Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Re: GNOME, KDE and Mandrakesoft (fwd)

2000-11-23 Thread pgeorges
Christopher Molnar a écrit : For all of you who have a long weekend, here is something to play with - a QT2 and a KDE update: (Someone PLEASE let me know they where able to properly install): I have tested on a LM7.2 install, a clean one. 1/ For installation I had to perform a rpm -Fvh

Re: [Cooker] **Why is joe missing from 7.2!!!???**

2000-11-19 Thread pgeorges
"mdk mailin list (Harry)" a écrit : So, I have been using joe since day-one of using Linux. joe-2.8-21mdk.i586.rpm is in LM 7.2

Re: [Cooker] DriveStatusError BadCRC

2000-11-18 Thread pgeorges
Stratos Laspas a écrit : Installed 7.2 a few days back. All looks good except for this: During both boot time and operation time, I get some error messages about hde (that's the one HDD that I have on a Promise U66 PCI card). The following is from the boot sequence. Any hints? Freeing

Re: [Cooker] KDE 2 CVS Update RPMS

2000-11-18 Thread pgeorges
Christopher Molnar a écrit : Hello, I have just placed a new set of the KDE 2.x RPMS's onto ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE. I am very pleased that Mandrakesoft works on functionnal updates for current LM release, not only for security patches. Are there any planned date for the release

Re: [Cooker] KDE2.0, Konquerqor bugs

2000-11-13 Thread pgeorges
Doug Roberts a écrit : Question: is anybody working on Konqueror bugs? I submitted a bug report to qa.mandrakesoft.com regarding Konqueror's inability to handle most java appletts. The big report made it into the bugzilla database, and it got assigned, but there doesn't seem to be any

Re: [Cooker] fork and then copy-on-write can crash linux.

2000-11-10 Thread pgeorges
Anon Sricharoenchai a écrit : I have tested the "fork" and so called "copy-on-write" operation by invoking the following command (as a normal user, not superuser). perl -e '$| = 1; sub s1() { system("free -t | tail -1") } s1(); for ($i = 0; $i10_000_000; $i++) { $a[$i] = 0 } s1(); if

Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott

2000-11-08 Thread pgeorges
"Brian J. Murrell" a écrit : We should be quite public about the fact that if a hardware vendor refuses to support Linux now, it will be shunned and boycotted when the time comes that they do want to support Linux. Let them gamble on not supporting Linux now when we need them. Turnabout is

Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott

2000-11-08 Thread pgeorges
"Brian J. Murrell" a écrit : Keep in mind, boycotting should be the very last step. Every effort should be put into getting the vendor to want to play with Linux. We don't *want* to boycott anyone. Nobody wins when that happens. False. By boycotting Matrox, the Millemium card was finally

Re: [Cooker] Hello Cooker! Advise needed...

2000-11-08 Thread pgeorges
"Vincent Meyer, MD" a écrit : While I agree that a boycott might be an interesting approach, it would be very easy for them to ignore, as Linux is such a small segment of their market. Once it becomes a bigger segment, there will be so many new people flocking to buy that it won't MATTER

[Cooker] another forgotten test (PCMCIA)

2000-11-04 Thread pgeorges
I installed once again LM7.2, on a laptop that time. Network configuration during installation took the right PCMCIA network card (Xircom 10/100), but during boot up process, eth0 was not brought up. Harddrake is of no help. I solved the problem by finding out that /var/run/stab contained a

Re: [Cooker] Freeze problem

2000-11-03 Thread pgeorges
Meir Faraj a écrit : I've found the kde (Xfree) problems ;-) it was arts that was failled to get fullduplex and got because this all cpu ressources of my computer and froze it I hope it was only this ;-) because other friends 2 have experienced freeze problems but not a lot one time

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 very unstable but only under kde !!!! Need a patch ...

