Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
. IRQ 9 does not show up in /proc/interrupts, however IRQ 5 is shown to be used by Crystal Audio Controller. Where do I go from here? Rob you're a KDE user, aren't you? in the DM you're using (e.g. mdkkdm, kdm, gdm, xdm) make sure that X is not being niced: http://www.mail

[expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
, and setting up fstab to mount all the drives like I want them. So the big question is how do you upgrade? Or maybe you don't. Or maybe you use urpmi to pull off an upgrade that does not interfere. I wanna know, cause I love linux, but I don't want to be a slave to my computer. Rob -- Linux

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 17 November 2003 9:22 am, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring you online no sweat. One note. You have to run

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
, and when I tried to start an FTP download, I got a complaint for an image with a good package list. The one from the ftp server works perfectly, however. The balk occurred when the kernel was attempted to be downloaded, so it appears that there is a kernel version number change. Rob -- Linux

[expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
. The WSS driver also locks up the system like the SB. Any ideas or experiences configuring the sound on this machine. My introduction to this machine was from the Linux Laptops website, and my life is not as simple. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Setting sb.o to use IRQ 5

2003-11-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On my Dell Inspiron 3200 I can use sb.o as my sound driver if I can point it at IRQ 5. How can I do that? -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Gramofile

2003-11-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 November 2003 2:11 am, thorsten ackermann wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. November 2003 23:09 schrieb Rob Blomquist: On Sunday 09 November 2003 2:04 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Hi, my gramofile works fine with 9.2 but i have to install x-mixer that comes with multimedia-2.1-21mdk rpm and i

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
check and things just don't work? Quite true, when I used to run RH, I had to go to rpmfind.net to get those answers, and today urpmi does it for me! Hallelujah! But if urpmi fails me, I can always search out rpmfind.net! Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad

2003-11-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the system, the mouse works fine, but the touch pad is a crazy clicking monster if the mouse is not plugged in, and I would like to use this

[expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
with this machine. I am a big fan of KDE, but I think that the machine may prefer something lighter, so as not to tax the video and processor so much. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 November 2003 8:10 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
I downloaded flash player 6 from macromedia download site and install it on mandrake 9.2. It used to work on mandrake 9.0 with mozilla 1.1 but not 9.2 with mozilla 1.4. Anyone get this work? Thanks, Make sure it didn't put the libs in either /usr/lib/netscape/plugin or

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
love to add it. Well, I d/l FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk.i586.rpm and urpmi'd it, and I turned out to need libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586 too. And with it, all my other plugins worked properly. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] 9.2 and Gramofile

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a recording, but I sure have no recording screen. Has anybody else

[expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
, Audacity, Rezound. It seems like maybe a reboot is in order, but I would rather not, for the obvious uptime reason. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Gramofile

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 November 2003 2:04 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a recording

Re: [expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 November 2003 3:28 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: So I hunted around, and found that a program had crashed, leaving /dev/dsp occupied, so I killed it off, and tried again. Now Gramofile acts like it should, giving me the recording screen. But still, I have some sort of problem

Re: [expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
Well a reboot saved the day along with killing off artsd that is holding on to /dev/dsp too hard. Have you tried kickarts? I did, but under 9.1 kickarts was not necessary, as if nothing was needing arts, it would drop the connection automagically. Rob -- Linux: For the people

[expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 Installation Problems

2003-11-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
the purchased CDs? Does anybody have any ideas with this problem? Has anybody successfully installed 9.1 or 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 3200?? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 Installation Problems

2003-11-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 08 November 2003 3:05 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Some CD readers have problems with burned disks. The 3200 is new enough that this shouldn't be a problem, but you can't always be sure. Once it's installed, can you try mounting the burned disks? You can also try doing an FTP/HTTP

[expert] Konq/Moz Crash during Web Browse.

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) ASSERT: m_widget in kaction.cpp (2993) What could I do to explore this crash, or is there enough of an answer here? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] KGet is driving me crazy!!!!

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
was downloading bittorrent for the 9.2 Club fiasco. That's where I learned about just opening Moz and getting on with life. Is there any solution to the Kget problem that would allow me to use Konq with confidence. It is my browser of choice. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy

[expert] urpmi vs rpm

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
In a previous email Dr. Monkeynoodle spake thusly: 2 urpmi /the/rpm/you/got. Is there an advantage to urpmi-ing it rather than rpm -ivh-ing it? It seems to me that urpmi is just a searching front end for rpm. Fire away. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Mozex for Mozilla

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
I see at the Mozilla.org that Mozex is required for certain kinds of links, but I can't find it with urpmi. Am I misconfigured, or is is packaged differently under Mandrake? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] New 9.2 Install prompts respawning error

2003-11-03 Thread rob
. But it's bugging both of us. From what I can gather this is somehow related to mingetty but I've yet to find a solution as to how to get rid of this error message during boot. Has anyone else had this problem and, if so, could you provide a fix we can undertake? Many thanks in advance. Rob

[expert] KDE 3.1.4?

