[newbie] DVD-ROM stopped working
My DVD-ROM recently stopped working. Unfortunately it happened while I was in the process of making several modifications (downloaded and recompiled kernel source, Installed VMware 3.2.1, several program installs, etc.) and I don't know exactly when the DVD-ROM stopped working. I have tried switching back to the original kernel, removing VMware and the other applications I have installed recently, turning off supermount, etc. but it still doesn't work. I don't get any error messages, the drive access light blinks and it simply acts like there are no files on the disk. I've checked some of the log files and the only thing I've seen remotely related is the following rather unhelpful message in /var/log/messages: kernel: cdrom: open failed. I suppose that it is possible that I may have forgotten a module in the kernel config or something, but my CD-RW drive seems to work fine. Can anyone suggest what may be a problem with this, or what I may do to further troubleshoot this issue? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] winxp pro on notebook isn't getting IP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Anyone knows why my winxp pro on notebook isn't getting IP? In my linux server, I've got messages that said dhcp was discovering request and then offering IP, but at the end, no ACK. Here's: Dec 23 12:53:03 mdk dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:04 mdk dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.138 to 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:06 mdk dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:06 mdk dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.138 to 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:14 mdk dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:14 mdk dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.138 to 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:30 mdk dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Dec 23 12:53:30 mdk dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.138 to 00:c0:9f:28:15:65 (acer-5gi5q0ubzj) via eth0 Should I do something on the winxp or the dhcp? Thanks, - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 13:19:31 up 6:00, 9 users, load average: 0.98, 0.62, 0.58 Quote of the day: Windows 98 is guaranteed to make your system 98% slower. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5+CgMai9kCFqACoRAigrAJ9kYhJzDRONyXnEP1zLZGXKcUwyQQCgjMEn yFzT80iYUmqekWVweSPtxS8= =xXpp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.6 kernel help
El Lunes, 22 de Diciembre de 2003 21:49, John Drouhard escribió: > 6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.0 > 7. add lilo.conf entry: > image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.0 > label="linux2.6" > root=/dev/hdc5 > append="noapic acpi=off" > read-only > 8. lilo 6,7 and 8 = make install CHAO -- Manolo Canga Mi Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mi web: http://bailandodesvan.webcindario.com Tu Fortuna: Big Brother is watching you ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2003 08:19 pm, Joe wrote:
Decided to try the 20031217 cooker iso. Got some pretty mixed
results. Did the upgrade from 9.2 and it had some error
relating to the rpm database.
New version of glibc, gcc, XFree I think the encouragement
to contribute to Mandrake is to test, not use (upgrade). Either
use 10.0 separately, or be adventurous. oh well, see below
I think I will be adventurous for now. Maybe I can find some bugs and
try to give a little back to the community.
Yet it installed the new version
of XFree and voila! Direct rendering is enabled on my videocard
for the first time under linux. Now i can play the Gl version
of quake2 but... Its slow, and checking top tells me xinetd is
using somewhere between 90 and 98% of my cpu. This happened
again after a reboot. Suggestion as to why this may be and how
to fix it?
TIA.
Joe
That's a pretty big jump. Not so much from 9.2 to 10.0 cooker.
Yeah I know they're still goin out of their way to provide an
'upgrade' path. But I would'a done a fresh install savin my /home
partition. The bigger jump was to the 2.6 kernel. An yeah I know
Linus turned it loose, but it's still not ready for consumption.
Even the Mdk version for cooker. Probly won't be for months after
10.0 final in March. (actually schedualed for 2/15). 2.4.23 will
be the 10.0 kernel.
uname -r reports:
2.4.22-21mdk
So i havn't got to worry about problems related to the 2.6 kernel quite yet.
Try'n install the current cooker stable kernel,
2.4.23-0.rc5.2mdk, but IME, you'll still have a 2.6 tainted
system. Either that or re-install 9.2, and/or like me follow the
cooker ml's, includin the changelog list
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 and the lkml
http://www.tux.org/lkml/ You might suspect, as do I, that the
2.6 utils, sysfs udev and mod-utils-init, are a problem. Hard to
revert from.
No idea really why xinetd is hogging up the CPU. A workaround I have
found for now is to stop it using DrakXServices. When I run it using the
debug switch the suspicious part at the end of the output reads:
03/12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:33:53: ERROR: 4816 {find_next_entry} missing service keyword
[line=1]
03/12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:33:53: DEBUG: 4816 {handle_includedir} Reading included
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/time [line=18]
I've been usin cooker for years, but never tried to upgrade to
it with the installer. Doin it 'by hand' is neccessary' IME.
Sometimes cooker gets just too flakey tho, what with substantial
daily updates over the course of months. A re-install sometimes
is needed, and a re-sync to current cooker. I use 9.2, urpmi
urpmi, then get current. Recent 2.6 experience can be attributed
to last weeks re-install. Runnin cooker is not just to
experience the latest an greatest, it's also to provide testing
an feedback. IE, comes with some obligation.
I will have to consider doing a full install in order to get the full
experience and to provide better feedback. I think i might have another
hard drive around here that could become a home for cooker, leaving this
one for normal use of 9.2
Anyhow, my recent experience with 2.6 kernels is that apps
were very likely to go wild, refuse to quit, even cause panics.
Sounds exciting. 9.2 works so well now its getting boring.
If you choose, an I encourage you to,
stick with cooker, subscribe to the ML's and add cooker urpmi
sources.
I think i will.
You'll need to update daily.
I'll try that next.
I believe there's several
besides myself that'll help off list to get you goin. At least I
will.
Thanks for the offer. I only found out about the cooker iso from your
posts about it. Sure am happy to finally play some tuxracer :-)
Thanks for the words of wisdom.
