Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 6:31 am, Jack Coates wrote: Well, I found that the problem is not with the sound card, thanks to you guys. Bjorn gave me a tip in the options cs4232 line with the mpuirq=10, and I got it up and running, but only in console. Yep, in tty1, I was able to play an mp3 with mp3blaster. But when I get over to the graphical side, running XMMS completely locks up the system. The mouse is dead, the keyboard is dead, the whole freakin' thing. It doesn't crash until a sound is made. Attempting to play an mp3 kills it, and generating a tone with the tone generator plugin kills the system. So then I wondered if it was something about the sound system, and I installed Kaboodle, and attempted to play an mp3. Same deal. DOA. I am wondering if its and IRQ problem, but it doesn't seem so. Now, I appear to be using IRQ9 for mpu and IRQ 5 for sound. IRQ 9 does not show up in /proc/interrupts, however IRQ 5 is shown to be used by Crystal Audio Controller. Where do I go from here? Rob you're a KDE user, aren't you? in the DM you're using (e.g. mdkkdm, kdm, gdm, xdm) make sure that X is not being niced: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg129204.html kcontrol, stop artsd from running with real time priority. xmms, make sure it's using arts output plugin (may need to install xmms-arts), don't allow it to run with realtime either. log out, then CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to make the DM changes take effect, then log back in and you should be fine. OK, I altered the X stuff (not that I can see how this would effect the crash) then I dropped out of KDE and entered Gnome. Trying XMMS I had the same problem. Start to play the tune (this time an ogg file) and the keyboard and touch pad are doa, without any kernel messages. And I started XMMS for Console, and there were no messages there. And just for yucks, I tried mp3blaster in a console window. You guessed it, dead as a doorknob. What the heck could it be? How the heck could I detect it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How do you upgrade?
OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that didn't. Now, 9.1 to 9.2 club, that was a fiasco. I finally moved my /home to a new partition, and blasted out /boot and /, installing in clean partitions. But what was left over was uploading all the little programs I like, say bidwatcher, KSetiSpy, Audacity, and the like, and nuking all the stuff I don't: devfs and supermount to name two. Then configuring a new hosts file, and setting up fstab to mount all the drives like I want them. So the big question is how do you upgrade? Or maybe you don't. Or maybe you use urpmi to pull off an upgrade that does not interfere. I wanna know, cause I love linux, but I don't want to be a slave to my computer. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?
On Monday 17 November 2003 9:22 am, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring you online no sweat. One note. You have to run it from a regular tty not a konsole or xterm window for it to work right. I've used this chipset in the past and it works well, sndconfig has it in it's database and can get you up. I have a 4236-card which sndconfig can get sound from, but it have not, (since mdk8.1) been able to save its settings. Every time i install a new mdk since then I've had to resort to run pnpdump + isapnp, and comment out when given multiple choise. I also put alias sound-slot-0 cs4232 options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=10 Well, I found that the problem is not with the sound card, thanks to you guys. Bjorn gave me a tip in the options cs4232 line with the mpuirq=10, and I got it up and running, but only in console. Yep, in tty1, I was able to play an mp3 with mp3blaster. But when I get over to the graphical side, running XMMS completely locks up the system. The mouse is dead, the keyboard is dead, the whole freakin' thing. It doesn't crash until a sound is made. Attempting to play an mp3 kills it, and generating a tone with the tone generator plugin kills the system. So then I wondered if it was something about the sound system, and I installed Kaboodle, and attempted to play an mp3. Same deal. DOA. I am wondering if its and IRQ problem, but it doesn't seem so. Now, I appear to be using IRQ9 for mpu and IRQ 5 for sound. IRQ 9 does not show up in /proc/interrupts, however IRQ 5 is shown to be used by Crystal Audio Controller. Where do I go from here? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?
On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used the pcmcia.img from my club isos, and when I tried to start an FTP download, I got a complaint for an image with a good package list. The one from the ftp server works perfectly, however. The balk occurred when the kernel was attempted to be downloaded, so it appears that there is a kernel version number change. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?
OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a Crystal 4237B, which is found on the ISA bus, and I am able to mess with it using the CS423x driver in sndconfig, but I have not gotten any sound from it yet. Apprently it can emulate a Soundblaster, AdLib or WSS card, but using the SB driver crashes the machine so that the only way out is to crash the system. The AdLib driver crashes sndconfig. The WSS driver also locks up the system like the SB. Any ideas or experiences configuring the sound on this machine. My introduction to this machine was from the Linux Laptops website, and my life is not as simple. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Setting sb.o to use IRQ 5
On my Dell Inspiron 3200 I can use sb.o as my sound driver if I can point it at IRQ 5. How can I do that? -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and Gramofile
On Monday 10 November 2003 2:11 am, thorsten ackermann wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. November 2003 23:09 schrieb Rob Blomquist: On Sunday 09 November 2003 2:04 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Hi, my gramofile works fine with 9.2 but i have to install x-mixer that comes with multimedia-2.1-21mdk rpm and i have to stop arts before i work with gramofile and also check the settings on x-mixer i.e. igain pcm I can't find multimedia-2.1-21mdk.rpm at all. Urpmi does not have it listed for 9.2 or any of the normal urpmi sites. I also tried www.rpmfind.net, and they don't list one for mandrake, but I was able to find a tarball called multimedia. Where did you get it? From cooker or someplace else? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 7:01 am, Greg Meyer wrote: This is where urpmi really shines. Even if you just use it instead of rpm, it will really help get you out of dependency hell. How is anyone supposed to know that libstdc+ is supposed to be installed when the binary isnstaller don't check and things just don't work? Quite true, when I used to run RH, I had to go to rpmfind.net to get those answers, and today urpmi does it for me! Hallelujah! But if urpmi fails me, I can always search out rpmfind.net! Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad
When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the system, the mouse works fine, but the touch pad is a crazy clicking monster if the mouse is not plugged in, and I would like to use this laptop on the bus to work and so on, so the touch pad is a must. Now, is it possible to use either interchangeably? But the bottom line is getting the touch pad to work. How do I do that? What mouse setting do I need in XF86 or Harddrake? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0
I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually or with drakconf? BTW, the installer did not detect the card, and did not load the draksound for it. I have a home LAN, and a modem for this machine, what can I do when I am portable with it, so that I can use the modem instead of the LAN connection. Currently the LAN is up and running fine with a 3c589 PCMCIA slot NIC, and the modem has been pulled from the PCMCIA slot. And what window managers work best with this machine. I am a big fan of KDE, but I think that the machine may prefer something lighter, so as not to tax the video and processor so much. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0
On Monday 10 November 2003 8:10 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually or with drakconf? BTW, the installer did not detect the card, and did not load the draksound for it. try the old sndconfig utility, it does a good job on those older chips. I shall check it out. I have a home LAN, and a modem for this machine, what can I do when I am portable with it, so that I can use the modem instead of the LAN connection. Currently the LAN is up and running fine with a 3c589 PCMCIA slot NIC, and the modem has been pulled from the PCMCIA slot. so it's a card modem instead of a built-in? What are you asking? How to swap cards? Yes, both the NIC and modem are PCMCIA cards (3COM 56k Global Modem, and Etherlink III (3c589). And can I hot swap these cards, or what do I do to disconnect or reconnect them? Anything special? Have a look at XFce, IceWM, WindowMaker, blackbox. Thanks for the tips Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?
I downloaded flash player 6 from macromedia download site and install it on mandrake 9.2. It used to work on mandrake 9.0 with mozilla 1.1 but not 9.2 with mozilla 1.4. Anyone get this work? Thanks, Make sure it didn't put the libs in either /usr/lib/netscape/plugin or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin/ Had that happen to me and had to move the files it created to the right place. Yes, but I am trying to get it going with Konq in 9.2, and even though I have added the generic location, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins, and I still can't get konq to use it??? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?
On Monday 10 November 2003 4:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: The best way to get flashplayer working on Mandrake is to get the Mandrake RPMS from Club Commercial Downloads. Everything goes in the right place and it works in all browsers. Is there a urpmi source for the Club Commercial site? I would love to add it. Well, I d/l FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk.i586.rpm and urpmi'd it, and I turned out to need libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586 too. And with it, all my other plugins worked properly. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 and Gramofile
I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a recording, but I sure have no recording screen. Has anybody else seen this problem? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)
So I hunted around, and found that a program had crashed, leaving /dev/dsp occupied, so I killed it off, and tried again. Now Gramofile acts like it should, giving me the recording screen. But still, I have some sort of problem with picking up the standard input with anything: gramofile, Audacity, Rezound. It seems like maybe a reboot is in order, but I would rather not, for the obvious uptime reason. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and Gramofile
On Sunday 09 November 2003 2:04 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a recording, but I sure have no recording screen. And yes, no recording occurs. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)
On Sunday 09 November 2003 3:28 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: So I hunted around, and found that a program had crashed, leaving /dev/dsp occupied, so I killed it off, and tried again. Now Gramofile acts like it should, giving me the recording screen. But still, I have some sort of problem with picking up the standard input with anything: gramofile, Audacity, Rezound. It seems like maybe a reboot is in order, but I would rather not, for the obvious uptime reason. Well a reboot saved the day along with killing off artsd that is holding on to /dev/dsp too hard. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)
Well a reboot saved the day along with killing off artsd that is holding on to /dev/dsp too hard. Have you tried kickarts? I did, but under 9.1 kickarts was not necessary, as if nothing was needing arts, it would drop the connection automagically. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 Installation Problems
I just got this machine, and it seems like a nice solid machine, with a Pentium 2 266MHz, 144 Mb RAM in trade from an acquaintance. It seems like a great little laptop to put linux on, and I am having a little problem that I can't quite figure out. My initial plan was to set it up to boot off the CD and install 9.2. No dice, as after the install splash occurs, the install image cannot find the CD again, even though it knows all the parameters on what it is, and where it is. So I fussed and fought with it, turning off PnP, slowing down the CD, blah, blah, blah. Then on a wild hair I decided to try 9.0, which I bought from the Mandrake Store. It is currently installing without a problem. Now, in thinking about the problem, it would seem that there is some problem with how the ide drivers attempt to attach to the CDROM. Or is it that the download images are different from the purchased CDs? Does anybody have any ideas with this problem? Has anybody successfully installed 9.1 or 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 3200?? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 Installation Problems
On Saturday 08 November 2003 3:05 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Some CD readers have problems with burned disks. The 3200 is new enough that this shouldn't be a problem, but you can't always be sure. Once it's installed, can you try mounting the burned disks? You can also try doing an FTP/HTTP install, which I used on my Inspiron 3500 for 9.1. I tried using a CD of mp3s, and while Win98 on the machine could not play the mp3s, it could read the disk. I am hoping that was enough. And not to mention, but the install-splash image file was read from the CD, so I am not sure if that was the problem. The HTTP/FTP thing is pretty intriguing, however. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konq/Moz Crash during Web Browse.
