Re: [newbie] Quake 3 Arena video cards
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Quake 3 Arena video cards On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Lionel Barrow wrote: um, line length needs a little fixeing :) [SNIP] Um, i hate to bite the hand that feeds and all that, (i have a fair bit of time for you as you have solved a few of my problems in the past), but you seem to be the only one i have ever heard complaining about line lengths needing fixing (and yes this reply probably suffers the same). Everyone else either doesn't have the problem or quietly puts up with it !! Anyhow, fully expect to get flamed for that, but just had a bad day and snapped ;o) - BTW, been quiet of late as all i seem to have been doing is hitting delete 2/300 times a day. The list seems to have gone very off topic and/or hostile - or is that just my impression ?? Martin.
[newbie] SBLive! under 6.1 - success
Or should that be SUCCESS!! Just to confirm - recompiling your kernel without version information on modules DOES allow you to force the insertion of the current module available from Creative. On successful reboot you get all the glorious sounds you would expect from your most wonderful Sound Blaster Live!!! Now, the next question is how to write this up in a newbie friendly way ;o) If i think of something easy i'll post again - of course the easiest would be for the next kernel from Mandrake to be compiled this way in the first place!. Don't know if anyone from Mandrake is listening, but how about it guys? - would save a lot of people a lot of hassle, not to mention myself the bandwidth of putting of a new kernel RPM up on my website. Martin.
RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white printing, last I looked. Yup, looks like it. For reference, someone posted this site a while back too (not me incidentally, so it's not a shameless plug!!). Has a complete database of loads of printers and their status under Linux. Gives some setup details too. I found it very useful... http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Martin.
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Pritchard Sent: 20 September 1999 23:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? [BIG SNIP !!] Do we have to have this discussion YET AGAIN !! (sorry long, BAD day). People switch to Linux for their own reasons, personally, i like to use the best of both worlds (yes there are some damn good programs under Windows). Each to his own. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Configuring sound for LM
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring sound for LM On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, you wrote: This subject may have been discussed before so if so, please bear with me. I have a SoundBlaster Live Value in my computer. Where would I find a driver for Linux for it and after having downloaded it, how is it configured? http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ should have the information you're looking for! :-) John Once you've been there, step by step instructions can be find on my site at http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm It's nothing fancy, just a copy of a post i once sent to this list.
Re: [newbie] Updates - making an updated CD
Thanks for the detailed info. I had sort of gathered most of it (not the bit about the default apps list thougth), so now i shall go away and play to my hearts content !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Updates - making an updated CD - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Updates There's been a bit of talk of late about ISO images including updates. I just had a browse around the Mandrake site and spotted the instructions for getting the Cassini mirror (that's under way now, but that's not why i post). In those instructions, it tells you to get the mirror and then run 'genhdlist /6.1bdir' Using this technique, could i then copy my 6.0 ISO to the hard disk. Overwrite the relevent files wth all the updates, and then update the hdlist file and create a new updated ISO image ?? Yes. The program genhdlis is in the /misc directory on the CD. Here is what I have learned: For example, I created a directory named /usr/local/newcd. I then copied all the files from the actual cd to /usr/local/newcd so that I have a /usr/local/newcd/Mandrake directory and a /usr/local/newcd/Mandrake/RPMS directory and so on. Then cd /usr/local/newcd/MISC and ./genhdlis /usr/local/newcd. First, make certain you delete the older versions of the rpm's after you have updated the rpm's. If you have any special rpm's, you could put them in the /APPS directory. You can also delete any unneeded rpm's (like the manpages for languages for which you have no need). You should also check dependencies for any replacement rpm's. I also updated the dos utilities (rawrite2, the current RawWrite for Windows, some other stuff) and included additional docs that I found useful. Also, I got the most current Lnx4Win files and even took the gui install stuff from cooker. If you want to modify the packages that are installed by default, the list is in /Mandrake/BASE/COMPS. For a simple, non-networked desktop computer, you could eliminate a lot of stuff. You could also make any special rpm's a part of the base install or any new menu choice you make. To test your "new" CD, try a hard drive install. If it works, burn yourself a new customized CD. FWIW, don't try copying and replacing files in Win9x - the CD filenames in Win9x are shown in 8.3 format and the capitalization of directory names can change causing scripts to fail to execute. Have fun. Hoyt
[newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ?
Hi, Just setting up Mandrake on my laptop (correction _trying_ to set it up), and can't get X running at a decent res. The laptop is a Dell Lattitude CPt333GT and has a Neomagic MagicMedia 256ZX chipset on board with 4MB of video ram. Has anyone else tried (successfully!) to get this machine going ? Checked out Xfree86.org, but they simply list 'Neomagic' without anymore details - i'll pull down 3.3.5 of xfree later today. Thanks, Martin.
Re: [newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ?
Just to follow up my own post (humour me !), installed the Xfree 3.3.5 packages from sunsite's 6.1 mirror (incidentally, the Mandrake site specifically states 6.1 is not out yet, yet sunsite don't have anything but 6.1 and 6.1b !?!) and then managed to force the Neomagic 128 option of the SVGA server to work by telling X that my card was a 128 with a 2200 chipset rather than a 256ZX. After telling it to use the external display we have a rather lovely 1024x768 display at 16bpp. Unless anyone has any better suggestion (ie a server specifically for the 256ZX) then don't worry about my original post. Martin. - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Neomagic 256ZX anyone ? Hi, Just setting up Mandrake on my laptop (correction _trying_ to set it up), and can't get X running at a decent res. The laptop is a Dell Lattitude CPt333GT and has a Neomagic MagicMedia 256ZX chipset on board with 4MB of video ram. Has anyone else tried (successfully!) to get this machine going ? Checked out Xfree86.org, but they simply list 'Neomagic' without anymore details - i'll pull down 3.3.5 of xfree later today. Thanks, Martin.
[newbie] Updates
There's been a bit of talk of late about ISO images including updates. I just had a browse around the Mandrake site and spotted the instructions for getting the Cassini mirror (that's under way now, but that's not why i post). In those instructions, it tells you to get the mirror and then run 'genhdlist /6.1bdir' Using this technique, could i then copy my 6.0 ISO to the hard disk. Overwrite the relevent files wth all the updates, and then update the hdlist file and create a new updated ISO image ?? I have something like 70MB of updates knocking around on my PC and i'd like to reclaim the disk space. Just curious, Martin.
Re: [newbie] scsi
- Original Message - From: Ralph | byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:49 AM Subject: [newbie] scsi Hello, Can someone plz give me the line i need to put in my lilo conf to get my cdr to work. I know it's append??? plz help. [SNIP] This may be a bit late (i've been away for a week or so), but the line is 'append="hdd=ide-scsi"' replacing hdd with whatever device your drive is. If adding more than one, seperate them with a space (only one append line though). There's more to it than that tho. Check out http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm for more info. Martin.
Re: [newbie] cdr software
XCDRoast If you did an 'install everything', you have it. If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see www.whitem.demon.co.uk Martin. - Original Message - From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:37 PM Subject: [newbie] cdr software hey, can someone give me an idea what cdr software to use to write cd's in linux i need to write data as well as audio cd's. you know something with a nice frontend that's easy to use . thanks -- Alway's go forward don't look back or go back where ya been it's a sad thing to go back through the same shit we already went through once!!
Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:16 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that effect), which is a WinAmp clone, and another one I can't remember. If you check under the multimedia portion of the tool bar you should find them. That is, if you installed them when you installed Mandrake. :) You must have a different Mandrake distro than I do. I have the McMillan version which only came with XMP3 (or something like that) and mpg123 (a console-based player.) The one you're thinking of is xmms (www.xmms.org) which is the WinAmp clone. :-) John There IS an MP3 player that comes with KDE. It isn't nessecarily a win amp clone, but by selecting it in the options, it can use a winamp skin and therefore LOOK identical to winamp. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Star Office
I'm feeling real generous right now. I'm in the process of moving house, and have the required back issue CD in a box right next to my PC. If you want it, mail me off the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we'll sort it out. Basically all i'll want is an sae or something and it's yours !! Martin. PS: If you don't switch off HTML people will undoubtedly start to moan !! ;o) - Original Message - From: Bluebottle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office Many thanks for info Simon. I'll have a search. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office As a small tip seeing as you're also from this small island in the middle of nowhere (!), take a look at the back issues of either PC Pro, PC Direct, or Computer Shopper. One had Staroffice actually on the coverdisc about four months ago, you should still be able to get a back issue. Five quid for a complete office suite is a bit of a bargain don't you think?? - Original Message - From: Bluebottle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:53 AM Subject: [newbie] Star Office Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in England at present. Does anyone know of Star Office and does it run? John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
Is this for real !!?? We on this mailing list DO call it something else 'Mandrake Linux' - end of problem (or am i overlooking something?) Martin. - Original Message - From: George Guzic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:57 AM Subject: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Red Hat GPL No Longer Available Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:21:27 -0400 From: "Robb Sands" [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP!! I just got off the phone with Amazon.com and Red Hat.com Legal departments and guess what the hot-breaking-heart-breaking news is? You can no longer refer to Red Hat Linux GPL distribution using the words Red Hat. Now it has to be called "I wanna be Microsoft" or "anonymous linux 6.0" or something similar, since the Red Hat name can no longer appear on ANY GPL PRODUCTS or ads. That's right, the GPL distribution of Red Hat Linux can no longer be called Red Hat Linux, it now MUST have a new name. No more Red Hat GPL CD's, advertisements, support groups, netnews, nothing... I know this sounds incredibly unbelievable, but the Red Hat GPL distribution can no longer be advertised or labelled Red Hat, only the official boxed set. As a linux seller on Amazon.com, I (along with 100 other people) sell a GPL version of the distribution formerly known as Red Hat Linux GPL. We now will be required to say we are selling 'blah' Linux 6.0 and will have to remove any labelling on products referring to the GPL Linux Distribution. How will people know they are getting Red Hat Linux GPL if it can't carry the name? You guess, because I haven't a clue... Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation and won't be available for a week (9-7-99). Basically we are all screwed and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely. This email is a plea for you to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and voice your displeasure over Red Hat's new copyright policy requiring their GPL distribution to be called something other than Red Hat Linux GPL. I know this is off topic, so flame away, but it is an issue that AFFECTS ALL RED HAT LINUX USERS and POTENTIAL USERS. Robb Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: [newbie] Doc
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any printable documentation on step by step installation and HOWTO's. Have you ever installed Linux before, esp. RedHat? If so, it's pretty much the same as RedHat's install procedure... John That's 'The Distribution Formerly Known as Red Hat' !! (grin).
