[newbie-it] webcam
Domanda: esiste qualcosa come un driver generico per webcam, ho una forocamera da poco, con un Hardware anche un po' datato, che attacco anche come webcam posso sperare di attaccarla ed usarla? Grazie Alf
[newbie-it] Problemi con dcgui
Salve a tutti, sono diversi mesi che provo disperatamente a far funzionare il programma dcgui, ma tutte le volte riesco al massimo a connettermi ad un hub ma non riesco ne a scaricare nulla, ne a vedere la lista dei file sharati dagli utenti. Qualche buona anima che conosce il programma può darmi una mano? Grazie Tommaso P.S. Ho provato sia a connettermi in active mode che in passive...
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con dcgui
Alle 21:23, sabato 1 novembre 2003, Tommaso ha scritto: Salve a tutti, sono diversi mesi che provo disperatamente a far funzionare il programma dcgui, ma tutte le volte riesco al massimo a connettermi ad un hub ma non riesco ne a scaricare nulla, ne a vedere la lista dei file sharati dagli utenti. Qualche buona anima che conosce il programma può darmi una mano? Grazie Tommaso P.S. Ho provato sia a connettermi in active mode che in passive... Posso solo consigliarti di cambiare programma di file sharing, prova Lopster: http://lopster.sourceforge.net/ io lo uso e va benissimo. Ciao. Artasersec
[newbie-it] WM, un'altra puttanata
La puttanata e' mia, ovvio. Ho fatto partire xclock come consigliatomi, ma siccome mi rompeva le scatole la barra del titolo su _quella_ finestrella, ho impostato le proprieta' su senza titolo, senza x per chidere, senza pulsante di ridimensionamento, senza contorno finestra etc etc. Solo che WM ha preso per valide queste impostazioni per _tutte_ le finestre... e non riesco a tornare indietro! Arwan -- There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:26:54 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd level them all out first. Otherwise you wind up with some louder than others. Can be annoying once you burn it to CD... :-) I think it would work out the same either way. Depends on the desired end result, and since he asked about *increasing* the volume, which -m may in fact *not* do... Dons audio engineer hat If you normalize and find that the volume is no greater, it's because the dynamic range is such that the peaks are already at maximum value. This is not usually an issue with rock/pop stuff as it's almost always produced with substantial compression, but for more variable material you may be looking for compression rather than normalization. Note that if you normalize -g x (where x 1) a track which already has peaks at the maximum range, you'll introduce very nasty distortion at those points. The idea to use rezound is probably a good one just because it allows you to see what's going on. Of course if there are 3000 tracks to process, the CLI approach has a lot to recommend it! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Download Managers
Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK
Hi, Kindly suggest a script language to use and maybe to difficult to learn. This come to mind - phyton - perl - ??? At this time I use text gedit for * dos batch like files * Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Start to learn to learn to compile kernel
Hi, If you would compile a kernel for the first time... what should be taken in to account before the jump.. kindly some pointers to docs - howto,s and where to locate these. Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:33:41 -0500 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran the network setup wizard in expert mode and unchecked set host name from DHCP address (or something worded like that don't remember exactly) and it doesn't do it anymore. try that. Perfect you are exactly right, this fixed the same problem for me on 9.1 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 02:55:44 EST 2003 02:55:44 up 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.95, 0.46, 0.22 You two ought to be more careful--your love could drag on for years and years. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK
On 11/01/2003 08:11 AM, Johan wrote: Kindly suggest a script language to use and maybe to difficult to learn. This come to mind - phyton - perl - ??? Johan, I have tried perl but I find it too unclear for my taste. I like Python. It is simple and direct. The trick with python is to understand it's level-structure using whitespace. When writing an IF, for instance, you would write something like: if a == 5: statement 1 statement 2 statement 3 Statements 1 and 2 will be performed when a = 5, statement 3 is outside of the if-clause. Python is not difficult to learn and has many options. I have written a complete program to maintain a members-database, create reports etc in python, where the data are stored in MySQL. You can have a look at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/ or http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/ (depending on your python version) for more information. Walt Disney changed to python programming for its cartoon-movies because of the speed one can develop in python. Good luck in making your choice. Paul -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shell Scripting
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/en/AdvBashHowto/ This should get you started. Paul Has anyone come accross any good tutorials on the net that teaches shell scripting?? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD regions
Hi gang. This has probably been aired before, but is it possible to get past the regional encoding restriction with Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer? The problem is, Amazon has a copy of a DVD I hoped to buy which is only available for region 1. The UK belongs to region 2. Amazon UK cannot help so it probably is only available for North America. -- Len Lawrence -- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. -- Brigid Brophy -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs
Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:38:46AM +0200, Anarky wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I think you dind't understand my question very well. I'm quite happy with editing the setings in the file .. what I mean is ... it would be cool if I could specify that quality is 4 for everything but the like folder, for which it's 5. but don't worry about it. Thanks a LOT. you've helped me hugelly. thanks. big satisfaction. Asked Sebastian Trueg (K3b author) and ogg works fine with k3b .. so now I'm all set for the big conversion :) Oh, I understand. This one does that, just set the path for high quality encoding folder. High is 5, regular is 4. If you want to change those values, there are two places for it in the script--the section for mp3s without id3 tags and the section for those with id3 tags. thanks :) I've already started working on it from last night .. copied the script to 5 names for the 5 types of categories, set for each one quality dir .. and then made a mega script calling each of these :) .. so it's been workign hard since last night .. and will be workign for a long time now ;) it feels sooo good to know my computer workign hard :) The conversions are generally quite cool .. only one thing is a problem for me: the output is of the form some number - song - album - band .. isn't there some way I could get rid of the some number part? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs
Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:38:46AM +0200, Anarky wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I think you dind't understand my question very well. I'm quite happy with editing the setings in the file .. what I mean is ... it would be cool if I could specify that quality is 4 for everything but the like folder, for which it's 5. but don't worry about it. Thanks a LOT. you've helped me hugelly. thanks. big satisfaction. Asked Sebastian Trueg (K3b author) and ogg works fine with k3b .. so now I'm all set for the big conversion :) Oh, I understand. This one does that, just set the path for high quality encoding folder. High is 5, regular is 4. If you want to change those values, there are two places for it in the script--the section for mp3s without id3 tags and the section for those with id3 tags. thanks. I really appreciate your effort!! If there is any way I could help you in any way please say so. If you were a windows user I'd be offering you a free version of the screensaver I made with a friend and are still planing to somehow market (okay, don't jump on me for it being a bad idea everybody's entitled to try) : http://www.ixaarii.com/FoE/index.html ... but most recently I've been working more in Blender, a little Gimp experience, some Photoshop .. learning Softimage XSI ... if I can help in any of those areas (also although I don't do that anymore I might be able to come up with some help for 3d gfx/2d programming, OpenGl, Directx, assembly, C++ ..). ... but aobut this version of the script .. now it's more difficult to use because I've got to search (though it was not hard to find) in the code .. the stuff with the start variables was quite cool ... but maybe this isn't the solution, because I discouvered there is also music of the type I don't really appreciate which I'll keep on my hdd ... so that I'll use for a lower quality category (3). many many thanks for your help, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD regions
Hi gang. This has probably been aired before, but is it possible to get past the regional encoding restriction with Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer? The problem is, Amazon has a copy of a DVD I hoped to buy which is only available for region 1. The UK belongs to region 2. Amazon UK cannot help so it probably is only available for North America. Isn't that more of a hardware problem then a softwareproblem...I might be wrong but that's what I think. You need to get the DVD-player region free /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmms enque parameters
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:19:18PM +0200, Anarky wrote: I made xmms behave like I used winamp in windows by adding open with commands to folders with the parameters xmms -p -e to play and enque whole folders in Krusader ... one thing I'm missing though: this way I keep adding to the old playlist .. and what I'd like to do is reset the playlist. Any ideas? According to man xmms: -e, --enqueueDon't clear the playlist. that's exactly the problem .. playlists keep piling up .. I wish there was a switch to enque while clearing the list :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I downloaded the kernel-source from Mandrake,the install gets to the build kernel,it starts OK and gets to about 75% and then fails. Has anyone got a clue how to sort this? Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD regions
On Monday 27 Oct 2003 3:52 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: Hi gang. This has probably been aired before, but is it possible to get past the regional encoding restriction with Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer? The problem is, Amazon has a copy of a DVD I hoped to buy which is only available for region 1. The UK belongs to region 2. Amazon UK cannot help so it probably is only available for North America. Do a search on Google and you will find sites where you can download new firmware to make your drive region free. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
Brian Parish wrote: Dons audio engineer hat The idea to use rezound is probably a good one just because it allows you to see what's going on. Of course if there are 3000 tracks to process, the CLI approach has a lot to recommend it! HTH Brian Thanks, to all, for the support from you have given me, you have opened up a treasure of possibilities for me in regard to getting to grips with sound manipulation. May I first confirm that there are a number of options as regards to which normalize command I should choose when trying to reset sound levels, here are what I have guessed from the help files and man pages, no practicable examples are give , so it's a question of trial and error. Still this is generally how I have currently come to understand it, normalize -n --no-adjust *.wav n= a number, but what ? not clear from helpfile exactly what number. I don't quite understand exactly what this is doing but seems to indicate it is assessing the current state of .wav files and what it thinks it needs to be done without actually implemmenting it, correct ? Below seems to be the general range of the normalize -g command, correct ? normalize -g 1.1 *.wav normalize -g 1.2 *.wav normalize -g 1.3 *.wav normalize -g 1.4 *.wav normalize -g 1.5 *.wav normalize -g 1.6 *.wav normalize -g 1.7 *.wav normalize -g 1.8 *.wav normalize -g 1.9 *.wav normalize -g 2.0 *.wav = twice volume level Then there is a normalize -a command (amplitude ?) with a range as follows, normalize -a 1.0 *.wav scale 0.0 to 1.0 normalize -a 0.9 *.wav normalize -a 0.8 *.wav normalize -a 0.7 *.wav normalize -a 0.6 *.wav normalize -a 0.5 *.wav normalize -a 0.4 *.wav normalize -a 0.3 *.wav normalize --amplitude=AMP *.wav This didn't do anything for me so I must have it wrong. There also seems to be a normalize -m *.wav command, haven't yet sussed this one. I have a current project inwhich an old audio tape circa 1975 of an audio recording of Faure requiem recorded in 1963 of the Paris Conservatoire orchestra, conducted by Andre Cluytens, and old favourite of mine, and of which I would dearly like to make a first class audio CD of, purely for my own enjoyment. The tape itself seems to play well enough, I don't think there is excessive wear in it's quality, but bear in mind it has been played, and magnetic tape is not reknown for it longevity. Anyway to my ear it sounds still good. Now using gramofile I have managed to cache up 9 .wav files, the first attempt of which was so quiet that even with my computer's sound level turned to maximum volume it wouldn't be regarded as very good sound level.Nevertheless , by turning up the source soundlevel beyond normal green sythesizer levels (the visual stuff) into the orange and red I can get a higher sound level cached up on the HD. It is still not much regarded by my computer as being load, and the sound level is such that the quality of play is I believe not as good, bear in mind that may just be because the higher source levels brings out the imperfection, but I suspect it is actually distorting the wave pattern. Gramofile dosn't seem to have any