Joe.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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Re: [newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU
On Sunday 21 December 2003 08:19 pm, Joe wrote: > Decided to try the 20031217 cooker iso. Got some pretty mixed > results. Did the upgrade from 9.2 and it had some error > relating to the rpm database. New version of glibc, gcc, XFree I think the encouragement to contribute to Mandrake is to test, not use (upgrade). Either use 10.0 separately, or be adventurous. oh well, see below > Yet it installed the new version > of XFree and voila! Direct rendering is enabled on my videocard > for the first time under linux. Now i can play the Gl version > of quake2 but... Its slow, and checking top tells me xinetd is > using somewhere between 90 and 98% of my cpu. This happened > again after a reboot. Suggestion as to why this may be and how > to fix it? > > TIA. > > Joe That's a pretty big jump. Not so much from 9.2 to 10.0 cooker. Yeah I know they're still goin out of their way to provide an 'upgrade' path. But I would'a done a fresh install savin my /home partition. The bigger jump was to the 2.6 kernel. An yeah I know Linus turned it loose, but it's still not ready for consumption. Even the Mdk version for cooker. Probly won't be for months after 10.0 final in March. (actually schedualed for 2/15). 2.4.23 will be the 10.0 kernel. Try'n install the current cooker stable kernel, 2.4.23-0.rc5.2mdk, but IME, you'll still have a 2.6 tainted system. Either that or re-install 9.2, and/or like me follow the cooker ml's, includin the changelog list http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 and the lkml http://www.tux.org/lkml/ You might suspect, as do I, that the 2.6 utils, sysfs udev and mod-utils-init, are a problem. Hard to revert from. I've been usin cooker for years, but never tried to upgrade to it with the installer. Doin it 'by hand' is neccessary' IME. Sometimes cooker gets just too flakey tho, what with substantial daily updates over the course of months. A re-install sometimes is needed, and a re-sync to current cooker. I use 9.2, urpmi urpmi, then get current. Recent 2.6 experience can be attributed to last weeks re-install. Runnin cooker is not just to experience the latest an greatest, it's also to provide testing an feedback. IE, comes with some obligation. Run 'top' then to see what's eatin on the cpu. Consider usin an app like lm_sensors and gkrellm to monitor cpu use. Almost a must to use cooker. Ya just never know when an app might go wild or refuse to quit. Sort'a reminds me of an old long time girlfriend... wish I had her back. Anyhow, my recent experience with 2.6 kernels is that apps were very likely to go wild, refuse to quit, even cause panics. YMMV, many do. In any event look for 10.0 in March, look for 2.6 sometime next summer. If you choose, an I encourage you to, stick with cooker, subscribe to the ML's and add cooker urpmi sources. You'll need to update daily. I believe there's several besides myself that'll help off list to get you goin. At least I will. For the others you'll just have to see if they volunteer. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Monday 22 December 2003 07:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) > > Ramin M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri > > module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and > > now all the freezings are gone! > > Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even > > faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: > > it just pops up once you click! > > Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, > in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? Joe, in the append line it is acpi=ht . HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
On Monday 22 December 2003 07:43 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:42 am, Sharrea Day wrote: > > Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player. > > Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all > > that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from > > skins as the default. > > > > Sharrea > > Even mplayer's own developers distain, disown the GUI. Learn > to use mplayer on the CL. It's more fun, many more 'on the fly' > features than the GUI is capable of, any format includin DVD's. > Works quicker, better too. Put's all other players in the dust. > Runner up, Xine lost out a year ago IMO. > > There is a GUI, kmplayer, which is useful for Web browser use > for click'n on 'movie' type links. Works well with Konqueror. Of > course ya need the maybe illict codecs from plf to make it all > work. Personally, I stand fast in the belief that if I bought or > rented it, otherwise publicy accessed it, so did I the codecs an > ability an right to play it. Exactly, and no one should be able to tell us that we have to buy a particular type of electronics machine to watch something. The industry just does not get it. I have found that xine works ok in gui for most of what folks want, but the choices are numerous. I will take Tom's advice and learn what I can of cli for Mplayer and explore that one further. Find what fits, try them all, then make a choice or two. Linux has more than one way to skin a crocodile. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Ramin M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri > module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and > now all the freezings are gone! > Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even > faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: > it just pops up once you click! Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:42 am, Sharrea Day wrote: > Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player. > Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all > that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from > skins as the default. > > Sharrea Even mplayer's own developers distain, disown the GUI. Learn to use mplayer on the CL. It's more fun, many more 'on the fly' features than the GUI is capable of, any format includin DVD's. Works quicker, better too. Put's all other players in the dust. Runner up, Xine lost out a year ago IMO. There is a GUI, kmplayer, which is useful for Web browser use for click'n on 'movie' type links. Works well with Konqueror. Of course ya need the maybe illict codecs from plf to make it all work. Personally, I stand fast in the belief that if I bought or rented it, otherwise publicy accessed it, so did I the codecs an ability an right to play it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own
On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:48 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On the other hand, setting msec=higher, excludes me from doing > a lot of things, can't even go outside my "home". Which is a PITA if you're not only, the god of root, but just wanna do some stuff on your own single user system. Many user apps will bork too. Remember I specified 'single user desktop'. I treat my system like a motorcycle or Corvette, 'nobody rides but me'. Still, in any circumstance I think level2 is the right move, at least til the system is up an satisfactory. If I were Mandrake, it wouldn't even be up to choice, level2 is what you get. Those aware enough to need more in house restrictions, an aware of the repercussions of doin so, ought'a know at least as much as how to figure out how to raise it. If they can't or don't know, they shouldn't. This isn't a 'more is better' deal. Which brings up another good move (IMO) by Mandrake. No longer showing an icon or menu choice for 'file manager, super user mode', or login into root, or if you manage to, red desktop, no icons. Those that find this strange, or don't know how to do it without click'n point probly shouldn't be there anyhow. An also removes some stress from the support staff. I haven't seen a newb 'I just always run as root' in some time. I remember when they bragged about it. > Of course, all this can be accomplished "by hand", but I find > msec quite reasonable. So do I. I welcome it for security idiots like me. > > Now, if only I could find out how to "stealth" my ports :-( > > Kaj Haulrich. Now I know ya know how. We've talked for too long. I use guarddog to set iptables rules. Locked up jelly tight. http://scan.sygate.com/ any scan shows 'blocked, stealthed, we reckon you don't even exist.' Not you Kaj, me ;) Merry Christmas -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
jason pearl wrote: lol probably i used to use the msn part of gaim but i gave up cuz of that problem.. i use aim and yahoo mostly I use gaim for aim+yahoo, and it works well. Not perfectly, unfortunately - many times signon will hang connecting to yahoo when I start up gaim. If I cancel that, immediately go to Tools-Accounts and check the checkbox for yahoo, it will successfully connect. Annoying, but not annoying enough for me to get my lazy self up and file a bug report. gaim releases come so quickly that I'm sure this will be fixed in another couple days. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Guarddog (was: Ownership changes on its own)
