[newbie] Goodbye, And Thanks for All the Help
10/04/04 Hello All, The Linux From Scratch (LFS) system I'm building is coming along very nicely. I think I've finally figured out why I was getting all the XWindows crashes in Mandrake 9.1 and have fixed the problem in LFS. (I used the ModeLine statement in XF86Config to specifically set the window mode. The automatic system used by Mandrake was picking some unstable window modes for the circa 1998 video card and monitor I have.) With XWindows, modem dialup, ALSA, and CUPS up and running properly, I'm ready to focus on building my LInux music box. Thanks for all the assistance you've given me over the past year and a half. It's been fun and educational. All the Best in your endeavors, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card not working
Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for your sound card. OSS is superior to Alsa. Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS is old', 'ALSA is the future of sound on Linux' Lyvim, I'm also curious why you say OSS is superior to ALSA. From what I've been reading on the Linux-Audio-User list, OSS is rarely mentioned. It appears all the efforts to develop sound applications and utilities are using ALSA. And if I'm not mistaken, I've seen posts from you on the Linux-Audio-User list. You've intriqued me. Please explain your reasons. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:28:43 +1000, Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ext3 is just ext2 plus journalling, so you don't need to reformat to convert. I presume that MCC just did a tune2fs command to add journalling and adjusted your fstab file. man tune2fs will tell you more. Thanks Brian, for the reassurance and the pointer to the commands to review. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3
09/10/04 Hello All, Just want to check that I did this correctly. I converted a partition that was in Ext2 to Ext3 by going into the Mandrake Control Center, Using DiskDrake to unmount the partion, then change the type to Ext3, and then exited. I didn't format the partition after the change and I forgot to remount it. I did check the fstab file to make certain it was Ext3, and then rebooted. After the reboot, the mtab file shows the partition as Ext3. Just making sure that I didn't need to format the Ext3 partition. I rather doubt that I do because that partition was my Linux From Scratch partition and I'm booted into it right now. Everything seems okay, but I'm concerned about my first crash and if the Ext3 recovery programs will work properly. Am I okay er, let me rephrase that... is my Ext3 partition okay? GRIN "The Other' Stephen Stubbs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Modem, PPP, ISPs, and Wvdial
Hello John, Maybe your problem is with the ISP and the login prompts. I haven't had time yet to work out my problem using Linux From Scratch 5.1, Wvdial, and my ISP; but here's what the ISP did for me to assist: - Instead of trying to login at the prompt, try just starting up ppp. I changed your membership on the ppp authentication server from pppmenu (login prompt) to ppponly so wvdial shouldn't try to interpret the login prompt. I also found this, which also might alleviate the problem: "Add the following line under the correct heading in your /etc/wvdial.conf file: Stupid mode = 1 " Apparently "stupid mode" tells wvdial to not login at the prompt and skip directly to starting pppd. - When I dial in now, the connection is made and the PPP daemon is started. But then I don't know what to do ??? So the PPP daemon dies after a while. As I said, I'll work on that later. Good Luck if you haven't got your connection working yet. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:31:19 +0100, John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In KPPP under modem, there is a line termination field with 3 choices. Hello John, When KPPP was giving me fits, I went to WVdial. That seemed to work okay. You'll have to open a terminal window and then log in as superuser to start WVdial. After it connects, use your favorite web browser/mail/whatever in another window or terminal session. When you're done, go back to the WVdial terminal session and do CTRL-C to stop WVdial. I liked this approach because I would have the KPPP daemon die on me for no readily apparent reason. The only way to get control of the system was to do a software reboot. With WVdial, you can always CTRL-C to regain control if the PPP daemon dies. Recently, my ISP had someone upstream change their connection protocol and WVdial now doesn't work for me. I'm back to using KPPP. On my Linux From Scratch box (LFS 5.1), I'm going back to PPP and use a Chat Script for logging in. At least, that's the next project. :) So try WVdial-1.53, and if that doesn't work try PPP-2.4.2. Take Care John, Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:35:00 -0700, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:28:16 +0100 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In this respect 'deb', and 'rpm' are in my (inexpert) opinion broadly similar. What really matters is the quality of the *packager* (How Thanks for the further discussion. Linux From Scratch (LFS) mentioned a utility/program that would examine all your files before and after a compilation/install, to tell you want got files got added and where they were put. Then it would be the manual process of deleting those files if you wished to uninstall that particular application. Obviously, this utility/program wouldn't be able to deal with dependency issues. Now to determine how important it is for me to manually deal with dependency issues or use a package manager. Hmmm Thanks, David, Derek "The Other" Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:36:21 +0800, wrote: The Other wrote: Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. If its apt-get compared to plain jane rpm, there is no contest, apt-get wins hands down. If it was between apt-get and urpmX then it would be allot closer, but I'd still tip apt. Thanks Frankieh for the reply. I'll look for the source to apt-get. The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
On Mon, 31 May 2004 12:39:38 -0500, Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use 'rpm -qa | grep -i kernel' to list installed kernels, then 'urpme kernel-x.x.x' to remove all of of the one(s) you want to remove. Example: So if I wanted to remove all files of 2.6.5-1.tmb, including it's lilo entry, I'd su to root and type 'urpme kernel-tmb-2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-1-1mdk' (use copy'n paste to avoid typos). Tom, I know this method will work if you installed a kernel rpm with urpmi. But will it also work if you compiled the kernel from it's source tarball? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Info Info
Hello All, Anybody else been struggling working through the Info and Man pages, trying to figure out how to navigate them? I'm still not sure how to browse the Man pages with anything other than up and down, but last night I had the insight to try something new with the Info pages. info info This got me a tutorial/lesson on how to use Tab, Space Bar, Backspace, and Delete keys. I haven't gotten through the lesson yet and still don't know how to return to the exact place you were before you Tab-Carriage Return'd into a new thread (you can always Delete key and Space key back to where you were), but I finally feel like I'm making progress with the Linux command documentation. For What It's Worth The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. __ OK, but the real question I had wasn't clearly answered, which was did you have system instabilities with the system shadowing only? And why in the world would you want to run an older bios on your motherboard if a newer one is available? You're right, I wasn't clear in my post. BIOS Shadowing had always been turned off. Only Video Shadowing was turned on. I'm now running with Video Shadowing off and BIOS Shadowing on. And yes, I've noticed an improvement in program performance with BIOS Shadowing on. There's 128MB of RAM on this box. As to why I didn't stay with an updated BIOS... There was a warning in my documentation about upgrading the BIOS that said something to the effect, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The exact reason said that while the updated BIOS may fix a few known problems, it might also introduce a few unknown problems. Oh, and it is an Award BIOS. Well, if ASUS and AWARD weren't absolutely positive about the BIOS upgrades, I didn't see any reason to add more uncertainty as to what was causing the Mandrake system instability. So I went back to the original BIOS version. The original BIOS was Version 1002, released around spring1998. Version 1011 was released around fall 1999. And Version 1012 was the last version released spring 2000. (Don't hold me to these exact dates, but I think I'm fairly close.) There wasn't much difference in the BIOS options between the 3 versions. Version 1012 offered some type of hard disk failure monitoring, which some people told me was marketing hype and others told me it was worth it and worth the performance drop. So during those 4 months I tried all 3 versions of the BIOS, and suffered the same problems. Once again, Video Shadowing was on and BIOS shadowing was off. In a perverse sort of way, I like hearing that the problem may have been the Matrox G100 AGP card and Video Shadowing. The G100 was the start of Matrox's AGP line, and could have been the victum of an early bug. The G400 card seems to be very stable. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:36:27 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and see if your system remains stable. I'm curious. LX P.P.S Have you flashed your mainboard to the latest bios available for it from Asus. Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:46:34 -0400, Ronald J. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ->When the System Resources screen comes up during the Install, go to ->the Printer Section and make sure you do a Print Test Page. This works, but if I remember correctly it does take up an additional IRQ. One of the reasons I went to an Epson USB printer... If memory serves, IRQ 7 is typically used in PC systems for the printer. I think my old, unused, ISA Sound Blaster AWE32 would allow you to select IRQ 7, but I can't remember any other cards I've used allowing me that option. From what I've been reading on the Linux Audio Users Group, IRQ 10 is a much better choice for a sound card. IRQ 7 has the lowest priority of all of the IRQ's. Here's the order of interrupt priority, from Highest Priority to Lowest Priority: (highest) 0, 1, 8, 9, 10, 11 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (lowest) So using a printer on IRQ 7 seems quite reasonable to me. What else would one use it for? Note: 0 and 1 are for block devices, 8 is for the Real Time Clock. 9 is the first IRQ you could try for, but it's sometimes used as a redirected IRQ 2; so I leave it alone. IRQ 10 is really the first high priority IRQ you can expect to get exclusive access to. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:25:33 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? FWIW, I like and use it. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set it to NO And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically detected and installed: Parallel Port Mode-- set it to ECP+EPP (or at least ECP or EPP) and have the printer connected and turned on during the Mandrake Installation. When the System Resources screen comes up during the Install, go to the Printer Section and make sure you do a Print Test Page. HTH, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:09:24 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote:
My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS.
Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control
all of the system's memory. When I turned off the Video ROM
Shadowing in the BIOS, all problems went away.
__
This is the first time I've ever heard of this. I have rom
shadowing
enabled religiously and have had it enabled across an entire
succession
of mainboards stretching back to the early 1990's. I've never
encountered a problem with rom shadowing and any version of Linux,
including Red Hat, Gentoo, Mandrake, Slackware or any other distro
I've
loaded. Moreover, in every system I've installed, I've also set
the
bios settings to shadow the system and video bios.
Not saying that you've not seen what youve' seen, however I
suspect that
this problem is germane to your particular box or video card.
LX
Greetings LX,
I'm running a circa 1998 system with Mandrake 9.1 (in the process
of building LFS {Linux From Scratch} 5.0) on the following hardware:
Asus P2B AGP motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and Award BIOS
(IIRC, I know it's not a Phoenix BIOS)
Intel Pentium-II MMX 350-MHz cpu
Matrox G100 AGP video card
I've been rock-solid since turning off the ROM Shadowing. Prior to
that, 3/4 of a year with erratic errors and when I had to do a
reinstall of Mandrake 9.1 because of file system corruption, it
would take over 100 attempts to get through the loading software
phase of the install, with a chance to bomb on the LILO setup as
well. I'm a patient guy, but this was getting ridiculous. It's
also a testimony of my resolve to not use Windows on the Internet.
:) Also, others on this list may remember my cries for help during
2003.
If there's another problem causing this problem besides ROM
Shadowing, I'd love to hear what the alternative solution is. Just
in case you're right and I haven't solved my problem.
Thanks,
The Other
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Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:31:37 +0100, Philip J Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the opening screen and thats it. My mouse will not work at all so I cant navigate or even open a console.Anyone know how I can get the little bugger working. Philip. Sounds similar to the problems I had getting a stable Mandrake 9.1 installed and working. My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. When I turned off the Video ROM Shadowing in the BIOS, all problems went away. HTH, I know the frustration. It took me over 4 months to figure this solution out. Sympathies. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:58:42 -0700, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 "David A. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. Sorry I didn't catch the original post, but here's another idea to look into. Do you have *any* ROM Shadowing turned on in your BIOS? If so, turn it off. Mandrake expects to have access and control of all memory. I was getting inconsistent problems during the install of Mandrake, and then file corruption problems after the install when I had Video ROM shadowing enabled in the BIOS. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to get IceWM 1.2.13 shown in XDM, GDM, KDM login screen ???
How do I get IceWM 1.2.13 listed in the available choices of Window Managers when I log on as a User? What and where is the configuration file I need to edit? It looks like Mandrake 9.1 only uses XDM for the graphical login. Is this correct? If so, anyone know which files XDM is using to provide the graphical login with the choices of Window Manager to use in that drop down box? I was able to run IceWM 1.2.13 by turning off the graphical login (booting directly to a text login), starting X Windows with xinit, going into the xterm box and typing icewm-sessions. Then I select another workspace to work in. But I'd really like to have this version of IceWM available as a choice in the drop down box on the graphical login screen. Ideas? TIA, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...
Anyone know how to change those tiny fonts in the body of the email messages? Thanks, Dan Hello Dan, for Opera 7.23 On the main menu bar: File-> Preferences (or Alt-P)-> Fonts (on the left side dialog box) This brings up the right side dialog box. Select the font use topic you wish to change (start with Normal, it may be the one you need) and highlight the font name. Double-click on the font name or click on the Choose button. This brings up another dialog box that lets you change the font, size, and other parameters. For my astigmatism, I like the Helvetica (Adobe) at 14. normal. in black. Regards, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.
Software issues aside, what about Windows XP affecting laptop hard drives? My boss had his second laptop hard drive failure this year. When talking to the software/hardware support people of the company, he was told that the stock of replacement laptop hard drives was very low. The reason: Windows XP is spinning the drives to death! This is a company that should have (conservative estimate) 15,000 to 25,000 laptops in service, nationwide in the USA. How long can a company afford to swap out bad laptop hard drives? Especially when using a 3rd party to make the switch. It's overnight shipping of the drives, then the 3rd party installation, then another shipping back to the company storehouses for refurbishing or whatever is done with the bad drives. The economics of the hardware failures caused by Windows XP, if uncorrected by Microsoft, will have to cause a company to switch operating systems. The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
04/19/04
To the List Administrator,
I got this message from the mailer-daemon, but I also got me email
through to the list. (If the attachment didn't come through, my
email was a reply on Linuxant drivers and Winmodems.)
This is the second time this has happened to me.
What must I do to fix this problem?
Thanks,
The Other
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:18:50 +0200 (CEST)
This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
For further assistance, please contact
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If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:46:42 -0500, Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: frankieh wrote: However I have to say I would feel alot better if someone that actually understands rpm's did it. Yeah, I would too. I've never had the time or patience to learn. With my luck it would turn into a Dos Batch file! Lanman Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? When I get a tarball off the Internet and go through the configure and make commands, I let 'checkinstall' do the actual installation because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm not entirely convinced that 'checkinstall' actually removes all the files off the computer.) During the installation process with 'checkinstall', it asks which type of RPM you'd like to create. I've never figured out if 'checkinstall' makes the actual RPM and there is a file somewhere on computer. Perhaps 'checkinstall' can do this job. (I was curious about this thread because I've always been on the PC side and have never developed a liking for icons in a file manager system. I'm using Midnight Commander for the file management duties.) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Jack and Ardour
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:27:18 -0300, Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Has anybody installed Jack Audio Connection Kit and Ardour and configured them properly ? When I try to run Ardour there comes a pop-up to start Jack, but it always fails. I haven't gotten that far yet, but get on the Linux Audio User mailing list and post the question there. The website to get subscribed is: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user/ HTH, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:49:05 -0800 (PST), Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have done alot of research on google. This problem seems to be pretty widespread. I started with Knoppix 3.2 and purchased an External Creative Modem Blaster (I believe model 5621) because I could not get a winmodem to work. With Knoppix 3.2 Creative Modem worked. I installed Knoppix 3.2 to the harddrive and it still worked. Then I decided to try Mandrake 9.2. Thats when I started getting this error. I have since gotten a copy of Knoppix 3.3 and it is having the same trouble. I sent an email to the address provided on the error page and this is what he wrote back: I'd like to help but I don't know what to make out of this error: 16The link was terminated by the modem hanging up. If you ever find out, please tell me. 01/25/04 I had this problem once when using 'kppp' (I've switched to 'wvdial'). Suggestion 1) Turn on the modem's speaker so you can hear what's going on. Tell anyone nearby that this is *really* necessary. IIRC, the noise stops when the connection handshake is completed. Suggestion 2) Increase *every* timeout setting you can find in 'kppp'. My problem was that the default 'kppp' waiting for a connection handshake to complete was 30 seconds. It was taking my modem 45 seconds to complete the handshake with the ISP. Hence my modem was 'hanging up' because it was never getting through the handshake due to 'kppp' stopping the handshake process at 30 seconds. I set the 'kppp' waiting to connect parameter (or whatever it's called) to 60 seconds and the problem went away. HTH, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux porblems.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:37:46 -0800, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the process of installation it just stops loading. If I restart install by just erasing disk and starting over it stops sooner then before. The last time I did a custom disk partitioning, cleared all, then had system auto allocate. That time it stopped at the point that it stopped the first time. Hello Russ, Have you turned off all Shadow RAM in your BIOS? If not, try that. I had irratic install problems when my video ROM was being shadowed in RAM. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where's the Kernel Source from a Source RPM
12/28/03 Hello All, I'm endeavoring to build a low latency kernel from the 2.4.21 kernel source provided on my Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack CDs. I urpmi'd the kernel source from a copy of the kernel source rpm I'd placed in /usr/src. I can find the include header files. But were did the source code go??? What directory was it placed in??? Are all those files hidden and 'ls -l' won't list them??? And in what language are these source files, C perhaps? As a second question, is there any way you can open up an RPM and find out where it will place the files??? Thanks All, The Other. PS to John Richard Smith-- I've joined the linux-audio-user list at: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user/ from there I've gone to-- http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html to learn about building low latency kernels and installing ALSA, JACK, and ARDOUR. Very good material. When I've found out where the 2.4.21 kernel source has gone I'll be set to build a music/MIDI box. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved-- Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken
Nevertheless, when I went to Documentation>Help it was opened by Galeon, not by Mozilla... The documentation you want must be around here /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html Or you can reinstall Galeon again! JM 12/27/03 To: JM and All I had removed Galeon (and Mozilla). That is what broke the Gnome 2.2 Documentation System when using the menus: start->Documentation. I reinstalled Galeon (and the underlying Mozilla code) and everything is back to normal. Thanks for the assistance. And yes, I did have a nice holiday. I hope yours went well too. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:28:30 -0200, Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML format (under the Documentation menu), nothing happens. What did program should I have *not* removed? :) What did I break? I think that if you go to Config->Gnome->Advanced->Prefered Aplications and set Opera as your favourite browser you'll solve this. JM Hello JM, Thanks for the tip. I went there and saw that Links is the default browser. Links is installed on my system. I selected Custom Browser and typed in Opera with all possible combinations I could think of, no go. At this point, I'm ready to go to the file location of the html documentation files and hand load them. Any idea where they are stored? From my Windows background, I'll still learning the file system layout for Mandrake. Thanks, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken
12/23/03 Hello All, When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML format (under the Documentation menu), nothing happens. What did program should I have *not* removed? :) What did I break? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
12/21/03 To Melissa and other The Bat! users. I'm looking into Opera 7.23 (web-email-news program), a Linux program available at www.opera.com in free download or $35USD version to remove the small banner ad. As far as I know, there is no other difference between the free and purchased versions. In the Tutorial available from http://www.markschenk.com/opera/7/m2tutorial.html by Mark Schenk, he has a quote from one of the Opera support people who used The Bat! during Opera 6, but now uses the M2 email system available with Opera 7.23. I've just started the M2 tutorial from Mark Schenk (of which there is one at the Opera web site as well), but the concept of 'accesspoints', 'views', 'contacts' to sort out known emails from junk/spam, and treating your email as a database is intriquing. Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? TIA, The Other PS: I like that all mouse commands in M2 and Opera 7.23 also have keyboard equivalents. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem troubles
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:47:36 +1300 Carren Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for that! I finally got my modem working and have just > purchased the license key and upgraded to full driver version. > For some reason though it will not accept my license key ... when I > do the usr/sbin/hsfconfig --license command it tells me "file not > found" (or words to that affect) > Are you in 'root' mode or 'SuperUser' mode when you do the /usr/sbin/hsfconfig command? You must be for it to work. In your normal User account, you don't have permission to run the file, so the file is reported as not found. In a terminal window at the command prompt, type "su" and then enter the password for the SuperUser or Root account. Then run hsfconfig. At this point I also run WvDial and let it run in the foreground. I then switch to another desktop workspace to use the web browser and the email client. I do it this way because I have a lot of telephone line noise in my area and the web browser and email client will sometimes get out of sync with my ISP. So I go back to the WvDial terminal session, issue CTRL-C to stop WvDial, and then restart WvDial. Then I can return to the desktop with the web browser and email client and continue from where they stopped. (This is why I stopped using kppp as the modem dialer program. There wasn't as clean a way to get kppp to exit when the web browser and email client got out of sync with the ISP. I say out of sync, because the modem was still connected to the ISP the entire time the problem occured.) > > I don't suppose you can help me with my sound problem? So far I've > had one reply to that post which hasn't helped unfortunately ;-) I missed the question. I use a SBLive! Value card with the ALSA drivers. Make sure you have opened all of your mixers and volume controls available under your desktop environment and increase the volume levels. Most of the mixers and volume controls have turned down the playback sound to 0 volume. Many times, just raising those volume controls will give you sound. Best, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved-- Setting the Time (I think)
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:22:18 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 5:26 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > Warning - There is a wizard in Mandrake Control Centre to set up > > an ntp server (if you install drakwizard rpm), but it has a bug > > in it in 9.2 and will fsck up your timezone. (The developers are > > aware) > > > I presume that Webmin is still available in 9.2? You can easily > set it up there. And see also http://www.ntp.org/ - Network Time > Protocol page, including lists of time servers I'm still working in 9.1. I used the wizard in Mandrake Control Centre to set up the ntpd daemon. I also installed the ntp rpm. I could run the ntpdate command with a local timeserver specified and the time would update. When I installed the ntpd daemon, I could no longer run the ntpdate command, because the daemon was running. So at this point I'm assuming that while I'm connected to the Internet with the modem, the ntpd daemon is checking the time. But. I don't have man or info pages installed for ntp or the ntpd daemon. It would be nice to see if I can change the default settings on how often it checks for the time. Any ideas where the documentation may be found? Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting the Time
12/06/03 What program can I use to go to an atomic clock website and have my computer clock set? Also, would I have to be logged in as 'root' to change the computer's clock? In Windows I used the TARDIS program to modem to a site and have the computer's clock set. Suggestions for a comparable program in Linux? Thanks All, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: The 'Original' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
11/30/03 Hello Guide fans, Don't know if these are still available, but here are the reference to the materials I have. Note, these are the 'original' BBC radio broadcast materials. As you may be aware, Douglas had a habit of rewriting 20% or so of his material every time he went to a different medium. BBC Audio Collection The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6 audio cassettes for 12 programs ISBN 0-88142-867-1 (Looks like it was marketed in the USA by:) The Mind's Eye 4 Commercial Blvd, Novato, CA 94949 copyright 1988 AVC Corporation/The Mind's Eye The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts (The production notes are worth the price of admission alone. I especially liked the music used reference notes at the end of each each of the first six episodes. Unfortunately, the music effects notes in the second 6 episodes are largely left out. This is the USA publication.) ISBN 0-517-55950-1 Harmony Books/New York Copyright 1985 And there's a note about the Great Britain publisher: Pan Books, Ltd. Cavaye Place, London SW10 9PG under the title: The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts to Joe Hill: How large were those MP3s? Each episode was around 30 minutes. Wouldn't those be 10MB files at least? The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IBM Tutorials
11/27/03 It's probably been mentioned before, but on the IBM developerWorks website, they have some excellent Linux tutorials. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/tutorials.jsp 55 tutorials were listed (if I counted correctly.) Some of them are for the LPI Certification 101 (release 2, 4 tutorials) and 102 (release 2, 4 tutorials) exams. I'll be busy for a while now. .. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine and Memory
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:44:47 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 128MB of RAM. I ran Wine two different ways to see if > > one of my Microsoft Win95B programs would run. > > > If it's a Windows error message (rather than wine saying something > in the terminal) then your problem is probably not RAM. > "Insufficient memory" is Windows-speak for "something made the > program crash, but I haven't a clue what it was." === Here's what the terminal window I used to run Wine said: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft Money]$ wine msmoney fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit system modal msgbox ! Not modal yet. -- I did get a small window saying Microsoft Money, then another window opened up saying: "Not enough memory is available. If you have several applications open at the same time, you might need to close one of them before you start Money." All you can do is click the "Okay" button to close this box. Then the terminal window that had the ! Not modal yet (above) line returns to the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micorsoft Money]$ == Does this help to explain the problem? The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wine and Memory
11/15/03 Hello All, I have 128MB of RAM. I ran Wine two different ways to see if one of my Microsoft Win95B programs would run. Method 1) change to the Win95 program directory (already installed, this is a dual boot Win95B and Mandrake 9.1 system.) Run Wine with the program name. I got an out of memory error. Method 2) Point Wine at the cdrom installation disk for the Windows program and run Wine on the setup file. I had to select Reinstall as the installation choice since I hadn't uninstalled the program. The reinstall goes okay, but when it comes up to run the program I get the same out of memory error. Is my solution to get more memory? Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Connection Secure ???
