Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: > high all! > > i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. > > /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program > running that has anything to do with sound. First off, do (as root) a: lsof /dev/d

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > > Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should > > occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. > > But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried > it in real mode, and the same thing ha

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > I've noticed the exact same thing, DL. In fact a young person I know > recently told me that he could install and run Mandrake without trouble, > yet couldn't seem to get winblowz to operate as easily, and deferred to > a local shop for a

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns > to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find it > to look it up in the DNS so that I don't have to constantly change the > setup in kmail?

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:24 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is > not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a > relatively small subpopulation. Hmm, I disagree. My 10 and 12 year old (not to menti

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It > is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted > all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I > have to assume that it is

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. > Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat > (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick > with Windows as Linux

Re: [expert] lm_sensors

2003-11-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:23 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Now, what do I know about this system? Where do I go from here? And what > about 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 m

Re: [expert] CD and k3b

2003-11-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 November 2003 02:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > hmmm it would seem that in this configuration cdrecord is able to find > the drive ok. Now I'm going to ask the group as a whole. Given the > above should Charlie submit a bug on k3b? > > James I've not been following this thread c

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 03:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Problems - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/pwcx-2.4.20.o Umm, when I first set mine up in /etc/modules.conf I got this error for a few boots then it quit giving the error. I'm assuming it got

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi, Dark Lord. I haven't forgotten that you are wrestling with the > same thing. Within the next 24 hours, all being well, I'll send you > a summary of the steps I took and why. > > Anne Thanks Anne - much appreciated! --

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it > working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it > automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into > /etc/modules.conf the line > pos

Re: [expert] GL screensaver crash

2003-10-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:25 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one > or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which > are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with > mouse or keyboard

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 October 2003 04:31 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: > Sheesh, what next? Can we get an explanation of this phenomenon based on > Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. After all, when dealing with > charged particles, you wouldn't want to omit any kind of explanation > based on quantum mechanics

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:53 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Actually, he is quite correct. /mnt/cdrom is a directory located off of > /mnt which in turn is located off of /. Until you mount a cdrom in which > case /mnt/cdrom actually starts pointing to the /dev/cdrom device which is > then the

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:36 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > > PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? > > > > > > Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. > > > > You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on you

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:32 am, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: > /mnt/cdrom *IS* your CD-ROM drive. its size varies depending on what > type of CD you insert just then. to copy a CD, you can use a mkisofs or > something to create an ISO out of it; or use the TAR or some other > command to compress t

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? > > Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. Thanks, thats what I thought and it makes sense...so when /mnt/cdrom here is *not* mounted (when it is mounted, it shows the size of t

[expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
How to? I've got a game, Jedi Academy that works under WineX but you have to copy both CD's to /mnt/cdrom since it won't release the drive to change CDs. When I try to copy the 2nd CDs' contents into /mnt/cdrom though, I get a "disk full" error - and no - its not full. Or rather - it is, its sh

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode > last night: > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 > AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled > Drive conforms to: (null): > > *

Re: [expert] LM9.2: Pbm extracting Enemy territory and America's Army

2003-10-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 20 October 2003 07:40 am, Tango Echo wrote: > >Signal caught, cleaning up > >Note: Same pbm with America's Army > >Any idea? > > Your /tmp is likely too small. When you do a "df -h" > what is the size for /tmp? Ronald had the same > problem. I believe he setup a link for that directo

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:40 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine > itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and > Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at > 60fps; and k

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > Thanks "darklord", > If I can't get decent performance out of regular wine, I may have to pay > for the wineX. Until then I'll struggle :) In any case, yesterday I > re-built DRI (Xfree86 that is). It took ages (for some reason its ma

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 13 October 2003 03:06 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi can some please tell me which file to download to install > > - libgal.so.11 > I tried libgal-2.0 but that seems to give libgal.so.21 > > Tnx > Richard > Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you can't find it, have you tried linking libga

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 13 October 2003 04:37 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > Hi there - I just installed the CVS version of wine, to my Mandrake 9.1 > (with kernel 2.6.0test7), and noticed that OpenGL applications complain > that 'that mode of openGL is not supported', regardless of which mode I > use! > > Are th

