[newbie-it] Masterizzatore montato in sola lettura !?!?!
Ma perchè non riesco più a montare il masterizzatore in scrittura ?!?!? Eppure guardate qui sotto... /dev/scd0 creato dall'utente kua ha i permessi rwx !! Ovviamente non riesco a masterizzare. G!!! 12:37 kua % mount /mnt/CDRW ~ mount: dispositivo di blocchi/dev/cdrom1 è protetto da scrittura, montaggio in sola lettura in corso 12:37 kua % ll /dev/cdrom1 ~ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 17 mag 12:10 /dev/cdrom1 - /dev/scd0 12:37 kua % ll /dev/scd0 ~ brwx--1 kua disk 11, 0 30 gen 2003 /dev/scd0 12:37 kua %
[newbie] RE: Kodak
Dennis, No I'm afraid not. I tried all the ideas that were given to me and it just won't read the d. card. Anyway I crossposted to another list I'm on (by mistake) and was given another way to try it out. If it works I will gladly post here how I finally got it to work. I think there's a problem between the chair and the keyboard :), I have a hard time seeing the straight logic of Linux vs the old micrsucks days. It really is a bad habit and hard to break. I'll keep everyone posted. Thanks , Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line?
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 08:30, Jerry Barton wrote: startx If you'd like a easy choice of GUI from the command line without using a graphical display manager you might want to use Xtart. I don't remember if it installs by default (I _THINK_ it does). If it's not then log in as root and urpmi Xtart Personally, I don't use kdm, mdkdm, gdm, xdm etc... It just seems to add an extra step that takes more time IMHO. The last time I used one I would login from the command line, startx, then log in again on the display manager, choose a GUI and hit ok. Maybe it's not like that anymore? I know if i do startx now it just goes straight to KDE but I figure that's because I don't use a graphical display manager. But... (and it's getting quite cliche to say this...) that's the great thing about GNU/Linux... choice. :-) HTH Jerry It's really too bad that Xtart isn't installed by default for the Mandrake distro; having heaps choices for wm's/desktops is a great experience for noobs'n'boobs - shows more of the advantages to GNU/linux over the other OS's available for the PC market... -- Sat Aug 2 16:40:00 EST 2003 16:40:00 up 1 day, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 4.20, 3.85, 3.67 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * === ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE Compiler optimizations have been made to macro expand LET into a WITHOUT- INTERRUPTS special form so that it can PUSH things into a stack in the LET-OPTIMIZATION area, SETQ the variables and then POP them back when it's done. Don't worry about this unless you use multiprocessing. Note that LET *could* have been defined by: (LET ((LET '`(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET))) `(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET)) This is believed to speed up execution by as much as a factor of 1.01 or 3.50 depending on whether you believe our friendly marketing representatives. This code was written by a new programmer here (we snatched him away from Itty Bitti Machines where we was writting COUGHBOL code) so to give him confidence we trusted his vows of it works pretty well and installed it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer
Linus Drouhard wrote: Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. You should have a .xcdroast folder in your home directory. Note it's a hidden folder. To unhide left mouse click , view - show hidden files if you remove it, the next time you boot it will remake it , I think ? so just move it to another place for now. I suspect that I've installed some other package that is interfering with xcdroast, but I have no idea what it could be. xcdroast worked for me in the distant past (I don't recall my exact configuration). Linus Are you in M.9.0 or M9.1 , both worked fine for me in xcdroast. But then I seldome use eroast, though I often use cdrecord. If another writer programme is interfering , maybe, consider removing them,you can always reinstall. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saving live-stream
m'kay! :) u've to go to the settings panel, input-plugins. there select mpeg layer 1-3, condigure. then jupm to streaming, check the checkbox save stream to harddisk, and thats the way the cookie crumbels :D works well! :) Quoting Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi toghether is it possible to save a live stream in xmms? or any other application? - this is in swiss-german and only for swiss-people(if there are any in here): i wönsche euch allne e schöne 1. auguscht und tüend nöd zwild höt abig! :) remo Have you looked at the Preferences of XMMS? Try looking under Option = Preferences = Audio I/O Plugins and look at the configuration of the plugin that corresponds to the typt of stream you're wanting to record. I think you can set it to record to your hard drive. I don't know how well it works, or if it works at all. I haven't tried it yet. Let us know how it goes. :-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution archiving
Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. Am I missing something? This a basic requirement, so maybe I am. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing monitor
