Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:57:23 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: > > Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. > > > > I tried using these ~/.vnc/xstartup: > > exec startx icewm > > startx icewm You don't need the startx. IIANM, just put 'exec icewm'. > Neither worked, grey screen w/X cursor. I'm afraid thats the only way I > know to start icewm or any wm from the command line. > > Maybe I should try pekwm... Not as user-friendly as IceWM, but fast and very configurable. Also check out XFCE4. Probably a little lighter than IceWM, beotch to install until Charles gets his urpmi repository back up, tho. -- 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
[newbie] CNN interviews McBride
If you didn't want to power-nail this guy to a plank already, you will now. "O'BRIEN: Well, I guess you're right, in the sense that this wild west analogy, carrying that on, it's a frontier with no jurisdictional borders, right? Whatever laws apply, wherever you happen to be standing are what might apply. Nevertheless it might not apply where you are being affected. MCBRIDE: I think that's exactly the case. With the new Linux system, it's very interesting, because it's very open, anybody around the world can participate, anybody can use it. But what happens when you have a problem inside the system? Because there are no boundaries and no control systems, the mechanism's built into Linux. Then you have this type of behavior when you have a problem actually pop up." Link: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/30/lol.01.html -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "In the long run, there is no capitalism without conscience; there is no wealth without character."-- George W. Bush on Wall Street, July 9, 2002 "It was like watching a whore pretend to be dean of Southern Methodist University's School of Theology."-- Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, "Bushwhacked" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. I tried using these ~/.vnc/xstartup: exec startx icewm startx icewm Neither worked, grey screen w/X cursor. I'm afraid thats the only way I know to start icewm or any wm from the command line. Maybe I should try pekwm... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Ready to update?
I looked around and found configuration, Software Management, Mandrake update in Gnome. Got the list as described and requested the first 12 items in normal. All 12 errored with (couldnt open file). Gnome dosent work well for me. I had to do a master reset to exit due to the system hanging up after logout. Is there a way to do this in KDE or command line? Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: > > On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start > > whatever desktop/WM you want. > > OK, here's whats in it. I don't see anything indicating KDE. What do I > change? > > #!/bin/sh > # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script > exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > > I looked in xinitrc and it isn't clear either... no indication of which > desktop or wm its loading. Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. Or you could load up Pekwm on that sucker, and it'd really fly over VNC ;-) -- 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] Fun and Totally useless.
I put the following script in my .kde/Autostart directory: #!/bin/sh echo -e "Message of the day:\n\n`/usr/games/fortune`" | cowsay | xmessage -center -file - (I tried gmessage, but it doesn't work as well due to proportional fonts...) (Ok, I admit it, I'm a geek!) On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:00, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:49:12 -0500 > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I just discovered this, apologies if it's old news. > > > > I figured out what is done to get the cow to say quotes: > > $ cowsay `/usr/games/fortune` > > :) > > > / There are two ways to write error-free \ > \ programs; only the third one works./ > > \ ^__^ > \ (oo)\___ > (__)\ )\/\ > ||w | > || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:59:20 -0800 (PST) Job Evers wrote: > Argh. Why doth my cron not work like I want it to? > > I have the following set up as an alarm to go off at > 630 AM. The .alarm script works when I run it from > the command line. > > $ more .alarm: > #!/bin/sh > xmms /home/jobevers/.playlist.pls > > $ crontab -l > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=jobevers > HOME=/home/jobevers > # run-parts > 30 6 * * */home/jobevers/.alarm > > But, 630 rolls around and nothing happens (fortunately > I had another alarm set). > > In frustration, I added a new entry in my cron tab: > * * * * * /home/jobevers/test > > $ more test > #!/bin/sh > echo "This is a test" >> /home/jobevers/cron.test > > and frustratingly enough that worked fine! > > Is there something about xmms that I can't run a cron > job with it? > I cant answer a cron specific question, but there is a xmms plugin called xmms alarm that sounds like what you want to do. HTH Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Jan 31 23:42:45 EST 2004 23:42:45 up 23:17, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.21, 0.12 ___ ( We're all looking for a woman who can ) ( sit in a mini-skirt and talk ) ( philosophy, executing both with ) ( confidence and style. ) --- o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the "default" window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window manager? On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. OK, here's whats in it. I don't see anything indicating KDE. What do I change? #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I looked in xinitrc and it isn't clear either... no indication of which desktop or wm its loading. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: > When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it > with VNC. Perhaps if I set the "default" window manager to be IceWM, > then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default > window manager? On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..."-- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing television news Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to select the default window manager
When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the "default" window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window manager? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Router Question
JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 > aronsmith disseminated the following: > > >> OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 >> NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also >> bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) > > > > Yep, you want straight through. > > >> This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a >> lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions > > > > If it has a CDROM drive, you can't beat: > > http://www.smoothwall.org/ > Actually, IPCop may be a better choice. Its roots are smoothwall, but it's had a lot of improvements since it branched off. Its really worth a look. http://www.ipcop.org. Its free, with an active support community and email list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Router Question
