Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details If you have this in your /etc/fstab, you can't be running 10.1 , since this is provided by hal and that is a feature in 10.2, and is non-existent in 10.1. Are

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:25 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-05 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:45 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: And the latest newsletter says Mandrake is going to incorporate elements of technology from Conectiva, particularly in the area of the smart package management software and some of Conectiva's kernel enhancements. I think that means

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 04 April 2005 05:22 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at www.webmin.com I thought that Mandrake changed the location of so much stuff that the default webmin was basically unusable for server administration. Am I wrong about that? -- /g

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE 3.3.2, you will only get 3.2.3 with 10.1 OO.o 1.1.4

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:42 pm, Elwyn York wrote: What do I need to do to get it ?? Couple of choices. 1) If you are a club member, wait a few days and iso's will be available; 2) Do an ftp install from a mandrake mirror using the 10.2 branch of the devel tree; 3) Get the 10.2 rc2 isos and

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:57:04 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: My guess is that it was a bit of astroturfing by a paid shill. The sig and website are provided merely to add credibility and make it look real. Keep diggin', Greg

Re: [newbie] How do I...

2005-03-29 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:46 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: look at the maillists site where you first subscribed it will tell you how to unsub. HTH The headers of any list message gives unsubscribe info too. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 KDE 3.2 slow starting of programs

2005-03-26 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 26 March 2005 06:52 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Download version with KDE 3.2.3. Especially KDE programs start slowly. For example konsole takes 22 seconds to bring up. Konqueror doesn't start at all. Some other programs: Usually this means

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Per discussione Greg Meyer
%^$#*^$ing gmail users :p On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:55 am, Robert Yu wrote: What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? My favorite way is to change my

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-25 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 25 March 2005 07:51 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? Even though I am a KDE user, I swear by grip,

Re: [newbie] configuring advx (apache) on Mandrake

2005-03-24 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: Dear all, is there anyway i can configure ADVX on Mandrake easily without going through it's many conf files and without using webmin? is there a gui based, wizard based or something??? There are server setup wizards in the Mandrake Control

Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.

2005-03-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 21 March 2005 12:41 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Glad to hear it! Learning to use vi never killed anybody. vim is brilliant. But what about emacs? :p -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Per discussione 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.

2005-03-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:01 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: 'hatched'? not sure what you mean Greg. I know what you meant, but I was just making light of the fact that you used the word contained when describing the src.rpm. I was trying to be funny. The src.rpm will build _all_ the rpms contained in

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: Not to be too picky, but technically, rpm is deprecated and rpmbuild --rebuild is preferred because it has been split into separate packages. hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm

Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?

2005-03-17 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:03 pm, Stephen Furlong wrote: Right, step one done :) rpm -ivh tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## tightvnc-server ## (ignore line breaks) So

Re: [newbie] Access replacement

2005-03-17 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:27 pm, Smiley wrote: replacement for Access *for Windows* Take a look at rekall. I think Charles Edwards maintains current packages at eslrahc.com -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum

2005-03-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:24 am, Nicole Lewis wrote: While daily deleting unopened a large percentage of newbie correspondence, an opinion has formed that another forum in which I participate is somewhat more elegant in the mechanism by which technical information and discussion is made

Re: [newbie] amaroK player and CPU usage

2005-03-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 02:14 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. Out of curiosity I installed AmaroK. It seems to be a great player, but CPU usage goes up into the sky when it is fired up. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 21990 nil 25 0 109m

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:03 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 16, 2005 07:36 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 amarok-1.2.2-2.1010.2mdk.i586.rpm (includes cpu patch) I had installed Gregs 1.2.1 package and it was fine. But when i tried to upgrade to thie 2.2.2

Re: [newbie] amaroK player and CPU usage

2005-03-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:28 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: It doesn't affect everybody, and only does it for a few minutes when amarok starts. I should stop if you let it go a little bit. Thanks, Greg ! I'll wait for the next release. My package is updated now, and I believe Charles has

