Re: [Cooker] new mga drivers!! yeah

2000-09-27 Thread John Grange
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Klaus Erik Sebastian Vuorinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So not OpenSource. so not for Mandrake.. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France --Chmouel um how could it not be , considering it

Re: [Cooker] Mesa-devel?

2000-09-27 Thread John Grange
Francois Pons wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um we are missing an rpm.. we have Mesa-common-devel but no Mesa-devel wich is a req of Mesa-common-devel can we find where this rpm dissapered too? No, this is XFree86-devel package which contains the necessary stuff

[Cooker] Mesa-devel?

2000-09-25 Thread John Grange
Um we are missing an rpm.. we have Mesa-common-devel but no Mesa-devel wich is a req of Mesa-common-devel can we find where this rpm dissapered too? ;) I have finaly descovered the problem with the agp shit on my system the kernel 2.2.17 source is still fucked for compiling as a non module BTW,

Re: [Cooker] Hack Kernel Segmentation faults

2000-09-25 Thread John Grange
Shad Van Den Hul wrote: Other than the few bugs I already posted, I can not boot to the "hack"kernel. The kernel stuff loads and properly detects my Scsi card (AIC) , but there is an error initializing agp. The boot continues fine until it gets to mounting filesystems when info spew across

Re: [Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-24 Thread John Grange
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having some serious kernel problems in both 2.2.17-11 and 2.4.0-24.. i'l start with the 2.2.17 I need to have agp compiled into the kernel not as a module as it is very unstable as a module on my mb (ali154x) when

Re: [Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-24 Thread John Grange
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having some serious kernel problems in both 2.2.17-11 and 2.4.0-24.. i'l start with the 2.2.17 I need to have agp compiled into the kernel not as a module as it is very unstable as a module on my mb (ali154x) when

[Cooker] kernel compile and uses both normal and hack

2000-09-23 Thread John Grange
I am having some serious kernel problems in both 2.2.17-11 and 2.4.0-24.. i'l start with the 2.2.17 I need to have agp compiled into the kernel not as a module as it is very unstable as a module on my mb (ali154x) when compiling in the kernel i get errors at the final link in main.o about call's

[Cooker] snap as of sept 24th

2000-09-23 Thread John Grange
I have installed last night and thanks to pixel's hd_reiser img it worked (although i had to rename the images on the disk to hd.rdz and change syslinux.cfg. the only thing i can decipher is that possibly a problem with the syslinux boot and the "_" char. I am not sure i will have to run some

Re: [Cooker] hd_reiser.img

2000-09-21 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: images/hd_reiser.img should reach mirror soon... i've removed all scsi disk (aka raid) drivers from it to make reiserfs fit in. cu Pixel. Thank you pixel ;) still want instructions on how to make a proper install disk;) -DarkWlf

[Cooker] Reiserfs and hd.img

2000-09-20 Thread John Grange
Can anyone here give me detailed instructions on how to create my own install disk so that I may put the reiserfs on properly (i created a monlific kernel image and used that to install this snapshot but things are kinda screwy at the momment)... or is there a website with instructions on how to

[Cooker] sunnet.se rsync server?

2000-09-20 Thread John Grange
is this the most up to date rsync ? i have tried the one in france and now this one both seem to be missing aprox 150 megs of files (including xf 4.01) but rpmfind mirror is refusing conections.

[Cooker] [Fwd: [HC Hello] Mandrake helix-gnome rpms;)]

2000-09-11 Thread John Grange
Well i guess we got our answre, we are just plain screwed. -DarkWlf John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to first say that i am very impressed with the look/feel of the helix-gnome packages and i am looking forward to the updates to come. but I have one complaint. I use mandrake

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: [HC Hello] Mandrake helix-gnome rpms;)]

2000-09-11 Thread John Grange
Steve Fox wrote: I think simply keeping up with Helix's patches is good enough. Helix obviously doesn't consider Mandrake important enough (which doesn't surprise me as they've almost all moved over to Debian). They are too lazy to make multiple spec files. I was under the impression that