I have a Konq and Moz crash that really bugs me, unfortunately, I can't send you the site as it is an Outlook Webmail site, and is password protected. So don't even think about asking, as I am not giving my password out. Here's the deal: if I attempt to respond to an email, the window containing the email will crash. The main window is alive and well. Formerly, I have been able to use this site with either Konq or Moz. The site uses both Java and javascript to do its job. I have installed Kaffe to handle java requests, as I have not found a jre for Mandrake available (man, am I lazy!). I opened both from console, and only Konq gave me information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] robbo]$ konqueror kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: FAM connection problem, switching to polling. ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) What could I do to explore this crash, or is there enough of an answer here? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KGet is driving me crazy!!!!
Ok, so I want to DL the latest jre from Sun, and I finally make it to http://www.java.com:80/en/download/manual.jsp And I click on the link to download it. Kget opens and informs me of a malformed URL. So I open moz to the page and download it. The same prblem kept cropping up when I was downloading bittorrent for the 9.2 Club fiasco. That's where I learned about just opening Moz and getting on with life. Is there any solution to the Kget problem that would allow me to use Konq with confidence. It is my browser of choice. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi vs rpm
In a previous email Dr. Monkeynoodle spake thusly: 2 urpmi /the/rpm/you/got. Is there an advantage to urpmi-ing it rather than rpm -ivh-ing it? It seems to me that urpmi is just a searching front end for rpm. Fire away. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozex for Mozilla
I see at the Mozilla.org that Mozex is required for certain kinds of links, but I can't find it with urpmi. Am I misconfigured, or is is packaged differently under Mandrake? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3.1.4?
Any idea where I can get 3.1.4 in rpm format for 3.2, or am I going to have to compile the sucker? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lm_sensors
Ok, so I installed the rpm, and lo and behold, my mobo is finally supported. Running sensors-detect, I was able to find several items of use, and I added them to modules.conf, as I was told by the script. I have loaded: w83781d eeprom i2c-proc i2c-dev i2c-philips-par parport i2c-elv i2c-algo-bit i2c-nforce2 i2c-core And now I am running sensors at the command prompt: # sensors eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter as99127f-i2c-1-2d Adapter: SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5500 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter VCore 1: +1.64 V (min = +1.47 V, max = +1.61 V) ALARM VCore 2: +1.66 V (min = +1.47 V, max = +1.61 V) +3.3V: +3.32 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.45 V) +5V: +4.99 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V) +12V: +11.86 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.19 V) -12V: -12.40 V (min = -0.00 V, max = -0.00 V) -5V: -4.70 V (min = -0.00 V, max = -0.00 V) fan1: 14361 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) fan2: 3139 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM fan3: 5192 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) temp1: +33°C (limit = +60°C) temp2: +35.4°C (limit = +120°C, hysteresis = +100°C) temp3:+255.4°C (limit = +120°C, hysteresis = +100°C) vid: +1.550 V alarms: beep_enable: Sound alarm enabled Now, what do I know about this system? Where do I go from here? And what about the bogus reading on fan1? And how about the boundaries, can I be certain that they are correct for my system? How do I get ksim, or any other hardware monitoring client working? Basically I am an estatic hardware monitoring clueless dude, and need a little help. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi: Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)
I keep getting this error from urpmi. What can I do to fix it up, short of deleting it without a care? unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Linux Multimedia Resources
What's available for Linux Multimedia resources? By that I mean email lists, books, and websites. My interests are in mostly audio right now, but I am trying to get my sweetie to get me a digital movie camera for Christmas, so that might change. I would love to understand the details of the differences between oggs and mp3, I would love to find out about noise filtering and ID3v1 vs ID3v2, and converting between them. How about other tools than Audacity and Gramofile? Or maybe this tells me to just stay here, and ask away. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mounting a floppy
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 9:57 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered under the mount or fstab man pages, so I am assuming its a supermount term. And I prefer to not use supermount, I prefer the KDE mounting tools, as supermount messes with my USB Camera. Just another question that I answered after hitting the send button. Yes, it was other commands that were messing things up. I simplified my fstab to /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 and it now mounts fine. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in about 2 seconds. Have you tried the send new password function? This will tell you if it thinks you even have an account. Yes, And still no password. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 8:02 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it hidden somewhere else now in Konqueror? I searched and can't find it anywhere. :( In 9.2 you have to install a little applet from the CDROMs to make Konq do that. Maybe in 9.1 you have to do that, too. I didn't, and I wasn't too crazy about how it worked, so I did not install the applet. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mounting a floppy
Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered under the mount or fstab man pages, so I am assuming its a supermount term. And I prefer to not use supermount, I prefer the KDE mounting tools, as supermount messes with my USB Camera. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl
On Monday 27 October 2003 10:16 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one day I could no longer connect to the mail servers unless I used windows. Are any of you using Verizon dsl, and if so are there any problems with using Linux? Nope, I have not had any problems with Verizon either, but do watch out for not being set up correctly at first. In our new house, when we transfered the account, we had such a crummy setup that it was like sipping through a straw. I use a linux router with no problems. Verizon just needs to be setup so that you can connect to their DHCP server and be dealt an IP address. And then you need to point each machine to their DNS. Their CD is just for dummies, and people that want to be configured to only use IE and their page as home. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver
Xscreensaver is installed on my machine: xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk, but the screen savers are not showing up in KDE Control Center/Appearance Themes/Screen Saver. And this is with a reboot of the machine (not related) and several reboots of X. Now, is there something that I am supposed to do to get it to work, or did Mandrake blow it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KWeather
On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:23, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone use this applet? Under 9.0 it recognised my local station, but under 9.1 it only seems to deal with North America. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I have been using KWeather for about a year now, under 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2, and it all works fine. I did mess around for the last couple of minutes trying to get weather for Angola, Denmark, Iceland, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone, and I had some troubles getting stations to work in every county, and that includes places in my own neighborhood, in North America. I would say that it is not KWeather, but the stations that are supposed to be transmitting the reports. And trust me, telemetered data can be pretty flaky, I know, since I maintain some telemetered sites. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Text
On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:33, Richard Bown wrote: k3b supports this Well then how do I pass the data? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem
I cannot get the kicker digital clock to get off 24 hour time. I would like to see it in 12 hour time. I think this is due to being force to use the English GB Language format. Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem
On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this. right click on the clock and chose Date and Time Format in the first tab(General) click on country-North America-United States of America. Then click on the times and dates tab. Click on the right side and chose PH:MM:SS AMPM to get a 12 hour clock. Click Apply and you should be GTG (good to go) In that first tab, I have no countries listed. I am assuming that I am missing a file for North America. True? Or is something mucked up? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem
On Friday 24 October 2003 15:43, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this. right click on the clock and chose Date and Time Format in the first tab(General) click on country-North America-United States of America. Then click on the times and dates tab. Click on the right side and chose PH:MM:SS AMPM to get a 12 hour clock. Click Apply and you should be GTG (good to go) In that first tab, I have no countries listed. I am assuming that I am missing a file for North America. True? Or is something mucked up? Rob Sounds like you may be missing one or more of these. locales-en-2.3.1.4-6mdk locales-2.3.1.4-6mdk My system has locales-2.3.2-5mdk locales-en-2.3.2-5mdk Now, I haven't mucked with locales, but I did upgrade KDE from Texstar's rpms, and I see that I still have a few of Texstar's rpms around. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] single click
On Friday 24 October 2003 17:06, Brian V Bonini wrote: Just moved from 9.0 - 9.1, used to be able to single click items on the desktop and in Konqueror file explorer thing but no more, not sure how to get that behavior back, anyone In the KDE Control Center/Peripherals/Mouse you shall find the settings you desire. There are also other mouse settings available in KDE Control Center/Desktop/Window Behavior Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CD Text
Is it possible to have CD Text burned to a CD so that it is readable by CD players? My Lite-On CD-RW 52x24x52 is apparently CD Text capable, and my car stereo is able to read CD Text, but can any of the CD Burning Programs support it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nforce2 ATA problem?
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:47, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I got a new nforce2 mainboard recently and attached an old hard drive which BIOS identified as ATA66 drive. But according to dmesg output,it's ATA33. Using hdparm utility, it is a udma2 drive. Isn't ATA66 drive be identify as udma4? I am totally confused now, what speed my hard drive is running under mandrake linux? That's OK, My brand spanking new ATA 133 drive is said to be UDMA 33 too. You need to set up hdparm to speed it up. The linux kernel is just being careful not to overclock your drive. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Hdparm problem
I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode
last night:
# hdparm -X70 /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error
The drive is ATA 133 and I believe UDMA mode6, consequently. Any ideas on this
I/O error?