On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 2:21 am, crak600 wrote: On Friday 01 August 2003 04:19 am, Paul wrote: If you've got a display you can use harddrake. glad this was brought up. i've got some questions. what if you don't have a display? situationwas having a power supply problem with my PC. i moved the PC from under the desk to my kitchen table, easier to work there. instead of lugging my 19 moniter to it, i grabbed my spare 14 moniter and plugged that in. everything went fine, until i got to where i had to log in to mdk, then i got a blue box on my moniter screen that said OUT OF SCAN RANGE. i hit ALT CTRL Backspace a few times, then got to a command line, from there i logged in as a user and just typed in halt to shut down the system. by then i was done my power supply testing, so i was able to put the comp back together and go back to my 19 moniter. but the problem (what i suspect it was) is that i have the moniter resolution set a LOT higher than my 14 montier can handle, so when i was trying to use it for a test moniter, it couldn't handle the 1200x1600 resolution. so in a case like this, what choices do i have to get my 14 moniter to work if i'm unable to knock down the resolution in the control center before swapping moniters? my 14 moniter was origonally used when i installed mdk 9.1, and then i upgraded to the 19 i have now. i'm still using the same video card as well. Thanks! Mike Most of the time you can use Ctrl-Alt-KeypadMinus and Ctrl-Alt-KeypadPlus to change resolution on the fly. Try it now, it's fun and it wont screw the system up. If one of them works you can use that to run XFDrake, or edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove the offending resolutions, or just move them elsewhere in the list. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: Hi Brian, Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? I'd appreciate the info! Paul Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. -- The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -Oscar Wilde http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 11:03 pm, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: My bank was a savings account at Tesco (which is a supermarket, for non-uk readers who may not have heard of it!). David said his new account was a business account, so is probably with a proper bank - but they might be equally unenlightened when it comes to linux compatibility. I just thought that it might help if we could tell whether other people had access to the bank account that was causing problems. Thanks for the info - it might help someone else. I did send an email to Tesco pointing out that it was a bit odd, from a marketing point of view, that they were restricting themselves to a shrinking market of Windows users, and also mentioning security concerns - no reply yet! Typical Gall bladder having been removed, I am feeling slightly better, and almost able to resume my linux self-education! Ouch!! I remember it well Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] exotic letters problem (å3D3D3D3D, =3D?utf-8?qC3=3DA4?=
Firstly : did it solve your problem ? Secondly : Your userinterface is independent of systems settings, for example, if you you have the relevant locales installed, from KDE's Control Center just change to whatever language you want. HTH Kaj Haulrich. No, it didn't solve the problem. So now I'm hoping for another suggestion. Thanks, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail send fails
On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 2:57 am, David E Fox wrote: Here is an oddity in kmail. If I forget and do not login and get messages, I can not send a message that I have formulated while not logged on. And it Dennis - I have too seen this happen a couple of times with kmail. Usually it happens when I upgrade, or (maybe) if I alter my postfix configuration. I don't alter the postfix config, but I had to reinstall and make sure the working config was restored recently. Once it worked, it baffled me that a message couldn't be sent, and got stored in the outbox. But, when I restarted kmail, and clicked on send queued, it was able to send it. I don't think the ISP is involved - at least here because my mail server is next to my left foot. :) IOW I have mail to/from here using my dsl name. I think tit's a kde bug, but perhaps one that affects different systems in different ways. I my case I occasionally get messages stuck in the outbox, but they almost always go if I 'send queued messages'. Just occasionally I have to close kmail and restart it. I normally leave kmail open and polling for messages all night, and some mornings I find that it is better to re-start it - presumably so that it can do housekeeping. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla profile in use
Hi, When I try to start Mozilla it sais Mozilla cannot use the profile default because it is in use. Please choose another profile or create a new one. I'm the only one using this computer and it's the same when I restart the computer. How can it be in use? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
No. There are released Mandrake specific rpms at: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution/mandrake-91-i586 I just D/Led the latest version of each non-development rpm and installed them all. Had to remove some of the old rpms that it objected to as I had previously tried the cooker version (which didn't work). Enjoy! Brian On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 19:56, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: Hi Brian, Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? I'd appreciate the info! Paul Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kooka
Hi all, I recently did a complete uninstall of SANE and all that comes along with it due to the dependencies (which is quite a lot) in order to get my new scanner connected. After installing SANE again I got the scanner running fortunately, but it seems that Kooka is no longer with me. It's not in the menu anymore, i can't start it from the command line and when i search on the name kooka in Mandrake Control Center it doesn't show up in either install new software or remove software. Can i install package kooka-3.0.5-1.i386.rpm from RpmFind.net or is there a mdk specific package that i missed? Btw, Xsane runs, but I'm not too fond about it, so that's why i want to give Kooka a try. Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line?
