Re: [newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)
On Thu 2004-01-08 at 18:19:42 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to do this in mozilla 1.5. I just thought that it had to be done manually... # *Keep the Reply-To setting empty* * Please keep you Reply-To field empty when emailing any email list. Somewhere in your mailer's settings there is probably the option to fill in the Reply-To field. If it is filled in, then whenever a fellow listmember replies to your post, the message will go to you directly instead of to the list. For information on the problems this causes www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to Hm. Didn't change Mozilla configs for quite some time, but maybe it's (when in the Mailer window): Edit (the menu) - Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings. After you have chosen the name of the server on the left, there is a field Reply-to address (which is empty in my case) on the right. Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 10:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Your run: MPEG Stream reached EOF0%) 19fps Trem: 0min 529mb A-V:-0.046 [817:96] A/Vms 4/40 D/B/S 28985/1/0 ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio) VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) Trying filter chain: expand lavc VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO Config (720x480-854x480,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659) REQ: flags=0x401 req=0x0 videocodec: libavcodec (720x480 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX]) High quality encoding selected (non real time)! get_buffer() failed (0 -115967 0 0x40d5df30) VDec: vo config çàïðîñèë - 720 x 480 (ïðåäïî÷èòàåìûé csp: Planar YV12) Trying filter chain: expand lavc VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect íå îïðåäåë¸í - ïðåìàñøòàáèðîâàíèå íå ïðèìåíÿåòñÿ. Here's the problem: the lavc encoder is getting reinitialized in the middle of the encode due to changing header properties in the source file. Try using lavc for decoding (-vc ffmpeg12) and see if the problem goes away. This is a bug that needs to be fixed, but I don't know enough to deal with it. And the result, http://www.zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-users/2003-05/msg00573.html Thanx, -vc ffmepg12 helped. Try that, see if it works. If not we'll have to delve deeper, and if the problem is as complex as the above description implies - ie a long way from the buffer allocation code, deep in the structure of the data stream - I'm probably not going to find it. This is my result, [EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -vc ffmpeg12 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory2.avi MEncoder dev-CVS--3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team There are 10 titles on this DVD. There are 31 chapters in this DVD title. There are 3 angles in this DVD title. DVD successfully opened. success: format: 0 data: 0x184800 - 0x1700A800 No matching DVD audio language found! MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x1002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334 == Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000-192000 (384.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) == Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1 == Forced video codec: ffmpeg12 Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x1002. Read DOCS/en/codecs.html! == Exiting... [EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# So Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... is the problem with the CL ? Heres what man mencoder says about it, -vc [-]codec1,[-]codec2,...[,] Specify a priority list of video codecs to be used, according their codec name in codecs.conf. Use a '-' before the codec name to omit EXAMPLE: -vc divx force Win32/VFW DivX codec, no fallback so I don't see what was wrong with the CL, it must be inside libavcodec where the problem lies. There are of course mpegvideo.c mpegvideo.h mpegvideo.o the question is are these what it is looking for ? I would of thought so, but ? The question is whether these are the codecs it wants under a command ffmepg12 which I took to mean mpeg 1 and 2 ,not sure what ff is a symbol for. Incidentally did you notice the low 19fps , in my experience something more like 29fps is normal, but for all I know 19fps may be ok. As for the explanation given , I can hold with the concept of the lavc encoder is getting reinitialized in the middle of the encode due to changing header properties in the source file as this would make sense against the fact that mencoder does not habitually fail encoding mpeg2 to mpeg4 , as I have said before it's
Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] well I managed to get it working - sort of... It doesn't seem to want to work if I just use the old dialup connection I had on the desktop [which is a shortcut to the same place that connect to the internet on the K menu points to]. But if I go through the wizard again, and let it detect the modem and the nic, at the end it lets me tell it to use the modem to connect. Then it complains of errors and tells me to use net_monitor - and from there if I tell it to connect, it will actually work. But on rebooting, everything is back like before - will connect, but not go anywhere... I've done it a few times, tried but the set address and the auto one with more or less the same results: it works when it feels like it :) So at least I can connect, but it's a lot of mouse clicks etc, and it's a bit hit'n'miss. Oh at least it can ping the laptop now [and back again] so that's a good step forward. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you browse through some of the available Mandrake Linux documentation, [...snip] Below are links that should be available on your local Linux machine that can talk you through how to setup networking on your machine step by step. [...snip] file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ethernet/Ethernet-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Net/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/SMB/SMB-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Intranet-Server/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html Unfortunately, none of those exist on my system. Indeed, /usr/share/doc/HOWTO doesn't exist. These are the only howtos I can find: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# locate howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-6to4.howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-tunnel.howto /usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.1/doc/howto.txt /usr/share/doc/chbg-1.5/xscreensaver-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/mplayer-0.92/tech/cvs-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto/README.NOW /usr/share/webmin/man/view_howto.cgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I googled for the first one, but found it only in individual html pages - not as a single set I can download and read offline. The second one I could only find in Dutch [or something...] Do you know where/how I could download those docs you suggested, as a set? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:38 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] well I managed to get it working - sort of... It doesn't seem to want to work if I just use the old dialup connection I had on the desktop [which is a shortcut to the same place that connect to the internet on the K menu points to]. Could be permission problems if you are trying to run a script as a user that you don't have permissions to run. But if I go through the wizard again, and let it detect the modem and the nic, at the end it lets me tell it to use the modem to connect. Then it complains of errors and tells me to use net_monitor - and from there if I tell it to connect, it will actually work. But on rebooting, everything is back like before - will connect, but not go anywhere... I've done it a few times, tried but the set address and the auto one with more or less the same results: it works when it feels like it :) You switch to root when you run the wizard and that may be activating the script properly. So at least I can connect, but it's a lot of mouse clicks etc, and it's a bit hit'n'miss. Oh at least it can ping the laptop now [and back again] so that's a good step forward. Read through the howto entries for modems and try to see if you can get a stable configuration. If you get an idea what is happening and have a specific question, post that question here and someone can probably help you. I have found this forum to be great for getting specific answers but it can be very hard to get lengthy tutorials on how to do things. I googled for the first one, but found it only in individual html pages - not as a single set I can download and read offline. The second one I could only find in Dutch [or something...] Do you know where/how I could download those docs you suggested, as a set? Yes, they are part of a package called howto-html-en-9.1-0.6mdk. If you run Install Software and search for howto, you should see a tone of these in different languages. Select the en one and you should be on your way. These are part of the Linux Documentation Project. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:56, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:38 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] well I managed to get it working - sort of... It doesn't seem to want to work if I just use the old dialup connection I had on the desktop [which is a shortcut to the same place that connect to the internet on the K menu points to]. Could be permission problems if you are trying to run a script as a user that you don't have permissions to run. Run userdrake and check the groups that you belong to. You may find several that are useful but you're not yet registered to. What about pppusers? 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] IBM Committed to Linux Desktop
