Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare un cd misto
Roberto wrote: Posso creare, utilizzando uno dei programmi di masterizzazione della mandrake 8.2, un cd audio, che quindi possa essere letto dal normale lettore cd di uno stereo casalingo o di un automobile, che contenga però anche delle tracce non audio e quindi dei files? Mi date qualche dritta? Grazie. Con X-CD-Roast, anche se è ancora in versione test e molte delle sue funzionalità non sono state ancora attivate è potente e supporta la funzionalità Burn.proof. Per l'esecuzione vuole i diritti di root ma permette di consentirla anche a utenti specificati o dare permessi anche per la masterizzazione via rete. Supporta vari modi di scrittura (DAO, TAO per masterizzatori non recentissimi e TAO con Pregap zero ), ti permette la combinazione delle tracce, quindi si possono mescolare dati normali e audio anche se la possibilità che il tuo lettore HIFI non possa leggerlo non è remota, ma non è detto e se sei fortunato ... Le premesse sulla carta sono allettanti. Personalmente sto aspettando che mi arrivi il masterizzatore ASUS CRW 4012A (ha il supporto completo per linux, così non ho sorprese) appena l'ho installato il primo programma da testare a fondo sarà appunto X-CD-Roast. Saluti da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare un cd misto
Alle 20:46, giovedì 4 luglio 2002, hai scritto: ??? cdrdao Crea un'immagine del CD (a meno che non sia protetto). Effettivamente un po' criptico, lo ammetto. Quasi tutti i cd musicali oggigiorno contengono, oltre alle tracce audio (e ci mancherebbe..), anche file dati con foto degli artisti, etc. etc. Cdrdao è una applicazione che ti permette la copia di questi cd, altrimenti impossibile (almeno da quanto ho sperimentato io) con applicazioni quali cdrecord (a cui si appoggia, per esempio, x-cdRoast), creando appunto un'immagine del cd in dao (disk at once), immagine che successivamente viene trasferita così com'è sul cd di destinazione. Dovresti trovarlo nei cd della distribuzione, assieme a gcdmaster, un front end grafico che potrebbe esserti utile nel caso tu non sia abituato alla linea di comando; ti consiglio comunque, per le prime volte, di utilizzare quest'ultima, senza dimenticare di dare una bella scorta al man. Nel caso tu voglia invece creartelo dal nulla, ti rimando all'esaustivo How-to CD writing How-to, che sicuramente avrai nella documentazione. Per quanto riguarda poi l'aspetto pratico, il succitato x-cdRoast potrà venirti in aiuto nella selezione delle tracce e dei file dati. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)
Dai un'occhiata qua' :-( http://zeusnews.it/news.php3?cod=1313 Bye Giovanni ;-) -- ~/~A \// ~o)GNU/Linux Powered --- Software is like sex ... it's better when it's free ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] montaggio CD - III e ultimo
Alle 22:02, giovedì 4 luglio 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] montaggio CD - III e ultimo, caro nicola hai scritto: Non so che distribuzione usi, probabilmente RedHat o analoga, in quanto è un problema analogo a quello trovato da me se come utente comune si vuole stabilire una connessione tramite modem via kppp, e solo root può farlo tramite password. Se qualcuno ha le idee chiare potrebbe interessare... Be', idee chiare proprio non direi, pero' se ti consola io uso (con la MDK8.2) kppp da utente, senza bisogno di password. Come e perche' non so, ma si puo' fare. Per quanto riguarda mount e spermount, invece, la cosa a me resta un ostacolo ancora da saltare... ma ce la faro', un giorno! -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] scelta database richiesta consiglio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 13:21, giovedì 4 luglio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] scelta database richiesta consiglio, paolo brusasco ha scritto: Buongiorno a tutti. vorrei installare un database ad uso personale monoutente ... 1) possibilmente non scaricare nulla perchè poi non voglio impazzire a farlo funzionare direi MySQL 2) facilità d'uso lo piloti pure con staroffice.. e trovi in giro tonnellate di documentazione grazie! paolo brusasco. bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JfLMF/9fksDJ4y0RAjWRAJ41rDbxpMZnCUWImQA8mWoHWgBxSACgioM9 mE2PcSKAhTgojlvOOWkVlRE= =6WjT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] kde3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 20:08, giovedì 4 luglio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] kde3, arwan ha scritto: Ho scaricato il paccozzo di rpm di kde3.0.1 per la mia mdk8.2 E' tanto grosso da scaricare? Oppure e' piu' comodo aspettarlo in qualche rivista? con un 56 k ci vuole tanta pazienza, ed una buona connessione... i miei (sorgenti) 'pesano' 97.1 Mb.. ..e considera che non ho tutto.. :( (appropo', quello che danno con LinuxC funzia solo sotto red hat, vero?) se alludi a quello inserito nella 'Linux professional 7.3' credo di si, a meno di mettersi d'impegno... bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JfLRF/9fksDJ4y0RAv4qAKCkF3I57YJLbwv7fr077ALcZk0yEQCgrnUg XbJlscOykQsK4GiQebr1GtU= =5aLO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)
On Friday 05 July 2002 18:06, Roberto, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto) wrote: Dovete sapere che il mio odio per gli hacker è perfino superiore a quello che nutro per i ciclisti e i camionisti mh? -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie] eye candy software like Oozic Reactor
et wrote: playing with the software that came with my Audigy sound card in WinME, I came across Oozic Reactor. now from what I could tell, this is total eye candy software with less reason for being than a lava lamp, and has about the same reasons for being, however, as something going on in the background this seemed pretty neat. anyway any one seen any thing that will run in MDK (Xfree) like that? I haven't seen Oozic, but XMMS has a load of plugins, including G-Force. Sir Robin -- So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 5:55 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 02:27 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I guess so - but since I'm in Linux most of the time now it really isn't an issue. Mozilla and Konq both can access, so what the hell? mozilla works but netscape is insecure? they are truely clueless.. It's OK - they're only a bank to which thousands of us trust our money and future... Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eye candy software like Oozic Reactor
On Friday 05 July 2002 09:42 am, you wrote: et wrote: playing with the software that came with my Audigy sound card in WinME, I came across Oozic Reactor. now from what I could tell, this is total eye candy software with less reason for being than a lava lamp, and has about the same reasons for being, however, as something going on in the background this seemed pretty neat. anyway any one seen any thing that will run in MDK (Xfree) like that? I haven't seen Oozic, but XMMS has a load of plugins, including G-Force. Sir Robin hmmm... I will check into G-force. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Thursday 04 Jul 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: Is your sound working ok, or are there still problems with the XMMS plugins. aRtsd is used by ALSA, so if you choose that in KDE control center, then it will definitely use aRtsd. I advise putting it back on OSS or Autodetect. ALSA has many errors a lot. I find OSS to be the best. John Drouhard I think I'm OK now, it's certainly better. I have Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup enabled. Should I take this out? How do I put it onto OSS or Autodetect? The Sound I/O is on Autodetect - is this the one you mean? Sorry to be so clueless Anne It's ok to have aRtsd running on boot. Yes, the Sound I/O is where you would specify Autodetect or OSS. What I suggest, is that you try each of them (Autodetect, OSS, and ALSA), and try XMMS with them. Which ever one works the best, should be the one you use. As long as sound comes out of the programs you want it to, and it sounds ok, then you should leave everything alone. :-) Talk to you later! Thanks for trying to make things clearer. I'll experiment, as you say. It definitely seems to be an aRts problem, as once again this morning I had to do an aRts 'hang up' and re-login to get things working again, so I'll try the options other than Auto and see what happens. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 12:56 am, you wrote: Virii is most definitely a word. Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the only correct English plural of the word used in any of these senses is viruses, not virii . The ii is used to denote plurity in latin words ending in ius, not us. Hence it is viruses, not virii. If virus was spelled virius, then the plural virii would be correct, however, it is not. Oh, and it's not in my dictionaries either... http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=virii http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=viruses http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virii From my dimly remembered schooldays, I thought the plural for a word ending in -us was -i, thus giving viri :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LISa
On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:57 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 9:09, you wrote: 'The LISa daemon is now configured correctly, hopefully. Make sure that it is started with root previleges. A good idea would be to start it when your system boots. (lisa --kde2)' I know this means putting it into a config file - one of the rc.d ones, I think. Can someone please direct me? Anne i used webmin to add LISa ..it was a lot easier, lisa was all i required to use on MD8.2 ( no--KDE bit required) tho i prefer to use komba2 on CD3 as it works a lot better for me I installed komba2 - at least I think I did. It certainly shows up on the list of installed packages, but I have no idea how to use it. Having had another poke around, I find ub /usr/share/applnk/Applications komba2.desktop and k3b.desktop, which I also haven't managed to find/use. As usual, all help gratefully received. :-) Anne BTW - I have poked around Webmin, but can't work out how you added LISa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what is KillAll and how do I stop errors
