Re: [Cooker] draksound - a couple of observations

2003-09-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Paul Dorman wrote: > Hi all, > > am I to understand that draksound is still under heavy development? The > console interface is pretty ugly at the moment, and it seems to forget that I > want to run ALSA and not OSS after a reboot. > what _exactly_ do you mean by "forget" ?

Re: [Cooker] kernel-utils missing from mirrors

2003-09-07 Thread danny
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > PS. Danny! > I haven't checked how your kernel is doing this, but since it's an > stable 2.4 kernel, the problem isn't that big, OTOH it's a > contrib kernel, so I think the MDK people would like it better > if y

Re: [Cooker] perms on /dev/rtc device

2003-09-07 Thread danny
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > Yeah, I saw that but I don't think it is related to /dev/rtc.. tvtime is > probably trying to nice itself to real-time, which is only permitted for > root. Anyway, it still works great and latest version has now a menu.. I > think we will soon be abl

Re: OT: Communism and authoritarianism (was Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rxvt-2.7.10-3mdk)

2003-09-05 Thread danny
On 5 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > idiot. For that matter anybody that endorces socialism is an idiot. Yes ofcourse, and everybody that endorces liberalism is stupid. Please, if you want to proclaim your political standpoint somewhere, do it somewhere else. The above is about the most shortsi

Re: [Cooker] Configuration usability issue - 9.2

2003-09-05 Thread danny
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > agreed. > someone asked it sometimes ago. > maybe should we add a dialog for this to drakconnect maybe? definately! I just hate that it is not in there. Even this week I had to search through all the config files looking were to fill in my dns, finally

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread danny
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Juan Quintela wrote: > But we can have the ethertool fixes and supermonut v1.2.9. Althought > the init.h thing has already been fixed. ok thx! > > > danny> btw, Juan: why was mini-lowlat removed? What exactly went wrong? I > danny> currently have a

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread danny
> Juan Quintela wrote: > -=-=-=- > Name: kernel-2.4.22.5mdk Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 1mdk Build Date: Fri Sep 5 > 15:10:17 2003 > Install Date: (not installed)

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I meant neglected by packager, but no disrespect intended...just hadn't > been updated for a while, it looks a bit forlorn next to 2.4.22 main and > 2.4.22tmb and 2.6.0 contrib kernels :D > Well, it is a damn big patch, and new kernel has a lot of c

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I agree with your criticism of draksound, but I don't think it's > actually the cause of the problem identified in those reviews. I had > several people report the same problem to me without ever having touched > the settings; it seems some sblives t

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > we have kernel-multimedia (though it's sadly neglected)...no need for an > application to "enable" it, really, you "enable" it by installing it > with urpmi / rpmdrake and rebooting... as in: neglected by packager, or neglected by users? current 2.4

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct > > module settings) > > already done by draksound. Point of critizism about draksound: some reviews of 9.1 (IIRC) claimed that audigy driver was incorrectly loaded

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] initscripts-7.06-23mdk

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > thierry meant "should" as in "this is what I wrote the patch to do", not > as in "this is what I think is correct behaviour", danny - as the rest > of the mail made clear :). your post is valuable obviously, ju

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] initscripts-7.06-23mdk

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > - with alsa: > o all channels should be unmuted > o all channels levels should be set to 67% eh..wrong At least for sblive, if you want to have sound via analog speakers on the second output channel you have to _mute_ "analog output jack". IIR

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-03 Thread danny
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:14, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > I ran urpmi.setup the other day and I didn't see the opportunity to > > setup a plf source anywhere... > > it is a secret trick. > you should run it from the command line, and use --a

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread danny
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now that I am complaining, why does urpmi.setup not have it's own > > button in drakconf (ok, it's a bit bugged, is that the reason?). It > > is such a waste to have all the nice functionality of urpmi lost to > > most

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread danny
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Duncan wrote: > > Both those applets are pretty new, AFAIK, introduced into contrib this beta > cycle. Yes, there's a place for them. Yes, main and installed for the > convenience of newbies by default would be good. No, I don't believe they > should be in 9.2 by default