I agree, but i don't think its been worked on since Civileme took a powder from mandrake.. it could (and should) be prettied up and made the default.. would be of benefit to mandrake to do so. I might look into that, depends on what language its written in.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2003 2:43 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line? On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 08:30, Jerry Barton wrote: startx If you'd like a easy choice of GUI from the command line without using a graphical display manager you might want to use Xtart. I don't remember if it installs by default (I _THINK_ it does). If it's not then log in as root and urpmi Xtart Personally, I don't use kdm, mdkdm, gdm, xdm etc... It just seems to add an extra step that takes more time IMHO. The last time I used one I would login from the command line, startx, then log in again on the display manager, choose a GUI and hit ok. Maybe it's not like that anymore? I know if i do startx now it just goes straight to KDE but I figure that's because I don't use a graphical display manager. But... (and it's getting quite cliche to say this...) that's the great thing about GNU/Linux... choice. :-) HTH Jerry It's really too bad that Xtart isn't installed by default for the Mandrake distro; having heaps choices for wm's/desktops is a great experience for noobs'n'boobs - shows more of the advantages to GNU/linux over the other OS's available for the PC market... -- Sat Aug 2 16:40:00 EST 2003 16:40:00 up 1 day, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 4.20, 3.85, 3.67 - |____ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * === ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE Compiler optimizations have been made to macro expand LET into a WITHOUT- INTERRUPTS special form so that it can PUSH things into a stack in the LET-OPTIMIZATION area, SETQ the variables and then POP them back when it's done. Don't worry about this unless you use multiprocessing. Note that LET *could* have been defined by: (LET ((LET '`(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET))) `(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET)) This is believed to speed up execution by as much as a factor of 1.01 or 3.50 depending on whether you believe our friendly marketing representatives. This code was written by a new programmer here (we snatched him away from Itty Bitti Machines where we was writting COUGHBOL code) so to give him confidence we trusted his vows of it works pretty well and installed it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla profile in use
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 fifner the dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I try to start Mozilla it sais Mozilla cannot use the profile default because it is in use. Please choose another profile or create a new one. I'm the only one using this computer and it's the same when I restart the computer. How can it be in use? Thanks in advance, Fifner I had the same problem some time ago. It was due to a lockfile in one of the directories under ~/.mozilla/default/. Get rid of that file, and Mozilla should start all right. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and Samba Passwords -possibly a bit OT
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 19:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Having a bit of trouble with file sharing on the windows 98 guest on VMware. Although the passwords for windows login and Samba are the snipped I prefer to NOT use the VMWare Samba - so that the guest is actually part of the real network. Making sure that Samba is setup correctly is another issue; the settings in Samba can be very cryptic, so the actual share you want to access has to be setup properly in order to have workgroup access. You might want to use SWAT via Webmin to setup your Samba server and help to synchronise the users/passwords - much better than doing it from the term...and more intuitive if you care to use that phrase... Managed to get it working - I needed to create an object in the Windows registry that recognised unencripted passwords. All done now. I don't reckon I'll mess with the regular Samba at this time. Maybe if I ever have to network a second box I'll have a go. Cheers. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NT Domain help.... (SOLVED!!)
