[newbie] Sound - device /dev/dsp can't be opened

2004-01-30 Thread Lee B.
When logging into KDE I see the following message. Not all the time. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Where should I look to fix this?

Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

2004-01-30 Thread Søren Neigaard
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 00:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: Thursday 29 January 2004 3:27 pm, Sren Neigaard wrote: You are not assuming too much, I am running KDE. My security level is standard. I tried the terminal thing, no success. That's a fairly broad statement. Do you mean that you

Re: [newbie] Sound - device /dev/dsp can't be opened

2004-01-30 Thread Paul
On 01/30/2004 08:00 AM, Lee B. wrote: When logging into KDE I see the following message. Not all the time. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output

Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!

2004-01-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 30 Jan 2004 12:56 am, Terence Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:04 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:18, Tom Brinkman wrote: What's CRS? Can't Remember Stuff IIRC, I've

Re: [newbie] wma to mp3

2004-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 30 January 2004 05:56, anton wrote: IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that even apps that said they went direct actually just had a WAV step that wasn't shown to the user. The above advice is

Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 20:46 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade? On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:24 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: An update: I begin by defineing an update source from:

Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 21:07 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade? On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:24 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: An update: I begin by defineing an update source from:

Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 18:56 Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrecord not! On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:04 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: On Wed,

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: cpu temp 50C System temp 32C Both of these will go up about 5C when you just boot into the OS. Under load, that will climb about another 10C or more. No, it stays the same about 50C on desktop, the maximum rise is to about 56C on full load conditions and the cpu usage

Re: [newbie] Sorry it didn't work out!

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:40:47 -0600 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: I stopped by Debian on my way here unless you are a geek gru you dont belong there. Debian ain't that bad, once you get it going. It's the install that can be a beotch. You gotta know your hardware, how to configure it,

Re: [newbie] What is wrong with this article?

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:21:46 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Go get 'em Joe! Ooh, he was *not* happy with that. However, I got this from Reader Services: thank you for taking the time to contact The Age. I have included your comments in a weekly feedback report reviewed by

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:27:46 +1300 anton disseminated the following: Don't be silly now, and format the bugger in NTFS. Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. -- JoeHill ++

Re: [newbie] signature script comes out weird

2004-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:24:01 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it comes out like this How do you want it to look? Post the script that you are using. Charles -- The cutting edge is getting rather dull. -- Andy Purshottam - Mandrake Linux

[newbie] Install trouble - Mdrk9.1 - OF 1.0.5

2004-01-30 Thread Mark Day
Hi Guys and Girls, Newbie to Linux on PPC! HELP.. I can't install Mandrake 9.1. I'm on a 7300/200 with OF 1.0.5 I've booted into OF and tried 'boot scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0, \\yaboot I get the error 'bad partition number using 0' 'no bootable HFS partition'. Any ideas or tutorials around?

Re: [newbie] signature script comes out weird

2004-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:24:01PM -0700, jason pearl wrote: whenever i try to use a script it puts my sig in one continuous line. is there a reason it does this? i have the same script as before, it is just copied. it comes out like this jason pearl [EMAIL

[newbie] Licq

2004-01-30 Thread Andr Tapxure Gabriel
Hi there! It's me again :) I'm trying to install Licq in Mandrake 9.2 and when I click in the .rpm, the system give me the following message No satisfeita a condio htmlview This message is in portuguese and I don't Know how to translate to the original version but means the some

Re: [newbie] Sorry it didn't work out!

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 05:32 Subject: Re: [newbie] Sorry it didn't work out! On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:40:47 -0600 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: I stopped by Debian on my way here unless you

Re: [newbie] Licq

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:01:46 -0200 André Tapxure Gabriel disseminated the following: Hi there! It's me again :) I'm trying to install Licq in Mandrake 9.2 and when I click in the .rpm, the system give me the following message Não satisfeita a condição htmlview This message is in

Re: [newbie] Adding more ram

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:41:52 -0600 Dennis Myers wrote: You should have no problems Dan, the OS will see it without you doing a thing. Did for me. HTH Thanks Dennis. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Jan 30 08:24:54 EST 2004 08:24:55 up 19:51, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.15, 0.12

[newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread Tango Echo
Can anyone get into Easy Urpmi? And what was that talk I heard about integrating it into cooker? Thanks, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Licq

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:14:25 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: (htmlview, specifically). hmmm, can't even find a package named htmlview...maybe my portuguese is getting rusty... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

[newbie] Re: Ready for install?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I was wondering what happened to the 19.1MB I downloaded from the main server. (still wondering). I had one reference from the download [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] so I went there to see what had been downloaded. There were 3 files in the directory and 1 was empty 1 contained the address of the

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:30:58 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo disseminated the following: Can anyone get into Easy Urpmi? Yep. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ True communication is possible only between equals,

Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for install?