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread danny
Buchan worded it all much better than my own reply. So i leave it with only this: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > See mutray (for KDE at least) and mdk-check-update-gnome (works in KDE > and GNOME, and probably the rox desktop too), both in contrib. It would be a shame not to just ena

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread danny
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: > Wow... that looks pretty neat. Does this superkaramba thing work in gnome > too? ah..the price for running GNOME :-P On a more serious note, are you (=mdksoft) or are you not going to set up something like this by default? If the user has to search f

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-30 Thread danny
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, w9ya wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 10:25 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: > > > > Bob, you are free to ask for write access to the Wiki, and CHANGE IT > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > All I have seen coming from

[Cooker] Re: things to improve now we finally have supermount-ng

2003-08-29 Thread danny
On 30 Aug 2003, Pixel wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 28 Aug 2003, Pixel wrote: > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Use ext2:vfat for floppies and Jaz/ZIP/ide-flopy; > > > > udf:iso9660 for DVD; iso9660 for CD. This covers most common cases. > > oops, in fact i'v

[Cooker] Re: things to improve now we finally have supermount-ng

2003-08-28 Thread danny
On 28 Aug 2003, Pixel wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Use ext2:vfat for floppies and Jaz/ZIP/ide-flopy; > > udf:iso9660 for DVD; iso9660 for CD. This covers most common cases. > > done. > thanks Pixel! Could someone who has/can burn udf CDs (not DVDs) test if they get mounted corr

Re: [Cooker] Re: new kernel alsa

2003-08-24 Thread danny
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > > On 08/21/03 05:28:34, Juan Quintela wrote: > > danny> o..I meant, if it still doesn't work, diff the unpacked alsa tarbal > > (it is > > danny> also in the patches file) against your > > danny> functional alsa d

[Cooker] [Bug 4862] [initscripts] running e2fsck on ext3 often results in dataloss

2003-08-24 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4862 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-24-08 00:38 --- I did see it on cooker, but I was >1 month behind with updating. Today I updated again, but I cannot easily test since I have a black console screen on my cooker box (

[Cooker] rc.sysinit: fs check on ext3 is evil

2003-08-24 Thread danny
Today is about the fourth time I had to explain that pressing "Y" for a filesystem check on an uncleanly shutdown system is a bit idea, at least on ext3. I think I had it myself once or twice as well. If you do this fsck is very likely to remove a bit to many of your files. It actually seems

Re: [Cooker] Unable to install latest Cooker

2003-08-24 Thread danny
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Warly wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Norman Cohen wrote: > > > >> Sony Vaio PCG-R505EL Notebook > >> > >> During second stage - tries to start graphical install and fails with > >> fontconfig errors. > >> > > arg > > > > more duplicates. > >

[Cooker] [Bug 4862] [initscripts] New: running e2fsck on ext3 often results in dataloss

2003-08-23 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4862 Product: initscripts Component: program Summary: running e2fsck on ext3 often results in dataloss Product: initscripts Version: 7.06-18mdk Platform: Other OS/Version: All

Re: [Cooker] Kernel panic on 9.2 beta 2 shutdown...

2003-08-22 Thread danny
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mark Watts wrote: > > Well, considering the panic is happening when the linuxconf script is issuing > an rm, I'm not sure how this will help, but I'll try it anyway. > > I don't see this a every shutdown though... What is it removing? also..since we had a bunch of "timing" r

Re: [Cooker] Kernel panic on 9.2 beta 2 shutdown...

2003-08-22 Thread danny
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Mark Draheim wrote: > problem and its remedy. How on earth can a modprobe -V produce a crash? > The symptoms are rather obvious, so lots of people should have noticed > it. Since they apparently didn't, I thought that my setup was the cause. > - what if you run it to strace?