graphical sound display aspect to it's capabilities.So maybe gramofile is not the best tool in this respect. I have rezound and audacity on my system, but both seem only to want to work upon audio files already cached to HD, which is all very useful but not the problem I face, I really want to be able to feed the sound stream from source, into a graphical programme that enables me to see what kind of general sound level and quality of wave form I'm getting from the source, and to make adjustments to that situation from the beginning rather than turn it into a hit and miss affair. It is possible that either or both of these programmes do this but if so I haven't found out how, to date. Anyhow once cached to HD, rezound plays the audio .wav files, but the quality of the sound is much worse than when the same files are played in an ordinary .wav sound player programme like xcdroast has built into it ( KSCD and the like don't play cached HD .wav files only CD's) but possibly this is as it should be. I don't know, this is all very new to me and I'm feeling my way . So at the moment, I can cache the tape to HD and play them as .wav files , but the sound levels are poor and I need to learn how best to use the apps to repair and restore . Hints and suggestions welcomed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
Hello wise ones, I had 9.1 running (Dell Precision 420 MT dual processor). Installed 9.2 (and reinstalled several times - same thing), and my Win95 shares showed up the 1st time I booted. And the address was pingable. All boots thereafter, eth0 was assigned to 127.255.255.255 on boot through dchp, the shares were gone (thought my hub lights blink). I ping the Windows IP and get 'network unreachable.' Much net searching has led to a better understanding of networking, but no solution. I'm now keeping a copy of the 9.2 virgin install on a 2nd partition so I can keep trying without the hour of reinstallation each time. HELP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Start to learn to learn to compile kernel
On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:15 am, Johan wrote: Hi, If you would compile a kernel for the first time... what should be taken in to account before the jump.. kindly some pointers to docs - howto,s and where to locate these. The kernel HOWTO is a start http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Kernel-HOWTO.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:50 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Has any one been able to install the Nvidia drivers on 9.2? I have download the drivers from Nvidia's site,shut down X,and found the drivers(using MC,what a brilliant program),but when I get to the install,things start to go wrong.No correct kernel found,do want to try and get one from the Nvidia site,none found.Install failed,please make sure you have the correct kernel-source. I downloaded the kernel-source from Mandrake,the install gets to the build kernel,it starts OK and gets to about 75% and then fails. Has anyone got a clue how to sort this? Drew Does your kernel-source match the running kernel? i.e., are you running kernel 2.4.22-21, but you have kernel-source 2.4.22-10 installed -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:06 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan d4x (Downloader for X). It's on your CD's, or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. I don't know what you mean by 'channels' (multiple sites?), but yes, simultaneous d/l's are easy to do (if the site allows it) and from differnet sites. Supports drag'n drop. d4x-2.4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is the latest. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:06 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan d4x (Downloader for X). It's on your CD's, or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. I don't know what you mean by 'channels' (multiple sites?), but yes, simultaneous d/l's are easy to do (if the site allows it) and from differnet sites. Supports drag'n drop. d4x-2.4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is the latest. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. Multiple channels: when you split a single download in 2 o more chunks and start downloading them simultaneously, building them together when all are done. Supposedly it can accelerate your downloads, mainly when download sites give you a bandwidth quota. Some sites consider this an abusive practice. Used by Download Accelerator and GetRight under Windows. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Dons audio engineer hat The idea to use rezound is probably a good one just because it allows you to see what's going on. Of course if there are 3000 tracks to process, the CLI approach has a lot to recommend it! HTH Brian Thanks, to all, for the support from you have given me, you have opened up a treasure of possibilities for me in regard to getting to grips with sound manipulation. May I first confirm that there are a number of options as regards to which normalize command I should choose when trying to reset sound levels, here are what I have guessed from the help files and man pages, no practicable examples are give , so it's a question of trial and error. Still this is generally how I have currently come to understand it, normalize -n --no-adjust *.wav n= a number, but what ? not clear from helpfile exactly what number. I don't quite understand exactly what this is doing but seems to indicate it is assessing the current state of .wav files and what it thinks it needs to be done without actually implemmenting it, correct ? Below seems to be the general range of the normalize -g command, correct ? normalize -g 1.1 *.wav normalize -g 1.2 *.wav normalize -g 1.3 *.wav normalize -g 1.4 *.wav normalize -g 1.5 *.wav normalize -g 1.6 *.wav normalize -g 1.7 *.wav normalize -g 1.8 *.wav normalize -g 1.9 *.wav normalize -g 2.0 *.wav = twice volume level Then there is a normalize -a command (amplitude ?) with a range as follows, normalize -a 1.0 *.wav scale 0.0 to 1.0 normalize -a 0.9 *.wav normalize -a 0.8 *.wav normalize -a 0.7 *.wav normalize -a 0.6 *.wav normalize -a 0.5 *.wav normalize -a 0.4 *.wav normalize -a 0.3 *.wav normalize --amplitude=AMP *.wav This didn't do anything for me so I must have it wrong. There also seems to be a normalize -m *.wav command, haven't yet sussed this one. I have a current project inwhich an old audio tape circa 1975 of an audio recording of Faure requiem recorded in 1963 of the Paris Conservatoire orchestra, conducted by Andre Cluytens, and old favourite of mine, and of which I would dearly like to make a first class audio CD of, purely for my own enjoyment. The tape itself seems to play well enough, I don't think there is excessive wear in it's quality, but bear in mind it has been played, and magnetic tape is not reknown for it longevity. Anyway to my ear it sounds still good. Now using gramofile I have managed to cache up 9 .wav files, the first attempt of which was so quiet that even with my computer's sound level turned to maximum volume it wouldn't be regarded as very good sound level.Nevertheless , by turning up the source soundlevel beyond normal green sythesizer levels (the visual stuff) into the orange and red I can get a higher