[Cooker] Logs

2000-09-03 Thread John Grange
recently on my hybrid cooker/7.1 server i was going through my logs and descoverd /var/log/mail and /var/log/news with aprox 50 megs of logs in each and growing each day. is this fixed in more recent packages( i have not updated since right before 7.1 came out...) -DarkWlf

Re: [Cooker] Logs

2000-09-03 Thread John Grange
Eugenio Diaz wrote: --- John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recently on my hybrid cooker/7.1 server i was going through my logs and descoverd /var/log/mail and /var/log/news with aprox 50 megs of logs in each and growing each day. is this fixed in more recent packages( i have

[Cooker] anyone alive?

2000-09-02 Thread John Grange
it's been 4 days since i recieved a single email?? what's going on -darkwlf

Re: [Cooker] my hacklicq srpm

2000-06-09 Thread John Grange
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a very strange request, could i get access to my srpm on /incoming on the mandrakesoft ftp site, i need the spec file, as i lost alot

Re: [Cooker] my hacklicq srpm

2000-06-08 Thread John Grange
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a very strange request, could i get access to my srpm on /incoming on the mandrakesoft ftp site, i need the spec file, as i lost alot of information in a hd crash today. any help would be much apreacated ftp

Re: [Cooker] my hacklicq srpm

2000-06-08 Thread John Grange
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a very strange request, could i get access to my srpm on /incoming on the mandrakesoft ftp site, i need the spec file, as i lost alot of information in a hd crash today. any help would be much apreacated ftp

[Cooker] my hacklicq srpm

2000-06-06 Thread John Grange
i have a very strange request, could i get access to my srpm on /incoming on the mandrakesoft ftp site, i need the spec file, as i lost alot of information in a hd crash today. any help would be much apreacated -DarkWlf

Re: [Cooker] So, if 7.1 is now final...

2000-06-03 Thread John Grange
John Cavan wrote: Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: John Cavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. When you create a normal user at install time it also creates a group that matches the user. That means I get john:john instead of john:users this is the standard way on our distribution, a user

[Cooker] ip-up.local

2000-05-31 Thread John Grange
hmm let's try this again. I do know what i'm doing here people. lol. try adding something to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, have your conection set to run on boot and reconect on disconnect. now boot your system , see if the command executes. it dosn't here. running 7.1b -DarkWlf

[Cooker] /etc/ppp/if-up.local

2000-05-30 Thread John Grange
why is it that when i add something here it is not run when the ppp conection comes online? I want to play a wav when the conection comes up so my wife will know when the conection has been established. but it seems as though ppp-watch is interfearing is there a way to make it so i can still

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READYFORADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit onthesecondCD

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
David Odin wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 07:40:01PM -0500, John Grange wrote: Allen Bolderoff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By the way, what is all your opinion about xv? do you use it often? what do you use for fast-viewing pictures? (I don't mean processing it with Gimp

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted install if one tests their X configuration and it fails. this ldconfig bug in cooker

[Cooker] reiserfs hd.img

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
hey i tried the hd.img that you made pixel and it refuses to load the ide mod's and therefor leaves me without access to the ide drives on my system, the scsi mod for my 2940 dose load though. -DarlWlf

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel wrote: Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted install if one

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-27 Thread John Grange
Randy Welch wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: I cannot see any way of avoiding the initial download of that much data, other than mailing out CDs, but for V90 access it is a killer (gone from 50 hours to 77 hours, all going perfectly).I thing most V90 beta testers will have little option

[Cooker] [Fwd: Theming old Netscapes with -xrm 'Netscape*background:#ffd600']

2000-05-27 Thread John Grange
i thought this should find it's way into Mandrake it's a very simple program and functions very well 1! -DarkWlf Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:32:27PM -0700 Scott Heavner wrote: After much web surfing finally resorting to "string netscape | grep" I figured out how to change netscape's

[Cooker] Helix-Gnome

2000-05-26 Thread John Grange
David Talbot wrote: The ability to click on an application RPM in GMC or Nautlus and have it run the program without installing .app style: http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-2.html I know it would help me keep organized if an application could be run with all