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:56, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 > aronsmith disseminated the following: > > > OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 > > NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also > > bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) > > Yep, you want straight through. > > > This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a > > lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions > > If it has a CDROM drive, you can't beat: > > http://www.smoothwall.org/ > > Burn the ISO, boot your router box from the CD, and you got yerself a kickass > firewall, easily admin'ed with a browser interface, though I think it also comes > with SSH is yer into that. > > ...and since you have 3 NICs, you get to have 3 interfaces: 1 internal, 1 > firewall, and one DMZ, where you can put stuff like gaming rigs or other > non-security sensitive stuff. > > Run one cable from your modem to the router, then one cable from the router to > the hub (I assume you have one), then one from the hub to each machine on the > LAN. Nope don't have a hub any suggestions? ( I'm cheap) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:57:12 + Margot disseminated the following: > > This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using > > Mandrake :-\ > > > > How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it > does, but could it be that it is still running, or possibly being used > by something else, while you are trying to remove it? No it's definitely not running...if it would run, I wouldn't want to remove it, eh? :-) -- 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] Router Question
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: > OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 > NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also > bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) Yep, you want straight through. > This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a > lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions If it has a CDROM drive, you can't beat: http://www.smoothwall.org/ Burn the ISO, boot your router box from the CD, and you got yerself a kickass firewall, easily admin'ed with a browser interface, though I think it also comes with SSH is yer into that. ...and since you have 3 NICs, you get to have 3 interfaces: 1 internal, 1 firewall, and one DMZ, where you can put stuff like gaming rigs or other non-security sensitive stuff. Run one cable from your modem to the router, then one cable from the router to the hub (I assume you have one), then one from the hub to each machine on the LAN. -- 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
Re: [newbie] user menu items not available
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:40, Margot wrote: > Erylon Hines wrote: > > On Friday 30 January 2004 03:05 pm, Margot wrote: > > > >>Erylon Hines wrote: > >> > >>>On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: > >>> > >Margot wrote: > > > > > >>Checked the files you suggested - all were installed except the first > >>one, and when I tried to get it this was the result: > >> > >>unable to access rpm file [popt-1.8-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm] > >>error registering local packages > >> > >>I've tried rpm rebuilddb and urpmi update -a but with no luck. Any ideas > >>where this file should be? > >> > >>Thanks > >>Margot > > > > > > I'm betting that's the problem. All 6 packages must be installed to update > > and fix the package db bug. > > Try rpmfind.net. and dl the individual package. I think I got mine from one > > of the Mandrake mirrors. Remember, I downloaded and installed the rpms > > individually because I'm on dial-up and a full package update for all of 9.2 > > would take me forever to download. > > If you can't find it, I can mail it to you--it is only 63kb. > > > > Ok so far... I've found the rpm through rpmfind, and downloaded it into > a temporary directory. What do I do with it now? Is it as simple as > opening konqeror (presumably as root) and dragging the rpm from its > temporary home into the correct location? If so, where should it live? Click on the RPM in konq , give root password and it should install it self. > > > __ > 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] Sound Configuration
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:23, John wrote: > Hello > I have been following the different sound threads trying to get MD9.2 > sound working with no success yet. Hardrake lists the following > info.:master riptide pci audio device; module unknown. I have dl'd the > driver from linuxant.com and installed. Boot-up shows sound device as > being ok. In 9.1, i installed the driver and kmix handled the volume > automatically. Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get > info. I have googled and checked the forums. > Thanks > John I had the same problem It was the cable to my speakers :_( > > > __ > 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] Router Question
OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions TIA smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!
JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 +
Margot disseminated the following:
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I
install
MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to
which
I get 'command not found'.
Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
WTF?
When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to
remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to
the prompt?
Yep, it comes back to a root prompt. No details.
I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to
be logged in as root ("su -" rather than just "su"). Or you could try to
remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.
Same thing, except weirder. I run 'drakconf' from a term while in a VNC session
(wait 3 minutes for MCC to start cuz it's a P166), seemingly remove mldonkey
successfully (no errors from MCC), but when I close MCC, the term shows the
same output as before:
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
and when I do a 'rpm -q mldonkey', sure enough, it's still there.
I've tried removing and reinstalling other packages, and it appears to be only
this mldonkey package that is misbehaving so.
This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using
Mandrake :-\
How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it
does, but could it be that it is still running, or possibly being used
by something else, while you are trying to remove it? That's the only
reason I can think of as to why you might have difficulty removing it -
after that, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas!
Margot
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Re: [newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:54 pm, bascule wrote: > ok, you got me, i'm not sure, here are my two files: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules > > scsi_hostadapter > emu10k1-gp > ns558 > analog > joydev > > the ns558 is for a second gameport so you don't need this, you will need > the sidewinder module but you already have that listed > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules.conf > > alias eth0 8139too > above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 > probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx > probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd > > #the following is to get the webcam working in large mode > post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force /lib/modules/usb/pwcx-2.4.20.o > > >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > > #alias char-major-195 nvidia > alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia > > as you can see i have nothing in the latter file that relates to > joysticks/gamesports, > the device node should be created automatically, so i'm not sure how to > help you any further > > bascule > > On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 9:57 pm, RickS wrote: > > OK, I put in the order you showed and left the alias in "modules.conf" > > and I still dont have the dev node and jstest fails .. > > do I have to manually set the nod up .. js0 .. ?? it was being created > > when I would do the modprobes manually. > > > > -- Well, yep thats about what mine says .. I'm gonna look into the kernel info docs and source and see what it says .. I I need to step away from this for a bit .. my thought process is starting to go to /dev/null 8) appreciate all the help 8) Thx -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 +
Margot disseminated the following:
> > Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I
> > install
> > MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to
> > which
> > I get 'command not found'.
