Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:17 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: Open a pic and click the T and all will become evident, text colour, fonts installed etc.. Charlie. OK, Charlie, I found that one yesterday. see snapshot 278.png It's good, but has one drawback, you have but 9 fixed choices of position for the text. Knowing gimp to be the app it is, I'm sure todds layer method ought to work with more flexibility of text positioning ? John That's right John. However if you position the text in the actual frame, move it left, right, give it several gaps at the top, bottom or whatever. It doesn't need to start from left to right, it can be moved in the frame where you want. So use one of the standard positions as supplied, then move the text within the box from that place, as stated above and do with it what you will, and it will start where you place it through the position and incrementally move wherever you want, one letter gaps at a time, over the whole area. I have used center from the choice, and then moved the text into the middle of the screen and down a few lines, as you see as an example. Charlie. -- I'm not young enough to know everything. --J. M. Barrie This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 attachment: for_john1Want 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 Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: 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? HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? 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] Cdrom problem
S Wieland wrote: I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first it booted fine, maybe the first 2-3 boots and i never tried to test the cd-rom. After a few more days and 1 or 2 more boots i would get a cannot find secondary disk drive strike F1 to continue ( i have 2 hdd in the linux box). no problem to me because i havent gotten far enough to use the second disk ( i think :-/). To keep this long and boring story short I am now wanting to install mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake Move (any suggestions onto which one?) but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. This leading me to believe it may be a bad cable. Ive come up to two conclusions. 1. putting back the original roms and original cable or 2. maybe there is a floppy boot disk i can use that will enable a driver for the cdrom. Any help or hey everybody lets point and laugh at the kid withhis pants down would be greatly aprreciated thanks a billion -boardrider Welcome to Mandrake, I don't think you have a driver problem. The rom drive must be recognised in bios. What is your IDE cable setup ? Do you have two IDE cables, are Hardrives on one roms on the other ? Do you have just the one IDE cable ? I would suggest that you examine your replacement cdrom dive and make sure that you have them configured master and slave as appropiate, you cannot have two drives on the same cable both set up master or both set up slave. The bios will not like it. So first off you have got to sort out bios recognition of your rom and hard drives. my cd rom is not detected in the bios must be addressed first. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: 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? HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other networked sysstems. Your choice.) BrowseAddress @LOCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not #your dial up connection. BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1 BrowseAllow @LOCAL #This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces. BrowseOrder deny,allow Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From @LOCAL /Location Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log level set to see if you get additional error messages. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Message
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:40 pm, jason pearl wrote: so should we get this email... After the recent discussion concerning anti-spam measures, I got to thinking that I might have figured out why the Mandrake mailing-list server was dropping my emails when they originated from my postfix system and then got relayed through the ISP. It appears that I correctly figured out why. If you check the full mail headers, you will see that that message originated from my Postfix system. That is the first time I have been able to get a mail message through when it originated from my Postfix system. Short answer, you should have gotten that email but I didn't expect it to go through. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. You might want to doublecheck the jumpers. If they are set to cable select, you may need to explicitly set them to master instead. That has helped me with similar issues in the past. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer - works!
