Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee k umm if it dont work tell us what board u have and chipset if you know .. im assuming its an asus board . but yeah -- 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] Internet Via Comcast
- Original Message - From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee Heya.. Yeah.. I've tried DrakConnect and went through the wizard, but I'm not sure what fields to set how. I have security at standard, as well. I've played around with the settings a bit, but I could only get the ethernet card to go up (I think only if I put in the IP statically), but not Internet. I could only ping myself.. nobody else. I know something's funky cuz of how Comcast does stuff with DHCP.. not giving us computer names and all anymore.. but I'm not sure how to make the internet work. My Mobo is a Matsonic MS8174C Series.. with a VIA KT400/A chipset Thanks again for any assistance. -- John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 02:22, John S. Chalice wrote: - Original Message - From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee Heya.. Yeah.. I've tried DrakConnect and went through the wizard, but I'm not sure what fields to set how. I have security at standard, as well. I've played around with the settings a bit, but I could only get the ethernet card to go up (I think only if I put in the IP statically), but not Internet. I could only ping myself.. nobody else. I know something's funky cuz of how Comcast does stuff with DHCP.. not giving us computer names and all anymore.. but I'm not sure how to make the internet work. My Mobo is a Matsonic MS8174C Series.. with a VIA KT400/A chipset Thanks again for any assistance. -- John you should be able to just connect via DHCP.. do you have all 3 disks when u did the install? during bootup does it say starting eth0.. even tho it can start it but not work... what does it say when u type ifconfig eth0 as root? open mandrake control center go to network then click launch the wizard and make sure there is a check in autodetection and let it do its thing.. i never had problems with comcast but they did switch to dynamic ip so u dont have to type anything in -- 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] Internet Via Comcast
- Original Message - From: jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 02:22, John S. Chalice wrote: - Original Message - From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 . . . . John . . Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access . I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. . . Lee . . Heya.. . . Yeah.. I've tried DrakConnect and went through the wizard, but I'm not sure what fields to set how. I have security at standard, as well. I've played . around with the settings a bit, but I could only get the ethernet card to go up (I think only if I put in the IP statically), but not Internet. I could only ping myself.. nobody else. I know something's funky cuz of how Comcast does stuff with DHCP.. not giving us computer names and all anymore.. but I'm not sure how to make the internet work. My Mobo is a Matsonic MS8174C Series.. with a VIA KT400/A chipset Thanks again for any assistance. -- John you should be able to just connect via DHCP.. do you have all 3 disks when u did the install? during bootup does it say starting eth0.. even tho it can start it but not work... what does it say when u type ifconfig eth0 as root? open mandrake control center go to network then click launch the wizard and make sure there is a check in autodetection and let it do its thing.. i never had problems with comcast but they did switch to dynamic ip so u dont have to type anything in -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason.. I used all 3 disks during install. During my initial install, eth0 failed. The only way I have been able to get eth0 to show as OK on bootup is if I put in my IP statically. The following are different attempts of typing 'ifconfig eth0'.. with different amounts of settings typed in: ::: (First one.. with static ip and gateway typed in) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:62:0C:D5 inet addr:12.229.243.118 Bcast:12.229.243.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:685 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 (Second one... with dhcp, but client not given, by using automatic on the wizard as you said to) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:62:0C:D5 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:3959 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 :: (final ones) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:62:0C:D5 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:6686 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:62:0C:D5 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:11015 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 -- Thanks for any help. :) -- John Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:53, Ramin wrote: 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 To find out what your hostname.domainname is: cat /etc/sysconfig/network Mine looks like: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=abbmdk.mshome.net NETWORKING=yes $ From there you get: yourhostname=abbmdk yourdomainname=mshome.net My /etc/hosts looks like 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 abbmdk abbmdk.mshome.net Good luck, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 01:21, Miark wrote: 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 I am now understanding it much better. I have to wait for the next bunch of updates to try what I have learned. Just before this thread started I had upgraded my kernel and kernel sources. Gracias, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: IBM Committed to Linux Desktop
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:29:46 + (UTC) Jonesy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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... Oh sure, rain on my parade why dontcha?! ;-) Ya, but ya gotta remember, with OS/2, they were trying to sell an OS for which no one was developing killer apps. Linux, on the other hand... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival-- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ping Jason Pearl
