Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:06 am, Todd Slater wrote: Yeah, I've tried eject. I probably had some ROX-filer windows open but I can't say for sure. Todd Todd, have you tried lsof /dev/device (or /mnt/device) to see what still has a hold of it? Might help point the way. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest
On Monday 17 March 2003 10:30 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html Sorry, I just should'a posted that link in my first reply ;) No problem, I'll save that url and check it out in a bit. Wanted to tell you what happened yesterday. I installed lm-sensors and gkrellm to monitor temperatures and voltages. Got it setup and running, got alarms right away. The 3.3v is showing 6.4 volts all the time. I'm clueless as to why. As to temperature - I took the case off, had gkrellm going, showing 114.4 degrees (F. not Celsius). I opened a shell and ran burnK6, and watched it. System locked up in less than 2 minutes, final temperature was 118.2 degrees at lockup. That should not really be the problem, should it? Thanks much! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Install on SCSI
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:50 am, Leonardo Diciolla wrote: Sorry, actually It was Mandrake 9.0 instead of RH 8.0 (even though had a similar issue) --- Leonardo Diciolla [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha Hi Leonardo - I had problems getting an Adaptec SCSI card to work with a Shuttle motherboard here, and although I finally gave up and moved the SCSI setup to another motherboard, I was told that during installation, you must pick expert and try to get the install to pick another SCSI driver. Apparently, mine was always picking the wrong one during installation and the install would always fail. Do a search on the mailing list archives for SCSI and you should find the threads about it. Hope this helps. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?
On Thursday 27 June 2002 05:35 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:15 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Look over history. Every watershed empire was eventually knocked over by an outside force of less technically supplied, less organized barbarians. i am a barbarian now? cool :) linus must a wee bit of viking blood in him i admit. OK what can you do? You can task yourself with educating 5 people over the next 12 months. And ask them to do the same That's really all that is required. that, and hope those you educate are not sheep, or the learning is lost. May I add something else here? Make sure that a percentage of those 5 you educate (or re-educate, as it were) are under the age of say...10? What is that saying about what they learn young...? smile -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aviplay error
On Thursday 27 June 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the info, Charles! I needed that. I thought it was just me... Time for YACD. (yet another CVS download) WC (with Checkinstall. Thanks Sridhar..) LX Lyvim, I was just curious...do you prefer Aviplay over others? I've been using Mplayer here, and (after getting it to complile) it will run just about everything I've thrown at it, including the kitchen sink (even DVDs). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net
On Sunday 23 June 2002 06:38 pm, you wrote: Do you have a nic also? I had the same problem and had to do a ifconfig eth0 down to get the modem to talk to the apps. Roly On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 18:20, F. McKenna wrote: Hi all, Like it says in the subject line I can't browse the 'net. Mandrake 8.2 dials out with my 33.6 modem and connects to my ISP but I can't browse using Konq, Netscape, or Mozilla. I have made all three users part of the PPP group but I am not sure where to take it from here. Your help would be ceeply apreciated, Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to win True Strength lies in Gentleness Hmm, this has come up a couple of times before, and I've had the same problem myself (once I started a small 3 comp LAN). What I had to do was edit these files: (to get a modem connection, LAN working, and not have to shutdown my network everytime I wanted to dial out) /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=darkforce.com DOMAINNAME=com GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 FORWARD_IPV4=true /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 darkforce.com darkforce 192.168.0.2 darkforce2 192.168.0.3 darkforce3 /etc/resolv.conf domain setel.com#kppp temp entry search com setel.com nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 192.168.0.3 # ppp temp entry nameserver 63.70.180.2 # ppp temp entry nameserver 63.70.180.2 #kppp temp entry Of course, you'd have to enter your own specifics above. ;-) And I believe (but am not sure) that I had to turn connection sharing on. Might want to ask someone else about that. Hope this helps some! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation Question