2000-11-03 Thread pgeorges
Meir Faraj a écrit : waaah , how can I verify the CD integrity after have burned it ? Mount them. If you can see what is there, or boot them ... you are not far from a correct CD. It's comming for example after moving xmms and after open gvim maximize it and playing with the xmms again.

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 very unstable but only under kde !!!! Need a patch ...

2000-11-02 Thread pgeorges
Meir Faraj a écrit : Hi all , First I wanna tell you that you've made a very great works and I'm very happy to see this great release . But the rc was a lot more stable that this release -( For me it is pretty stable, and even computer illeterates, like my wife, enjoy it. open some

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

2000-11-02 Thread pgeorges
"Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" a écrit : Hello I need to turn the option DGA on in XF86Config so as to use vmware. Would someone know how to do it? Many thanks Eduardo Nothing to do with cooker, but : In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I guess uncomment the dga line (?):

Re: [Cooker] Was RC1 much better than 7.2-Final??? (LONG)

2000-10-30 Thread pgeorges
Claudio a écrit : I thing it's enough at the moment... I'll tell you more as I'll discover! Ehmm... I'm talking just about wrong things. I have to say that there are many wonderful things in 7.2 like MY WHEEL MOUSE WORKS! My TV card WORKS... My Scanner WORKS... and so on for my UDMA-66

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 Graphics Configuration Issue

2000-10-30 Thread pgeorges
Chris Spencer a écrit : I installed 7.2 from hard disk and kept the tree on a paritition that is mounted during boot. I have noticed that in 7.2, when you run the Graphics Configuration application under DrakConf it installed the XFree 3.3.6 RPMs and changed the /etc/X11/X link so that it

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 cannot do nfs mounts

2000-10-30 Thread pgeorges
generic a écrit : Oddly enough, I have absolutely no problems at all mounting a partition exported from a Solaris 2.7 box at work. I would have expected problems with the latter instead of the former. There are absolutely no log messages generated in /var/log/messages (on either box)

[Cooker] Installation problems with RC1

2000-10-28 Thread pgeorges
In a computer club, I installed several times LM7.2 RC1 (dated 12 october), and I always encountered the same problem of bad configuration of X : video cards are Matrox Mystique and S3 Virge II DX, which are not detected. In the first case there were also a misconfiguration of X config files (no

Re: [Cooker] ASUS P3V4X != RTL8139

2000-10-28 Thread pgeorges
guran a écrit : I use a newly selfassembled machine: PIII 933 MHz, 256 MB ECC from Compaque, ASUS P3V4X with an IBM 30GB and to this I try to use a Planet Ethernet card with rtl8139 and have large difficulties. The Ethernet card is not correctly installed in Mdk 7.2beta puts two cards,

Re: [Cooker] Bugs I've found; supermount in kde 2.0; mitsumi cd-rom humor.

2000-10-27 Thread pgeorges
Alaric Ravenhall a écrit : Anyway, I have had a problem with cd-rom and floppy drives after creating them with the kde2.0 create new devices menu. I put in a data cd and I can access the drive with the icon. I put in a music cd, it says "you do not have the right to access this drive." Of

Re: [Cooker] getting beta 7.2

2000-10-27 Thread pgeorges
Greg Sarsons a écrit : I usually rsync from ftp.sunet.se but now I'm having problems I'm getting receiving file list ... done send_files failed to open 7.2beta/i586/Mandrake/base/.nfs29BA1: Premission denied Same problem for some install files at ftp.ciril.fr, for example : mirrordir:

Re: [Cooker] Come on! I want to install 7.2 next Sunday, at home... Let it out!!! :))

2000-10-27 Thread pgeorges
Claudio a écrit : Sunsite has jus 7.2 but no-one can enter any directory of Mandrake's tree! I hope there will be some other mirrors as soon as possible... I am also in starting blocks. I'm afraid you are not alone :) I have already organised an install party for beginners with LM 7.2 beta3

