Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'
John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting output on the 2 front and 2 rear speakers. Unusual to have a 4 channel , multichannel setup, but it seems you have output all around though I think it ought to be at least 5 channels, sometimes 6. However, when I run alsamixer, it tells me that it has the label: SigmaTel STAC9708/11 I have no idea . Is this correct? After all I am using a creative Sound Blaster Live. not having soundblaster kit in my equipement, I have not experience to judge by. # lspci | grep audio 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Perhaps I am using the wrong driver? draksound has selected emu10k1, and gives me the alternatives of audigy and snd-emu10k1. though choosing any of these three doesn't make any difference, my volume still can't be changed from within mplayer or xine. Well if the alternative drivers do nothing , and your card being such a popular one, and bound to be fully supported in linux, I'd say there has to be a problem somewhere with the software to run it. So your sound output is not just half volume in some cases you don't have sound as in mplayer, and or xine, or your do have sound but no volume control in those apps. If it's just a question of no sound at all in these apps, then you might need aRts enabled , that can be done inside a setting in MCC. The function of aRts is to enable multi sound streaming. Here is what alsa website says about your card. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labscard=Soundblaster+Live+Valuechip=EMU10K1module=emu10k1 loads of stuff for setting up /etc/modules,conf or whatever it is now called in MD10.1(did you say?) I think I would try some of the settings they suggest and see what happens. I'm going to bed now, so If I think of anything more I will let you know. John Thanks John, your help is truly appreciated. The issue is that while the sound card works, as in producing sound, which is at a quite respectable level, there is no way of controlling the volume of the sound except via alsamixer. And then only by the 'Wave Surround' volume slider: which is the only one that drops the volume to almost non existant when I slide it to minimum position. I am assuming that mplayer/xine/etc attempt to control the 'PCM' or 'Master' volume slide, which only alter the volume by the very smallest amounts when pushing to maximum/minimum. I am running 10.1CE. The hardware set-up has not changed since Mdk10, or 9.2 or 9.1 or 9.. etc etc.. and this is the first time I have seen this specific problem. Does anyone else have any suggestions of what could be wrong? Or even what other information I could give to assist in providing a better diagnosis? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'
John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I have a sound blaster live (platignum), it is 5.1 and I have 5.1 speakers. And it worked perfectly on every version of mandrake I can remember (i.e. 9 onwards). Really is weirdly annoying Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting output on the 2 front and 2 rear speakers. However, when I run alsamixer, it tells me that it has the label: SigmaTel STAC9708/11 Is this correct? After all I am using a creative Sound Blaster Live. # lspci | grep audio 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Perhaps I am using the wrong driver? draksound has selected emu10k1, and gives me the alternatives of audigy and snd-emu10k1. though choosing any of these three doesn't make any difference, my volume still can't be changed from within mplayer or xine. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'
I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I use the gnome volume panel applet, ditto, can't change the volume. Also the gnome volume control, none of the sliders seem to control the volume. I have a sound-blaster live card, and it is using the snd-emu10k1 driver module. Can anyone offer suggestions, advice? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'
John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I use the gnome volume panel applet, ditto, can't change the volume. Also the gnome volume control, none of the sliders seem to control the volume. I have a sound-blaster live card, and it is using the snd-emu10k1 driver module. Can anyone offer suggestions, advice? many thanks How about trying alsamixer just type it in a terminal. when happy with your sound levels some distros need alsactl store, not sure if Mandrake does. then there is also aumix amd kmix thay may need resetting too. John Thanks for the reply John, though I am afraid it wasn't too useful for me :( I am not concerned with the volume being too loud or too quiet. The problem is that I am unable to change the volume in mplayer or xine to a reasonable extent. I am not sure which exact 'volume meter' is being changed when I use mplayer/xine volume control, but I can't put it to 0 and have no sound. The change is very little, and only on one channel. Yes I can use alsamixer to change every conceivable volume item. But I don't want to resign the rest of my life to having the volume set at that level. Indeed, using alsamixer only the 'Wave Surround' item seems to do the job I want. So I guess the question, is how do I make the mplayer/xine/anything else volume controls manipulate the 'Wave Surround' item rather than whatever other item they seem to be controlling. The whole volume thing was not a problem in 10.0, so I don't know exactly why 10.1 is different in this respect, but I'd like to resolve it. thanks again, and thanks to anyone else who can offer a suggestion -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'
John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I use the gnome volume panel applet, ditto, can't change the volume. Also the gnome volume control, none of the sliders seem to control the volume. I have a sound-blaster live card, and it is using the snd-emu10k1 driver module. Can anyone offer suggestions, advice? many thanks How about trying alsamixer just type it in a terminal. when happy with your sound levels some distros need alsactl store, not sure if Mandrake does. then there is also aumix amd kmix thay may need resetting too. John Thanks for the reply John, though I am afraid it wasn't too useful for me :( I am not concerned with the volume being too loud or too quiet. The problem is that I am unable to change the volume in mplayer or xine to a reasonable extent. I am not sure which exact 'volume meter' is being changed when I use mplayer/xine volume control, but I can't put it to 0 and have no sound. The change is very little, and only on one channel. Yes I can use alsamixer to change every conceivable volume item. But I don't want to resign the rest of my life to having the volume set at that level. Indeed, using alsamixer only the 'Wave Surround' item seems to do the job I want. So I guess the question, is how do