RE: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 RC 1 install report 2

2001-09-22 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I've noticed a problem with the installer when it generate fstab for my previous install ( cf first install report ). [will@bastard rc1]$ grep floppy /mnt/rc1/etc/fstab /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-

Re: [Cooker] Bad iso or what? Many packages missing, not corrupt: missing on 2nd CD.

2001-09-22 Thread Tobias Marx
David Babcock wrote: I looked before on both CD's. Just another quick check on CD1: No, to ispell-en, chromium, xtraceroute, ncftp stopped checking after that. i've got most of these (those i've checked) but i miss kernel-source-2.4.8-24mdk.i586.rpm. it's not on one of the cds!? i had

Re: [Cooker] Balsa version too old in cooker

2001-09-22 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On 20 Sep 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: M. Khawar Zia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the version in cooker is balsa-1.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm. The latest version is 1.2. frozen we are. However, it sounds like that some certain packages are pushing up the version even when the freeze is

[Cooker] rsync from ftp.sunet.se repeatedly deletes and reloads some files

2001-09-22 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
It happens very often. rsync deletes some files, on the next rsync (immediately folloeing the first) it downloads these files (that have been deleted) again; if I rsynv againg it *again* deletes these files ... The problem is I am never sure what is the correct state. As example (two

RE: [Cooker] devfsd, removable devices and modules problem

2001-09-22 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Then you reboot. The link /lib/dev-state/sda4 is copied back into /dev. After some time you come, plug in your removable drive, do 'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/hd' ... and nothing happens. Because /dev/sda4 already exists, so no LOOKUP event is generated, no module is loaded. i'd say

Re: [Cooker] rsync from ftp.sunet.se repeatedly deletes and reloadssome files

2001-09-22 Thread Robert Fox
I've noticed that the Rsync from this address has gotten rediculously SLOW. I tried other sources, but they don't contain all of the files (ie: RPMS2). Something is definately wrong with ftp.sunet.se right now. When I FTP to that site it works relatively quick, but Rsync is DOG slow. I also

[Cooker] wrong /dev/cdrom with devfs

2001-09-22 Thread Guillaume Rousse
ll /dev/cdrom: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 sep 22 13:26 /dev/cdrom - ../cdroms/cdrom0 ^^ should be cdroms/cdrom0 devfsd is 1.3.18-14mdk -- Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html

Re: [Cooker] wrong /dev/cdrom with devfs

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 13:24, Guillaume Rousse scribit : ll /dev/cdrom: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 sep 22 13:26 /dev/cdrom - ./cdroms/cdrom0 ^^ should be cdroms/cdrom0 devfsd is 1.3.18-14mdk it's equivalent . = current directory so there's no pb ? --

Re: [Cooker] RC1 comments.

2001-09-22 Thread david
Randy Welch wrote: Daouda LO wrote: The first time conf goes back through network configuration even though I did it on the install. Odd... There is a part of the first time that process online related stuffs requiring your network to be up. If you don't want it you can press cancel

Re: [Cooker] Bad iso or what? Many packages missing, not corrupt: missing on 2nd CD.

2001-09-22 Thread david
Tobias Marx wrote: David Babcock wrote: I looked before on both CD's. Just another quick check on CD1: No, to ispell-en, chromium, xtraceroute, ncftp stopped checking after that. i've got most of these (those i've checked) but i miss kernel-source-2.4.8-24mdk.i586.rpm. it's not on

[Cooker] Cooker: Gnome Desktop (sawfish or enlightenment) not floppy or cdrom

2001-09-22 Thread david
Wrote a bug report on the mouse right-click not showing cdrom in DISK popup menu. Then it dawned on me that floppy isn't showing either. What's up wid that?

Re: [Cooker] Kpackage?

2001-09-22 Thread david
Frederic Lepied wrote: Vincent Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, as of this mornings updates, there are STILL issues with Kpackage.If checking dependencies, pops up the message rpmdepCheck() failed.This is not good! means having to exit kpackage and go into a terminal to use rpm to

Re: [Cooker] How to install NVIDIA drivers for Mandrake-Linux 8.1

2001-09-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 20010922 Salane wrote: These files can be found on http://home.cinci.rr.com/salaneking OK. Easy to understand. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.10

Re: [Cooker] Read this thread in a.o.l.m

2001-09-22 Thread david
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Borsenkow Andrej am 2001-09-22 um 13:37:23 +0400 : Dropping updates for all old releases rigth after the new releasebecomesavailable is sick. It makes me want to switch to some other distro or Well, how do the others like RedHat and SuSE do

[Cooker] At last good news. Plugins came with install.

