I'm editing html files in Emacs and everytime I cut and paste
a URL, KDE asks me if I want to open it in Netscape. It's
maddening! Much better if there was a hot key to do it.
XEmacs in 7.1 used to work well on the linux console. With recent
versions in cooker, I get invisible text. (e.g. launch dired, then
most of mode chars in filename are invisible).
(Maybe not Mandrake's fault, since xemacs -nw -q -no-site-file has
the same problem...)
Subject: xemacs-21.1.12-1mdk: function def void: x-set-selection
I wish you wouldn't put these buggy site inits with XEmacs!
The kernel header files autoconf.h and version.h need extra cases for
the fb variations. Noticed this when configuring vmware, which
claimed a version mismatch until I made this patch.
autoconf.h
version.h
kwm seems to have disappeared from the current rpms...
rpm-3.0.5-2mdk seems to give silly syntax errors from
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.* all the time, e.g.
var/tmp/rpm-tmp.269: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `;then'
var/tmp/rpm-tmp.269: line 2: ` /usr/share/info/teyjus.info.bz2
--dir=/usr/share/info/dir --remove ;fiif [ "$1" = "0" ];then
the buildroot is compiled into binary of clisp
Guillaume,
Apologies for my flaming on this. The new rescue facility sounds
great, I'd wondered for ages why there wasn't one built into the CD
before. I'm not on the changelog list so maybe missed mention of
the new facility.
Cheers,
- David.
I really like Jürgen's suggestion, and if there isn't such an archive
already it would be nice to make one for Linux Mandrake.
I have some spec files for other "downloadable" packages I
could contribute.
- David.
Jürgen Zimmermann writes:
Hello,
I wonder if there is an archive of
This goes on and on.
yes -- but at this time we have to go forward and come back only for major
issues. this is the "deep freeze" as Chmouel stated it.
I'm amazed supplying an osbolete rescue utility that is incompatible
with the distribution isn't classified as "major".
My xfs always dies.
The reason seems to be that drakfont can't find any ttf fonts (I have
vfat partition but no c:\windows\fonts) and leaves two empty font
dirs.
xfs reports problems with font path elements... the empty drakfont
directories
Please fix this!
Thanks.
I second this.
There's no point bundling a repair disk that cannot mount the
filesystems created by the distro!!
I had this problem with 7.0 too.
- D.
Just updated to latest cooker.
Colours on XEmacs have changed to something horrendous and ugly. The
ordinary defaults that blend well with the rest of the desktop are
*much* better. Could you change back, please, please?
- D.
The current behaviour, instead, is quite ... aggressive. I suppose
this was to make the migration easier (deleting the existing kdelnk/desktop
files), but rpm -U could have done that instead, no ?
I wondered why my system listed about a hundred missing .desktop files
when I did rpm -Va
Okay, this was discussed a while back but still isn't fixed for me.
Since beta-2 or so I have huge fonts in Netscape. Changing the fonts
menu doesn't help whatever I select.
How do I fix it? (More to the point, why isn't it working by default?)
While others are raving about drakfont, I've
Guillaume Cottenceau writes:
Colours on XEmacs have changed to something horrendous and ugly. The
ordinary defaults that blend well with the rest of the desktop are
*much* better. Could you change back, please, please?
You Should Use Emacs (tm) :-).
Good, you *are* joking!
In
Also, for bugs already cited and not been fixed, it often comes from the
fact that either it seems a very minor bug and we're stuck to bigger
problems, or, we don't know how to fix it.
Have you thought of using a bug tracking system for the distribution?
It could cut down the amount of
Pablo,
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, as I said, whatever I select I get
huge fonts. Scalable or no.
My impression was that it was font server related rather than netscape
(but I may be wrong).
- D.
Pablo Saratxaga writes:
Kaixo!
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:20:38PM +0100, David
nothing set the default colors from XEmacs.
Theres a chance that XEmacs is responding to generic Emacs.*
resources, while it would ignore emacs.* ones? Have you
edited those?
yes.. but also look at the menu system we produce with the 7.1 ; all your
apps get a menu entry, it's much more neat than ever for "standard" [eg
shipped by mandrake installation cd 7.1] apps.
Yep, that's good.
But couldn't you check the wmconfig directory too to support "legacy"
apps for
yep. we do now. we are in progress, to make it publicly available to you
cookers. should be done within weeks.
Good news!
not true IMHO. just look at the number of things people ask even when we
answer. there is too much traffic here so that people can read all. for
the bug tracking
There must still be some things that count as show stoppers...
cannot open RPM database, anyone?
Would be nice if this package worked also for XEmacs and was
set to autoload for .ml files if loaded.
- D.
(i'm adding this as a README)
Sure, thanks.
Probably best not to add it by default, come to think of it, it's
faulty with XEmacs (and maybe Emacs too, code is a bit old).
- D.
yes, it's ok to launch in rc.sysinit, which is hwat should be done.
Not quite okay!!
rc.sysinit ought to work without mounting /usr
but lots of stuff including the hdparm setup in initscripts-4.97-36mdk
assumes that /usr is mounted
this is bad and needs fixing
- D.
# Optimisation of
Has anyone managed to get this working?
I followed all the instructions in the NVidia FAQ but the server fails
to load nvidia_drv with an error message something like this:
nvidia_drv: cannot find nvidia_drvModulePath
Is this a known problem? Any suggestions?
Kernel module loaded fine,
Sorry, I know you really don't want to rebuild it... but perhaps we
could have some of the documentation available for 4.0 in a package
somewhere? (e.g. server man pages, etc. I couldn't find it anywhere).
By doing such things you do not respect linux philosophy.
Sigh. Some of us may have bought or inherited the hardware already.
It's no use saying go out and buy another card.
