Minor KDE2 sound bug

2002-01-09 Thread Mike Andrew
A minor bug exists in kde 2.2 when starting. the default mixer settings, for some inexplicable reason, probe for TWO sound devices and TWO mixers Control Centre (big green button) - sound-Mixer-hardware settings change the default values of '2' to '1' The 'error' appears in /var/log/messages

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:03, Net Llama wrote: the ? means use the letter b,c or d. Ie whichever is your cd ide drive. Note: it could also be the letter 'a'. Yeah, right. and the boot hard drive *might* be d, or scsi. You're currently buried deep in programming aren't you. --

Re: ELX linux (and Mandrake - sluggish?)

2002-01-09 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote on Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:27: I thought it was a bit sluggish too. But not as sluggish as Mandrake 8.1 Was running on AMD K6 2-500 with 256MB ram on its own HD. On 8 Jan 2002, at 19:19, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone trying ELX think it's a bit sluggish?

Re: Windows (OT)

2002-01-09 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it Randy who wrote on Tuesday 08 January 2002 20:58: Is it possible to get Windows NT and 2000 to coexist on the same hard drive? I've heard that NT won't reside with another OS. TIA, Randy Donohoe There is/was a mini HOWTO in Dos-win-linux installations. I ran for a while with NT on

Re: Minor KDE2 sound bug

2002-01-09 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it Mike Andrew who wrote on Wednesday 09 January 2002 08:02: A minor bug exists in kde 2.2 when starting. Don't tell them - they'll only write another 5 megs of code :-/ -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius

Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:22,Mike Andrew scribed: On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:14, Ted Ozolins wrote: The All in Wonder card is basically a Mach64 card, what driver did you use? Wooo! I didn't know that. Skippy, that's an 'unusual' driver for Xfree did you try that? Errm, what do you mean as I did

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:33,Mike Andrew scribed: Yep, I second that, 4 gig is around my limit per Linux distro, and I keep a common scsi 3gig drive for umm errr archives and downloads and things. I was reading somewhere that 8gig is an 'optimimum' for the linux ext2fs . It wasn't based on the

Re: re snapshotsot

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:45,Mike Andrew scribed: On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 01:50, Kurt Wall wrote: Are you still wearing your KurtWerks (tm) Hat? Sadly, no, one of Les Bell's goats took an unfortunate liking to it. I have tried banana leaves instead, but have to say 'they' are still speaking to me,

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:29,Mike Andrew scribed: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:29, Robert L. Hemus wrote: Tn the step by steps to install a CDROM RW in step 2 it says you add hd?=ide-scsi to the kernel line in your menu.lst file. the ? means use the letter b,c or d. Ie whichever is your cd ide

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:59,Robert L. Hemus scribed: Tn the step by steps to install a CDROM RW in step 2 it says you add hd?=ide-scsi to the kernel line in your menu.lst file. then reboot. When I do this it won't reboot. Need to use the rescue disk. Is the file I need to work on in

Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:37, Keith Antoine wrote: Errm, what do you mean as I did not write whatever it was. I have never used a ATI card. Earlier you stated that you couldn't install an ATI on a friend's machine over 3 distros. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re snapshotsot

2002-01-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:42, Keith Antoine wrote: Maybe you should try the Licuala Palm leaf, as they get up to 2.5mt across and would shade most of you...I think. When I ordered the original Kurtwerks tin hat, Mark 2, I requested the 3 metre optional accessory. This served me well,

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:08, Ken Moffat wrote: in Libranet linux I once tried append=hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi and locked up on reboot with a crc error during a time of heavy experimenting. that's a completely legitimate 2.4.x syntax, and is a pretty sensible way of allowing cdrom - cdr

iptables 1.2.4

2002-01-09 Thread Chang
Now I am getting adventurous... what should I do to get the patch applied? Also, I didn't see the string target match option in make menuconfig... kernel is 2.4.17 -=== Welcome to Rusty's Patch-o-matic! Each patch is a new feature: many have minimal impact, some do not. Almost every one has

Re: iptables 1.2.4

2002-01-09 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:43:23 +0800 Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: Now I am getting adventurous... what should I do to get the patch applied? Also, I didn't see the string target match option in make menuconfig... kernel is 2.4.17 the string.patch is only available if you

2-disk xwindow linux

2002-01-09 Thread Chang
http://www.mungkie.btinternet.co.uk/projects/2diskXwin.htm#features -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives,

joydesk

2002-01-09 Thread Schmeits, Roger
Does anyone know much about this company? http://www.joydesk.com We were possibility looking at the Business Edition 2.6 for a replacement of our MS Exchange 5.5 email/groupware. Roger Schmeits System Analyst Clarkson College Omaha, NE USA 402.552.2542 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: joydesk

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Wunder
Schmeits, Roger wrote: Does anyone know much about this company? http://www.joydesk.com We were possibility looking at the Business Edition 2.6 for a replacement of our MS Exchange 5.5 email/groupware. I know nothing other than what their website says. I found out about them while

RE: Windows (OT)

2002-01-09 Thread Ray Russell
Yes you can install both on the same drive. Do the NT4 install first then install Win 2000 into a different directory. Since the registries will be separate all applications will need to be installed under each OS. You can install the Applications into the same directories with no problems.