At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other networked sysstems. Your choice.) BrowseAddress @LOCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not #your dial up connection. BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1 BrowseAllow @LOCAL #This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces. BrowseOrder deny,allow Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From @LOCAL /Location Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log level set to see if you get additional error messages. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Thanks Bryan! I am able to add printers again. This looks like one of those cases where one says That was easy when the solution is presented, getting there is the hard part. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Message
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:03:26 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:40 pm, jason pearl wrote: so should we get this email... After the recent discussion concerning anti-spam measures, I got to thinking that I might have figured out why the Mandrake mailing-list server was dropping my emails when they originated from my postfix system and then got relayed through the ISP. It appears that I correctly figured out why. If you check the full mail headers, you will see that that message originated from my Postfix system. That is the first time I have been able to get a mail message through when it originated from my Postfix system. Short answer, you should have gotten that email but I didn't expect it to go through. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer do you have to pay to use that domain name to get it through.. is your port 25 blocked??? -- 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 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 05:32:03 up 2 days, 10:53, 2 users, load average: 1.29, 1.23, 0.90 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. You might want to doublecheck the jumpers. If they are set to cable select, you may need to explicitly set them to master instead. That has helped me with similar issues in the past. Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my raid controller on my SOYO MB. Their recommendation is to use CS for all Western Digital Hard drives on my motherboard. Turns out, it actually does work better too. Go figure. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Message
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:32 am, jason pearl wrote: do you have to pay to use that domain name to get it through.. is your port 25 blocked??? No. My port 25 IS blocked, at least for outgoing traffic on port 25 So, I have to smarthost my mail through my ISP, basically, Postfix relays all outgoing external mail through the ISP's mail server using smtpauth to transmit. Internal mail (for bphinney.homelinux.org) is routed internally through my mail server. So family members using my servers can communicate internally amongst ourselves and outgoing mail gets routed through one more hop than it would normally. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab
Greetings, I have just installed my new CDRW in my Dell running Mandrake 9.1. I am unsure how to properly configure my /etc/fstab to enable mounting this device. I have automount disabled, and when I try mounting my cdrom device I get the following error: mount: only root can mount /dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom Mandrake recognizes the CDRW on boot, and I am able to listen to music cd's, but can't mount a data cd. I will attach a copy of my /etc/fstab. I would sure appreciate some pointers here. TIA's. Regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- ___ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.operamail.com, which allows you to send SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze fstab Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 14:39, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have just installed my new CDRW in my Dell running Mandrake 9.1. I am unsure how to properly configure my /etc/fstab to enable mounting this device. I have automount disabled, and when I try mounting my cdrom device I get the following error: mount: only root can mount /dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom Mandrake recognizes the CDRW on boot, and I am able to listen to music cd's, but can't mount a data cd. I will attach a copy of my /etc/fstab. I would sure appreciate some pointers here. TIA's. Regards. --Angus Angus, not sure this will help, but my CD-W works flawlessly with this line (all on one line, of course) : none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 HTH 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] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
** snip** HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled? Not sure Aron. Where would I check for that and how? 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 Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: 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? HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? I am beginning to think that I may have to reinstall aRTs, or is there some way to get KDE to re-recognize that aRTs is installed? Just not sure how to go about either at the moment. 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 Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: 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? HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? I am beginning to think that I may have to reinstall aRTs, or is there some way to get KDE to re-recognize that aRTs is installed? Just not sure how to go about either at the moment. Doug Roberts I am coming awfully late into this thread, but has anyone suggested to Doug installing the Alsa driver yet? The Yamaha OPL3 is supported by Alsa according to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php3?vendor=vendor-Yamaha#matrix To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound related. 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them. 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa. If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with the ones from your backup. 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] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 07:37, Doug Roberts wrote: ** snip** HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled? Not sure Aron. Where would I check for that and how? Start XMMS -options (click on top left corner, drop down list appars) select visulations select visualiation -plugins select Audio I/O plugins CD Audio player should be enabled if not configure it and enable it Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - __ 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
[newbie] Running programs at startup