Here's the rest of the info that the drive dumps:
# hdparm -i /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
Model=Maxtor 6Y080L0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2PXN2ZE
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
* signifies the current active mode
# hdparm -I /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: Maxtor 6Y080L0
Serial Number: Y2PXN2ZE
Firmware Revision: YAR41BW0
Standards:
Supported: 7 6 5 4
Likely used: 7
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 4047
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 255
--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16511760
LBAuser addressable sectors: 160086528
device size with M = 1024*1024: 78167 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 81964 MBytes (81 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x)
Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 254
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
*NOP cmd
*READ BUFFER cmd
*WRITE BUFFER cmd
*Host Protected Area feature set
*Look-ahead
*Write cache
*Power Management feature set
Security Mode feature set
*SMART feature set
*FLUSH CACHE EXT command
*Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
*Device Configuration Overlay feature set
*Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
SET MAX security extension
Advanced Power Management feature set
*DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
*SMART self-test
*SMART error logging
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
not frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
CBLID- above Vih
Device num = 1 determined by the jumper
Checksum: correct
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[expert] Devfsd
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and supermount been fixed with USB connections? My problems were around a digital camera and my Handspring Visor. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Devfsd
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and supermount been fixed with USB connections? My problems were around a digital camera and my Handspring Visor. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problem with Urpmi/RpmDrake under 9.2
I am not able to access my installation CDs nor any of the usual sites at PLF, Texstar, or Club_comm after the upgrade. How can I fix this problem. I remember it after the 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade, but forget how to fix it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS install?
On Monday 20 October 2003 02:21, Joachim Holst wrote: Hi everyone! I wonder if it will be possible to install Mandrake 9.,2 on an NFS system. I do not mean FROM an NFS system. I want to install Mandrake on a Diskless machine! Sorry for repeating stuff, but I want to make it clear that I do not want to install the system from an NFS mount! I haven't done it, but I know others have. The Linux Documentation Project is the best place on the net for information like this, www.tldp.org. Yours is at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root.html Enjoy. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me
4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed for me, so I have no American standards for time and stuff. I think this might be locales not being installed, but I am not sure. 5.I probably have not yet found it, but I am sure its out there. I still haven't solved these. Assuming (for what reason I'm not sure) you are in KDE open kcontrol and under Accessibility you will find Country-Region Language. That should help loads. I tried that, all I have is GB as a selection. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Removable drive lockups
After installing 9.2 I am having problems on 2 different systems with CD and floppy drive lockups. One system uses devfs and supermount, the other does not. Basically the drive stops responding and is unable to be unmounted or ejected. To do that will just about kill the system. I am also having a problem where urpmi stops recognizing the installation CDs. Not copies, but the actual installation CDs. Any ideas on what could be happening? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Format type detection?
I swapped a hard drive from one computer into another I was building. fstab from the old computer says that it is ext2, yet it won't mount as ext2 in the new computer's fstab. I can mount this drive without a format in the command line, but I would like to know how to detect its format. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Format type detection?
On Monday 20 October 2003 14:18, Rob Blomquist wrote: I swapped a hard drive from one computer into another I was building. fstab from the old computer says that it is ext2, yet it won't mount as ext2 in the new computer's fstab. I can mount this drive without a format in the command line, but I would like to know how to detect its format. Answered my own question: mount -v will tell which format type was used to mount the drive. rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera
On Monday 20 October 2003 11:05, Larry Sword wrote: I just installed ML 9.2. Now when connecting the camera to the usb port the computer will do a hard lockup. The only way to recover is to disconnect the usb camera and reboot. I ran into that with 9.0, and my solution was to get rid of supermount and devfs. Then things worked like they should. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me
1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. 4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed for me, so I have no American standards for time and stuff. I think this might be locales not being installed, but I am not sure. 5.I probably have not yet found it, but I am sure its out there. -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: 1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. I hunted through all the kde files on the disks, and I found the KDE files that I needed. I can't believe that Mandrake blew it so badly. The above 3 were fixed in one fell swoop. 4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed for me, so I have no American standards for time and stuff. I think this might be locales not being installed, but I am not sure. 5.I probably have not yet found it, but I am sure its out there. I still haven't solved these. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Running X across a network?
I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN client that I can use? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running X across a network?