Jason, why do all your messages arrive with a 'signature is bad' warning? 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] Speeding up X
On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:45, 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? You would be foolish to *upgrade* to 2.6, but installing 2.6 would be no problem, as you would still be able to boot to the existing 2.4 kernel - there would be entries for both in lilo/grub 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] Speeding up X
On Friday 09 January 2004 00:18, JoeHill wrote: 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. To get back to X, Ctrl-Alt-F7 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] Re: IBM Committed to Linux Desktop
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 2:00 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: And you cannot find a single, commercial bank in my country that doesn't run OS/2. Or a teller machine, for that matter. But with OS/2 being end-of-lifed lots of teller machines are switching to XP. A USA supplier recently had problems with their machines catching Windows Malware. Time to keep your cash in a tin box under the loose floorboard. -- 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 07:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: 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. (see kernel-parameters.txt) acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface force Force ACPI on, even if blacklisted platform off Disable ACPI ht Limit ACPI to boot-time LAPIC enumeration for HT, disabling the run-time AML interpreter. apic=Advanced Programmable Interrupt Control Now for my usual opinions ;) Both ACPI and APIC affect how your hardware handles IRQ's and resource sharing. Disabling these is the general advice to see if they solve hardware problems. Mandrake installs usually default to disabling ACPI. The truth is tho, a little trial an error is needed by the user. My system actually does much better, faster with both options fully enabled. Asus A7V600, kt600 VIA chipset, DDR ram, IDE HDD's, append= devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda1 I think tainting any system with closed source proprietary drivers and software is a bigger issue. I've only done so with Mandrake's unsupported (Sun) java and Flash rpm's and they're both slow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas 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 22:38, 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. Warren - this was a well-publicised problem with 8.2. The fix was simple, though I can't remember it. It was described on the 8.2 Errata page, and I think it's still available. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ping Jason Pearl
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Jason, why do all your messages arrive with a 'signature is bad' warning? Anne Correction, Jason. Only some of your messages have bad signatures. 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] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:12 pm, Aron Smith wrote: 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 :-) What does 'cat /etc/mandrake-release' say? If you are running 9.2, you should also get the kernel, 'urpmi kernel' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:14:01 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now understanding it much better. I have to wait for the next bunch of updates to try what I have learned. Just before this thread started I had upgraded my kernel and kernel sources. Be warned that kernels are a different story. You're not supposed to upgrade them--you're supposed to install them. I _think_ urpmi knows that, but I'm not certain. Because of other software I run, changing kernels is a real pain in the ass, so it's rare that I think about it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: IBM Committed to Linux Desktop
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:39, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 09 Jan 2004 2:00 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: And you cannot find a single, commercial bank in my country that doesn't run OS/2. Or a teller machine, for that matter. But with OS/2 being end-of-lifed lots of teller machines are switching to XP. A USA supplier recently had problems with their machines catching Windows Malware. Time to keep your cash in a tin box under the loose floorboard. What ??? - WindowsXP on teller machines ??? - Well, I'll forget my pin code. No need anymore. Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:51, Miark wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:14:01 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now understanding it much better. I have to wait for the next bunch of updates to try what I have learned. Just before this thread started I had upgraded my kernel and kernel sources. Be warned that kernels are a different story. You're not supposed to upgrade them--you're supposed to install them. I _think_ urpmi knows that, but I'm not certain. Because of other software I run, changing kernels is a real pain in the ass, so it's rare that I think about it. Miark You are correct, Miark. I just installed the fixed kernel by issuing the command urpmi kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-1-1mdk and that was that. But remember to urpmi bootloader-utils first. Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crazy zip command
On 01/09/2004 03:02 PM, Todd Slater wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:21:40PM -0500, Rude Boy wrote:
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
This would do it for you, I think:
for x in *.txt
do
zip ${x%*.txt*} $x
done
%*.txt* cuts off everything from the contents of the variable after the
text between asterisks, including that text.
Shell programming is such fun...