> >
> > Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
> > unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
> >
> > WTF?
> >
>
> When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to
> remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to
> the prompt?
Yep, it comes back to a root prompt. No details.
> I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to
> be logged in as root ("su -" rather than just "su"). Or you could try to
> remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.
Same thing, except weirder. I run 'drakconf' from a term while in a VNC session
(wait 3 minutes for MCC to start cuz it's a P166), seemingly remove mldonkey
successfully (no errors from MCC), but when I close MCC, the term shows the
same output as before:
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
and when I do a 'rpm -q mldonkey', sure enough, it's still there.
I've tried removing and reinstalling other packages, and it appears to be only
this mldonkey package that is misbehaving so.
This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using
Mandrake :-\
--
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
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Re: [newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
ok, you got me, i'm not sure, here are my two files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules scsi_hostadapter emu10k1-gp ns558 analog joydev the ns558 is for a second gameport so you don't need this, you will need the sidewinder module but you already have that listed [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd #the following is to get the webcam working in large mode post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force /lib/modules/usb/pwcx-2.4.20.o >/dev/null 2>&1 || : #alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia as you can see i have nothing in the latter file that relates to joysticks/gamesports, the device node should be created automatically, so i'm not sure how to help you any further bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 9:57 pm, RickS wrote: > OK, I put in the order you showed and left the alias in "modules.conf" > and I still dont have the dev node and jstest fails .. > do I have to manually set the nod up .. js0 .. ?? it was being created when > I would do the modprobes manually. > > -- -- Carrot was two metres tall but he'd been brought up as a dwarf, and then further up as a human. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!
JoeHill wrote:
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install
MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which
I get 'command not found'.
Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
WTF?
When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to
remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to
the prompt?
I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to
be logged in as root ("su -" rather than just "su"). Or you could try to
remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.
Margot
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[newbie] Unable to remove package?!
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'. Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf WTF? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Such mistakes could make the Afghan people think ill of the coalition..." -- Bryan Hilferty, American Coalition Spokesman, on the murder of 9 innocent children by American attack planes in Afghanistan, Dec. 6, 2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nfs icon on desktop
On Saturday 31 January 2004 14:52, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > I did a network install with Mandrake 9.2 and have an annoying > "feature" I would like to turn off. Every time I add software, my > laptop wants to get software from my server and mount the > appropriate remote directory (good thing). An nfs icon is always > showing up on my desktop when this occurs. (bad thing, for me > anyway as it screws up my icon alignments) > > Is there a way to suppress this from happening? > Assuming 9.2 is the same as 9.1, go th Mandrake Control Center, Software Management, Sources, remove the server as a source, then set up any replacement source you need using easy urpmi http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php 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] Persistent mount
On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > ->You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you > and mount the ->partitions, just be careful not to change any > partitions or format anything. ->At the end, it will ask you if you > want to write the changes to fstab, just ->say yes, and they will > mount at boot next time. > > or you can issue a "mount -a" (as root/su) and they will start up > now. :-) but not automatically next time you boot. It has to be written into fstab for that. 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] wma to mp3
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:40, anton wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 30 January 2004 05:56, anton wrote: > >>IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a > >>thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that > >> even apps that said they went direct actually just had a WAV > >> step that wasn't shown to the user. > >> > >>The above advice is good though, as lossy to lossy will result in > >>lossy^2, which is never a good thing :-0 > > > > If you convert a lossy format to wav you will not put back what > > is already lost, so you are still going lossy to lossy > > Sorry Anne, > did I not use enough words? > Cheers > Anton Maybe I misunderstood you, Anton. I thought that you were saying that if you go from avi to wav first you would not be moving lossy to lossy. If that's not what you meant, I apologise. 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] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:21 pm, bascule wrote: > rick, > when i said put the alias line in modules.conf but try without it i didn't > mean to imply that you didn't need a reference to analog in /etc/modules, > cos you do! oop - my mistake 8) although, thats what I obviously dont fully understand about each different syntax for these settings. I understand what "alias" implies not how to use it 8) yet ... > the alias line simply tells the kernel that the module analog is the one > that controls devices that have that major and minor number - or something > like that, maybe someone else will explain:) but you will need to add > analog to /etc/modules: > scsi_hostadapter > nvidia > analog > emu10k1-gp > joydev > sidewinder > > i see you have nvidia listed in /etc/modules, assuming you, like me are > using the nvidia binary drivers do you not find that they are loaded > automatically when X starts? there should be no need in a typical setup to > specify the graphics driver, that is done in the config file for X and > should be loaded from that reference, try it and see! > > bascule OK, I put in the order you showed and left the alias in "modules.conf" and I still dont have the dev node and jstest fails .. do I have to manually set the nod up .. js0 .. ?? it was being created when I would do the modprobes manually. -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cane Kostovski Sent: 31 January 2004 17:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do it Thanks for that I will try it right now.. Philip. - Original Message - From: P J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:06:15 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:29, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:45, P J Scott wrote: > > > says there is no such command > > > i tried alsaconfig and still same > > > ? > > > no sound > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert > > > Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > > > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: > > > > Anyone know why > > > > > > Try to run alsaconf in a console window. > > > > > > > > > Gruß / regards > > > > > > > > > ce > > > > alsaconf is in the alsa-utils rpm. K -> Configuration -> hardware -> > > Harddrake -> soundcard -> run config tool -> troubleshooting will give > > much debugging info. > > > > > > Only one problem left > > STILL NO SOUND ?