Good afternoon folks, I've been running Mandrake on an old PIII 500 desktop for the past two weeks and everything seems to be working fine, except for when I go to shutdown (Halt). When I shutdown the box and Mandrake goes through it's process, a command KillAll pops up and then I get a failed message. It doesn't seem to hurt anything and I have been ignoring it, but I would like to get this machine running perfectly. Could someone tell me what KillAll does and how I can stop the error messages that I see when the machine shuts down. Thank you! - Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Exceed and KDE
snip Did you configure your window manager (either KDM, GDM, XDM, etc.) to enable XDMCP broadcasts? E.G. edit kdmrc, gdmrc, etc. /snip How do you do this?? Where is this done?? snip |Hi! |I can't use exceed to open an X session to my mandrake |machine. I am able to start the xterm, and programs from there |but I can't get the full desktop. |If i create a exceed session all I get is the gray background |with the cross cursor and no KDE on it. DO I have to configure |something to get KDE as the default window manager? REgards, Casco /snip i had to add the ip of the machine running exceed in the hosts file of my linux machine. /etc/hosts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File managing problems in Konq
I originally tried to save some mp3 files in a FAT32 directory, but when I had difficulties I decided to keep copies in a sub-directory from my Desktop. The problem remains. Often when I open either of these directories I get a shimmering border, and Konq locks up. It is very difficult to persuade it to close. It does not happen every time, and logging out and in again seems to clear it. Shades of Win98!!! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Frazer. Mandrake 8.2
Frazer AGAIN Sorry iv just read i should tell you more about my system.It has a Pentium 3 450MHz ..Ms 440zx chipset 128MB fast SDRAM 100MHz.13 Gb udma drive.Onboard enhancedIDE and a Riva TNT 16Mb graphics card integrated Creative Labs Wave64 sound.And Win98. Im not sure about the Motherboard is does`nt seem to say in the system config files.
[newbie] PCI / K6-2 blues
I have a FIC VA-503+ motherboard ( most current BIOS update ), with a K6-1 300MHZ, 128MB SDRAM 100MHZ, Prromise ATA-100 pci card/ hde1 30GB ata100 harddisk primary drive, ATI 98 pci 16MB ram. and a dead soundcard ALA4000 ( ALSA not supported ). I wished to change the soundcard from the unsupported ALA to and older ESS1688, and when I changed the card the system would not reboot! I even treid to remove just the ALA , alone without adding the ESS, and it just sits at the intial boot screen 'Swanse', proceeds to the harddrive line and comes to a halt. I treid to rescue, and upgrade and get the same results. I must state this was not a painless ugrade from 8.1, the patch file commands (both the patch and 'nonpentium' produced no results, on a lark I tried and succeded with 'nonauto'!) What form of witchcarft command and or ritual must I perform to get the pci card out and reinstall the isa in? Where Oh where is Kudzu? The system has provided rock solid since I upgraded ( with only a few minor querks ) Thanks panjur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...
Asked this question previously, with very little detail supplied as a response - only what apps could be used. this is a newbie mailing list, right? right now i got ripperX-2.1-1.i386.rpm, will this work on man. 8.2. if there is something better, please let me know (and where i can find it). once that is settled i, -ivh the rpm from the command line? i can then find it where, /bin ? from there i can make a shortcut to the desktop? this is a gui app, i'm told, is it pretty straightforward to use for someone coming from windows and musicmatch or is there something i should know. the 'how to' made it seem pretty simple? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
I have tried using both Noatun and Xmms with the same results from both, for all intents and purposes the player looks like it is working (equalizer works etc) but not sound, volume controls on both players are definatly set to max (adjusting doesnt help either) The only thing I can find that this might be is that my mobo has an onboard sound card that mandrake has picked up even though I have this dsiabled in my bios, and for some reasons mandrake is piping CD Audio though the SB Live and MP3 audio though the mobo?? dunno I may not be able to help you with your sound problem, but try xmms instead of Noatun. I think xmms is a much better player. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 6:25 pm, Rainer wrote: Asked this question previously, with very little detail supplied as a response - only what apps could be used. this is a newbie mailing list, right? right now i got ripperX-2.1-1.i386.rpm, will this work on man. 8.2. if there is something better, please let me know (and where i can find it). once that is settled i, -ivh the rpm from the command line? i can then find it where, /bin ? from there i can make a shortcut to the desktop? this is a gui app, i'm told, is it pretty straightforward to use for someone coming from windows and musicmatch or is there something i should know. the 'how to' made it seem pretty simple? There's probably a better application installed by default - look in the K menu for What to do | Enjoy music video | Rip a CD. This runs grip, which is a very nice ripper. All you do is put the CD in the drive, select the tracks to be ripped from the Track tab, then select the Rip tab and press Rip+Encode. (Because of the way ripping is done in Linux it dumps the CD contents to [uncompressed] WAV files then converts them to [compressed] MP3; if you press Rip you'll just get WAVs]. There's a useful change worth doing to the default configuration, though, namely changing the rip format from MP3 to OGG (Ogg Vorbis), which gives you smaller but better-quality rips. To do this in grip, select the Config tab, then the MP3 tab, then the Encoder tab, then change the Encoder: pulldown to oggenc, then rip as before. This is worthwhile reading about Ogg Vorbis: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Jdh9Cv59vFiSU4YRAh1SAJ45i9fFplIS77P8kKmFw3bdzeCbHACdHuhx 37obsrNPW36JFSPjho8UDpc= =BP83 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) thanks magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gnomemeeting
Hallo! Have any of you been able to register in ILS directory? It tryes to log into argo.dyndns.org but I get no people list after pressing refresh. I only get the following: -First name: please -last name: register! -Email: Enable register in settings - ILS settings -Comment: Please register on ils.seconix.com. argo is closed ils.seconix.com doesn't seem to point to a web page. In Settings - General - Directory settings - Xdap directory I have argo.dyndns.org and enable registering is set. Any idea? Thanks!! ;) Note: gnomemeeting.sourceforge.net didn't help. -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eye candy software like Oozic Reactor
On Friday 05 July 2002 10:35 am, you wrote: hmmm... I will check into G-force. G-force, Jakdaw, even the Space Ghost one is amusing (ah, my misbegotten youth!) for awhile... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 7:20 pm, magnet wrote: I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) Perchance do you have a USB mouse attached to a hub? If you do, move it to a USB port attached to the motherboard. Also, if you have a USB keyboard, use the PS/2 connector instead. These, in combination, stopped similar mysterious lockups in my case. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JeYjCv59vFiSU4YRAnpUAJ0UV3ouiOZXNcjQ3HlhTOvOzv0FXgCeJtD0 OK7cDZZHRVc6waHbWr2Duv4= =YsP5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Not sure but I think the icons only zoom if the task bar size is set to tiny, small or medium... (and zooming is enabled of course!) HTH -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits
Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 Why do they even try to stop this. Can't they see it can't be stopped? The future is in sharing information and nothing can be done to make it different. RIAA and the like are just a bunch of stupid selfish bastards and they will soon become extinct. Keep on sharing people! Information to everyone! -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
After further investigation it would seem that the only audio I can play is CD audio, no wav or mp3 files will play, mpg movies dont have any sound, it seems like the entire sound server is failing somewhere as cd audio might be done via hardware instead (can anybody confirm) So far I have : - checked Kmix and all volumes are unmuted and set to max - Checked Aumix and the same - Tried in different apps, Xmms, Noatun - Tried different sound servers in - Control Center-Sound-Sound Server-Sound I/O (this is currently set to auto detect, open sound system doesnt seem to do anything different, and the sound server fails to restart on Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Check in hardDrake and the settings for the Sound Card all seem to be fine I cant think of anything else On Friday 05 July 2002 6:35 pm, you wrote: well...if you've good sound for everything else except the playing of mp3's then again I would suggest checking the volume level of the card where playing those files is concerned. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LISa
snip BTW - I have poked around Webmin, but can't work out how you added LISa /snip LtCdData helped me out with webmin... start up webmin as root... click on the System tag and then on the Bootup and Shutdown icon... Scroll down to bottom of the page and click on Create a new bootup or shutdown action. A new page will appear with a few boxs to be filled in... Name lisa Description Start lisa running [or whatever you choose to put here] Bootup commandslisa Shutdown commands [leave empty] Check the Start at boot time YES option Click the Create button all done :)) regards magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
