[newbie] Getting more Icons for KDE
I can add new applications to the KDE desktop OK. However, when I want to select an Icon for it, I am given a choice (I don't know where they come from). I would like to use something more representative of the actual application (like the "real" WordPerfect and StarOffice Icons). Anyone know how to do this? Thanks. Murray Strome
[newbie] Video setup failure with 7.02
I wonder if anyone can help me with this one: I have a Celeron 466 with 64 MBytes of RAM, two hard drives (one dedicated to Windows and the second with 1 GB a Windows partition and 3 GB for LINUX), a CL-GD5465 video card with 4 MB and a NEC MultiSync XV17+ monitor, and an Ethernet card plus cablemodem. MANDRAKE 7.02 (Mandrake iso image download) This has a VERY slick interface. No problem assigning mount points to existing LINUX partitions. While the mouse choice is small, and my exact one is not there, I can find one close enough to work. The custom install lets you pick the individual packages, but at the end, it just automatically installs all the packages that are dependent on what you have selected, and does not tell you what it has done. There does not seem to be a one-to-one correlation between what you select and what you get. E.g. I did NOT want NFS server, but it got loaded anyway. I did select XF86Setup, but it was NOT installed. After the last Install attempt, I tried to get XF86Setup off the CD-ROM, but got the error message "no driver installed"! Whether I do a new install or try to upgrade from the Macmillan Mandrake 6.0, I get the same problem at the very end (after over an hour during an upgrade, 45 minutes on an install). It tries to configure the video and hangs up with an error message something like: "cannot use undefined ARRAY". If I click "OK", I just end up at the same place. The last time I tried to update, on the left hand side, there was no button at the bottom to "Exit Install". I am not sure what I had done differently, somehow I was able to exit install and, perhaps after rebooting, using xf86config, I was ONCE able to get some kind of screen, but not acceptable. I THINK XF86Setup is supposed to be easier, but despite selecting it, it was NOT installed. On one attempt, by rebooting at this stage and copying the XF86Config file generated by Macmillan Mandrake 6.0 to /etc/X11, I was able to get the windows sort of working but lots of other things were wrong. I am back to the Macmillan distribution of Mandrake 6.0 until I figure out how to get 7.02 working. Just for comparison: MANDRAKE 6.0 (MacMillan Distribution) -- the ONLY LINUX distribution to install cleanly for me!! I have tried RedHat, Slackware and Corel, all failing at the video setup (and with Corel, the partitioning). This works very smoothly, although it is not as "slick". Like most others, it sets up the mouse and keyboard first (this one is the ONLY one I have seen which actually lets me select my EXACT mouse - Logitech FirstMouse3+ PS/2). As with 7.02 I can just use existing LINUX partitions by editing them to set the mount points and then formatting them. In custom mode, it lets you pick all the packages individually, and tells you what each does so you can make a semi-intelligent decision, like 7.02. When you have finished selecting, it tells you what, if any, other packages must be installed to satisfy dependencies. At that point, you can either choose to let it go ahead and install those extra packages or you can go back and deselect the modules identified as needing others (e.g. if module A requires module B, which you had not selected, you can either go ahead and both AB will be installed, or you can go back and deselect A). After configuring the printer and Ethernet card comes the part which sets this distribution apart from all others! It actually detects my video card. It then gives me a long list of monitors, and the NEC MultiSync XV17+ is one of the choices on the list. It then lets me set up the screen size I want (I choose 800x600 24bit colour). It then starts X-windows with a little box which asks me to click on it if I can see it. It then tells me to reboot, and I am up and running. -- CONCLUSION I wish ALL distributions could have as smooth a video setup as the Macmillan Mandrake 6.0 distribution! One good thing about Corel is that the video setup is at the beginning, so when it fails you haven't spent over an hour installing as is the case with Mandrake 7.02. I have not been able to make their partitioning system work with Corel (you cannot just use existing partitions, assign mount points and reformat) Thanks for any suggestions. Murray Strome
Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help
I had this same problem, and I did get a response from Star Office saying that I had to install it in the user account(s) from which I wanted to use it. Perhaps someone has a better solution, but since I did not have many accounts where it would be used, that is what I did. Joe Brault wrote: I have downloaded staroffice while logged in as the root user, and would now like to use it in my user account, but do not know how to make it available to this user. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! Joe :) -- Murray Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help
Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed in one user account. Chris Herrnberger wrote: For multi-user installation (check the license first though) log in as root. cd to the directory where so501 directory is located then as root start the installation with ./setup /net Note the space. Install the program into say /opt/SOffice51 Then log in as user say "filbert" and cd to /opt/Soffice/bin and run ./setup The install program will allow you several options, use the option that installs the minimal files to your home directory 'filbert' This method was originally posted with 4.3 and still work at this end. Good luck Chris Murray Strome wrote: I had this same problem, and I did get a response from Star Office saying that I had to install it in the user account(s) from which I wanted to use it. Perhaps someone has a better solution, but since I did not have many accounts where it would be used, that is what I did. Joe Brault wrote: I have downloaded staroffice while logged in as the root user, and would now like to use it in my user account, but do not know how to make it available to this user. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! Joe :) -- Murray Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] I'm Ready To Buy The OSS Driver... But, Where?