Re: [Cooker] Software submission for the Mandrake distribution

2003-08-21 Thread danny
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > I agree too. > But I have another reason : such a software on the same computer is a > fantastic SECURITY HOLE ! then do not install it? having another OS on your machine and unencrypted filesystems is _already_ an security hole. This driver has noth

Re: [Cooker] Software submission for the Mandrake distribution

2003-08-20 Thread danny
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:18:25 +0530, Manoj Joseph wrote: > > The software is an ext2 file system driver for Windows NT 4.0. > > URL : http://winext2fsd.sourceforge.net > > We are doing a linux distribution.. You should ask Microsoft to ship this > driv

Re: [Cooker] new kernel alsa

2003-08-20 Thread danny
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > > On 08/20/03 03:57:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > > > > > > > > So a few comments: > > > 1. Kernel 2.6 alsa backport sucks. Hard. > > It can also be due to one of the other ALSA patches inside mdk kernel. Can > > you j

Re: [Cooker] Software submission for the Mandrake distribution

2003-08-20 Thread danny
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Ainsi parlait Manoj Joseph : > > On August 20, 2003 7:56 PM, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > But, it is not the prime aim of Mandrake Linux to provide missing > > > features in a proprietary operating system. > > > > > :) > > : > > > Well, the first questio

Re: [Cooker] new kernel alsa

2003-08-20 Thread danny
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > > So a few comments: > 1. Kernel 2.6 alsa backport sucks. Hard. It can also be due to one of the other ALSA patches inside mdk kernel. Can you just disable those and try, and do a diff on the rest to see what is different? d.

Re: [Cooker] new kernel alsa

2003-08-19 Thread danny
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > > On 08/19/03 18:40:22, Olivier Blin wrote: > > > I will try other kernels (Danny's, Thomas'), and try building from > > > source, but this has to be fixed ASAP! (unless it's just my system) > > > > It's also a bit broken on mine, please see my previous post

Re: [Cooker] [HELP WANTED] "model name" of your /proc/cpuinfo

2003-08-19 Thread danny
On 19 Aug 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Hi, > > Could you please copy the "model name" line of the /proc/cpuinfo > of your laptop computer(s)? my laptop does not give any model name. only detected as : 257 (iBook 2 rev. 2) :-P d.

Re: [Cooker] Patch for gtk file selector

2003-08-19 Thread danny
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Keller wrote: > > That would be exactly my worry. The patch makes for a prettier dialog, but I > don't know necessarily how much *better* it would be in terms of actual > usability. That tradeoff -- especially for something that could break things > at this point, so clo

Re: [Cooker] [RFD] supermount behaviour on empty drive

2003-08-18 Thread danny
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, [koi8-r] "Andrey Borzenkov[koi8-r] " wrote: > > last version makes ls /mnt/cdrom not fail but show empty directory if > drive is empty (or if mount failed in general). Andrey, with 1.2.8 I sometimes get the old "stale NFS handle" error when doing ls when the drive is empty

Re: [Cooker] kernel-tmb-2.4.22-0.5.1tmb_mdk

2003-08-17 Thread danny
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Now... > I didn't enable multiple scsi luns since I was told you should be able to > override it with lilo/grub on append line "max_scsi_luns=..." > > or as an option in /etc/modules.conf > options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=... > > Now, please tell me

Re: [Cooker] grsecurity: does something provide "gradm"?

2003-08-15 Thread danny
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestissä Perjantai 15 Elokuu 2003 12:24, Claudio kirjoitti: > > Hi all! > > I see that J. put grsec-2.0rc2 into the latest kernel, but I cannot find > > any version of "gradm" among the RPM/SRPM. It's the only tool we can use > > to dial with grsec, s

Re: [Cooker] Re: mod_dvb-1.0.0

2003-08-15 Thread danny
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Juan Quintela wrote: > With respect to tmb patches, I checked mdk6.tmb5 patches. And the only > ones missing for integration/checking that are already in are: > > > I will finish testing integrating them during the weekend/Monday. > Great! thank-you Juan! d.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.0.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > If nothing bad happends, I should be able to post it tomorrow... great:) > > > Danny, any other patches you think I should automatically add.? > (besides the devfsd patch...) dunno, perhaps change the naming so that /etc/init.d/kh

Re: [Cooker] Bootsplash Design

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > >http://asisaid.com/images/mdkback.jpg > >Thoughts? awesome! (it's a pitty that my main machine has a bug that causes console (text, vesafb, only rivafb and vga16 work) to fail, so I will ne

[Cooker] please remove XWine again!