Stephen? Does the Mac list ever have a lot of traffic?? g Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/2/2003 at 10:33 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 22:24, Lanman wrote: Well Stephen,...Looks like we've outlived our usefulness to Frankie! Time to move on to another list! Grin! Grin! Lanman Yeah - well, the Macintosh list ain't got alot of traffic(g) -- Sat Aug 2 10:30:00 EST 2003 10:30:00 up 1 day, 17:32, 1 user, load average: 0.82, 0.92, 0.95 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. -- Franklin P. Jones 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] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
On Saturday 02 August 2003 05:56 am, Paul graced me with: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: Hi Brian, Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? I'd appreciate the info! Paul When I installed it on my laptop a several weeks ago, I used Ximian's Red Carpet. I found out the first time I tried to upgrade to a newer version of Evolution that this was the best, cleanest way to go. In my judgement, Red Carpet is much nicer and easier to work with than Mandrake's own Package Manager GUI. I did have one problem that made me decide to not use 1.4.4. The printer font was some weird contorted mess that I couldn't find any way to change. Have you tried to print an email as yet? I went all over the Web, Ximian's site, tried a few suggestions, looked around in the configs. I must have been answer-dumb because I just couldn't find any way to get rid of that stupid, useless font. Outside of the font issue, I like 1.4.4. I didn't have that many records in my Handspring and had to dump MDK on my laptop for several reasonsergo, not enough time with it to experience your problem. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer
Linus Drouhard escribió: Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. Linus First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also: /26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/ If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly configured system. First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a tool called hdparm which does a nice job here. /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for that drive. (See man hdparm for details). Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled. Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the best results. /sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer). Some reports told me that this often fixed problems. If you still have problems you can try to set the Set SCSI IMMED flag option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour. /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/FAQ /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/Readme atapi Suerte -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.1 Núcleo multimedia 2.4.21-0.16 09:18:19 up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank
David wrote: On Friday 01 August 2003 05:32 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: --snip Have you looked at the thread Can't access my bank account, started 9/3/03? I had a similar problem to yours, and after trying several tweaks we came to the conclusion that it just wasn't possible to access my particular account without Windows - the bank software was using Active X controls, so had to be run through Internet Explorer. I just don't want you spending loads of time trying to do something that just isn't possible when you could be doing something useful instead. If you haven't seen the thread, let me know - to save you trawling through archives, I could forward the messages to you. Margot --snip Anne Good point Margot. I have not seen the thread. I assumed (grin) my problem had something to do with Explorer. I tried the site that Richard sent and it worked just fine. The Bank is BBT here in the states. Is there some way that I could look at the source page that would indicate ActiveX. No idea I'm afraid - Tesco's website had a helpful page explaining that you had to use Windows and IE for security reasons! I can only suggest that you look to see if your bank has anything similar, and if they don't maybe you could phone them and try to persuade them to put you through to someone in their IT department - because the average person in customer services probably won't have a clue what your talking about. I was very well versed in Windows when the Paladium stuff struck a raw nerve and I bolted to Mandrake Linux. Needless to say, I know just enough about Linux to be dangerous. David I don't know enough yet to be brave enough to start anything that might be dangerous - I just sit here, chanting the mantra don't log in as root...don't log in as root! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
Hi T, I got 1.4.4. working already, with the RPM's from the site that Brian pointed out. No problem at all. way to change. Have you tried to print an email as yet? I went all I very rarely print e-mails. I gave it a try, since you mentioned it. It does print with a very weird font. Even worse: when printing to a PDF file, the same weird font is used. Not a big deal for me, but I can see where the shoe hurts. Paul -- The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -Oscar Wilde http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problen with Audigy 2