I make the mplayer/xine/anything else volume controls manipulate the 'Wave Surround' item rather than whatever other item they seem to be controlling. The whole volume thing was not a problem in 10.0, so I don't know exactly why 10.1 is different in this respect, but I'd like to resolve it. thanks again, and thanks to anyone else who can offer a suggestion Hmm, Well, in that case you seem to be saying that you are only getting maybe 2 channels out of 4 or more ( you have suround sound ?) in which case it's likely a sound driver configuration problem. You need to determin the sound card and chip and whether the website http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ that helps people install and configure sound has anything to say to achieve that. I know that I have had a similar problem with my MD10.0 OS in that my Mobo sound chip which is a 5.1 sound channel chip doesn't work too well with my 2 channel stereo speakers because I have been unable to combine the 5 channels into 2 and as such I'm only geting a certain distorted level of harmonic output, not really noticeable with system sound sets, but very noticeable when playing a quality audio CD. I know that in the windblows OS's you can pass a command to tell the chip to combine channels. The question really is whether the same is possible in linux, maybe ? Maybe yours is a similar problem ? Just a thought John I have a sound blaster live (platignum), it is 5.1 and I have 5.1 speakers. And it worked perfectly on every version of mandrake I can remember (i.e. 9 onwards). Really is weirdly annoying -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor
I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions as choices. How can I set it so I am useing widescreen properly? many thanks for any help -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] using a widescreen monitor resolution
I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions as choices. How can I set it so I am using widescreen properly? many thanks for any help [apologies if this comes through twice, first sending didn't seem to work] -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 audio related crash
Quoting workshop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Using xp? Er...? No.. I'm using mandrake 10.0 I can't quite work out how Mandrake would crash/hang if I was using windowsXP.. With platinum unpluging sends voltage through the card. Never unplug or replug in windows. Reinstall the drivers after u have cleaned the card using Reinstall drivers? Clean the card with benzine? benzine. boot the pc without the card then after the cleaning plug the card in and ja reinstall ... Take the card out? I don't want to take the card out, I am not attempting to hotswap pci devices, I was unplugging the speaker jack cable. From Craig Hmm.. sorry Craig.. but either your humour escapes me this early in the morning, or you're just trolling me. - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Hi, I bought a new adsl router today, and so unplugged the old one, plugged in the new one, set it all up via the web interface using a computer with WinXP on it. Set the router to use DHCP, and a WinXP laptop and desktop both are happily using the internet. Now.. to my Mandrake 9.2 machine. Used drakconnect and tried to put in my settings.. and I just can not seem to get it on the internet. I have tried setting it to use dhcp, or with a static IP, to no avail. Worse, I can now access my mandrake box via my windows pc.. so it does have an IP address.. but the mandrake box cannot access the internet, and the internet can not access the mandrake box. Am I insane, or am I missing somehting obvious? My settings: gateway: xxx.yyy.50.104 subnet: 255.255.255.248 The windows machines pick up the DNS automatically.. and I have tried this with mandrake, and by also manually setting the DNS. Can anyone offer advise.. or slap me round the head for being stupid? -- Azrael - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I bought a new adsl router today, and so unplugged the old one, plugged in the new one, set it all up via the web interface using a computer with WinXP on it. Set the router to use DHCP, and a WinXP laptop and desktop both are happily using the internet. Now.. to my Mandrake 9.2 machine. Used drakconnect and tried to put in my settings.. and I just can not seem to get it on the internet. I have tried setting it to use dhcp, or with a static IP, to no avail. Worse, I can now access my mandrake box via my windows pc.. so it does have an IP address.. but the mandrake box cannot access the internet, and the internet can not access the mandrake box. Am I insane, or am I missing somehting obvious? My settings: gateway: xxx.yyy.50.104 subnet: 255.255.255.248 The windows machines pick up the DNS automatically.. and I have tried this with mandrake, and by also manually setting the DNS. Can anyone offer advise.. or slap me round the head for being stupid? -- Azrael Just to add results of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:4B:04:88 inet addr:195.137.50.110 Bcast:195.137.50.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:10995 (10.7 Kb) TX bytes:10275 (10.0 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000 I am not sure if the Bcast is correct. Should it not end with 255? If this is the problem, how do I edit the Bcast? thanks - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add results of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:4B:04:88 inet addr:195.137.50.110 Bcast:195.137.50.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:10995 (10.7 Kb) TX bytes:10275 (10.0 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000 What kind of ADSL router are you running? There are 3 IP ranges reserved for private networks 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 The address that you are showing above is not one of them. It would appear that the IP address is a routeable IP address. Normally an ADSL router would assign an IP within the private ranges specified above. Your connection rates appear quite low, 10.7 kb, 10kb on an internal (I assume 100mbs/10mbs connection) versus the connect rates that I show below. My guess, based upon looking at it is that you are getting your IP assigned, not by DHCP on the router but by tmdns with the zeroconf stuff in Mandrake Linux. You might want to disable tmdns and retry your connection config. My ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:06:99:CB inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9409459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8952324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:2527859668 (2410.7 Mb) TX bytes:721888267 (688.4 Mb) I swapped back to the old router for a while. And yes I am using routable addresses, my ISP gives me a chunk of them. How do I disable tmdns? --Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Supported 802.11g wireless card on Mandrake 9.2?
