[newbie] xmms vs totem

2004-03-14 Thread Lee Wiggers
I ripped a number of songs with streamtuner/ripper this afternoon. When I play them with totem, they are perfect but when played with xmms there is a layer of noise (extreme) over the output. Noise is not evident in graphical. What gives? Can I fix it? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Servic

Re: [newbie] Problems with MDK 10

2004-03-14 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I managed to get Xmms to work. I downloaded and installed xmms-cdread rpm and it works. So in theory there is no reason why I can't get Xine and Totem to work. I am convinced its a plugin problem I.E. that I don't have the necessary plugins installed. Can sombody who is familiar with these thi

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Ok I'll try it tomorrow, too tired right now, also how do i get the zip icon back? It like dissapeared from my desktop when I was doing all that mount and umount stuff. On Monday 15 March 2004 12:41 am, bascule wrote: > hmm, from what i read zip disks have only one > partition on them but it i

[newbie] corrupted partition table?

2004-03-14 Thread Aaron
Hi, I tried to install MDK10 alongside my Fedora core1 on a spare partition. I didn't get very far. The installation said that my partition table is to corrupted (it was created with Fedora) and I have a choice to delete all partitions (not a choice for me). it names sr0 and something calling it

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
hmm, from what i read zip disks have only one partition on them but it is always number four, for some sort of compatibility reasons, i'd suggest making sure you have a backup of what's on it because i'm not sure that you should have that result, perhaps backing up in winxp and then making a fi

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
OK it list 4 partitions and they all say: "partition has differnet physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?)" "Does not end on cylinder boundary" On Monday 15 March 2004 12:22 am, bascule wrote: > actually that should read: > fdisk /dev/sda > sorry about that, assuming that sda exists then you can

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:34 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Jerry, > What kernel does mdk10 use? I did some googling and found out that kernel > 2.6.3 has problem with digital camera. > You can read it at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg20608.html > HTH, > Fa

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
actually that should read: fdisk /dev/sda sorry about that, assuming that sda exists then you can press 'p' and get a list of partitions on sda and see what filesystem it thinks is on there bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 2:06 am, acid wrote: > fdisk command not found--using bash > > > if you form

Re: [newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Thanks people: I got it sorted out > Quoting Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Fajar: > > AFAIK, KMail can only send plain text. The setting that you cite refers > > to how > > KMail reads mail. If it is set to "Prefer HTML to plain text", then > > incoming > > > > HTML mail will be displaye

Re: [newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fajar: > AFAIK, KMail can only send plain text. The setting that you cite refers to > how > KMail reads mail. If it is set to "Prefer HTML to plain text", then incoming > > HTML mail will be displayed in HTML format (fancy fonts, colors, yada, yada)

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Duh! forgot to log in as root error: unable to read /dev/sda4 Oh man this is drivin' me nuts > if you formatted it in winxp is it ntfs? > what does: > fdisk /dev/sda4 > give you? > > bascule > > On Monday 15 Mar 2004 1:47 am, acid wrote: > > i used: mount -t vfat /mnt/zip > > the zip drive actually

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
fdisk command not found--using bash > if you formatted it in winxp is it ntfs? > what does: > fdisk /dev/sda4 > give you? > > bascule > > On Monday 15 Mar 2004 1:47 am, acid wrote: > > i used: mount -t vfat /mnt/zip > > the zip drive actually tried to read the disk, the little light came on > > an

[newbie] Xine error: no input plugin

2004-03-14 Thread rhein
Hello, I removed Totem (it crashed all the time with DVDs) and installed Kaffeine. When I try to run a DVD a get this error message Xine error: no input plugin. What does it mean? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:05:36 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: > Now available for mdk 9.2 > > beep-media-player-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm > libbeep-media-player1-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm > libbeep-media-player1-devel-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm ...gratuitous scre

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
if you formatted it in winxp is it ntfs? what does: fdisk /dev/sda4 give you? bascule On Monday 15 Mar 2004 1:47 am, acid wrote: > i used: mount -t vfat /mnt/zip > the zip drive actually tried to read the disk, the little light came on and > I could hear the drive read head spin( i think it spins