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:52, James Sparenberg wrote: Yes on SSH ... just check your config files in /etc/ssh and make sure forward X11 is set to yes. (should be by default.) To verify ssh to the box and type xclock. If the clock pops up your working. (note this won't work coming from a winders box.) Thanks for helping me with this slick trick. I have been using ssh since it became default a couple of years ago, and I never would have guessed it was this easy. And thanks to the rest of you guys. I love this list. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Oggs to mp3
Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy to another is way too lossy for me. I am wondering if a better path would be to use oggdecode, and to pick up the wave file in mp3encode or lame. Or is there a better way yet? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! Well, I stated up bittorrent last night, and I have had pokey download speeds, typically around 10-12KB/second, and it is constatnly crashing. Now, I am sitting behind a Linux firewall/router that I built up a couple of years ago, using the DENY ALL sort of attitude. But now I am forgetting. It is built with ip-chains and probably RH 7.1 or 7.2. What files do I edit, and what do I say to open the bittorrent ports, 6881-6999. And how about providing outbound access on 6969? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] DOS bootdisk??
Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
On Monday 13 October 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Anything win98SE or lower should do the job. I'd probably use the DOS 6.22 image. OK, but how would you build the boot floppy under linux? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???
Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server I was planning on rebuilding. So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and booted into problems. Finally, I was able to have the BIOS detect it as a 8.4Gb disk, but no bigger. The 3rd drive in this box is a 15Gb that is detected and runs great. I have been reading Mark Minasi's 2003 PC Upgrade and Maintenence Guide and he talks about the addressing problems in the IDE/ATA BIOS space. Then he goes on to talking about how autotranslation works to circumvent the BIOS and allow bigger drives to run by the OS detecting the drive itself, and handling the addressing without BIOS support . MInasi says that autotranslation is part of some UNIXes. Basically, I am wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, as when I was able to run this disk as 8.4 Gb, the kernel was able to report the disk model number back during boot. I am now wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, so that if I set up the BIOS correctly, the drive could be detected and run? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???
The box is running RH 7.1, so you can see that its been up for awhile. The drives on the box are an 850 Mb drive, Make and Model Unknown, a Maxtor 15 Gb disk, and a CD-ROM. The 850 is the bootable disk containing the OS, the other 2 drives are mounted to that disk, so the 80 Gb would not have to be booted. I am currently uploading Knoppix (why did I ever delete that iso?), and I will try running it and see what happens if the BIOS is set to not show the drive. I did suffer for awhile with the disk not allowing it to show the 15Gb that is plugged into the same IDE cable. Its like the 80 Gb gets in the way of the 15 Gb during the BIOS addressing. Maybe I should let autotranslation attempt to find and use both disks? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] xD Memory Filesystem?
I am going nuts, as I have lost my digital camera setup in fstab. Its a Fuji Finepix 2650 with xD memory in it. And I am getting bogus filesystem errors if I use vfat or msdos. What filesystem should I use? This is really bumming me out, as I previously had it running perfectly. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xD Memory Filesystem?
On Friday 10 October 2003 11:50 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am going nuts, as I have lost my digital camera setup in fstab. Its a Fuji Finepix 2650 with xD memory in it. And I am getting bogus filesystem errors if I use vfat or msdos. What filesystem should I use? This is really bumming me out, as I previously had it running perfectly. I was up too late last night. I didn't have a filesystem problem, I tried to mount /dev/sda rather than /dev/sda1. Argh. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Has any one fiddled around with splitting tracks, and correcting the default setup to do a better job? I will dive into it myself if no one has, but I would hate to figure it out myself, only to find someone beat me to it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?
Is there a tool for converting wav files to mp3s enmasse? Right now I am using Lame at the command line, but it is getting old. I would like to point Lame at a directory of wavs and have it encode the mp3 files using the same name. Any thoughts beyond a shell script? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:56 am, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better recording levels will help. Are these cassette tapes? Yes. Are you making a line level connection between the tape-deck and the sound card? Can you play the tape on the deck and make the audio play through your mixer and come out your speakers? Yes. Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? OK, now my distortion is way down from what it was, but I am still recording too high for the tracks, and my mixer is showing me as all the way down. All the loud bits are very badly distorted. And yes, I am trying to convert alternative rock tracks, this one Lou Reed-New York. Ok, I just looked into it, and found OGain adjusts the signal to Gramofile. What is OGain? And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x in asus 9180se
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:43 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:05 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have ASUS 9180SE AGP 8x video card 64MB ram (nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162). I have edited /etc/XF86Config-4 for driver as nvidia instead of nv. I get X OK with driver from nvidia site. But I have following lines in dmesg. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: unsupported bridge agpgart: no supported devices found. 