Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:57, Lavanya Vasudevan wrote: Thank you, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either. The alternative driver seems to be an OSS one, via82cxxx_audio. It also freezes my system. I checked on the ALSA web page and snd-via82xx does seem to be the driver recommended for my card. I downloaded the ALSA drivers and re-installed ALSA on my system. I tried with both version 0.9.4 and 0.9.0rc6, but they both freeze my system after installation, when I do modprobe snd-via82xx. Thanks, Lavanya This seems to be somewhat problematic chip. I wrestled it last fall. Following instructions from the ALSA homepage to the letter I installed ALSA drivers but never got it working 100% - some games just remained silent or crashed (xmms and CD-player worked OK as well as KDE sound). It did not crash on my comp, fortunately. As I am not really demanding about sound quality but wish everything in good working order, I disabled this onboard Via crap-chip from bios and stuffed just another cheapo SB clone into my box. Works without a hitch. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 15:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Wow - I would have assumed (key word = assumed) that if you have the ability to read cyrillic in any other application (and the font set is installed) you'd be able to read it in ANY application under ANY window manager or desktop... Jeez how glad I was if it was so! But for me it has never worked. Russians use at least three different encodings. Docs they send are some windows encoding, OOo handles this OK if the fonts are there. Mail is usually KOI8, KMail reads it OK but no other mail client that I've tried (mutt, pine, sylpheed - I look for lightweight). Other KDE apps handle cyrillic with various success, depending on where it appears (app window - yes, titlebar usually no, etc.etc.) I have actually considered changing to ALT Linux (Russian distro) but this has its own problems plus their community mail list is Russian-only and I am veeery slow on a cyrillic keyboard. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try
Hello! This list has been full of praise about Sylpheed and Sulpheed-claws. And as much as I've tried it, sylpheed is worth the praise, too. Except for one thing - from time to time I get some Russian mail and Sylpheed shows only mumbo-jumbo instead of cyrillic letters. No mention of cyrillic in encondings menu item as well :-( From the official site I got the impression that I should compile it with some specific options but there was no mention about what these options might be. Admin of sylpheed list does not let my message in as I dont want to subscribe to another list just for one mail to get through. So can anyone help me here. I really want to get rid of kmail. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OPINION
Ühel kenal päeval (Thursday 29 May 2003 06:16) kirjutas Harv Nelson: Harv mounts the soapbox and clears his throat . Here are a couple suggestions you might like to try: 1) Situation from a real life: My friend who got Linux infection from me decided to give it a try and went to buy a new comp for that. From a company named Microlink (guess who they represent here ;-) ) Asks for a comp without an OS. No we dont sell without an OS! OK put some Linux on it, I want to give a try. Eeee OK the box without an OS it will cost you... Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:51, Femme wrote: When drak first time comes up it gives you the option (in KDE anyway) to choose which WM to run on top of KDE itself. Like Enlightenment. NOw I chose that option once, couldn't figure out how to undo it. Silly me. Simply run this wizard again? I do not know the name but it is distributed as a separate rpm so you can figure the name out using urpmi database. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] path to synthesis/hdlist?
Sorry for stupid question, I want to set up ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib as an urpmi source. Where is the subject? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
hel kenal peval (phapev, 30. mrts 2003 23:55) kirjutas lewis: I have checked MCC but there is no sound card detected. When I run sndconfig it doesn't detect the card. I pick the card from the list and it tells me: The following error occured running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz: init_module: No such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz failed modprob: insmod sound-slot-0 failed I don't understand this stuff. Thanks again. Brenda My bet is you've got some cables loose, soundcard or bus not properly connected and HardDrake has therefore nothing to recognise. Can't quite see any other solutions. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trouble with locale/fonts
Hi! I happen to live in a corner of the world that does use latin alphabet but also does add quite many letters that are specific to our language (Estonian). 9.1 seems to have broken support for this locale: - KDE is mostly OK, except for some apps - Fluxbox menu has no special letters at all, in most cases just one letter is missing, in some cases whole word after this letter is gone, thus making the menu unreadable. - in Gnucash I can enter everything as I like but my old datafile has lost all special letters and reports do not show them anyway. I read that 9.1 uses UTF. Maybe that is the problem? How to change it? Also, fonts in KDE are really beautiful but GTK apps look very bad. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Multiple X sessions was Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now!