2001-09-22 Thread david
Always have to install the flash plugin for my homepage. RC1 didn't have to, just went there and everything worked from the gitgo. Great.

[Cooker] defvs, dynamic, kudzu ...

2001-09-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi. Devfs needs dynamic, and dynamic needs kudzu. If I install a box without Gnome nor KDE, I do not need dynamic, so I can get rid of dynamic and kudzu. Do I broke anything If I rpm -e --force dynamic ? Can it be made optional for devfs ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon #

Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk - no space on device

2001-09-22 Thread svetljo
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: svetljo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and what if smbd install on XFS / raid and can not remember exactly which stripe_size and/or raid_dev and/or in which order he maked the raids the kernel from the CD doesn't have compiled in raid so no autodetect i'm really happy

[Cooker] no module isa-pnp in rc1?

2001-09-22 Thread Tobias Marx
hi! hardrake has found my isa-pnp soundcard without probs at boot. it has got a cs4232 chipset and hardrake adds (imho correctly) an entrance for ad1848.o. when it loads this one i get the message that no pnp cards are found and cs4232 doesn't get loaded. when i try to configure it manualy

Re: [Cooker] wrong /dev/cdrom with devfs

2001-09-22 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait Pixel : Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ll /dev/cdrom: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 sep 22 13:26 /dev/cdrom - ../cdroms/cdrom0 ^^ should be cdroms/cdrom0 devfsd is 1.3.18-14mdk this is really strange. i can't reproduce... I just

[Cooker] Cooker: RC1: No CDROM or Floppy in /mnt

2001-09-22 Thread david
beta2, beta3 /mnt folder contained floppy and cdrom. Now nothing. Tried nautilus, gmc, su filemanager. Can't access it with xmms then, weird cause CD Player will play a CD, rpmdrake will use it. Sometimes there are paper icons in the /mnt folder for them, but when click on them get errors.

Re: [Cooker] Read this thread in a.o.l.m

2001-09-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: [no, I have no comments as I did not try updates. I just wanted to let you know what average users think] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Mandrake soft ever create an infinetely updatabale release ?? It's becoming a nightmare worse then Microsoft. The update

Re: [Cooker] RC1 SHOWSTOPPER (repost from NG)

2001-09-22 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Franc,ois Pons wrote: Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After formatting it is reporting that it can't umount /tmp/hdimage as the device is busy, and that's as far as i can get! You should have used your machine with 32MB ? There is limitation for such low memory because the

[Cooker] Pan crashes with segmentation fault on launching

2001-09-22 Thread Paul Litwack
Pan crashes with a segmentation fault every time I attempt to launch it. I had this problem in 8.1 Beta3 and 8.1 RC1. Pan works in 8.0, and I was able to update it successfully several times in 8.0

[Cooker] Error with mixer devices

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
I have just installed RC1, and everything is looking sweet, however i have one odd problem. I have a soundblaster live card which has always worked really well under linux. However in RC1 the mixers are wrong, the sound mixer in KDE has two tabs, on is Creative SBLive, but say that it is an

[Cooker] weird miuse behaviour

2001-09-22 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
It started to happen recently (a week ago may be). I am in KDE and suddenly mouse jumps to the lower left corner and some application is opened. It looks like if system thinks I pressed some button (sometimes it is left button sometime right). This happens when I move mouse after pause. It

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread SuKa
It is in kcontrol, but it has moved to Look and Feel / Fonts suka On Sam, 2001-09-22 at 20:11, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: The option for AA is no more in kcontrol. I tried to set QT_XFT=1 before starting X (using startx) but only splash screen is using it - it is reset thereafter. ???

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread Maksim Orlovich
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: The option for AA is no more in kcontrol. I tried to set QT_XFT=1 before starting X (using startx) but only splash screen is using it - it is reset thereafter. ??? -andrej It was recently moved from the style dialog to the font dialog -

Re: [Cooker] Balsa version too old in cooker

2001-09-22 Thread Yura Gusev
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote: On 20 Sep 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: M. Khawar Zia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the version in cooker is balsa-1.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm. The latest version is 1.2. frozen we are. However, it sounds like that some certain

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 20:40, Borsenkow Andrej scribit : Well, konsole goes mad when you try to select any font but works fine with default (not that I like it much more than with AA ... actually I must say I do not like it at all :-) In general I do not quite understand why everybody is

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread Yura Gusev
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 20:40, Borsenkow Andrej scribit : Well, konsole goes mad when you try to select any font but works fine with default (not that I like it much more than with AA ... actually I must say I do not like it at all :-) In

