[newbie] The clipboard and the command line.
Hello, I want to manipulate the clipboard from a script. Where is the clipboard (Klipper) stuff? Specifically, I want to have a script to take a URL, and encase it in A HREF/A for use in posting. I might then even make a Klipper 'action' do this automatically. With an advance of thanks, JHM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen
Hello, I had a similar problem when, by accident, I switched to automatic login of one user (Mandrake Control Center (type mcc) Boot Autonlogin). - JHM On Friday 25 March 2005 8:53 pm, Russel Dains wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 10.1. I am unable to reboot or shutdown the system from the login screen. The only available option is to type reboot or halt in a command line. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem
Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory on a seperate partition. When (If!) you need to reinstall, only install the /root on the root partition, thus saving all your personal files. This isn't as technical as it sounds, but I would defer to someone better schooled in these matters to step you through it. - JHM PS: you might want to leave the reply to address blanc on your mail client (Kmail, etc). It makes it easier for people to simple reply to you. On Saturday 26 March 2005 1:20 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I also am prepared to do a reinstall if things look too idiotic! I don't have a lot in Mandrake to lose. I have saved a heap of emails relating to Mandrake, but should be able to access them in the archive. I'm happy to atke advice and try fixes suggested, but not keen to have people spending too much time on it ... Appreciate your help Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Multimedia.
Hello, While the primary reason that I do not get a broadband Link is that I'm too cheap (poor), a strong second is the best thing about more bandwidth is getting streaming vid, and it's been my experience that Linux has problems with web video. Is this impression outdated? -- JHM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Auld lang syne.
Hello, In the More proof that I'm not the smartest guy in the world department, and in the hope that maybe someone out there is where I was a year or so ago, I want to say that Vim rocks! I had heard it many times, but since I couldn't just type 'vim foo' and go, I took the path of least resistance and suffered. So, if anybody out there besides myself does not know about the tutor, try using 'vimtutor.' Sincerely, James Henry Maiewski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.
On Monday 21 March 2005 2:35 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On March 21, 2005 10:41, Duncan Anderson wrote: ... Learning to use vi never killed anybody. ... No, it just made them wish they were dead! 8^} It certainly isn't as powerfull, or intuitive, as any GUI editor, but for things done in a terminal (especially when you need to root around in configs) not having to deal with the hassles of even emacs is quite the time saver. This having been said, I might have discovered it a bit late, becase there is also Kate, which really rocks (or would if it weren't for KDE bug No. 56229). However, as you say, when all else fails - JHM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select Development ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why don't you just use Mandrakes' pre-compiled packages for kdeutils? IOW's, what are you tryin to accomplish? Hello, I have the Mandrake 6-disc set, so I have these binaries, and don't need to compile anything. Having just successfully 'hatched' kdeutils...src.rpm (I downloaded a new one), with rpmbuild [thanks to all of you, and I certainly didn't intend to set off any controversy. I'll have to read these man pages) Inasmuch as I doesn't really have a prayer of understanding C++, or the maze of linked header files, etc. (most of my programing knowledge in Linux and C comes from Learning C in 28 days) this was all an exercise. Its genesis comes from my fondness of Kedit. It seems like a really simple program, and I thought that it might be possible to change the behavior of its Tab key (i.e., how many spaces are printed when tab is presses. So far in this exercise, I've discovered .kcfg files (hence Kcfgcreator, hence unsermake) and now rpmbuild, and kconfig_compiler, kconfigskeleton.h and kconfig.h (and I still haven't found anything that says main). As expected, I'm not really more enlightened as concerns my original goal, but I'm having fun. If you have any suggestions about books to teach the neophyte about program development (I know no 'object oriented' stuff, and am shaky on all the libs etc.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] src.rpm headaches.
Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is the installation of .src.rpm files supposed to work? With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.
Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume that the package is at fault and will look for another source. Another question I have, is why I urpmi --install-src yield nothing. Thanks, JHM On Saturday 19 March 2005 1:59 pm, Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is the installation of .src.rpm files supposed to work? With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski src.rpm's are not to be installed (tho they can be). You can compile the rpms contained in the src.rpm by doin (as root) 'rpm --rebuild kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm' Not to be too picky, but technically, rpm is deprecated and rpmbuild --rebuild is preferred because it has been split into separate packages. hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... snip ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd mplayer-fonts-1.0 + rm -rf /var/tmp/mplayer-fonts-buildroot + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf mplayer-fonts-1.0 + exit 0 # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:mplayer-fonts ### [100%] Are you sugesting I should'a used 'rpmbuild --rebuild mplaTab' ? FWIW, the system is as current as can be (cooker 10.2) 2.6.11-2mdkK74 preempt K7 gcc-3.4 (rpm-build-4.2.3-9mdk) the resulting rpms will then be found in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/ Just as a general rule it is not a good idea to compile src.rpms as root, because if the buildroot variable is not set, the package will actually get installed on your machine, so as a habit, it is safer to setup the RPM dir in ~/ and build as user. Mandrake is very good about this, but occasionally you get a 3rd party packager that forgets to set this and It's just a good habit. and you can bork the system. Two schools, an I'm in the other one ;) 'Sides the OP did cite a Mandrake rpm. More important to me would be direct newbies to always use Mandrake rpms, src.rpms included, to procure wanted apps or dependencies. More over to disdain corrupting their systems with anything 3rd party (includin drivers an apps, rpms or tarballs). Build as user all you want, but if you install closed source binary only taints on it, the precaution to only build rpms (or tarballs for that matter) as user is sort'a moot, borderin on ridiculous. Another example; 'rpm --rebuild --target athlon kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm' will compile the rpms, athlon optimized, and place them in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/athlon/ This is cool, and might be fun to experiment to see if this has any effect on your system. IME, no. But when I ocaisionally do build from source, I include athlon opts just for grins. Mostly kernels (as in 2.6.11-2mdkK74, compiled for athlon, preempt, 4gig ram support). I used Mdk's kernel-source rpm an changed the .config, mostly to gain preempt and support for 1gig of ram. An then only 'cause such a kernel wasn't avaible from Mandrake, pre-compiled. The src.rpm will build _all_ the rpms contained in the src.rpm. So if you only want to upgrade only kdeutils rpms you already have installed, cd to one of the above directories and use Just one small point about your use of terminology in order to clarify, you are compiling the source and building the rpm packages as they are specified in the src.rpm's spec file, not releasing already built things packaged together. It kind of sounds like they are being hatched instead of built the way you described it :) 'hatched'? not sure what you mean Greg. The 'F' switch in 'rpm -Fvh' will only upgrade existing packages on the system, not all packages included in the src.rpm. Good example would be 'xorg' which would create more than a dozen packages, but only about 7 of which are used on my system. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What happens if you run rpm --checksig kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm? This will check the package. Mikkel kdeutils-3.2-18.1.100mdk.src.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#22458a98) oh oh spaghetti-o! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 (and I hear 10.1) right hand side alt key.