I am trying to understand the different ways that programs can be run at startup. What has sparked my interest is that I am experimenting with different windows managers, yet I would like some basic things (xmms, xscreensaver, gkrellm, etc.) to be launched upon entry into any window manager. Yet aside from getting specific answers to specific questions, I'm hoping to understand the big picture here. So here's what I understand so far, gleaned from this list's archive. Please help me correct my misconceptions and patch my ignorance: /etc/profile Runs a program upon login of any user, any WM, in or out of X. I have, for example, xmms here so that xmms starts up regardless of user, which is what I want. It tries and fails to launch xmms even if the user is logging in to a console, so I should move this to a file that executes programs only if logging in under X. Is there such a file? If not, is there a way I can condition the launching of xmms (or any program that requires X) upon X being running? /etc/rc.local (- /etc/rc.d/rc.local) Said to do the same as /etc/profile, but I can't get it to work, nor do I understand when one would use this vs. /etc/profile. ~/.xinitrc Runs a program upon a particular user starting X. Only works if you login at a console and then start X manually. ~/.bashrc Runs a program every time a particular user opens a terminal, assuming he uses bash. ~/.bash_profile Runs a program upon login of a particular user, any WM, in or out of X. I haven't mastered this yet as sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. As with /etc/profile, I'd like to find a way to condition the launching of a program that requires X upon X being running. And of course many WMs have their own ways of launching programs on startup, such a placing things in ~/Desktop/Autostart. I'm not considering them here because for the moment I am looking for WM-independent ways to launch programs. So... what else is there to know about running programs at startup? -- 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] Cdrom problem
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 06:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my raid controller on my SOYO MB. Their recommendation is to use CS for all Western Digital Hard drives on my motherboard. Turns out, it actually does work better too. Go figure. verrry interesting Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
Set the CD jumper to cable select and try again Ian - Original Message - From: S Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Cdrom problem I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first it booted fine, maybe the first 2-3 boots and i never tried to test the cd-rom. After a few more days and 1 or 2 more boots i would get a cannot find secondary disk drive strike F1 to continue ( i have 2 hdd in the linux box). no problem to me because i havent gotten far enough to use the second disk ( i think :-/). To keep this long and boring story short I am now wanting to install mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake Move (any suggestions onto which one?) but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. This leading me to believe it may be a bad cable. Ive come up to two conclusions. 1. putting back the original roms and original cable or 2. maybe there is a floppy boot disk i can use that will enable a driver for the cdrom. Any help or hey everybody lets point and laugh at the kid withhis pants down would be greatly aprreciated thanks a billion -boardrider 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] Cdrom problem
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 14:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my raid controller on my SOYO MB. Their recommendation is to use CS for all Western Digital Hard drives on my motherboard. Turns out, it actually does work better too. Go figure. I recently came across this too, my local retailer said always use CS with 80 pin IDE cable, I noted until and disregarded it as I don't have any 80 pins. This link http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_CS.htm seems to support the argument though -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: 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? HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? I am beginning to think that I may have to reinstall aRTs, or is there some way to get KDE to re-recognize that aRTs is installed? Just not sure how to go about either at the moment. Doug Roberts I am coming awfully late into this thread, but has anyone suggested to Doug installing the Alsa driver yet? The Yamaha OPL3 is supported by Alsa according to http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php3?vendor=vendor-Yamaha#matrix To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. Cannot do thiskeeps saying that 'command not found' (yes I am in root mode when doing all this) 4/ Copy back by hand those lines in the old modules.conf which are not sound related. 5/ Reboot into the new sound driver, and in KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem set the sound server to Alsa In Sound I/O tab Sound I/O method Alsa is selected. 6/ Use alsamixergui to select default sound levels and save them. error: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory 7/ In xmms it may work better if you select the Output Plugin to be alsa. Did that..Xmms still don't like my CD...looks at a music CD and refuses to read it. If it does not work replace the alsaconf generated lines in modules.conf with the ones from your backup. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 6:24 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: SNIP To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. Cannot do thiskeeps saying that 'command not found' (yes I am in root mode when doing all this) /usr/sbin/alsaconf is in the alsa-utils package. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling. This is 9.2 we are talking about isn't it? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings
In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia -a which of course deleted everything.. I would like to restore the settings that came with the first 3 cd's of the powerpack (the silver club download version). I am just unsure of how to do this. What were they named, do I need to browse to each cd.. can someone just email me the urpmi.cfg file out of their etc/urpmi directory that shows the original settings? There was a another newbie post earlier this week but it did not quite do the same thing plus it was not quite right in its instructions either. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 6:24 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: SNIP To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf 3/ In a root terminal run alsaconf Alsaconf will write a new modules.conf file with the correct settings for your sound card. Cannot do thiskeeps saying that 'command not found' (yes I am in root mode when doing all this) /usr/sbin/alsaconf is in the alsa-utils package. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling. This is 9.2 we are talking about isn't it? Nope..9.1. Is there a difference? I have tried to find alsaconf and have not been able to find it. It just isn't anywhere to be found. (I hate little lost programs...) 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 Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 H:31, Aron Smith wrote: i got that 2 days ago... the problem ended up being the line in the /etc/modules.conf file for the sound card somehow vanished, in my case i have a soundblaster128 card so i added alias sound-slot-0 es1371 this fixed it )) LtCdData On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 07:37, Doug Roberts wrote: ** snip** HI again Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little busy. When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this error message when trying to apply the new settings. Something like this: Error while initializing sound driver. device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive atm..I'll play with that one later. I did some investigating through the aRTs controlI have no default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs installed at all. That's really puzzling. As far as I know, aRts is used by kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while xmms is, I believe, a gnome app. Anyone care to comment? I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled? Not sure Aron. Where would I check for that and how? Start XMMS -options (click on top left corner, drop down list appars) select visulations select visualiation -plugins select Audio I/O plugins CD Audio player should be enabled if not configure it and enable it Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - __ 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] Video refresh very slow (Mandrake 9.2)
The video adapter card was bad. Go figure. Anyway, thanks for the help. ShutEye Thinkin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Video refresh very slow (Mandrake 9.2) Steven Vacca wrote: Mandrake 9.2 Pentium II 233MHz 64M RAM (I know, I know, it's slow) I have installed v9.2, but am having an issue with the refreshing of the monitor screen when using Konqueror. It's very slow, so every time I move the mouse around inside Konqueror, the screen flashes wildly. During the install, I installed the driver for the Monitor, an AOC Spectrum Glr. Those weren't really drivers you were choosing but nvertheless... Should I have selected something more generic? Maybe... While running Mandrake v7.2 previously, I never noticed this refresh problem. Also, is there any way to not have the full pathnames show up in the icons on the task bar and also in the title bars of the various windows? Thanks, ShutEye Thinkin I have an AOC 9glr, and mandrake always seems to use a slightly different vertical refresh rate setting in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 than it should be. If you check the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log you might see something like this: (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 150 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 95 kHz, (WW) RADEON(0): config file vrefresh range 47-150Hz not within DDC vrefresh ranges. (II) RADEON(0): monitor1: Using hsync range of 30.00-95.00 kHz (II) RADEON(0): monitor1: Using vrefresh range of 47.00-150.00 Hz I have never experienced the problems you are having even when my settings are wrong but I thought this might be something to check. If you see something like this you might want to change the value(s) in the monitor section of XF86Config-4 for HorizSync or VertRefresh. Only the root user can edit your config-4 file (use the SU command from the command line before editing it or, in KDE you can type alt-f2, click options then choose run as another user (root) and specify your root password before running an editor (ie.Gedit, kate, etc) Hope this helps. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation
Hello. I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. Could you please give me some tips on how to do it ? TIA -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello. I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. Could you please give me some tips on how to do it ? Start here http://www.gimp.org/ You can also urpmi the development version (unstable but nice new GUI ) TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe
I want to thank you for recommending this WONDERFUL program. I had reached my limit with Evolution. Sometimes it worked, other times it did not. Sometimes it would crash upon execution, sometimes it wouldn't close. Thank you again. Charles Ramsey On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:11 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:28:47 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all i have to say is that i am glad someone in here talked about sylpheed because i like it better than any other mail prog i have used ... even evolution. -- 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 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 00:27:33 up 3:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Message
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:21:19 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:32 am, jason pearl wrote: do you have to pay to use that domain name to get it through.. is your port 25 blocked??? No. My port 25 IS blocked, at least for outgoing traffic on port 25 So, I have to smarthost my mail through my ISP, basically, Postfix relays all outgoing external mail through the ISP's mail server using smtpauth to transmit. Internal mail (for bphinney.homelinux.org) is routed internally through my mail server. So family members using my servers can communicate internally amongst ourselves and outgoing mail gets routed through one more hop than it would normally. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer So did you have to pay extra to(im assuming homelinux is dyndns.org) get them to reroute mail? I would rather have my own mail server then to use cox cable. thanks -- 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 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 17:26:37 up 2 days, 22:47, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Interesting Interview with RMS