- Original Message - From: Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 7:20 pm, magnet wrote: I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) Perchance do you have a USB mouse attached to a hub? If you do, move it to a USB port attached to the motherboard. Also, if you have a USB keyboard, use the PS/2 connector instead. These, in combination, stopped similar mysterious lockups in my case. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JeYjCv59vFiSU4YRAnpUAJ0UV3ouiOZXNcjQ3HlhTOvOzv0FXgCeJtD0 OK7cDZZHRVc6waHbWr2Duv4= =YsP5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Cheers for the suggestion Alastair, but no usb devices attached m8. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:24 pm, you wrote: everything snipped You can run your mouth about how I should order online like the rest of you, but it just so happens that I don't own a credit card, nor do I want one. And really, do Windows users have to buy their games online? No. I like to walk into a store, pay for my game, and then have the game in MY HANDS. I don't like to order over the internet from people I don't know, with no guarantee that I will actually ever see the product. If thats true, then its obvious there needs to be a much larger game playing user base under Linux to get these companies attention and hold it. Let me tell you something. How the fuck do you expect the Linux gaming community to grow when THERE ARE NO FUCKING GAMES FOR LINUX? I'll be the first to celebrate when that day arrives! :-) I doubt it. I don't know at what point this conversation turned the way it has, but as far as I'm concerned its over. Thank you. -- /\ DarkLord \/ I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. I tell you what...I get involved in a new install for a few days, and before I can get back, *everything* flies off the handle. ;) Hey, DL...thanks for the Morrowind vote! It helped tremendously. When you're ready let me know and I'll return the favor. Back in black, LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:31:58 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 7:20 pm, magnet wrote: I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) Perchance do you have a USB mouse attached to a hub? If you do, move it to a USB port attached to the motherboard. Also, if you have a USB keyboard, use the PS/2 connector instead. Another cause has affected many AMD system in 8.2. If your system is AMD add to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf mem=nopentium Charles -- It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Walt Disney -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . Todd -- Todd Slater Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Please can you Help
July 5, 2002 10:30 am, frazer wrote: As you might guess im new to linux.How many times have you heard that My problem is with Mandrake 8.2 .Im trying to install onto a pentium 3. 450Mhz. 12 Gb Hard drive 128Mb ram.The drive was partitioned with Partition Magic.Windows 98 being on the drive also.The PM wizard guided me through the process,moving my windows files to a new partition 5Gb in size.Which works fine and also creating about a 4 or bit more Gb partition for linux which i believe needs two separate partitions I also installed boot magic if that matters?.After booting from the first CD (theres three as it was a download off the net) and starting ok with the welcome to linux press f1 or f3 i think it is, to install it goes ok for a while until the message :Error loading program into memory could not uncompress second stage ramdisk.This is probably an hardware error while reading the data this maybe caused by a hardware failure or a linux kernal bug in then says press ok but nothing happens.Iv have tried the four or five commands that are recommended in the help file text Expert and so on but all cause the same problem.If its a hardware problem wouldn't it be causing windows problems? Should i try creating the partitions again or would you recommend formatting the whole hard disk and starting fresh. i dont really want that.Thats about it i think. If you cant help Thankyou anyway. Frazer Welcome to the land of free choice Frazer. I've had a similar problem a few times with downloaded applications, and once (I think it was Mandrake 7.2 Freq) with the operating system disks. Thankfully (I hate coasters) I hadn't burned them to disk; just (tried) mount from a spare hard drive and attempt to install from there. Corrupt download. The second download went swimmingly well for the install. Many times it's a bad download as has already been suggested, but it may also be memory that's good enough for Windows but isn't up to spec in some way. As a not quite so side issue; lose boot magic. It's something you don't need since Mandrake and all other distributions of GNU/Linux come with Lilo (LinuxLoader) and Grub (you just need to choose one) and they'll control booting of however many operating systems you want to try. I wouldn't use Partition Magic again either since DiskDrake will do the same thing without costing you money. It won't eat Windows unless you tell it to. But that's just me. I've managed to help people install Mandrake a few times, and many are eager to rush out and acquire a copy of a partition manager when it's not necessary. It's just a sign of the brainwashing everyone has been subjected to by the marketing drones of the Wintel empire that even when people are thinking about leaving the aggravation behind they can't forget about applications/utilities written to do things that a proper operating system would do for itself or at least include utilities to deal with the need. The way GNU/Linux does and Windows can't. The list archives have many posts dealing with memtest and it's uses and I'd check for a hardware problem as the second thing to do. The first is to be sure that your download disks aren't corrupted. Reading as many posts in the list archives will be invaluable to you in many ways. You'll learn things from reading the posts that you won't realize until you run across something and the light suddenly comes on. OH *that's* what that meant! Holler when you need to, there are a lot of intelligent and helpful people here that can help get you moving the direction you want. I wish I were one of them. :-) Good luck. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Our reruns are better than theirs. -- Nick at Nite Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what is KillAll and how do I stop errors
July 5, 2002 10:46 am, Stephen Britton wrote: Good afternoon folks, I've been running Mandrake on an old PIII 500 desktop for the past two weeks and everything seems to be working fine, except for when I go to shutdown (Halt). When I shutdown the box and Mandrake goes through it's process, a command KillAll pops up and then I get a failed message. It doesn't seem to hurt anything and I have been ignoring it, but I would like to get this machine running perfectly. Could someone tell me what KillAll does and how I can stop the error messages that I see when the machine shuts down. Thank you! - Steve ~~ It does just what it says Steve; kills the processes that are running so the machine can reboot or shut down. Post the error here, since something is hanging (failed) and it shouldn't be. Somebody here can help you figure it out. From experience with running Mandrake on the same processor for more than two years in various releases, I can tell you there is no perfect. But there is damned good and that's what this list is for. To help you get there. :) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org It's not whether you win or lose but how you played the game. -- Grantland Rice Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
- Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:31:58 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 7:20 pm, magnet wrote: I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) Perchance do you have a USB mouse attached to a hub? If you do, move it to a USB port attached to the motherboard. Also, if you have a USB keyboard, use the PS/2 connector instead. Another cause has affected many AMD system in 8.2. If your system is AMD add to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf mem=nopentium Charles Hi Charles, I have a Gigabyte GA-IXE4 mobo, 1.2GHz Athlon combo. This is my lilo.conf file. Should i add your line to both append lines like below? Boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?[OT]