Hello, I recently discovered that there was a solution to the fact the alt key to the right of the space bar wouldn't work (thanks to the bug hunters working with Mandrake). Well, make that half solution If one goes to Start (sorry, I don't know what else to call the Icon on the left of the panel) System Configuration KDE Accessibility Keyboard Layout, selects the Xkb Options tab, then scrolls down to Alt/Win key behavior, and chooses Alt and Meta on the Alt keys (default), the problem disappears... until one reboots (downer). Alternatively, one can enter the following on the command line: setxkbmap -option altwin:meta_alt with similar results. I tried to put this command in /etc/rc.local, but nothing happens. Many thanks to someone who can tell me where to put this command (sunlit choices only need apply) so that it will automatically be executed upon kde startup, hopefully without needing to recompile anything, but anything that is required. With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski 20 Plain Road East South Deerfield, Massachusetts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 (and I hear 10.1) right hand side alt key.
Ciao, Gratsi, I was eying the autostart file, but ended up putting it in the aptly named /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard. One shouldn't argue with success, but your solution does seem simpler (and will survive a reinstall the next time I foobar the system) Question: Why does the Keyboard layout control module, not fix the problem immediately? The module's manual says that Xkb options are property of X and are not handled in any way by kxkb - it just sets it up. It was because of this that I went looking for Xfree86. With many thanks, James Henry Maiewski On Wednesday 16 March 2005 6:34 pm, frengoGorgia wrote: Of course , you can put that command line : setxkbmap -option altwin:meta_alt in the startkde script /usr/bin/startkde exactly 1 line before this other line (line nr.219) : echo 'startkde: Starting up...' 12 This way command line will be executed for all users of your linuxbox when starting up Kde . If you want that command only affect one of the users make a executable shell script ( i.e. called right_Alt_key ) and put this script in ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory cd ~/.kde/Autostart/ echo #! /bin/sh right_Alt_key echo setxkbmap -option altwin:meta_alt right_Alt_key chmod ug+x right_Alt_key all done,restart kde session to verify With an advance of thanks, Ciao , Francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another Sound Issue (with 10.0 Official)...
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:47 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I've been following the other sound problem threads and can't solve this little problem. Hello, I believe that sound modules which one wishes to use with ALSA have a snd- prefix. Try using this instead. JHM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop and sound(card?).
the same IRQ? As far as I know, the rest of the things are working, I've used the USB port, both the network card and the modem are operartional. Is the forcing of ac97 coming from modules.comf? I didn't put it there. Is ac97 the chipset? I am deeply grateful to anyone who has read through this, even if they can't offer any suggestions. With a further advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski South Deer field, Massachusetts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].
Hello, Thanks for the input, I forgot that I myself had started the at boot thing, at least it doesn't take an age (or 45 secs., whichever comes first) to boot [although any information on how to teach it to not try to start the sound (since it can't seem to detect the soundcard) would be helpful]. According to tuxmobil.org/, the card works (on one hand good news, but on the other hand, it ain't working). Since the tips page on that site mentioned unknown modems, and my modem is under the unknow/other rubric on the hardware lookup, I thought that I might need to: put the modified output of cardctl ident into /etc/pcmcia/config.opts accordingly and bind the serial_cs module to it. this sounds like a lead until cardctl ident returns no product info available (a more astute person might have espected this since all the ATI values were returned as blank, but hope springs eternal). cardctl status says that both function 0 and function 1 on socket 0 are [ready], and I don't beleive I have two sockets, I have hope still, proving the point. My newest theory invoves the device section of the kppp options, the only time I got a modem query to do anything other than reply that the modem is busy is when I select /dev/ttyS2 as the device. I notice that there are many, many other options, could this be a clue? With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski On Monday 31 May 2004 05:09 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You may want to go to http://pcmcia_linux.html and see if your card is supported. You may need a specail driver for the modem part of the card. (Winmodem?) You should also be able to get more information on the card using cardctl info 0 or cardctl info 1 depending on what slot it is in. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].
Hello, I've just installed 10.0 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 4150 that I got gratis (i.e., as is, no manuals etc.). It has an Ethernet/modem card Identified as Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 on PCI a bus 2:0:0. Under unknowns there is Cardbus Ethernet + 56Kmodem: PCI 2:0:1. Now, I can get kppp to find the modem, and I can query it with the result that ATI 0-7 are all returned blank. When I enter the terminal, it signals modem ready, but the terminal will accept no input. nothing that I type will be displayed no CR no nothing. If I reset the modem, the cursor will move down one line , but that's the extent of my terminal range of motion. When booting, there is a Bringing up eth0: call which takes about 45 seconds to tell me a bunch of stuff that looks reasonable considering I have to ethernet cable in the card (zcip...address...no conflicts...claiming xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx), but it's pretty much Greek to me. I'm wondering if a) I can stop it from bringing up eth0, and b) wether this eth0 is somehow interfering with my kppp terminal? While there's a chance someone's reading this who might know, I'll say that the sound card, detected as MagicMedia 256AV results in No soundcards found during boot. suggestions? With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a picture viewer
On Monday 08 March 2004 09:11 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Paul, if you're using KDE then I would recommend Kuickshow. It lets you click on the first picture in a directory then use the wheel on your mouse to scroll thru every picture there. I love it. Its very fast too. Hello, Thank you for introducing the list to this feature of Kwickshow. Kview has a slide show pluggin that is similar, and it also allows one to do simple editing (although not as much [on mine] as the manual suggests). Again, with many thanks, Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wherfore art thou $PATH?
