Re: [Cooker] what next

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:51 pm, Tsyko wrote: > I have a "mirrored" image of the site but when I run the makecd scripts I > keep getting errors with the rpm files. > It does continue and builds 5 iso images. Are these errors normal? > If you are installing on the same machine you downloade

Re: [Cooker] RC2 no updates for testing

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:59 am, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > I installed RC2, and tried the new updated packages option at the end of > the installation. It did not ask me anything, and just went on to > "mission completed"... > > I think there may be 2 problems here: one is that there is n

Re: [Cooker] Final in Septembre???

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 04:10 am, Emmanuel wrote: > Hi all, > > Quick question for all of you guys: will Mandrakesoft release 9.2 even > if it is not ready??? i.e. is Mandrakesoft desperate to get a version > out before the end of Septembre or is there any chance for a RC3 ?? i.e. > does

Re: [Cooker] Installing to SATA drives

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 02:03 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > Hit f1 at the splash and type linux noapic acpi=off > > and may be also pci=noacpi I was reading that to use acpi for cpu enumeration only you use acpi=ht instead of pci=noacpi in the latest patches. -- /g "Outside of a do

Re: [Cooker] Installing to SATA drives

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:30 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:51, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:25 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: > > > drive. On the first stage install, it mentions that that hard drive is > > > "losing

Re: [Cooker] Installing to SATA drives

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:25 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: > drive. On the first stage install, it mentions that that hard drive is > "losing the interrupt" frequently as it works it's way through. That's the kind of thing that happens when i/o apic and/or acpi is not working properly. What mobo

[Cooker] Error updating Samba-client

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
I got this error while updating packages tonight. error: %preun(samba-client-2.2.8a-12mdk) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 What other info can I provide. I don't see any log entries. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx

Re: [Cooker] Installing to SATA drives

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:38 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: > > Why? At the syslinux prompt (the first screen you see), hit F1, and type: > > linux noacpi acpi=off > > (and add any other ones you think may be useful, hit F2 to see some more > > options, you might want vgahi, expert and a few others

Re: [Cooker] Installing to SATA drives

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:25 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: > drive. On the first stage install, it mentions that that hard drive is > "losing the interrupt" frequently as it works it's way through. That's the kind of thing that happens when i/o apic and/or acpi is not working properly. What mobo

[Cooker] Error updating Samba-client

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
I got this error while updating packages tonight. error: %preun(samba-client-2.2.8a-12mdk) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 What other info can I provide. I don't see any log entries. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx

[Cooker] Floppy Image Descriptions

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
I'd like to add a summary to the wiki of what scenarios all the floppy images are useful for. Does this exist anywhere or can someone give a quick rundown of where I am wrong on the difference between the floppy images: hd.img - install from hard drive hd_usb.img - Install from hard drive with

Re: [Cooker] Missing side pane in latest Konqueror

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:52 pm, Michael E. Jaggers wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/07/03 >at 08:03 PM, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >On Sunday 07 September 2003 04:14 pm, Robert Fox wrote: > >> I thought this was the "link vie

Re: [Cooker] Missing side pane in latest Konqueror

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 September 2003 04:14 pm, Robert Fox wrote: > I thought this was the "link view" - but I could be wrong. > > All I know is, since I have tried the latest Cooker KDE (3.14?) > I don't get the side pane (navigation) in Konqueror file browser (see > attached picture) - now all I get are t

Re: [Cooker] urmpi and kernel

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:13 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > argh... > I mixed 2 different messages :-( > of course when you are using original kernel it should be: > /lib/modules/2.4.22-5mdk/build symlink pointing to > /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-5mdk > > and as you stated that's already the case,

Re: [Cooker] kernel-utils missing from mirrors

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:27 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > It's just because it's not been rebuilt to depend on bootloader-utils > > > instead, I think... > > I think the point is that even with bootloader-utils installed, kernel2.6 complains of needing kernel-utils. Since there appare

Re: [Cooker] urmpi and kernel

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:13 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > # make olconfig dep Do you mean "make oldconfig dep"? ^ -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx

Re: [Cooker] urmpi and kernel

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 05:06 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > From: "Greg Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Friday 05 September 2003 04:21 pm, guran wrote: > > > On Friday 05 September 2003 20.41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > > > > > Why do

Re: [Cooker] urmpi and kernel

2003-09-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 September 2003 04:21 pm, guran wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 20.41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > Why do you need it in root directory? > > > > Just do 'urpmi kernel', and you will be shown a list, > > select the one you need and it will be installed > > > > > > Thomas > As

Re: [Cooker] urpmi problem during auto-select

2003-09-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 September 2003 04:52 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:28:14 +0200 > Pascal Terjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A conflict between bootloader-utils-1.6-1mdk and initscripts <= > > 7.06-23mdk would solve that. > > I had suggested a prereq in bootloader utils f

[Cooker] Packages with bad signatures

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Meyer
During my update tonight I got the following packages with bad signatures: RPMS/gnome-vfs2-2.3.8-3mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (sha1 md5 OK) RPMS/libgnome-vfs2_0-2.3.8-3mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (sha1 md5 OK) RPMS2/kdemoreartwork-plastik-0.3.3-1mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (sha1 md5 O

Re: [Cooker] How do I get the fixes?

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 09:46 am, Clive Dove wrote: > > I downloaded the iso image just after they hit the mirrors, ran md5sum, then > installed , leaving my pre-existing /home partition alone > > I wound up with a KDE desktop on which desktop objects, panel objects and > whole branches of

Re: [Cooker] [CONGRATULATIONS] mdk new lilo/boot/wallpaper theme

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 09:48 am, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > congratulation for new mdk lilo theme, bootsplash theme and wallpaper > theme, and gdm theme. > 1°/ They are beautiful > 2°/ they are consistent from the beginning ( lilo ) to the end ( > wallpaper ). That's very nice and sensible > Th

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4963] [drakxtools] printerdrake window and printer list is too small

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 10:36 am, [gc] wrote: > > --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-09 16:36 --- > First, I don't see the connection with rpmdrake. Second, I'm kind of fed up with > again and again UI critics with rpmdrake. > I think the reference was to the t

Re: [Cooker] compiling nvidia module failed on 2.4.22-3mdkenterprise

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 02:16 pm, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Compiling the nvidia module > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363 > has worked up to and including 2.4.22-2mdkenterprise. > But the compiling with 2.4.22-3mdkenterprise gives > a lot of errors of this type: > /lib/modules/2.4.22-3mdkenterprise/build/

Re: [Cooker] Anyone having troubles with win4lin 4 on cooker?

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:22 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > > BTW, is there interest in having win4lin kernels in contrib? They would > > > > be small (~60k SRPM, ~1.2MB per win4lin-kernel package), and just > &

Re: [Cooker] a cooker-only member-only mirror?

2003-08-31 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 August 2003 10:27 am, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > Hi, > > There's been a lot of traffic on the list lately about mirror problems. > > My partner and I are FINALLY (after some 4 1/2 months of waiting) having > commercial cable installed this week or next week. Include

Re: [Cooker] wiki update (9.2 schedule / CREDITS)

2003-08-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:02 am, Warly wrote: > Well, the cooker-howto is more a contribution to the wiki, better you > add you name there. > > Anyway if you think your contribution to the Cooker-howto help > building the 9.2, you can add your name to the CREDITS, I guess anyone > is wize enou

Re: [Cooker] wiki update (9.2 schedule / CREDITS)

2003-08-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 August 2003 06:54 am, Warly wrote: > Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2003-08-30(Sat) 08:32:14 +0200, Warly wrote: > >> >> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux92Credits > >> > Is it reasonable to have your name there ? It make think other mdk

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

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:42 am, w9ya wrote: > Actually, ALL email programs I am aware of can deal with this just fine. I > have considered changing them, but most emailing lists I subscribe to > replace > that field on incoming messages to the reflector itself. I need this setting > for other wo

Re: [Cooker] bad md5sums on RC1?