Try http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi for the download. The home page is http://www.opensound.com-- not http://www.4front-tech.com Murray Sevatio Octavio wrote: I went to http://www.4front-tech.com but I can't get on their "download" or "purchase" page. Does anyone know if there is another site that could supply this driver? Desperate Seve
Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
I will second this recommendation. You can try it out before you buy it to make sure it works. I have succeeded in getting most of the sound things to work (including KDE CD Player, RealPlayer G2 and playing .MID and .WAV files) , but not UMP with Netscape. If anyone can help with that I would appreciate it. Murray Steve Philp wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car. Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the greater evil... so back to pounding out this wheel. If you have problems getting sndconfig to work for your sound card, you might take a look at the OSS drivers. They're $20, but I've _NEVER_ had a problem getting them to work. Installation time is around 10 minutes. I highly recommend them.
[newbie] Printing and KEdit or cat file | lpr
I asked this question before, but did not receive an answer When I print from KEdit, or if I do cat file | lpr nothing prints right away, and there is nothing in the queue. If I then print something else (even a blank page) from other applications (e.g. Netscape, Star Office, WordPerfect), whatever I had tried to print earlier gets printed, then the application document. What is wrong with what I am trying to do with KEdit or lpr? Thanks for your help. Murray
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
I searched through the newbie archive and could not find your step-by-step instructions. Did you post them somewhere else? Murray Strome Steve Philp wrote: Check the archives at the Mandrake site. I posted step-by-step instructions for installing the G2 Real Player a couple weeks ago. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Startup Services
A week or two ago, instructions were given on how to set what you wanted to be started when booting. Unfortunately, I have lost the E-mail which gave this information, and I have not been able to figure it out again for myself. I could not find it on the newbie archives. I would appreciate it if someone could resurrect the information and send it to me again. Thanks. Murray Strome
Re: [newbie] Charset
I am interested in this one, as while I don't get this message while I am running, whenever I shutdown, I get a whole list of messages (they go by too fast for me to copied them exactaly), but like "wrong charset [FAILED]" -- I assume this is related somehow to the problem below. "David P. Greenberg" wrote: --Hi guys, next Linux challenge. When I open a file in my /home directory called xsession-errors I get the following: QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified QSocketNotifier: Internal error KCharset: Wrong charset! Everything appears to be working fine, of course I wouldn't really know if it wasn't. What should I do to get rid of these errors? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **It was gonna be done in Septober, then Octember, now it's Novunder.** -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Modem
Sorry, a typo!! The modem IS connected to COM2 (ttyS1 in LINUX). Dan Brown wrote: Murray Strome wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Sep 14 07:52 /dev/modem - ttyS1 (the modem is on COM1). Well, this is one problem--ttyS1 is com2; you'd need to change the link to ttyS0. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
[newbie] Modem
Thanks to some of the recent postings, I was able to figure out that I can use modemtool to start the setup of my modem, and it looked like it did things OK. I had already tried to use minicom before. I did not get it going yet. However, now when I try, I get "/dev/modem locked". How do I clear that? I have an external GVC 56K modem, and the TR light is flashing slowly. I tried turning it off and back on, but that did not change the locked status. If I ls -l /dev/modem, this what I get: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Sep 14 07:52 /dev/modem - ttyS1 (the modem is on COM1). Thanks for any help. --
Re: [newbie] Digital Research Sound Card Problem
I suggest you look into the Open Sound Systems' driver ( http://www.opensound.com/lynxos.html ). If it works, you will eventually have to pay for it, but it was the only way I could get my sound card to work. Murray Strome "Joseph L. Czapiewski" wrote: When using 'sndconfig' to set up audio, it identifies my DRRESEARCH as a Ensonic AudioPCI sound card, but cannot set it up automatically. When I enter Port, IRQ, and, DMA info, my conputer locks up. The window dispears when I select OK and I am left with the blue background. How do I configure the sound card?