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table I have only following warning lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device CRT-0 I have problem in playing xine. It shows only some white screen in mdk 9.1. Does the above indicate some where something is wrong? Yes, when using AGP 8X, there is no support for agpgart in the 2.4.x kernel. Look through the list archives, and you will learn more about this issue. I, for one, have posted several times about it. There are some kernel patches out there but most of these seem to be for radeon cards. If you can switch to AGP 4X by way of the bios, I would strongly suggest doing so, or you can wait for the support to be in the newer kernels yet to be released. but the same setup works ok and xine plays normal in knoppix 3.2, of course, with fbdev video driver. I changed to 4x also. then also mdk doesn't allow me to play xine. That puzzles me. My card is about the same exact card as L.V.Gandhi has, mine is a Chaintech GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x, and mine works fine out of the box with a ASUS A7N8X board. And I am pretty sure that it is running with AGP set to 8x in the BIOS, but I am not interested in rebooting to check it out. My XF86Config-4 file contains this info on the card: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS EndSection Now I had a problem with Xine running initially too. What I did was get rid of all the DVD drivers that I had installed, and then carefully load them until it now works like a charm. I would say that instead of messing around with video, unless that is not default, and more or less like my XF86 configuration. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 07:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? OK, now my distortion is way down from what it was, but I am still recording too high for the tracks, and my mixer is showing me as all the way down. All the loud bits are very badly distorted. And yes, I am trying to convert alternative rock tracks, this one Lou Reed-New York. Ok, I just looked into it, and found OGain adjusts the signal to Gramofile. What is OGain? Not OGain, but I gain. I guess it is Input Gain, but being new to audio, could someone tell me how this, volume, line work? And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better recording levels will help. Where can I get Xmixer, or what can I use in place of it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:53 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better recording levels will help. Where can I get Xmixer, or what can I use in place of it. Rob Rob, I didn't get xmixer - I just used aumix and gramofile worked great with it. Well no matter what I do, aumix, kmix, or anything, the tracks are getting overrecorded, and distorted. Any ideas? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound dissapeared!
On Thursday 18 September 2003 11:26 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:38:12 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Hopefully not with the microphone in the speaker jack like I did the other day... :^) Nope, dumber than that. I was plugged into the Mobo sound card, and I needed to be plugged into the PCI SB Live card. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound dissapeared!
Tonight I moved my computer to a new desk, and in the process shut it off. After restoring all the connections, I find that I can't seem to get the sound up. In my boot messages I see my SBLive card is detected just fine. I some time ago heard that the SBLive driver was weird, and that to connect up to speakers, one had to not use the speaker port. Is this true, and what is the proper SBLive card port? I am currently connected to the green port, as that is where I believe it was when I removed it. I tried running alsamixer to check the speaker volumes, but I get a complaint: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory. This does not sound good, but I am not sure what is missing. I recently unstalled a big chunk of the Gnome desktop, which I rarely use, and maybe I lost some part of ALSA, but I have no idea what. Maybe the snd_ctl_open gives a clue? And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:05 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: If you installed from all three CD's, you can update CD1 by using the name urpmi.update gives you for the first CD as the argument, with CD1 in the reader. Escape any spaces with a backslash: urpmi.update Installation\ CD\ 1 This did it. It allowed me to see that urpmi could not open /mnt/cdrom, as I had entered it as /mnt/cdrom/ in fstab. Removing the backslash got everything working and got wine installed. Thanks, Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly
I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some configuration file is corrupt, and I need to update urpmi for the CDs. I tryed running urpmi.update, but I don't see how to update the distrib CDs. Any ideas? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little program. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Microtek C3 Parallel Scanner
I am having fits trying to configure this scanner under 9.1. All I continue to get from xsane is No Scanners Configured. Has anyone configured this one, and what part of your soul did you have to sell off? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for just the reasons that you mention, and it works great! Just urpmi audacity -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?
I am being offered this laptop, and I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts about running 9.1 on it. It is a '98 3200 Inspiron, Pentium2-266, 512 mb Ram, with a 4G hard drive. It seems a little slow to me, as my current computer is almost 10x as fast. But with a lightweight window manager I think it might be pretty good for general computing. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 01:12 am, Magnus Wirstrm wrote: Hi I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ? I highly recommend lame as in lame --decode mostexcellent.mp3. Only problem is that it doesn't handle converting more than one at a time. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
On Monday 11 August 2003 11:59 pm, Kiran wrote: I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my laptop and desktop. YMMV. My problems have been about the same. One Maxtor 13Gb HD, and I have had 3 ext3 installations of 9.0/9.1 fail in one month. I switched to ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 and have had no problems in the months since. ext3 no more! Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:24 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? I have my 139,900 pennies all stacked up. Where's the CEO so I can watch him sit on them? And if its only 19,900 that would be pretty fun, too. --- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:52 pm, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing it. Interesting, I can't find KDE 3.1.3 on Texstar's site yet. They only have 3.1.2. I ran the update for urpmi, and voila! KDE 3.1.3! Thanks, all. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi and other ftp sites....
I am wondering if urpmi can be set to run for sites other than the normal Mandrake sites? It seems that there needs to be files on sites that are setup for urpmi to connect with them. Are there any others that you all recommend over the standard set: contrib, texstar, updates, main, plf, club_comm? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?