Re: [newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Go to [newbie] user permissions thre's a copy of my fstab there. On Sunday 14 March 2004 11:55 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:48 pm, acid wrote: > ->mandrake 9.2 > ->amd xp2000+ > ->256 pc2700 > ->Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an > icon

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
> > > Hey the zip icon is gone from my desktop! How do i get it back? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
i used: mount -t vfat /mnt/zip the zip drive actually tried to read the disk, the little light came on and I could hear the drive read head spin( i think it spins ). But I got an error message: 'wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on dev/sda4 or too many mounted file systems' The disk is ok

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:15:04 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you mind if I posted a link to your site to the BMP list? Fine with me. Charles -- One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:48 pm, acid wrote: ->mandrake 9.2 ->amd xp2000+ ->256 pc2700 ->Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an icon on ->my desktop and a zip disk in the drive , but when i click on the icon it ->loads Konquerer with a blank page( 0 files, 0 direc

Re: [newbie] Howto restore USB mouse on Toshiba A10 laptop

2004-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ->Quoting John Zoetebier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ->> I booted my Toshiba laptop without the USB mouse plugged in. ->> In stead of detecting there is no mouse attached and using the TouchPad ->> Mandrake shows a new hardware dialog. ->> Not kno

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:05:36 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: > > That would be fantastic! > > > Now available for mdk 9.2 > > beep-media-player-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm > libbeep-media-player1-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm > libbeep-media-player1-devel-0.9.7-0.2004022

Re: [newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 14 March 2004 08:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting acid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > mandrake 9.2 > > How do i send email as text and not HTML. I've looked every where in > > Kmail and > > can't find that setting. > > On default, KMail uses plain text. But, just in case the HTML is tu

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
first check the results of running: mount it should list all mounted drives including entires for supermount drives with or without media in them, for your zip drive you should see an entry like: none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 14 March 2004 04:19 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 22:59, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:22:22 +0200 > > > > robin disseminated the following: > > > I just installed it, but every URL I've tried so far gives me "error > > > -54 [SR_ERROR_NOT_SHOUTCAST_STRE

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
On Sunday 14 March 2004 06:49 pm, acid wrote: > Oh NO: I logged in as root and tried to access my zip drive(yes there is a disk in the drive with files on it) I get a blank screen: 0 files 0 directories, It won't read the disk. I am so puzzled, why won't it read the disk? here's a copy of my fsta

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
well my old cdrom line looked like this (all one line): none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 if that's any help bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 11:49 pm, acid wrote: > Ok the cdroms are set and work fine, but my floppy and zip in /ect/fstab > are

[newbie] MP3 -> audio CD

2004-03-14 Thread Chris
Hmm, this didn't show up yet though one I sent after did, sorry for the dupe msg if the original shows up. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] MP3 -> audio CD Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:37:49 -0600 From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 14 Ma

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:40:24 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll try looking at beep tomorrow. > > That would be fantastic! Now available for mdk 9.2 beep-media-player-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm libbeep-media-player1-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm libbeep-media-player1-devel-

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Ok the cdroms are set and work fine, but my floppy and zip in /ect/fstab are set to supermount: none /mnt/zip supermount. there's no dev= /dev/hdb or anything like that and I can't access them as regular user. What should I add if anything?? On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:27 pm, bascule wrote: > assum

Re: [newbie] no CD audio

2004-03-14 Thread Chris
On Saturday 13 March 2004 08:44 pm, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I have sound problems on both my PCs that are running Linux. I'll just > mention one of them for now. > > I have 9.2 installed. I don't hear any audio when a CD plays. I can hear > mp3s when they play but there is no sound from my CD

[newbie] Dhcpcd vs dhclient

2004-03-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Well I was trying to figure out my whole DHCP problem with my home network. You see at least once a day, I'll be disconnected, until I reset the router. This obviously has to do with DHCP and the lease expire. I had originally thought that my Linux box used dhcpcd. Then, I realized it used dhcl

