Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Wei Wang wrote: hi, all, I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Acer 342T laptop. Mandrake recognised and installed the driver(I guess) for its soundcard: ESS ES1946 solo-1E. I could run CDplayer or MP3 player apps, but no sound comes out of the speaker. Could anyone give me a hand? Have you checked the mixer volume settings? It could simply be that the master or PCM volume is at 0... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding WM-specific startup scripts
I mainly use Enlightenment nowadays, but quite often run Blackbox too, and sometimes other WM's depending on how I feel and what I'm doing. What I'd like to do is somehow make a startup script for Enlightenment (and another one for Blackbox - sure can't live without BBKeys in there) which starts some epplets (or slit applets, resp.) at login time; but this kind of functionality can't be done with .xinitrc, right? So I guess what I need to do is somehow configure KDM to run the Enlightenment script if I login with E and the Blackbox script if I login with BB. Any suggestions? +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Victory! (and the obligatory question)
After two months of intermittent headbanging with a floppy drive that just _refuses to mount_ (and the consequent rantings on this list), I remembered one thing I hadn't tried yet. I typed 'linux nobiospnp' at the boot selection prompt, and lo+behold, the drive mounted when I told it to. Now, I'd love to get the machine to boot automatically like this without me having to type it every time it's booting. How do I go about doing this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy mounting, nobiospnp al, once more
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: Where are you putting the nobiospnp statement? You need only put it into the stanza you are actually going to boot from, which in your case is the stanza headed 'linux' In the ones headed linux, failsafe and floppy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick
I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The configure functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound. Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Two problems. 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this typos mine: Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device * return 32 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other ways of doing it? /Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Thanks for the replies. I got the Zip drive working with a friend's assistance (modprobe ppa, whatever THAT is, plus additions to /dev/fstab and /etc/modules). The floppy drive still refuses to be acknowledged. /dev/fstab has a perfectly correct-looking entry for it. The dmesg log features this bit: (I don't know if it has any significance) -- ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use ide-floppy driver 0.97 -- The Mandrake version is 8.1. I just installed this morning it on a blank HD. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Partition-setup trickery for a 40 Gb hard drive
Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general process, but newbie as I am, I need some help in applying it for Mandrake (8.1). It's the first step of the process that I can't figure out: Make a small (10 megs) as /dev/hda1 and mount your Linux boot partition there. Do this before you install Windows. Then install Windows... [snip]... then install Linux... [snip] OK, so I do what I think it says. I fire up the Mandrake installation utility and start setting the system up. When the time comes to create the partitions, I make a /boot partition. Then I'm apparently supposed to stop the installation procedure, exit the installer and install Windows before finishing the Linux install. But the installer won't let me do that: it keeps complaining that I should make a /root partition or stuff to that effect. What am I misunderstanding here? Can someone give me insight on this? (And BTW, the partition size slider in the Mandrake installer is so big-grained that it won't let me create a partition smaller than 196 megs. Is there any way around that?) +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to set up the floppy drive?
I'm having to use the floppy drive for the first time since I set up Mandrake 8.1 a month and a half ago. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be automatically mounted and I can't mount it myself. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to be done in the first place. I've tried mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (- /dev/fd0: unknown device) mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy (- /dev/floppy is not a block device) mount -t msdos /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy (- /dev/floppy/0: unknown device) and HardDrake doesn't let me do anything with the floppy drive. What gives? +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi playback problem
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Are you using LM8.0 or LM8.1? What is in your /etc/modules.conf file? 8.1, and - pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 alias eth0 8139too - , whatever that means. I never knew such a file exists until I read your reply. You can use playmidi -e to send output to external midi but I don't Doesn't do anything. think that's what you want. You can also use kmidi or timidity for software synthesis. But it's a question of principle - I shouldn't be needing to have to resort to software synthesis. I know Jose M. Sanchez has gotten his SBLive working in LM8.1 using the ALSA drivers and the onboard wavetable synthesizer. HTH, ...ALSA being, erm, what? +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Software installer problem
Hi. I installed Mandrake 8.1 from ISO images a week ago. Everything's been a breeze until today: the Software Manager has started jamming whenever I try to install something with it. I wanted to install the telnet server stuff. I fired up the Software Manager, dug out telnet-server-krb5, checkboxed it and hit install. The program informed that I also need Xinetd - OK, fine. I moved on. The program requested I insert the first installation CD, which I did. It didn't read anything, spat out the disc and told me to insert the second CD instead. I did as told, waited two minutes - nada. I went for a cup of coffee, came back after fifteen minutes, still nothing. The install simply never started. I repeated this thrice. I tried installing some other package. Nothing worked. Everything was fine last tuesday when I last used the Manager. I'd appreciate any help. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
