[Cooker] Services

2002-11-01 Thread Biagio Lucini
I am hacking the i8kutils(*) package (as far as I can see, there is no Mandrake version of it) to make it more Mandrake-friendly and possibly to generate an rpm. It comes with SistemV style service script, but for Debian, which uses different program and conventions for the scripts. Is there a

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mdk 9.0 Recompiling Kernel for Athlon

2002-10-29 Thread Biagio Lucini
On 29 Oct 2002, Juan Quintela wrote: - In this particular case, the make clean is the thing that makes the diff, but could not be enough: save .config make mrproper restore .config if you want. make *config make bzImage modules make modules_install install should _always_ work, and

Re: [Cooker] Network script problem in mdk9.0

2002-10-16 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Biagio Lucini [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a problem with the network scripts in 9.0. In my laptop, I don't need the net cards to be started at boot, but at some point I may need to switch them on. In 8.2 I did service network restart

[Cooker] Network script problem in mdk9.0

2002-10-15 Thread Biagio Lucini
I have a problem with the network scripts in 9.0. In my laptop, I don't need the net cards to be started at boot, but at some point I may need to switch them on. In 8.2 I did service network restart eth0 and the card happen to work. In 9.0 the interface does not wake up. Is there anything I

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-12 Thread Biagio Lucini
On 12 Oct 2002, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: Isn't nano available with Mandrake 9? It's a GPL'd clone of pico. I have seen it in Texstar's repository, which let me think that it is not in contrib... I thought the problem was that pine (the mail program) had been removed rather than

[Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-11 Thread Biagio Lucini
Guys, don't flame at me for what I am going to say: in the jump from 8.2 to 9.0 I am missing pine. I am already re-using it, since I have ported the source rpm from RH 8.0. Just a little tweaking and it will be ready for general use. The question is: can I upload it to contrib or the fact that it

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-11 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:24:13 +0100 (BST) Biagio Lucini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I upload it to contrib or the fact that it is not GPL software clashes with the new 100% free policy of Mandrake? Also it is already available

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-11 Thread Biagio Lucini
On 11 Oct 2002, Pixel wrote: Biagio Lucini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question is: can I upload it to contrib or the fact that it is not GPL software clashes with the new 100% free policy of Mandrake? no you can't. The pb is that it's not free software: not DFSG-compliant

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-11 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Guy McArthur wrote: Isn't nano available with Mandrake 9? It's a GPL'd clone of pico. I have seen it in Texstar's repository, which let me think that it is not in contrib... Biagio

Re: [Cooker] Why ext3fs is a default fs, not ReiserFS?

2002-10-10 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: In the 9.0 installer, during the Setup filesystem stage, when you create a new partition, by default its filesystem type is tset to ext3fs. Now I have to tell all the newbie converts that install Linux to manually change it to ReiserFS,

Re: [Cooker] cooker unfreeze date / features

2002-10-07 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Götz Waschk wrote: Am Montag, 7. Oktober 2002, 17:21:52 Uhr MET, schrieb Florent BERANGER: New versions : - glibc The current version of glibc is 2.2.5, the one in Mandrake 9.0 2.3.0 as for today. Biagio

Re: [Cooker] expert rpm packager request

2002-10-04 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: I've submitted cvoicecontrol to contribs... Now let's see if it get's accepted=) ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming/cvoicecontrol-0.9alpha-1mdk.src.rpm Last time I looked at it it was broken: it

[Cooker] Probable ghostscript bug in 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Biagio Lucini
My dayly bug report, hoping to have better look (get at least one answer, should it be even an insult, but on the problem in the subject) this time. I can't open with gv a class of postscript files: it complains about the ghostscript interpreter failing because of problems with Times-Roman. A

Re: [Cooker] 8.2 - 9.0 = NV/X troubles!

2002-10-04 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Tim Stoop wrote: Hi people, I upgraded my own desktop, a Athlon 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, NVidia GeForce2 DDR. In 8.2, I had the NVidia GLX-package and NVidia kernel installed. After upgrade, I had a hell of a time getting it all to work. Since the nvidia-driver for X

Re: [Cooker] Probable ghostscript bug in 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Friday 04 October 2002 23:25, Biagio Lucini wrote: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/biagio.lucini/linux/test_ghos.ps hmm..I am perfectly able to view this file with kghostview or gv. Danny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9nguoaeiN+EU2vEIRAtFMAJ43CH

[Cooker] Windowmaker bug (?)

2002-10-03 Thread Biagio Lucini
I am experiencing this problem: I can't leave a terminal open when quitting WindowMaker and then find it again open at the next login. Probably this is due to the fact that terminal emulator launcher (at least as far as xterm and rxvt are concerned) are wrappers. Essentially, if I start X

Re: [Cooker] devfsd.conf

2002-09-30 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that 9.0 is out ... Minor spelling corrections in English version. Initialize not initialise Minimize not minimise Maximize not maximise Did you say English or American? :-) Biagio

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0 Download Edition (Contrib ISO?)

2002-09-26 Thread Biagio Lucini
Am I missing something or there was a contrib directory in the 3rd iso of 8.2? It was disguised as RPM4. Now the new isos seem to have just RPM3 on the third CD. My question is if there will be new isos with RPM3 and RPM4 on the third CD. Or alternatively, if I rebuild the third iso with RPMs

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0 Download Edition (Contrib ISO?)

2002-09-26 Thread Biagio Lucini
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: I'm happy to throw an RPM collection together from my existing archives but I have (1) nowhere suitable to host it and (2) insufficient time to modify an installer to take it into account (you would *have* to at least boot from it and invoke a

[Cooker] Kernel freeze on i8200 (rc3)

2002-09-24 Thread Biagio Lucini
Hi - I wanted to experiment with Mandrake 9.0 rc3 on my dell inspiron 8200 laptop. It seems that the system freezes after a while it has been in use (I've noted that when the system is frozen the fan is on and a few lights flash). Hardware fallure is likely to be excluded, since I don't have this

Re: [Cooker] VFS: Busy inodes after unmount, self destruct after 5 seconds, have a nice day

2002-09-24 Thread Biagio Lucini
Same experience over here, again never appeared in previous versions Biagio On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, marrandy wrote: Hello. Never seen this on previous versions, same hardware. What is this all about ? Regards...Martin