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Oh, and it's not in my dictionaries either... http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=virii http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=viruses http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virii Try using a _real_ English dictionary, like, say, the Oxford Dictionary. Virii is not in the OED either (neither is viri). The plural is given as viruses. Was it the full version OED? I'm pretty sure I saw it in there somewhere. I could've been wrong, though -- it's been a while :) It was the online (subscription) verison, which AFAIK is complete. BTW, while I'm a big fan of the OED, I would have to count Merriam-Webster as a real English dictionary. Webster started his dictionary because he wanted to 'reform' the English language. He had certain kooky ideas about English, and he was the originator of today's 'American' spellings. Apparently, he also wanted to change words like 'tongue' to 'tung' but some other people stopped him before he went too far out to the deep end. Nevertheless, much of the 'reform' continued. I can't trust any work that has such an agenda; it's just not academically ethical. Actually, I wouldn't have minded if his ideas on spelling had gone further, but some of his other ideas were really kooky - IIRC he wanted to rewrite the Bible with no bad words or references to sex. Sir Robin -- We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk. - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:25:59 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Charles, I have a Gigabyte GA-IXE4 mobo, 1.2GHz Athlon combo. This is my lilo.conf file. Should i add your line to both append lines like below? Boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Yep, that right. Charles -- When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 8:13 pm, Todd Slater wrote: While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . Although not a recording artist I agree with you, although CDs were costing £13-£15 a shot long before the Internet haled up over the horizon ;) As a classical musician (viola, violin, piano) my sort of music is rarely discussed in this context, which is a pity because it has unique problems. The most pertinent is that, apart from the output of a few small companies* who do a lot of digging in libraries and bring forth fascinating esoterica, everything that can be recorded has been recorded multiple times; why have eight slightly different copies of a Mahler symphony? That fact has finally got through to recording companies which have flown into a wild panic, stopped new recordings, terminated artists' contracts and started issuing their back catalogue en bloc. This slash and burn has had a pleasant impact on the consumer (I'm regularly seeing boxed sets of two or three CDs for £12-£15, which is a nice incentive to fill in the gaps) but, in the medium or long term, is disastrous as there is no fertile ground left. I would like to see it recognised that the Internet is an obviously good way of distributing music and rows and rows of plastic boxes in a shop are anachronistic. The RIAA et alia, as a block to change, should be summarily legislated out of existence, contracts between record companies and artists should be bought out at mandated rates, and artists should be obliged to sell, track by track, direct to the consumer, at reasonable costs (a flat rate per track or similar) with appropriate digital rights management. 'Record shops' should become quasi-Internet cafes with CD burners and printers (for sleeve material) ad lib, so that those who don't have their own equipment can still take part and bring their own media. (I have no problem with Palladium provided it is used to enforce DRM for goods with reasonable price structures; I hope that, if Microsoft thinks it can set these structures, it is sorely mistaken. Such a job is not for a private company). Alastair * http://www.hyperion-records.com/ being an outstanding example. - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JfmvCv59vFiSU4YRAjLeAKCqVgsGBi0llB/RjK+LaFhaYg9OtwCeOFdz d6FrC9OAHohjaIflwCycNV0= =+W59 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] more BS from RIAA (was longer)
July 5, 2002 01:13 pm, Todd Slater wrote: snip While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . Todd I'm with you Todd. I never swap movie or music files, but the few people that I associate with that do buy just as many disks as they ever did. If they're worth buying in the first place. The only disks that I've bought in roughly the past year were replacements for scratched or otherwise damaged ones. Or ones my kids swiped and wouldn't give back. :-) Most of the replacements came from bookswap/recycled CD bins at the local exchanges since most of the stuff was rather old. Like me. I laugh when I read that swapping files is responsible for the decline in sales. Seems to me it's the ridiculous prices and arrogance of the jerks running the studios and labels. The (musicians) artists mostly get a pittance for their creativity anyway until they become a name; at which point they don't usually have anything to offer that I want to hear. Artists I'll support, and that includes software developers working on projects I believe in. Drones/clones that work on a 'business model' that insists on 'all the traffic will bear' can find a hole to crawl, in then pull it in behind themselves for all I care. If the decisions they made to pay so much for so little (think Mariah Carey among others) hadn't happened the costs wouldn't be out of line. Their model isn't working, nor should they be with that level of thought in their planning. The world doesn't need them. Or me. :-) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Center meeting at 4pm in 2C-543. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCI / K6-2 blues
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 13:15:54 -0400 panjur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FIC VA-503+ motherboard ( most current BIOS update ), with a K6-1 300MHZ, 128MB SDRAM @ 100MHZ, Prromise ATA-100 pci card/ hde1 30GB ata100 harddisk primary drive, ATI 98 pci 16MB ram. and a dead soundcard ALA4000 ( ALSA not supported ). The ALS-4000 based PCI soundcards should be supported by LM8.2: --- Module snd-card-als4000.o Module for ALS-4000 PCI soundcards . --- The above is from: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/alsa-driver-0.5.12a/INSTALL , contained in the kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk RPM on your CD's :) Note: the ALSA 0.5.x series is deprecated, see http://www.alsa-project.org . I wished to change the soundcard from the unsupported ALA to and older ESS1688, and when I changed the card the system would not reboot! I even treid to remove just the ALA , alone without adding the ESS, and it just sits at the intial boot screen 'Swanse', proceeds to the harddrive line and comes to a halt. I treid to rescue, and upgrade and get the same results. But the original hardware configuration (when restored) works? I must state this was not a painless ugrade from 8.1, the patch file commands (both the patch and 'nonpentium' produced no results, on a lark I tried and succeded with 'nonauto'!) What form of witchcarft command and or ritual must I perform to get the pci card out and reinstall the isa in? Where Oh where is Kudzu? [frans@amd frans]$ whereis kudzu kudzu: /usr/sbin/kudzu /usr/share/kudzu /usr/share/man/man8/kudzu.8.bz2 [frans@amd frans]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/kudzu kudzu-0.99.23-4mdk [frans@amd frans]$ grin The system has provided rock solid since I upgraded ( with only a few minor querks ) Thanks panjur Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running stuff at startup
Hi, I need to load a kernal module in order to get my webcam working properly, but doing this each time can be tedious. If I want to load it at boot, where should I put the line (or script). It has to be run as root (you probably already knew that :)). TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk 640K ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? Imagine the shape of a snake as it swallows a large object whole. In OSX, the taskbar takes on the same shape as you move the pointer over something. That is, not only does the icon you're pointing at get big, but the icon on either side gets slightly bigger. Very cool. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
- Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:25:59 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Charles, I have a Gigabyte GA-IXE4 mobo, 1.2GHz Athlon combo. This is my lilo.conf file. Should i add your line to both append lines like below? Boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi mem=nopentium read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Yep, that right. Charles Cheers Charles, I'll see if this machine is running when I get in from work tomorrow. Your help was appreciated. regards magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
You're absolutely right, Todd. Everyone deserves to be reasonably compensated for the creative and productive value-added work that they do. Sadly, there seem to be three extremes that get in the way: 1) Greed -- some (like monopolistic, anti-trustworthy Microsoft and grossly over-paid athletes, actors, corporate CEOs, etc.) who excessively, disproportionately, and unreasonably profit from whatever value-added they contribute to society; 2) Theft -- those who steal the value-added of others' work, whatever it may be, without being willing to pay reasonable compensation; and 3) rip-off-artists who profit disproportionately on the work and productivity of others. (One has to wonder-out-loud what value-added lawyers, packagers, and the advertising industry provide to society. For a $5.00 box of cereal a farmer gets what, 9-cents? It could be argued that the computer software shareware concept and the GNU-Linux open source initiatives just might be among the most significant developments in the history of mankind. For in this we see the very best of humanity -- many, many talented people freely sharing their best efforts for the good of all -- and many appreciative users supporting those efforts in various ways. But then, sadly, there are too-many who want everything free and contribute nothing to anyone. Perhaps the web will remedy this problem in creative new ways that we have not yet seen. On Friday 05 July 2002 12:13, you wrote: While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 7:48 pm, List User wrote: After further investigation it would seem that the only audio I can play is CD audio, no wav or mp3 files will play, mpg movies dont have any sound, it seems like the entire sound server is failing somewhere as cd audio might be done via hardware instead (can anybody confirm) So far I have : - checked Kmix and all volumes are unmuted and set to max - Checked Aumix and the same - Tried in different apps, Xmms, Noatun - Tried different sound servers in - Control Center-Sound-Sound Server-Sound I/O (this is currently set to auto detect, open sound system doesnt seem to do anything different, and the sound server fails to restart on Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Check in hardDrake and the settings for the Sound Card all seem to be fine I cant think of anything else On Friday 05 July 2002 6:35 pm, you wrote: well...if you've good sound for everything else except the playing of mp3's then again I would suggest checking the volume level of the card where playing those files is concerned. You would not happen to have on board sound AND a sound card would you? I have seen cases where Linux picked up an onboard sound system that the user thought was disabled. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 4:37 pm, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:04:03AM -0600, List Account wrote: snip And in reply to the first suggestion to my problem, the volume controls in the application are fine. The app is Noatun which came with the default multimedia install of Mandrake I may not be able to help you with your sound problem, but try xmms instead of Noatun. I think xmms is a much better player. Todd This sounds a bit like some of the problem manifestations I get - that is, it doesn't happen all the time, but too often for my liking. I have found that the solution to my problem is to use the Process Management utility to kill aRts, then login afresh. It works every time. But then when I'm having that problem it does kill all sound, so maybe it isn't the same. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 8:54 am, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:46 am, you wrote: Something went wrong overnight. I tried to start XMMS this morning, and it froze. I tried a fresh login, then a re-boot, but I'm without sound again. What should I check now, please? Anne Hi Anne, I am going to be out of town until Monday, but I suggest you try everything you had before this morning to see if it works again. Try changing to autodetect, ALSA, and OSS and just play around with things until they work. I'll be back Monday! John Drouhard I'm beginning to wonder if there is a power-saving problem cutting in here. I have a suspicion that I find it silent after I have been away from my desk for a while. The monitor closes down, and it is quite possible that there is some other power management goin on. I'm going to try to find out what is happening on these lines, just in case. If I can I'll switch anything like that off and see if it makes a difference. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
I meant OS X... Not OS Z... On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call working. Locking up systems is not what I call working. All WineX is doing is showing developers that their work in porting software natively isn't worth a damn because Wine can handle it. You don't see it now, but Wine and WineX will be the downfall of the Linux gaming market. And when that happens, I'll have you to thank for it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:13:55 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . I couldn't disagree with you more on this one. These artists aren't getting shafted because people steal music online. They're getting shafted because record companies don't pay them squat compared to what they make the record companies. Let's face it. They're getting their money anyway because they're paid up front, and nothing beyond that. In fact this is actually helping the lesser known bands. Some of them are quite happy about the whole music sharing thing. They make their money doing concerts, not by selling records. This just gives them more exposure, enabling them to sell more tickets. Eventually, I think we'll see the end of record companies. Bands will all give their music away online so that people will go and see them live. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 July 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? My icons don't zom anymore... They do for one second, then the don't zoom. They just highlight. And yeah, the Mac OS Z bar zooms in too... NICE Oh, the eye candy. You should have a peek at it if you can. Oh, and make sure you minimize a window too... M. Not sure but I think the icons only zoom if the task bar size is set to tiny, small or medium... (and zooming is enabled of course!) HTH I have tried them all, and it works for the first 3 seconds after you apply the changes, then it stops working. Don't know why. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday 05 July 2002 04:35 pm, you wrote: I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? Imagine the shape of a snake as it swallows a large object whole. In OSX, the taskbar takes on the same shape as you move the pointer over something. That is, not only does the icon you're pointing at get big, but the icon on either side gets slightly bigger. Very cool. Hey Miark, that's a great way to describe it! I never thought of that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Please can you Help
frazer wrote: As you might guess im new to linux.How many times have you heard that My problem is with Mandrake 8.2 .Im trying to install onto a pentium 3. 450Mhz. 12 Gb Hard drive 128Mb ram.The drive was partitioned with Partition Magic.Windows 98 being on the drive also.The PM wizard guided me through the process,moving my windows files to a new partition 5Gb in size.Which works fine and also creating about a 4 or bit more Gb partition for linux which i believe needs two separate partitions I also installed boot magic if that matters?.After booting from the first CD (theres three as it was a download off the net) and starting ok with the welcome to linux press f1 or f3 i think it is, to install it goes ok for a while until the message :Error loading program into memory could not uncompress second stage ramdisk.This is probably an hardware error while reading the data this maybe caused by a hardware failure or a linux kernal bug in then says press ok but nothing happens.Iv have tried the four or five commands that are recommended in the help file text Expert and so on but all cause the same problem.If its a hardware problem wouldn't it be causing windows problems? Should i try creating the partitions again or would you recommend formatting the whole hard disk and starting fresh. i dont really want that.Thats about it i think. If you cant help Thankyou anyway. Frazer Well, you have a media-vs-drive error on the CD drive. It could be media (the CD) or it could be the drive or it could be the speed at which you are running the drive. It has little or nothing to do with your partitioning. It may have been a download or burning problem as well but also it may be that you are using a CDRW which generally makes lousy boot CDs, CD-R being a much better media for iso files. Did you do a google search for md5sum and get the windows equivalent to check the disk against the md5sum provided on the web? If your iso files check with the md5sum, then we can eliminate the possibility of a transmission error and move on to either media or CD drive. My personal luck has not been good with downloads and CDs. GEnerally I download an iso and burn at three different speeds and try all three and generally I have ONE of those three that will read reliably on another drive. Sometimes CDs I burn on a CDRW won't read cleanly on the CDRW drive itself. I have four burners and about a dozen test drives PD, CD, and DVD, and I get maybe 10% of my burns to read on all of them, and at least 40% of my burns will not read cleanly (data error somewhere) on at least half of my drives. By the way, best approach with PM is to make only the windows partition and leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned, and ditch BootMagic altogether, because Diskdrake can make partitions for you and LILO and GRUB can boot just about any system there is and the mandrake tools for configuring them gives you an easy GUI. If you use BootMagic, you can expect to spend a lot of time fixing what BootMagic does, and the number of folk here who know enough about it here to help will be much smaller than the number who can advise you about LILO or GRUB. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
dfox wrote: I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra Well, it's used in conjunction with 'mt' to position the tape to the proper point. One can have index marks (they work like the ones on VCRs) so if I am at beginning of tape and want to fast forward to right after the first archive, I do: # mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf1 Use of the no rewind device is critical here. Obviously I want to write or read after the first index mark, otherwise I wouldn't use the mt command. If I put # mt -f /dev/st0 fsf1 Thanks, Thought it might be something like that. I used to look after a few Novell Servers where I worked a few years ago so am used to tape backups in that environment. Usually they had gui front-ends ( we used Arcserve ) mt wasn't on my system so I have just fetched an rpm off rpmfind. The one I got is mt-st-0.6-3mdk.i586.rpm which seems to be the most recent stable version for Mandrake. best wishes, norm -- registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:02:26 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:13:55 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . I couldn't disagree with you more on this one. These artists aren't getting shafted because people steal music online. They're getting shafted because record companies don't pay them squat compared to what they make the record companies. Let's face it. They're getting their money anyway because they're paid up front, and nothing beyond that. In fact this is actually helping the lesser known bands. Some of them are quite happy about the whole music sharing thing. They make their money doing concerts, not by selling records. This just gives them more exposure, enabling them to sell more tickets. Eventually, I think we'll see the end of record companies. Bands will all give their music away online so that people will go and see them live. Bill Umm, I think you agree with me more than you disagree with me. I said I side with the artist and against the record labels, RIAA, MPAA. I agree that the artists get the shaft because of the record labels, but they also get the shaft because people steal music online. Why does the fact that they get shafted from the label, or that they get paid enough (according to you) make it OK to steal their music online? I nearly always