Ühel kenal päeval (laupäev, 29. märts 2003 19:12) kirjutas Derek: If you want to see something really funky. Once you have everything installed and X running, enter Ctl+Alt+F1 Log in as a user then enter startx -- :1 Now I have known for quite long that this is theoretically possible but it never works for me. Does it require some special tweaking to enable it? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
hel kenal peval (phapev, 30. mrts 2003 07:38) kirjutas Guy Rouillier: Well, there you go. You don't have a SoundBlaster 16. You have an Ensoniq AudioPCI. Go here http://www.americas.creative.com/support/welcome.asp and search for your model number. Dig around the support materials and see if you can identify if it has Linux capability. I have something similar in my comp. SB16 written on the box and Mdk says its Ensoniq. Probably little better model though - there are four plugs instead of three that Brenda has. Was recognised on install and works flawlessly. Except when I once plugged speakers to my disabled VIA onboard card ;-) Maybe Brenda has some onboard stuff as well, causing conflict? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Multiple X sessions was Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now!
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 30. märts 2003 21:29) kirjutas Derek: Then instead log in as root and type gdm (assuming you have gdm installed) gdm will work out which display is in use, and start a new one. Yess! It works Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself
Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance, mandrake starts at 500, the other distro might start at 100. Naah, it started at 501 ;-) Case closed. Thanks! Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /home ownership changes itself
Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use Mandrake and reboot to ALT Linux my home directory belongs to user 501. In both cases I have to log in as root first, change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:52, you wrote: how do I install wizdrake? First way. Open any of consoles (like konsole or rxvt). su to root (that is, type 'su' and give the password it asks). Type 'urpmi wizdrake'. Insert any CDs it asks. Done. Second way. Run Mandrake Control Center. Find package management section. It should be pretty much obvious from there. After its done, a new section (probably called Servers) appears in Mandrake Control Center, providing you with simple wizards for setting up common servers. Warning: using these wizards is hazardous! You will get the job done fast but without learning anything :-)) Also they are rather simplistic. Even a little bit more sophisticated task will require additional tweaking. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cyrillic encodings in sylpheed?
Is it possible and how? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 2. märts 2003 06:34) kirjutas Bob Read: I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong parameter. Could someone steer me to some info on how to initialize SO/OO for an installation with several users on one machine, each using their own space? I've just installed LM9.0 on a new machine with several users, but haven't initiallized them yet. I'd really like to get it right this time. Much Thanks, Bob First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wine and Win licensing
Hi, IANAL-s :-) There is an old Win95 comp in my network. Legal setup. Now I want to run a Windows program (certain bookkeeping soft) in a Linux box in the same network using Wine. Is it legal to point Wine Windows folder to this Win95 box using Samba? Or is it compulsory to use only Wine versions of DLLs. It works well technically, I have tested it. But I want to know, whether my current setup is legally valid. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What is .mpga
What files are .mpga files and how can I convert them into .wav or any other burnable format? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is .mpga
On Thursday 20 February 2003 18:12, you wrote: Maybe someone made a typo? I suspect they're mpeg-2,3, or 4 files (.mpg, .mpeg, .m2v, etc), which are video files. If you play one with mplayer from the CL, in the console ouput you'll see the actual file type. Mplayer, (maybe other players too?) ignores the file extension and auto detects the file type and uses the proper codec for it. No typo. My wife sings in a choir. One of the members downloaded bunch of music samples from the net and I promised to make a music cd out of them. XMMS or Noatun play them allright but when I tried to convert them to wav like usual mpg it failed. Will try mplayer if I find a way to download it. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Wizard
On Thursday 13 February 2003 18:27, you wrote: Yes. Install drakwizard and you will see it in mcc BTW: In 9.1 drakwizard also includes a simple NFS wizard as well. derek To all those in trouble with Samba. Tried dereks suggestion and had it working in minutes with NextNextNext routine. After spending 1 1/2 days reading docs and trying to set it up myself. Just great piece of software! Only this learning part is quietly disappearing... :-))) Wahur, just finished confing his firstever little network Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:32, you wrote: (An example of a neglected new feature is the Samba setup wizard - To set up a basic Samba server, all you have to do is press the Samba wizard button in Mandrake Control Centre. Aaarrg Guess what I spent all day just yesterday?! OK, at least I learned something Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice1.0.1 gui fonts