Re: [newbie] Sound stuff
This sounds like the same problem I had setting up my Acer sound card -- the I/O addresses in Windows did not match any of the choices in sndconfig. I am on the way to a solution with the driver from Open Sound Systems: http://www.opensound.com/lynxos.html Their driver can be downloaded for trial. It did get my sound card working (with Timidity, I can play MIDI files, with oss/play I can play WAVE files, and the KDE CD Player works). I have not gotten UMP or RealPlayer to work with Netscape yet. It is a pain, but at least I can download MIDI or WAVE files and play them. For the trial, you can only use it for 20 minute sessions. You have to turn the sound on, then off. You can then turn the sound back on for another 20 minutes. If the driver works for you, to make it permanent, you have to pay $20 US to OSS. At least that is less expensive than buying a new card. Good luck. Murray Westbrook wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if someone can help me with the sound configuration in Linux Mandrake 6.0 I have a Yamaha SYXG50. I am told it is a YMF 724 chip set, but windows recognizes it as OPL3-SA2/3/x which is one of the options in 'sndconfig'. It then asks me to set certain specs: (6 columns) Column #1: I/O Port 0x530 0x534 0x604 0xe80 0xf40 Column #2: IRQ 5 7 9 10 11 12 15 Column #3: DMA 1 0 1 3 Column #4: DMA 2 0 1 3 Column #5: MPU I/O 0x330 0x300 Column #6 Control I/O 0x370 0x380 Here are the Win98 setting for the same card: Interrupt Request 09 Direct Memory Access 01 Input/Output Range 0220-022F Input/Output Range 0388-038F Input/Output Range 0330-0331 Input/Output Range 8000-800F If anyone can decipher any of the above, could you please give me a clue as to what to choose. Thanks Russ
[newbie] UMP and Sound with Netscape
I would like to try again to get some help with UMP in Netscape. I have UMP installed, and it shows up in both my applications and plugins. Whenever I try to connect to a location with MIDI music, I usually get the UMP panel, but I get the message "Cannot open LINUX dsp device", usually repeated three times. To get my sound card working, I had to download the Open Sound Systems driver. Things like the KDE CD player works fine. Also, I can download and play MIDI files by executing the command: timidity -id -c gravis.cfg -L /usr/lib/gravis-patches midifile.mid however, unless I do this as superuser, I get the message: /dev/dsp: Permission denied Couldn't open Linux dsp device (`d') If I log in as root, and go to a MIDI site from Netscape, I get the little UMP panel, and on the first try, I get no error message, but no sound either. In my Preferences/Navigator/Applications, for both audio/midi and audio/x-midi, I have plugin: UNIX MIDI plugin. Under Help/About Plugins, for both midi and x-midi, I have Larry Hoff's UMP plugin version 1.10 which is enabled. The timidity configuration files are in the directory /usr/local/lib/timidity and are set for every to be able to read them (and execute the executable). Can anyone suggest anything else I can do to get this working? -- Murray Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Opening a file with applications from Netscape
Thank you VERY much. That worked perfectly for me! Murray Strome John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: I would like to automatically open MS Office documents with Star Office and WordPerfect documents with WP. In Preferences/Applications, I can select and edit the relevant section. If I put in the pointer to the Application, it opens OK, but the file is not opened. I think I need something else (%h or %p appear in some of the items already filled in by Netscape). It has been too long since I used UNIX to remember how to tell the application to open the file. Ok...I got tired of having to save a PDF to a local file, then open it with xpdf. Here's what I did, and this should be applicable to your situation: I told Netscape to open "portable document files" with the application "/usr/bin/xpdf %s". I would think that you would be able to do the same with *.doc and *.wpd files. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [[newbie] printtool and print quality]
Andy Goth wrote: Are you CERTAIN that below the box with the command lpr, you don't at least get to select between grey-scale and color? For the quality, for my HP Deskjet 670c (using the Deskjet 550, 560C,6xxC, etc. ), I selected the color quality within printtool when I set it up. You mean the bpp? I don't know what the "bpp" is.