side with labor, and in the case of music, I think the artists should get all they're entitled to. I don't care how much it is, or if it seems ridiculous to you. I don't have a problem with professional athletes making millions of dollars as long as the industry can support them through ticket sales and merchandising. After all, the athletes are who the fans pay to see. I'd rather the athletes get the money instead of the owner and team shareholders. (I don't believe I've ever seen the owner of a professional team who did not earn a handsome income, either.) As far as up-and-coming bands are concerned, if they want to share their music, that's great. My two brothers have a band and they released a CD, and I posted it on alt.binaries.mp3.blues (with their permission, of course). I understand that sharing can create exposure. However, these bands _voluntarily_ share their music. When somebody takes a commercial cd, rips it and shares it via Internet, the artist/band is not consulted as to whether they would like to share their music to get more fans at their concert; the ripper has made that decision for them. I still think it's appropriate to ask how you would feel if society at large decided that the fruits of your labor should be shared without your consent, or that X amount of dollars is enough for you. I'm not sure that bands want to make their living playing live concerts--that's a hard life with a quick burnout. But if they do, that's their choice. Let them give their music away. But if I want to sell a CD that I write and perform, I sure as hell don't want anybody else deciding for me. If the content is not worth paying for in a consumer's mind, it's not worth owning and listening to. I would love to see the end of record companies, and see the artists have total control over their music and its distribution. Todd -- Todd Slater Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no sound w/ msi mo_bo/via 8233 intergrated sound
hello, all! i looked in the msi website for any info in regards to configuration under linux with no success. looked in the mo_bo manual and noticed it said: Chip intergrated (2 channel S/W audio) - DIrect Sound AC97 Audio since i dual boot, i checked amongst the broken windows and found that the sound card (chip) was a via 8233. i'm thinking that i'm going to be shelling out pesos for a sound card, UNLESS... one of you good people know how to resolve my little problem! many thanks to you -iggy -- my windows broke. so i replaced it with Linux. i once was blind, now i see the light! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenGL RPM Installation
Does anybody know of a 100% upto installation readme for the 29.60 nvidia OpenGL drivers for linux. It seems that the link on the nvidia driver download page : http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-2960/README.txt Is down this evening, as I have been unable to access it from various machines. All the other docs I have found refer to installing from source, which I dont really want to do as my Linux experience is now 48 hours old :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils during the actual installation of the OS, then sound works fine in all cd players and midi drivers are listed. Don't know why that is, but it is. (now there were two very bad sentences, hope they are understandable). For what it is worth it may solve somebody elses' sound problems. I found I can't NOT install alsa when I load KDE iirc. Is that the case? Thx. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LISa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 07:25 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I installed komba2 - at least I think I did. It certainly shows up on the list of installed packages, but I have no idea how to use it. do you have a menu entry networking other komba2? if that doesn't help enough fire off another yell... ;) - -- ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves. -- Thomas C. Greene, Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-10-30 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JjWOBwq+ZwvIN/oRAlS+AJ4urnhJkAug8JnHJh5RCW5wPmqxoQCfYJOI u3ETdpoctT3pkdp2ka6Z+mQ= =X45/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK? [OT]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 03:36 pm, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Actually, I wouldn't have minded if his ideas on spelling had gone further, but some of his other ideas were really kooky - IIRC he wanted to rewrite the Bible with no bad words or references to sex. well at least it would be a lot smaller. :) - -- I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said free firewood and I said who is firewood and what did he do? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JjPOBwq+ZwvIN/oRAm0PAJ0UpgA1hIs0lfkF74nmHdjS6Y9ylwCeKzwa akBFcCKpIQwVlGiCXnMv76Q= =hOD9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 03:50 am, Barry Michels did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I installed from the rpms and now have a /opt/kde3 directory. I've chanded my path to include it's bin directory. With or without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, I still get KDE2. how are you starting it? kdm? if so you should comment out the line in /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh that say export path. that should give you both a kde choice and a kde3 choice. the kde3 choice will likely be at the bottom of the list. - -- I do not believe that I am dreaming this life, but I can not prove that I am not. -Bertrand Russell shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JjTMBwq+ZwvIN/oRAqsqAJ9aNiJ3PL3zTDhadPX6NoY3fjXCxgCdHVS3 2/JpaoOWoNLgXKM256pLFl4= =OfD6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
I found this tutorial ( http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html ) and it worked. KDE3 looks great! I've got a liquid theme with transparent menus and a digitally created water wallpaper. I'm still going through all the areas in Control Center to see what all can be changed Barry On Friday 05 July 2002 08:07 pm, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 03:50 am, Barry Michels did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I installed from the rpms and now have a /opt/kde3 directory. I've chanded my path to include it's bin directory. With or without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, I still get KDE2. how are you starting it? kdm? if so you should comment out the line in /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh that say export path. that should give you both a kde choice and a kde3 choice. the kde3 choice will likely be at the bottom of the list. - -- I do not believe that I am dreaming this life, but I can not prove that I am not. -Bertrand Russell shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JjTMBwq+ZwvIN/oRAqsqAJ9aNiJ3PL3zTDhadPX6NoY3fjXCxgCdHVS3 2/JpaoOWoNLgXKM256pLFl4= =OfD6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FTPing mondo files
I'm trying to ftp an ISO image between two MDK computers on my network, but the connection keeps timing out, so the transfer never works. How can get this ISO onto my other computer? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
AKA: Wit's End Still trying to find the source of this memory leak in my system. I reinstalled XFree86 4.2 from the binaries off of their website, but this has not made any apparent difference. The only real information I have is that it only leaks while X is running, so presumably that narrows down the culprits, but not enough for me to work out what it is. Someone please help! :) This is getting extremely frustrating. Pippin -- And I said 'Oh boy... right... again.' - Laurie Anderson, Let X=X http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~chikken/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Playing CD,s
I,m useing 8.2 on a AMD 950 with 128 ram ,24X cd-rom sound work,s ,CD player work,s with CD,s that I,ve bought but skip,s some with any I,ve burned from the other system which is the only CD-RW I have that in a Win2000 box with 566 cpu ,256 ram I,ve tryed slowing the Cd,s down same thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTPing mondo files
Why not set up a network share using NFS or even Samba? It is pretty easy to do using Webmin or MCC. On Friday 05 July 2002 09:02 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to ftp an ISO image between two MDK computers on my network, but the connection keeps timing out, so the transfer never works. How can get this ISO onto my other computer? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
Still trying to find the source of this memory leak in my system. I reinstalled XFree86 4.2 from the binaries off of their website, but this has not made any apparent difference. A good way to check for leaks is to run top in a separate window for some length of time. You should be able to detect the leak - one or more processes will continuae to increase in size steadily over time. Note if you have jabberd installed - that's been confirmed as a major leak. I personally found it when I was contemplating doing instant messaging with my brother - it's not worth the trouble. I can't see any other use for it. In less than a week uptime it had consumed nearly 300 megs of RAM. The only real information I have is that it only leaks while X is running, so presumably that narrows down the culprits, but not enough for me to work out what it is. Is it X itself? I still have 4.1. Do you notice the server (X) growing uncontrollably? There were some threads sometime back about this but AFAIK it depended on what video card you were using. Speaking of bizarre things -- about 2 days ago I was just staring at my X screen thinking what to do next. All of a sudden the whole X subsystem crashed, bringing me down to a console. I have yet to figure why this happened. Sometimes bringing down the X subsystem is a temporary fix for heavy memory use, but my system was fairly lightly loaded at the time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eye candy software like Oozic Reactor
