Re: [newbie] SATA Raid

2004-08-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:58:17 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your SATA bios already has troubles with both drives i would suggest the following: First check your master/slave jumpers on the harddrives (are they correctly set?) One of the drive's labels states;

Re: [newbie] SATA Raid

2004-08-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:18:48 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really not trying to be rude, just practical, but since this question actually has nothing to do with Linux, the support site for your card or motherboard might be a better place to ask about this. Yeah... I meant to

Re: [newbie] SATA Raid

2004-08-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:42:36 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the drive is ticking / clicking when operating, this sounds not good, but you know for sure if you attach the drive to a single-bus IDE connector. Unfortunately, the drive has no IDE connector. If you

Re: [newbie] SATA Raid

2004-08-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:52:28 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/richer/ens/deug2/ud44/img/dd4.jpg - the dark-grey strip covers a very large space. The newer techniques pasting the top plates onto the bottom-case. It is much better, but i still

[newbie] SATA Raid

2004-08-22 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm trying to set up RAID 1 array with two 160G WD Caviar disks. Both disks are new and blank POST shows the RAID PCI card but shows one disk as 0 MB. Switching cables, positions on the PCI card and the PCI slots themselves makes no difference. When I go into the SATA setup and choose RAID 1 the

[newbie] Install problem

2004-08-19 Thread C. Tresenriter
I have Mdk 10.0 on hda and just put Slackware 10.0 on hdc then thought I'd put Mdk on hdc's remaining space. The install fails after choosing language and accepting the agreement. Eventually it drops to the shell and says ...exited with signal 8 The last thing I see before the error

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:37:32 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root, modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss john # modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss FATAL: Error inserting snd-seq-oss (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko.g

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:07:05 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss FATAL: Error inserting snd-seq-oss (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss. ko.g z): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:45:25 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think modprobe accepts only _one_ module name as parameter, so you would use: # modprobe snd_seq_oss # modprobe snd_pcm_oss # modprobe snd_mixer_oss # If you get back the command prompt everything went ok, but

[newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-16 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-16 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:57:13 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 13:35, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Is it just .mov files? Possible causes may

Re: [newbie] .mov sound

2004-08-16 Thread C. Tresenriter
My last post was a little misleading. I had tried alsa before I'd posted the original question. Don't remember exactly when I saw the ...null output messaage but it wasn't when I tried alsa - that just gave no sound as with oss. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] OT: F@H/BOINC was: Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:11:58 -0700 Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have they got a Boinc client yet? The Seti group are going to the Boinc Boinc client in order to share the many pc's that currently run Seti. Roly Did a bit of research and found this. Similar aims as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot to turn the protein folding back on when I switched to the new machine. Woops. Two weeks lost. Thank {Deity} the old system is still chugging away. Charlie - -- I just

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:08:42 -0600 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 04:42:04, C. Tresenriter wrote: On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reminding me! I

[newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
I must have misunderstood you. I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on rebooting it didn't start. Obviously there's something else I need to do. What is it I'm missing? Curt

Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser

2004-08-02 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 17:27, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:22, C. Tresenriter wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:16, Stephen Kühn wrote: So do I understand correctly that I must start from the gnome desktop to access this? Either run it from a run dialogue, or from

Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser

2004-07-29 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:58, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 01:40, C. Tresenriter wrote: Where is the file that I would edit to make links in Evolution open opera rather than konq? I'm using kde for now. Thanks gconf-editor = desktop = gnome = url-handlers = http stephen

Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser

2004-07-29 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:16, Stephen Kühn wrote: So do I understand correctly that I must start from the gnome desktop to access this? Either run it from a run dialogue, or from a terminal. stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks... didn't have it installed.

[newbie] Printer config

2004-07-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
I am trying to set up network printing through an SMC Barricade router (4 port) I have tried several configurations with no success so far. I've entered the Gateway address for the Barricade but I believe that the default port (9100) is incorrect. How do I determine what port is used for printing?

Re: [newbie] Printer config

2004-07-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:53:02 +0300 Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Curt, If you're using the CUPS system, you need to enable port 631 HTH, Thanks Amachai, Haven't quite got it figured yet but I'm getting closer. Curt Want to

[newbie] Install crashes computer

2004-07-14 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm attempting an upgrade as a last ditch effort after getting nowhere trying to troubleshoot a Kernel panic : No init found error. It's Mdk 10.0 Official Can anyone tell me what might be the problem from the error message? Entering step 'Language' Gdk-Warning ** locale not supported by

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-09 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:07:39 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms.

[newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo signal, but there's no sound and the timer sits at zero. Then if I

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:08:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Install the xmms-aRts plugin and open up xmms, go to Options, preferences and under output plugins, select the newly installed Arts plugin. Change the buffering to your desire and you should be good to go. --

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:58:26 +0700 Bambang Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try at xmms Preferences Output Plugins, choose arts output Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. use command: rpm -qa|grep xmms you'll see in there Yop there it is. Bambang

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:54:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the drop

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:39:10 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:17 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. Just to make sure that you are not expending time on something that is not a problem, why not try

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:59:49 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:44:52 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: That did it!! The CD's playing with the OSS output plugin - with the aRts plugin it still crashes. So it KDE's sound system that needs tweaking?? My

Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\

2004-07-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On 06 Jul 2004 16:09:52 -0400 Eric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play

[newbie] Burning DVDs from an iso

2004-07-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
Anyone have an opinion on the best way/program to burn a bootable iso to a DVD -R disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] RESOLVED Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-30 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:48:12 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Tresenriter wrote: Appears I spoke too soon. Once I put the CD/DVD back on the cable I got the error again. BOth units are set to the cable select position. H. ? Strange. I wonder

Re: [newbie] RESOLVED Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-30 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:06:01 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might do better to change the jumpers from cable select to explicit master/slave if you are trying to hook a hard drive up to the same controller as as CD/DVD. Also, Make the hd the master, not the CD/DVD device.

[newbie] OT: This is so cool!!

2004-06-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
What you can do with Linux http://www.dashpc.com/ (if you have a lot of money!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:35 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Are the connectors on that cable labeled for where they should be plugged in? (Motherboard, drive 0, drive 1) If so, are you plugging things in the correct place? You may also have to try

Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:56:13 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were you, I would try changing to cable select, and see if that fixes the problem. I know that one setup I have does not work right when useing the cable select cable, and jumpering as master, or slave.

Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:57:08 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that seems to have solved the issue, it's booting from the primary channel, master position on the cable. Guess I'll leave well enough alone. Appears I spoke too soon. Once I put the CD/DVD back on the cable I

[newbie] Troubleshooting hardware

2004-06-18 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm trying to determine if my hard disk is bad or if the problem is motherboard related or something else entirely. When booting 10. CE, after running POST, I occasionally get: Disk boot failure: Insert systems disk and press enter to continue Yesterday I received a replacement mobo from ASUS,

[newbie] urpmi main source

2004-05-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm running 10.0 official - updated from CE via downloaded iso's I can't seem to add a source for a main mirror. I've tried seven or eight different ones over the last two days trying both MCC and urpmi with no luck. Sources for plf, contrib, updates and a local folder were added with no

Re: [newbie] Logitech mouseman and 10.0

2004-05-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 6 May 2004 07:01:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:14 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: XF86Config-4 is the same as 9.2 except the Device line in the Input Devices section says /dev/mouse where in 9.2 it says /dev/psaux... Changing it didn't help

[newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI

2004-05-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or

[newbie] Logitech mouseman and 10.0

2004-05-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
I've just installed 10. CE and find that I can no longer scroll windows contents with the wheel. It's a USB cordless plugged in to a USB/PS2 converter which still works fine in 9.2 XF86Config-4 is the same as 9.2 except the Device line in the Input Devices section says /dev/mouse where in 9.2

[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
NTP will synchronize your clock to UTC time. It will also maintain a drift file and get better with time at holding the machine's clock accurate. You can't set your clock to a local timezone. Rick, Just realized your reply to: is set to your address so you'll get this twice. Thanks for the

[newbie] connectivity issue.... again

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
I just started gFTP to get the 10.0 iso and it is proceeding and only with occasional interruptions to the xmms stream I was using Opera's download manager which may have been part of the problem. I've lowered the Audio Buffer size (KDE) which seems to have improved the situation - though

[newbie] connectivity issue oops! thought I'd sent this....

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
My 9.2 upgrade (from 9.1) seems to be having a problem. I'm downloading the 10.0 betas but when I start the download it interrupts the stream playing on xmms - and then the stream will not reconnect - it will hang at the connecting phase or during buffering. On occasion it will start the stream

[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time

2004-02-02 Thread C. Tresenriter
I've recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and ever since I can't seem to make the clock keep correct time - everything else seems to be ok. At this moment, it's either 7 hours fast or 5 hours slow it's 11:08 CST but the clock reads 6:08. I chose ntp to sync time - just like I did in 9.1, so I'm

[newbie] XMMS acting up

2003-12-21 Thread C. Tresenriter
I've been unable to figure out why xmms will sometimes load a directory (/mnt/cdrom1) and sometimes it won't. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. Has anyone dealt with this behavior? -- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot

[newbie] xawtv 9.1

2003-12-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm trying to get xawtv running here. Output tells me: This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.26mdk) can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory v4l2: open

Re: [newbie] Boot hangs on startup (video problem?)