Paul
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Re: [newbie] Google News
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:18:06AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Cool! Man am I glad I sent this offtopic post... Thanks for another great tip. ...and yeah, RPM's are always welcome, y00 knows dat. http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/rpms/liferea-0.4.6.cvs-1mdk.i586.rpm Enjoy, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound and crashing
On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:37 pm, Bashan wrote: - 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 I've got a Soyo Dragon Plus MB and it works pretty good under the 9.2 download edition. I did have a few sound problems. I had to use artsdsp app to run some things like games. XMMS had to be pointed to Alsa instead of OSS here. A few odds 'n ends things like that. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), but it doesn't change fluxbox's behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? -- 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] Managing downloads and packages
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- 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] Article
The latest issue, Feb 2004, of MaximumPC contains an article How-To: Safely Install Linux On Your Windows Machine Installing Linux is easier than ever, if you follow the Maximum PC Method. Guess which Linux OS they chose We chose Mandrake for its easy install process, excellent hardware detection, and compatibility with both NTFS and FAT32 partitions Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #542: Power Snatch - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] no sound and crashing
On Friday 09 January 2004 16:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:37 pm, Bashan wrote: - 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 I've got a Soyo Dragon Plus MB and it works pretty good under the 9.2 download edition. I did have a few sound problems. I had to use artsdsp app to run some things like games. XMMS had to be pointed to Alsa instead of OSS here. A few odds 'n ends things like that. Could you update your TWiki entry for the board, Ronald? 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] Are my messages appearing on the list?
El jue, 08-01-2004 a las 16:43, Margot escribió: I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Will do, and thanks. Perhaps the hangovers are beginning to wear off now. -- 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] Google News
You can have this as well. http://www.google.com/newsalerts Tony. -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Google News On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:18:06AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Cool! Man am I glad I sent this offtopic post... Thanks for another great tip. ...and yeah, RPM's are always welcome, y00 knows dat. http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/rpms/liferea-0.4.6.cvs-1mdk.i586.rpm Enjoy, Todd -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: What does 'lsmod | grep sound' say? (As root) 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... Sorry, I meant KMix. K|Multimedia|Sound|KMix Aumix is ok too. I find it odd that you have soundmodules loaded, when no soundcard is found. Are there any entries for sound in /etc/modules.conf? Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. /Björn 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] Managing downloads and packages
On Friday 09 January 2004 11:35 am, Warren Post wrote: If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Since you have the tarball as well as the package, I can't imagine why you would keep the source. Given the rate of development, it probably won't be a month or two before a new version comes out. If you need to reinstall for some reason, you have the RPM or tarball to rebuild. If you upgrade other packages fairly often, it is possible you might have to rebuild anyway since dependencies on your machine may have changed. Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Well, checkinstall builds and then installs the RPM that it builds unless you change the default behavior. So, once The RPM is built, it is already installed on that machine, there should be no reason to add the dir to sources unless you just want it to be there for reinstall. Unless I am being dense and missing something obvious. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. Probably to make sure that you don't inadvertently overwrite an existing package with similar or the same name structure. An easy way to get everything in one diretory would be to create a script to call checkinstall and have the script copy the finished RPM out of the dir and into a storage directory for safekeeping. In fact, it wouldn't be hard to simply create a script that finds all .rpm's in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and moves all of them to a central repository. Then just call that script after checkinstall is done. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Again, since the package is already installed, there would be no need to reinstall the new RPM, unless you just wanted to check it first or unless you need to force the install for some reason. A script would move the new RPM for you into a central repository. -- 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 Friday 09 January 2004 09:35 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: an I don't believe you were being grumpy. IMO, I think How do you do it? is a valid question anytime on newbie. No, the application won't do it/is broken/doesn't work at all should be taken as with for me added. Well, probably just a little grumpy. I thought Anne was going to be yanking my leash when I go too far. ;-} I figure it is a good thing that I don't have kids. I've been foolin around with ripping DVD's to other formats (.avi, /mpg, .mov, etc.) myself recently. The docs are harder than Chinese arithmetic. I need _examples_. They often go much further in gaining an understanding of the docs. There are quite a few examples of scripts that can take you through the whole process. If you need some pointers, I might be able to post some for you, I am pretty good at finding stuff on the Net. So for the CL, newbies always appreciate an example that works. Then maybe they (and me) can start to understand the docs. Well CL is great for control and learning but a lot of time the GUI is better for someone who just wants to quickly get something done, especially if they are not covering new ground but just doing something simple and straight forward. Like ripping audio off a dvd and burning to cd. I try to keep that in mind with newbies, not all want to dive in and learn all the details about formats, disk structure, codecs, streams, etc. There is a lot there, thus the 1200 line man docs. Now, I like to dive in and geek out with stuff but I do understand that not everyone feels that way, as some of my friends keep reminding me when I launch into detailed discussions after they ask me a question. That was why I mentioned both transcode and dvd::rip. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Managing downloads and packages
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 4:35 pm, Warren Post wrote: Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. I would suggest that if there is no available Mandrake RPM available for an application you want, then you should try rebuilding a .src.rpm from Cooker before building from .tar.gz (if one exists) Rebuilding Cooker RPMs for an earlier distro does not always work, but often does. To rebuild an .src.rpm all you need do is :- rpm -ivh application.src.rpm This will install the source files in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, and the spec file in /usr/src/RPM/SPECS, then cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS and rpmbuild -ba application.spec Providing you have all the correct compilers and development libraries installed a final RPM will end up in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 If you want your RPMs all in one location then why not make the different architecture folders symlinks to the same location? 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] crazy zip command
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Paul wrote:
This would do it for you, I think:
for x in *.txt
do
zip ${x%*.txt*} $x
done
%*.txt* cuts off everything from the contents of the variable after the
text between asterisks, including that text.