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 10 October 2003 10:14 am, Miark wrote: > This may be just me, but "locking out" anybody based on their browser is > not a tactic that is compatible or consistent with the Open Source way. > > In fact I think it's below us. We should be taking the high road and > setting an example cuz 1)

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:32 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > a) rules of thumb are always at least a little wrong > b) is it wasteful if you only use it every few months? How about once a > year? > > In all honesty, I hardly ever touch swap; it's my safety net for runaway > processes and the occass

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: > > ... > > So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different > > drives. LM knows how make best use of it? > > > > Regards, > > Norman > > yes Hmm, I thought (referri

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:58 am, ed tharp wrote: > you are correct, that was me not paying attention very well as I copy > and pasted the history from a term window... sorry for the confusion No problem - had me hoping I was missing something important though! Oh well, back to square 01

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 02:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having > to do ´su´ everytime. Is it a good answer? No. > I have a Logitech quickcam as well (I don´t know about the 3000 > part), and my setup consisted of pluging it in. T

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: > I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of > commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you > tried as root with out the quotes; " > " cd /etc/security/ > chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* > chown root

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: > do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:04 pm, ed tharp wrote: > who owns /dev/v4l/video? [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ls -al /dev/video0 crw---1 darklord sys 81, 0 Jun 12 22:35 /dev/video0 I put this because there is no /dev/v4l on my system. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using > mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have > devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that, all I did was > urpmi the gnomemeeting packages and the

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: > have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from > the cli? Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anne Wilson said: > > I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. > > I > > changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec kept > > changing the permisisons back.) The end result was that the > > pe

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 01:24 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > 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.

Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed > with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the > tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used > Audacity to spl

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 03 October 2003 10:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or > should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? > > Rob Generally speaking, this will vary a bit with taste, but I would'nt let more than say 5 or 10 pe

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:17 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Well no matter what I do, aumix, kmix, or anything, the tracks are getting > overrecorded, and distorted. > > Any ideas? Odd. I'm assuming you adjusted the gain down with the slider? I had to take mine from 100 down to about 8-10, depe

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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 > around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting be

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 03:59 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > I just dealt with a SBLive 5.1 on a friend's MDK 9.1 system, and I got the > best results by using the OSS driver (emu10k1), and enabling record within > aumix for the IGain channel *only*; this is a composite of the other input > sources

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi, DarkLord. OK - if I turn igain down to 0 I lose the noise, but > even 3 brings it back. I presume it is some sort of feedback, but I > don't know what's causing it. > > Meanwhile, I had looked at Audacity and Rezound, but without su

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 05:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Right - this one gave me the clue. I had checked the settings in > aumix, but I hadn't realised that I needed to change the Rec to red - > should have done. However, now I can get sound easily with the aumix > line showing red. As soon

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Dark, > > Another possibility that Mail-old is sitting on a bad sector. > Either bad as in physically bad or bad as in the sense that it's lost > it's connection to reality. > > James Yep, although it is a fairly new 80 gig Maxt

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > I saw a message where you had tried rm and it said you didn't have > permission, I did not see the ones where it was giving you a hard reset of > the system. Sorry. No problem. :-) > You coming up in init 5 or 3. I mean, graphical l

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > No, I didn't see it. Thanks for sending it on. I got LVG's though. > Before I saw this I had found an article on Gramofile through google, > so I've installed it. I'll also take a look at LV's suggestions of > audacity and rezound. I

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > or as Root "rm -rf .Mail-old" from the directory it is in. I am not aware > of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do > it and that you specify exactly what you want to target. Umm, have you read the ea

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote: > have you considered this " mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null/" Only the last slash as a diff? Well, I tried it, as user and root - same result. Thanks for the suggestion though. --

Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > I need to record some of my vinyl collection as wav files to burn onto > audio cd. So far I haven't found anything that is actually reading > the input, either from the soundcard direct or from the Audigy front > panel. > > Some time ago

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP > since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? > > Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` > > ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will > actually work

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion. > Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your "undeletable file" but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory. I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and si

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:48 pm, Terje Heen wrote: > Phil ! > I mannaged to save the lilo.conf but the word I edited > was changing color from magenta to light blue. > (vga=normal) And My framebuffer is still active. > is this because this "blue" text?? > It seems that linux does not recog

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > There's no mention of that motherboard on the harware compatibility > page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility > Please could you add it? > > Anne Well, I tried - got an error message saying it was "locked'.

