[newbie] Time changes
Help!!! I have suddenly started to get cyclic time changes, about every 2 seconds, sometimes accompanied by video blanking, and usually a hard lockup. This is occurring in 8.1, and also RH 7.2 and Libranet (multiple boot machine, along with Win98SE), but Windows is not affected. What should I be looking for? It seems obviously to be a hardware problem, but what? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Carl Kehley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.0 installation
Anyone else running into these problems? Running the installer from the cd, I get an error "second stage ramdisk not uncompressed", hit enter to continue. After that, I can get to the partitioning, where I cannot get the installer to recognize the swap partition (running Win98, Mandrake 7.2, and Red Hat 6.2), it keeps giving me an invalid argument error, not recognizing the correct swap partition. If I make it through this by not selecting any partitions to format, I then get an error stating a missing basesystem file. Bad download, bad burn, hardware conflicts? Open to any and all suggestions. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] SPAM
I don't really know which is more annoying-the autoreply, or the poor spelling. Cyber Sam wrote: You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email is not spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list it is considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal business on the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply to all of there queries. I have had my legal department look at what constitutes 'SPAM' and in there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or solicited you to do anything, only supplies information, it can not be legally considered 'SPAM'. If you do not like the fact that my company has an autoreply assigned to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or ignoring it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me to change how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in the net.
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
I am definitely interested. Since I have a dialup connection, here is my mailing address: Carl Kehley 605 Luceno Blvd. McAdoo, PA 18237 As an eternal newbie, with about a year and a half experience with Mandrake, RedHat, Caldera, and occasional tries with Debian, I may be of some help with the project. civileme wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
Re: [newbie] Mouseman plus
Dale, Same problem here. It seems to be a bug in the software. Go to level 3, run mouseconfig, and reboot. Your mouse will be working properly, but it will probably still be listed as as a generic. Carl Kehley Dale Peterson wrote: Here is the problem: I have a mouseman plus ps/2 that I'm using and works fine on my windows setup and in my mandrake 7.2 setup except for just ONE thing: For some reason, when I select mouseman plus hardware configuration, and then hit ok, it closes the window but doesn't change anything. It still says that my mouse is just the generic three button mouse. If I double-click on the mouseman plus selection, it closes the window and does the same thing. Why won't it keep my selection and actually change the configuration to be that mouse!!?!? Thanks in advance. __ Luke Peterson IC Consultant UCSB Instructional Computing Lab Mechanical Engineering MajorUCSB College of Engineering http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~luke/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]phone: 805.968.2960 We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. -William Osler Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow __
[newbie] Mandrake Update
Help, this is getting very frustrating. Bought the Walmart 7.2, Mandrake Update worked. Upgraded to newer version of the updater, updated grpmi, and can't get any updates. The updater goes through the routine, flashes, and then updates the information for all the stuff I can't get. Strange--but it gets worse. Got the download version from a friend, installed, and got the exact same routine as above. Uninstalled the updater, reinstalled the Walmart version, and got one updated package listed-yes, folks, the one for the Mandrake Update, with a message saying I would need this version for all further updates, along with the latest grpmi package. Did both as suggested, and now we're back to the invisible packages again, along with their updated information. The development updates list just fine. Anybody else having this problem, or am I just losing my mind? Carl Kehley
[newbie] Turtle Beach sound card
Are there drivers available for the Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla soundcard, and if so, some information on their location and installation, please. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] Netscape plugins
Dennis, I've got no problem getting a list that way, but it's the browser window that comes up empty. No major problem, but I've always been able to get a listing that way in windows and linux, all the way back to Navigator 3.0 New Netscape bug? Carl Kehley Dennis Myers wrote: works for me, I wonder what is lost in yours. Have you tried clicking on "edit" then "preferences" then click on "navigator " and "applications" you should see everything in the box or little window on the right. Pardon me for butting in but I thought "I knew too". Carl Kehley wrote: Paul, Nice try, but that doesn't give me anything either. Paul wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Carl Kehley wrote: How can I get Communicator 4.75 to list the installed browser plugins? When I enter "about:plugins" all I get is a blank page, and I know I've got shockwave, Realplayer 7, and plugger installed, and working. I KNOW!! I KNOW!! I KNOW!! To the far right in the menu bar is an option called Help. In that menu, select "about plugins". Am I good? *grin* Paul -- When you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=- -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842
[newbie] Netscape plugins
How can I get Communicator 4.75 to list the installed browser plugins? When I enter "about:plugins" all I get is a blank page, and I know I've got shockwave, Realplayer 7, and plugger installed, and working. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] Netscape plugins
Paul, Nice try, but that doesn't give me anything either. Paul wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Carl Kehley wrote: How can I get Communicator 4.75 to list the installed browser plugins? When I enter "about:plugins" all I get is a blank page, and I know I've got shockwave, Realplayer 7, and plugger installed, and working. I KNOW!! I KNOW!! I KNOW!! To the far right in the menu bar is an option called Help. In that menu, select "about plugins". Am I good? *grin* Paul -- When you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] External LS-120
