Re: [newbie] 10
I've installed 10 on my computer and though most of it is great, some issues have manifested themselves in such a way to make me believe that Mandrake 10 Offical is suited more for machines less than two years old, so at times I feel that staying with 9.2 on my PIII four year old may have left me with fewer problems. As I am still new to Linux, I can only offer the above as my own perceived experience. Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 John Wilson wrote: On May 8, 2004 04:39 pm, Phlip J Scott wrote: Hi just a quick question before I start another adventure. I had 9.2 up and running without problems, but as I am trying out different things before deciding which to stick to. So a few weeks ago I got a copy of lindows 4.5 so I decided to try it out, the installation went well and it seemed to be working fine. Then the problems started first hardly any programs with the disk, you have to download from a website wich charge for the use. Secondly all email and web pages, infact anything you saved Lindows did not remember. So I decided to bin it, two days later I had my Pc up and running with an older version of windows 98, this was all to do with the bootloader in Lindows. Anyway I digress, tomorrow I intend to install a proper version of Linux Mandrake 10. I have the set of 3 CD`s and intend to run it along side windows on a 30 Gig partition. Are there any issues I need to consider before installation. Philip. --- Some individuals have had all kinds of problems with 10 while most seem to be relatively problem free. I'm one of the lucky ones who's problem free. :-) Go for it. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10
I've installed 10 on my computer and though most of it is great, some issues have manifested themselves in such a way to make me believe that Mandrake 10 Offical is suited more for machines less than two years old, so at times I feel that staying with 9.2 on my PIII four year old may have left me with fewer problems. As I am still new to Linux, I can only offer the above as my own perceived experience. Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 John Wilson wrote: On May 8, 2004 04:39 pm, Phlip J Scott wrote: Hi just a quick question before I start another adventure. I had 9.2 up and running without problems, but as I am trying out different things before deciding which to stick to. So a few weeks ago I got a copy of lindows 4.5 so I decided to try it out, the installation went well and it seemed to be working fine. Then the problems started first hardly any programs with the disk, you have to download from a website wich charge for the use. Secondly all email and web pages, infact anything you saved Lindows did not remember. So I decided to bin it, two days later I had my Pc up and running with an older version of windows 98, this was all to do with the bootloader in Lindows. Anyway I digress, tomorrow I intend to install a proper version of Linux Mandrake 10. I have the set of 3 CD`s and intend to run it along side windows on a 30 Gig partition. Are there any issues I need to consider before installation. Philip. --- Some individuals have had all kinds of problems with 10 while most seem to be relatively problem free. I'm one of the lucky ones who's problem free. :-) Go for it. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:13, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port? At this point I have to use fxload manually each time I boot. To make a kernel module load automatically on inserting a USB device edit /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap Copy the format from an existing device. You will need the usb vendor/product codes of your device which you will see somewhere in dmesg, or install and run usbview and it will tell you the codes. Hi derek in this file it is written that it is automatically generated (by what I do not know!), and actually there are multiple line for my backpack. In spite of these lines it is not recognized. Do the vendor/product codes in the file match your backpack? What do you see in /var/log/syslog when you insert the usb cable? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrom
I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi in order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove any reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run lilo -v to write the boot sector. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:50, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 9, 2004 01:43 am, mike a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? MDK10.0 and KDE3.2 here. Open up terminal and type kpat without quotes, under settings, game type, you'll find freecell. Thanks! I was confused by the fact that freecell is not in the menu anymore and it has been repackaged. It's now listed as Patience under Games in the menu. -- 07:24:49 up 2 days, 13:34, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586, kernel 2.6.6-0.rc2.1mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E.M. Forster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize the song I used by -listening to this. I did compress it again to save bandwidth, but it won't -change your impreion about how much of a track is lost when it is -compressed, even at a high quality like I did here. - -http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/diff_q6.ogg Queen...Crazy Little Thing Called Love...or something like that? We have a winner. I said you'd get a prize, but I lied :-p It is really astounding to me that one can figure out the song from listening to the difference between the original and the compressed version. Hell, I'm still tryin to figure out what y'all are talkin about ;)Not to hijack, but I will since the original query seems to be satisfied ;) I'm still stuck in mp3. I've got a paid news server (giganews). Just about any artist and their albums are available, anytime, but only as mp3's. Most are 160 or higher encodes, mostly 192 or variable (up to 256). I've got audio cd's