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:16 pm, you wrote: But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Ah, the Amiga I had an A1000 and other models... I still miss that under the CPU keyboard well... And Shadow of the Beast... sigh PS And Guru Meditation errors! grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locked floppy drive
On Friday 21 June 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote: That's pretty cool. Things have come a long way since I first installed Linux! Sir Robin You said a mouthful there! I started with Mandrake v7.0 (well, TBH a unix variant running on an old Atari Falcon was my first 'Nix exposure) and had to recompile the kernel to get the bttv stuff in so I could use my TV tuner card. Now its all auto-magically installed... I just luvs it... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation Question
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: snip What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the previous screen. Civileme Hehehehehe, thats actually just what I intend to do the next time I install a newer version. (and yes, I know there are normal people out there who are going to tell me I need to get a life but it is fun to mescrolling through all those package descriptions and seeing just what all is there. Its like when Christmas rolls around!) Sad little puppy, aren't I? grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GeForce 4
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while running 8.2 and it didn't have a problem. Then I installed the cooker snapshot and had to go with FBdev during installation, but upon boot, do a XFdrake --expert --noauto and pick gf3, load up the drivers, edit config and start X. No problems. :) -s Hmm, is the 3D gaming stuff working as well? Or is this 2D only? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast and burning CD's.
On Saturday 08 June 2002 11:09 am, you wrote: snip alias bdcd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -data (need to make cd_image first, eg, 'mkisofs -r -o cd_image dir') alias biso=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 alias bacd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -pad -audio *.wav Thanks for the reply and the info! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast and burning CD's.
On Saturday 08 June 2002 04:21 pm, you wrote: Hi, I've had excellent results with xcdroast,last three Mandrake releases. No problems at all. Pentium IV 1.5 gigahertz, GA-81DX mobo,Cendyne 16x10x40x burner.Currently running MDK 8.2. Had a lot of problems before I bought this burner. Just my 2 cents worth. Dan Hi there, Dan! Well, I had used Xcdroast under 8.1 and was very happy with it there, and under 8.2, I used it to burn files to CD's with no probs. either. It was just when I went to duplicate a CD that it fell down. I've got an Adaptec SCSI card, running a Toshiba DVD and a Plextor CDRW. Xcdroast finds both, has them in correct positions on the SCSI chain, but will not read any CD in my DVD drive. It always reports that its an empty CDRW. Gcombust, under this same setup works fine. I even deleted Xcdroasts conf files and started over just in case. Still no go - and this is as root, or with the user I had setup... Don't forget, this same exact setup worked just fine under 8.1 so I dunno... I'm glad its working for you though, I did like it! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast and burning CD's.
On Friday 07 June 2002 07:53 pm, you wrote: I ust'a think the same, but lately burnin from the CL is easier, quicker, and safer than any GUI. I recently thought Gcombust to be the most reliable, it's since proved me wrong :( Then I discovered how quick and simple it was to burn from the CL. Its been so odd about GUI frontends for burning here. Under 8.0, I used Koncd which worked great. Then, under 8.1, Koncd was broke so I used X-CD-Roast which worked great. Now under 8.2, X-CD-Roast won't see any CD in my DVD drive (reader) and I've been using Gcombust which (so far) has worked fine. What problems did you have with it Tom? man cdrecord and read the CD-writing howto. Unlike most docs, they even include examples!!;) Methinks I better do just that... ;-) PS Maybe we'll come full circle again under the next release and Koncd will start working again! grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] run windows executable in Linux ...
