Re: [newbie] 10

2004-05-09 Thread Frank
I've installed 10 on my computer and though most of it is great, some issues have manifested themselves in such a way to make me believe that Mandrake 10 Offical is suited more for machines less than two years old, so at times I feel that staying with 9.2 on my PIII four year old may have left

Re: [newbie] 10

2004-05-09 Thread Frank
I've installed 10 on my computer and though most of it is great, some issues have manifested themselves in such a way to make me believe that Mandrake 10 Offical is suited more for machines less than two years old, so at times I feel that staying with 9.2 on my PIII four year old may have left

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:13, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port? At this

[newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread John
I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms

Re: [newbie] FreeCell

2004-05-09 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:50, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 9, 2004 01:43 am, mike a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? MDK10.0 and KDE3.2 here. Open up terminal and type kpat without quotes, under settings, game

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize the song I used by -listening to this.  I did compress it again to save bandwidth, but it won't -change your impreion about how much of a track is lost when it is

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:18 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 8 May 2004 18:57:43 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay Ralph, this worked like a charm. The only change I made was to add a MIN and MAX variable to use with the -m and -M switches of oggenc so I could prevent the bitrate of the tracks from drifting outside the supported

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:56 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: -Hell, I'm still tryin to figure out what y'all are talkin -about ;)Not to hijack, but I will since the original query -seems to be satisfied ;) I think he was referring to what

RE: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread John
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Also in 10.0

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:55 am, Aron Smith wrote: alias cpaudiocd='ripacd normall bacd rm -f /home/tom/wav/* alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/' alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*' alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32 dev=1,0,0 -sao

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I think he was referring to what the compression did to it. I listened to what the link had and it was ugly. I had to crank my Monsoon speakers almost max and listen a couple of times before I figured out what it was.    Same as me. I

[newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery

2004-05-09 Thread Donato
Hello, my name is Donato, i have a Compaq evo N1020v and a 9.2 mandrake linux, but Klaptop doesn't recognize the battery e so there is always the plug icon on my status bar even if i took the plug off from by notebook. Can anyone help me? Thanks

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Margot
Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 06:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: alias cpaudiocd='ripacd normall bacd rm -f /home/tom/wav/* alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/' alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*' alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32 dev=1,0,0

[newbie] Tv tuner card help needed

2004-05-09 Thread eric jackson
Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure that I read here that some people had gotten this to work in Mandrake. One program I tried with said it couldn't open /dev/video1. Another program I tried asked "Are drivers loaded?" Can anybody help me to get this thing

Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed

2004-05-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:00 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure that I read here that some people had gotten this to work in Mandrake. One program I tried with said it couldn't open /dev/video1. Another program I tried asked Are drivers

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 9, 2004 01:50 pm, John a écrit : Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

[newbie] Hauppage Nova-T TV Card

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
Does anyone know the modprobe.conf configuration to use for a Hauppage Nova-T Terrestrial Digital TV card The mandrake wizard does not detect it, and I cannot find any good guidance on Google. lspci identifies it as 00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) TIA

Re: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery

2004-05-09 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 9, 2004 02:38 pm, Donato a écrit : Hello, my name is Donato, i have a Compaq evo N1020v and a 9.2 mandrake linux, but Klaptop doesn't recognize the battery e so there is always the plug icon on my status bar even if i took the plug off from by notebook. The first step could be to

[newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.

2004-05-09 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello. I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new

Re: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.

2004-05-09 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 9 May 2004 22:44:41 +0200 Gert Koefoed Andersen disseminated the following: I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. after

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:12:50AM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:34 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:33:12PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: I have been playing around with various encoding techniques trying to hear what is removed from a wav file when it is

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:44:25AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize the song I used by -listening to this.  I did compress it again to save bandwidth, but it won't -change your

[newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail

2004-05-09 Thread rikona
I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file? -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] dcc-dccd.tar.Z

2004-05-09 Thread Chris
On Sunday 09 May 2004 10:40 am, VITORIA GARCIA Pablo wrote: On Sat, 8 May 2004, Chris wrote: Ark will not open this file either will fileroller, what can be used? Hi, I guess 'tar zxvf dcc-dccd.tar.Z' should work: the 'z' option to tar filters the archive throgh 'gunzip'. .Z files are

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd Damn. Masha Danki Todd!! Never occurred to me to search those terms (ogg, lossless) OTOH, what'a fsck is a .ape or .flac ? Never mind let me do some

Re: [newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail

2004-05-09 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:24:51 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file? IIRC, this is one of those two-step processes. Moz to

[newbie] Hearts

2004-05-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hey all I've been looking for a Hearts prog for years and found one today. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hearts/ Haven't been too successful installing it yet. Does anyone have it working perchance? Lee Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] FreeCell

2004-05-09 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:37 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 01:12 -0400, Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? Please change your Reply To settings so that they allow responses to go to the list rather than privately.

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-09 Thread robin
Lanman wrote: Tony S. Sykes wrote: Microsoft is expected to recommend that the average Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics

Re: [newbie] Internet on 10.0

2004-05-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Monday 03 May 2004 05:55, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:12:37PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd Damn. Masha Danki Todd!! Never occurred to me to search those terms (ogg, lossless)

Re: [newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail

2004-05-09 Thread John Wilson
On May 9, 2004 03:16 pm, JoeHill attempted to joke: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:24:51 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file?

RE: [newbie] modem problem

2004-05-09 Thread Bill Echols
My USR 5610b installs on ttyS4 every time. Since this is not an option with KPPP, I always point it to /dev/modem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Dlouhy Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:58 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject:

Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 10:40, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to

[newbie] Can't launch apps as root from CLI

2004-05-09 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, everyone. I've discovered that I suddenly can't launch certain applications as root from the command line anymore. For instance, I've been using Konqueror for more than a year to handle basic file management tasks as root (I'm still very clumsy at the command line; I get all muddled

[newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official

2004-05-09 Thread g2
Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-09 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi fxload-2002_04_11-1.i386.rpm to install it. The code to call it each time was installed as part of the backpack

[newbie] A bug in Mozilla suite 1.6 ?

2004-05-09 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Whenever I save a message (right click on a message, Save As... etc) from within Mozilla suite 1.6 Mail Newsgroups, I get a window Save Message As, having File name: of the message subject. So far - so good. But if a name has some characters (like -, :, and maybe some more) and when click on