Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: > As Shane pointed out the RPMs we could send you are for Mandrake 8.2 so there > is not much point sending it to you. > > However if you go to http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ they can send you the > latest Openoffice (I imagine it will be a .tgz file) for only 2.50 > They can also supply you with copies of the Mandrake 8.2 download CDs very > cheaply if you want to try 8.2 out before 'paying' for the next 9.0 release. > > HTH It does. That seems the best course of action, especially as I usually buy from Linux Emporium. On another thread it was pointed out that there might be an advantage in obtaining both the download and boxed sets of latest releases, to fill in the gaps. Thanks again for everybody's replies. -- Len Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
John Michael Drouhard wrote: >On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: > >>John Michael Drouhard wrote: >> >>>Hi all! >>>I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers >>>provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of >>>computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in >>>Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use >>>ALSA, it comes up with this message: >>> >>>--- >>> >>>Sound Server informational message: >>> >>>Error while initializing the sound driver: >>>device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) >>> >>>The sound server will continue, using the null output device. >>> >>>--- >>> >>>Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly >>>appreciated!! >>> >>>Other comp specs: >>> >>>Motherboard: VIA 503+ >>>K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz >>>Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 >>>Video card: TNT2 32MB >>>Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card >>>384 MB Memory >>> >>>1 generic cd reader >>>1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW >>>1 Floppy >>>1 10 GB WD Harddrive >>>1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive >>>Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in >>>dual boot mode with Windows 98. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >>> >>Ummm three things... >> >>1. Use a nopentium in the install and in the appernd lines of the boot. >> Some programs behave differently between the two because there is a >>tiny difference in paging between the k6 and the Pentium. See the 8.2 >>errata page for details. >> >>2. If your vortex is a Dell pull, it will work only with Dell drivers, >>of which there are none for linux. There were special OEM runs just for >>Dell. This would also be true for Windows so if you can get sound out >>of this in windows, you know you have a card compatible with the driver. >> I should also mention that the binary core of this driver is very >>closed source and is getting harder and harder for the project to >>support for new linux distros . >> >>3. The informational message about /dev/dsp means your sound card is >>NOT being recognized and set up automatically. You need to change some >>parameters in /etc/devfsd.conf for this to happen. Fortunately there >>are two manpages devfsd and devfsd.conf and the latter has a useful >>example for winmodem drivers, which isn't too far off from this >>winsoundcard. >> >>Civileme >> > > >I tried the nopentium suggestion, but I'm not sure if it worked. When I >started KDE, it still gave me the dsp error. Is there a way to test to see if >the nopentium option is running? Thanks > >John Michael Drouhard > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > See the post by Lyvim Xaphir, i meant. Do what LX suggests. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what to do when cursor disappears?
Here's an odd one that I can't remember how to fix. I have an old friend who's running an older Linux system (slackware). He's on a slower system, so just useds consoles (no X) and twice when the power went out, the box came back fine, except there's no cursor visible. I thought maybe 'stty sane' or 'reset' might fix it but he thought he had tried those. I also asked what his TERM setting was but he wasn't near his computer - but it should say 'linux'. AFAIK there are excape sequences in /etc/termcap to make a cursor visible, but I don't know what to send to the consoles to re-enable the cursor. (And sometimes, the emacs cursor is an underline instead of a block, but that's a separate issue, and probably controllable under emacs). Anyway, any suggestions I can forward? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MPlayer error
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:48:11 -0300 Damian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 > "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt and gcc 3.1.1. > > I compiled MPlayer .90 rev 4 with --enable-gui option. It compiled and > > installed ok. I made a menu item with application as gmplayer. I opened a > > file /mnt/wind/VannaPoongavanam.mpg. When I pressed play button I got message > > that 'File not found /mnt/wind/***[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > When I open the same file as argument to gmplayer in terminal it opens. But > > still I get no sound? > > > > What could be the reason? > > What to do to make it work normal? > > -- > > L.V.Gandhi > > hi LV. just so you know. the issue involving the buggy file --> open GUI routine seems to be fixed now in their latest CVS snapshot. give it a try if you want, it may solve your problem. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
im using Mandrake 8.0 On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:49:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: > > hey guys, > > im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. > > its a: > > Intel P3 550 > > SDRAM 192M > > 1.2G HDD > > 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 > > Onboard Creative SB 128 > > > > i get an error message saying: > > Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 > > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > attempt to access beyond end of device > > > > if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its > > impossible to fix, it would be great. > which version of Mandrake? > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > > -- www.tasmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: > hey guys, > im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. > its a: > Intel P3 550 > SDRAM 192M > 1.2G HDD > 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 > Onboard Creative SB 128 > > i get an error message saying: > Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > attempt to access beyond end of device > > if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its > impossible to fix, it would be great. which version of Mandrake? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:59 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:09 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen > > where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried > > mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 > > /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or > > how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out > > what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. > > Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for > > any help. > > -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > Did you actually make a directory under /mnt called compactflash? If so, > your mount command should work (assuming you don't have other SCSI devices, > in which case, your reader might not be sda1). Assuming your reader > actually is sda1 and you have created the directory compactflash under > /mnt, you can add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 > /mnt/compactflash vfat noauto,user > > Then you can just say mount /mnt/compactflash and it should work. BTW, the > noauto tells linux not to automatically mount it at startup, since it will > generate an error unless the flash card is actually in it. The user allows > a regular user to mount/unmount it. > > Joe All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spooky! Computer science or voodoo?
OK CyberMAX case, Jetway 601CF C3-900 256M RAM, Samsung 8XDVD 40G Maxtor, vanilla floppy. Installed with many many errors. CD DRIVE constantly went off line or errored out on simple requests I decided the CD drive was bad and pulled it, putting in a NEC DVD which worked fine. Two weeks later: Jetway 630TCF with Pentium III 866 in a HP Vectra desktop case (one of the best case designs of all time) 256M Memory 40G Maxtor, HP floppy (came with the case). Oops, needed to test DVD and the only one around was the 8X Samsung in the junk box. Flawless install Flawless performance even with xine. OK suspicions mounting, I swapped in the other jetway rig and put the 630 and its hard drive in the CyberMAX case. The result is once again flawless performance both systems. Now I swap DVDs (AHA--I had forgotten the Samsung was hard to insert, binding on the right side and requiring considerable force.) Great perfformance on the HP, and squirrelly performance on the CyberMAX. Put everything back to original start of this swapping and everything worked. Could it be that the compression on the Samsung from a small bay and a slightly oversize drive was warping the media rotational path? Apparently so. There is no substitute for intelligence properly used. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
John Michael Drouhard wrote: >On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: > >>John Michael Drouhard wrote: >> >>>Hi all! >>>I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers >>>provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of >>>computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in >>>Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use >>>ALSA, it comes up with this message: >>> >>>--- >>> >>>Sound Server informational message: >>> >>>Error while initializing the sound driver: >>>device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) >>> >>>The sound server will continue, using the null output device. >>> >>>--- >>> >>>Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly >>>appreciated!! >>> >>>Other comp specs: >>> >>>Motherboard: VIA 503+ >>>K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz >>>Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 >>>Video card: TNT2 32MB >>>Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card >>>384 MB Memory >>> >>>1 generic cd reader >>>1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW >>>1 Floppy >>>1 10 GB WD Harddrive >>>1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive >>>Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in >>>dual boot mode with Windows 98. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >>> >>Ummm three things... >> >>1. Use a nopentium in the install and in the appernd lines of the boot. >> Some programs behave differently between the two because there is a >>tiny difference in paging between the k6 and the Pentium. See the 8.2 >>errata page for details. >> >>2. If your vortex is a Dell pull, it will work only with Dell drivers, >>of which there are none for linux. There were special OEM runs just for >>Dell. This would also be true for Windows so if you can get sound out >>of this in windows, you know you have a card compatible with the driver. >> I should also mention that the binary core of this driver is very >>closed source and is getting harder and harder for the project to >>support for new linux distros . >> >>3. The informational message about /dev/dsp means your sound card is >>NOT being recognized and set up automatically. You need to change some >>parameters in /etc/devfsd.conf for this to happen. Fortunately there >>are two manpages devfsd and devfsd.conf and the latter has a useful >>example for winmodem drivers, which isn't too far off from this >>winsoundcard. >> >>Civileme >> > > >I tried the nopentium suggestion, but I'm not sure if it worked. When I >started KDE, it still gave me the dsp error. Is there a way to test to see if >the nopentium option is running? Thanks > >John Michael Drouhard > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, besides that, do what et suggests... That one slipped by me cause I don't have an Aureal. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. -- www.tasmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]OT- Walmart, kisses and Mandrake