- Original Message - From: C Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problen with Audigy 2 At 03:05 PM 8/1/03 -0300, you wrote: Hi, first, sorry for my english, is not soo good. That it´s my firs week with Linux, and more i don´t know. The Linux Mandrake 9.1, have detect my sound card (Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2), in the control center of linux mandrake apear emu10k2, thats if i don't mistake it's the procesator of my soundcard. but i dont have sound. i visited various web page for a one solution www.opensource.creative.com, this page don't have maintain, beose the last file it's of jenuary of 2002. www.opensound.com, this page have a driver but only works the frontal spaker (i've a 5.1 analigic speakers, i would like, if possible use all the spaker system)and is pay. www.alsa-project.org, this page have a driver but dont suport this sound card. and more. A freiend tellme of the alsa-mixer, for togle the mute, but this mixer i don have installed. if any of you cant tell me any solution i will most gratefully. thanks for all i'm waiting a answer. thanks Gustavo The default for Mandrake seems to have the mixers set to zero Open aumix - in multimediasound and you will probably see the volume at zero. I believe it is installed by default. I know of no program for rear speaker support but OSS is working on it. Hope that helps Curt i probe but don't work becos its yet unmute the mixer. any other solution??? please thanks Gustavo 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] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:34 am, Paul graced me with: Hi T, I got 1.4.4. working already, with the RPM's from the site that Brian pointed out. No problem at all. Good for you! If you can get all the RPM's needed to satisfy dependencies, all's fine. :0) way to change. Have you tried to print an email as yet? I went all I very rarely print e-mails. I gave it a try, since you mentioned it. It does print with a very weird font. Even worse: when printing to a PDF file, the same weird font is used. Wellat least I know it isn't me, or something specific to my layout. I have a RH 9 workstation running the default-installed 1.2.x. I think I'll install 1.4.4 on it and see if I get the same ugly printer font. Maybe someone will jump in here and give us some clues as to how to get rid of this font. hint, hint?? I can imagine that printing as a PDF has to be butt-ugly, too. ):0p Not a big deal for me, but I can see where the shoe hurts. Dr. Smith used to say on the old TV show, Lost In Space' Oh, the pain...the pain... T :0) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] exotic letters =?utf-8?q?problem
On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:11 am, fifner the dragon wrote: Firstly : did it solve your problem ? Secondly : Your userinterface is independent of systems settings, for example, if you you have the relevant locales installed, from KDE's Control Center just change to whatever language you want. HTH Kaj Haulrich. No, it didn't solve the problem. So now I'm hoping for another suggestion. Thanks, Fifner Sorry to hear that, Fifner. Then someone wiser than me (most on this list are) will probably step in. BTW : is it only gFTP that causes trouble ? What about text editors, word processors, browsers etc. ? Judging from the subject line on this thread it's likely to be a UTF problem ? What happens when you change your encodings in mailers, browsers etc. ? Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MIDI: GM, GS, and XG
08/02/03 Hello John, I haven't checked lately, but one of the best MIDI books around is: The MIDI Files by Rob Young, published by Prentice Hall Europe, 1996 ISBN 0-13-262403-6 (pbk) $29.95US in January 1998 when I bought mine. For a single reference on MIDI, this book will be *extremely* hard to beat. It goes from novice to expert in an easy to read format, has programming exercises, and a diskette with the exercises so you listen to the proper results. Some preliminary information: GM= General MIDI, the original standard from 1991 GS= Roland's entry (named from their GS chip) also appeared in 1991. It is compatible with GM and offers extras. XG= Yamaha's entry appeared in late 1994. Compatible with GM and offers extras. Most computer sound cards are going to use GM. Keyboard synthesizers and other outboard gear will use GM and whatever else their manufacturer decided to add. I use a SB Live! Value card (GM and soundfonts) and Roland rack mounted modules: in particular the GS64 (1000+ sounds and GM compatible) and the OC1--an Orchestra module specializing in, what else, Orchestra instruments :) I don't have Yamaha gear, but my version of Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.4 has support for 29 Yamaha synths and XG. Tell me exactly which Yamaha keyboard/synth your daughter is using and I'll look into it. Now for the files you sent me. I took a look at Song001.mid only. This appears to be a professionally crafted midi file. It's using MIDI controller effects that would take an expert to program. If your daughter made this file, then you can ask *her* how to get it work with Rosegarden. :) The problem is not in the Instrument Patch list. GS and XG both use GM instrument patches as a basis in their default bank. I hadn't read the