11/08/03 To get my Winmodem to connect to the ISP, I have to open up a SuperUser terminal window, configure the modem, and start WVdial. I then minimize the terminal window and run my Internet applications as a regular user. I have to do this sequence every time after I've shut down the Linux box, which is several times in a day. (Any ideas why I lose the modem configuration every time I reboot?) Even the WVdial documentation that I've found says it's extremely difficult to launch WVdial as a regular user, and doesn't go into the exact details since they vary so widely depending on the installation. Question: Do I have a security problem doing things this way? (While connected to the Internet, I do have a SuperUser terminal session running that is managing the WVdial program.) TIA, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gramofile
10/27/03 Hello John, You indicate you're concerned about the constantly switching of cables on the motherboard eventually fatiguing the connectors on the motherboard. A very good concern. But there's an easy solution. Get a stereo cable extender. Plug the male end of the stereo cable extender into the motherboard and leave it plugged in at all times. Then use the female end to make the switches between the DVD output and the CD/Tape output. It will be more convenient to make the switches and it's a lot cheaper buying another stereo cable extender as opposed to buying another motherboard. Or you could do the same thing with a stereo-Y cable if they make such a beast. I know they make mono-Y cables, but I'm not certain about the stereo-Y cable. You could always make your own stereo-Y cable, I suppose. Plug the base of the Y cable into the motherboard. Plug the DVD into one arm of the Y cable , and the CD/Tape into the other arm. Now you don't have to reconnect anything when you want to record from the DVD or the CD/Tape. Using a Y cable you may experience a little signal loss, but you simply increase the volume level on that input source. No big deal and you won't hurt your motherboard. And because you're running line-out from the DVD and CD/Tape jacks into the motherboard's line-in, you won't hurt the motherboard. Even if you Y both the DVD and CD/Tape sound sources together into the motherboard and record both simultaneously, you won't hurt the motherboard. Just remember to always test your recording first at low volume levels until you find exactly where the highest volume on the sound source occurs. Keeping playing that spot on the sound source so you can set your record volume to its maximum level without getting distortion. Then record the song. This way, the quiet places will be quiet and the loudest places won't distort during recording. It sounded like you hadn't been doing this "record level test" in a previous post, so I put the advice for you in this post. Since you're not recording a "live" source, there's no excuse for you to have any distortion in your recording to hard disk. Not trying to put any pressure on you, really I'm not. :) Stephen. > I still need to know whether it is possible to splice my normal > dvd audio cable together > with this new external CD/tapedeck player audio cable and > connect both to the mobo. > Will this blow things up, or is it OK to have two seperate > devices on the same socket? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gramofile
10/27/03 To echo Paul's comments, Red means danger. On a recording device it means you're about to destroy whatever is on the tape by recording over it. By using the color red for an "armed" track, you can immediately tell which tracks in a multi-track recording setup are going to be overwritten with the new material, and which tracks are locked "green" and will not be overwritten. Advances in computer recording software have made possible a Virtual Recording Mode. Now you can edit and add effects without destroying the original audio material. Samplitude Studio from SEK'D (I have a Windows Version) makes a fundamental difference between a VIP (Virtual Image Project) and a HD (Hard Disk) project file and RAP (RAM Project) file. HD and RAP projects contain the physical audio material (such as the WAV file.) VIP files use pointers into the physical audio files (WAV). So when working with VIP files, the editing can be non-linear and non-destructive. You're only working with pointers and not the actual physical audio file. Anyone know if there are comparable software programs for Linux? I haven't had time to check into that yet. Regards, The Other. > >Yea - I've always wondered whose idea it was to make red mean > >go... :-) > > Red is often used on Industrial processes for Dangerous. > > Device turns red when it is moving. > > The same thinking applied to traffic lights means > > Green = safe to enter intersection. > Red = Dangerous to enter intersection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...
10/24/03 Hello Adam, I'm now running my Zoom Model 3025 V.92 PCI FaxModem at V.92 speeds. Check out www.linuxant.com They have drivers for most of the Winmodems with Conexant chipsets. You can get the utilities you need from their website to determine exactly what Winmodem chipset you have and if they have a driver for it. They offer a free driver that is limited to 14.4Kb. This will allow you to determine if you have a working driver. You can then upgrade to the full V.92 driver for $14.95 USD. Regards, The Other. On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:37:24 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having > trouble installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem. Can anyone > help me? I also have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com > PCI 56k modem with Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I > can't figure that one out either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] caching up audio files from and external source
10/24/03 Hello John, What do you mean by cache-ing up audio files? Do you mean you want to play something on the hifi CD player and record it to hard disk or audio tape? Or do you just want to listen to it through your computer sound card and computer speakers? Dennis' suggestion of getting a left&right RCA into 1/8 mini stereo cable will get the signal into your motherboard. As long as you are running Line-Out from one device to Line-In of another device, you can never hurt the hardware. When running a headphone Out or microphone IN/OUT to another device, it's always best to have your Linux audio mixer running with the volume levels down at first and then raise the volumes gradually, to make certain you're not overloading the input device. I don't have sound on the motherboard, but I would expect you could open up your Linux audio mixer (ALSA mixer, Aumix, whatever), turn up the Line-In volume slider, and listen to the CDs played on the computer speakers (perhaps you have a surround sound system on the computer.) If you want to record the CDs, then you'll need a Linux program to record the Line-Out from the motherboard. The best link to sound & midi software for Linux I've found so far is: http://www.linux-sound.org/one-page.html Keep us posted of your endeavors in sound. ;) The Other. > >On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an > >audio CD>player ? > >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte
10/23/03 Hello Raffaele, This may have worked for me, it may work for you. Go into your BIOS and turn off (disable) any Shadow Ram on your machine. On a PII 350MHz with 128MB RAM, it seems to be working. (Although I still get some X Window failures on re-login in after installing new packages. I restart the computer, do all the file system fixes suggested during bootup, and everything comes back fine in X Windows, running the Gnome desktop.) Hope this Helps, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:15 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install 9.1 on an old P100 with 32Mbyte of RAM and > 370Mb HD. I used text-install, selected no packages. The > installer chooses the basic packages - less than 100 - and > starts the intallation, but never finishes. It hangs in the > middle of the installation process. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla Mail dropping the POP connection
10/15/03 Hello All, I'm using a dialup connection to my ISP. The phone line connection is live to the ISP, when Mozilla Mail says the POP connection timed out. Then Mozilla refuses to reconnect to the POP mail server to check for new messages or send outgoing mail (another timeout message.) Mozilla internet browser has no trouble finding the live dialup connection and I can surf away. What setting in Mozilla Mail (or in KPPP) do I need to set to avoid this problem when in the Mail system? Thanks All, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disabling BIOS Shadow RAM and Installing MDK 9.1
10/13/03 Hello Charlie, Thanks for the pointer to belarc.com. Yes, I am running Win95B for dial-up connection to the internet. I'll get back to Linux and Mozilla this weekend when I have time to get my Winmodem setup for Linux. Belarc Advisor did not detect my slave hard drive, a Maxtor 30GB drive that is devoted entirely to Linux. I guess that's because Windows doesn't detect that drive either. Also, Belarc Advisor only detected a standard modem (that's the US Robotics 28.8K winmodem that I'm using to connect right now.) It didn't detect the Zoom Model 3025 V.92 (56K) modem that is in a PCI slot but not connected to the telephone and not installed under Win95B. I'll use the Zoom this weekend with Linux. Sadly, I didn't see the reply that asked for my hardware specifics, only your inclusion: > > Could you give some more info about your system, like motherboard > > chipset if you know it, type of video card, etc. To the Helpful person who posted this... PII 350MHz, 128MB RAM, ASUS P2B Rev 1.x motherboard with Award Software ACPI BIOS rev 1002 04/02/1998. This motherboard uses the Intel 440BX chipset. (c. 1998) Matrox MGA-G100 AGP video card connected to DELL D1025TM (Trinitron monitor). (both c. 1998) PS/2 Memorex Wheel Mouse, Creative Labs SBLIVE! Value sound card, 40X CD Rom drive, Zip-100MB drive, 3 1/2" floppy, and Compaq 104-key keyboard. Western Digital 6.5GB master drive, and Maxtor 30GB slave drive. Both IDE drives. Power supply is Antec 300W, model SL300S HP DeskJet 540C printer. Need anything else? TIA, The Other. - Original Message - From: "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For any information about the system that isn't known to the OP there's a > utility that runs under Windows (the OS he sent the post from) Belarc > Advisor. Free, free download, it'll tell him all he wants to know and > probably more. It even runs on Opera. It's available from: > > http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disabling BIOS Shadow RAM and Installing MDK 9.1
10/13/03 Hello All, from The Other A few of you may remember I've been trying to get a stable installation of Mandrake 9.1 since May. Thanks to my niece for sending me a Debian distro 3.x with documentation. I may have figured out what was going wrong all this time. The Debian documentation on installing the system was something like 120 pages, of which the 10 or so about setting up before the installation begins was the gem I needed. Explaining that the Linux kernel wants full control of your computer and to disable just about everything the computer was trying to manage led me to the following: Disable ALL Shadow RAM Sure enough, my BIOS was set to shadow some of the video RAM. I disabled that and got a flawless, Gnome desktop only, installation of 9.1. Then I went into Mandrake Control Center and started loading in the other packages I wanted. Here's where it gets a little worrying. On two separate occasions last night I got a frozen system when Logging Out so I could immediately Log back In to see the newly installed programs show up on the menus. When Logging back In, the left half of the CRT screen was black and the right half was scrolling black/white pixels. Powering down the system, restarting, and following the recovery prompts, got me back to a working Bamboo system. Anyone know why the freeze-up?Is my system unstable?I'm still seeing the beginning message during boot-up: BIOS Data Check Unsuccessful. That continues to worry me a bit. Thanks All, it's nice to be back. "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?