Any rpms to upload? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:52 pm, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing it. Interesting, I can't find KDE 3.1.3 on Texstar's site yet. They only have 3.1.2. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig), then replace your hub with a switch which doesn't suffer from the following... Note: some hubs are really switches... A real hub is a cheap buffered repeater -- the buffer is rather small (acts like an elastic buffer); it snaps when a sending NIC's crystal is out of specs -- the snap results in the hub sending a jam (collision) back to the sending NIC. Bypassing the hub eliminates the hub's elastic buffer. I'm surprised you're able to send that much data if this is the problem though... Well the hub I use a LinkSys NH-105 connects all the machines on the network, our DSL router, my Linux box, our File server, and my wife's laptop. I have not recently checked my wife's laptop, but the only time that I see these collisions is between my box and the file server. And yes, I did get 650Mb to pass after rebooting the server. 2. Near end collisions: are your cables direct, or running through hookups around the house? Poor connections and not enough twists in the pairs or poor cable at the sending end can result in near-end collisions due to crosstalk from sending signal back into sender's receiver circuitry -- hearing itself. We just moved, and right now all connections with the hub to machines are less than 10 feet. So I don't think there is a problem there, but maybe the hub to FS cable is bad, it has gotten a bit of strain, as I forget it is only 3 feet long. 3. If your NIC is an Intel eepro10, consider trying something else... I had this very problem when transferring large files... interestingly, the apparently random failures were at exactly the same point on any specific file. No I run a mixture of 3Com 3C509 and D-Link RTL 8139 using the 8139too driver. 4. If you're using coax, you may have termination problems (no need to discuss now unless you have coax). Nope, CAT-5e. I will check the cables and the hub as you say, and replace as needed, upgrading the hub if needed. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Copying a file across NFS
I am having trouble copying a file across an NFS connection that has been around for awhile. [EMAIL PROTECTED] robbo]$ cp --verbose Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso share/computer/iso/ cp: overwrite `share/computer/iso/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso'? y `Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso' - `share/computer/iso/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso' cp: writing `share/computer/iso/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso': Input/output error I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:58 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Are you having trouble with all files or just the iso's. I think we need to determine if the problem has anything to do with the size of the file. It is just the isos, I have copied kernel-2.4.24.tar.gz to the same directory and its about 30Mb and it moves sucessfully. Usually the problem crops up when 30-100Mb are copied over. I have had 30, 80 and 100 Mb incomplete files on the server when it quits. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Are you having trouble with all files or just the iso's. I think we need to determine if the problem has anything to do with the size of the file. It is just the isos, I have copied kernel-2.4.24.tar.gz to the same directory and its about 30Mb and it moves sucessfully. Usually the problem crops up when 30-100Mb are copied over. I have had 30, 80 and 100 Mb incomplete files on the server when it quits. Are you seeing any errors in your logs? what does the exports file of the server, and the fstab file of the client look like? Well, I rebooted the server, and it was able to move the 650 Mb without choking, but with almost constant errors. I will burn out my orange LED on the hub soon if this keeps up. from fstab on the client: cartman:/mnt/share /home/robbo/share nfs auto,user,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft 0 0 from the server: /mnt/share *(rw,no_root_squash) And there don't appear to be any kernel messages about this. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
I am having a problem with the source code for K3B under Mandrake 9.1: during make, I am getting: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio. Has anyone attemped to compile this, and found a solution? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
On Monday 21 July 2003 07:36 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Are there any for 0.90? I used urpmi to look for them, but came up nil. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
On Monday 21 July 2003 08:33 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 07:36 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Are there any for 0.90? I used urpmi to look for them, but came up nil. Ok, I lied, I looked for an upgrade to kdemultimedia. I found it, installed it, and am now happy. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mounting drives
We have this little LAN at home and I am wondering how best to mount personal and shared drives. I have been doing this in fstab with the auto switch, but if I check drive space with df, I find that some drives are not accessable as they are on my wife's side of the machine. So I am thinking about making them noauto in fstab, and mounting them in the appropriate .bashrc. Thoughts? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SETI@home. MDK RPM's???
On Friday 27 June 2003 10:07 am, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Anyone know where to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK RPM's? Command line version. You don't need one, as to get a tar.gz and unpack it into your home directory where it should run. And don't forget ksetispy if you run KDE, as its a great program, and the rpm for Mandrake is on your cds. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nForce2 and UltraDMA
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:56 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to enable UltraDMA ATA 100/133 on nForce2 boards under ML 9.1? I read in www.nforcershq.com that if you pass ide0=ata66 to the kernel it should be enabled. This works but after a few minutes my machine completely freezes and I have to push the reset button. So, is there another solution? You need to use hdparm Read this article: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Screen Shutdown?
What's the module, executable, service that handles triggering the screen powerdown? I noticed today that my screensaver and screen powerdown have stopped working. And its not like I did anything other than reboot for the first time in 2 weeks. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cooker and urpmi
Is cooker listed as contrib in urpmi from Easy Urpmi? If not, how does one configure urpmi for cooker? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
