..
let us know if it works...
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2002 6:59 AM
To: Mandrake Expert
Subject: [expert] Supermount
The old question...does supermount really work
OK, I gave up on my system and wiped it and then reinstalled 8.1 from scratch
AGAIN (3 times in so many days). It booted up, identified my pcmcia 3c589 OK
and got me a connection. Sound still dead. I just can't get konqueror to
startup as a user - I CAN start it as root.
My
OK, when I got a usable 8.1 system with
kernel-2.4.8-26mdk running, I decided to try one more
time with kerne-2.4.17.8. This time, instead of doing
a source build I just installed the binary and
rebooted. It booted up and...jus as with my own build
attempts, pcmcia failed miserablely and sound
OK, I believe there used to be a file in one's home directory that had
information as to what font sizes would get antialiased. Where did it go?
I've looked at all the likely dot files in my home directory and nothing
mentions antialiasing.
I ask because I select antialiasing in kcontrol
OK, I feel silly for asking this...I'd swear I saw a button for this
somewhere but now I cannot find it.
I have finished another full reinstall of 8.1 and am trying to get my
netscape plugins (like flash) properly recognized and used. How? I cannot
find the old button for Scan for new
badly that it was easier to reinstall from scratch than
to try to untangle the mess.
praedor
On Thursday 24 January 2002 14:27, you wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:17:12 -0800 (PST)
Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
OK, when I got a usable 8.1 system
I am pulling my hair out trying to get my damn sound working. I have an IBM
Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 soundcard. The default 2.4.8 kernel in Mandrake
8.1 can't make it work. It loads the correct modules (snd-es1938, for
instance) but it doesn't DO anything. Instead, my /var/log/messages
at boot.
HTH,
Bill.
- Original Message -
From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: [expert] Sound...what does it take?
I am pulling my hair out trying to get my damn sound working. I
have an IBM
How is gcc 3.0 these days? Has its problems been corrected enough to make it
a worthy compiler?
praedor
_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
I was perusing space.com's site (http://www.space.com) and decided to take a
look at satellite images
(http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php). I clicked on the
image to expand it and it brings up a javascript window...with nothing in it.
It doesn't appear to work in linux
Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is
much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, /usr/local
alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything doing it this
way and save a ton of time and pain.
It also gives you the
It's more likely that M$ altered samba on XP (again) and you will have to
wait for the SAMBA crew to reverse engineer a fix. Alternatively, but I am
not sure personally, but if you installed/have the home variant of the XP
virus, I believe it is crippled in many (network and server) ways and
Well, I must say that I am impressed and pleased with 8.1 installation. I
had installed it some few weeks ago on my laptop but that system is nothing
to get excited about. Midlin video, weak audio, no printer (just network
printers). It went in OK and runs fine.
The thing that impressed me
I believe the required package is lesstif.
On Friday 19 October 2001 10:31 am, Onur Kucuk wrote:
EPRO I try to install but; i get this;
EPRO [root@epro-movil RPMS]# rpm -ivh
kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm EPRO error: failed dependencies:
EPRO libXm.so.2 is needed by
The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The
prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in
konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking
you if you want to save it or open it. Opening it brings up the dialog
Ya, just after sending the message I tried netscape 4.7 and it works there
too. It will NOT work from konqueror.
On Friday 19 October 2001 01:53 pm, Dave Sherman wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic:
[expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:53 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic:
[expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?
The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The
prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set
I have all the prereqs...but selecting to view in embedded viewer doesn't
work. Konqueror will NOT play the vid/cartoon but netscape and mozilla will.
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:09 pm, Texstar wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote:
The following is a link to a humorous
I walked through the tutorial again to make sure I hadn't missed something.
Nope. I can play the tester flash movie (cool, it is) but not the Osama
flash.
Poopie!
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:21 pm, Mark D'voo wrote:
my still running 8.1 beta 3. konqueror will play all flash except that
Yep. I have plugger-3.3-1mdk. I can play the test All your base flash
movie but not the Osama movie...again, except with Netscape or Mozilla.
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:29 pm, Texstar wrote:
This is a shot in the dark but have you installed the plugger rpm?
On Friday 19 October 2001
wrote:
Praedor Tempus wrote:
[...]
The flash plugin doesn't work with this flash file. Why? What's up with
this file? It works with IE or Netscape on a Mac or Windoze. It is not
viewable on linux.
http://www.madblast.com/oska/humor_bin.swf
[...]
It does work with Konqueror, it does
VERY common problem, it seems. I just fixed it on my system.