2003-08-14 Thread danny
Lenny, Warly removed XWine a while ago because I put in a new lowercase version. Now it seems you uploaded the old version again :( regards, d. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:57:46 +0200 From: Distlint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Danny Tholen <[EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] An update since 1600 UTC has removed StarOffice 6.0

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Dave Cotton wrote: > Staroffice 6.0 was operational on this machine during yesterday > afternoon, today after updating the only thing it does is the splash > screen, from console the message aborted is displayed. > > Is this urpmi --auto-select showing that it is too dangerou

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > What are the chances of all of Thomas' amazing work making it into the > 9.2 kernel? 0.01%? (after trying to get a reply from Juan concerning supermount-ng (which was available when 9.1 came out), I basically gave up on getting kernelteam to include patches/

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.21-6.5tmb

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > Quoting Élie Charest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Le 6 Août 2003 17:39, Adam Williamson a écrit : check /boot/kernel.h, does it say you are running enterprise? probably not i think since /etc/init.d/kheader uses: k=$(uname -r|sed 's/.*mdk//') to d

[Cooker] [Bug 4488] [Hardware] X crashes omnibook XE3 on logging out to terminal

2003-08-14 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4488 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-08 14:53 --- probably not. Both Buchan and I asked you to provide information, but you did not or cannot. Bug cannot be solved without this info. again: -are you using DRI? (at

Re: [Cooker] NVidia drivers

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On 6 Aug 2003, Kamil Rezac wrote: > Hi! > > I've just tried to run The Gimp (first run, it prepared to create the > ~/.gimp dir) and the X just locked-up (L in ps) (no keyboard response, > the mouse cursor moved and xmms played;) I've installed latest NVidia > drivers a couple days ago, mybay tha

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-14 Thread danny
On 5 Aug 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Yep, I knew one was definitely coming back. > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 03:33, Adam Williamson wrote: > > and then maybe you won't get spanked. But of course I don't really > > > > I don't see me getting spanked by anyone but you. Now where does that > > impl

Re: [Cooker] Multimédia kernel 2.4.21-0.18mm boot error

2003-08-11 Thread danny
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Laurent Saint-Michel wrote: > I have a fresh cooker install (today) with the mutilmedia kernel : > Linux celeron 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk #1 Mon Apr 7 00:10:11 CEST 2003 i686 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > During the boot, the kernel output : insmod return an unkown error but no

Re: [Cooker] Just asking- Open Office 1.1

2003-08-10 Thread danny
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Per [utf-8] Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > so, Gwenole, made up your decision yet? people have asked several times > without no answer. at least OpenOffice.org needs to be fixed for 9.2 > anyways..:) To make it more stimulating, someone on club offered $25 if you include wordperfe

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.0.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-08-10 Thread danny
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Austin wrote: > On 08/08/2003 10:10:12 AM, Juan Quintela wrote: > > -=-=-=- > > Name: kernel-2.4.22.0.1mdk Relocations: (not > > > - remove low_latency patch, it hangs the system. > > Bummer. I suppose that was mini-lowlat? Haven't build kernel-multimedia yet

[Cooker] New kernel-multimedia (WARLY: READ THIS)

2003-08-09 Thread danny
New kernel-multimedia is finsihed and on klama, but bacause ftpcontrib script changes I cannot upload it anymore (I also cannot upload new benh kernel for ppc). Warly can you please look at it (already mailed you 3 times about benh now ;) The new kernel-mm is now based on 2.4.21.6.5tmb (sorry

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 Req. Laptop Support

2003-08-08 Thread danny
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Ben Reser wrote: > I actually asked Juan about supermount-ng and he indicated it would be > used, but didn't give a time frame for when. good, so I probably was too irritant:) Hope it is done quickly, at least 3 or 4 packages could benefit from some patches to handle removable

[Cooker] eclipse

2003-08-07 Thread danny
Surprised i see no-one else about this, but RH provides a src.rpm for the eclipse IDE build with gcj. I think we can put it in contribs (or main?) as well? Someone feels up to it? d.