/// > > > > > > Maybe a little more specific info might help :-) > > > > HTH, > > > > -Frans > > > > > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Thanks, I just ran this tool and as far as i can see everything is fine. > It has the right sound card and it let me choose different drivers. > I tried them both and neither works. > my sound is onboard with the 5.1 channel audio > it is on the via chipset > via technologies with a pci bus > the audio controller is vt 8233 ac97 > and the current driver is snd-via82xx > > I have just moved the slider in the volume control and got some very > loud noise and screech this only will go off now with the volume slider > about halfway..??? > Thanks Philip > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Cane Kostovski MCSEhttp://www.pc-tamer.com/";>www.pc-tamer.comhttp://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=4 3256">Join Our [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cane Kostovski Sent: 31 January 2004 17:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do it tried it . didnt work still no sound, I have the niggling feeling there is some program missing. but what i dont know.. Philip - Original Message - From: P J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:06:15 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:29, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:45, P J Scott wrote: > > > says there is no such command > > > i tried alsaconfig and still same > > > ? > > > no sound > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert > > > Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > > > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: > > > > Anyone know why > > > > > > Try to run alsaconf in a console window. > > > > > > > > > Gruß / regards > > > > > > > > > ce > > > > alsaconf is in the alsa-utils rpm. K -> Configuration -> hardware -> > > Harddrake -> soundcard -> run config tool -> troubleshooting will give > > much debugging info. > > > > > > Only one problem left > > STILL NO SOUND ?/// > > > > > > Maybe a little more specific info might help :-) > > > > HTH, > > > > -Frans > > > > > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Thanks, I just ran this tool and as far as i can see everything is fine. > It has the right sound card and it let me choose different drivers. > I tried them both and neither works. > my sound is onboard with the 5.1 channel audio > it is on the via chipset > via technologies with a pci bus > the audio controller is vt 8233 ac97 > and the current driver is snd-via82xx > > I have just moved the slider in the volume control and got some very > loud noise and screech this only will go off now with the volume slider > about halfway..??? > Thanks Philip > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Cane Kostovski MCSEhttp://www.pc-tamer.com/";>www.pc-tamer.comhttp://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=4 3256">Join Our [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi.setup
Joe wrote: It has come to my attention that all of the benefits of easyurpmi have been included in mandrake in the form of urpmi.setup (thanks Tom). How unfortunate that this great tool is not installed by default, and placed in the configuration menu for KDE!! How many newbies would benefit from the use of this tool? How much frustration over unresolved dependencies could have been avoided? /end rant On to my question(s): The server list loaded into urpmi.setup doesn't seem to be a valid url http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/mdkmirror.php doesn't seem to exist. In fact I can't seem to get to any plf page right now. Is this a temporary outage? Anyone know where I could find the serverlist? TIA. Joe. The easy urpmi site has moved to http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/ - unfortunately urpmi.setup seems unaware of this change, so it is looking in the wrong place for the list of mirrors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Configuration
Christoph Eckert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2004 21:23 schrieb John: Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get info. Try to run alsaconf from a konsole window. Before, make a backup of /etc/modules.conf. Gruß / regards Hello Ran the alsaconf and got the messages:1.no supported PnP or PCI card found 2. no legacy devices Thanks for responding John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] user menu items not available
Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 03:05 pm, Margot wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: Margot wrote: Checked the files you suggested - all were installed except the first one, and when I tried to get it this was the result: unable to access rpm file [popt-1.8-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm] error registering local packages I've tried rpm rebuilddb and urpmi update -a but with no luck. Any ideas where this file should be? Thanks Margot I'm betting that's the problem. All 6 packages must be installed to update and fix the package db bug. Try rpmfind.net. and dl the individual package. I think I got mine from one of the Mandrake mirrors. Remember, I downloaded and installed the rpms individually because I'm on dial-up and a full package update for all of 9.2 would take me forever to download. If you can't find it, I can mail it to you--it is only 63kb. Ok so far... I've found the rpm through rpmfind, and downloaded it into a temporary directory. What do I do with it now? Is it as simple as opening konqeror (presumably as root) and dragging the rpm from its temporary home into the correct location? If so, where should it live? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:50 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in cooker, even in 9.x days. It's called 'urpmi.setup' Currently urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm I'm trying it now, and it still seems to depend on plf.zarb.org being available, which right now is not. Wasn't there a mirror of the Easy Urpmi site? I can't seem to find it in my archives from this list... That's what I get for postin about somethin I don't use. urpmi.setup detects your Mandrake version and lists the media available for it. I don't use it because with cooker, updates to the final aren't (of course) available yet. I have used it after final, when cooker is still on holiday, waitin for the next devel cycle. IIRC, the easy urpmi site has moved, no longer hosted at zarb. But urpmi.setup should list a bunch of mirrors (?). It won't list plf sites for the same reasons those packages can't be included in the distro. The problem is that urpmi.setup is looking to the plf zarb site to obtain the list of mirrors which is no longer there, so it fails. There must be some way to adjust urpmi.setup so it looks in the new place for the mirror list, but I'm afraid this is beyond my level of skill! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Configuration
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2004 21:23 schrieb John: > Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get > info. Try to run alsaconf from a konsole window. Before, make a backup of /etc/modules.conf. Gruß / regards ce == Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200: http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAHBpugCBqix845w0RAph2AJ9t8ps3SnM2fGkzV0VIQCNjGxtjRwCeLlTi /1tZA02aUp41xEDSzS16gJQ= =9kHT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...