Re: [[newbie] printtool and print quality]
OK, yes, I meant color depth and also coding. Andy Goth wrote: You mean the bpp? I don't know what the "bpp" is. Bits per pixel, a.k.a. color depth. I had to set that for the printer. ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] 3 Button Mouse -- Configuration
Yes, I can emulate a three button mouse (by checking the "emulate 3 button mouse" in mouseconfig), but since I really have three buttons on my mouse, I would REALLY prefer to find a way to make the center one work. Jeanette Russo wrote: On this topic if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel can you emulate 3 buttons. If not how can you cut and paste from xterminal? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 3 Button Mouse -- Configuration You need to uncheck "emulate 3-buttons". Since you have 3 buttons you don't need to emulate them. You only check this option if you have a 2 button mouse. Also, if your mouse is not listed then select "generic 3-button" mouse. Brian -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am going to try this again. I feel certain that SOMEONE must know how to configure a 3-button mouse so that the middle button will actually work. I have a Matsonic ADO 101 CE serial mouse connected to COM 1. During installation, I set it up as a Generic 3-button mouse. I later tried selecting "emulate 3 button mouse" using mouseconfig. I also tried a few other settings, but although I can emulate the 3 button action by pressing the left and right keys simultaneously, I have been unable to get the middle button to work. Thanks for your help. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
[newbie] 3 Button Mouse -- Configuration
Hi, I am going to try this again. I feel certain that SOMEONE must know how to configure a 3-button mouse so that the middle button will actually work. I have a Matsonic ADO 101 CE serial mouse connected to COM 1. During installation, I set it up as a Generic 3-button mouse. I later tried selecting "emulate 3 button mouse" using mouseconfig. I also tried a few other settings, but although I can emulate the 3 button action by pressing the left and right keys simultaneously, I have been unable to get the middle button to work. Thanks for your help. Murray Strome
Re: [[newbie] printtool and print quality]
Are you CERTAIN that below the box with the command lpr, you don't at least get to select between grey-scale and color? For the quality, for my HP Deskjet 670c (using the Deskjet 550, 560C,6xxC, etc. ), I selected the color quality within printtool when I set it up. You can edit it later. Where you have the printer, highlight it, and the is a box with something like input filter, and a button which says "SELECT"; if you press that, you should get a whole bunch of options for the settings, you can try some of these (I selected "best quality"). Of course, you have to run printtool as root. Hope this helps. Murray Strome Andy Goth wrote: When you click on "print", you're probably presented with a dialogue box, part of which gives you options for "color" and "quality". Chose "medium" quality (or lower, if you'd like) and BW, if you don't want any color. HTH, Mike No, sorry... when I print it means that lpr is called. I get no such dialog boxes.
[newbie] Opening a file with applications from Netscape
I would like to automatically open MS Office documents with Star Office and WordPerfect documents with WP. In Preferences/Applications, I can select and edit the relevant section. If I put in the pointer to the Application, it opens OK, but the file is not opened. I think I need something else (%h or %p appear in some of the items already filled in by Netscape). It has been too long since I used UNIX to remember how to tell the application to open the file. Can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks. Murray Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Terasound A3d PCI linux driver .