[newbie] CD Installation
Hi, Managed to successfully loose the contents of all my HD's the other night, and whilst i re-installed everything in the end i have a couple of questions. I have a 2x4x CDRW as my Secondry master (hdc) and a 5x32x DVD as my secondry slave (hdd). Obviously i wanted to install usinmg the DVD drive as it's way quicker, but try as i might i couldn't get the Mandrake install to find it. Is this because it's a DVD or is it just default that when a CD isn't found in HDC it doesn't bother looking at HDD. Could my install think it's a hard disk as on bootup i get 'starting hard disk optimizations' for hda, hdb AND hdd !! If either of my ussumptions are correct, can this behaviour be overridden with any options in LILO ? Thanks again !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
- Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 1:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown - Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown No I haven't. I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. Should I do this? -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown snip Did you update the kernel as well? It is very necessary. I don't know where you read that, but all of the updates are suggested. The kernel and initscripts are required to fix the security and unmounting problems. You should get them all. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] He may have got that snippet of (mis)information from me !! A few days back i posted a reply to someone saying that i didn't think the kernel upgrade had an effect, just the initscripts upgrade. Let me make a public apology and eat humble pie ;-) !! Last night the problem started to re-appear on my machine, so it would appear the kernel upgrade is indeed as you say very nesseccary. I just hope i don't loose my SBLive in the process this time round. Anyone know if the ISO image has been updated to include the kernel upgrade or not ?? Martin.
Re: [newbie] Boot problem
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot problem On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS limitations... Right...I confirmed it with my tech this afternoon. :-) His feeling is that the limitation on drive size in SCSI is the Operating system limitation...and if there is a drive size limitation in Linux, I'll be darned if I know what it is! :-) John http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk.html That URL might be about to contradict what i'm going to say, in which case i apologise (i don't have a great deal of time right now to check out the link). What kind of SCSI adapter do you have ?? (i also only caught the end of this thread). I have used Adaptec1542 cards quite a bit and i'm pretty sure that if you go into the BIOS of the scsi card rather than the PC there are relevant options in there. Maybe your card needs to have large disk support enabled similar to the PC bios. I'm pretty damn sure i've set up Mandrake boxes with huge SCSI disks before now (well +10Gb anyhow). Just a thought !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW
- Original Message - From: Ed Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW Thanks you for the help, I am now able to mount my HP8100 CDR/RW and use it as a second CDROM. I very much appreciate your help. The HP8100 is an IDE CDR/RW can I write to it or do I need special software? Thanks again, Ed Santiago Never tried the HP8100i specifically, but try www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm as a starting point. It's not particularly difficult, but will take a few steps. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Boot problem
[SNIP] Maybe your card needs to have large disk support enabled similar to the PC bios. I'm pretty damn sure i've set up Mandrake boxes with huge SCSI disks before now (well +10Gb anyhow). Just a thought !! And I appreciate it. It was sold to me as a 9.1 GB scsi, so that may be the capacity of it. However, the PDF file for that drive (based on the model number sticker, NOT by what it is reported as in Linux) says it's a 10.5 Gig drive. *shrug* I can't find anything on the model number it reports back in the SCSI BIOS. John This wouldn't possibly explain why Linux reports the lower capacity of the drive on boot up, but it's not just a difference between formatted capacity and unformatted capacity is it ?? MANY manufacturures (?) exagerrate the capacities of their drives by quoting the bare unformatted figure - totally unrealistic, as whatever file system you format a disk with it ALWAYS reduces in size - the larger the disk, the more scary the amount of size you lose. Can't think off the top of my head whether a 1.5GB reduction is reasonable or not - it does sound a little excessive! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems
- Original Message - From: Gregory S. Hackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems I'm trying to use Xwin-32 and connect to my Linux machine by rlogin. I have some experience doing this on OSF machines, there really isn't a lot to it. After I uncommented the appropriate lines in inetd.conf so the rlogin and rexec demons would actually get going, I was at a stage where I could rlogin as a normal interactive session. Now, when I try to launch an Xwin session, I get a "Connection Closed" error. The troubleshooting section of the manual would probably be pretty useful to someone who knew what they were doing: it says that the problem is one of three things: -You are trying to connect using rexec and rexecd or in.rexec will not allow the connection to continue. -Your host is running SunOs...(I think I can ignore this one) -Your host is running a tcp wrapper that closes the connection for security reasons. What's a TCP wrapper, how do I tell if I'm using one, and how do I turn it off? If it turns out that's not the problem, am I just out of luck? thanks...Greg -- [SNIP] XWin 32 (when i used it at least) was a swine to set up with anything too much other than XDMCP. I seem to recall the manual saying something about the fact that you absolutely MUST be logging in using the same user name as that of the netbios name of the windows machine you are trying to login from. I also recall that the Linux box needed to be able to resolve your IP address. I also think there were a couple of places where this resolution needed to be placed. Sorry if it's all a bit vague - it's been a while. Certainly i got fantastic results when i just used XDMCP broadcast mode in full screen - any chance of trying that instead of rlogin/rexec (obviously i appreciate that might not fit in with what you are trying to do !) Martin.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Glad to hear the instructions were of help !! A BIG word of warning though - consider carefully if the kernel upgrade will actually give you anything extra that you REALLY need or fix any problems that you REALLY need fixing. I recently learnt my first painful lesson in the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' way of thinking. I upgraded to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel - simply because i thought it would be nice to try the latest (that was when it was the latest from Mandrake !!). All of a sudden my SBLive stopped working. So i went back down to my previous kernel (and yes i did remember to do all the stuff with LILO), and it still didn't work. To cut a very long stroy short, i had to do a complete re-install to get things back to a working state. As i mentioned in another post yesterday, my kernel upgrade was a pointless excercise - no extra functionality, simply security fixes. My box is only ever connected to my laptop - never anything like the net as i don't have a modem in it. I beleive i don't pose much of a security threat to myself, so all i did was cause myself a lot of work !! Just my thoughts. Martin. - Original Message - From: Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? A big thanks goes to Martin for getting that sorted out. I now have CD Audio, etc. But I would still like to upgrade to 2.2.10 tho...
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Yeech! Try it with one / between screensavers and answertips and the full .html on the end, not just h? Partly my fault and partly Netscape http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.ht ml Now that one should work. Civileme [SNIP] Are those links permanent or do they only exist for a while ?? I'm still getting a broken link off of that URL. I'd like to check it out tho, as i'm always interested to see if there are easier ways to do things than how i do now... Martin.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Yeech! Try it with one / between screensavers and answertips and the full .html on the end, not just h? Partly my fault and partly Netscape http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.ht ml Now that one should work. Civileme [SNIP] Are those links permanent or do they only exist for a while ?? I'm still getting a broken link off of that URL. I'd like to check it out tho, as i'm always interested to see if there are easier ways to do things than how i do now... Martin.
[newbie] Re: [newbiw] new sound card suggestions ??
Glad to hear the instructions were of help !! A BIG word of warning though - consider carefully if the kernel upgrade will actually give you anything extra that you REALLY need or fix any problems that you REALLY need fixing. I recently learnt my first painful lesson in the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' way of thinking. I upgraded to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel - simply because i thought it would be nice to try the latest (that was when it was the latest from Mandrake !!). All of a sudden my SBLive stopped working. So i went back down to my previous kernel (and yes i did remember to do all the stuff with LILO), and it still didn't work. To cut a very long stroy short, i had to do a complete re-install to get things back to a working state. As i mentioned in another post yesterday, my kernel upgrade was a pointless excercise - no extra functionality, simply security fixes. My box is only ever connected to my laptop - never anything like the net as i don't have a modem in it. I beleive i don't pose much of a security threat to myself, so all i did was cause myself a lot of work !! Just my thoughts. Martin. - Original Message - From: Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? A big thanks goes to Martin for getting that sorted out. I now have CD Audio, etc. But I would still like to upgrade to 2.2.10 tho...