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fubarski]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.1_01/bin I don't particularly like the fact that I the // and the :: are a part of $PATH. I can't seem to find where these are inserted, however. I use BASH and I can't find these items in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. As far as my limited knowledge is concerned, /etc/profile is the first file to be considered, and it adds /usr/X11R6/bin, so I guess the question is where is $PATH defined before /etc/profile? I'm using 9.1. With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski 20 Plain Road East South Deerfield, Massachusetts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Files
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:37 am, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download from live update? I want to burn it and install them in other machine that has no internet connection. Thanks before. Hello, I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but this seemed like a perfect opportunity to ask the list about updates. I thought that I had seen a CD for sale on the Mandrake site that was a compendium of all the updates for the last release (this would have been 9.0). Was I imagining it? Could I possible get one for 9.1? Sincerely, James Henry Maiewski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT]Fwd: EPIC Alert 11.01/Palladium
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: EPIC Alert 11.01 Date: Wednesday 14 January 2004 06:36 pm From: EPIC News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === E P I C A l e r t === Volume 11.01 January 14, 2003 --- Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.01.html [SNIP] == [4] FOIA Document Covers Palladium Privacy, Unique Identifier Issues == EPIC has obtained a document concerning Microsoft Palladium from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Freedom of Information Act. The document, a 32-page presentation that bears a 2002 copyright mark, was apparently given by Michael Aday, a senior program manager at Microsoft. Palladium, which is currently named the Next Generation Secure Computing Base, is one variant of Trusted Computing, a set of operating system technologies being developed primarily by Microsoft, AMD, Intel, IBM, and HP. The technology has profound implications for privacy and for altering the balance of power among computer users, media companies, and software programmers. While Microsoft has attempted to pitch Palladium as a tool for protecting individuals' privacy, as the presentation makes clear, the technology could establish an infrastructure of unique user identification and tracking. A slide on Policy Issues reads in part: Since the Pd (Palladium) RSA key pair is unique to the platform, what steps should we take to defend against traffic analysis of user behavior? The next reads: The Issue: Palladium uses at least two sets of unique hardware keys . . . Essentially equivalent to unique machine identifiers. Trusted Computing does present some opportunity for greater computer privacy and security. For instance, the technology could improve encryption key storage, it would provide for a more secure boot process, and reduce the risk that keyloggers or other devices could intercept passwords or communications. However, the potential for control of computer users cannot be underestimated. Generally, it will reduce user control over the computer, resulting in software programmers being able to force upgrades, control which applications are approved to handle media, or even erase pirated content or applications. Depending on its implementation, the technology could eliminate online anonymity. It also could serve as the starting point for ubiquitous Digital Rights Management technologies. As Professor Ross Anderson has noted, Trusted Computing will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. NIST Palladium Presentation: http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/nistpalladium.pdf EPIC Palladium / Next Generation Secure Computing Base Page: http://epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html Ross Anderson's Trusted Computing FAQ: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html [SNIP] == [7] EPIC Bookstore: The Naked Crowd == The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, by Jeffrey Rosen (Random House 2004) http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0375508007-0 In the weeks and months following 9-11, the public accepted many new incursions into personal privacy. Airline passengers removed their shoes and stood arms outspread as uniformed officials peered through their carry-on baggage. The Department of Homeland Security proposed to color code all passengers based on the likelihood that they might commit a terrorist act. Banks asked new customers to provide detailed information that would be promptly transferred to federal investigators. This year, visitors entering the United States from other countries are fingerprinted and photographed. And the biometrics now being obtained from non-U.S. citizens will soon be required of U.S. citizens. Whether any of these measures has actually made the country safer is not an easy question to answer. The government's desire for information about the public seems matched only by its own excessive claims of secrecy. But what does seem clear is the willingness of the public, at
Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.
Hello, It seems to me that this is an insolubale problem. The 'Joe six pack' crowd will never be able to outhack someone who is au currant and deals with networking day in and day out, even if they understand the need for protection. As they say, 'where there's a will there's a way.' -Jim On Saturday 16 August 2003 03:32 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Great attitude! Since when does someone with a lack of knowledge deserve to be harmed? When you first started using computers did you deserve to have your computer hacked every day until you knew how to adequately secure it? When you learned to walk did you deserve to have your parents knock you down every time you tried until you developed the coordination to resist being knocked down? Why are you hating anyone? Bill Gates didn't make anyone stupid and neither did God. Bill Gates told people that ease of use was all that there was to computers. He also neglected to tell potential customers that pure ease of use without a solid foundation in a secure, proper design would negate the effects of the ease of use. I don't think that anyone (including yourself) can be self-righteous enough to claim that they have never been influenced by a daily bombardment of ads from various companies, including software companies. Why don't you spend your time trying to inform those people that got their boxes owned instead of wasting our time calling them names. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linkskys, anyone?