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 28 August 2003 09:55 am, Braddock, Joseph wrote: > I have downloaded the ISO images twice from two different mirrors and each > time, running md5sum -c 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc fails on all three ISOs. Before > burning these, are the ISOs bad are is the 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc bad? > Use rsync t

Re: [Cooker] how to set up DNS (client)

2003-08-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:26 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: > /etc/hosts > > Will allow you to tell the it what ip should be used for each name you give > I believe he wanted to add additional DNS servers for resolution, not resolution for specific hosts. > Mike > > Helge Hielscher wrote: > > >

Re: [Cooker] Cooker tester

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 05:08 am, Radek Vybiral wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Beta2 from ISOs and I'd like to become a Cooker tester. > So I added Cooker-main and Cooker-contrib FTP URLs to the list of packages > in MDK Control Center. > > But Mandrake Update says there are no new packages to

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:38 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > BTW, does anyone know if tmdns is of any use? If all it's going to do is > make `hostname` resolve on the local machine, we might as well use > /etc/hosts for this. If the user has DHCP, chances are they have DNS, and > tmdns is useless. Appa

Re: [Cooker] kdm / root login debate

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 04 August 2003 12:34 pm, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Could somebody give me a good reason why one should be able to login to > KDE/Gnome as root, i.e. not being able to do the same thing as an > ordinary user using su? Because I want to. Waaahhh! :-p -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's b

Re: [Cooker] Anyone having troubles with win4lin 4 on cooker?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 06:06 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 05:13 am, Leon Brooks wrote: > >>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:05, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > >>>This is

Re: [Cooker] Anyone having troubles with win4lin 4 on cooker?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 05:13 am, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:05, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > This is a bit frustrating. If nobody knows what might be causing this > > (it just instantly segfaults rather than starting up), I'll see if I > > can figure it out. If anyone has any clue

Re: [Cooker] Re: kde splitting: some problems

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 August 2003 02:21 am, Laurent Montel wrote: > > kdebase requires kdm, meaning you can't install kde without kdm/mdkdm > > kdebase will require all the time kdm. Doesn't it make more sense for kdebase to require dm and have all of the kdm/gdm/xdm/mdkkdm provide dm? Especially if mdkk

Re: [Cooker] How to ???

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 09 August 2003 06:58 pm, Laurent Saint-Michel wrote: > - English : http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html (more complete) Much more complete http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 07:24 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 02:11 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Can someone tell me what the problem is, something besides > > Here is my list: > > No clock > No hostname display > Cannot customize graphic > I don&

Re: [Cooker] OT: mandrakesecure.net

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 August 2003 09:49 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > But you should also be subscribed to the security mailing lists, which > are still operational, and advisories are also posted on I tried to subscribe to mnf list the other day and got no response from server. I just assumed that ML was

Re: [Cooker] Re: kde splitting: some problems

2003-08-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:45 pm, Texstar wrote: > Its just crazy breaking all this source code into thousands of rpms. > How many times has this discussion been had before. I think the argument goes something like this. Cooker #1: I use kmail but not knode, so why can't we do like SuSE and a

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 04 August 2003 02:11 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > All the configuration tools work. Sure, you might want to know that it's > not the standard kdm, but no-one was purposely hiding this from you ... But it wasn't advertised either. > Can someone tell me what the problem is, something besides

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 August 2003 05:24 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > See the cooker howto on the wiki, it basically involves > loopback-mounting the image, coping the initrd image and the kernel out > the floppy, and adding a lilo boot entry for it. Also, with this method, > you can pass more options via LI

Re: [Cooker] Network Upgrade 9.0 - 9.2

2003-07-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 July 2003 06:37 pm, Joe Baker wrote: > Is there an FTP server that services the Mandrake 9.2 individual > files verses the whole ISO images? > 9.2 right now is called cooker and it is on the mandrake-devel tree of any mirror. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, i

[Cooker] Missing krootwarning that isn't missing???

2003-07-27 Thread Greg Meyer
I cannot install kdebase 3.1.2-32 because krootwarning must be greater than or equal to 9.1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi --auto-select Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebase-3.1.2-32mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied krootwarning[>= 9.1]) kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.2-32mdk.i586 (due to

Re: [Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:24 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM > system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a > whole flock of packages to add to a base install, and between the time > I selected them and the time

Re: [Cooker] RedHat trying to beat us at our own game?