Re: [newbie] failing to unmount
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] failing to unmount If you go to the updates page of the Mandrake site it has a blurb on this bug. Everyone should be updating their kernel to 2.2.9-27 anyway because of a security bug... but this as well as the initscripts is what is needed to fix the unmount bug.. Don't know if the kernel upgrade specifically address anything to do with the unmounting bug (i have my doubts as all i updated were the init scripts and then the problem went away), but it's certainly not true to say everyone should upgrade the kernel because of the security bug. I don't have a modem in my PC - i have a laptop running W98 for work, and use that instead. Therefore, as the Linux box is never connected to anyone except itself, this means no security threat !! I have that bug as well.. I have updated initscripts.. I need to download and update the kernel now.. OH NO!! LOL!! hopefully I wont bugger up my system Okay, i haven't read the updates page - but didn't the unmount problem go away after just upgrading the initscripts ?? [SNIP] Martin.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? [SNIP] OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe What's the problem exactly - sorry my ISPs mail has been down since last Wednesday, and even now my mails a bit sporadic, so i missed the original problem. Martin. Pick up a Sound Blaster PCI 512 and am having difficulty with the install (go figure) lost the modem in an attempt to get sndconfig working (connects but no data transfer). Am looking for a url to download Creative Labs linux drivers and perhaps some "dummies" instruction as to what to do with it once I've got it. Joe The URL to the linux drivers homepage is: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ IF the card is deemed to be an SBLive or SBLive Value, then i can help out, and will send further details on request. If it is under the category 'Sound Blaster PCI' then it would be unfair for me to attempt to help - i have absolutely no experience of these cards whatsoever. I did a little hunting around, but the only PCI card Creative specifically mention in the products section of their website would appear to be the SB PCI 16, which certainly doesn't sound like the SBLive. Let me know. Martin.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Here you go There may be more recent and better aproaches, but here's one http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers//answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.h tml This uses the drivers from the Soundblaster site. Civileme [SNIP] Tried to checkout that link, but it seemed to be broke, so for the time being try this. My install is still on kernel 2.2.9-19mdk, so the directories in the following will need changing accordingly if you have upgraded your kernel. If you've done that, i'll assume you know enough to just follow the following... http://www/whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm The file referred to from Creative's site is 'emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz'. The instructions were in response to a previous post when the latest version of the driver came out. So far no-one has told me anything to the contrary, so i assume they work (i have given the URL out quite a few times now). If they don't, can someone tell me why and i'll try and correct the instructions (incidentally, i have had a few replies thanking me, so i guess they do!!). Obviously if resources are conflicting with modems and stuff, that might be a different matter altogether. Give it a go and let me know (although i won't get any mail again until the morning now). Good luck, Martin.
[newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of that, so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out. Apologies if it get's received by people more than once - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM Subject: Linux4Win Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out with the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible typos!): " install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems... umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7: No such file or directory TabAlt-Tab Between elements | Space selects | f12 next screen /mnt/proc /proc /mnt /dos umount failed You may safely reboot your system. " Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just copy the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping. I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
96MB !! - Original Message - From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 12:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of that, so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out. Apologies if it get's received by people more than once install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 IIRC, signal 7 is a memory problem. You need 64MB to install via lnx4win. How much do you have? Hoyt
[newbie] Linux4Win
Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out with the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible typos!): " install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems... umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7: No such file or directory TabAlt-Tab Between elements | Space selects | f12 next screen /mnt/proc /proc /mnt /dos umount failed You may safely reboot your system. " Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just copy the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping. I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..
SMP is indeed for dual processor support, but from what i recall, the SBLive module specifcally requires that you DON'T have smp support in your kernel. You shouldn't need to recompile your kernel at all to get it working. I just sent a reply to someones earlier post with a pointer to full instructions. Martin. - Original Message - From: Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 12:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem.. I recently compiled Kernel 2.2.5 so I could use my Sound Blaster Live, but when I run the bin to install the drivers, it gives me the error "kernel msut be compiled with SMP." Anyone know what this is? And is there a newer than 2.2.5 kernel that supports the Sound Blaster Live? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
- Original Message - From: Stephan Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers? Hi Richard, I am a linux newbie, but have been in IT for 5 years no and from that back ground I would say Linux is in the stage "coming of age". I believe it is not for the new computer user but is definitely for the average- advanced computer user. Someone with a little computer experience under their belt. With a few more click and pick interfaces, and support for more types of devices eg usb and more divervse device support it will become a Windows killer. I whole heartedly agree with this. After all, exactly who is 'the average joe' ?? More and more people these days, know plenty enough about computers and OSs to be able to get on with Mandrake. For starters the percentage of people that use a PC at home and are also IT professionals has to be pretty high doesn't it ?? If linux developers got the support from hardware and software manufactures that Microsoft does, Linux would have already beaten Microsoft for the most superior OS. These are my thoughts only and do not represent anyone else. [SNIP] Martin. PS: I am both a corporate and home Linux user - have been for about three years now - still use Windows for both also though !!.
[newbie] Re:
Did you get your problem sorted - if not let me know. Martin. - Original Message - From: RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 5:36 PM I am very new to linux and just installed mandrake 6.0. I am having 1 problem and have read and tried everything i could to fix it. I have a p2 400 system with 128 M ram a voodoo3 2000 video card and an ast sabre monitor. The vid card and monitor can support up to 1280x1024 32 bit. For some reason or another the xwindows (startx) will only start in 8bpp 320x200 I have tried nearly all settings in xf86config and xconfigurator. If someone has any way to help me please feel free.. I greatly need the help. I have tried to get the archived mail from this list but there is nothing there.. it reads 0 in the index :( Thank you very much for any help you can give a very fresh newbie to linux. Ron Reed
Re: [newbie] Printer question
- Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer question On 15-Aug-99 Martin White wrote: All compaq printers are actually lexmarks in a different case. last time i checked, lexmarks aren't supported. What do you mean by 'not supported'. I've had two Lexmark printers and both worked very well - considerably easier to setup than in windows. If by supported you mean 'can print in color' then i don't know - i only ever used them for black white. If you mean 'not listed in the setup tool' then this shouldn't pose a problem. I had both printing straight text and also postscript quite happily. The older of the two was a Lexmark 4076 Jetprinter II (i think), and the other was a more modern version of the same thing - a Lexmark 1020C. If i misunderstood the point of the post, then soryy ;-)... When he says Lexmarks aren't supported, he's probably thinking of Lexmark's software-driven printers. I had one of those hollow pieces of crap myself; instead of having all the appropriate hardware to run, it required software--which was only available for Windows of course. In other words, the printer equivalent of a winmodem. -Tom Ahhh, nuff said, i wasn't aware that such beasts existed - something else to be wary of when buying hardware - i thiught it was just modems !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Voodoo3
Bit busy at the moment - but do you have the linux mod's (drivers in Windows terms) for the V3. The location to get them from is mentioned on 3DFXs web site under Linux Drivers. You should have 3 RPMs. Put them in their own directory and then do (as root) an 'rpm -Uvh *rpm' After that run (again as root) 'XF86Setup' - you might as well say no to using your existing config as defaults as that's wrong anyway. Although the standard SVGA server 'supports' the V3, you need the custom server mentioned above to get it working properly (ie at a decent resolution/color depth). Martin. - Original Message - From: Robert Wipfler To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 1:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Voodoo3 Hi, Have installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 and have gotten Voodoo3 to install, however it defaulted to 320 x 180 resolution and now the KDE login box is bigger than the screen. Has anyone successfully gotten this card to install and then work at 1024 x 768 24bit color?. I am very new to Linux and would appreciate the step by step process that was used. Thanks, Robert
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
- Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Martin White wrote: Sorry for the vague answers, but i've only ever come across the scenario where it either works or it doesn't (!) - never that it part works. Perhaps someone else can offer some better suggestions ?? I have now received the ability to play sound but it will just loop constantly, and there is no viable way to stop it. For instance, if I test any of the sounds in system sounds (K/Settings/Sound/System sounds) instead of the short 1 -3 second sound, the sound will play and it will just loop and loop, and even if I try to play another sound, it will not stop looping. I seem to remember that CTRL-ALT'f1, then type 'init 1' MAY get you out of the loop - like i say i can't really remember. I am now wondering if it is not a soundcard related problem but a mobo problem (I have a Via chipset, Super Socket 7, 6 PCI, 0 ISA, TMC TI5VGF). Doubt it, my m/board was a Chaintech 6BTM Slot 1 and it did it to me too. Does anyone know how I can mess around with DMA and IRQ's without using soundconfig, as the card is not listed there. Sorry, don't really know a sensible way to get around this, i too had the problem, which seemed to just 'appear' after i upgraded my kernel. I did a complete wipe of my root partition and re-install, then stayed WELL CLEAR of all the updates (apart from the init-scripts update - got fed up with hard disk checks on bootup !). It's all been perfect ever since. Incidentally, i had this problem with the old version of the module that was still called 'sblive.o', so iguess it's nothing specifically to do with the module side of things. Thanks for all of your help, but it seems that my SBLive is destined for the bin! Don't do it !! - Hopefully someone else can offer a more sensible solution, but if all else fails, the re-install worked for me. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
- Original Message - From: A.M. (Tony) Finnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F [SNIP] This was my first lesson in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I didn't actually have a problem with the 2.2.9-19 kernel, i just thought it would be nice to have the latest version, so i updated, then i kcked myself. Since then i decided not to bother upgrading until i found it would give me something i needed and couldn't do with what i had - i still haven't had to upgrade yet !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS
Does anyone have any kind of idea what reading i should expect from my box please. Is it likely to roughly translate to the speed of your processor ?? My PIII 450 gives out approx 453BMIPS - i expected considerably more than this as i've seen 450 from a Dell 233 system before. Finally, does it matter ? Or should i take this as an indication of a problem ? Martin. - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 4:24 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] BogoMIPS MIPS = Millions of Instructions Per Second BogoMIPS is a calculation of approximately how many instructions per second your CPU is capable of executing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kenneth Efurd Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] BogoMIPS What exactly does that mean the BogoMIPS, mine says 666.95? whats that all about?
Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS
I figured that it didn't really matter - bottom line is the machine's plenty quick enough !! Thanks anyway. Martin. - Original Message - From: Nichols, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 5:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] BogoMIPS remember the name BOGOmips. bogo as in bogus mabye? different processors give wildly different results. an amd 233 will give a much different result when compared to a pentium 233. don't worry about it. jason -Original Message- From: Martin White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS Does anyone have any kind of idea what reading i should expect from my box please. Is it likely to roughly translate to the speed of your processor ?? My PIII 450 gives out approx 453BMIPS - i expected considerably more than this as i've seen 450 from a Dell 233 system before. Finally, does it matter ? Or should i take this as an indication of a problem ? Martin. - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 4:24 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] BogoMIPS MIPS = Millions of Instructions Per Second BogoMIPS is a calculation of approximately how many instructions per second your CPU is capable of executing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kenneth Efurd Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] BogoMIPS What exactly does that mean the BogoMIPS, mine says 666.95? whats that all about?
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Gald to hear some positive feedback !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! "A.M. (Tony) Finnis" wrote: Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F The solution was in Martin's last posting. The modules do not seem to like kernel 2.2.9-19mdk at all, and so I went into etc/lilo config and changed the boot kernel to 2.2.9-19mkd, and then I ran /Sbin/lilo and hay presto! The sound works! Thanks chaps, You lot have saved my SBLive from the hands of the binmen, for which he thanks you gracefully :-) -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman ICQ:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
This has been covered a few times lately, and yep, it's no problem. You don't specifiy which kernel you have, so i can't tell you which of the three modules from Creative's tar file to use. If you have the standard 2.2.9-19mdk that comes with 6.0, use the 2.2.5 module. If you have a 2.0.xx kernel, use the 2.0.36 module, any kernel 2.2.10 or higher, try the 2.2.10 module. Once you've copied the module into your '/lib/modules/2.2.x.-xxmdk/misc' directory as 'emu10k1.o', check out www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm . The last four lines should be what you will need to insert into your '/etc/conf.modules' to pull it all together at boot time. Any further problems either check out the archives, or let the list know !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 11:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Hello chaps, anyone been successful in getting the Live working in Mandrake 6.0? I have tried downloading numerous files, but I keep on running into kernel mismaches. Can anyone help? -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman Icq:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9
I'm a little confused as to why it doesn't work (it does for me!), my 'conf.modules' can be found at http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm if you want to check it out and make sure i gave you the correct syntax, etc. An alternative, but not as tidy method would be to insert the line that you are typing manually each boot into the end of '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. This script is always the last init script to get run before starting X or the command prompt. Hope this helps. Martin. - Original Message - From: Cindy Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:21 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 Well, none of that works so I'll just stick to loading the module manually. Thanks anyway! Cindy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin White Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 6:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 Have you tried inserting either 'options emu10k1 -f' or 'insert emu10k1 insmod -f emu10k1' into your conf.modules. Either of these should do the trick although both are specifically NOT recommended by Creative - no idea why as it seems to work for everyone - just covering there backs i guess. Martin. - Original Message - From: Cindy Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 4:17 AM Subject: [newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9 I have been following this thread and have been able to get my SBlive! to work but only by typing modprobe soundcore and insmod -f emu10k1 in a terminal window in KDE. I tried adding the recommended lines to the conf.modules file( the pre-install and post-remove lines) but I get nothing but errors and the sound doesn't work. Any ideas or do you need more specific info? Thanks, Cindy
Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!
I would agree with this one - we get this a lot at our offices. Are we to assume that all of the machines in question are on the same network - we have token ring and ethernet and getting things to appear in the network neighbourhood across the two networks is a bit of a work of art !! Doing a 'Find Computer' in windows will always find a machine if both the one you want to find and the one finding it are running WINS (in our case anyway) - this is all a bit above my head - i really should find out about all this and get to the bottom of it, but all i'm saying is there are plenty of other things that could prevent the PC from appearing in the network neighbourhood even if Samba is totally present and correct. Martin. - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles! Petey wrote: situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests Try this: Click on start, run, then enter "\\linux computer name" and click OK. If that doesn't work, try "\\linux machine's IP address". I've frequently seen cases where a computer won't appear in the network neighborhood, even though it is accessible on the network. Of course, also test to make sure the Win95 machines can see the Linux box at all--try pinging it by name and IP, etc. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
Tom's reply to this says a lot more than i would have even thought of - good one !! All i'll add is that if you're specifically wanting to upgrade your SB16 - and i guess by now you may be - then (assuming finances are not a problem) i really can't think of a reason to suggest that you don't buy an SBLive. They are pretty damn good. Obviously if your current card was an awe64 or higher, the advice would probably be way different. Also, if there is anything unsupported that you want with the SBLive (not that i can think of anything), Creative don't seem to be too slow with their updates - there have been 3 versions in the 6-8 weeks since i bought mine, so i guess it wouldn't be a problem for long anyway. Martin. - Original Message - From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just my perception ?). I must say though that what sets the SBLive apart from some of the other higher end cards in creative's range - the Awe64 even if we go a way back - is meant to be the stuff live environmental audio, creatives sound fonts, etc. etc. AFAIK, none of this is yet available under linux, and therefore if you solely run linux, at the moment you would probably be wasting your money. If like me you want blindingly good sound when you're watching DVDs, playing games or whatever you do under Windows, and want as a bonus for your linux install to sound good too, then go ahead and get one, it's well worth the money !! Martin. Thanks for responding, I should have been more specifif in the first place anyway, sorry I was not. What I would want the sound card for is LInux, as I do not use Windows at all any longer. My main interrest's would be good midi file playback as well as good mp3 file playback. I had heard that with there earlier releases, Creative still had not got the midi or mp3 playback working that well. So my main concerne is how they got the midi and mp3 sound working. As far as normal system sounds, such as .au .wav .voc etc. my SB16 can even handle that well enough, my only reason for buying the SB Live would be for improved midi and mp3 playback. Can you give me any advice in that area? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] new configured kernel
I missed the bulk of this thread, but caught an early one and a late one and think i have the jist !! You may well just need to try again with the 'make bzimage' (you did do a 'make bzimage', didn't you not a 'make zimage' ?). I have had instances in the past where it didn't work first time, but did on the second / third attempt - strange i know, but there you go. With the 'bzimage' bit under Mandrake, the kernels are normally too big for the normal 'zimage'. If i got the wrong end of the stick here i apologize. Martin. - Original Message - From: helmut halfmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new configured kernel On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote: You'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the name of the kernel you are upgrading to. Look for the 'image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk' line (at least that's what it reads in mine), and change the vmlinuz... to reflect what the new kernel is called. - Theo Hey! Lilo seems not to be the problem. I can choose the right kernel and lilo does its job fine. ?-) cu Helmut
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just my perception ?). I must say though that what sets the SBLive apart from some of the other higher end cards in creative's range - the Awe64 even if we go a way back - is meant to be the stuff live environmental audio, creatives sound fonts, etc. etc. AFAIK, none of this is yet available under linux, and therefore if you solely run linux, at the moment you would probably be wasting your money. If like me you want blindingly good sound when you're watching DVDs, playing games or whatever you do under Windows, and want as a bonus for your linux install to sound good too, then go ahead and get one, it's well worth the money !! Martin. - Original Message - From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, chagilt wrote: Hey I would just like to thank all of you for your help with the soundblaster live...with your advice i had it up and running in under 30 minutes...thanks a lot all!!! Chad Guilette Hi Chad, Just wandering, How does it it sound under Linux? I have been thinking of getting an SB Live but was not sure if it would be worth the investment. What is your esessment of it's sound under Linux? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
Have you downloaded the modules from creatives site ?? If not, get them, then i can CC a recent mail to the list with instructions (or you could look inthe archive - it was only Friday night / saturday morning i sent it !!) Martin. - Original Message - From: chagilt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live I recently installed a Soundblaster Live on my system and went to configure it with Redhat 6.0...but everytime I do so I receive the message "device is busy"any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9
For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:29 AM Subject: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9 Have any one working SBlive with with mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.9 if so please help to make it work please. Thanks in advance... Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]
