeSoft Inc

RE: [Cooker] strange info message

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> > Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ info > > > info: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider > > > re-linking > > > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ ldd =info > > > libncurses.so.5

Re: [Cooker] 2.4.2 for Mandrake 7.2

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried yesterday to install current kernel-source package from cooker on a > 7.2. > Altough it worked perfectly before, this time it failed for needed > dependancy to libdb-3.1. According to another cooker box, this lib is part > from db3 package. S

Re: [Cooker] kernel config stored ?

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Jan Vicherek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I installed a cooker about a week ago, and I have noticed that there was > no /proc/config, neither was there /boot/*config*. > > Please include /proc/config or at least /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.x-XXmdk.config for info we are not doing like Suse,

Re: [Cooker] Look! Prettier Linux ASCII char logo to replace linux_logo RPM

2001-03-11 Thread Paul Giordano
Oh, that's TOO cool. Nice find, Prana... Gio - Original Message - From: "Prana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: [Cooker] Look! Prettier Linux ASCII char logo to replace linux_logo RPM > Hiya, > I was wondering if linu

[Cooker] 2.4.2 for Mandrake 7.2

2001-03-11 Thread Guillaume Rousse
I tried yesterday to install current kernel-source package from cooker on a 7.2. Altough it worked perfectly before, this time it failed for needed dependancy to libdb-3.1. According to another cooker box, this lib is part from db3 package. So i recompiled it for 7.2, as current cooker version is

Re: Mdk8 for i386/i486 (was: Re: [Cooker] RedHat vs Mdk8)

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seconded. There are many 486 machines that I would like to put a > cut-down, Xserver-only version of Mandrake onto. I'm happy rebuilding the > packages for i486, but I'd prefer not to have to delve into the > intricacies of the installer if possible.

Re: [Cooker] strange info message

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ info > > info: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider > > re-linking > > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ ldd =info > > libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncu

RE: [Cooker] Please, or, please, add libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 back to cooker!

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> > So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:58:38PM +0300: > > Most of stuff that needs old ibstdc++ from 7.2 here (and this is quite a > > number of packages) does not run. I've tried symlinking to new libstdc++ > > SOrry, but what do you need 7.2 programs in cooker/8.0? Is there a

Re: [Cooker] strange info message

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ info > info: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider > re-linking > bor@localhost ~/.kde $ ldd =info > libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40017000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel22-2.2.18-17mdk

2001-03-11 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Tom'sQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wanted to say that this took me by surprise, I thought 2.4 > would end up in the distro. we going to support both of them. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel

RE: [Cooker] Workable fix for fonts under QT 2.3

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> > * Go to http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/ and get truetype.tar.gz and > This could become a big problem. I'm not sure if it has been > discussed before, but these fonts are really high quality and it > would be helpful to include them in the distribution. The problem is > that there are copyrig

Re: [Cooker] Please, or, please, add libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 back to cooker!

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:58:38PM +0300: > Most of stuff that needs old ibstdc++ from 7.2 here (and this is quite a > number of packages) does not run. I've tried symlinking to new libstdc++ SOrry, but what do you need 7.2 programs in cooker/8.0? Is there anything mis

RE: [Cooker] confused... lilo and grub

2001-03-11 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> > could learn it - but my question was, why? if lilo does everything I need > > currently. > > I like grub more, because it does not require me to run it again when a new > kernel is installed. That sounds good. Thank you for the info. Is there any problem with bootloader detection while instal

Re: [Cooker] kernel config stored ?

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:16:54PM +0300: > Default conifg is installed into /usr/share/doc/kernel-2.x.y.XXX (not > confusing with kernel-doc-xxx). Last time I checked it was there. And also in /usr/src/linux/configs if you install the kernel-source.rpm Alexander Skwar

[Cooker] Re: rsync_exclude file skips locales

2001-03-11 Thread Ron Stodden
Kelley Terry wrote in a private email: > Looking at the rsync_exclude file I noticed this > line: > > + locales-?.?-* > > which needs to be changed to: > > + locales-?.?* > > in order to download the locales module. Once again - thanks! rsync_exclude says: + locales-?.?-* + locales-en-*

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