Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime
speaking of wine, are there any quick pointers on how best to use it ? I have a pure linux environment and must I partition it for windoze ? Ideally would like to run on my existing linux partition. Any HOW-TOs, tips would be appreciated thanks. Derek Jennings wrote: 20011204112105.JXCZ3849.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@there"> The best alternative to Quicktime I have found is ... Quicktime..It can be made to run under Linux using the codeweavers crossover plugin available from www.codeweavers.com. Crossover is a wine application and enables you to run native windows plugins including Microsoft Powerpoint/Word/Excel viewers.Installation is a real breeze and it works either standalone or as an embedded plug in in Netscape, konqueror, Opera, Galeon and Mozilla.The downside? Well its not free. The crossover plugin will cost you $29 (but that money does help to support the Wine development)You can use it without paying, but every 30 seconds or so a window pops up begging for money. (Doesn't stop me using it that way though)HTHDerekOn Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:38, you wrote: Guys,what's the best alternative to QuickTime ? Ran into a site that requiresQT but problem is that its only available for Windoze and Mac.../thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
nope. tried that as well: eject cdrom and /dev/cdrom gives: eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Tom Brinkman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Monday 03 December 2001 07:43 pm, ethan wrote: I tried that and got this : umount /mnt/cdromumount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted[root@Echelon ethan]# ejecteject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument[root@Echelon ethan]# ejecteject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Just what the error mesg says, you didn't provide an 'argument' (not to be confused with what we do on the list ;)eject /dev/cdrom '/dev/cdrom/' is the missing argument Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
you know what's strange: I tried to insert a normal CD into the tray and it mounts. So eject command is able to eject the cdrom after that, once I insert the audio cd inside, eject also can eject the cdrom now previously eject cannot eject the audio cdrom. Does anyone have an idea of what happened ??? thanks, /ethan Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, ethan wrote:Hi, Ethan!I've seen these msg just now! I hope it helps!I had recently something this! I messed up the symlinks!Try in this order:1.type 'eject' as root! if it work, you have permissions problems!as root, correct them!If it doesn't work, correct the symlinks but, before... See #2.*Yes! no arguments!*(does it open anything? I have one cdrom, one cd-rw and one zipdrive andmount them all and just type "eject"!)2. try: eject /dev/hdX (the 'X'n is the a,b,c or d, depending on yourconfig!*If this works, so the problem is really the symlink! You have tobuild/rebuild them!3. To fix *my* own mess, I've included "dvfs=nomount" into LILO 'append'label! (I removed that after fixing!)4. I fixed the symlinks like, "ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom" (I've lookedinto fstab to check which one was correct).5. Now, I'm happily eject everything!6. eject has a serious 'bug'! it does NOT work for "in-laws" ;-) (It wouldbe great!)HTH,Ricardo Castanho nope. tried that as well:eject cdrom and /dev/cdrom gives:eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument - -- Whenever possible mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]==Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user==-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6iEYEARECAAYFAjwLusAACgkQ9I0k95pf9XvXjgCgg7bhjwZFeZX8VOYVfaKPuMnf28sAoJR06+E0ztEXyPCONwo/IR4sOphe=zkfp-END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Alternative to QuickTime
Guys, what's the best alternative to QuickTime ? Ran into a site that requires QT but problem is that its only available for Windoze and Mac... /thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime
from what i can see, it provides only the libraries needed to run quicktime movies. Are there any executable binaries that can be used as plugins to Linux Netscape 6.2 ? thanks... mycal62 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> try this url : http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
I tried that and got this : umount /mnt/cdrom umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted [root@Echelon ethan]# eject eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument [root@Echelon ethan]# eject eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument so what's the issue ? thanks /ethan Ronald J. Hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> tek1 wrote: thank you very much!!! :) You can also open a shell and do this:(must be root/su)To mount:mount /mnt/cdrommount /mntcdrom2mount /dev/cdrommount /dev/cdrom2To unmount:umount /mnt/cdromumount /mntcdrom2umount /dev/cdromumount /dev/cdrom2You can also eject /mnt/cdrom (or /dev/cdrom) or dev2 cdrom2...If you want to get a little fancier then:eject -t /mnt/cdrom (and the rest) will close the tray/door back... ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XINE reccomendation: [was] mplayer error
