Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con il CDR/RW

2003-01-21 Thread Augusto
Se non erro Xcdroast vuole entrambi i dispositivi emulati-scsi.Probabilmente devi modificare lilo.conf con append=hdd=ide-scsi se il tuo lettore è su hdd. - Original Message - From: Enrico Piccinini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:50 AM Subject:

[newbie-it] Installazione tar.gz

2003-01-21 Thread Enrico Teotti
Ciao! ho cercato di installare un GIMP da un file tar.gz Ma ho fallito. :) Un file con quella estensione è un file di archivio? Devo decoprimere i file contenuti prima della installazione? Grazie e ciao! Enrico _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam

[newbie-it] Error in stage1 in fase di installazione

2003-01-21 Thread Paolo Borzini
Salve a tutti, la settimana scorsa mi è arrivato finalmente la confezione Mandrake 9.0 PowerPack con 7cd Faccio per installarla sul mio nuovo PC, che e' un Intel Celeron 1,7 Ghz con 256Mb di Ram e un HD da 30Gb ma dopo aver dato invio per l'installazione mi da il seguente errore : Error in stage1

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione tar.gz

2003-01-21 Thread Sandro Porrazzini
Il mar, 2003-01-21 alle 09:30, Enrico Teotti ha scritto: Ciao! ho cercato di installare un GIMP da un file tar.gz Ma ho fallito. :) Un file con quella estensione è un file di archivio? Devo decoprimere i file contenuti prima della installazione? Grazie e ciao! Enrico Certamente. Dopo

Re: [newbie-it] Messagio di Cron

2003-01-21 Thread francesco.melo
Paolo Tomiato wrote: Germano ha scritto: Vuol dire che gli esguibili inn-cron-nntpsend e inn-cron-rnews non terminano correttamente e visto che cron è incaricato di lanciarli ti avvisa che non ci è riuscito. Non so

[newbie-it] Tastiere Cordless Logitech

2003-01-21 Thread Enrico Teotti
Ciao! qualcuno sà se i combo tastiere (ergonomiche) e mouse cordless sono supportati da Linux Mandrake 8.1 (e 9)? Per le altre distribuzioni come posso informarmi? Grazie e ciao! Enrico _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL

[newbie-it] [OT] schermi CRT 19'' in Linux

2003-01-21 Thread Enrico Teotti
Ciao, probabilmente cambierò schermo, il mio 15'' affatica troppo ormai. Stavo pensando ad un 19'' ultrapiatto, avete provato dei modelli che vi hanno particolarmente soddisfatto? Di sicuro lo vorrei compatibile con la maggior parte delle distribuzioni. Ci sono marche che non mettono a

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread tom
Alle 07:15, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Visto che l'unica cosa che puoieffettuare è quello di avviare con floppy di win$, quando compare il calassico promt 'a:\' se dai il comando dos 'dir c:' cosa ottieni come risposta ? . Potrebbe essere che l'HD non sia stato

Re: [newbie-it] Help Refresh verticale

2003-01-21 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 11:30, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, Luigi ha scritto: non funziona mi appare quanto segue: [xlx@localhost xlx]$ xvidtune Vendor: Eizo, Model: Eizo T57S Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1 hsync range 0: 30.00 - 92.00 vsync range 0: 50.00 - 160.00 Floating point exception ..Come, non ti

Re: [newbie-it] Problema col lettore Cd

2003-01-21 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 11:59, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: Per la serie chi la dura la vince... stamattina sono riuscito ad installare la Mandrake 9.0! :) Ho avuto un solo piccolo problema: il lettore Cd. Sul mio Pc sono installati sia un lettore Cd che un masterizzatore. Nel corso

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa Alle 07:15, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Visto che l'unica cosa che puoieffettuare è quello di avviare

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread Andrea Celli
forse l'argomento è un po' OT, ma di certo, senza offesa per linux, ma per risolvere problemi hardware su computers vergini il dos è molto più rapido e può essere usato come preliminare; Parti con un floppy di boot e al prompt di lilo rispondi linux rescue, oppure con il primo CD di una

