Re: [newbie] Fwd: Sound(continues)
On Saturday July 20 2002 06:32 pm, Marcia wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I just sent a support email to OSS. Hopefully they can help. OSS or the commercial driver vendor? OSS is Open (ie, free, and open) Sound System, the commercial vendor most likely _isn't_. Just what vendor driver did you get, anyhow? A quick search turned up http://www.opensound.com/ While I believe that Linux's future depends upon $elling and us buyin software/support, I also feel that the product needs to remain free open source. > I checked the irq's. The ethernet and sound are sharing 5. I thought > that could be the problem however I do not see any free irq's that > are available. Do I need to free up some irq's from the bios? What does 'less /proc/interrupts' say? I really suspect you've got a hardware deficiency or a bios mis-config. A decent AC97 should'a been reocgnized and setup with no effort. You do have (M$) pn'pray support turned off in bios, no? Another good bet is to turn off (M$) APIC in bios. In my > previous LM versions up until 8.1, I always had ethernet at 9. Then > in 8.1 I could only get it on 5 or 11 and 5 was always with sound so > I accepted 11. 9 would not accept my ethernet anymore. Now there is > no 9 or 10 listed and I think 11 is used by the usb-uhci or something > like that. Can the usb-uhci and ethernet share the irq? What can > safely share the irq? Nothing, altho They would like you to believe it works. The PCI spec calls for IRQ sharing, but it's sometimes unsuccesful. Search the ML archive for 'uhci'. IIRC, there's a quick edit to a modules.conf line for fixin this. I dunno, I don't use a ether, or anything that relies on USB (universal serial bus, just another way of sayin a failing M$ approach). Remember His Billness' live presentation of W9x's 'new' implementation of USB ... instant BSOD televised. (i'm still chucklin') Does sound work if you remove the ethernet card? Use linuxconf, or mcc to make sure harddrake and kudzu are running/started on boot. I imagine that sound and ethernet sharing the > irq is not good. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you very > much for your attention to this matter. No need to be so formal ... i ain't;) I'm also runnin out of ideas ;( It's real hard to fix hardware problems by email. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > Well, it's sort'a hard to reserve comment on that decision > > other than to say that now you need to seek support from the vendor > > of the commercial driver. > > > >Mandrake default kernels (other than the enterprise version) are > > configured for < 1GB memory (ie, High Memory is off). The error > > you got is possibly a kernel taint by the commercial driver, altho > > there's no way to find out. Look on your main menu, Configuration > > | KDE | Information | Interrupts, and find your sound, probly on > > IRQ 10. If you see another device on the same line separated by a > > comma, then the devices are sharing that IRQ. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:27 pm, Damian G wrote: Yahoo Messenger has been updated and works very well including file transfers in Linux. I have used it tonight and every night this week and it works perfectly. Go to the yahoo website and see if you have the latest version. There is a Mandrake RPM to download. Mike > uhmm.. why don't you try gaim to connect to your yahoo messenger? > i've been told that the yahoo messenger client for linux hasn't been > updated in a very long time... gaim may prove better. > > Damian > > > On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have the linux version of yahoo messenger installed in my system > > > (MAndrake 8.1). It displays the messenger window and then the screen is > > > stuck like that. The only thing I can do next is close the screen. Can > > > anybody tell what the problem is and how can I rectify that. There are > > > no error messages being displayed either. > > > > Well, the last couple of days, I cannot connect to YM with a winsux box > > or my linux box. I think they are having problems. > > > > Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
Actually Damian, yahoo has very recently released a new version of its messenger software for Linux to make it look more like the other platform versions (I believe it was released sometime last month, but not quite sure). They even have a Mandrake specific RPM available for download on the website. Finally someone at yahoo is starting to see the importance of Linux and is finally doing something about catching it up with the other platforms. Now if only they will make it work for chat rooms and webcam support ... :-) Terry On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:27 pm, Damian G wrote: > uhmm.. why don't you try gaim to connect to your yahoo messenger? > i've been told that the yahoo messenger client for linux hasn't been > updated in a very long time... gaim may prove better. > > Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
uhmm.. why don't you try gaim to connect to your yahoo messenger? i've been told that the yahoo messenger client for linux hasn't been updated in a very long time... gaim may prove better. Damian > On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have the linux version of yahoo messenger installed in my system > > (MAndrake 8.1). It displays the messenger window and then the screen is > > stuck like that. The only thing I can do next is close the screen. Can > > anybody tell what the problem is and how can I rectify that. There are no > > error messages being displayed either. > > > > Well, the last couple of days, I cannot connect to YM with a winsux box or my > linux box. I think they are having problems. > > Bill > > -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
> > On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have the linux version of yahoo messenger installed in my system > > > (MAndrake 8.1). It displays the messenger window and then the screen is > > > stuck like that. The only thing I can do next is close the screen. Can > > > anybody tell what the problem is and how can I rectify that. There are no > > > error messages being displayed either. > > > > > > > Well, the last couple of days, I cannot connect to YM with a winsux box or my > > linux box. I think they are having problems. > > > > Bill > > if you're using a Yahoo Messenger as a normal user, you should first copy the .ymessenger directory to your User's home directory $cp -r .ymessenger /home/USER $chown USER:USER .ymessenger -R Did you install the Mandrake Version? HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smoothwall/No-IP.com