How do I mount an external LS-120 drive? I haven't found anything definite in the documentation on it, just for Zip drives. Is it similar? Carl Kehley
[newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it in the mouseconfig in DrakConf, it's recognized correctly in Lothar, but I've got no support for the wheel(even as a third button). Next, gnome-ppp--what is meant by "remote name" in the config? I've set it up exactly the same as kppp, but it disconnects about 30 seconds after the handshake, and I've got no dns, even though everything is entered correctly. Finally, there seem to be major conflicts between the RealPlayer 7 Netscape plugin and plugger in Communicator, to the point where RealPlayer freezes and I've got to reboot to get my sound back. I remember seeing something similar in the list last week, but I didn't save the message, and can't locate it in the archives. Any help, advice, creative criticism gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation
Alan, Thanks for the reply. I did not even get an option on the XF86 version. Where was it listed, under chosing individual packages? Carl Alan Shoemaker wrote: Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it in the mouseconfig in DrakConf, it's recognized correctly in Lothar, but I've got no support for the wheel(even as a third button). Next, gnome-ppp--what is meant by "remote name" in the config? I've set it up exactly the same as kppp, but it disconnects about 30 seconds after the handshake, and I've got no dns, even though everything is entered correctly. Finally, there seem to be major conflicts between the RealPlayer 7 Netscape plugin and plugger in Communicator, to the point where RealPlayer freezes and I've got to reboot to get my sound back. I remember seeing something similar in the list last week, but I didn't save the message, and can't locate it in the archives. Any help, advice, creative criticism gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley
[newbie] Midi support with PCI128 sound card
How is it possible to get a SoundBlaster PCI128 to play midi files in Linux? It is fine on everything else, but I get "cannot open /dev/sequencer" messages for midi. Any advice, solutions, etc? Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! I've been enjoying several radio stations using the ShoutCast technology (www.shoutcast.com) over my WinAmp. I assume that "Win"Amb is just for Windoze .. . .I was wondering if anyone knew of a WinAmp like download that could play ShoutCast radio stations. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Mike Mike, XMMS does a fine job of it, and it is included on the distribution. Just set it up for the mime type in your Netscape preferences, under applications, and you'll be done. There are (or at least were) instructions for the setup on the xmms homepage, if you have problems. Carl Kehley ICQ 1412676
Re: [newbie] sound card config
gerald green wrote: help, i have a soundblaster pci 128 that will not work for me, my install of mandrake 7.0 was not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Have you tried sndconfig? Lothar does not do a very good job with that card; in fact, I've gone through 3 installs and still haven't gotten midi to work. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] AMD Athlon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Carl Kehley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi What size is your swapfile and is it activated? Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to recognize all the memory, and everything seems to work pretty well. One question---why is the speed being recognized as 696.2 bogomips? Seems awfully slow to me. Carl Kehley -n-i-c-.-f-i Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/) The swap file is 250mb.
[newbie] AMD Athlon
Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to recognize all the memory, and everything seems to work pretty well. One question---why is the speed being recognized as 696.2 bogomips? Seems awfully slow to me. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] Seeing Windows Partition Contents
Paul Eppley wrote: I set my mount points for my Windows partitions, and they do appear in my directory list, but none of the contents (files or sub-directories) appear. Please help. Paul Eppley http://users.nni.com/Paul_Eppley Paul, Sounds very familiar. Check the mount points again, and make sure you have the filesystem type set as vfat. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] problems after install
Pat Mellema wrote: I installed Mandrake 7 today and came up with a problem when I try to run it it comes up to the command line login screen and starts flashing off and on about every second and the keyboard does not respond. I have been able to login in mode 1 but I have no idea where to look or what to look for. Any help would be welcomed. Thanks Pat Mellema __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Pat, I had something similar happen today. I corrected it by running the installation, choosing upgrade, custom, normal, and then letting the installer do the X configuration again. I had mistakenly changed my video preferences, and the flashing screen was an indication that the requested screen resolution could not be loaded. It may work for your problem, too. Carl Kehley
Re: [newbie] cd-rom won't play music cd
BrianGreen wrote: Hi to all, In Mandrake 6 on a triple boot system, I can't get my cd to recognize music cd. It comes up with an error when I try to mount it in X. It has no problem with data, even DOS data, avi, or midi. My SB16 is set up automaticlly, and all other sounds, such as system sounds work fine. Any help would be gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Brian Brian, I had the same problem in 7.0, and solved it by configuring the cd-rom in the player. Start with the one in kde, since it's the easiest to do. Make sure the device name is correct, and once you have that, it should configure the others automatically if and when you use them. Carl
[newbie] Installation after new processor installation
Installed Mandrake 7.0 on system with Celeron 350, recently upgraded to PIII 500. Now, I cannot boot Mandrake, cannot reinstall, cannot even delete Linux partition. Need help please.
Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...
David Schur wrote: I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda yea stupid me, now i don't know how to remove it! Any Ideas ? I tried fdisk /mbr but i know that won't work cause I am not trying to fix the mbr...sohelp! Thanks Dave David, Sounds very familiar. I did the same thing on a reinstall a few weeks ago, only I topped you. I still had the one in the mbr, so when my machine booted up, it went into an eternal lilo loop. Running fdisk /mbr will work, then all you'll have to do is install lilo where it belongs. Carl
[newbie] Licq message problem in Mandrake 7.0
Has anyone come up with a fix for the message problem in Licq 0.70 (included in Air)?