Okay, I know most of you read *Slashdot*, but just in case anyone missed this one, this is very exciting. A leaked memo from IBM indicates the company is committed to moving it's productivity desktops/apps to Linux and/or OS alternatives: Quote: First, our chairman has challenged the IT organization, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux based desktop before the end of 2005. This means replacing productivity, web access and viewing tools with open standards based equivalents. Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13485 This can mean only one thing: more developers working on Linux desktop sol'ns, more support for open standards in desktop applications, more for all of us who want to see the end of the MS monopoly on the business and home desktop. Yahoo! Wait, can I say 'Yahoo!', or is that a violation of someone's IP...? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.-- Karl Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
I have recently been playing around with trying to get rip and encode DVDs to other formats. In effect what I'm trying to do is take just the audio from a DVD and put it into .wav to burn to CD. I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? TIA = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:55 am, David wrote: I have recently been playing around with trying to get rip and encode DVDs to other formats. In effect what I'm trying to do is take just the audio from a DVD and put it into .wav to burn to CD. I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? Most apps that rip DVD's to encode to VCD, etc. pull the video stream and audio stream out separately, encode each and then splice them back together into the final encoding file, either MPEG or MPEG2 format. Since those files are usually copied separately into a tmp directory, I wouldn't think that it would be too hard to pull the separate audio file for further manipulation. You might want to look at dvd::rip as an interface that will create the separate files for you and then just grab them. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:55:11 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently been playing around with trying to get rip and encode DVDs to other formats. In effect what I'm trying to do is take just the audio from a DVD and put it into .wav to burn to CD. I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? The script I've been using recently: http://hammelmann.gmxhome.de/mencvcd will rip DVD/AVI to VCD or SVCD, but before it does this, it dumps the audio out to .wav for later incorporation into the .bin. I bet if you play with the script a bit, you can get it to just dump the audio. Some links you might find helpful: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ http://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de/Divx-to-VCD_en.html http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/ http://mikecheng.d2.net.au/ (toolame) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.-- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:55 am, David wrote: I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? You can also do this manually with transcode. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Speeding up X
Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 08:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:55 am, David wrote: I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? You can also do this manually with transcode. no but if you find a program please let me know im still lookin... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda it should say using_dma =1 -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] archives
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:52 pm, Bill W. wrote: Hi, I don't know what happened to the list over the last little while but I'm glad to see it is very active. Will there be an update of the archives? Has that been discussed? Thanks, Bill W. Bill: Here are the three mandrake maillist archives that I've bookmarked: 1. The official Mandrake archives: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/ These have not been updated since mid-November. IIRC, that's about the same time that many of us got dumped from the list due to some kind of a screwup at Mandrake. I'm not sure that there is any connection between the two events. 2. This site has a great many lists archived: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ You'll find the various Mandrake lists under the Linux Distributions header. It is usually current. For some reason, they like white text on a black background. 3. Similar to #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html It is also kept current and (hooray) uses the newfangled black text on a white background. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:36, jpearl24 wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda it should say using_dma =1 Here is the output of hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 10011/255/63, sectors = 160836480, start = 0 Any other ideas? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with 2.6.0
Hello, I installed: Linux version 2.6.0-1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-3mdk)) #1 Wed Dec 31 16:54:15 CET 2003 From cooker contrib, and also module-init-tools, to my Mdk9.2 which is in my laptop Fujitsu C1020 and I got in dmesg following symbols: Mounted devfs on /dev SCSI subsystem initialized sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_set_hostinfo_key sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_node_write sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_addrspace sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_node_fill_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_protocol sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_make_writepacket sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_speedto_str sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_send_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_unregister_protocol sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_host_bykey sbp2: Unknown symbol ieee1394_bus_type sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_destroy_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_create_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol free_hpsb_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_highlevel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_free_tlabel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_unregister_highlevel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_set_packet_complete_task sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_hostinfo_bykey Should I remove devfs=mount from menu.lst kernel line? found reiserfs format 3.6 with standard journal reiserfs:warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set ON reiserfs:warning: - it is slow mode for debugging. Why they set this debug on, ain't 2.6.0 should be stable? And then no need to debug? Something more strange: Call Trace: [c011f0fa] __might_sleep+0x9a/0xc0 [c0143a66] kmem_cache_alloc+0x46/0x60 [c011f4e1] dup_task_struct+0x21/0xa0 [c0120161] copy_process+0xb1/0xc00 [c011cb3c] recalc_task_prio+0x9c/0x200 [c0120cec] do_fork+0x3c/0x170 [e08c3130] supermount_show_sbi+0x1d0/0x240 [supermount] [e08cf14d] ohci_init_config_rom+0x34d/0x460 [ohci1394] [c01092e4] kernel_thread+0x64/0x70 [e09166d0] nodemgr_host_thread+0x0/0x180 [ieee1394] [c0109270] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [e0916a8c] nodemgr_add_host+0xbc/0x110 [ieee1394] [e09166d0] nodemgr_host_thread+0x0/0x180 [ieee1394] [e091297a] highlevel_add_host+0x4a/0x80 [ieee1394] [e0911f5e] hpsb_add_host+0x5e/0x80 [ieee1394] [e08cf61d] ohci1394_pci_probe+0x33d/0x480 [ohci1394] [c01b3197] pci_device_probe_static+0x37/0x60 [c01b31e9] __pci_device_probe+0x29/0x40 [c01b321e] pci_device_probe+0x1e/0x40 [c01ee77f] bus_match+0x2f/0x70 [c01ee8ad] driver_attach+0x4d/0x90 [c01eeb3d] bus_add_driver+0x7d/0xa0 [c01eef2f] driver_register+0x2f/0x40 [c01b33d0] pci_register_driver+0x50/0x80 [e076e00e] ohci1394_init+0xe/0x3b [ohci1394] [c01377e0] sys_init_module+0x110/0x280 [c010b277] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Is it better choice to pick up vanilla source from kernel.org and compile own custom version? But what about supermount then, is it included in vanilla or does it have to merge from some patch? I like to use supermount myself. -- best rgds ~tt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: YES!