You might try Open Sound Systems: http://www.opensound.com/lynxos.html There driver is not free, but you can try it, and if it works, it is less expensive than buying a new sound card. Murray Strome Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, How can i configure this soundcard to work ? sndconfig did't detect it . where can i find the driver for it ? Thanks -lz __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Netscape address book
A couple of things you might try. As root, save your E-mail addresses in a file. Then copy them to your "/home/user/.netscape" file. Then do a "chown" to change the owner to "user" and possibly do a "chmod +rw" to make sure anyone can read the file. Hope this helps. Murray Strome harry ellis wrote: I sent myself a copy of my email addresses in a letter from my Win98 computer to my Linux computer. I'm pretty sure that when I was root I could click on these addresses while in Netscape and easily transfer them to the Netscape address book. Anyway, my address book is fine in Linux root. But now, in my non-root access, I can't find any way to get them to jump to the address book from a similar letter. I don't know if I'm missing something or the new Netscape 4.61 I downloaded has a problem with this. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Harry -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Problem configuring sound card
I have had similar problems with my Acer FX-3D (AD1816) sound card. The only thing that seems to work is a driver from Open Sound Systems (http://www.opensound.com/lynxos.html) -- I can at least get my KDE CD Player working with that, but have not yet gotten either UMP or RealPlayer to work. The problem with UMP seems to be that something else (probably KDE itself) is using the sound card, as I hear clicking when I press keys. I am not sure what is wrong with RealPlayer. I have downloaded the Beta G2, but have to uninstall RealPlayer 5.03 then install G2 and have not gotten around to it. The main problem with OSS is that when you download it, the license is only for 20 minutes of usage. I have not tried it yet, but they say you can extend the usage for additional 20 minute segments by doing soundoff then soundon. I can get an UMP control panel, with stop, pause and play buttons, but no sound. If you get any positive results, please let me know. Murray Strome "Schmarr, Grant" wrote: Hi all, I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII 450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card). Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371). A dialog appears stating that a sound sample will be played. No sound results. An error message is displayed: Unable to Play Audio The following error occurred playing the sample: sox: Sun/neXT/DEC header doesn't start with magic word Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' It then offers to set up the card manually but with the same result. I've done most of the recommended updates (including kernel-2_2_9-27mdk_i586(1).rpm and the sox rpm update) Has anyone encountered anything similar? I'm trying to determine if it's a hardware issue or a bug. Thanx in advance Grant Schmarr -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX
There is nothing called "realplay" anywhere in my system, nor anything that looks close! Murray John Connell wrote: Should be in /usr/bin/realplay John - Original Message ----- From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:00 AM Subject: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX I should have been paying more attention to previous listings, but I couldn't get my sound card working at all till today. I have I am using Mandrake 6.0. Of the versions of RealPlayer that were listed, it looked to me as if the Red Hat 5.2 version was the most likely to be the proper one. As instructed, I changed the name from rv50_redhat5xi386_rpm to rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm then typed rpm -i rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm (logged in as root) I got no error messages (nor any other messages), so I assume it installed somewhere. However, I don't know where it is, nor what it is called. So how do I get it to work now, or have I done something wrong? Thanks for your help. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
I have had similar problems. For a whole day, every time I booted, I got the Eth0 [FAILED] message. However, the next day, no problems at all. I have no idea what is going on, other than something weird with the Cable Company Server (I did call them, and they said that they had not changed anything). Good luck. Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am unable to get my cable modem going in Mandrake. Every time it gets to the eth0 it fails. I have succesfuly installed the cable modem under RedHat 6 and had no trouble getting it going, tried the same configuration in Mandrake and it fails on the eth0 on start up. I re-installed RedHat, got it going then upgraded RH to Mandrake, didn`t work. Any suggestions? Sorry if I`m being vague but this is my first experiance with Linux! Gary -- Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