Yamaha XG section in The MIDI Files book before because I don't use XG. Sorry for the bad pointer before about XG instrument patches. --- The first glaring problem is in Channel 9. The GM standard (also followed by GS) is that Channel 10 is the Drum Channel. XG allows Channel 10 and 2 other channels to be used for Drums. Song001.mid is using Channel 9 for a Drum Channel. This immediately got you hearing a Clean Guitar when run through Rosegarden (which uses GM only, I believe.) The quick fix is to redirect this track from Channel 9 to Channel 10. Then you will have two tracks playing through Channel 10. That's okay with MIDI. There was a second problem with Channel 9 and Channel 10. They were set to use patch number 27. This is not a defined patch in XG Drum Sets. Here's how XG define the drums set patches: 0- none 1- Standard Kit 1 2- Standard Kit 2 9- Room Kit 17- Rock Kit 25- Electro Kit 26- Analog Kit 33- Jazz Kit 41- Brush Kit 49- Classic Kit With GM, there is only one defined drum kit called Standard Kit. It will either be at patch 0 or at patch 1, depending how Rosegarden labels the patches. So to fix your drum problem, reset the track that was using Channel 9 to Channel 10, and reset the patch number to 0 or 1 (whichever setting allows you to hear the standard drum kit) for Channel 9 and Channel 10. -- The second major problem is with other Channels using nonstandard GM instrument banks (and using nonstandard XG banks as well.) This is probably because this song was composed *specifically* for your instrument. That's why I've asked you to tell me exactly which Yamaha you have. It will help me to load the correct Instrument Bank so I can see which instrument is supposed to be playing on that Channel. Most of the Channels were using Bank 0, which should be fine and should be defaulting to the standard GM instrument bank. Channel 1 was using Bank 116. Not an XG standard bank. The quick fix is to change it to Bank 0. This will use a Lead 2 Sawtooth instrument. Don't worry about Channel 2. It's used to send MIDI control information and is not 'played'. Leave it alone. Channel 11 was using Bank 113. Also not an XG standard bank. Change it to Bank 0. This will use the SynthBass1 instrument. Channel 15 was using Bank 112. Same problem as with the other two channels. Change it to Bank 0 for now. This will use the Piano2 instrument. --- That should get you going for now. I've never gotten Rosegarden up and running, so I can't tell you how to make these changes to Song001.mid. And worse yet, my Windows NT partition got a virus while I was using it for email when trying to work out my Mandrake install problems. I'll probably be doing another low level format and reinstalling the rest of this weekend after I got off work tonight. So you probably won't be hearing from me for a few days. But hopefully someone else can assist you with Rosegarden to make these changes. All the Best, John The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
Hi Paul, I've just upgraded ximian evolution to 1.4.4 through ximian red-carpet, wich manages all the dependences stuff (two or three packages were downloade and updated) automatically. Try it, it works great. http://www.ximian.org/products/redcarpet/download.html Then, choose Linux mandrake 9.1 for x386 in the list and go. You can also use red-carpet to upgrade mandrake instead urpmi. El sáb, 02-08-2003 a las 11:56, Paul escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: Hi Brian, Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? I'd appreciate the info! Paul Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apache setup and archives
Hi Everyone, I am trying to set up a simple apache (2.0) webserver so I would normally try to search the archives. I continue to get error messages whenever I try to access them. As an alternative, does anyone have a good newbie site for the steps involved? Also, on my 9.1 installation with default security settings, is the standard port open or closed? How can I tell. As you can see, I'm pretty new to webserving so all assistance is appreciated. Best regards from burning BC Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache setup and archives
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:05:57 + Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to set up a simple apache (2.0) webserver so I would normally try to search the archives. I continue to get error messages whenever I try to access them. For most mailing list archives, I use http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/. Use your browser's find function to locate mandrake-newbie. As an alternative, does anyone have a good newbie site for the steps involved? Not much to do, it should work out of the box. Verify that httpd is running (you can do that through mcc system services--you can also start it from there if it's not running). To start it from a terminal, as root do service httpd start. Note that if you make any configuration changes to /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf, you'll have to restart httpd. Also, on my 9.1 installation with default security settings, is the standard port open or closed? How can I tell. You can go to mcc security firewall and check that you want to allow Web Server. As you can see, I'm pretty new to webserving so all assistance is appreciated. Best regards from burning BC Bill W. Todd -- Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the door; and the judge said, This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla firebird 0.7