On 01/08/2004 07:40 AM, Michael Holt wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.epson.general Scroll down the list and you'll see some entries for c44 and how they got it working. Hi Mike, I have the printer working!! After some searching on Google, via the Cups site, I got to the gimp-print site. And there I read that, with setting up USB printers, Cups needs to be restarted. Best way to go through with this is, as Derek said, reboot the machine. But - Make sure the printer is on. So I did that. Then I reran the Turboprint setup program, and this time I found the entry for /dev/usb/lp0 in a list. I selected it. Clicked ok. No problem. Fired up OO's spadmin and added the printer. Printed a very simple text document. Yes, it works! Then I loaded Gimp, selected the Epson Stylus C42UX driver (also something I saw at gimpprint) and printed a picture I took at Grand Canyon at 720DPI, not even 720 DPI High Resolution. And damn, that print comes out fine!! I am a happy camper now. Turboprint and the info on the Gimpprint site made my day! Next time someone asks With Linux, can you- I'll cut them short and say yes. Thanks for the help, everyone! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Forced video codec: ffmpeg12 Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x1002. Read DOCS/en/codecs.html! My etc/codecs.conf contains: videocodec ffmpeg2 info FFmpeg MPEG 2 status working format 0x1002 ; mpeg 2 fourcc mpg2 driver ffmpeg dll mpeg2video out YV12,I420,IYUV Howabout yours? (That's etc in the source directories of course in my case.) If yours is missing maybe it's time to upgrade. Or, reading DOCS/en/codecs.html as suggested above, in the section on FFmpeg/libavcodec: If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases are very rare. ISTR, you built from CVS, while I'm looking at a release (1.0pre3) So, to sum up, yes it does seem to be a read error confusion in that mencoder is having problems handling the variable nature of DVD CD's and yes I do think it needs fixing.Needless to say that is beyond my abilities. Still, I can help identify the problem, and that is half the battle. There's certainly a bug there, and therefore it needs fixing. But if you can work around it then it isn't going to be your problem. Why beat your head against something you've already found to be a wall. OTOH, if you can't find a workaround then you need to be very careful to jump through all the hoops when you report the problem, including running the latest CVS code, no matter how stupid the hoops are. It took me 20 years to learn to welcome bug reports. Most programmers would prefer to dismiss them. (Although generally less so in the open source world.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:41 am, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff) I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:41:16 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? That should not be at all. I don't use KDE, but I know that the very few times I've loaded KDE, it does not exhibit any slowness like you are describing, and I've got an old P3866 (Ti4200 video...:-)) One of the best ways to check for something choking resources, which is the #1 cause of slowness, is to run 'top' in a term. If you want to see just what processes *you* are running, hit 'u' and type your username, and enter. Either way, look for something at the top of the list that is chewing up CPU time (likely) or memory (doubtful). KDE ain't the lightest desktop there is (LOL!) but it should run snappy on a system like yours. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.-- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:59:19 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? I dunno, but I think this thread is heading for a record...holy shite. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?-- Bill O'Reilly, March 18, 2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 6:41 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:59:19 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? I dunno, but I think this thread is heading for a record...holy shite. Especially since it's all on topic. I've wondered about taking it one-to-one, but I still think there's stuff in there that others might find useful. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 2.6.0
tuija t. kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 8. Tammikuuta 2004 19:12): Hello, I installed: Linux version 2.6.0-1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-3mdk)) #1 Wed Dec 31 16:54:15 CET 2003 From cooker contrib, and also module-init-tools, to my Mdk9.2 which is in my laptop Fujitsu C1020 and I got in dmesg following symbols: Mounted devfs on /dev SCSI subsystem initialized sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_set_hostinfo_key sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_node_write sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_addrspace sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_node_fill_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_protocol sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_make_writepacket sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_speedto_str sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_send_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_unregister_protocol sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_host_bykey sbp2: Unknown symbol ieee1394_bus_type sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_destroy_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_create_hostinfo sbp2: Unknown symbol free_hpsb_packet sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_register_highlevel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_free_tlabel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_unregister_highlevel sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_set_packet_complete_task sbp2: Unknown symbol hpsb_get_hostinfo_bykey Should I remove devfs=mount from menu.lst kernel line? found reiserfs format 3.6 with standard journal reiserfs:warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set ON reiserfs:warning: - it is slow mode for debugging. Why they set this debug on, ain't 2.6.0 should be stable? And then no need to debug? Something more strange: Call Trace: [c011f0fa] __might_sleep+0x9a/0xc0 [c0143a66] kmem_cache_alloc+0x46/0x60 [c011f4e1] dup_task_struct+0x21/0xa0 [c0120161] copy_process+0xb1/0xc00 [c011cb3c] recalc_task_prio+0x9c/0x200 [c0120cec] do_fork+0x3c/0x170 [e08c3130] supermount_show_sbi+0x1d0/0x240 [supermount] [e08cf14d] ohci_init_config_rom+0x34d/0x460 [ohci1394] [c01092e4] kernel_thread+0x64/0x70 [e09166d0] nodemgr_host_thread+0x0/0x180 [ieee1394] [c0109270] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [e0916a8c] nodemgr_add_host+0xbc/0x110 [ieee1394] [e09166d0] nodemgr_host_thread+0x0/0x180 [ieee1394] [e091297a] highlevel_add_host+0x4a/0x80 [ieee1394] [e0911f5e] hpsb_add_host+0x5e/0x80 [ieee1394] [e08cf61d] ohci1394_pci_probe+0x33d/0x480 [ohci1394] [c01b3197] pci_device_probe_static+0x37/0x60 [c01b31e9] __pci_device_probe+0x29/0x40 [c01b321e] pci_device_probe+0x1e/0x40 [c01ee77f] bus_match+0x2f/0x70 [c01ee8ad] driver_attach+0x4d/0x90 [c01eeb3d] bus_add_driver+0x7d/0xa0 [c01eef2f] driver_register+0x2f/0x40 [c01b33d0] pci_register_driver+0x50/0x80 [e076e00e] ohci1394_init+0xe/0x3b [ohci1394] [c01377e0] sys_init_module+0x110/0x280 [c010b277] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Is it better choice to pick up vanilla source from kernel.org and compile own custom version? But what about supermount then, is it included in vanilla or does it have to merge from some patch? I like to use supermount myself. I answer to myself :) I compiled vanilla 2.6.0 and; + no errors + no reiserfs debug mode + no frame pointers But - no supermount either :( Howto merge supermount patch to vanilla? -- best rgds ~tt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: YES!