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:45:06 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 June 2002 07:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled > masses, saying: > > > > Well, it is only for the Wal-mart online store at this time. They are > > > already advertising Lindows though they have not completed the EULA for > > > that one. > > > > Heck, this is better than the first time I kissed a girl. ;) > > > > Well, not really. > > > > But it's up there! :) > > i bet that first time girl would be real glad to hear that ;) > > reminds me of the beer commercial where she is in her nighty and puts on > satin sheets and he doesn't care, but she gets out beer and he runs up the > stairs. how would that make you feel? i can't even imagine sex so bad and > beer so good i would behave like that > > i enjoy linux, and love mandrake, but my says "honey" and i am there. > ;) > hmm.. how about this: your first kiss is happening two seconds from now. she's right before you, and you accidentally slip over, smash her nose with your forehead, she ends up biting your eyebrow, you both fall down, and in the way she desperately tries to grab onto something to break her fall, only to scratch you all over. you both end up bruised on the floor, one on top of the other, and right in that moment her mother walks into the room. with any luck, pretty much everything in the rest of your life will be better than that, including the 10 years of therapy you will need before you even think of trying again ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
I am sorry Nick, I was in a rush to send the email, I forget to clip my response. I responded to a long email, but forgot to clip it. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. John Michael Drouhard > > I don't have an answer for you... I'm just getting ready to try Linux, but > I find reading your postings difficult to do because of the excess quoting > on your part. In that last message you quoted 134 lines of text to write 4 > lines. Is KMail not capable of creating a normal Reply, or are you not > paying any attention to what you are quoting? > > -- > Nick Andriash > Courtenay, B.C. Canada > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
On Tue, 25 June 2002, "g2" wrote > > Hi, > > its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and >freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the >Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not >working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? >what applications do they usually can be used for? i >tried it on advnace editor and kWord but still not >working. is there something i missed? my default >language is English and I just like to make Japanese >available for my console cause my job requires some >Japanese documents. Sorry, I forgot to mention it yesterday, but kinput is a kana / kanji server. So if you want it to catch the shift-space command, it should run first. - Open a terminal; - Type kinput2 Then try shift-space i an application that supports Japanese. It should work. > also, i already configured my keyboard to 106 japanese >but none of those extra keys work. I tried to edit the >key binding configuration but it cant detect the extra >keys. The keyboard should not matter. I mean, if the keyboard is wrong, it may not work properly, but for sure, toggle the Japanese input with shift-space will work. I use a plain qwerty keyboard (settings = US, not international). >is the windows key really not working in mandrake? What is the windows key? What is windows, by the way? > any suggestions? > > last. how can i have my own Linux User number? Do i >have to pay for that? > > thanks! > > -- > g2 > "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
Hello John Michael Drouhard, In Reference to your Posting on Monday, June 24 2002 at 07:17 PM PDT, > I have tried adding the PCI option to the rc.sysinit file, and I > rebooted. The problem was that It still gave me the dsp error, and the > sound still did not work. I appreciate your help, and thanks again. Any > more ideas? More troubleshooting?? I don't have an answer for you... I'm just getting ready to try Linux, but I find reading your postings difficult to do because of the excess quoting on your part. In that last message you quoted 134 lines of text to write 4 lines. Is KMail not capable of creating a normal Reply, or are you not paying any attention to what you are quoting? -- Nick Andriash Courtenay, B.C. Canada Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:10, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:22, John Michael Drouhard wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers > > provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of > > computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in > > Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use > > ALSA, it comes up with this message: > > I notice below that you have a mobo with a VIA chipset. Via has known > problems with Aureal on a pci bus; easily fixed with the right command > from "setpci". You fit the profile: you have both an Nvidia card and a > Via mobo. > > In your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, try locating the following section. > > ___ > > # Set the NIS domain name > if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then > action "Setting NIS domain name %s: " $NISDOMAIN domainname > $NISDOMAIN > else > domainname "" > fi > ___ > > I included the section on NIS so you will know where to go. Now > immediately below that insert the following: > > # Set the PCI bus to proper values for VIA chipset. > if [ -x /sbin/setpci ]; then >action "Adjusting PCI bus settings:" /sbin/setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff > fi > > > > The next time you boot you should have your pci bus initialized > properly. ALSO: You must copy "setpci" from /usr/bin to /sbin after > you make these modifications. This will init your pci bus properly at a > very early stage in the boot process. > > You might also be interested in the following information included in > the source documentation in the CVS download of the Sourceforge Aureal > drivers: > _ > > General: > > Problem: I get "device busy" error messages. > > Solution: Plug N Play (PnP) support might be enabled in your BIOS. > Disable it. > > Problem: I have a VIA-based chipset motherboard and I am experiencing > lockups and other problems with this driver. > > Solution: Type the following command as root: > setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff > > If this fixes your problem, you might want to add it to your > /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run it automatically each time you reboot. > > Note: You should only use this if you are experiencing problems. > > Problem: I have an Nvidia video card and I am experiencing sound > skipping and/or fuzz. > > Solution: Type the following command as root: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=40 > > If problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=60 > > If problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=80 > > If problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=20 40.B=ff > > If the problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=40 40.B=ff > > If the problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=60 40.B=ff > > If the problem still exists: > setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=80 40.B=ff > > If any of these commands fix your problem, you'll probably want to add > it to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to be automatically loaded after each > reboot. > > Note: Make sure you use the minimum configuration possible above, > don't just use the last option if you don't have to. > ___ > > > Sound Server informational message: > > > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) > > > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > > > --- > > > > Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly > > appreciated!! > > > > Other comp specs: > > > > Motherboard: VIA 503+ > > K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz > > Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 > > Video card: TNT2 32MB > > Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card > > 384 MB Memory > > I'm familiar with the 503+. That's a nice mobo. > > > 1 generic cd reader > > 1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW > > 1 Floppy > > 1 10 GB WD Harddrive > > 1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive > > Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in > > dual boot mode with Windows 98. > > Good luck and let me know how you get on! > > LX I have tried adding the PCI option to the rc.sysinit file, and I rebooted. The problem was that It still gave me the dsp error, and the sound still did not work. I appreciate your help, and thanks again. Any more ideas? More troubleshooting?? John Michael Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:33 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:23 am, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > H, now it tells me "wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on > > /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. > > I changed it to /dev/sda to see if that would overcome /dev/sda1 does not > > exist, but usbview shows: > > well mine is sda1 you might be sda0. should have said that. > > i agree, USB is one of the places where linux is less than intuitive. i > also wish my scanner was supported :( but i so prefer it to the > alternative I was poking around and usb-storage says it is scsi1 I think, here is the /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 file: Host scsi1: usb-storage Vendor: Unknown Product: USB Storage Device Serial Number: None Protocol: Transparent SCSI Transport: Bulk GUID: 05e30700 Attached: Yes So I am thinking this thing should be working. Is there a stray file I need? I have the module usb-storage and usb-view and usblibs so what am I missing? Oh, I know usb works cause my HP Scanjet 5200c works like a champ. We just keep on keeping on. TIA for any more suggestions. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
I promised this a while back and got sidetracked by RL. ;) So here it
is.
This is what it takes to record broadcasts off the net in ogg format.
Using Sox (which is the best sound util ever made) you can also record
just about anything that your soundcard puts out; VERBATIM.
Sox is a deceptively innocuous utility that endows the user with a huge
amount of power and flexibility with sound streams that are routed thru
the soundcard. By trade and public presentation, Sox was originally
touted as a file format conversion utility. However Sox's real power
comes in it's ability to snatch an audio stream from /dev/dsp and
convert it into the file format of your choice. In this case, our
choice will be Ogg Vorbis.
There are fully 24 file formats listed in the Sox man page. You can
encode to or convert between all of them. Oddly enough, Ogg Vorbis is
not amongst them; at least in the LM82 version of the Sox man pages.