Hello, This Sunday paper came with a flier of Amazon.com (is it just me, or does that seem weird? regardless, it seems to have worked on me). At any rate, in it are a few Linkskys wireless gizmos (I know I live under a rock, but I'd never heard of Linskys, what a cool name). Particularly intriguing to me was the WMA 11B wireless digital media adapter. it claims to be able to send all ones mp3 (read oggs) and pics to ones stereo and TV. It doesn't specify the usuall Windows XNTP2,000,000 baloney. Does thins mean that it is compatable with any PC with ML 9.1? The hardware database lists some Linskys stuff, but I don't know what they are. With an advance of thanks, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saving live-stream
On Friday 01 August 2003 05:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi toghether is it possible to save a live stream in xmms? or any other application? - this is in swiss-german and only for swiss-people(if there are any in here): i wönsche euch allne e schöne 1. auguscht und tüend nöd zwild höt abig! :) remo Hello, I won't claim to be an expert, but when I tried to do just that (select 'save' instead of realplayer or some other app), what I actually downloaded was a text file. When I looked at the file, I found that it was an URL. When I plugged the URL into my browser, I got the same download dialog that I had gotten before, but this time it downloaded the stream file. I'm not sure what this means, or how often it would apply. Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writing software
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:30 am, Haywiremac wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: you can't do a 1 to 1 copy of commercial DVDs but with 4.x gigs of data, Even if you could, a blank DVD costs almost as much as the one you want to copy, no? Hello, Price notwithstanding, why aren't 6G blanks available? How can it be that only companies that record their precious copyrighted material have access to these products? Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Weirdness, logout button without the dragon
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 06:45 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Other small problem... I like that little dragon that pops up gives me options on how i want to logout when I hit the Logout button on the kicker. It seems to not be there anymore...yet was there when I first loaded 9.0/.1. Where is he how do I get him back permanently? Hello, I had this problem when I inadvertently had automatic login. I couldn't find a way to stop it and other problema, but they all disappeared when I got back to regular logon sessions. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aumix not working
Hello, There have been numerous warnings concerning SBLive cards that say that have the emu10k1 chip but, in point of fact, do not. The mere fact that this is possible, makes the SBLive an unatractive option for Linux. Jim On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:05 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:05 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. HardDrake recommends somelike (I not at my machine) cs49xx but if you use that one it errors out on boot. I have it set at cs4232 and it worked at one time. But as it says above, aumix kept setting mute all, until it quit running. Mike - does HardDrake recognise it as a SBLive? The reason I ask is that many cards that were sold as such are actually other models. For instance, I have a box here with a card that I originally bought as a SBLive, but Mandrake says it is an Ensoniq, and with the es driver it works fine. Anne Anne, I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, but I think the answer is no. I looked at the list of available 'drivers' and there was an 'sb' but no SBLive. I am going to try some of the trouble shooting suggestions I found in HardDrake. I'll let you know when I have more information. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS in trouble, sorry it's kinda OT
Hello, Now that we have the record industry suing the parents of those who download copyrighted songs, I shiver to think what the lawers at Micro$oft might come up with. Jim On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:34 am, Miark wrote: On 29 Jul 2003 01:20:06 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A virtual certainty. It's one of the reasons why they did not want little puppet judge Kotar-Kelly to get ahold of the source code. In addition to that you would also be able to prove the existence of engineered security holes. It would possibly be the end for M$ if the source ever escaped. Of course, if someone wanted to single handedly take M$ down, it's possible that the code could be leaked from the inside. That was my thought. If such code theft goes on, there must be somebody who would eventually leak it. Of course, that person would face the certainty of M$ going after _them_ for breaching a non-disclosure agreement. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mbr question
Hello, You might want to look at the Linux+Win9x+Grub HOWTO. I have been trying to use a CD that seems to offer the promise of installing Window$ NT (mostly to see if it would work). Since I already have ML9.1 installed and don't really want to mess it up, I decided to carve out a third primary partition at the end of my hard disk, and see what could be done. The HOWTO purports to teach one how to install the Win OS on something other that the beginning of the hard drive, but make GRUB fool it into thinking that it is [with lines such as map (hd0,2) (hd0,0). The CD that I have used to install NT writes a bunch of files to disk, then instructs you to reboot, at which point the installation is supposed to continue, but I can't seem to get beyond this point (any suggestions or explanations would be welcome). At any rate, I don't lay claim to any kind of expertise (I don't even know what BR means), but this how to, and the grub info page (especially the 'map' commands). The grub info also says, however, that some OAS might use special drivers that would make this mapping irrelevant. Smells like Win to me :^( ) In the hope that this isn't wholly irrelevant, Jim. On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:46 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Here was a response i got about this awhile ago. Doesn't help you too much, but it's a data point. Hopefully someone else will have a better answer. eric I have also run XP in another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it has never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out destruction. Is it safe to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not). XP seems to understand partitions. 98 likes to take the whole drive.. I've had some luck doing a repair... not much... but some, with 98. On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:06:11 -0400 crak600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't) Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cannot log in as root in 9.1
On Monday 28 July 2003 01:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 11:12 am, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi all, I have my mandrake 9.1 setup to automaticly log user in at startup. When I logout user I get a small box giving me three alternatives: halt, reboot and a user icon. I might be blind or stupid or both, but I cannot find a way to log in as root. How do I login as root? Thanks in advance, Fifner Fifner, where ya been, long time since we've seen the name on the list. Anyway, if you absolutely have to log in as root, and you know that's bad, open up the KDE control center and select Systemloginmanagerusers and you should see that root has a check in the box for hidden user. So click on the admin mode box below and give it your root passwd and uncheck the box. Next time login will show root user. HTH ( hope your using KDE otherwise I haven't figured out the cli way of doing this.) Hello, When I got to the logon GUI, I CTRL-SHIFT-ESCed (or c-s-del, I can never remember what it is) out of x, logged on as root, then ran 'startx.' Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.Link) and DVD-RAM/CD-RW
Hello, My Creative Audigy soundcard has an IEEE 1394 connection, and something about it is detected when I boot [ML9.1]. www.linux1394.org (as well as Xconfig) tell me that the IEEE 1394 module is experimental, and the list of device drivers seems far from exhaustive (although this may just be my ignorance). I was thinking of getting a DVD/CD reader/(re)writer [the La Cie DVD MultiDrive (300568) DVD-RAM/DVD-RW Burner caught my eye]. What is the common wisdom about current compatability? would it be better to wait until a new realease/kernel (at which point these things might be cheaper)? With an advance of thanks, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmix, ALSA and saving levels.