Hi, This is a bit of a shot in the dark, I just don't know what to check for :-) I have Smoothwall box connected to an ADSL line, this acts as my firewall and gateway for local machines to connect to. On one of the machines, I am running Apache on port 80, which I can view from its IP or Hostname within the local network. The Smoothwall box is setup to forward port 80 to the internal IP of the Apache box also on port 80. I am then using No-IP.com to keep track of my dynamic IP and forward to my Smoothwall box, which should then forward to my internal Apache machine. I cannot view the Apache box but I am pretty sure that the No-IP is working, because when I turn off the port forwarding, it says "Host Not Found", but when I turn it on, it just times out. Does anyone know what I should be looking for? I seem close, but not quite? :-( Thanks for any pointers, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk " ... when men were men and wrote their own device driver ..." --- Linus Benedict Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB SmartMedia Readers?
On Sunday 21 July 2002 05:58 pm, you wrote: > Dennis, > > After you reinstalled Mandrake (I'm assuming 8.2), did you update the CD > burning software you are using. If I recall, most were broken out of the > box and had to be patched or updated. > > One other thing on your compact flash (although this poster was asking > about smart media readers). I know that on my smart media card, I had to > have the camera format the media first and I wasn't sure what it formatted > it to. I'm wondering if your reader is working, but the format isn't being > recognized. In your fstab, if you are using vfat, try using msdos or > umsdos. I had to use one of them with an earlier version of Linux. If you > dual boot, you can check the properties under windows and see if it > indicates what file system it is using (mine actually says something like > DOS, not FAT, which led me to try mounting it as msdos) > > Just a thought. > > Joe > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:21:15 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 21 July 2002 05:12 pm, you wrote: > > > Although it makes no claim to Linux compatibility, I am having very > > > good results with the PNY SmartMedia reader (this is not the combined > > > compact flash AND SM reader). It is a simple black blob of plastic > > > with a slot for the media and a usb cable on the back. No lights, or > > > leds or anything else. I paid $19.99US for mine at Staples. It worked > > > out of the box with Mandrake 8.2 after creating a folder called smedia > > > (or whatever you want) under /mnt and adding "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia > > > vfat noauto,user" (without quotes) to /etc/fstab. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:22:08 +0900 > > > > > > Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am headed to Osaka in a few days and am thinking of picking up a > > > > usb smartmedia reader. At the moment, I have a Fuji FinePix 4500 > > > > camera that works with Mandrake 8.2 just fine as /dev/sda1, but a usb > > > > reader would be more convenient and versatile. I assume a reader > > > > would mount and the same way in the same place - the memory card is > > > > the important thing for determining that, right? not the gadget you > > > > use to read the card? > > > > > > > > A quick look through google results didn't show any major problems > > > > and in fact turned up a few products' pages that claimed to be linux > > > > compatible. So I am not expecting any problems (famous last words), > > > > but does anyone have any experience with readers that they can > > > > recommend? > > > > > > > > yoroshiku and tia, > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Spackman > > > > www.openhistory.org > > > > > > > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 > > > > I have a PNY compact flash reader connected to usb, and it comes up at > > install as being loaded as usb-storage. I have looked for a connection > > point and it is not shown by harddrake and no scsi device indicated. > > Can't read it, so as with anything under linux, YMMV. Sometimes they work > > and sometimes they don't. (like I can't get my CDRW to make a readable > > disk now, it was fine before this last reinstall which I did cause I > > could not cleanly get rid of KDE3, which was messing up my system even > > though installed in accordance with all FAQs and tutorials I could find. > > So, PNY works for some folks and others can't get anything but the little > > light on the device to come on. Good luck -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 Thanks for the reply, but I have upgraded all packages available which in the past has resolved the cdrw problem, and no go. The problem with the compact flash reader is that I can not find it recognized as any device anywhere. Does not show up under /dev/usb, /scsi , /sda , or anything else. It shows up under usbview as shown below, I just don't know how to access it. It is formatted as fat and works ok with the drivers supplied for windows 98 on a M$ machine. usb-storage Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(>ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 05e3 Product Id: 0700 Revision Number: 1.13 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: 80 MaxPower Needed: 96mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 6 Protocol: 50 Number of Endpoints: 2 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 02 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk
Re: [newbie] pcx viewer
On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 11:29 pm, Warren Post wrote: > ee opens .pcx images fine for me. But try ImageMagick, which also opens > .pcx. > > Warren > > El sáb, 20-07-2002 a las 16:59, Rick Henderson escribió: > > ee does not seem to open .pcx files. is there one that could be > > suggested? Try PixiePlus It is a truly awsome image file manager. It displays PCX (but not as thumbnails) Only available for KDE3. http://www.mosfet.org/pixie/ Texstar had an RPM posted, but it seems to be gone, so you would have to compile from source. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB SmartMedia Readers?