The first wrinkle that we encounter is the fact that Sox as installed
from the Mandrake LM81/82 CD's does NOT encode Ogg capability. Ogg
Vorbis encoding/conversion is indeed supported under Sox, however you
need to read the source documentation to catch this clue. To his
credit, the current maintainer of Sox Chris Bagwell does give Ogg an
honorable mention on his website. Which is:
http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html
In order to get Ogg capability we must compile it in. Unfortunately,
running rpm --rebuild on sox-12.17.1-3mdk.src.rpm will not do this; it
will not detect installed oggvorbis libraries, and you will be forced to
do two things. One is to recompile the source code. The other is that
you must have the ogg vorbis libraries installed. The next time somebody
redoes the sox source rpm it would be nice if their configure routine
checks for Ogg Vorbis libs.(HINT HINT nudge nudge)
The devels may not be needed, I haven't checked. But this is what I have
installed according to Rpmdrake:
libogg0
libogg0-devel
libvorbis0
libvorbis0-devel
If you don't have those, do a search for them using rpmdrake and get
them installed off of your installation cd's. Next, make sure that you
have the rpm version of Sox installed. Yes I know I just said that the
rpm binary version of Sox does not support Ogg; however we need to
maintain some semblance of order with regard to the RPM database and in
order to do that we are going to cheat a little, since we must deal with
a direct source to binary install.
Make sure you have the Sox rpm installed. Now we go to CVS and download
the latest Sox code. That's right, if we've got to go pure source we
might as well go to thewell, the source. Hehe. Go to your home or
main /tmp directory and enter the following as a non-root user in a
terminal command line:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sox login
(when prompted for a password here hit enter)
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sox co
sox
And after the last line you should see a "sox" directory created and the
CVS download will commence.
After you have the entire CVS tree, su to root. Make sure you su to
root. Descend into the "sox" directory and enter the following two
commands:
./configure
make
After that we need to edit the Makefile that we just made. Do
vi Makefile
If you are not a member of the one true vi faith, you may be able to
scrape by with another of the lesser heretic faiths. I personally don't
recommend it, however.
In any case, at the beginning of the Makefile you will see the
following:
__
# Makefile.in
#
# Processed by configure into a Makefile. We assume the environment in
# which we are running is a POSIX'y environment. Thus, all of the
standard
# POSIX tools are available.
#
# Paths
srcdir = .
prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
mandir = ${prefix}/man
includedir = ${prefix}/include
*snip**
Change "prefix = /usr/local" to "prefix = /usr". That's all. Save and
exit.
Now from the "sox" CVS dir do
make install
And you will see stuff happen. You should be root as you do "make
install".
Now do "sox -h" and you should see the following:
_
[elx@tamriel elx]$ sox -h
sox: Version 12.17.3
Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect [ effopts ] ]
gopts: -e -h -p -v volume -V
fopts: -r rate -c channels -s/-u/-U/-A/-a/-i/-g/-f -b/-w/-l/-d -x
effect: avg band bandpass bandreject chorus compand copy dcshift deemph
earwax echo echos fade filter flanger highp highpass lowp lowpass map
mask pan phaser pitch polyphase rate resample reverb reverse silence
speed stat stretch swap synth trim vibro vol
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Supported file formats: aiff al alsa au auto avr cdr cvs dat vms gsm
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Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: > John Michael Drouhard wrote: > >Hi all! > >I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers > > provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of > > computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in > > Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use > > ALSA, it comes up with this message: > > > >--- > > > >Sound Server informational message: > > > >Error while initializing the sound driver: > >device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) > > > >The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > > >--- > > > >Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly > > appreciated!! > > > >Other comp specs: > > > >Motherboard: VIA 503+ > >K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz > >Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 > >Video card: TNT2 32MB > >Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card > >384 MB Memory > > > >1 generic cd reader > >1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW > >1 Floppy > >1 10 GB WD Harddrive > >1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive > >Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in > > dual boot mode with Windows 98. > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Ummm three things... > > 1. Use a nopentium in the install and in the appernd lines of the boot. > Some programs behave differently between the two because there is a > tiny difference in paging between the k6 and the Pentium. See the 8.2 > errata page for details. > > 2. If your vortex is a Dell pull, it will work only with Dell drivers, > of which there are none for linux. There were special OEM runs just for > Dell. This would also be true for Windows so if you can get sound out > of this in windows, you know you have a card compatible with the driver. > I should also mention that the binary core of this driver is very > closed source and is getting harder and harder for the project to > support for new linux distros . > > 3. The informational message about /dev/dsp means your sound card is > NOT being recognized and set up automatically. You need to change some > parameters in /etc/devfsd.conf for this to happen. Fortunately there > are two manpages devfsd and devfsd.conf and the latter has a useful > example for winmodem drivers, which isn't too far off from this > winsoundcard. > > Civileme I tried the nopentium suggestion, but I'm not sure if it worked. When I started KDE, it still gave me the dsp error. Is there a way to test to see if the nopentium option is running? Thanks John Michael Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ImageMagick: trying to compile ImageMagick
Hi,
I am having a problem compiling ImageMagick. When I autoconf --> ./configure
it then I get:
[root@merlin ImageMagick-5.4.6]# ./configure
configuring ImageMagick 5.4.6
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot
create executables
the config.log says:
configure:759: checking host system type
configure:780: checking target system type
configure:798: checking build system type
configure:849: checking for gcc
configure:962: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -I/usr/local/include
-L/usr/local/lib) works
configure:978: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
conftest.c 1>&5
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
configure: failed program was:
#line 973 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
main(){return(0);}
I have no idea what this means, but it looks to my uninitiated eyes like a
problem with the compiler rather than with ImageMagick. I am using LM8.2 with
the option when I installed it.
Thank you for your help, Patrik
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Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:22, John Michael Drouhard wrote: > Hi all! > I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided > at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but > it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound Server under > KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use ALSA, it comes up with this > message: I notice below that you have a mobo with a VIA chipset. Via has known problems with Aureal on a pci bus; easily fixed with the right command from "setpci". You fit the profile: you have both an Nvidia card and a Via mobo. In your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, try locating the following section. ___ # Set the NIS domain name if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then action "Setting NIS domain name %s: " $NISDOMAIN domainname $NISDOMAIN else domainname "" fi ___ I included the section on NIS so you will know where to go. Now immediately below that insert the following: # Set the PCI bus to proper values for VIA chipset. if [ -x /sbin/setpci ]; then action "Adjusting PCI bus settings:" /sbin/setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff fi The next time you boot you should have your pci bus initialized properly. ALSO: You must copy "setpci" from /usr/bin to /sbin after you make these modifications. This will init your pci bus properly at a very early stage in the boot process. You might also be interested in the following information included in the source documentation in the CVS download of the Sourceforge Aureal drivers: _ General: Problem: I get "device busy" error messages. Solution: Plug N Play (PnP) support might be enabled in your BIOS. Disable it. Problem: I have a VIA-based chipset motherboard and I am experiencing lockups and other problems with this driver. Solution: Type the following command as root: setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff If this fixes your problem, you might want to add it to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run it automatically each time you reboot. Note: You should only use this if you are experiencing problems. Problem: I have an Nvidia video card and I am experiencing sound skipping and/or fuzz. Solution: Type the following command as root: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=40 If problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=60 If problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=80 If problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=20 40.B=ff If the problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=40 40.B=ff If the problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=60 40.B=ff If the problem still exists: setpci -d '12eb:*' latency_timer=80 40.B=ff If any of these commands fix your problem, you'll probably want to add it to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to be automatically loaded after each reboot. Note: Make sure you use the minimum configuration possible above, don't just use the last option if you don't have to. ___ > Sound Server informational message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > --- > > Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! > > Other comp specs: > > Motherboard: VIA 503+ > K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz > Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 > Video card: TNT2 32MB > Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card > 384 MB Memory I'm familiar with the 503+. That's a nice mobo. > 1 generic cd reader > 1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW > 1 Floppy > 1 10 GB WD Harddrive > 1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive > Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in dual > boot mode with Windows 98. Good luck and let me know how you get on! LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.