Quote: Right now the FCC in the US is considering a proposal to prohibit free software from receiving digital video transmissions. See www.publicknowledge.org. That would be the first ever specific prohibition on free software for a specific job. But there are already laws which have that effect. The US already has the DMCA and software patents. The EU already has the EUCD, which has an effect similar to the DMCA. Additional laws, even worse, are now being proposed. Link: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=52297 Get out there and harrass your elected reps! -- 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] Test Message
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:28 pm, jason pearl wrote: So did you have to pay extra to(im assuming homelinux is dyndns.org) get them to reroute mail? I would rather have my own mail server then to use cox cable. thanks Depends on how much you want to depend on it. I don't pay extra and mail that is bound for my dynamic domain name gets sent to my current IP address where my router sends it on to the mail server which is configured to accept mail for my dynamic domain name. If the mail bound for my mail server is not for a real local user, the connection gets rejected and dropped and I get a notification that someone tried to relay mail through my server. However, as someone on the expert list pointed out earlier, there is some risk involved in running a mail server off of a dynamic IP address. If someone else that is running a mail server inherits your IP address before the dynamic DNS service gets the new IP and they happen to be running an SMTP server that is configured to accept mail for all domains regardless of where it is bound or who the message is to, they will intercept your mail. I don't worry about that because the only people using my domain are family members and all of our mail is PGP encrypted. Even if you intercepted some of the messages, you couldn't decrypt them so they would be useless to you. However, it is something to consider. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Message
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:32:22 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:28 pm, jason pearl wrote: So did you have to pay extra to(im assuming homelinux is dyndns.org) get them to reroute mail? I would rather have my own mail server then to use cox cable. thanks Depends on how much you want to depend on it. I don't pay extra and mail that is bound for my dynamic domain name gets sent to my current IP address where my router sends it on to the mail server which is configured to accept mail for my dynamic domain name. If the mail bound for my mail server is not for a real local user, the connection gets rejected and dropped and I get a notification that someone tried to relay mail through my server. However, as someone on the expert list pointed out earlier, there is some risk involved in running a mail server off of a dynamic IP address. If someone else that is running a mail server inherits your IP address before the dynamic DNS service gets the new IP and they happen to be running an SMTP server that is configured to accept mail for all domains regardless of where it is bound or who the message is to, they will intercept your mail. I don't worry about that because the only people using my domain are family members and all of our mail is PGP encrypted. Even if you intercepted some of the messages, you couldn't decrypt them so they would be useless to you. However, it is something to consider. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Where is a good place to look on info on setting this up... i have choices for forwarding mail or a mail reflector.. i know port 25 is blocked by my isp. im assuming its just inbound that is blocked. I have postfix installed but not running. -- 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 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 19:55:35 up 3 days, 1:16, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.14 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Windows Services For Unix--free
Used to be $99 and is now free. Shock of shocks. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/1738230 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
Miark wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? Miark windows entries are restored too if i remember correctly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:54 pm, using a keyboard, John Richard Smith turned thoughts into these words: So I shouldn't select | X | use Dynamic text in Tool options window, just leave |X| Antialliasing, there is a button box market Text Tool but nothing happens when I click on it. Instead I just LMC the image window and up comes a different text window, works in a similar manner, but does not seem to have any means to change the colour of the font, but in anycase it doesn't seem to add font when I type it and click OK. So another puzzle. When you select the tool and type in the text, it is there, but it is the same colour as the background, that is why you cannot see it. I have not used that method but a few times, and will need to investigate it. Charlie. -- The mind for truth Begins, like a stream, shallow At first, but then Adds more and more depth While gaining greater clarity. - Saigyo (1118-1190) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:54 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: I've got as far as adding text to layer, not sure which one though, but I obviously don't understand how to make it move around. That's my main problem, though I still don't really understand how to make sure you are adding text to the apporpiate layer. It seems that a text layer is created automagically, when using dynamic test, or that is how I use it. On the other system, the ordinary T you bring up your graphic. Then you bring up a new layer on the new layer icon on the left of the layers, channels and paths. Then select the font button T Then the colour chart click on a colour that you want. Then click on the graphic and type in what you need in the way of dialogue. Move it to where you want to have it placed. Then click the Anchor icon in the layers and there you have it. Done. I will send this to you with the screenshot Charlie -- The mind for truth Begins, like a stream, shallow At first, but then Adds more and more depth While gaining greater clarity. - Saigyo (1118-1190) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
