[newbie] enabling ATA100 drives
I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. A line showed up during installation (might during boot-up too -- haven't checked) that says ide bus is assumed to be running at 33Mhz, and it gives some variable name to use for changing it. Is this what I'm looking for, and if so, how do I change it? I'd really like to be able to get it working right -- Broadcast 2000 is having fits with video capture, and I'm attributing part of the problem to slow disk access. (I've clocked the drive at 29MB/sec in Win). TIA Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to play mov files?
Seems to me I once got a mov file to play in Netscape. It didn't have any playback controls (just a box centered within the working area), but it worked (don't remember if it had sound or not -- was having soundcard troubles at the time). This was using the PeanutLinux distro. Jeremy Original Message Follows From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to play mov files? Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:32:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBD5B9FC6004640043888D8475423786B0; Sun, 02 Sep 2001 08:48:25 -0700 Received: from yavin.mandrax.org (moseisley.mandrax.org [63.209.80.226])by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16553;Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:48:24 -0500 Received: by yavin.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500)id 9DC6A87E56; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (ha1.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au [203.164.2.50]) by yavin.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E13887DD9 for [EMAIL PROTECTED];Sun, 2 Sep 2001 04:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there ([203.164.95.102]) by mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id 20010902113256.VPFO4715.mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au@there;Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:32:56 +1000 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 02 Sep 2001 08:48:40 -0700 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: 20010902113256.VPFO4715.mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au@there X-Loop: newbie@ X-Sequence: 332 Precedence: list X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:04, hellmut wrote: hi! how do i play mov files with mandrake 8.0? i didn't find a program that recognises quicktime files. Apple don't make a Quicktime player for GNU/Linux. Most Quicktime files are encoded with the Sorenson codec, which is patented. This means that the free players (e.g. Xmovie, Xanim and aKtion) are not able to play these files properly (sometimes you can get a garbled picture or just sound). You can try running the Windows player through WINE, or you can purchase CodeWeavers' CrossOver Plugin (which is built with WINE) for $US20. I actually bought this product today, but I haven't used it enough to make a proper decision on its quality. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resizing partitions
I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed up pretty much everything, but I'd still prefer not to lose anything if I can help it. If something does happen, I guess it's not a really big deal. I'm planning on reformatting and reinstalling win anyway -- 'just don't want to do it now. Thanks in advance for any advice. Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tuxracer getting bad framerates
I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?) to install the mesa packages. Now, however, it runs at about 1-2 fps. I looked around for a mesa config program, but I haven't run across anything yet. What do I need to do to get it working better? I've got a 1.13Ghz Athlon T-Bird system with 256MB RAM and an Asus AGP videocard (GeForce 2 chipset). I think Mandrake (v8) is using the generic nVidia GeForce 2 drivers. XWindows is set up to use 1024x768@32bit. Thanks! Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Software Manager not really installing
Well, I'm back with more questions. This time I'm trying to install a couple packages off the CD (namely Samba and Tuxracer). The program appears to run properly, and the KDE menu is updated with links to the programs. The programs themselves, however, never seem to really get installed. I checked the /usr/local folder (please excuse my win9x terminology), and there was no samba folder. Also, I can't get into SWAT at http://localhost:901 -- it tries to send a request to my proxy server instead (I have a proxy on another computer for internet sharing). Tuxracer wouldn't do anything when I tried to run it, either. The Software Manager shows that the programs have been installed properly -- they get moved to the Installed tree listing. Removing them seems normal too. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? On a similar note, I tried installing the RPM for Imici Messenger, but it wouldn't let me. Clicking on the RPM file (imici-0.9.4-1.i386.rpm) gave me the installer program, but clicking Next brought up an error saying that the package had already been installed. 'Don't know if there's a connection here or not -- if not, I have two problems I guess. I'd appreciate, as always, any thoughts and ideas anybody might have. Thanks for the support so far! Jeremy P.S. While I'm here, could somebody tell me how to check how much drive space is still free on my hard drive? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LILO freezes up on bootup
I'm a new Linux-mandrake user (just installed 8.0), but I'm having trouble getting it to boot up. Whenever I start it up, I get a LI on the screen (as though it started to say LILO or something) where it used to say things like Starting Win The computer just stops right there. I've tried installing three times, and it's the same every time. Once I did an expert install, during which I chose to create a bootup floppy. The floppy works fine -- I can boot Linux up and get everything to work. Is there some way to restore the hard drive boot sector or something? Here's my computer specs: Asus Socket7 motherboard with Cyrix 333Mhz chip 24MB RAM (with 1MB stolen for on-board video) 420MB HD (used for Linux install) 384MB HD (hopefully be able to use for extra data) Thanks for any help anyone might have! Jeremy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