Tom, On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 20:25, tom brinkman wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 03:57 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: > > > I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On > > > some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 > > > jumper settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP runnin at > > > 12.5x100, rather than 12.5x133 > > > -- > > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > Yup! > > > > Thanks all > >Try up to 12.5 x 143 (1788 Mhz), I don't know about oc'ing my system it sits in an un-airconditioned house on the top floor. Fans are the only thing moving air around to make it bearable. I like to leave the machine running, but with the heat it shut itself off until I added one of those twin fans that mount in a hd bay.The past several days the room was over 90 degrees farenheit. I did order some more cooling goodies from Tiger direct maybe I'll try it then. One's a heat sink like device for the memory stick another is a fan with digital thermometer and one is another variation on the drive bay fans. Plus some round ribbon cables to clean up the inside of the box and allow better air flow. >your PCI/AGP bus will still be real close, Close meaning? >Don't go over 144 tho, if you do try anyhow, boot a memtest86 floppy what is a memtest86 floppy? >rather than your FS. Do you mean by FS file system? >Add a touch to Vcore voltage, I'm not up on some these settings This means cpu voltage core right? Soyo's already add a touch to IOv. IOv meaning the IO voltage for the internal peripherals? Actually a touch more Vcore's not a bad idea even if you don't oc. >You'll be in the XP 2200+ ++ range, solid as a rock ;~>> >Soyo, best AMD app'vd oc'ing mobo IMO, LinuxHardware thinks so too Yeah I checked them out at one non-Linux Hardware Site before going to LinuxHardware too see if they had tested the Dragon Plus. I need a refresher on oc'ing, is there a site you recommend? thanks, Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] external USB Logitech HD cant mount
hi, im having problems mounting my Logitech HD connected thru USB 1.1. i already installed USBview and USBmodule RPMs on my Mandrake Linux 8.2 and it was detected successfully. the problem is, i cant mount it. there is no /dev/sda file only /dev/usb/ but its not a valid mounting file. I run, service usb start and /etc/init.d/usb start, and it said the status was ok. is sda file for that device or should i mount another file? do i have to install a driver because i dont have one for linux right now. I read the howto on USB, it said it treats USB lik SCSI but then how come i dont have sda* files? How can I also use my USB Logitech:logicool webcam? are drivers still needed for those? if so, does Linux have a drivers list on the web. any suggestions? thanks! -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Japanese Input
Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can be used for? i tried it on advnace editor and kWord but still not working. is there something i missed? my default language is English and I just like to make Japanese available for my console cause my job requires some Japanese documents. also, i already configured my keyboard to 106 japanese but none of those extra keys work. I tried to edit the key binding configuration but it cant detect the extra keys. is the windows key really not working in mandrake? any suggestions? last. how can i have my own Linux User number? Do i have to pay for that? thanks! -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.
On Monday 24 June 2002 03:57 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: > > I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On > > some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 > > jumper settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP runnin at > > 12.5x100, rather than 12.5x133 > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > Yup! > > Thanks all Not done with 'ya yet Terry ;) Try up to 12.5 x 143 (1788 Mhz), your PCI/AGP bus will still be real close, should add a lot more zip. Don't go over 144 tho, if you do try anyhow, boot a memtest86 floppy, rather than your FS. Add a touch to Vcore voltage, Soyo's already add a touch to IOv. Actually a touch more Vcore's not a bad idea even if you don't oc. You'll be in the XP 2200+ ++ range, solid as a rock ;~>> Soyo, best AMD app'vd oc'ing mobo IMO, LinuxHardware thinks so too -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will > be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about > having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and > Enlightenment... which I presume are GUI's for Linux... Correct. Some require more resources than others. Try 'em all and see which you like best. > ...that are all > seemingly resource hungry, so I will try for 512 MB RAM... 512 MB would be great. 128 MB would be the recommended minimum. There's no such thing as too much memory, so get as much as you can. > ...with the 1.13Ghz > chip and hopefully that will be enough for any one I choose. BTW, are > those choices made during install? Can you install more than one and then > switch back and forth? Yes and yes. You can install one, some, or all, and later change your mind, installing and/or uninstalling at will. At each logon, you can chose which GUI you want to use for that session. So it's easy to try them all, chose your favorites, change your mind, whatever. Soon you'll realize how limiting it is to have one single built in GUI like in Windows. > 3) I have a lot of Word XP Documents and Excel Spreadsheets that I need to > keep around, so is there any Linux Software out there that will allow me > to read and edit those files? Better still, is there such a thing as MS > Office for Linux? Better alternatives? I use OpenOffice, an outstanding replacement for MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It's better than MS Office, no doubt, and can open and save in MS formats. Once you get 8.2 installed, let us know so we can share in the celebration! Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error
John Michael Drouhard wrote: >Hi all! >I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided >at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but >it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound Server under >KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use ALSA, it comes up with this >message: > >--- > >Sound Server informational message: > >Error while initializing the sound driver: >device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) > >The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > >--- > >Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! > >Other comp specs: > >Motherboard: VIA 503+ >K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz >Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 >Video card: TNT2 32MB >Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card >384 MB Memory > >1 generic cd reader >1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW >1 Floppy >1 10 GB WD Harddrive >1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive >Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in dual >boot mode with Windows 98. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ummm three things... 1. Use a nopentium in the install and in the appernd lines of the boot. Some programs behave differently between the two because there is a tiny difference in paging between the k6 and the Pentium. See the 8.2 errata page for details. 2. If your vortex is a Dell pull, it will work only with Dell drivers, of which there are none for linux. There were special OEM runs just for Dell. This would also be true for Windows so if you can get sound out of this in windows, you know you have a card compatible with the driver. I should also mention that the binary core of this driver is very closed source and is getting harder and harder for the project to support for new linux distros . 3. The informational message about /dev/dsp means your sound card is NOT being recognized and set up automatically. You need to change some parameters in /etc/devfsd.conf for this to happen. Fortunately there are two manpages devfsd and devfsd.conf and the latter has a useful example for winmodem drivers, which isn't too far off from this winsoundcard. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5
Abiword is not installed on my machine, and switching anti-aliased fonts in KDE has no effect. I wish NeTraverse had a phone # to call for tech support. They haven't answered me back in almost a week now. grrr.. Thanks to all who are trying to help me. Terry On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 18:06, civileme wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > >-- Forwarded Message -- > > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5 > >Date: 23 Jun 2002 03:01:32 -0400 > >From: Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Thanks for the replies that I've gotten .. both Win4Lin and Acrobat 5 > >are run natively, not within one another. I've also come across > >something strange. When I use either of these apps in KDE, I can't read > >the menus, but if I switch to GNOME, they become readable. Is there > >something wrong with KDE that's not displaying the font correctly? > > > >Thanks! > > > >Terry > > > >On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 16:13, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:51, Terry Sheltra wrote: > >> > >>>Perhaps I should have been a little more specific in describing my > >>>problem. Both of these apps work just fine on my computer, except for > >>>the font that is used to display the menu items (the FILE menu, the EDIT > >>>menu, etc.). All that shows up is a bunch of rectangles where the words > >>>should be. The font within these apps are ok, it's the apps themselves > >>>that are experiencing the problem. I even wiped out my hard drive again > >>>and installed from scratch, and still have this problem. I tried to > >>>install every font-related package I could dig up on the CD, but still > >>>it isn't working. Windows is not natively on this computer, other than > >>>Win4Lin. My laptop is 100% linux-driven. While Win4Lin doesn't quite > >>>bother me so much, it DOES make it very difficult to use Acrobat Reader > >>>5 when I can't read any of the drop-down menus. > >>> > >>>Any suggestions anyone? > >>> > >>Only that Acrobat 5 is now available as a native Linux application so > >>unless you have a pressing need to use Acrobat5 in Win4lin. > >> > >>Acrobat5 is available from Mandrake Club, and I guess buried somewhere on > >>the Adobe download area. > >> > >>derek > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > > > >--- > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > How is anti-aliasing set in KDE? Try the opposite setting. > > Also do you have AbiWord installed? It was kept out of the download > edition because it messes up fonts system-wide. > > Civileme > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spooky! Computer science or voodoo?