2003-07-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 21 July 2003 05:18 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > BTW, I have made some biggish changes to the main cooker wiki page, > please let me know if I have lost something, and I will try and find it > ... and if I don't get feedback, I may just continue doing what I like ;-). I like where you are go

Re: [Cooker] some observations

2003-07-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 21 July 2003 04:34 am, Michael Scherer wrote: > So, don't worry, as usual, everything is under control... It seems to me more like controlled chaos :-) -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx

Re: [Cooker] installation and errata

2003-07-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 20 July 2003 09:15 am, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > > Aren't these usually addressed by "patch" floppy images? You image a > > floppy, boot the installation disk, type 'patch' at the syslinux prompt, > > and put the floppy

Re: [Cooker] Glide project is dead

2003-07-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:30 pm, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 17 July 2003 01:09, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > All (or lot of) Glide* rpm are not readable on cooker. > > One won't build as it, I checked on website for update > > (http:

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select

2003-07-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 03:34 pm, Per Lindström wrote: > When I use urpmi --auto-select I get thismessages: > > Some package requested cannot be installed: > galaxy-kde-kwin-0.2-22.1mdk.i586 (för att kdebase-3.1-83mdk.i586 saknas) > k3b-0.8.1-3mdk.i586 (för att kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk.i586 saknas) >

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

2003-07-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 04:34 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > receive can. Everyone is happy. Problem solved. I think Ben has eloquently created a workable middle ground. I was on the fence until I read his post, but I think that he makes some strong arguments for seperating lists, and I would suppor

Re: [Cooker] Some advices on the desktop

2003-07-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:52 pm, 汤诗语 wrote: > I know the new Mandrake 9.2 will released in 4 months. > So I think that it is the time to tell you my > experience on 9.1: > 1. The "start" menu should be changed, especilly the > "Office" menu. You put the OpenOffice and KOffice and > other offices

Re: [Cooker] Making DVD's of cooker?

2003-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 05 July 2003 07:52 am, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Warly wrote: > > Well, it explains you that the arguments to the auto option are > > > >... > RPMS directory n> > > > > and you simply provided nothing. > > > > ./MakeCD --discsize 700m -a /coo

Re: [Cooker] OT X multi-user (was Fast user switching in KDE)

2003-07-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 04 July 2003 11:02 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > basicly you need only to install the kernel & may be patched XFree, > configure XFree for additional input devices(mice) and additional layouts. > and setup dm to start the X servers. but that's for 2 users. I agree it is pretty simple

Re: [Cooker] pcmcia sequence in boot

2003-07-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 04 July 2003 12:13 pm, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > Hi! > > I think the pcmcia is placed wrongly in the boot sequence. > It should be placed before any services that use pcmcia, such as > networking, but it is not. It is now S11pcmcia but should probably be > something like S06pcmcia - thi

Re: [Cooker] OT X multi-user (was Fast user switching in KDE)

2003-07-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 04 July 2003 03:48 am, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > sort of reply to > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=105727878726175&w=2 > > ... > > >These incredibly fast macines have way more than enough power for many > >standard home users, wouldn't this be cool. > > > >I seem to

Re: [Cooker] Congratulations

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 July 2003 03:03 pm, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > Yes, I do work for HP on the deskjet linux team. I am the inkjet support > person for HP. Trying to do lasers too. > > Anyway, also wanted to mention... Not sure if this is confidential or not > but... Word inside for HP/Com

Re: [Cooker] Fast user switching in KDE

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:20 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > We have discussed this feature before, and it seems it is trivial to get > this to work, since kdm seems to support it if the xdm config files are > right. > > Credit for finding this goes t

Re: [Cooker] Some Ideas for rescue-mode

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 30 June 2003 06:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since I had to use the rescue-mode of the Installation-CD lately, I had > some ideas about a few nice features: 1. could midnight commander be > included, it has a nice editor If you have midnight commandrer installed, you can probably ru

Re: [Cooker] wish for mdk 9.2: file shadow functionality

2003-06-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 27 June 2003 02:26 pm, andre wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 01:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:42 pm, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > Anyway I am not interesed in mimicking what MS does, but in something > > > that is useful and conveni

Re: [Cooker] wish for mdk 9.2: file shadow functionality

2003-06-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:42 pm, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > Anyway I am not interesed in mimicking what MS does, but in something > that is useful and convenient to the average MDK user. > I personally don't find this useful. When I delete a file, I want it to be deleted. That, in combinat

Re: [Cooker] Cooker development - how do things happen?