Re: [newbie-it] Salvare dati

2003-01-21 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 10:34, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Se vuoi divertirti puoi preparare a mano l'immagine con un comando del tipo mkisofs -v -T -f -r -J -L -o Cd.iso directory/con/i-tuoi/dati e poi montarla con mount -t iso9660 -loop Cd.iso /mnt/disk Immaginavo ci volesse un

Re: [newbie-it] Help Refresh verticale

2003-01-21 Thread Luigi
non funziona mi appare quanto segue: [xlx@localhost xlx]$ xvidtune Vendor: Eizo, Model: Eizo T57S Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1 hsync range 0: 30.00 - 92.00 vsync range 0: 50.00 - 160.00 Floating point exception ..Come, non ti appare nessuna schermatina su cui poter lavorare?

[newbie-it] Partizioni

2003-01-21 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Ciao a tutti, Nel pc di casa la situazione di hda è la seguente Dispositivo AvvioInizioFine Blocchi Id Sistema /dev/hda1 * 1 3659 29390886c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 3660 4865 96871955 Esteso /dev/hda5 3660 4105 3582463+

Re: [newbie-it] Messagio di Cron

2003-01-21 Thread Paolo Tomiato
Francesco ha scritto: credo tu possa disinstallare inn è un server per le news ciao francesco Fatto, grazie!

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread tom
Alle 14:45, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: forse l'argomento è un po' OT, ma di certo, senza offesa per linux, ma per risolvere problemi hardware su computers vergini il dos è molto più rapido e può essere usato come preliminare; spero di essere smentito dalla

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread Arwan
Alle Tuesday 21 January 2003 00:20, a proposito di [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), tom ha scritto: mi hanno regalato un vekio P150 Non riesco a far l'installazione con nessun OS, che mi dite? Dico che se ti avanza la scheda madre... potrei sfruttarla

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread Arwan
Alle Tuesday 21 January 2003 02:59, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), tom ha scritto: sei sicuro che non sia rovinato o malconfigurato da bios l'hard disk? aabo!! come si fa per sapere questo? Entri nel bios e guardi se

Re: [newbie-it] Appuntilinux

2003-01-21 Thread Arwan
Alle Tuesday 21 January 2003 14:47, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] Appuntilinux (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Andrea Celli ha scritto: Il problema è stamparseli: quanto ti costa di tempo, carta e soprattutto inchiostro stamparti circa 3.000 pagine con la stapantina di casa? Ammesso e

[newbie-it] OO TTF

2003-01-21 Thread CyberPenguin
Saluti alla Lista, conoscete in quale directory OO posiziona i suoi tipi di carattere? Se all'interno di essa vi copio altri ttf, secondo Voi, OO me li vede? TNX Bye ;-) Giovanni -- (o //\Membro del FoLUG - http://folug.linux.it V_/_Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con il CDR/RW

2003-01-21 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:59, lunedì 20 gennaio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Mentre le periferiche sono state entrambe rilevate, purtroppo non riesco a montarle ne ad accedervi in nessun modo (il masterizzatore viene vista come periferica scsi mentre il

Re: [newbie-it] Partizioni

2003-01-21 Thread tom
Alle 19:47, martedì 21 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Dispositivo AvvioInizioFine Blocchi Id Sistema /dev/hda1 * 1 3659 29390886c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Come potete vedere troppo spazio è dato a windows, che ormai uso raramente e dunque è spazio

Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa

2003-01-21 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 9:57 pm, tom wrote about Re: [newbie-it] aiutooo non installa: format c: comando o nome file non valido (allora non ero cosi sproveduto come pensavo.erano gli stessi passaggi che facevo io :-) ehm sorry non ho seguito bene il thread ma anche a me una volta

