[Cooker] OOo locks up with kinput2

2003-09-03 Thread Narfi Stefansson
I reinstalled cooker tonight and found out that some changes cause OpenOffice.org not to work with kinput2. Since the OOo rpm hasn't been updated for quite a while, and OOo could well be used with kinput2 the last time I checked (2-3 weeks ago?), I am guessing that this is because of a change

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.2.6.4tmb

2003-08-01 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Svetoslav Slavtchev: Quoting John O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on this same vein, I have a VisionPlus 1020 DVB card, are there any plans to have this working? currently, if I even have the card plugged into the PCI slot, cooker will hang at Determining module dependancies... and

Re: [Cooker] Updated 18mdk update kernel...

2003-06-12 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On the topic of the update kernel and the kernel that Danny maintains, also applies to the modified update kernel from Thomas. Would you guys consider giving your kernels different names, just so that we don't have to ask confused users Which version of 2.4.21.0.18 are you using? The security

Re: [Cooker] Updated 18mdk update kernel...

2003-06-12 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Thomas Backlund wrote: The reason my _updated_ update kernel kept the version was to keep it name compatible with the original update kernel so that 3rd party modules and RPMS wont complain ( nVidia, Ati, ...) Ah! That's a good reason. I agree with Danny that hackkernel is a bad, bad name! The

Re: [Cooker] Requested feature: Support for usbnet as a network install medium

2003-05-30 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Jeudi 29 Mai 2003 05:02, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : As the number of removable mass storages should increase, it would be useful to assign a USB peripheral to a device. Isn't done by dynamic package ? Yes, with one peripheral at the same time, that work

Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker HowTo

2003-05-29 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Steffen Barszus wrote: *** remove/insert super-user menu items and icons *** I don't think it usefull to remove all superuser icons and links rigerous on all user accounts. A big number of users are there own admin. This would lead ... Steffen, when I wrote this request back in March, I

Re: [Cooker] Asus A7N8X USB

2003-03-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Has anybody had any luck getting USB to work on a A7N8X? Yes. IIRC, I had problems using the lower 2 ports, but the upper 2 work without any problems. I have not modified /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/modules.conf from what I got from a clean installation of 9.1. Bios

Re: [Cooker] Asus A7N8X USB

2003-03-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Narfi wrote: I have not modified /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/modules.conf from what I got from a clean installation of 9.1. ... /etc/lilo.conf: append=devfs=mount acpi=off ide1=ata66 quiet Sorry, about the incorrect statement. I added the ide1=ata66 clause into /etc/lilo.conf. It boosted hdparm

Re: [Cooker] Fwd: mpeg2enc timing results [narfi@cs.wisc.edu]

2003-03-24 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Giuseppe wrote: w9ya wrote: Austin wrote: [for me, thanks Austin!] The best times of the 4 were: athlon-xp:12.16 i586: 13.24 i586, no mmx: 57.65 Honestly I never found yet a package that will increase performance of even 10% just changing the compiler flags Guiseppe, I

Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date

2003-03-19 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Helge Hielscher wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: Why don't you just mirror cooker and install from hard disk? It's a much faster install anyway. Is there a HOWTO somewhere? Does it work on a floppy-less PC? I don't have a floppy drive. Thanks to Buchan for showing me this. I simplified his

Re: [Cooker] Post 9.1 Wishlist (9.2 ??)

2003-03-18 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday March 18, Steffen wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2003 20:24, Austin wrote: Here's my own personal 9.1 wishlist. Some topics I'm planning on working on, some are already underway by MDK staff, others are open to volunteers/naysayers. 1. Spiffy new sounddrake. 2. Spiffy new

[Cooker] Re: Japanese characters not displayed in gimp and other packages

2003-03-07 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:55, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: Kaixo! On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:02:06AM -0600, Narfi Stefansson wrote: Pablo and others: I have observed that The Gimp does not display the Japanese messages properly in the default Japanese setup in Mandrake. This is on an up

[Cooker] Japanese characters not displayed in gimp and other packages

2003-03-04 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Pablo and others: I have observed that The Gimp does not display the Japanese messages properly in the default Japanese setup in Mandrake. This is on an up to date cooker. Furthermore, with the ~/.i18n as given by localedrake, the former of the 2 commands fails to display the messages

[Cooker] mdkkdm -- no caps lock warning

2003-02-19 Thread Narfi Stefansson
kdm displays a warning in red font if Caps Lock is on while the user types in the password. I think this would be a good usability feature for mdkkdm to have. Narfi.