Re: [newbie] CD sound

2005-03-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:24 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read

Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-06 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:11 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking conventions. The default samba workgroup is 'mdkgroup',that's what I

Re: [newbie] IRC Client

2005-03-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:02 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? Best one I know in the repository is xchat, but if you are feeling a little adventurous and you use kde, building konversation from cvs might be fun. It has a lot of cool

Re: [newbie] amarok 1.2.1 - Bugfix Release

2005-02-28 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 February 2005 07:07 am, Andreas Radke wrote: Greg Meyer schrieb: A bugfix release of amaroK has been made, version 1.2.1, and as I have been, I made packages of it for Mandrake 10.1. I would be nice if you could share your src.rpm too. np, I'll put the specfile up

Re: [newbie] amarok 1.2.1 - Bugfix Release

2005-02-28 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 February 2005 07:17 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 07:07 am, Andreas Radke wrote: Greg Meyer schrieb: A bugfix release of amaroK has been made, version 1.2.1, and as I have been, I made packages of it for Mandrake 10.1. I would be nice if you could share

[newbie] amarok 1.2.1 - Bugfix Release

2005-02-27 Per discussione Greg Meyer
A bugfix release of amaroK has been made, version 1.2.1, and as I have been, I made packages of it for Mandrake 10.1. http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 Please note that this will probably be the last set of packages that I do of amaroK for Mandrake 10.1, as the devs are going to drop KDE

Re: [newbie] ACPI, POWER DOWN not working

2005-02-22 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:11 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since 2 month I use a new laptop Acer Aspire 1680 with MDK 10.1 community on it. Since the first installation I have no automatic POWER DOWN and I had to turn of ACPI because when I rebooted the computer I got a black screen with

Re: [newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-22 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 07:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, it gave me a whole new account, which is okay, but I'd really like to have my original one. I tried going into my info, but it won't let me change my nick there, so I went to mandrake expert. According to the blurb I can change

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-20 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 20 February 2005 04:16 pm, JR wrote: From reading up on the net, I followed someones advice of going to the last entry in the collection_scan.log. This was an mp3, but it was only 54K, and contained less than one second of audio. I deleted this and performed the scan with no

Re: [newbie] which word processor

2005-02-20 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:37 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - well it's just a few letters and assignments that I do.  Will take a look at Kword.  Thanks You could also try abiword, it is supposed to be pretty nice. -- /g Want to

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 18 February 2005 03:38 pm, JR wrote: Thanks for packaging these. As with every version of Amarok I have tried, creating a collection causes the program to crash midway through the process. I have reported it, but it has been reported in the past and marded as 'fixed'. Another

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Please let me know about any problems. Well Greg I have been using this since you released it and so far no problems to report,  I'm not using any sql at all and it works like a charm.  Tomorrow I'm going to load my whole list and let

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-18 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 18 February 2005 07:32 am, Glenn wrote: On Thu February 17 2005 17:08, Glenn wrote: So far, that seems to have done the trick, Greg.  Up to 52% of the collection built so far, and no crash.  Thanks. Glenn Awesome app.  And I don't even have to keep futzing with MySQL, since

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give away. -- /g

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 14 February 2005 06:18 pm, Glenn wrote: Also, with respect to mysql, you need to create an empty database called amarok first, then load amarok and tell it to use mysql. I thought sqlite was choking on the amount of mp3s I was asking it to read in, so mysql was the alternative.  

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 05:09 am, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Greg. It is working with xine. How can I install all necessary gstreamer-xxx at once? Cool, glad to hear it. with respect to stuff like gstreamer with a lot of plugins, I find it easiest to use rpmdrake so I can scan the whole

[newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:42 pm, Glenn wrote: On Sun February 13 2005 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final.  I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) My personal preference is xine because it handles

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:19 pm, RickSisler wrote: Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-12 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:42:36 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I get the following message: Playlist finished

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Per discussione Greg Meyer
This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will now go to the list as they should. Yaayy! It works. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Amarok not starting.

