Re: [newbie] turbotax?
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and printing seem fine. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cinelerra
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:43:31 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:02:07 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's building now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may take a while. 1ghz athlon here. :) (later) It built (you need gobs of RAM, as once I saw gcc taking up ~100 megs on one source file). I installed the binary rpm that it built, but I'm getting the same behavior as with PLFs binary rpm. ;( I guess downgrading is an option here. I will probably take a look see at 1.1.6 src from the 9.2 plf repository, see what that dses or file a bug with the plf maintainer later today. Right now I'm off to work. -- Thanks for all the work. I haven't had a chance to try the downgrade path yet. I won't waste my time compiling the latest version until an even later version comes out. This is nothing urgent, it just bothered me that I couldn't get this to run, thought I screwed something up. It reassuring that it wasn't me. Thanks again, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cinelerra
Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I try to run Cinelerra I get Cinelerra 1.1.8 Fri Dec 26 06:06:47 EST 2003 (C)2003 Heroine Virtual Ltd. Cinelerra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for Cinelerra. Aborted I get no error messages, nothing but Aborted. Any suggestions? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. I have a GameDr. I think these same devices are sold as CD-Dr and DVD-Dr. I think they are identical. Anyway, it does work. I repaired a CD that had deep scratches in it that was completely unusable, until after I ran it through the GameDr several times. Yes, I'd say that these devices do work. Good luck. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no video capture from tv-card
I had a similar problem (actually several problems). I recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and changed my mobo/processor. I wasn't sure what was causing the problem as everything worked fine with 9.1 and the old mobo. Anyway, the only way I got my system to work was to upgrade the kernel to 2.6 and load the latest Alsa drivers. I'm not sure what finally fixed everything, but now I can record. Good luck. On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:21:43 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 9.2 installed and the machine has a wintv-go card that works fine with zapping, xawtv, nvtv, kwintv, motv and tvtime so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware or driver problem, but for the life of me I cannot get streamer to do a capture since it all just stopped working last week. The machine runs 24/7 and nothing that I am aware of had changed but it suddenly stopped capturing to hdd. This is a dump of the console output and as you can see, a blank line is no help whatsoever in trying to find out what didn't happen... [EMAIL PROTECTED] magnet]$ streamer -c /dev/v4l/video0 -r 24 -f mjpeg -F stereo -s 352x240 -t 1:00:00 -o data9/streamertestmovie.avi avi / video: MJPEG (AVI) / audio: 16bit stereo (LE) at this point the sound comes on and it just sits there until you press ctrl-c to escape back to a prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] magnet]$ now the sound is still running so I have to start up xawtv and then exit it. This turns the sound off. No capture takes place but as you can see the console returns no information on why it didn't start the capture or if it couldn't locate some module. mjpegtools is installed. Anyone got any suggestions please? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recording problem with streamer
I cannot record with streamer since I upgraded my mobo and processor. I now have an ASUS A7V8X-X with an Athlon XP 2500+ (runs nice). I have Mandrake 9.2 on it. Here's the problem, I run the following command streamer -f mjpeg -t 120 -s 720x480 -r 29.97 -o movie.avi -F stereo -n ntsc lav2wav +p movie.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 lav2yuv +p movie.avi | mpeg2enc -o video.m1v mplex audio.mp2 video.m1v -o movie.mpg which worked fine on my old mobo and processor. It now starts sound and streamer just stop. It doesn't record, but hangs on this command. I can kill streamer, but sound continues. I have to start xawtv and then stop that to stop the sound. Here's the output that I get when I kill streamer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] video]$ recordavi.sh avi / video: MJPEG (AVI) / audio: 16bit stereo (LE) rate: queueing frame twice (2) ./recordavi.sh: line 2: 14244 Terminated streamer -f mjpeg -t 120 -s 720x480 -r 29.97 -o movie.avi -F stereo -n ntsc INFO: [lav2wav] Norm set to PAL**ERROR: [lav2wav] Error opening movie.avi **ERROR: [mp2enc] EOF in WAV header **ERROR: [mp2enc] failure reading WAV file INFO: [lav2yuv] Norm set to PAL **ERROR: [lav2yuv] Error opening movie.avi **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)! INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/02/04 19:06:14 $)**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to read from file audio.mp2. I've tried other recording methods (vcr among others) and everyone of them seems to get stuck on getting control of the sound device. Sound works fine with xawtv, xmms, everthing but recording. Any ideas? I've spent WAY too much time trying to figure this out. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading Win32 drive
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:51:06 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:22, Gilligan wrote: Logging in as root and doing ls -? does show all files and the correct sizes. 90% of files have a setting of -rwxr--r-- Can't remember exactly what they mean, cept for X execute and r=read/w=write. Am I correct in assuming the reason they don't show up in Nat. is permissions? How can I change permissions to be able to read/write all of the drive? A BIG Thanks I think you have to put yourself in the wheel group...(tired, can't quite remember, but it's relatively easy) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet been man enough to know its value. -- Charles Dickens I think it's the executable flag. If you can clear that, you should be able to open the files normally. I had a directory full of family pictures on a fat32 directory and couldn't view them for anything in Linux. They kept disappearing like you described. I used Konqueror as root (I find that the easiest to reset attributes) and turned off the x for the entire directory, and everything showed up as originally expected. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading Win32 drive
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:51:06 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:22, Gilligan wrote: Logging in as root and doing ls -? does show all files and the correct sizes. 90% of files have a setting of -rwxr--r-- Can't remember exactly what they mean, cept for X execute and r=read/w=write. Am I correct in assuming the reason they don't show up in Nat. is permissions? How can I change permissions to be able to read/write all of the drive? A BIG Thanks I think you have to put yourself in the wheel group...(tired, can't quite remember, but it's relatively easy) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet been man enough to know its value. -- Charles Dickens I think it's the executable flag. If you can clear that, you should be able to open the files normally. I had a directory full of family pictures on a fat32 directory and couldn't view them for anything in Linux. They kept disappearing like you described. I used Konqueror as root (I find that the easiest to reset attributes) and turned off the x for the entire directory, and everything showed up as originally expected. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:53:49 +1000
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any
file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly
(at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back
the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and
recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I
even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the
second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same.
I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However,
I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try.
Thanks,
Linus
Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/
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This is over my head. I have tried cfdisk, and everything looks to be in order. I
was able to recreate a 39 GB partition on the leftover space and get it mounted as
ext3. I couldn't format it as xfs (like the rest of my partitions). I still can't do
anything with the rest of the partition. When I run cfdisk, it will let me write the
new partition table, but then it errors on rereading the table and tells me to reboot.
It still isn't right after a reboot. I think I'm staring at a complete wipe of the
drive and starting from scratch.
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[newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly (at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same. I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However, I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anybody help with dvdauthor???
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:17:11 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:45 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to record off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file. Dvdauthor help amounts to a very short readme that says you got these options but never explains them. Can anyone tell me how to process the an mpg video so that I can burn it onto a dvd? Or better yet, share a script that does the whole thing from capture through encoding to file preparation and burning? Please don't let me down. The people on this list have always come through for me. This is better than any paid support. Which software you use to capture? Is there any gui one? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA I used streamer. I can capture fine. I can encode fine (using mplex) but very slowly. I haven't figured out dvdauthor to create the file structure necessary for a dvd playable in a standalone dvd player. Any tips are appreciated. I'm not particularly fond of streamer, it's just what I've found that works. If you have suggestions on completely different methods to get the same result, I'm very interested. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anybody help with dvdauthor???