Re: [Cooker] Re: qt patch for XIM

2003-02-18 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:26, Laurent Montel wrote: Le Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:28, Narfi Stefansson a écrit : Laurent, would you please be so kind as to tell me whether the patch I forwarded to you for Qt is accepted or rejected? [bug #1097, Jan. 27, 2003] I know that without

Re: [Club-Volunteers] Re: [Cooker] urpmi.setup in main ?

2003-02-13 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 13 February 2003 05:33, Denis HAVLIK wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: + Furthermore, I think it might be modified to be able to easily get a + mirror list from MandrakeClub, specifically so that Club Members could + easily setup a urpmi source for MandrakeClub, for

Re: [Cooker] Driver request

2003-02-11 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 19:33, Leon Brooks wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:32 am, Austin Acton wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:05, Ben Reser wrote: Seems to me the truth is nVidia just is paranoid about competitors learning something from their drivers. b) don't release code,

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-10 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:50, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003, 15:24:57 Uhr MET, schrieb Giuseppe Ghibò: why not taking another NON-NVidia card with supported drivers? If for the video driver thay probably says that OpenGL drivers contains code from SGI which can't be

Re: [Cooker] Linux Audio RPMs

2003-02-03 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:00, Austin Acton wrote: spiralsynthmodular freqtweak done (austin) spiralloops spiralsynth snd done (austin) (We may need a C++ hacker to get *spiral* apps to compile as they are very non-ANSI code.) Here are the diff needed to get

Re: [Cooker] Linux Audio RPMs

2003-02-03 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:09, Austin Acton wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 12:42, Narfi Stefansson wrote: Here are the diff needed to get spiralsynthmodular to compile on 9.0. They were trivial replacements of #include Fl/xx.h with #include FL/xx.h (Note the uppercase L). Thanks

Re: [Cooker] Linux Audio RPMs

2003-02-03 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:22, Austin Acton wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:09, Austin Acton wrote: The error I was referring to though, is a gcc3.2 problem. Maybe you (or someone else) can figure it out? To clarify, the problem I quoted earlier is in SpiralLoops, not spiralsynth or

Re: [Cooker] Linux Audio RPMs

2003-02-03 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 03 February 2003 13:51, Austin Acton wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:44, Narfi Stefansson wrote: Ok, I have attached a patch suggestion for SpiralLoops Narfi, you're awesome. Ranger, got time to try it? I'm up to my neck here with ardour, csound, and muse (problems with all now

Re: [Cooker] alsa patch for nforce2 sound card

2003-02-01 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:17, Quel Qun wrote: I sent it to the alsa-devel ML, I don't think it is really interesting for pure kernel developers. Sounds good to me. For now, I think I have everything but ACPI working on this board. I disabled the serial ATA via jumper since I don't use

Re: [Cooker] alsa patch for nforce2 sound card

2003-02-01 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:33, Quel Qun wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:05, Narfi Stefansson wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:17, Quel Qun wrote: I sent it to the alsa-devel ML, I don't think it is really interesting for pure kernel developers. Sounds good to me. Pun

[Cooker] dynamic USB /dev entries and desktop icons

2003-01-31 Thread Narfi Stefansson
What follows happened on a fresh cooker installation. The short story is: /dev entries were not added when I connected a hard drive to the usb bus, they were not removed when I disconnected the device, new /dev entries were not created when I added a different drive to the usb port. My

Re: [Cooker] PORTMAP

2003-01-26 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 26 January 2003 13:17, Pixel wrote: Emmanuel Blindauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Dimanche 26 Janvier 2003 14:50, Danny Tholen a écrit : Silly enough, fam requires portmap, and fam is used by KDE (and nautilus too i think) to monitor file-changes. It can also poll the disks

[Cooker] openoffice, Japanese and kinput2

2003-01-25 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
i, I've been trying to find something on the lock-ups that occur in openoffice.org in a Japanese environment when using kinput2. This happens on a current cooker [as well as on 9.0, actually]. The problems occurs as follows: Start openoffice.org and select a font capable of displaying Japanese.

Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Simplification of Menu

2003-01-19 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:38, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 prabu anand wrote on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0800 : player/graphic tool and other apps. Give the user the option to re-run First time wizard anytime from MCC I kind of like this

Re: [Cooker] Current Cooker install bugs and nforce2 bugs

2003-01-14 Thread Narfi Stefansson
4.Partitioning and Formatting... - I didn't try to repartition anything, since ATM there are some 'horror stories' what the MDK partitioning has done to manyharddisk partition tables..., so I just selected what partitions to install to, and selected to format the root partition. -

[Cooker] new lm_sensor version

2002-12-28 Thread Narfi Stefansson
As far as I can see, the current version in cooker is 2.6.5-2, whereas 2.7.0 is out. Narfi.

[Cooker] lspci missing an ID for nforce2 nvidia audio controller

2002-12-28 Thread Narfi Stefansson
lspci -v gives: 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006b (rev a2) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 0c11 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]

Re: [Cooker] hard drive install without a floppy drive

2002-12-26 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 16:05, Buchan Milne wrote: On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Jason Straight wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 01:58 pm, Narfi Stefansson wrote: I already have all of cooker mirrored on a reiserfs partition on my hard

[Cooker] hard drive install without a floppy drive

2002-12-25 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Hi everybody, I need a little advice before I install cooker on a separate partition on my home computer. I already have all of cooker mirrored on a reiserfs partition on my hard drive, so I am all set for a hard drive install using hd.img. Except I don't have a floppy drive. Since the

Re: [Cooker] kernel headers problems (again)

2002-10-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 28 October 2002 13:07, Warly wrote: David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I've come across this problem two more times since my first two emails went unnoticed. There are some problems with the current headers Do not hesitate

Re: [Cooker] kernel headers problems (again)

2002-10-27 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 27 October 2002 09:48, Austin Acton wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:42, Guillaume Rousse wrote: There was a fix proposal some times ago, consisting of modifying the glibc headers with an additional #ifdef __KERNEL__ around the redondants definitions. See the thread FYI: Getting

Re: [Cooker] HP 9100i CDRW on MSI k7t266 pro2 mobo -- lockup

2002-10-21 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 21 October 2002 12:49, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi, I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is connected to my motherboard Must admit I had a very similar problem, with the same drive, but with SuSE 8.0. I

[Cooker] linux/videodev.h in 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Hi, does anybody on this list why /usr/include/linux/videodev.h was changed in 9.0? I've looked in the changelog and couldn't find anything. Neither stock 2.4.18 nor the stock 2.4.19 version of linux/videodev.h include linux/fs.h, whereas Mandrake's version of linux/videodev.h does. Why is

[Cooker] emacs crashes under ja_JP

2002-10-04 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I start in the en_US locale narfi/home/narfi[1000] locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=en_US LC_NAME=en_US LC_ADDRESS=en_US LC_TELEPHONE=en_US LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US LC_ALL= Then I

Re: [Cooker] HP 9100i CDRW on MSI k7t266 pro2 mobo -- lockup

2002-10-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi, I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is connected to my motherboard [Most likely, I also had this problem with 8.2, but my hardware setup was different there, so it's not the best to compare] I was unable

[Cooker] harddrake2 bug(?), controller card listed as raid?!?

