Re: [Cooker] Blank gdm

2000-06-16 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Go into KDE Control Center--Applications--Login Manager--User Setup. One of the radio buttons controls this function. You can also change who gets what image. --- On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I am facing a weird problem, when I start gdm, there aren't any user face displayed. Users

Re: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions

2000-06-16 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Ya gotta love it! What other venue can a high school student have such a big effect on a project? Go to it, Chun! --- On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the advice but I am still a high school student.. I have a so called opimistic future...I am new to linux, I want to improve the

Re: [Cooker] Where is...?

2000-06-11 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Ah, so many packages, such limited eyes and brain. Thanks. --- On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: "Jonathan Prigot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86-4.0 and Mozilla? I downloaded the ISO's yesterday and burned them but I can't seem to find either of these packages. XF4's packag

RE: [Cooker] Where is...?

2000-06-11 Thread Jonathan Prigot
I see, so they aren't on either of the ISO images? (BTW, it looks like the ISO images on sunet keep changing? Am I crazy? [Don't answer that. I don't want to know. {And neither do I!}]) --- On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: XFree86-4.0 and Mozilla? I downloaded the ISO's yesterday and burned

[Cooker] Where is...?

2000-06-09 Thread Jonathan Prigot
XFree86-4.0 and Mozilla? I downloaded the ISO's yesterday and burned them but I can't seem to find either of these packages. -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and Women's Hospital 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East Boston, MA 02215-1213

Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive

2000-06-07 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Just do an "hdparm /dev/hdX" and it will show you your settings. --- On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, you wrote: How can I know if DMA is turned on or off? When I bot up it looks to say that DMA is being used ...around where it says that I am using ata/66. -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham

Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive

2000-06-06 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Oops, sorry, that should be -A1. (But a peek at the man page would have told you that I goofed, and how.) --- On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: What does -a 1 option do? From: "Jonathan M. Prigot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 32

Re: [Cooker] DISCUSSION Upgrade (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jonathan Prigot
How about a "this is what I propose to do" step with the possibility of overriding the proposal? ("Don't replace my custom kernel, but it's OK to upgrade cdrecord and downgrade xmms") (For real fun, make the buttons say [YES] and [OK] ;-} ) -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and

Re: [Cooker] 32 bit i/o for hard drive

2000-06-05 Thread Jonathan Prigot
What happens if you don't do the -d1? I can do -c1 just fine (and it speeds things up 50%), but if I do -d1 my system locks solid. --- On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: I am trying to change the 16 bit i/o seetings for my hard drive to 32 bit to drive to speed up access with the following

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's Stability

2000-06-02 Thread Jonathan Prigot
I used to use RedHat. Since I bought a boxed set, I could use their Update program (it's been a while, so I forget the exact name). It seemed like every time they released a patch/update, it would show up in their utility. With MandrakeUpdate, the announced security related fixes don't always

RE: [Cooker] Graphical installer

2000-06-02 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Add my vote to keep a text-based installer around. While most of the machines that I've used could handle a graphical install, a fair number did not. If I couldn't use a text-based installer, I'd be up the creek. --- On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote: text style??? keeping 2 different

RE: [Cooker] Mandrake's Stability

2000-06-02 Thread Jonathan Prigot
siast -Original Message- From: Jonathan Prigot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's Stability I used to use RedHat. Since I bought a boxed set, I could use their Update program (it's been a while, so I for

RE: [Cooker] Mandrake's Stability

2000-06-02 Thread Jonathan Prigot
software ) then it won't show up yet. And someitmes you might even find updates on one mirror, but not another for that reason. ( I think the following is correct as far as how its done, but please correct me if I'm wrong ) Riyad Kalla Java Programmer Game Enthusiast -----Original Mess

Re: [Cooker] 7.1 final, when?

2000-05-31 Thread Jonathan Prigot
I'd settle for a fixed Beta 3 Extras ISO. --- On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote: So how does the 7.1 release look? Will there be a Beta4? best wishes, -Riyad -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and Women's Hospital 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East Boston, MA 02215-1213

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Dependencies

2000-05-26 Thread Jonathan Prigot
One thing that I have always admired in FreeBSD is the way that dependencies are automatically handled. If one package is needed by another, then it is automatically installed and the installation moves on. Similarly, I wish that program "bundles" could be installed after the initial

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] Add a quick-expert install mode

2000-05-26 Thread Jonathan Prigot
How would this differ from the current autoinstall/kickstart scheme of setting up a template machine and using the created auto_inst.pl file to set up other machines? --- On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: [Dream] With the "quick-expert mode" it should be possible to select manually in a single

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Dependencies

2000-05-26 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Even so. Could there not be a utility that recursively looks at the dependencies the of RPM that you requested, and resolves each in turn? Come to think of it, RedHat does that very thing with their graphical patching tool (whose name I forget.) The only danger is that while the package you asked

Re: [Cooker] Watching another tty

2000-05-24 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Given the security advisory on Xemacs, just have him use the unpatched version :-} (Oops, time to take my medication.) --- On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know how to (don't get paranoid) spy on another tty session? I'm trying to show a colleague how to do certain sysadmin

Re: [Cooker] Corel WordPerfect 2000 with Cooker ..

2000-05-15 Thread Jonathan Prigot
I seem to remember that Nick Petreley at LinuxWorld ran into this problem. I think it turned out that FontTastic listens on a different port. You may want to go to http://www.linuxworld.com and check out back issues within the last two months. --- On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 14 May

Re: [Cooker] ATA 66

2000-05-11 Thread Jonathan Prigot
I'm in a similar situation. I was informed that ATA/66 support is still broken in the 2 outstanding betas, but will be fixed in the next. --- On Thu, 11 May 2000, you wrote: I just installed the beta on a box with two HD, and UDMA 66 and an ATA 66. I was expecting this new version to recognize