Dennis, After you reinstalled Mandrake (I'm assuming 8.2), did you update the CD burning software you are using. If I recall, most were broken out of the box and had to be patched or updated. One other thing on your compact flash (although this poster was asking about smart media readers). I know that on my smart media card, I had to have the camera format the media first and I wasn't sure what it formatted it to. I'm wondering if your reader is working, but the format isn't being recognized. In your fstab, if you are using vfat, try using msdos or umsdos. I had to use one of them with an earlier version of Linux. If you dual boot, you can check the properties under windows and see if it indicates what file system it is using (mine actually says something like DOS, not FAT, which led me to try mounting it as msdos) Just a thought. Joe On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:21:15 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 July 2002 05:12 pm, you wrote: > > Although it makes no claim to Linux compatibility, I am having very good > > results with the PNY SmartMedia reader (this is not the combined compact > > flash AND SM reader). It is a simple black blob of plastic with a slot for > > the media and a usb cable on the back. No lights, or leds or anything > > else. I paid $19.99US for mine at Staples. It worked out of the box with > > Mandrake 8.2 after creating a folder called smedia (or whatever you want) > > under /mnt and adding "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user" (without > > quotes) to /etc/fstab. > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:22:08 +0900 > > > > Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am headed to Osaka in a few days and am thinking of picking up a usb > > > smartmedia reader. At the moment, I have a Fuji FinePix 4500 camera that > > > works with Mandrake 8.2 just fine as /dev/sda1, but a usb reader would > > > be more convenient and versatile. I assume a reader would mount and the > > > same way in the same place - the memory card is the important thing for > > > determining that, right? not the gadget you use to read the card? > > > > > > A quick look through google results didn't show any major problems and > > > in fact turned up a few products' pages that claimed to be linux > > > compatible. So I am not expecting any problems (famous last words), but > > > does anyone have any experience with readers that they can recommend? > > > > > > yoroshiku and tia, > > > > > > -- > > > Chris Spackman > > > www.openhistory.org > > > > > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 > > I have a PNY compact flash reader connected to usb, and it comes up at > install as being loaded as usb-storage. I have looked for a connection point > and it is not shown by harddrake and no scsi device indicated. Can't read it, > so as with anything under linux, YMMV. Sometimes they work and sometimes they > don't. (like I can't get my CDRW to make a readable disk now, it was fine > before this last reinstall which I did cause I could not cleanly get rid of > KDE3, which was messing up my system even though installed in accordance with > all FAQs and tutorials I could find. So, PNY works for some folks and others > can't get anything but the little light on the device to come on. Good luck > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pcx viewer
ee opens .pcx images fine for me. But try ImageMagick, which also opens .pcx. Warren El sáb, 20-07-2002 a las 16:59, Rick Henderson escribió: > ee does not seem to open .pcx files. is there one that could be suggested? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB SmartMedia Readers?