Re: [Cooker] A few urpmi-based improvements

2000-05-26 Thread John Grange
Stephane Gourichon wrote: (I wrote about several ideas in this mail, but they are all about urpmi and friends, so I think it is ok to have them in one mail.) (Also, I use 7.0 but have not fiddled with 7.1 beta or cooker a lot, so please pardon if I ask for something already done) On Fri,

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FORADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit on thesecondCD

2000-05-26 Thread John Grange
Allen Bolderoff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By the way, what is all your opinion about xv? do you use it often? what do you use for fast-viewing pictures? (I don't mean processing it with Gimp for example) I use ee for fast viewing pictures I use gqview to see thumbnail catalog

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FORADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit onthesecond CD

2000-05-26 Thread John Grange
Gael Duval wrote: Daniel Hammer a écrit : BS''D Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: For the moment our politics are to limit as much as possible the amount of non open-source stuff on main installation CD [which is, now, CD Installation and CD Extension] ... which is a very good

Re: [Cooker] Problem with user account

2000-05-25 Thread John Grange
Andrew wrote: I encounter problem in adding user in Linux-Mandrake v.7 Deluxe. I use to add user using other shell such as tcsh,csh and zsh but error occured when the user login (invalid aliases). Beside's I'm installing StarOffice 5.1 and it should be installed in user level not as su. When

Re: [Cooker] Problem with user account

2000-05-25 Thread John Grange
OS wrote: Hello, I have been submitting bug reports to Sun because these and many other problems still exist in 5.2. As far as I know java appletts have never worked with StarOffice, but java scripts appears to be okay. StarOffice 5.2 will not even start except when launched as root !

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] netkit-base-0.11-24mdk

2000-05-25 Thread John Grange
Thierry Vignaud wrote: --=-=-= Name: netkit-base Distribution: Linux-Mandrake Version : 0.11 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 24mdk Build Date: Thu May 25 12:18:50 2000 Install date: (not installed)

Re: [Cooker] gmc-4.5.46-1mdk

2000-05-22 Thread John Grange
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 22-May-00 by Daouda LO: | Anton Graham a écrit : | | Submitted 22-May-00 by Magnus Holmberg: | | | | | | | | On Sun, 21 May 2000, Anton Graham wrote: | | | | Okay, I switched from the helix rpms to the Mandrake .46 rpm and got | | the bland

Re: [Cooker] reiserfs

2000-05-21 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have moved my install drive to reiserfs now, is there a possible hack to get the hd install working in that way? well, well... will i or won't it do it 4u ;p ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/hd.img should do it. I don't know

[Cooker] reiserfs

2000-05-20 Thread John Grange
I have moved my install drive to reiserfs now, is there a possible hack to get the hd install working in that way? I do not have the drive space to move back to ext2, dose someone have instructions on how to get 7.1 to install from a reiserfs partion? -DarkWlf

[Cooker] sparc ipx

2000-05-20 Thread John Grange
anyone have any luck installing mandrake on a sparc ipx box? -DarkWlf

Re: [Cooker] some questions

2000-05-16 Thread John Grange
Udo Weber wrote: Hi, here are some (maybe stupid) HowTo-questions for Mandrake: 1. After each install of the Mandrake, linuxconf give the error-msg that some of the /etc/*-files are newer as the current date The reason is maybe that I select during install timezone Europe/Berlin. As

Re: [Cooker] GNOME desktop icons (gmc)

2000-05-16 Thread John Grange
damien wrote: Anton Graham a écrit : Is anybody else having a problem with desktop icons? I can't get them to change from their default icons for anything. I also tried right click desktop and rescan desktop directory, no effect. Doing the same operation from a menu panel generates

Re: [Cooker] Various minor problems

2000-05-16 Thread John Grange
Scott Balmos wrote: 7) Finally(!!!), Postfix seems completely broken with procmail. This has happened since MDK-7 release. Apparently Postfix can't correctly run procmail for local mail delivery. Hence such, all mail for any user on the system ends up being dumped into deferred/ for all