09/30/03 I have a Maxtor model 4W030H2 30GB drive I would like to make the Slave in a dual Master-Slave setup. What is the correct jumper setting to make the Maxtor the Slave drive? There are 4 pins across the top, and 5 pins across the bottom. (Sorry, but in Outlook Express I can't seem to figure out how to post this in mono-space so the diagram below looks correct.) top row: pin1, pin2, pin3, no pin, pin5 bottom row: pin1, pin2, pin3, pin4, pin5 This was an OEM drive I bought from a shop that was going out of business, and I didn't notice that at the time I bought the drive. It came set with a jumper on (top pin 1 to bottom pin 1), and a second jumper on (top pin 2 to top pin 3). For the dual Slave mode, I'm currently using a jumper on (top pin 2 to top pin 3), and a jumper on (bottom pin 4 to bottom pin 5). Is this correct? Thanks All, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?
09/18/03 Low-level formatting: 1) Go to the drive manufacturer's website and get the toolset for your drive. The low-level formatting utility should be in the toolset. 2) Run all the other diagnostics on the toolset first before doing the low-level format. If it turns out you need to return the drive to the manufacturer, the returns department will be asking you for the diagnostic results before they give you a Return Merchandise Authorization. 3) low-level format the drive. 4) Do NOT use the Windows NT 4.0 setup disk to partition and format the drive. MS-Dos 5.0 or 6.2 is safe to use if you want to dual-boot the system with Windows and Linux. Or as was said before, DiskDrake or proabably any other Linux tool is fine to use. They seem to be more robust and safer than Microsoft supplied 'fdisk'. All the Best, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA - Original Message - From: "Xuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk? > I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? > Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions
09/06/03 Hello All, Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my hardware being below minimum specs for 9.1 My current hardware: ASUS P2B motherboard with 350MHz PII and 128MB Ram So I have two options: 1) locate a previous distribution of MDK that will work with this 1998 hardware, or 2) upgrade the motherboard, cpu, and ram. (If doing the hardware upgrade, I'd like to keep the total cost down to $200 USD due.) My internet connection is now 28.8kps modem, and I have no CD Rom burner. So if the suggestions are for an earlier distribution, I'll need to be able to make a boot floppy to perform a hardware install. Thanks All, Stephen. Champaign, IL USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Line-in problems?
08/31/03 Hello Ronald, I don't know about pre-amps. Perhaps that will help. But first, before you buy more hardware, have you ever used the Line-In on the Soyo Dragon Plus MB before? Are you absolutely positive that the Line-In is working? Since the mixers didn't find it, it may be a faulty Line-In or perhaps there is something in the BIOS that needs to be enabled to get the Line-In working properly? This is the first thing I would check out. Secondly, does your friend have an internal slot sound card that you can borrow? If everything works okay with his sound card and your Linux software, then there is faulty hardware on the motherboard. You might want to buy your own sound card and record with it. The recording abilities of sound cards vary from cheap to professional studio level. The price of these sound cards will vary accordingly. So if you have to buy a sound card, first determine what quality of recording you'll be able to make. You won't be able to do better than the cassette deck's specs. So a professional studio level card won't do any better than a Sound Blaster card if the cassette deck has very poor specs. The same is true for recording the vinyl and the turntable's specs. No point in buying a $500 recording card if the specs are only as good as a $50 Sound Blaster or other low end sound card. Hope This Helps, Stephen. - Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Line-in problems? > Okay, I've now got a small cassette deck with true line out, and a cable with > R/L RCA jacks on one end, and a 1/8th inch mini-jack (2 bands) on the other. > I plug the mini-jack into the line-in on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB and get... > > Nothing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting sound files? (recording from cassette, pt2)
08/27/03 The left channel is by default the LEFT/MONO channel. If all your music showed up in the left channel only, then you weren't using a stereo cable somewhere in your connections to the IN jack on the computer. Check again to make certain the Left and Right OUTs on the boom box are going into a stereo plug. A stereo 1/8 mini plug will have 2 black bands on the shank of the metal plug. If you only see 1 black band, then it's a MONO plug. (Just adding a visual clue here to Richard's remarks to determine if you are using Stereo or MONO cables.) Stephen. - Original Message - From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Converting sound files? (recording from cassette, pt2) > On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 7:13 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Okay, I borrowed a friends boom-box, and tried to record some of the > > old cassettes I've got. I did manage to record a few. I don't know > > whether its my setup or whether the box's line out is not actually > > that, but I wound up with .wav files that all seem to be concentrated > > into the left channel. > > Did you use a stereo cable? If it's a jack plug then it should have > three seperate conductors on it. A mono plug has two. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette
08/26/03 Ronald, See if you can find a cassette boom box or other cassette player that has left and right PHONO or RCA outputs. Then buy the appropriate cable to connect the cassette player to the Line In of your sound card. That cable might be a Left and Right RCA (or PHONO) to 1/8" mini Stereo, since most computer sound cards like to use 1/8" mini Stereo for inputs and outputs. Work with your software mixer settings to get the signal strength where you like it without getting distortion (too hot of a signal). As for Linux software to use for the recording, I can't help you there. I'm still Linux-less for now. Regards, Stephen. > From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette > > I've got some older cassettes that I'd love to transfer into OGG. Does > anyone > know of a good "how to" that literally walks thru the process step by > step? > (we're talking handholding here!) > > I grabbed an old cassette player, plugged a mini-jack to mini-jack cable > from > the headphone out to line-in on my Soyo Dragon plus MB, but it didn't > work > too good. Pretty bad actually. I got lots of crackles/snap/pops and the > sound > was very, very, low. > > What is aumix supposed to be set to? I'm using gramofile (trying) and it > didn't seem to want to find anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fstab, windows folders and permissions
08/04/03 I have uid=501 and umask=0 2 2 for windows folders in fstab. though I get owner as 501 user, permissions are there as 777 instead of 755 as dictated by umask. How to go about getting permissions as 755 for windows folders. Try ..,user,umask=0,auto,... with umask=0 I think permissions will be 777. Am I correct? You might want to look at: www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~mader/FSTAB-Tuning.html May help. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MIDI: GM, GS, and XG
08/02/03 Hello John, I haven't checked lately, but one of the best MIDI books around is: The MIDI Files by Rob Young, published by Prentice Hall Europe, 1996 ISBN 0-13-262403-6 (pbk) $29.95US in January 1998 when I bought mine. For a single reference on MIDI, this book will be *extremely* hard to beat. It goes from novice to expert in an easy to read format, has programming exercises, and a diskette with the exercises so you listen to the proper results. Some preliminary information: GM= General MIDI, the original standard from 1991 GS= Roland's entry (named from their GS chip) also appeared in 1991. It is compatible with GM and offers extras. XG= Yamaha's entry appeared in late 1994. Compatible with GM and offers extras. Most computer sound cards are going to use GM. Keyboard synthesizers and other outboard gear will use GM and whatever else their manufacturer decided to add. I use a SB Live! Value card (GM and soundfonts) and Roland rack mounted modules: in particular the GS64 (1000+ sounds and GM compatible) and the OC1--an Orchestra module specializing in, what else, Orchestra instruments :) I don't have Yamaha gear, but my version of Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.4 has support for 29 Yamaha synths and XG. Tell me exactly which Yamaha keyboard/synth your daughter is using and I'll look into it. Now for the files you sent me. I took a look at Song001.mid only. This appears to be a professionally crafted midi file. It's using MIDI controller effects that would take an expert to program. If your daughter made this file, then you can ask *her* how to get it work with Rosegarden. :) The problem is not in the Instrument Patch list. GS and XG both use GM instrument patches as a basis in their default bank. I hadn't read the Yamaha XG section in The MIDI Files book before because I don't use XG. Sorry for the bad pointer before about XG instrument patches. --- The first glaring problem is in Channel 9. The GM standard (also followed by GS) is that Channel 10 is the Drum Channel. XG allows Channel 10 and 2 other channels to be used for Drums. Song001.mid is using Channel 9 for a Drum Channel. This immediately got you hearing a Clean Guitar when run through Rosegarden (which uses GM only, I believe.) The quick fix is to redirect this track from Channel 9 to Channel 10. Then you will have two tracks playing through Channel 10. That's okay with MIDI. There was a second problem with Channel 9 and Channel 10. They were set to use patch number 27. This is not a defined patch in XG Drum Sets. Here's how XG define the drums set patches: 0- none 1- Standard Kit 1 2- Standard Kit 2 9- Room Kit 17- Rock Kit 25- Electro Kit 26- Analog Kit 33- Jazz Kit 41- Brush Kit 49- Classic Kit With GM, there is only one defined drum kit called Standard Kit. It will either be at patch 0 or at patch 1, depending how Rosegarden labels the patches. So to fix your drum problem, reset the track that was using Channel 9 to Channel 10, and reset the