Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there everybody.. Thanks in advance for any help with this. I searched the archive, but couldn't quite find the answer to my query... but if anyone can help me by merely pointing out the right entry, please feel free. I just as of last night put Mandrake 9.2 onto my computer, and am having a hard time getting internet to work. Like many people out there, I am connected to Comcast internet via a cable modem into a motherboard with onboard ethernet. This is, luckily, not my only OS on this system, but.. I would like to get it working. :) My internet works just fine with Windows XP, but I am uncertain as to how to make it work with Mandrake. I know it has something to do with DHCP, but I am still quite illiterate when it comes to linux, and am uncertain as to what settings and information I need to put in for it to work. Can anyone help me with this? Again.. thanks in advance. -- John/crys John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee k umm if it dont work tell us what board u have and chipset if you know .. im assuming its an asus board . but yeah -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 02:22, John S. Chalice wrote: - Original Message - From: Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there everybody.. Thanks in advance for any help with this. I searched the archive, but couldn't quite find the answer to my query... but if anyone can help me by merely pointing out the right entry, please feel free. I just as of last night put Mandrake 9.2 onto my computer, and am having a hard time getting internet to work. Like many people out there, I am connected to Comcast internet via a cable modem into a motherboard with onboard ethernet. This is, luckily, not my only OS on this system, but.. I would like to get it working. :) My internet works just fine with Windows XP, but I am uncertain as to how to make it work with Mandrake. I know it has something to do with DHCP, but I am still quite illiterate when it comes to linux, and am uncertain as to what settings and information I need to put in for it to work. Can anyone help me with this? Again.. thanks in advance. -- John/crys John Start with: ConfigurationConfigure your computerNetwork InternetDrakconnectConfigure internet access I have security set at standard (the next place to look) and drakconnect worked for me every time. Lee Heya.. Yeah.. I've tried DrakConnect and went through the wizard, but I'm not sure what fields to set how. I have security at standard, as well. I've played around with the settings a bit, but I could only get the ethernet card to go up (I think only if I put in the IP statically), but not Internet. I could only ping myself.. nobody else. I know something's funky cuz of how Comcast does stuff with DHCP.. not giving us computer names and all anymore.. but I'm not sure how to make the internet work. My Mobo is a Matsonic MS8174C Series.. with a VIA KT400/A chipset Thanks again for any assistance. -- John you should be able to just connect via DHCP.. do you have all 3 disks when u did the install? during bootup does it say starting eth0.. even tho it can start it but not work... what does it say when u type ifconfig eth0 as root? open mandrake control center go to network then click launch the wizard and make sure there is a check in autodetection and let it do its thing.. i never had problems with comcast but they did switch to dynamic ip so u dont have to type anything in -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Ping Jason Pearl
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Jason, why do all your messages arrive with a 'signature is bad' warning? Anne hmmm i dont know ill have to check into that i know i have it uploaded to alotta keyservers. but that doesnt have to do with it... maybe my key is corrupted in the algorithm -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 12:46:14 up 1 day, 16:19, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 21:42, jpearl24 wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:38, Anne Wilson wrote: I usually use the gui, but I decided to try Josenild's plan for playing .kar files. This is what I saw: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything Anne is the cd scratched?? disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. you can check to see if its installed by going to remove packages and then locate the rpm if its listed then its installed.. i say its not if it says unable to install package. You're quite right, it's not. The cds look perfectly OK, and I'm very careful with them, but I occasionally get one that doesn't want to install. I just rpmfind for the package I need, download it to a tmp directory, then install from there. No problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. Anne are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 14:58:38 up 1 day, 18:32, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:58, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:42:37 -0700 jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. Good workaround, d00d! Nice thinkin'! hehe thanks i had to do it myself for a cups driver... -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 15:01:04 up 1 day, 18:34, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] OT: extracting audio from ripped .VOB files