On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:47 am, Dick Gevers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:15:36 -0600, Tom Brinkman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own: > >If I were to criticse Mandrake, it would be for not installing > >iptables by default when a lan and/or Net connection is > >configured during the install. I think a very simple firewall > >rule generator like Guarddog would be a good default choice > > too. Point'n click fairly intuitive setup for iptables, even > > for those very new to Linux and security. > > I completely agree with you on that; however there`s no rpm for > 9.2 available, so my guarddog v. 2.2.0 is compiled from > tarball. In fact I was already considering putting it up for > RPM voting in MandrakeClub, because I didn`t find it there yet. I'm pretty sure guarddog rpms have always been available. ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/guarddog-2.0.0-5mdk.i586.rpm Can't say for sure, cause I use cooker 10.0, an guarddog 2.2. but as long as I can remember, it's on your CD's too. I take some pride in knowledge retention inspite of a long term brain disease (MS), but iptables rules ain't one thing I've managed, so guarddog helps me out a lot. FWIW, it's just a frontend for iptables. I doubt more recent versions add any features or benefit other than to the GUI. I just reinstalled Mdk 10.0, guarddog 2.2.0, and didn't notice any change in the gd configuration or functions. guarddog-2.2.0-1mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin --- "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. > There is > something wrong with the "dri" (direct rendering) implementation with > the > drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the > mobility > chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very > rarely > during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load > "dri" > line in your xconfig-4 "Module" section, to see if the problem might > go away. > GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, > either, but > one thing at a time. > > Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat > differently > than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use > Mandrake > because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. > > e > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: > > > Another problem during the installation was that the > > second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this > > for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my > > machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is > > only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the > > first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after > > the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides > > running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing > > on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just > > removed the lines related to the second graphic card > > in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still > > working. So the problem might be related to this bad > > detection of the graphic card! > > > > My hardwares are as follows: > > motherboard: Asus A7M266-D > > CPU: MP2000 dual processor > > sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) > > graphic card: ATI 9000pro > > > > > scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 > > three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and > > 10k rpms. > > minolta scan elite scsi scanner > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote: I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as root, below is a copy of my shell when I did so. I ran ps to see what was running that would use the sound device, there isn't anything I see. I am using Mandrake 9.2 with onboard AC97 sound chip. It's using the via82cxxx_audio driver. The board discription is ?VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio], and the module is ?snd-via82xx. Your help is greatly appreciated. TIA, Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# artswrapper >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1049 pts/1 00:00:00 su 1052 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 1097 pts/1 00:00:00 ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# First Configure KDEControlPanel>Sound>SoundSystem>SoundI/O and set it to use Alsa sound server. If that does not help install the alsa-utils RPM package. Make a copy of your /etc/modules.conf file and then run alsaconf Alsaconf will rewrite your /etc/modules.conf file with the correct configuration for your sound card, but will not put in the lines which are not to do with sound. You must put those back in by hand from your backup. I had the same problem, but running alsasound was not necessary - I just went into the KDE manager, reset sound to alsa and everything worked fine. The funny thing is that sound was alreqady set to alsa, but I had to set it again to make it work. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson 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] I don't like playing this Gaim...
anton wrote: Hi, My *&^(&(%* Gaim has just decided to stop working AGAIN. This is extremely frustrating. I do nothing, I install nothing, it stops working. I f around (usually uninstalling and reinstalling various other versions) until I finally get it working again. Then a week later it stops working with the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been disconnected. Mon Dec 22 31:21:06 2003 Error reading from server and offers Reconnect or Close as options. This happened with 0.72, 0.73 and 0.74 from a variety of sources (norlug, Charles Edwards from this list, mdk plf). I have also been having similar problems with networking, in the sense that I have to keep rerunning drakconnect to give the doze box my wife uses access to the net. It is set up and "configured" but for some reason after a few days of normal access it stops working by itself and I have to rerun the wizard every time. I had a missing dhcpd.conf and replaced it once, which seemed to get it working, but then more problems. If anyone has any ideas on what little gremlins might be camped out in my box I would be very interested! Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped working... Still working under mdk though! cheers Anton ps and for those interested, took down my firewall under xp a while ago for about 30 seconds to try and get netmeeting working (just to see if the firewall had anything to do with it) and had two boggies - 30 seconds. gotta love M$. Use Kopete. Don't use MSN. I'm not terribly keen on IM, but at the bignning of this semester, I set up Kopete with ICQ, AIM and Yahoo so that my students could talk to me. Since then, I've had a slew of ICQ messages and nothing on the other clients. I didn't bother with MSN - if someone wants to talk to me, they can get themselves a proper IM client. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson 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] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 20:49, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > > > > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. > > > > I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This is how I > > got it back. Perhaps the same technique will work for X > > > > su to root > > type 'urpmi XFree86' and it should come up with a list of all the > > packages available. Look for the package most likely to be the > > base package first and urpmi it, then any others that look > > likely. > > > > HTH > > > > Anne > > -- > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > SUCCESS! > > I downloaded all the XFree86 files from the U of Wisconsin mirror > with my Win machine...burnt a CD and then transferreed the files to > my laptop. Put them into a tmp directory and them rpm -Uvh them one > at a timedoing it in a batch failed twice. > I still noticed that when I rpm'd the XFree86-glide file it calfed > saying there is a failed dependancy with libglide3.so.3 (wonder > where they hid that one..???) Yet KDE is now back after getting > into my user and running startx again...VBG. > > Man..what a load of crap to go through. > > Doug Roberts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Registered Linux User No: 160487 > - Well done! I wish I had managed it. This install has been much more problematic than the original one - I think. Come to think of it I was in a panic for 2 or 3 days when I first installed 9.1. Lots of things weren't right, and people had to help me, but they were not the same problems as I've got this time. Funny, isn't it? The same thing happened when I installed 8.2 for a second time - some things were better and others didn't work without a lot of help. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2.6 kernel help