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.21-6.5tmb

2003-08-04 Thread danny
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > the src.rpm is still on the server, so ... > has anyone tried to download it, ... and if so was it / is it ok? i did, think it was ok (although I am adding a few patches to it, so i didn't try a compile yet). d. > > Regards > > Thomas > >

[Cooker] [Bug 4488] [Hardware] X crashes omnibook XE3 on logging out to terminal

2003-08-04 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4488 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-05-08 01:18 --- You do not provide a very clear bug report. Bug 2741 occurs on intel 810 and 830 cards. So this bug could be related. If it is, it should be fixed in cooker. Are you s

Re: [Cooker] Do we still force fsck on bad shutdown with rootfs as ext3?

2003-08-03 Thread danny
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > I am testing some kernels for Danny and Thomas on my Thinkpad which runs > 9.1, and if this isn't fixed for 9.2 I'm going to sue someone for the 10 > minutes I lose every time I don't shutdown cleanly (as when testing > sw

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.2.6.4tmb

2003-08-01 Thread danny
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > no, more likely it is different issues. If /lib/dev-state/log exists - remove > it (and do not forget updating to teh latest devfsd). (Andrey: forget first mail). If this is true, why does it only happed when he has that card plugged in? a /lib/dev-s

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.2.6.4tmb

2003-08-01 Thread danny
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, John O'Toole wrote: > on this same vein, I have a VisionPlus 1020 DVB card, are there any > plans to have this working? currently, if I even have the card plugged > into the PCI slot, cooker will hang at "Determining module > dependancies..." and only a hard reset will dislo

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.2.6.4tmb

2003-07-31 Thread danny
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > As for SCSI multiple luns, I'm not shure if it should be enabled by default, > since the documentation states that it is safer that way... > and I cant justify satisfying a few people, but possibly breaking systems > for a lot of people... > If you

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2846] [mtools] Floppy formatter incompatible with supermount

2003-07-29 Thread danny
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Hi > > and what about using supermount-ng ? ;) > > Zeb we were talking about that: supermount-ng==andrey's supermount d. > >

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2846] [mtools] Floppy formatter incompatible with supermount

2003-07-29 Thread Danny Tholen
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:00, François Pons wrote: > > > > tell Juan to include my supermount to make it possible :) > > Ah, does it means the current kernel doesn't support this functionnalities > ? Well, I have been trying to harrass Juan about this for a few months now. It would probably fix

[Cooker] [Bug 2846] [kernel] Floppy formatter incompatible with supermount

2003-07-28 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2846 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-28-07 22:23 --- if Juan finally starts using supermount-ng (so far he didn't even comment on it AFAIK) this is easily possible. IIRC Andrey even send some example scripts for unmounti

Re: [Cooker] Re: supermount for 2.4.20

2003-07-28 Thread danny
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > why haven't ask to guy who is building cooker ? aka me ? > Do you want an account on computer ? Or what do you want I do ? :) I didn't remember you had a build machine. But I announced it on cooker-ppc, are you not subscribed there? O..and yes, I

[Cooker] Re: supermount for 2.4.20

2003-07-28 Thread danny
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, [koi8-r] "Andrey Borzenkov[koi8-r] " wrote: > > anybody is using (needs) it? Danny, ppc kernel is based on 2.4.20 > AFAIK or can you use 2.4.21+ patch? Nope, my latest benh for 9.1 is 2.4.21 based. I still need someone to build it for cooker-ppc con

Re: [Cooker] Kernel upgrade bothering ...

2003-07-27 Thread danny
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Todd Lyons wrote: > Carryover from old days when "upgrade" of the kernel could potentially > screw up your system. It was not newbie friendly, so it was removed. > The kernel install scripts are much better now and urpmi is much more ^ p

[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

2003-07-26 Thread danny
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote: > > Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it. > > > > Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase > > significanly its sex appeal. > > sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to

Re: [Cooker] kernels and urpmi/Mandrakeupdate

2003-07-26 Thread danny
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > IMHO, this can only be considered in if /sbin/installkernel (or whatever > replaces it) ensures that on the first kernel update, an entry for the > original kernel is retained. Otherwise, automatic kernel update plus > unintentional reboot (ie power fa

Re: [Cooker] Re: Pb in your mdk packages (fwd)

2003-07-26 Thread danny
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:27, Warly wrote: > > So the third time is the good one. > > I18n issue? (-: "Third time lucky" :-) well, your most safe option is to always CC Warly at least 3 times (or any multiple of 3 to be safe). d.