I was able to install from the link but get the error when I try to play the DVDs: xine-panel: PLAY xine_play: xine open xine-ui version 0.9.5cvs, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec) xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL can I know what is causing this ? thank you. /ethan Paul Rodrguez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but Iwasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall,nicer gui, better playback, etc. And much easier to install!I've had success installing using source rpm's fromhttp://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ on 8.1.These are daily rpm build from CVS, so you know they are current.-Paul RodrguezOn Sun, 2001-11-25 at 23:14, skidley wrote: I am trying to compile mplayer on mdk 8.1, I'm using gcc-3.0-3.0.2-1mdkfrom the cooker. I get this error when compiling:Dec.o DS_AudioDec.cppIn file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:43, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/fpos.h:40, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_iosfwd.h:41, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/stl_algobase.h:77, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_list.h:61, from /usr/include/g++-v3/list:31, from allocator.h:8, from outputpin.h:8, from DS_Filter.h:6, from DS_AudioDecoder.h:5, from DS_AudioDec.cpp:5:/usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)':/usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long int __wcstoll_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)'/usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long unsigned int wcstouq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)':/usr/include/wchar.h:520: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long unsigned int __wcstoull_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)'make[1]: *** [DS_AudioDec.o] Error 1I wonder has anyone else had similar errors and how to fix it. Do I needanother package or something? _Do You Yahoo!?Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD player?
When I tried to install vlc rpm package, I get failed dependencies: [root@localhost ethan]# rpm -ivh vlc*.rpm error: failed dependencies: libdvdcss.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.2.91-1 libSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.2.91-1 [root@localhost ethan]# any idea how to get rid of these dependencies and install a package for this ? thank you. civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Sunday 25 November 2001 05:28 pm, DJW wrote: Anyone know of a good DVD (Linux Native) player for Linux?TIADJW Try going to http://www.videolan.org The DVD player works well, but the DeCSS isn't legal to use or download, thanks to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.Unfortunately the commercial DVD players are more smoke and mirrors than anything real, and you have to break the law by downloading DeCSS to use linux to play DVDs if you really choose to use linux to play them. Or else buy the right decoder card (they differ by different regions of the world).Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts
I am using webfonts.sh script found on the webfonts4linux website but I noticed that my Netscape 6.2 fonts still suck. is there any other way of beautifying my "netscape" ? My Kconquerer now looks much better though pls help. thank you. Ric Tibbetts wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ah.. the new generation of Linux users... Y'all can't do anythingwithout a GUI.Want to know what's going on "under the covers"? Then when you want toadd fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :)Ok... Here goes:Off in the land of daemons is one called "xfs" (for X Font Server). It,as it's name suggests, serves fonts to the X server, which in turn putsthem on your dsplay. For average fonts, it's not even required, as X iscapable of rendering it's own fonts. X only falls short in the realm ofTrue Type fonts. That is "one" of the places that xfs is needed. Anotherplace that xfs finds use is to serve fonts out to network devices(remote X-Terminals such. But that is beyond where I care to go withthis discussion.So. Knowing the above, how does one import Windows (or any other) fontsinto X?Simple.First, take a look at the directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fontsThere you will fin d the font directories. You should have a subdirectrory something like the following/100dpi.../75dpi.../encodings.../mdk.../misc.../PEX.../Speedo.../Type1There are additional fonts in /usr/share, but we'll get to those later.Within each of these directories are the font files, and two veryimportant files:fonts.dir (the fonts definition file), andfonts.alias (an alias file, as the name would suggest).There may additionaly be a fonts.scale file for scaleable fonts.The first step in adding a large number of fonts is find a place to putthem. If you want to bring the windows fonts over, then I'd suggestcreating a new directory for them. I've done that on mine, and named it/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WindowsCreate that directory, then copy the contents of your windows fontsdirectory into it.Then cd into the directory, and issue:ttmkfdir fonts.dir This will create the fonts.dir file.NOTE: This only works for TT fonts. For conventional fonts use:mkfontdir fonts.dir (the non true-type version).Now. With the fonts.dir file created, we need to tell xfs about this newdirectory.Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fsThere is a file there named "config". Open it with your favorite editor.Look for the section that has the font directrories in it (it's reallyeasy to find, it's a small file).You'll want to add your .../Windows fonts directrory to this list. Minelooks like:catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Windows, - This on e!