Hi, Checked out the new driver - not much luck if i used the one for kernel 2.2.10 - not all that surprising really as 2.2.9-19 is LOWER than that one !! (The CD player stuff works fine, but as soon as i play an MP3 which will use the wave table support (??) it breaks and needs a reboot - an unclean one at that). If, however you use the one called 'emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15' everything seems to work fine. Is it just my over keen imagination or does the SBLive start to sound better out of 4 speakers now than with the previous driver - starting to sound as good as it does under windows now - anyone else comment on this ?? Okay - do the following (exactly everything Creative recommend you _DONT_ do, so i take no responsibilty for this ;-) it works fine for me tho!) DO IT ALL AS ROOT (su -) Untar/zip the file from creative. 'cp emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/emu10k1.o' Remove any existing sound lines from conf.modules Add the following... 'alias sound emu10k1' 'options emu10k1 -f' 'pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore' 'post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore' Save the file reboot. Instead of rebooting you could come out of X and then do... 'rmmod soundcore' 'rmmod sblive' (or whatever your old module was called) 'insmod -f emu10k1' For reference my conf.modules can be found at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm Check out the whole site if you like www.whitem.demon.co.uk you might find something else of interest there !! Good luck, Martin. PS: I can still send the old version if you really want, but you shouldn't need it the new one seems to work handsomly. - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] I really thanks Martin ans sorry about my little english, I need some help with this becuse I downloaded the files from Cretive labs page: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and the files are: README mod_conf install_emu10k1 emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 emu10k1.o-2.2.10 emu10k1.o-2.0.36 My firs problem after read the "README" file was "install_emu10k1" did't work and I tried manual installation. Please tell me if my steps have mistakes: 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) I did it the driversare in "/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc" 2. Copy the appropriate driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) I tried it butwhat is the right file? for my kernel version? 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore May be here is the problem, how must I do it? 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules In my "conf.modules" file are not sound drivers is a file with 3 lines 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") I use "alias sound emu10k1" and the other but doesn't work 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]
See my post re the 2.2.10 version - didn't work with 2.2.9-19 for me i went down to the 2.2.5-15 version - that worked just fine !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] oki, just copy the file emu10k1.o-2.2.10 to /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk rename it to emu10k1.o That's it, that's all the installation it takes to load the module, type modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 then try whathever sound app, it should work You WILL get a warning after insmod -f saying that you have the wrong kernel version, but you can ignore that. Good luck Patrick - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] I really thanks Martin ans sorry about my little english, I need some help with this becuse I downloaded the files from Cretive labs page: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and the files are: README mod_conf install_emu10k1 emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 emu10k1.o-2.2.10 emu10k1.o-2.0.36 My firs problem after read the "README" file was "install_emu10k1" did't work and I tried manual installation. Please tell me if my steps have mistakes: 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) I did it the driversare in "/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc" 2. Copy the appropriate driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) I tried it butwhat is the right file? for my kernel version? 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore May be here is the problem, how must I do it? 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules In my "conf.modules" file are not sound drivers is a file with 3 lines 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") I use "alias sound emu10k1" and the other but doesn't work 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3000
You should have three RPMS in total. One is the X server, one is some RUSH libraries (?!), the last is an updated setup program that know of the V3000. Install all the RPMS (in no particular order) using 'rpm -Uvh nnn.rpm' (replace the n's with the rpm names - or if they are the only rpms in the dir do 'rpm -Uvh *rpm'). Then run the setup program - i think it was 'XF86Setup' (case sensitive). You may as well say no to using your existing file as defaults, it won't be any good anyway. The rest is self explanatory, but i can carry on if you need... Martin. - Original Message - From: bfernand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Voodoo 3000 I just installed Linux on a separate partition on my Windows 98 PC. All went well xcept for the video card. Mine is a 3dfx Voodoo 3000 AGP. It came with drivers for Windows. I have located drivers for Linux on the web, but I am not clear as to how to install them. They are in "RPM" format and if anyone can provide pointers as to how to install them I'll be forever grateful. TIA, Ben
[newbie] AHA1542 Scsi
Does anyone know what the options are to get an Adaptec aha1542 card running with Mandrake please (i'm running with all the default options - i/o 330, IRO 11, DMA 5) ? I know the options line is 'aha152x=0x330,11,7,1' (for instance) for an AHA1520, but i can't seem to get the 1542 working using the same method. Thanks in advance. Martin.
[newbie] SCSI Emulation (again)
Hi everyone, Got ide-scsi emulation up and running nicely on my machine using a fresh install of Mandrake 6 (the 2.2.9-19 kernel version), but i want to know if there is a way to prevent the kernel from reporting my CD drives on every LUN on the scsi bus. I know how to do this with a kernel recompile, but want to know if there is a parameter i can supply somewhere to a module to save me recompiling. At the end of the day, it doesn't affect anything, it would just be nice to tidy things up. Martin.
Re: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!
- Original Message - From: Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 2:27 PM Subject: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook! I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia), and it rebooted and ran fine the first time. Since then, I've run Win98 a few times, (It's kinda flakey, but I haven't played with Dosemu or WINE yet). This morning, I started up Linux, and once again it doesn't recognzie the keyboard. I can still boot in single-user mode, where I can see that in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98pcmcia is still there, and S45pcmcia hasn't reappeared. Also, I've also noticed that on the laptop, a P2/233, the Bogomips shown on boot is 115.51 when running off the battery, down from it's 232.61 when plugged in. Is that an indication of something broken in part of the setup, or is it really clocking itself down to 1/2 speed while it runs on the battery? The strange bogomips display could well be down to the fact that some laptops (my Dell Latitude in particular) have a setting in the bios which tell the CPU to slow down, when it's not loaded in order to save the battery. As Linux doesn't use up so much cpu power as windows ;-) - especially on bootup - the cpu's probably really is going that slow at that time. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
- Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Ah now thats handy info, in that case try pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 in your conf.modules I'll check this one out, but again, i'm not sure how relevent it is to the SBLive - can't remember off the top of my head whether it uses DMA, and if it does (do all sound cards ??) what should i do if it uses two. Thankfully i still dual boot, so i can check all this stuff out in Windows. Martin. On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an SBLive which was working perfectly under the basic Mandrake 6 install (ie 2.2.9-19 kernel and basic esound + audio RPMS). Someone at my LUG meeting tonight speculated that in machines with large amounts of memory (64M), the dma channels are re-mapped and this can cause problems with sound cards. I don't know if the observation has merit or not. My sound problems stopped when I swapped my SB16 for and older ESS1688. (I have 128M.) Hoyt
Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
Cheers, i'll try the play command tonight - i guess there's a man page which'll tell what it's going to want to play (a CD, WAV file etc.) As for if it ain't broke etc. - i agree, but someone must have deemed it all broke otherwise they wouldn't have released fixes/updates ;-) Martin. - Original Message - From: J Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 1:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Martin White wrote: Okay folks, I decided to upgrade the kernel and then apply all the updates, then i started to get problems. My sound no longer works when i try to start X - the speakers just violently click away to themselves (i don't know if audio works in a terminal as i never use one - what app could i try to find out?). Like my father always says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Use the 'play' command. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Satellite 4080CDT
A work colleague of mine has just installed Mandrake 6 on his new Toshiba Satellite 4080 CDT. The install went fine (okay, we had to skip the X config as i know the video is only supported by a 'custom' X server i have located for him). After rebooting into run level 3, the keyboard is locked and you can do nothing but hit the power button - networking wasn't setup during install as it uses a PCMCIA card that wasn't listed - so i thought we'd do it later. This means i can't telnet on and change runlevels. I'm at a bit of a loss. If i boot to runlevel 1 using 'linux single' everything is fine (after fixeing the filesystem problems caused by having to hit the power button). But i don't know how to strip out all unnesscary daemons from RL3 - if i run setup from RL1, i only get to set the daemons that i want loaded for RL1. Where do i start to get this up and running for him ?? - any ideas ? Thanks, Martin.
Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 4:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Martin, have u tried out the SBlive drivers for linux from creative labs site? I'm afraid they're the ones that i'm talking about !! [snip]
Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT
The following URL gave me the info to fix the problem... http://www.submm.caltech.edu/~shimpei/laptop/#keyboard Basically what you need to do is boot into the system using 'linux single' at the lilo prompt - don't know how to do this if you're not using lilo, but if you're on the Mandrake list you probably are !! Fix any filesystem problems that have probably caused by having to switch off last time you booted (fsck /dev/hda5 for instance - and answer Y to fixing everything). If you had to fix the disk, reboot, again making sure you go 'linux single' (V IMPORTANT or you could be there all day fixing fs problems). Now, go to the directory /etc/rc.d/rcn.d (where n = the runlevel you wish to use) and do 'mv S45pcmcia S98pcmcia'. This delays the loading of the pcmcia till later in the boot and cures the keyboard problem. Note that you will need to do this every time you make a change to the system daemons with ntsysv or setup - anyone know of a more permanent way ?? Problem solved !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Yants [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT i had the same problem on my 4015CDS... how do u fix this? - Original Message - From: Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Satellite 4080CDT Martin White wrote: A work colleague of mine has just installed Mandrake 6 on his new Toshiba Satellite 4080 CDT. The install went fine (okay, we had to skip the X config as i know the video is only supported by a 'custom' X server i have located for him). After rebooting into run level 3, the keyboard is locked and you can do nothing but hit the power button - networking wasn't setup during install as it uses a PCMCIA card that wasn't listed - so i thought we'd do it later. This means i can't telnet on and change runlevels. I'm at a bit of a loss. If i boot to runlevel 1 using 'linux single' everything is fine (after fixeing the filesystem problems caused by having to hit the power button). But i don't know how to strip out all unnesscary daemons from RL3 - if i run setup from RL1, i only get to set the daemons that i want loaded for RL1. Where do i start to get this up and running for him ?? - any ideas ? Thanks, Martin. Sounds like this is a problem for the whole 40xx series. I've got a 4000CDT with the same trouble. There's a bit of info from someone who had similar problems after upgrading kernels (or adding APMd, he's not sure). The info is the following URL: 'http://www.submm.caltech.edu/~shimpei/laptop/#keyboard' Updating the pcmcia-cs doesn't seem to do any good, and I don't know enough to do either of the other two suggestions.
Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
To all who have offered suggestions on this one, thanks, but i'm still stuck. If i do a 'play my.wav' at the prompt the sample (or a very small snippet of it) just loops until i reboot the pc. Doing an 'insmod -f sblive dmabuf=1' produces an error saying that the symbol wasn't recognised (in fact doing a 'modinfo -p sblive' suggests that it takes no parameters at all!). Downgrading the six audio / esound / sox packages didn't make the slightest difference, but haven't tried downgrading the kernel yet. Where do i go from here - please don't say get another sound card, that's not an option, i actually wanted this one that's why i bought it. Also don't say 'mail creative about releasing the source' - that don't fix my problem neither (well short term anyway). ??? Martin. PS: As 'play' doesn't work, i guess it has nothing to do with esound or X windows.
[newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an SBLive which was working perfectly under the basic Mandrake 6 install (ie 2.2.9-19 kernel and basic esound + audio RPMS). I decided to upgrade the kernel and then apply all the updates, then i started to get problems. My sound no longer works when i try to start X - the speakers just violently click away to themselves (i don't know if audio works in a terminal as i never use one - what app could i try to find out?). I'm about to 'downgrade' first the sound related RPMs and then the kernel RPMs. That is if i can find them on the Mandrake site - i keep leaving the CD at work ! If that doesn't work does anyone know what else could be broken (quite honestly if that doesn't work then it has me beat as it was upgrading them that broke my setup in the first place!!). Has anyone else had any luck with all the upgrades and the SBLive module (with the '-f' to force it). Thanks for any help, this is starting to dive me nuts (as well as this laptop keyboard!). Martin.
Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
- Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 9:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem Okay folks, I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have an SBLive which was working perfectly under the basic Mandrake 6 install (ie 2.2.9-19 kernel and basic esound + audio RPMS). [SNIP] To follow up my own post, it's proving hard to find the original RPMS as all the distro directories seem to have been updated to have the latest updates by now. Strikes me as a bit of strange logic at work there!! - can anyone point me to the original files please? Martin.
Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0
Glad to see someone's managed to work out that you can force the SBLive module to load under all the kernel versions so far (i'm not going to be brave enough to say any kernel!!) Just to add - if you make sure the 'conf.modules' file contains the following lines (the first being the standard one) you can automatically force it on every boot up so nothing ever appears to be wrong ;-) 'alias sound sblive' #Setup alias 'insert sblive insmod -f sblive' #Explicitly tell the kernel to use the insmod -f #command - could be any command you like BTW - am i the only one whose having problems with the SBLive and sound under enlightenment/X windows since upgrading to the 2.2.9-27 kernel ?? It just makes my speakers click away to themselves and X needs to be killed. All worked okay up until the kernel upgrade. I have taken notes of the thread about upgrading various RPMS a while back - does it sound like that would help me? Martin. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0 You will find a SBlive driver at http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux The driver is for 2.0.36 and 2.2.5 kernels but can be made to work using insmod -f sblive. Works flawlessly for me, bu... no midi yet :/ Just folow the manual installation procedure and use the 2.2.5 kernel module. Patrick - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 5:24 PM Subject: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0 Is it possible to have a SoundblasterLive under Mandrake6.0? There is a driver for SBLive, but just for kernelversions 2.0.36 and 2.2.5. Is it possible to use these drivers, and how can this be done!? I also tried to set up a 2.2.5kernel, but it doesn´t boot properly. I think the problems are caused during the loading of the modules. Is it possible to run different kernels of different kernelversions on the same system!? Can anybody help me with this! thanks stefan
Re: [newbie] Games in this Linux distribution
Don't know if you're interested as it is a little bit of a dodgy subject at the moment ;-), but UltraHLE - that infamous N64 emulator works flawlessly under Wine (well for me anyway). I was absolutely gobsmacked when i saw it working!! I will say tho, it took some installing - you MUST have a Glide compatible card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3 in a PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda - Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Games in this Linux distribution On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Richard Salts wrote: Other than the demo QuakeII that comes with the boxed version of Linux, is it possible to play very many games on this OS? you can actually play loadsa games under linux GET QUAKE3 the test version!!! it kicks ass. (www.quakearena.com)...it is only availible for down load right now..I mean you can't get it on cd...and it is big..and it does require a GL 3d accelerator...and it don't crash like the windows version! As for emulation, I dunno if wine or such like will be able to handel DOS games like quake and duke nukem.? anyway places you should go: http://www.linuxgames.com/ http://happypenguin.org/ http://www.planetquake.com/linux/ have fun Al.
Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation
I meant to get this site completed over the weekend, but ended up partying at a club instead, so give me till the end of the week and step by step instructions will be at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm It really is easy. Martin. (I stress, there's nothing much useful there yet, i'll mail again when there is) - Original Message - From: -=Memphis=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 3:07 AM Subject: [newbie] SCSI Emulation How do I do a ATAPI-SCSI simulation in linux? thanx
Re: [newbie] UltraHLE Wine
Okay, I should have known i was asking for that one !! I got it installed after an evening of RPM installing and package building. I can't remember exactly how or where at the moment - i'm at work, but at home i have all the instrauctions printed off including the URLs. Basically there are Glide libraries for Linux and a 3Dfx module (if you want to run a Glide app as non-root). Once you have those installed and built, wine pretty much just ran it. I don't remember having to do any more configuration than just the normal drive locations in the wine config (it was the first time i'd ever used wine - previous attempts two years ago had been pretty fruitless). The more i think about where i got this stuff from the more i think that it MUST have been reliant on a 3Dfx graphics card. I'll get hold of the URLs and post them tommorrow. Martin. - Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] UltraHLE Wine Martin White, you have just made my day (and held back my thesis writing for the time being!) (I have UltraHLE working a treat in win95) ...so let me get this straight... the 3d acceleration actually works with wine. do you have to configure wine to use the linux Messa GL drivers or does it use the ones on windows??...or does it just all magicaly work if you just run it?? you say "it took some installing"...do you mean for wine or UltraHLE??? I'd love to hear any tips you have to get it working! Al. -- On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: Don't know if you're interested as it is a little bit of a dodgy subject at the moment ;-), but UltraHLE - that infamous N64 emulator works flawlessly under Wine (well for me anyway). I was absolutely gobsmacked when i saw it working!! I will say tho, it took some installing - you MUST have a Glide compatible card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3 in a PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda - Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] UltraHLE is working with Wine
I don't recall an odd screensize, but then again i was running HLE at 1024x768. Two reasons. I recall somewhere along the instructions that being the recommended resolution, and secondly that's the resolution of my X server, and , again i seem to recall something somewhere (maybe in HLE this time) that said it could give a performance gain to use the same resolution as your desktop - no idea why !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 2:41 PM Subject: [newbie] UltraHLE is working with Wine Don't trouble yourself Martin..unless anyone else wants the stuff... I just took an early lunch and tried it out at home and it worked staright off!! ...but yep, only root can run it, so I probably need that 3dfx module to run glide as non root. did you notice a bit of an odd screen size??...I should've checked to see what res it was running in..prolly just need to adjust my monitor disp[lay size or something. Al. __- On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: Okay, I should have known i was asking for that one !! I got it installed after an evening of RPM installing and package building. I can't remember exactly how or where at the moment - i'm at work, but at home i have all the instrauctions printed off including the URLs. Basically there are Glide libraries for Linux and a 3Dfx module (if you want to run a Glide app as non-root). Once you have those installed and built, wine pretty much just ran it. I don't remember having to do any more configuration than just the normal drive locations in the wine config (it was the first time i'd ever used wine - previous attempts two years ago had been pretty fruitless). The more i think about where i got this stuff from the more i think that it MUST have been reliant on a 3Dfx graphics card. I'll get hold of the URLs and post them tommorrow. Martin. - Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] UltraHLE Wine Martin White, you have just made my day (and held back my thesis writing for the time being!) (I have UltraHLE working a treat in win95) ...so let me get this straight... the 3d acceleration actually works with wine. do you have to configure wine to use the linux Messa GL drivers or does it use the ones on windows??...or does it just all magicaly work if you just run it?? you say "it took some installing"...do you mean for wine or UltraHLE??? I'd love to hear any tips you have to get it working! Al. -- On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: Don't know if you're interested as it is a little bit of a dodgy subject at the moment ;-), but UltraHLE - that infamous N64 emulator works flawlessly under Wine (well for me anyway). I was absolutely gobsmacked when i saw it working!! I will say tho, it took some installing - you MUST have a Glide compatible card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3 in a PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda - Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt
You need to change your FSTAB entries to point to the new scsi emulated CD's, ie - something along the lines of: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdwriter etc. etc. /dev/sr1/mnt/cdreaderetc. etc. Also if you use graphical mounting via icons under KDE or Gnome, you will need to do the same there. As far as the kernel size is concerned when you recompiled, did you do a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'. Since kernel 2.2.x i have not been able to get a kernel small enough without doing the bzImage, but i've not yet had problems where i've had to sacrifice stuff to module status. You don't have to do anything else different apart from the make command above. Martin.