Re: [Cooker] System seizures using konsole with history enabled

2000-10-27 Thread pgeorges
John Allen a écrit : I am experienceing system seizures using konsole with history enabled. The system just freezes for a second, or two, and then continues, this is very noticeable when playing MP3's as they stop playing for the duration of the freeze. Turning off history on

Re: [Cooker] Re: Konquerer / Java problem

2000-10-26 Thread pgeorges
Doug Roberts a écrit : One more time: I'm not sure my first message got through. Konqueror does not properly handle Java applets in Odyssey. Here are a couple of URLs to demonstrate the problems. The JVM installed was Sun's jdk1.3. You're right. http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

Re: [Cooker] Re: OpenOffice

2000-10-26 Thread pgeorges
Frederic Crozat a écrit : It is not possible to include it in 7.2, since we are in deep frozen and it not even possible to print with OpenOffice under Unix :(( What do you mean ? I use LM 7.2 RC1 and staroffice 5.2 : printing is ok (even in color !).

Re: [Cooker] Re: OpenOffice

2000-10-26 Thread pgeorges
pgeorges a écrit : Frederic Crozat a écrit : It is not possible to include it in 7.2, since we are in deep frozen and it not even possible to print with OpenOffice under Unix :(( What do you mean ? I use LM 7.2 RC1 and staroffice 5.2 : printing is ok (even in color !). Sorry, I just

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 RC2 ?

2000-10-25 Thread pgeorges
r j a écrit : Hiyall, It looks like 7.2 is mostly finished. As soon as the mirrors catch up all the newest KDE2, etc.. will be available. I am wondering if MS is going to make a pair of RC2 ISOs with the latest and greatest install for us to test. It would seem the prudent thing to do

Re: [Cooker] ssh

2000-10-25 Thread pgeorges
Doug Roberts a écrit : One more thing: the OpenSSH as installed with odyssey does not seem to include sshd, the daemon, so it is impossible to ssh to the odyssey machine, just from it. I use RC1 with some of the latest packages, and ssh to myself works and rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sshd

[Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 RC1

2000-10-18 Thread pgeorges
Here is my bug report. I can't connect to http://qa.mandrakesoft.com right now, as it seems overloaded (connection refused). 1. Minor bug : I made an update of a previous beta3 install. It lasted 4 hours, when the dialog box reports an installation total time of less than 10 minutes. It would

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 RC1

2000-10-18 Thread pgeorges
Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Here is my bug report. I can't connect to http://qa.mandrakesoft.com right now, as it seems overloaded (connection refused). https:// shall do. It does.

[Cooker] LM 7.2 RC1 is Visor compatible

2000-10-18 Thread pgeorges
With previous cooker, I could not backup data from my Handspring Visor PDA (synchronisation lost). Now, with RC1, I just backed up 2 MB without problem. Marvelous, isn't it ?

Re: [Cooker] Whatprovides perl.h?

2000-10-18 Thread pgeorges
Matt Steven a écrit : Is there any simple way to search for which RPM provides files you need without having them already on your system? The example you provide works for you since you have it installed, but not for me since I didn't. Put the following in a file 'findinrpm.sh' (it takes

Re: [Cooker] Whatprovides perl.h?

2000-10-18 Thread pgeorges
pgeorges a écrit : Matt Steven a écrit : Is there any simple way to search for which RPM provides files you need without having them already on your system? The example you provide works for you since you have it installed, but not for me since I didn't. Put the following in a file

Re: [Cooker] About playing windows media?

2000-10-15 Thread pgeorges
Meir Faraj a écrit : I found that Xtheater could play asf and avi(with divx) . http://Xtheater.sourceforge.net/ There is also a xmms-avi package which consists of a xmms plugin that reads (at least) DivX files. Maybe this must-have package should be part of Mandrake ?