I haven't seen Oozic, but XMMS has a load of plugins, including G-Force. Where's Battle of the Planets? My brother may just switch to Linux if there's one :). (g d r ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
The one I got is mt-st-0.6-3mdk.i586.rpm which seems to be the most recent stable version Should work fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits
If you really want the artists to reap the fruits of their labour, you should their CD *directly* from them. Here's the not well known the reason... The typical top-40 artist earns only 70 cents per CD sale. Yes, 70 cents! Of that 70 cents, they have to pay the studio and promo costs. This is why you've seen a few big-name artists file for bankruptcy. It's because they simply don't have much money at the bottom line. This is also why you've seen bignamers rebel against their label... Dixie Chicks, Courtney Love, and etc... (this is not an example based on my taste in music). So when you go to your CD store and buy a CD through those traditional channels, you're making the labels very fat and the artists very thin. So buy the CDs from the artists if you want them to get any money. For example, Aimee Mann earns about %50 on each CD sale. That's a very good percentage compared to 70cents per $18 CD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .tar.gz files
I keep seeing everyone putting '-xvfz'. That's never worked for me. I always use 'xvfz', with no '-'. I typed '-xvfz' by mistake once, and I The problem is that the z is after the f - I would think that it would be a problem. Sure enough, tar thinks I am able to open a file named 'z'. GNU doesn't want people using a leading '-'. I figure that's for political reasons. Other commands need a '-' for options. Consider if you omit the '-' on 'ls -l' you get 'l: no such file or directory.' Why try to get people to omit the '-' when using tar? Long (--) options are nice, but they take too much typing. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTPing mondo files
Okay, I decided to try NFS: On the server: 1) /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start 2) Put /mnt/win_d 192.168.0.7(rw) in /etc/exports 3) exportfs -ra On the client 4) /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs start 5) mkdir /mnt/m-win_d; chmod 777 /mnt/m-win_d (as root, of course) 6) mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/mnt/win_d /mnt/m-win_d And then it hangs, and I can't kill the process. I tried a rpcinfo -p on the server, and all is well. I then did a rpcinfo -p 192.168.0.1 on the client, and it came up the same, as it should. Both machines are running 8.2. Bastille isn't running. Why is it hanging? Miark D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Why not set up a network share using NFS or even Samba? It is pretty easy to do using Webmin or MCC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quota or no quota?
Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List User wrote: I have tried using both Noatun and Xmms with the same results from both, for all intents and purposes the player looks like it is working (equalizer works etc) but not sound, volume controls on both players are definatly set to max (adjusting doesnt help either) The only thing I can find that this might be is that my mobo has an onboard sound card that mandrake has picked up even though I have this dsiabled in my bios, and for some reasons mandrake is piping CD Audio though the SB Live and MP3 audio though the mobo?? dunno well...if you've good sound for everything else except the playing of mp3's then again I would suggest checking the volume level of the card where playing those files is concerned. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTPing mondo files
Hmm... I don't know. I don't do things the hard way... I'd love to know how, but I am too lazy to learn if Mandrake has tools that make it easy. I am sorry, I can't help you with that, and I don't use Bastille or anything like that. On Friday 05 July 2002 11:48 pm, you wrote: Okay, I decided to try NFS: On the server: 1) /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start 2) Put /mnt/win_d 192.168.0.7(rw) in /etc/exports 3) exportfs -ra On the client 4) /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs start 5) mkdir /mnt/m-win_d; chmod 777 /mnt/m-win_d (as root, of course) 6) mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/mnt/win_d /mnt/m-win_d And then it hangs, and I can't kill the process. I tried a rpcinfo -p on the server, and all is well. I then did a rpcinfo -p 192.168.0.1 on the client, and it came up the same, as it should. Both machines are running 8.2. Bastille isn't running. Why is it hanging? Miark D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Why not set up a network share using NFS or even Samba? It is pretty easy to do using Webmin or MCC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:57:49 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:55 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call working. Locking up systems is not maybe you should look into your setup? i mean ymmv, but i have 9 of 10 working and most better than they did in win2k... How's about some benchmarks then? I'd like to see which games you are running, as well as the fps, if you can get it (some don't let you). Here's one of mine: Alice = WineX - 24 fps (tops) Windows - 70+ fps For more benchmarks, go and look at these (yes, they're from Tom's Hardware...): http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image001.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image002.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image003.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image004.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image005.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image006.gif Oh, and by the way, if you can't install a game like Baldur's Gate 2, why does it get a rating of 4/5? That's pretty dumb. And yes, I got it to actually run ONCE. It installed fine. Then I tested it again after a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, and whammo. Doesn't work now, and it starts asking me for mythical CDs... Yes, I'd give THAT a 4 out of 5 rating... Yes, games tend to be slower in WineX than in Windows. It should be remembered, though, that Winex is a relatively new product. WINE may have been around for a long time, but WineX's extensions are very new. DirectX is closed source, and so WineX is the work of reverse-engineering, which is very difficult to achieve. I'm sure that it will get better in the future. As WineX develops, Transgaming will be able to make more deals and partnerships with other games companies to make their games compatible with WineX. Some deals have already been made, like the agreement with EA to make a GNU/Linux version of 'The Sims'. In the future, games will be compatible with both Windows and WineX out of the box, with no special GNU/Linux-only modifications. I do, however, share your concerns that WineX may kill the native GNU/Linux gaming industry. OS/2 once advertised itself as A better Windows than Windows, in reference to its Win16 and Win32 compatibility. Developers took advantage of that by making applications in Win16/32 so that they would run in both Windows and OS/2, thereby killing the market for native OS/2 apps. The GNU/Linux market is too small to sustain a commercial gaming market. Even Loki, which simply ported games from Windows to GNU/Linux instead of making their own, couldn't stay in business. IMHO, the best solution is to adopt the model used in Quake 2/3: use open standards to ensure that a game works in other OSs with little modification. In Quake's case, all that is required to make the game run work in GNU/Linux is to change a few megabytes of binaries. Environments like OpenGL and SDL are designed to do just that. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... I will claim that nobody else designed Linux any more than I did, and I doubt I'll have many people disagreeing. It grew. It grew with a lot of mutations - and because the mutations were less than random, they were faster and more directed than alpha-particles in DNA. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: cd burner brand WAS: Please can you Help
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Please can you Help snipped Did you do a google search for md5sum and get the windows equivalent to check the disk against the md5sum provided on the web? If your iso files check with the md5sum, then we can eliminate the possibility of a transmission error and move on to either media or CD drive. My personal luck has not been good with downloads and CDs. GEnerally I download an iso and burn at three different speeds and try all three and generally I have ONE of those three that will read reliably on another drive. Sometimes CDs I burn on a CDRW won't read cleanly on the CDRW drive itself. I have four burners and about a dozen test drives PD, CD, and DVD, and I get maybe 10% of my burns to read on all of them, and at least 40% of my burns will not read cleanly (data error somewhere) on at least half of my drives. snipped wow, that sounds like terrible stats. mind sharing the brand/models of your drives and media, so that the rest of us can stay far far away from them. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Friday 05 July 2002 11:38 am, you wrote: I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. I tell you what...I get involved in a new install for a few days, and before I can get back, *everything* flies off the handle. ;) Thats the Linux world for ya... :-) Hey, DL...thanks for the Morrowind vote! It helped tremendously. When you're ready let me know and I'll return the favor. Back in black, LX No problem. Heck, since our tastes seem to run the same way, I'm sure your votes would be what I would do anyways. Lets just hope we can get Morrowind running! PS WIndog version of Neverwinter Nights is out - hope the 'Nix version is released soon!!! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fw: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...