floatin out my ears ;) In the dir where the mp3's are I run 'mp3_check -ssf *.mp3' (outputs only errors if there are any that can't be fixed). Usin Xmms diskwriter I convert to wav's. Then several runs of 'normalize -m *.wav' to equalize the files (sound volume levels). I run that command till it reports already normalized, not adjusting. Usually 3 times. Burn to CDr with 'bacd' Resulting audio cd's are better than store bought. Not just my ear either, people I make cd's for tell me the same. Particularly effective for poor original recordings (typically 40's, 50's, 60's stuff) and vinyl rips. Even new releases (store bought), the copies sound much better. A simple 'cpaudiocd' does it all. Much better than the fallacy of tryin to burn encoded files (mp3, ogg) directly to audio cd's. Specially with a GUI. ... alias cpaudiocd='ripacd normall bacd rm -f /home/tom/wav/* | | alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/' alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*' alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32 dev=1,0,0 -sao -pad -audio /home/tom/wav/*.wav' Note: I've found express path to be better than ~/wav/, when used in aliases. I've needed -sao to copy audio CD's that are close to the 80 min limit. I reckon it defeats -pad... but what'a heck, it works -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:18 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote:
I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom
was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex
cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up.
Thanks
John
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms
Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for
your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0
0
Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi in
order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove any
reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run lilo -v
to write the boot sector.
derek
Removing references in modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload for
ide-scsi is also neccessary. Consider this advice temporary as
Mandrake (current 10.1 devel) is goin back to ide-scsi for IDE CD
devices. Early 10.1 (2.6.5 or .6 kernel) is already back to it.
Contrary to the questionable Mandrake move, this 'last minute'
change to magicdev for 10.0, I'd suggest doin a urpme on it an
then runnin 'supermount -i enable' 'mount -a' Supermount is
mature, magicdev is alpha, and has known problems. I find
supermount-ng as implemented in current 2.6.x kernels to be
flawless.
Another mistaken Mandrake move, but can easily be turned off or
removed is tmdns.
John, check that 'll /dev/hd*' return drives numbers suitable
for your CD drives(s). Make sure fstab also reflects the correct
device, ie, hd*, not scd*. Check /etc/ modprobe* files to be
certain they don't call ide-scsi or scsi host adaptor. I'm
sort'a thinkin your fstab (Mandrake bug) doesn't accurately
reflect the device connotations. If my advice doesn't work for
you post the results of
- 'll /dev/hd*' and also /dev/scd*
- Your /etc/fstab file.
- 'cdrecord -scanbus' and 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus'
- Your modprobe* files
Come to think of it, post your kernel version ('uname -r') and
the above to the list before makin any changes.
Prepare to forget, undo/re-learn all this when you upgrade to
10.1, or a newer kernel than 10.0 came with.
In fairness it's not all Mandrakes doin. Currently Linus and
much of lkml is at odds with cdrecord and it's author. A fresh
install rather than an 'upgrade from' probly would'a avoided the
CD-RW problem tho.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate
On Sat, 8 May 2004 18:57:43 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay Ralph, this worked like a charm. The only change I made was to add a MIN and MAX variable to use with the -m and -M switches of oggenc so I could prevent the bitrate of the tracks from drifting outside the supported range of my player. Great ... it works, and it's easy to follow too ;-) One thing I did notice though (in my own scripts) is the comment tag, atm it is -c =. This should be changed (to what I'm guessing is the new standard): -c comment=... Maybe you want to send me a copy of it some time and I'll get the scripts eventually up on my website (after converting to using mysql for everything I have been a bit lazy adding stuff like scripts). Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:56 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: -Hell, I'm still tryin to figure out what y'all are talkin -about ;)Not to hijack, but I will since the original query -seems to be satisfied ;) I think he was referring to what the compression did to it. I listened to what the link had and it was ugly. I had to crank my Monsoon speakers almost max and listen a couple of times before I figured out what it was. Same as me. I had to turn speaker volume (on the spkr system) way up to hear the difference. It wasn't recognizeable to me other than knowin the answer beforehand. I still don't understand the purpose of the exercise. I surmised tryin to improve quality, which is why I posted what 'works for me'. But I was sort'a fishin for critique/suggestions on my doins ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] cdrom
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms
Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for
your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0
0
Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi in
order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove any
reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run lilo -v
to write the boot sector.
derek
Removing references in modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload for
ide-scsi is also neccessary. Consider this advice temporary as
Mandrake (current 10.1 devel) is goin back to ide-scsi for IDE CD
devices. Early 10.1 (2.6.5 or .6 kernel) is already back to it.