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:06:55 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:47, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:45 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to record off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file. Dvdauthor help amounts to a very short readme that says you got these options but never explains them. Can anyone tell me how to process the an mpg video so that I can burn it onto a dvd? Or better yet, share a script that does the whole thing from capture through encoding to file preparation and burning? Please don't let me down. The people on this list have always come through for me. This is better than any paid support. Which software you use to capture? Is there any gui one? have you tried cinelerra? Will cinelerra create the file structure for dvd's? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Jacked up file system
I've got a small problem. I haven't completely given up on Windows (unfortunately) because I can't find a total video editing/dvd burning solution for Linux. Anyway, I have a partition that I've formatted as fat32. It's about 52 GB. However, I couldn't access the partition in Linux, except as root. No matter what I did. So...in my wisdom, I thought that if I got it below 32 GB, it would act normally. I resized it and everything was fine. I tried to format and mount the remaining 20 GB, but no go. Wouldn't mount. So I resized the 32 GB partition back to 52 GB. It mounts, but shows up as 32 GB. Also, I tried to give it a different mount point in there somewhere. Diskdrake says 52, everything else 32. Plus, I now have another partition that is 20 GB that doesn't even exist, but shows up in xffm, konqueror, whatever. The good news is that after all this jacking around, I was able to set the permissions on the 32/52 partition so that I can access it in Linux. To summarize, I have two 32 GB partitions, a 20 GB partition, all in a 52 GB partition. Help! Where is the configuration info kept? (I checked and made sure fstab was correct) Do I need to wipe the entire hard drive and start over? Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anybody help with dvdauthor???
I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to record off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file. Dvdauthor help amounts to a very short readme that says you got these options but never explains them. Can anyone tell me how to process the an mpg video so that I can burn it onto a dvd? Or better yet, share a script that does the whole thing from capture through encoding to file preparation and burning? Please don't let me down. The people on this list have always come through for me. This is better than any paid support. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer
Thanks, but it didn't work. I uninstalled alpha13, eroaster, k3b and reinstalled xcdroast-alpha14. Same thing. Hard reboot when running first time as root. Since it never runs at root, I cannot set it to non-root mode and don't have the .xcdroast directory in home. A real puzzler. Linus On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:28:30 -0300 Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Drouhard escribió: Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. Linus First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also: /26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/ If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly configured system. First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a tool called hdparm which does a nice job here. /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for that drive. (See man hdparm for details). Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled. Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the best results. /sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer). Some reports told me that this often fixed problems. If you still have problems you can try to set the Set SCSI IMMED flag option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour. /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/FAQ /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/Readme atapi Suerte -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.1 Núcleo multimedia 2.4.21-0.16 09:18:19 up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer (Fixed - partially)
I got over the xcdroast reboot problem. There was clue on the xcdroast website that Debian distros might have trouble with ATIP sensing and to run xcdroast with the -a option to bypass that. It worked. New problem. I can't blank a DVD+RW disk. I get the following error Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) I've tried this with dvd+rw tools as well as xcdroast. I get the same error. The first time I used xcdroast to burn a data disk (approximately 3GB of data), it formatted fine and seemed to burn fine, but stopped at 704MB. It thought it was a CD even though I set the media capacity to 4.7GB. Now I can't blank the disk to try again. On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:28:20 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but it didn't work. I uninstalled alpha13, eroaster, k3b and reinstalled xcdroast-alpha14. Same thing. Hard reboot when running first time as root. Since it never runs at root, I cannot set it to non-root mode and don't have the .xcdroast directory in home. A real puzzler. Linus On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:28:30 -0300 Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Drouhard escribió: Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. Linus First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also: /26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/ If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly configured system. First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a tool called hdparm which does a nice job here. /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for that drive. (See man hdparm for details). Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled. Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the best results. /sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer). Some reports told me that this often fixed problems. If you still have problems you can try to set the Set SCSI IMMED flag option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour. /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/FAQ /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/Readme atapi Suerte -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.1 Núcleo multimedia 2.4.21-0.16 09:18:19 up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer
Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. I suspect that I've installed some other package that is interfering with xcdroast, but I have no idea what it could be. xcdroast worked for me in the distant past (I don't recall my exact configuration). Linus On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:58:23 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 22:26, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote: xcdroast in a terminal. I reinstalled xcdroast several times and Mandrake 9.1 once. No change. In that case I would certainly suspect a bad install. Take it out, and re-install. Didn't he just say he did that? No. He said he reinstalled. He did not state he uninstalled first... Would be good to do though. Paul -- If we sit down now we may get run over later. -Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer
I'm running 9.1 and have been trying to figure out how to burn DVD's (I have a Sony DRU500A). Eveything I've read says that xcdroast is the best program to burn DVDs with. I installed it and ran it as root the first time (as you must) and it caused a hard reboot. Tried it again. Same result. Reinstalled 9.1. Same result. I searched the log files and could find no clues. Does anyone have any ideas? BTW I can burn CD's no problem with Gtoaster, Gcombust, Eroaster and most of the others. I just can't figure out how to burn DVDs. Ideas? Thanks Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video
Stephen, I have the same problem with the Nvidia drivers. The only thing that works ok is xawtv capturing direct off the video capture card with the device called out as xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 Everthing else, EVERY other player gives me blue garbage or a smear on the screen. Well, that's not quite true. They are ok in full screen mode. The only fix I could find was to use the nv drivers. I would really like to figure this one out as well, cause I can't play Tux now. Linus On 28 Jun 2003 23:32:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the screen of the movie, I get garbage - now this didn't happen when I was using the older NVidia driver - and I've mucked with yanc in trying to make sure that all my settings were correct and the likes, but the damn problem still persists... Now it ain't like I watch heaps of movies, but I do rip them on this machine, and sometimes like to have a view of what I've just ripped; it's late Saturday night, I'm tired, and I'm done mucking with it for the evening... Just wondering if anyone MIGHT have some bright ideas that I haven't tried - ya know, breath of fresh air kinda thing... Cheers and Beers and morphine for the pink haired queers! (g) -- Sat Jun 28 23:30:01 EST 2003 23:30:01 up 3 days, 23:16, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of. `Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the monster, which Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange remark for it to make, seeing as he had never met the creature before. He could tell that he hadn't met the creature before from the simple fact that he was able to sleep at nights. - Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a party. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] video editing
I'm running 1600 x 1200 so I don't think screensize is the issue. I downloaded and ran version 1.1.6 from PLF. I can use alttab to cycle between a screen with a black bar down the left center of the screen and a totally blank screen with a mustard yellow color background. right clicking in the yellow screen gives me a floating menu of display icons or sort items. Clicking on either of these does nothing. Thanks. Linus On 19 Jun 2003 14:54:38 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:35, Linus Drouhard wrote: I tried Cinelerra and couldn't get any file menus, anything. Just a screen with a bar down the center. I tried mouse clicks (randomly since there were no buttons on the screen, and various keys on the keyboard. Nothing. The help file said to open the file menu and well, I gave up and am trying Kino. It seems ok. I'm still trying to figure out Kino. It seems to work only as root. I have Pinnacle 8.5 for windows, which works really well (other than the fact that it's in windows). Linus Cinelerra likes to have a rather large screen area to eat up - so if you're using a screen res of 1280x1024 or more, you SHOULD be able to not only see buttons, but several screens that come up - unless there's a GTK problem on your system... -- Thu Jun 19 14:50:00 EST 2003 14:50:00 up 5 days, 22:04, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.26, 0.27 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] video editing
On 18 Jun 2003 09:57:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 04:46, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, is there anyone who can recomend a good video editing program like final cut or premiere? Thanks in advance, Fifner Cinelerra and Linux Video Studio ...although Cinelerra rocks... I tried Cinelerra and couldn't get any file menus, anything. Just a screen with a bar down the center. I tried mouse clicks (randomly since there were no buttons on the screen, and various keys on the keyboard. Nothing. The help file said to open the file menu and well, I gave up and am trying Kino. It seems ok. I'm still trying to figure out Kino. It seems to work only as root. I have Pinnacle 8.5 for windows, which works really well (other than the fact that it's in windows). Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi sources