Re: [newbie] MP3 -> audio CD

2004-03-14 Thread Chris
On Sunday 14 March 2004 05:21 pm, robin wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of > mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I > wouldn't want a program to make CDs, I'd want a program that could model > Gollum. > > Sir Robin How abo

Re: [newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
assuming that you would like users to be able to change the media in the cdrom and floppy drives you will need to either use supermount or add the option 'user(s)' to the entries for these things in /etc/fstab 'user' allows any user to mount and that user to unmount, 'users' allows any user to

[newbie] User permissions

2004-03-14 Thread acid
How do I let regular users access the cdrom and floppy dive etc. I tried User Admin with no success. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:47:21 -0500 Mark Weaver disseminated the following: > and KDE 3.2 is blazing! This makes me wonder what KDE was doing before...my CPU is maxed out right now, and I see no hesitation at all in the seven or so apps I have open. Must be a Pekwm thing...I've seen my load averag

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove problem

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:47 pm, John Carver wrote: > It appears the "dcopserver" file is not working properly. > KDE will not execute its programs because this setup is not running. > Any help on this? I'm not sure this was meant to do anything other then allow folks to preview Mandrake and wha

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:03 am, anton wrote: > Big hairy things! > ARGGGH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having > to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*(&)*^ still > doesn't work (for me)! It will log me into a desktop now (before, with > 3.1.3,

Fwd: Re: [newbie] APC Back-UPS ES 500 FW:2.e2.D USB FW:e2

2004-03-14 Thread Glenn
Ah, ha. Another "Reply to:" set. I need to get used to looking for that before hitting the "Send" button . Glenn -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] APC Back-UPS ES 500 FW:2.e2.D USB FW:e2 Date: Sunday 14 March 2004 18:27 From: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB on shutdown

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Haven't used kmail since Charles pointed me to Sylpheed-Claws. I am > always resistant when someone suggests a change instead of > addressing my problem, but this switch is worth a look. > > Lee Where do I get Sylpheed-Claws, Lee? Is it include

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Someone mentioned hotplug... hotplug is installed and running. > > I tried locate scsimon (yep.. i ran updatedb first) but it didn't return > anything. > > Any suggestions? > Jerry, What kernel does mdk10 use? I did some googling and found out th

[newbie] Mandrake 10 Community and DVD Data Disks

2004-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
Is anyone else that has Mandrake 10 loaded been able to access a data DVD disk? I keep getting a message "wrong medium type" when trying to mount the drive with a data dvd in it. fstab is /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 -- Bryan Ph

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Glenn
On Sunday 14 March 2004 15:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 02:54 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > > Tip - twang city isn't classical :) > > > > Sure it is... classical country music.;-) > >"I was born in suburban Seguin" > > Never mind y'all... you'd havt'a be from Texas or been th

Re: [newbie] messaging between users

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am setting up a Mandrake linux server that will be > supporting several thin clients running X sessions. I > was wondering if there is a good way to do instant > messaging between the terminals, i.e. between > concurently logged in users on the server. I ha

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-14 Thread Glenn
On Sunday 14 March 2004 15:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > I know this may sound kind of dumb, but are you sure that you have at least > 4.7-5.0 GB of free space for temporary files? > Not so dumb, but I do actually have just short of 42Gb open in my home partition. I try swapping over to the syst

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:51, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:19:00 -0300 > Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: > > > I'm trying to record the streams, but it either is not working or is > > storing the recorded files into an unknown folder. > > The command looks like this > > Yo

Re: [newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting acid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > mandrake 9.2 > How do i send email as text and not HTML. I've looked every where in Kmail > and > can't find that setting. On default, KMail uses plain text. But, just in case the HTML is turned on, you must turn it off in: Setting > Security > Prefer

Re: [newbie] Howto restore USB mouse on Toshiba A10 laptop

2004-03-14 Thread fajarpri
Quoting John Zoetebier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I booted my Toshiba laptop without the USB mouse plugged in. > In stead of detecting there is no mouse attached and using the TouchPad > Mandrake shows a new hardware dialog. > Not knowing what to do with it I click on cancel button. > Now I do no