[Cooker] opengl broken in rc1

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
Voodoo 3 2000 card (AGP), it worked great in 8, but now none of my games (heretic 2, quake 3, tuxracer etc.) work at all. There are no error messages, they just lock. I did an expert install and specified X with 3d, so i cant figure the problem, any ideas? Just in case it is an install error,

Re: [Cooker] vlc cdrom device

2001-09-22 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 22 Sep 2001 21:18, Chris Edwards wrote: I was trying out VideoLAN (after downloading and installing libcss from videolan.org) and was having a few problems playing the dvd... When looking for the dvd drive, it was looking in /dev/dvd. I have a dvd drive, but it is mounted to

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 22:48, R.I.P. Deaddog scribit : On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: No chance to get AA for gtk apps? AA is only available for gtk 2.0, that will mean one need to wait till gnome 2.0 before one can enjoy AA'ed gnome platform. false. You can use gdkxft (

Re: [Cooker] How to install NVIDIA drivers for Mandrake-Linux 8.1

2001-09-22 Thread J.P.Pasnak
On September 21, 2001 16:03 pm, you wrote: How to install NVIDIA drivers for Mandrake-Linux 8.1 By Salane King Download the following drivers in tar.gz format from; ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/1.0-1541/NVI DIA_GLX-1.0-1541.tar.gz

Re: [Cooker] How to install NVIDIA drivers for Mandrake-Linux 8.1

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 23:20, J.P.Pasnak scribit : Wouldn't it be far easier to create a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/nvidia_mknod' and link it to your runlevels? That way you wouldn't have to patch the NVidia driver everytime a new driver comes out. 100% true. that's the way I do it so I can

[Cooker] usb storage device paritions not showing up with devfs

2001-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have a usb storage device (a casio digital camera). When I plug the camera into my (just updated) cooker box, everything right seems to happen except that I don't get actual device nodes for the partitions (or the whole disc device) under /dev/scsi/ Here is what my messages log showed

[Cooker] All work in Nautilus, one doesn't in MC. Any ideas.

2001-09-22 Thread david
I set up Gnome Control Center for some videos that I was testing RC1 from plugger. All the xanim ones work in either Nautilus or MC. The video/mpeg which uses xmovie will work if you click on the file in Nautilus. It won't work in MC, it will if you go to Commands in MC and type in: xmovie

Re: [Cooker] Read this thread in a.o.l.m

2001-09-22 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 08:52, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Borsenkow Andrej« am 2001-09-22 um 13:37:23 +0400 : Dropping updates for all old releases rigth after the new release becomes available is sick. It makes me want to switch to some other distro or Well, how

RE: [Cooker] vlc cdrom device

2001-09-22 Thread Chris Edwards
On Saturday 22 Sep 2001 21:18, Chris Edwards wrote: I was trying out VideoLAN (after downloading and installing libcss from videolan.org) and was having a few problems playing the dvd... When looking for the dvd drive, it was looking in /dev/dvd. I have a dvd drive, but it is mounted to

[Cooker] kudzu: failed - proposal

2001-09-22 Thread guran
Hi I still have the following in syslog: Sep 23 04:53:00 Archimedes init: Entering runlevel: 3 Sep 23 04:53:01 Archimedes harddrake: succeeded Sep 23 04:53:38 Archimedes kudzu: failed Sep 23 04:53:38 Archimedes kudzu: Hardware configuration timed out. Sep 23 04:53:38 Archimedes kudzu: Run

Re: [Cooker] vlc cdrom device

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Dimanche 23 Septembre 2001 04:54, Chris Edwards scribit : ln -s /dev/cdrom0 /dev/dvd this above one was a successful link (/dev/dvd went to dvd drive), but vlc still doesn't do anything when i try to load a video. maybe you should disable supermount ( if you use it ) ? []$ cp /etc/fstab

Re: [Cooker] kudzu: failed - proposal

2001-09-22 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Dimanche 23 Septembre 2001 05:11, guran scribit : I think I might have a test proposal to see if it might be reproduced. I have a motherboard with an AGP slot, but I didn't have enough money to buy a new graphic card when updating, so I am using an old NVIDIA PCI one. This might indicate

[Cooker] alsa script fails to initialize alsa drivers

2001-09-22 Thread John Silva
On my system, the alsa initscript fails to properly start the alsa drivers. According to the script, start() loads the snd module and checks for presense of /proc/asound/dev: function start() { found_driver=false echo -n Starting ALSA version $alsa_version: # First load the ALSA