On Thursday 08 January 2004 17:35, Paul wrote: I have the printer working!! Paul, thanks for telling us how you solved it. Could you write up a short how-to based on this for the TWiki pages? It would be useful, on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PrInting. A one-liner on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PriNters pointing to the how-to would also help. Thanks 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] Lack of sound in KDE
Greetings I am using MDK 9.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop with KDE 3.1.0. I have been able to get KsCD to play music CD's quite nicely. I cannot get KDE to play event sounds, i.e. when KMail fetches mail I want it to play a wav file, but no sound is played. I have tried to play wav files with several sound programs to no effect. I have no sound when in KDE control center Sound Sound System, none f the panels there will produce any sound at all for me when I try testing. I would like to have KDE or various programs that are KDE compatible play a specified wav file when I want it to. In Harddrake the sound card is not listed, could this be a problem? TIA Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - The sooner I can get fully rid of Windblow$ the better.slowly getting there Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lack of sound in KDE
On Thursday 08 January 2004 19:27, Doug Roberts wrote: In Harddrake the sound card is not listed, could this be a problem? Hehe - no sound card = no sound. So, I wonder, what kind of sound card is it? Most of the common ones will be known by someone on this list. 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] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live
Hello. I can't play .midi files with Kmid, there is no sound output. Timidity can play them very well, but I'd like to use Kmid because it has a better interface. According to this tutorial I've found, all I have to do is load the soundfonts to /etc/midi/, but before I do it I'd like to hear from you on the subject. Thank you. http://jamesthornton.com/linux/LinuxFocus/English/September2002/article259.shtml If you have a sound card with internal midi synthesizer (sound blaster live) then you need to load the soundfont (the sound samples) into the chip of your soundcard. If you do not have such a card then you can install timidity (see references for url to download) and use it as a alsa midi synthesizer. Programs running on top of alsa will not notice the difference. Loading the soundfont Check that you have the program sfxload (/bin/sfxload) installed. If not install it. It is part of a package called awesfx (check the CDs of your linux distribution or http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/awedrv.html). Next copy the file 8MBGMSFX.SF2 from your Soundblaster Live CD (/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/Common/SFBANK/8MBGMSFX.SF2) to /etc/midi/8MBGMSFX.SF2. To load the soundfont run the command: -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net linux user #341648 * Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live
On Thursday 08 January 2004 19:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello. I can't play .midi files with Kmid, there is no sound output. Timidity can play them very well, but I'd like to use Kmid because it has a better interface. Kmid never worked on my system, but Kmidi worked fine. 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] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:32 am, jpearl24 wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 08:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:55 am, David wrote: I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? You can also do this manually with transcode. no but if you find a program please let me know im still lookin... Again, transcode will do this, from the homepage: It's modular concept is intended to provide flexibility and easy user extensibility to include other video/audio codecs or file types. A set of tools is included to demux (tcdemux), extract (tcextract) and decode (tcdecode) the sources into raw video/audio streams for import, probing (tcprobe) and scanning (tcscan) your sources and to enable post-processing of AVI files, fixing AVI file header information (avifix), merging multiple files (avimerge) or splitting large AVI files (avisplit) to fit on a CD. Note: extract (tcextract) and decode (tcdecode) the sources into raw video/audio streams for import, If you go to this message, http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/transcode-users/2003-07/msg00043.html you will see that someone has written a script to rip all cahpters in all titles of a dvd to several mp3-files. Converting from mp3 to .wav is trivial and burning from mp3 to CD-Audio is also trivial. Now, exactly how much effort did you expend on saying that transcode wouldn't work compared with simply doing a google search to find out that someone had already done this with transcode and written a script to make it pushbutton easy? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing files in Club-Contrib
I have tried several mirrors to get club files, all with the same results. I can configure the site and download the hdlist but when I try to download a file it is always reported as missing. I have used both urpmi and rpmDrake. When I check the directory with ftp, I see no files. I don't have any problems with sources other than club_contrib. I just got Mandrake in late December and haven't seen any posts in the archives. I just started this list today. Am I doing something wrong? Are some mirrors not working? TIA -- John Ohrt Toronto * Canada Mandrake 9.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Forced video codec: ffmpeg12 Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x1002. Read DOCS/en/codecs.html! My etc/codecs.conf contains: videocodec ffmpeg2 info FFmpeg MPEG 2 status working format 0x1002 ; mpeg 2 fourcc mpg2 driver ffmpeg dll mpeg2video out YV12,I420,IYUV Howabout yours? (That's etc in the source directories of course in my case.) videocodec ffmpeg2 info FFmpeg MPEG 2 status working format 0x1002 ; mpeg 2 fourcc mpg2 driver ffmpeg dll mpeg2video out YV12,I420,IYUV the same, If yours is missing maybe it's time to upgrade. Or, reading DOCS/en/codecs.html as suggested above, in the section on FFmpeg/libavcodec: If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases are very rare. I build with libavcodec with the full package including the important ones. ISTR, you built from CVS, while I'm looking at a release (1.0pre3) Sure but as far as the codecs are concerned they are the same except mine has all the inportant additional feature, if you've got them too then you added them somehow after the main install, I always include them in the build in the first place, but you have to get them seperate and add them to the CVS package. So, to sum up, yes it does seem to be a read error confusion in that mencoder is having problems handling the variable nature of DVD CD's and yes I do think it needs fixing.Needless to say that is beyond my abilities. Still, I can help identify the problem, and that is half the battle. There's certainly a bug there, and therefore it needs fixing. But if you can work around it then it isn't going to be your problem. Why beat your head against something you've already found to be a wall. OTOH, Oh yes I quite accept that , if there is a way around the problem , lets do it, otherwise, if you can't find a workaround then you need to be very careful to jump through all the hoops when you report the problem, including running the latest CVS code, no matter how stupid the hoops are. I quite agree. It took me 20 years to learn to welcome bug reports. Most programmers would prefer to dismiss them. (Although generally less so in the open source world.) Well yes, certainly, see , mplayer/mencoder is by it's very nature the kind of programme that will generate immense enquiry or bug reporting, and I can see perfectly well they just don't have the time to deal with it all. I can understand that, so the way the game is played it is a case of, if you cannot present the problem in a nut shell, preferably with the answer, then don't bother us. So it's a case of can I work around it, or have I to present the problem as it is and prefereably with an answer. Sure, I'd like a work around, that's easier for me, but I don't know how to do even that at this time. However all this has not been bad for me, I'm getting to know some more about tracing bugs and how to look for them. It's pushing the envelope of my experience that bit further, and helping me to understand the developers lot. That cannot be bad , can it, and I thank you for your interest in my problem. So what do we do next ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 6:41 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:59:19 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? I dunno, but I think this thread is heading for a record...holy shite. Especially since it's all on topic. I've wondered about taking it one-to-one, but I still think there's stuff in there that others might find useful. I agree, this is all good stuff and well worth learning. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