Hello, I'm fairly certain that this has been covered by this lidt, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. My card is a SoundBlaster Audigy, and I'm running Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.0. I'm also sorry that this sounds so confusing. First, I get XMMS playing. Then I start Kmix(1.90), aumix and alsamixergui. Now, adjusting either aumix or alsamixer will both change the volume, and change the displays on each others GUIs, but not Kmix'. When I change Kmix' volume, the other two immediately move to where Kmix' level is, and the volume changes to what Kmix displays (However, when I place the mouse pointer on the Kmix applet it will say Volume at x% where x is what ever the last value of Kmix was until I move the mouse wheel and change the volume that way (I love this feature by the way, very cool). This is all strange, but as I include it only as it might give a clue as to what is happening. Since I only need to use one mixer (and I love the Kmix applet), the problem occurs when I reboot. Say I logged out with the volume at 10% [by the way the 'x%,' which I get from the applet ranges from 0% to 31%, but seems corresponds to 0% to 100% on aumix]. When I reboot, the actual volume out of the speakers is 10% (and the applet says Volume at 10%), but the slider on the display is maxed out. if I attempt to lower the volume a little bit, the actual volume switches to a little bit below maxed out (even though this is 31%, it's pretty damned loud!). So, there it is. It actually is as strange as it sounds. Any suggestions as to what to do, or whom to ask? With an advance of thanks, Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux analog to iTunes BuyMusic.
Hello, Perhaps a bit off topic, but I've gone to Apple's iTunes (must have a Mac) and BuyMusic (must have IE read: M$). I do not support Linux in general and Mandrake in particular because it is cheaper (which it is), but because I like the product and wish to support open source. Could it be that Linux users, as a rule, are too interested in getting free stuff that an mp3 store like those mentioned above (I especially like the idea that one can buy a single song), even allowing Linux users to shop is unnecessary? Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DiskDrake: Unmounting /dev/dha6 aka /home.
Hello, I've been trying to create an new partition on my only hard drive. According to the directions, I need to unmount the partition, but clicking unmount in DiskDrake has no effect. 'umount /dev/hsa6' tells me that the device is busy. How do I procede? Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Robotics
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 07:49 am, Marc O wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:00 am, SoloCDM wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Cody Harris wrote: Hm...i can say i want to start into electronics/robotics. My techie friend said that i should buy an 8 bit controller that i can download a program to. Would anyone know of such of a processor? How about any mailing lists? Sites? Anything? You can mail me directly if you wish You'll need to try electronic magazines for that type of information/hardware. No doubt you could find an abundant amount of sites on the Internet through retailers and distributors. Have a look at Nuts And Volts Magazine they have at least one in depth article each month on robotics and adds from a lot of venders selling robotics stuff. Marc KM5KW Dude! Thank you for mentioning Nuts Volts! I've just checked out their site, and I think I'm hooked (also thanks to the owner of this thread, I've been thinking about this topic for some time.) Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Find the Source!
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:46 pm, Pilagá wrote: Your Spanish is splendid, Jim, don't worry. I'm using aRts and rezound without problems. Wich is, exactly, your problem? Is your card correctly configured? Can you play CDs, oggs, wavs, mp3s, DVDs...? Also, check the card settings under: K Configuration Control Center Sound Sound System (Take care, this is a 'brutal' translation, from Spanish to English, of KDE menus.) Suerte Hola, Tengo mas suerte, poco mas. Having removed my head from parts best left unidentified, I can now use Krec. Being largely ignorant of a lot of the features in rezound, I can't comment on how most of them work, but I can play files with rezound, and use effects et cetera. By the way, could you suggest a good book on the concepts represented by all these features (filters, effects et alii)? I still cannot record with rezound, however. I get the following from rezound whenever I try: ERROR COSSSoundRecorder::initilize(CSound*) --error opening OSS device '/dev/dsp [sic] --Device or resourse busy This is the reason that I asked about aRts awareness. I don't know how, or whether I need, to disabuse the initializer of the notion that I'm using OSS. Another problem could be that the aRts audio manager (type 'artscontrol,' then select View - Audio Manager), in Krec, had entries for the i/o busses. there is no such detection of rezound in the manager. Paz y Linux Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compact flash disk reader.
On Saturday 19 July 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:14 am, manolis wrote: Anyway... Although I didn't figured out what is going on I also want to ask related to the this problem: Any time that I plug in my USB reader it gets another name in the /dev tree for example the first time I pluged it in I get: /dev/sda when I unplugged it and replug it again I get : /dev/sdb etc... etc... I think this is related to my problem... How can I remove the faulty /dev/.. links? This doesn't happen with my USB flash thumb drive that automounts fine , and every time I plug it in I get: /dev/sdb1 Please Help..!! Hi, Manolis. I think that when you use more than one removable device the system sometimes gets confused. I have a similar problem. When it happens to me I just open up the MCC, Hardware List. It should re-detect the device and mount it correctly. Anne Hello, If this doesn't seem obviouslywrong, I wnder if you are umounting the /dev/sda1 before unplugging it? There was another USB/Flash question regarding supermount. I just have a simple '/dev/sda1 /mnt/fubar auto auto,user,noauto,ro 0 0' line in fstab and I get a nifty icon (in 9.1) on the desktop after boot (even when there is no disk in the reader. All I have to do is put a disk in and click the icon... voila! I think its great, and I don't have to deal with any super-dooper anything. For what my opinion is worth, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Found the Source!
Hello, Maybe somebody can help me understand this. When I clicked on the src.rpm icon for the package (on a mounted CD), I was having problems (I can't remember what they were exactly now [I know, I get an F for clarity]), so I copied the RPM to disk then clicked it there, everything seemed to work (gurpmi was used automatically). There was no there there, however, nothing in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, and an everything already installed message when I tried it again. Acting on a friendly suggestion from this list, experimented with the rpm program. 'rpm -V foo.src.rpm' informed me that the package wasn't installed, but 'rpm -vi foo.src.rpm' [as root] gave me rpm: foo.src.rpm. No joy. 'urpmi --install-src foo.src.rpm' seems to have done the trick. Do my travails seem consistent at all? are .src RPMs handled differently? Can one 'unpack' an RPM without trying to install it, or is that a contradiction? Anyway, As always, rojo de vergüenza, Jim. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Find the Source!
