Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
heers, Lyric > Lyric, > I have an Aureal SQ2500, which uses the 8830 chipset.. This is by far > the best sound card out there.. It beats the SB Live hands down.. > > The drivers for it can be obtained here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal > You will want to get th

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
Thanks Guy, the help is appreciated. Cheers, Lyric > > Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If > > so, > > did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did > > Mandrake find and configure it for you? > > > >

[expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
machine. Please let me know what was required in order to get this card up and running, if it doesn;t onvolve too much hassle, I should like to upgrade my soundcard this weekend. Thanks. Lyric Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 5 days 21 hours 40 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Graphics Apps for Linux

2001-08-15 Thread lyric
on all of them. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate hearing them. As well as any other Graphic design/web based programs that would be helpful in swaying him... Unfortunately, I don't do much graphics work, so I'm not too familiar with what is available. Thanks all, Lyric C

Re: [expert] Ext2 -> ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread lyric
I've been running ReiserFS eversince mandrake 7.2 first came out, and I have to say taht I've had no problems. After a dirty shutdown or a power failure, everything swings back up with no worries. I haven't seen any data corruption or loss of data. Currently I run it on 3 4.3 GB SCSI drives, 1

[expert] additional hardware

2001-07-10 Thread Lyric
Hey all, in addition to the video card wuestion I fired off, after browsing through the parts at my disposal I noticed I have an Aureal Vrotex 2 superquad card (au8830) that isn't doing anything... Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but I was wondering if any

[expert]

2001-06-26 Thread Lyric
Hey all, I'm trying to set up an ftp site, very basic and running only when I am here, but it's giving me a lot of grief. Now, I've added user "myftpuser" and selected that user's group to be ftp, but when I try to ftp in I get an error in my syslog that states that PAM_listfile: Refused user "

RE: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.

2001-06-20 Thread Lyric
This works. #include int main(void)) { cout << "Hallo world\n"; return(0); } > Try flushing the stream... > > #include > > int main () > { > cout << "Hallo world" << endl; > return 0; > } > > or: > > #include > > int main () > { > cout << "Hallo world\n" <<

[expert] So many problems...

2001-06-19 Thread Lyric
Alright, I'm sititng here trying to get everythign to play nice, but finding problems left and right Here are the two key problems I've got now, any help would be appreciated; 1. The Matrox drivers for the G450 Dual Head card (running in single head mode right now) aren't working properly. E

[expert] matrox G450

2001-06-18 Thread Lyric
Hey all, just setting up Mandrake 8.0 on my new system with a Matrox G450 Dual Head video card (only using head 1 right now) and having some issues.. It seesm when I leave X, I can;t see anything in any consoles. This occurs whether i log out, or change to a different tty. I've tried upgradin

[expert] The big switch

2001-06-17 Thread Lyric
Hi all, Currently I'm running two good machines, one for windows, and one for Linux which acts as my server. However, I'm picking up a new dual P3 motherboard and two 750 chips on monday, and was thinking, since I'm doing mostly C++ work it might be a better idea to just put Linux on that (orig

[expert] VPN info

2001-06-14 Thread Lyric
Hey all, I'm considering playing around a little with VPNs and was wondering if there was any tips or tricks anyone could provide me with. Cheers Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 9 days 23 hours 20 minutes.

[expert] Strange behaviour

2001-06-06 Thread Lyric
Hey guys, I'm seeing some strange behaviour from my Linux server at the moment... I'm using it as a server for internet, files, and apache is bound to my internal interfaces (ports closed to the outside world for that). Anyways, it seems that squid is running away. Just out of the blue I look

Re: [expert] CDRW's and ISO's

2001-04-18 Thread Lyric
You erase them. If you can't find the erase option in adaptec's software, then review the help file that came with it. It's not one of the friendlier software packages out there. > I'm trying to use CD-RWs to make installation disks of the betas that are being >released. Does anyone here kno

Re: [expert] MadrakeFreq Problem

2001-04-16 Thread Lyric
Yes. That was my exact problem. That was why my internet connection wasn't working correctly when I tried to connect through my lan. Thanks. > Anyone install the latest MandrakeFreq iso? > > I used the live update feature of it, but it killed 3 of my /etc/ files. It created >the following 3

Re: [expert] Dual processor MB ?

2001-04-13 Thread Lyric
No, these depend on a currently non existent AMD 760MP chipset. This is due out sometime within the next two quarters. Currently, there are no options for dual processor AMD systems. These are expected to be out before Intel can figure out how to get their P4 to run in SMP mode though. Thanks

Re: [expert] Logitech optical mouse

2001-04-13 Thread Lyric
select the option enable chord-middle (or something very similar) in your XF86Config-4 file. That was the only way I scould use my scroll wheel, but now it works flawlessly. You'll just need to uncomment the chordmiddle option, and restart X > Hello all, > > I just wanted to know if anyone els

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Lyric
Oddly enough, I had the opposite problem As soon as I put 8.0 on, I could no longer access the internet through my lan. I tried running Mandrake 8.0b2 on one computer, while I left my good Linux computer running 7.2 (which it is running flawlessly right now). 8.0 can see and ping all the othe

[expert] Compiling kernel 2.4.3 into Mandrake 7.2

2001-04-02 Thread Lyric
Hi folks. I've been trying to compile different kernels into Mandrake 7.2, but have never been successful., I was able to compile a new kernel on a redhat box, but not a mandrake one. Since Mandrake is my primary choice for a linux distribution, I'd like to stick with it. Right now, I'm runnin

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Lyric
The one thing that I'm noticing throughout this particular discussion is that everyone is blaming Mandrake and not looking at the fact that the K6-2 and K6-3 are actually i586 chips. How can Mandrake make their distribution recognize the K6 series as i686 chips when they will just cough and sput

RE: [expert] dual displays

2001-03-26 Thread Lyric
Hi, Did you have any problems with the drivers for the matrox dual head? I'm currently looking into swapping my matrox G450 into my Linux machine for the multiple monitor support, and would like to gather as much information as possible. Thanks > Well I had a chance to use the Matrox > driver

[expert] Linux RAID capabilities

2001-03-19 Thread Lyric
Sirs, I am currently planning out a machine to be used when Mandrake 8.0 appears in full. In addition to the standard SCSI drives I will be using, I want to toss in two IDE 20 GB drives in a mirrored RAID. Basically, what I want to know is does Linux support a software RAID? If so, how do I