Re: [Cooker] Password hash 8.1-9.1/2

2003-10-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 02:38, jeff wrote: I'm still planning to transfer all the stuff from my unsupported 8.1 machine to my 9.1 (to be 9.2 when final) machine. The question I have seems likely to be well within the knowledge of this group: Has the method of hashing passwords changed

[Cooker] swab.h ISO C warnings (plea for 9.2 testers)

2003-09-21 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, When using Mandrake 9.1 I ran into numerous warnings being produced by gcc when compiling the snippet below with the following command line: cc -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -Wall -pedantic-errors -Wno-long-long -g -O2 test.c -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread -lSDL_net -o test #include

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 download CD size

2003-09-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I still prefer the 650Mb CDs. I have been burning all the Mandrakes since 8.0 (and skipping 9.0) to the same set 650Mb CDRWs. If you stick with 650Mb it makes it one less thing that can go wrong when someone asks to try it. Whatever you do, please don't create two differing sets of CD sizes (i.e.

[Cooker] BitTorrent suggestion

2003-09-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hello, For the final Mandrake release could you not split the torrents (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/ ) up by CD (and md5sum)? Instead package them as one. Here is the rationale behind my request. Firstly, it means that availability of each of the three CDs will be broadly equal since in

[Cooker] SUB cooker

2003-03-25 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler

[Cooker] SUB cooker

2003-03-25 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler

Re: [Cooker] sdl stuff broken?

2002-11-09 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 06:22:03 +0100 Per Øyvind Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hromium randomizing. SDL initialized. Couldn't set GL mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual Runs fine for me with an ATI Radeon 64DDR amd Mesa, but fails

[Cooker] Partition Magic?

2002-10-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Do the boxed versions of Mandrake still come with a version of Partition Magic? I am only asking because I was not aware that the default Drakpartitioner could resize NTFS partitions... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

Re: [Cooker] Missing pine

2002-10-12 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Isn't nano available with Mandrake 9? It's a GPL'd clone of pico. I have seen it in Texstar's repository, which let me think that it is not in contrib... I thought the problem was that pine (the mail program) had been removed rather than pico (the editor)...

Re: [Cooker] Xbox Linux support for Mandrake

2002-10-11 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
1) We're working on a replacement ROM that will completely replace the MS system software, so there cannot be a legal problem any more. 2) Even with MS' hacked system software, I don't see a problem for the end user, because he has bought a legitimate copy of the Xbox system software and

Re: [Cooker] Re: MakeCD Problems

2002-10-09 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Warly wrote: Trent M. Gunnarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All :-) Since before the final release of ver.9, I've been working with several people on creating Mandrake ISOs using the MakeCD script and here's what I've found, with the help and verification

Re: [Cooker] VIA686a sound problems [OT]

2002-10-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, steve ide wrote: What is this BULL* via sound drivers create more problems than they solve the fact is there is a problem with interrupts with these chipsets. I love Linux and use it every day. The best way is to use a decent soundcard (sblive etc..) works fine !!

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 final when ?

2002-09-22 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 14:46, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 12:49, tom447 wrote: We've been anticipating 9.0 and testing the RC's. With RC3, some of us are having trouble mounting CDROM drives. People scoff at things like this and problems with mice, but a bug like this

Re: [Cooker] Graphical corruption?

2002-09-18 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
What's your weak video card? I've seen Mozilla do this on my Riva TNT, I don't think it's a video card dependent bug though. I think you might be talking about mozilla bug 120280. I have been seeing some sort of courrution for sometime on this bug both Linux and Windows.

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla text corruption

2002-09-18 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
If the corruption is a one pixel shift (that is fixed by highlighting or refreshing the page) then it could well be this bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80530 What build of moz are you using? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

[Cooker] MakeCD error

2002-09-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I'm trying to use MakeCD on a RedHat 7.3 system and I'm running up again the following error: [sits@plutonium cooker]$ ./misc/MakeCD --discsize 681574400 -t /tmp/ --auto /extra/mandrake/cooker/i586/ -m1 perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:41, erik wrote: If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem to get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB burners increase market. And less download time Unfortunately OpenOffice is exactly the sort of app that I

Re: [Cooker] Intel 845 USB and Support, and some unanswered Bugzillas

2002-09-05 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Ben Reser wrote: Now the Mandrake folks (Warly especially) will chime in that most of the bug reports are worthless and that they don't have time to sit around and read them. But I have to wonder. How is it that KDE and Mozilla among numerous other projects have time to

Re: [Cooker] Faster download ?

2002-09-04 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hallo! I've downloaded Linuxin, a Debian based 1 CD spanish distro (http://linuxin.paislinux.net/). Here's md5sum's file: 620a0bb7696bf55f3a143220a8853002 ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso 16b9e54036cfd50458f649cb4907721b ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso.bz2 First is the mentioned ISO.

[Cooker] 650Mb ISOs

2002-09-03 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Is anyone going to volunteer to make 650Mb ISOs available when Mandrake releases the final version of 9.0? If not I guess I had better start downloading cooker... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

Re: [Cooker] GNU Copyleft

2002-09-02 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Or was there another reason that the vim license was listed as GPL-incompatible free software? Cheap gag: Because it wasn't emacs? :) -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

Re: [Cooker] ISO files have 700 MB, so you need CDs with thatcapacity, isn't it ?