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Richard, if I'm understanding you, you are saying that an on-board nic > is working fine? The reason I ask is that most people advise not > attempting it. If you know of one that works, could you put a line > or two on the TWiki? > htt

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: > Here's an idea tho... I was recently in a local bookstore that caters to > *NIX junkies and saw some Yellowdog packages there. The cool thing is, > tho, that they came in a regular DVD case, just like a movie. I'm > wondering if there

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Old enough to be a grandpa, Young enough to have a 3 year old *grin* > > James > > > 8-) Heaven forbid my 12 yr old makes me a grandparent but I do have a 19 month old baby girl! :-) --

Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having been > told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my trouble) > I came across this: > > > The following addition needed to be added to '/etc/fstab': > > none /pro

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:08 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Yes, /etc/sysconfig/harddisks is the usual place to put those settings - > remember to copy harddisks to /etc/sysconfig as harddiskshda or harddiskhdb > or whatever your setup requires. "hdparm" needs to be insta

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is great ... I was looking for qa way to do this :) I did you say > > and put in a script in > > > > /etc/init.d/idedma (the script you attached). I wonder ... if there a way > > to see that the script is starting correctly an

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:50 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > To hear 'Too bad for you then..' coming from a > Mandrake employee is just the pits. > > Anne I'd have to agree there Anne - unprofessional at best. :-( --

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 12 September 2003 01:41 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Jumping in late, I want to reiterate that you must > remove MesaGL rpms if they are installed. They will > dork up your nvidia. > > praedor Hmm, which Mesa stuff is that? I have the following installed and it doesn't cause any problem

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > One thought here. If you open aumix there are a bunch of green squares > and one red square. Now give that in aumix a checkmark next to mute all > means that it isn't muted. I took a gable on this thought and it seems > to be tr

[expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on this list have one of these boards, and if yes, then have you ever recorded anything using the "line-in" jack? I've got some older (20+ years) cassettes that I'm trying to convert to .ogg using Gramofile and oggenc. I've got a cassette player with separate line (r/l) stereo jacks, tha

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:29 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > can I ask if 'onto the > > scanner database' implies that you have actually had it working? I > > have a CanoScan FS2710 which is recognised, but I get a 100% freeze > >

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:18 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > Hi, > > First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. > I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- > > My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film > scanner CanoScan 2

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi Dark Lord. > > This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) > /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway > config: invalid value for input: composite1 > valid choices for

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get > is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I > switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost > images of what the camera sh

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:06 am, Vincent Chen wrote: > Dear all, > > Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using > xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do > anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and > surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my > mandrake

Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 05:32 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - I missed that, so perhaps I need to look at how we can make it > more visible when you're looking for something. Since we are trying > to reorganise the index at the moment it is a good time to consider > this. There's so much us

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

2003-09-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote: > Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't > recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used > /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go. > > Was there any tricks you used to

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

2003-09-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:55 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

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:53 am, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Carefull Folks... My wife is Blond, but also a Lawyer ;o) > > Cherio > > Joerg Isn't that like, "double indemnity"? (which is against the law?) --

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:53 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: > > Loads of hints on how to effect the install but no-one's asked if > > you're still married or isn't he back yet > > He took it better than I expected , presumably because he

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 05:45 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > You do watch Enterprise, though...right? :) > > LX *Anything* Sci-fiespecially "Trek"... :-) -- /\

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > You are correct... couldn't open the game and type the e-mail at the > same time > > james I hear ya buddy - I have that same problem while trying to drink a coke, eat cashews, and tickle the 18 month old little girl while

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:08 pm, Guilmot Mike wrote: > > >> Apu??? > > > > Apu nahaseesomething ... in The Simpsons ? :-) > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Guilmot Mike > > Ah - I must be the only person in the western world that has never >

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Might be as elusive as the chalice of Yendor (sp?) *grin* > > James Er...isn't that "amulet of Yendor"? (or is that why the chalice is so elusive!!!) --