/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,/usr/share/fonts/ttf/westernNOTE: You can also add external fonts to /usr/share. And in retrospect,this would have been a more appropriate place to add the Windows fonts.With the .../Windows directory added to this list, comes the reallydistasteful part. You'll need to reboot your PC. yeah, I know. But everytime I've tried to ge around it, I've gotten hung up.One possible way:After you've completed the above:Drop out of X, and kill it (go to a console, and type "init 3", tototally shutdown X. Then run "service xfs restart" to stop start xfsso it will pick up the new fonts.Then restart X, by running init 5, OR startx.This MIGHT get you back up without hanging. I've generally found it bestto restart the computer.Before everyone jumps on this, YES, I know, there are ways to add fontpaths withou t killing xfs X. I did not do this in this example becauseit's best to be sure that xfs is still funcitoning properly after havingit's config file futz with. And this method supplies a lasting fontpath, by building it in.You should now however have your new (old) windows fonts available.to summarize the steps:1) Create populate the new font directory (in either/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, or /usr/share/fonts).2) Create the fonts.dir file (by running ttmkfdir fonts.dir fromwithin the new font directory).3) Add the new font directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config4) Kill X, restart xfs, and restart X.Broken down, it's really very simple.Want to add more truetype fonts? Pay a visit to fontfreak(http://www.fontfreak.com), and get something interesting. Then add thefile to which-ever truetype fonts directory suits your fanc y,and seemsappropriate. Then just re-run ttmkfdir fonts.dir, and restart. Andyou'll have your new font. NOTE: There's no need to change the xfsconfig file if you've not added a new directory.So. Now you know how to do fonts basics by hand. Knowing this, whenthings go awry (as things GUI powered will form time to time), you'llhave a clue as to where to look,
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer fonts
speaking of browsers, can any one help me out here by telling me how to beautify my netsape 6.2 with better fonts ? I already tried webfonts4linux and it still looks the same although my Kconquerer looks much better. any help is appreciated. thanks. Dave Sherman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 05:50, Mark D'voo wrote: i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wineOn Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40, you wrote: I see no reason to run IE on Linux. Attempting to do so only continuesto vindicate M$.There are many excelent browsers that run great on linux. There's noneed to run M$ crapware on a good operating system. Try to keep in mind that some of us are web designers, and we try totest our websites on all browsers on all platforms, not just Linuxbrowsers.Dave
Re: [newbie] DVD player?
well, I tried that, and downloaded gblic the GNU libraries but it also requires dependencies so I get stuck there. don't they have a "complete" package somewhere that has no dependencies ? Darrin Ritter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Hoi Ethango to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for the missing packages andinstall them.note once you know that you have all the packages you may have to add--nodeps to the rpm command ierpm -ivh --nodeps [package] but only do this once you know that you have all the packages and whenrpm won't let you install any of them on account of dependencies ie eachpackage requires one of the others, and if this is the case choose thelib rpmRegards Darrinethan wrote: When I tried to install vlc rpm package, I get failed dependencies:[root@localhost ethan]# rpm -ivh vlc*.rpmerror: failed dependencies:libdvdcss.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.2.91-1libSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.2.91-1[root@localhost ethan]#any idea how to get rid of these dependencies and install a packagefor this ? thank you.civileme wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2001 05:28 pm, DJW wrote: Anyone know of a good DVD (Linux Native) player for Linux?TIADJW Try going to http://www.videolan.org The DVD player works well, buttheDeCSS isn't legal to use or download, thanks to the DigitalMilleniumCopyright Act.Unfortunately the commercial DVD players are more smoke and mirrorsthananything real, and you have to break the law by downloading DeCSS touselinux to play DVDs if you really choose to use linux to play them.Or elsebuy the right decoder card (they differ by different regions of theworld).Civileme --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] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
I changed my settings back to low and still got the same problem I have only one CD rom drive that can also play DVD.. pls help. thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pine.LNX.4.33L2.061235300.4339-10@havana"> Problem is if you look at his output, both /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom2 aresym links to the same device. Something was setup wrong during install.By any chance did you pick a security setting other than "low" duringinstall? I noticed that anything above low (medium, high) supposedlyrestricts the devices to specific groups (which in MHO doesn't work toowell). Most of my problems (sound related) went away when I changedsecurity back to low.-mmOn Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Hugo Ferreira wrote: Ethan,Seems like yours is not a simple case. This surpasses my knowledge.It seems you have two links to two mount point of type /dev/cdromx. where x isa number. Do you have more than one CD-R/DVD/CD-RW Drive? If so, the playermust know which one to use.Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd Here's the output: [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom devfs: link of "cdrom" devfs: link of "cdrom" [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep CDROM [root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom devfs: link of "cdrom" devfs: link of "cdrom" [root@Echelon dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom? lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom2 - cdroms/cdrom2 /dev/cdroms: total 0 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Nov 14 21:00 ./ drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 1 1970 ../ lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Nov 17 2001 cdrom0 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 cdrom2 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd appreciate your help. Hugo Ferreira wrote:Ethan,What is the result of a:demsg | grep cdromand als -la /dev/cdrom?Don't forget the question mark. Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To:Hugo Ferreira Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 20 01 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd Hugo Ferreira wrote:Ethan,I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it.Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this.Try the following:1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer).2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated):umount /mnt/cdromDo it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have noCD in the drive. done.3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) tothe "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also themountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that work ed for you. We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom"ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom [root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions willenable anyone to use this mount point.6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music. Still get permissions error. BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ?? i get:cdrom@ [root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom - ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] blinking white over red background7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same foryour speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints**8. As suming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM.Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes.9. log out of root10. Login as a user11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy.**Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works ifyou have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive,press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume andspeaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem.Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have anISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples
Re: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root
could I know exactly what must be done in console.perms ? I tried modifying the permissions for sound to 0766 but to no avail... it still does not give any sound ! pls advise. thank you... Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 001301c1734a$c898dd40$d60a@WHOPPER"> Eh, as soon as the system reboots, it will be reset by the securityscripts.Instead /etc/security/console.perms must be modified.-JMS|-Original Message-|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of meta|Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:12 AM|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound |appears when log in as root|||Hi,|just give your user rights to use sound device.|Let say u wanna give all user in your system rights to use |sound device. Login as root, |cd /dev/|ls -al | grep dsp|chmod 766 dsp*||-m-||On Frida y 23 November 2001 11:23, you wrote:| Hi all,|| when I log in as a user, I do not get the login sound but |when I login | as root, I get the login sound for the KDE desktop 2.2.1. |Can any one | advise me on how to get sound again. thanks,|| Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reload Xinetd
How do I reload xinetd under LM 8.1 ? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whereis WordPerfect??
errr... can I have a copy of it too... I'm interested in it as well.. thanks so much. Carroll Grigsby wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Charles and Sarah.I do have Star Office 5.2 installed at home (from the PowerPack) and today,at the office, installed Star Office 6.0 Beta (downloaded from Sun). I thinkSOffice 6.0 is a real improvement...it read all my Windoze MS files (Word,Excel and PowerPoint) perfectly.We're essentially a WordPerfect shop, however, and, at the very least, I needto read WP files and convert them to something that Soffice or Abiword canread.I may have an old tarball on a backup somewhere. I'll look around.Thanks.Terry Smith Terry:If you can't find the old tarball, e-mail your address to me (off-list)and I can send you my old store-bought Personal Edition w/manual.Regards,Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp and other services cannot run... man xinetd shows that sending the signal SIGUSR2 will cause a hard reconfiguration... but how do you do that. I tried kill -SIGUSR2 xinetd but it does not work. pls advise. thank you. skidley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: when i did that i got:xinetd restartUsage: xinetd [-d] [-f config_file] [-filelog filename] [-syslogfacility] [-reuse] [-limit proc_limit] [-loop loop_rate] [-pidfilefilaneme] [-logprocs limit] [-shutdownprocs limit] [-cc interval]pls advise. thank you. I don't know /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart works fine here. are u justentering xinetd restart or the whole thing /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetdrestart. Is xinetd currently running? if not its /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetdstart. And you must be root. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root
Hi all, when I log in as a user, I do not get the login sound but when I login as root, I get the login sound for the KDE desktop 2.2.1. Can any one advise me on how to get sound again. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing "versions" of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the fullpath.either go to the directory /etc/init.d/then execute ./xinetd reloador ./xinetd restartor do it in one swoop /etc/init.d/xinetd [ reload | restart ]HTHOn Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:29:15 +0800, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i did that i got: xinetd restart Usage: xinetd [-d] [-f config_file] [-filelog filename] [-syslog facility] [-reuse] [-limit proc_limit] [-loop loop_rate] [-pidfile filaneme] [-logprocs limit] [-shutdownprocs limit] [-cc interval] pls advise. thank you. skidley wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: How do I reload xinetd under L M 8.1 ? thanks. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart (or start if it isnt running already) _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing "versions" of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the fullpath.either go to the directory /etc/init.d/then execute ./xinetd reloador ./xinetd restartor do it in one swoop /etc/init.d/xinetd [ reload | restart ]HTHOn Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:29:15 +0800, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i did that i got: xinetd restart Usage: xinetd [-d] [-f config_file] [-filelog filename] [-syslog facility] [-reuse] [-limit proc_limit] [-loop loop_rate] [-pidfile filaneme] [-logprocs limit] [-shutdownprocs limit] [-cc interval] pls advise. thank you. skidley wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: How do I reload xinetd under L M 8.1 ? thanks. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart (or start if it isnt running already) _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
thanks for your help. It worked. Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> hi, refer to my previous answer. there exists a xinetd executable in the /usr/sbin which is in the root PATH. you should execute the script located at /etc/rc.d/init.d / which is not in the PATH variable. if you enter "xinetd restart" then you are referring to the one in sbin. either you enter the fullpath of the xinetd script located at the init.d directory or just go there and do "./xinetd restart".ciao!On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:57:39 +0800, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp and other services cannot run... man xinetd shows that sending the signal SIGUSR2 will cause a hard reconfiguration... but how do you do that. I tried kill -SIGUSR2 xinetd but it does not work. pls advise. thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer won't run
sorry for the interruption - but I noticed that the mplayer file has a bz2 extension. How do i uncompress / compile and run it ?? mnu wrote: 20081429.fAIETl701803@smtp2"> Hello everyone! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and suggesting that I use mplayer to play divx.My problem now is, when I try to run mplayer to play a divx (*.avi) file, I get the following error:mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdivxdecore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory==I followed the suggestions in DOCS/CODECS, and did everything step by step (even to the point of cp'ing the commands I'm supposed to type).I'm really stumped now. what I did was, dl'd the divx4linux...zip file and extracted it to a special directory. I did a cp libdivxdecore.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/and I did remember to put usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf.What am I doing wrong?Meg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
well, when I type mount, I get: /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) devfs on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext2 (rw,noatime) /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43) So I don't see the cdrom mounted. Am I missing something here ? thanks. /ethan Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> My mistake...As root, type # umount MOUNTPOINTWhere MOUNTPOINT is where your CD-ROM drive is mounted. Usually this is/mnt/cdrom.On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:49:16 +0800Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my cdrom is not mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not foundI still cannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to see and work with pls help. thanks, /ethanSridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Ethan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mandrake Newbie List"[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from the CD player says: CDROM read or access error, make sure that you haveaccess to /dev/cdrom the permissions are root:root but ls -lL doesnot give any output... pls help how can I play CDs on the CDrom? BTW, I can mount a normal CDROMthanks,.ethanEthan, are you using something like CDplayer or Alsaplayer? You cannot mount a audio CD, it is just put in the CDROM and then started from the CDplayer. Not being well versed in command line I use the players I installed on the KDE desktop so am not shure how you use anaudio player from command line. But if you use KDE click on thekpanelmultimediasound and pick alsaplayer and then click on thefolder icon on the left of the gui and your CD should start. HTH I am using CD player from the KDEmultimedia option. Not using from thecommand line. It does _not_ work like I said, it gives the errorabove. pls help. thanks, /ethan Make sure that the CD-ROM drive is not mounted, as has been mentioned above. Supermount shouldn't give any trouble, but sometimes it helps to disable it.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Hugo Ferreira wrote: 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ethan, I have had the exact same problem and have finally solved it. Anyone please feel free to correct or suggest a better way of doing this. Try the following: 1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer). 2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do as Sridhar indicated): umount /mnt/cdrom Do it twice to make sure it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no CD in the drive. done. 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's there 4. If it is, you must now set a sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you.We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom" ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom [root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check the link. You should see that the permissions will enable anyone to use this mount point. 