During installation, Mandrake will not load kdebase-nsplugins. You need
this, in addition to the normal nsplugins rpm. Install the kdebase-nsplugins
rpm and flash will work.
On Friday 19 October 2001 10:03 am, Eduardo P.Roman
OK, I have been wondering about this for a while and finally seek an answer.
My laptop, as is proper, gets moved around a lot and connects to various
networks. I have left the hostname on it as localhost.localdomain because
this, so far, is the only name that hasn't caused problems of some
No conversion is possible. You can only reformat to Reiser. The only
non-destructive filesystem change possible is from ext2 to ext3, which might
also provide many/most of the benefits of Reiser.
If you have space, you could backup your system into tarballs(piecemeal if
you have multiple
Part of the deal is that the install system will take a look at your system -
harddrive space, for instance - and then selectively restrict the packages
that can fit (with their dependencies) and that meet a general install.
I ALWAYS go to expert mode and manually select specific packages.
I am trying to build xpdf from source. I installed the src rpm and ran a
diff on it and then tried rpm -bb /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/xpdf.spec. It dies
immediately with a message that the /var/tmp/xpdf-0.92 directory can't be
found. Of course not! That directory is in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES where
Hi,
I applied a diff file to the tarball. I then bziped this tarball back into
the originally-named xpdf-0.92.tar.bz2. Running the rpm -bb command, it
properly un-bzips and untars the xpdf file and creates an xpdf-0.92 source
directory in the /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES directory. It just wont do
It still appears you are missing something.
You should have:
XFree86-4.0.3
XFree86-server-4.0.3
XFree86-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-libs-4.0.3
---
MAYBE want XFree86-xfs-4.0.3 (I see some posts indicating that this is
optional but not having it will certainly remove some
I have been using kde 2.2 tex rpms for about a week now (no problems or
instabilities) which are supposed to be prelinked for speed optimization.
Frankly, I don't really notice a difference. Konqueror starts within 6
seconds, as does most of the other apps I start but this isn't really
I have found it impossible to print from kghostview (don't know about kdvi).
Kghostview renders pdfs fine but no matter how I try to print it, to a
postscript file or to the printer or too a pdf, it fails every time. The
printer produces one blank page regardless of how many pages the actual
It's a safer bet to uninstall the codeweavers version first, then install the
new version. If you are going to change providers, you may also see a
different set of paths for installation so that if you leave the previous
version on your system you may end up with a mishmash of libs, etc.
If
I am assuming that you are running aurora (the pretty graphical
startup/shutdown screen). Before shutdown actually occurs, move the little
red arrow cursor over one of the stars and click. It will then display a
message associated with that star/other icon in the field next to it. You
will
I am not having any problems with the tex kde rpms. All I did was create
symlinks. I have rpm-4.0.3-0.17mdk and all its relatives installed. I
installed the rpms and all works without any problems.
If your rpms are complaining about librpm.so.0, etc, then just make the
symlinks and ignore
I ran into that as well and got around it without difficulty. First, I did a
locate librpmthe one you are interested in and saw that, for instance,
librpm.so.0 does not exist per se. Instead, it exists as librpm-4.0.3.so or
something like that. All I did was create symlinks:
ln -s
There is a thread on the kde-linux mailing list about a kde-developer who
came up with a very simple means of gaining between 30-50% decrease in
startup times for kde and its various apps by prelinking object files in a
build. The actual link to the messages describing it is:
Thank you. The site is getting nailed hard with people trying to download.
It is virtually impossible to do it. They are asking for people to mirror
their site (eastwind).
On Thursday 16 August 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2001 21:39 schrieb Praedor Tempus
Incidently, in case it isn't known already, but SuSE is incorporating this
into their KDE rpms now - and it should also work for any other...
-- Forwarded Message --
There is a thread on the kde-linux mailing list about a kde-developer who
came up with a very simple means of
I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2
partition. For this I generally tar and bzip2 the partition that I will be
resizing and save the tar.bz2 file to another partition that has the
temporary space to allow this - or I copy it to a zip drive or burn it into a
Ah... I hadn't looked at parted for a long time. It appears there IS a way
to non-destructively resize ext2 partitions with the stipulation that the
start of the partition must remain fixed. You can only play with the end of
the partition.
On Sunday 12 August 2001 08:46 am, Praedor Tempus
What the hell? I cannot make a bootdisk because every time I try I get:
[root@localhost praedor]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.3-20mdk
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press Enter to continue or ^C to abort:
mount: /dev/fd0H1440 already mounted or
05:47 pm, Michael Leone wrote:
From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2
partition.