OK CyberMAX case, Jetway 601CF C3-900 256M RAM, Samsung 8XDVD 40G Maxtor, vanilla floppy. Installed with many many errors. CD DRIVE constantly went off line or errored out on simple requests I decided the CD drive was bad and pulled it, putting in a NEC DVD which worked fine. Two weeks later: Jetway 630TCF with Pentium III 866 in a HP Vectra desktop case (one of the best case designs of all time) 256M Memory 40G Maxtor, HP floppy (came with the case). Oops, needed to test DVD and the only one around was the 8X Samsung in the junk box. Flawless install Flawless performance even with xine. OK suspicions mounting, I swapped in the other jetway rig and put the 630 and its hard drive in the CyberMAX case. The result is once again flawless performance both systems. Now I swap DVDs (AHA--I had forgotten the Samsung was hard to insert, binding on the right side and requiring considerable force.) Great perfformance on the HP, and squirrelly performance on the CyberMAX. Put everything back to original start of this swapping and everything worked. Could it be that the compression on the Samsung from a small bay and a slightly oversize drive was warping the media rotational path? Apparently so. There is no substitute for intelligence properly used. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/dsp error
Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use ALSA, it comes up with this message: --- Sound Server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. --- Sound hasn't come out at all yet, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! Other comp specs: Motherboard: VIA 503+ K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 Video card: TNT2 32MB Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card 384 MB Memory 1 generic cd reader 1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW 1 Floppy 1 10 GB WD Harddrive 1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in dual boot mode with Windows 98. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internal Modems
On Monday 24 June 2002 11:43, you wrote: > I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, > it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears > to be 100% hardware. > Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the > handshake started than it drops the connection with the message "No > Carrier" If I am not likely to be succesful I have access to an Ambient PCI > modem with a MD5628D-L-B chipset, this appears to require Intel drivers. > Before I try to d/l drivers and swap modems has anyone any ideas please ? Have you tried changing the timeout settings for your dialer? Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internal Modems
On Monday 24 June 2002 12:43 pm, poogle wrote: > I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, > it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears > to be 100% hardware. > Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the > handshake started than it drops the connection with the message "No > Carrier" If I am not likely to be succesful I have access to an Ambient PCI > modem with a MD5628D-L-B chipset, this appears to require Intel drivers. > Before I try to d/l drivers and swap modems has anyone any ideas please ? Well, there's a small chance that increasing the timeout might help. It defaults to 30 seconds. Maybe try 60. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
et wrote: >you know Jon, you where in my filters, and I took you off last week when I >saw a reply to this post mentioning you were spam filtered. >Really "interesting" (maybe "fascinating" would be as proper, especially for >the folks down under to comprehend) to see you back. Welcome again, really. >May I request that we all refrain (as much as possible) from the "name >calling" and the sticks and stones stuff. I will try, I promise. >Anyway the link you provided is not a good link at this time. I get a timeout >for the server. and not having seen your original post I do not have any >other of the sited evidence, but please fell free to contact me off list to >update me with more info about this. >I generally & personally do not consider postings to a forum message board as >very much "evidence" of anything except that the message board exists, and >has people posting to it. what ever the "problems" exposed by the postings, >the fact that more than one post exists for it does not (IMHO) conclude an >unrepairable problem. >I would bet (heck I could be wrong I am only basing that on your posts) I >have a slight lead on you, as far as my understanding of how a hard drive >(and MBR, as part of the drive) works and is written to. Based on my >experience and understanding of hard drive operation, I would be nearly >shocked to have you prove my assumption incorrect. I would enjoy learning as >much as possible about this software that "*irretrievably" trashed the hard >drive. from MY experience, it would take a few minutes of hard drive >thrashing to *irretrievably loose the data, without letting the smoke out of >the circuit board on the hard drive. If you did let out the smoke, well then, >unless you have a way to put the smoke back into those little black smoke >holders it may have *irretrievably lost your data. >And (by the way) who are the "Nortons"? >My experience ain't "thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology" that >did not teach me how to keep from calling people; "baby", "Flame-babies", >"inescapable idiot", "fanatics", "Anti-social deviants", "egobound to the >degree that the anal pressure creates blindness", "anti-social people with >zero social skill", or "Cyber-Nazis", while still expecting assistace and >free training from them. It was my hope though, by showing you the names that >you have labeled folks you only know via e-mail, that it may help you see how >offensive your post might have sounded. >I do agree that it is very often possible to discern the intended audience >from the style of writing. I would caution that not every monosyllabic book >was written by a "non-PHD". Some very good childern's books have been written >by very educated people. > >I would also ask you to consider the reverse side of this statement, with the >consideration that my (and your) rights end where someone else's rights begin; > >>A simple example would be to go and say that you don't believe in the >>rights of the Cyber-Nazis currently dominating the so-called anti-spam >>movement, to tell YOU what you may or may not LEGALLY receive, in one of >>the lists out there. >> >I would suggest; "A simple example would be to go and say that you don't >believe in the rights of the Spammers currently dominating spam (or >commercial Internet, since I still miss the days before the WWW and .com) >movement, to tell ME what I must receive, and then to force me to waste my >bandwidth (that _I_ pay for) with Spam that is not just un-wanted, but is >deceitfully forced on me." as a possible other side of this argument. >one mans cluster fuck is another mans orgy. > >On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:25 pm, you wrote: > >>Hello folks, >>You know, it *IS* fascinating to read the comments of those few >>tunnel-visioned people on this list who continually make it difficult for >>people outside of their tiny worlds. >>I would love to take the candy/money off the baby - but my mother won't let >>me do those sort of things any more :-) >> >I would have bet that after "Thirty years of clinical and industrial >psychology" your Mom no longer had control of your cash, I guess I learn new >stuff about you all the time. > >>For those many others on this list who are not egobound to the degree that >>the anal pressure creates blindness, please ignore the Flame-babies and >>READ my post : >>As always, I supply the evidence. >>I even gave the Site address and the Forum where it is fully admitted by >>the Company and some of the victims - one of whom contacted me and said >>that he, as a professional psychologist was questioning his own grip on >>reality after the experience ... which was only matched by ferocity >>of rudeness he experienced when attempting to learn about Linux . >> >>I was able to assure him as a professional peer - my own background is >>thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology - that what he >>experienced was "normal" Internet behaviour. Sad, but
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 05:52, mike cola wrote: > now that was all nice till you got to the PS and then fronted your opinion > exactly the same way you told others not to (or not to listen to).. or did i > misinterpret? > > linux: (the community as a public vocal group) is (from what i have observed as > a longtime lurker on sites/forums/lists and as a user for about 3 years from > redhat 6 to mdk 7.2 and uptil now 8.2..and only just getting a handle on it) > full of people who want you ignore the vocal minority who scream and jump up n > down, but then add their voice to a not the same but not too different either > argument. its an OS people! a tool, a better way of doing things. ITS NOT A > RELIGION tho some would evangelise! use it, learn it, modify it, adapt it > but most of all just make it what yu will... > > mikecola > > my $a0.02 Eh...What? I'm afraid my coherency filter isn't quite out of alpha yet. And to everyone else, where is the rest of this thread? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: > I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some > Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 jumper > settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP runnin at 12.5x100, rather > than 12.5x133 > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > Yup! Thanks all Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