sound level cached up on the HD. It is still not much regarded by my computer as being load, and the sound level is such that the quality of play is I believe not as good, bear in mind that may just be because the higher source levels brings out the imperfection, but I suspect it is actually distorting the wave pattern. Gramofile dosn't seem to have any graphical sound display aspect to it's capabilities.So maybe gramofile is not the best tool in this respect. I have rezound and audacity on my system, but both seem only to want to work upon audio files already cached to HD, which is all very useful but not the problem I face, I really want to be able to feed the sound stream from source, into a graphical programme that enables me to see what kind of general sound level and quality of wave form I'm getting from the source, and to make adjustments to that situation from the beginning rather than turn it into a hit and miss affair. It is possible that either or both of these programmes do this but if so I haven't found out how, to date. Anyhow once cached to HD, rezound plays the audio .wav files, but the quality of the sound is much worse than when the same files are played in an ordinary .wav sound player programme like xcdroast has built into it ( KSCD and the like don't play cached HD .wav files only CD's) but possibly this is as it should be. I don't know, this is all very new to me and I'm feeling my way . So at the moment, I can cache the tape to HD and play them as .wav files , but the sound levels are poor and I need to learn how best to use the apps to repair and restore . Hints and suggestions welcomed. John John, To get quality, you need to achieve a reasonable level when first recording the input from the tape. Recording at low level then boosting the signal later is like starting out with an 8 bit recording then converting it to 16 - it will end up looking like CD quality, but still sounding like an old cassette. What you need to concentrate on then is setting the initial level
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:41:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have a current project inwhich an old audio tape circa 1975 of an audio recording of Faure requiem recorded in 1963 of the Paris Conservatoire orchestra, conducted by Andre Cluytens, and old favourite of mine, and of which I would dearly like to make a first class audio CD of, purely for my own enjoyment. I would 1st off create a backup dir of the .wav files, then have a set just for playing with. Try normalize -g starting with the lower end of the list you posted above, like say 1.3 or 1.4, bearing in mind as Brian said that you want to watch out for peaks that are already into distortion range. It may take some trial and error, but I would bet that if the .wav files that gramofile produces are very quiet that you will find using something like 1.5 or higher will be pretty safe, and produce the effect you desire. From personal experience, I had a .wav that I ripped from Streamtuner/Shoutcast that was very quiet. I used normalize -g 2, and it came out perfect, even though it was a Techno track with *very* high ranges, no distortion at all. Anyhow, as long as you keep the original .wav files as a backup, you can play with this ad infinitum 'til you get the result you want, and not have to keep grabbing the audio from a deteriorating cassette. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:44, Cliff Skoog wrote: Hello wise ones, I had 9.1 running (Dell Precision 420 MT dual processor). Installed 9.2 (and reinstalled several times - same thing), and my Win95 shares showed up the 1st time I booted. And the address was pingable. All boots thereafter, eth0 was assigned to 127.255.255.255 on boot through dchp, the shares were gone (thought my hub lights blink). I ping the Windows IP and get 'network unreachable.' Much net searching has led to a better understanding of networking, but no solution. I'm now keeping a copy of the 9.2 virgin install on a 2nd partition so I can keep trying without the hour of reinstallation each time. HELP What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Anarky wrote: The conversions are generally quite cool .. only one thing is a problem for me: the output is of the form some number - song - album - band .. isn't there some way I could get rid of the some number part? Of course! Near the end of the script where oggenc is called, look for -n $workingPath/$prettyTrack - %t -%l -%a.ogg and you can change anything you want except $workingPath/. The number is the track number, %t the song, %l album, %a artist. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:17:50 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The answer however, is not to reject everything out of hand and adopt the position that no law can be useful. Unless you recognize that laws *create disorder* ;-) The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu Cute little sayings like this are relatively meaningless to me. Anarchy would be far worse for all of us than even over-the-top government. Laws are an absolute necessity without which there can be no social construct or meaningful life outside of a every man for himself struggle for survival. The ironic thing is that the most vociferous supporters of anarchy are the least likely to live well in such a system. There is an alternative to the Babylon shitstem, the bureaucracy, the SNAFU that we call government. It's people taking responsibility for their own participation in the community, the 'net, and leaving the parasites and legal priests out of it. For better or worse, they are already in it and they will continue to be in it. The next time someone uses a phishing technique on your grandmother and steals a couple thousand out of her bank account, tell me then about how you still want to leave the parasites and legal priests out of it. I will never sit down with MPAA or RIAA or MS lawyers and work out a compromise. When you choose the lesser of two evils, you choose evil. Again, if the RIAA had sat down with the tech community from the very beginning to help design a system that enabled the artists that they are supposedly protecting to earn royalties or be reimbursed for their work while still providing a valuable service to consumers, I would have applauded it. Much like the original MPAA made its peace with VCR's and we all benefitted from that compromise. Shrill extreme rhetoric does not do our community any good, Haywiremac. It may make you feel good, but it will result in your being left behind to stand in the corner while the rest of the kids learn to play nice together. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:22:58AM +0200, Anarky wrote: ... but aobut this version of the script .. now it's more difficult to use because I've got to search (though it was not hard to find) in the code .. the stuff with the start variables was quite cool ... but maybe this isn't the solution, because I discouvered there is also music of the type I don't really appreciate which I'll keep on my hdd ... so that I'll use for a lower quality category (3). In this case I'd just define paths for the non-default ogg quality directories. So, if 4 if your default, define a high and low directory highquality=/path/to/hq/mp3s lowquality=/path/to/lq/mp3s Then just before it encodes to ogg look for the if...else statements and do if echo $mp3|grep $highquality /dev/null 21 ; then quality=5 elif echo $mp3|grep $lowquality /dev/null 21; then quality=3 else quality=4 fi Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:40:51 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Cute little sayings like this are relatively meaningless to me. Anarchy would be far worse for all of us than even over-the-top government. Laws are an absolute necessity without which there can be no social construct or meaningful life outside of a every man for himself struggle for survival. The ironic thing is that the most vociferous supporters of anarchy are the least likely to live well in such a system. That's all based on pretty big assumptions, and to be perfectly honest, I find your tone disrespectful, arrogant, and condescending. If you want to voice your opinion, fine, but keep your characterizations of other's to yourself. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ That, that is, is. That, that is not, is not. That, that is, is not that, that is not. That, that is not, is not that, that is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 01:08:20 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you need to concentrate on then is setting the initial level so that it's well below distortion on the peaks, but not too far. rezound or audacity include meters for displaying the record levels, so using one of these to do the initial recording should allow you to manipulate the input level until the meters are bouncing up to close to the red zone on the loudest peaks. That way you are using close to the full 96dB available for 16 bit recording - far greater than the dynamic range on your original recording - and you should hear no degradation of signal compared with the original. In aumix increase the IGain. (or have you tried that already?) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD regions
On Monday 27 October 2003 10:52 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Hi gang. This has probably been aired before, but is it possible to get past the regional encoding restriction with Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer? The problem is, Amazon has a copy of a DVD I hoped to buy which is only available for region 1. The UK belongs to region 2. Amazon UK cannot help so it probably is only available for North America. An alternative would be to simply rip the vob files to your hard drive and de-regionize them in the process. Then you could create an ISO image of the DVD, mount it and play the DVD with no region at all. Since telling you exactly how to do that would be a violation of the DMCA which I am party to, I would suggest that you get in touch with someone off-list, in a non-public forum for specific instructions. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:55 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:40:51 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Cute little sayings like this are relatively meaningless to me. Anarchy would be far worse for all of us than even over-the-top government. Laws are an absolute necessity without which there can be no social construct or meaningful life outside of a every man for himself struggle for survival. The ironic thing is that the most vociferous supporters of anarchy are the least likely to live well in such a system. That's all based on pretty big assumptions, and to be perfectly honest, I find your tone disrespectful, arrogant, and condescending. Then, I would suggest you avoid inferences and tone in the future and concentrate on the actual words. If you preach at other people your own philosophy, you should, at the very least expect to hear from the opposition. If you don't want to drag politics into the discussion then, by all means, don't do it in the future. If you want to voice your opinion, fine, but keep your characterizations of other's to yourself. Pot, Kettle, Black. IIRC, I was not the first to engage in characterizing others, your own completely non-veiled contempt for capitalism and business in general is on display fully for everyone to see. So, Doctor, heal thyself. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:09 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:06 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan d4x (Downloader for X). It's on your CD's, or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. I don't know what you mean by 'channels' (multiple sites?), but yes, simultaneous d/l's are easy to do (if the site allows it) and from differnet sites. Supports drag'n drop. d4x-2.4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is the latest. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. Multiple channels: when you split a single download in 2 o more chunks and start downloading them simultaneously, building them together when all are done. Supposedly it can accelerate your downloads, mainly when download sites give you a bandwidth quota. Some sites consider this an abusive practice. Used by Download Accelerator and GetRight under Windows. Adolfo Try prozilla http://prozilla.genesys.ro/. I plf have a rpm. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK
On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:11 am, Johan wrote: Hi, Kindly suggest a script language to use and maybe to difficult to learn. This come to mind - phyton - perl - ??? At this time I use text gedit for * dos batch like files * Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 Since Perl is a ductape of the Internet I would suggest starting from it. There is a ton of tutorials on the Internet. In addition Perl have most liberal syntax so it is easy to learn. Php is an other one to try and the tutorial on the php.net is very good. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla 1.3.1
Hi All, I am having problems opening Mozilla now. My computer froze (with Mozilla mail running) and after I rebooted everytime I want to start Mozilla (browser or Mail) it tells me it is already running and to choose another profile. I only have one profile and that is Default. I tried deleteing it (saving the settings) and create a new profile (Default) but it still tells me it is already running. Anyone have a fix for this? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