Anybody here tried to get this to work? If so was it an RPM or a tar install? The wife has it on her SuSe 8.2 install and I'm jealous! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 18:02:02 up 19 days, 7:40, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00 If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] exotic letters =?utf-8?q?problem
Sorry to hear that, Fifner. Then someone wiser than me (most on this list are) will probably step in. BTW : is it only gFTP that causes trouble ? What about text editors, word processors, browsers etc. ? Judging from the subject line on this thread it's likely to be a UTF problem ? What happens when you change your encodings in mailers, browsers etc. ? Kaj Haulrich. The problems this far are sending it over ftp and compressing it. When I right click a folder in konqueror and choose to zip it there is a problem with the non enlish characters. They are replaced by other wierd characters. I don't know what program is used. When I tar a folder there is no problem. Text editors, word processors, browsers etc are no problem... Thank you all, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla firebird 0.7
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:03, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Anybody here tried to get this to work? If so was it an RPM or a tar install? The wife has it on her SuSe 8.2 install and I'm jealous! Just downloaded/installed via urpmi from texstar. Looks good. Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla firebird 0.7
Paul wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:03, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Anybody here tried to get this to work? If so was it an RPM or a tar install? The wife has it on her SuSe 8.2 install and I'm jealous! Just downloaded/installed via urpmi from texstar. Looks good. Paul M. 0.7? I don't think that's even out yet. I think 0.6.1 is the latest release. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kooka
Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I recently did a complete uninstall of SANE and all that comes along with it due to the dependencies (which is quite a lot) in order to get my new scanner connected. After installing SANE again I got the scanner running fortunately, but it seems that Kooka is no longer with me. It's not in the menu anymore, i can't start it from the command line and when i search on the name kooka in Mandrake Control Center it doesn't show up in either install new software or remove software. Can i install package kooka-3.0.5-1.i386.rpm from RpmFind.net or is there a mdk specific package that i missed? Btw, Xsane runs, but I'm not too fond about it, so that's why i want to give Kooka a try. Marco Kooka is part of kdegraphics. When you uninstalled everything it may have been one of the packages that got the ax. Re-install it and see what happens. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saving live-stream
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m'kay! :) u've to go to the settings panel, input-plugins. there select mpeg layer 1-3, condigure. then jupm to streaming, check the checkbox save stream to harddisk, and thats the way the cookie crumbels :D works well! :) Great! Quoting Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi toghether is it possible to save a live stream in xmms? or any other application? - this is in swiss-german and only for swiss-people(if there are any in here): i wönsche euch allne e schöne 1. auguscht und tüend nöd zwild höt abig! :) remo Have you looked at the Preferences of XMMS? Try looking under Option = Preferences = Audio I/O Plugins and look at the configuration of the plugin that corresponds to the typt of stream you're wanting to record. I think you can set it to record to your hard drive. I don't know how well it works, or if it works at all. I haven't tried it yet. Let us know how it goes. :-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] import messages from OE6 into Kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I've been trying to import messages from OE6 into Kmail without success. The process just stopped after some times. Has anyone got any idea how to import it? I use the ToolImport menu from Kmail. Thanks. Fajar. - -- This message was composed on a 100% GNU/Linux machine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/K/4KqIggd0J7W5ARAuJtAKCjdqJkZyXsgC0qr489gD3woxy8WQCgxl56 1Q3e/Sxv4cRTVFJF28khR38= =dlQA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Weirdness, logout button without the dragon
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:03, Robin Turner wrote: Heather/Femme wrote: Other small problem... I like that little dragon that pops up gives me options on how i want to logout when I hit the Logout button on the kicker. It seems to not be there anymore...yet was there when I first loaded 9.0/.1. Where is he how do I get him back permanently? Looks like a mismatch between MCC and KDE settings. Do you have automatic login? If so, disable it in MCC, then enable it in KDE. Sir Robin Dunno how you figured this out but ty. That worked :) -- Femme On MDK 9.1, more or less 24/7...cept for gaming. Finally. :D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using other CDs