Could anyone tell me or point me to a list of 802.11g PCI wireless cards that are supported (without fuss) on Mandrake 9.2? many thanks -- Azrael Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy
cervixcouch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:58:49 -0500, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. make sure supermount is disabled, and the the floppy isn't mounted. fdformat first, then mkdosfs. really vfat should be used on floppies, even if it's for linux files. I tried formatting the floppy as a DOS floppy and was able to copy files to it. But why does it make a difference? I formatted my zip drive as ext2 and it works fine. And if/since it does make a difference, why is Linux even offered as a file system option in KFloppy? In what situations would that work? It's more the case that linux as an option wouldn't work on a windows machine if you wanted to use your files there as well. Hence use a format that can be accessed from a windows PC should it ever be necessary. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 22:02, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 Jun 2003 5:13 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Mar 2003 3:27 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Does anyone know of a digital decoder tv card ? John John - I've got a Hauppage Nova-T card on order. I'll let you know how it goes - but it may not be fast. They're not guaranteeing to deliver before I go on holiday, as one of the items I ordered is out of stock. Anne Anne, is this digital terrestrial or digital satalite tv card ? Digital terrestrial, I believe. either way I'm extremely interested. How much and where from, will do teletext ? You can get all the details from ccl's site. I think you know it? www.cclcomputers.co.uk Anne Is this card supported by linux? I was given a nova-t usb a while back.. which doesn't work under linux.. and that annoyed me.. would be keen to get the nova-t pci if it works easily on mandrake. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:44, Azrael wrote: My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them? many thanks Have you checked to make sure whatever it was you were trying to rip - the DVD, I'd assume, was clean? And the DVD drive is clean? (That's what caused me some grief until I realised the damn DVD I rented was a bit 'dirty') The rip occured without problem. It was while the encoding process was happening that the system hung - so not related to the dvd itself. Just converting home movies aswell.. so no chance of it being any dvd encryption playing me up either. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:44, Azrael wrote: My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them? many thanks Have you checked to make sure whatever it was you were trying to rip - the DVD, I'd assume, was clean? And the DVD drive is clean? (That's what caused me some grief until I realised the damn DVD I rented was a bit 'dirty') The rip occured without problem. It was while the encoding process was happening that the system hung - so not related to the dvd itself. Just converting home movies aswell.. so no chance of it being any dvd encryption playing me up either. Are you using mencoder for the encoding. I have had some problems with the more recent cvs versions and have had to go back to an earlier mplayer install. I kept having stalls during the rip/encoding which I do as one operation. John I believe it is mencoder yes... not sure what version, but using dvdrip version 0.50.13 and MPlayer 0.90-3.2.3 -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:18, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 00:02, Azrael wrote: The rip occured without problem. It was while the encoding process was happening that the system hung - so not related to the dvd itself. Just converting home movies aswell.. so no chance of it being any dvd encryption playing me up either. Is it safe to assume that you've already checked through the system logs to see if anything was out of place as it were? (/var/log/messages) (yet another reason I like having xlogmaster as a tool for quickly combing through log files) Am goign through the log now.. it's so big :/ but not sure what I am lookign for.. maybe I'll know it when I see it? -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:24, Azrael wrote:
Am goign through the log now.. it's so big :/ but not sure what I am
lookign for.. maybe I'll know it when I see it?
/var/log/messages has a lot of this in it:
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
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Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:34, John Richard Smith wrote:
bear in mind that it may all be due to running your system, ie, cpu,
memory, close to maximum overclocking , that there is no room for
No overclocking going on at all over here..
As I said in another post, got a lot of errors like:
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
in /var/log/messages
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Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
The location to which I was encoding was on hde1, and note the dma
errors relate to hde .. so I'm not sure what's up precisely. I certainly
hope my hard drive isn't about to explode.
I have unmounted hde1 and so hde lies idle at the moment.. but I do want
to solve the problems if I can..
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:51, John Richard Smith wrote:
Azrael wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:34, John Richard Smith wrote:
bear in mind that it may all be due to running your system, ie, cpu,
memory, close to maximum overclocking , that there is no room for
No overclocking going on at all over here..
As I said in another post, got a lot of errors like:
Jun 4 15:33:24 localhost kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
in /var/log/messages
OK,
But I'm afraid I'm no expert on these error log messages, and in my
experience they seldom have much to do with mplayer. The message above
suggests direct memory access , I think dma means that, and maybe
someone can help you set dma up properly, I'm guessing it's a hardparm job.
Certainly dma access is desirable if it relates to dvd/rom and hard
drive as I'm guesing it does , and may be the single cause of your problem.
John
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Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:56, robin wrote: If you use Mozilla, the Hermes addon apparently allows reading of hotmail and some other web-based account as though they were POP3 accounts. See http://hermes.mozdev.org/index.html Not quite.. all hermes does is add a sidebar which gives you a dropdown list of webmail sites. You select hotmail, and it gives you two input boxes, username and password. You hit the login button, and it redirects the main browser page to hotmail. So all it really is is a shortcut. Plus Hermes doesn't work in the latest versions of Mozilla.. I should know.. hermes is my project.. and I can't seem to find time to fix the latest bugs. Plus I get reports that the url old versions of hermes use for hotmail might be out of date. Still.. it's a pretty colour and got a nice logo :) Sir Robin -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
umm.. something like: ls * file-list.txt then open that file in an editor and print? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:56, Dennis Myers wrote: Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo names. TIA for any help. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:03, Anders Lind wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth. Anyone know or heard anything about it? Uumm.,..wasn't that a jokesite? /Anders From the same site: Microsoft's plan to invade cuba and overthrow the government has succeeded. Microsoft has announced that a team of monkeys will be shot into space in 2005 to establish the first Martian Colony. Microsoft is working to incorporate the well known Start button from the Windows Platform into X Windows' Gnome interface. We just can't figure out how the hell to get that darn foot out of there! Microsoft has hired lawyers to attack it's own product line in an attempt to confuse the DOJ. We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships. So as you can all tell, this is not a joke site. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java installation
chmod +x j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin ./j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin agree to the terms etc rpm -Uhv j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm Of course, some or all of the above needs to be done as root. The rpm line definatly has to be.. On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 13:01, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Ongkie PDS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to Anne, Robert, Stephen. I did download the j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin file. What I have to do to install it ? Thx, -OS- Hi Ongkie, you can find pretty good installation instructions here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/jre/install-linux.html#install-pkg If you need further instructions, there are others more qualified than I who will assist you. This list is a super place...lots of kind people! All the best to you! --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla - SSL ?