2002-10-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I just installed an old SIIG controller card in an empty PCI slot on my machine. Its an ATA controller card, has 2 connectors. After I had booted from the rescue CD and updated my /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and rebooted, I ran harddrake2. When I clicked on the Configure button for the new

Re: [Cooker] HP 9100i CDRW on MSI k7t266 pro2 mobo -- lockup

2002-10-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:26 am, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: Le Mercredi 2 Octobre 2002 17:18, vous avez écrit : On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi, I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is connected to my motherboard I was unable

[Cooker] HP 9100i CDRW on MSI k7t266 pro2 mobo -- lockup

2002-10-01 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Hi, I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is connected to my motherboard [Most likely, I also had this problem with 8.2, but my hardware setup was different there, so it's not the best to compare] I was unable to install with the drive connected to the motherboard,

Re: [Cooker] Installer failed to install bootloader

2002-09-22 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 22 September 2002 15:16, Todd Lyons wrote: -L- wrote on Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:31:05PM -0500 : 2 out of 5 times that i have installed mandrake9.0RC3 the installer fails to install the bootloader because it requests for it on CD1,When you put cd1 it will not find it on there and

[Cooker] installer got stuck in a loop

2002-09-18 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
RC3: Just before installing the bootloader, the installer got stuck in a loop, it kept asking for installation cd 1, I put it in, it ejected it and asked for it again. We argued like this for a while, I tried to put all 3 of the CDs in several times and I ended up having to hit cancel. Things

[Cooker] draksec and drakperm [Was: kicker setting for new users]

2002-09-09 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Saturday 07 September 2002 09:45, Narfi Stefansson wrote: When I create a new user and log into KDE for the first time, kicker now only shows icons for MCC and kmail. All the other icons are missing: konsole, kcontrol, konqueror ... rpm -qf /usr/bin/kicker kdebase-3.0.3-61mdk Narfi

kinput2 doesn't work in OOo (Was Re: [Cooker] OpenOffice.org regression with kinput2)

2002-09-09 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 08 September 2002 05:30, Laurent Montel wrote: Le Sunday 08 September 2002 12:24, Gwenole Beauchesne a écrit : Hi, I just tried to create a couple of new users and type in some simple Japanese with OpenOffice.org and soon I had trouble with keyboard focus and I seemed

Re: [Cooker] drakxtv/harddrake2 and WinTV Go

2002-09-07 Thread Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 05 September 2002 01:29 pm, Narfi Stefansson wrote: I put my TV card into my computer after I installed RC1 and I'm wondering which program should put the correct line into my /etc/modules.conf harddrake2 and drakxtv seemed not to do anything until I had run modprobe bttv myself

[Cooker] draksync bug

2002-09-07 Thread Narfi Stefansson
I believe that this bug has been reported several times before and it's a serious one since it results in data loss! Please take the time to read the description and the solution. I reported this problem for 8.2beta, I believe it was also there in 8.1. Ben Rieser also reported this in 8.2beta

[Cooker] msec and permissions

2002-09-06 Thread Narfi Stefansson
I believe I have my computer in the standard security mode. I found this in the logs: Sep 6 05:01:00 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/open_port.today from 644 to 640 Sep 6 05:01:00 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/suid_root.today from 644 to 640 Sep 6

Re: [Cooker] usb storage: desktop icon not removed/still

2002-09-06 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 06 September 2002 10:53, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:46:55 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: --=-uv4Dj+q907OgonNFRe5O Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:25, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: I thought

[Cooker] Fwd: Free Japanese Fonts

2002-09-06 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Utuhiro was having some trouble with the mailing list so he sent me this message. Maybe I'll have more luck sending this to the list than he did. I showed these fonts to my wife and asked her to rate them, she put kochi gothic and kochi mincho at the top since the other fonts were cartoonish.

[Cooker] rpmdrake-sources

2002-09-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
When I try to start rpmdrake-sources as a non-privileged user, it first asks me for the root password and then it exits. Of course, I expected the program window to appear after I had typed in the correct password. rpmdrake works fine in this regard, but I did not try rpmdrake-remove. This

[Cooker] OO and fonts

2002-09-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I cannot select the font HG Mincho Light J from the font pull-down box, I have to type it in the font selection box in order to switch to that font. This happens regardless of whether the environment is completely Japanese, a mixture ja/en_US or fully en_US. Best, Narfi.