Re: [Cooker] Install odyssey-rc Diskdrake screwed up fat32 partition

2000-10-15 Thread pgeorges
Pixel a écrit : the next reboot under linux showed hdb1 and hdb5 .. he he.. why hdb5 ?? I'm supposed to have only one partition on this drive . I then realised that for some reason there was a small empty parttion (about 4 meg) at the beginnig of the disk . this partition was not seen by

[Cooker] hackkernel and hard disk optimization problem

2000-10-12 Thread pgeorges
Be careful while booting kernel 2.4 and using disk optimisations like /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda After some nice messages like 'DMA intr lost' and so on, it corrupted badly my filesystem. I think with alpha kernels, a good choice is to be really conservative.

Re: [Cooker] missing LIB

2000-10-11 Thread pgeorges
root a écrit : [root@localhost updates]# rpm -Uvh apache-common-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libmm.so.1 is needed by apache-common-1.3.12-30mdk [] mm-1.1.3-6mdk.i586.rpm It took me 1min to find this. 9 times out of 10 libfoo.x.x is in

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk

2000-10-10 Thread pgeorges
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : if you install a 7.2, your card'll be configured if detected and kwintv and xawtv'll be installed. Ok, except I cannot get sound working with either xawtv or kwintv. Chmouel reported to me that : quote tbere is no report between sound and i2o, it was just a stupid

[Cooker] harddrake and disk

2000-10-10 Thread pgeorges
When clicking on 'configure' in harddrake-disk, the partition tool comes up. I think a way of setting DMA, 32bit access and so on for a disk would also be nice (I have to put my hdparm tuning parameters into rc.local, unless I missed another better way ? ). I checked 'use hard drive

[Cooker] Drawing bugs : Is there a replacement for kwmcom ?

2000-09-30 Thread pgeorges
Sometimes I play with csmash, quake3, and so on. Then, (not too often) I encounter drawing problems for some widgets, with garbage in them (as if color allocation was broken, or something like that). With KDE 1, it was possible to redraw the desktop, but I did not find this ability in current

Re: [Cooker] Hi, need a little help...

2000-09-30 Thread pgeorges
"Steven R. Hatfield" a écrit : How do I do this? I'm not very familiar with rsync and autorpm or whatever... is there someone who is currently using a shell script to do updates from the servers, that I can use to do the same, and bring my system up to date? First install Beta3. My method

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk

2000-09-29 Thread pgeorges
Ron Stodden a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems well known that the bttv in the 2.2 kernels is broken. We all await 2.4 and v4l2. Have you tried Gerd Knorr's latest bttv? I sometimes manage to use my TV card (chipset BT848) with cooker's kernel. The problem is more a config problem,

[Cooker] regression in kernel-2.2.17-15 for TV cards ?

2000-09-28 Thread pgeorges
TV worked with -13mdk kernel, but with the latest 2.2.17-15mdk, when inserting bttv, I get : # modprobe bttv /lib/modules/2.2.17-15mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: init_module: Périphérique ou ressource occupé Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ

Re: [Cooker] bttv and kernel 2.2.17-12

2000-09-26 Thread pgeorges
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : I tried both inserting bttv with or without specifying vidmem option, but get the same result. My config used to work well under LM 7.1. As I use XFree 4 + NVidia driver, I wonder if anybody managed to make its TV card work under cooker. enable DGA. comment

Re: [Cooker] Television Cards

2000-09-25 Thread pgeorges
Gareth Williams a écrit : I was wondering about television card support. I saw it mentioned in the setup program, but nothing is mentioned about which actual cards are supported. Does anyone have a list of supported TV cards, so I can have a rather cheap excuse to go out and buy one ("Of

Re: [Cooker] Weirdness on sunsite.uio.no

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
Ben Reser a écrit : Is there some reason that all the file dates got changed to Friday Sep 22nd? Because I had to reget everything with my rsynch. Same thing for me with mirrordir and at ftp.ciril.fr.

[Cooker] bttv and kernel 2.2.17-12

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
I have a TV card studio PC TV RAVE form pinnacle, and it still does not work with kernel 2.2.17-12. I cannot try 2.4 kernels because NVidia drivers don't compile with those kernels.