[newbie] kontact newsticker

2004-03-14 Thread Derek Jennings
The first time I installed Mdk10.0 by urpmi'ing to Cooker, Kontact worked perfectly. Today I did a clean install (ftp from mandrake-devel/stable) hoping it might clear up the problems I was having with USB (it did not help), but now the news ticker and weather have disappeared from kontact. The

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:33:00 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: > In the mean time you should be able to get it to build by installing > automake1.7 and removing then automake-1.4. Nah, no joy. Dammit. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:19:00 -0300 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: > I'm trying to record the streams, but it either is not working or is > storing the recorded files into an unknown folder. > The command looks like this You don't need to mess with that. Just hit the 'record' button

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:33:00 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: > > Maybe I could convince Charles to weigh in on this one? ;-) > > At the moment I'm building rekall on my 9.2 system which takes awhile, > already have it done for 10.0 but it needs to be tested. > > I'll try look

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:14:50 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I could convince Charles to weigh in on this one? ;-) At the moment I'm building rekall on my 9.2 system which takes awhile, already have it done for 10.0 but it needs to be tested. I'll try looking at beep tomorrow.

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 22:59, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:22:22 +0200 > robin disseminated the following: > > > I just installed it, but every URL I've tried so far gives me "error -54 > > [SR_ERROR_NOT_SHOUTCAST_STREAM]". > > gratuitous screenshot: > > http://www.orderinchaos.org/st

Re: [newbie] no CD audio

2004-03-14 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 15:51, Margot wrote: > > > > I hope Totem works for you - it works fine for me on 9.2, but I > could never get Xmms or Kscd to work at all. > > Margot > > > __ Same here. I have a new Dell 8300. I have

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:15:26 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: > Anyone been successful in building BMP? On MDK 9.2, I get the error: > > FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script > > Even though: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share>$rpm -qa | grep autoconf >

[newbie] OT - iMP-350 price alert

2004-03-14 Thread Todd Slater
Related to the recent discussion of iRiver's cd-based players and ogg support, I was checking out ebay auctions and found the imp350 going for anywhere between $50 and $80. Then I checked amazon.com and found it for $99 with a $30 mail-in rebate, so a final price of $69 (shipping is free). Todd W

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:34:07 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried zinf, but it wasn't GTK2 when I looked at it. I've got version > zinf-2.2.4-3mdk, have I missed some major changes? well, check in requires/provides then :). I built 2.2.5 from source, and I remember seeing it look fo

[newbie] ntfs read/write?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
according to the PR for 10.0 it says: "Server deployments also benefit from interoperability with MS-Windows® systems thanks to enhanced support of Windows' Logical Disk Manager and new read/write NTFS support." ( this at http://www.linuxmandrake.com/en/10.0/100PR.php3 ) now.. is it actually p

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:15:26 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone been successful in building BMP? On MDK 9.2, I get the error: > > FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script > > Even though: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share>$rpm -qa | grep autoconf

Re: [newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
i think you'll find that currently kmail does not compose in html but in plain text only if you meant to ask how to compose in html then you'll have to specify an external editor but if that is the case please reconsider if html is necessary bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 6:49 pm, acid wrote: >

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:31 am, Glenn wrote: > growisofs comand: > --- > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao > -speed=2 -overburn -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset

[newbie] K-mail settings

2004-03-14 Thread acid
mandrake 9.2 How do i send email as text and not HTML. I've looked every where in Kmail and can't find that setting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:18 am, Glenn wrote: > I'll attach the debugging output for the failed burn (with a DVD-RW, as > noted). I suspect there may be some problem somewhere in my K3b > configuration, since this Plextor is detected (in the K3b setup screen) as > _not_ supporting DVD+RW, but yo

[newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread acid
mandrake 9.2 amd xp2000+ 256 pc2700 Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an icon on my desktop and a zip disk in the drive , but when i click on the icon it loads Konquerer with a blank page( 0 files, 0 directories). Tried as root as well with same results. Load sa

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:31 am, Glenn wrote: > Oops, didn't notice you had your "Reply To:" set to yourself. Yeah, sorry myself. When I moved up to KDE 3.2, I lost all of my previous folder settings caused it copied them and obviously didn't copy the settings. My normal profile for the list

[newbie] messaging between users

2004-03-14 Thread stepheng-16
I am setting up a Mandrake linux server that will be supporting several thin clients running X sessions. I was wondering if there is a good way to do instant messaging between the terminals, i.e. between concurently logged in users on the server. I have heard about a program called Talk, has a

Re: [newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.