Contrary to the questionable Mandrake move, this 'last minute'
change to magicdev for 10.0, I'd suggest doin a urpme on it an
then runnin 'supermount -i enable' 'mount -a' Supermount is
mature, magicdev is alpha, and has known problems. I find
supermount-ng as implemented in current 2.6.x kernels to be
flawless.
Another mistaken Mandrake move, but can easily be turned off or
removed is tmdns.
John, check that 'll /dev/hd*' return drives numbers suitable
for your CD drives(s). Make sure fstab also reflects the correct
device, ie, hd*, not scd*. Check /etc/ modprobe* files to be
certain they don't call ide-scsi or scsi host adaptor. I'm
sort'a thinkin your fstab (Mandrake bug) doesn't accurately
reflect the device connotations. If my advice doesn't work for
you post the results of
- 'll /dev/hd*' and also /dev/scd*
- Your /etc/fstab file.
- 'cdrecord -scanbus' and 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus'
- Your modprobe* files
Come to think of it, post your kernel version ('uname -r') and
the above to the list before makin any changes.
Tom
-Kernel version=2.6.3-7mdk
-Fstab:/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
- None /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
-/dev/hda6/home ext3 defaults 1 2
- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask =o,user,iocharset=iso8859-
1,codepage=850,ro,exec 00
-none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,uma
sk=0 0 0
-none /proc proc defaults 00
-/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
-modprobe: -options i810fb xres=800 hsync1=32 hsync2=48 vsync1=50
vsync2=70 vram=2 bpp=16 accel=1 mtrr=1
-install scsi_hostadapter ; /bin/true
-install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /bin/true
The cdrecord -scanbus produced a long file. Included was:
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
warning: using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface
I also noticed when checking mcc hardware that the device file had
been changed from /dev/hdc to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target/lun0/cd. This
file change also happened in 9.2 and I couldn't mount the cd. I ended
up reinstalling 9.2. On md 10 it may have happened when I hit the run
config tool. Hope this info. helps. I am also having problems with
internet connection but will tackle that after this. Thanks for the
help.
john
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Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:55 am, Aron Smith wrote: alias cpaudiocd='ripacd normall bacd rm -f /home/tom/wav/* alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/' alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*' alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32 dev=1,0,0 -sao -pad -audio /home/tom/wav/*.wav' Note: I've found express path to be better than ~/wav/, when used in aliases. I've needed -sao to copy audio CD's that are close to the 80 min limit. I reckon it defeats -pad... but what'a heck, it works Tom we need you to write a how2 on this subject BTW got this one? Moose Turd Pie get it here http://www.utahphillips.org/utah.html I'll check it later, I'm hooked into the Cowboy Cultural Society stream (again) just now. My cd's sound better than theirs do tho, they've just got more'n me ;) How-to: As I've already admonished Twiki Anne; It's a movin target, varies with hardware, particularly now with the 2.4 vs. 2.6 kernels changes, and Mandrakes back'n forth moves in this area. I think order of usefulness is (least to best), hardware web sites, twiki's, web searches, cooker (or lklm, app associated) mailin list archives . hands on guru sittin next to ya. 'Sides, as my last quoted phrase suggests, I'm just treadin water tryin to keep up with changes too. Not all that hard for me to change and amend, for newbies with GUI dependancy it's got'a be a miserable mystery. I don't always get it right either. Charles and Tim are often there to help. As they are here too, as are several others, the OP Greg Meyers included. Sometimes I reckon y'all would be better off just run'n cooker and subscribin to those lists. You wouldn't have to put up with me ... near as much, horses mouth alerts and advice there. Probly the closest you can get to guru's and current advice ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I think he was referring to what the compression did to it. I listened to what the link had and it was ugly. I had to crank my Monsoon speakers almost max and listen a couple of times before I figured out what it was. Same as me. I had to turn speaker volume (on the spkr system) way up to hear the difference. It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to my music. :-) It wasn't recognizeable to me other than knowin the answer beforehand. I still don't understand the purpose of the exercise. To *hear* what the compression process takes out of the track. So many state that they can hear the difference betwwen a cd and an mp3/ogg. Well I don't have that good an ear, and I was curious as to what was being thrown away by the encoder. I thought the best way to understand it was to hear it, so I tried to isolate what was being removed. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery
Hello, my name is Donato, i have a Compaq evo N1020v and a 9.2 mandrake linux, but Klaptop doesn't recognize the battery e so there is always the plug icon on my status bar even if i took the plug off from by notebook. Can anyone help me? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 06:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: alias cpaudiocd='ripacd normall bacd rm -f /home/tom/wav/* alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/' alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*' alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32 dev=1,0,0 -sao -pad -audio /home/tom/wav/*.wav' Note: I've found express path to be better than ~/wav/, when used in aliases. I've needed -sao to copy audio CD's that are close to the 80 min limit. I reckon it defeats -pad... but what'a heck, it works Tom we need you to write a how2 on this subject Agreed. As Anne seems to have missed this one...can you add it to the Twiki please? ;-) Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Tv tuner card help needed
Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure that I read here that some people had gotten this to work in Mandrake. One program I tried with said it couldn't open /dev/video1. Another program I tried asked "Are drivers loaded?" Can anybody help me to get this thing working, please? Thank you! Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed
On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:00 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure that I read here that some people had gotten this to work in Mandrake. One program I tried with said it couldn't open /dev/video1. Another program I tried asked Are drivers loaded? Can anybody help me to get this thing working, please? Thank you! Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try going into Mandrake Control CenterHardwaretvcard and check the configuration. you may have to select the set up such as us-cable or us-broadcast and let it find the stations. It should then work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom
Le May 9, 2004 01:50 pm, John a écrit :
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms
Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for
your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0
0
Also in 10.0 the 2.6 kernel no longer needs to use ide-scsi in
order to write CD-RW so in your /etc/lilo -v file remove any
reference to ide-scsi in the append line and then run lilo -v
to write the boot sector.
derek
Removing references in modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload for
ide-scsi is also neccessary. Consider this advice temporary as
Mandrake (current 10.1 devel) is goin back to ide-scsi for IDE CD
devices. Early 10.1 (2.6.5 or .6 kernel) is already back to it.
Contrary to the questionable Mandrake move, this 'last minute'
change to magicdev for 10.0, I'd suggest doin a urpme on it an
then runnin 'supermount -i enable' 'mount -a' Supermount is
mature, magicdev is alpha, and has known problems. I find
supermount-ng as implemented in current 2.6.x kernels to be
flawless.
Another mistaken Mandrake move, but can easily be turned off or
removed is tmdns.
John, check that 'll /dev/hd*' return drives numbers suitable
for your CD drives(s). Make sure fstab also reflects the correct
device, ie, hd*, not scd*. Check /etc/ modprobe* files to be
certain they don't call ide-scsi or scsi host adaptor. I'm
sort'a thinkin your fstab (Mandrake bug) doesn't accurately
reflect the device connotations. If my advice doesn't work for
you post the results of
- 'll /dev/hd*' and also /dev/scd*
- Your /etc/fstab file.
- 'cdrecord -scanbus' and 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus'
- Your modprobe* files
Come to think of it, post your kernel version ('uname -r') and
the above to the list before makin any changes.