I think I successfully compiled my own kernel. These are the steps I followed: 1. download kernel 2. move it to the directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 3. do a make xconfig, choose my options, save, close. 4. make all 5. make modules_install 6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.0 7. add lilo.conf entry: image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.0 label="linux2.6" root=/dev/hdc5 append="noapic acpi=off" read-only 8. lilo When I reboot into the new kernel, it goes pretty far until it tries to mount the root fs. At this point it has an error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on /dev/hdc5 This is a ReiserFS filesystem, and ReiserFS was built into the kernel. Right before the error it seemed to be doing something with RAID, which I don't have. Thanks for any suggestions. John -- Mon Dec 22 14:44:33 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
> On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > > > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. > > I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This is how I got it > back. Perhaps the same technique will work for X > > su to root > type 'urpmi XFree86' and it should come up with a list of all the > packages available. Look for the package most likely to be the base > package first and urpmi it, then any others that look likely. > > HTH > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? SUCCESS! I downloaded all the XFree86 files from the U of Wisconsin mirror with my Win machine...burnt a CD and then transferreed the files to my laptop. Put them into a tmp directory and them rpm -Uvh them one at a timedoing it in a batch failed twice. I still noticed that when I rpm'd the XFree86-glide file it calfed saying there is a failed dependancy with libglide3.so.3 (wonder where they hid that one..???) Yet KDE is now back after getting into my user and running startx again...VBG. Man..what a load of crap to go through. Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.1
Title: RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] no sound in 9.1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 14:18, Linux wrote: > My computer is silent > > > The mobo is an Intel D865GBF (www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf). I > am using the onboard sound. > > It works fine under Windows98SE. > > I use Enlightenment, and I can enable sounds under E, but I don't > hear anything. I can also see that esd is running if I run top or > kpm. > > Yes I have turned up the volume in Kmix, and Aumix and alsamixer. > > Yes I have run the configuration tool in Drake Configure. > > Below are various commands and their outputs. > > lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO: > snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] > (vendor:8086 device:24d5 subv:8086 subd:e001) > > grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf: > alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 > > /sbin/lsmod: > Module Size Used by Not tainted > sg 34636 0 (autoclean) > parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean) > lp 8096 0 (autoclean) > parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] > agpgart 40896 6 (autoclean) > snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-pcm-oss 43556 1 > snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-intel8x0 21988 1 > snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] > snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] > snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] > snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] > snd 40868 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event > snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm > snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore > 6276 0 [snd] ppp_async 9216 0 (unused) > ppp_generic 24060 0 [ppp_async] > slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic] > af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean) > e100 56964 1 (autoclean) > supermount 15296 4 (autoclean) > ide-cd 33856 0 > cdrom 31648 0 [ide-cd] > ide-scsi 11280 0 > ehci-hcd 18568 0 (unused) > usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused) > usbcore 72992 1 [ehci-hcd usb-uhci] > rtc 8060 0 (autoclean) > reiserfs 175120 2 > sd_mod 11548 0 (unused) > aic7xxx 120860 0 (unused) > scsi_mod 91796 4 [sg ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx] > > /sbin/chkconfig --list sound: > sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa: > alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa: > vol 100, 100, P > pcm 100, 100 > speaker 100, 100 > line 100, 100, P > mic 100, 100, R > cd 100, 100, P > igain 100, 100 > line1 100, 100, P > phin 100, 100, P > video 100, 100, P > > > /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp: > USER PID ACCESS COMMAND > /dev/dsp skippi 1841 f wavplay It seems /dev/dsp is used by wavplay. Wavplay is part of xcdroast according to 'urpmf wavplay'. > Any thoughts?? Thank you very much. > Adrian Well it's a late reply and probably not very helpful but at least your soundcard is detected and the ALSA drivers are loaded. How about logging in to KDE to test sound? Also, do applications 'appear' to play, like a moving progress indicator? Good luck! -Frans I mean no offense cause I have done this, did you check which jack you plugged into on the sound card? Most of them will want the green colored port. I Have also noticed that in some cards the pcm will stop sound if turned up to 100. Try shutting down also igain seperately and line and line1 while something is trying to play sound. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This is how I got it back. Perhaps the same technique will work for X su to root type 'urpmi XFree86' and it should come up with a list of all the packages available. Look for the package most likely to be the base package first and urpmi it, then any others that look likely. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in 9.1
On Saturday 20 December 2003 14:18, Linux wrote: > My computer is silent > > > The mobo is an Intel D865GBF (www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf). I > am using the onboard sound. > > It works fine under Windows98SE. > > I use Enlightenment, and I can enable sounds under E, but I don't > hear anything. I can also see that esd is running if I run top or > kpm. > > Yes I have turned up the volume in Kmix, and Aumix and alsamixer. > > Yes I have run the configuration tool in Drake Configure. > > Below are various commands and their outputs. > > lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO: > snd-intel8x0: Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] > (vendor:8086 device:24d5 subv:8086 subd:e001) > > grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf: > alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 > > /sbin/lsmod: > Module Size Used byNot tainted > sg 34636 0 (autoclean) > parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean) > lp 8096 0 (autoclean) > parport34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] > agpgart40896 6 (autoclean) > snd-seq-oss31104 0 (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq42608 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-pcm-oss43556 1 > snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-intel8x0 21988 1 > snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-pcm77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] > snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-intel8x0] > snd-rawmidi17600 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] > snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] > snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] > snd40868 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event > snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm > snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore > 6276 0 [snd] ppp_async 9216 0 (unused) > ppp_generic24060 0 [ppp_async] > slhc6564 0 [ppp_generic] > af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean) > e100 56964 1 (autoclean) > supermount 15296 4 (autoclean) > ide-cd 33856 0 > cdrom 31648 0 [ide-cd] > ide-scsi 11280 0 > ehci-hcd 18568 0 (unused) > usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused) > usbcore72992 1 [ehci-hcd usb-uhci] > rtc 8060 0 (autoclean) > reiserfs 175120 2 > sd_mod 11548 0 (unused) > aic7xxx 120860 0 (unused) > scsi_mod 91796 4 [sg ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx] > > /sbin/chkconfig --list sound: > sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off > > /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa: > alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off > > /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa: > vol 100, 100, P > pcm 100, 100 > speaker 100, 100 > line 100, 100, P > mic 100, 100, R > cd 100, 100, P > igain 100, 100 > line1 100, 100, P > phin 100, 100, P > video 100, 100, P > > > /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp: > USERPID ACCESS COMMAND > /dev/dsp skippi 1841 f wavplay It seems /dev/dsp is used by wavplay. Wavplay is part of xcdroast according to 'urpmf wavplay'. > Any thoughts?? Thank you very much. > Adrian Well it's a late reply and probably not very helpful but at least your soundcard is detected and the ALSA drivers are loaded. How about logging in to KDE to test sound? Also, do applications 'appear' to play, like a moving progress indicator? Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
