[snip]
It's not a matter of complaining or not, it's a matter of minimal support.
Mandrake Linux is supposed to run on any i586 or newer processor. Period.
Even if that means a crazy person is encoding videos on a i586(no MMX),
say, 166MHz (or somewhere near) without hardware acceleration
On 13 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:03, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 19:56, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
[snip]
If you're going to expect the Bushes to know about Spanish and Russian
politics, maybe you should learn to spell George Bush?
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Michael Scherer wrote:
And of course neither french fries nor french toast have a thing to
do with France. In the first case, IIRC, the dish in question
originated in Belgium
Are you sure sure ?
Some cooking books of my grand mother said it comes from Paris, near
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
Don't you think they are absolutely crazzy?.
Well, actually I am sure that there are lots of Americans that don't think in
this way. Here in Spain more than 90% of the people don't wont the war, but
for our president this doesn't matter
On 22 Feb 2003, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:45, Buchan Milne wrote:
[snip]
I get the feeling if someone would just write some damn *documentation*
for the current ACPI implementation we'd find out all sorts of cool
things it does. As it stands, anyone who isn't a
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote:
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Interesting reading:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold2.asp
Have you seen Tux next to the TV set on the first picture? :-)
[snip]
Guy Bormann
P.S.: I think any large project has a
On 17 Feb 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
fhimpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649
[snip empty lines]
--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-15 23:30 ---
I had installed locales-nl. As Dutch is one of the three
On 17 Feb 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
mrmazda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DR-DOS 8's release is imminent: http://www.drdos.com/
mwh ahahaha eheheehh.
hum, sorry.
Don't laugh, it is still extensively used in embedded devices
and process control and it is nowhere as bad as MS-DOS
On 11 Feb 2003, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
I'm now a new daddy.. it's a girl, Gabrielle.
Join the club! Congratulations! She is a whole lot of baby :-)
Is she as geeky as her daddy?
My daughter was 46cm and 2kg 990g, a cute little packet :-)
Guy Bormann
See all the pictures at
On 10 Feb 2003, Gustavo Franco wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:47, Greg Meyer wrote:
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On Sunday 09 February 2003 06:05 pm, Gustavo Franco wrote:
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 15:36, Steve Fox wrote:
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:36, Gustavo Franco
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote:
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On Monday 10 February 2003 12:22 am, Steve Fox wrote:
The only thing in doubt is the reference
to 'Mandrake developers', which makes it sound like Mandrakesoft
employees were in this discussion, which
Hi Greg,
I am a complete jackass myself to not check the addressees in the reply
and funny things go on with the Subject field. It was not directly pointed
to you and now that these messages arrive out-of-order it seems so
irrelevant. Sorry!
However, my point about the pointless blaming still
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Tue Feb 04 19:51 -0500, Gregory K. Meyer wrote:
I am seeing posts on A.O.L.M, bug reports (including mine - 115) and some posts on
various other web forums related to the onboard network, sound and usb of many newer
motherboards not working. I
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:00 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
[snip]
It'd make a great screenplay, and far more plausible than a Cassiopea
uploading a virus to an alien spaceship... (-: actually, a virus on a Windows
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Gregory K. Meyer wrote:
--- On Mon 02/03, Laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le Monday 03 February 2003 15:39, Jason Straight a écrit :
[snip]
New kdm is a just a redesign of kdm.
It's a lot of work to redesign the UI of something that is very nice already. I
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, John Danielson, II wrote:
[Bug 1062] wrote:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062
Product: drakxtools
Component: DrakConnect
Summary: No ip over 1394
Version: 9.1-0.13mdk
Platform: PC
On 20 Jan 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue 2003-01-14 at 05:31:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Chris Picton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I feel that the radio buttons 'Normal information', and 'Maximum
information'
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Marcel Pol wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:14:50 +0100
Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Midnight Commander 83 (really useful ?)