Wow, I didn't know you could do that; much more efficient than calling
sed! Thanks for the knowledge.
Todd
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Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: What does 'lsmod | grep sound' say? (As root) Output is: sound706441[opl3 sd_lib uart401] soundcore 62760[sd_lib sound] as for KMixer, I can't find it. It is not listed in the usual places I can see... Sorry, I meant KMix. K|Multimedia|Sound|KMix No problem..I found that easy enough...it still gives no sound, but looks to be playing any .wav file I give it. Aumix is ok too. I find it odd that you have soundmodules loaded, when no soundcard is found. Are there any entries for sound in /etc/modules.conf? Copied from my /etc/modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) None Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' # cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty/m%d 3 pty/s%d 4 tts/%d 5 cua/%d 6 lp 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 29 fb 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts/%d 162 raw 180 usb 254 pcmcia Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Yes Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them I used both Mandrake Control Center and urpmi to update this machine each week, or when MDK issues an update email. Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. Could be...so where does one fined and fix the ' muted pcm' problem, if that is the problem? Thanks for yourhelp Bjorn. -- Doug Roberts Registered Linux User #160487 On a good day On a bad day, I have to use Micro$not or their cronies products Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Google News
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 H:59, JoeHill wrote: http://news.google.com/ -- thats it On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:47:10 + Bill W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the tip. Now one for you.try news.google.ca ack! I put in www.news.google.ca, and it came up 404. Why would the www. be incorrect? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Email fetching and distribution
Hey list Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server. TIA Kasper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:24:26 +0100 Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server. Do you have fetchmail and postfix installed? You should if you chose to add a mailserver during the install process. If not, urpmi postfix fetchmail fetchmailconf imap or if you want fetchmail as a system service: urpmi postfix fetchmail-daemon fetchmailconf imap then create user accounts for all the LAN members. configure fetchmail by running fetchmailconf, or edit the text yourself if you wish, it looks something like this: set postmaster whatever set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties set daemon 600 poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3 user '' there with password '' is 'kasper' here options nokeep poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3 user '' there with password '' is 'lanuser1' here options nokeep poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3 user '' there with password '' is 'lanuser2' here options nokeep etc. See 'man fetchmail' for more options. When the file is saved, either save it to /etc/fetchmailrc of ~/.fetchmailrc, depending on whether you are funning fetchmail as a system service or not. Now set the LAN mail clients to pop the IP of the mailserver, and yer done. Well, hopefully ;-) -- 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
RE: [newbie] Google News
It's a DNS record registration problem. They probably registered news.google.ca to point to their IP but forgot to add this record *.news.google.ca , it's a wild card that means that you can type anything including WWW and it will solve to the right IP. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Google News On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 05:47:10 + Bill W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the tip. Now one for you.try news.google.ca ack! I put in www.news.google.ca, and it came up 404. Why would the www. be incorrect? Thanks! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.-- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Google News
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:53:06 -0500 Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a DNS record registration problem. They probably registered news.google.ca to point to their IP but forgot to add this record *.news.google.ca , it's a wild card that means that you can type anything including WWW and it will solve to the right IP. Gotcha, thanks! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.-- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 5:24 pm, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Hey list Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server. TIA Kasper I have just updated the guide on my homepage for setting up a mail server. It also covers checking the mail for viruses and spam, but of course you can leave out any bits you do not need. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html 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] Email fetching and distribution
On Friday 09 January 2004 12:45 pm, JoeHill wrote: Now set the LAN mail clients to pop the IP of the mailserver, and yer done. Probably not quite. If the users will be sending mail out and you are on a dial-up or dynamic IP connection with no DNS MX records, you may have to setup Postfix to relay mail through the ISP's mail server. An awful lot of mail servers don't accept smtp traffic from dynamic IP ranges, or if the server is not the MX of record for the domain. That is assuming that your ISP is not totally blocking outgoing port 25 traffic, as does Earthlink and several other ISP's. The other fix is to have the mail clients relay outgoing mail directly through the ISP but pop mail from the local server. I prefer just getting Postfix to relay. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:06:59 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not quite. If the users will be sending mail out and you are on a dial-up or dynamic IP connection with no DNS MX records, you may have to setup Postfix to relay mail through the ISP's mail server. Ah yes, I knew I would miss something important. Thanks. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.-- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] missing inittab file, and other MADDNESS!