Re: [Cooker] OO and fonts

2002-09-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 05 September 2002 14:24, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: Hi, I cannot select the font HG Mincho Light J from the font pull-down box, I have to type it in the font selection box in order to switch to that font. Hmm, if you don't see that font in the font pull-down box, then it's

Re: [Cooker] Adding cooker ftp to soft manager

2002-09-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 05 September 2002 13:50, Joan Tur wrote: Probably I'm doing something wrong but I haven't been able to add those cooker sources to soft manager. I've chosen to add a ftp source, I've given it the name cooker and I've copyed the ftp link. I've also tryed urpmi: # urpmi.addmedia

[Cooker] Re: OpenOffice-ja shows wrong characters

2002-09-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I am guessing this is similar to what utuhiro wrote in: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg73401.html When I did a fresh install of RC1 + updates, OO seemed to work very well under the Japanese locale. However, after I added more fonts to the system, OO comes up

[Cooker] drakxtv/harddrake2 and WinTV Go

2002-09-05 Thread Narfi Stefansson
I put my TV card into my computer after I installed RC1 and I'm wondering which program should put the correct line into my /etc/modules.conf harddrake2 and drakxtv seemed not to do anything until I had run modprobe bttv myself, now they at least manage to check for channels. However, neither

[Cooker] usb storage: desktop icon not removed/still (super)mounted?

2002-09-05 Thread Narfi Stefansson
When I plugged in my usb card reader, SanDisk SDDR 09, I got an icon on my desktop: dynamic_mnt_memory_card. However, the icon was not removed when I disconnected the device and it seems to still be mounted: # mount | grep memory_card none on /mnt/memory_card type supermount

[Cooker] drakboot fails on startup

2002-09-05 Thread Narfi Stefansson
[root@c-115082 root]# drakboot Thu Sep 5 17:12:02 2002 Gtk-LOG **: file gtkcombo.c: line 849 (gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings): assertion `strings != NULL' failed. at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootlook.pm line 141. ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 79 (gdk_pixbuf_unref): assertion `pixbuf !=

[Cooker] drakperm fails to embed in MCC

2002-09-05 Thread Narfi Stefansson
It works from the command line, but fails to start when launched from mcc. drakxtools-newt-1.1.9-35mdk drakconf-9.0-0.27mdk Narfi.

[Cooker] draksec fails on startup

2002-09-05 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Using draksec-0.1-3mdk # draksec couldn't find diagnostic data in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/pods/perldiag.pod /usr/lib/libDrakX /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0

[Cooker] localedrake

2002-09-04 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Using drakxtools-1.1.9-34mdk.i586.rpm 3 things: 1) localedrake asks the user for his/her password in order to log out. When running localedrake from the shell, this is not a problem since the password prompt appears in the shell. However, this also means that when the user changes the

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: Better Japanese-Input

2002-08-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 02 August 2002 08:38, utuhiro wrote: Mandrake's kinput2 is not easy to use. In Mandrake: XIM ON: shift+space XIM OFF: shift+\ How to input Japanese n: type n Most distributions: XIM ON: shift+space XIM OFF: shift+space How to input Japanese n: type nn 1) I beg to differ on

Re: [Cooker] 9.2b2: won't boot on msi k7t266 pro2

2002-08-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 02 August 2002 21:41, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: I tried to boot off the CD, hit enter for regular installation, the progress bar showing the loading moved... till it was 3/4 done, then the screen went black and the computer was unresponsive ever after that. The md5sums

Re: [Cooker] Rxvt, Emacs X resources via .Xdefaults?