Yes, it's imo the best filemanager for console and X (xterm)
Yep, as a filemanager on non-X servers and as a fallback when X is
in
[snip]
As far as IBM bailing out SUSE, that was also another first. They were
the first of the majors to approach bankruptcy, I would hedge bets that
if Mandrakesoft was the first approaching Bankruptcy, then IBM may well
have bailed out Mandrake and SUSE would be declaring Chapter 11 style
650 MB, 700 MB, 680 MB?
^^^ ^^
Well, depends on what is meant. Thanks to marketing (It looks like we
offer just a little bit more...) and serial comm there is confusion over
the meaning of MB (in the context of data storage, not transfer!) :
650 MB = 650*1024^2 =
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm. must be from the days when you had to enter special codes for each key stroke.
Please reply BELOW the message!
Quoting Steve Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the name urpmi does sound stupid,
On 9 Jan 2003, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is that some sort of 'my changelog is strongers than yours' challenge ?
not really we don't really compete (or if we do i will kick them all).
And pollute it with nonsense...
Guy Bormann
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:18:29 -0800
Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
[root@localhost gstreamer-plugins]# strace rpm -Uvh
Someone might want to try strace -f rpm -Uvh relevant-gstreamer-package
instead to
On 7 Jan 2003, Austin Acton wrote:
$ rpm -bb gcc.spec
worked perfectly on my dual Athlon 1900
$ rpmbuild -bb --target=athlonxp gcc.spec
failed to even get underway, but that's because I have no
athlonxp-mandrake-linux-gnu target on my machine
Are you 100% sure your rpm/BUILD and rpm/tmp
On 3 Dec 2002, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
[root@guitare root]# intop -i eth1
-- intop 0.0.1 (Sep 12 2002) -- The first interactive ntop program.
(C) Copyright 2000 L. Deri and R. Carbone. All rights reserved.
It allows you to control the power of ntop using fingers rather than
[snip]
Because I do not trust tinydns to do the job. I know a guy that has
been
working several years with the dot se top domain..., and I do take his
word
for it...
Ok... you don't trust tinydns to do the job. Fair enough. Can I ask
why?
I had the whole icq chat in my
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Faraj Meir wrote:
Somoen mentinned a tool called tranfugdrake, which do this.
After all, it could be a great thing no ?
At least for some basics things, such a internet connection.
yep but not only ...
generaly anything is better that nothing a tool like this
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Mario Vazquez wrote:
You are right, a poll would be nice. No matter which one Mandrake will
choose at the end, it must be (1) the one the most users want, and (2) apply
the same to gnome to have a little uniformity between desktops.
I still don't understand why uniformity
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David Walser wrote:
--- Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 21:30, David Walser wrote:
[snip]
Thank you for the second reminder that Gnome sucks.
Keyboard crap for copy/paste == Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, in
That is completely a function of what you are
On 30 Oct 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:13, Guy.Bormann wrote:
Linux you just highlight and middle click. And yes
^^
what has Linux got to do with it??!!! You meant KDE?
No, actually, I think he was right. From my understanding, the concept
[snip]
This goes back to Warly's question of what needs to be
improved in the development process, and openness
could be even better. It seems some changes are just
mandated to the developers we interact with from
somewhere above, and they just seem to come from out
of nowhere, with no
[snip]
why hasten it?
Won't happen if it didn't in the past 15 yrs. If you keep the button near
threshold you don't need much finger movement, just the last bit of
activation energy. And you move the mouse using your elbow, pivoting on
the lower arm muscle cushion (on the table side) instead of
[snip]
ReiserFS people have an excellent vision of next-gen plugin-based
filesystem, but it turns out it's not quite ready yet. When (if) it
becomes ready, however, it will replace ext?fs without doubt (my doubt,
anyway ;-) ).
Mmm, that's what they keep telling about translators on the
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote:
marcos colome wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:10:48PM -0700 :
Please remove my name from your mailing list
Handled offlist.