RE: joydesk

2002-01-09 Thread Schmeits, Roger
I am surpised that they have no listserv at all. Rats.. I find their prices very reasonable for 125 clients. Around $2200 with a 2 year supprt contract with all the bells and whistles. the wireless would be nice PDAs keep coming up in the conversion around (education you know..). Wonder if

Re: Minor KDE2 sound bug

2002-01-09 Thread Bill Day
Woot That was also in kde 2.1.1 wondered where that was coming from since sound is working On Wednesday 09 January 2002 05:05, you were heard blurting out: Was it Mike Andrew who wrote on Wednesday 09 January 2002 08:02: A minor bug exists in kde 2.2 when starting. Don't tell them

Re: joydesk

2002-01-09 Thread Tim Wunder
Schmeits, Roger wrote: I am surpised that they have no listserv at all. Rats.. I find their prices very reasonable for 125 clients. Around $2200 with a 2 year supprt contract with all the bells and whistles. the wireless would be nice PDAs keep coming up in the conversion around

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:11:10 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in Libranet linux I once tried append=hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi and locked up on reboot with a crc error during a time of heavy experimenting. That's not too

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Just want to see if I understand. If you add the append=hdb=ide-scsi line to your lilo.conf, then does that line cause the scsi module to load? Or do you need to compile scsi support in to the kernel, AND use that line? And if you have hdb and hdc, cd-rw and dvd, do you need to add hdc=ide-scsi

Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
I would like to know how my linux box knows that /etc/resolv.conf is the place to look for dns servers. I have grepped through the linux sources, but could not find any file with resolv.conf in it. I grepped /etc and found a few files. One is /etc/lst.cnf, which has all the various files

Re: Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on January 09, Joel Hammer managed to emit: I would like to know how my linux box knows that /etc/resolv.conf is the place to look for dns servers. I have grepped through the linux sources, but could not find any file with resolv.conf in it. glibc -- particularly, the

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 16:59:40 -0800 Robert L. Hemus wrote: Tn the step by steps to install a CDROM RW in step 2 it says you add hd?=ide-scsi to the kernel line in your menu.lst file. then reboot. When I do this it won't reboot. Need to use the rescue disk. Is the file I need to work on

Re: Minor KDE2 sound bug

2002-01-09 Thread Tom Wilson
I too, truly thank you Mike. I have been pounding my head for months now trying to figure out what the heck was causing the error messages. Sometimes it seemed like a whole log file was nothing but those errors. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11 11:18 am, Myles Green dropped these nuggets

Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:41,Mike Andrew scribed: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:37, Keith Antoine wrote: Errm, what do you mean as I did not write whatever it was. I have never used a ATI card. Earlier you stated that you couldn't install an ATI on a friend's machine over 3 distros. Yes that is so,

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:11,Ken Moffat scribed: Just want to see if I understand. If you add the append=hdb=ide-scsi line to your lilo.conf, then does that line cause the scsi module to load? Or do you need to compile scsi support in to the kernel, AND use that line? And if you have hdb and

User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Another question. I'm trying out ELX linux, but the sound for users doesn't work, and I can't find the audio group to add my users. (works for root) Is there another group that controls sound permissions, or a device to adjust? -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
I have found that permission on things like: /dev/dsp are frequently the problem. Joel On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:46:20PM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote: Another question. I'm trying out ELX linux, but the sound for users doesn't work, and I can't find the audio group to add my users. (works for

Re: User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:46:20 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another question. I'm trying out ELX linux, but the sound for users doesn't work, and I can't find the audio group to add my users. (works for root) Is there another group that controls sound permissions, or a device to

Re: Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. I have no idea about kernels and libraries, all just mystical C talk to me. I was asking this question because I wanted to understand if I had to rename my /etc/resolv.conf.dhcp file to /etc/resolv.conf after dhcpcd creates the latter file. I guess the answer would be yes, if I want to be

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast:SOLVED, so far

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, tonight is the big switch in my area. @HOME even called the house tonight to advise me of the switch. This, on top of the two emails and one snail mail notice. Tomorrow morning I'll know how it went. Shame they couldn't spare 1% of this effort to help linux users. Joel

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast:SOLVED, so far

2002-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:58:31 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, tonight is the big switch in my area. @HOME even called the house tonight to advise me of the switch. This, on top of the two emails and one snail mail notice. Tomorrow morning I'll know how it went. Shame they

Re: User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
I'll try it, thanks. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:53:15 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:46:20 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another question. I'm trying out ELX linux, but the sound for users doesn't work, and I can't find the audio group to add

Re: User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
That worked, thanks. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:53:15 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next time I boot my ELX system, I'll double check. What I do on any system is just give /dev/dsp permissions 666. Who cares about having a secure sound card, anyway! -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL

ELX update

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Well, after a nights rest, and rebooting, ELX seems to be running much better, not sluggish any more, and I'm starting to like it. It does have a windows like feel, too much for me, but you can still ignore that if you want, and it did a fine job of setting up with my hardware and

Re: ELX update

2002-01-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:34:17 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after a nights rest, and rebooting, ELX seems to be running much better, not sluggish any more, and I'm starting to like it. It does have a windows like feel, too much for me, but you can still ignore that if

Re: [SLE] Linux Tutorials On-line or downloadable

2002-01-09 Thread Joshua Lee
On Monday 07 January 2002 06:02 am, Shane Broomhall wrote: I am planning on moving from Windows 2000 to linux with in the next month. I have basic linux skills, but I am by no means a competent user. I am hoping that people on this list will be able to point me towards on-line or

Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE

2002-01-09 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:11:55 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to see if I understand. If you add the append=hdb=ide-scsi line to your lilo.conf, then does that line cause the scsi module to load? Or do you need to compile scsi support in to the kernel, AND use that

RE: Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Lavinius Romio Petru
Well Kurt it is still be used by Caldera I'm running OpenServer 3.1 here Regards Lavinius Romio Petru www.rom-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wall Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL