Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Lastly, I'd recommend getting the latest packages for Digikam. The ones with the distro are fairly old, and it sometimes helps. I'm running digikam-0.7.1-1tex.i586.rpm. Anne Okay - thought I would do that. Tried urpmi but it wouldn't do it. Can't remember speciafically the message.

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Margot
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Lastly, I'd recommend getting the latest packages for Digikam. The ones with the distro are fairly old, and it sometimes helps. I'm running digikam-0.7.1-1tex.i586.rpm. Anne Okay - thought I would do that. Tried urpmi but it wouldn't do it. Can't remember

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 20:20, Margot wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Lastly, I'd recommend getting the latest packages for Digikam. The ones with the distro are fairly old, and it sometimes helps. I'm running digikam-0.7.1-1tex.i586.rpm. Anne Okay - thought I would do that. Tried

Re: [newbie] YAY! Success! But a bit hiccup. was Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-20 Thread fajarpri
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure it doesnt clear up the package. But it seems that when I did the urpme kde3.2, some packages that have been already installed last night also got wiped out, so it's downloading them again. Also it seems that thacs have been updated, because wget failed to

[newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what version I have - digikam-0.6.2. What am I doing wrong? Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
does your memory stick have copy-protection ? i am out of my league here but sony does play nasty proprietary tricks ... Went to the Sony site. The info about the card only talks about number of images etc, no mention of copy-protection. I have already used this camera and card with WinXP,

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what version I have - digikam-0.6.2. What am I doing wrong? Rosemary As far as I understand newer versions of digikam

Re: [newbie] YAY! Success! But a bit hiccup. was Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure it doesnt clear up the package. But it seems that when I did the urpme kde3.2, some packages that have been already installed last night also got wiped out, so it's downloading them again. Also it seems that thacs have been updated,

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why don't you just use

[newbie] configuring update source

2005-03-20 Thread Paul Kaplan
I am trying to configure mandrake update so as to grab Thac's kde 3.4 rpms. The relevant files are in: ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/pub/linux/rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/kde-3.4.0 But this directory does not contain a hdlist.cz file The parent directory contains hdlist.cz, but it points to evey

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:45, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what version I have - digikam-0.6.2. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sunday 20 March 2005 06:10, Mr. Geek wrote: Guys, you're beating yourselves up for nothing on this. After you add Thac's RPM's to urpmi, take a moment to install the ICE desktop or some other one. Chances are that you'll have at least 2 desktop environments installed anyway. Once you're

Re: [newbie] configuring update source

2005-03-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:13:59 -0500, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to configure mandrake update so as to grab Thac's kde 3.4 rpms. The relevant files are in: ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/pub/linux/rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/kde-3.4.0 But this directory does not contain a

[newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Am I supposed to name the media maybe? Any

Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Am I supposed to

[newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Aron Smith
anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread riccardo
Remark ___ although my system is very old and out-dated, I mention this because of Mandrakes recent new relationship with Brazilian 'Connectiva' . . . several times, in the past, i have updated my KDE using Connectiva's APT package management tool ~ First Class :)) best rgds

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Tom
James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] mikkel]$ locate libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread mike
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ updatedb [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ locate libmp3lame.so Should find it for you. Mike Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:16 am, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s $ locate libmp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.la /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.a --

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software section of RPMDrake and you can use the Find box to select In File Names option. Type in some of the file name you're

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:16 am, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s $ locate libmp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.la /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 11:48, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what version I have - digikam-0.6.2. What am I doing wrong? Rosemary Nothing, the latest stable version is

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!

2005-03-20 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Sunday 20 March 2005 15:24, riccardo wrote: Remark ___ although my system is very old and out-dated, I mention this because of Mandrakes recent new relationship with Brazilian 'Connectiva' . . . several times, in the past, i have updated my KDE using Connectiva's APT package

Re: [newbie] YAY! Success! But a bit hiccup. was Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 09:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Kmail doesnt see my mailing list folders! Oh, boy I've got ten of thousands emails there. What should I do to get Kmail 1.8 recognize them? Just a guess, Fajar, but maybe kmail is now using the default ~/Mail as its directory, instead of

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 12:16, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:45, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 20 March 2005 12:30, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, I know that this is off-topic but my mail directly to you keeps getting bounced in your system. You have issues with procmail filters. I was trying to let you know and my messages are getting delayed. You should either turn off

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 18:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 12:30, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, I know that this is off-topic but my mail directly to you keeps getting bounced in your system. You have issues with procmail filters. I was trying to let you know and my messages are

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Found a card reader - NZ$30 and linux compatible. Probably will buy one great. people also try to get rid of used ones, because readers are integrated in printers, tvs, laptops etc now. your card reader should not be compatible with your camera, it will connect the

Re: [newbie] DNS Name Server Issues

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware by now I am trying to network 2 computers by use of a wireless 'my router' which is connected to a wireless bridge which gets it signal from wireless bridge [located in an office across the street] which gets it input from another router [or did

[newbie] info,man,documentation and TWiki

2005-03-20 Thread mike
I think rikona has a good idea about discussing documentation. Recent threads... What's where Is there TWiki info on man pages? DrakeTalk list started for extended discussions Finding things in emergencies [was TWiki info on man pages?] I was wondering if TWiki its self could handle this,

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:18 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later, very nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my site.

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:12 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] mikkel]$ locate libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0

Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 01:31, Mr. Geek wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 10:23 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:16 am, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s $ locate libmp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0

Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100 Björn Lundin disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? if you like the cli, make wavs with this script, You do need sox and mpg123. from there burn the wavs as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:57 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software section of RPMDrake and you can use the Find box to select

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 18:59 -0500, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:57 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software

Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100 Björn Lundin disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? if you like the cli, make wavs with this script, You do need sox and mpg123. from there burn the wavs as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat

[newbie] Wine

2005-03-20 Thread Robert Yu
Does Wine support Visual Studio.NET yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:48:59 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson disseminated the following: # mp3 functions function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv $i `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`;done; } function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done; } First one

[newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Aidan Holmes
Hi all, This morning firefox asked me to look for an update for the theme I was using. I clicked the update now button and things have gone horribly wrong. All the buttons etc now appear as text. But the fonts are all too big and everything overlaps. It's a mess! It's impossible to use the

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Miark
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:27:38 +0800, Aidan wrote: This morning firefox asked me to look for an update for the theme I was using. I clicked the update now button and things have gone horribly wrong. All the buttons etc now appear as text... You may have to blow away your ~/.mozilla directory.

[newbie] digikam update

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Atempted to update my digicam as per TWiki . Main . PhotoProcessing http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PhotoProcessing#GwenView but could not find all the files as listed (I am not yet a club member). Found other files, mainly at Thac's site. Downloaded and installed them, now get this

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Aidan Holmes
Miark wrote: You may have to blow away your ~/.mozilla directory. Actually, I'd rename it to something else, let Firefox make a new directory, then copy my bookmarks from the old directory to the new. Miark Can't seem to find the .mozilla directory - any clues as to where to look? Since I

Re: Fwd: Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol Date: Monday 21 Mar 2005 09:43 From: Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Graham Watkins
Aidan Holmes wrote: Can't seem to find the .mozilla directory - any clues as to where to look? Since I still rely on urpmi (and can't see a good reason not to at this stage) I still have no idea where things get installed on my system. It's in your home directory - you'll need to switch on show

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: http://www.google.ch/search?q=memory-card+copy-protection CPRM technology, a copy protection mechanism is embedded in all SD Memory Cards and can be used to protect copyrighted content such as most commercially distributed music and movie files. as usual the orwelian

[newbie] OpenGL stuff error messages

2005-03-20 Thread Julie Sloan
hi all. when I try to run OpenGL stuff (in this instance a screensaver, but other stuff too), I get a message like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] julie]$ xscreensaver-demo xscreensaver-gl-helper: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1: no version information available (required by xscreensaver-gl-helper) Loading

[newbie] Fixing an application--?

2005-03-20 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. The application in question is Bookcase (v.0.6.6-1; I believe the applciation is now called something else). It's kind of a specialized thing, so I'm hoping that whatever is happening to me is a

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Aidan Holmes
Thanks Miark and Graham for your help and for being so prompt, you're both lifesavers. Especially the tip about renaming the folder. I use the net all day at work and while I could recreate my favourites, being able to restore them to the new .mozilla directory has certainly saved me heaps of

[newbie] gwenview

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I've installed gwenview, unfortunately the attempted install of updated version failed and it is version 1. I can't see any of the photos using this application. I can see them in Konqueror, and find their file names in gwenview but no images appear. Been hunting around for some

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread Duncan Anderson
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:18 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later, very nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread Duncan Anderson
Duncan Anderson wrote: JoeHill wrote: Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later, very nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my site. http://kymatica.com/software.html I am having problems accessing that URL. The site is offline right now,