List, Below is an alias of the command I used in an attempt to burn the mdk 9.2 install cd iso. When I used mkcd on previous attempts to burn an iso to discs of questionable quality I got the error at the bottom as well. Question: What caused the failure? If it needs to use overburn, I looked at the cdrecord man page, but I didn't see a note on overburn; is that part of the driveropts or a separate 'dashed' CL parameter? Or.. Is it somehow related to the buffer being full 10704 times? Thanks, Terry My new sig: IIRC CRS alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISOs]$ biso Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W1210A' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 651 MB Total size: 748 MB (74:10.80) = 333810 sectors Lout start: 749 MB (74:12/60) = 333810 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359846 Blocks current: 359846 Blocks remaining: 26036 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Turning BURN-Free on Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 651 of 651 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 94%] 4.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 683642880/683642880 (333810 sectors). Writing time: 1176.565s Average write speed 3.8x. Min drive buffer fill was 94% Fixating... Fixating time:2.803s cdrecord: fifo had 10769 puts and 10769 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 10704 times full, min fill was 98%. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISOs]$ ls -la /mnt/cdrom total 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISOs]$ mkcd --checkdisc /dev/scd0 9.2-download.md5sums.asc mkcd: mkcd: Checking the disc FAILED (computed d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e <> expected ) ERROR: Checking the disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISOs]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
rick, when i said put the alias line in modules.conf but try without it i didn't mean to imply that you didn't need a reference to analog in /etc/modules, cos you do! the alias line simply tells the kernel that the module analog is the one that controls devices that have that major and minor number - or something like that, maybe someone else will explain:) but you will need to add analog to /etc/modules: scsi_hostadapter nvidia analog emu10k1-gp joydev sidewinder i see you have nvidia listed in /etc/modules, assuming you, like me are using the nvidia binary drivers do you not find that they are loaded automatically when X starts? there should be no need in a typical setup to specify the graphics driver, that is done in the config file for X and should be loaded from that reference, try it and see! bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 7:52 pm, RickS wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2004 01:56 pm, bascule wrote: > > you need to list the modules in /etc/modules > > lines like: > > alias char-major-13 analog > > go into /etc/modules.conf > > i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if > > it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my > > machine > > > > bascule > > 1st , thx for replying 8) > /etc/modules. looks like this now > scsi_hostadapter > nvidia > emu10k1-gp > joydev > sidewinder > and I commented the alias line from modules.conf > then reboot ... > $ lsmod .. shows .. > sidewinder9848 0 (unused) > joydev7136 0 (unused) > input 5696 0 [sidewinder joydev] > emu10k1-gp 2184 0 (unused) > gameport3268 0 [sidewinder emu10k1-gp] > > It doesn't seem to create the dev node this way. > I tried a number of different ways but didn't write them down 8( > do I need analog also ... I will soon 8) > > although, I really don't need the joystick loaded all the time and could > just modprobe them before starting any games which require it, but its > bugging not to know how to set this up to load at boot ... > > > On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04 pm, RickS wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's > > > help by adding: "emu10k1-gp" & "joydev" to modules. .. and from > > > "googling" found this added it to modules.conf... " alias > > > char-major-13 analog " rebooted .. > > > then... $modprobe joydev > > > then... $modprobe sidewinder > > > in that order.. it works. > > > I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no > > > success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea > > > ) and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for > > > these command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add > > > them to ? or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no > > > avail. I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so > > > can any one help please ? > > > > > > TIA -- 'In the Fyres of Struggle let us bake New Men, who Will Notte heed the old Lies.' (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Configuration
Hello I have been following the different sound threads trying to get MD9.2 sound working with no success yet. Hardrake lists the following info.:master riptide pci audio device; module unknown. I have dl'd the driver from linuxant.com and installed. Boot-up shows sound device as being ok. In 9.1, i installed the driver and kmix handled the volume automatically. Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get info. I have googled and checked the forums. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:50 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 > > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy > > > Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. > > > > Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in cooker, even in > > 9.x days. It's called 'urpmi.setup' Currently > > > > urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm > > I'm trying it now, and it still seems to depend on plf.zarb.org > being available, which right now is not. > > Wasn't there a mirror of the Easy Urpmi site? I can't seem to > find it in my archives from this list... That's what I get for postin about somethin I don't use. urpmi.setup detects your Mandrake version and lists the media available for it. I don't use it because with cooker, updates to the final aren't (of course) available yet. I have used it after final, when cooker is still on holiday, waitin for the next devel cycle. IIRC, the easy urpmi site has moved, no longer hosted at zarb. But urpmi.setup should list a bunch of mirrors (?). It won't list plf sites for the same reasons those packages can't be included in the distro. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2
Yep. It's using SCSI emulation. I really have no idea why this isnt working. Someone PLEASE help! From: Ramin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:45:11 -0500 To know if you CD-ROM is emulated as scsi, you may run the following command (as root): cdrecord -scanbus. On January 30, 2004 11:35 am, Viking Skull wrote: > Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a > week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the > CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i > cant do anything with data CD's either. The CD-ROM drive is a HP one and is > recognised by Linux.. it just seems to crash it whenever I access it. It > also crashes when right-clicking on it. The weird thing is, is that > somewhere Mandrake told me it was a SCSI drive, when in fact it's an IDE > drive. Can anyone help me!? > > Thanks, > Viking > > _ > It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2