I don't think Galeon and Konqueror use the same mozilla profile as mozilla. In fact I don't think either of them use a mozilla profile. And.. just to be complete.. I don't think the original questioner's IE uses their mozilla profile ;) On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 9:19 pm, Can Baytan wrote: After I installed Mozilla, pop-up SSL pages from my both banks started not responding to clicks at all in both Mozilla and Netscape. Same Netscape use to work fine with those pages. I tried Win IExploiter and it works fine. My wild guess is Mozilla replaced common .DLL's and made both browsers incompatible with SSL1 which they don't have???!! Any idea appreciated. Don't know the answer - mine did the same. Azreal is right that they use the same profiles, but then I thought Galeon did too, and everything works fine in Galeon - and in Konqueror, I might add. Galeon takes a bit of getting used to, but I'm beginning to really like it. Anne -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Pine ? - (because I want Pico...)
Install this: http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.0/i586/pine-4.50-1plf.i586.rpm On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 01:45, ThinKer wrote: Hello again, Can someone please tell me the best way to install Pine so I can get pico on my machine as an editor. I went to washington.edu and got completely confused with the instructions. I also tried rpm find and I did find an rpm but after the install pico simply doens't work properly. I keep getting relocation error: pico: undefined symbol: stat when I try to open a file. Please help. TP __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User ?
methinks: http://counter.li.org/ On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 00:58, ThinKer wrote: How does one become a registered Linux User? I have seen several signatures at the bottoms of posting numbers indicating their registration as a Linux User. I want a number. How do I get one? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no OpenOffice.org fonts on menus (at all)
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 01:30, ThinKer wrote: OK.. I see how this works. Star Trek Nemesis and US Foreign Policy get all the replies and attention. Meanwhile, I ask a question that is very much on topic(that yes, someone else has asked before but as I see it in Twas me that asked.. and I am still in the dark.. the archives, they didn't get an answer either) and I get banished to search the archives? Thats it. I am on my way to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list so I can get some help on fixing my OOOWriter. If you get your answer there, will you let me know? This problem is frustrating me.. TP On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 18:40, Robin Turner wrote: ThinKer wrote: Hello, I recently decided to give openoffice.org a try for the first time to create a .doc file for a proposal. When I clicked on the openoffice.org writer link to application, the program appeared to start fine, but once it opened up I noticed that there is no text on any of the menus in both the opening dialog box and on the menus for the program. 1. How can I fix this, or should I go to the site and download and install the program from scratch? 2. Is there another program for creating and manipulating M$ Office related documents and presentations? This looks like the notorious OpenOffice fonts problem that came up on this list earlier. Check the archives, and good luck! Sir Robin __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] weird problem listening to music
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 08:40, Azrael wrote: I have mpg123 installed, and also ogg123 installed. However when using nautilus to double-click on an mp3 or ogg file, even though the above programs are the defaults, I hear nothing. If I use mpg123 at the command line to play an mp3, I hear nothing. Yet I can get sound from playing video file sin xine, or even mp3's in xmms. Anyone understand what is going on? I have a secondary issue: I recently re-installed mdk9, previously I could hover the mouse over an mp3/off file, and hear it play. A little icon would appear on the song when doing this. Now this doesn't happen, no sound, and no little icon appearing to symbolise it trying to preview the music. Related problem to above one? Help much appreciated, thanks! KDE and Gnome2 use different sound engines. ESD is the engine for Gnome, aRTS is the engine for KDE. You might have to double check your settings for sound preferences in order to get them to work properly. Sheesh .. 'enable sound server startup' in gnome. Did that, and my problems are both solved. Sheesh I feel stupid now!!! -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nautilus scripts - where can I find more/share some
The scripts in the right click menu in nautilus is rather useful, and I
have made a few very simple ones for myself, and I was wondering if
there was a website where one could share them, and more usefully, find
other ones.
Many thanks,
p.s. In case anyone is interested, I installed mp3toogg (copied a perl
script to /usr/bin/) and made the following script to let me click on
mp3s in nautilus and convert to oggs.:
#!/bin/sh
if test $# -ne 1; then
exit 1
fi
quoted=$(echo -e $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS | awk 'BEGIN {
FS = \n } { printf \%s\ , $1 }' | sed -e s#\\##)
eval /usr/bin/mp3toogg 5 $quoted
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[newbie] trouble with samba?