2004-03-14 Thread Lanman
Steve Kaufman wrote: but have not had time to play with it. Steve Steve; Do you think this is the appropriate list to say such things? Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to burn mdk 10 cds

2004-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:55 am, Paul Smith wrote: >Could someone here > please help me? K3B. Tools | CD | Burn From Image. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:26:15 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: > How is zinf as a replacement for xmms? It's gtk2. I tried zinf, but it wasn't GTK2 when I looked at it. I've got version zinf-2.2.4-3mdk, have I missed some major changes? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Home

Re: [newbie] adding win boot to boot loader

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:59:53 + martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey I need to add windows as a possible boot to my Linux boot loader, how might > one do that? > I have a linux boot (original) then i installed a windows boot which wiped my > linux boot loader. After resueing the boo

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:00:49 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ya, Totem is a little flaky, but it seems to do okay for me with > Streamtuner. I'm searchin' like mad for a GTK2 media player to replace > XMMS, but Beep has totem is OK mostly for that. I've had difficulty playing VCDs, wil

[newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
Anyone been successful in building BMP? On MDK 9.2, I get the error: FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script Even though: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share>$rpm -qa | grep autoconf autoconf-2.13-19mdk autoconf2.5-2.57-5mdk It was suggested on the BMP mailing list to

Re: [newbie] Writing access to a fat32 partition

2004-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 March 2004 20:28, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, martin brandt wrote: > > Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dear All > > > > > > I would like to know what is necessary to do in order to get > > > writing

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:02 am, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:47:17 -0500 > > Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How cool. I've been carrying in my satellite receiver from the car > > to listen to classical at night. > > Hmm. Try > > cut here --- > > > >

[newbie] adding win boot to boot loader

2004-03-14 Thread martin brandt
Hey I need to add windows as a possible boot to my Linux boot loader, how might one do that? I have a linux boot (original) then i installed a windows boot which wiped my linux boot loader. After resueing the bootloader with the 1st disc, i cannot get it to recognise my windows boot and add it t

Re: [newbie] no CD audio

2004-03-14 Thread Margot
eric jackson wrote: On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 02:44, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I have sound problems on both my PCs that are running Linux. I'll just mention one of them for now. I have 9.2 installed. I don't hear any audio when a CD plays. I can hear mp3s when they play but there is no sound from m

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:00:58 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: I see you're usin totem. I use to, but after several hours the stream would just quit. Same for several different streams, or very long playlists from HDD stored mp3's. I suspect totem's got a memory

Re: [newbie] Writing access to a fat32 partition

2004-03-14 Thread Olivier Esser
martin brandt wrote: Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear All I would like to know what is necessary to do in order to get writing access to a fat32 partition shared with MS Windows. You edit the /etc/fstab file as: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1

Re: [newbie] Writing access to a fat32 partition

2004-03-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, martin brandt wrote: > Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dear All > > > > I would like to know what is necessary to do in order to get > > writing access to a fat32 partition shared with MS Windows. > > > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > > > Paul The permi

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:04:34 + Patrick Dempster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2004 23:40, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:25:48 + > > It gets better. Install streamripper, and you can record the streams to > > your HD as MP3. > > Things just get better and be

Re: [newbie] Writing access to a fat32 partition

2004-03-14 Thread martin brandt
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear All > > I would like to know what is necessary to do in order to get writing > access to a fat32 partition shared with MS Windows. > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul > > > > > -- Im having the same problems. Ive found and been told t