2005-02-11 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 05:57 pm, Simon wrote: Hi, I am on Mdk 10.1 and had got Amarok running OK. But after trying out Xmms and installing and uninstalling other sound programs I can't get Amarok to run. This is the output from a terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ amarok [amaroK

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-11 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:38 am, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Audacity it

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-11 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 11 February 2005 03:55 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I get the following message: Playlist finished Any ideas? What engine are you trying to use? com to #amarok on freenode

Re: [newbie] MP3 jukebox application

2005-02-01 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 02:50 am, John Layt wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:07, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: In Windows I have used Musicmatch Jukebox. Is there something comparable, or something you would recommend, to play MP3's in Linux? Thank you, Woah!  Let the flamewars begin!  

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2-beta4

2005-01-31 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 31 January 2005 12:40 am, Greg Meyer wrote: place and they should install cleanly over my beta3 packages.  There have been no updates to taglib or any of the other libraries that needed to be updated on 10.1, so the beta4 package should be all you need. BTW, I should have been more

[newbie] amaroK 1.2-beta4

2005-01-30 Per discussione Greg Meyer
Some of you following amaroK development may have noticed that 1.2-beta4 is out. I have built packages for 10.1 and have uploaded them to the usual place and they should install cleanly over my beta3 packages. There have been no updates to taglib or any of the other libraries that needed to

Re: [newbie] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4

2005-01-27 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:10 am, Lanman wrote: Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the, well, newbie's hang out.  ;) Hey Greg! Speak for yourself, eh? There's nothing on me that's Hangin' Outand I suspect that this is also true for

Re: [newbie] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4

2005-01-26 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 08:48 pm, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, I wish on the next release of Mandrake 10.2 including QT 3.3.4. its the bug fix and backward compatibility for QT 3.3.x. Ok Thank you. Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the,

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 24 January 2005 07:41 pm, SOTL wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 06:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? 9.2 is installable in thinkpads with out modification 10.1 is not Can

Re: [newbie] Playing god with friends new laptop (Moral question)

2005-01-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 21 January 2005 10:02 pm, JR wrote: My landlady gave me her laptop for the weekend to setup for her. It's 2.8 Ghz but runs slower than my 800Mhz machine - I'm assuming it's all the virus scanners, adware removal daemons and so on. I'm thinking of installing mdk10.1 on it and getting

Re: [newbie] How to update cvs 1.11 to cvs 1.9?

2005-01-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
Silly gmail user. sending again to list On Friday 21 January 2005 02:04 am, Sam Chan wrote: I need cvs 1.9 in order to install some very specific drivers for my soundblaster live! 24bits.  But I stuck with the cvs 1.11 version.  I tried to find the rpm package for cvs 1.9 with urpmi, but I'm

Re: [newbie] How to update cvs 1.11 to cvs 1.9?

2005-01-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
Another one On Friday 21 January 2005 11:02 am, Sam Chan wrote: through the Alsa cvs, because it is still experimental (only 2.1 speaker support...)  So that's why I need the cvs Okay, I get it, you need the development version of alsa from cvs, not cvs itself. But I'm blocked at this

Re: [newbie] Playing god with friends new laptop (Moral question)

2005-01-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 21 January 2005 08:43 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:12, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 10:02 pm, JR wrote: My landlady gave me her laptop for the weekend to setup for her. It's 2.8 Ghz but runs slower than my 800Mhz machine - I'm assuming it's all

Re: [newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:39 pm, Kirschner, Mark wrote: Hello everyone! After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless I

Re: [newbie] Urpmi to upgrade 10.0 to 10.1?