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:03:44 -0600 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: #Here you can specify packages that need to be installed instead #of being upgraded (typically kernel packages) kernel kernel-smp kernel-secure kernel-enterprise kernel-linus2.2 kernel-linus2.4 kernel122

[newbie] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13891 -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we

[newbie] Licq

2004-01-30 Thread Andr Tapxure Gabriel
Hi there! It's me again :) I'm trying to install Licq in Mandrake 9.2 and when I click in the .rpm, the system give me the following message No satisfeita a condio htmlview This message is in portuguese and I don't Know how to translate to the original version but means the some

Re: [newbie] Sorry it didn't work out!

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:36:46 -0600 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: I was refering to the population of the list. There are some nice people there but there are others. Mandrake downloaded installed without a problem. Of course there are minor difficulties here there. And the

Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for install?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 07:41 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for install? On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:03:44 -0600 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: #Here you can specify packages that need to be

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:48 am, JoeHill wrote:      If it errors, it just puts out a mesg that it stopped on hardware errors.   As with any stress test, it's then up to you to sort out if it's cooling, PSU, cpu/cache/ram, motherboard, etc. Well, if it's the MOBO or CPU, then I'm

[newbie] Remote Access

2004-01-30 Thread Mike Begin
Title: 9.2 update Hello, I am setting up a Mandrake 9.2 box as a syslog server and was wondering how I could gain access to that box remotely? I prefer to use SSH. Can anyone provide me with some direction? Thanks, Mike

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:33:51 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: However, if it's the memory only, I could eliminate that possibility with memtest, no? You could start with memtest86, BUT I've seen a lot of times that mprime will catch errors that memtest86 passes.

[newbie] Kernel rebuild question.

2004-01-30 Thread Steve Kaufman
I am a very newbie to Linux and this whole different world. I installed 9.2 a week or so ago and finally figured out how to get all the updates. I'm using the GUI by the way. The process was successful and now if I check there are no more updates so I think things went OK. Two questions: 1)

RE: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:30:58 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo disseminated the following: Can anyone get into Easy Urpmi? Yep. -- JoeHill

Re: [newbie] Remote Access

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:38:27 -0500 Mike Begin disseminated the following: I am setting up a Mandrake 9.2 box as a syslog server and was wondering how I could gain access to that box remotely? I prefer to use SSH. Can anyone provide me with some direction? Depends on the security level

Re: [newbie] Remote Access

2004-01-30 Thread jason pearl
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:38, Mike Begin wrote: Hello, I am setting up a Mandrake 9.2 box as a syslog server and was wondering how I could gain access to that box remotely? I prefer to use SSH. Can anyone provide me with some direction? Thanks, Mike You basically answered

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:50:28 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo disseminated the following: So, what about the possible cooker integration? I think something like that would be great! I thought Cooker was already an option on EasyUrpmi? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] Kernel rebuild question.

2004-01-30 Thread jason pearl
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:40, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am a very newbie to Linux and this whole different world. I installed 9.2 a week or so ago and finally figured out how to get all the updates. I'm using the GUI by the way. The process was successful and now if I check there are no more

Re: [newbie] 9.2 update

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:38:07 -0800 Dodd GS07 David J disseminated the following: I have been using 9.2 for several months and at first had a problem loading ethereal because it wanted tcpdump and wouldn't allow me to install. I fixed this by going over to http://rpm.pbone.net/ I found

Re: [newbie] Kernel rebuild question.

2004-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 30 January 2004 14:40, Steve Kaufman wrote: The reason for this second question is I have a concern,that was also mentioned in another post, about booting from a kew kernel and not being able to fall back to the working one should something happen. This probably referred to the

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 29 January 2004 02:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: However this is going to shock you. AMD appear to sanction a maximum die temperature of 90 C, yes I repeat 90C, I know, how can anything electrical survive at 90C, beats me and I would never allow that on principle, but judge for

RE: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:50:28 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo disseminated the following: So, what about the possible cooker integration? I

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:15:18 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo disseminated the following: I thought Cooker was already an option on EasyUrpmi? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Are you pulling my leg or did you just misunderstand? I never know with you, Joe =) Then again, maybe it was myself that

Re: [newbie] Valid Script Name in Evolution

2004-01-30 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:12, Larry Varney wrote: I'm trying to add a script as my signature within Evolution. I have created a script and tested it within a shell, and it works. But when I try to add it within Evolution, even when I browse to the correct script, I keep getting told to

Re: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Steve Kaufman
Have you tried just plugging it in and rebooting? I know when I put in a usbmouse that was all i had to do and it worked fine. ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/30/04 14:17:17 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers I have an older

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Begin
Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading

Re: [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread bascule
if you already have usb up and running then i suspect that will need to use the usb-storage module, this should allow your card reader to show up as a hard disk, usually an emulated scsi disk, then you can mount the card reader just as you mount a hard disk and treat it as such, there have been

Re: [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Marc
On Friday 30 January 2004 12:57 pm, Maurice O'Connor wrote: I have an older digital camera (Olympus c2000Z). I can connect to it through gphoto, but it is a serial connection and very slow. Recently I was given a card reader for a USB connection. It would be great if I knew how to use it.