2002-05-23 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 23 May 2002 02:27, you wrote: I'm running 8.2 but I've had this problem with earlier releases of Mandrake, too. How, exactly, do X resources get set on Mandrake? For instance, I have Rxvt*font, Rxvt*background and Rxvt*foreground set in my ~/.Xdefaults file. The font resource

Re: [Cooker] Japanese IME in 8.2 b4

2002-03-09 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:07 am, Michael Beddow wrote: I can get it to start up and accept input using the normal shift-space key combination, but the same combination should toggle it off again, and it doesn't, so it's not possible to revert to ASCII input. And the TAB to cycle between

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake: SHOULD NOT HAPPEN

2002-03-09 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 08 March 2002 08:32 pm, huug wrote: rpminst didn't install: 'gnome-core-1.4.0.6-11mdk' 'gnome-core-1.4.0.6-11mdk' added to the already_installed_list rpminst didn't install: 'ldconfig-2.2.4-25mdk' 'ldconfig-2.2.4-25mdk' added to the already_installed_list already installed:

[Cooker] drakfont/ttf fonts not available in KDE.

2002-03-08 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
[narfi@dhcp-104-6 Mail]$ rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-xfs kdebase drakxtools XFree86-4.2.0-8mdk XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-8mdk kdebase-2.2.2-86mdk drakxtools-1.1.7-91mdk I installed 8.2 beta4, with English as a primary language and Japanese, Icelandic and German as secondary languages. I've upgraded

[Cooker] Re: openoffice crashes when fonts-ttf-japanese is installed

2002-03-08 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 08 March 2002 10:32 am, you wrote: On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: [narfi@dhcp-104-6 narfi]$ rpm -q openoffice openoffice-6.0.41-2mdk [narfi@dhcp-104-6 narfi]$ rpm -q fonts-ttf-japanese fonts-ttf-japanese-0.19990222-12mdk Known bug fixed in -5mdk by simply

[Cooker] openoffice crashes when fonts-ttf-japanese is installed

2002-03-08 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
[narfi@dhcp-104-6 narfi]$ rpm -q openoffice openoffice-6.0.41-2mdk [narfi@dhcp-104-6 narfi]$ rpm -q fonts-ttf-japanese fonts-ttf-japanese-0.19990222-12mdk I installed 8.2 beta4, with English as a primary language and Japanese, Icelandic and German as secondary languages. I've upgraded

[Cooker] xmms-1.2.7-1mdk

2002-03-06 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I was surprised that I couldn't find anything reported about this on cooker already ... I don't think those locale files should be installed in /home/gc: Narfi. # rpm -q -p xmms-1.2.7-1mdk.i586.rpm --list /home/gc/rpm/tmp/xmms-1.2.7-1mdk-root/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/xmms.mo

[Cooker] font bugs in KDE and OpenOffice.org using imported Windows TT fonts.

2002-03-06 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
First of all, sorry for the heavy cross-posting, I'm just in over my head here. May somebody more versed in font matters than I am please take over this one. I'm running 8.1 beta4, upgraded to cooker tonight from sunet. I've used drakfont to import my windows fonts. After I have imported them,

[Cooker] WinTV Go drakxtv

2002-03-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
82 beta4 In short: My TV card was detected, but drakxtv failed to create a xawtvrc file for me I'm using NTSC, US cable The standard error output from running drakxtv is: full pci_probe sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' sh: -c: line 1: `xvt -T 'Scanning for TV channels '

[Cooker] drakfont: ttmkfdir missing in default install.

2002-03-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
8.2 beta4, updated to cooker. When installing truetype fonts, drakfont complains about ttmkfdir missing. The program is of course in the freetype-tools package which does not get installed by default. Here's the standard error from drakfont when I tried to install ArialUnicode.TTF. Note the

[Cooker] drakfont: Fails on Arialuni.TTF

2002-03-05 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
8.2 beta4, updated to cooker. drakxtools-1.1.7-89mdk As I explained in a separate email, I've installed freetype-tools. When I selected the file Arianuni.TTF using drakfont, I received the following on the standard error: mv: missing file argument Try `mv --help' for more information. font

Re: [Cooker] drakfont in current cooker

2002-03-04 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 04 March 2002 06:14, dams wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Narfi Stefansson) writes: Did not import Cyberbit.TTF from my windows directory when I chose to import the windows fonts. I then used Advanced-Add and selected Cyberbit.TTF explicitly. Drakfont proceeded to import