Partition Magic can do it, and has been able to, for a long time now.
WELL worth the cost.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
So...does kernel 2.4.7-12mdk have supermount support in it yet? This is the
kernel for Cooker at the moment. Up til now, supermount hasn't been in 2.4.6
or higher. Does anyone know if it has made it into 2.4.7-12mdk?
Just rename your bzimage to vmlinuz - or better yet, create a symlink called
vmlinuz and have it point to your bzImage kernel. As for initrd, look into
mkinitrd. I generally don't dork with initrd images but it isn't difficult.
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote:
are there
Err...I don't believe that. I have this chipset and I burn CDs without
problems (CDRW) on my IDE2 interface.
On Monday 30 July 2001 06:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi, all.
Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip,
that the LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE
OK, then this is likely a REAL bug. In any case, for the first time I tried
gkrellm - kindof a nifty toy - but it doesn't appear to work for me in
kickstarting kmail once it has crapped out. I still have to exit it and then
restart it.
Off to kde for a bugreport...
On Friday 27 July 2001
Err...unfortunately, supermount support does not exist in this kernel. I
have downloaded it and have xconfig up right now and there is no option to
enable supermount.
[...]
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
Up until the 2.4.6 kernel (I am not certain about 2.4.5 because I
/automounter achieve the same thing?
and yes, there is really no option for supermount on
the new kernel.
--- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Err...unfortunately, supermount support does not
exist in this kernel. I
have downloaded it and have xconfig up right now and
there is no option
...
and see what happens to supermount.
good day!
--- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Supermount is not quite the same. It takes autofs a
step further. If you
read up on the patch information you will see that
many think it is a great
feature and many hope that it will make
Can't answer the sound question - except ARE the modules actually in their
appropriate location? Other than the make modules make modules_install
bit just mentioned.
What I really want to know is does the 2.4.7 kernel have supermount support
available to it?
On Friday 27 July 2001 10:54
I realise it is beta. I also know what this means. What I want to know is
if this is something unique to ME and my system or is it a more broadly
experienced problem. If it is just me, that may mean I have a problem on MY
system and it isn't a software (beta) bug, per se. If other
I am having video-related problems with 2.4.3 and my Radeon so I am wanting
to build a newer kernel. I know that 2.4.7 was just released but it will be
a while before we are likely to see it in cooker, I presume. Thus, at the
moment I am left with 2.4.6. What I need/want to know before I go
Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling
and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots.
What is the difference between make mrproper and make clean?
On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:17 pm, Oscar wrote:
Try this:
-Uninstall the kernel source.
I have a few glitches I am trying to fix. First three come out of kdm:
1. I have gnome and blackbox installed besides kde. The only things that
show up in the login menu for selection are default, kde, and failsafe.
This now brings me to number 2. Selecting default causes the screen to go
I don't understand why i am suddenly unable to build kernel-2.4.3-20mdk.
Every time I try to build it, the kernel builds but the modules crap out on
me. If not one module (invariably zatm.o) than another when I deactivate any
and all ATM support in xconfig, in this case I am now unable to
I have been trying to find a graphics app that can actually handle
postscript/eps images WELL. I used gtkgraph to produce a plot and regression
curve. Problem is, it doesn't appear to allow one to set the output size so
it produces a graph that fills the available print space on a page.
I keep running into this but do not know where to go in xconfig to try to
properly set this:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast':
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/highmem.h:5,
from
Quick question...has supermount support made it into the latest cooker
kernel-2.4.6-5mdk?
--
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
I am running Mandrake 8.0 + (LM 8.0 with glibc2.2.3, XFree864.1.0, kde2.2
beta and deps). I have been running into a major irritation when running
some gtk-based apps. One such app is scigraphica, a scientific plotting app
from sourceforge (sorry, I don't have a link as yet...search
I just downloaded and am building kernel-2.4.6-3mdk source. I already built
and installed 2.4.6-1mdk. In none of them is supermount support to be found.
What has happened with supermount that it worked with 2.4.3, even 2.4.5, but
is not an option in 2.4.6?
When is supermount going to be
, with this latest crapout I was
able to take advantage of the situation and almost completely switch my linux
system over to ReiserFS.
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:11 am, Dennis Robertson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:19:48PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from cooker
I have recently found that with konqueror and kde 2.2 beta, I am unable to
connect to the http://www.bbc.co.uk but with netscape I have no problems at
all. Every time I try to access the bbc pages via konqueror I get a message
about it being an unknown host.