On Thursday 05 December 2002 02:26 am, you wrote: hello in linux can i run windows executable applications ? i have heard there are Windows emnulator or Dos emulator which can run exe files .. is that right ? if that work correctly , where can i download that ? i'm using from mdk 8.2 are there these utilities into itself mandrake ? Thanks .. bye Howdy. Is it games or apps that you are wanting to run? If games, then the latest Winex works great... If apps, then probably Wine or Win4Lin... DosEmu works for some older DOS command line stuff... Hope this helps! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't dupe any CD's. ;-(
Anyone else having trouble duping CD's under 8.2? I had not tried it until just now. X-CD-Roast won't see any CD that I put into my reader (a Toshiba SCSI DVD). It did under 8.1... I've got a Toshiba SCSI DVD and a Plextor CDRW, tied to an Adaptec SCSI card. Both show up under X-CD-Roast. Before, under 8.1, everything worked fine... cdrecord -scanbus gives us this: [root@darkforce darklord]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-M1401' '1009' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W124TS' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '14.A' Removable Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * X-CD-Roast gives No CD loaded with nothing in my DVD reader, and with any data CD it gives Empty CD-R/RW Thats data CD's that I've previously copied, commercial CD's, anything (I even tried CD's from my Mandrake Powerpack). I can see any of these CD's just fine by opening them up from the desktop icons...or from a terminal... Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer/compiler/gcc/v8.2 problems...
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 02:03 am, you wrote: This may not help but on teh Expert list there was a thread on the cpp0 file thingy... search for that? Hmm, I didn't search the expert list - figured it wasn't for them... Oh well, I'll go check! Thanks... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer/compiler/gcc/v8.2 problems...
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:42 am, you wrote: Weren't you having trouble with your compiler? Cause that what it sounds like to me. I installed that new mplayer on 8.2 the other night with: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking --enable-gui --disable-runtime-cpudetection I think you can install gcc 3.x and just use it on the fly with something like: ./configure --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.01 (or whatever version number). But your gcc is still goofed up is my guess. I made... er... cough... got an rpm of it, you want I should mail it to you? -s Hi! Well, let me add the cpu detection to my attempts (as well as some other things I picked up in other msgs) and see what happens. Thanks for your help and offer! ;-) PS Using the mplayer Redhat 7.2 RPM and font RPM I did get a singular version of mplayer working here (no GUI) so its a start. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:18 pm, you wrote: however i was unable to find the 'gui' RPM i got from them the other day.. so this package will probably install the commandline version only. On Mplayers' site, they stay to download the source RPM and rebuild it to get a GUI via RPM Did you try the penguin site for a GUI version? Maybe they have one... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3! Floppy save locks the PC completely!!!
On Monday 03 June 2002 04:03 pm, you wrote: Hi people I remember sometime ago when someone did post that if we should avoid locking up the whole PC while trying to save data to floppy via drag n' drop we should be changing the default fstype to auto from vfat to /etc/fstab that comes with setup. I actually did that. No nothing. PC freezes completely. Only solution to rebood it using the reset button. I can only save data to floppy via command-line. Any ideas will be as always much appreciated Cheers Dimitris DImitris - Hi! I too did what others suggested and changed fs=vfat to auto in /etc/fstaband like you, it made no difference whatsoever...still locks up hard. I'd also like to see a solution to this problem. See ya! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Saturday 01 June 2002 04:27 pm, you wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Hey. If they are old versions of Mandrake, why not do what I did? Every time I get a new release of Mandrake (and I always buy the Powerpacks), then I give the old one to our local Library, where the computer guy there gives them to whoever wants them, first come first serve. (and he always tells them who I am and how to get in touch with me if they need any help). Proliferation, we love Proliferation, Proliferation, a game we love to play... Procreate, Procreate, Procreate - give Mandrake Linux to a friend today! Er sorry there...got carried away cheerleader mode off Heh - blame it on 12 hour night shifts... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Whats up with gcc?
Guys, I can't even compile one single program?! Whats up with that? I get the following error everytime I do a ./configure: Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'. Any ideas? Geez, you have to be able to compile... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal
On Friday 31 May 2002 01:00 am, you wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: It is the Loki release for Linux, right? If so, then grab it. Works great with my Geforce here No, someone hacked the UT installer and made it so you can use Unreal in Linux now too. I am told at MUB that it is really cool, so I am looking to get it now. Its a wonderful game though, and worth the effort to get it setup... ;-) I have a tutorial on installing UT on my site. Oh sorry then, I misunderstood. I did have Unreal setup one time with some Linux installer or the other, back on my old 475mhz machine with a Voodoo 3000 video card. Video was fine (great looking game in fact) but I never could get the sound to work with that installer Good luck with your efforts! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xine question...