Nick Andriash wrote: >I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time >now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > >1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will >be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about >having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and >Enlightenment... which I presume are GUI's for Linux... that are all >seemingly resource hungry, so I will try for 512 MB RAM with the 1.13Ghz >chip and hopefully that will be enough for any one I choose. BTW, are >those choices made during install? Can you install more than one and then >switch back and forth? > Yes, you have 11 you can install and you can call for all of them if you like. > >2) I have a Palm M515 and it is imperative that I be able to Sync with my >Desktop. I understand JPilot will do that... which requires a whole bunch >of other Programs to make it work it seems. Does anyone have any >experience having their Palm work with Linux? > >3) I have a lot of Word XP Documents and Excel Spreadsheets that I need to >keep around, so is there any Linux Software out there that will allow me >to read and edit those files? Better still, is there such a thing as MS >Office for Linux? Better alternatives? > OpenOffice will for one. If you simply _must_ have office, codeweavers makes a commercial app called crossover office for $59.95. It is superior to Office in one way, it fakes the access privileges Office thinks it has so that it does not compromise the security of your machine, which Office always does. StarOffice6 also works on Excel and Word files. The big advantage of OpenOffice is that while it will import and export MS files, its native format is human-readable, so never again need your data be held hostage to a proprietary license and an upgrade cycle. >4) I work a lot with PGP and GnuPG, so the Mail Client that I end up with >will have to support both Programs... but at least GnuPG. Is Linux like >Windows where you can download any Client you want, or does the Mail >Client come packaged with the Desktop or GUI such as KDE and GNOME? > >Thanks for your help > A mail client comes packaged with the KDE desktop, called KMail, and it will use GnuPG, but that really means nothing. Ther are many many mail clients in linux: Kmail, evolution, sylpheed, aethera, spruce, elm, balsa, mahogany are all available from either your install CD or the web. The formerly popular pine has had its license altered, and its use is no longer recommended. Anyway, if you use a mandrake rpm to install each of those mail clients, they will appear on your menu and you will be able to use all of them. Even mozilla mail supports GnuPG. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing posts
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Michael Adams wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:23, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Jure Repinc wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > I know others have remarked on strange things happening, but I seem to > > > > often miss posts that start a new thread, picking it up on a reply. > > > > But then I know I'm getting some others through replies to replies, and > > > > that includes some that I have posted myself. Anyone any ideas as to > > > > what's happening? I'm fairly sure my filtering isn't causing the > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > I think that there is a problem, that some posts don't have Reply To set > > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED], ...). So > > > when you reply the post goes directly to the man who sent it. I don't > > > know why some posts have Reply To set to some other e-mails but I guess > > > that these posts have that set in advance and then scripts for this > > > mailing list don't set it to correct e-mail. Maybe they should correct > > > scripts to change all Reply To to the correct address or just append the > > > correct one. > > > > I have noticed this too, and it seems to me that it's mostly happening with > > KMail and Pine from what I see in the headers. It may not only be these > > that are giving this problem, so maybe it's just a wrong observeration. > > With the e-mails where it's going wrong however, the "In-Reply-To: header > > is being set my the mailers, and this is confusing the Mandrake filters or > > something. Very annoying I know :-( > > > > Even my e-mails are getting this problem, and I have looked in the Pine > > setup but thereis reference as to how to change that. I think it's a > > server-side config that has to be changed. > > > > Greetings > > Ralph > > My KMail "Reply to" is left blank to ensure no probs with this list, and i > don't have any. Yes, but as I said, it's "In-Reply-To:", not "Reply-To:". Mine is too left blank, however when users reply my e-mails on this list I presume that they get my name in it too, in either CC or To. I don't have this problem on any other mailing list though, so it's pure Mandrake. Maybe they should filter out that line or something... just an idea. It seems to me that many more messages have the "In-Rely-To", but when this comes AFTER the inserted "Reply-To" (by the mailing list) the problems arise, however when inserted before, it seems to work flawlesly. Beats me as to what factors determine where the "Reply-To" header get's added though, but it seems that the mail programs look at the last of the 2, no matter what the order is. I may be wrong here, but it seems to match in the several I have just looked at now. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [ppc 9500] kernel panic
i got to the xconfig which hangs up at the end. This let me choose xinerama, detect successfully the two video cards but let me select only one screen. i've force to reboot, getting a kernel panic when eth0 up, a second reboot under "run level 1" but get another kernel panic when typing the root pas... i should mention i saw in the memory dump following kernel panic some area about ALTIVEC ??? i'm using 2.4.18 kernel but don't know where to leave the relative initrd ??? -- Yvon Thoraval Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net
On Sunday 23 June 2002 06:38 pm, you wrote: > Do you have a nic also? I had the same problem and had to do a "ifconfig > eth0 down " to get the modem to talk to the apps. > Roly > > On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 18:20, F. McKenna wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Like it says in the subject line I can't browse the 'net. Mandrake 8.2 > > dials out with my 33.6 modem and connects to my ISP but I can't browse > > using Konq, Netscape, or Mozilla. > > > > I have made all three users part of the PPP group but I am not sure where > > to take it from here. > > > > Your help would be ceeply apreciated, > > > > Frank McKenna > > > > You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to > > win > > > > True Strength lies in Gentleness Hmm, this has come up a couple of times before, and I've had the same problem myself (once I started a small 3 comp LAN). What I had to do was edit these files: (to get a modem connection, LAN working, and not have to shutdown my network everytime I wanted to dial out) /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=darkforce.com DOMAINNAME=com GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 FORWARD_IPV4=true /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 darkforce.com darkforce 192.168.0.2 darkforce2 192.168.0.3 darkforce3 /etc/resolv.conf domain setel.com#kppp temp entry search com setel.com nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 192.168.0.3 # ppp temp entry nameserver 63.70.180.2 # ppp temp entry nameserver 63.70.180.2 #kppp temp entry Of course, you'd have to enter your own specifics above. ;-) And I believe (but am not sure) that I had to turn connection sharing on. Might want to ask someone else about that. Hope this helps some! ;-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internal Modems
I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears to be 100% hardware. Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the handshake started than it drops the connection with the message "No Carrier" If I am not likely to be succesful I have access to an Ambient PCI modem with a MD5628D-L-B chipset, this appears to require Intel drivers. Before I try to d/l drivers and swap modems has anyone any ideas please ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] reboot of amd notebook
Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Sony vaio (Athlon 1G) with Mandrake 8.2. My problem > is that reboot from linux does not work. I tried > "shutdown -r now" and reboot using lilo (the option in the > kdm gui). > > When I use "shutdown -r now", the laptop displays > "Sony" and it stops there (I can see the harddisk light > glowing...forever). I then need to do a hard shutdown and > the next time it starts up, it warns me that the > previous boot was incomplete. > > Can anyone tell me how to get this to work ? I would like to know as well. what I do now on my Vaio pcg-fx215 notebook is to do a halt instead of reboot. it shuts it down fine and only takes a little longer to reboot. -- Mike McNeese Linux registered user # 248955 currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 "If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] reboot of amd notebook
Hi, I have a Sony vaio (Athlon 1G) with Mandrake 8.2. My problem is that reboot from linux does not work. I tried "shutdown -r now" and reboot using lilo (the option in the kdm gui). When I use "shutdown -r now", the laptop displays "Sony" and it stops there (I can see the harddisk light glowing...forever). I then need to do a hard shutdown and the next time it starts up, it warns me that the previous boot was incomplete. Can anyone tell me how to get this to work ? Anand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:46 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some > > time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > > > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will > > be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about > > SNIP > > One more tip I meant to give you Nick.. You will find Linux will install on > virtually any hardware, but brand new 'exotic' hardware should be avoided > unless you know a Linux driver exists for it. (For example Nvidia NForce > chip sets have only recently been supported) Also do not bother buying a > Motherboard with on board IDE RAID It will be difficult to install Linux > on it, Linux will not be able to use the on board RAID, and in any case > Linux can do a superior version of RAID without any motherboard hardware at > all. > > Western Digital Hard Drives should be avoided since WD specifically say > they do not support Linux and most HD problems on this list are with WD > Hard drives. > > The hardware you are most likely to have problems with are scanners and > printers. > Scanners not on this list are unlikely to work. > http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html > > Printers mostly will work, but with differing degrees of print quality. > Check out your printer here :- http://www.linuxprinting.org/ > > Mandrake will autodetect and install your scanner and printer for you, but > will obviously only be able to do it for supported models. > > HTH > > derek Nick: While we're on the subject of hardware, here's another headsup: Get a real modem. An external type that uses a serial port connection is certain to work, but after that it gets a bit murky. Some PCI cards work fine, others are going to take some extra work, and still others just won't work. Take a look at: linmodems.org www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network