Yep. It's using SCSI emulation. I really have no idea why this isnt working. Someone PLEASE help! From: Ramin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:45:11 -0500 To know if you CD-ROM is emulated as scsi, you may run the following command (as root): cdrecord -scanbus. On January 30, 2004 11:35 am, Viking Skull wrote: > Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a > week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the > CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i > cant do anything with data CD's either. The CD-ROM drive is a HP one and is > recognised by Linux.. it just seems to crash it whenever I access it. It > also crashes when right-clicking on it. The weird thing is, is that > somewhere Mandrake told me it was a SCSI drive, when in fact it's an IDE > drive. Can anyone help me!? > > Thanks, > Viking > > _ > It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
On Saturday 31 January 2004 01:56 pm, bascule wrote: > you need to list the modules in /etc/modules > lines like: > alias char-major-13 analog > go into /etc/modules.conf > i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's > necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my machine > > bascule 1st , thx for replying 8) /etc/modules. looks like this now scsi_hostadapter nvidia emu10k1-gp joydev sidewinder and I commented the alias line from modules.conf then reboot ... $ lsmod .. shows .. sidewinder 9848 0 (unused) joydev 7136 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [sidewinder joydev] emu10k1-gp 2184 0 (unused) gameport3268 0 [sidewinder emu10k1-gp] It doesn't seem to create the dev node this way. I tried a number of different ways but didn't write them down 8( do I need analog also ... I will soon 8) although, I really don't need the joystick loaded all the time and could just modprobe them before starting any games which require it, but its bugging not to know how to set this up to load at boot ... > On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04 pm, RickS wrote: > > Hello, > > I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's > > help by adding: "emu10k1-gp" & "joydev" to modules. .. and from > > "googling" found this added it to modules.conf... " alias char-major-13 > > analog " rebooted .. > > then... $modprobe joydev > > then... $modprobe sidewinder > > in that order.. it works. > > I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no > > success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea ) > > and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for these > > command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add them to ? > > or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no avail. > > I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so can any one > > help please ? > > > > TIA -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:42 am, Cane Kostovski wrote: > In a console, type alsamixer > using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column > press m to unmute it > you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my > computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do it - Original > Message - > From: P J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:06:15 + > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:29, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:45, P J Scott wrote: > > > > says there is no such command > > > > i tried alsaconfig and still same > > > > ? > > > > no sound > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert > > > > Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > > > > > > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: > > > > > Anyone know why > > > > > > > > Try to run alsaconf in a console window. > > > > > > > > > > > > Gruß / regards > > > > > > > > > > > > ce > > > > > > alsaconf is in the alsa-utils rpm. K -> Configuration -> hardware -> > > > Harddrake -> soundcard -> run config tool -> troubleshooting will give > > > much debugging info. > > > > > > > > > Only one problem left > > > STILL NO SOUND ?/// > > > > > > > > > Maybe a little more specific info might help :-) > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > -Frans > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > Thanks, I just ran this tool and as far as i can see everything is fine. > > It has the right sound card and it let me choose different drivers. > > I tried them both and neither works. > > my sound is onboard with the 5.1 channel audio > > it is on the via chipset > > via technologies with a pci bus > > the audio controller is vt 8233 ac97 > > and the current driver is snd-via82xx > > > > I have just moved the slider in the volume control and got some very > > loud noise and screech this only will go off now with the volume slider > > about halfway..??? > > Thanks Philip > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > style="font-family: Arial; color: #80; font-weight: bold">Cane > Kostovski MCSE href="http://www.pc-tamer.com/";>www.pc-tamer.com href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id= >43256">Join Our [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group If you are using KDE desktop then go into Configure>"Configure your Desktop">Components>Session Manager and check "restore manually saved session" then when you reboot all should be as you set it. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
you need to list the modules in /etc/modules lines like: alias char-major-13 analog go into /etc/modules.conf i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my machine bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04 pm, RickS wrote: > Hello, > I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's > help by adding: "emu10k1-gp" & "joydev" to modules. .. and from > "googling" found this added it to modules.conf... " alias char-major-13 > analog " rebooted .. > then... $modprobe joydev > then... $modprobe sidewinder > in that order.. it works. > I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no > success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea ) > and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for these > command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add them to ? > or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no avail. > I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so can any one > help please ? > > TIA -- 'I don't see why everyone depends on me. I'm not dependable. Even I don't depend on me, and I'm me.' (Interesting Times) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy > > Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. > > > Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in cooker, even in 9.x > days. It's called 'urpmi.setup' Currently > > urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm I'm trying it now, and it still seems to depend on plf.zarb.org being available, which right now is not. Wasn't there a mirror of the Easy Urpmi site? I can't seem to find it in my archives from this list... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Not only do I think marijuana should be legalized, I think it should be mandatory"-- Bill Hicks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] module.conf & loading joystick drivers question ?