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:02, Derek wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:20 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid, not readable. I try to install anyway, and I get a message that the file is corrupt. I removed/reinstalled the mirrors, changed mirrors, tired different packages, held my tongue a different way and crossed my fingers. Same result. I've been watching the list and haven't seen where anyone else is having this problem. Any help/guidance/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus That problem is caused by the way some sources serve up files being incompatible with curl. I think the curl available at plf fixes this, and there should be a fix from Mandrake shortly. In the meantime using urpmi from the command line with the --wget switch should work OK derek I tried again. I installed the sources with urpmi addmedia (using the help from PLF) same problem. I tried using urpmi --wget and got the following info. [EMAIL PROTECTED] linus]# urpmi --wget RealPlayer-8.0-4mdk http://./comm/9.0/RealPlayer-8.0-4mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/RealPlayer-8.0-4mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database I disabled the Mandrake 9.0 mirror and have onl the 9.1 mirror installed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi sources
Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid, not readable. I try to install anyway, and I get a message that the file is corrupt. I removed/reinstalled the mirrors, changed mirrors, tired different packages, held my tongue a different way and crossed my fingers. Same result. I've been watching the list and haven't seen where anyone else is having this problem. Any help/guidance/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy
I have a couple of the great old IBM keyboards that my brother in-law picked up for me for $5 apiece at a thrift shop. They had boxes of them. Linus On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speaking of keyboards... does anyone know if there are any manufactureres who still make keyboards with the characters embedded through the entire depth of the keypads ike the older models did? i'm getting tired of watching my keys fade as time goes by, and I never mastered touchtyping. joe Joe, I'm not sure about new keyboards, but you can still find the old IBM like I use. Its heavy (very) keys are solid click style, and the letters do not fade unless sand-blasted. Best feel of any keyboard I've ever used. I hate most win style keyboards. Just search on the web, you should be able to find some good used ones for cheap. My friend Carl Lafferty says I can use it for personal defense, chock the wheels of a car, a shield in medevial tournaments, etc, etc,... grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending
I had the same problem with Kmail in KDE 3.0. Sendmail worked for awhile then quit as well. I'm now using Evolution since I couldn't get Kmail to work properly. I'd love to know what's going on. Linus On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:50, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. I can not for the life of me figure out what domain is missing. Must be late and need sleep. Any help is appreciated. Dennis M. are you replying or sending? some spam that i bounce gives me this error too. delete the first message in your outbox, or move it to the drafts folder, then try Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
I had a similar issue with my mouse attached to the PS2 port. Couldn't get it to work in MDK 9 at all. Put the adapter on and plugged into USB and it works fine. I have no ideas why. My son has similar computer (different mouse) and his works through USB port. Linus On Monday 20 January 2003 01:21, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 23:13, Rob Wideman wrote: So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic ps2 wheel mouse and clicked OK, after that anything that i did with the mouse it would go to the upper right corner and just start shaking. I changed the config file for X11 and nogo. Any thoughts on how to get the wheel working? Rob Same setup, had the same issue. Happens every time I install mdk. Press down on the wheel and then scroll a little. Might take a few times. If that doesn't do it (it should), hit ALT F7 and ALT F1. (or vice versa, can't remember) In any case, it will reinit your mouse and you should be good to go. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On the fly copying - NOT
I've been trying to set up on the fly copying on my computer. I've followed the various threads on this subject. X-CDRoast gives me an error saying that only pure audio CD's can be copied. I believe that's what I'm trying. G-Toaster will appear to copy on the fly. Everything looks right. It completes the burn. I put the CD in a player and it has all the tracks, the right length and everything. Just no sound. It plays in a CD player, but but is silent. G-Toaster works fine when burning audio tracks from the hard drive. I know that I can rip the audio to the hard drive and then back to a CD, but that is a lengthy process. Or I can choke boot up Windows and do on the fly copying there. Any ideas? Oh, I'm using Mandrake 9 with a generic CD reader and CD-RW, both SCSI emulated. thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smtp vs. sendmail
On Sunday 05 January 2003 22:33, Todd Slater wrote: clip ??? I'm assuming you're not running a mail server on Windows. You don't need to run a mail server if you are using your ISP's mail servers (probably pop-server.kc.rr.com and smtp-server.kc.rr.com?) Check your config in K-mail and Evolution. What do you mean you made Sendmail your default? Todd I had used the ISP's mail servers but something broke in Linux. I could not set up K-mail or Evolution to link to the ISP's SMTP servers. I verified the problem was on my end by logging into Windows and using Outlook Express. After that, in a fit of desperation, I loaded up Sendmail, made it the default outgoing account in Kmail. That works. Has me stumped. I even tried uninstalling all KDE applications/core files and reinstalling. Same problem. This started when I deleted the .kde directory from my home directory. KDE was locking up on me. My son didn't have that problem when logging in as him, so I thought that something was broken in .kde. I also get a LOT of segfaults in Kmail when I change the settings for the servers. Any insights are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] smtp vs. sendmail
Hi all, I broke K-mail the other day. couldn't send e-mail. Set up Evolution. couldn't send from that either. Booted in Windows. Outlook Express sent fine. Dang. Rebooted Linux and set up Sendmail. Made that my default and it works. I don't know how since it doesn't use any of my ISP mail server info. SMTP still doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS puzzle
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:05 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: To play CDs through xmms in 8.2 you may remember we had to disable CD Audio Player, load Audio CD Reader and enable that in its place. Under 9.0 I find that Audio Player is still the installed plugin, but when I use the 'install program' from the menu I find that cdread is not listed. Have I got the name wrong, or is there something else I need to know? Anne you need to install the xmms-cdread rpm I presume that it isn't installed, or it would be visible in xmms options, but it is not listed on the installer. Is it missing? Do I have to source it elsewhere? I still have the 8.2 disks, should I look there? Anne It is in Contrib I have posted recently on how to add Contrib as a urpmi source Got it, thanks - I have music again. Anne That's interesting. I'm playing a CD with XMMS in MDK 9.0. I don't have CDREAD installed at all. I'm just playing location /mnt/CDROM It's playing great. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S5A mobo
I have one and my son has one. We're both running 1 GHz Durons. Everything is working extremely well for us. I've also put together another one with a 950 MHz Duron for a friend, also a success. I've not tried them with any flavor of Athlon. I read some of the posts on the K7S5A and haven't seen any of those problems myself. Linus On Monday 18 November 2002 05:12 pm, Sevatio wrote: Have any of you used the ECS K7S5A mobo with Mandrake? Are there any known problems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-RW OPC Failures
Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.0 with a Samsung 232B burner. I cannot make this work. I get various errors that started with OPC Failure. In my attempts at figuring this out, I think I messed up the permissions. Now I can access the burner as root only. Even in root I get errors. I've tried CLI cdrecord, Gcombust, Gtoaster, X-CDRoast. Following is the latest log from Gcombust as I tried a fast blank of a CD-RW. I tried to blang the CD twice and got different errors? **first try Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW SW-232B ' Revision : 'R300' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 5554176 = 5424 KB scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead out: 1166730 (03:18/30) Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1166880 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 10 in dummy BLANK mode for single session. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. **second try** Cdrecord 1.11a36 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW SW-232B ' Revision : 'R300' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 5554176 = 5424 KB Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead out: 1166730 (03:18/30) Blocks total: 1166730 Blocks current: 1166730 Blocks remaining: 1166880 Forcespeed is OFF. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 10 in real BLANK mode for single session. scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Performing OPC... /usr/bin/cdrecord: OPC failed. This burner works fine under Windows. I *hate* having to boot Windows to burn a disk. Please, someone tell me what might be wrong. I'll worry about the permission problem later, right now I just want the darned thing to work at all. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as someone else mentioned, not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still struggling with printing. On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:04 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: Wrongo! I thought I had it solved as I got a test page. That was all I got. Everything else gets stuck in queue with usb port busy error. Any ideas at all? I'm just about to dust off my 8.2 disks. It's a shame too, as there's a lot to like in 9.0. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:37 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:00 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Visit http://www.linuxprinting.org They probably have a solution for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I have the same problem. The instal actually detected my printer and printed a test page, but haven't worked since. I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get printerdrake to work. Any help I can get on how to properly add and configure my printer is appreciated. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB port. Mike K. --- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]Mine not solved!