Jerry Barton wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 01:08:20 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you need to concentrate on then is setting the initial level so that it's well below distortion on the peaks, but not too far. rezound or audacity include meters for displaying the record levels, so using one of these to do the initial recording should allow you to manipulate the input level until the meters are bouncing up to close to the red zone on the loudest peaks. That way you are using close to the full 96dB available for 16 bit recording - far greater than the dynamic range on your original recording - and you should hear no degradation of signal compared with the original. In aumix increase the IGain. (or have you tried that already?) Jerry Thank you all for your replies, having to share my internet connection a today, so not able to instantly reply. I have re-recorded the audio tape into .wav files using gramofile setting the cd/tapedeck player audio levels to a lower levels . I have also thought about the synthesizer level and reset the cd/tapedeck synthesizer level to maximum across the spread of the audio spectrum . I'm thinking maybe the cd/tapedeck player is clipping the range of the output too. Does that sound right ? I will then play with the other apps to see what sound levels I can increase too. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:06 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan d4x (Downloader for X). It's on your CD's, or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. I don't know what you mean by 'channels' (multiple sites?), but yes, simultaneous d/l's are easy to do (if the site allows it) and from differnet sites. Supports drag'n drop. d4x-2.4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is the latest. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. Multiple channels: when you split a single download in 2 o more chunks and start downloading them simultaneously, building them together when all are done. Supposedly it can accelerate your downloads, mainly when download sites give you a bandwidth quota. Some sites consider this an abusive practice. Used by Download Accelerator and GetRight under Windows. Adolfo D4X and NT do not support multichannel download from the same website file. In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own satisfaction that it does nothing for you. It's an illusion. Looks clever and swish but actually does nothing to accellerate the download. Having said that mine is a 56k dial-up modem, so the possibilty of getting the most out of such a facility is minimal.I'm restricted to the minimal band width the ISP allows me, never more than 4kb/sec, and usually far below that. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly, or other such things. Up to that point it was a fairly civil and on-topic discussion. You are correct though, the OT list *is* the place if you want to engage in immature trolling, which is why I try very hard to stay away from both ;-) Awww come back and join us Mac - we're not all immature trolls, some of us are quite old! Margot (regular OT list poster and elderly trollette) Yeh.. Yeh...pant!...pant! __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
Aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly, or other such things. Up to that point it was a fairly civil and on-topic discussion. You are correct though, the OT list *is* the place if you want to engage in immature trolling, which is why I try very hard to stay away from both ;-) Awww come back and join us Mac - we're not all immature trolls, some of us are quite old! Margot (regular OT list poster and elderly trollette) Yeh.. Yeh...pant!...pant! E, Aron, the porn discussion is on the OT list, not here! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
Hi All, Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:19:32 -0600 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: tmb = Thomas M Backlund's Multimedial Kernel available at: http://www.netikka.net/tmb/Cooker/ If you're going to be working with sound recording and editing on your Linux box, this kernel is designed with low latency and other features to improve your performance. If I install this with urpmi, does it automagically configure LILO as well? No, and in any case it's better to compile the src rpm against your equipement, and then install the rpm it creates, together with a fresh new stanza to boot the new kernel. You still retain your old one, and the boot script . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:15 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. Thanks Russ Googling mandrake linux preloaded systems gave this: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2315 http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/HP-Mandrake-Linux-Desktop-PC_Story01.html -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:15 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. HP http://www.smb.compaq.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?page=configProductLineId=429FamilyId=1559BaseId=8769oi=E9CEDBEID=19701SBLID=AirTime=False -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 05:47 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:26:54 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd level them all out first. Otherwise you wind up with some louder than others. Can be annoying once you burn it to CD... :-) I think it would work out the same either way. Depends on the desired end result, and since he asked about *increasing* the volume, which -m may in fact *not* do... Well, I think you missed my point - I'm saying it seems that it would be better to -m your files, bringing them all to the same level, then do -g x and take them up (all of them, at the same time) to the level thats best (highest volume, without distortion). Does that make more sense? Otherwise if you have a very loud file and a very low one, -g x would make the faint one better, but would probably drive the already loud file over the top, into distortion. Also, rezound was mentioned - I've used it, its good software. Thanks Ronald, I don't think I missed your point . I quite realise there is a place for -m but I have created a set of .wav files all from the same source, and any variation between the sound level of each .wav file is quite deliberate and as a consequence of the nature of the music itself, after all I wouldn't want a low quiet solo coming out as load as a full orchestral statement would I , it would sound absurd. But I do take the point that when compiling an add hoc CD of various pieces where the sources are all quite different requires at least a semblance of equalisation in order to make listening to them a joy. So at the moment I need to up the general sound levels equally without distortion and throughout the set of .wav files. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:01, John Richard Smith wrote: In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own satisfaction that it does nothing for you. It's an illusion. Looks clever and swish but actually does nothing to accellerate the download. Absolutely right! Adolfo One further thing though. D4X and NT can both search for a set of mirror sites,but unlike getright D4X and NT cannot , of it's own volution do anything intelligent with the collection of mirror sites. Getright for instance can periodically(you set it in preferences) check up on the download speeds of the set of mirror sites by pinging them, and then if it find sites with significantly better download speeds it can automatically switch to that site and continue the download from that url. D4X and Nt both rely on the user to do it manually if they so wish. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks Ronald, I don't think I missed your point . I quite realise there is a place for -m but I have created a set of .wav files all from the same source, and any variation between the sound level of each .wav file is quite deliberate and as a consequence of the nature of the music itself, after all I wouldn't want a low quiet solo coming out as load as a full orchestral statement would I , it would sound absurd. But I do take the point that when compiling an add hoc CD of various pieces where the sources are all quite different requires at least a semblance of equalisation in order to make listening to them a joy. So at the moment I need to up the general sound levels equally without distortion and throughout the set of .wav files. John Well, I apologise, I was actually replying to Haywiremac... :-) I'm glad you've got everything sussed out though! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation help with partitioning
Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help.) First off I am running on Windows 2000 Pro on one hard drive and my second hard drive is what I want to run Mandrake 9.2 on. My question is what file system should I use and what should I set my size at for the partition (I have a 40GB hard drive) and what is the swap all about. It prompted me to set up a swap??? I would have gone through the wizard but there is no option. If you can help please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all your help! Matt
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:07, Margot wrote: Aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:19, Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:10 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: boys, that should be singular. I didn't call anyone's opinion shrill, silly, or other such things. Up to that point it was a fairly civil and on-topic discussion. You are correct though, the OT list *is* the place if you want to engage in immature trolling, which is why I try very hard to stay away from both ;-) Awww come back and join us Mac - we're not all immature trolls, some of us are quite old! Margot (regular OT list poster and elderly trollette) Yeh.. Yeh...pant!...pant! E, Aron, the porn discussion is on the OT list, not here! ;-) Yes but Hayweed is almost as much fun to tease as Robin. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
Hi Greg, I have just check the kernel's on my PC(by looking in MCC remove programs).I have kernel-2.4.22.10mdk,kernel-2.4.22.6mdk and kernel-source 2.4.22-21mdk,so none of it match's. Is there any way of making everything match?The only thing I can think off is doing is a fresh full install instead of an upgrade. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:13, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Sounds like your DHCP server is not serving too well. What device is providing the addresses? In any case, it's probably easiest just to go to static addresses and bypass all this. Particularly if you only have a couple of nodes, it's not exactly a major issue to maintain a static setup. If you want to go this way and are unclear about what settings to use, just post again. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia and 9.2
On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:17 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi Greg, I have just check the kernel's on my PC(by looking in MCC remove programs).I have kernel-2.4.22.10mdk,kernel-2.4.22.6mdk and kernel-source 2.4.22-21mdk,so none of it match's. Is there any way of making everything match?The only thing I can think off is doing is a fresh full install instead of an upgrade. Drew That is your problem. No need to reinstall, you just updated your kernel-source when you applied the updates and didn;t update your kernel. The kernel-source is what you want, because that is most current, so we just have to get your running kernel to be the same. If you have a update repository defined for rpmdrake/urpmi, you can eithe type as root at the command line, 'urpmi kernel', or go into the install software module of rpmdrake and install the new kernel that matches your source. Then reboot into the new kernel and the nvidia installer should compile with no problem. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] anti aliased fonts (netscape, mozilla, etc.)
Hi, I'm trying to understand why Netscape and Mozilla, have such a bad display. Most of the websites look pretty untidy, i mean no anti aliased fonts that's why. I use Gnome 2.4 (no KDE, it doesn't have weather facility on the right hand corner) Is there to activate this AA fonts? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:13, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Sounds like your DHCP server is not serving too well. What device is providing the addresses? In any case, it's probably easiest just to go to static addresses and bypass all this. Particularly if you only have a couple of nodes, it's not exactly a major issue to maintain a static setup. If you want to go this way and are unclear about what settings to use, just post again. cheers Brian Hello again, Thanks for looking into this. I've tried setting to static from the drake network tool, several times, trying to follow info I found. No joy on pinging Win95 either. Those Win machines have static IPs set, and can talk to each other, which I don't want to lose, so I'm reluctant to mess too much on that side, especially since the thing always works with dchp from a virgin install. Maybe I should go back to 9.1. But I'll be delighted to try static again, so fire away. appreciatively, cliff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:30 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:01, John Richard Smith wrote: In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own satisfaction that it does nothing for you. It's an illusion. Looks clever and swish but actually does nothing to accellerate the download. Absolutely right! Adolfo One further thing though. D4X and NT can both search for a set of mirror sites,but unlike getright D4X and NT cannot , of it's own volution do anything intelligent with the collection of mirror sites. Getright for instance can periodically(you set it in preferences) check up on the download speeds of the set of mirror sites by pinging them, and then if it find sites with significantly better download speeds it can automatically switch to that site and continue the download from that url. D4X and Nt both rely on the user to do it manually if they so wish. John Did anyone mention wget? It can do multi d/ls and resume. Also Konqueror will do a resume. I like to split the konqueror screen and on one side have the d/l sight and on the other have the folder I want to put the d/l in and just drag and drop from the web site side to my folder side, hit copy in the popup and voila away she goes. You can do two or three at once if you have the bandwitdth. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anti aliased fonts (netscape, mozilla, etc.)
Mukul Sabharwal wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand why Netscape and Mozilla, have such a bad display. Most of the websites look pretty untidy, i mean no anti aliased fonts that's why. I use Gnome 2.4 (no KDE, it doesn't have weather facility on the right hand corner) Is there to activate this AA fonts? You have to install a version of Mozilla compiled to use them. If you do that, the fonts should look lovely. I don't know why this isn't the default package, but I'm sure there's a good but terribly obscure technical reason. Sir Robin -- I declare this sentence a performative! Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anti aliased fonts (netscape, mozilla, etc.)