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:07 pm, Vox wrote: > I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) > together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but > mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The > real problem isn't that the file is a b

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: > I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause > I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the > elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used "cat" do combine the > files all I got was the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > When I initiate a transfer on a Linux (Samba) box to or from another > Linux(Samba) box, or to or from a Windows box, I get 3-4 meg/s > tranfers. This is the one I'm trying to fix. Yep, that definitely seems slow to me. Isn't ther

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:44 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It > experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being > the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. Missed the first part of this thread, but th

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:18 pm, Mark wrote: > Hi List, > > I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, > using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. Mark, you can do "cat *.(file_extension) > yourfile.ext" but I don't think it combines some file

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 29 Aug 2003 1:18 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Never tried that (18 beers %-D ) ;) > > but it would explain why he can't see what he writes :-) > > Anne --

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 August 2003 06:22 am, ed tharp wrote: > I can take no credit. uubp was brought to my attention by Tom Brinkman > some time ago, and I just searched uubp on google for a link. I think Tom is like H.P. Lovecrafts "cthuhlu", he's been around so long he's become an "ancient one" and kno

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:44 am, Larry Sword wrote: > Ronald, > > ?? Another thought squashed. > I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. > Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL > CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not ca

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as > example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appea

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:22 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > Well after some sleep last night I renewed my search. My face is quit > raw from the "slapping myself silly" inflected on myself. > > The solution was right there on the print panel: > > 1. From within KWrite go to print screen and on that p

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 04:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > Ronald, > > This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers > until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of > them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't > found out wher

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > I've got it working here. Dunno what I did except install it. I've a > creative webcam on it (usb) and it works fine. I do get one error when > starting from the command line. > > (gnomemeeting:2861): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gtk/g

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 12:28 am, Larry Sword wrote: > You need to review two docs: file:/usr/share/doc/cups/sum.html and "man > lpoptions". > Look for "headers" and "prettyprint". > > Larry Hi Larry. Thanks for the reply. I looked at sum.html and according to that, "lpoptions -r prettyprint" i

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:01 pm, Philip Webb wrote: Hi Philip, thanks for the reply. > on Linux, it's best to use the right tool for the job, > rather than trying to stick to an environment (as in M$ Windows). Okay, but if I have kedit open, and click on the print icon, shouldn't I be able to

[expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on the expert list got the latest version of Gnomemeeting working with version 9.1 of Mandrake? Anne and I have been trying to get it to work - we can run it as root, but if we use our normal user accounts we get an error message saying that /dev/video0 can't be accessed. I tried changi

[expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tried this under the newbie list - didn't solve it. I just want to print out (kedit or the printer icon I manually put on my KDE desktop) plain ASCI files without the header being appended to it by CUPS. Anyone have any idea how to turn it off? I went thru KDEs control center and looked at /etc

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than > that included in 9.1 The packages offered are > > gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm > openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm > pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm > > Has anyone ins

Re: [expert] memtest86 & other hardware testing utilities

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:15 pm, Jim C wrote: > I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86. It > looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to > http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff. Anybody > know where I can find a Linux based hardwa

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:29 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > What it is, is a re-implementation of Novel Network. And is supposed to > be (according the the website I was directed to by someone) in very > alpha form. As for the why. After watching the list on 9.1, I got the > feeling that the

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:38 am, Miark wrote: > As for "being forced to buy a pricy monitor" I think you're being overly > dramatic. You can buy a new monitor, at the same physical size as your > existing monitor, and with much better resolution and image quality for > less than $100, shipped.

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 August 2003 01:25 am, David E. Fox wrote: > That's precisely what I'm trying to do. BTW, the xmms-diskwriter thingy > worked fine - I just su over, run cdrecord and give him all the wav > files. I'm the proud "owner" of a new Ween CD :). > > Now I'm getting kiss alive II :) guess I'

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 August 2003 12:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: > I'm going to give gcombust another try. Specifically, did you see my > comment about it making data copies of the mp3s rather than doing the > decoding? I'm pretty sure I selected audio cd and not data cd. If you mean pick .MP3 and wind u

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