[Cooker] bug when restoring session

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
I use KDE, and when restoring sessions, window sizes increase slightly : for example, from one session to another, xosview changes from w=213, h=230 to w=221, h=256. Maybe that frame borders are not taken into account, and their size is added each time.

[Cooker] kcontrol crash

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
I can't start kcontrol any longer. As user, the output gives : kio (KSycoca): WARNING: KSycocaDict : mHashTableSize is 0 ! kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-KControl-Base=true found ! Defaulting to Settings/ KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name =

[Cooker] KDE configuration problem with last packages

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
I made an update of kde packages and : - K menu is nearly empty now - can't launch konqueror (at least home directory : when clicking on home icon on taskbar, it popups an 'open with' dialog box) My config : kdenetwork-devel-1.94-5mdk kdesupport-1.94-12mdk switchdesk-kde-2.1-4mdk

[Cooker] Finally KDE menu and konqueror work

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
I previously reported that after an upgrade, K menu was nearly empty, konqueror refused to operate and kcontrol was crashing. I swear I touched nothing, but now all these are OK ! Weird, isn't it ?

Re: [Cooker] bttv and kernel 2.2.17-12

2000-09-24 Thread pgeorges
Chmouel Boudjnah a écrit : I have a TV card studio PC TV RAVE form pinnacle, and it still does not work with kernel 2.2.17-12. what the definition of doen't work ? kwintv and xawtv run, but as stated in previous bug reports : - sound is sometimes jerky, but pretty audible, - no picture

Re: [Cooker] newbie install

2000-09-23 Thread pgeorges
"Bill W." a écrit : Bug 2 Soundblaster Awe 64 is not functional in user account. Sndconfig took care of it but. Mine works. Does your card work for root ? If yes this is a perm problem, in /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and so on. As this bug has disappeared for me, I believed it was fixed.

Re: [Cooker] Television Out Controll

2000-09-22 Thread pgeorges
Patrick Jacques a écrit : I cant seem to find any information on enabling television outs for the brooktree829 tv out chipset (used with Rage Fury 128 32m and Creative Nvidia TNT2 Ultra and many more). Could someone driect me to info pertaining to this? This kind of support for linux

Re: [Cooker] ld-linux.so.1 again

2000-09-20 Thread pgeorges
Reinhard Katzmann a écrit : Where is ld-linux.so.1 ? This should belong to the libc package but it's not in there, so WordPerfect8 from 1998 (binary only), one of the better Word Processors which I need for daily work does no longer run. I'm using a maybe one or two weeks old cooker updated

Re: [Cooker] Netscape bug - any connection to XFree-4.0.1-17mdk?

2000-09-19 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Skwar a écrit : I've also got some issues with Netscape and latest X. If I go to a web site, eg. http://slashdot.org, the texts are *very* huge. Any ideas about what may be causing this? Maybe fonts in mozilla-fonts package ?

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 beta2 --/dev/dsp permissions

2000-09-16 Thread pgeorges
robert a écrit : what are the correct permissions for /dev/dsp? XMMS works fine when I run as root, but when I run XMMS as a user I get an error message about permissions denying access to /dev/dsp I had the same problem, reported it some time ago. I keep synchronized to cooker, and

[Cooker] kernel-2.2.17-5mdk : USB and bttv

2000-09-16 Thread pgeorges
* USB seems to work with kernel-2.2.17-5mdk (in fact serial USB, despite I lose synchro of my visor handspring during backups, but that is my problem). * bttv : with kwintv, I get sound but no image. Is there any special option with XFree 4 for kwintv to be able to run ? I tried xawtv -nodga,

Re: [Cooker] gimp-1.1.25-4mdk

2000-09-16 Thread pgeorges
William H Bouterse a écrit : Downloaded on 91500 Everything works except for message at initialization? Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkitemfactory.c: line 608 (gtk_item_factory_from_path): assertion `path != NULL' failed. Gimp-WARNING **: entry refers to unknown item factory: "(null)" Is

Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved

2000-09-14 Thread pgeorges
Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I managed to solve the NVdriver / agpgart module problem by adding -DNOAGPGART in Makefile of nvidia kernel drivers. Now, 3D games are what they should have always been with a Geforce :-)) I think that the setup

Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved

2000-09-14 Thread pgeorges
Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I managed to solve the NVdriver / agpgart module problem by adding -DNOAGPGART in Makefile of nvidia kernel drivers. Now, 3D games

Re: [Cooker] Tv and kernel 2.2.17-2

2000-09-13 Thread pgeorges
David Dennis a écrit : I dont have notes with me now, but I have a Bttv 8448 card and support for it has been never able by me to be compiled in correctly or module loaded correctly under Mdk or any linux. Also have looked for the howtos or the kwintv site or the hauppage site, you can

Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved

2000-09-13 Thread pgeorges
Dale Herring a écrit : Exactly what part of the makefile did you place this statement in. Did this solve the problem of the blankscreen? What blankscreen ? I just noticed a few blinkings when starting X, that's all. The problem is that NVidia kernel driver supports a lot of chipsets (see

[Cooker] Bugs in menu and right clicking

2000-09-12 Thread pgeorges
1. Opening kfm, and right click - create new file from template - can't find /usr/share/templates/.source/TextFile.txt And indeed I can't find it in any package. 2. After the upgrade of KDE, I get 4 instances of 'home directory' shortcuts in the K menu. My config : - rpm -qa | grep kde

[Cooker] kernel question

2000-09-12 Thread pgeorges
Is current cooker stable kernel kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm expected to support AGP ? (I have a GeForce 256 with i820 chipset, and trying to use NVidia drivers, but can't load agpgarp module)

Re: [Cooker] kernel question

2000-09-12 Thread pgeorges
Chmouel Boudjnah a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is current cooker stable kernel kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm expected to support AGP ? (I have a GeForce 256 with i820 chipset, and trying to use NVidia drivers, but can't load agpgarp module) Please test 2mdk and let

[Cooker] Tv and kernel 2.2.17-2

2000-09-12 Thread pgeorges
It seems that bttv support is still broken with latest kernel.

Re: [Cooker] Oops in second stage install = sound problem

2000-09-11 Thread pgeorges
Pixel a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] hd.img is of 7 sept. md5sum hd.img = 598b10cd043a0d3283f39fbcb0d89669 latest is 9b76dd1637fbb1bf1a14bc5e2c45c805 hd.img OK, I don't have the same hd.img, but another one let me install cooker from a floppy : it worked

Re: [Cooker] rpmcheck perl script

2000-09-10 Thread pgeorges
Vincent Danen a écrit : I've written a perl script called rpmcheck which will compare your locally installed rpms to a local mirror directory (or nfs). It doesn't check over FTP (yet), so it's not useful to everyone, but some people may appreciate the script. It can tell you what rpms

Re: [Cooker] Oops in second stage install

2000-09-10 Thread pgeorges
Warly a écrit : I tried an upgrade of cooker booting with a floppy. I get a message "Oops in second stage install" with a dump of the CPU registers and of call back traces. Are those informations usefull to anybody for debugging ? The boot kernel has change, create a new boot floppy

Re: [Cooker] Beta testing using magazines

2000-09-10 Thread pgeorges
jorge costa a écrit : I was just thinking that out there there must thousands of mandrake lovers who just don't have the money, or access to download cooker. So why not this beta is nearly stable, i mean when you get a good rate of good instalations you could try to gite away as a regular

[Cooker] Still crashing when booting

2000-09-10 Thread pgeorges
My local mirror is up to date (ftp.ciril.fr, sunday 09/sept 19:00 GMT) and I still experience crashes when booting from floppy (freshly made with hd.img). Here is an extract: in second stage install Oops : CPU : 0 [ ... REGS dump ] Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr:9,

[Cooker] kcontrol works but ...