[Cooker] kernels and urpmi/Mandrakeupdate

2003-07-26 Thread danny
For 9.1 I noticed that many people are still running 0.13mdk, not because they do not want to update but because they do not know that there is an update (it didn't show up in mdkupdate). Is there any good reason to keep this behaviour for 9.2? A kernel update requires a reboot I know, and not

[Cooker] Pb in your mdk packages (fwd)

2003-07-25 Thread danny
Hi Warly, 3rd time I mail you:) can you please make bot happy and remove the uppercase XWine? d. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:14:14 +0200 From: Distlint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pb

Re: [Cooker] drakxtools/drakconf maintenance for 25th july -> 18th august

2003-07-25 Thread danny
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Clive Dove wrote: > > > How about putting in a full set of patches other than just piano and > guitar? This so that new users who try out midi sound do not think > that it is ordinarily just honky-tonk music. I was talking about hw-synth. sblive and some other cards can l

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.6

2003-07-25 Thread danny
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Le Vendredi 25 Juillet 2003 14:03, Michael Lothian a écrit : > > I know this has probably already been asked a million times but... > > > > Do you know when kernel 2.6 will be avalible on cooker? I know it's only > > a pre release but I'd really like t

Re: [Cooker] drakxtools/drakconf maintenance for 25th july -> 18th august

2003-07-25 Thread danny
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > since we're badly said to be not enough in contact with the > communauty, let try to be smarter: Actually, I have found you to be very good in contact usually:) > > i'll be in holydays from tonight up to monday 18th august, so i won't > be able to an

Re: [Cooker] urpmi update notication applet

2003-07-24 Thread danny
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > This is WRONG.. Use the Notification Area specification > > (www.freedesktop.org) to do that, it will work for both KDE and GNOME > > Thanks, I'll have a look this evening. > But why do applets and notification area coexist ? > > > (and > > you really

Re: [Cooker] 2.6 kernel

2003-07-16 Thread danny
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > I am thinking a best deal at time is to put it in cooker contrib. > Anyway, this kernel should be packaged soon to begin testing and report bug to > kernel team. well, Juan had an 2.5.68 rpm on his site, and stated a while ago he was working on it.

Re: [Cooker] Re: frozen-bubble, pysol need soundwrapper

2003-07-10 Thread danny
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, David Walser wrote: > Levi Ramsey wrote: > > On Thu Jul 10 13:40 +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >> We don't use soundwrapper for cpu-intensive applications because > >> it has an important cpu overhead. > >> > >> Moreover, FB uses SDL and SDL can use (theoretically) art

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-09 Thread danny
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > Anyway the whole story is so fragile that this is the minor problem. > > yes, it only fix the symptoms and hide the real problem (me trying to > pressure planel so that he pressure juan so that your patch is merged) > ... Well, Andreys patch doesn't

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-08 Thread danny
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > > BTW, I had someone phone me who is seeing this problem on stock 9.1, not > all the time, but quite often, except when booting failsafe. well, did 0.22mdk fix it? d.

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > It doesn't hang. good. hmm..I wonder what are the chances of 2 bugs having a so similar appearence. I still would like a stack trace on the hang. > I've noticed that my old kernel, kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk, has the same > problem on boot, it also hang in d

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If > > you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it > > never occurs, for others only rarely) > > Hi > > Thanks for the help. > I applied this patch to

Re: [Cooker] kernel versions

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Austin wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ofcourse, discussions for 9.2 multimedia kernel are welcome... > > If rivatv and effectv patches don't make it into main (as I have requested on > the wiki), then maybe in the mm kernel at least?