I've been having problems with my printer for a while now. It is an Epson Stylus C42UX, and it disappears from my recognised hardware list every time I reboot - which is every day, as I don't have a cat-proof room for the computer! In an earlier thread, Albert Charron suggested a workaround - urpme cups, then urpmi cups, then reinstall printer. This works, but I have to do it every time I reboot - it doesn't seem to stick. Thinking back, the printer problem seems to have started once I got my scanner stabilised - when I first got the scanner, I was having to reinstall it every time I wanted to use it, but now it is automatically recognised every time I reboot. The scanner is also a USB device. Is it possible that my Mandrake setup is only capable of automatically recognising one USB device at at time? If this is the case, is there any way to change it? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xpdf (stock with a 9.2 install)
Howdy! I recently installed 9.2 at home; it's a bear, but a good learning experience. I have an HP 1100 that I installed using the Mandrake printer utility, and I got a test page out fine. But I tried to print a pdf found on the web in XPDF, and it never came out on the printer. I noticed that XPDF doesn't seem to offer much help on printing, and so I'd like a clue as to what I did wrong. The printer, iirc, is /dev/lp0 (or whatever my sole LPT port is; I'm on the Win box at work, and I simply can't remember). Thanks! Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lack of sound in KDE
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:54, Doug Roberts wrote: From what I can gather from Toshiba tech its a Yamaha based OPL3 sound card. MDK had a rough time configuring it to begin with... I own a Toshiba (S504-5005) which uses the same Yamaha card. The only way to get it working with Mandrake is with ACPI=on in lilo. After that, Mandrake recognized it without any problem. HTH Adolfo Unfortunately not...turning acpi on just hangs the machine when it tries to initiallize the pcmcia card. Oh well. 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] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: Greetings I am using MDK 9.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop with KDE 3.1.0. I have been able to get KsCD to play music CD's quite nicely. In Harddrake the sound card is not listed, could this be a problem? Well yes, it _should_ be a problem, but if you can play CD's, it's kind of strange. Have you checked the KMixer settings? It might be that you have muted pcm, which then won't let you here mp3's or wav's, I think. What does 'lsmod | grep sound' say? (As root) /Björn Output is: sound706441[opl3 sd_lib uart401] soundcore 62760[sd_lib sound] as for KMixer, I can't find it. It is not listed in the usual places I can see... 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] Lack of sound in KDE
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 23:31, Doug Roberts wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:54, Doug Roberts wrote: From what I can gather from Toshiba tech its a Yamaha based OPL3 sound card. MDK had a rough time configuring it to begin with... I own a Toshiba (S504-5005) which uses the same Yamaha card. The only way to get it working with Mandrake is with ACPI=on in lilo. After that, Mandrake recognized it without any problem. HTH Adolfo Unfortunately not...turning acpi on just hangs the machine when it tries to initiallize the pcmcia card. Oh well. Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Some time ago I installed SuSE on an old Toshiba with this sound card using the advice at http://www.m.benndorf.easynet.be/laptop/Home.html Maybe some clues there? Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Core dump
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 8:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Forced video codec: ffmpeg12 Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x1002. Read DOCS/en/codecs.html! My etc/codecs.conf contains: videocodec ffmpeg2 info FFmpeg MPEG 2 status working format 0x1002 ; mpeg 2 fourcc mpg2 driver ffmpeg dll mpeg2video out YV12,I420,IYUV Howabout yours? (That's etc in the source directories of course in my case.) videocodec ffmpeg2 info FFmpeg MPEG 2 status working format 0x1002 ; mpeg 2 fourcc mpg2 driver ffmpeg dll mpeg2video out YV12,I420,IYUV the same, Ah, damn. So what's your feeling? Why does it fail with -vc ffmpeg12 ? Is it maybe one of the other parameters you're giving it that conflicts with the new one? I admit that they are all greek to me, but I notice that it is complaining about -vo, not -vc. Or is the DVD incapable of being read with the ffmpeg library, and if so, why? If yours is missing maybe it's time to upgrade. Or, reading DOCS/en/codecs.html as suggested above, in the section on FFmpeg/libavcodec: If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases are very rare. I build with libavcodec with the full package including the important ones. ISTR, you built from CVS, while I'm looking at a release (1.0pre3) Sure but as far as the codecs are concerned they are the same except mine has all the inportant additional feature, if you've got them too then you added them somehow after the main install, I always include them in the build in the first place, but you have to get them seperate and add them to the CVS package. I appear to have that particular one. I haven't tried to compile it, let alone run it. The above quote says that it is included in releases, but not CVS snapshots. So what do we do next ? Check those parameters for conflicts. Load the latest CVS. If we're going to report a bug then you need to do it at some point, and it just might clear up one problem or the other. If not then we'll have to dive back into gdb and have a proper look around, check the values of the variables, and so forth. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Ok, I did it ! Now I can play .midi and .kar files in Kmid. I just followed the instructions in the article. First, I installed the awesfx package [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi awesfx Then , I copied the sound samples to /etc/midi/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cp /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK/8MBGMSFX.SF2 /etc/midi/ And issued the command to load them [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/8MBGMSFX.SF2 In Settings--MIDI setup, I chose the second MIDI device (all of them have the same name, i.e., Alsa device) It's a perfect karaoke machine now ! -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net linux user #341648 * I knew it. He's the One. -- Tank, The Matrix Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:39, JoeHill wrote: [Snip] One of the best ways to check for something choking resources, which is the #1 cause of slowness, is to run 'top' in a term. If you want to see just what processes *you* are running, hit 'u' and type your username, and enter. Either way, look for something at the top of the list that is chewing up CPU time (likely) or memory (doubtful). KDE ain't the lightest desktop there is (LOL!) but it should run snappy on a system like yours. Is it KDE then that is the problem? I ran top, but didn't see anything chewing resources (memory or cpu). My RAM usage is at 302244k (out of 515104k) and processor is at about 5%. Processor usage does go up if I grab a window and move it around on the desktop. I do like top! I've never used it before! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: [snip] Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff) nvidia I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. I'm running kernel 2.4.22-10mdk. I don't know if I'm brave enough yet to try and updgrade to 2.6! Would it be worth it? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
