Re: USB disk drive problems - was Re: [Cooker] kernel panic debugging

2003-01-28 Thread Owen Savill
Can't locate the original URL but here is the patch file anyway: Owen John Danielson, II wrote: Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Owen Savill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 3) There is a kernel patch for the SanDisk USB disk caddies but this does not appear to have been incorporated into t

Re: USB disk drive problems - was Re: [Cooker] kernel panic debugging

2003-01-27 Thread Owen Savill
MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Savill wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:17:22PM + : 1) Some USB disk drives will also cause a kernel panic if plugged in during a boot. These tend to be the `in caddy' type rather than the key If by any chance another disk drive does actually mount the s

Re: [Cooker] Innovations for Mandrake Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Owen Savill
There is a 2.5 and 2.4 kernel patch available for the SanDisc USB disk caddy. Has this been considered for inclusion into a Mandrake 2.4 kernel ? It may be usefull and would stop me having to build my own kernel all the time :-) Thanks, Owen Marcel Pol wrote: On 18 Jan 2003 17:47:28 + Ad

USB disk drive problems - was Re: [Cooker] kernel panic debugging

2003-01-24 Thread Owen Savill
Here are some `funnies' that I have found with USB hard disks. Strictly off topic for `Re: [Cooker] kernel panic debugging' but it may help. 1) Some USB disk drives will also cause a kernel panic if plugged in during a boot. These tend to be the `in caddy' type rather than the key fob type. Sol

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] glibc-2.3.1-4mdk

2002-12-20 Thread Owen Savill
>> The symbol libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) has been removed from 4mdk Isn't this a bit brutal, considering that everything either depends in /lib or /usr/lib versions of this file ? Are you moving over to a different PThread standard / model / POSIX compliancy or what ? I have heard great stuff

Re: Auto Dial Up - Was Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts forContrib...

2002-11-29 Thread Owen Savill
upted route to host sorted out ! I don't think I'll try that again in a hurry ! but thankyou for trying. I think I'll have to wait for the kpppd dial out daemon to appear :-) Owen Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Owen Savill wrote: Hello, Isn&#x

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Savill
Thanks for that. Owen Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:15, Owen Savill wrote: Sorry, I should have said that I have made all the edits for Mozilla. My comment was really that even when this is done TT fonts still don't look as smooth as KDE's. I found a freetype2

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Savill
rsion in case it has some more / newer stuff in it. Thanks, Owen Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:11, Owen Savill wrote: I agree. I find that as a laptop user the fonts look even better with the rgba = rgb; lines commented "back in" in XftConfig. Outdated. That

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Savill
I agree. I find that as a laptop user the fonts look even better with the rgba = rgb; lines commented "back in" in XftConfig. However TT fonts still look pretty rough in Mozilla and Opera, maybe they do things there own way ? Owen John Allen wrote: Rocco Stanzione wrote: On Tuesday 26 Novem

Auto Dial Up - Was Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-27 Thread Owen Savill
Hello, Isn't it about time that a single user Linux box could do auto dial up ? I mean if window$ can do it I'm sure Linux can too. I've tried with diald and had very mixed results usually not working at all. I read somewhere that ppp was capable but I have never managed to get it to work ! Th

Re: [Cooker] Is this my problem or a Cooker problem ? - Follow up

2002-11-26 Thread Owen Savill
Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Owen Savill wrote: Going back to binutils2 and libbinutils2 that came with the stock 9.0 fixes the problem. Hope this helps, It would help if you provide a testcase because I simply can't read in people mind, I am afraid. So please tell me

[Cooker] Is this my problem or a Cooker problem ? - Follow up

2002-11-26 Thread Owen Savill
Hello, It appears to be a Cooker problem. Going back to binutils2 and libbinutils2 that came with the stock 9.0 fixes the problem. Hope this helps, Owen

[Cooker] Is this my problem or a Cooker problem ?

2002-11-26 Thread Owen Savill
Hello, All my compilations go just fine until link time when the make crashes out with a message: foo.o could not read symbols: File truncated Is this a known problem with the current Cooker release or have I accidentally deleted something vital ! If I have deleted something vital could some n

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.20.0.1mdk-1-1mdk

2002-11-20 Thread Owen Savill
>>> Does this include the preemption patch or low latency patch? Or indeed the NGPT (Posix Threads) changes ? Owen scott chevalley wrote: I saw the 2.4.19 on mdk club but I need XFS support so instead I've been using a 2.5.46 kernel, which is working just fine so far. I need to get 2.5.48 a

Re: [Cooker] Root and /

2002-10-08 Thread Owen Savill
Hello, I don't think it so much a case of "must have" as "would like to". Personally I like to try to get as much out into separate partitions so as to allow a new OS install without disrupting non rpm binaries, user setups etc., etc.. Apart from the loss of 1 GIMP script I did a complete instal

Re: [Cooker] USB-SCSI Cable + Jaz

2002-09-09 Thread Owen Savill
Already reported a similar probelm with the built in CD on my Dell Inspiron laptop. I have to do a command (doesn't seem to matter if it is 'ls' or anything else) right down the /dev IDE bus chain until a reach a directory which apparently has now entries. But once the 'ls', or whatever, has b

Re: [Cooker] The status on 'not supported' scanners.

2002-09-06 Thread Owen Savill
Likewise for my Agfa SnapScan 1212U. There is a Sane backend for this at : http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ but it never seems to make it into any Mandrake release :-) Owen Aleksander Adamowski wrote: > > Gabriel Phoenix wrote: > >> Eagerly waiting for a module for my old OpticPro 4381P scan

[Fwd: Re: [Cooker] hotplugging usb hard drives]

2002-09-06 Thread Owen Savill
Thanks for that Vinny. I eventually found a patch for the 2.4 kernel tree which apparently the kernel developers are refusing to add to the kernel source. However I applied the patch to the 2.5.33 source and the ScanLogic USB-IDE bridge now works perfectly :-) IDE devices seem to be a real st

Re: [Cooker] Asking once again . . . WHY SCSI modules on a notebook?

2002-09-05 Thread Owen Savill
> I just can't load the SCSI module > (sg) needed for my usb-storage key with any 2.4.19 kernels. Interesting... Is this why my USB disk caddy that uses a ScanLogic USB-IDE bridge doesn't 'work' ? I can mount an USB storage device that doesn't have the USB-IDE bridge (being a solid state dev

Re: [Cooker] harddrake2 dependancy not reported

2002-08-01 Thread Owen Savill
Updated perl-GTK packages and the drakxtools packages and harddrake now works. Owen Owen Savill wrote: > > I'll look into that. The reply will probably have to wait until next > week :-( > > It it still happens I'll attach the very verbose output as well ! > >

Re: [Cooker] more on suspend/resume problems

2002-03-05 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * This is probably slightly off topic for this particular thread which is addressing PCMCIA LAN card issues, but please don't forget that the various experienced laptop problems do not just r

Re: [Cooker] more on suspend/resume problems

2002-03-01 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * My PCMCIA network card works just fine, it's the PCMCIA modem that causes the lock-ups here (along with removing the AC cord, closing the lid, etc., etc.), and then only when it is removed

Re: [Cooker] ACPI 101 please

2002-02-28 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * > Repeat with me: > > while (!convinced) { > APM is good. > ACPI is bad. > } Why even bother with the (!convinced) if ACPI is at the root of all the various Laptop problem

Re: [Cooker] Laptop Problems

2002-02-21 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * I concur with this sentiment. My Acer Extensa laptop also hangs when trying to come back from a resume of any kind and when the mains power is switched off. However, I still think there is

Re: [Cooker] The top CPU consumers after install

2002-02-19 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * > > Well, I thought your points where valid. I didn't > > bash you. :) Thankyou very much for that. > Or maybe have it delayed and run when the screensaver > comes up or the cpu has been i

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta laptop power management]]

2002-02-08 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * Hmmm. I started this thread about ACPI and APM and Kernel power management and just how flaky things have got. I know that I misspelled ACPI as APIC ! So I think this thread is now carry

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Cooker] Re: Re: Ogle / Gatos ATI drivers.]]

2002-02-08 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * I say go for it ! I want 3D for my Rage Mobility Pro which has been absent since it appeared in 3.3.6 ! Owen > > From: Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Cooker] Re: Ogle / Gatos ATI drivers.]]

2002-02-08 Thread Owen Savill
This email is subject to the disclaimer set out below * >From what I've read this will also help Rage Pro and Rage Mobility chipsets as well. Owen > > From: Adrian Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker] Re:

Re: [Cooker] Cooker: ATI Rage 128, Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-08 Thread Owen Savill
Further to Ben's message I have a Dell laptop, so I may be able to offer assistance. However, like Ben please let us know which Dell you have and which video card it has. Owen