I begin to suspect that this is some autoreply from an active Yahoo
spamfilter since it is always exactly the same sentence by
On 1 Oct 2002, Wes Kurdziolek wrote:
No, the NV03 is the RIVA128 chipset. The NV04 is the chipset for the
TNT, the TNT2 (a sped-up version of the TNT w/ support for more RAM),
and the Vanta (cheap-ass version of TNT). NVidia started marketing the
Ok, thanks for the details. So, the NV04 is
The Diamond Viper V550 is a TNT card, not a RIVA128 card, and there's no
such thing as a TNT128 chipset despite the fact that the TNT is a
128-bit chipset.
Mmm, how do you explain the following lspci -v output then?
See attachment
I don't believe I've ever come across an AGP card or a
PCI
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Ron Stodden wrote:
Guy.Bormann wrote:
[snip]
9.0 is unusable on this machine, 8.2 is fully functional.
Am I not to complain?
Until you show us /var/log/XFree86.some number, likely 0.log,
lspci -v, /var/log/dmesg and /proc/iomem?...Nope, you can not!
(Oh, BTW
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Biagio Lucini wrote:
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? :-)
Well,
I checked the CD that came with the sound card. There is no DOS software
to be found on it.
Well, no problem. I think the mouse is OK. However, you compared apples
with oranges by doing the tests on two different platforms (i.e. different
motherboards from different manufacturers) and the tests
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, allen wrote:
I have an AMD 1Ghz, about 300MB RAM,
Voodoo3 AGP, about 20GB HDD IDE.
^
look Ron, get in touch with him...
[snip : not failsafe though...]
Guy (yep, me again)
[snip]
9.0 is unusable on this machine, 8.2 is fully functional.
Am I not to complain?
Until you show us /var/log/XFree86.some number, likely 0.log,
lspci -v, /var/log/dmesg and /proc/iomem?...Nope, you can not!
(Oh, BTW, how does /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 look like???)
If you provide us this, we
The XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log are attached. Both look
good to me, yet no X appears.
Not to me, since it finds more than one primary device so it doesn't know
which one to associate the driver with. Either try setting the BusID (see
man XF86Config for the format of the BusID
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Frederic Crozat wrote:
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:37:18 +, Sascha Noyes wrote:
When clicking on the mcc icon on the top taskbar in the gnome environment,
one is prompted for root password. But when exiting mcc, and starting it
again from the same icon, one is not
[snip : see other mail]
cat /proc/interrupts shows no allocation to the video board (?).
Shouldn't be a problem. AFAIK, graphics board are completely memory-mapped
(through AGP, don't know about the Voodoo3, though) and don't need an PCI
IRQ. This is not the problem. See my previous message on
yet) and I
disabled IRQ assignment to VGA. The card is obviously still working
happily. That might change when I start playing videos or so, I don't
know...
Guy
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:28, Guy.Bormann wrote:
[snip : see other mail]
cat /proc/interrupts shows no allocation to the video
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Fri Sep 27 11:36 +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
I repeated the call just now:
[ron@small ron]$ rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no:873/Mandrake/
drwxr-xr-x4096 2001/11/04 07:36:22 .
drwxr-xr-x4096 2002/09/26 03:29:03 Mandrake
Why is install about 8 times longer than it should be?
Dependency checks I guess, causing a roughly exponential increase in time
instead of your linear extrapolation. In the pre-configured cases, the
RPMS could be installed using --nodeps if that is not already done and
fixing the dependency
[snip]
2. a trust metric system for bug reporters.
(2) would be useful because it would give a fast indication of where the
problems lie (I'm thinking of tying this into drakbug or something), and
automatically filter out noise
How would you handle aging of the trust metric? When there is
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Todd Lyons wrote:
Marcel Pol wrote on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:17:26AM +0200 :
Could it be hat he is subscribed with this adress?