Warren Post wrote: For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
Margot wrote: Warren Post wrote: For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Margot I haven't noticed any of your messages recently but this one got to me via the list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:38, Warren Post wrote: Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package Just in case ;-) Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:45, Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: [snip] Travis Crook Visions Beyond I may have found something else. It seems when I do something that runs a background process (at least what I think is a background process) it slows (even at 30-50% cpu usage). For example, if I tell my mail program to get my mail, or if I place an attachment with an email message from the network, etc. it will slow down. Does this help? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 10:38 pm, Warren Post wrote: Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. Are you updating your database first? urpmi.update -a 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] Speeding up X
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:43:29 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it KDE then that is the problem? No, definitely shouldn't be. I'm no big fan of KDE, as anyone on here will tell you, but despite the bloat, it should be fine on your machine, even running all the eye candy like Karamba and all that. 'Course, my CPU is at 100% as I type this, and I have no problem with slow mouse, slow anything. The beauty of a nice light WM...;-) I ran top, but didn't see anything chewing resources (memory or cpu). My RAM usage is at 302244k (out of 515104k) and processor is at about 5%. Processor usage does go up if I grab a window and move it around on the desktop. I do like top! I've never used it before! It's a good diagnostic tool, that's for sure. I see below that processes like getting your mail, I'm assuming from a POP server rather than locally (ie. /var/spool/mail/travis) is using 50% CPU time. You mentioned previously that slowdowns also occur when you are using your browser. 50% CPU is a lot for just POPping your mail, esp with a powerful machine like you have, and certainly unexpected just loading a web page. Sounds like some network-related process is going after your CPU. Upping to Kernel 2.6 might give you a speed difference, but the original problem may remain. That being said, it *is* recommended that you at least upgrade your kernel to 2.4.22-21, if only for security reasons. If it solves your problem, so much the better. I would basically just run top in a term, and watch what is using the CPU when you do the things you mention (browsing, getting mail), noting the *exact* process name. Also, while X is running, when you notice a slowdown, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to see the console output and look for errors or warnings. Look in /var/log/messages for similar output. Finally, a few people have noted differences in performance (slow, hanging, freezing, etc.) are resolved by changing some of the boot options in /etc/lilo.conf Specifically, in the 'append' line change to 'acpi=off' and add 'noapic'. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Not only do I think marijuana should be legalized, I think it should be mandatory-- Bill Hicks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:18:35 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, a few people have noted differences in performance (slow, hanging, freezing, etc.) are resolved by changing some of the boot options in /etc/lilo.conf Specifically, in the 'append' line change to 'acpi=off' and add 'noapic'. Of course, it goes without saying that after doing this (as root) run 'lilo' to load the new config, then reboot. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ In the long run, there is no capitalism without conscience; there is no wealth without character.-- George W. Bush on Wall Street, July 9, 2002 It was like watching a whore pretend to be dean of Southern Methodist University's School of Theology.-- Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Bushwhacked Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xpdf (stock with a 9.2 install)
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:08:20, Eric Geater 1/7/03 wrote: I have an HP 1100 that I installed using the Mandrake printer utility, and I got a test page out fine. But I tried to print a pdf found on the web in XPDF, and it never came out on the printer. I noticed that XPDF doesn't seem to offer much help on printing, and so I'd like a clue as to what I did wrong. Xpdf doesn't provide much in its menus, but it does provide a fairly good man page and readme in /usr/share/doc/xpdf-rel#. I believe it assumes you want to print to postscript, but you can print to a regular printer as well. Also, xpp (X printing panel) will print your files to a printer. You don't need to open the file to print it. Type in the name of the file, indicate which printer you want to print it (it will show your installed printers), and set any options you may want. deedee -- Registered Linux User #327485 Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:41 am, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff) I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:28, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:18:35 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, a few people have noted differences in performance (slow, hanging, freezing, etc.) are resolved by changing some of the boot options in /etc/lilo.conf Specifically, in the 'append' line change to 'acpi=off' and add 'noapic'. Of course, it goes without saying that after doing this (as root) run 'lilo' to load the new config, then reboot. This seems to have helped immensely! What do acpi and apic do if I may ask? Thanks a bunch! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thursday 08 January 2004 05:59 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package Don't forget that you have to run 'urpmi.update --update' first to update your urpmi database with the new packages for the update source. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:18:35 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to see the console output oh, and you hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get X back...:-D -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.-- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:01:38 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to have helped immensely! What do acpi and apic do if I may ask? LOL! How many times has that been asked...by me... Go here: google.com/linux, and type in, with quotes, what is apic, Enjoy :-D ...and no need for thanks, I learned that trick from this list, so basically I'm just passing it on. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 05:59 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package Don't forget that you have to run 'urpmi.update --update' first to update your urpmi database with the new packages for the update source. Something new to me. What I ended up doing was using the graphical interfase to check for new updates. After that 'urpmi --update' did the rest. I never used urpmi.update. Does the graphical interfase do an urpmi.update automatically? Any way, next time I will use urpmi.update. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xfce4-4.0.3