6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player. You should now have music. Still get permissions error. BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean ?? i get:cdrom@ [root@Echelon dev]# ls -l cdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Nov 17 2001 [cdrom - ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] blinking white over red background 017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for your speakers. If this does not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints** 8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM. Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The "ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes. 9. log out of root 10. Login as a user 11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and enjoy. ** Ok. If you did not make it, you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if you have the sound card connected directlly to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the drive, press the drive's play button. Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and speaker's volume to check for sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem. Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples two files. You should here the sound. Any other way to do this? I got my CDPlayer working thanx to DaveF who is a Mandrake expert (see http://www.mandrakeexpert.com ). If all else fails, try creating an incident here. HTH, Hugo. - Original Message - From: Ethan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Hugo Ferreira Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:49AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Musiccd my cdrom isnot mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not found I stillcannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to seeand work with pls help. thanks, /ethan Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Ethan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mandrake Newbie List"[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from the
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Here's the output:
[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom
devfs: link of "cdrom"
devfs: link of "cdrom"
[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep CDROM
[root@Echelon dev]# dmesg | grep cdrom
devfs: link of "cdrom"
devfs: link of "cdrom"
[root@Echelon dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom?
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom0 -
cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 17 2001 /dev/cdrom2 -
cdroms/cdrom2
/dev/cdroms:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 14 21:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 ../
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 17 2001 cdrom0 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 cdrom2 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
appreciate your help.
Hugo Ferreira wrote:
028f01c16e8d$9106f180$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
Ethan,
What is the result of a:
demsg | grep cdrom
and a
ls -la /dev/cdrom?
Don't forget the question mark.
Hugo.
- Original Message -
From:
Ethan
To:Hugo
Ferreira
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Musiccd
Hugo Ferreira wrote:
017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">
Ethan,
I have had the exact same problem
and have finally solved it.
Anyone please feel free to correct
or suggest a better way of doing this.
Try the following:
1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any
other) X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer).
2. unmount the cdrom (just in case,
and do as Sridhar indicated):
umount /mnt/cdrom
Do it twice to make sure it
is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no
CD in thedrive.
done.
017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">
3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make
sure it's there
4. If it is, you must now set a
sym link from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to
the "/dev/hdc" which is the device
that you know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the
mountpoint of the /dev/hdc
device and that worked for you.We will do the same for "/dev/cdrom"
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
[root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc/dev/cdrom
ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists
017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">
5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom"
to check the link. You should see that the permissions will
enable anyone to use this mount
point.
6. Place a CD and fire up your
CD player. You should now have music.
Still get permissionserror.
BTW, what does blinking white text over red background mean??
i get:cdrom@
[root@Echelon dev]# ls -lcdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 rootroot 16 Nov17 2001 [cdrom -
../cdroms/cdrom0 ] blinking white over redbackground
017a01c16e7f$3789bc40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">
7. If you don't, fire up your
KMixer and make sure the volume is up. Do the same for
your speakers. If this does
not work, you are out of luck. See below for more hints**
8. Assuming you got this far
and all is ok, then change the access for the CDROM.
Do a "chmod 666 /dev/hdc".The
"ls -la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes.
9. log out of root
10. Login as a user
11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and
KMixer) and enjoy.
**
Ok. If you did not make it,
you have to make sure your sound card is ok (only works if
you have the sound card connected
directlly to your CD Drive). Place
a CD in the drive,
press the drive's play button.
Launch the KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and
speaker's volume to check for
sound. Works, ok no major hardware problem.
Next. Test the cards driver.
Here someone may help me. How can we do this. I have an
ISA sound card ad used RedHat's
sndconfig. After probing and set-up, this utility samples
two files. You should here the
sound. Any other way to do this?