Marcia, My syslog didn't have any of the errors that you reported. USB appeared to load up just fine. I can see the printer with PrinterDrake as well as USBView. Everything comes through except printouts. Apparently a whole host of problems result in similar behavior. I'll keep working on this. If you make any headway, please post. Thanks. Linus On Monday 07 October 2002 11:35 pm, Marcia wrote: On Monday 07 October 2002 09:08 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: Ok, I tried the noapic. Same problem. My USB was working before as I was using a USB mouse. I still get USB port busy on the printer even with noapci. I switched the mouse back to PS-2. Same error printing (or trying to print). I'm just about out of ideas. Dear Linus, I guess I will not waste my time with that then. I am sorry yours is not resolved yet and I am sorry mine is not either.): I am including my syslog file because it looks like it shows some usb problems although I am no expert here so who knows. Syslog: Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:49:04 Sep 20 2002 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 11 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usbdevfs: remount parameter error Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority -1) Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110) Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110) Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 4 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Oct 6 13:04:54 localhost@localdomain kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]
I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:00 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Visit http://www.linuxprinting.org They probably have a solution for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I have the same problem. The instal actually detected my printer and printed a test page, but haven't worked since. I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get printerdrake to work. Any help I can get on how to properly add and configure my printer is appreciated. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB port. Mike K. --- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb printer probs in 9.0?
I have been having problems with printers in general with 9.0. I have a Stylus 777 (Epson) connected through USB. Sometimes PrinterDrake can find it, other times not. I've successfully printed two test pages. That's all. The rest of the time it gets stuck and I get the message usb port busy...will retry in 30 seconds well, the pages never come out. Deleting and reinstalling the printer has only worked once. I tried an old HP Laser Jet with my parallel port. I've had one test page print, and it took 20 minutes or more before it came out. Otherwise, same similar problem to Espon. Right now I have no working printers and am just about ready to go back to 8.2. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:59 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings everyone, I am having a problem trying to configure my Epson Stylus Color 480SXU in Mdk 9.0. This printer wasn't detected during install of 9.0, but it is showing correctly in MCC. When I try to configure with PrinterDrake, I go through the wizard process, and all seems OK till I try to test the driver and get asked for a password: The access to the requested resource on the CUPS server running on localhost (port 631) requires a password. So, I then enter my user passwordthat's not good enough. I then try my root password, it chews on that for quite a while, during which I get a bit of erratic window behaviour, then it refuses my root password too. What does PrinterDrake want?? I click on Finish and get this error: An error occurred while retrieving the printer list: client-error-not-found. Why isn't my printer being found? The 480SXU is a usb only printer, and it's listed on the Mdk hardware site as being perfectly compatible w/9.0. It worked perfect for me under 8.2. It doesn't seem to be detected during boot. usb is loaded but the printer isn't detected. Anyone have any ideas? TIA for anything. - I got my printer configured and working. I tried unplugging the usb cable from the computer port and plugging it back in.that didn't help, but I tried plugging it into my other usb port...presto! I was able to configure the printer w/PrinterDrake, and it is now functioning OK. I wonder why the first port was not acceptable?? It was working there in Mdk 8.2. Seems strange that the installer didn't offer to configure my printer :-/ It works now anyway. ;-) --Angus This is the Earth School..always in session. Now is the right time to learn, and teach.--A.A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!}
Wrongo! I thought I had it solved as I got a test page. That was all I got. Everything else gets stuck in queue with usb port busy error. Any ideas at all? I'm just about to dust off my 8.2 disks. It's a shame too, as there's a lot to like in 9.0. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:37 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:00 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Visit http://www.linuxprinting.org They probably have a solution for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I have the same problem. The instal actually detected my printer and printed a test page, but haven't worked since. I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get printerdrake to work. Any help I can get on how to properly add and configure my printer is appreciated. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB port. Mike K. --- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]Mine not solved!