OK I downloaded the Alpha G2. However, I have not yet uninstalled the old rvplayer (as I really don't know the correct procedure to delete it cleanly -- can you help?) Until I have deleted the old version, I will hold off on installing G2. Murray pete moss wrote: uninstall what you have and go to the website listed below to get what you want. dont go to any other page! then follow the setup directions given below and it should work right. you dont currently have the same version everyone else is talking about. :P Murray Strome wrote: I originally installed RealPlayer 5 using rpm -i package nothing seemed to happen I tried again to install it using rpm -Uvh It said that "rvplayer 5.03 is already installed" (rvplayer is in /usr/bin and is executable). I set up the preferences as you suggested. In Netscape, I get an error box: Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '" sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file OK I had earlier tried to set the application to /usr/bin/rvplayer I did not get any error message or anything, but nothing happened (at least no sound and no RealPlayer console like you get in Windows). Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html I can confirm that the package works well. 1) Download the package. 2) 'su' to root 3) rpm -Uvh package 4) Exit from root 5) Open Netscape 6) Click Edit, Preferences, Navigator, Applications 7) Find RealAudio and highlight it, click Edit 8) In the suffixes box, make sure it reads 'ra,ram,rm' 9) Click the Application radio button and enter 'realplay %s' 10) Click OK to close the window 11) Click OK to close the Preferences window 12) Close Netscape 13) Reopen Netscape Waa laa! RealPlayer baby! \ Was indeed, real audio is one of my favorite programs. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
I guess it was RealPlayer 5.0 for LINUX (not G2 -- I found it by searching for G2). Still the question is, after I installed it using rpm -- where is it? JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Sound Card and UMP (plus timidity) plug-in for Netscape
Thanks for your suggestion. I finally got things set up so that the timidity directory is in the right place, now I get a box labelled: Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) Couldn't open Linux dsp device Couldn't open Linux dsp device Couldn't open Linux dsp device What do I do now? Ken Wilson wrote: If you want the TIMID-DIR environment variable to be available to all users on your system, put these lines in /etc/profile TIMID-DIR=/usr/lib/netscape/usr/local/lib/timidity export TIMID-DIR If just you or a few users need it, put the same lines in everyone's .bash_profile file in their home directories instead of in /etc/profile. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Murray Strome Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:30 PM To: LINUX Newbie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card and UMP (plus timidity) plug-in for Netscape snip Actually (and I don't really know how it got there), it is in /usr/lib/netscape/usr/local/lib/timidity The instructions then say to set the TIMID-DIR environment variable to the name of the alternative directory. I am not very familiar with bash (which is my shell) -- sort of the default for Mandrake, and I cannot figure out how to do this. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
I originally installed RealPlayer 5 using rpm -i package nothing seemed to happen I tried again to install it using rpm -Uvh It said that "rvplayer 5.03 is already installed" (rvplayer is in /usr/bin and is executable). I set up the preferences as you suggested. In Netscape, I get an error box: Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '" sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file OK I had earlier tried to set the application to /usr/bin/rvplayer I did not get any error message or anything, but nothing happened (at least no sound and no RealPlayer console like you get in Windows). Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html I can confirm that the package works well. 1) Download the package. 2) 'su' to root 3) rpm -Uvh package 4) Exit from root 5) Open Netscape 6) Click Edit, Preferences, Navigator, Applications 7) Find RealAudio and highlight it, click Edit 8) In the suffixes box, make sure it reads 'ra,ram,rm' 9) Click the Application radio button and enter 'realplay %s' 10) Click OK to close the window 11) Click OK to close the Preferences window 12) Close Netscape 13) Reopen Netscape Waa laa! RealPlayer baby! \ Was indeed, real audio is one of my favorite programs. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
It looks like, in my machine, the program (rvplayer) is in /usr/bin. There are two files in /usr/lib/rvplayer: rvplayer.ad and rvplayer.rm (which look like realplayer sound files). I set up Netscape with the application at /usr/bin/rvplayer. When I click on a RealPlayer location (such as www.king.org: listen to KING with RealPlayer 5.0), there is a short message at the bottom of the screen saying it is downloading, but nothing happens -- no sound and no RealPlayer console like I get in Windows. Any other ideas anyone? Thanks Randolph Way wrote: Hi Murray. The symlink's in /usr/bin and the full program's in /usr/lib, at least on my machine. - Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 I guess it was RealPlayer 5.0 for LINUX (not G2 -- I found it by searching for G2). Still the question is, after I installed it using rpm -- where is it? JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Sound Card and UMP (plus timidity) plug-in for Netscape
lsof /dev/dsp gives: bash: lsof: command not found ls -l /dev/dsp gives: crw--- 1 murray root 14, 3 May 5 1998 /dev/dsp Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Murray Strome wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. I finally got things set up so that the timidity directory is in the right place, now I get a box labelled: Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) Couldn't open Linux dsp device Couldn't open Linux dsp device Couldn't open Linux dsp device What do I do now? lsof /dev/dsp, and see whats already useing the device. ls -l /dev/dsp, verify you have write,read permissions.
[newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX
I should have been paying more attention to previous listings, but I couldn't get my sound card working at all till today. I have I am using Mandrake 6.0. Of the versions of RealPlayer that were listed, it looked to me as if the Red Hat 5.2 version was the most likely to be the proper one. As instructed, I changed the name from rv50_redhat5xi386_rpm to rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm then typed rpm -i rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm (logged in as root) I got no error messages (nor any other messages), so I assume it installed somewhere. However, I don't know where it is, nor what it is called. So how do I get it to work now, or have I done something wrong? Thanks for your help. Murray Strome
[newbie] Sound Card and UMP (plus timidity) plug-in for Netscape
After serveral postings, I really did not get any help on setting up my Acer FX-3D sound card (AD 1816 based). However, I downloaded and installed the drivers from Open Sound and at least the KDE CD Player works, so I guess I now have sound. I went to a site (www.bluemountain.com) which has music (in Windows usually played by Crescendo). However, there is a plugin called UMP for LINUX. I followed the instructions and downloaded and installed it, as well as something called timidity. However, when I try the bluemountain website, I get a message in Netscape saying "timidity.cfg" no file or directory. Now, in the instructions for UMP, it says this may happen if timidity.cfg is not in the expected directory: /usr/local/lib/timidity Actually (and I don't really know how it got there), it is in /usr/lib/netscape/usr/local/lib/timidity The instructions then say to set the TIMID-DIR environment variable to the name of the alternative directory. I am not very familiar with bash (which is my shell) -- sort of the default for Mandrake, and I cannot figure out how to do this. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [Re: [[newbie] In Search of an Email Client capable of Multiple Accounts]]
Yes, I do log in and out of the separate accounts. It does not take long, and in fact, I find it to be more difficult than what I do in Outlook -- show properties and select the profile I want to use. I know that I can check into the other accounts without doing that, but the problem then is that the E-mail I collect from the other ones ends up in the "wrong" inbox. Another problem with Outlook that I NEVER have with the way I use Netscape in LINUX is that all too frequently, after I have switched accounts a few times, Outlook locks up and I have to log out in Windows and re-login -- which is much more painful and slower than in Linux. Anyway, I find this works best for me. Murray Strome Michael Scottaline wrote: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Netscape for multiple accounts. Basically, I have set up the system with separate users for each account. When I log in to a new user for the first time, I set up Netscape (Edit; Preferences; E-mail/Newsgroups; then Identity and Servers) for that user. Everything works very for me that way (in fact, a LOT better than Outlook, which I use in Windows 98) Murray Strome Murray, Are you saying that you set Messenger up for each of your separate linux accounts? If so, then you have to log into and out of each user account to check e-mail. Or do I misunderstand? Can a single user check multiple POP3 accounts from Messenger?? I didn't think NS Messenger could handle multiple POP3 accounts the way kmail (Or Outlook Express for that matter) can. They'll even periodically check multiple accounts "on the fly". Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
I would like to thank both of you for helping me to solve the problem. Sorry I was
so slow to "get it". It is all fixed up and working fine now.
Murray Strome
RReed wrote:
Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE
control centerapplications...login manager..sessions..then
i believe you want to choose console only
R Reed
Murray Strome wrote:
Hi
-- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration
program which
has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all
the items in the
list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed
to have a
configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere,
I get a message
which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team".
Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look
and help me
find the item. Thanks.
Murray Strome
Aaron deRozario wrote:
I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem.
The Mandrake
login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE
login screen
and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program
(sorry I
can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program
you
use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel).
In there you
will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you
will find a whole
heap of things you can configure. You will find a section
on Shutdown
permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown
button
back on the login screen.
There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called
kde (otherwise
kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker.
I did this creating
two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while
(proabably
a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc).
I'm not
quite sure why that happened.
There is also an option that gives an icon for various users.
This was not
part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for
Caldera.
It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly
slow).
There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup
screen
wallpaper etc).
Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't
have a
linux box in front of me.
Hope this helps.
Aaron
-Original Message-----
From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55
To: LINUX Newbie
Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Can anyone help me with this one?