2003-11-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
Any idea where I can get 3.1.4 in rpm format for 3.2, or am I going to have to compile the sucker? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] lm_sensors

2003-11-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
the bogus reading on fan1? And how about the boundaries, can I be certain that they are correct for my system? How do I get ksim, or any other hardware monitoring client working? Basically I am an estatic hardware monitoring clueless dude, and need a little help. Rob -- Linux: For the people

[expert] urpmi: Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Blomquist
I keep getting this error from urpmi. What can I do to fix it up, short of deleting it without a care? unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists -- Linux: For the people, by

[expert] Linux Multimedia Resources

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Blomquist
of the differences between oggs and mp3, I would love to find out about noise filtering and ID3v1 vs ID3v2, and converting between them. How about other tools than Audacity and Gramofile? Or maybe this tells me to just stay here, and ask away. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy

Re: [expert] Mounting a floppy

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 9:57 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
function? This will tell you if it thinks you even have an account. Yes, And still no password. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
crazy about how it worked, so I did not install the applet. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in

[expert] Mounting a floppy

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
a supermount term. And I prefer to not use supermount, I prefer the KDE mounting tools, as supermount messes with my USB Camera. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
each machine to their DNS. Their CD is just for dummies, and people that want to be configured to only use IE and their page as home. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
to get it to work, or did Mandrake blow it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
say that it is not KWeather, but the stations that are supposed to be transmitting the reports. And trust me, telemetered data can be pretty flaky, I know, since I maintain some telemetered sites. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] CD Text

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:33, Richard Bown wrote: k3b supports this Well then how do I pass the data? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
with this. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this. right click on the clock and chose Date and Time

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 15:43, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed

Re: [expert] single click

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
the settings you desire. There are also other mouse settings available in KDE Control Center/Desktop/Window Behavior Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] CD Text

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is it possible to have CD Text burned to a CD so that it is readable by CD players? My Lite-On CD-RW 52x24x52 is apparently CD Text capable, and my car stereo is able to read CD Text, but can any of the CD Burning Programs support it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want

Re: [expert] nforce2 ATA problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
as udma4? I am totally confused now, what speed my hard drive is running under mandrake linux? That's OK, My brand spanking new ATA 133 drive is said to be UDMA 33 too. You need to set up hdparm to speed it up. The linux kernel is just being careful not to overclock your drive. Rob -- Linux

[expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: # hdparm -X70 /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error The drive is ATA 133 and I believe UDMA mode6, consequently. Any ideas on

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
and supermount been fixed with USB connections? My problems were around a digital camera and my Handspring Visor. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
and supermount been fixed with USB connections? My problems were around a digital camera and my Handspring Visor. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Problem with Urpmi/RpmDrake under 9.2

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not able to access my installation CDs nor any of the usual sites at PLF, Texstar, or Club_comm after the upgrade. How can I fix this problem. I remember it after the 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade, but forget how to fix it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] NFS install?

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 20 October 2003 02:21, Joachim Holst wrote: Hi everyone! I wonder if it will be possible to install Mandrake 9.,2 on an NFS system. I do not mean FROM an NFS system. I want to install Mandrake on a Diskless machine! Sorry for repeating stuff, but I want to make it clear that I do

Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed for me, so I have no American standards for time and stuff. I think this might be locales not being installed, but I am not sure. 5.I probably have not yet found it, but I am sure its out there. I

[expert] Removable drive lockups

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
After installing 9.2 I am having problems on 2 different systems with CD and floppy drive lockups. One system uses devfs and supermount, the other does not. Basically the drive stops responding and is unable to be unmounted or ejected. To do that will just about kill the system. I am also

[expert] Format type detection?

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
I swapped a hard drive from one computer into another I was building. fstab from the old computer says that it is ext2, yet it won't mount as ext2 in the new computer's fstab. I can mount this drive without a format in the command line, but I would like to know how to detect its format. Rob

Re: [expert] Format type detection?

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 20 October 2003 14:18, Rob Blomquist wrote: I swapped a hard drive from one computer into another I was building. fstab from the old computer says that it is ext2, yet it won't mount as ext2 in the new computer's fstab. I can mount this drive without a format in the command line

Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
of supermount and devfs. Then things worked like they should. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. 4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed

Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: 1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. I hunted through all the kde

[expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
client that I can use? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
a winders box.) Thanks for helping me with this slick trick. I have been using ssh since it became default a couple of years ago, and I never would have guessed it was this easy. And thanks to the rest of you guys. I love this list. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy

[expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
, and what do I say to open the bittorrent ports, 6881-6999. And how about providing outbound access on 6969? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Blomquist
it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 13 October 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can

[expert] OT: Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
this disk as 8.4 Gb, the kernel was able to report the disk model number back during boot. I am now wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, so that if I set up the BIOS correctly, the drive could be detected and run? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
the 80 Gb gets in the way of the 15 Gb during the BIOS addressing. Maybe I should let autotranslation attempt to find and use both disks? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] xD Memory Filesystem?

