[expert] TV Tuner kills system
Hi all. I've got a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB TV PCI bt848 with the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card (eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is running as eth1. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a kernel 2.4.21-0.25 with these parameters: hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is completely useless without the acpi=off line. Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no matter where I put it one card will go dead. I've managed to get it to the point where there are no IRQ conflicts but that didn't help. Right now the tv card is sharing an irq with usb-ohci. My /proc/interrupts: CPU0 0: 58151 XT-PIC timer 1: 3942 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 26 XT-PIC usb-ohci, bttv 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 12102 XT-PIC ehci-hcd, eth1 11: 37089 XT-PIC eth0, EMU10K1 12: 49692 XT-PIC usb-ohci, nvidia 14: 22889 XT-PIC ide0 15:149 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 58118 ERR: 20 MIS: 0 Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience give me some insight? Does anyone have this working on a simular set up? Thanks again :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?
This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat specific thing, or can I change a setting somewhere? Thanks yet again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't post to newsgroups in Mandrake 9.1
It's weird. None of my posts show up no matter what reader I use (pan, mozilla, knode). The newsreaders seem to send fine, but the post never shows up. It works fine in redhat though. I've tried shutting down iptables with /etc/init.d/iptables stop, to no avail. Weird thing is, I can articles just fine, I just can't seem to post. I've got no clue what could be causing this, can anyone helpl TIA. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Cool link. I did figure out how to install the pinstripe-linux theme (needed one more '/' after 'file:'), but for some reason neither that theme or the ones at http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes.html worked for the main browser. I'm running mozilla 1.4 from texstar if I remeber right. Probably version conflicts. I'll probably just have to hunker down and learn to skin mozilla :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Cool link. I did figure out how to install the pinstripe-linux theme (needed one more '/' after 'file:'), but for some reason neither that theme or the ones at http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes.html worked for the main browser. Oddly enough, the fonts and buttons in mozilla-mail where changed by one of the Pheonix themes I installed. I'm running mozilla 1.4 from texstar if I remeber right. Probably version conflicts. I'll probably just have to hunker down and learn to skin mozilla :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
found it: http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/ss.html Worked like a charm, looks great. Thanks all for your help, I'm not sure how I kept missing this theme :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I know apple forced a cease and desist before, but there are several KDE Aqua theme projects (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched. Seems weird. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Mozilla theme install, Was Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
Welp, now I feel like a dumb ass :). I found this: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/aquaish/?topic_id=960%2C952 I thought it was another kde theme (didn't read the page too closely :)). Thanks Jack, I would have missed it, but took another look through the google results. Just tired I guess. I really need to stop doing stupid things. I'm having a little trouble installing it though. I was able to install themes from mozilla.org. I think I'm just formatting the file tag wrong. Here's the install.html: html body a href=javascript:InstallTrigger.installChrome(InstallTrigger.SKIN, 'file:///home/jeremy/aq/pinstripe-linu/pinstripe-linux/pinstripe-linux.jar','pinstripe-linux1.0 ')install pinstripe linux/a /body /html All I get is a page that says 'true' and nothing else. I'm running it as root. Still no luck though. Thanks again all. Sorry for sounding like a dumb ass earlier. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is hdparm -c3 /dev/hdX safe?