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:55, Jordan Elver wrote: It's a variety. How can I copy protected cds. I noticve a thread earlier about cd clone on windows. It surely must be possible to copy bit by bit under linux? My drive is a Plextor 16/10/40A. Yes, it's possible. However, making your own

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 00:17, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 11:02, Chuck Burns wrote: On Mon, January 20 2003 5:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: *snip* (And she's a soon-to-be linux user, ya reckon Chuck?) She uses it all the time, at my house, I just havent yet convinced

[newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
I put this problem here again. Using avifile with Mandrake 9.0, I only get sound but no video. I have a NVIDIA TNT2 card and drivers from NVIDIA (the are automatically installed during installation). The error message points at a failure to initialize the decoder. It is looking for dvsd and

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:33, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: You lucky man, you! I never get to do more than point 8. By then they've either gone completely off their rocker or are starting to foam at the mouth. What really kills 'm is when they need to get on to the internet for their nifty modem's

Re: [newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:39, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: I put this problem here again. Using avifile with Mandrake 9.0, I only get sound but no video. I have a NVIDIA TNT2 card and drivers from NVIDIA (the are automatically installed during installation). The error message points at a

RE: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Wideman
I suggest you do urpmi.removemedia -ac to remove *all* sources and start again. just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put your CD sources in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom Ok, did that. At this point i can remove

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:45 am, Pilagá wrote: El Lun 20 Ene 2003 19:38, Anne Wilson escribió: I found that I had both installed. I've removed linxine0-0.9.13. Do I need to get rid of libxine1-1-0.beta2.plf and re-install it? I ran ldconfig -v but xine-check gave me Anne, check

[newbie] Remote access configuration

2003-01-21 Thread Marc Bannink
Hello, i would like to change the default screen size of the windows terminal services client. default is set to 800x600 when just starting rdesktop by hand i off course can change with the g(eomatric) option this but i would like it to be changed when using the Virtual Network Connection to

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:06 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Could you look at your /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory and compare it with this: nvidia_vid.la* nvidia_vid.so* These don't exist, but I don't have a nvidia card, so probably don't need them. vidix/ There is a fidix subdirectory, but it

Re: [newbie]

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:10 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 02:36, Richard Gelling wrote: Hi You might want to sign this petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/endtcpa1/petition.html re TCPA Richard G.

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 9:44 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I suggest you do urpmi.removemedia -ac to remove *all* sources and start again. just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put your CD sources in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then urpmi.addmedia --distrib

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread David Robertson
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were still around. :) Anne I get one of these messages every couple of months, and have done

Re: [newbie] VueScan

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:49 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote: It seems that i can get better pictures scanning in windows than in linux with iscan. Maybe is because that iscan interface seems so clean. BTW, what can i do to scan images frm gimp using iscan? Filipe, I'm using the default driver, not

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:30 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: On Mon, January 20 2003 5:21 pm, robin wrote: *super.snip* I see the detoxification process is complete. Maybe we should have a 12-step program for Windows dependency. It should start with everyone getting up and saying My name is ...,

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

2003-01-21 Thread Wei Wang
Hi, This sounds a bit soothing for me. ;-) Now it takes about 45 minutes to compile the whole kernel. I've heard the Pentium4 deficiency problem before I bought this laptop. But the comments I found gave me an impression that P4 1.8GHz is aboutthe same performance as a P3 1.2GHz, but there is

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

2003-01-21 Thread Wei Wang
Many thanks for your input. Have you done anything to the OS such as optimising or tuning? Since this is a new laptop and I am thinking of returning it if there is a hardware deficiency with it. On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:13:48 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OUCH, how the hell???