I now have the xfce-4.0.3 rpms This is a maintenance release. Due to the memory leak found in the window manager code, users of all previous versions of xfce4 beta and xfce 4.0.x releases are highly encouraged to upgrade. At the moment the rpms are only available by using urpmi/rpmdrake, too lazy to update the index file today, maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. Charles -- I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. -- Totie Fields -- Mandrake Linux 9.2 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: TallBoy #184143 http://www.eslrahc.com -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:16, Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:36, jpearl24 wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda it should say using_dma =1 Here is the output of hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 10011/255/63, sectors = 160836480, start = 0 Any other ideas? Travis Crook Visions Beyond i would say update to kernel 2.4.22-21 i think its a good kernel.. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Problems with mouse and sound card
Hey all,on one of my computers I have it setup to dual boot Windows XP and Mandrake 9.2. Well anyways my problem is that from time to time my mouse locks up under GNOME and KDE interface. Sometimes it will unfreeze and just carry on but other times I have to reboot Linux. BTW it is a optical USB 3 button mouse with track wheel. It is usb 2.0. ANd yes it only does it in Linux and not XP. I am using the generic drivers that were default for Linux. I have it setup as a 3 button mouse with a wheel which it is. When I test it it is all good. It is just sometimes when I am opening apps in Linux under GNOME or KDE it will just lock up. Then I have to use the shortcut keys to exit and reboot. It is a BTC optical usb mouse. I do not know the exact model number. I have had this mouse for a while. OH BTW while I am at it, my soundcard does not produce any sounds in Linux. Mandrake recognizes it as the correct card and all with the r ight dirvers but just does not work. It does not work on any sound files,mp3's,cda's etc...It is a Soundblaster Audigy MP3+. I have also checked the Kmix setup and it is all on and turned up. I do not know what else to try. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:45, Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: [snip] Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff) nvidia I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. I'm running kernel 2.4.22-10mdk. I don't know if I'm brave enough yet to try and updgrade to 2.6! Would it be worth it? Travis Crook Visions Beyond i think apic detects all your software in bios before the kernel does it... something ilke that im sure imm a lil bit off all i know is that mine is disabled also because of my nvidia and game playing -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Problems with mouse and sound card
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:48, Johnny wrote: Hey all, on one of my computers I have it setup to dual boot Windows XP and Mandrake 9.2. Well anyways my problem is that from time to time my mouse locks up under GNOME and KDE interface. Sometimes it will unfreeze and just carry on but other times I have to reboot Linux. BTW it is a optical USB 3 button mouse with track wheel. It is usb 2.0. ANd yes it only does it in Linux and not XP. I am using the generic drivers that were default for Linux. I have it setup as a 3 button mouse with a wheel which it is. When I test it it is all good. It is just sometimes when I am opening apps in Linux under GNOME or KDE it will just lock up. Then I have to use the shortcut keys to exit and reboot. It is a BTC optical usb mouse. I do not know the exact model number. I have had this mouse for a while. OH BTW while I am at it, my soundcard does not produce any sounds in Linux. Mandrake recognizes it as the correct card and all with the right dirvers but just does not work. It does not work on any sound files,mp3's,cda's etc...It is a Soundblaster Audigy MP3+. I have also checked the Kmix setup and it is all on and turned up. I do not know what else to try. you should never have to reboot linux... if it freezes ctrl alt sysrq and k should kill x.. if ctrl alt bkspce doesnt work first.. go in the mandrake control center and go to boot and check lilo and force no APIC to help with the freezing -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
On Thursday 08 January 2004 05:37 pm, Warren Post wrote: For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. Warren: FWIW, last night I posted a reply (9.2 good now?) that I have not yet seen, but when I checked the archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com, I found that it was listed there. Hmmm. Then I did another search by author == Warren Post. It showed nine postings from you (since December 1), two of which did not show up here (edgeSnap Threshold... on 01/07/04 and QWest/MSN DSL combo on 12/11/03). Well, it's been six or seven weeks since Sympa last had a breakdown. Batten down the hatches, folks. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:33 pm, et wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 07:45 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing cat /proc/meminfo, i see the system says there is a memTotal of 3073268. It seems one giga is not recognized by the kernel. I've tried mem=4000M on startup but the problem is the same. Someone can help me? The basic kernel cannot see 1Gb of RAM or more, you will need to use the enterprise kernel instead. ...or the kernel-i686-up-4GB kernel (I _think_ - not sure about your dual opteron) Sharrea I would expect it to need an SMP amd64 kernel so an enterprise AMD64 would do the trick I meant to mention,,, you should send _me_ this mother board and cpus thats the ticket,,, send it here,,, or at least take some pictures and post them some where Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: IBM Committed to Linux Desktop
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:31:53 -0500, JoeHill hath writ: Okay, I know most of you read *Slashdot*, but just in case anyone missed this one, this is very exciting. A leaked memo from IBM indicates the company is committed to moving it's productivity desktops/apps to Linux and/or OS alternatives: Quote: First, our chairman has challenged the IT organization, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux based desktop before the end of 2005. This means replacing productivity, web access and viewing tools with open standards based equivalents. Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13485 This can mean only one thing: more developers working on Linux desktop sol'ns, more support for open standards in desktop applications, more for all of us who want to see the end of the MS monopoly on the business and home desktop. Yahoo! Wait, can I say 'Yahoo!', or is that a violation of someone's IP...? Well, I can remember when IBM committed to an OS/2 desktop. sigh... Jonesy --- on a new learning curve. -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | OS/2 | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | linux MDK 9.1 __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:29 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I never used urpmi.update. Does the graphical interfase do an urpmi.update automatically? yes. Any way, next time I will use urpmi.update. I like it better myself. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Via Comcast
Hey there everybody.. Thanks in advance for any help with this. I searched the archive, but couldn't quite find the answer to my query... but if anyone can help me by merely pointing out the right entry, please feel free. I just as of last night put Mandrake 9.2 onto my computer, and am having a hard time getting internet to work. Like many people out there, I am connected to Comcast internet via a cable modem into a motherboard with onboard ethernet. This is, luckily, not my only OS on this system, but.. I would like to get it working. :) My internet works just fine with Windows XP, but I am uncertain as to how to make it work with Mandrake. I know it has something to do with DHCP, but I am still quite illiterate when it comes to linux, and am uncertain as to what settings and information I need to put in for it to work. Can anyone help me with this? Again.. thanks in advance. -- John/crys Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing inittab file, and other MADDNESS!