On Monday 10 February 2003 14:51, you wrote: You need to add an entry in the font replacement table under tools = options = font replacement, that replaces the ui font (nimbus sans ui) with the font of your choice. Wasn't it Andale Sans UI? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:03, you wrote: Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) hey! Good to see someone else on exactly the same trip! I have low-spec comp and using CLI speeds things up quite a lot. I already got rid of rpmdrake and use urpmi now. I sometimes use links instead of Opera. Quest for low-resource graphical browser continues... I had been trying to learn vi before, but your emacs/vi thread increased my strength enough so I took another look at it. Was not that bad. I think I have the basics. Now pine and mutt have been in my mind for quite some time. Being POP3/KMail user its rather setting up all those postfixes/procmails/fetchmails that hinders me. But I set up pine to look at my KMail inbox so I could try it out. Mostly works for me, though I have used to possibility of having both list of emails and email content visible simultaneously. I am going to do it - its silly to have KDE installed just to get KMail ;-) Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Playing LPs in Linux
Hello! I happen to have a rather largish LP collection gathering dust for almost a decade since the player broke. Now I thought it would be cool to somehow digitize it all and acquired old grammophone (is this the right word?). Connected it to my soundcard. But nothing. No sound in speakers, no sound in files saved (K Sound Recorder used). So where to look for mistakes? And what kind of software I actually should use for my purposes? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest
On Friday 24 January 2003 12:31, you wrote: I'd agree, except that some of them get killed from it.. It is impossible to protect a human beings from their own greed. End of story. Believe me, I am ex-senior official of stock market supervision in my land and I talk from personal experience. Its darwinism at its best. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 15:09, you wrote: My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any further than that. Most probably you use kppp for dial-up? If you dont, start using. Anyway, run kppp, then make (or if you already have it - edit) an account. See that ip addresses for DNS servers are there. If you dont ask them, beat eurobell until they tell you :) Should work. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wine and Steel Panthers
OK, for the first time I have found a good use for wine. Being a military strategies fan I installed Steel Panthers World at War and succeeded running it with wine (from Mandrake 9.0 CDs). Which makes me really happy. I still have few problems. 1) SPWAW is supposed to run fullscreen. And so it starts. But touching right or lower edge of the screen with mouse will move the game window and my desktop (with abnormally low res) appears below that. Going to left or upper edge moves the game window back. Its quite annoying as the same mouse movement is used to view different parts of the battlefield. So how to make the game window really fullscreen or at least standing on one place. Wine runs with 800x600 res, my desktop is a lot better but I can't remember exact figures. Changing wine.conf did not do the trick. 2) There is no sound. This is much less of a problem but still - should wine know about my soundcard and be able to make use of it? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] non-profit??
On Thursday 16 January 2003 20:02, you wrote: Mandrakesoft is GPL with everything it does except on the commercial software disks and the club downloads. Thats what I thought. If you folk have checked other distros lately, ... ...Forget it. Yess And, yes, if I did something to continue the effort the Mandrake folks started, I would find some help and create a non-profit scientific, educational, and charitable purposes tax exempt corporation and seek private foundation funding for the preservation of essential freedoms. But let's be a little more optimistic for now. MandrakeClub has 20,000 members and people are investing to preserve the effort. Just continue what is done. But the problem is, if the need for action arises, speed is required. Starting thinking about contingency plans then is by far too late. Some months break in development is bad but not fatal; but things like maillists cannot disappear. Not for a day. Otherwise community starts falling apart. So we can hope the best for Mandrakesoft business and help them as we can but community must have a backup plan. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Thursday 16 January 2003 07:52, you wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:39, Miark wrote: Despite today's date, he doesn't know what's going on with Mandrake's bankruptcy. He complains about the low value of boxed Linux-Mandrake, and say that Mandrake Club is useless and that votes mean nothing. He's suggesting mutiny against Mandrake because it's a for-profit organization. Not only that, Miark...but more importantly he is suggesting that there be a fork of the Mandrake distro using of course Mandrake GPL'd distro packages and code. This is a very dangerous suggestion in the here and now, when the new Mandrake management team has not even had a chance to prove itself, it's direction, and it's attitude yet. In short, it seems premature and very disloyal, no matter what Ben Reser's claims to the contrary. I think Mandrakesoft should be given time to prove itself before somebody kicks them when they are down. It is an extremely poorly timed article which discredits itself with it's timing, no matter how good the negative points may be. I read his proposal in a little bit different way. Supporters of Mandrake are currently doing big efforts to keep the company alive but it is true that our money goes to cover old debts, not to develop a new better distro. Ben shows a way to get rid of these old problems without losing our beloved distro. In the bitter end, if Mandrakesoft cannot survive, it will be the _only_ way. We are fortunate. Unlike many other distros Mandrake community is strong enough to have this option. Can it result in a fork? Yes it can. Think how different is our understanding of the same text. Is a fork dangerous? Yes it is. Mandrake community might be strong but splitting into two will weaken it significantly. Therefore timing is vital in taking real action. But being (at least mentally) prepared for that will help. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:14, you wrote: Getting rid of those debts is crucial - make no mistake about it - and cannot therefore be seen as a waste of our money. Sure but if Bens financial info is correct, there is no way to do it in few next years. Saving the company is going to hurt distro meanwhile. It already does. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sort of OT - language