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:19 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were still around. :) Anne

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Pilagá
El Mar 21 Ene 2003 06:49, Anne Wilson escribió: Meanwhile, one last question before I do this. Am I right in simply avoiding anything with the 0.9.13 numbering and taking everything else? Is there anything else I should avoid? Yes, because 0.9.13 is the old version. And also

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 10:36 am, David Robertson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were still around. :) Anne I get

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:55 am, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: Hi All, I believe, windows 2000,is a relatively stable OS for desktop uses. I use it at work, and it does not need a reboot as often as NT 4.0 used to. I found W2K relatively stable, but drivers were as big a problem as linux drivers

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote: I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes over one minute. I reinstalled and it worked until I shut down and then on reboot it slowed

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta2

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 07:02 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 05:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: When I started downloading M9.1beta2 that's all it was, but as I finished it became M9.1beta2-cd2, which puzzled me. I

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:55, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: Hi All, I believe, windows 2000,is a relatively stable OS for desktop uses. I use it at work, and it does not need a reboot as often as NT 4.0 used to. BTW, Yesterday's newspaper (here in New Delhi) carried an ad from

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:02:25 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me in terms of xine, what region number am I in when I am in UK John For a DVD bought here in the UK xine reports maybe region 2. It appears to get that information

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:23, John Richard Smith wrote: I did so and things changed a bit. now I still get an exine engine error but the message changes, no demuxer plugin available to handle /mnt/xdrom/video_TS/video_TS_IFO usually this means that the file format is not

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:31:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 1:21 pm, Pilagá wrote: That's the one. Could you look at your /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory and compare it with this: nvidia_vid.la* xineplug_dmx_mpeg_audio.so*

Re: [OT]:RE: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:25 am, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: Hi Kal, In India, RedHat and Debian are popular. Haven't heard of ELR. g And no, Indians have *NO* plans to take over to innovate a new distro, not to speak of taking up French govt. contracts. /g Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread
Hi all, I get something like this almost every 2 weeks! From the most amazing places, like Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Russia. You name it. Still trying to figure out a procmail recipe that dumps that stuff immediately! ;-) Paul ---Original Message--- I read a couple of months ago that there had been

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 20 January 2003 05:17 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip Send them klez for giggles and grins /snip Stephen, please send me one (off-list) to play with. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux

[newbie] Rear and center channels?

2003-01-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hmm, seems like I spoketh too sooneth. In another thread - I mentioned that my Soyo Dragon Plus MB's rear and center channel sound seemed to be working fine. Guess I was wrong - I unplugged my front speakers and...no sound. Well, the subwoofer is working fine. Anyone have any ideas on how to

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:56 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Thanks Stephen, that got me going in the right direction (I had to copy the entire /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory over to /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins to get it working) .. at least temporarily .. *sigh* xine-check still insists that it

Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

2003-01-21 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Don't know if it makes sense, but have you tried $ whereis g++ On my MDK9.0 I get: g++: /usr/bin/g++ /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.bz2 From your log looks like g++ is not installed. It could be in a different package than gcc (i.e. gcc-c++) raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: below is the output

[newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:56 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Am I missing something to be able to view DVDs? I'm so confused ... my brain hurts .. :-) Terry - have you tried several dvds? I can't see any of the Warner Bros dvds that I have, nor the Columbia one. I don't have many dvds, but I can

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why limit a perfectly good description to a single word? *g* I find it unbelievable that people could b so gullible. Or just plain greedy? Or maybe stupid is a better word. Anne I received this email on my linux box with an added

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Richard Gelling
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda put that line in rc.local file to make it permanent Richard G. At 15:39 21/01/2003 +, you wrote: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra
Anne, I've tried several different DVDs, none of which work. The problem I'm having is that when I run Xine, I don't even have the option of playing a DVD (on the GUI), just a VCD and a DVB (whatever that is). When I install the dvdnav package, I have the option of playing a DVD, but all it

RE: [newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
You're going to want to make sure that the lib paths point to that directory - hence editing your /etc/ld.so.conf file to include that directory would resolve the issue. 1.) Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and include: /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/win32 ...save the file 2.) Run

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda Attached is my notes on hdparm, mostly supplied by Technoslick. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:47 pm, magnet wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why limit a perfectly good description to a single word? *g* I find it unbelievable that people could b so gullible. Or just plain greedy? Or maybe stupid is a better word. Anne