2003-12-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:32:06 -0800 EH wrote: | # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: | # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) | # 1 - Single user mode | # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have | # networking) 3 - Full multiuser mode |

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:42:50 + JRS wrote: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~snip*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ | Clearly , it's about whether I want to, | a) UPS my attic power supply, running 3 computers, and surge protect | only the one. | b) surge protect all 4 computers, no ups. | c) just accept the risks. | | But

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-02 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 04:36:01 -0500 J wrote: | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:13 -0600 | C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | not even the updated kernel. Everything already installed... for | each. | | Well, you must be already up-to-date with at least the packages in | main, ie. Gnome 2.4

[newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
This doesn't seem right to me... On my 9.1 system, urpmi --auto-select -a returns: One of the following packages is needed: 1- NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 2- NVIDIA_kernel-enterprise-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 3- NVIDIA_kernel-smp-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk.i586 4-

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:51:59 -0500 J wrote: |On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:40:20 -0600 |C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've been running the default kernel from the beginning and all |hardware is the same as when I originally installed. | What would cause any of these packages to be needed

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0500 BP wrote: |Because one of the packages that you are trying to install was built |with an NVIDIA kernel, even though you don't have an NVIDIA card. You |need to check your sources to see where you are pulling files from, a |lot of the Texstar packages require

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:19:44 -0500 BP wrote: | Well, the choice is up to you but the standard Mandrake 9.1 kernel is | up to 2.4.21-0.25mdk, IIRC so that would match with that package. If | you have not upgraded to this version yet, you may be missing some | security updates that have been added

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:55:28 -0500 J wrote: | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:19:44 -0500 | Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Once again, that is not a kernel. If you look at the size, it is 648K, | the kernel is over 20MB. | | It is a driver module with the kernel version attached so you know |

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:08:58 -0500 J wrote: | I would still investigate some way of skipping it altogether, since | any apps you are going to be running that require GL rendering are | just going to use your ATI driver, no? Makes sense to me. | | Maybe just try this instead: | |

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:40 -0500 BP wrote: Well, you could instead choose NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 which will give you the latest Mandrake Kernel along with the Nvidia module which will not load for you. That way, no more issues about dependencies from the Texstar packages.

Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel

2003-12-01 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:40 -0500 BP wrote: | On Monday 01 December 2003 07:18 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: | | Would 'urpmi kernel-2.3.21-0.25mdk' be a mistake? | If so, what would be the proper way to do it? | | Well, you could instead choose | NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586

Re: [newbie] Visio-like software for Linux/Mandrake?

2003-11-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:57:12 -0800 MK wrote: |Sorry if this is repeat, got a bounce from sympa that the original was |Interpreted to contain a command. | | |OK, I'll admit I'm just jumping a step and going right to those who |have more time in the trenches w/ Linux. I'm taking a class that

Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware

2003-11-18 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? After countless attempts at installing 9.1, using alt0 and alt1 - along with the stock kernel, with and without 'noapic', the farthest I can get is packages beginning to install

Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware

2003-11-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: [] |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? linux noapic goes as far as formatting the first partition and hangs with the caps lock and scroll lock lit up on the keyboard. I seem to remember doing an alternate

Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error

2003-11-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:42:49 -0600 CT wrote: |On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:37:44 + |SN wrote: | ||I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. [...snip...] I said: [...snip...]...to |theappend line in your /etc/fstab. That's it. DOH! (slap) I meant to say lilo.conf Sorry I know no

Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error

2003-11-16 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:37:44 + SN wrote: |I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be |my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't |currently set to scsi, but I don't know how to make it that way. What |could I do to get my CD Reader working in

[newbie] Install on old hardware

2003-11-16 Thread C. Tresenriter
After several attempts to install 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 on a PT-5VMD mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset), I finally got through the formatting stage and packages began to install and then crashed with a (now) familiar message that I've seen at different stages - sometimes right after booting, sometimes when

Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)

2003-10-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade tools. Which is the best option and where |can I get information on installing and

Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware

2003-10-15 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:33 -0400 LW wrote: |On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 |Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? | Paul | | |Works fine. Remember to install the source for the kernel and |VMware takes it from there. | |It's all

[newbie] archives search

2003-10-13 Thread C. Tresenriter
Has anyone been able to search the archives this past weekend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] archives search

2003-10-13 Thread C. Tresenriter
On 13 Oct 2003 08:48:29 -0400 ET wrote: |try the ones at marc.theaimsgroup.com |-- |++ |Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Cool! Thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:00:11 +0100 DJ wrote: IF I can jump in here I'm trying to add my CDROMs (powerpack 9.1) to the software sources |To do that from Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareSoftware Source |Manager select all the entries for your CDs and delete them. Close the |GUI | |Insert CD1

