Re: cardreader and sound on WS 3.1

2001-08-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:13:01 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience with this is that this message means that the media was not found. The message is misleading. I just tried mounting the card reader on my system when it was not in the slot and I got your message exactly.

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 15:34, Keith Antoine wrote: I wrote the very original SxS on CD burners if you remember and having the statement hdb=ide-scsi was at that time the only way to get the burner seen by the OS. accepted of Sybil that the staement wa sno longer needed and this was

Re: cardreader and sound on WS 3.1

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 14:43, Keith Antoine wrote: SOUND: it plays in root but not as user; yes a permissions problem as David said. message 10: delete Takeconsole Permissions::crw--- 1 kantoine root 14, 3 Apr 28 05:38 /dev/dsp I have set them as root to 666 and also

Re: Linux-Mandrake 8.0 messenger

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 21:59, joshua brow wrote: For attn Mike Andrews, Huh? What did I do? -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

help with printing pdf files

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
can someone help me please. if i try and print (via ghostview) to my laserjet, the printer just blinks at me. I have no trouble printing in general, just (apparently) massaged postrcrpt files. i thought enscript passed thru postcript as is? has someone been here and done that? system is

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Mike Andrew wrote: I was wondering your 'technique' for discovering what /device it's on this week or whether you tail /var/log/messages. The dynamic and arbitrary drive assignment of Linux-scsi has been a bad design decision. Sum1 didn't think this through very well

Fwd: dilyard 08/08/01:15.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
does anyone have any idea what the below means? A friends box has started doing this lately. Sometimes when this happens, the machine locks up, sometime not. When it does, it requires a *power cycle* .. no 3-finger salute, no Magic SysRq, nada... ideas? -- Forwarded Message

Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
a slightly bigger log of the same thing anyone? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:30:01 -0400 From: dilyard root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 9 05:16:46

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-09 Thread Auyeung at Technet
Get one with burnproof technology. :-) Auyeung - Original Message - From: Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: CDRW IDE? I have a Yamaha 4416e ide version of your scsi. It'll be 2 years old in October and still running

Re: Linux-Mandrake 8.0 messenger

2001-08-09 Thread Kurt Wall
In the last episode, we heard Mike Andrew say: On Thursday 09 August 2001 21:59, joshua brow wrote: For attn Mike Andrews, Huh? What did I do? Good grief, there's simply no telling what you've done this time. Kurt -- Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like

RE: dilyard 08/08/01:15.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Tom Wilson
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: does anyone have any idea what the below means? A friends box has started doing this lately. Sometimes when this happens, the machine locks up, sometime not. When it does, it requires a *power cycle* .. no 3-finger salute, no Magic SysRq, nada... ideas? I

Re: help with printing pdf files

2001-08-09 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:45, Kurt Wall wrote: In the last episode, we heard Mike Andrew say: can someone help me please. if i try and print (via ghostview) to my laserjet, the printer just blinks at me. I have no trouble printing in general, just (apparently) massaged postrcrpt files.

More Steps: Aug 10 USB

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
USB-GENERAL INFO, how what where. read the above to connect just about any usb device, you'll be surprised what you didn't realise is now supported USB-WEBCAM-GENERAL -LOGITECH -OV511 (many) USB-BULK STORAGE ^^^ NAH, just kidding. Any of

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-09 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Rick, Thats it then, I always hate it when I lock myself in and have to crawl out a window. And it sounds like you're having a better day already. Ronnie On Thursday 09 August 2001 07:18, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 08:19 pm, you wrote: Rick, I've been playing since 83.