trying to use swat to share a directory form linux onto a windows machine. Setup is: 1 linux (mandrake 9) machine, plugged into adsl router, port: 10.0.0.9 1 windows (XP) machine, plugged into router, port: 10.0.0.6 smb.conf is attached, but I think it is ok. The windows machine can /see/ the samba workgroup, but can't connect to it. This leads me to assume the router /isn't/ stopping samba from working between the machines. But I don't know what is going wrong. Under mandrake, I had the default firewall running, and even turned that fully off. But still could not connect. Any advice? Please? many thanks! -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2002/12/17 23:52:57 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = AZHOME netbios name = AZHOME server string = Samba Server %v security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No wins support = Yes guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 10.0.0.9, 10.0.0.6 printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root [video] comment = Video Files path = /mnt/files/video username = norbert valid users = norbert guest only = Yes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck offselling Mandrake
All I can say is.. GOOD! It's Free software.. it is supposed to be re-distributable. And doing it in such an easy way makes it more accessible to people. I have a friend who bought Mandrake via ebay (uk) who does not have broadband (I would have burnt them a copy of mine if they had asked!! silly). However.. if Mandrake want to make a bundle selling on ebay.. they can do that too.. given a choice I would then (if I was going to) buy from Mandrake via ebay rather than nameless-person via ebay. On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:00, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view sellers other items link on that page Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make copies and is selling them? Hate to find out it is the the latter (not associated with Mandrake and is making a buck for themselves) What do you think? Steve -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck offselling Mandrake
I do take the point that using the content of mandrake's site without permission is rather cheeky. And this /is/ not right. Perhaps Mandrake (they monitor everything I say... so they should get this ;) should e-mail the chap and suggest he not rip off their copyrighted descriptions/pictures etc etc. As for selling the stuff.. I'm still for that.. good on the chap.. as long as he changes the page to not breach copyright. heck.. he should just link to the relevant sections of Mandrake's site .. would be easier for him. I keep saying 'him' and 'he' but could equally be a 'her' or 'she'. On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:42, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:00:38AM -0600, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view sellers other items link on that page Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make copies and is selling them? Hate to find out it is the the latter (not associated with Mandrake and is making a buck for themselves) What do you think? Steve I don't so much have a problem with him/her selling CD's, but I do have a problem with the blatant plagiarism. Nearly all the text that describes the system is copied verbatim from the Mandrake website, as are the screenshots that line the bottom of the ad. I mean, if you're going to sell something that you can get for free, at least invest a little time in making your sell a *little* more creative! I would also be pissed if I found out that somebody was using my screenshot to sell Mandrake (other than Mandrake) without my permission. Come on, you're so damn good with it, take your own damn screenshot! Plus, it's only 2 CDs. You could read Mandrake's website copyright policy: This website is produced by MandrakeSoft S.A. and MandrakeSoft Inc. with the help of contributions from many volunteers throughout the world. Except where otherwise specified, the contents of this site are copyright MandrakeSoft S.A. Any use of this site's contents on another website or in another format must be authorized by our webmaster. In all cases, the use of any content from this site will mention its origin including the URL mandrakesoft.com. (http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/copyright). The seller clearly violates this policy. Just my thoughts :) Todd __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck offselling Mandrake
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday December 6 2002 07:17 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: If this person is burning copies off a set of disks and then selling them, isn't that illegal though? I mean I will (and have) burned a set of disks from my copy, then GAVE it to a friend is ok, but selling the high number of sets of disks this person is doing is wrong, **unless** endorsed by Mandrake somehow. Just my 2 cents worth, thus the reason for the first post - I have no idea if this person is legit or not. It is legit, tho slightly expensive. This person is doin nothin different (or illegal) than the many websites like cheapbytes do. The software is still free. The packaging and SH is what's being charged for. http://www.opensoars.com/?page=shop/flypageproduct_id=73 is sellin Mdk 9.0, 3 CD sets for $2.99 plus they make a (very) small cash contribution back to Mandrake and other OSS projects. For those that really want to support MandrakeSoft, buying cheap CD's like this, _and then_ joining the Club, goes a lot further, does much more good, than buying boxed sets. Hehe don't say that too loud.. I'm sure Mandrake won't necessarily agree with you... Hey.. don't buy our box sets.. buy the distro form someone else who donates to us instead. Oh.. p.s. Join the club!! Fictional Mandrake Exec -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb diskonkey
I don't have an sda or whatever tab in diskdrake.. On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 07:25, Len Lawrence wrote: On 02 Dec 2002 19:49:06 + Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a tiny usb diskonkey hard drive type thingy, and want to know hwo to get it working in mandrake9. usbview says this about it: -- snip -- I have a 20 Gb Flip2Disk, USB 2.0 device, which gives a very similar listing under usbview. If you have usb-storage loaded as a module then your device should be emulated as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or whatever; /dev/sda if you have no other SCSI devices on your system. My drive came preformatted as VFAT I think and the first step was to reformat it to ext2. If you wish to do the same, go to diskdrake as root and hit the sda tab (or whatever) - PLEASE be extremely careful at this stage - and reformat and create partitions as required. I found that ext3 would not take - ended up as ext2. After that it should be a simple matter to create a mount point and mount the thingy. mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy or mount -t vfat(?) /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy Let us know if this helps. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] usb diskonkey
I have a tiny usb diskonkey hard drive type thingy, and want to know hwo to get it working in mandrake9. usbview says this about it: DiskOnKey Manufacturer: M-Systems Serial Number: 030A41161E00046C Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.00 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 08ec Product Id: 0010 Revision Number: 2.00 Config Number: 0 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: 80 MaxPower Needed: 94mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 06 Protocol: 50 Number of Endpoints: 2 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 01 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Anyone able to advise how i go about setting this up? Many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alcatel Speedtouch USB with Mandrake 9.0