2002-08-26 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Excuse me if this question is silly: my CD-RWs have a capacity of 650 MB. Therefore, I can not save on them the Beta 4 ISO files (they have 700 MB), isn't it ? If the Beta 4 CDs ISOs are like the previous Betas then no. I know how you feel as I bought some CDRWs with the purpose of keeping

Re: [Cooker] New SBLive problems + followup

2002-08-26 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Well, sound is finally back for the SBLive, but it sounds terrible! Whenever something is playing, there's a staticy hiss behind it. modules.conf shows: above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias snd-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 (note I'm still using Mandrake 8.2) I once tested the SBLive ALSA drivers

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for a Drake - procmail

2002-08-18 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: I don't think he is alone in this i.e. wanting a Linux mail / internet services server but keeping the Windows clients at least so that any move is a steady migration. Quite simply given the volume of cr*p that comes into many people's inboxes the

Re: [Cooker] Theregister 8.2 review

2002-08-16 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I've actually been looking for the name of that simple firewall wizard package since I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 (really not the OS's fault, I had a family member decide it was a good idea to unplug the server between the box and it's UPS which resulted in the HDD spraying garbage all

[Cooker] Theregister 8.2 review

2002-08-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Sorry to dredge this up but as Mandrake 9 is still in beta I'm reminded of few points in theregister review of Mandrake 8.2 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25160.html). In it the reviewer which mentioned how a reinstallation was necessary after a failed kernel compile. I had my own

Re: [Cooker] OT: Where's the beef ?

2002-08-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Frank Griffin wrote: Just out of curiosity (this being the first time I've been involved with an MDK beta), where does one look to find all the policies and procedures for what's going on here ? Such as maintaining a cooker mirror, burning CDs from it, and so forth. Try

Re: [Cooker] Auto logon 9.0b2

2002-08-08 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Just out of interest, do non login shells launched from the environment started by autologin now have all the paths added to them correctly (on 8.2 /usr/games doesn't appear to be there for example)? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

[Cooker] kdm/autologin

2002-07-23 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I don't know if this has been fixed in the latest version of autologin (since I think it is that causing the problem) but if I start my 8.2 computer autologin (autologin-1.0.0-5mdk) will automatically start my desktop as expected. However, if I log out (thus going to the kdm screen and then use

Re: [Cooker] Feature needed by DialUp users

2002-07-23 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Scenario: My network is up with a 192.168.0.* address and my default gateway is 192.168.0.1. I have a modem in my machine and I start the InternetDialer (kppp). It dials out, connects, obtains a ppp address. But when I do route -n, it has not done

[Cooker] Mandrake ISO labels

2002-07-22 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I don't know if this has been fixed in recently released Mandrake 9 beta isos (as I haven't the bandwidth to test them) but the 8.2 ISOs were always given cryptic labels (i.e. the information that shows up in brackets on xcdroast under CD/Image Info). Is there any chance that more meaninnful

Re: [Cooker] preparations for beta releases - bug tracking?

2002-07-11 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I know there were gripes from mdksoft people about bugzilla, but both Mozilla and OpenOffice.org (issuezilla) find it more effective than email. I am sure there are some competent people on the list who would be able and willing to intercept bug reports in bugzilla if necessary during

[Cooker] /etc/profile not started when using autologin

2002-03-28 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I finally gave in and enabled autologin from the mandrake control center (not kdm/gdm). However, now a lot of my usual paths (ok /usr/games) are not present when I launch a konsole/gnome-terminal. I'm guessing that by default when I used to use gdm/kdm they ran /etc/profile once and this

[Cooker] Vanilla kernel supermount

2002-03-28 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
With all this talk of supermount 2 - the second comming - got me to wondering whether someone had a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel supermount patch. I've done a google and turned up nothing so for the meantime I've started pulling apart the kernel source rpm... --- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

[Cooker] autologin error message

2002-03-23 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
The following error message was being produced each time I switched to runlevel 5: ERROR: no such user ! Unfortunately this error was not being produced in a log - only on a virtual terminal. To cut a long story short after a lot of searching it turned out that /usr/sbin/autologin was producing

[Cooker] rpms listed twice in rpmdrake

2002-03-23 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
If I add an ftp source for all the mandrake rpms to rpmdrake (which was originally only using the cds as a source) then rpms appear twice under the same source - i.e. rather than seeing the same rpm twice (once for the cd and once for the ftp site) I see it four times (twice for the cd and

[Cooker] Wine out of the box problems...

2002-03-20 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
When I try to use wine (from the mandrake 8.2 rpm) to start a Windows program I am receiving the following error: err:module:map_image Could not map section .text, file probably truncated err:module:PE_fixup_imports Module (file) shlwapi.dll (which is needed by shell32.dll) not found

[Cooker] linux_logo-3.9b4 rpm

2001-08-24 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I have uploaded a new linux_logo rpm that I have built myself. In addition to using the more recent version of the source tarball (which should fix bugs 3544 and 4181) I have patched it to use /proc/iomem to work out physical ram, included a mandrake banner and other small bits and pieces. It is