Re: help with printing pdf files

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 10 August 2001 00:33, Bruce Marshall wrote: [snip] On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:45, Kurt Wall wrote: [snip] wow, IF I open the xxx.pdf with xpdf, save it to file as a (dot) ps and open _that_ file with Kghostview and print it, all is fine. If i simply open the original (dot) pdf

Re: Linux-Mandrake 8.0 messengerot

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 10 August 2001 00:11, Kurt Wall wrote: Huh? What did I do? Good grief, there's simply no telling what you've done this time. Yeah, and I even had the bloody tin foil wrapped tight around my head. Double layer. I want my money back or a better Kurtwerks model. --

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 23:45, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: a slightly bigger log of the same thing anyone? Aug 9 05:16:46 dilyard kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at [snip] change your memory AND your video card. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 21:52, Stew Benedict wrote: disk at 1,1 sda tape at 1,2 st0 disk at 1,3 sdb thank you for that good info. On a related subject does anyone know of a binary that monitors what /dev is being registered by a module when it loads? the above would of course

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:42 am, you wrote: Rick, Thats it then, I always hate it when I lock myself in and have to crawl out a window. And it sounds like you're having a better day already. Ronnie On Thursday 09 August 2001 07:18, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 08:19 pm, you

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 10 August 2001 03:39, Net Llama wrote: Since changing both memory videocard are a rather expensive solution, i'd save that one for last until all other culprits are ruled out. At the very least, running the box on memtest86 or cerberus would be advised before replacing any

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Aaron Grewell
I'll second that. Consider the cost of a cheapo AGP card and a 100MHz SDRAM module over against the time you'll spend messing around with your configuration. You can keep the spares as known-good stuff and use them many times for testing your various boxen, and then if you need them you're up

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 August 2001 03:39, Net Llama wrote: Since changing both memory videocard are a rather expensive solution, i'd save that one for last until all other culprits are ruled out. At the very least, running the box on memtest86 or

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Thursday 09 August 2001 14:39, Net Llama babbled: Oops's are rarely that easy to resolve. In fact, they are very, very rarely hardware based. Without more information, this is all purely speculation. to try memtest on it.. what more info would help Lonni? -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Thursday 09 August 2001 12:07, Net Llama babbled: Another of what same thing? This is the first time i've seen you (doug) send anything like this to the list. should have been #2... version 2.2.19 (with ext3). I shall attempt ksymoops later.. user's desktop. on 24x7. connected to cable

Re: ipop3d in edesktop 2.4

2001-08-09 Thread David A. Bandel
Linuxism Chang wrote: oops.. forget that pam one when looking for hints.. sorry. which .conf file controls whether root could collect email from a remote workstation? /etc/securetty? not likely... take a look at /etc/pam.d/pop you mean the pop daemon has an alias file? or is it also

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2001 14:39, Net Llama babbled: Oops's are rarely that easy to resolve. In fact, they are very, very rarely hardware based. Without more information, this is all purely speculation. to try memtest on it.. what

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2001 12:07, Net Llama babbled: Another of what same thing? This is the first time i've seen you (doug) send anything like this to the list. should have been #2... version 2.2.19 (with ext3). I shall attempt ksymoops

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Zoki (News)
Today Mike Andrew was heard saying: -On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:07, Jim Conner wrote: - If you need help with the Sony cd burner, I have a Yahama IDE - burner working great in eD2.4, and I'd be glad to help. I do know that the - SxS on CD Burners is very good. Good luck. - -Not directed at

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/08/01:15.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Zoki (News)
Today Douglas J. Hunley was heard saying: -does anyone have any idea what the below means? A friends box has started -doing this lately. Sometimes when this happens, the machine locks up, -sometime not. When it does, it requires a *power cycle* .. no 3-finger -salute, no Magic SysRq, nada...

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/08/01:15.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Zoki (News)
Today Douglas J. Hunley was heard saying: -does anyone have any idea what the below means? A friends box has started -doing this lately. Sometimes when this happens, the machine locks up, -sometime not. When it does, it requires a *power cycle* .. no 3-finger -salute, no Magic SysRq, nada...

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 09 August 2001 19:51, Mike Andrew orated thus: of Sybil that the staement wa sno longer needed and this was confirmed by Marcus. this is the crux of the matter Kantoine, sybil is kernel 2.4.x and I need it confirmed that append= is NOT needed (after all) in a 2.2.x kernel.