This is the one and only thing that I every use linuxconf for because it make this task plumb easy. Miark daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: > > > How can I configure my local network under 8.2? > > My IP is 192.186.20.64 > > Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 > > Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 > > Domain: inpred > > Thank! > > Jendos, > > you can do a couple of different ways. > 1) use Mandrake Control Center's wizards to take you through > the configuration process. relatively painless. > 2) you can use Linuxconf to configure your machine for the network > you're currently a part of. > 3) you can do it the old fashioned way, and access the > configuration files directly and config your network manually. > [the network config files live in /etc/sysconfig/] > > methods 2, and 3 require either a lot of courage and curiosity on the part > of the newbie, or a moderate amount of knowledge of your machine and how > it does things. If you don't possess either one of these, then your best > bet is method 1. > > -- > daRmaTTeR > > R L U: #186492 > When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." > My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card Base PCI A3D
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 07:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not able to get my sound card (Base PCI A3D) to work. I checked all the > sound HowTo in /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.14/sound/ but my sound card is not > listed. > > I used lothar and sndconfig but with strange results. > > sndconfig tell me it found a sound card "Aureal Semiconductor|Vortex 1" and > that it isn't supported. > > - Why does sndconfig not find "Base PCI A3D"? > - And what can I do to get my sound card working? I suggest very strongly that you download the latest version of the Aureal drivers from sourceforge CVS, as they are version 1.1.3 and have important fixes with regard to problems with Quake 3 Arena and other things. In case you haven't ever done this before and for anyone elses edification, it's very simple. From your ~/tmp directory under a terminal command line enter the following (as a non-root user): cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/aureal login (hit enter here when prompted for a password, then when you get a prompt back, enter the following:) cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/aureal co aureal After that your download will commence. When you get everything, just follow the directions in the "aureal" directory. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] setting mouse speed with xset on start-up scripts
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Good evening everybody, > > I have a simple question I think... > > Is it possible to have the mouse speed set in a startup script of some kind? > When ever I log into a window manager, I always have to set my mouse speed using > xset m 9 1 > > I have tried a GUI to set it, but never found a satisfactory setting so I have > resorted to using a terminal. > > It is just a hassel to have to set it everytime. > > Thanks for any clues and have a Great weekend! Steve, I had a problem of a similar nature some time back, and I ended up finding some obscure reference to this problem on the XFree86 org site. But it was not easy to find and I now don't have the link anymore. But what you do is go into the XF86Config-4 file and head to the mouse section. There you write in an "option" called "resolution". Here's that section of the file: ___ # ** # Pointer section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Resolution" "5" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" #Option "Emulate3Timeout""50" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice __ Notice that my "resolution" is set to 50,000. Believe it or not, that doesn't seem to be an off the chart number, and this pointer is still not as sensitive as I had it when I used xset. But it is OK. You may have to experiment with some very highish numbers in order to get the feel you are seeking. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: > How can I configure my local network under 8.2? > My IP is 192.186.20.64 > Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 > Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 > Domain: inpred > Thank! Jendos, you can do a couple of different ways. 1) use Mandrake Control Center's wizards to take you through the configuration process. relatively painless. 2) you can use Linuxconf to configure your machine for the network you're currently a part of. 3) you can do it the old fashioned way, and access the configuration files directly and config your network manually. [the network config files live in /etc/sysconfig/] methods 2, and 3 require either a lot of courage and curiosity on the part of the newbie, or a moderate amount of knowledge of your machine and how it does things. If you don't possess either one of these, then your best bet is method 1. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network
How can I configure my local network under 8.2? My IP is 192.186.20.64 Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 Domain: inpred Thank! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time > now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: No need to be frightened. Its fun Most installs are incident free. If you have an issue just drop us a line. You will be amazed at just how good 'free' software is. Your Mandrake CDs will have over 3000 applications on them that would cost $000's in a Windows world. > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will > be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about > having enough RAM. It is all relative. Windows XP does not work well with less than 256MB of RAM, well Linux with a KDE Window Manager will work quite nicely with 128MB. Give it 256MB and its really flying. As for processor. My laptop has a 233MHz processor and is a bit too slow for KDE 400MHz and upwards is fine. > I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and > Enlightenment... which I presume are GUI's for Linux... that are all > seemingly resource hungry, so I will try for 512 MB RAM with the 1.13Ghz > chip and hopefully that will be enough for any one I choose. BTW, are > those choices made during install? Can you install more than one and then > switch back and forth? Again its all relative. Some list members use what would today be 'low end' hardware, so they absolutely need to maximise performance with a lightweight window manager. Your proposed system will run all the possible window managers with ease. But install them all anyway. Its fun trying them out. Some will be reassuringly comfortable to you, while others will seem really weird. Mandrake go to great trouble so that KDE and Gnome are set up nicely. Some of the other WM's require a bit of manual setting up by the user, and are probably not the first choice for a newbie. But install them anyway. All it costs is disc space. At least you get a choice, unlike what you get with you know who :-) > 3) I have a lot of Word XP Documents and Excel Spreadsheets that I need to > keep around, so is there any Linux Software out there that will allow me > to read and edit those files? Better still, is there such a thing as MS > Office for Linux? Better alternatives? Open Office is best because - It is free (both in cost and freedom) It comes on your CD's (one version behind the latest) It imports and exports to Word,Excel and Powerpoint format almost perfectly. It is quite a resource hog but will be fine on your system. Star Office6.0 is next best- It is almost identical to OpenOffice but costs money (for enterprises whose accounts departments cannot cope with software not costing anything) (It also has a database not in OO) KWord and Abiword are MS Word replacements but with fewer features and only partial importing capability and no export to Word format. They are lightweight and quick. (Abiword is not on the CDs but can be downloaded) KSpead and Gnumeric are Excel replacements. Again only partial importing and no exporting. They are lightweight and on your CDs Finally is you are really paranoid about MS Office compatibility you can actually run MS Office under Linux. There are 2 ways to do this (ignoring the expensive VMware solution) 1/ Buy a copy of Win4Lin this is $79 if bought from Mandrake club by Wednesday or else $89 normally (www.netraverse.com). It allows you to run Win98 or Win Me as a window *inside* Linux You can then run most 2D applications like MSOffice just like as in Windows. The bad news is you still need a Win98 license and pay for a copy of MS Office which just perpetuates the evil empire. 2/ Buy a copy of Codeweavers Office (www.codeweavers.com) This is software which allows *some* Windows apps to run natively inside Linux *without* a copy of Windows on the computer. MS Office is a supported application. The bad news is you still have to pay for MS office evil empire etc. > > 4) I work a lot with PGP and GnuPG, so the Mail Client that I end up with > will have to support both Programs... but at least GnuPG. Is Linux like > Windows where you can download any Client you want, or does the Mail > Client come packaged with the Desktop or GUI such as KDE and GNOME? There are a 'zillion' mail clients for Linux. Just use the one you like best. Kmail is simple (I am using it now), Evolution is 'Outlook' like and can even synchronise with MS exchange servers (If you buy an addon plugin)Others include Sylpheed, Mozilla Mail etc. > > Thanks for your help enjoy your new OS derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla files
John Richard Smith wrote: > All 500 plus emails are manually added ones in my mozilla > addressbook.,not from the daily automatically added addressbook. > > But I suspect charles is right , mozilla's putting mine else where > cause I added them as one big seperate addressbook under a single > heading. Question is where and under what file name. > > John Other adress books are in the same folder as abook.mab (defult Personal Address Book) and history.mab (default Collected Adresses). They are named abook-x.mab. where x is an integer. So if you create two additional ABs the files are abook-1.mab and abook-2.mab. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some > time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely > will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried > about having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on > GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment... which I presume are GUI's for > Linux... that are all seemingly resource hungry, so I will try for > 512 MB RAM with the 1.13Ghz chip and hopefully that will be enough > for any one I choose. BTW, are those choices made during install? Can > you install more than one and then switch back and forth? 256MB on a 1GB PIII is fine for me with KDE 3.0.1. If you select multiple window managers when installing Mandrake switching between them is straightforward: you pick from a list when logging in. > 2) I have a Palm M515 and it is imperative that I be able to Sync > with my Desktop. I understand JPilot will do that... which requires a > whole bunch of other Programs to make it work it seems. Does anyone > have any experience having their Palm work with Linux? I'm using a Clie with Mandrake. But I don't bother with Linux synchronisation and desktop software (and have never really used the todo, mail, diary and address book); far easier is to mount the Clie's memory stick as an extra device - support for doing this is built in - and manipulate files directly on it. > 3) I have a lot of Word XP Documents and Excel Spreadsheets that I > need to keep around, so is there any Linux Software out there that > will allow me to read and edit those files? Better still, is there > such a thing as MS Office for Linux? Better alternatives? OpenOffice.org 1.0 (www.openoffice.org) is what you need; it's essemtially an Office clone. KOffice (www.koffice.org) comes with KDE and is also good, although the compatibility with Word documents is not quite as thorough as that in OOo. OOo has opened everything I've thrown at it with only minor glitches, including documents which Word refused to open (!) > 4) I work a lot with PGP and GnuPG, so the Mail Client that I end up > with will have to support both Programs... but at least GnuPG. Is > Linux like Windows where you can download any Client you want, or > does the Mail Client come packaged with the Desktop or GUI such as > KDE and GNOME? You can download any client you want, and most are integrated with GnuPG and PGP. Both KDE and Gnome come with email clients - kmail (kmail.kde.org) and evolution (www.ximian.org/products/ximian_evolution/) respectively which are as good as any. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FwWvCv59vFiSU4YRAl5MAJ4qk/zO7xdzQ8aihTAk0ldNeL9KhACgxx4n pd3T3iO2HyND5xQE9zj8MiQ= =UjRQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge
I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment... which I presume are GUI's for Linux... that are all seemingly resource hungry, so I will try for 512 MB RAM with the 1.13Ghz chip and hopefully that will be enough for any one I choose. BTW, are those choices made during install? Can you install more than one and then switch back and forth? 2) I have a Palm M515 and it is imperative that I be able to Sync with my Desktop. I understand JPilot will do that... which requires a whole bunch of other Programs to make it work it seems. Does anyone have any experience having their Palm work with Linux? 3) I have a lot of Word XP Documents and Excel Spreadsheets that I need to keep around, so is there any Linux Software out there that will allow me to read and edit those files? Better still, is there such a thing as MS Office for Linux? Better alternatives? 4) I work a lot with PGP and GnuPG, so the Mail Client that I end up with will have to support both Programs... but at least GnuPG. Is Linux like Windows where you can download any Client you want, or does the Mail Client come packaged with the Desktop or GUI such as KDE and GNOME? Thanks for your help -- Nick Andriash Courtenay, B.C. Canada Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net
On Monday 24 June 2002 02:17 am, Frank McKenna wrote: > I do have a NIC. I will give this a try and see how that works. I am > trying to set up a DHVP server for my intranet though. Could you please > tell me the command to bring my NIC back up. > ifup eth0 -- Gerald Waugh http://frontstreetnetworks.com SOHO Networks & Web Site Hosting Front Street Networks LLC voice +1 203 785 0699 * fax +1 203 785 1787 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven CT 06513-3203 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GNOME
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:39:15 -0400 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to each his own man, but are you serious? Enlightenment is every bit > the resource hog that Gnome and KDE are Have you ever run e as a stand-alone wm? Both cpu and memory usage average less than 01.0%. If that is hoggish show me to the sty so I can join in their mud wallow. Charles -- Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. (alt.fan.pratchett) -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead
On Sunday 23 June 2002 17:49 pm, Stormjumper wrote: > yes, it works. > i'm running on a Cyrix, same type, but slower. > threw in 256mb ram, and it's actually pretty snappy to use. > - Original Message - > From: "poogle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:57 PM > Subject: [newbie] CyrixInstead > > > I've finally persuaded my partner to go the Linux way and installed > > 8.2 on her > > > companies standalone PC. > > When it came to remove CD and reboot, it did but took forever. > > I've had a quick look and find that it is not a Celeron processor as I > > had > > > been told (guess I should have checked myself before I started) it is > > described by Harddrake as this > > CyrixInstead > > MII 3.5X Core/Bus Clock > > Frequency 262MHz > > MMX yes > > BogoMIPS 522.64 > > > > anyone know if this should work with 8.2 or do I need to go back to > > 7.0 ? > >Thanks for the feedback, it only has 160mb BTW. I suppose it just seemed slow because at the moment it's sitting alongside my PC (Duron 1200 with 256mb). You gave me an idea, I timed it against a laptop with a Celeron 366 and 160mb - from boot to login the cyrix is about 20 secs slower which seems reasonable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
g2 wrote > > Hi, > > how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux > 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose > my input locale? > > what RPMs should I install? > > thanks! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language. It goes very fine in 8.2. Basically nothing to configure. The input method is kinput2, which is installed automagically. If you want to install Japanese on an English system, you have to install the input method (kinput2), but also Japanese fonts. And to toggle Japanese / Latin characters, press shift-space. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
g2 wrote > > Hi, > > how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux > 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose > my input locale? > > what RPMs should I install? > > thanks! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language. It goes very fine in 8.2. Basically nothing to configure. The input method is kinput2, which is installed automagically. If you want to install Japanese on an English system, you have to install the input method (kinput2), but also Japanese fonts. And to toggle Japanese / Latin characters, press shift-space. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SANE and Acer scanner
Thought i was one step closer this time. Noticed the icon in Mandrake Control Center for scanner. Told it that i had an Acer and it found and supposedly installed / configured the "Prisa Acer 620u" driver. yet when i click on the KDE icon (Xsane_/dev/usb/scanner0) it is still not found. The scanner is labelled as a "VeugoScan Brisa 620u". HardDrake sees an "Acer Peripherals Inc. Prisa AcerScan" scanner and i checked out the backends page at www.mostang.com. I think it is a rebadged Acer. Seems to be the right backend for this USB toy. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:48, Scott wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:28 am, you wrote: > > On Saturday 22 June 2002 05:32 pm, you wrote: > > > Scott wrote: > > > >On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: > > > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > > >>>Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and > > > >>>although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards, > > > >>>you implied that you wanted a cheaper, so I would just go for an > > > >>>older sort. They are cheap. As far as easy to configure... > > > >>>auto-detected should be easy enough ;-) > > > >>> > > > >>>Greetings > > > >>>Ralph > > > >>> > > > >>>On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Scott wrote: > > > Can someone please recommend a decent, fairly cheap sound card > > > that is easy to configure with 8.1? Using compaq 5220 pc. > > > Appreciate it, > > > SW > > > >> > > > >>http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hres2.html#Sound > > > >> > > > >> has two links, one for OSS and one for ALSA. Check out both for > > > >>supported devices, but I'd try for a card supported by ALSA. You > > > >>should also take a look inside that Compaq to see if you have > > > >>available pci and/or isa slots, what IRQ's are free, and if the > > > >>Compaq currently has onboard sound... can it be disabled in bios? > > > >>Make sure you don't buy anything that needs closed source proprietary > > > >>drivers. > > > > > > > >Looking in my bios, I don't see anything that looks like it disables > > > > my on-board sound. What does that mean? Some sort of unpleasantness > > > > I'm sure... SW > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > > >-- > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > Well if you have on-board sound it may be posible to use it. A number > > > of ALSA drivers/configurations are non-working at the moment, but often > > > the alternaticve OSS drivers do work. Do you have linux installed > > > already? If so let's see > > > > > > cat /etc/modules.conf > > > > > > and > > > > > > lspcidrake > > > > > > outputs > > > > > > Just run those in a terminal window, highlight the output with a mouse, > > > then middle-click it onto your mail composition. > > > > > > Civileme > > > > Here's the output: > > > > cat /etc/modules.conf > > > > pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start > > alias usb-interface usb-uhci > > probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi > > alias eth0 8139too > > > > and: > > > > lspcidrake > > agpgart : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] > > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] > > 8139too : Accton|SMC2-1211TX > > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] > > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] > > usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB > > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B ACPI > > Card:ATI Mach64 : ATI|3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 > > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] > > scanner : Seiko Epson Corp.|Perfection 1240U [] > > > > BTW, I don't have that scanner running, I didn't know that it was > > detected. Thanks, > > SW > > From the output, any hope of getting the onboard sound working in 8.1? > > Thanks, > SW Heres mine: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] This is the model: quoted from harddrake. 8.2 found and installed it perfectly on install. The KDE load up sound just about made me soil my undies. It had been that long since i had heard anything. Really not sure about differences between a *586 and *686 board. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla files
Ralph Slooten wrote: > /home//.mozilla//<*.slt>/mail or thereabouts > Thanks Ralph and all the others who replied. Hidden files indeed! I did know that at one time. It is a competition between my left knee and my memory to see which will be first to crash :-) John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