Re: [Cooker] GNOME desktop icons (gmc)

2000-05-16 Thread John Grange
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 16-May-00 by John Grange: | | I ment to repsond to the earlie post, he is talking about the bug in the gmc | version 44 , wich casues the icons to be locked into bland icons.. | to respond to the erlier post to fix install the latest helix-gnome rpms

Re: [Cooker] two things

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --419E9174AF95ECE6D7B3991C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : damien wrote: John Grange

Re: [Cooker] two things

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : ok I have drakfont finaly adds my fonts now, but after they are installed and show up in drakfont, I get "font not availble" in drakfont, and if i pick any of the new fonts in gimp it cr

Re: [Cooker] two things

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : ok I have drakfont finaly adds my fonts now, but after they are installed and show up in drakfont, I get "font not availble" in drakfont, and if i pick any of the new fonts in gimp it cr

Re: [Cooker] funky little Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: ptah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, when you install Xfree86 4.0 during Mandrake installation and setup everything no matter what it makes a link in /etc/X11 to the 3.3.6. This caused me a lot of trouble getting quake 3 to work :) also now that I

Re: [Cooker] funky little Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
ptah wrote: it happened to me when i installed the X4 libs from contrib, if i reinstall 3.3.6. (It was happining with gdm) -DarkWlf So you corrected this how? I am using gdm as well. How do I switch to kdm? Thanks. It works fine if you use the default x 3.3.6 libs and only the

Re: [Cooker] two things

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
damien wrote: John Grange a écrit : ok I have drakfont finaly adds my fonts now, but after they are installed and show up in drakfont, I get "font not availble" in drakfont, and if i pick any of the new fonts in gimp it crashes hard, if I put the paths for the new fonts in X

Re: [Cooker] Gnome bug..?

2000-05-15 Thread John Grange
Magnus Holmberg wrote: When I configuruating the background using gnomecc I run into some trouble. I chose Vertical Gradient push the ok button and then logout. When I logout I push the save-session button. But when I login again next time I get the solid background. It seems to be

Re: [Cooker] licq cvs rpms

2000-05-14 Thread John Grange
Geoffrey Lee wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:50 PM could someone point me to the way to do this easily in the spec file? do something like %define rname licq %define rversion (whatever vesrion)

[Cooker] new hacklicq rpms

2000-05-14 Thread John Grange
ok after much hooploa everything seems to be functioing here normaly again;) as per request the rpms are now hacklicq-cvsdate and hacklicq-gtk-cvsdate respectivly the url is (was wrong the first time around) ftp://wolvesden.dhs.org/pub/RPM/RPMS/ -DarkWlf

[Cooker] licq cvs rpms

2000-05-13 Thread John Grange
here are the rpms promised for licq and gtk cvs copies, there are no rpms for the extra stuff that is included in the main .81 package I saw no need. ftp://wolvesden.dhs.org/RPM/RPMS -DarkWlf

Re: [Cooker] licq cvs rpms

2000-05-13 Thread John Grange
Geoffrey Lee wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 7:17 AM To: Linux-cooker Subject: [Cooker] licq cvs rpms here are the rpms promised for licq and gtk cvs copies, there are no rpms for the extra stuff

[Cooker] two things

2000-05-13 Thread John Grange
ok I have drakfont finaly adds my fonts now, but after they are installed and show up in drakfont, I get "font not availble" in drakfont, and if i pick any of the new fonts in gimp it crashes hard, if I put the paths for the new fonts in X4's config file they work, it only dose this when using

Re: [Cooker] Fixed GNOME bug... how?

2000-05-12 Thread John Grange
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michèl Alexandre Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Which package do I have to upgrade from a stock 7.1b2 installation to get rid of the GNOME desktop icon bug? I just installed GNOME 1.1.90 from Helix and the problem is still present. Do I have to

Re: [Cooker] Fixed GNOME bug... how?