2005-01-18 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 05:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 22:51, Cameron MacDonald wrote: Can urpmi be used to upgrade MDK 10.0 to 10.1?  If so, suggestions on the best mirror to use? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Upgrade_to_the_latest_M

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-18 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer wrote: Sorry it diodnot work. I typed in all what you said to type in and it broke. Did you put it in exactly as it showed up in the mail, because if yea, that would ot work This should all be on one line install snd-emu10k1

Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse

2005-01-17 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:07 pm, Matt Florido wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 January 2005 12:47 am, John Retermeyer wrote: alias sound-slot-0 audigy # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- But you don't have an audigy. Shouldn't this be snd-emu10k1, like this alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 and this should not be there alias snd-0

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-15 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:52 am, John Retermeyer wrote: Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. post contents of /etc/modprobe.conf Anne, you have this card, don't you? -- /g

Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3

2005-01-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 January 2005 09:11 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Packages here:  http://www.gkmewb.com/amarok/10.1 Thanks Greg,  but im getting unknown host on thus url. Sorry, typo. Try http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 It should work this time because I tested it. -- /g

Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3

2005-01-14 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 January 2005 11:09 pm, Glenn wrote: Try http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 .  It looks like Greg fat-fingered the w and e, so that they were transposed. eaxclty -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Kmail Problem

2005-01-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:00 am, John Bowden wrote: 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems to work ok. I click ok and the error msbox goes away.

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:23 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut off. a! I love the smell of ozone. :) -- /g Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] XMMS scip problem

2005-01-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 January 2005 03:36 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: | I'm having a problem with xmms skipping while playing streaming audio and | browsing with mozilla. I also notice this happening when switching | between folders in Kmail, I have Kmail

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 January 2005 11:52 pm, JR wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get acpi working? Or failing that, to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10? I've tried setting the kernel boot options to acpi=on and 'noapic' but I still dont have acpi Do you have the acpi and acpid packages installed? -- /g

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the

Re: [newbie] Kmail not forwarding with full headers

2005-01-06 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:30 pm, Chris wrote: Greg, did some checking and KDEbug 57008 has been submitted previously for this. The fix is to select full headers in the view menu, shutdown and restart Kmail, this will display the full message headers in forwards whether in-line or as an

Re: [newbie] adding new features to 10.2

2005-01-06 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:42 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, What is the process for requesting new features to be included in the upcoming release? Is there a place to add suggestions? If discussion is necessary, you should make a post to the cooker mailing list. Check here too, because

Re: [newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10

2005-01-06 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:59 pm, Paul Greene wrote: What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. Try

Re: [newbie] Kmail question

2005-01-04 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:40 pm, Chris wrote: I asked this in the kdepim-users list but no reply yet, possibly someone here can assist me, below is what I sent: When forwarding a message either in-line or as an attachment, the full headers are sometimes shown and sometimes not, most times

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-03 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:49 pm, Chris wrote: How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file associations, .mp3, .wav for

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-03 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 January 2005 01:08 am, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:49, Chris wrote: How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set

Re: [newbie] One click instead of two

2004-12-31 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 31 December 2004 10:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:    I just looked through my win xp home control panel mouse things, but I didn't find it.  I realize your suggestion was not for win but I thought it would be comparable.  If any one knows the windows solution, I have looked several

Re: [newbie] Internet Radio on Linux Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-21 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 12:25 pm, Walders wrote: I have just set up my laptop with Mandrake Linux 10.1 installed Firefox 1.0 onto it as my preferred browser.  I am wanting to stream internet radio, but my preferred site on w*nXP (http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast) will not work with

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:46 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 00:14, Hugh Dixon wrote: What's the IP address? I fit the profile, and as our windows admin is not around, I cannot check the status of our antivirus software... According to the 'Received:' trace,

Re: [newbie] Installed Webmin but can't access it.

2004-12-15 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:19 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Please ignore this question. I'd forgotten that I needed to reboot first. That was a dumb one even by my standards. Graham REBOOT WHAT??? I didn't and except for kernel rebuilding I never reboot. Am I missing out on some

Re: [newbie] mdk Community vs. Official

2004-12-15 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:50 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:42 pm, Josh Dean wrote: I've just put Mandrake Community 10.1 on my computer and realized Official was available.  I hate to have something better available and The only difference betwwen

Re: [newbie] Installed Webmin but can't access it.

