Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake

2003-08-29 Thread Byron Poland
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:55, Mark wrote: > Wow.. Thanks for the info Byron, looks like it may be difficult to > install and make the sata drive as the bootable drive.. Although I am > not sure about this.. are you using the SATA dive as your main drive? > > The information about these drives

Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake

2003-08-29 Thread Byron Poland
I just got an asus with nforce2 and the same Silicon Image Sil3112a SerialATA controller and am running it with 9.2rc2 now. and the drive works fine. I don't know about the 9.1, but you might be good if you can get the updated boot kernels from http://www.netikka.net/tmb/9.1/ and use them to inst

Re: [expert] wireless ethernet questions

2003-08-24 Thread Byron Poland
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:54, engage wrote: > I've been trying to figure out why wireless seems to behave so weird on both > RedHat and Mandrake. This has been an on-going problem. I got rid of RedHat > because I've had better success with Mandrake. I'm currently running ML 9.0 > on my server and

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Byron Poland
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > Another mail, sent last Friday, that I haven't seen on the lists: > > I occasionally need to view a multi-page tif - a fax to email document > - and embarrassingly have to take it to the awful windows imaging > program to view it. Surely there i

Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-17 Thread Byron Poland
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Helge Hielscher wrote: > Hello, > > what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks > (if there is any)? > > TIA and Regards, > Helge You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. I

Re: [expert] creating a dev?

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Poland
You could try modprobing the usb-storage module by hand. hotplug might not recognize the device for the module but the module still could work.  or I could be totally wrong.. another thing to maybe try is to grab the rescan-scsi-devices script from the linux-1394 website, help nudge it along, i

Re: [expert] NAS (Network Audio System) support

2002-04-06 Thread Byron Poland
the following was posted to the cooker mailing list not too long ago (why I remember) hope it helps: From: Jaroslaw Zachwieja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Cooker] remote sound on Xterminal Date: 26 Mar 2002 14:34:28 +0100

Re: [expert] USB and/or Firewire disk on PPC ML8.2beta2 ?

2002-04-06 Thread Byron Poland
Hi, I'm Not a PPC user, but use firewire hard drives/dvd-r drive with i86 linux (mandrake 8.2). I just modprobe ohci1394 and it usually takes care of stuff for the firewire bus, (loads, ieee1394, ohci1394, and sbp2 if disks are detected). I'm not sure how the apple hardware works, so give modpro

[expert] garnome + mandrake 8.2 kdm?

2002-03-30 Thread Byron Poland
Hi, I'm currently compiling the latest garnome (gnome2 beta3) and was wondering if anyone could give a tip on getting it integrated into kdm. (or how to start it in general) here's what the garnome site (http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/) says about starting garnome: "It depends on how you no

[expert] Adobe acrobat plugin for netscape on LM 7.1

2000-08-23 Thread Byron Poland
I was wondering if anyone successfully installed the acrobat plugin for netscape on LM 7.1. I just downloaded the binarie tarball from Adobe, and acrobat installs to /usr/local/Acrobat4, which is fine with me. Next I try and run the netscape script in .../Acrobat4/Browsers/ which is supposed

Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

2000-08-20 Thread Byron Poland
I just got a AMD Duron 700 and installed Mandrake 7.1 with no major problems. it runs fine and seems to be very stable. I upgraded the kernel immediately to 2.2.16-9mdk, Only slight problem I had was with the onboard sound on the motherboard (epox socketA), but the alsa drivers took care of