Why would konqueror have this
I have never had problems before now. I simply cannot build kernel-2.4.6.
Actually, it builds fine, I get a bzImage out of it, but it will not install
and I cannot get a modules directory for it.
I get:
sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.6-1mdk bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.6/System.map
+ '[' -x
Hello,
How did you install? Did you upgrade via RPM or did you download the kde
source tarball and build the whole thing OR did you download source rpms and
build them? Did you upgrade from KDE 2.2 alpha? If you installed it, as I
did, on Mandrake 8.0 systems, and you did not build from
I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from cooker. It appears to lack any support for
supermount. Doing make xconfig I find no entry anywhere for enabling
support for supermount. Building and installing it anyway proves this lack
to be true. I setup 3 drives to be supermount drives. None work and I
I have the kde beta src rpms from cooker and would like to build them. I
first built kdelibs without problem and then tried kdebase but this failed
late in the build. Before I fiddle around and try to figure out why, could
someone tell me the appropriate order to build these rpms?
Under
I don't get it. I have wu-ftpd installed (2.6.1), I have the latest webmin
and linux-conf and all installed. I can start webmin but every time I try to
connect to https://localhost:1 I instantly get a message that I cannot
connect to localhost. I checked my hosts.deny and my local
I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to do
this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet dependencies.
Somewhere in all this I have lost sound.
I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a sound.
It has worked fine
Could some kind soul who is using alsa sound post the appropriate section of
their /etc/modules.conf file? I am trying to get alsasound working on my
system but am at a loss as to what to enter into the conf file...right now it
is setup for oss (and doesn't work). I realize your actual
Hello,
Unfortunately, I cannot even get arts to start, let alone deactivate it.
Arts starting is what produces, I believe, the error message about /dev/dsp
not being initialized. I have tried building and installing the alsa source
included with the 2.4.6 kernel but sound is still toast. I
Just to give warning, KDE2.2-alpha is more robust than the latest beta. It
would appear to be a good idea to stick with alpha and NOT upgrade to the
current beta.
Problems: 1. Sound is broken. Installing kde 2.2 beta and the concurrent
arts and libarts breaks sound in kde. It dorks
I have lilo. It works. It resides in /sbin just like it should. I
downloaded and built kernel-2.4.5 from cooker. It built just fine but then
craps out when it comes time to install it (via make install) giving me:
Cannot find a boot loader, you may have to see why detectloader has
problems
I upgraded from kde 2.2 alpha to the latest beta from cooker. All works
fine, and kde looks great but on both my laptop and desktop systems, kdm has
been killed. It wont run and doesn't start up after bootup.
I am still looking for error messages to indicate why but so far I haven't
found
.
The actual directory is in .kde/share/apps and has the name of p?/.
If I delete it with rm -rf p? it is eliminated until I startup the next day
and login.
It will not go away.
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 16:43, you wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2001 15:05, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I just installed MD
I just installed MD 8.0 again on my laptop. I use kde and it works fine but
there is a small annoyance that I would like to make go away forever.
My kde menu contains an extraneous file icon that contains kcontrol in it.
There is also the normal kcontrol icon in the main kde menu. If I
Just yesterday (Sunday) I used my IBM Thinkpad running MD 8.0 to try
(unsuccessfully) to unlock my desktop system running 8.0 + some cooker stuff
after the game, Terminus locked up the desktop HARD. It was working
perfectly at the time, pcmcia and all.
After failing to recover my desktop I
I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and
DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is
working well - for the most part.
I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games.
If they crash (Terminus is
Look for snort. This is perhaps one of the best sniffers/security tools
available. It is not difficult to learn, has many switches and configuration
possibilities. Just mentioning it is bringing a tear to my eye, I'm getting
so choked up...
Get snort. You will not be sorry.
On Tuesday 26
I haven't had problems with linuxconf because I haven't been using it -
because I dislike the ncurses interface. What ever happened to the gtk-based
interface? I used to do linuxconf and get the nice gui but now all I get
is the ugly (doesn't display well at all for some reason) text-based
Yesterday, I ran into problems after trying to upgrade my 4.0.2 rpm to 4.0.3.
I could do things like rpm -qi some rpm name or rpm -qa |grep some
word but if I tried to remove or install any rpm, it would segfault.
This was a big problem - making it impossible to simply go back to the
Last evening I installed some Leonardo DaVinci-style TT fonts from a windows
floppy I have using drakfont. It seemed to go OK, in that I could navigate
to the /mnt/floppy drive and see the ttfs there. I selected them and
installed. When I run drakfont now, I see the leonardo fonts are
I have downloaded the source for a simple c program that I wish to use in my
scientific research. Unfortunately, it simply will not build on my system
(Mandrake 8.0), and I am not a coder so I have no idea why.