Hello, I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's help by adding: "emu10k1-gp" & "joydev" to modules. .. and from "googling" found this added it to modules.conf... " alias char-major-13 analog " rebooted .. then... $modprobe joydev then... $modprobe sidewinder in that order.. it works. I've been trying to get these modules loaded in module.conf but with no success. I've tried alias, probeall and modprobe ( which is a bad idea ) and read .. re-read the man pages, so what's the proper syntax for these command lines in modules.conf ? is this the correct file to add them to ? or would it be module. ? I tried different methods but to no avail. I'm not understanding somethings about the module loading, so can any one help please ? TIA -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] AlsaMixer settings not saved after reboot
Hello, I have a Sound Blaster Live! sound card. I didn't have sound until I openned a Konsole, SU, and ran the command alsamixer and increased the volume on the Master Column and hit the m key to unmute it. Now it works great, BUT when I reboot, it mutes again. How can I save the ALSA Mixer settings so that I have sound when I reboot? Thanks in advance for any help I can get. TrekJunky -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound
In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do it - Original Message - From: P J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:06:15 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:29, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:45, P J Scott wrote: > > > says there is no such command > > > i tried alsaconfig and still same > > > ? > > > no sound > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert > > > Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] sound > > > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: > > > > Anyone know why > > > > > > Try to run alsaconf in a console window. > > > > > > > > > Gruß / regards > > > > > > > > > ce > > > > alsaconf is in the alsa-utils rpm. K -> Configuration -> hardware -> > > Harddrake -> soundcard -> run config tool -> troubleshooting will give > > much debugging info. > > > > > > Only one problem left > > STILL NO SOUND ?/// > > > > > > Maybe a little more specific info might help :-) > > > > HTH, > > > > -Frans > > > > > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Thanks, I just ran this tool and as far as i can see everything is fine. > It has the right sound card and it let me choose different drivers. > I tried them both and neither works. > my sound is onboard with the 5.1 channel audio > it is on the via chipset > via technologies with a pci bus > the audio controller is vt 8233 ac97 > and the current driver is snd-via82xx > > I have just moved the slider in the volume control and got some very > loud noise and screech this only will go off now with the volume slider > about halfway..??? > Thanks Philip > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Cane Kostovski MCSEhttp://www.pc-tamer.com/";>www.pc-tamer.comhttp://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=43256";>Join Our [EMAIL PROTECTED] Group -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Persistent mount
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote: ->You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you and mount the ->partitions, just be careful not to change any partitions or format anything. ->At the end, it will ask you if you want to write the changes to fstab, just ->say yes, and they will mount at boot next time. or you can issue a "mount -a" (as root/su) and they will start up now. :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nfs icon on desktop
On Saturday 31 January 2004 09:52 am, Phil Savoie wrote: ->Hi All, -> ->I did a network install with Mandrake 9.2 and have an annoying "feature" I ->would like to turn off. Every time I add software, my laptop wants to get ->software from my server and mount the appropriate remote directory (good ->thing). An nfs icon is always showing up on my desktop when this occurs. ->(bad thing, for me anyway as it screws up my icon alignments) -> ->Is there a way to suppress this from happening? -> ->Thank you in advance, -> ->Phil Savoie Phil, are you using KDE? If so, then you can right click on the desktop, pick configure desktop from the menu, then behavior. Look at the devices section towards the bottom, and on the scrolling list, see if nfs is checked. You can uncheck it and it should stop showing up. HTHs. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel error/no swap??