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John Install hdparm, then edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:44 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Anne, I've tried several different DVDs, none of which work. The problem I'm having is that when I run Xine, I don't even have the option of playing a DVD (on the GUI), just a VCD and a DVB (whatever that is). When I install the dvdnav

Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

2003-01-21 Thread Jerry Barton
ah yes... thanks i've upgraded all the glibc and must have overlooked gcc-c++ it worked. thanks Jerry On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:38:10 +0100 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if it makes sense, but have you tried $ whereis g++ On my MDK9.0 I get: g++: /usr/bin/g++

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra
Hey Anne, Thanks for the reply. No, I don't mind an off-list post whatsoever, and welcome it. I read through the attachment you sent, and I was completely baffled by what it had to say. From what I could make of it, I do believe I have what is needed to play DVDs on my laptop (as I can

Re: [newbie] Rear and center channels?

2003-01-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, seems like I spoketh too sooneth. In another thread - I mentioned that my Soyo Dragon Plus MB's rear and center channel sound seemed to be working fine. Guess I was wrong - I unplugged my front speakers and...no sound. Well, the

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Pilagá
El Mar 21 Ene 2003 11:56, Terry Sheltra escribió: good .. I got it to see my stuff. Now when I run Xine, I STILL don't get any kind of option to view a DVD, only a VCD and a DVB. Doing a search via rpmdrake shows I have the following Xine-related packages installed:

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread et
hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read english er somthin? or they are less likely to give a $hit than my cat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] XINE

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
terminal , xine, snip dxr3_decode_video: dxr3 not present load_plugins: plugin dxr3-mpeg2 failed to instantiate itself. snip /etc/ld.so.conf --- /usr/lib/ /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/ /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/ /usr/lib/xine/plugins/ ran ldconfig NB, all the dxr3 are in

Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure: I definately have DMA enabled in bios. But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA. my hard drive is /dev/hda John Install hdparm, then edit

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:49 pm, Pilagá wrote: Terry, as I have posted early, you need (only) this rpms: This are the files that I have installed (+ decss) xine_dmd_plugin1.0.7-1plf xine-dvdnav1-0.beta2.1plf xine-plugins1-0.beta2.1plf xine-win32 1-0.beta2.1plf xine-ui

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver
Charlie, As far as I can discover Jordan the best shot you have at copying DRM (copy protected) CDs is a Windows program called Clone-CD or a drive that supports DAO in Linux. A friend has a lot of PC games and has a lot of small children around frequently (, pretty shiny fwisbee me

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, Yes, it's possible. However, making your own backup copies of copy protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic things. In linux the hardware necessities you can get; the software you cannot.

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi Damian, most likely. That cdrecord output you posted there was at 31% fifo fill... that's hardly a good level. And then: I suppose nearer 100% would be good :) Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Loss of streaming... Is this a DMA issue? I read some

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:14, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Yes, it's possible. However, making your own backup copies of copy protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic things. In linux the hardware

Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

2003-01-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:02, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, Is GMC available on MDK 9.0 software control centre? As in Gnome Midnight Commander ? Yep. It was THE file manager I have got used to after coming from a windows environment. Someone commented that it is

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread et
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 01:17 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: et wrote: hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read english er somthin? or they are less likely to give a $hit than my cat yeah...i guess you're right, but ya can't blame a fella for tryin. what else could

Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

2003-01-21 Thread et
this is linux... if you want to download the source and compile it (and all the depends), you can run stuff from all kinds of places. if you have an older version, you can even very often add that disk to the software sources and install what ever was on that disk... I still use ViaVoice that

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
just in case: hdparm -d1 /dev/devicename I'll look into it. Do you know how to run a benchmark with hdparm? Someone showed it a while back and I can't remember the switch. hdparm -tT /dev/device too bad it didn't support benchmarking a floppy disk when i tried ;o) If you are