patch number to 0 or 1 (whichever setting allows you to hear the standard drum kit) for Channel 9 and Channel 10. -- The second major problem is with other Channels using nonstandard GM instrument banks (and using nonstandard XG banks as well.) This is probably because this song was composed *specifically* for your instrument. That's why I've asked you to tell me exactly which Yamaha you have. It will help me to load the correct Instrument Bank so I can see which instrument is supposed to be playing on that Channel. Most of the Channels were using Bank 0, which should be fine and should be defaulting to the standard GM instrument bank. Channel 1 was using Bank 116. Not an XG standard bank. The quick fix is to change it to Bank 0. This will use a Lead 2 Sawtooth instrument. Don't worry about Channel 2. It's used to send MIDI control information and is not 'played'. Leave it alone. Channel 11 was using Bank 113. Also not an XG standard bank. Change it to Bank 0. This will use the SynthBass1 instrument. Channel 15 was using Bank 112. Same problem as with the other two channels. Change it to Bank 0 for now. This will use the Piano2 instrument. --- That should get you going for now. I've never gotten Rosegarden up and running, so I can't tell you how to make these changes to Song001.mid. And worse yet, my Windows NT partition got a virus while I was using it for email when trying to work out my Mandrake install problems. I'll probably be doing another low level format and reinstalling the rest of this weekend after I got off work tonight. So you probably won't be hearing from me for a few days. But hopefully someone else can assist you with Rosegarden to make these changes. All the Best, John The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load
07/29/03 Hello John, Would you consider emailing me one of your Yamaha MIDI files? I'd like to see if I can get it to play correctly under a Windows MIDI sequencer program (Cakewalk). That might help me to tell you how the instruments are arranged in the Yamaha file. My email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks John, Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load
John Richard Smith wrote: If there is nothing suitable installed then I need to try to build a yamaha sound font of my own. I suppose there must be some somewhere on the yamaha keyboard itself , I wonder where they are and if I could access them.Just trying to think of some easy way to get it right. Hello John, Does your Yamaha keyboard have a user manual that lists the instruments being mapped to which patch number? I've got an old Casio CTX1000 keyboard. In the user manual was a section dealing with MIDI and gave the list of each instrument on the keyboard with matching patch number. I then built up my own patch list for the CTX1000 that I imported into Cakewalk (a PC based Midi sequencer). If you don't have the instrument patch list in the Yamaha user manual, then do your best to define each instrument on the keyboard. for instance: Patch 0 = Normal Piano (or the Yamaha may label the first patch as Patch 1. Remember my previous warning about different MIDI sequencers using patch numbers 0-127, or 1-128.) Compile your own list of patches for every instrument on the Yamaha. Then find a General MIDI patch list and compare instruments. If your trumpet is patch #87 on the Yamaha, and it's #27 on the General MIDI (just wild guesses at these patch numbers, don't attempt to use), then tell Rosegarden or whatever MIDI sequencer you're using to use Patch #27 for the track that is playing Yamaha patch #87. The only down side to this approach is if you changed Yamaha instruments within a track. For example, track #2 may have started with the Yamaha trumpet, then changed to a Yamaha tuba in the middle of the song. (MIDI and a good MIDI sequencer will allow you to do this.) With the approach above you would have the General MIDI trumpet playing the entire length of the track and would never be able to make the tuba change mid-track. John, did you hardwire (MIDI Out from Yamaha keyboard to MIDI In on computer) the Yamaha keyboard to your computer at one time to get the Yamaha MIDI files in the first place, or is this a Yamaha keyboard that accepted a 3.5" floppy disk and wrote the music directly to floppy? Because if you can hardwire the Yamaha to your computer (MIDI Out from computer to MIDI In of Yamaha, then place Yamaha in MIDI mode), have you ever considered just using Rosegarden or another MIDI sequencer to resend the MIDI data back to the Yamaha and let the Yamaha play the music? That would allow the music to be played now for your daughter while you're working on the *all* computer solution to playing the Yamaha MIDI files. Something to consider. The Other PS: Sorry I haven't been able to respond to this for a couple weeks. My computer's BIOS eats Mandrake 9.1 "Bamboo" for lunch, dinner, elevensies, and late-night snacks. I'm on Redhat 9.0 "Shrike" right now to send this to you. If Shrike is stable on this computer, I'll be investigating MIDI and Linux myself in great detail soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Solved-- Mandrake 9.1 Installed once, then never again
07/20/03 Hello All, I'm officially back from the Dark Side. For several weeks I was going nuts trying to figure out why Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack disks installed the first time, but never again after I had to replace my Maxtor drive. And then yesterday morning I remembered that I had updated the BIOS on my motherboard with a Flash utility as part of my getting ready to install Mandrake that first time. I backed down the BIOS to a prior update (my original BIOS on floppy disk is toast) and re-Flash-ed it. Mandrake 9.1 installed from CDs flawlessly. I discussed this with a systems guru from the University here in town and he confirmed that BIOS problems usually only show up during Operating System installs. It's interesting that Windows 95B and Windows NT 4.0 would both install, but Bamboo was more sensitive and choked. I would like to reinstall a virgin BIOS for my ASUS P2B motherboard. It should be version 1002. If anyone has a copy, please email me off list. I'd like to get a copy of it. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
John Richard Smith wrote: Rezound === I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound files, which are all .mid files. At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of the controls. John Hello John, It's been years since I looked at a Yamaha MIDI file, but if memory serves, Yamaha was not using standard MIDI instruments. By that I mean Instrument #1 in a standard MIDI file should be an Acoustic Piano, or Piano 1. Yamaha MIDI files may have Instrument #1 set to Trumpet, or something different that Acoustic Piano. To get the Yamaha MIDI files sounding correctly, all you may need to do is remap the Yamaha Instrument patches to Standard Midi Instruments patches in the Rezound editor. For example. Suppose Yamaha is using Track 1 as a Trumpet. In Rezound, you would set Track 1 to the Standard Midi instrument patch for Trumpet, which is #57 on an Instrument set that is numbered 1 to 128. The Trumpet would be patch #56 on a Instrument set that is numbered 0 to 127. (Be aware of these two numbering schemes for Standard MIDI files. If the patch you've specified still sounds like the wrong instrument, then increase or decrease the patch number you're using by 1 to get to the correct patch.) Now when Rezound plays Track 1, you should hear a Trumpet playing. I've not used Rezound, but this is a generic concept when working with MIDI files. This is also how you can reorchestrate a MIDI piece. If you don't like an Acoustic Piano playing on a Track, change the Instrument Patch to something else; such as a Harpsichord or Organ. Or use a different SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Partitions, File Systems, and Kernel not installing
07/15/03 Hello All, from The Other Dennis, the CDs arrived. Thank you. 3 hours of 37 different combinations of installing, and the Kernel package failed to install each time. Same results with the replacement CD1 and the original distro CD1. Obviuously, my problem isn't with the CDs. I tried Journalized Ext3 and Linux Native Ext2 file systems. This is a 1998 Asus P2B motherboard that installed Bamboo once, the very first time I installed. No joy since. How big should the / (root) partition be? On that single successful installed Mandrake chose 5GB if I remember correctly. I've been trying 6GB or larger since. Is that my problem? Or does it make a difference which sector I begin the root partition? Does it make a difference on which of 2 drives I install root? What are the special requirements for root? Am I having trouble because somewhere I'm spanning a 1024-cylinder boundary? If my system had never installed Bamboo, I would consider a hardware incompatibility problem. But now it appears there's something in my installation configuration that's messing up Kernel. Any ideas what that could be? Oh, anyway to print out the installation logs as the CD boots. I noticed a message to the effect: error opening Mandrake base patch in somefile name on CD1 The message went by to quickly to get the details. Would it help if I could capture those logs as they scroll by? Thanks All The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] glibc file is bad on Install CD1, need help to replacethe disk.
Kenneth E. Spress wrote: Hi There, I saw you said you live in Chicago area. Let me ask why the 28.8 phone modem? any particular reason why maybe I can help you Hello Kenneth, I live in Champaign, IL, which is about 120 miles south of Chicago. I'm using the 28kps Winmodem because the newer 56kps Winmodem does not have Windows NT 4.0 drivers. Or if you are asking me why I'm not using a cable modem or a higher connection to the Internet, there are 2 reasons: a) I don't surf the web, but use it as a help resource when needed; and b) the expense is not justified for the 15 hours or less a month I access the Internet. I spend $0.03 per local access telephone call (with no charge for the length time connected), as opposed to about $30 a month for broadband access. I'm not sure I understand your statement "any particular reason why maybe I can help you" I addressed this post to the Newbie List realizing that those members unable to assist me would disregard the help request, and that those members who could assist would respond to me in a private email (of which one person so far has.) Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] glibc file is bad on Install CD1, need help to replace the disk.