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:28:42 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any ideas how I can at least figure out what happened, even if it's not really fixable? I would say, based on my limited experience, your first step would be to boot from the install CD to repair the missing bootloader. I believe you choose F1 and there are some options presented, including to fix LILO and/or the MBR. Once you can get in to a workable system, then we can determine how to troubleshoot the other probs. My *guess* is, something in the boot process was fscked to begin with, and once you get the boot back and working with the 'rescue' CD the problem *may* be solved altogether. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug wrote: Copied from my /etc/modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) None Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' # cat /proc/devices 14 sound Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Yes Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them I used both Mandrake Control Center and urpmi to update this machine each week, or when MDK issues an update email. Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. Could be...so where does one fined and fix the ' muted pcm' problem, if that is the problem? Well, all your tests above suggets that you DO have a soundcard :) No output from lspci indicates, to me, that you have an ISA-cards, or at least not a pci-card. I think you can bypass KDE and mixer-setting by using 'play' if its installed.Try 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' If you get a 'device busy' message, wait a minute and try again Now, if you _do_ get sound then, your physical setting are ok. (which they are since you could play cd's) Then check KMix again. Right-click the icon in the taskbar, show mixer and check the 3rd item from left, wich should be pcm. There's a tooltip at the little icon above each slider. Volume up, and not muted. If it doesn't work, then I have to leave it to some expert, since I'm out of ideas good luck /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: absolutly nothing to do with linux but fun
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Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug wrote: Copied from my /etc/modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) None Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' # cat /proc/devices 14 sound Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Yes Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them I used both Mandrake Control Center and urpmi to update this machine each week, or when MDK issues an update email. Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. Could be...so where does one fined and fix the ' muted pcm' problem, if that is the problem? Well, all your tests above suggets that you DO have a soundcard :) No output from lspci indicates, to me, that you have an ISA-cards, or at least not a pci-card. I think you can bypass KDE and mixer-setting by using 'play' if its installed.Try 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' If you get a 'device busy' message, wait a minute and try again Now, if you _do_ get sound then, your physical setting are ok. (which they are since you could play cd's) Then check KMix again. Right-click the icon in the taskbar, show mixer and check the 3rd item from left, wich should be pcm. There's a tooltip at the little icon above each slider. Volume up, and not muted. If it doesn't work, then I have to leave it to some expert, since I'm out of ideas good luck /Björn Thanks for your help Bjorn.. I really do appreciate it. But nothing seems to work at the moment. I did the 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' command as you suggested and the .wav file played nicely. I checked the KMix settings and Pcm is at the same level as my CD and general Volume settings. I open XMMS and try to play a .wav fils...it looks to be runing yet no sound issues from the speakers. I open Kaboodle to try another sound program and the same happensthe .wav files looks to be playing, yet no sound issues from speakers. This is maddening... Any other ideas? Anyone? 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: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Shot in the dark - Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center? You should have aRts start at bootup, running soundserver with realtime priority, but reduct the value in 'autosuspend if idle' to 1 sec. I did find that some things worked better for this - presumably forcing it to let go when otherwise it would hang on. Of course it may be a red herring, but anything's worth a try at this stage. 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] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: Thanks for your help Bjorn.. I really do appreciate it. But nothing seems to work at the moment. I did the 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' command as you suggested and the .wav file played nicely. I checked the KMix settings and Pcm is at the same level as my CD and general Volume settings. I open XMMS and try to play a .wav fils...it looks to be runing yet no sound issues from the speakers. I open Kaboodle to try another sound program and the same happensthe .wav files looks to be playing, yet no sound issues from speakers. This is maddening... Any other ideas? Anyone? Last try. cat /etc/.aumixrc vol:61:61:P synth:0:0:P pcm:35:35:P speaker:0:0:P line:32:32:P mic:1:1:R cd:43:47:P mix:53:53:P igain:0:0:P This is my settings. Try set yours something like that (perhaps make a copy first) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ping Jason Pearl