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:46 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Hey Anne, Thanks for the reply. No, I don't mind an off-list post whatsoever, and welcome it. I read through the attachment you sent, and I was completely baffled by what it had to say. From what I could make of it, I do believe I have

RE: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Wideman
I suggest you do urpmi.removemedia -ac to remove *all* sources and start again. just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put your CD sources in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom Ok, did that. At this point i can remove

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: But as I said almost a year ago, it's not as easy to find a linux tech as a windows one. Anne :) I'm not overly expensive! At present when I'm not doing dad things and I'm not over burdened with home work for

Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:05, John Richard Smith wrote: In your experience is it still the case, I mean you mention NT servers were unreliable as against linux server boxes. I have no personal experience whatsoever. John Let's put it this way - I always setup a scheduled task on an NT box

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:25, John Richard Smith wrote: Next question how do I know which is the demuxer pluging, by way of help here is a list of packages installed so far. cd /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/dvd/xine/xineplf0103 ls libdxr3_0-0.12.0-4mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra
I don't know about you Anne, but when I installed Ogle, I had to download the Red Hat RPMs from Ogle's website. The plf ones wouldn't work after I installed them. It would just crash every time I tried to play a DVD. I also had problems with dependencies as well. It kept telling me that I

RE: [newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 02:53, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: Could we consider starting a new religion? As my frequent contacts with Islamic and Christian websites reveal their utter lack of anything even closely resembling humour, I think we may hit a hole in the market. Nevertheless I will

Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 04:48, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:02, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, Is GMC available on MDK 9.0 software control centre? As in Gnome Midnight Commander ? Yep. It was THE file manager I have got used

Re: [newbie] Xine - update - updated

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:08 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I don't know about you Anne, but when I installed Ogle, I had to download the Red Hat RPMs from Ogle's website. The plf ones wouldn't work after I installed them. It would just crash every time I tried to play a DVD. I also had problems

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Monday 20 January 2003 02:56 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 5:29 am, Robin Turner wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Interesting article in my local paper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Looks like we

Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 00:52, Jerry Barton wrote: below is the output when trying to run ./configure from a source tarball of gtop 1.0.13. I've never seen this error before below also is my gcc version. i've tried running it as root with the same results. any ideas why? Jerry. WHACK

Re: [newbie] Remote access configuration

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:28, Marc Bannink wrote: Hello, i would like to change the default screen size of the windows terminal services client. default is set to 800x600 when just starting rdesktop by hand i off course can change with the g(eomatric) option this but i would like it to

Re: [newbie] Slow

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote: I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes over one minute. I reinstalled and it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: But as I said almost a year ago, it's not as easy to find a linux tech as a windows one. Anne :) I'm not overly expensive! At present when

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 23:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I get something like this almost every 2 weeks! From the most amazing places, like Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Russia. You name it. Still trying to figure out a procmail recipe that dumps that stuff immediately! ;-) Paul Procmail is

Re: [newbie] LM9 and UT dedicated server

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 00:31, The Joker wrote: Hi all, I hope this is a correct forum to post this. I'm trying to run a dedicated server for UT on my home LAN. UT runs fine as a single player, and the server seems to start up OK, but I can't seem to connect to it from any of my other

[newbie] Spontaneous re-boots

2003-01-21 Thread Anne Wilson
Once again I am encountering spontaneous re-boots in Star/OpenOffice. It feels as though I hit some sort of ceiling, out of some resource. There must be some way I can see what's going on? I know Althlon 900 is not high spec these days, but it's not that bad. And with 512 Mb RAM I wouldn't

[newbie] Never mind

2003-01-21 Thread Charlie
Hi Listmates; I managed to fix my update and internet connection problems in beta2. _PEBKAC_ For those that are wondering; Problems existed between keyboard and chair. Or is that PEBE? (Problem exists between ears) :-P Thanks to all that tossed their hats in the ring and offered hints and

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