Re: [newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:35:14 -0500 Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: > Any ideas??? Scrot is great, it's a command line tool, but of course you could bind the appropriate command to an icon or key combo, depending on your desktop/WM. Homepage here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ -- Joe

[newbie] Writing access to a fat32 partition

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know what is necessary to do in order to get writing access to a fat32 partition shared with MS Windows. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
All, I am looking for a utility to do screen captures to the clipboard by using the printScrn key. I would like to be able to paste the screenshots directly to the clipboard so I can immediately paste them into an email for example. It would be great if it had the flexability to only do the ac

[newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
All, I spent a lot of time and frustration trying to get Firefox and Thunderbird to play nice together so I decided to create my first Twiki explaining how I made this work. I hope it was appropriate to do this as it is not directly a Makdrake Linux thing but more of an application thing but I

Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:49 am, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions an

Re: [newbie] How to burn mdk 10 cds

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Charlie! Did you mean «click "write iso image"»? Yeah that's closer. Thanks, Charlie! I have already wasted 3 cds, as I get always the same error (error 254). I do not know what to do... Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:00:58 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > I see you're usin totem. I use to, but after several hours > the stream would just quit. Same for several different streams, > or very long playlists from HDD stored mp3's. I suspect totem's > got a memory leak

[newbie] Install Mandrake from HD partition

2004-03-14 Thread Chris
I downloaded Mandrake Community (3 iso files and an asc file) to a blank partition on a new harddrive. I have windows 2000 on my boot harddrive. How can I use that to 'build' my linux OS on the other partition instead of copying the files to CD's using Nero? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but a

[newbie] Mandrake 10CE Freezing.....

2004-03-14 Thread Spong3R
Hello all, I have just finished doing a clean install of the CE of mandrake, after using RC1 for a week or so, and both editions have had the same freezing problem. When the screen saver turns on, about three to four hours later the whole computer freezes and wont come out of it. I have chec

Re: [newbie] How to burn mdk 10 cds

2004-03-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 14, 2004 09:07 am, Paul Smith wrote: > > Start k3b, look for the "Tools" button in the toolbar at the top of the > > user interface, click it, click the CD section, click "Burn CD from > > Image." > > Thanks, Charlie! Did you mean «click "writ

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:45:12 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting the same problem sometimes. I assume it's a case of > streamtuner misinterpreting EOF signals, or whatever the radio Hmm. At least I'm not the only one :). > Sir Robin -- -

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:00:58 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or very long playlists from HDD stored mp3's. I suspect totem's > got a memory leak or somethin. Xmms doesn't do it. It'll play I've seen that happen too, even with xmms. I'll start a stream up, go to bed, only to wak

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:47:17 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How cool. I've been carrying in my satellite receiver from the car > to listen to classical at night. Hmm. Try cut here --- -- or [play

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:47:03 -0500 Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may be looking for Zinf ( www.zinf.org ). It is a replacement for > XMMS which is also capable of capturing streams to MP3 format and It compiles ok (needs gdbm-devel). I just installed it, haven't had a chance yet to r

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:09 am, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:44:06 -0800 > > Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Twang city.com > > Too bad they don't know how to operate a site without flash. > > But it's on shoutcast/streamtuner anyway. One can guess what kinda music > Aro

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:04 am, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:47:33 -0800 > > Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > google on kfsat.com > > A dead radio station that dosen't stink up your speakers (not much) > > www.kfat.com - ya right yee-haw :) KPIG is good but KFAT was bette

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:32:03 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting "Troy T. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Not listed as /dev/sda1? Strange. > However, you can watch what is happening by doing: > tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug-in the camera. > > > > Mar 14 09:36:35 localhost kerne

Re: [newbie] GAIM

2004-03-14 Thread bascule
hi, somewhere out there is an rpm called: gaim-0.75.yahoo-3.i386.rpm this fixes the yahoo problem, i've had no troubles since i installed it i can't remember where i found the pointer to it, i'm sure it was someone on either this or the expert list bascule On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 3:31 am, Anand S

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