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 09:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Whenever you install a src file, it lives under: /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES Hello, Thant's what I thought, but es nada (¡no tengo Suerte!). I found the file [kdemultimedia-3.1-10mdk.src.rpm] on my 9.1 CD Installation Source CD2 (x86). The folder (inside the Mandrake folder which holds everything on the CD) is called SRPMS. The file says that it has 5.5 MB. but I can't find a damn thing that's been installed. I can't even uninstall it since I can't get rpmdrake to acknowledge the existence of Installation Source CD2, although Installation Sources CD1 is listed. Attempts to add Installation Source CD2 results in an Unable to update medium; it will be automatically disabled. warning (joy!). This might have something to do with the fact that I don't know what to enter into the Relative path to synthesis/hdlist dialog (Installation Sources CD1's entry is ../base/hdlist9.cz. It is interresting to note that the list of Configured sources lists two CDs for Commercial Apps CD and Supplementary applications CD (cdrom5, 6, 7, 8) although I only have one of each. Comments? With an advance of thanks, Jim. Postscriptum: Thanks to Pilagá. I'll check out this suggestion. Derek, I'm sorry but I don't know how to install anything as a user (this means using rpm?). at any rate this should be working, so it has my attention. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Find the Source!
Hello, I'm trying to install the source code for Krec (K - Multimedia - Sound - Krec), which I believe is in kdemultimedia-3.1-10mdk.src.rpm. I've done this and haven't the foggiest idea where it was installed (if, indeed, this was the source). grpmi tells me that everything was installed, but there is nothing in /usr/src, and the find file tool gives me nothing (although I'm unclear what the files might be called, and I can't seem to get rpmdrake to acknowledge any source excepting the kernel). How stupid am I? By the way, has anyone successfully recorded anything via Krec? I can record with a C program I copied from the 1996 LINUX Multimedia Guide by Jeff Tranter (O'Reilly), but not with Krec. Relatedly, what exactly is the difference does enable full duplex make? Krec requires it, but my homespun won't work at all. With an advance of thanks, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
Hello, I see your diaeresis (what is it called in Swedish?). Please do not spell your name any other way than the way it's spelled. Sincerely, Jim. Postscriptum: My spellchecker likes Bjorn better, I've taught it the error of it's ways. On Monday 23 June 2003 04:56 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:50:23 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! snip Check its permissions make sure they are set for USER that you now own it using chown as a user. Thats my best answer... :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :) Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Also, thanks a lot for the tip on ET. I'll have a look into it. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aRTS-less question.
Hello, I've read that there should be one and only one artsd running. I have two right off the bat, and playing a file gives me more (with more than one saying that they're using the processor. Can this be good news? In any event, /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp gives nothing even when a file is being played (and at least one artsd is doing something with the processor). Comments? -Jim When nos ound program runs it nothing comes from command. $ /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp but when xmms is run I get as follows in mdk9.1 $ /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp lvgandhi 1750 f artsd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
Hello, Try...I can't seem to find it in the archives, but it may be that you need to add multi-lun capability. enter: echo scsi add-single-device R C T L/proc/scsi/scsi where: R=scsi control number (see /proc/scsi/scsi) C=channel number (always 0) T=target number (always 0) L=lun number (starting from zero, this means you want number 1 to be added) check /proc/scsi/scsi I hope this helps. -Jim On Monday 16 June 2003 09:40 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:09, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:08:59AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb drives my Linbox only sees it as one of the drives any Ideas on how to reformatt the drive as one drive? So I take it the drive *is* 2 32MB drives? If so, a recent post on a USB smart media and compact flash combo reader might help; I got my SanDisk reader to mount both without a hitch. I can dig that out if it's what you might need. Todd At this point anything would help I want to get this worked out before I buy a bigger flashdrive for my MiniITX project(Hellachus music player) __ 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] aRTS-less question.
Hello, After some more blind (and deaf [let's leave dumb out of this]) fumbling with the sound system [SB Live! 5.1, ML 9.1, KDE], I've discovered that, unlike 9.0, the command /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp gives no responce at all. In 9.0, I got: /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp chief 1910 f artsd I find that artsd is shown as a zombie in the Process Table[- KDE System Guard]. If I kill it and type artsd, it again shows up as a zombie. Could I be on to something here (stranger things have happened)? What is a zombie again? With an advance of thanks, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fwd: Re: [Galeon-user] Using Kmail w/ Galeon.
---BeginMessage--- On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:21 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:16, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, Having just installed Galeon 1.3.3, I have run into a problem trying to use a Kmail composer when I click on a mailto: thingy. In Gnome control center I went to File Types and Programs, then added a new service, mailto. In the Program box I entered kmail --composer %t. This got me a composer blank, but the To: field was %t and not the address following the mailto: Try kmail --composer %s, or perhaps even just kmail --composer ? Hello, Thanks for the suggestion. kmail --composer gives me a blank composer with all fields blank. kmail --composer %s gives mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] While this is better than t, I wounder if I could do better. In the Kmail handbook, %s isn't even listed (%S = Sender's address, gives %S in the To: field, as does every other listed % character). I'll list these in case it helps: %D = Date; %S = Subject; %e = Sender's address; %F = Sender's name; %f = Sender's initials; %T = Recipient's name; %t = Recipient's name and address Joy! Previously, it was suggested that I try kmailservice %u, which was a no-go, but I just tried kmailservice %s. Bingo! Thank you all! Sincerely, Jim---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Halfway home w/ Galeon and mailto:
Hello, I am trying to coax the Galeon browser to use the Kmail composer when I click a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] thingy. Thanks to this list I got to the gnome control center; thence: advanced-file types and programs-internet services-add file type. I then typed mailto into the protocol box and Kmail --composer %t into the run program box. I was fairly surprised ,but this worked... sort of. Now when I click on a mailto: thingy, I get a kmail composer widget, but with %t in the To: box (good grief!). Is there anything for this? [there is no change if I put %t in quotation marks]. With an advance of thanks, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?