2003-06-22 Thread Greg Meyer
.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux is more info about what is going on development wise. BTW, I am interested in what the Cooker HOWTO document should additionally address, so feedback, especially that which is critical or points out problems, is very welcome. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-20 Thread Greg Meyer
;s, and not able to assist in the developement of any changes, I need to spend my time on other more valuable (to me) issues, so I am officially dropping out of this conversation. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Greg Meyer
way to query the system to see what is installed, yet many long time Windows users insist that package management in Windows is easier. I continue to maintain, and you can disagree with me, that Windows software just seems easier because it is familiar. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-19 Thread Greg Meyer
it from source. In fact, places like alt.os.linx.mandrake are full of people trying to build software from source or get it from rpmfind when it is available on their CD's or in contrib. I don't think some people realize the number of programs that are packaged for Mandrake. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
ht try to just work around > it. I do on other people's mail all the time. > I wasn't trying to be snotty, I have just found that many people do not realize the reply-to is set in their client and in 99% of the cases it is set to the same address as the From field (as yours is), in which case a reply-to is totally unecessary, but this is way OT, so I'll apologize for coming across as an elitist snot and leave it at that. -- Greg

[Cooker] How soon until we see a snapshot release?

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
Warly originally said end of June. Are we an track? I am planning on spamming a link to the Cooker HOWTO page in the Cooker TWiki to the usual ML hangouts coinciding with the release of the snapshot, I just want to know how much more time there is to work on content. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
;t know what to do. IMO, if you want mass adoption, you have to make it easy and making it easy means making it familiar. I'm not advocating that, but I think it a truth. BTW, remove your reply-to setting, it's causing replies to your Cooker messages to get addressed to you personally. -- Greg

[Cooker] Real difference between a beta release and a release condidate

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
I'd like to get some clarity on what the official differences are between a beta release and a release candidate. Also, what is the difference between a freeze and a deep-freeze and how do those terms relate to beta vs. rc? -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bootsplash question...

2003-06-14 Thread Greg Meyer
; I was looking into how to make the bootsplash.org version work on 9.1, but > I, unfortunately, don't really understand how either version works. > Isn't this already used by mandrake? -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] gnome-themes-extras-0.1-1mdk

2003-06-13 Thread Greg Meyer
it? > > I'm not sure Ximian will be ok for us to distribute it.. I'll check with > them next week at GUADEC.. They have to be if they have licensed under GPL, yes. And if they are not, then they should not use GPL. -- Greg

[Cooker] Is Cooker in an Installable State Right Now.

2003-06-09 Thread Greg Meyer
I lost the hard drive that had my cooker installation and need to reinstall it. Is it installable right now, or do I have to do a clean install of 9.1 and update it to cooker? -- Greg

[Cooker] Nice to See Bugzilla Working Again

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Meyer
It's nice to see Bugzilla working again. I haven't received over a hundred messages from Cooker in quite some time. Good work. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] acpi and mdk9.1

2003-06-01 Thread Greg Meyer
oo.Whatever i do > when acpi is different that "acpi=off" my laptop freeze at boot. On some laptops, acpi has a buggy implementation and just does not work properly. BTW, cooker is not a support list, but a development list. The better forum for this question is the expert mailing list. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:02 am, Austin wrote: > On 2003.05.28 08:36, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Perhaps we should spam the club forums, pclo forums, a.o.l.m, the mailing > > lists and put an article on the frontpage of Club with info that now is > > the time to make feature r

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-05-28 Thread Greg Meyer
cle on the frontpage of Club with info that now is the time to make feature requests, not when rc2 comes out. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
. > > I think wiki's are great. =) So now I do to. Are you happy now :-P -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Purging older versions of software in cooker?