Marcia, Run PrinterDrake through the console. You will get extra messages there that you don't get through the Mandrake Control Center. I'll bet that your getting the following messages. rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded If so, I think that we have a generic problem with Mandrake 9.0. Weird thing is, my son has almost the exact same setup that I have K7S5A MB with 1GHz Duron, Nvidia video. His works fine. Linus Oh, you missed a later message, my system is NOT fixed. Still broken. On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:01 pm, Marcia wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:00 am, Chris Edwards wrote: Visit http://www.linuxprinting.org They probably have a solution for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I have the same problem. The instal actually detected my printer and printed a test page, but haven't worked since. I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get printerdrake to work. Any help I can get on how to properly add and configure my printer is appreciated. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB port. Mike K. --- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com 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 I just installed LM 9 and my HP 940c usb printer will not work at all. It will not print a test page and cannot be configured with the webmin tool. It worked fine in 8.2. Any suggestions? Thanks for help in advance. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printer stopped working
Hi all, I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under 9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it). Anyway, I'm getting the following message in CUPS administration Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Printerdrake cannot see the printer at all. KDE Control panel printer configuration utility can see the printer, but still can't print. I get the same error. I tried PrinterDrake from command line. It gave me the error... [root@localhost linus]# printerdrake cupsd (pid 1496) is running... WARNING: pinging broadcast address WARNING: pinging broadcast address rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded WARNING: pinging broadcast address ...could not find printer. the module parport is loaded, but why does that matter as I'm using a USB printer. Any help, insights, or just plain sympathy is welcomed. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Thanks, but where/how do I enter the smbpasswd? Is this on the XP box? On my Linux box? Thanks again. Linus On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:02 am, Franki wrote: Sorry, that should have been: smbpasswd -a username its sunday, what do you expect??? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network have you setup usernames and passwords for her login onto your linux box and vice versa??? smbpasswd username (its also handy to make a unix login for her using her username and password on your box.) Then do the same on the XP machine, add a username and password that you can use in Komba2 to log onto her box. Keep in mind that XP home is limitied to only 3 machines on the network... (pro doesn't have that limit.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Drouhard Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
I tried that. Her XP box refuses to let me in. I should be ok with the three computers. Is this three computers networked to the XP machine? (total of 4) or three computers total? What did you use to network your XP box? Komba? Samba? something else? Thanks for the help. Linus On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:24 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: WinXP ask for a pass but it doesn't check it. If you know there isn't any password, simply press enter: everything should work fine (it worked with me, XP home). Olaf At 06.18 29/09/2002, you wrote: Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Xmms thinks it's speedy gonzalez
On Monday 12 August 2002 08:03 pm, Isaac Curtis wrote: On Monday 12 August 2002 19:32, you wrote: Isaac Curtis writes: Apparently some of the software takes this too seriously, because when I tried using Xmms to play some mp3's, it got a little carried away. It's playing all my songs about 10-20% faster than normal, and I know it's not the files because I can play the exact same ones in Windows without a hitch. Any idea how to reign in my hyperactive software? Are you reading your mp3's from an NFS-mounted filesystem? I have no idea why, but I once had something similar happen and when I copied the files locally, it went away. I never did resolve it. Fortunately, I only play mp3's from one machine so now they're all local. -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek They were originally in /mnt/windows/blahblahblah but I copied them into a /home/shared/mp3 folder I made. So no, they're neither from the network nor from a /mnt, but they were originally if that matters. I'm going to take Derek's advice and try upgrading to see if that helps. While I'm at it, are there any other, better audio players? What are everyone's favorites? PEace, Isaac I had a similar problem. In my case, the sampling rate for the sound card was set incorrectly. Mine required 48,000 Hz IIRC instead of the default 44,000 Hz. Changing this fixed the speed back to normal. I did this under KDE 2 and I'm now running KDE 3 and I don't remember how or where I changed it. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/SCSI CD
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:16 pm, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install automagically set up the CD-RW and I added the following as to the append line in lilo.conf hdb=ide-scsi not too hard so far. I ran lilo and the drive works. I can do direct CD to CD copy...in gnometoaster. Other programs don't recognize the CD-R as a reader. I cannot open either drive through the /mnt. They're both locked. I can play CD's with CD player in the CD-R. I have the CD-R on hdb and the CD-RW on hdd. I think that something is confused between scdo and scd1. I can't seem to straighten it out. It's not a killer as I can undo the append statement to remove the scsi emulation on the CD-R and everything is back to normal, except direct CD copying. Any ideas? Thanks Linus did you change the entries in fstab as well Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, your other programs look at links /dev/cdrom which is most probably hanging--attached to nothing Your drives under ide-scsi are /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 And you need to set up /etc/fstab entries and also the /dev/cdrom link /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 and a second entry for the other CD drive with say /mnt/cdrom1 and /dev/scd1 and erase the previous entry or better comment it out for the CD drive. the one where it says dev=/dev/hdb Finally in a terminal as root, the ONE drive where you want to play audio CDs ln -fs /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom Yep select one drive for audios and make sure you have the audio cable from that drive to the sound card, and link that one to /dev/cdrom so the players can find it. Civileme Thanks for all the suggestions, doing these, and deleting and creating new icons on my desktop for the CDs, all works well now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IDE/SCSI CD
Hi all, I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install automagically set up the CD-RW and I added the following as to the append line in lilo.conf hdb=ide-scsi not too hard so far. I ran lilo and the drive works. I can do direct CD to CD copy...in gnometoaster. Other programs don't recognize the CD-R as a reader. I cannot open either drive through the /mnt. They're both locked. I can play CD's with CD player in the CD-R. I have the CD-R on hdb and the CD-RW on hdd. I think that something is confused between scdo and scd1. I can't seem to straighten it out. It's not a killer as I can undo the append statement to remove the scsi emulation on the CD-R and everything is back to normal, except direct CD copying. Any ideas? Thanks Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Aureal Vortex2 Soundcard
Please help with suggestions. My son has a computer with the following specs. Motherboard: FIC VIA 503+ K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2 Video card: TNT2 32MB Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card 384 MB Memory 1 generic cd reader 1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW 1 Floppy 1 10 GB WD Harddrive 1 40 GB Maxtor Harddrive Mandrake Linux 8.2 with the standard kernel for this distro. Running in dual boot mode with Windows 98. He has been unable to get the soundcard to work in Linux. He's tried installing the drivers and has been unsuccessful. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Boat Anchor - Now K7S5A Sound
snip The ECS K7S5A is high performance, but before 8.2 was little better than a boat anchor itself. With 8.2 you need to do some tweaks: 1. edit /etc/modules.conf and find the line that starts alias sound-slot-0 pcm-snd-i8x0 and delete it and the line following it. then put in this line alias sound i810_audio and save the file. Don't bother with your SB 16 card for this machine. The onboard sound is good once you get past the misconfiguration for/by ALSA. The SiS 900 should set up properly from the beginning, so you will have networking. Even a Duron 750 will make this look like a speed demon, along with all the RAM you can cram (use either SDRAM _XOR_ DDR, but not both), and it is neat if you have two IDE drives and RAID0 most of your partitions except /boot and /--very blindingly fast with 8.2. Civileme snip Civileme, I did as you indicated (or at least I tried to) but I have no sound. Here's a data dump as you suggested to another newbie. [linus@localhost linus]$ cat /etc/modules.conf alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias sound i810_audio probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 sis900 [linus@localhost linus]$ lspcidrake unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|735 Host unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5591/5592 AGP unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|85C503/5513 usb-ohci: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|7001 USB usb-ohci: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|7001 USB unknown : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5513 [IDE] snd-card-intel8x0: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator sis900 : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|SiS900 10/100 Ethernet Card:RIVA TNT2 : nVidia Corporation|Riva TNT2 Model 64 unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] Mouse:USB|Wheel : Logitech Inc.|Mouse [Human Interface Devices|Boot Interface Subclass|Mouse] [linus@localhost linus]$ outputs bash: outputs: command not found Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boat Anchor??? (FIXED)
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:29 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB Ram, two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have been fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 and really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I pulled my soundcard and every other non-essential card and disk drive. I was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit cancel and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and tried to run soundcfg. Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid. At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A motherboard? Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure it out... I feel better. Linus I did NOT have to toss my computer into 100 feet of water. Civileme provided me with the information needed to solve the problem. He suggested that I might have an inferior CD reader. I believed my venerable Ricoh burner was also a good reader. Wrong! My cheapy 40x reader is actually better. After switching the CD's around so that the cheapy is the first CD, everything now works! Lesson - listen to Civileme's advice. He generally knows what he's talking about. Thank you Civileme. -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boat Anchor???
Hi all, I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB Ram, two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have been fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 and really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I pulled my soundcard and every other non-essential card and disk drive. I was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit cancel and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and tried to run soundcfg. Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid. At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A motherboard? Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure it out... I feel better. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Go back to 8.1???