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Jason, why do all your messages arrive with a 'signature is bad' warning? Anne hmmm i dont know ill have to check into that i know i have it uploaded to alotta keyservers. but that doesnt have to do with it... maybe my key is corrupted in the algorithm -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 12:46:14 up 1 day, 16:19, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
SV: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution
@Joe: Thanks for the info. I got both fetchmail and postfix running. Gonna try it out @Bryan: Sending email wont be a problem as I will just be using my normal ISP aacount. The reason i want to set this up is primarily because I want to fetch mail from one account which get 500+ mails a day. Thanks for pointing it out though @Derek: I'll have a look at your guide. Thanks for replying Thanks again to all for replying Kasper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Derek Jennings Sendt: 9. januar 2004 19:04 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution On Friday 09 Jan 2004 5:24 pm, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Hey list Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server. TIA Kasper I have just updated the guide on my homepage for setting up a mail server. It also covers checking the mail for viruses and spam, but of course you can leave out any bits you do not need. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Hey Derek. I tried altering the main.cf file as you suggest on your page but Postfix doesnt see any mails. Fetchmail gets the messages fine and it delivers the mail to '/var/spool/mail/kasper'. Where to go from here? TIA Kasper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ping Jason Pearl
On Friday 09 January 2004 19:47, jpearl24 wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Jason, why do all your messages arrive with a 'signature is bad' warning? Anne hmmm i dont know ill have to check into that i know i have it uploaded to alotta keyservers. but that doesnt have to do with it... maybe my key is corrupted in the algorithm If it helps you to look for differences, I'll check back and tell you which ones reported a problem. 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] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 07:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:12 pm, Aron Smith wrote: 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 :-) What does 'cat /etc/mandrake-release' say? If you are running 9.2, you should also get the kernel, 'urpmi kernel' It says 9.2 release for fivestar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:17:48 +, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! My brother has a OfficeJet or something like it. Mandrake 9.2 does have drivers for it, but it's not recognised at all. He doesn't live in the same city, so I haven't been able to experiment. It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:42:37 -0700 jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. Good workaround, d00d! Nice thinkin'! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.-- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 21:42, jpearl24 wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:38, Anne Wilson wrote: I usually use the gui, but I decided to try Josenild's plan for playing .kar files. This is what I saw: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything Anne is the cd scratched?? disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. you can check to see if its installed by going to remove packages and then locate the rpm if its listed then its installed.. i say its not if it says unable to install package. You're quite right, it's not. The cds look perfectly OK, and I'm very careful with them, but I occasionally get one that doesn't want to install. I just rpmfind for the package I need, download it to a tmp directory, then install from there. No problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. Anne are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 14:58:38 up 1 day, 18:32, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:58, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:42:37 -0700 jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. Good workaround, d00d! Nice thinkin'! hehe thanks i had to do it myself for a cups driver... -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 15:01:04 up 1 day, 18:34, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the standard officejet and it works ... i would be scared if it doesnt work in XP It's apparently not supposed to work in XP. That's why I was so hopeful for Mandrake 9.2--it's at least supposed to. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:51:37 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] urpmi question: No, it's not. So what the heck was it preparing? Never mind - I'll leave it for tonight, then I'll go back to the gui. At least I can understand the messages there. You could try copying the file from the CD to a home directory; I had one CD in a previous version that always had read problems. Moreover you could check the file`s integrity with rpm -K awe* If it still fails you might have a corrupted rpm database (which I experienced several times in MD 9.1), but this can easily be fixed by: rpm --rebuilddb HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE//ygQwC/zk+cxEdMRAqWkAJ9kO3IPIiw508uqcd90KlhZ4rj0QACguiiG p01ayT5Z9/5K/bUQcR1MME8= =Ma4p -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Steps I took for drakconnect for my comcast cable modem: 1: Drakconnect wizard: Use Auto Detection checked, Expert mode checked. click Next 2: select Cable Connection click Next 3: Which dhcp client do you want to use? select dhcp-client click next 4: Brings up which device was detected. it had my card so i chose no and click next. 5: if it asks which you want to configure choose eth0 click next 6: check Automatic IP. Uncheck assign hostname from dhcp address Check Start at boot 7: click next 8: hostname: whatever you call your computer 9: DNS server (put in IP of your dns server. mine on comcast is 216.148.227.68 you may get that one to work) Gateway device = eth0 leave zeroconf name and gateway address blank. Click next 10: if you use a proxy fill in and click next 11: do you want to apply settings? yes. Click Next 12: Network needs to be restarted. Yes. Click Next 13: click finish. Hope that helps. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Article