07/09/03 Hello All, I'm finally back from the Abyss. Windows NT 4.0 returns me to the Internet. It appears file glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586 has been damaged on my Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack distribution disk : Install CD1 If someone in the USA (I live in Champaign, Illinois, USA) can create the Install CD1 disk and mail it to me, I'd pay for their time and shipping costs. Please email me offline for details and arrangements. (I'm on 28kps dialup with no way to write a CD-Rom) End of the help request, what follows is the painful story of how I got here. - You may recall I had to send back my new Maxtor hard drive (Bamboo installed flawlessly on it, my only prior install before the trouble started) back for a replacement. I then tried to install Bamboo on the Western Digital drive that I had left, but to no avail. On Monday, 7/7, the relacement Maxtor drive arrives. Terrific. I install the drive back into the slave position and attempt to install Bamboo. No joy. Worse yet, the Master Boot Record gets corrupted and Windows NT won't boot either. Here's my suggestion to Mandrake. In the Installation booklet shipped with the boxed sets, please put in a Troubleshooting Section. In this Troubleshooting Section make mention of the F1 option to attempt to Rescue a damaged Linux installation. And within that Rescue section, please point out the Repair Windows Boot Record option. When I finally found that option it was too late, I'd already done a low level format of both drives. So I tried installing with both drives low level formatted, with the Maxtor in the Slave position, and then with the Maxtor in the Master position; no joy. I pulled out both Winmodems and tried to install, no joy. I turned off anything in the BIOS that tried to optomize hard drive usage. No joy. I then repeatedly tried to install the Minimal System (doesn't even have urpmi). No joy. I once got the notice telling me the glibc package failed to install 6 different times during a single, failed install attempt. I got the glibc failed message when just trying to install KDE as the only option, with GNOME as the only option, and with OTHER DESKTOPS as the only option. I got the glibc failed message when installing the minimal system with documentation as the only option, and when installing the minimal system with X as the only option. Needless to say I got the glibc failed message when installing any option at all (on the select packages to install page). I began to think there might be something wrong with the glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586 package. So I then very carefully at the Install CD1 disk. I think I'm seeing a scratch or nick near the outer edge in one place (probably the place where glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586 lives.) So the only idea I have left is to try a replacment disk. Any other ideas? Thanks for listening, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow-up
07/05/03 Hello Stephen, I don't know. When I get the drive back so I can reinstall Bamboo, I'll be looking for the Linux version of Hack, or NetHack if it was officially called that. Do you think playing Hack was ever intelligent? Addictive yes, but intelligent? ;) The Other Stephen Kuhn wrote: This kinda stuff is going to begin a time wasting revolution; goodbye to 3D accelerated games and FPS's - we're digressing to simpler, more intelligent times...(or one would hope). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up
07/05/03 Dark Lord, Thank you so much for giving this website. I was playing Infocom first on the Atari 1200XL, then on a Tandy/Radio Shack 8086. You realize you just blew all my free time for this summer, and fall, and . :) Would you be so kind as to give me the directions on how to play the .z5 file format? Send the directions to me offline, if you like. And since I'm still waiting for the return of my hard drive to reinstall Bamboo, would you also have directions for a Windows machine to read a .z5 file format? All the thanks, The Other Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:55 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If you've got it - then I need it. Much rather have it under linux than DOS; what what'll it take to get it? You can use either the Z-interpreter or Xinfocom. I use Xinfocom, works fine here. Go to this page and grab whatever game data files you need (there are a lot of oldies and goodies here!): http://www.latz.org/games/list.shtml I'll send you the Xinfocom file offlist. PS Actually, you can probably use the data files from the PC version you've got - I think it was the same across several platforms (Atari, Amiga, Mac, PC) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Package errors during install
07/04/03 Hello Bob, Did you try "Writing All Zeros" to the WD drive from WD Utilities? I'm currently using about fifteen WD drives (and one Maxtor). All are running well on Linux, FreeBSD, and one even has Win98 too, in case I have to run something in that. I don't let the Windows unit access the Internet though. ;-) No, I didn't have the WD Utilities at the time I was having this problem, and had no Internet access. It was a frustrating mess. I finally got Windows NT 4.0 up and am using that now to connect to the list. I really don't want to low level format the WD drive at this time, so I'm waiting for the Maxtor's return and will dedicate the Maxtor solely to Bamboo. Thanks for the confidence vote in Western Digital drives. I guess my suggestion to Tobi is still to try another drive to install Bamboo to. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Package errors during install
07/03/03 Hello Tobi, The difficulty I'm having now may be the same problem you're having. Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack CDs installed flawlessly on a Maxtor hard drive. I never got them to install on a Western Digital 6.4GB drive I bought a few years ago. The Maxtor was a bad drive and it's been sent back for repair/replacment. So at this time I can't confirm that I've damaged the Install 1 CD from the PowerPack, or if it is indeed the older Western Digital drive that is causing the problems. I used the Western Digital utilities to confirm that the WD drive is working properly. What type of hard drive are you installing to? Perhaps if you selected another manufacturer's drive? Regards, The Other Tobias Mueller wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 at one of our servers. Unfortunataly when it comes to the install of the packages, I get a whole lot of package error and the installation hangs completely. The CDs I used worked on my home machine, I even redownloaded CD1 and burned it with 4x, but it didn't help... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation
06/30/03 Hello All, In a few days (I hope), I'll have a replacment for the Maxtor 30GB drive. I'll be dedicating the entire drive to Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo. I plan to use the Bamboo system for music hard drive recording, editing, and score printing. Any suggestions on how I should partition the drive, and in what file format system? Before my hard drive crash, I was reading about a special music low-latency kernel (anyone know where that's available?), and a special file format for hard drive recording (sorry, forgot the name of that file format.) Anyone know what file format I'm referring to? The Bamboo suggested partitions last time I installed were /, /usr, and a Linux swap file. I was using Journalized something 3 file format for / and /usr. What should I consider this time? And how many GBs should be in the partitions? I have 128MB of memory. Does the Linus Swap file really need to be bigger the 256MB? (Bamboo suggested 800MB last install.) Would a 10GB partion for hard disk recording be reasonable? And in what file format? (That would still leave me 20GB for the remainder of the system.) Besides / and /usr, are other mount points and partitiona desirable? Thanks All, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
06/24/03 Sorry for the confusion. I was only using ONTRACK (from a floppy disk) to get the partition table wiped clean so I could format the entire disk. I never could get FDISK to remove the Linux partions in the extended partition, so I could remove the extended partion. Thanks for the reply and the concern. The Other. Erylon Hines wrote: > > I had the same alarm bells going off. The ONTRACK disk overlay and Linux have > always been incompatible (or so I thought). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1
06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value card. My Roland Sound Expansion MIDI modules will allow MIDI passthrough, so the single MIDI in/out from the SB Live! card should be able to drive 2 Roland MIDI modules. Anyone have experience using the SB Live! MIDI in/out port? If so, how did you set it up in various software programs. I'm using KDE 3.1 and its associated sound applications. Is there a configuration file I should be aware of? I've not learned about config files under Linux yet. A tutorial on how to get MIDI through a MIDI port working would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Myriad's Harmony Assistant (Windows Version) Anyone Using????
06/13/03 Hello All, Anyone running Myriad's program Harmony Assistant under Mandrake 9.1? I would expect some Windows Emulation program is necessary. I'm looking into Wine. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card. Anyone with experience in this setup? Thank you, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ogg/Vorbis and Mandrake 9.1 * SOLVED the Player *
On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:53 pm, Jason wrote: > Install PLF RPMS, between those and the Mandrake RPMS, you will > have all you need. Jason, You are absolutely correct. Last night I went through all the RPMS I had listed under Mandrake Controll Center and installed everything relating to Ogg/Vorbis. The site http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp listed 2 Players for Ogg/Vorbis files: XMMS and Zinf (formerly FreeAMP) Since I already had XMMS installed, I got some Ogg/Vorbis music at http://www.vorbis.com/music.psp XMMS loaded 'Mists of Time.ogg' by 4T Thieves and played it without any problems. For a second test, I used XMMS on 'Lepidoptera.ogg' by Epoq. No Problem. Anne, Femme Fatale; it looks like the wait for an Ogg/Vorbis player is now over. XMMS is doing the job. (Unless you had some other type of a player in mind, then pardon my ignorance.) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files
On Saturday 07 June 2003 11:03 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote: > Check out Moneydance. I have been using it since 1999 (when it was > v2.4). I have been very pleased with it. > > http://www.moneydance.com > > Barry Hello Barry, I've looked at GnuCash, but I don't know how to get it to track loan payments. Does MoneyDance handle loans? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?