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:58 pm, you wrote: Tim Cruikshank wrote: On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:17, you wrote: Hi all, I recently installed MD 8.2 on my computer. Many things went well, but I cannot run PrinterDrake or any followon installation from the CD's. Locks up everytime. I checked the installation logs and had a LOT of errors during installation. I'm surprised the computer runs as well as it does. Anyway, I'd like to go back to MD 8.1 (which worked well on my computer). My only hesitation is in some of the packages that come with 8.2. GnuCash worked out of the box in 8.2. It took me *days* to satisfy all the dependencies for GnuCash in 8.1 via many downloads. Is there a way to use MD 8.1 and the rpms from 8.2 discs? or save the installed packages when I go back? Thanks Linus Linus Rather than going through a complete reinstall , why don't you post the error messsages here, and I'm sure someone should be able to help you sraighten things out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com From what you described it appears your burn does not read on the CD drive that well. I would suggest trying different media or a different CD drive before retreating. I had a similar problem here with a DVD reader on one machine. Turned out that CDs I burned at 1x, 2x, 8x and 12x would all fail, but if I burned at 4x they would read. The DVD rreader, brand new, had its own problems--like refusing to recognize CD2 and CD3 during install though it did so post-install. Sorry the hardware story on CDs is so crappy, but then they are seriously driven too fast in rate of spin for no valid engineering reason. At least we don't have 70X CD readers out there any longer and the worst of the manufacturers seem to have died off. Civileme I don't think that's it. I don't have any trouble with any other CD's. I have an old Ricoh 4X burner that has a max read speed of 20X. It's worked perfectly with everything else. I believe that I have bad hardware, or just a combination of stuff that doesn't work. I'll try 8.1 again. If that fails, I'll probably be looking at a new motherboard. Thanks for all of your help. I skim through many of the posts, but I always read the ones from Civileme. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:09 am, you wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com urpmi cups urpmi foomatic Should do it Civileme cups was already loaded. It froze on foomatic. What else should I try/look at? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Look at getting a CD with the foomatic file not corrupted Civileme I tried that. I burned a new CD after verifying the MD5 sum. All ok. I reinstalled MD 8.2 after reformatting all but /home. I made sure that I clicked the install for CUPS and Foomatic during the install. Same thing. Whenever I try to run software manager and install ANYTHING from the CD, it grinds for about 20-30 seconds and freezes. I'm believing that I either have a hardware conflict (I removed all suspect cards), or my motherboard is going on the fritz. In the middle of all of this, it started reporting the wrong voltage for -12V and indicated -14.2V instead. I had to ignore that warning in the BIOS to proceed. Other than the above described problem, everything else seems to be ok. ??? Any other suggestions? If I lived closer to a lake, I might just have a nice boat anchor My next and last attempt will be to try to reinstall 8.1 which worked fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail Phantom account-solved
Thanks for the tip. It worked like a champ. On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:52 pm, you wrote: On Monday 25 March 2002 12:04 pm, Linus Drouhard opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on. Any ideas on how to clear out this phantom account? had that happen in my 8.2 also with a new account. i believe it is because i skipped the first time wizard so it left a blank account. look in the hidden kde file .kde/share/config/kmailrc and you will find a plesent text file with 2 accounts. delete both (i think there are two) references that have no information in them and start kmail up again and it should be gone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:19 pm, you wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: On Monday 25 March 2002 01:16 am, you wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It is not likely your parallel port card per se, but I would recommend INSTALL the printer completely before running it. It could be a problem reading the CD. If it is your parallel port card, the thing most likely is an attempt to share an ISA Interrupt, but I would worry about 14 Megs of install first. The foomatic driver package plus CUPS plus drivers is huge. Civileme I'm not sure what you mean to INSTALL the printer before running it. That's what I thought I was doing. Is there another way to install the printer other than Printerdrake? Do you mean to do a reinstall of Mandrake? TIA, -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com urpmi cups urpmi foomatic Should do it Civileme cups was already loaded. It froze on foomatic. What else should I try/look at? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
On Monday 25 March 2002 01:16 am, you wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It is not likely your parallel port card per se, but I would recommend INSTALL the printer completely before running it. It could be a problem reading the CD. If it is your parallel port card, the thing most likely is an attempt to share an ISA Interrupt, but I would worry about 14 Megs of install first. The foomatic driver package plus CUPS plus drivers is huge. Civileme I'm not sure what you mean to INSTALL the printer before running it. That's what I thought I was doing. Is there another way to install the printer other than Printerdrake? Do you mean to do a reinstall of Mandrake? TIA, -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail Phantom account
Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on. Any ideas on how to clear out this phantom account? Thanks, -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM, TNT2 video card, SB 16 soundcard. Also, I have an *ancient* sIDE-4HP multi-port card that I use for a parallel port connected scanner in Windows (don't have any Linux drivers for it), plus a Lucent Windmodem (also only for faxes in Windows). (BTW, I hate Windows. I'm about 99.9% independent of Windows.) I did not have my printer connected when I installed Mandrake, shouldn't be a problem, I thought, I'll run Printerdrake later. I cannot get Printerdrake to run. It starts up, asks for Disc 1, churns for about 30 seconds and then freezes my computer solid. Only the reset button responds. Has anyone had a similar experience? any suggestions? any thoughts on my parallel port card? -Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS working - sort of
Hi everybody, We've been having a lot of power troubles recently (ice storm) and as a consequence, my computer has been abused by power outages and power ups (I wasn't home to turn it all off). Anyway, now sound is goofy. I can get sound to work in XMMS if I start it through the console. I had to kill the sound services and turn off aRtsd. Both of these used to be running and everything was fine. (I'm running KDE). Now if I try to start xmms through the menu system, it will either freeze or not die before it ever comes up. It works fine if I start it in console. Does anyone have any ideas on what may be wrong and how to fix it?? TIA Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another web site crash with konqueror
Konq worked for me. I have the nsplugins module loaded. crashed on me too. eric l. mcclure http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html enter a state and city Press the back arrow to go back to the previous page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE
I can't remember how I cleared the message, but I do remember being extremely aggravated. I saw the message one time when I was shutting everthing down, the splash screen shutdown first then the message. I don't remember how I got to the message to clear it though. Sorry. Linus On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:42 pm, Andy Gay wrote: So, if there is an error message behind the panel, how did you manage to access it and close it down? When I called up StarOffice 5.2 in KDE, it froze in the loading with the title panel, which I could not get rid of without logging out. I uninstallted SO5.2 and reinstalled it, but it is doing the same thing. Anybody know what the deal is? Appreciate any help. Andy Gay Inspiron 2500 Make sure that you don't have an error message or some other message behind the title panel. I went through the same aggravation once and just had a message that needed clearing. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
Marcia, hang in there. Printing can be (is) often frustration. I don't pretend to know all of the answers. I'm just a newbie that has struggled through this a couple of times. I just know what worked for me. I have an Epson Stylus 777 (good quality printer, but very expensive cartridges). Here's what I recall about getting my printer to work when it quit (or gave me reams of ASCII garbage that I couldn't turn off). I use CUPS, and have the best luck using the WWW version of QTCUps administration. I deleted all printers from my system with the admin tool. I then reinstalled the CUPS printer driver and gave the printer an altogether new name. You can give the printer any name you want, but I think you should not use a command such as lpr as a printer name. Don't know if that's bad, but I didn't do it. I used Printer, KDEPrinter, among others. Anyway, I don't know if that was necessary either. That's just what I did. Reinstall the printer driver. You should be able to get a test page at this point. Select the appropriate resolution (mine will almost not work with the default setting of 180 x 180 (or whatever it is) but works MUCH better at 360 x 360). If this works, you should be able to select this new printer from your applications. I don't know about XPP and what it might be doing. I sometimes use XPP and it appears to use the same driver that I installed for CUPS. Maybe someone else can explain that. Good luck! On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:01 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can. Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: Marcia, This would be in the FWIW department. I'm a newbie myself and don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of printing. I have a HP PSC 500 (all-in-one type printer) hung on my parallel port. It was configured and printing on LM 8.0. There were 3 drivers available for that printer in CUPS. I tested them all and setup a 'lp' and a 'lp1' using two of the choices. In the last month I did a 'clean' installation of LM 8.1, including updates of CUPS and CUPS drivers. I ran through the CUPS installation process in the installation menu (you can do this from within the Mandrake Control Center after the fact as well). I selected the printer using my preferred driver and did a test page. Everything was OK in terms of the test. However, from any application (and from a desktop drop) I was getting garbage out (symptoms the same as you described in your original note). I was stuck until I discovered that the the new version of cups-drivers had added another choice to the list. I chose it. All print tests were passed and, more importantly, it prints from any application. I have no idea why the old drivers no longer work. So my questions. Can you configure the printer and send it a test page? If so, consider trying all the available drivers for your printer (or similar printers) to see if you can get around the problem. Terry Smith Marcia wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your advice. It did not work for me although I may not have done everything correctly. Could you send me your exact steps? Did you use cups again or change the spooling? I am still quite the newbie in some areas. I installed lpr because it was not installed before. I wonder if I could just skip cups and use lpr or pdq instead. Would anyone be able to give me the steps for that? How do I change the spooling system from cups to lpr without reinstalling? I really do not want to do that again. I have heard that lpr for spooling has cleared up problems. Does anyone here have Epson Stylus Color that is printing fine in 8.1? If you do could you tell me what you did? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have no printing at all and my husband and I both need it desperately. He has not been fond of Linux anyway and I do not want to give him more reasons to not like it. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for
Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now
snip Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for quality. Then out of the blue it stopped working. Has anyone had a similar situation that they were able to fix? Thanks for any help. Yes, I've had similar experiences. The only way that I've been able to recover was to delete all instances of my printer and reinstall the printer drivers from scratch with PrinterDrake. I gave the printer a new name and used the new name. I know there must be a better way, but when you're desparate, anything that works... good luck! Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster problems on Mandrake 8.1
On Thursday 15 November 2001 07:00 am, Renato Tognaccini wrote: At boot I have the following message: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected sb: Sound Blaster Vibra16X sb config failed (out of resources?)[-2] sb: Failed to initialize Creative ViBRA16X PnP sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... sb: I/O region in use. I got the same (or similar) errors and problems with my classic Soundblaster 16. I finally discovered that I had a BIOS setting wrong. Check your BIOS and make sure that all of you ISA slots are set to AUTO. For some reason, the slot that had my soundcard was set for IRQ5, which shouldn't have been a problem since Mandrake was trying to set it up as IRQ5 also. However, the conflict caused the problem. Set the BIOS to AUTO...and music! Good luck! In addition, I cannot run aRTs for some reason. It freezes up any access to the soundcard. -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson Printer
Hi everyone., I recently purchased an Epson 777 printer based largely on recommendations from this forum. I like the printer, but do not like the cost of the replacement cartridges. Does anyone have any experience with the Jet-Master refills and chip resetter? http://www.jet-master.com/epson_inkjet_777.htm The claim to have software on a floppy to reset the cartridges to allow unlimited refilling. I'm interested but wouldn't want to spend the $65 and get nothing for it. Thanks for all of your input and great advice. -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] staroffice print
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:47, Ric Tibbetts wrote: belcoop wrote: How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? run spadmin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed
On Friday 21 September 2001 6:02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm not sure what I'd tweak... It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow. (snip) You should be able to fix the slow part by INCREASING the resolution. For some reason, the Epson printer drivers default to a non-supported resolution of something like 180 dpi. Change that to 360 or higher and you'll probably be much happier. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adobe Acrobat Reader
Hi all, I just installed Adobe Acrobat 4 Reader and can't get it to run in Netscape or Konqueror. I set it as a helper app but get the error Couldn't launch /user/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread I've tried it with the .sh extension and without. I tried running acroread from bash, but couldn't get that to work either. Any ideas? Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Setup for Staroffice
On Monday 10 September 2001 3:35, Geof Steichen wrote: My SO5.2 printer options does not include raw Postscript. It only has Generic Printer. Is this what you recommend? I have an HP870Cxi defined to CUPS and Generic Printer using /usr/bin/xpp which works ok. The test page prints very slowly (almost 2 minutes) on a printer rated at 4 color pages per minute. The quality is fine but printing is very slow. *** I loaded a different printer driver using spadmin. I browsed to etc/cups/ppd and found a driver that seemed to match my printer. It seems to work. I'm testing it now, but I forgot to change the resolution from the default 180 x 180 (or whatever). It's taking about 5 minutes to print the test page. I did this before, and after changing to a properly supported resolution (360 or 720) it is printing quickly and beautifully. Try changing your resolution to something higher. It might just work. Linus On Sunday 09 September 2001 08:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:37:58 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print in Staroffice. I've run spadmin, but it does not have printer for the 777. I tried the 700 driver, but it makes everything twice as tall on the paper. And to make it worse, now I cannot get anything to print out. I seem to have goofed up a setting that points to the printer at all. The printer works ok out of some applications, but not others. I've read much of the documentation on Linuxprinting.org, but can't find this. Any help??? Thanks, AMD K6-II @420 160MB Ram 20 Gig HD CD and CD-RW Mandrake 8.0 with 2.4.3 kernel Staroffice 5.2 Linus Firstly, make sure that your printer is correctly configured in CUPS. Use the raw PostScript driver in StarOffice, and make the target of your print command xpp. Make sure that you have the xpp package installed. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printer Setup for Staroffice
I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print in Staroffice. I've run spadmin, but it does not have printer for the 777. I tried the 700 driver, but it makes everything twice as tall on the paper. And to make it worse, now I cannot get anything to print out. I seem to have goofed up a setting that points to the printer at all. The printer works ok out of some applications, but not others. I've read much of the documentation on Linuxprinting.org, but can't find this. Any help??? Thanks, AMD K6-II @420 160MB Ram 20 Gig HD CD and CD-RW Mandrake 8.0 with 2.4.3 kernel Staroffice 5.2 Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing
On Sunday 09 September 2001 8:55, Peter Rymshaw wrote: New problem. I am having a rough time downloading, decompressing, and installing programs. I've pretty much figured out how to download and then decompress, but then don't know how to install them. (Is that compiling?) My current efforts have to do with gnuCash 1.6. Don't feel bad. It took me days to get gnuCash to work. There were many dependencies and I had trouble with the RPMs also. Keep at it. The actual installation of the packages from the source is rather easy. I had to load up a bunch (I don't remember how many exactly) but a bunch of supporting packages. There actually are RPM files on gnucash.org, but they won't download for me. I select the file, select a destination and then begin the download, but it starts and then stops almost immediately. I could use any help on either of these areas. Could I be doing something wrong in my attempt to download an RPM? Maybe I need to try some other site and program. Re gzip (or whatever?), how do you get an exploded package actually runing? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Soundcore
I've been trying to get my soundcard to work now for weeks, well off and on. I've been on this list getting help, lots of good suggestions, but nothing has worked. I started to load ALSA, but the first thing the HOWTO said was to turn off all the other sound drivers. Number two was to be sure soundcore was running. Ok, stage is set. How do I make sure that I've turned off all the other sound drivers (I have a classic SB16 ISA -PNP card)? snd is currently running, I think that I can turn that off. But is there anything else? The second part has me stumped. I cannot find the soundcore module anywhere on my computer. It is listed in the modules.dep file as required for several modules (that I'm not running). ALSA was automatically installed when I installed M 8.0. I would guess that if soundcore was only required for ALSA it would have been installed also??? Is soundcore required for normal non-ALSA sound? BTW, I have the following hardware AMD K6-II at 420 MHZ ASUS P5A motherboard 160 MB RAM 20 gig Maxtor HD CD and CD-RW -(both work fine) NVidia TNT2 32 MB Realtek NIC and SoundBlaster 16 ISAPNP. Worked fine in Windows. Thanks, Linus --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses
below. I don't know what most of this means. Thanks for your help.