I've had some trouble with my cd writer lately, and I'm not sure if it's cause the drive is a little old or if it's because I've been using this option. I turned it on for all my drives, and got a nice speed boost for it (plus wineX games don't stutter when they hit the cd drive anymore :). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.13 on an Asus 87N8X, and burning with k3b .9 using a sony CRX195E1 at 40x with no buffer underruns. I've had no troubles with my harddisks, but my cd-burner is making drink coasters. The files show up when the drive is mounted, and can even be copied off the disk, but are useless. It's mostly video, and mplayer can't play them (or strangly in one case couldn't seek in one of the files it could play). On some disks the files are fine, on some they're trash. Can anyone advise me on how dangerous this setting is? The drive isn't that old and I'd hate to replace a perfectly good drive, but it's possible it's dying. Thanks again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tv tuner, sound card, ethernet won't work together
Hi all. I've got a bt848 tuner, soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board sound and ethernet are disabled in the bios. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a stock kernel with these parameters: hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic acpi=off Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is completely useless without the acpi=off line. Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no matter where I put it one card will go dead. There are no IRQ conflicts, and I don't think there are any I/O conflicts (but my Hex isn't good enough to be sure). I'm pretty sure the card is good (worked on my old board, and will work fine when another card goes dead). Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience give me some insight? Thanks again :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions
apt-get for rpm. Check out www.freshrpms.net. I've used it before, and it's actually better than urpmi (the servers are more reliable and it takes less time to update sources). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio
Just picked one of these up from my local walmart for $30. It doesn't seem to want to work. Kamera and gphoto2 can't detect/communicate with it (Kamera complains about bad perameters, gphoto2 just can't seem to find it). The camera is detected on the usb bus (Shows up with it's correct id and everything). I've got a bad feeling they changed the chipset along the way and so it won't work, but I thought I'd ask if anyone's had any luck with the newer iterations of the thing. I'd be neat if it worked (I wanna take pictures of my action figure collection for a rather pointless web site :). Failing that, can someone recomend a digital camera for under $50 (maybe for under $75)? Thanks again. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio
Thanks for the tip, but I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work :(. I could be trying to mount the wrong device. I tried /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 and a few others and got not a valid block device. Oh well, I didn't really expect much though, but I do wish venders would support standards more often, at least for the dirt cheap hardware I can afford :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Squished fonts on some web pages
A few web pages I point mozilla at (notably theregister.co.uk) have weird font problems. The text will look as though it's squished or compressed a bit. Highlighting the text makes it display correctly. I don't seem to have this problem with konqueror. I've tried upgrading mozilla to 1.4 using the texstar rpms, also tried the texstar freetype rpm (haven't tried the one from the PLF yet to be fair) and the bitstream vera fonts. I don't have this problem in Redhat 9. Anyone else had this happen/have a solution. It's harmless but annoying as heck. Thanks (yet) again folks. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's working now :). Still, very weird behavior. I'll have to check mandrake.com and see if there's a bug report. Thanks again Larry for all your help. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
Thanks for the suggestion (I hadn't realized there was a way to pass options to it) but it's still trying to treat the 'audiocd:/?device=/dev/sdc' as an url, and heading off to google. What really bugs me is I know it's worked before, and I don't know what made it stop. Thanks again though. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
When I enter 'audiocd:/' in the location bar of konqueror, it treats it as a web url (or sometimes decides to search google with the pharse 'audiocd:'. Thing is, I've used it before on this install. Am I doing something wrong, or did something get foobared along the way? I've got write permissions to the sg* files in dev, but I haven't a clue what else could go wrong. TIA :) Jeremy Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] no USB mouse in 9.1
First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on Redhat 9 as my main OS), but the options are simular. Here's the relevent part of my grub.conf: title Mandrake 9.1 root (hd0,7) kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic initrd (hd0,7)/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img Sadly this didn't work. I've got an Nforce2 based board, the chipset's made by nvidia. Support for the board is relavively new, but the mouse does work during install. I'm at a loss here. The nodes seem to be in /dev and seem to be corrent. The driver selection seems fine in XF86Config-4. Heck, if I run 'XFree86 -configure' X claims to have found the mouse on /dev/mouse (a sym link to /dev/usbmouse which in turn links to /dev/input/mice, if I remember correctly). There's also nothing in my XFree86.0.log to indicate a problem. The mouse will light up briefly during boot (it's an optical) but then go dead and stay that way. I really don't know what to do. Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] no USB mouse in 9.1
I've got an nforce2 board (Asus A7N8X) and a Microsoft optical usb mouse. My mouse config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection The usbmouse modules wasn't loaded, but I loaded it and restarted X with no luck. Also tried it with /dev/input/mouse. The mouse worked fine during the install (and in Redhat 9.0). The kernel that comes with Mandrake is new enough it should have support for the usb chipset, but I could be wrong (redhat often back ports stuff from new kernels after all). Anyone know the fix? TIA :). Jeremy Gregorio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.1 font hinting (?) problems...
Mandrake 9.1 doesn't always seems to display fonts correctly. Often times fonts will overlap vertically or horizontally. Highlighting the text in question will fix the problems though. I've tried playing with the font hinting settings in KDE to no avail. I don't have these problems in Redhat 8.0 though. Is this something I can fix? Thanks again folks :). Jeremy Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