On Sunday 08 June 2003 10:02 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > Looking at your output, it is showing PCM at 0, crank that puppy up > to 80 or 90. and see if you have something. Oh, yeah one of the > "line" items might need be turned up. HTH Ditto on Dennis' suggestion. I have a SB Live! Value card. When I'd first heard the suggestion that all the mixers set the volume values to 0, I went through the ALSA mixer and the KDE mixer. Besides the Master Volume setting, you *must* set the PCM value to a high value. So I max out (100% volume) the PCM and go 90% on the Master Volume. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
On Saturday 07 June 2003 05:07 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to > Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should > switch. > > -Cody Harris 06/07/03 1. My current system was designed from components I selected in the Spring of 1998. At that time Win98 wasn't out yet, or if it was I didn't have the $100+ to upgrade to it. I did get a copy of Windows NT 4.0 for the ability to run programs in their own space, so that one crashing app wouldn't take down the entire machine. How many flavors of Windows have been released since 1998? Take that number and multiply by $100+ to keep your Operating System current. I spent $80 for Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack, and I've already got it set up to keep the Operating System current from free downloads on the Internet. How much will that save me over the next 5 years if I had stayed with Windows? 2. I have no hard evidence to support this theory, but my gut tells me that the hardware drivers in Linux are tighter code than in Windows. Linux drivers seem to offer better performance than the comparable Windows driver. I speculate this might be because Linux is not a profit driven Operating System. This is significant. The driver writers are not faced with production deadlines. This allows them to take their time, test extensively, and tweak the code to the ninth degree. As a result the code is smaller and more efficient with less logic errors (bugs). I also speculate the Linux driver coders are doing it out of a labor of love. They have the hardware and they want Linux to be able to talk to it. 3. From my very brief look into the Linux world and the Open ?Source? concept, the documentation for the kernel and the drivers are made public to everyone. This allows talented programmers from around the world to develop code that will integrate with another's code. It's a worldwide community of programmers all following the same development guidelines. The final code versions should be very stable given the thousands of users/testers. Windows will never have the ability to have this amount of extensive testing. Summarizing my main selling points are: 1) Linux code is better, and 2) the Linux price is better. However, if you are dealing with computer illiterate people, a version of Windows is probably better since Windows development has evolved to make a desktop that is as human proof as possible. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Suggestions for Money Managing program, must import Microsoft Money files
06/07/03 Hello All, I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows file format, .qif Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those files? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail and Importing Outlook Express 5 address lists
06/07/03 Hello All, Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail? I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab Can I now Import it into KMail? TIA The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes
> > recording and burning as .WAV gives you: > > loss-less recording > > CDs you can play on any CD player > > I would record as .WAV and then burn as an audio CD, one disc per > > tape, or per tape side. > > Also be sure you mute system sounds, or they might appear on the > > recording. Reading in another email there was a reference to a recording engineer who was very impressed with the quality of the Ogg audio format. Here's the URL: http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5847717353.html I'll be looking into Ogg myself based on his experience and recommendation. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootup, 'acpi' failed
06/06/03 When Mandrake 9.1 is booting up, the list of services and whatnot scrolls by with everything as OK, with the one exception of 'acpi' FAILED. It hasn't done this before. Is this a problem to be concerned about? And for the second question: I understand how to read a 'man' page by executing 'man *program/command*' What I've yet to figure out is HOW TO GET OUT OF 'MAN' !([EMAIL PROTECTED] [I'd be happy to 'man acpi' if I could get out of the man pages.] What is the special keystroke sequence to gracefully exit the 'man' system? Thanks All, The Other (much calmer now) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives "Solved"
06/03/03 On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:06 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > I read somewhere that leaving out the "umask=0" could cause that > sort of problem on fat drives. > > Have you tried adding the umask=0 option to the /etc/fstab file? > After doing so, just "umount /mnt/win_c" followed by "mount > /mnt/win_c". Do the same with the other drives. Adolfo, Adding 'umask=0' as you suggested, then unmounting and remounting the drives solved the problem. I did not need to try the 'user' suggestion. Thanks to Everyone for the assistance. The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it OK to use KWrite as a text file editor?
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:56 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > It's as safe as anything. But just using it as a text editor - > well, you might want to consider using kedit, gedit, gxedit or kate > - but hey, to each their own... Thanks for the tips. I haven't tried any text editors yet, or any of the editors in the programming development section. Any suggestions for a programming editor that will allow running the compiler/assembler from the editor itself? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives
06/03/03 Hello Stephen, > SAMBA is for networking, not for localised file mounting/browsing. The only 'networking' I do is by 56K modem to the Internet. Do I have any reason to have SAMBA and/or NFS installed? If not, I'll remove the packages. Thanks, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives
06/03/03 Hello Aldolfo, Stephen, From a terminal window as root (or SuperUser) I can use 'ls' to view the files on the FAT32 drives. So the problem must lie in the Open dialog windows of the programs I'm running under KDE 3.1. Any thoughts about that? Or is it a file sharing problem I'm having as a 'user' that I don't have as a 'SuperUser'? File Permissions are still a tricky issue for me, coming from single user desktop environments. Is there some way to make each Window drive share-able on all files and all directories with all users? Thanks for the replies, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is it OK to use KWrite as a text file editor?
06/03/03 Is it safe to use KWrite as text file editor? Or does it append characters to the file that would cause problems? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote: > 6/02/03 > > Hello Aldofo, > > > Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for > > the fat drive: > > > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat > > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me. > > 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't > know how to make a comparable entry. Okay, I just realized /etc/fstab is a file. I opened it with KWrite to see what's in it and all of the Windows drives are showing up as "vfat" drives; as in: dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This looks okay. Is it? What else to try? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Windows files on FAT drives
6/02/03 Hello Aldofo, > Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for the > fat drive: > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 > 0 0 I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me. 1. I don't have a directory /etc/fstab on my system. So I don't know how to make a comparable entry. 2. If I go to the Mandrake Control Center, Select the Mount Points tab, and then select one of the Windows FAT drives: a) I can Unmount the drive. (And all of them are FAT32 drives) b) If I go to Expert Mode, and select Type to change it to something else, the very first prompt I get is a warning that all my data will be lost.I chicken out right there. So how can I change the FAT32 drives to VFAT without loosing the data? The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Software Services updates and getting booted from a Mirror Site
05/31/03 Hello All, No problem here, just an bit of good news. Was suggested that I post this to the list for your encouragement and edification. Or whatever floats your boat!:) [prev]--- Last night I got Mandrake set up to do Security, Bug Fixes, and Normal updates. I then asked for everything to be installed, something like 258MB of files. I'm on a 56Kbs modem, so I went to bed. This morning it looks like the mirror site had booted me just before the updates would have finished. I was wondering if Mandrake had the sense to be able to find the files that had been downloaded so they could be installed, or if it was dumb and would re-download the files. Mandrake has sense. I'm going through the Mandrake Update panel and selecting each file to be updated singly. If the file is on my computer somewhere, Mandrake is performing the update. What a relief. I was afraid I'd lost 9+ hours of downloading. I was nearly through the Ghostscript update (a big file) when I was bumped. If Mandrake is really smart, it should continue the download from the place where it left off. I don't have time this morning to find out, but when I get back from work later today we'll see. [end prev] Haven't gone to work yet (catch up day), so here's the final update on this. Mandrake is smart; but not a genius. I had to download the entire Ghostscript file again. It's OK. The download and upgrade went smoothly. The Penguin Liberation Front (PLF) has an excellent FAQ at http://plf.zarb.org/faq.html On that page take the link to 'James Robinson's urpmi documentation (English)' and read/print it. Section 3 goes over the commands/tools, and Section 4 is worth it's weight in gold telling you were to find the configuration files and what's in them. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Control Center 9.1 and URPMIs
05/29/03 Hello All, I've been following the URPMI discussions with a great deal of interest, and would like to setup my MDK 9.1 system to take advantage of Internet updating. (Sorry, but coming from Windows and OS/2, this is such a strange and wonderful concept. I still can't get over the novelty of it.) Under Mandrake Control Center is the option to enter the Software Sources Manager. Currently in Software Sources Manager are listed the 7 CDs for my PowerPack distribution. Going into the Configure Sources dialog, I assume I'm going to be *Adding* a source.(Or should I first remove all references to the CDs and simply use the Internet for my source?) Now for the questions: 1) What type of source should I select? FTP Server or HTTP Server, and what is Security Updates about? If I'm using the University of Wisconsin for a mirror site, would I select FTP Server rather than HTTP Server? 2) The Name: prompt. What to use for that? Is there where I'd enter the name of the Mirror site? (the URL for the University of Wisconsin, perhaps?) 3) The Path: prompt. I have no clue about this one. 4) The Relative Path To Synthesis/Hdlist: prompt. No clue for this one either. 5) I can see doing steps 1-4 above for the Main Distribution. Should I then Add entries for Contrib, Updates, and External Sources as shown on the plf.zarb.org website? 6) Once I have all the materials downloaded from the Internet, I speculate I would weekly go back to the Configure Sources dialog and Update the Internet sources I added in the preceding steps. I would then expect to use RpmDrake to install new software and to use Mandrake Update to install the updates to existing software on my machine. Do I have the procedure and concepts down correctly? Thanks for the assistance. One of the main reasons I came to Linux was to be able to keep my OS current without spending an arm and a leg every 2 years. I love having *capacity* and *no limits*, even if I don't use them. Charles Moore's FORTH language is good, but being able to interact with others is better. :) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