On Sunday 21 July 2002 05:12 pm, you wrote: > Although it makes no claim to Linux compatibility, I am having very good > results with the PNY SmartMedia reader (this is not the combined compact > flash AND SM reader). It is a simple black blob of plastic with a slot for > the media and a usb cable on the back. No lights, or leds or anything > else. I paid $19.99US for mine at Staples. It worked out of the box with > Mandrake 8.2 after creating a folder called smedia (or whatever you want) > under /mnt and adding "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user" (without > quotes) to /etc/fstab. > > Joe > > > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:22:08 +0900 > > Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am headed to Osaka in a few days and am thinking of picking up a usb > > smartmedia reader. At the moment, I have a Fuji FinePix 4500 camera that > > works with Mandrake 8.2 just fine as /dev/sda1, but a usb reader would > > be more convenient and versatile. I assume a reader would mount and the > > same way in the same place - the memory card is the important thing for > > determining that, right? not the gadget you use to read the card? > > > > A quick look through google results didn't show any major problems and > > in fact turned up a few products' pages that claimed to be linux > > compatible. So I am not expecting any problems (famous last words), but > > does anyone have any experience with readers that they can recommend? > > > > yoroshiku and tia, > > > > -- > > Chris Spackman > > www.openhistory.org > > > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 I have a PNY compact flash reader connected to usb, and it comes up at install as being loaded as usb-storage. I have looked for a connection point and it is not shown by harddrake and no scsi device indicated. Can't read it, so as with anything under linux, YMMV. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. (like I can't get my CDRW to make a readable disk now, it was fine before this last reinstall which I did cause I could not cleanly get rid of KDE3, which was messing up my system even though installed in accordance with all FAQs and tutorials I could find. So, PNY works for some folks and others can't get anything but the little light on the device to come on. Good luck -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB SmartMedia Readers?
Although it makes no claim to Linux compatibility, I am having very good results with the PNY SmartMedia reader (this is not the combined compact flash AND SM reader). It is a simple black blob of plastic with a slot for the media and a usb cable on the back. No lights, or leds or anything else. I paid $19.99US for mine at Staples. It worked out of the box with Mandrake 8.2 after creating a folder called smedia (or whatever you want) under /mnt and adding "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user" (without quotes) to /etc/fstab. Joe On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:22:08 +0900 Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am headed to Osaka in a few days and am thinking of picking up a usb > smartmedia reader. At the moment, I have a Fuji FinePix 4500 camera that > works with Mandrake 8.2 just fine as /dev/sda1, but a usb reader would > be more convenient and versatile. I assume a reader would mount and the > same way in the same place - the memory card is the important thing for > determining that, right? not the gadget you use to read the card? > > A quick look through google results didn't show any major problems and > in fact turned up a few products' pages that claimed to be linux > compatible. So I am not expecting any problems (famous last words), but > does anyone have any experience with readers that they can recommend? > > yoroshiku and tia, > > -- > Chris Spackman > www.openhistory.org > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Mozilla Email
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:22:21 -0500 "Richard Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick question before I upgrade my main PC's HD and get 8.2 and > XP running on it. Has anyone done or tried the following. > > 1. Sharing between Mozilla and/or Emacs mailboxes with 8.2/XP ? I > would like to read my mail from both OS's and store mail from the mail > lists in folders etc. Same for bookmarks etc. My guess is yes. I don't what format emacs stores email as, but mozilla uses mbox format and I would guess emacs uses that as well. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sharing Mozilla Email
Hi, Just a quick question before I upgrade my main PC's HD and get 8.2 and XP running on it. Has anyone done or tried the following. 1. Sharing between Mozilla and/or Emacs mailboxes with 8.2/XP ? I would like to read my mail from both OS's and store mail from the mail lists in folders etc. Same for bookmarks etc. 2. Same for reading news from Emacs, i.e.. share the rc files so I can resume reading under either OS. 3. I use cygwin under XP so was thinking of sharing my Linux ~home area and mounting this from cygwin. The way I am going to set things up is have the 80GB HD split 50/50 for XP/MDL and have my 60GB disk shared with a fat32 file system and have my home directory on this, also my CD images/backups etc. Thanks for any suggestions. Richard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 1:59 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >By now I am fairly convinced that my slow system problems are caused by > > yet another ooops in changing from the windows network to the linux one. > > > >When I installed I gave my machine a rather long name. The network > >configuration, however, has all been done as WORKGROUP, the windows > > network. I realise now that although it works, to a degree, it is almost > > certainly the cause of the problem. > > > >I edited the hosts and smb.config files to the long name, but when I went > > to change the windows machines I found that it would not accept a name so > > long, so I now have to about turn and change everything to a shorter name > > (I don't want to keep WORKGROUP). > > > >The problem is, I can't find where this original name is set. I can't > >believe that it can only be set at installation - everything else is > >accessible if you know where to look. Can anyone point me at the relevant > >file, please > > > >Anne > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > /etc/hosts (for local and other ) > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > You need to keep the 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts exactly as they are... > > Civileme Thank you - although I had changed the computer name from the gui, the domain name was still set to the longer one. I have now corrected that. Can you think of any other files that may have remnants of the old incorrect setup? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