Just a blind guess, the name looks so familiar.
janmaris at zonnet.nl
A feeler email has been sent. Will let you know the results
[snip]
2-OS/2 doesn't find it necessary to reserve IRQ 15 when there is only
one IDE device in the system and the secondary IDE controller is
disabled to free IRQ 15 for something that wants or needs it.
Fair enough.
[snip]
accomodate all extension cards. But on the other hand, only
use
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:50, Michael Holt wrote:
[snip : too much honor]
battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I
kid you not!).
Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens??
A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that
[snip]
The ps/2 mouse problem bit me again this morning. Just a
fropzen pointer.
It happened again but I was watching the boot messages this time.
Said /dev/psaux doesn't exist which is interesting as it does.
It worked O.K. on the next boot.
Mmm, also Felix has trouble with psaux.
It worked O.K. on the next boot.
Mmm, also Felix has trouble with psaux. It's to soon to say they are
--too
related though...
Sorry, typo!
I shut up for now...
Guy
Still haven't learned how yet, so you get .zip attachment instead
(shrunk only about 50%, total 4545 bytes).
The mouse device is active as per the /proc/interrupts info. All cards
seem to be detected and initialized alright (from dmesg). (I would try
to get the NIC on IRQ 9, the sound card on
Not. I disassembled a fair few of them in my childhood, e.g. for carbon anodes
for chemistry experiments.
Yep, you should talk to Igor, he is sharing the same passion for
batteries... :-)
(As I told him, it could have been a reinforcement frame in a light casing...)
In fact, I don't know of
On 20 Sep 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:24, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am Freitag, 20. September 2002, 13:58:31 Uhr MET, schrieb rcc:
do we need to have rpm in cron.daily?
Because like slocate it brings older computers almost to a halt.
Stop whining. How long can a
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-15] Stéphane Teletchéa wrote:
It seems my mobo is an APIC-only one.
ACPI, you mean?
Why doesn't it be included in the kernel ?
(Too much work, unstable, ???)
Bad, unconsistent implementation in BIOSes, although it is getting better,
'they say.'
My old win98
[snip]
ROFL! (-: `Larry Boy and the Ears of Death?' :-) It's `deaf ears' as in ears
that do not hear. (-: Thanks for lightening my morning a bit :-)
[snip : you only found out after getting married]
battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!). A few things like
this helped
First, I don't understand why OS/2 also assigns IRQ 15 to the sound card
since IRQ 14 and 15 are reserved for the Primary and Secondary IDE channel
resp. IRQ 3,4 and 5 can be used by either the serial port (internal and
external) or ISA cards (check BIOS). Using them for PCI should only be
done
On 19 Sep 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 20:00, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
[Contrib-RPM]
Name: hot-babe Relocations: (not relocateable)
[snip]
Description :
Hot-babe is a small graphical utility which display the system activity
in a very
[snip : Stackguard fart]
This should be taken up with the ISO C standardization committee so
that boundary checking becomes an optional language feature (giving
us a well thought out choice) instead of forcing a stopgap measure on
everybody...
[snip : to the point security reply by Ben]
why not
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Todd Franklin wrote:
I personally have almost 6000 unread emails in the cooker group alone,
but i'm not upset about it! If anything it's like having a personal
database for when i run accross a bug. Even if I don't have time to
read them all, if I come accross a
On 18 Sep 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
followup - after an urpmi.update (though nothing obviously related got
installed) and a reboot, both my problems went away - scrollbar
backgrounds now work, and the scrollbar block (come on, there HAS to be
a proper name for this :)
Index slider??
now
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:40, Crispin Boylan wrote:
This may or may not be fixable, but it seems that OpenOffice.org
drastically slows down responsiveness when setiathome is running in the
background, sure its easy enough to turn off but no other apps
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ron Stodden wrote:
Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Wed Aug 28 17:07 +0200, Guy.Bormann wrote:
Why do you always smile the other way? :-)))
He's Australian... it's kind of like how water drains in the opposite
direction and they drive on the wrong (not the right...) side
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Guy.Bormann wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Jure Repinc wrote:
David Walser wrote:
Where'd everybody go? I usually wake up to over 50
new messages, but none? Even the archive shows none.