Tom
-Kernel version=2.6.3-7mdk
-Fstab:/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
- None /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
-/dev/hda6/home ext3 defaults 1 2
- /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask =o,user,iocharset=iso8859-
1,codepage=850,ro,exec 00
my old entry: (should look a lot like your floppy entry below to use
supermount)
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0
0
-none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,uma
sk=0 0 0
-none /proc proc defaults 00
-/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
-modprobe: -options i810fb xres=800 hsync1=32 hsync2=48 vsync1=50
vsync2=70 vram=2 bpp=16 accel=1 mtrr=1
-install scsi_hostadapter ; /bin/true
-install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /bin/true
The cdrecord -scanbus produced a long file. Included was:
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
warning: using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface
I also noticed when checking mcc hardware that the device file had
been changed from /dev/hdc to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target/lun0/cd. This
file change also happened in 9.2 and I couldn't mount the cd. I ended
up reinstalling 9.2. On md 10 it may have happened when I hit the run
config tool. Hope this info. helps. I am also having problems with
internet connection but will tackle that after this. Thanks for the
help.
john
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[newbie] Hauppage Nova-T TV Card
Does anyone know the modprobe.conf configuration to use for a Hauppage Nova-T Terrestrial Digital TV card The mandrake wizard does not detect it, and I cannot find any good guidance on Google. lspci identifies it as 00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) TIA derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery
Le May 9, 2004 02:38 pm, Donato a écrit : Hello, my name is Donato, i have a Compaq evo N1020v and a 9.2 mandrake linux, but Klaptop doesn't recognize the battery e so there is always the plug icon on my status bar even if i took the plug off from by notebook. The first step could be to check what kind of system your machine is using: APM or ACPI. Issue dmesg and more /var/log/messages to see what the kernel says at boot and check for any APM or ACPI messages. If I remember you can enable ACPI in DrakConf (the MCC) with the boot applet. Can anyone help me? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.
Hello. I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new updated one as it shall and then will the Xree window not run. How can I fix it to it will work again. --- Regards Gert Koefoed Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kofobbs.dktelnet://fido.kofobbs.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.
On Sun, 9 May 2004 22:44:41 +0200 Gert Koefoed Andersen disseminated the following: I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 not have done the update as it should but just have removed the working Xfree and not installed the new updated one as it shall and then will the Xree window not run. Do 'rpm -qa | grep XFree' and post the results. How can I fix it to it will work again. If XFree has indeed been removed, just do 'urpmi XFree' and see if it will install properly. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:48:44 up 3 days, 3:15, 6 users, load average: 0.20, 0.28, 0.19 +++ 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:12:50AM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:34 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:33:12PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: I have been playing around with various encoding techniques trying to hear what is removed from a wav file when it is encoded and I have run into an interesting issue, and I am hoping somebody knows what is causing this. I ripped a song to wav from a CD and I ended up with a file of size 28877900. When I encode that wav as an Ogg and then decode it back to wav, I get a consistent file size of 28877900, but when I encode the original wav to mp3 and back, I get a wav file size of 28882988. 5088 blocks bigger. Can anyone explain this? My guess would be the header info. Does that mean I could clip the first part of the file to eliminate the extra info. Perhaps this is better asked in a audio newsgroup? I don't think so as the header isn't part of the audio. If you're in an experimenting mood, try ripping several tracks as a single wav and encode to a single mp3; then rip the same tracks as individual wav's and encode to individual mp3's. My guess is that the sum of the individual mp3's will add up to more than the single mp3 due to the headers. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:44:25AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize the song I used by -listening to this. I did compress it again to save bandwidth, but it won't -change your impreion about how much of a track is lost when it is -compressed, even at a high quality like I did here. - -http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/diff_q6.ogg Queen...Crazy Little Thing Called Love...or something like that? We have a winner. I said you'd get a prize, but I lied :-p It is really astounding to me that one can figure out the song from listening to the difference between the original and the compressed version. Hell, I'm still tryin to figure out what y'all are talkin about ;)Not to hijack, but I will since the original query seems to be satisfied ;) I'm still stuck in mp3. I've got a paid news server (giganews). Just about any artist and their albums are available, anytime, but only as mp3's. Most are 160 or higher encodes, mostly 192 or variable (up to 256). I've got audio cd's floatin out my ears ;) alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail
I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file? -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dcc-dccd.tar.Z
On Sunday 09 May 2004 10:40 am, VITORIA GARCIA Pablo wrote: On Sat, 8 May 2004, Chris wrote: Ark will not open this file either will fileroller, what can be used? Hi, I guess 'tar zxvf dcc-dccd.tar.Z' should work: the 'z' option to tar filters the archive throgh 'gunzip'. .Z files are created originally with 'compress', but they can be uncompressed with 'gunzip'. I hope this helps you Pablo Thanks, I went ahead and downloaded/installed an rpm for ncompress which did the trick. I think I tried tarbut can't remember for sure. Thanks again for the reply -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:04pm up 2 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.16, 0.25 Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed? (By Matt Welsh) Live - From Virgin Radio U.K. World Party - Message In The Box Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd Damn. Masha Danki Todd!! Never occurred to me to search those terms (ogg, lossless) OTOH, what'a fsck is a .ape or .flac ? Never mind let me do some experimentin... Thanks, Meantime (back at the ranch), Stream Tuner and Cowboy Cultural Society keep me fairly busy -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail
On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:24:51 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file? IIRC, this is one of those two-step processes. Moz to import mail, which then stores it in mbox format, which can then be read by smarter e-mail clients. Doesn't KMail have an option to store mail in mbox format yet? EG -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 18:14:11 up 3 days, 4:41, 6 users, load average: 0.39, 0.11, 0.64 +++ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hearts
Hey all I've been looking for a Hearts prog for years and found one today. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hearts/ Haven't been too successful installing it yet. Does anyone have it working perchance? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:37 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 01:12 -0400, Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? Please change your Reply To settings so that they allow responses to go to the list rather than privately. (Newbie list netiquette, blah, blah, yadda, yadda ...) Thx. I didn't see any earlier posts in this thread/under this subject (where there any?) so there's no context to go on :-), but if you're asking if Free Cell is available in Mandrake, yes, PySOL includes at least one Free Cell variant. I don't recall offhand if PySOL is part of the standard games install or not, but readily available nonetheless. xpat2 has a very good frecell game as well as several other solitaire type games. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill
Lanman wrote: Tony S. Sykes wrote: Microsoft is expected to recommend that the average Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today. While I'm currently drooling all over those specifications, I can't see Longhorn being ready to ship for at least 2 years, since some of that hardware is not available yet, and most consumers are not about to spend that kind of money on a system (with the exception of a long list of distinguished fellow list-members) just so they can have an average system! On the other hand, I can see many of us telling our employers that we'll bite the bullet and accept Longhorn on our systems, just so we can have that kind of horsepower on our desktops, after which we would promptly install Linux, and never look back at Longhorn again( except when the boss was around)! Grin! If those are the average system specs, then Longhorn is definitely the most bloated OS, second to none! I suppose that's one for the Guinness books? Jeesh! 4 to 6 Ghz P4 CPU's with Hyper Threading? Anyone for Solitare? Grin! Drool! My school's computer centre still recommends Windows 98 (for those of us who aren't using Unix/Linux, that is). They're fed up with having to send techies out to sort out a problem with some bozo installing XP with no security and bringing down the whole domain. God knows what they'll make of Longhorn. BEAVIS: Huh huh, he said horn. BUTTHEAD: Uhuh huh, is your horn long, Beavis? Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet on 10.0
On Monday 03 May 2004 05:55, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in 9.2 doesn't work for this version. What Derek taught me: Mandrake (9,2) loads 2 drivers for the wireless adapter (SMC 2662W VS..3) I have plugged in that computer: atmelwlandriver, and at76c503c. The problem was to exclude the first and use the second. He had more than one ways to do it. First, write the lines: usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Then, make a configuration file for wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called /fcfg-wlan0, which is this one: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.36 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=94:41:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 Either I made a mistake, or I have to do things in a different way for 10.0. Derek, if you find you can have a little time for considering this, I will appreciate it. Teilhard. Teilhard Using an Atmel USB wireless device in 10.0 is easier than in 9.2 The USB version of atmelwlandriver is no longer present in 10.0, so you will not have it conflicting with the at76c503a driver. Also the drakconnect GUI now works with Atmel USB devices, so you no longer have to set up the files by hand. Take a look at my latest guide on my home page, and if you still have problems come back. Thanks a lot, Derek. My situation is like this. I have one computer connected directly to the wireless modem through an ethernet cable. Another one in the little network is configured to receive with the USB adapter which you helped me to configure. By several reasons, I changed to Mandrake 10.0, and could configure my USB reception with DeakConnect, as you told me to do. The third computer's OS is 9.2, and is wireless conected to the modem by a PCI adapter. I tried to do the same you told me to do with the USB adapter, but it didn't work. I suspect I need a different driver from at76c503c. Is it true? I, presently will visit your web page(s), maybe the answer is there, huh? Thanks for all the help you have granted me. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:12:37PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd Damn. Masha Danki Todd!! Never occurred to me to search those terms (ogg, lossless) OTOH, what'a fsck is a .ape or .flac ? Never mind let me do some experimentin... Thanks, flac is free lossless audio codec--I believe it's part of the vorbis project. There's a plugin for xmms for it. .ape is for monkey's audio codec or some such; also a plugin for xmms for it. Problem is lately there have been a lot of posts using monkey 3.99 and the latest linux version I can find is 3.96. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Exporting mail from Kmail
On May 9, 2004 03:16 pm, JoeHill attempted to joke: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:24:51 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: I'd like to move messages in and out of Kmail, but don't see any export function. Can I just select multiple messages, export as text, and then import as an mbox file? IIRC, this is one of those two-step processes. Moz to import mail, which then stores it in mbox format, which can then be read by smarter e-mail clients. Doesn't KMail have an option to store mail in mbox format yet? EG Yup. :-) Always has, as far as I know. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] modem problem
My USR 5610b installs on ttyS4 every time. Since this is not an option with KPPP, I always point it to /dev/modem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Dlouhy Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:58 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] modem problem I just bought a USR 5610b modem that was recommended by several knowledgeable folks to work fine with Linux. It seems to want to use Com 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs complain that the modem is either busy or locked? Should I remove that link? And if so, how? Thanks, Jonathan Dlouhy = Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2
On Friday 07 May 2004 10:40, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to get this working. PLEASE HELP, not being able to print means I have to use Windoze, something I'm not keen on doing, but I've got to get the job done. Kind regards, and thanks in advance. John H. Have you done all the software updates from the update mirrors for 9.2? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't launch apps as root from CLI
Hello, everyone. I've discovered that I suddenly can't launch certain applications as root from the command line anymore. For instance, I've been using Konqueror for more than a year to handle basic file management tasks as root (I'm still very clumsy at the command line; I get all muddled moving from one directory to another, despite liberal use of pwd). Now, when I switch to root and run 'konqueror', I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gdesklets]# konqueror Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed ...and nothing further happens. I can't imagine what I might have done to mess things up, and reboots haven't helped. It's happening with Nautilus, as well-- I'm fast running out of GUI file managers that I can use as root. I know I need to become more proficient at the command line (or look into using something like Midnight Commander), but I wasn't planning on being forced into it when I have work to do. ;) Any ideas? Where ought I to look to see what might have happened? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6
On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi fxload-2002_04_11-1.i386.rpm to install it. The code to call it each time was installed as part of the backpack driver install. Part of the backpack usb package was a script called bpckusb. The install script does the following (among other things): cp bpckusb /etc/hotplug/usb This script at the end has the line: /sbin/fxload $FLAGS -I $FIRMWARE All of the usb.usermap lines start with bpckusb. I'm assuming that roughly what happens is: 1. When you plug in the usb device (the backpack drive in this case), it looks up the device ids in usb.usermap. 2. From the line it finds there, it gets the name bpckusb. 3. It runs the script/program of this name in /etc/hotplug/usb. 4. This script runs fxload to load the firmware. 5. The loaded firmware does some black magic with the usb modules to get itself recognized as a cd burner. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A bug in Mozilla suite 1.6 ?
Whenever I save a message (right click on a message, Save As... etc) from within Mozilla suite 1.6 Mail Newsgroups, I get a window Save Message As, having File name: of the message subject. So far - so good. But if a name has some characters (like -, :, and maybe some more) and when click on Save, there appears a warning complaining on that character(s), following with complete killing of Mozilla suite. Any idea about that bug? Another issue: a File name: of the message subject always want to have an .eml extension and I want it to be with .txt extension. Then I must to change it manually. How to make it to be .txt as default? Misko P.S. Who is about to collect Mozilla bug reports? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