Hello, attached are the output from the troubleshooting suggestions. mcc descibes the card as SB Live! (audio). -Jim. On Friday 06 June 2003 03:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:03 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I really, really, wish you hadn't said that. My SoBLive!(5.1) has given me naught but static. SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Works without any real mucking around, and they're cheap (but good quality) Does mcc recognise it as a SBLive, or as Ensoniq? Anne lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061) grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-cd 28712 1 (autoclean) cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 0 (autoclean) (unused) lp 6720 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport23936 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-seq-midi3680 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emu10k1-synth 4220 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emux-synth 25532 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 4880 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-virmidi 2888 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-oss26176 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq33264 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss36932 0 snd-mixer-oss 9016 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-emu10k156592 1 [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-util-mem1280 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd24804 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] nfsd 66576 0 (autoclean) lockd 46480 0 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 60188 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] ppp_async 7456 0 (unused) ppp_generic20064 0 [ppp_async] slhc5072 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) supermount 14340 2 (autoclean) usb-storage51952 0 (unused) scsi_mod 90372 3 [sd_mod sr_mod usb-storage] usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore58304 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 2 jbd38452 2 [ext3] /sbin/chkconfig --list sound sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa alsa0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off vol 58, 58, P bass 50, 50 treble 50, 50 pcm 0, 0 speaker 0, 0 line 0, 0, P mic 0, 0, R cd 100, 100, P igain 0, 0 line1 0, 0, P phin 0, 0, P video 0, 0, P /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp chief 1910 f artsd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?
Hello, I really, really, wish you hadn't said that. My SoBLive!(5.1) has given me naught but static. SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Works without any real mucking around, and they're cheap (but good quality) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem
Hello, So. It sounds like you know what I would like to know about Galeon and config files. I would like to run in KDE, but use the Galeon browser. In 9.0, I can set Galeon (1.2.5) in Settings-Preferences-Handlers-Programs to use the Kmail composer when I click a mailto: link (with kmail --composer %t). This does not seem to be as simple an operation in Galeon 1.3.3. Also, it seems that I should be able to get Kmail to use Galeon to open links clicked inside email, but I don't know how to do this either (although I haven't tried in Kmail 3.1, because I'm having problems with sending mail with the 9.1). Any thoughts? Are there any reading materials that cover these things? While I'm on configurations, I'll say that I didn't have any problems when I upgraded to 9.1, but only when I did a fresh install (I, know, I should have left well enough alone, few people have accused me of consistently doing the smart thing). It has been suggested that I can give /home its own partition and install without touching the old stuff. I've also been told that the installer won't upgrade applications whose config files have been modified. So it seems to me that learning how to tweak the files myself is the only way to have the new version, with the configuration that actually worked. One more thing, and this is probably heresy to say (see above about smarts), but what files would I need to keep to install 9.1 and still have the 9.0 look (theme?). As flashy as the new is, having switched back and forth I've found that the old icons and such are easier for me to read, and I just plain like them better (the retro thing, I guess). Comments? With an advance of thanks, -Jim On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 23:03, Chris Blake wrote: Greetings MDK world, I got MDK 9.1 and prefer to use Galeon as browser, however, whenever I click a link displayed in an email message (using Evolution 1.2), Mozilla opens up and casually displays Done in the status bar, but the page isn`t loaded. If I right click the link in Evolution and select Copy location or open link in browser I get the same result. I did echo $BROWSER and got usr/bin/galeon... I been to MDK Control Center, checked for a setting in Evolution to use a preferred browser but couldn`t find anything. I`m assuming a value needs to be changed in one of the config files, yes ? You're going to have to edit the ~/home/yournamegoeshere/.gnome/Gnome file and have it like: [URL Handlers] default-show=galeon %s info-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s man-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s ghelp-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s So, next time you fire up Evo, your URL handler will be Galeon mate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Movie making.
Hello, This project called 'operation get cinelerra to run' has raised several questions. The two separate Cinelerra's I downloaded insisted that I have 'libpng.so.2' (and possibly 'libstdc++.so.3' as well). I have 'libpng.so.3' and 'libstdc++.so.5.' I tried to download some rpms of these older (I assume, since the numbers are lower) libraries, I ran into questions about my architecture. Since reading the kernel HOWTO (which is quite excellent, I must say), I've wondered what exactly this means. The default value in Xconfig was '586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86 MX' which works just fine as far as I can see. I have however, an 'ADM Socket Athlon 1.1GHz.' When I recompiled with the 'Athon/Duron/K7' option in Xconfig, things seemed just as they were (taking into account I don't know much, and don't use many processor hungry apps). At any rate, the rpms that I got from the web 'http://rpmfind...' would not unpack, and I'm not even sure that they would work since I could only find '586' and 'ppc' rpms and the Cinelerra rpm has 'i386' in the filename. I'm sorry if this is a bit confused (I wrote it, how could it be otherwise?) but any information on any of these topics, architectures and places to find libraries that unpack, will be greately appreciated. With an advance of thanks, Jim M. On Sunday 23 March 2003 07:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: -- Cinelerra. You can get it at PLF! (Very cool editing stuff...like really really cool) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Movie making.