Re: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Maurice O'Connor
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:43, Steve Kaufman wrote: Have you tried just plugging it in and rebooting? I know when I put in a usbmouse that was all i had to do and it worked fine. ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/30/04 14:17:17 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates

2004-01-30 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:53, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no

Re: [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Maurice O'Connor
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:54, bascule wrote: if you already have usb up and running then i suspect that will need to use the usb-storage module, this should allow your card reader to show up as a hard disk, usually an emulated scsi disk, then you can mount the card reader just as you mount a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates

2004-01-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 30 January 2004 02:53 pm, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed

RE: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Viking Skull
Anyone? :( From: Viking Skull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:35:59 + Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major

[newbie] sound card and modem card not working

2004-01-30 Thread Marshall Mathers
hi,,, I have mandrake 9.2,,,just installed it monday ;-) with dual boot with xp. I have a PCTEL Platinum v.90 modemi have looked EVERYWHERE for a driver for linuxbut i could find any. Does anybody know where I could find such a driver? And I have a VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM), its

Re: [newbie] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS

2004-01-30 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:46, JoeHill wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13891 Joe Esthetically speaking, the poem is really cool, but I think its formatting could be as follows There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say,

Re: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 30 January 2004 20:17, Maurice O'Connor wrote: Thanks Steve I can see in Hardrake /dev/sda which the reader but I still don't know what to do about it. I am not a guru by any means and don't know how to access the device so that it reads a card and shows the pictures on the

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:35 AM 1/30/04, Viking Skull wrote: Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i cant do anything with data CD's

[newbie] 9.2 updates on hold

2004-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
For the moment the 9.2 updates on my site are on hold until Sun or Mon. I am moving all of my system to a new location. Thus far have only got my gateway and main cooker system back online. Adding to the hold-up on the 9.2 system is that I am completly rebuilding it. Going from Asus AMD 1g to

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Viking Skull
I just did what the link said but all i get is: /mnt/scd0 not supported by hdparm If my drive isnt supported, why does Mandrake find it and know that its an HP 8100series CD-RW? This is really annoying me now... From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:57, Maurice O'Connor wrote: I have an older digital camera (Olympus c2000Z). I can connect to it through gphoto, but it is a serial connection and very slow. Recently I was given a card reader for a USB connection. It would be great if I knew how to use it. What

Fixed: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

2004-01-30 Thread Søren Neigaard
Hi all Ok I found one difference from root to my normal user. My normal user had this dir wit all the .desktop stuff in: .kde/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers And root did not, so I tried removing this dir from my normal user, and kawaam all the screensavers are there and they work :D

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:10 pm, Viking Skull wrote: I just did what the link said but all i get is: /mnt/scd0 not supported by hdparm If my drive isnt supported, why does Mandrake find it and know that its an HP 8100series CD-RW? This is really annoying me now... From: Frank Bax

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

2004-01-30 Thread Margot
Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: Margot wrote: Thanks, but that isn't the problem. Perhaps I'm not explaining myself clearly... 2 snapshots attached, user and root versions of menudrake. The root version contains the list of available applications, the

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

2004-01-30 Thread Margot
mike wrote: Margot wrote: Thanks, but that isn't the problem. Perhaps I'm not explaining myself clearly... 2 snapshots attached, user and root versions of menudrake. The root version contains the list of available applications, the user one does not. I want to add some of these applications to

Re: [newbie] Sound - device /dev/dsp can't be opened

2004-01-30 Thread Lee B.
Paul wrote: On 01/30/2004 08:00 AM, Lee B. wrote: When logging into KDE I see the following message. Not all the time. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null

Re: Fixed: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 30 January 2004 3:39 pm, Sren Neigaard wrote: Hi all Ok I found one difference from root to my normal user. My normal user had this dir wit all the .desktop stuff in: .kde/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers And root did not, so I

Re: [newbie] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:01 -0200 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Viking Skull
Ok I managed to turn off DMA by using the same command as the guy in that other post and it worked. Unfortunately, it still causes my system to lock up. HELP! :P From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes

Re: [newbie] Sound - device /dev/dsp can't be opened

2004-01-30 Thread Lee B.
Paul wrote: On 01/30/2004 08:00 AM, Lee B. wrote: When logging into KDE I see the following message. Not all the time. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null

Re: [newbie] wma to mp3

2004-01-30 Thread anton
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 05:56, anton wrote: IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that even apps that said they went direct actually just had a WAV step that wasn't shown to the user. The above

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread anton
Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. Yip that's true (people seem to be skim reading my posts...). I must say though, IMHO, you need a damn good reason to be writing to the

[newbie] Poetry

2004-01-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Folks, can you say it better ? : http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/30/05OPeditor_1.html So as in politics and religion, while kooks like Mydooms author grab headlines and inflame tempers, the real action takes place elsewhere -- in this case at big companies across the globe where smart

Re: [newbie] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS

2004-01-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:20, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:01:01 -0200 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are

Re: [newbie] Sound - device /dev/dsp can't be opened

2004-01-30 Thread Lee B.
Lee B. wrote: Paul wrote: On 01/30/2004 08:00 AM, Lee B. wrote: When logging into KDE I see the following message. Not all the time. Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue,

[newbie] Re: Ready for update?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name? If the package manager is not the right program to use for updates then what is? Please be specific, I'm dense. I finished downloading the sources. What happened to

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:33:51 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: Many times ram errors, specially if the ram has been reliable in the past, can be solved by reseating the ram sticks, and/or swapping the slots their in. Of course clean the contacts also. Rubbing lightly

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 14:37 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates On Friday 30 January 2004 02:53 pm, Michael Begin wrote: Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update

Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?

2004-01-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 30 January 2004 06:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name? If the package manager is not the right program to use for updates then what is? Please be specific, I'm

Re: [newbie] sound

2004-01-30 Thread Giuseppe Spagnolo
On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:19, P J Scott wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 12:28, Giuseppe Spagnolo wrote: Thanks, I just ran this tool and as far as i can see everything is fine. It has the right sound card and it let me choose different drivers. I tried them both and neither works.

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:51:02 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 point though is that with gimp you will see No noticeable performance difference by rebuilding as target athlon than you would see simply using the i586 rpms. as mine are built with mmx and sse. What options are

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:37:54 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But my cpu can do mmx/sse. My gimp rpms are built with those enabled Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #410: Kill Ted Knight - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:34 am, many eyes noted that Bryan Phinney wrote: Never a bad idea to start with XP and then install Mandrake however, Mandrake is much more accepting of XP than the other way around. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer It's been some time since I used XP, but if I

Re: [newbie] Sorry it didn't work out!

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:24 am, many eyes noted that Mike Adolf wrote: I am going to give Debian a try. I know, it is more nuts and bolts than Mandrake, but I am not looking for something that's easy, just applications that work as the interface implies. I am not burning bridges. Who knows,

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

2004-01-30 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 30 January 2004 03:05 pm, Margot wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: Margot wrote: Checked the files you suggested - all were installed except the first one, and when I tried to get it this was the result: unable to access rpm file

[newbie] urpmi.setup

2004-01-30 Thread Joe
It has come to my attention that all of the benefits of easyurpmi have been included in mandrake in the form of urpmi.setup (thanks Tom). How unfortunate that this great tool is not installed by default, and placed in the configuration menu for KDE!! How many newbies would benefit from the use

Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?

2004-01-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 20:07 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update? On Friday 30 January 2004 06:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem.

Re: [newbie] sound card and modem card not working

2004-01-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 30 January 2004 03:54 pm, Marshall Mathers wrote: hi,,, I have mandrake 9.2,,,just installed it monday ;-) with dual boot with xp. I have a PCTEL Platinum v.90 modemi have looked EVERYWHERE for a driver for linuxbut i could find any. Does anybody know where I could find

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:50:45 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:37:54 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But my cpu can do mmx/sse. My gimp rpms are built with those enabled Yep. I just did 'rpm --rebuild --target=athlon', built and

[newbie] real player codecs in plf mplayer?

2004-01-30 Thread anton
Hi, I am trying to listen to some online radio and thought that I could just type mplayer url, the url being a real audio source. I just get the following. It looks like it will play but then exits with no real error message. I have the plf version. It seems that there are some realplayer

Re: [newbie] real player codecs in plf mplayer?

2004-01-30 Thread anton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ rpm -qa | grep real real-codecs-1.2-1plf And real 9 definitely seems to be installed... -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-30 Thread Ramin
To know if you CD-ROM is emulated as scsi, you may run the following command (as root): cdrecord -scanbus. On January 30, 2004 11:35 am, Viking Skull wrote: Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try