I looked thru the archives, and on Xines' Sourcforge site, but couldn't find the info I wanted... I did install all the plugins that came with Mandrake 8.2. Is there a plugin for Xine that will allow it to do menu navigation like Ogle? I did figure out how to use Nav to pick individual files) Also, on some of my DVD's I get a no Xine plugin for Ts.vob or something like that... Is there a plugin for that as well? Thanks all! PS Ogle works great here, on 99% of my DVD's but I wanted to get Xine fully working so I could do a head 2 head comp. The DVD's that Ogle won't do here are: Legend of Hell House (sits forever, choppy video) Ghostbusters (can't launch movie - but can play individual scenes) Arrival 2 (Arrival 1 on the flip side works great - go figure) Jackson County Jail (sits forever, can pick scenes but never starts them) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal
On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:19 am, you wrote: Did anyone try this yet? I was considering buying it tomorrow, but I hear that it is pretty hacked together... If it is good, then I will get it. Hey, what's another Native Linux game to add to my collection? Unreal is like $10 here or something. It is the Loki release for Linux, right? If so, then grab it. Works great with my Geforce here Note that I did have to disable supermount here just long enough to install it under v8.2 of Mandrake. I didn't have to do that with 8.1... Its a wonderful game though, and worth the effort to get it setup... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:36 pm, you wrote: I had the same experience but kept quiet as apparrantly , me and floppies don't mix well:o( :-) Anyhow, disabling automount for the floppy-device resolved all that. Had to do that by manually by editing /etc/fstab/ and rebooting cause even as 'root' I got 'access denied' whenever I tried to change the floppy configuration:o( Automount for the cd-rom works just fine untill now, i.e. this is the first time round I have allowed it in all my gnu/linux days. Good hunting, Harm. Thanks for the advice, Harm - I'll try it. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i disable ;-) Thanks, Femme. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:18 pm, you wrote: Well IIRC it had nothing to do with Supermount in that instance. It was purely a coincidence that was brought up in the thread. Its a Konq. bug in itself apparently. Disable supermount, try it anyway. If i'm wrong, let us know. And another use says its because the floppy drive is auto-mounted and if I just change that in /etc/fstab it will work okay. I'll try both routes and see what happens. ;-) Thanks as always for your help! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE startup question...
On Monday 27 May 2002 01:20 pm, you wrote: Hey Darklord, Getting ready to have some ribs over here in Gas Fork holler. Randy You woof-woof, I love bar-b-que ribs grin Well...eat 3 for me... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 08:55 am, you wrote: snip Some CD-RW drives (eg, Plextor, Yamaha) are known to work well with even poor media. Other drives (eg, Sony, HP) are know to be more fussy. 'Bout all you can do to minimize these situations is thru trial'n error, find media that works well with your CD-RW, and never burn faster than 8x. If you still encounter problems, burn at 4x. I can testify to this...my brother burns 800 meg CD's all the time. My Plextor CD-RW will read them where my (1 year newer) Toshiba DVD drive absolutely refuses to... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3...again
On Monday 27 May 2002 09:39 pm, you wrote: snip Anyone able to help? Thanks Brian Brian, I had that same signal 11 exiting problem with my version of Q3 (full commercial Linux version from Loki Software). I followed this link, d/led this file (its big, like 26-27 megs) installed it, and all was fine. (giving credit - got this from our very own Femme Fatale!) ;-) ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/ I hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
Just wondering - seems like I read this somewhere before...is there a bug in the drag 'n drop filecopy to an open floppy window under KDE with v8.2? The reason I'm asking is - I did it, from an window on /home/darklord to an open window on /mnt/floppy and I got a complete and total system wide lockup. None of the usual control alt's would work, had to power down and backup. Of course, then I went thru the time-honored I'm fsck'ed shuck 'n jive... I opened a term and did a cp filename.ext /mnt/floppy and it worked just fine. Thanks in advance! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE startup question...