I have no idea how, but I have somehow broken my MDK install on my laptop. First, upon booting, a couple times in a row, hardware detect would find my NEW (not really) scd0 device and tell me that my DVD-Rom was no longer there. The device is a CD-RW/DVD-Rom, and has been there the whole time. Next, there were some problems with samba drives not mounting, which turned out to be due to a missing NIC. The DrakConnect wizard would find and identify the card, but I could not configure it. I was also getting errors at boot about / having under 200mb of avail space. I then attempted to configure lilo to empty /tmp (which was 1.7 GIG) on boot. It would not allow me to write the new lilo to the MBR. I then proceeded to manually empty /tmp. I think this caused at least some problems. Somehow in this lilo.conf became an empty file. # cat /etc/lilo.conf # And now, when booting, inittab is not found. It asks me to enter a run level, and I type 5 and press ENTER. Then I am told that there are no more processes for this run level. And the machine just sits there. Anyone have any ideas how I can at least figure out what happened, even if it's not really fixable? TIA = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no sound and crashing
Hello, I have couple of problems. First my sound is not working in linux 9.2. My system will also for no reason crash back to the login page. If I am in any internet program or even sometimes in open office it just goes blank. I have a Soyo Dragon mother board, c-media electronics cm8738 sound card, silicon integrated systems Sis325 2d13d accelerator Video card and 512 Ram. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Bashan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unresolved symbol for mysqlcc 0.9.4
I downloaded mysqlcc 0.9.4 rpm (the Mandrake i586 version) from Carroll EDU. It installed fine, but when I try to run it, it complains about unresolved symbol _ZN7QActionC1EP7QObjectPKc. How do I go about finding what library this symbol is in, so I can figure out what I need to update? Thanks. I searched google and the mysql site and mailing list to no avail. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:17, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:29 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I never used urpmi.update. Does the graphical interfase do an urpmi.update automatically? yes. Any way, next time I will use urpmi.update. I like it better myself. I just pulled a dummy ..I did an easy urpmi but left it set for 9.2 instead of the 9.1 I was using It updated 682 packages so I might be running 9.2 now OTH I didn't lose any data :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crazy zip command
Hi Todd, I'm glad that you reply my post. Actually, I did something like this: for x in *.txt do zip $x $x.txt // Since it have the same name done But I had to do lots of documentation. I use to do a little script shell at school. On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 01:22, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:09:45PM -0500, song wrote: Hi everybody, I would like to make this cool command of to zip some file. Let's say I have a folder containing a.txt, a.zip, b.txt, b.zip, etc... I would like to add the text file to the zip file with the right name, exemple: a.txt in a.zip; b.txt in b.zip; c.txt in c.zip; etc... I've tried grep function but with no succes. Right now, I do it manually, like: zip a a.txt zip b b.txt zip c c.txt etc... Anybody could help me? Not tested. for i in *.txt do zip `echo $i|sed s/\.txt/\.zip/` $i done Will work with files with spaces in the name if you quote $i's. grep is for searching for occurences of a pattern in a file or output. Todd __ 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] Are my messages appearing on the list?
I got this message. I am myself almost or mostly a newbie so very seldom i may know the answer of some question. Ramin On January 8, 2004 05:37 pm, Warren Post wrote: For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
Hi, Would you tell me what these options should be in a practical example. For example my internet provider is videotron (videotron.ca). Now I assume localhost is videotron and localhost.localdomain is videotron.ca. Am i right? And if so, what is my hostname and my domain name then? (sorry if my question is kinda too dump.) Thanks, Ramin On January 7, 2004 07:34 am, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: You have to have the 2 lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 yourhostname yourhostname.yourdomainname Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)
Hm. Didn't change Mozilla configs for quite some time, but maybe it's (when in the Mailer window): Edit (the menu) - Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings. After you have chosen the name of the server on the left, there is a field Reply-to address (which is empty in my case) on the right. I really am not as much of a dunce as some of my questions would suggest. Strange. Thanks heaps Anton ps maybe I should try doing some of this stuff a little fresher/more coffeed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Preinstall question
I am getting ready to install the download version of Mandrake 9.2 and was hopeing to get some input on how to do it best. I have an ide-dvd-burner, scsi-cd-burner, scsi-cdrom, ide-cdrom and ide-dvd-player. I can install at most 3 of these. Since the dvd-burner does cds also, is there any advantage to keep the older scsi drives and the adaptec 2940 card in the system. The speed of the older drives is not an issue as much as compatablity with the OS. Would pulling the scsi card and drives simplify thing without loosing capablity? Or is scsi better supported and be worth keeping around? Thanks for any ideas. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:02:03 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget that you have to run 'urpmi.update --update' first to update your urpmi database with the new packages for the update source. Unless this is something unique to 9.2, I think it's 'urpmi.update -a' to update [a]ll your sources. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: no screensavers in kde SOLVED
Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Troy Wolfe wrote: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no screensavers listed when i try to configure them in KDE. xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl and kdeartwork are installed. A look into /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers shows that they are there. Why can KDE not see this? I FOUND IT!!] http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=v i ewtopictopic=12294forum=11start=10 has why it happens and how to fix it. Troy Thanks much! BTW pleas excuse the exuberance but I had been fighting with this problem for about a month, through mandrakeexpert, google and more, so finally finding the answer made me happy. Also, is this a bug that needs to be reported? Troy That did the trick. For any others with this problem they should go to the directory /usr/share/ and (as root) type: ln -s ./applnk-mdk/.hidden ./applnk-mdk.hidden Joe. 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] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:59:48 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package I've never had to use --update. If I do a urpmi vlc when vlc is already installed, urpmi knows enough to ask me if I want to update what I've got. In fact, --update seems wholly, totally, and completely redundant 8^) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