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On 7 Jul 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > ??? I think this is relevent for 0.1% of ppl out there. That must be 10% of all linux users! It is always good practice to make even small minorities happy, if it does not make a majority unhappy, IMO. > Debating on the patch is a *good* thing IM

Kernel-multimedia (WAS: [Cooker] kernel versions)

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On 7 Jul 2003, Jason Komar wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ofcourse, discussions for 9.2 multimedia kernel are welcome... > > I think highmem support for the multimedia kernel would be great. I mean > a person could always just recompile it themselves, but I b

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If > > you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it > > never occurs, for others only rarely) > > Hi > > Thanks for the help. > I applied this patch to

Re: [Cooker] kernel versions

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > Compiling for -mm kernel should be no different from normal kernel, > since -mm kernel also has smp and source packages (why no enterprise?). Because I thought at first you would only want to use enterprise on servers. And actually also because I thought

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Frederic Crozat wrote: > The goal of this mailing list is to stabilize cooker, nothing else.. what about other goals? Like working together to fix problems? Where is the list for that? d. >

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

2003-07-07 Thread danny
On 7 Jul 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > It's just a matter of categorizing discussions. I happen to not > follow closely KDE discussions for example. > > If people can't categorize (with the subject) in cooker ML, I > don't think they will be able to select the right mailing-list to > post t

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On 6 Jul 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > probably because it's a bit of a pain to apply the patch and recompile > the kernel...is there no easier way of testing? > I just did think of an easier way to test it: grab a copy of the 22mdk kernel in the clubcontributions for 9.1 (under unsupported on

Re: [Cooker] Boot hangs at Finding Module Dependencies after urpmi --auto-select this morning

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On 6 Jul 2003, Jason Komar wrote: > use. I am not here to use the cooker list as a support list. In this > particular case however, the mbox file with the last 6 months of the > cooker list in it is on the machine that I can't boot. So if I could > READ the LIST I would gladly READ the LIST. I don

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On 6 Jul 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > and the winner is > > > minilogd. > > > > Well why do you think Andrey's patch i resent was called devfs.minilogd ? > > I think the problem is r

[Cooker] [Bug 3575] [kernel] supermount allows mounting same dir twice in mdk-9.1 final

2003-07-06 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3575 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-07 23:15 --- on the mirrors under mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/ you can find a 22mdk kernel which probably fixes all your supermount bugs. However, this bug can

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On 6 Jul 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > probably because it's a bit of a pain to apply the patch and recompile > the kernel...is there no easier way of testing? > Ah...but I still suspect you are all being lazy. It is not that much work to compile a minimal kernel with this patch. It is a ti

Re: [Cooker] Boot hangs at Finding Module Dependencies after urpmi --auto-select this morning

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On 6 Jul 2003, Jason Komar wrote: > After updating my cooker machine this morning, my system stopped during > boot at Finding Module Dependencies. I let it sit there for quite some > time and it didn't progress any further. A Ctrl SysRq yielded: > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 512: 335 Quit > init

[Cooker] [Bug 3022] [kernel] Shuting down from KDE freezes my laptop

2003-07-06 Thread [danny]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3022 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-07 20:51 --- I think this was an X free bug with radeons and is fixed in cooker. d. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiv

Re: [Cooker] fam not working??

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, phriedrich wrote: > Yes fam requires portmap ... but fam didn't tell me ... I found out when searching > the > log-files for some helpy things. Well, harrass the maintainer. I think i tried a while ago but was not succesful... d.

[Cooker] OT: 9.1 kernel with ACLs and other stuff

2003-07-06 Thread danny
Some of you might be interested in this 9.1 kernel update (based on 0.18mdk): - better supermount (supermount-ng.sourceforge.net) - fix for ldm_validate_partition and ppa cable warning messages - alsa emu10k1 oops fix - newer pci ids - bus_ide_piix and bus_ide_nvidia_udma100(nforce) fixes - aic7x

Re: [Cooker] dosbox in main?

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Per [utf-8] Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > dosemu used to be in main, but have been dropped (due to compile problems..?) > dosbox is far easier to use and works right out of the box on several > platforms, no need for configuration

Re: [Cooker] cooker - state of play

2003-07-06 Thread danny
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Blindauer Emmanuel wrote: > > This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If > > you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it > > never occurs, for others only rarely) > > not sure. > I've upgraded my whole box (and kernel

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