On Monday 27 May 2002 11:42 am, you wrote: if you mean that funky kde splash with the starting window manager etc., in my experience it closes at different times depending on #fonts installed/applets running/document history/phase of moon, but it never seems to effect the actual performance. in kde3 it isn't so much the disappear as the appear! sometimes when i log in it doesn't even show up till most of the messages it gives are already done as usual, i may be wrong. :) Yeah, that was it. I was just wanting to make sure it wasn't something I needed to do anything about. I guess, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, eh? ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Richard Stallman mentions the CBDTPA (OT)
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: Now in this article he's warning us about non-free software in other areas. My personal opinion is that although he seems rather extreme at times, it's merely because he's ahead of his time. These are problems that will come to pass either sooner or later if allowed to continue; it's just a matter of time. I was fortunate enough to hear RMS speak during the last Linux Lunacy cruise, and he is a very solid speaker, very convincing... I for one never knew until then that Linux was built using the GNU tools... I don't understand why Linus can't just say, (and thus credit) I used GNU to make the kernel, wouldn't have been able to do it without these tools AND I don't know why RMS can't say and Linus (successfully!) took it places that I never imagined Seems this would help bury the hatchet/feud whatever. Of course, I realise that this is probably over-simplification but...it would surely be a start. We do need unity, thats for sure... Just my 2 cents worth, as always. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card
On Monday 20 May 2002 03:37 pm, you wrote: I was desparate. My only 3 month old geforce2 died like 2 in the morning Saturday. So the soonest I could have had a better choice delivered would have been Tuesday. Well, I couldn't hang that long. I got this PNY Verto from Circuit City in town. That was a leadtek that died at 3 months. My son has an asus v7700 (gf2) that I ran for 2 years. I guess there is a difference in brands. -s Hi s! I think thats kind unusual for a 3 month old card to die...maybe it was just bad luck? Any chance of a warranty resolution? I've got a Leadtek Geforce 2 in my 11 year olds computer and I think its about a year old. No problems fingers crossed so far... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake new video card
On Monday 20 May 2002 06:50 pm, you wrote: Hey darklord, Yeah, it was a disappointment that 3month old card died. Yeah, I'm working on warranty replacement as we speak. Good luck, they should replace it BTW, I didn't get your post. I only knew you responded by shane's answering yours. Could you forward me a copy of your post? thanks. -s Hmm, wonder why not? Oh well, it really wasn't much more than that. I just mentioned that I had a Leadtek Geforce 32mb video card in my 11 year olds computer and its over a year old. Knock on wood, but we haven't had any problems with it yet... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE loses sound...
Anyone else notice that from the Control Center - Look n Feel - System notifications, that if you preview an AU sound file that it not only doesn't play, but you lose sound until the next time KDE is restarted. Is this a known bug or just something about my setup? Thanks! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo vga settings?
Just wondering. I checked the lilo man pages but couldn't find this - what numbers represent what resolutions in /etc/lilo.conf? I've pretty well figured out that: vga=788 is 640x480 vga=791 is 1024x768 but how do I get other resolutions. I though about just randomly plugging in numbers, but I was afraid I would wind up with something unbootable... ;-) Thanks! PS if those numbers above are wrong - please correct me! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mp3's left side only.
