[expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Sue
2002 07:05 pm, Paul Sue wrote: I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my

Re: [expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Sue
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:04:13 -0600 On Thursday 10 January 2002 07:05 pm, Paul Sue wrote: I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I

[expert] SOLVED: Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste

2002-01-16 Thread Paul Sue
On 15 Jan 2002 13:50:21 -0600 Dave Sherman wrote: On the other hand (and I think this is more likely), you may be doing it wrong. For example, the standard X Window method of copying and pasting takes two steps: 1. Highlight the text you want to copy. This will automatically place the text in a

[expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste

2002-01-15 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, Why doesn't copy/cut paste seem to work consistently? For example, why can't I copy from my browser to my Evolution Compose Message box? Or from my e-mail to my eterm? I've tried using the Control keys as well as well as from the menu and the clipboard icons. I think the problem seems

Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Sue
Well, I tried the suggestions by Tom and Onur, and it seems to be working better -- at least for now. Thanks! Paul --- I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine.

[expert] Weird Problems #2: Logout hangs [lm 8.1; gnome DT]

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, Everynow and then, in the GNOME desktop, when I logout, it hangs. Haven't had the problem in KDE so far. What sort of things might be causing this? Thanks, Paul _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your

[expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound

2002-01-10 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I've been experiencing intermittent sound problems. For example, I have some MP3 files on my hard disk. Most of the time when I play thm with xmms, they sound fine. However, once in awhile it sounds awful (stuttering sort of sound). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support.

[expert] Dual Boot Problem w GRUB

2001-12-21 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I installed mdk8.1 on 1st hard disk and FreeBSD 4.4 on 2nd disk. After installing FreeBSD, I went back into mandrake to add FreeBSD to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount quiet vga=788 title freeBSD root (hd1,a) kernel /boot/loader

Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1

2001-12-19 Thread Paul Sue
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 10:26 pm, John Rye wrote: Yes, I have seen brand new equipment that would not work or would work twice in five attempts. If it were software, it would not work every time. Yup, it turned out to be a bad CDROm drive indeed. Got it replaced and problem solved.

[expert] Problem with GRUB

2001-12-19 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I have installed mdk8.1 on 1st hard disk and FreeBSD 4.4 on second hard disk. After installing FreeBSD, I went back into mandrake to add FreeBSD to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount quiet vga=788 title freeBSD root (hd1,0) kernel

[expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1

2001-12-18 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, Borrowed the 3 CD Mandrake 8.1 distro. (downloaded) from a friend. Booted off CD 1, everything going OK until the install suddenly hangs when prompting me for CD #2; eventually had to cancel. The install then *skipped* a few important steps (create bootdisk, install bootloader). After

Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1

2001-12-18 Thread Paul Sue
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:50:56 -0500 Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem and found my cdrom was wearing out and not reading data correctly. I installed a new cdrom and it was a perfect install with no errors.. ... ... maybe you need to get another one.. I wish it was

[expert] GeForce2 Titanium Video Card Resolution Problems?

2001-12-18 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I have a NEC AccuSync 95F (recommended resolution is: 1280x1024 @ 55-89 Hz) and an nvidia card (AOpen GeForce2 MX200 Ti 64MB AGP, which has a maximum rating of 2048x1536; 32bit; 60Hz) I'm wondering why I can only seem to run my display at these settings: 1024x768, 256 colors (8 bit) ???

[expert] HELP: Installing Dual Boot MDK8.1 + FreeBSD 4.4

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I have a computer with 2 20 GB hard disks, one each for mdk and freebsd. How do I go about doing this? For performance, would it be a good idea to use the other disk for the swap partition? i.e.: Disk 1 - Linux mdk8.1 - swap for freebsd Disk 2 - freebsd - swap for mdk8.1 I'm not sure