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 08:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:55 am, David wrote: I can rip .vob files from the DVD, but have yet to find an app to extract the audio or even to reformat the data to .avi or .mpeg. Anyone know of any apps to accomplish this? You can also do this manually with transcode. no but if you find a program please let me know im still lookin... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda it should say using_dma =1 -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:16, Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:36, jpearl24 wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:41, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or is this just the way it is? Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond see if you have dma enabled .. if not ... upgrade your kernel and u will be fine... check by typing as root hdparm /dev/hda it should say using_dma =1 Here is the output of hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 10011/255/63, sectors = 160836480, start = 0 Any other ideas? Travis Crook Visions Beyond i would say update to kernel 2.4.22-21 i think its a good kernel.. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Speeding up X
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:45, Travis Crook wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: [snip] Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff) nvidia I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. I'm running kernel 2.4.22-10mdk. I don't know if I'm brave enough yet to try and updgrade to 2.6! Would it be worth it? Travis Crook Visions Beyond i think apic detects all your software in bios before the kernel does it... something ilke that im sure imm a lil bit off all i know is that mine is disabled also because of my nvidia and game playing -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Problems with mouse and sound card
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:48, Johnny wrote: Hey all, on one of my computers I have it setup to dual boot Windows XP and Mandrake 9.2. Well anyways my problem is that from time to time my mouse locks up under GNOME and KDE interface. Sometimes it will unfreeze and just carry on but other times I have to reboot Linux. BTW it is a optical USB 3 button mouse with track wheel. It is usb 2.0. ANd yes it only does it in Linux and not XP. I am using the generic drivers that were default for Linux. I have it setup as a 3 button mouse with a wheel which it is. When I test it it is all good. It is just sometimes when I am opening apps in Linux under GNOME or KDE it will just lock up. Then I have to use the shortcut keys to exit and reboot. It is a BTC optical usb mouse. I do not know the exact model number. I have had this mouse for a while. OH BTW while I am at it, my soundcard does not produce any sounds in Linux. Mandrake recognizes it as the correct card and all with the right dirvers but just does not work. It does not work on any sound files,mp3's,cda's etc...It is a Soundblaster Audigy MP3+. I have also checked the Kmix setup and it is all on and turned up. I do not know what else to try. you should never have to reboot linux... if it freezes ctrl alt sysrq and k should kill x.. if ctrl alt bkspce doesnt work first.. go in the mandrake control center and go to boot and check lilo and force no APIC to help with the freezing -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 02:58, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:31, jpearl24 wrote: It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i can watch a dvd with no problems... but when i got done with the dvd and unrolled Evo from its rolled up state x froze immediately any ideas.. i downloaded all the updates and it still pauses when i type every 30 seconds.. i think that is causing the freezing.. Try adding to your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 yourhostname yourhostname.yourdomainname It fixed that problem in my box. I have also read that leaving blank or comment lines in /etc/hosts is another source of problems for Evolution. HTH Adolfo ok somehow it got put back to localhost... so i put it back to sesso2 and now it doesnt freeze every lil bit but ... i found out that x hasnt froze since ihavent had any chat programs running... sooo i htink it is the chat programs.. do you think the hostname could be killing x from running chat clients... i am running irc chat xchat with no locking up.. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] umask settings based on directory
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 00:13, Eric Huff wrote: Is there any way to make a certain directory have different umask properties than the default? yes if you are the owner of the file right click on it and choose permissions and set them how u like.. im assuming you are in X -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] umask settings based on directory
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 00:35, Eric Huff wrote: Is there any way to make a certain directory have different umask properties than the default? yes if you are the owner of the file right click on it and choose permissions and set them how u like.. im assuming you are in X I don't mean the permissions, but the umask settings. This way, any new files createdin that directory will be created with a different umask than the default. But i don;t think it is possible... thanks, eric if im not mistaken umask is basically the same umask is the permissions a file has for exec ftp is umask=022 i think. but anyways umask and permissions is the same. you like umask 777 is rwxrwxrwx. but if you wanna change your default file permissions or umask the edit your .profile to have whatever umask u desire.for ex. umask 077 nobody but u can r w or x files -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] evolution hanging X?
It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i can watch a dvd with no problems... but when i got done with the dvd and unrolled Evo from its rolled up state x froze immediately any ideas.. i downloaded all the updates and it still pauses when i type every 30 seconds.. i think that is causing the freezing.. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