2000-09-10 Thread pgeorges
Here are some problems with kcontrol : 1. When clicking on system/KDE system control there is an error reporting missing library "ksysctrl.la", which I could not find in any cooker's rpm. Anyway, ksysctrl crashes when launched alone. 2. when trying a 'run as root' in a module, I type the

[Cooker] kdelibs : missing symbols.

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
I upgraded with /RPMS/kdelibs-1.93-13mdk.i586.rpm /RPMS/kdelibs-devel-1.93-13mdk.i586.rpm /RPMS/. and KDE is now broken : no kdm, no kwrite, ... I get those messages for example : kwrite: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol:

Re: [Cooker] kdelibs : missing symbols.

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
Christopher Molnar a écrit : and KDE is now broken : no kdm, no kwrite, ... I get those messages for example : Did you upgrade qt2 ? And kdesupport, and kdebase ? kwrite: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol: event__9QLineEditP6QEvent kdm:

Re: [Cooker] VM problems

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
Stefan van der Eijk a écrit : I'm running the latest kernel I'm still getting VM errors: Sep 9 13:23:46 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Which kernel do you use ? Is it the latest 2.2.17 : kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm ? Having a look into /var/log, I don't have

Re: [Cooker] VM problems

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
Háber János a écrit : Hi! I want to download kernel-2.2.17-1 package, but I don't find. I see many ftp and http mirror but I find only the kernel-linux-2.2.16 or hackkernel. Please help... I want to download that package(the original kernel don't contains the supermount and ide patch)

[Cooker] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed are back

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
Stefan van der Eijk a écrit : I'm running the latest kernel I'm still getting VM errors: Sep 9 13:23:46 stefan kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... I am using latest kernel (kernel-2.2.17-1mdk.i586.rpm) and I had a X11 crash. The kernel log file gives VM:

[Cooker] Oops in second stage install

2000-09-09 Thread pgeorges
I tried an upgrade of cooker booting with a floppy. I get a message "Oops in second stage install" with a dump of the CPU registers and of call back traces. Are those informations usefull to anybody for debugging ?

Re: [Cooker] anyone alive?

2000-09-03 Thread pgeorges
John Grange a écrit : it's been 4 days since i recieved a single email?? what's going on I receive mail every day.

[Cooker] bug in indexhtml RPM

2000-09-03 Thread pgeorges
in indexhtml-7.1-9mdk.noarch.rpm : preinstall script (through /bin/sh): rmdir /usr/doc/HTML /dev/null 2 /dev/null In case of an update it gives an error, which is normal, as /usr/doc/HTML is not empty ! D: running preinstall script (if any) + rmdir

[Cooker] ntsysv

2000-09-02 Thread pgeorges
I get a problem with ntsysv-1.2.7-2mdk, where ntsysv complains about not finding directory /etc/rc.d/init.d, although it is there ! Did something changed in SYS V configuration ?

[Cooker] mod_php3-pgsql dependency bug

2000-09-01 Thread pgeorges
The package complains : - # rpm -ivh /cooker/mod_php3-pgsql-3.0.16-7mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libpq.so.2.0 is needed by mod_php3-pgsql-3.0.16-7mdk But : --- # file /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.0 /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.0: symbolic link to libpq.so.2.1 # file

[Cooker] kernel power off

2000-08-30 Thread pgeorges
Since a few 2.2.17 kernels (till last one, 2.2.17-0.23mdk), when shutting down the computer, it does not perform an automatic power off. It was nice ...

