Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 keeps crashing hard on my Dell C800 laptop!

2001-10-02 Thread generic
François Pons wrote: > > generic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please help! This is a pretty serious show-stopper for me at the moment, > > and I can definitely provide more detail. > > Can you try without DRI enabled, try "XFdrake --expert" and

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 keeps crashing hard on my Dell C800 laptop!

2001-10-02 Thread generic
Well, I gave up and went back to the "Generic|Generic Laptop Display Panel 1600x1200" as I never had problems when using this Monitor setting in Mdk 8.0. Now X hasn't crashed on me yet! Somehow, I thought selecting the Dell Laptop monitor settings would help me out, but apparentl

Re: Athlon optimized Mandrake [Re: [Cooker] i486 Release?]

2000-11-04 Thread generic
if programs were optimized for it, as I'm using it mostly for running logic simulations with VCS (thanks for now supporting Linux, Synopsys!) I guess I'll have to wait 'til kernel 2.4.x is stable :( GenEric

Re: [Cooker] Cursor Problem in run level 3 , Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-03 Thread generic
Yes, I noticed the same bug too. Hello Mandrake guys/gals, let's try to squash this bug, O.K.? Hoyt wrote: > > When I reach the login screen in run level 3, the cursor is positioned at > the far left of the screen so that I type over the characters on the screen > prior to the prompt. As such,

Re: [Cooker] Does someone know how to turn DGA on?

2000-11-03 Thread generic
g PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader (the pages show up as black, which ain't too pretty). GenEric pgeorges wrote: > > "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" a écrit : > > > > Hello > > I need to turn the option DGA on in XF86Config so as to use vmware. W

Re: [Cooker] No switchdesk in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-11-01 Thread generic
generic wrote: > > Hmmm I was just able to get GNOME started by creating > a file: $HOME/.xinitrc that starts GNOME: > > #!/bin/sh > exec gnome-session > > [ the rest of my rant snipped ] O.K., I finally figured out how to start the Window Manager of my choice v

Re: [Cooker] No switchdesk in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-10-31 Thread generic
. Why should I have to be root to control the session of an individual user? That's kind of George Orwellian/Bill Gatish in my opinion. Other than this issue, the Release looks quite solid. GenEric generic wrote: > > I just installed Mandrake 7.2 last night and am quite impressed! Go

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 cannot do nfs mounts

2000-10-31 Thread generic
Ray wrote: > > When you log in just select gnome from the drop down menu > What drop down menu? I don't have Mandrake 7.2 start X on bootup, if that's what you're talking about. There has to be an "easy" way to do this for those of us who use "startx&qu

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 cannot do nfs mounts

2000-10-30 Thread generic
I can just get a response on how to switch to GNOME instead of KDE2, I'll be golden! (There is no more 'switchdesk' utility, but hopefully, there's something similar in 7.2? Anyone?) Thanks, GenEric pgeorges wrote: > > generic a écrit : > > > > Oddly e

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 cannot do nfs mounts

2000-10-30 Thread generic
out upgrading my 7.0 box at work to 7.2 if I can't mount partions exported from it to another 7.2 box!! GenEric Ron Stodden wrote: > > After installing 2 Mandrake 7.2 (custom, development) installations I > am amazed to discover that > nfs mounts do not work (RPC: timed o

[Cooker] No switchdesk in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-10-30 Thread generic
s the "new" mechanism for switching the desktop from KDE -> GNOME, and vice-versa? I would still like the ability to switch from KDE -> GNOME for most of the time, but be able to switch from GNOME -> KDE for other times. Please help, Thanks, GenEric

Re: [Cooker] Problem installing

2000-09-01 Thread generic
uot;I LOVE YOU" virus that spread itself because of Outlook's security inadequacies! I'm curious - how do you use Outlook in Mandrake anyway? Are you running VMware? WINE? GenEric

Re: [Cooker] cooker won't boot on promise ultra66

2000-09-01 Thread generic
I had a similar problem after I recompiled a kernel recently, for the first time after installing Mandrake 7.1. If you've read the Ultra66 Howto(mini-HOWTO?), there are 4 addresses that are used (err, you probably only need 2, since it looks like you're only using 1 hard-drive on the promise: hde

Re: [Cooker] conf.modules, modules, modules.conf ... what's the deal?

2000-08-31 Thread generic
Don Head wrote: > > > When upgrading to Mdk 7.1, and recompiling my > > kernel, Mandrake complained about > > /etc/conf.modules and mentioned that it's now > > deprecated. fine. I copied conf.modules to > > modules.conf ... exact copy, ... everything > > works fine EXCEPT my soundblaster live! va

[Cooker] conf.modules, modules, modules.conf ... what's the deal?

2000-08-31 Thread generic
When upgrading to Mdk 7.1, and recompiling my kernel, Mandrake complained about /etc/conf.modules and mentioned that it's now deprecated. fine. I copied conf.modules to modules.conf ... exact copy, ... everything works fine EXCEPT my soundblaster live! value card (emu10k1 module). I then copied m