I got my CDPlayer working thanx
to DaveF who is a Mandrake expert
(see
http://www.mandrakeexpert.com
).
If all else fails, try creating
an incident here.
HTH,
Hugo.
- Original Message -
From:
Ethan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
my cdrom is not mounted and umount gives:- umount: /dev/cdrom: not found I still cannot figure out why I cannot play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to see and work with pls help. thanks, /ethan Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom: # umount /dev/cdromThis should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -"Hugo Ferreira" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridha,How do you do this?H.F.- Original Message -From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Ethan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mandrake Newbie List"[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of EthanSent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cdHi all,I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from the CD player says: CDROM read or access error, make sure that you haveaccess to /dev/cdrom the permissions are root:root but ls -lL doesnot give any output... pls help how can I play CDs on the CDrom? BTW, I can mount a normal CDROM thanks,.ethanEthan, are you using something like CDplayer or Alsaplayer? You cannot mount a audio CD, it is just put in the CDROM and then startedfrom the CDplayer. Not being well versed in command line I use theplayers I installed on the KDE desktop so am not shure how you use anaudio player from command line. But if you use KDE click on thekpanelmultimediasound and pick alsaplayer and then click on thefolder icon on the left of the gui and your CD should start. HTH I am using CD player from the KDEmultimedia option. Not using from thecommand line. It does _not_ work like I said, it gives the errorabove. pls help. thanks, /ethan Make sure that the CD-ROM drive is not mounted, as has been mentioned above. Supermount shouldn't give any trouble, but sometimes it helps to disable it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:38:23AM -0800, Lane Lester wrote: That may not be the best way to phrase the Subject, but my problems with ppp with both Debian and Mandrake suggest this possibility to me. On my system I have three Linux installations: Corel, Debian, and Mandrake. The latter two will not connect me to the Internet, and the basic complaint is that ppp support is not included in the kernel. I did not say "no" to anything that looked like it might something to do with this, and in fact, with my latest Mandrake install, I took the Install Everything option. So is it possible that these Linuxes are interfering with each other in some way? The boot process certainly looks like the three are independent, and the X interface is unique to each. However, I do see in the Mandrake boot (dmesg stuff) repeated errors that say /boot/System.map has incorrect kernel version." if you didn't do the partitioning/lilo right then that is most certainly possible, you should have at a minimum 3 partitions, each of which is a root file system for each of the 3 dists: /etc/lilo.conf (one of them anyway) should be like this: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal compact prompt timeout=30 default=linux image=/vmlinuz label=debian alias=linux read-only root=/dev/hda1 ## this is your debian installation, you would need to have ## booted debian for this config file to work. image=/mandrake/boot/vmlinuz label=mandrake read-only root=/dev/hda2 ## this is for mandrake, you must have /dev/hda2 mounted on ## /mandrake in debian image=/coral/boot/vmlinuz label=coral read-only root=/dev/hda3 ## see mandrake. see what i am doing? when you run lilo the two inactive systems' partitions must be mounted on /coral and /mandrake (/debian /mandrake if you were booted into coral) this is so lilo can find the 3 different kernels and map them. when you boot you get a boot: prompt where you can type mandrake to boot mandrake and debian to boot debian and so on. this makes sure each has its own kernel booted and that it uses the right root filesystem. sounds to me like you only have lilo pointed at the same kernel for all 3 but are giving that kernel a different root filesystem for each of your systems. (ie do you have a lilo conf like above but do all 3 have the image=/boot/vmlinuz?) i hope i made this clear... -- Ethan Benson
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel under 6.1
Silly question, I know, but when you recompiled your kernel, did you build-in support for your SCSI card? If not, that's the problem If so, I'd double-check that it's not trying to load SCSI support as a module anyway. From my (very) limited experience compiling new kernels, you have the option of compiling SCSI support directly into the kernel or making it a module. If you did the latter, it won't work, as you need SCSI support to complete the boot process, BEFORE you load modules. John Yes the kernel i compiled has SCSI support built into the kernel not modular, however i dont know about the stock kernel mandrake ships with. It might not, but that one boots so im going to assume that it does. have support.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode. thanks Ethan