> On Monday 22 December 2003 18:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > >I think somebody messed up on the initiallizing script...because I can > > > find xinit in /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit and /usr/bin/X11/xinit. IMHO the > > > initializing script seems to be looking for xinit in one place and the > > > system has it stashed in another place. > > > > > >Was there a change in placement of the X server files? Was the > > > > initiallizing > > > > >script changed to reflect this new location? > > Doug, > > Did you try running XFdrake again, thus making sure the symlink is OK? > It'll probably get lost if XF86 gets uninstalled. Yup..I did XFdrake again and got a small window showing the video properties of my machine. I try test and it kicks me out to the command prompt again. Try XFdrake again and have it 'do' and it restarts the X server and quits. Try startx again and still no go..same error message as before. > > Or "mcc" and chose "display configuration". See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > >I think somebody messed up on the initiallizing script...because I can > > find xinit in /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit and /usr/bin/X11/xinit. IMHO the > > initializing script seems to be looking for xinit in one place and the > > system has it stashed in another place. > > > >Was there a change in placement of the X server files? Was the > > initiallizing > > >script changed to reflect this new location? Doug, Did you try running XFdrake again, thus making sure the symlink is OK? It'll probably get lost if XF86 gets uninstalled. Or "mcc" and chose "display configuration". Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: modprobe: insmod emu10k1 failed > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1) > failed Well they're not getting loaded that's for sure. I gathered that lspci sees the device for what it isdid you check if the module is really there, where it's supposed to be? This is still the stock kernel with the 9.1 base install, I presume -or has that been"upgraded" too? > > How can I check irqs? It wasn't a problem on my last install, but > could they have been allocated differently? That should be in dmesg too, but "cat /proc/pci" shows irq's as well Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2
On Monday 22 December 2003 06:10 am, Maureen wrote: -> I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or -> any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about -> not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and -> to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as -> root, below is a copy of my shell when I did so. I ran ps to see what -> was running that would use the sound device, there isn't anything I see. -> I am using Mandrake 9.2 with onboard AC97 sound chip. It's using the -> via82cxxx_audio driver. The board discription is ?VT82C686 [Apollo Super -> AC97/Audio], and the module is ?snd-via82xx. Your help is greatly -> appreciated. TIA, Moe Can;t whelp with the static, but I had to do this to get my games to work under KDE: artsdsp So, for example, to get Rune to work I'd type in "artsdsp rune". I made a directory with my game icons in it, then just put "artsdsp" in front of the executed command to run the game. -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
ok next could you send me cat /etc/modules.conf please Thanks Aaron Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 17:13, Aaron wrote: do rpm -qa | grep alsa i get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# rpm -qa |grep alsa alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9rc1_2mdk libalsa-data-0.9.8-1thac libalsa2-static-devel-0.9.8-1thac alsa-utils-0.9.6-3mdk pd-alsa-jack-extended-0.36-2thac pd-alsa-jack-extended-devel-0.36-2thac libalsa2-0.9.8-1thac libalsa2-devel-0.9.8-1thac [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# My urpmi source file uses thac for audio but the same files exist from mandrake as well. Aaron alsaplayer-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-vorbis-0.99.74-1mdk xmms-alsa-0.9.7-3mdk xine-lib-compat-alsa-0.9.13-11mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mad-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-flac-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-ui-gtk-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa2-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsa-utils-0.9.0-0.8rc7mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-esound-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-nas-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mod-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-jack-0.99.74-1mdk alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-sndfile-0.99.74-1mdk xine-alsa-1-0.beta4.1mdk Anne 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] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:31, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager > > > insights could put them on the path to making a corrective > > > update to the XF86 mess they have made for us... > > > > > > Doug Roberts > > > > Thanks for your efforts, Doug. Let's hope it gets sorted soon. > > I've had 3 days of misery now. > > > > Anne > > -- > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > LOL...me too...I miss not having my laptop...and I am very leery of > 'updating' my other machine at home that has MDK 9.1 on itat > least till this problem gets solved... > I have to say that I have been using Mandrake Update regularly for 2 years, without problems until this. - but the bomb they've thrown this time is a big one Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:18, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 18:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Same one, HarM > > In that case I certainly would advise "urpmi.addmedia --distrib > cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom" to get at least the packages and > dependencies data-bases as they should be. > > And of course see what dmesg has to say about errors on your sound > card. On top check what modules get loaded on boot that are > connecred to your sound device. > > Good luck, > HarM medium "Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1)" already exists I think that was a temporary glitch, as I had changed the name in fstab. I've just mounted it under the convenient name and also as the cdrom that it original was. I can't see anything in dmesg. This from boot.log: Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: init_module: No such device Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz failed Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: modprobe: insmod emu10k1 failed Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1) failed How can I check irqs? It wasn't a problem on my last install, but could they have been allocated differently? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
> On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager insights > > could put them on the path to making a corrective update to the > > XF86 mess they have made for us... > > > > Doug Roberts > > Thanks for your efforts, Doug. Let's hope it gets sorted soon. I've > had 3 days of misery now. > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > LOL...me too...I miss not having my laptop...and I am very leery of 'updating' my other machine at home that has MDK 9.1 on itat least till this problem gets solved... Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager insights > could put them on the path to making a corrective update to the > XF86 mess they have made for us... > > Doug Roberts Thanks for your efforts, Doug. Let's hope it gets sorted soon. I've had 3 days of misery now. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:13, Aaron wrote: > do rpm -qa | grep alsa > > i get the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# rpm -qa |grep alsa > alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9rc1_2mdk > libalsa-data-0.9.8-1thac > libalsa2-static-devel-0.9.8-1thac > alsa-utils-0.9.6-3mdk > pd-alsa-jack-extended-0.36-2thac > pd-alsa-jack-extended-devel-0.36-2thac > libalsa2-0.9.8-1thac > libalsa2-devel-0.9.8-1thac > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# > > My urpmi source file uses thac for audio but the same files exist > from mandrake as well. > > Aaron alsaplayer-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-vorbis-0.99.74-1mdk xmms-alsa-0.9.7-3mdk xine-lib-compat-alsa-0.9.13-11mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mad-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-flac-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-ui-gtk-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa2-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsa-utils-0.9.0-0.8rc7mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-esound-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-nas-0.99.74-1mdk libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-mod-0.99.74-1mdk alsaplayer-plugin-output-jack-0.99.74-1mdk alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk alsaplayer-plugin-input-sndfile-0.99.74-1mdk xine-alsa-1-0.beta4.1mdk Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > Same one, HarM In that case I certainly would advise "urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom" to get at least the packages and dependencies data-bases as they should be. And of course see what dmesg has to say about errors on your sound card. On top check what modules get loaded on boot that are connecred to your sound device. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU
Decided to try the 20031217 cooker iso. Got some pretty mixed results. Did the upgrade from 9.2 and it had some error relating to the rpm database. Yet it installed the new version of XFree and voila! Direct rendering is enabled on my videocard for the first time under linux. Now i can play the Gl version of quake2 but... Its slow, and checking top tells me xinetd is using somewhere between 90 and 98% of my cpu. This happened again after a reboot. Suggestion as to why this may be and how to fix it? TIA. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
Just for my 23 cents worth, I was using evolution for over a year and just switched to kmail, I am not so thrilled with either to tell the truth. I would have stayed with evolution if not for the lockups I kept having and it's lack of proper hebrew support. I get the feeling that the real big boys email programs on linux aren't the gui ones but the text based ones. I tried mutt for a short time but just didn't have the time or patience to set it up the way I needed, but I saw that it was more powerful and had the ability to do anything I would ever need. I never tried gnus but I would guess it is also true. That fact that they have been around longer than the gui's is most probably the reason. Anyone try Sylpheed?? Balsa?? A lot of people are raving about thunderbird, I might try it and see. Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 06:50, Shawn Protsman wrote: > Ever try Mulberry? http://www.cyrusoft.com/index.html > dont look to bad but it looks like it costs $ hehe i can live with evo -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
Ever try Mulberry? http://www.cyrusoft.com/index.html Shawn On Monday, Dec 22, 2003, at 01:35 US/Central, jason pearl wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 00:22, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Jason, On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:23, you wrote: have you tried evolution?? I'm writing this email from Evolution. i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that indent the replies in the same email that came from a diff reply, hope yu can understand what im getting at.. Um...I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. I suppose I could guess, but could you explain a bit more? what do u think is the best in the linux world.. i dont like using M$ programs with wine cuz its the reason i dont use M$ programs.. heheh Just to be clear about something...The Bat! is not a "MS program", as it's just a program that happens to be written for use on Windows. When I deal with Windows, the OS itself is the only "MS program" that I use. Evolution feels too much like OE to me (eek!), so that alone kinda makes me cringe. That may not be the most rational reason to dislike it, but there are other things I don't like about it as well. In fact, in order to re-format the cut up quoted text above, I had to resort to using a Windows text cleanup/re-formatting utility that I currently have working under Wine. Also...I don't know why this happens, but very often, Evolution freezes for several seconds, and this is quite annoying. I must admit (again and again), that I'm quite spoiled by using The Bat! for email, so I can only really evaluate the various Linux email clients I've tried in terms of being the "least offensive of the bunch". In that sense, even though Sylpheed-claws seems to have more options, I'm finding Kmail has earned my "least offensive" award for the moment. :-) As far as running The Bat! under Wine goes, I wish I didn't feel that it was my only chance to be really happy with an email client in Linux, but at this point, it is. What I really wish for is to have TB! ported to Linux, so I wouldn't have to deal with Wine at all (I could then even use the TB! editor to enhance Knode or Pan composition, and wouldn't have to use the cleanup/re-formatting utility I'm currently using under Wine to work with those). I know that many here will refuse to try any program written for Windows, so I don't expect them to really understand why I'm not very impressed with the various Linux email clients when I compare them to The Bat!, but what can I say?...what you don't know can't impress you! :-) ok the evolution freezing every few seconds only happens on my 64 bit box... on my 9.2 32 bit it does not freeze.. i havent checked the version numbers but i thought i was the only one that had that problem.. and what i was gettin at before is that ill get and email that is a reply to what i wrote and it will be indented.. and if there is a reply to a reply in that email it will be included in the new email but indented even further... unless someone ran a script to make it do that.. but i think its whatever email program they r using. i guess ill look for bat and see what its about :) -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: freedom
What kind of country is that where one cannot browse any site one likes at the risk of being thrown into jail ? What a world, eh ? JM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 03:22, Melissa Reese wrote: > under Wine. Also...I don't know why this happens, but very often, > Evolution freezes for several seconds, and this is quite annoying. Hi Melissa: I also had this problem with Evolution and some other applications. After I put: 127.0.0.1 myhostname.mydomain myhostname in /etc/hosts it started to work flawlessly. Happy Holidays, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2
On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote: > I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or > any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about > not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and > to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as > root, below is a copy of my shell when I did so. I ran ps to see what > was running that would use the sound device, there isn't anything I see. > I am using Mandrake 9.2 with onboard AC97 sound chip. It's using the > via82cxxx_audio driver. The board discription is ?VT82C686 [Apollo Super > AC97/Audio], and the module is ?snd-via82xx. Your help is greatly > appreciated. TIA, Moe > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# artswrapper > > >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ps > PID TTY TIME CMD > 1049 pts/1 00:00:00 su > 1052 pts/1 00:00:00 bash > 1097 pts/1 00:00:00 ps > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# First Configure KDEControlPanel>Sound>SoundSystem>SoundI/O and set it to use Alsa sound server. If that does not help install the alsa-utils RPM package. Make a copy of your /etc/modules.conf file and then run alsaconf Alsaconf will rewrite your /etc/modules.conf file with the correct configuration for your sound card, but will not put in the lines which are not to do with sound. You must put those back in by hand from your backup. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2
I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as root, below is a copy of my shell when I did so. I ran ps to see what was running that would use the sound device, there isn't anything I see. I am using Mandrake 9.2 with onboard AC97 sound chip. It's using the via82cxxx_audio driver. The board discription is ?VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio], and the module is ?snd-via82xx. Your help is greatly appreciated. TIA, Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# artswrapper >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1049 pts/1 00:00:00 su 1052 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 1097 pts/1 00:00:00 ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll
On Monday 22 December 2003 11:48, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 05:45 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > What's wrong with "right-clicking" in the picture and then "save image > > as..."? > > Good luck, > > HarM > > The image is "sliced" into several parts for faster loading. So if I use > right-clicking on it, only a portion of it will be saved. Ah, looks like you don't feel like cutting & pasting (nothing beats removing staples, ehh;)) I suppose you could try "wget" to download all the images from that page so the images will be copied locally and then cut&paste with gimp or scribus. The command to download the images: wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.jpg http://URL_of_page which will create a folder under the name of that URL in your home directory. -not all sites allow this though- Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 December 2003 05:45 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > What's wrong with "right-clicking" in the picture and then "save image > as..."? > Good luck, > HarM The image is "sliced" into several parts for faster loading. So if I use right-clicking on it, only a portion of it will be saved. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 17:46:42 up 10:31, 9 users, load average: 0.25, 0.49, 0.60 Quote of the day: It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5sv9Mai9kCFqACoRAoOMAKCM0IHzSHyr80iZW0Kxrv+Oj2ofgwCdGJB/ aL35niS4yOf/WWK5VQn2jgM= =x0LW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll
On Monday 22 December 2003 11:41, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 05:36 pm, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: > > You can capture the entire screen with GIMP. > > HTH > > Wojciech Podgórni > > Yes, but only the visible screen, how about the rest of the page? > In windoze, I can use a program called snagit to "scroll" to the bottom of > the page and then capture it. What's wrong with "right-clicking" in the picture and then "save image as..."? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 December 2003 05:36 pm, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: > You can capture the entire screen with GIMP. > HTH > Wojciech Podgórni Yes, but only the visible screen, how about the rest of the page? In windoze, I can use a program called snagit to "scroll" to the bottom of the page and then capture it. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 17:39:53 up 10:24, 9 users, load average: 0.38, 0.55, 0.63 Quote of the day: "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996 "Nobody will ever need Windows 95." -- logical conclusion -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5spQMai9kCFqACoRAvG6AJsHy2zsHivjdKwdi24U9XahNwn77ACeMv2O EQUwBswuXD82FPqrlbc8ZwE= =85VK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, Is there any screen-capture program that can get scrolling windows, I mean not only the screen that is visible but also up to the bottom of the page. I need to capture one of playboy's screen :) Thanks. You can capture the entire screen with GIMP. HTH Wojciech Podgórni Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] capturing windows with scroll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Is there any screen-capture program that can get scrolling windows, I mean not only the screen that is visible but also up to the bottom of the page. I need to capture one of playboy's screen :) Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 17:18:05 up 10:02, 9 users, load average: 0.71, 0.68, 0.64 Quote of the day: Windows 98: Not Plug & Play, but Bug & Pay! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5sVSMai9kCFqACoRAk99AKDc2NlSjdVkL9iyM7SDU14+X7WAtACg544r JwBeAWi1pECLVz/G8WWqtqI= =6Wxg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
On Monday 22 December 2003 09:22, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the > subject of mounting disk. I hate to say it but I have to agree with your disagree-ance:) You're right of course, one mounts partitions not the whole disk. I got "mount" and "fdisk" muddled there. Good luck, HarM Bows head and cringes back to his garbage can;) -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 15:01, anton wrote: > Dang, > Maybe just an msn thing this time. Just started working again! > ;-) > Anton > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com lol probably i used to use the msn part of gaim but i gave up cuz of that problem.. i use aim and yahoo mostly -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 14:59, anton wrote: > >>Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found > >>it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has > >>been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I > >>had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped > >>working... Still working under mdk though! > >>cheers > >> > >i thought it was my router doing it because il get disconnected from my > >game server also try rebooting your router or cable modem...it seems to > >work for me > > > > > tried rebooting my box, which is also my "router". No joy. And can you > get WinCableModems? Cable/dsl is still expensive here in NZ...and I'm a > student (just finished) > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com yes i have a cable modem.. but i dont know what a wincablemodem is. -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Dang, Maybe just an msn thing this time. Just started working again! ;-) Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped working... Still working under mdk though! cheers i thought it was my router doing it because il get disconnected from my game server also try rebooting your router or cable modem...it seems to work for me tried rebooting my box, which is also my "router". No joy. And can you get WinCableModems? Cable/dsl is still expensive here in NZ...and I'm a student (just finished) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 14:36, anton wrote: > Hi, > My *&^(&(%* Gaim has just decided to stop working AGAIN. This is > extremely frustrating. I do nothing, I install nothing, it stops > working. I f around (usually uninstalling and reinstalling various other > versions) until I finally get it working again. Then a week later it > stops working with the message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been disconnected. > Mon Dec 22 31:21:06 2003 > Error reading from server > > and offers Reconnect or Close as options. This happened with 0.72, 0.73 > and 0.74 from a variety of sources (norlug, Charles Edwards from this > list, mdk plf). > > I have also been having similar problems with networking, in the sense > that I have to keep rerunning drakconnect to give the doze box my wife > uses access to the net. It is set up and "configured" but for some > reason after a few days of normal access it stops working by itself and > I have to rerun the wizard every time. I had a missing dhcpd.conf and > replaced it once, which seemed to get it working, but then more problems. > > If anyone has any ideas on what little gremlins might be camped out in > my box I would be very interested! > > Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found > it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has > been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I > had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped > working... Still working under mdk though! > cheers > Anton > ps and for those interested, took down my firewall under xp a while ago > for about 30 seconds to try and get netmeeting working (just to see if > the firewall had anything to do with it) and had two boggies - 30 > seconds. gotta love M$. > i thought it was my router doing it because il get disconnected from my game server also try rebooting your router or cable modem...it seems to work for me -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Hi, My *&^(&(%* Gaim has just decided to stop working AGAIN. This is extremely frustrating. I do nothing, I install nothing, it stops working. I f around (usually uninstalling and reinstalling various other versions) until I finally get it working again. Then a week later it stops working with the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been disconnected. Mon Dec 22 31:21:06 2003 Error reading from server and offers Reconnect or Close as options. This happened with 0.72, 0.73 and 0.74 from a variety of sources (norlug, Charles Edwards from this list, mdk plf). I have also been having similar problems with networking, in the sense that I have to keep rerunning drakconnect to give the doze box my wife uses access to the net. It is set up and "configured" but for some reason after a few days of normal access it stops working by itself and I have to rerun the wizard every time. I had a missing dhcpd.conf and replaced it once, which seemed to get it working, but then more problems. If anyone has any ideas on what little gremlins might be camped out in my box I would be very interested! Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped working... Still working under mdk though! cheers Anton ps and for those interested, took down my firewall under xp a while ago for about 30 seconds to try and get netmeeting working (just to see if the firewall had anything to do with it) and had two boggies - 30 seconds. gotta love M$. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Notebook: finally got one :)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've finally got my decision on one, that is Acer Travelmate 802CLi. The spec: Intel Centrino 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB, 64MB Radeon 9000, USB, DVD-CDRW combo, XP pro, 15" TFT. The reason I bougth this one is that I need to play 3D game with it. Previously I almost chose IBM's R40, but the radeon is 7500 one with only 16MB memory. It'll arrive tomorrow and hopefully Intel would finish the driver for wireless card soon enough. Also, I want to make a dual boot with XP, so, I heard someone said that I can use the recovery CD to "resize" the hdd to make space for Linux? See you, - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 15:02:16 up 7:47, 9 users, load average: 0.37, 0.35, 0.30 Quote of the day: Win98 error 003: Illegal ASM instruction. If your modem worked properly, the FBI would have been called. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5qtsMai9kCFqACoRAiArAJ4n0CKHcGvjChx3z8oLPNDrB3ngcQCdGxKf pR8wiWraTqPenNWauEA01qM= =VHwI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the
subject of mounting disk.