On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:09 pm, Mukul Sabharwal wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand why Netscape and Mozilla, have such a bad display. Most of the websites look pretty untidy, i mean no anti aliased fonts that's why. I use Gnome 2.4 (no KDE, it doesn't have weather facility on the right hand corner) Is there to activate this AA fonts? Are you using the Mozilla that came with Mandrake or the Mozilla from mozilla.org? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
When i installed mandrake i had two hard drives, my primary which has mandrake and my secondary which had a destroyed install of mandrake on it. When i put mandrake on my primary the secondary was no longer seen by the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 22:10:25 EST 2003 22:10:25 up 19:20, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.06 There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. -- G.K. Chesterton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:17:27 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Or do i just set a mount point from diskdrake like /mount/windows, i dont want to mess up my perfectly good bootable linux system lol. Any help apreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 22:28:28 EST 2003 22:28:28 up 19:38, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.26, 0.08 And in the heartbreak years that lie ahead, Be true to yourself and the Grateful Dead. -- Joan Baez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 14:17, Dan Gordon wrote: When i installed mandrake i had two hard drives, my primary which has mandrake and my secondary which had a destroyed install of mandrake on it. When i put mandrake on my primary the secondary was no longer seen by the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Regards, Dan Gordon You only need to mount it. You can do this in diskdrake as well. No change to lilo or anything else. Answer yes when diskdrake asks if you want the changes written to fstab. But why use fat32? Unless of course you are dual booting windoze and want to share data between W$ and Mandrake via this drive. Otherwise, there's no good reason not to use a decent journalized filesystem like reiser or xfs or ext3. Reiser is my preference, but any of them are far better than fat32! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:31 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:17:27 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Or do i just set a mount point from diskdrake like /mount/windows, i dont want to mess up my perfectly good bootable linux system lol. Any help apreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon Since you have already formatted if you use diskdrake to give it a label such as /mnt/windows then the system should ask if you want this written to fstab. Answer yes and it will become accessable. He said hopefully. Anyhoo, that is the way it should work. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:35, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:13, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Sounds like your DHCP server is not serving too well. What device is providing the addresses? In any case, it's probably easiest just to go to static addresses and bypass all this. Particularly if you only have a couple of nodes, it's not exactly a major issue to maintain a static setup. If you want to go this way and are unclear about what settings to use, just post again. cheers Brian Hello again, Thanks for looking into this. I've tried setting to static from the drake network tool, several times, trying to follow info I found. No joy on pinging Win95 either. Those Win machines have static IPs set, and can talk to each other, which I don't want to lose, so I'm reluctant to mess too much on that side, especially since the thing always works with dchp from a virgin install. Maybe I should go back to 9.1. But I'll be delighted to try static again, so fire away. appreciatively, cliff OK. Run DrakConnect and click on the wizard. Let it detect the network card. Enter a name for your machine, an IP address in the same range as your W$ machines and the same subnet they are using and you are basically good to go. You haven't mentioned how your internet access is organized so I'll assume you are using dial-up directly from the linux box, but if not you'll need to also tell DrakConnect the IP address of your gateway and enter the DNS addresses in /etc/resolv.conf That's a quick and dirty explanation. If it falls short on detail, just ask. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 14:47:40 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why use fat32? Unless of course you are dual booting windoze and want to share data between W$ and Mandrake via this drive. Otherwise, there's no good reason not to use a decent journalized filesystem like reiser or xfs or ext3. Reiser is my preference, but any of them are far better than fat32! Thanks for the advice i went with ext3 and mounted it as windows just for the heck of it. Had to change permissions on it and it is fine. Thanks for the help, and you too Brian Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 23:41:19 EST 2003 23:41:19 up 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09 All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:06 pm, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. If you use KDE, you can run KGet, which with set itself up in the toolbox, and run every time you attempt to D/L something, and pay attention to it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning
Hi, OK we will asume some here... 1- Your win 2k you want to keep it the way it is. 2- The 2nd drive you want to use for MDK92 is empty or you want to wipe it. 3- You know how to connect/disconnect drives - change primary/slave links.. 4- You are new to linux 5- Prepared to spend some time getting used to it. 6- Win2k is primary *hda* 2nd is slave *hdb* at the moment. 7- Your PC can boot from cd 8- If the above is true THEN you now haveGOLDEN chance to PRACTICE a bit .9- Make 2 or 3 or even more practice installs - you will NEVER regret it - try different choices each time. (I know that from the 5 onwards you will become comfortable - beginning to know what to expect) I suggest... a- Disconnect your win2k drive (remember murphy's law) b- Later use it as slave then the mbr will not change change pri/slave link to slave. c- 2nd slave change to primary drive connect as *hda*. d- Boot and follow the choices up to use entire disk / expert / etc. e- This is your first time pick entire disk and MDK will do it all. f- When you reach packet choices - pick some more or just accept as this will be a practice run g- Change CD's when requested. h- Eventually you will have to choose were to write the bootloader - pick MBR i- When you reach the config window - there will be quite a few choices to do. j- The 2nd last one is your bootloader lilo or grub - pick lilo and the 2n time around pick grub (I prefer grub- others like lilo) k- follow instructions untill reboot - do so. PLEASE you have the change do a few installations - get the feel of the system. OK there is some gaps to this suggestions but if you do some practice installs you will notice them Goodluck Enjoy (cry ???) Johan - Original Message - From: Matt Dynice To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help.) First off I am running on Windows 2000 Pro on one hard drive and my second hard drive is what I want to run Mandrake 9.2 on. My question is what file system should I use and what should I set my size at for the partition (I have a 40GB hard drive) and what is the swap all about. It prompted me to set up a swap??? I would have gone through the wizard but there is no option. If you can help please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all your help! Matt
Re: [newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:26:28 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:15 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. Thanks Russ Googling mandrake linux preloaded systems gave this: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2315 http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/HP-Mandrake-Linux-Desktop-PC_Story01.html For laptops/notebooks you could try http://www.emperorlinux.com/. Installing Mandrake 9.1 just now. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