Re: [Cooker] opengl broken in rc1

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 23 September 2001 5:05 am, you wrote: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Voodoo 3 2000 card (AGP), it worked great in 8, but now none of my games (heretic 2, quake 3, tuxracer etc.) work at all. There are no error messages, they just lock. I did an expert install and specified

[Cooker] alsactl fails to store mixer settings

2001-09-22 Thread John Silva
When running alsactl store: [root@tetsuo asound]# alsactl store alsactl: No soundcards found... [root@tetsuo asound]# rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-3mdk alsaplayer-0.99.36-1mdk alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk [root@tetsuo asound]# cat /proc/asound/version Advanced

[Cooker] replacing some Mandrake/RPMS on install croaks installer

2001-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Found a few more minutes to do some more LVM root hacking and testing. Yay. I am using a very up to date Cooker image with modified lilo and mkinitrd RPMs (I needed to modify them for LVM root) which I have overwritten the Mandrake distributed versions (in Mandrake/RPMS/) on my Hard Disk image

[Cooker] Pre-order offer mentioned '2-CD download edition' - what gives?

2001-09-22 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hello Cooker, Received my latest weekly news with the announcement regarding the pre-order offers, and I was surprised when checking it out to see that it mentioned a '2-CD download edition'. I thought the download edition will be 3 CDs? Or have some software been moved back to Contribs? In

[Cooker] Pre-order offer mentioned '2-CD download edition' - what gives?

2001-09-22 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hello Cooker, Received my latest weekly news with the announcement regarding the pre-order offers, and I was surprised when checking it out to see that it mentioned a '2-CD download edition'. I thought the download edition will be 3 CDs? Or have some software been moved back to Contribs? In

Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems

2001-09-22 Thread James Ray Kenney
Date sent: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:03:21 +0200 From: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Borsenkow

Re: [Cooker] How to peranently activate AA in current KDE?

2001-09-22 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 04:03, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: Le Samedi 22 Septembre 2001 22:48, R.I.P. Deaddog scribit : On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: No chance to get AA for gtk apps? AA is only available for gtk 2.0, that will mean one need to wait till gnome 2.0 before one

Re: ppc install freeze on beige g3

2001-09-22 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Xavier wrote: It seems as though the kernel arguments that I type into Bootx are having no effect, not even install-text or text. What can I be doing wrong? The Bootx extension is in the extensions folder, the bootx program is where it needs to be and I am loader

Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Terrence Oblak
I need some detailed help with setting up my wireless Airport card. Hardware: tiPB G4 400 Mhz 384 Megs of RAM Mac OS9.1 on 3 gigs Mandrake PPC 8.0 on remaining 7 gigs Airport Card Linksys WAP11 I installed the Airport card and setup the WAP. Booted

Re: Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote: Could someone give me detailed instructions for getting my wireless connection working? The more detailed the instructions the better, please remember that Linux is very new to me, so something that might be obvious to you

Re: Network problem

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB Then give the tail end of the dmesg output. I'm just trying to isolate SB whether the problem is hardware/kernel interaction or config scripts or SB what. The second doesn't seem likely since the rest of us are networking SB OK, and I don't

Re: Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Anthony Procaccini wrote: AP Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is AP there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. AP If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can AP see the eth1 connection? in

Re: Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:17:08PM -0400, Anthony Procaccini wrote: Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can see the eth1

Re: ppc install freeze on beige g3

2001-09-22 Thread Xavier de Cardenas
AGH!! I added two kernels into my bootx kernels folder and now my system won't start! How do I bypass the Bootx oot loader and go directly to MacOS? -Paul Rodríguez __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with

Re: Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:20:01AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: (On Solaris it is hme instead of eth as a standard.) Actually their was no standard on Solaris. The interface name was dependent on the driver. hme just occurred most often because Solaris on Sparc's generally had NICs that used

Thanks for the help

2001-09-22 Thread Terrence Oblak
I would like to thank everybody on this list for their help and advice. My newbie questions have been answered quickly and correctly. From getting my X display configured correctly to enabling my wireless connection. I've heard that the Linux community is very supportive and I must say that

Re: Linux Newbie Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: TO I was planning on doing the following, again any input would be greatly TO appreciated: TO TO Write a script that would: TO 1) Shutdown eth0 device TO 2) Copy the correct ifcgf-eth0.xx script on top of TO ifcgf-eth0 TO 3)

Re: Thanks for the help

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: TO I've heard that the Linux community is very supportive and I must TO say that I am a believer. Most people in the community are experts on something and newbies at something else. Hence why we help eachother out. Myself, I have used Linux for 9