Re: Fwd: dilyard 08/09/01:05.30 system check

2001-08-09 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Thursday 09 August 2001 16:33, Net Llama babbled: Any NFS usage? I think the ksymoops output will be the most telling of what caused this. nope. nfs not even compiled in... -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admin:

Re: sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 21:34, Stew Benedict orated thus: On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Keith Antoine wrote: Lastly I need to do a batch exchange in linux from jpegs to .tiff images and cannot see anything simple to do this. Gimp is real complicated like Photoshop and I cannot see anything esle

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 09 August 2001 15:16, Jim Conner orated thus: I'm running eD2.4 with 2.2.14 kernel. Yes, I know 2.4.7 is current, but I don't have any usb devices and plan on updating the kernel when I update the distro and hardware. :) What problems are you having with the cdrw drive? I ran

printer is printing now

2001-08-09 Thread Keith Antoine
I was just going to logout and go to root and I just tested the printer again, damd me it worked. Geez who knows?? -- - To make yourself look truthful one has to lie, as most people do not want to kmow the truth; but only that which

printer

2001-08-09 Thread Keith Antoine
Its using ps and is a slow as hades so will have to fix that somehow as well, now.now -- - To make yourself look truthful one has to lie, as most people do not want to kmow the truth; but only that which they believe.

pdf file viewer about worthless

2001-08-09 Thread Shawn Tayler
So I am wondering why there is even a pdf file viewer in COL 3.1? It is about worthless. Not a single pdf file that I have downloaded has bee viewable, no pages, blank pages, and the only 2 pages in a 10 page document. WHat is with it? Did they change the pdf format to break compatibility or

Re: rpm -qf

2001-08-09 Thread Linuxism Chang
no. you don't need to. I checked. :) rpm requires the FULL pathname as an identifier anyway, i checked, and no, col2.4 does NOT supply this in linux-kernel-binary-2.2.14-4.i386.rpm _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address

Re: adding codepage

2001-08-09 Thread Linuxism Chang
I will follow your way first. hope the 2.2.14 kernel has the cp950.c you could recompile your kernel, or, do the following cp /usr/src/linux/fs/nls/cp950.c (dot) gcc -c -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common

Re: multiple pppd

2001-08-09 Thread Linuxism Chang
sir, in the interface name ppp0, ppp is the deivce type, what is 0? port number? device alias? that could aid my search :) and how could you use ifconfig to change ppp0 to ppp1 after ppp0 was up? I did come across asolution by accident while playing with pppoe and dial-out pppd. Mike Andrew

RE: multiple pppd

2001-08-09 Thread Kurt Wall
sir, in the interface name ppp0, ppp is the deivce type, what is 0? port number? device alias? that could aid my search :) The interface number. If you have five PPP interfaces, they would be numbered ppp0, ppp1, ppp2, ppp3, and ppp4. and how could you use ifconfig to change ppp0 to

Re: pdf file viewer about worthless

2001-08-09 Thread Jim Conner
I've had that problem too. I installed Acrobat Reader 4.0(or it was installed initially). It's in the Utilities submenu of KMenu. I've just had to open up the pdf file in that to read it. I think that there was some format changes between pdf 3.0 to pdf 4.0 that made it incompatible. I

Re: pdf file viewer about worthless

2001-08-09 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:30:39 -0500, Jim Conner wrote: I've had that problem too. I installed Acrobat Reader 4.0(or it was installed initially). It's in the Utilities submenu of KMenu. I've just had to open up the pdf file in that to read it. I think that there was some format changes

Re: pdf file viewer about worthless

2001-08-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:30:39 -0500, Jim Conner wrote: I've had that problem too. I installed Acrobat Reader 4.0(or it was installed initially). It's in the Utilities submenu of KMenu. I've just had to open up the pdf file in that to read it.