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am going nuts, as I have lost my digital camera setup in fstab. Its a Fuji Finepix 2650 with xD memory in it. And I am getting bogus filesystem errors if I use vfat or msdos. What filesystem should I use? This is really bumming me out, as I previously had it running perfectly. Rob

Re: [expert] xD Memory Filesystem?

2003-10-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 10 October 2003 11:50 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am going nuts, as I have lost my digital camera setup in fstab. Its a Fuji Finepix 2650 with xD memory in it. And I am getting bogus filesystem errors if I use vfat or msdos. What filesystem should I use? This is really bumming me

[expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks

2003-10-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
tracks, and correcting the default setup to do a better job? I will dive into it myself if no one has, but I would hate to figure it out myself, only to find someone beat me to it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is there a tool for converting wav files to mp3s enmasse? Right now I am using Lame at the command line, but it is getting old. I would like to point Lame at a directory of wavs and have it encode the mp3 files using the same name. Any thoughts beyond a shell script? Rob -- Linux

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:56 am, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? OK, now my distortion is way down from what it was, but I am still recording too high for the tracks, and my mixer

Re: [expert] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x in asus 9180se

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Blomquist
around with video, unless that is not default, and more or less like my XF86 configuration. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 03 October 2003 07:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? OK, now my distortion is way down from what

[expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
, or what can I use in place of it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:53 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying

Re: [expert] Sound dissapeared!

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 18 September 2003 11:26 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:38:12 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Hopefully not with the microphone in the speaker jack like I did the other day

[expert] Sound dissapeared!

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
gives a clue? And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
This did it. It allowed me to see that urpmi could not open /mnt/cdrom, as I had entered it as /mnt/cdrom/ in fstab. Removing the backslash got everything working and got wine installed. Thanks, Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some configuration file is corrupt, and I need to update urpmi for the CDs. I

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little program. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[expert] Microtek C3 Parallel Scanner

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am having fits trying to configure this scanner under 9.1. All I continue to get from xsane is No Scanners Configured. Has anyone configured this one, and what part of your soul did you have to sell off? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think

[expert] Periodic Backup of files to a W2K fat32 partition

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Lindsay
called Rob's Stuff on a fat32 partitition [hda5]. I would like to do a weekly automated backup of these files and a couple of others on the W2K side -on hda1 - to hdb1 using the Backup routine in MCC. I have had no trouble setting MMC\Backup up to backup my /home/rob/ to a fat32 partition [hdb1

[expert] Dell Inspiron 3200 for 9.1?

2003-08-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
think it might be pretty good for general computing. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
handle converting more than one at a time. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
of 9.0/9.1 fail in one month. I switched to ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 and have had no problems in the months since. ext3 no more! Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:24 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? I have my 139,900 pennies all stacked up. Where's the CEO so I can watch him sit

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:52 pm, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing

[expert] urpmi and other ftp sites....

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am wondering if urpmi can be set to run for sites other than the normal Mandrake sites? It seems that there needs to be files on sites that are setup for urpmi to connect with them. Are there any others that you all recommend over the standard set: contrib, texstar, updates, main, plf,

[expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
Any rpms to upload? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
have 3.1.2. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
as you say, and replace as needed, upgrading the hub if needed. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
recieving the file. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:58 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
orange LED on the hub soon if this keeps up. from fstab on the client: cartman:/mnt/share /home/robbo/share nfs auto,user,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft 0 0 from the server: /mnt/share *(rw,no_root_squash) And there don't appear to be any kernel messages about this. Rob -- Linux

[expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am having a problem with the source code for K3B under Mandrake 9.1: during make, I am getting: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio. Has anyone attemped to compile this, and found a solution? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 21 July 2003 07:36 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Are there any for 0.90? I used urpmi to look for them, but came up nil. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 21 July 2003 08:33 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 07:36 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Are there any for 0.90? I used urpmi to look for them, but came up nil. Ok, I lied, I looked for an upgrade

[expert] Mounting drives

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
We have this little LAN at home and I am wondering how best to mount personal and shared drives. I have been doing this in fstab with the auto switch, but if I check drive space with df, I find that some drives are not accessable as they are on my wife's side of the machine. So I am thinking

Re: [expert] SETI@home. MDK RPM's???

2003-06-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
program, and the rpm for Mandrake is on your cds. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] nForce2 and UltraDMA

2003-06-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:56 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to enable UltraDMA ATA 100/133 on nForce2 boards under ML 9.1? I read in www.nforcershq.com that if you pass ide0=ata66 to the kernel it should be enabled. This works but after a few minutes my machine

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