I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the
system
locked up and nothing
could get it going except to restart it. After this, the
initial box in
KDE is messed up. Until this
happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up
possibilities (such as
KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button
which
allowed one to
shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced
with a similar box
with a large "24" at
the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options
and no button
for
shutdown/restart.
How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things
which
fail are the sound
card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer
FX-3D
(1816)) and I get a
message
mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab
Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount
NFS
system. I don't
know if these are related or not.
[newbie] Acer FX-3D Sound Card Help
I have not had any reply with help getting my sound card to work. Any chance anyone has experience with getting this card to work? (I will resend details if anyone can suggest the correct way to configure it -- it is AD1816 based -- every combination I have tried, when sndconfig tests, it comes back resource busy or not available). Thanks -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps
WordPerfect 8.0 is a reasonably good wordprocessor (and free for LINUX: http://linux.corel.com/linux8/download.htm) -- the only problem I have found so far is that "Search and Replace does not seem to work (no matter what you search for, it says string not found -- anyone any ideas how to fix that one?) There are some spread-sheets and you might check out: http://www.gnucash.org/ for a money manager. Murray Strome Dan Brown wrote: From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book > balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would As far as a word processor goes, how about WordPerfect? Version 7 is available for Linux, free for non-commercial use. http://linux.corel.com. Don't know about checkbook software, though--Quicken for Linux would be really nice. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
[newbie] Further to FX-3D (AD1816) Sound Card Problems
I wonder if anyone can help me get my sound FX-3D sound card to work under LINUX -- or alternatively, suggest a low cost card which will work well in both LINUX and Windows and be simple to configure in both systems. I have an Acer FX-3D sound card. If I type sndconfig as root the probe does not detect anything. However there is a selection: AD1816 (Acer FX-3D, HP Kayak). If I type OK, I get a table with a heading which says "Please adjust the settings to match the dip switch settings on your sound card" , from which to select various options (I took the card out and could not find any DIP switches. All it says on the card is AD1816 FX-3D. I/O Port IRQ DMA 1 DMA 2 0x530 5 0 0 0x534 7 1 1 0x604 9 3 3 0xe80 10 0xf40 I had printed out the system settings from Windows 98 for all the devices. I have the following information which seems relevant: Class: Sound, video and Game controllers Device: Acer FX-3D Sound Controller Resources: IRQ: 05 I/O: 0220h-022Fh I/O: 0388h-038Bh I/O: 0100h-010Fh DMA: 01 DMA: 00 I am not sure what to select (I assume IRQ 5, DMA 1, DMA 0), especially for the I/O. I tried a couple of different ones, but got the following error when I tried a sample sound: The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.2.9.19mdk/misc/AD1816.o : init_module: Device or resource busy (I get the same type of message on booting with this the only item [FAILED] Typing OK puts me back to the message saying no PnP or PCI sound cards found in your system.) I tried every I/O selection with IRQ 5 and DMA 1, DMA 0 and a few other combinations with every otehr IRQ listed, all with the same result. I have not yet exhaustively checked every possible combination. Thanks to anyone who can help me. Murray Strome
Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
I am also a home user, although I am having a few problems, especially with my sound card (Acer FX-3D -- AD1816 which is supposed to be supported, but can't get it to work) and my mouse (don't think my Matsonic 3 button mouse on COM 1, configured as Generic 3 button mouse with 3 button simulation works as a 3 button mouse) works. I did use UNIX (I especially liked SGI's IRIX - hated Sun's Solaris) before I retired. It took 18 months to find a version of LINUX which would work with my video card (Mandrake 6.0). Dan Brown wrote: From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder. Are there any home users on this list? I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP. There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of intelligence or competence, it's a matter of mindset. To use Linux effectively, you have to think as a sysadmin at least part of the time, and you have to care about knowing how the computer and OS works. Windoze and (especially) MacOS tend to discourage this--their mindset seems to be that you don't need or want to know what's going on. With Linux, you do need to know, whether you want to or not. If we were shipping out preconfigured Internet-only boxes, I wouldn't have a problem with Linux as the OS--we'd set up all the hardware, software, etc., and it'd be ready to go, out of the box. However, we don't do that. -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