On Friday 10 August 2001 2:36, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
Adams, Jamie wrote:
It seems odd that you are only getting 'snippets' of sound. Is it
possible that there is an IRQ or DMA conflict somewhere?
snip
Yes, I think that might well be the case. Btw, we're talking about
an old ISA SB16, and not the relatively new SB16 PCI I think...
It's definitely an old ISA card.
The Creative Labs names sometimes cause confusion :)
The driver seems to be loaded ('snippets' of sound); check with
'/sbin/lsmod | grep sb' .
Here's what I get
sb 7136 1
sb_lib 33120 0 [sb]
uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib]
sound 54256 1 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 3504 5 [sb_lib sound]
usb-ohci 14496 0 (unused)
usbcore47248 1 [usb-ohci]
Use 'cat /proc/interrupts'
Here's what I get
CPU0
0: 288781 XT-PIC timer
1: 4523 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC soundblaster
9: 5973 XT-PIC usb-ohci, eth0
12: 216728 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 20301 XT-PIC ide0
15:498 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
and 'cat /proc/dma' to check for IRQ and
DMA problems.
and here's what I get there.
1: SoundBlaster8
4: cascade
5: SoundBlaster16
In your first mail you said: 'The midi track played fine' ,
referring to 'sndconfig'. Can you now play a midi file ?
-Frans
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
I think we're heading down the wrong path. I've checked another place in KDE and there aren't ANY drivers installed for the Soundblaster! HardDrake sees it incorrectly and won't load the drivers. I tried manually. Thanks for your patience. Here are the answers to your questions below. Maybe something will come up. On Sunday 12 August 2001 9:22, etharp wrote: Yes, I believe it is in the shared slot with the PCI. but the real question I _meant_ to ask was that there was nothing in the other shared slot. No, there isn't physical room to put a card in each slot. open KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA nor autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Ok, if it says neither ALSA nor autodetect and there is one other choice, why would you choose autodetect, since that was part of neither? have you tried OSS? damn that sounded a little to much like the father in me, I do not mean to sound so gruff. Excuse me please. No problem. I didn't understand that the sound driver and Sound I/O Method were the same, since in KDE System Control under the Properties of Creative SB16 PnP Audio there is no driver installed. I thought I was in the wrong screen. This part confused me. I don't have default sound driver as an option here. Sound I/O Method is currently set to autodetect. My only choices are autodetect, Open sound system, and No audio input/output. I have no other choices. Might you have some servers or mail checking going on in the forground that may be using all the CPU resources for a few seconds? what version of Mandrake are you running? just because you did not start them, does not mean you do not have servers running. In Mandrake, servers are running when you start up, by default, as long as you installed them when you installed the OS and have not made sure they do not start at boot and are turned off as you work. OK. On this, I have to plead ignorance. What should I be looking for here? To my knowledge I don't have any mail servers running. I am running Samba. Everything else seems to run fine. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 with the 2.4.3-20mdk kernel. I've tried this nothing running at all after a fresh boot. I've been poking around some more. Only part of the soundcard is recognized. The multimedia controller is all that is working. The other three parts (game controller, midi, and something else) are reserved but not operational. They're listed under the unknown device class in the KDE System control center. The part that is shown as working has NO DRIVER INSTALLED. Thanks for all of your help. On Thursday 09 August 2001 23:24, Linus Drouhard wrote: Disabling ASLA on boot had no effect...still no sound. MP3's won't run. Any player I try just sits there. I push play it sits there. Something, maybe unrelated to the sound system itself has got in the way?? CD's play from the CD player ok. I'll keep playing with this, but if anyone has any more good ideasThanks On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux). I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio format. I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running. Right now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot. thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really slow...for another post... On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote: let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not think you have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix was installed? do you have the available hard drive space to install it? do not install more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and OSS conflict, and you may already have some conflicting sound problems). in fact, in this case, the answer may be as likely to uninstall a sound service as to install one. this is a partial quote from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about this stuff than I do. Mandrake Control Center = System = Services and unchecked at boot for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine. On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote: Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off). I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work. But I cannot get
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux). I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio format. I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running. Right now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot. thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really slow...for another post... On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote: let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not think you have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix was installed? do you have the available hard drive space to install it? do not install more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and OSS conflict, and you may already have some conflicting sound problems). in fact, in this case, the answer may be as likely to uninstall a sound service as to install one. this is a partial quote from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about this stuff than I do. Mandrake Control Center = System = Services and unchecked at boot for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine. On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote: Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off). I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work. But I cannot get XMMS to work. It still scrolls the MP3 title and sits there. It (xmms) freezes whenever I try to stop it. In fact, just about any of the sound applications freeze when I try to exit them. None (but CD Player) work. Could there be a setting somewhere that has been accidentally switched, effectively killing my card? I'm ready to try ALSA, but after spending several long nights with WINE (and then disappointed at the results) several more nights with SANE (didn't get that to work right and gave up, at least for now) and now ALSA, I want something to go easy. The mini-howto on ALSA is 29 pages and its for kernel 2.2, not the 2.4.3 that comes with Mandrake 8.0. I'm not sure I want to tackle that now. Please help a newbie in distress. On Sunday 05 August 2001 5:21, etharp wrote: run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half way) and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF. On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote: I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine. Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine isapnp.config, or something like that. I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound. Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't work either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play. If I slide the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2 second or so long. Any help would be appreciated in setting this classic soundcard up. Thanks, Linus ASUS P5A AMD K6-II 400 @420 128 MB Ram Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB Realtek NIC
[newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine. Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine isapnp.config, or something like that. I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound. Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't work either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play. If I slide the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2 second or so long. Any help would be appreciated in setting this classic soundcard up. Thanks, Linus ASUS P5A AMD K6-II 400 @420 128 MB Ram Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB Realtek NIC