On Friday 17 May 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote: nah...remember he said in the original post that this is happening both Windows and Mandrake. sounds like something on the hardware maybe? Sorry - missed that part. You're right though, if its doing it under multiple OS's then its probably hardware/cabling, etc,... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player
On Saturday 18 May 2002 01:53 am, you wrote: snip You have two options, Tom. First you can go to sourceforge and download something called Avi4Xmms, and that will require you to recompile Xmms. snip The latest version of the Crossover plugin will install the Windog media player, methinks... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Saturday 18 May 2002 12:49 am, you wrote: Im going to re-run some demos b/c I think you may have nailed it. I am not totally sure about running them equally the same. AFAIK I did...but I may have made a mistake. I will let you know... I just wondered if I was the only one too who had this quirk. Be sure and let us know! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Friday 17 May 2002 06:37 am, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 06:24 am, Brian Koppe wrote: Ever hear of MS- DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they forgot to secure their rights to it. Know of any sources to support this? The history of MS-DOS is surprisingly long. It started off as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) which was developed by Seattle Computer Products to run on IBM's new PC. http://www.houlden.f9.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.htm But for a quirk of fate, the original PC operating system could have been GEM (DOS), and the world would have been so much better off for it. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mp3's left side only.
On Friday 17 May 2002 10:48 am, you wrote: Hi Franki, I think the problem you experience is a hardware problem. Make sure that your sound card's output is not damaged, nor the audio cables, nor the right speaker. It's the only thing I can imagine that might be wrong. Regards, Rodrigo Or (if this hasn't been already checked) that channel is turned down in software (Kmix, etc, etc...) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Didn't Gates also use a lot of CMP and Unix stuff as well? (ah well, take whatever is out there, use it for your own - I guess a leopard can't change its spots after all! grin) Sorry, gotta correct myself here...that was supposed to be CPM. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Friday 17 May 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: *Pounces in cat-like fashion.* THANK YOU! You just eliminated any need for me to install WinBlows at ALL! I was SERIOUSLY hoping that I wouldn't have to deal with it's discount fertalizer again. And now I don't have to. *Happy tiger-dance.* This is a good thing. Once I get Mandrake working right, you can bet that I'll be on top of this in a heart-beat! Thanks again. Iceburgh69 Well, you just made my day as well! Anytime I can convince someone that they don't really need Windog, its a victory. Sure, a small one but still, I'll be happy to win those kind of victories, *one* use at a time... grin I used to dual-boot with Windoze, and it was just because of games. Since Wine, (especially Transgamings Winex 2.0!) and the games that have been released for Linux as native ports, well...I couldn't justify keeping Windblows onboard. I was most happy to reformat my drive and clear it out of all MS/Gates bloatware... ;-) I hope your gaming efforts go well, but if not, be sure and post them to the list, where we'll all try to help you any way possible that we can! ;-) Good luck man! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote: No, I get a 20fps drop in linux... so in windows if i avg say.. 80FPS, in linux I get 60fps. Go figures That is odd. Femme, I know you are bright person (where's my shades! grin) so you've probably checked everything that can be humanly checked but just out of curiosity, are you running them against each other at the same screen depth and resolution? I'm really baffled about this because the trend seems to be the other way. Most users experience equal or faster performance under Linux... Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:01 am, you wrote: Miark wrote: As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary... Incidentally, I read somewhere recently that nVidia _wants_ to open source their drivers, but they can't... wish I could remember why! Miark Special relationships and binding contracts with SGI and you know who. Civileme Love to see them open up - those are the only closed source drivers I use here ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:12 am, you wrote: Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. Didn't the German armed forces (?) also drop Windog because somebody was using it to spy on them? Seems like I saw that a while back on LinuxToday or some place like that... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:00 am, you wrote: you want to type: /demo demo1 I did do thatnothing happens except it goes back to the main menu... Dunno. Anyways, gonna try changing that line that another user suggested. Are we all gonna post our fps/res/depth just to see whats happening? (not another bragging rights contest - just to see how we are doing?) Thx! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: Don't hold your breath ; Besides the Special relationships and binding contracts, nVidia is a major chip supplier to you know who. I seriously doubt nVidia would risk M$'s rath and subsequent loss of market (eg, video chips for the Xbox). M$ doesn't want hardware working correctly on other than their OS. Not to mention that M$ could kill nVidia just by slowing info that nVidia needs to write their Windoze drivers. It's a fact of life that they're willing to threaten, arm twist, and bully to keep it so. IMO, a much greater crime than the integration of the IE browser and Media Player. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynewsStoryID=95928 1 I was afraid of something along those lines. I would just love to see somebody (like Nvidia) publicy tell just what MS does... I mean, make a commercial along the lines of: Well folks, today we are releasing all of our code and making it open source, according to the guidelines of the GPL. We've not done this up until now because we feared what MS would do to our business. Here are memo's and other (various) messages from Redmond showing just how they have been threatening us. We finally just became sick to death of all this and decided to tell you, the buying American public, just what they have been doing. Naturally now, we will be a target for them to use, abuse and withhold vital information from, just so they can teach us a lesson. In fact, they will probably destroy us. Is this right? You decide - and let your elected officials know just what you think... Thank you for your time Ah well - guess nobody else sees that if they did this, then MS would be forced to leave them alone, because of the scrutiny that would be brought to bear on them... I can dream, I guess... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:25 pm, you wrote: So, Captain Obvious... explain why I get a 20fps hit in Linux on Q3 demos? HMM? Thats odd - I do get much better than that here. Whats your hardware setup? I'm running: AMD Thunderbird Athlon 900mhz Geforce 2 Titanium 64 meg video card SB X-gamer Live sound card 60 gig IBM Deskstar IDE hard drive (7200rpm) 384 megs Ram Most games seem better under Linux. It might be totally subjective, because I've not really measured but...I know that under Winex 2.0 and Diablo2, the between scenes loading times are much quicker under Linux. Every other games seems just as fast or faster: Q3 UT SOF Rune Tribes2 Starcraft Jedi Knight2 Just my 2 cents worth... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount survey...
On Monday 13 May 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote: Same here. Supermount is confused especially by floppies. Furthermore I suspect it for not being able to play an ordinary music-CD (KDE CD-player at least), because CD's don't have to be mounted while playing. I'm going back to 8.1 if I can't figure out how to disable it. Kaj Haulrich Denmark Don't go back to v8.1. You can disable supermount like this: (as root) supermount -i disable and just reverse that if you want to enable it again. supermount -i enable ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Sunday 12 May 2002 04:54 am, you wrote: as i understand it, a K6 is still considered a i586 architecture by kernel distinction. Just to mention...my former (and now in use by my 8 year old) K6-III 475mhz AMD was labeled a 586... and my Athlon T-bird 900mhz as well as my 11 year olds 850mhz Duron are labeled as 686's... Hope this helps somewhat. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!
On Sunday 12 May 2002 05:21 pm, you wrote: Yes, I have got this far and after entering user and pass I get this: [condyk@localhost condyk]$ What does this mean? Umm, have you tried typing in: startx at this point? That should start your GUI of choice (KDE/Gnome/whatever). I'm not being insulting here (I've not been following this thread - sorry!) but are you fairly new to Linux? If so, just keep posting/asking questions, we'll help you all we can! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Q3 again... ;-)
Okay, I followed Femme's link and d/l'ed the .sh - 27 meg version of Quake 3. I didn't do exactly like she had posted though... I have been using the full Linux release/version of Quake 3 that I purchased from Loki Software before they went under. I've never had the Windows Q3 CD. So...since I had an existing installation already, I just ran the script on top of it. Well, it seems to have worked. I can play Q3 again without it exiting out with a signal 11. I did notice, following the term window output that there was some errors that I had not seen when I had it working before. I'm not gonna complain though - if it works, it works... grin Thanks to Femme and everyone else who contributed to the cause! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3 stuff added....
On Thursday 09 May 2002 01:12 pm, you wrote: It ran just fine for me with the no sound option. And I'd *love* to install the ALSA drivers but they're such a pain every time I try. I can never seem to get it working :-\ Well, ALSA is installed by default, right? I mean, its already installed on a stock 8.2 setup? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3 stuff added....