for the record: I just installed mandrake 9 again, a totally clean install, and my speedtouch wouldn't work. Then I installed mandrake 8.2, and my speedtouch would not work (even though it used to under 8.2 once upon a time). I am totally at a loss. Someone once asked me to run lspcidrake -v and provide the output, so it has been attached. I am looking for a cheap adsl router, however anyone that can do magic to save me any more expense, will get a pat on the back and a cup of tea. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Brian Parish wrote: Phil, Good advice! I think I'm going to take it. That particular box may not be available to me as the equipment needs to be Austel approved (I'm in Australia), but the principal of avoiding USB for such devices is sound. cheers Brian On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 05:25, Philip Crowe wrote: Brian, I know it's not really helping your problem but.. I had a lot of annoying probs with the speedtouch in the past with 8.2. Easiest (well, longest term...) solution was the Dlink DSL-504. Cheap and cheerful solution to an annoying, but, I'm sure, solvable problem. Most of the problems were with USB but went away when I dispatched the 'frog' to the bin. Just thought it might be worth thinking about. Cheers, Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: 21 October 2002 07:55 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Alcatel Speedtouch USB with Mandrake 9.0 Good info Ed, but I think I am convinced (note the confidence ;-) that the problem (at least the first one) is to do with USB rather than this specific device. I get no lights on the modem and I suspect that there should be at least this small sign of life if the USB port was active. I am going to play with it on another machine and also try a printer on the USB port as a first step. I'll post again with the result. cheers Brian On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 00:17, ET wrote: have either of you tried the google search for speedtouch_mgmt-0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm I know there is one in the Mandrake club. On Sunday 20 October 2002 10:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone out there point me at a how-to on this that is: 1. Not in French 2. At the URL advertised 3. In step with the parts that 9.0 does during installation During the install I told the installer I had one of these and it brought up a screen in which I could enter my ADSL account details. For some reason I was supposed to be in a country a long way from where I actually was, so I didn't worry too much about this, assuming that this was stuff destined for /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and the like. It then told me that I needed to download the binary from Alcatel and gave me a URL that worked. I was also supposed to put mgmt.o (extracted from the downloaded archive) into /usr/share/speedtouch Did all that. Also read the how-to that comes with this package. It says I need to put mgmt.o somewhere else which doesn't exist, so I didn't and suggests I need to download and install some hotplug stuff which Mandrake seems to have already taken care of - so I didn't. So now what? I downloaded speedconnect2.2-1 which has some scripts that make connecting easy. They seem to have installed OK, but tell me they can't find my modem. It's plugged in, but with no signs of life. cat /proc/bus/usb/devices says: T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=c4879000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms which seems to indicate that USB exists, but may or may not indicate that something else is amiss. The Alcatel site points me at: http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/howto.html but the URL is broken. :( sigh TIA Brian Just needed to say: Me too (as in needing help - still) [root@linux root]# lspcidrake -v unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:1106 device:0305 subv:147b subd:a401) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:1106 device:8305) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:1106 device:0686 subv:1106 subd:) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:1106
[newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? Many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? whoops - slip and Send was pressed too soon! Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? If all that's been entered the best thing to do is just to ignore all the Mandrake flapdoodle and do two things: i. put mgmt.o in your home directory ii. make a 2-line script, say adsl, there thus: modem_run -m -f mgmt.o pppd call adsl iii. make it executable (chmod a+x adsl) then run it (./adsl). After about 20 seconds the beans will be in a row and the connection will be live. As you can guess from the way this was written I've never bothered with the Control Centre stuff; this method is much more direct. (If the username, password etc. haven't been entered the best thing to do is to run drakconnect as root, which will run a wizard similar to that during installation which will - eventually - prompt for them. Then go back to 'put mgmt.o ...' and continue from there). Alastair I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). advice always welcome :) answers even more welcomed :) -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
Alastair Scott wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:52 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). Very odd, as I had no problems (and never had any with any of the betas or RCs). Next three suggestions: i. do lspcidrake -v as root. Do you see a line like [root@localhost thebrix]# unknown: Alcatel|USB ADSL Modem (Speed Touch) [] (vendor:06b9 device:4061) anywhere in the output? (Paste the output here so that everyone can crawl over it!) I did not see such a line, and am unable to copy files across to an ntfs partition.. and the only floppy I have is the boot floppy for safety.. but I checked the output over very carefully, and that lines doesn't show. And I think I have an idea why. ii. run harddrake2 as root; this will re-detect all the hardware (and not show the ST in the popup window - this is a known bug :) I ran harddrake2 and the speedtouch didn't show up in it. I also ran usbview - on a hunch, and it said that it oculdn't find /proc/bus/usb/devices and suggested I make sure I had usb support compiled into my kernel. I'm using the default mdk9.0 kernel, so it's probably just that usb modules or something haven't been loaded. Not sure how to do this. Once I can get the speedtouch actually recognised, I'll try the ideas to get it working.. as to how to get it recognised... seems I need help still :) iii. if i turns up nothing, or the ./adsl script, run as root, still doesn't work after ii, what is the ST connected to? A hub? If so, move things around so that it's connected to a main motherboard port then run harddrake2 then the ./adsl script as root and see what happens. Alastair thanks for the help Alastair :) -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - but desperate - Mozilla help needed
Anne Wilson wrote: I have to do a Win98 re-install tomorrow - and it's urgently needed. The computer has Mozilla 1 installed. I am afraid of her losing all her mail, as I can't find where Mozilla keeps the mailboxes and other personal data. Can anyone help, please? Sorry that it's windows, but I felt that someone else here will have Mozilla for windows installed. Anne goto your application data folder.. not sure where that is on win98.. but you should be able to find Mozilla/Profiles/Default folders somewhere.. and the files inside eg: search.rdf Anyway.. once you find that folder, go into the Mail folder, then Local folders.. where you find lots of *.msf files, aswell as files matching the * with no extension. Take a copy of all these files, and you can drop them into a new profile on windows after reinstallation.. they even can be taken to another OS . I recently copied some from inux to windows with no problems at all. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1 alpha1
Anyone know of a url for binaries of KDE 3.1 alpha1? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page
robert macdonald wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much umm.. maybe you don't understand what you're asking. or maybe I don't understand. cgi in the way you refer to it is a system by which programs can be 'run' from one webpage to another to modify/provide content. cgi isn't actually a webpage creating piece of software - unless there is one named this I am not aware of. if you are looking for a program like frontpage/dreamweaver etc .. then you want to look at mozilla/netscape composer, or quanta, or bluefish. I suggest to start with mozilla/netscape composer -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