2000-05-12 Thread John Grange
I think John and I are talking about the bland desktop icons displayed by GMC, and as such I'm inclined to believe for this particular problem his solution should work. Downloading the new helix packages John, thanks everyone. -- Michèl Alexandre Salim Kindness is the beginning of

[Cooker] awe64

2000-05-07 Thread John Grange
simple fix for the sound , found problem with the harddrake not detecting my sound card was a missing identiy in the isa.lst after copying the other AWE64 entry and adding the id for MY card making it awe64(c) it comes it perfect. that was all it was my id was different from both config a and b

Re: [Cooker] UDMA-66 for Mandrake 7.1Beta Installation

2000-05-05 Thread John Grange
Daouda LO wrote: Phil a écrit : My ftp install was going great tonight until rpmfind.net disappeared, don't know if they cut me off or what. Up to that point, the new installer detected everything nicely: USB mouse, on-board UDMA-66 (PB6), SMP, reiser also went well onto a new

Re: [Cooker] cdrom.img

2000-05-05 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: ptah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get this latest chdrom.img file that will work with ata/66? Thanks. on any mandrake devel mirror. as of 11:04 the hd,img is still messed up i can not use it, it says modprobe ide failed or something like that in the console.

[Cooker] AWE64 sound

2000-05-05 Thread John Grange
*sighs* it seems as though i'm begining to feel like a broken record, I can not get sounddrake to detect my awe 64 isa sound card, do we have a solution for this -DarkWlf

[Cooker] AWE 64 sound not working

2000-05-04 Thread John Grange
Sound is not confiuguarable via drakesound in 7.1b, and hasn't been ever on my system, I have a simple awe64 pnp isa card, wich is detected and configured by the sndconfig util that is included with 7.0 but absent from 7.1b can we PLEASE fix this already?? ;) -DarkWlf

Re: [Cooker] Softwares

2000-05-04 Thread John Grange
Faisal Mahmood wrote: Hi, I would like to suggest you to include the following to the linux-mandrake as you have expanded it to two CDs (having a lot of space for softwares): - Apache 2 - Linux jdk 1.2.2 and all other Java packages - Java Servlet support for Apache - JSP (Java Server

[Cooker] probs with urpmi

2000-05-04 Thread John Grange
I get the following error message from urpmi Insecure $ENV{IFS} while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/urpmi line 49. it has been here for awhile

[Cooker] man pages fubar

2000-05-04 Thread John Grange
when running man "manpage" I get the following error msg from man (if I am a normal user) but if i am root it displays fine that is the error msg i get when i run as normal user and not root, if i run as root the page displays fine any ideas? There is no -= option ("less --help" for help)

[Cooker] Install problems

2000-04-30 Thread John Grange
Here are the bugs i have noted as of 4-29-2000 I did multiple rysncs before install and made sure everything was updated correctly;) Install Class Expert / Server using hd.img installing from ext2 partion System is as follows- Asus P5A MB AMD k6-2 380 128 meg pc100 ram Adaptec 2940u 3com

[Cooker] ppp conection

2000-04-30 Thread John Grange
on boot up of the system (this bug has been around since 7.0b) the system says "FAILED" retrying in background" even though it connects fine and everything is fucntion normaly for the conection.. I tested this on the console, and found the ./ifup ppp0 dose not display this message, but if I do

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.1-BETA (Hydrogen) is available.

2000-04-26 Thread John Grange
Geoffrey Lee wrote: ah, but not everyone likes qt ... one of them 's me ...because i think the license really sucks... Gael. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mandrake.com qt is ok, but gtk is much better in many ways;) Nah,

[Cooker] Install as of 4-20-2000

2000-04-21 Thread John Grange
ok pixel the install bug that was causing the installer to crash is now gone! yeah it installs. bug1, the ppp config in the drakx installer is still screwed up, it still dosn't allow configuration of the ip addresses (nessary if you have a static ip, dose not allow config of the activate on

[Cooker] install as of tue 18th

2000-04-18 Thread John Grange
I attempted a hd install as of tue 18th after selecting the dir for the install files I recieved "Install exited abnormaly recieved singal 4" you may saftly reboot your system. the install medis is on the primary Ide partion, I also have a SCSI Adaptech 2940 U with 2 drives attached. -DarkWlf