[expert] Screen Shutdown?

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
What's the module, executable, service that handles triggering the screen powerdown? I noticed today that my screensaver and screen powerdown have stopped working. And its not like I did anything other than reboot for the first time in 2 weeks. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people.

Re: [expert] System locks on logout

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 21 June 2003 05:31 pm, Tim Dinkins wrote: > When running any window manager, when I log out, the system locks > completely. The keyboard does not respond, blank screen. > It is consistent every time I log out. I am guessing that this is a new install of 9.x. It sounds to me like XFre

Re: [expert] 9.0 - 9.1 revisited

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:58 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: > Ok, Sundays task is to upgrade... I'm gonna back up /home /etc > /usr/local /var/www and do a fresh install and in addition to /home I > think I will create separate partitions for at least /usr/local this > time... > > Anything anyone want

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
> I've been doing a lot of trolling though sourceforge and looking at the > k3b site, cdrdao, I see probs with k3b and mandrake 9.1, > not seeing probs from suse or redhat users. > there is a new release of k3b 0.9pre2 and also cdrecord which may do the > trick. > I'm trying to compile k3b but hit

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
> Tnx Rob,I put the $ in front thats why I got confused, nothing usefull , > just the finding the device and max length. the it fails .. Bummer. That's a good way to see most programs work and fail. Have you run K3B Setup again? And make sure that *everything" reinitializes? I also went the ext

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:45 am, richard bown wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:22, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > S > > > > I would rerun K3B setup, then: > > > > I would open k3b from console: $k3b, so that the error messages show in > > the console windo

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
> So maybe k3b runs differently under supermount guidance? I have used K3B under both supermount, and no supermount. It has worked fine. My only problems with K3B were when I was using different GUI burners: X-CD-Roast and the like. The config programs all attempt to access the burner in diffe

Re: [expert] USB-Stick

2003-06-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:47 am, phriedrich wrote: > Hallo, > > a friend of mine has a USB-memory-stick, I have never tried to connect it > to my Mandrake 9.1, but I want to try it...so what line you would insert > into fstab to enable auto-mount/umount of that medium? I am going to guess that i

Re: [expert] Cannot find installed dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
>checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.3... no >*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... >*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file > config.log for the >*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is > incorrectly installed. >Cannot find G

Re: [expert] Urpmi a non-Mandrake RPM package?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:55 am, stefmit wrote: > Is it possible to #urpmi XYZ.rpm, where XYZ was not packaged for Mandrake, > and a previous version of XYZ exists on the systems and is running? I am > specifically interested in IceWM, which has a couple of updates beyond what > MDK delivered with

Re: [expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I > > found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. > > > > Hunting

[expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain. Heck, Icons in KDE can replace it in a snap. I can imagine

[expert] Java?

2003-06-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. Hunting around, I find that I don't even have Java running. I notice that I have Kaffe pretending to be java. I can't find a proper JRE on the cds. Nothing seems

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: > Rob Blomquist wrote: > >># cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > > Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would > > mess things up? > > consider yourself ranked. that comma

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:44 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your

[expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3 server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it quick! One other time, I pointed a chmod -R at another folder, and eve

Re: [expert] Streaming MP3->wav conversion problem

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 June 2003 09:20 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in > Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 > plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it > t

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
> (a) Ran fsck.ext2 on my / and it complained that the superblock is bad. > Ran it again with the alternate superblock (8193) and fixed a whole lot > of problems (incorrect ref counts, etc.). Still no booting, get the same > INIT messages I had the same problem over and over again with the defaul

[expert] Streaming MP3->wav conversion problem

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it to a wav file somehow. I have tried lame, bladeenc, and mpg123 to try to eithe

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
> 4. Hard reboot. Even worse now, got these messages right away: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" > INIT: entering runlevel: 5 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc" > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > (Same message repeated for Id "2" - "6") > INIT: no more pr

Re: [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?

2003-06-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 06 June 2003 11:31 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean > them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading the > file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM and about > 2G

[expert] WMAs under Linux?

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
With the proliferation of streaming WMAs under Linux, I am wondering if there are any programs to play these, or plugins that are in development for XMMS? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading the file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM and about 2Gb free under /home. I really need to edit mp3s up to about 1 hour in le

Re: [expert] Scrambled CD/DVD/CDRW drives

2003-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 31 May 2003 08:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 20:18, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I just rebuilt my computer into a new bigger case and in reconnecting the > > drives, I have scrambled the cables. > > > > Now my 52x IDE CDROM is mounted a

[expert] Scrambled CD/DVD/CDRW drives

2003-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
I just rebuilt my computer into a new bigger case and in reconnecting the drives, I have scrambled the cables. Now my 52x IDE CDROM is mounted as scd0, My CD Burner is mounted as hdb, and my DVD is mounted as hdc. I would like the CDROM to be mounted as hdb, the CD burner as scd0 and the DVD as

Re: [expert] KDM greetstring in 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
> > Switching to KDM fixed the problem. Mandrake should have kept *all* of > KDM's functionality in MdkKDM along with any enhancements they might > want to add. Breaking KDM's configuration just leads to aggravation. > If this funcionality *is* in MdkKDM somewhere, it should be made more > obvi

[expert] A7N8X Nvidia NForce2 and ALSA sound

2003-04-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
After running 9.1 with my SB Live for since the iso image release for Club members, I decided on Thursday night to set the bios to show the NForce chips on my mobo. I lost all sound. Not that I can find any conflicts or any problems. Now, since the drivers for the Nforce Audio seem to be loadi

[expert] Config settings for urpmi to use 9.1 CDROMs

2003-04-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
By mistake, I deleted my setup for urpmi/rpmDrake to use the CDROMs of 9.1. I am using the download edition. If someone could email the proper configuration to me, I would appreciate it emmensely. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB problems and USB, from SmartMedia to webcam

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
ms running. Another place to look into is www.linux-usb.org, it is loaded with good information on devices, their setup and problems. It really bums me out that there is seemingly no help from Mandrake with this. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in

[expert] Argh! Turned off devfs, and where are the CDs?