Charlie wrote: June 9, 2002 10:07 am, Joan Tur wrote: Es Divendres 07 Juny 2002 21:40, en Charlie va escriure: June 7, 2002 01:00 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those quick search bars. But after downloading and installing the latest mozilla, galeon crashes as soon as I open it. I tried upgrading, but there were so many dependencies. If I use the mandrake rpm's: error: failed build dependencies: GConf-devel = 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk libglade-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk gnome-vfs-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk mozilla-devel = 1.0 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk I've got the following installed: [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q mozilla mozilla-1.0-0.rc2.2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q galeon galeon-1.2.1-2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ That's under 8.2 and using rpmdrake a cooker ftp. Dependencies were solved autimatically. ~~ Thanks Joan; I would probably have waited for the cooker Mozilla1 release, since I was already running the same one you are, but got in a rush to try it. It's working, and as I mentioned previously, I avoid most of the Gnome apps including Galeon. I'll give it a stab though just to see if it's improved much over what caused me to avoid it back in 7.2 Freq. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Red Carpet has galeon, mozilla, and nautilus updates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java development
Just realised BlueJ works on linux that's what I'm used to using *ducks the irate crowd throwing stones* ... thanks for everyone's help.. with everything :) -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Java development
I'm about to start work on my MSc project which will be done in java - unfortunatly. I've just moved over from windows completly.. so have never done any java under linux - although I am not totally new to linux. Having used bluej under windows - is there any product of equal simplicity that I can use under linux? Any tips/comments on the best utilities to use for java? -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bash: TMOUT
Tim Holmes wrote: Evey time I source my ~/.bashrc or open a new *term, I get this error message. $ source ~/.bashrc bash: TMOUT: readonly variable Has anybody else come across that? Any solutions for this? I asked on irc.openprojects.net (In #mandrake.) And nobody there at the time had seen it. Maybe somebody here has. tdh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I get this!!! And have pondered what it is... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk space advice
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) many thanks!! Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is (it is just a text file). Something must be putting out lots of error messages to cause syslog to get that huge. Fix the error... fix the problem the right way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com this is the sort of stuff syslog is giving me: Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: ppp_synctty: send buffer, count = 44 Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: FF 03 00 21 45 00 00 28 ...!E..( Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 00 00 40 00 FF 06 9D 64 ..@d Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: C3 89 20 01 C2 6A 38 76 .. ..j8v Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 94 60 00 8F 6C 13 62 20 .`..l.b Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 00 00 00 00 50 04 00 00 P... Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 6E 52 00 00 nR.. Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: ppp_synctty: receive buffer, count = 56 Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: FF 03 00 21 45 00 00 34 ...!E..4 Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 60 E2 40 00 3F 06 FC 76 `.@.?..v Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: C2 6A 38 76 C3 89 20 01 .j8v.. . Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 00 8F 94 60 7E 5D DD 4F ...`~].O Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 6C 13 62 21 80 10 16 A0 l.b! Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 4A 59 00 00 01 01 08 0A JY.. Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 1D A7 3F 21 00 7F 1B 40 ..?!... Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: ppp_synctty: send buffer, count = 44 Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: FF 03 00 21 45 00 00 28 ...!E..( Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 00 00 40 00 FF 06 9D 64 ..@d Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: C3 89 20 01 C2 6A 38 76 .. ..j8v Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 94 60 00 8F 6C 13 62 21 .`..l.b! Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 00 00 00 00 50 04 00 00 P... Jun 5 11:46:26 localhost kernel: 6E 51 00 00 nQ.. it doesn't make all that much sense to me . :/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk space advice
I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdnav-0.1.1-0 is already installed package libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libdvdread-devel-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libxine0-0.9.10-1 is already installed package libxine0-devel-0.9.10-1 is already installed package w32codec-0.50-1 is already installed package xine-dvdnav-0.9.10-0 is already installed package xine-ui-0.9.10-1 is already installed package xvid-0.20020412-3 is already installed package xvid-devel-0.20020412-3 is already installed -- many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice
That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdnav-0.1.1-0 is already installed package libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libdvdread-devel-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libxine0-0.9.10-1 is already installed package libxine0-devel-0.9.10-1 is already installed package w32codec-0.50-1 is already installed package xine-dvdnav-0.9.10-0 is already installed package xine-ui-0.9.10-1 is already installed package xvid-0.20020412-3 is already installed package xvid-devel-0.20020412-3 is already installed -- many thanks 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: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice
John Richard Smith wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 15:19, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdnav-0.1.1-0 is already installed package libdvdread-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libdvdread-devel-0.9.3-ogle1 is already installed package libxine0-0.9.10-1 is already installed package libxine0-devel-0.9.10-1 is already installed package w32codec-0.50-1 is already installed package xine-dvdnav-0.9.10-0 is already installed package xine-ui-0.9.10-1 is already installed package xvid-0.20020412-3 is already installed package xvid-devel-0.20020412-3 is already installed -- many thanks -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You don't say which distro your on, but if it's LM8.2 take their xine version off and download an rpm package from Redhat, it has DeCss in the title, eg. xine-0.4.3-fr1.decss.rpm and install it straight as it comes, mine works just fine. John I did take off the default installed version of LM8.2 xine. And installed all of the above. I uninstalled all.. installed the xine you indicated.. and got this when trying to run it: This is xine - a free video player v0.4.3 (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.1 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library IMLIB ERROR: Cannot load image: /usr/share/xine/skins/xine_logo.png All fallbacks failed. logo not found :-(( Isn't there a way I can use the latest 0.9.10 rpm's I have got.. and just enable proper decryption of dvd's using libcss? - Azrael Well I wish there was. I'm guessing but it would seem that your choice of install seems to fail to enable decss encription. As I'm unfamiliar with your choice it is difficult to say what may be the reason. I can only say that when