Mounting the whole disk (i.e. hdc) works for cdrom, not for hard disk.
For these, you can only mount the partition (i.e hdc1).
How would the kernel know where to mount your partitions if you did't
tell explicitely?
raffaele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
{smile}
You're welcome (grin)
derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e. all partitions.
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Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I've had the same problem. I installed 9.2 download edition, then installed security and bugfixes through MCC (but not the kernel, since I don't have an LG drive), and experienced three system freezes in a row. Since other MDK releases were rock solid, and it was the first time that I tried the online upgrading process, I reinstalled 9.2 download edition and did not upgrade security and bugfixes. Now it is as stable as it should be. So I concluded there was a problem with the security and bugfixes download, or that the fixes themselves where not tested enough. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Then i did upgrading through internet. About 300MB download. Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. I am overall very happy with the speed of the OS. It is as fast as windows XP on my machine (other than the boot process!) Konqueror is now so nice and fast to use comparing to suse 8.1, redhat8.0 and libranet 2.7 and 2.8 that i have tried. It seems that they have removed some of the KDE configuration options. I hope they are not going the way of removing even more configuration options. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca 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] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 00:22, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:23, you wrote: > > > have you tried evolution?? > > I'm writing this email from Evolution. > > > i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried > > the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that > > indent the replies in the same email that came from a diff reply, > > hope yu can understand what im getting at.. > > Um...I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what you're getting at > here. I suppose I could guess, but could you explain a bit more? > > > what do u think is the best in the linux world.. i dont like using > > M$ programs with wine cuz its the reason i dont use M$ programs.. > > heheh > > Just to be clear about something...The Bat! is not a "MS program", as > it's just a program that happens to be written for use on Windows. When > I deal with Windows, the OS itself is the only "MS program" that I use. > > Evolution feels too much like OE to me (eek!), so that alone kinda makes > me cringe. That may not be the most rational reason to dislike it, but > there are other things I don't like about it as well. In fact, in order > to re-format the cut up quoted text above, I had to resort to using a > Windows text cleanup/re-formatting utility that I currently have working > under Wine. Also...I don't know why this happens, but very often, > Evolution freezes for several seconds, and this is quite annoying. > > I must admit (again and again), that I'm quite spoiled by using The Bat! > for email, so I can only really evaluate the various Linux email clients > I've tried in terms of being the "least offensive of the bunch". In > that sense, even though Sylpheed-claws seems to have more options, I'm > finding Kmail has earned my "least offensive" award for the moment. :-) > > As far as running The Bat! under Wine goes, I wish I didn't feel that it > was my only chance to be really happy with an email client in Linux, but > at this point, it is. What I really wish for is to have TB! ported to > Linux, so I wouldn't have to deal with Wine at all (I could then even > use the TB! editor to enhance Knode or Pan composition, and wouldn't > have to use the cleanup/re-formatting utility I'm currently using under > Wine to work with those). > > I know that many here will refuse to try any program written for > Windows, so I don't expect them to really understand why I'm not very > impressed with the various Linux email clients when I compare them to > The Bat!, but what can I say?...what you don't know can't impress you! > :-) ok the evolution freezing every few seconds only happens on my 64 bit box... on my 9.2 32 bit it does not freeze.. i havent checked the version numbers but i thought i was the only one that had that problem.. and what i was gettin at before is that ill get and email that is a reply to what i wrote and it will be indented.. and if there is a reply to a reply in that email it will be included in the new email but indented even further... unless someone ran a script to make it do that.. but i think its whatever email program they r using. i guess ill look for bat and see what its about :) -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 11:22:44 PM PST, I wrote: > I'm writing this email from Evolution. Eek! I get a "bad" GnuPG signature verification on my Evolution signed message. :-( - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/5p5YjVbXUvsE8ukRAnAjAKCxEjswgdH+L05Ge+c47bFs6ytlHgCfc9Aq WysRBcSrGApMej9PQZHWeCA= =BApL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
Hi Jason, On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:23, you wrote: > have you tried evolution?? I'm writing this email from Evolution. > i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried > the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that > indent the replies in the same email that came from a diff reply, > hope yu can understand what im getting at.. Um...I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. I suppose I could guess, but could you explain a bit more? > what do u think is the best in the linux world.. i dont like using > M$ programs with wine cuz its the reason i dont use M$ programs.. > heheh Just to be clear about something...The Bat! is not a "MS program", as it's just a program that happens to be written for use on Windows. When I deal with Windows, the OS itself is the only "MS program" that I use. Evolution feels too much like OE to me (eek!), so that alone kinda makes me cringe. That may not be the most rational reason to dislike it, but there are other things I don't like about it as well. In fact, in order to re-format the cut up quoted text above, I had to resort to using a Windows text cleanup/re-formatting utility that I currently have working under Wine. Also...I don't know why this happens, but very often, Evolution freezes for several seconds, and this is quite annoying. I must admit (again and again), that I'm quite spoiled by using The Bat! for email, so I can only really evaluate the various Linux email clients I've tried in terms of being the "least offensive of the bunch". In that sense, even though Sylpheed-claws seems to have more options, I'm finding Kmail has earned my "least offensive" award for the moment. :-) As far as running The Bat! under Wine goes, I wish I didn't feel that it was my only chance to be really happy with an email client in Linux, but at this point, it is. What I really wish for is to have TB! ported to Linux, so I wouldn't have to deal with Wine at all (I could then even use the TB! editor to enhance Knode or Pan composition, and wouldn't have to use the cleanup/re-formatting utility I'm currently using under Wine to work with those). I know that many here will refuse to try any program written for Windows, so I don't expect them to really understand why I'm not very impressed with the various Linux email clients when I compare them to The Bat!, but what can I say?...what you don't know can't impress you! :-) -- Melissa signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