2003-04-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
etected in Grip, although I am pointing Grip at /dev/cdrom. The CDRW is going to be a scsi device, I think, but I am not sure what device it will show up as. And how about /dev/USBtty0 and USBtty1? where will I link them to? Argh. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by t

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
information that I have came from www.linux-usb.org. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia card. What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For

Re: [expert] Nvidia Kernel Driver

2003-03-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
ndrake releasing a version with out testing the NVidia drivers better. +5 for keeping the 9.0 kernel around. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:45 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2003 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: > > have you tried: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sensors]# modprobe adm1021 > > without the '.o.gz'? > > Duh. Thanks. It worked like a charm. But still sensor

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: > have you tried: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sensors]# modprobe adm1021 > without the '.o.gz'? Duh. Thanks. It worked like a charm. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:05 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 08:44, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to get lm_sensors up and running on my machine. > > Running sensors-detect, I have scratched on the number of > > detected devices, and found that the cau

[expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
this problem, and can help me with waht package needs to be installed? I am running 2.4.19-16mdk. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
ough it may work in 9.1. I can wait, if > that's the case. The other option is to buy a download station for the memory chips. then they can be mounted by Linux, as they will be seen as drives. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in comput

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 22 March 2003 10:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 6:44 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Saturday 22 March 2003 09:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 5:28 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > > > > I have a fuji Finep

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
surprised. But I am still hand loading my USB drivers, so I probably have forgot something. I got all my information from the linux-usb.org site, but it appears to be down right now. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Logitech USB Wheel Mouse

2003-03-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
button functioning, but not the wheel motion. This XF86Config file differs from the ones I have previously seen. where are the quotes around the names of the fields? What about the quotes around "4 5" has Mandrake changed things? Or am I behind the times. what should my pointe

[expert] Fuji FinePix 2650, supermount, and "Removable media"

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
What else do I need to do to get it running? 3. I am also interested in seeing an icon for the camera appear in "Removable media" how do I go about that in KDE? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 14 March 2003 07:32 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The subject says it all. > > I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does > not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to > run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. > >

[expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can really do to fix this? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On

[expert] DMA is on, and the mouse still goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
si drives need to be pointed at the original ide drive name, hdc, hdd, etc. So its on, the the mouse is still being a nutcase. Any more ideas? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or bette

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD > > drive? > > You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming > you do

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
dma is causing the mouse to missfire. How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and

[expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
installation of Mandrake 9.0 did not have this problem. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Servic

Re: [expert] [OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!?

2003-03-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
also handles Metacrawler and Hotbot which just went to multiple engine searching. The great thing about shortcuts is that they are saved after the search so they can be reused like copernic, but its all in the same interface, not a new interface. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of th

[expert] ATX shutdown

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
What do I need to do? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Argh! fsck failed on boot!

2003-02-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
Booting my system tonight, I got the following ominous message: fsck.ext3/dev/hda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is

Re: [expert] syncing Palm m515 with J-Pilot

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
-f /var/log/messages. Good luck. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack o

[expert] Playing DVDs, Part II

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
saying, "There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'. What do I need to do to get an input plugin, or is this the end with xine, and I need to get back to my Ogle/Alsa configuration? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box,

Re: [expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
e connection. Is something else necessary to be running? Any ideas? > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:57, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am suffering with KPilot on Mandrake 9.0, running the rpms from > > Mandrake of KDE 3.1.0. > > > > KPilot appears to be trying to access /dev/tt

[expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
to open device... 21:52:25 Could not open device: /dev/ttyUSB0 (will retry) 21:53:45 HotSyncing. Please press the HotSync button. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'.

Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
ere is no standard on how they work. Apparently all are using proprietary drivers to run them, and while it might be possible to get one to work, it will only be specific for that brand. After a standard comes out, there should be a good number of programs out there to support them. Ro

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
ot QT3 (which is on your 9.0). > > - -- > Greg > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+TtffGu5uuMFlL5MRAufmAJ0fJo6ftb6MXwNc96jaiN5KHQiOqwCcCTmM > 00/IH3AP91T7V8AlfAU70e8= > =Rgm/ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, W

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt > > libraries on my machine. &g

[expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt libraries on my machine. According rpmdrake to install qt3-3.1.1 would have to overhaul my system, and I can't find another version of qt either on a mandrake mirror or on rpmfind to install. Any thoughts? -- Rob Blom

[expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
me syncing. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
shopper in the linux world. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:44 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:04, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am not new to linux, but new to Mandrake and USB stuff. > > > > I am having a problem consistantly syncing my visor using > > KPilot/JPilot and anyth

[expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
x27;t imagine that there is no one else with these problems, and I am curious how they can be solved. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived ha

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