Hello, My mcc software installer (9.0 powerpack 7 disks) comes up with several RPMs [e.g. mplayer-0.90-pre7.4mdk] when I search, but I can't find them in the lists, and if I try to install them, it tells me they are all ready installed 'should this even be happening?' Apart from not getting to check out mplayer, I'm curious as to how it would have files for packages that it doesn't posess. I imagine that I'll find a web page with mplayer, but it is curious. Thanks for the suggestion. -Jim M. On Saturday 22 March 2003 07:07 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Hi, A series of stills? You mean pics... OK. Mencoder has this option to make a video of png and I believe jpeg files, maybe even more formats, and you can also add in external audio files. It does take alot of reading and so on, but it's a great program. Oh, mencoder is part of MPlayer, and there are huge docs attached to the files to help you. Greetings Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fuji finepix 2200 camera
On Saturday 22 March 2003 05:20 pm, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, again I just realised that the line in /etc/fstab might be better written as: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto auot,user,noauto,ro 0 0 the ro is read-only. The manual for my camera warnes about trying to load from outside. this might be hokum, but I thought it best to mention it. -Jim M. Hello, I also recently purchased a digital camera and was dismayed that it did not seem to be supported by gphoto. However, it might be that this is the case because the camera acts as a mass storage device (is it USB?). There are several good examples of how one can set this up in the newbie archives. Ineeded to add a line to /etc/fstab [does anybody know what 'fstab' stands for?] such as: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto auto,user,noauto 0 0 depending on what you have hooked up, the 'sda1,' might be 'sdb1,' and so on. the letter after 'sd' is determined by the order of the device on the list output by: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Then issue the command (as root): mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera after a reboot, one only has to use: mount /mnt/camera (assuming that the camera is plugged in and there is some media in the camera). At this point, look in the /mnt/camera. Good luck. -Jim M. On Saturday 22 March 2003 02:59 pm, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just got my first digital camera as it was sooo cheap. It is a fujifilm finepix 2200. Anyone know if any software outthere supports this. I've checked fuji web site with no luck and gphoto did not list it as a camera it supports though there were a few fuji models so maye I'll give it a try and find out. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Placement of PCI cards and upgrading ALSA.
Cards: Creative Labs|SB Live! 5.1 Us Robotics.3Com|56K FaxModem Model 5610 OS: Mandrake 9.0 Board: ASUS A7V Hello, In my further effort to play sound files (I am rewarded with crackling and static whenever I unmute Pcm in KMix, with added static when I attempt to play a file), I've decided to upgrade to ALSA 0.9.2 (ML 9.0 loads 0.9rc2). Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO says one must first get rid of the existing drivers, and suggests removing 'sound.o' from the '/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc directory,' which I don't seem to have. After setting CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=N in xconfig and recompiling, Kmod (or something which I assume is KMod) still loads it on boot. How do I go about cleansing ALSA v0.9.rc2? What's safe to alter in /etc/modules.conf? While I'm at it, should I get rid of any of the other sound support modules besides the basic sound card support? On a parallel track, I'm trying to rectify what might be IRQ conflicts by changing the slots into which I place my PCI modem and SBL! cards. Initial attempts shows that this does indeed make a difference, although my first attempt apparently created more conflicts than I originally had. Is there an optimal choice of slots for these two cards? What are the pros and cons of setting the IRQ in BIOS? I gather that sound quality (I wish I were in a position to b concerned about quality!) can be adversely affected by the sound card's proximity to other cards; any comments? I wish to thank, in advance, anybody for their help, and thank past efforts. It is with no little embarrassment that I also need to ask what the normal procedure is in replying to a reply such that my responce is posted and not sent to an individual (as I fear I have previously been doing). Again, my thanks, Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get rid of Web Url Action
On Thursday 20 March 2003 09:53 pm, Preston-Campbell wrote: KDE doesn't have the paperclip but OO Writer has that [EMAIL PROTECTED] lightbulb. What's that about? Brian Here Here! The lightbulb is the worst! As an added attraction, all the fonts look rink-e-dink on my screen. I use Kwrite, but maybe when I get a printer, I might change my mind. -Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk 9 compatible printers list
Hello, I've found [http://www.linuxprinting.org] to be very helpful. -Jim M. On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:49 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to a Mdk 9 -compatible printer list? The hardware compatibility list on the Mandrake site is not too helpful and, besides, I cannot take it with me to a local shop. As for the list in the MCC, it includes also printers which are not supported (yet?). Ideally, I would need a text file I can place on a diskette and take with me. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] We interrupt this regularly shceduled process...
Hello, Can anyone enlighten me on which device (i.e., /dev/?) the Sound card should be? I have the card in PCI2, and 'setserial -g /dev/cua1' give me the default values. However, 'lspci' tells me that the card is IRQ 10. This is inconveniently the same IRQ that it wants to assign to my internal flash card reader (plugged into an USB port (what dev is that?). I figure, perhaps, incorrectly, that a strategicly placed 'setserial' command could convince the powers that be to give IRQ 3 to the sound card (which that slot is supposed to have anyway) and leave IRQ 10 for the reader, which is working like a champ. Yes? No? Maybe? With an advance of thanks, Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The sounds of crickets: static redux.
OS: Mandrake 9.0 CPU: AMD Athlon Board: ASUS A7V Sound Card: SoundblasterLive MP3+ 5.1 Modem: US Robotics/3COM 56K FaxModem model 5610 Hello, Now that I've thought about it, and done some searching, I remember that my first Linux experience was having to insert a 'setserial' command in /etc/rc.local [this was Red Hat 7] to rectify an IRQ conflict to get my modem talking with kppp. As this may be my problem with my sound card now, I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations on sources of information about IRQs and where I might put a 'setserial' in Mandrake 9.0? If it's relevant, the IRQ conflict seems to be with an internal flash card reader that I plugged into the USB3 on my ASUS A7V Motherboard. I'm still curious about tty's and their allocation, if any information on this topic is available. With an advance of thanks, Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The sounds of static.
OS: Mandrake 9.0 CPU: AMD Athlon Board: ASUS A7V Sound Card: SoundblasterLive MP3+ 5.1 Modem: US Robotics/3COM 56K FaxModem model 5610 Hello, I'm not sure what (besides my incompetence) is to blame, but I can't get anything but static when I try to play any kind of sound file. CDs play fine, but anything else is crackle, snap and you know what. I'm pretty close to the bottom of the learning curve on this, but I have been trying to read the freakin' manuals so I might understand an explanation of what I should be looking for. I included the modem above, since they are both in PCI slots and I suspect this might have something to do with it. At the risk of putting to many problems in one beg-mail, I have the modem plugged into PCI3 (the snd card is PCI2), but it will not show up in the hardware detected list (it is in /proc/pci) and will only work if I select ttyS4. At the same time, ls -l /dev/ttyS2 gives me a blinking red pointer to a blinking red tts/2. Maybe if I understood these tty's? I don't know, and fear any attempt that I make to explain will be inane. With an advance of thanks, Jim M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