Charles A Edwards wrote: The latest issue, Feb 2004, of MaximumPC contains an article How-To: Safely Install Linux On Your Windows Machine Installing Linux is easier than ever, if you follow the Maximum PC Method. Guess which Linux OS they chose We chose Mandrake for its easy install process, excellent hardware detection, and compatibility with both NTFS and FAT32 partitions No surprise there! Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] changing the login manager
Greetings. What file should I edit to change the login manager? Mandrake control center does not work. It can't find my cd drive, so will not actually do anything. Thanks much Adrian -- On The Fly Photography http://204EastSouth.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-@ s: a C++ UL++ L++(+++) P E- W++ !N o? K- w--- M+ PS+++ PE+++ Y+ PGP t++@ 5+++ X++ R+@ tv-- b++ DI D+ G e+ h+ r y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
- Original Message - From: Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Steps I took for drakconnect for my comcast cable modem: 1: Drakconnect wizard: Use Auto Detection checked, Expert mode checked. click Next 2: select Cable Connection click Next 3: Which dhcp client do you want to use? select dhcp-client click next 4: Brings up which device was detected. it had my card so i chose no and click next. (asks this twice, chose no both times) 5: if it asks which you want to configure choose eth0 click next (doesn't ask) 6: check Automatic IP. Uncheck assign hostname from dhcp address Check Start at boot 7: click next 8: hostname: whatever you call your computer (put in TheLightHouse) 9: DNS server (put in IP of your dns server. mine on comcast is 216.148.227.68 you may get that one to work) Gateway device = eth0 leave zeroconf name and gateway address blank. Click next (no place for gateway device) 10: if you use a proxy fill in and click next (don't personally use a proxy) 11: do you want to apply settings? yes. Click Next 12: Network needs to be restarted. Yes. Click Next 13: click finish. Hope that helps. Did all that I could following these directions. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck. The ethernet card won't come up, and internet isn't connected. I looked at 'Configure Local Area Network' and the field next to DHCP client was blank. I tried putting in 'dhcp-client', but it still wouldn't boot up the ethernet card. Tried putting in the gateway, still won't work. I then tried looking at 'Configure Local Area Network' again, and once again the DHCP client field is vacant. Thanks for trying. Any other ideas? Anyone..? Anyone..? Buehler? ;) -- John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here She's al the way across the pond... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution - SOLVED
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af JoeHill Sendt: 9. januar 2004 22:21 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:48:02 +0100 Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried altering the main.cf file as you suggest on your page but Postfix doesnt see any mails. Fetchmail gets the messages fine and it delivers the mail to '/var/spool/mail/kasper'. Where to go from here? Postfix must be seeing the mail if it's delivering it to the spool, that's what Postfix does. Fetchmail wouldn't know where to put the mail, it just passes it to whoever is listening on port 25, ie. Postfix. Now that the mail's in /var/spool/mail/kasper, anyone who sets their mail client to the address of your mail server, and provides your username and password, will get whatever is in the spool (assuming you installed the 'imap' software package). Now you can either separate out the mail using Procmail (by From:, or whatever) to different folders and different users, but it would be a lot easier to get seperate e-mail addresses from the ISP for each user, then set up accounts for them on the mail server. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Hey Joe. Installing imap helped a whole lot ;) Got it all working now and it even lets me send through Postfix What to play with now...?!?!? :) Thanks to all who helped. Kasper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution - SOLVED
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:46:35 +0100 Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to play with now...?!?!? :) How long have you got? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state.-- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:25, Miark wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the standard officejet and it works ... i would be scared if it doesnt work in XP It's apparently not supposed to work in XP. That's why I was so hopeful for Mandrake 9.2--it's at least supposed to. do you have the latesr version of HPOJ installed http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpoj/ and the latest version of HPIJS installed http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=hpijs also check out the TwiKi page Miark __ 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] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?
