Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
> If you mean pick .MP3 and wind up with an audio track on your disk in one fell > swoop...well, I've never tried that. I always converted a bunch of MP3s with That's precisely what I'm trying to do. BTW, the xmms-diskwriter thingy worked fine - I just su over, run cdrecord and give him all the

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 August 2003 12:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: > I'm going to give gcombust another try. Specifically, did you see my > comment about it making data copies of the mp3s rather than doing the > decoding? I'm pretty sure I selected audio cd and not data cd. If you mean pick .MP3 and wind u

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
> David - I missed that thread (well, actually I just didn't follow it - I use > Gcombust without problem here). Anyways, have you tried the diskwriter plugin I'm going to give gcombust another try. Specifically, did you see my comment about it making data copies of the mp3s rather than doing

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:42 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything > I want and more. Yea! Another Gcombust advocate! :-) --

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:33 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > Hello - > > In a prior post (subject K3b & cdwriter) I explained the method I use > for decoding mp3s to wav files so I can make a CD from them. I mentioned > that I was planning on scrapping this because mpg123 fails to play the > file(s) in

Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 02:26, Todd Lyons kirjoitti: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: > >i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package > > named binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD

[expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
Hello - In a prior post (subject K3b & cdwriter) I explained the method I use for decoding mp3s to wav files so I can make a CD from them. I mentioned that I was planning on scrapping this because mpg123 fails to play the file(s) in question. So (presumably) decoding via mpg123 is not an option h

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wanted us to know: >> >>meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an >>IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason >>that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? > > In the words of

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:42 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Guntner wanted us to know: > >Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start > >the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file > >c

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: >meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an >IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason >that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? In the words of the g

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Sword wanted us to know: >I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol overhead. --Mans Nilsson Linux

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > 1. Take a look at your /etc/fstab file. see if you have and entry for > "none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ... > > 2. Look in the file /etc/lilo.conf and that you have an append line that > has the cdwriter as "hdd=ide-scsi". This will id it a

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
> Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. Hmm. That might explain some of the issues I have had with it; mostly what seems to be permission related, although permissions seem to be right, and dfox is a member of the cdwriter group. Occasionally it just craps out saying that it's only a

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wanted us to know: > >>Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I >> start >>the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file >>called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. Wh

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Larry Sword
David Guntner wrote: I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and ha

Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
> Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x > days? I can't find it. I can't find it either. Sorting by date and then flagging the articles for delete might work. But it takes a long time... actually I'm wanting to do this as well as I had difficulties with Pan eating up

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: >Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start >the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file >called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When go

[expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and harddrake configured it

Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named >binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom >drive does not work on this laptop... Not cool. The

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-15 Thread Larry Sword
Possibly it's looking for a "/dev/modem" in which case try making a link to the /dev/usb/acm/0 device. In the kernel doc sections see: file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.21/usb/ acm.txt Larry I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no

[expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-15 Thread Anne Wilson
Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-15 Thread deedee
I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no /dev/tty1. The device should be ttyACM0, but AFAIK the system doesn't recognize that the USB modem should be driven with the acm module. Harddrake or whatever it's called lists it under unknown

[expert] LDAP authentication but no SU for ldap users

2003-08-15 Thread Jim C
I have a client box I just installed that works fine with the exception of the fact that only local users can use the su command. I suspect it is something simple but I've not been able to find the problem so far. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.

Re: [expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate

2003-08-15 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 19.37 14/08/2003, you wrote: *** Olaf Marzocchi Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:26:51 +0200 : > Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually > editing the Xfree config file? > > It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already > ships inside MDK control center. How abo

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-15 Thread Gary Montalbine
Well spoken Kevin. I agree. I asked for URPMI information after the 9.0 book was released. I don't see much difference in the two books except for the pages not falling out. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-15 Thread Fred Albrecht
KevinO wrote: I must first state that I do appreciate the efforts of Vincent and all of the others that worked on and contributed to this book. I am also pleased to see that this book has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License. But... I just got my copy today and I am disappointed.

Re: [expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?

2003-08-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:27 pm, Sevatio wrote: > I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of > the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software > RAID without having to do a full re-install? The "Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid mini-HO

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-15 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I must first state that I do appreciate the efforts of Vincent and all of the others that worked on and contributed to this book. I am also pleased to see that this book has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License. But... I just got my