you first tried to install the main xine rpm , it failed because of dependenties, it usually does, but it is a question as to whether you have the right dependencies and whether indeed it can work with decss encription file at all. I had the same problems, and that is why I chose the abovementioned Redhat package as it included as part of it's own install the correct decss encription file.I was built in . Mine seem to work flawlessly. So I guess from the above message that there is still a piece of libpng left installed that is in conflict with this package. I know that when I went down the same path as you I had all sorts of versions to try out before I hit on one that worked. It is often difficult to tellwhether in fact everything is cleared out on uninstall. I don't suppose you have been installing tar ball version by any chance. they don't remove easily unless you installed it with checkinstall programme command. I can see that you have libdvdcss2 which suggests an encription package, but is it the right one. It looks as though xine0-0.9.10-1 is your main xine package, does the installer mention which decss package it is dependent upon. You see this version may or may not work with decss encription packages.I don't know. These are the sort of question you will have to ask youself and seek to answer. The abovemention list of your looks impressive but unless they are the right combination of packages it will not work. John Well at least something is impressive this end :) It's really annoying.. just about a year ago I had xine working with encrypted dvd's - and now I seem to have taken steps backwards. It's enough to make you turn to god! well... not quite. thanks for your help !!! :) -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
Charlie wrote: Now if they would just get the blasted spelling checker (spell checker seems as though it should be something a warlock would need ;-)) working. You can download it from one of the mirrors: http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html or from one of the download links at http://www.mozilla.org/ but some of the mirrors haven't updated yet. If they have, they don't seem to be overwhelmed yet. For 8.2 users: I don't know if this will help you or not but it's the way I did it and it all Just works! Download the tar.gz file to an empty directory. I use a src directory I made in my home directory for all downloads, and I keep it empty between installs. Extract it using whatever method you prefer (right click, extract to using archiver in my case) to the same directory and allow it to build the mozilla-installer directory to extract to. Open a terminal, change to super user (type su then type the root password when prompted) then cd to the mozilla-installer directory that you just made. Type ./mozilla-installer leaving out the quotes when you are in the proper directory. You'll have to do some accepting and choosing; I chose custom install and left off the talkback link (feedback agent or whatever they called it). I also changed the install directory to /usr/lib and called it mozilla1 (temporarily, you'll see why in a minute) and allowed it to build mozilla1 directory and install there. After installation I closed the browser window that it opens, closed the terminal, used (we're doing a GUI install here) FileManager Super User Mode went to /usr/lib and renamed the existing mozilla directory to 'mozillaold'. I then renamed mozilla1 to mozilla. Open the old mozilla directory, copy your plug-ins except the default plug-in and paste them into the new mozilla directory. Close the file manager and start mozilla from your normal link or the altF2mozilla method and you should be ready to rock. If it does happen to break just revert to the old Mozilla by punting the new mozilla directory and renaming the mozillold back to mozilla. I don't think it will though. If you're wondering why I've said so many obvious things here; it's because a friend of mine has just started using Mandrake 8.2, and I want her to get used to at least lurking on the list so she'll be comfortable enough to ask questions. She asked me how to do this, and I figured it may help someone else too. Sorry to make it so over-simplified! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com curious.. does galeon still work for you? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing
I guess I must seem to be Mr Problem A Day - just installed mandrake chap... but here goes. I installed an epson stylus color 680 usb printer on mandrake 8.2 using CUPS and all seemed to go well. Auto recognised, etc etc. Now a normal user tries to print from galeon.. it sends it to the right printer.. but appears to only ever print out half the pages (first half). Also.. it doesn't seem to always print straight away.. sometimes when not printing at all I run printerdrake as root just to try and give cups a kick up the backside to get working.. and that seems to do the trick... CUPS is initialised at boot .. so it is / or should be running anyway... does anyone recognise the symptoms.. can anyone advise me of any solutions? many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disk space advice
I need to ask for some advice :) df -h gives me: /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can be brought down to 88% by deleting /var/log/syslog .. meaning this log file gets to about 1.5G in size. What can I do to prevent this? tips? I don't really like the idea of setting up a cron job to daily delete it! :) thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk space advice
two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) many thanks!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Iomega Zip drive
I have an iomega zip drive, usb, plugged into mdk8.2 I can mount it from /dev/sda4 and have this in my /etc/fstab : /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat However, I have a normal user on the system who is given only read access, and I don't want to have to always use root to get read/write access. Can anyone tell me how to 'configure' this so a normal user gets read/write access? Many thanks! -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] anonymous ftp
Can't seem to get anonymous ftp working either. Been fiddling on webmin and I thought I had done the trick.. but to no avail. Can anyone tell the the correct details to put into the proftp.conf file? If that's indeed what I need to do.. or what I should do otherwise :) many thanks -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cvs gui client
I can't seem to find a gui cvs client for mandrake that works... anyone able to point me to a working rpm for one? many thanks -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libpng.so.2
Why does anything needing libpng.so.2 on my system fail to install? Ximian's red carpet, on attempting to install opera, claimed that no source could be foind for libpng.so.2 and when attempting to install lincvs rpm's they failed on libpng.so.2 yet I can't seem to find any libpng for my system. running mdk 8.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:24, Robin wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:26, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 10:34 am, Shane wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:48 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Perhaps we need some sort of directory of such help. There must be someone here in West Yorkshire, but I've not come across him/her. if we did have a directory of such things it might look like this http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/ and i might be the editor there. ;) FWIW: The British magazine, LinuxFormat, has a list of UK LUG's in each issue. The March issue shows 69 LUG's. It's also available online at www.linuxformat.co.uk/links.php; another listing is at www.lug.org.uk. The West Yorkshire LUG is at www.wylug.org.uk; there are other LUG's in Huddersfield, Manchester and Blackburn. Happy hunting. LinuxFormat is also a nice mag in its own right. I bought a copy the last time I visited my motherland, and what did I find sellotaped to it but Mandrake 8.2! Sir Robin Totally off topic now.. but my Mozilla project Hermes gets _two_ pictures in this months Linux Format!! I'm so proud!!! -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
