Re: [Cooker] A Potential Mandrake Failure - Documentation (repost from NG)

2002-03-09 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:59, you wrote: Along this line, I can see a lot of potential value to simply rearchiving this existing data in its raw form into a topical treed structure which would eliminate the need of text searching to find answers.  From that point on, comments could be

Re: [Cooker] Linux Gamers = please test my new game Frozen Bubble

2002-02-06 Thread John Haywood
Test report: kant tipe 2 wel, coz my wrists hurt - y is lvl 51 sooo difficult??? Exec summary: excellent waste of working hours!!! -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 6 hours 31 minutes

Re: [Cooker] Continued problems with latest Cooker install

2002-01-23 Thread John Haywood
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 20:57, you wrote: 1)  The Xircom Realport ethernet card during install starts up in 100Mbs mode - but after install and reboot, it only boots in 10Mbs mode This is similar behaviour to 8.1 (which I have just installed on my laptop). Interestinly, the staus light

[Cooker] [install message] filesystem

2002-01-19 Thread John Haywood
And why would it want to do that? [root@thang rpms]# rpm -Uvh /home/john/filesystem-2.1.3-4mdk.noarch.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:filesystem error: unpacking of archive failed on file /mnt/cdrom: cpio: chown failed -

Re: [Cooker] Using Kword for PDF output error

2002-01-15 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:22, you wrote: Am using Ghostscript 6.51-38.  I have used this technique before as it automates the process of converting various doc formats to ps prior to conversion to PDF.  It works great for publishing work quickly in PDF format but it's broken now. I don't know

[Cooker] libORBit0.5.13-1 not flagged?

2002-01-11 Thread John Haywood
Installing the latest ORBit galeon does *not* flag libORBit0.5.13-1 as required (which it is!) Thus both the above install perfectly, but galeon refuses to run -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 1 hour 12

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center Dead

2002-01-10 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:38, you wrote: remove the package wizard to test. By the way, sorry about all these bad versions, but it is due to an upload that should not have been done. So the version uploaded was deeply broken. Anyway, I upload some new package shortly Well, it finally launches

Re: [Cooker] Cooker/Netscape 6.2 bug

2002-01-08 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:25 am, you wrote: I run Netscape 6.2 for email/browsing and I had a bug today that I have never encountered before with Cooker. I updated today to the latest cooker and now, when I run Navigator and click on links within web pages the app dies/closes. This

Re: [Cooker] New COOKER install (26.11.01) PCMCIA.IMG NOGO

2001-11-27 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:52, you wrote: Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) Interesting that it's that particular card. I spoke with David Hinds (PCMCIA kernel guy) a while back, about a different issue with that particular module, and he replied that the module is

Re: [Cooker] The penguin's gotta go.

2001-11-13 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:59, you wrote: Oden Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:  There's a new logo for you to use if you want, but the initscripts  package haven't kept up.  Hint:  less /etc/rc.d/rc.local Yeah :) remove the -c Yup - and get a butt-ugly Mandrake Star instead of a

Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (2)

2001-11-09 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:26, you wrote: Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything without searching for an hour or two..  shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control  Center, Print

Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)

2001-11-09 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:43, you wrote: No. Nobody uses a central database for mime type handlers, because there isn't any. Even applications inside Gnome/KDE have their own mime files..:( But I would like this to change and the only thing towards working pick a file and choose the program to

Re: [Cooker] kudzu: failed

2001-11-01 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 05:09, you wrote: Fresh install. I have changed my video card to a AGP one and still have kudzu to fail and have to use nonfb install. 1. As this is a cooker list, could you tell us which version of cooker stuff (kudzu, kernel etc) you are running? 1a Does the card run

Re: [Cooker] Mesa-packages

2001-10-30 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:05, you wrote: Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The glut-libraries seem to be unimportant for quake3 but what the hell. Anyway this seems to bee a much more consistant way of packaging the Mesa-stuff. Thanks, glut3 is problably not needed by a lot of GL stuff

Re: [Cooker] Mesa-packages

2001-10-29 Thread John Haywood
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:24, you wrote: Ok let me get this straight cause I still don't quitte understand what has to be done: When I try to update the Mesa-rpms I get: error: failed dependencies:         Mesa-common = 3.4.2 is needed by Mesa-common-devel-3.4.2-2mdk This is the list of new

[Cooker] AppleTalk kernel 2.4-12-5mdk

2001-10-27 Thread John Haywood
Just installed kernel-2.4.12-5mdk. .and Appletalk seems to have gone where? Up till now 'twas to be found under: /lib/modules/kernel vers/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o.gz but now, no longer. In fact it is not anywhere - has something taken over the function, or is this just an

Re: [Cooker] AppleTalk kernel 2.4-12-5mdk

2001-10-27 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:05, you wrote: John Haywood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just installed kernel-2.4.12-5mdk. .and Appletalk seems to have gone where? Up till now 'twas to be found under: /lib/modules/kernel vers/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o.gz but now, no longer