On Thursday 09 May 2002 01:10 pm, you wrote: I suspect my mail about this must have gotten lost: I think we crossed somewhere, I did get another message from you about this. Thanks again though! ;-) I spoke to a CS friend of mine and he told me exactly how to do this. Make a script (I named mine q3a.sh, but it doesn't really matter) and put in it the following: killall artsd quake3 artsd Now, rather than type quake3, open the script to play and all will be fine! What I did after that to make it even easier is I created an icon on my desktop which linked to /usr/local/games/quake3/q3a.sh (which is, obviously, where I placed my script) So, now all I have to do is click on the icon and all works perfectly :) Hope I helped! Brian Here, on my setup, this does kill artsd, and start Quake 3however, it still exits out with a signal 11...killing the KDE server makes no diff. ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Friday 10 May 2002 12:20 am, you wrote: T'was indeed a humorous jab, but then my sense of humor may be a little different ;-) Thought so! ;-) And I'm sure you are indeed a nice guy - but then - you have a gun, so I'd just better say that eh? :-))) ;-) (just for the record though - I've never had to use a gun to dispute!) Don't shoot anyone I wouldn't! Bet thats a short list! lol cheers Brian Hehehehehe, did I mention that my .signature file used to read: Have gun, will travel ??? snicker -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?
On Sunday 05 May 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: darklord wrote: Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that pointed to this... I addressed the expert list on one problem: namely I can't save my settings using the Save Button. :( But no bombing sorry. Hi Femme! Well, its not a total bomb. I can go ahead and use Eterm, it just does that little annoying thingy. It did not do this from 7.0 - v8.1... Thanks though! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Monday 06 May 2002 09:07 am, you wrote: On 6 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: How about we save the pro-gun shit for the IamaHickWhoLikesToKill mail list. This list is about linux - or it was. wow! someone isn't very happy this morning .hope your day gets better as it goes along Brian. Really. I own a gun... I've never killed anyone with it yet... ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT over reacting
On Monday 06 May 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote: Ok Mike...ya talked me into it. to get you started you may want to take a look at Codeweavers wine. that seems to be the best one to start with if you're very new to using wine. you can get a copy of Codeweavers wine at this address. Let me know how you make out. feel free to email me off list ifso desire. http://www.codeweavers.com/ Again, there is a Codeweavers version that you can install straight from the Mandrake 8.2 CD's...thats what I did. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Monday 06 May 2002 05:19 pm, you wrote: Ummm, actually you don't have to hunt that far for a maillist for this purpose. Fire up Google and find Geeks with Guns The leader is Eric S. Raymond, last I looked. Civileme Haha - thats funny! I had the privelage of meeting Mr. Raymond on the Linux Lunacy tour... In fact, we went para-sailing (about 400-500 feet up) together with his wife. My wife, who has no head for heights, stayed on the beach - checking my life insurance policy... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Monday 06 May 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: A interisting point to ponder is that from what I have heard the crime rate in Kenasaw Georga before passing that local ordance was extremely high compared to the rest of the state of georgia but after that law was in place for 3 months the crime rate had droped to way below average for the state. Has getting rid of most of the firearms in a lot of the UK had that kind of positive effect? You're on the right track here - taking guns away does NOT lower crime rates. Just the opposite, in fact. Britain and Australia (FWIH) are in the same boat... ;-( I know, I know this is way OT, and I apologise... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT over reacting
On Monday 06 May 2002 08:39 pm, you wrote: stooopid me...I didn't even know that. show ya just how closely I've examined those Cd's. Just installed the stuff I needed and then shelved the rest. Nah, don't feel bad - look up stupid/imbecile/idiot in just about any ole dictionary...you'll find a photo that bears a remarkable resemblance to yours truly! ;-) You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. Its pretty informative... even if it does take awhile. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?
Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that pointed to this... Thanks! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