[Cooker] kcontrol is back crashing

2000-08-27 Thread pgeorges
* With latest kdebase-1.93-9mdk, kcontrol is now crashing again. * I have some strange changes with my desktop, with those errors : /usr/share/applnk/Home Directory.desktop /usr/share/applnk/KControl.desktop /usr/share/applnk/Terminals/Konsole.desktop Files are missing when clicking on icons

[Cooker] Problems when installing kdebase

2000-08-27 Thread pgeorges
This is what I get (error list is a bit long): (The --force is needed because the package is already installed.) Begin copy == rpm -Uvh --force /cooker/kdebase-1.93-9mdk.i586.rpm kdebase

[Cooker] chmod in packages : necessary ?

2000-08-27 Thread pgeorges
In install script of kdebase-1.93-9mdk.i586.rpm, there are lines like : chmod a+x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/KDE chmod 1755 /usr/bin/konsole_grantpty chmod 1755 /usr/bin/kdesu So, if the package is checked with rpm -V, we see immediately that : .M.. /usr/bin/kdesu Even after a fresh

Re: [Cooker] kcontrol is back crashing

2000-08-27 Thread pgeorges
"Povl H. Pedersen" a écrit : pgeorges wrote: * With latest kdebase-1.93-9mdk, kcontrol is now crashing again. Right now after my latest updates (kernel etc), I can not even log in with KDE as the window manager. I just rebooted, and I can log in to KDE.

[Cooker] Pb with binutils package

2000-08-26 Thread pgeorges
binutils-2.10.0.18-1mdk gives this : binutils ## var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83223: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `;then' var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83223: line 2: ` /usr/share/info/as.info.bz2 --dir=/usr/share/info/dir --remove ;fiif [

[Cooker] Dependance pb with harddrake

2000-08-25 Thread pgeorges
It is possible to install harddrake-0.9.1-3mdk.i586.rpm without detect-lst-0.9.70-1mdk.noarch.rpm (this gives no warning), but harddrake depends on it. So, if not launched from a shell, this may confuse users that can't get harddrake popup, and can't get this message : # harddrake Can't open

Re: [Cooker] Dependance pb with harddrake

2000-08-25 Thread pgeorges
Stefan Siegel a écrit : Am 2000-08-25, um 11:42:23 (-0400) schrieb pgeorges: It is possible to install harddrake-0.9.1-3mdk.i586.rpm without detect-lst-0.9.70-1mdk.noarch.rpm (this gives no warning), but harddrake depends on it. As "detect-lst-0.9.70-1mdk.noarch.rpm" i

[Cooker] sound fix proposal ?

2000-08-25 Thread pgeorges
Sound used to work on my computer (Mandrake 7.1). After cooker updates it is broken for users and some progs (xmms, plaympeg for example), but not for root : # plaympeg moldau.mp3 plays a nice music, but $ plaympeg moldau.mp3 gives a perm access error. For xmms, it gives : **

Re: [Cooker] kdevelop with kde2 beta

2000-08-25 Thread pgeorges
Andrew Kirrage a écrit : I have installed kde2 beta4 from the cooker, but kdevelop seems to be missing(looking at the kde site their seems to be a redhat package but not a mandrake specific one). I installed the kde1-compat and kde1-compat -devel so i could run the older kdevelop(1.1) but

[Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ?

Re: [Cooker] ld-linux.so.1

2000-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Jan Niehusmann a écrit : I have some old binaries that don't run on current cooker because /lib/ld-linux.so.1 and /lib/libdl.so.1 are missing. After copying them to /lib from some older installation, everything works. Are they in some compatiblity package that I didn't find? Or are those

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ? it's already in contrib ... Yes, but not compatible with current cooker. Maybe is it better to wait for the promised port to KDE 2 (see kwintv homepage) ?

Re: [Cooker] KDE2 observations

2000-08-23 Thread pgeorges
Anton Graham a écrit : Okay, so I'm late getting on the KDE2 bandwagon; I like Gnome :p At any rate, I have installed the latest kde*-1.9[23]-* packages and tried them, though not what you would call extensively. And I have a couple gripes: 1) kcontrol segfaults immediately (1.93-4mdk