[newbie] ATAPI 250mb ZIP drive (more info sorry)
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[newbie] ATAPI 250mb ZIP drive (devfsd problem)
Hi all I recently put a atapi 250mb zip drive into my PC and have had problems making it work. If I peruse dmesg I can see the following line: -- hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive -- but if I look for /dev/hdb it doesn't appear to exist -- [root@thunderbird root]# ls /dev/hd* /dev/hda /dev/hda2 /dev/hda4 /dev/hda6 /dev/hda8 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda7 /dev/hdc -- If I modify lilo.conf and change the devfs parameter to nomount then I do have a /dev/hdb and can mount the drive and access it without any problems. Can someone advise me how to fix this problem or where I can find the information to sus it out for myself? Thanks in advance Colin Rose signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Printer working; no sound modules
Hey , I finally got my printer working!! It didn't take a degree in rocket science either! I noticed that as i was booting up, during POST, the Parallel Port was listed as 'disabled'. I thought that was really strange because the printer works fine in Windows, but I couldn't get it to work in MDK ( didn't even detect it). I went into the CMOS, changed the setting for the Parallel Port (to the 'Setup Default') booted into MDK and saw messages that the parport0 was detected. After logging in, starting X, I started 'DrakConf"went to printer setup and everything fell into place, WHEW. Now to the problem at hand. Also ,as MDK was loading , I saw an error message stating that it couldn't find the sound module. when I run "sndconfig" i get a message " The modules used for your card (SBLive), emu10k1.o, is not currently in your module search path. Please verify that your kernel modules are currently installed. O.K. so now what do i do (after i download the emu10k1 tar driver from Creative)
Re: [newbie] ftp program
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: lftp kicks ncftp's ass all up and down the block ;) Hmm...I've been to linuxberg and FreshMeat and the closest I could come was "GUIFTP" on FMwas that what you were referring to? If not, could you post a url where one could download IFTP? I'd love to give it a shot. I mean if it kicks NCFTP's ass, it's GOT to be good! :-) John = IglooFtp is daBomb - i just saw it on rufus.w3.org RPM site. - Chip.
[newbie] Grip - CD ripper/encoder - problem solved
I solved the problem with grip (version 2.9) - it was only recording 3/4 of the song and then quitting. It was using "cdda2wav" for the rip and "lame" for the mp3 encoding - I changed the configuration of grip to use "bladeenc", instead of "lame" (had to install bladeenc first); now it rips and encodes the whole song easily. Guess it was just a lame problem (heh). Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] cd ripper / mp3 maker
Anyone got recommendations for a music cd ripper and mp3 maker? I've tried Grip, which has nice user interface (not just command prompt like a couple others), but I can't get it to record/convert the entire song. Grip always does between 2/3 and 3/4 of the song, then stops - what gives? I do a "Rip Encode", and Grip uses cdda2wav for the rip and lame for the encode to mp3. Anyone? Thanks, Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound inoperable after re-install
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Chip Rose. wrote: Sound doesn't work at all after re-installing Mandrake6.0 - it worked just fine last week under the same Mandrake6.0, right out of the box. Now I did a full install and it doesn't work, but still works fine in MS-Windows. I'm using KDE, and switching to Gnome/Enlightenment doesn't help (just a stab in the dark..) How could the same distribution, on the same box, re-installed in the same manner, suddenly not work? I never got sound working under Redhat 5.0, 5.1, or 6.0, but it worked right away under Mandrake6.0. Any pointers greatly appreciated! Attempting x11amp gives me the error: "Couldn't open audio!" Attempting kaudioserver from command prompt gives error: "maudio: Cannot open audio device" Did you re-run sndconfig? Also, check the permissions on /dev/audio and /dev/dsp. John yes - uh, it works great now.. Thanks! I had been trying to run sndconfig without being root. I even tried which sndconfig, and it appeared that sndconfig wasn't installed - now I know that you not only have to be root to run sndconfig, but also to find the program location using a which command. (heh heh - I need to go to the "duh" webpage and sign their guestbook!). I'm listening now to classical guitar in x11amp - strangely, the volume doesn't go nearly as high as it does in MS-Windows, but at least the terrible hiss is completely absent using x11amp/linux.. Thanks again! Chip Rose. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Sound inoperable after re-install
Sound doesn't work at all after re-installing Mandrake6.0 - it worked just fine last week under the same Mandrake6.0, right out of the box. Now I did a full install and it doesn't work, but still works fine in MS-Windows. I'm using KDE, and switching to Gnome/Enlightenment doesn't help (just a stab in the dark..) How could the same distribution, on the same box, re-installed in the same manner, suddenly not work? I never got sound working under Redhat 5.0, 5.1, or 6.0, but it worked right away under Mandrake6.0. Any pointers greatly appreciated! Attempting x11amp gives me the error: "Couldn't open audio!" Attempting kaudioserver from command prompt gives error: "maudio: Cannot open audio device"
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. = Linux has nothing that even remotely matches Agent/Free Agent, or the other Windows newsreaders, *PARTICULARLY* in regard to handling binary files (pics, mp3's). Agent just downloads them and automatically and quickly opens the file in Winamp or in an photo/image viewer like VuePro. In Linux you've got to download the file and then start another helper application to open the file separately - kind of like going out in the winter cold to crank-start your car and then opening the hood to manually start it again at every traffic light/stop sign, and then once you're finished driving it. A killer-app is one that you'd be willing to change OS's for - the Agent/Vuepro combination is a killer app in my opinion. I always use SLRN for news - it is very fast and fairly efficient for TEXT, but it won't handle binaries hardly at all - at least not without the tedious manual downloading, saving to a directory and then re-opening with another application like Winamp or XV photo viewer etc.. I LOVE Linux, but it's a definite "non-player" in the Usenet world.. I'd certainly go ahead and purchase a commercial app for Linux if there were one that was anywhere near the efficiency/ability of Agent.
Re: [newbie] XF86Config? Where is it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you thinking of XF86Setup??? I don't believe it comes with Mandrake distribution, however, you can probably download it from Linuxberg. Original Message On 10/15/99, 7:46:26 PM, "PSM 0x2710]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] XF86Config? Where is it?: On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: Try /etc/X11R6/bin/xf86config (all lower case.) also be sure to give Xconfigurator a shot. . .its just as well typically, you can do the following to find the path to a program. which XF86Setup you could also do a find from the command prompt. find / -name XF86Config or find / -name XF86* experimenting with these features helps me to learn a lot about linux. regards/chip. ==