- Original Message - From: Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ... thanks for the reply. don't have this app., under 'what to do' i've got xmms and some wav recorder, possibly called kwav. - Original Message - From: Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 6:25 pm, Rainer wrote: Asked this question previously, with very little detail supplied as a response - only what apps could be used. this is a newbie mailing list, right? right now i got ripperX-2.1-1.i386.rpm, will this work on man. 8.2. if there is something better, please let me know (and where i can find it). once that is settled i, -ivh the rpm from the command line? i can then find it where, /bin ? from there i can make a shortcut to the desktop? this is a gui app, i'm told, is it pretty straightforward to use for someone coming from windows and musicmatch or is there something i should know. the 'how to' made it seem pretty simple? There's probably a better application installed by default - look in the K menu for What to do | Enjoy music video | Rip a CD. This runs grip, which is a very nice ripper. All you do is put the CD in the drive, select the tracks to be ripped from the Track tab, then select the Rip tab and press Rip+Encode. (Because of the way ripping is done in Linux it dumps the CD contents to [uncompressed] WAV files then converts them to [compressed] MP3; if you press Rip you'll just get WAVs]. There's a useful change worth doing to the default configuration, though, namely changing the rip format from MP3 to OGG (Ogg Vorbis), which gives you smaller but better-quality rips. To do this in grip, select the Config tab, then the MP3 tab, then the Encoder tab, then change the Encoder: pulldown to oggenc, then rip as before. This is worthwhile reading about Ogg Vorbis: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Jdh9Cv59vFiSU4YRAh1SAJ45i9fFplIS77P8kKmFw3bdzeCbHACdHuhx 37obsrNPW36JFSPjho8UDpc= =BP83 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 01:35 PM, Miark wrote: I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? Imagine the shape of a snake as it swallows a large object whole. In OSX, the taskbar takes on the same shape as you move the pointer over something. That is, not only does the icon you're pointing at get big, but the icon on either side gets slightly bigger. Very cool. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have OS X in the house along with Linux and XP. The effect is more like moving a magnifying glass over the object. It will enlarge the icon you move your cursor over and warp everything on either side until you move the cursor to next object. -- Remember, don't shoot until you see the white of their eyes!. Yes, sir!, but the problem is that the enemy is behind us. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System.map
Hi... well, i've just finished building my very first custom kernel ( well, actually not my first build, but it's my first SERIOUS one and i might like not tearing my OS apart this time ;oP ) and i'm a little confused about that System.map file. the kernel i'm running now has it's own System.map and the new one has another. right? ok. in /boot i've got System.map which is a link to System.map2.4.28mdk.. ok, so in order to use my new kernel i've got to rename my new System.map to something like System.map2.4.28mine and change that link to make it point to my file. now, my question is: how am i supposed to keep both kernels? i've checked lilo.conf and the boot sections seem to have no reference to these files... what do i have to add in order to make lilo choose the corresponding system.map whenever i choose a kernel to boot? thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Problems (was BIG Trouble)
On Friday 05 July 2002 08:06 pm, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote: Not wanting to throw a monkey wrench into anything but for those with a SBLive! like I have, I discovered that if you do not load the alsa player and the associated alsautils during the actual installation of the OS, then sound works fine in all cd players and midi drivers are listed. Don't know why that is, but it is. (now there were two very bad sentences, hope they are understandable). For what it is worth it may solve somebody elses' sound problems. I found I can't NOT install alsa when I load KDE iirc. Is that the case? Thx. Femme Not as far as I can tell. I use the flat list always, to pick and choose what gets into the install and those two alsa packages I alsa leave out. Ha! Sometimes I just can't help it. Anyway, when looking at file manager installable they are both available to be installed, ergo they are not. And, KDE runs just fine without them on my desktop. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List User wrote: After further investigation it would seem that the only audio I can play is CD audio, no wav or mp3 files will play, mpg movies dont have any sound, it seems like the entire sound server is failing somewhere as cd audio might be done via hardware instead (can anybody confirm) So far I have : - checked Kmix and all volumes are unmuted and set to max - Checked Aumix and the same - Tried in different apps, Xmms, Noatun - Tried different sound servers in - Control Center-Sound-Sound Server-Sound I/O (this is currently set to auto detect, open sound system doesnt seem to do anything different, and the sound server fails to restart on Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Check in hardDrake and the settings for the Sound Card all seem to be fine I cant think of anything else Ok...now things are beginning to click a bit. are running Alsa sound server? if it is running, turn it off via Mandrake Control Center. what you're experiencing sounds all too familiar, but it's been a little while since I personally have had to deal with it. I _do_ know that turning off the Alsa server is part of the problem/solution. also, what kind of card do you have? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:51:32 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that looks something like this: # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb * hardfsize 10 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List Account wrote: THIS IS NOT SPAM MAIL, SINCE WHEN DOES SPAM AS LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS?? I AM NOT A HARVERSTER Come on people, just becuase I have setup an email address to manage the multiple mailing lists I access is no reason to witch hunt me. And in reply to the first suggestion to my problem, the volume controls in the application are fine. The app is Noatun which came with the default multimedia install of Mandrake dude! chill!! we're just messin with ya. what happens when you listen to the .mp3's with XMMS? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?
Excellent--how do I put the change into effect? Miark Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:51:32 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that looks something like this: # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb * hardfsize 10 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?
It's been a while since I did this so I'm not too sure. Try logging out then logging back in. If that doesn't work, do a reboot (the simplest way). On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:55:46 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent--how do I put the change into effect? Miark Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:51:32 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that looks something like this: # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb * hardfsize 10 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DEC Alpha Server
HI I recently was given by a business friend of mine one of the above a 3000R (well I had to give him a small fee for a few beers). It is fully functioning and has the 500mhz Alpha processor on it and 2gb of on board ram etc etc... does not have any SCSI HDD's with it. He says it can only run Win NT4 because they kludged the BIOS on these machines. They have coded the BIOS to Win NT 4 only. Does anybody on here have an idea what they might have done to the BIOS (How I find out what they have done) and what would I have to do to get around what they have done? If somebody could get me started in the right direction that would help. I really wanted to get Linux installed on it... John --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 01/07/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