A bunch of stuff was going on on the mirrors, but
nothing on the changelog
Yes, hush, don't tell rsync that it can possibly be doing this. (-:
Why do you always smile the other way? :-)))
Cheers; Leon
Guy Bormann
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Marcelo Gigirey wrote:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2871663,00.html
A must read article
Must read article? There's not even a decent comparison. Call me
paranoid but this is a blatant plug bought for by Red Hat (Afficianados,
Investors,
Not that I needed it (as nothing goes wrong here without mutt :-) but
thank you for the explanation. It's more authoritative than shouting
Is! Is not!'s back and forth. I know MIME is for selecting view clients
at the receiving end (which does require the right tagging at the
sending end). I was
Hi,
clone() does get called but with -lpthread it segfaults (currently, only
main() threads core dump; this is being worked on by the LKD's).
(To see this try strace -f ./cl1 )
Anyway, like I asked you in a private message already why would you mix
the clone() system call with libpthread calls
Oops, forgot : and you should always compile your programs with
-DREENTRANT (or add #define REENTRANT), at least that's how it used to
be, it is not in the man page (anymore?). Maybe, gcc is now configured to
recognize -lpthread and automatically emit REENTRANT save code...
Guy
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Ben Reser wrote:
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:55:42AM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote:
this is BULLSHIT! pdf is binary format at all. there doesn't matter
that
containing graphics or only text. this is thing, that i testing about
2 weeks and i have big problem with sending
Still no reason to whine!
Especially *not* when newbies (i.e. apparently less-priviledged as opposed
to self-appointed experts) get bashed for exactly the same type of message
(what triggered their message doesn't matter).
Do your Real World testing and clearly report the problems.
I've said
(The f*cked up A RR for d-srv.com has expired now..., well I did it to
myself, so what can I say other than I'm a dickhead... :-))
You're complete utterly mindless idiot? :oP :-
Guy
Fred,
Are you still directly involved with XFree86 development?
(Sorry list, I know he's on this list and I forgot his exact Mdk mail
addr...)
If so, is there an explanation(*) why the X server's virtual memory size
constantly increases while the resident set size stays reasonably low?
(This is
So what does this mean in terms of the usablilty of the current
Mozilla/Galeon in Cooker? Without Java (and Javascript?), it seems
quite useless for real world usage, no?
So what?!! _AGAIN_, Mandrake Cooker is _not_ supposed to be used for
real world usage! How hard is this to understand?
Hi,
xf86cfg of the XFree86-4.2.0-12mdk packages crashes at the initial
Loading/Unloading of modules with the following error messages :
...
Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.o
Module vesa: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
Unloading
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote:
On Thursdayen den 2 May 2002 14.19, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
What I really miss in Linux is ability to take and analyze system dump.
Anybody have tried LKCD project? Is it mature enough to be included in
released kernel? Is there any interest to
On 24 Apr 2002, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
The images/readme.txt file on the ftp mirrors is maybe old?
Is it a wrong version?
Also, maybe it could give more explanation on how to use
the network boot image? For many people that's a lot easier
than burning CDs, and the net install seems to
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Wed Apr 24 23:51 +1000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
Probably, or probably not.
But we can't risk our asses just because we *think* that it's ok to use
xmatrix without some sort of licensing. I'm sure that was what I felt when
I removed it.
Exactly.
!!Sorry, template message ahead!!
-
Hello,
There is a potentially serious problem with (lib)imlib for versions up to
and including 1.9.13 that crept in probably around 1.9.9 or 1.9.10
(haven't checked but it was probably first
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Frederic Crozat wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:08:47 +0200, Guy.Bormann wrote:
!!Sorry, template message ahead!!
- Hello,
[snip]
so this message is posted to the major Linux bleeding-edge
distros (I
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