On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:59 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I checked with the command, > "swapon -s" and also through webmin, and it appears > that my swap is indeed on and being used. > > I learned something today :-)thanks for that! > > Best regards. > > --Angus Now run 'less /etc/lilo.conf' and see if the running kernel has resume= in the append line. It needs to point to your /swap partition. EG, (mine) image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-0.rc2.1.tmb.2mdk label=262-0rc21tmb2 root=/dev/hde6 read-only optional vga=788 append=" devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde1" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.2-0.rc2.1.tmb.2mdk.img -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:52:35 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > Anyway, I put everything back together, and I've been running > > mprime for the past 6 -7 hours, no errors, no problems. Could > > it be that the improperly seated NIC was the cause of all the > > instability? I'm hopin' so, I really want that server back in > > biz. > > Yep, and I've seen/heard of even stranger things ;) ...actually, I left it running overnight, for a total of about 20 hours, and it was still passing the torture tests this AM. Anyway, I'm gonna reinstall the system, as after all those crashes there's a lot of corruption, in particular the rpm database (cannot install, uninstall packages) and see how it goes. Thanks Tom! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries."-- Everett Dirksen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mailbox thunderbird
I have a dual boot system with winxp (fat32) and mdk92. Thunderbird is installed for e-mail both under linux and under windows. My question is if it would be possible to access the same mailbox with Thunderbird when working with the windows version and with the linux version. Thanks for helping, Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Persistent mount
On 01/31/2004 01:09 PM, André Tapxure Gabriel wrote: Hi there I want to know how to make the system mount automatically some volumes... When the system starts, it mounts the Windows disk automatically... You need to edit /etc/fstab for that. Only root can do that, so you need to 'su' first. Paul -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.5a/20031217 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kernel error/no swap??
Greetings, I wonder if someone could tell me just what this kernel error message means? Am I running w/o a swap? * var/log/kernel/errors: "Jan 25 12:18:17 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 25 12:18:17 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 25 23:30:53 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 25 23:30:53 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 26 08:01:10 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 26 08:01:10 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 26 11:54:19 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 26 11:54:19 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 26 19:31:22 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 26 19:31:22 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 27 08:30:19 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 27 08:30:19 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 27 18:18:17 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 27 18:18:17 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 28 08:02:32 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 28 08:02:32 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 28 21:05:22 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 28 21:05:22 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 29 13:32:36 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 29 13:32:36 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 29 23:46:33 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 29 23:46:33 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 30 07:58:01 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 30 07:58:01 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 30 21:14:50 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 30 21:14:50 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled. Jan 31 07:19:35 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 31 07:19:35 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled." ** TIA for any insight on this. Best regards to all. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Persistent mount
Hi there I want to know how to make the system mount automatically some volumes... When the system starts, it mounts the Windows disk automatically... Thanks Andre Tapxure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness
On 01/31/2004 11:59 AM, Charlie wrote: Run top and see if there is something running in the background. Tried that and found nothing strange there. I did find something though. I run a program called mailfilter just before I pull e-mail. That checks the headers of all the mails on the server and deletes stuff, guided by a set of regexps. Now I set things up to leave mail on the server for 1 day, so I can access things through Webmail also when I am somewhere else. With the big load of viral mail that goes around, mailfilter uses a lof of CPU to scan all those mails (every 3 minutes). In a test I deactivated mailfilter, and the weird slug-effect went away... Seems that I need to update the regexps, so it throws out all 'hi' and 'error' subjects and all that other cap that comes by. I also set up portsentry again, just to make sure things are safe on that end also. Thanks for the idea! Paul -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.5a/20031217 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] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS
> > Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: > > > > > There are known knowns. > > > These are things we know that we know. > > > There are known unkowns. > > > That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. > > > But, there are also unknown unknowns. > > > These are things we don't know we don't know. Similar to the 4 stages of skill development unconcious incompetence (we don't know we can't do it) concious incompetence (we know we can't do it) concious competence (we do it, but need to think about what we're doing), and unconcious competence (we do it without thinking about it) Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:10 pm, many eyes noted that Paul wrote: > Hi all, > > Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I > sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not > constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 > seconds before the windows are redrawn. Programs start up very slowly > then, even the reponse to my typing is lagging in a very unusual way. > I have not added hardware, software or intense cron entries lately. > > This machine is a six month old 1.2Ghz P4 with 512Mb ram running MDK9.1 > and IceWm. > > This sluggishness has never happened before. I have a firewall running > (IPTables, rules set up with the EasyTables script). > > Does anyone else experience this at times? After a reboot things are > fine for a few days, but I don't want to keep rebooting the box every > couple of days. Ideas or tips are welcome. > > Paul Run top and see if there is something running in the background. Charlie. -- Over the ages you have followed objects, Never once turning back to look within. Time slips away; Months and years are wasted. - Kuei-Shan (771-854) 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
[newbie] Strange system slowness
Hi all, Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 seconds before the windows are redrawn. Programs start up very slowly then, even the reponse to my typing is lagging in a very unusual way. I have not added hardware, software or intense cron entries lately. This machine is a six month old 1.2Ghz P4 with 512Mb ram running MDK9.1 and IceWm. This sluggishness has never happened before. I have a firewall running (IPTables, rules set up with the EasyTables script). Does anyone else experience this at times? After a reboot things are fine for a few days, but I don't want to keep rebooting the box every couple of days. Ideas or tips are welcome. Paul -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.5a/20031217 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