The file is small (tar.Z) at ~700k. Could someone with a clue take a look at
it
drivers...
On Monday 28 May 2001 09:16, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Sun May 27, 2001 at 12:21:08PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
This is driving me mad! (OK, not really, it is just a frickin' game) I
have heretic2 from Loki. I also have M8.0 installed on my Athlon 700
system. Under 7.2, same
This is driving me mad! (OK, not really, it is just a frickin' game) I have
heretic2 from Loki. I also have M8.0 installed on my Athlon 700 system.
Under 7.2, same system, I could play heretic2 without problems - WITH
soundfx. Since installing 8.0, I can play heretic2 but it is without
05:11, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I have run into this several times myself. With me, the latest such
episode occurred with sixpack, a bibliography application for lyx. I
installed it, which went fine. I then try to run it and get the same
message you do. I then do a which executable
I have run into this several times myself. With me, the latest such episode
occurred with sixpack, a bibliography application for lyx. I installed it,
which went fine. I then try to run it and get the same message you do. I
then do a which executable and it properly identifies the
I just upgraded my laptop system to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. All was well
until I used drakfont to install all the windoze fonts. Since doing that,
all my kde fonts are italic.
I try to alter this from the fonts entry in kcontrol but these entries all
still show the correct helvetica font,
Using Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop I have antialiasing enabled. Using windoze
fonts like arial up to and including 12 pt size, they are not antialiased.
If I go to 13 or higher, they are antialiased.
Where would I alter the settings for antialiasing so that these fonts are
antialiased at a
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [expert] fonts doofy after using drakfont
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:30:47 -0600
From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Joham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmpf. OK, I finally got kmail setup the way I wanted/needed, also
I have been trying different gnutella clients. Many simply do not work on
Mandrake 8.0. A particularly nice client is LimeWire. I successfully
installed it on my laptop running Mandrake 7.2 but trying to do the same
thing with the same binary in Mandrake 8.0 proves impossible.
It comes
It could also be tied to faulty RAM, I believe.
I have an Athlon system, VIA chipset. Mandrake 8.0 stability is not an issue
at all (DRI and Radeon video driver on the other hand IS an issue and causes
system lockups when playing games).
On Friday 18 May 2001 09:02, Civileme wrote:
On
I assure you it DOES matter. First off, gears by default runs in a small
window on your desktop. If it is only around 100 FPS at that size, then it
will be below 30 FPS fullscreen. This applies to games, which is the main
point of having the hardware acceleration (and a decent vid card).
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [expert] Dismal Graphics performance in Mandrake 8
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:37:59 -0600
From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You might be able to get it working by modifying you XFree86-4.config
I would like to dump XFree86-4.0.3 that came with Mandrake 8.0 and go back to
4.0.2 because the latter worked with the various native linux games I have
while the former breaks every single one of them.
Problem is, where do I find a src.rpm for 4.0.2? I checked out rufus but
find nothing
I have this situation. I WAS able to run linux games like Heretic2, Myth2,
and Terminus under linux, with hardware acceleration (Radeon 32MB DDR) back
in March when I was running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.4.2, XFree86-4.0.2, and
the March DRI-CVS. All worked great.
Now, I have Mandrake 8.0,
06 May 2001 17:14, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I was running a 7.2 system not too long ago and with this system, I
was able to play Myth II, Heretic II, and Terminus under linux. Since
upgrading to 8.0, I find it impossible to play any of my linux games.
Under 8.0:
I did a custom install
I was running a 7.2 system not too long ago and with this system, I was able
to play Myth II, Heretic II, and Terminus under linux. Since upgrading to
8.0, I find it impossible to play any of my linux games. Under 8.0:
I was able to play a short while with heretic2 IF I didn't login to a
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Subject: Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:15:47 -0600
From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had that problem with Mandrake 8.0, kernel-2.4.3-20mdk, and alsa when I
first built
approach or not. Before doing this check to make your users are in the
audio group, that fixed the problem for me when I had the same issue under
7.2.
Jerry
On Saturday 28 April 2001 22:52, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine
and had
By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and
KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in
the linux world.
I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one
of them will play properly under Mandrake
I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine and
had sound. Now, since installing Mandrake 8.0, I no longer have game sound.
I have posted to the Loki games newsgroup but get no help. I have libSDL
installed and the game recognizes this (just as with 7.2) but I
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