[Cooker] Drakfont imported fonts fonts missing when using AA

2002-03-02 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I'm running cooker, updated 1 hour ago I added Arial Unicode MS and Bitstream Cyberbit, among others, using drakfont and I can use those fonts when I am not using antialiasing in KDE When I switch to AA in KDE, these fonts are not available This is not the case in 81, I'm writing this in KDE

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 localization KDE crash (was: Re: KDE crashes in current cooker)

2002-02-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 19:11, Pixel wrote: H. Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gentlemen: I believe I have seen a part of the reason why X/KDE crashes under the Japanese locale. I'll put my findings below our previous emails to the list. this may help

[Cooker] Japanese packages missing in 8.2b3

2002-02-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
These packages are missing in 82b3, due to space constraints I presume I would really appreciate it if somebody could confirm that they will indeed ship with 82 final and that they will be installed if Japanese is selected as a primary or secondary language during the installation If they

[Cooker] weird version numbers in rpmdrake

2002-02-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Am I the only one that sees version numbers such as 3000:245 when I update my cooker system using rpmdrake? I put a screenshot of rpmdrake up at http://wwwcswiscedu/~narfi/rpmdrakepng where the following version numbers are shown: cdrecord3:111-0a151mdk kdevelop3:202-9mdk with

[Cooker] XFree86 localization KDE crash (was: Re: KDE crashes in current cooker)

2002-02-27 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Gentlemen: I believe I have seen a part of the reason why X/KDE crashes under the Japanese locale. I'll put my findings below our previous emails to the list. On Saturday 23 February 2002 14:02, David BAUDENS wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:39, you wrote: Platform: 8.2 beta3, updated

Re: [Cooker] KDE crashes in current cooker

2002-02-24 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Saturday 23 February 2002 14:02, you wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:39, you wrote: Platform: 8.2 beta3, updated to cooker at 8pm central time from sunet. Use /usr/sbin/localedrake to change the language to Japanese-EUC or Japanese-UTF-8. Log out and back in again. Start

[Cooker] Cooker: ghostscript 6.53 fails on sample gs files

2002-02-22 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
I'm running a fully Cooker-ized 8.2 beta3. Updated at 8pm central time from sunet. Here's the crux of the problem: ghostscript fails on these sample files: /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/examples/cjk/*.ps These are all files which use the new CID-keyed fonts. They are for all 3 languages:

[Cooker] KDE crashes in current cooker

2002-02-22 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Platform: 8.2 beta3, updated to cooker at 8pm central time from sunet. Use /usr/sbin/localedrake to change the language to Japanese-EUC or Japanese-UTF-8. Log out and back in again. Start KDE with xinit /usr/bin/startkde -- :0 and bingo - crash. I selected English as the primary language

[Cooker] 8.2b3: Qt maintainers: Qt(konqueror) and Japanese.

2002-02-21 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Summary: Konqueror fails to create valid PostScript files for Japanese in 8.2 beta3. My explanation: Qt is missing a patch. Pointer to patch below. This same bug is present in 8.1. How to solve this problem: Here is my explanation: Qt-2.3.1 has a printing problem due to a gcc 2.96 bug.

Re: [Cooker] Japanese fails in 8.2b3

2002-02-21 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
8.2, beta 3. Three issues: 1) kinput2 and freewnn are still missing from the CDs. 2) Printing Japanese still fails. VFlib seems to be at fault. 3) KDE now crashes under Japanese locale. Changing /usr/share/ghostscript/6.52/vflib/kconfig.ps in the following manner solves problem 2 for me:

[Cooker] Japanese fails in 8.2b3

2002-02-21 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Summary: 8.2, beta 3. Three issues: 1) kinput2 and freewnn are still missing from the CDs. 2) Printing Japanese still fails. VFlib seems to be at fault. 3) KDE now crashes under Japanese locale. I hope this will be fixed before RC1 so that I can actually start testing the handling of Japanese.