On Friday 09 January 2004 04:12 pm, Miark wrote: snip My brother has a OfficeJet or something like it. Mandrake 9.2 does have drivers for it, but it's not recognised at all. He doesn't live in the same city, so I haven't been able to experiment. It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark Miark: Have you been to http://www.linuxprinting.org/? You can browse their printer driver files, but you'll need to know the model number of the printer. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution - SOLVED
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af JoeHill Sendt: 10. januar 2004 02:53 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution - SOLVED On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:46:35 +0100 Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to play with now...?!?!? :) How long have you got? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state.-- Eric S. Raymond Hehe... I got all the time in the world, but right now im off to bed :) Thanks again! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hardware issues after installing a new vidcard
Hi all, first time sending to here. I've got about a year's worth of experience with Linux, so I'm not a complete newb but i do have some questions. Here's what happened: I installed a new video card (ATI 9200SE) and upgraded my memory from 128MB to 640MB on a brand new Dell Poweredge 400SC running Mandrake 9.2. When I rebooted the computer, my ethernet adaptor and sound card were suddenly missing. I looked in /dev/sound and the mixer (and everything else) device is gone, and I had to use drakeconf to reinstall my networking. In retrospect, I assume it had something to do with the fact that I replaced the default PCI video card (Rage XL) with an AGP card. I'm tempted to smoke this box (as there's nothing critical on it) and try to repeat the process to see if that is indeed what happened, or if it was a one time glitch. So, I have 2 questions about my situation: 1) Anyone know how to get X windows to recognize the new ATI 9200? Drakeconf will only start if I set it up as a VESA compliant vid card. I installed the Linux driver from the ATI web site but it did not help. 2) How the h*** do i reinstall /dev/sound/mixer and anything else ALSA might need. I have reinstalled ALSA but that did not help. Anyone know the mknod command for it, or what I need to reinstall to fix this? Here's things I've tried: 1) Reinstalling any RPM that had the word ALSA, sound, or mixer in the file name or description 2) Installed the enterprise kernel to try to get devfs to correct the problem automatically. 3) Disabling the sound card, starting Linux, rebooting, and then re-enabling the sound card (through BIOS, it's an onboard AC'97 sound system). Thought maybe Linux might detect it as new hardware, but nope. Thanks in advance for any help. James Cammarata [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sngx.net home: 314-835-1122 work: 314-872-2426 cell: 314-409-0583 __ Out the Ethernet, through the router, down the fiber, off another router, down the T1, past the fire-wall ...nothing but Net 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
et wrote: 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 Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] intel pro/100 ve network interface on Sony Vaio - inconsistency
Worked under knoppix. Worked on mdk 9.2 at first. Then it didn't next time I ran my buddies laptop. Then it did. Then it didn't, and now... eth0 fails every time. Tried a few things I found from googling for similar simptoms - turned off sleep mode in the eeprom using eepro100-config. Tried switching from eepro100 to the e100 driver, no love at all. (looking at dmesg showed some wierd stuff - switching promiscous mode on and off repeatedly, whatever that is). Absolutlely hate to say it but...it works under XP :(. Suggestions ? I am considering re-installing 9.2 and/or upgrading/downgrading the kernel, hoping that another version of the driver works...consistently. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 'local' mail
I am trying to set up 'local' mail on my Mandrake 9.2 box (i.e. mail between user accounts on the system and for notification of cron jobs running, etc. rather than Internet mail) but I can't seem to get it to work. the 'mail username...' command works but when I run 'mail' to read the mail I tried to send earlier it doesn't show any mail. Can anyone direct me to directions on how to set this up? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