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
he files that are no longer on the ftp site, ot you could try David Wlaser's rsync script. http://luigiwalser.homeip.net:8080/~david/cooksync.pl -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349)

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
regoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files). -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] bugs (wish list for 9.2)

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
we forgot which > > box we were installing. Upgrade does not appear to be working well either. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Greg Meyer
there are others. All of those things should have been pretty close to done for the first beta. There were major changes to all of them between beta3 and rc1. -- Greg

[Cooker] cvs.mandrakesoft.com

2003-03-23 Thread Greg Meyer
Anybody else notice that cvs.mandrakesoft.com is down? Anybody know why? -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: When??

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 21 March 2003 09:13 am, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:21:48AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Maybe there is finally going to be some sanity and the delay of the > > release until the boxes are ready. > > Fair enough. But if that is the case, t

Re: [Cooker] Re: When??

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
nd of wait > with past releases. ISO's came on the heels of the mandrake_release > RPM finally being updated. > > > It would be good to get an approximation from Mandrake on this. > > Completely agree! > > b. Maybe there is finally going to be some sanity and the delay of the release until the boxes are ready. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] CUPS: only root can print

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Meyer
pq -l; done on one terminal while printing > with lpr from one other). > If I try to print as root, it works. > > Hope this gives some light... That would mean the problem is permissions related then. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] More problems with last cooker

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Meyer
the kernel is not > installed. > > In the cd1 the file is presents, around 17 Mb. > > So, what can I do? is the second time I have downloaded (wget) cooker from > the Spanish server "rediris". > > :-( Make a boot floppy with hd.img and install from the hard disk. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
more users = more satisfied users = more club members -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:24 pm, Helge Hielscher wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >Why don't you just mirror cooker and install from hard disk? It's a much > >faster install anyway. > > Is there a HOWTO somewhere? Does it work on a floppy-less PC? > Don't

Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
eneral problem with > KDE/Qt, then other distros and LFS will be running into the same problem. > Thus it really should be reported. I will go and do that, but again, I was hoping to have some evidence about whether this is a qt problem or a Mandrake specific bug introduced in the packaging. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 wishlist: urpmi --optimise

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
etc. definitely provide better responsiveness or crispness in the gui. I'm not sure how to benchmark this though. I had already planned on trying to benchmark the effects of optimizing gcc itself for athlon-xp, I'll have to give some thought to how to provide empirical evidence of performance improvements of the rest of the system. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] New features

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
nce the tools didn't fit on the floppy. It is marked as > WONTFIX. > > Making a CD instead would be a nice way how to get out of this. > It would be nice to burn 1 cd, perhaps one of those mini ones to do all installs from. This would allow all of these special hacks to be rolled into one easy to use image for all situations. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 11:12 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:08:23 -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:44 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: > >> > It wasn't a kde problem... a patch was applied to libqt3 between 12mdk > >>

[Cooker] New features

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
perhaps other obscure modules on hd and network installs. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
the isos. > Why even create iso's, just use hd.img. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
a bug in QT3 and should it be reported upstream? -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
ease. > > Could anyone of the Mandrake team give us a clue? > > Thanks a lot, yours sincerely Why don't you just mirror cooker and install from hard disk? It's a much faster install anyway. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
iscovered the patch with others help pointing me in the right direction. I meant that if is a qt bug that prevents it from falling back to no AA when no render extension is present, should I report it to trolltech? Or will the kde team (or someone from mandrakesoft handle that. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
in Qt and recompile it. > > I guess, that the bug is in Qt's handling of antialiasing, it does not fall > back to non-antialiased mode when Render is not available and crashes the > application. > > Jan I'll ask again then. Should this be reported upstream? I didn't see anything about this in the KDE bugzilla. I did not check trolltech. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Mailing lists with KMail

2003-03-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:52 pm, HoytDuff wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 09:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 08:38 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > Middle-click the mailing list folder name. This makes a new message > > > addressed to the

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