2004-12-15 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:13 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: I've just installed Webmin and when I try to access http://localhost:1000, the connection is refused. Please ignore this question. I'd forgotten that I needed to reboot first. No need to reboot, just do

[newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Per discussione Greg Meyer
Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our newbie windows users. If you use windows and are in Australia,

Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question

2004-12-12 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 11 December 2004 09:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: currently i find it difficult to buy one, as the ads are rosy and the fullscreen picture quality often bad ? also how much cpu does realtime encoding to mpeg4 need ? does someone use a card doing this in the chip ? Isn't this

Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure

2004-12-12 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 12 December 2004 01:17 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm trying to install abiword. When it's the moment to do ./configure, Why compile from source? Chalres Edwards has updated abiword packages on eslrahc.com. http://www.eslrahc.com -- /g

Re: [newbie] Problem with adjusting the size of the fonts

2004-12-11 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 11 December 2004 03:55 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have just done some updates and the fonts became misconfigured. I was able to reconfigure everything, except the XChat and other non-KDE programs. Any ideas? (I am running Mandrake 10.1.) Thanks in advance, Paul PS:

Re: [newbie] VMWare question

2004-12-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 09 December 2004 03:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On my machines, vmware won't boot from cd unless I configure the drive with legacy emulation. Hi Greg, I've just found out that in Mdk10.1, I can boot my vmware. How do I set the drive into legacy mode? From the virtual machine

[newbie] Amarok beta2 is out

2004-12-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
For anybody that enjoyed the packages I made for the Amarok 1.2 beta1 release, beta 2 is out, and I have made packages for 10.0 and 10.1. These required an update to taglib 1.3.1 which you'll need to grab too. There is a package with and a package without mysql support. You only will need

Re: [newbie] VMWare question

2004-12-09 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 09 December 2004 08:55 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: cnfiguration for the cd and you should see a checkbox for legacy mode. Thankg Greg. I didn't think it's in the vmware configuration :) By the way, everytime I run vmware after a notebook reboot, it asks me to run vmware-config.pl

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:55 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, is there anyone that knows where (If it is at all possible to access) in the Mandrake filesystem one can find files that is the virtual machines files ie c:\ in W2000 You cannot access from linux filesystem, that is one

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:55 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Do it from LM using k3b.  I've not had any problems with the k3b versions available under LM10.0 or 10.1.  Both were simpler and more flexible any of several tools I had under W2K on the same machine. I think he has to get the files he

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 08:49 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is the host really able to mount (running) VMw disks? I've only ever gotten the Windows guest to r/w to host directories, and even then the directories appear as network shares under the windows guest. Then, in the win guest, you just

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just to let you know, the Community releases are not totally stable. They put them out to allow a much broader spectrum of hardware to test on. Then the comments a bugs found are included in Official release. Official had one big update

Re: [newbie] VMWare question

2004-12-05 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Sunday 05 December 2004 09:37 pm, Jan Rubbrecht wrote: I am also kind of a newbie in Linux, but it seems to me that your cdrom is not correctly configured/working under Linux, might be worth checking that out if you're sure that VMWare should boot from CDrom first. I don't think VMWare

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-04 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:26 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Resently updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 Once again, thank you CAE. Are you taking requests? If so is there a chance of getting libvorbis updated to 1.1 for 10.1. -- /g Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-04 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 December 2004 07:24 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:35:57 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: Are you taking requests? If so is there a chance of getting libvorbis updated to 1.1 for 10.1. Just for you Greg Now available for 10.1 libvorbis0-1.1.0

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-12-04 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:26 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Resently updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles, I am getting # urpmi --auto-select --media eslrahc Some package requested cannot be installed: gstreamer-GConf-0.8.6-0.1010.1plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied gstreamer-plugins[==

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