I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. Your help is appreciated. Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using other CDs
On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 7:14 pm, Carter Harris wrote: I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/ with CD1 in the drive it should do what you want. BTW - you 'hijacked' a thread, which is a real PITA for those using threaded mail readers. If you reply to a post, changing the subject line, it doesn't break the train of associations, so it is in the middle of a totally unrelated thread. Please always start a new thread for a new subject. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla firebird 0.7
Just downloaded/installed via urpmi from texstar. U got a URL for that because all my googling only produces 6.1... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 19:33:22 up 19 days, 9:11, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.04 Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx's last words pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Using other CDs
On Saturday 02 August 2003 01:14 pm, Carter Harris wrote: I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. Your help is appreciated. Carter Carter, if it does not show up on the add packages list in MCC then it probably is already installed. Take a look in MCC at software management remove packages and in the search box type webmin. If webmin package shows up you have it installed. Easier yet is type in a terminal slocate webmin. You may have to do that as su if you have not added that to your users' groups. If you have it you can access it by opening a webbrowser and typing in https://localhost:1/ then give root and root password and it will log you in. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Using other CDs
Thanks Anne ... Sorry about the screwed up thread. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using other CDs On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 7:14 pm, Carter Harris wrote: I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/ with CD1 in the drive it should do what you want. BTW - you 'hijacked' a thread, which is a real PITA for those using threaded mail readers. If you reply to a post, changing the subject line, it doesn't break the train of associations, so it is in the middle of a totally unrelated thread. Please always start a new thread for a new subject. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSH Session tasks dying
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:58:39PM -0700, Jeff wrote: In Mandrake I'm having trouble running tasks remotely. I connect using SSH and I start a background task normally, with the on the end and as long as I don't log off its fine. If I log off, everything I started dies. This does not happen in other flavors of linux and its driving me to madness! Madness I say. Thanks Jeff When you exit a shell, don't the child processes die too? Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SSH Session tasks dying
I'm trying to start a server and log off and leave it running on the server, if there is a different way I can do it and leave the processes running without being local to the box I'd like to know. Thanks Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:58:39PM -0700, Jeff wrote: In Mandrake I'm having trouble running tasks remotely. I connect using SSH and I start a background task normally, with the on the end and as long as I don't log off its fine. If I log off, everything I started dies. This does not happen in other flavors of linux and its driving me to madness! Madness I say. Thanks Jeff When you exit a shell, don't the child processes die too? Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] import messages from OE6 into Kmail
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:08 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to import messages from OE6 into Kmail without success. The process just stopped after some times. Has anyone got any idea how to import it? I use the ToolImport menu from Kmail. I would attempt to either export the OE6 mail into another format. If O Failing that, I would try to import it into either an adware copy of Eudora or Netscape, or Mozilla. All of these will save mail into the proper standard for email. Then I would just import the email into Kmail. You may do well with just placing the directories into Kmail, but oddities may occur. One other way to do it is to sync your palm with Windows, then Sync it with KDE. Watch out with this one, as KPilot is still quite buggy for Mandrake users. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSH Session tasks dying
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:58 pm, Jeff wrote: In Mandrake I'm having trouble running tasks remotely. I connect using SSH and I start a background task normally, with the on the end and as long as I don't log off its fine. If I log off, everything I started dies. This does not happen in other flavors of linux and its driving me to madness! Madness I say. Have you tried running the tasks in background by using taskname ? But it sure is weird that they are dying off. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