So, if you have the hardware, you can do a valuable service to yourself
and others by joining an open-source driver project, or starting one,
for that furschlugginer card. Look around on web pages with a search
engine, or check newsgroups, or thumb through the listings at
btw, when i now do "shutdown (poweroff)" the 7.1-2 does actually
"auto-power-off on shutdown"! finally!
This doesn't work for me, I dearly wish it would.
I have an SMP machine, but I think I have the correct kernel options:
apm=on,smp-power-off
to enable the smp hack for power off.
Every so often when removing packages I get long lists of error
messages from RPM like this:
Package Makefile not found in file index
Package face.xpm not found in file index
Each one repeated 100 times or so. Has anyone else seen this?
Is there any fix?
Rebuildding database and upgrading
I've had several of these lately. I've got a TNT card, using that
driver at 24bpp (I get messages that 32bpp is not supported by
driver).
One sure way to make it crash seems to be to launch xmms.
I've had several of these lately. I've got a TNT card, using that
driver at 24bpp (I get messages that 32bpp is not supported by
driver).
One sure way to make it crash seems to be to launch xmms.
uhhh we are not going to debug XF4 on TNT ;-))
Sorry I know it was a lame
I expect to perhaps re-order the services a bit, but
mandrake_everytime is hardwired from rc.sysinit, and expects /usr
to be mounted. (calls kdmSession and also uses "cut" and "uniq")
Could you fix this please, maybe call it as a service later on?
kernel-headers doesn't match kernel-smp
It breaks compilations specific for running kernel.
Is there an easy solution already? Or do you need kernel-smp-headers
really?
- D.
Somebody else noted this. I'm not sure what the problem is but
things worked fine with mdk 7.0.
Often there is a lock file /var/lock/subsys/resume left around and
messages in klog about it. Removing that file and starting/stopping
apmd usually gets the machine to suspend eventually. A major
see subject
I like the idea of spec-helper, but (like a few things in Mandrake),
it's a fancy feature which breaks a lot of things, in this case any
SRPMs which don't use RPM_BUILD_ROOT.
I think it's because of the "exit 1" in /usr/share/spec-helper which
breaks the build process in these cases.
Could
Of course, before you tell me, all SRPMs *should* use a build root.
But many don't and I still like to be able to build them!
I'd like to have a small install for a laptop usage.
Problem is, some huge but goofy packages get drawn in.
Main example is the enormous screen savers package, which I have to
include if I want to run GNOME. Couldn't we have a cut down version
of that package with just one screensaver in? I
Dear Mandrake builders,
It's nice to see that you put in the fix to the font thing I
suggested.
Unfortunately I still think some of the stuff in the default start up
is a Bad Idea. Why?
I get an error message whenever I try to type % near an open bracket.
I happen to type that quite a lot
Still getting this error. Is there any interim fix? Can I switch off
the thing that does the menu install and run that by hand?
remove menu package!
Duh! Of course. Thanks.
Guillaume Cottenceau writes:
you just have to wait some seconds before update-menus is finished! it's
not a so-big-deal...
Not at the command prompt but in general it is -- try a script like
autorpm which does several installs in quick succession. (I know of
several sites using this for
Apart from the problem with rpm I like the idea of the menu
package and streamlining menus with the translate_menus file.
But I find it odd to have no top-level "System" menu, rather hard to
find all the useful system things stuffed under
Applications/Monitoring?
- D.
Asking for trouble, I tried out the beta on a diskless client...
Not too bad but the startup order is difficult for a late nfs-mounted
/usr
anacron
kudzu
at least fail since they appear before netfs
- D.
Any chance of making this link?
Be nice for folk like me who have got used to typing "locate", 8-).
- D.
Look for a file like
/usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.*/config/kernel-2.2.*-i586-secure.config
and compare it to
/usr/src/kernel-doc-2.2.*/config/kernel-2.2.*-i586.config
Till
Don't think so:
[da@avocado da]$ rpm -q kernel-doc
kernel-doc-2.2.15-0.28mdk
[da@avocado
One thing that seems to halt the installation dead in it's track is
theinclusion of more than one Windows ( FAT or NTFS ) file
system. My system has 3 Windows file systems ( NTFS, FAT, NTFS for
VMWare ) and I could not finish the install until I prevented two
I also had problems with a crashing font server. It complained at
the line:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
I ran mkfontdir in that directory and/or copied a file from previous
mandrake to fix this (some new fonts added in fonts.alias file I
think?)
Might be worth checking.
- D.
Would be very handy to include the default configs for kernel,
kernel-fb, kernel-smp inside the kernel source package.
If I want to change something small I'd rather not have to go through
whole configuration.
- D.
Has anyone noticed an weird problem using the rpm command in quick
succession to upgrade packages? I occasionally get the spurious error
"cannot open database" between commands.
This wasn't a problem until I started using autorpm to upgrade cooker
rpms automatically from a local mirror
Recent upgrade destroyed my kde menus. Saw mention of kappfinder4root
in mandrake_firsttime and thought it ran when 7.1 first upgraded.
But I can't find it now on the system or in any package in cooker?
- D.
I've always hated the default .emacs supplied by Mandrake.
Imagine my shock to see the new xemacs has a site-start.el which
trashes my default font settings, amongst the other mess there.
Could you not make this file optional?
- David.
P.S.
To be a bit less abrasive, here is a much more polite way to set the
default font for you:
(set-face-font 'default "-*-Fixed-Medium-R-*-*-*-130-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1")
You should use this in place of the line
(setq default-frame-alist '((font .
xemacs -q
C-SPC produces error: void function x-set-selection
Please consider removing the junk from this file.
I consider the path settings acceptable, the rest is forcing your
personal (and buggy) preferences on others.
- David.
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