Re: [Cooker] Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-22 Thread Guy McArthur
Can Gimp 1.3 do these? * rotate by arbitrary # of degrees * free rotate * perspective transform * other warping transforms Apologies for the off-topic. I tried looking for a gimp-1.3 features list. -- Guy

Re: [Cooker] usb webcam in mandrake 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Guy McArthur
Thierry Vignaud wrote: Guy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I had to add the line "above ov511 ovcamchip" to /etc/modules.conf for my Creative USB webcam (I think it uses the same usb chip as your Phillips). This is because the kernel module was renamed (search for '

Re: [Cooker] LM9.2: What a nice release!

2003-10-21 Thread Guy McArthur
Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those are not available through urpmi, go buy them!

[Cooker] usb webcam in mandrake 9.2

2003-10-21 Thread Guy McArthur
I had to add the line "above ov511 ovcamchip" to /etc/modules.conf for my Creative USB webcam (I think it uses the same usb chip as your Phillips). This is because the kernel module was renamed (search for 'Linux ov511' to find the driver site). -- Guy

Re: [Cooker] Mescalero

2003-10-21 Thread Guy McArthur
Luca Olivetti wrote: Oden Eriksson ha scritto: All hints will be highly appreciated. Other options if you are so inclined: + contact your Attorney General + small claims court Info: http://www.fatchucks.com/z3.cd.html http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/ -- Guy

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla Thunderbird not on cooker

2003-10-21 Thread Guy McArthur
Buchan Milne wrote: Guy McArthur wrote: On a related note, there seems to be a major problem with the mozilla-firebird package. I have them both installed, both on my 9.1 box at home (mozilla-1.5 that is available in Club, and mozilla-firebird-0.7 that is in Club), and the only issue I

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla Thunderbird not on cooker

2003-10-21 Thread Guy McArthur
On a related note, there seems to be a major problem with the mozilla-firebird package. When installed, it replaces mozilla with firebird, such that "mozilla" actually launches firebird, and "mozilla -mail" is broken ('cannot locate /content/messenger.xul'). Furthermore, uninstalling firebird d

Re: [Cooker] The JPackage Project.

2003-10-20 Thread Guy McArthur
By the way, what's up with the dependencies for (example), ant-optional and eclipse? The error messages are that javamail and jaf are required, but there are no rpm's for those anywhere. I tried the zip files from java.sun.com, putting the javamail jar files and activation.jar in jre/lib/ext, bu

[Cooker] 9.2 ide-scsi

2003-10-20 Thread Guy McArthur
In rc2, after adding "hdb=ide-scsi" to the append line and re-running lilo, harddrake detected the change and prompted me to change the fstab. (Cool! Less work for me.) I did the same thing in 9.2, but left the room during the next reboot. Came back, saw my mistake, and rebooted again, but ther

[Cooker] making contrib cd sets

2003-10-17 Thread Guy McArthur
Could someone outline how to make a multi-cd set of the contrib packages, so that they work in urpmi as a removable media source? Thanks. -- Guy

Re: [Cooker] video in RC2

2003-10-12 Thread Guy McArthur
d for 9.2. But ov511 based webcams (Phillips, creative, etc) won't work without it. -- Guy On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Guy McArthur wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > so the driver found it. > > what is the ouput of the following commands: > > ls -o /dev/

Re: [Cooker] video in RC2

2003-10-08 Thread Guy McArthur
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > so the driver found it. > what is the ouput of the following commands: > ls -o /dev/.devfsd ls: /dev/.devfsd: No such file or directory > ls -o /dev/video* crw---1 gemini81, 0 Oct 5 12:46 /dev/video0 crw---1 gemini81, 1 Oc

[Cooker] shutdown message in rc2

2003-10-08 Thread Guy McArthur
Most likely this has been reported already, but just in case: when shutting down (in graphical/framebuffer mode) the message is "shutting down... press escape for verbose mode". However, the progress bar never completes, and there is no information when the system is ready to be powered down (the

[Cooker] sound problem in rc2

2003-10-07 Thread Guy McArthur
The sound init script is unable to initialize the volume settings of my sound card. This is the output of `service sound restart` : alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state_tmp: No such file or directory. Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state_tmp: No such file

[Cooker] kmail problem in rc2

2003-10-07 Thread Guy McArthur
My kmail identity is set to use the email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes). My smtp server is smtp.west.cox.net. When I attempt to send a message with kmail, this is the error: Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: "Sender address is

Re: [Cooker] video in RC2

2003-10-07 Thread Guy McArthur
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > "Unable to open /dev/video0 (No such device)" > > But /dev/video0 does exist, with correct permissions. > > this does not means that the device file does not exist on the fs (aka > the device on-disk representation) but that the kernel does not whic

[Cooker] video in RC2

2003-10-05 Thread Guy McArthur
I've tried 9.2 RC1 and 2. In both, my webcam driver is loaded, but somehow the ddevice is not configured. The error message I get from a video4linux application is: "Unable to open /dev/video0 (No such device)" But /dev/video0 does exist, with correct permissions. The kernel module (ov511) is

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-31 Thread Guy McArthur
by de-configuring autofs, reinstating the fstab entry and manually mounting the cdrom. Eventually gave up using autofs for anything but my camera. So I was very pleased to see that everything in 9.0 "just works" (and so far has with no major problems). -- Guy McArthur * email{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}

[Cooker] kde, gnome select problem

2002-10-25 Thread Guy McArthur
This issue has been present for a long time, I would like to know what the solution is. Select an input field in a GTK app (e.g. the image width field in Gimp's resize dialog), and the KDE url handler pops up... very annoying. -- Guy McArthur * email{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-11 Thread Guy McArthur
Isn't nano available with Mandrake 9? It's a GPL'd clone of pico.

Re: [Cooker] perldoc

2002-10-08 Thread Guy McArthur
Guillaume Rousse wrote: >Not anyone installing perl is programming in perl... Think of servers, for >instance. > > You're right. I just think of perldoc as a standard / integral part of perl (I'd get it if I did a `make install`). Also for learning it, as it has all the tutorials and faqs e

[Cooker] perldoc

2002-10-08 Thread Guy McArthur
It's kind of curious that the perl-doc package isn't installed by default in Mandrake 9, and doesn't appear in the install package selection. I feel that it should be installed if the user installs perl, as most anyone programming in perl would expect it to be there (`perldoc -f _function name_