On Thursday 09 January 2003 15:47, you wrote: Agreed, Anne. Being American, I'm equally amazed that many who speak something other than english as a primary language can converse in english so much better than many who are raised with it as their only language. Those who can - and do - show such desire to be global have my deepest respect and admiration... and envy *g*. Thats easy to explain - compared to other languages english has no grammar whatsoever, thus being easy to learn for foreigners (who have already grammar experience with their mother tongue) :) Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problem
Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev, 2. jaanuar 2003 14:21) kirjutasid sa: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Now first thing to check is always whether you have unmuted channels :-)) This is by far the most widespread sound problem in Linux. KMix is good for that. Other than that - I have the same sound chip. 9.0 got it recognized and it also worked except for some games. You could try latest alsa drivers - www.alsa-project.org. Look for instructions specific to your chip. They have very good step-by-step instructions that are suitable for complete newb with standard intelligence and some time at hand :-) This will require downloading and compiling three files, modifying your modules.conf and editing or creating .asoundrc file in your home directory. Given the quality of instructions you can do it fast and it is also great educational experiment. Conclusion - it seems VT8233 is not best-supported piece of hardware and requires extra work but will work for most purposes. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trashed my system - lots of rant
I am amazed. I bought a new Athlon in spring. Mandrake 8.2 installed faultlessly and the only piece of hardware ever needing my attention was Lite-on CDRW that needed some configuration to start roasting CDs. Ah yes, in order to get 3d acceleration for my Geforce2 DDR I downloaded Nvidia proprietary drivers that installed in minutes. Install of 9.0 changed my life. It has caused more trouble than RH6.1, my first ever Linux install, and I am not through it yet. 1) It would not recognise my PS2 Safeway wheelmouse. Worse, it would not work with any generic drivers at all. I found my mouse usable with some Genius drivers except it would sometimes disappear and reappear mysteriously. 2) VIA8233 soundcard would work only partially, leaving most of the games without sound or with very choppy sound. Proposed cure of installing newest alsa drivers was a waste of bandwidth and time. Cause of this problem has been explained to me in and out of this list. I could somehow live with it. 3) Installation of Nvidia drivers fails invariably, so I had no 3d acceleration despite experimenting with different versions of X. Finally I succeeded trashing X completely doing it. 4) It would miss my fav WM - Fluxbox and compilation of a package from FB homepage fails for reasons I have had no time to find out. As you noticed I have been rather busy lately. The good news is, it recognized and set up my CDRW OK ;-) After trashing X with nvidia I turned back to clean-install my old 8.2 and lo! it would know nothing anymore of my soundcard and nvidia drivers would not install anymore. Fortunately I am not without a system entirely. I have Knoppix 3.1 CD that, when inserted, recognizes and configures every piece of hardware (except CDRW which it occupies anyway) without a single mouseclick or use of keyboard. Comparing those two distros I can only ask - what the f...k those guys in the Mandrake are doing? As I said, I am completely amazed. Wahur, with Mandrake since 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0
Hello! Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0. After two weeks I have list of problems: 1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in other WMs there is no sound at all. 2. Freeciv. There seem to be two modes of play. In better case everything works, but every move is accompanied with a weird sqeaking sound. In worse case there is no sound at all and every move just takes ages, causing finally lost connection to server (I've been playing only with localhost server). 3. Midnight Commander. It works OK in terminal window, but when changing to different virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get a warning message like this: [gpm.c(857)]: Failed gpm connect attempt by UID 501 for vc /dev/vc/0 last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c /home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c src/liblow.c liblow.c info [liblow.c(446)]: Warning: Closing connection Machine is new and shiny. Sound card is some integrated piece (VIA 8233), sound driver is ALSA v0.9.0rc2 emulation code. It's exactly as it was automatically configured during the install. Graphics card is GeForce2 DDR. Because there are no nVidia drivers for 9.0 yet, its using some generic drivers probably. Is this the problem? Vahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