Re: [newbie] wine
Caught me out too only the other night ! When i saw the MANDRAKE_PARTC etc, i assumed i had to set environment variables of these names pointing to where i really wanted them to be, but still no luck. Turns out substituting the text for the real paths (as root) in '/etc/wine.conf' or '~/.winerc' (make a copy of /etc/wine.conf called that) if you want per user configuration. Typical paths might be : For 'MANDRAKE_FLOPPY' substitute '/dev/fd0' For 'MANDRAKE_PARTC' i used '/win' (as that's where my windows dir is mounted). Follow this through to the end of the file (there's a couple more in there somewhere) and you should get things working. This _MAY_ not be how it's meant to be, but it certainly worked for me. Martin. PS: Again, i may be wrong, but i think you _MUST_ specify a program to run. Try 'wine notepad' as a starting point as that one's worked for eons. - Original Message - From: John Mandeville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:17 PM Subject: [newbie] wine how do i get wine to work this is what happens. i have mandrake 6 root@localhost /root]# wine Could not stat MANDRAKE_FLOPPY, ignoring drive A: Could not stat MANDRAKE_PARTC, ignoring drive C: Could not stat MANDRAKE_CDPATH, ignoring drive D: Invalid path'MANDRAKE_WINDIR\' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is either /etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc or it is determined by the-config option or from the WINE_INI environment variable. Wine has used /etc/wine.conf as configuration file.
Re: [newbie] Re: XwinPro
- Original Message - From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Re: XwinPro ...To who ever it was that posted the thing about Xwin pro don't know if I've misunderstood you, but this and other sinilar software is to connect a windows pc to a REMOTE unix system as far as I know you can't connect your windows system to your own linux system if it's all on the same disk.you can't have 2 OS's running at the same time on the same disk ...I don't think. (someone 'll prolly prove me wrong!) Not going to harp on about this as it wasn't the point of the original post, but you can run two OS's at the same time - checkout http://www.vmware.com Currently allows you to run another OS from Linux (not just Win95/98/NT, but also OS/2, DOS, etc.), and shortly to be released, a version that will allow another OS from within NT. Need a pretty beefy spec PC tho (and yes i believe it only runs on PC's, not Sparcs etc.)! Oh yeah, and the two OS's can act like they think they are two seperate PCs on your own private little LAN if you wish !! ...oh and another thing, I wouldn't advise connecting a windows machine in a place where there are lots of other windows machines,to a unix server and running a cool window manager like enlightenment. ...as you'll be hounded by people going "ooo, what's that, that looks cool" "can you show me how to do that.." I thought that was the whole idea ;-) The more people see cool desktop environments like enlightenment (and yes i'm, afraid i do prefer it over KDE, always have done - just couldn't be bothered with configuring it since i tried DR0.9), the more people are likely to show an interest in Linux. Okay, there's plenty more to a decent OS than a cool working environment (or playing), but that's a major start - anyhows Linux has plenty more anyway !! Martin. PS: I'm in no way connected with vmware, i just think its pretty cool.
Re: [newbie] New kernel?
When you say fixes, do you solely mean fixes or are there new cards supported too (PCMCIA)?? I only ask because my current network card and modem are not supported and if they were, i would upgrade, but as i need to recompile my kernels to include scsi emulation, i wouldn't bother otherwise. Ta, Martin. - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] New kernel? On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that new kernel rpm's are on the ftp site (2.2.9-24). How are these different than the 23 series? PCMCIA fixes and update ac1-ac4 LLaP bero
[newbie] Insmod query
Hi all. I've just managed to get my SBLive card to work using the driver supplied by creative and my new install of Mandrake 6 (kernel 2.2.9). To get it going i had to ignore the instructions from creative and do an 'insmod -f' instead of a 'modprobe'. Okay, it threw up a warning, but the end result works perfectly. Does anyone know how i can force the '-f' on bootup so i don't always have to go to a text terminal as root and insert the module manually before starting X as i do at the moment ?? Martin.
Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake
Just my 2p worth I recently installed RH6 on a new hard disk having rebuilt my PC. Mainly for curiosity as i knew i would blow it away again when Mandrake 6 comes out. The following doesn't work out of the box... 1. BS/DEL problem with X. 2. UK keyboard map requested during install, but don't work. 3. Zip drive not preconfiured on desktop. 4. CD Writer not configured on Desktop (actually never gets detected, only the reader that was in use during install - could this be addressed please ??) 5. No user mount/dismount on devices. 6. No ftp access to machine by default. Now i'm not asking for help with these things (i can't be bothered, i'm only binding time until Mandrake 6 comes out) - i could fix them all very easily, but that's not the point newbies might not be able to !! The point is, this is only a small list as i'm not using the box in question at the moment, there were a lot more 'niggly' things. I can guarantee when Mandrake 6 comes out all bar one of these will not need to be done on my next install. Need i say more... Martin. - Original Message - From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 11:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake Dear folks: I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he said: "Mandrake is dead. The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate KDE with RedHat. Now that RedHat has KDE as an option, what's the need for Mandrake?" In response I muttered a couple of things about extra tidbits that come with Mandrake but I did not sound very convincing, even to myself. I think that Mandrake needs a new mission statement or manifesto; what's present on the website is no longer satisfactory. I want to stick with Mandrake in part because I believe that RedHat's former anti-KDE attitude truly hurt (or at least slowed down) the Linux cause and I do not really want to reward them for merely caving in to the pressure that distros like Mandrake put them under. Unless Mandrake Linux convincingly and clearly reassesses its raison d'etre and redirects its focus to present and potential members of the Linux community, I am afraid that this wonderful distro will indeed become irrelevant. Now it may be that the leaders of the Mandrake organization are clear about this, but the info on the web page (e.g. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpolicy.html and http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ffaq.html ) does not reflect this in a coherent and convincing way. Best wishes to all Idris
Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake
- Original Message - From: Philip Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake I agree Redhat 6.0 has problems but again these can be addressed and fixed by RedHat so lets find another reason to keep Mandrake around as a distro!!! Mandrake can't keep coming out with versions that just fix or beautify RedHat and still be considered a player in the distribution wars!! Please MandrakeSoft brainstorm and come up with an idea that will make Mandrake a bit more unique!!! I'm really not sure i want to start any kind of 'whos better than who' thread here (but i'm going to anyway!). It's up to Mandrakesoft to defend themselves on this one - after all it makes no odds to me which distribution i use as long as it suits me. All i really meant is that personally i find Mandrake to be more configured the way i want as standard (and slightly more polished to boot). That in turn saves me time and ultimately money. If two shops were selling the same item of clothing, one fitted you slightly better, and was available cheaper and easier (for me anyway) then you wouldn't complain about the cheaper one existing then - would you ? .Why not have the same item available from more than one place? Obviously you can then go on to look at the differences in distro's in terms of Lothar and all the other things that may or may not be in the pipeline. Over to Mandrakesoft Martin. [SNIP]
Re: [newbie] Anyone used this Main Board??
I've been keeping quiet on this one waiting for identification of the board, but i would second that it sounds like a PCChips M571 motherboard. I couldn't even get the sound/graphics working under windows, so disabled them and installed seperate items, so can't help under Linux ;-( The computer based on that board only lasted in my possesion for a mere 6 months before i junked it. Read into that what you will... Martin. - Original Message - From: Kuraiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Anyone used this Main Board?? [SNIP] favour of a better supported Matrox card). I don't think there would be any distinguishing markings on it though...but it could well be a PCChips board. Regards, -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake
- Original Message - From: Roberto Angelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 7:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake I would burn my CDs on Linux but with a IDE-CDRW as Yahama 4416 the common progs as cdwrite, cdrecord and Gcombust seem not works (and explain that I have to activate the IDE-SCSI emulation). After doing some thinking on this one it looks like even with the newer kernels, a recompile will be required enabling the scsi emulation to get stuff like CDRoast working with IDE drives (shame really). Does anyone know if there is a linux CDR program around that will support ide drives ?? If not, is there anyone out there who fancies doing a recompile of the kernel from a standard mandrake install (might as well wait until version 6), leaving all options as standard, but enable the scsi emulation with a view to producing an RPM for all the people who want scsi emulation but are afraid to do the recompile. I don't mind giving it a go myself as i'm really not shy of these things, but whenever i've done a kernel recompile in the past, lots of other things (mainly networking) have not come back up fully operational ;-(. Martin. Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: [SNIP]
Re: [newbie] SBLive problems (again)
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive problems (again) why dont you just download kernel 2.2.5 from www.kernel.org Could do... i'm wary of doing this as i'm sure there would have been a good reason for the progression from 2.2.5 to 2.2.5-15 - normally bugs - usually security type bugs !! Anyhow, won't solve my problem as when Mandrake 6 come out the web site says it's coming out with kernel 2.2.7 - the proble gets worse. Probably just forget sound for now, but there was a fair bit of talk about the SBLive recently and i wondered if anyone else suffered the same problem. Martin. PS: (to SciFyKid) I _HAVE_ switched off HTML according to the properties of the message in Outlook Express5 anyway, if the mail clients putting some in when i specifically tell it not too, not a great deal i can do about that - sorry.
Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake
I am about to install RH6 onto my PC this morning. This uses kernel 2.2.5 (i think) and i have a Philips CDD3610 IDE CDR so i'll let you know how i get on later... Martin. - Original Message - From: Roberto Angelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake Kertesz Imre [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: Unfortunately, the operation will require a recompile of the kernel. 1. Make sure that you have a current source tree (it's in /usr/src/linux) Hi, there is a good chance that with 2.2.5 version of kernel and after there no need to be recompile kernel. I suppose it to see the strange mode of acces to my yamaha 4416 EIDE. If someone can adds more, do it please. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited
Long post follows (sorry)... Obviously this is off topic, but since you're asking, i just installed RH6 as a test system at work while i wait for Mandrake 6. I did the same as you and had a look at Gnome, after logging out and logging back in again this time specifying KDE it now remembers this as my users default. [Anyone not interesed in how this was done can stop here!!]... I did make a change to the system however - the GDM xdm clone seemed to be broken as far as XDMCP broadcasts were concerned (no 177 packets being sent out), so i changed back to KDM (as this is what i know and love) and XDMCP started working. It was after this change that i noticed that my default window manager was remembered. To make the change, there is a symbolic link in '/etc/X11' which points 'prefdm' to '../../usr/bin/gdm' rename this out of the way and create a symbolic link that points prefdm to '../../usr/bin/kdm'. Reboot the machine (unfortunately just switching run levels didn't work), and all will be back, but with KDM as your X login. As someone else commented earlier, it's damn annoying that RH have not installed KDE to /opt/bin like the rest of the world (or is it just me). Haven't fully worked out the consequences of this yet... Martin. - Original Message - From: Arnold Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 4:26 PM Subject: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited I just installed RedHat 6.0 on my system and I'm pretty impressed with it! I can only imagine what Mandrake 6.0 will be like when released!! :) I noticed some of you had tried RH6 and was wondering if you knew how to change the "default" X Windows Manager when you use the XDM to log in? The default is Gnome, of course. I don't mind having to manually switch to KDE, but would like to know how to make it the default without having to go through the extra "work". I've only looked at Gnome for a brief moment (when I decided to see which X was "default") and it looks basically like a "Gnome-ified" version of KDE. :) Hope someone can help. Thanks! Arnold ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support Buy a TNT2 Ultra instead...it is alot better. An it is definately supported. This is going to get a little off topic, so i apologise in advance: What is it that's better about a TNT2 Ultra ?? (obviously i am open to choice on which exact card i go for, but i'm building a no holds barred system, so i don't want to buy a complete donkey!!) I specifically wanted to run the UltraHLE emulator, which specifies that best performance is gained using a Voodoo2/Banshee card which is what influenced my choice of Voodoo3. Any ideas if it would would be any good with a TNT2 Ultra and Glide wrappers instead of the recommended Voodoo2??. Again apologies for the off topic content - replies direct to me welcome for the sanity of the rest of the mailing list !! Martin.
[newbie] Voodoo3 support
Before i go and buy one, does anyone know if the new 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video card is supported under Linux (XFree86 in particular) ?? My decision on going for this card is based on Win98 gaming so i gues i'll buy one anyway, but it would be nice if i don't need to trash my Linux system too (especially as the SBLive drivers are now out). Martin.
Re: [newbie] Mounting SCSI ZIP
[SNIP] Now that I have my SCSI card and ZIP drive recognized on boot, how do I mount it? I know that I can use hd for hardrives and fd for floppy drives, but what is a SCSI removable disk drive? Will the mounting automatically sense the FAT16 partition on the ZIP and load VFAT? [SNIP] As per the other replies on the list, you must know which device your zip disk is. If it is the only scsi drive in your system it will be /dev/sda4 if it's the second, /dev/sdb4 and so on. By far and away the easiest method to setting this up is to edit your fstab file (found in /etc). Add the following line (changing the partition and the mount point as required): /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipvfatuser,noauto 0 0 All the parameters are seperated by tabs (difficult to do in email). The vfat allows you to use long filenames (case sensitive) if you wish and will mean your zip disks are readable as a Win95/98 Fat32 disk, but can also happily be read in Linux. The user,noauto means any user can mount/unmount the disks, the noauto means don't try to mount any present disk on bootup (simply remove if you'd rather this did happen). Once you've added this line (as root), you can simply type at the command prompt 'mount /mnt/zip' - the system will look into /etc/fstab to find out what to do so you don't need to tell it every time. Of course as this is a Mandrake list, what you should really do is to add an icon on your desktop, but thats really straightforward and this emails getting long, so if you want to do that and don't know how send another post Regards, Martin.
Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives
- Original Message - From: hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 4:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives Is your SCSI card an Adaptec 1520b? I am having problems getting mine to work, when it asks me if I have any SCSI cards, I say yes, then autoprobe, then it tells me it cannot find it.. Any tips? [SNIP] Well, i don't think my card was a 1520b, but then again i beleive the only difference between the 1520 and the 1520b was the addition of the scsi floppy interface, so my details should work. You can try several things. The easiest is to select 'specify options' and when prompted the parameter is (all on one line): 'aha152x=0xI/O,IRQ,ID OF HOST,1' (don't remember what the 1 stood for !!). In my case the line was 'aha152x=0x340,10,7,1'. I seem to think that this is not a particularly unusual setup. Another way which SHOULD work is to add this to the boot prompt and things should then auto detect, but i can't remember exactly what the syntax is for this - something like 'linux append='aha152x,0x340,10,7,1' '. If this way works for you then you must put the append= part into your lilo.conf and rerun lilo after installation. Try the first method, it'll probably be far easier. Regards, Martin. PS: I'll CC this to the mailing list as it doesn't sound like you are the only person experiencing problems here.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
- Original Message - Martin White wrote: Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? [SNIP] There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux hacker to do it but so far no working driver yet. Not even beta. So I guess we'll have to wait. I'm in the same boat in this regard. [SNIP] This is not good news - although the fact that someone seems to know what is going on is sort of good news !! Where would i look to try and keep up to date with progress on this one ?. I'm not really using Linux much at the moment (i tend to go backwards and forwards between Win98 and Mandrake), but i don't want to rule out going back to it when my mood takes me just because of no support for my sound card. However, if you have the other SB cards (The PCI, Ensoniq chip, AWE32/64, 16 etc) they should all work with no problems. The only part that seems to have problems is MIDI. Regards, I certainly do. Until i sell on my PC and finish building my new one i have an old Awe64 which was working happily for my purposes (and to be honest i thought it sounded better in Linux than Win98 ?!?). Is there likely to be any issues with having both running in the PC at the same time, or should i just forget about sound for the moment - i only really use it to listen to CD's under Linux. Win98's a different matter tho. [SNIP] Regard, Martin.
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives
[SNIP] Ahh I need. I didn't relieze you had to supply this info... Okay, i'm off home shortly, i'll look it up and send it on in the morning... [SNIP]
Re: [[newbie] modem troubles]
Absolutely - unless the situations changed and someone has written some Linux drivers, the modem relies on Windows to take on some of the functionality of the modem. The answer to the question has therefore always been - no, it won't work - sorry it's so negative !!. Martin. -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09 April 1999 12:06 Subject: Re: [[newbie] modem troubles] "jon kyle pula" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems using my modem in linux. I have a U.S. Robotics 56k Voice Win modem. Is there a chance linux incompatible with my modem? thanks, kyle "Win" modems are usually NOT compatible with Linux (or any other nonMS OS for that matter) :-( Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] This list and Outlook
Yesterday (or the day before) there was a mild flame on the list about people using Outlook and their quotes being at the end of the message. I'm using the new Outlook 5 at work (comes with IE5) and can't find the option to switch this behaviour to what was suggested (quoted text first). Anybody else noticed this and if so any idea where the option has gone (i'm sure it used to be present in older versions) ??? Till then please excuse any posts i may make !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] ext2 filesystem
I would agree with everyone else that an hour and a half seems a bit excessive, but things can take a VERY long time if you tick the option to check for bad blocks during format (which incidentally i would recommend the first time you create an EXT2 partition). I would also agree that just retrying it should do the trick. As for the directory situation, yes, everything will be created for you. Martin. - Original Message - From: Sam Bonham To: newbie Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 7:08 AM Subject: [newbie] ext2 filesystem I let Making ext2 filesytem on /dev/hdb1 run for an hour and a half ona new 3.2G. I have a P166, 48 RAM, Ultra HD. The filesystem never didfinish, it continued to read Runnng. Did I wait long enough, if sowhat can I do to fix the problem? In the two books and Mandrake user guide and HOWTO, I can't find theanswer to the question? Will all the directories be made automaticallywhen the programs are installed during setup or do they need to be mademanually when partitioning the root?As always thanks for the helpSam