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-11 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:14:47 +0200 HJB wrote: |You have to specify the RPMSx directory (where x is the number i.e. |removable://mnt/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMSx with ../synthesishdlist.cz | |good luck, |HarM Ahhh... Thanks HarM! good to know. curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources

2003-10-10 Thread C. Tresenriter
I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I change the path to scd1 for the sources? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation and CD sources

2003-10-10 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:15:27 +0100 DJ wrote: |On Friday 10 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: | I've recently added scsi emulation for my ATAPI CDROM, would this be |the reason I see, unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium |for all CDs when I try urpmi?... and if so where do I

[newbie] Opening .ppz files

2003-10-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
The file is a power point package presentation - as opposed to .pps A google search turned up a suggestion for Open Office Draw (Impress) but it wouldn't do it, complaining of a wrong format If you want to try, it's the link at the first bullet point (Demo) here:

Re: [newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?

2003-09-30 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:54:34 -0500 TO wrote: |I have a Maxtor model 4W030H2 30GB drive I would like to make the Slave in a |dual Master-Slave setup. | |What is the correct jumper setting to make the Maxtor the Slave drive? IIRC the settings are not the same for all drives. Search here:

Re: [newbie] Browser

2003-09-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
On M Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Where? | |Miark | |http://www.texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html |On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:10:23 -0500, Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |I'm using Opera because I'm addicted to mouse gestures. Is there a | |OpenSource alternative with this

[newbie] Top 10 things to do with your SCO invoice

2003-09-04 Thread C Tresenriter
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1918229 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problen with Audigy 2

2003-08-01 Thread C Tresenriter
At 03:05 PM 8/1/03 -0300, you wrote: Hi, first, sorry for my english, is not soo good. That it´s my firs week with Linux, and more i don´t know. The Linux Mandrake 9.1, have detect my sound card (Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2), in the control center of linux mandrake apear emu10k2, thats if i

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again...

2003-07-22 Thread C Tresenriter
There's plenty of blame to go around. It takes two to tango. It's just like politics... the Republicans blame Democrats and Democrats blame Republicans. The truth, I think lies somewhere in between. At 11:42 PM 7/22/03 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:28:53 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-06-28 Thread C Tresenriter
At 02:08 PM 6/28/03 -0600, you wrote: quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so

Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2

2003-06-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:11:41 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll google for the manual - there has to be one right? Yeah, check here: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/welcome.html Found one for 0.8.3... maybe I missed it - I'll check again.

Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention

2003-06-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 06:19:21 -0700 owenb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get a response concerning defective Mandrake merchandise? I tried what e-mail and phone number I could find without any response. I bought, The Definitive Manual for version 9.0 just prior to the release of the 9.1

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-25 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:50:58 -0400 Charles Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John; Not sure if I understand all you have said! But to boot two OS: 1st OS install lilo in MBR 2nd OS install lilo in the 2nd OS's hard disk partition. like this root=hda5, boot=hda5 Change hda5 to where ever

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:23:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:21:54 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This happened a couple days ago - following some advice here, I removed all the CD sources to rely on the 'main' that I have added

[newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode 259074, block 524290 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Re: [newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:15:02 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you don't have a browser open somewhere that's it's tabbing too? I am using claws 9.0, but it's manual is at: file:///usr/share/sylpheed/manual/en/sylpheed.html eric There's a manual in

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:15:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz all

[newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs on my 9.1 install? I found a compression format for audio yesterday that I want to use - .shn - but the program isn't made in an RPM. thanks c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On 24 Jun 2003 22:17:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, C. Tresenriter wrote: I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device

Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:55:07 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:20:59 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs on my 9.1 install? I found a compression format for audio yesterday that I

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:19:32 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you don't mind, please send to the lists at linux-mandrake, not mandrake-linux. I've not taken the time to setup my filters to catch everything (to anyone reading this with

Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:01:20 +0200 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:55:07 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:20:59 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What kinds of problems might I encounter mixing anything with RPMs

Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10 Juyst what I was looking for Derek Muchgrass! c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] RPMs, targz, bzip...

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:29:10 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most source packages will come with, ahem, detailed instructions (README or INSTALL). 9 times out of 10 the instructions are: unpack archive cd into new dir ./configure make this assumes you have all

Re: [newbie] Putting back cd's as sources

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:20:30 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I did a dumb-ass thing, following easy rpmi's suggestion last night when I added contrib as a source I reinitialized urpmi's setup, therefore of course my cd sources are gone. Don't know if I'll really need them

Re: [newbie] Putting back cd's as sources

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:29:09 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:27:12 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I was just working on that very thing.. I'm reading man urpmi.addmedia 8 - here I believe we'll find the answer! waitaminnit, yer reading

[newbie] sylpheed 0.9.2

2003-06-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
In an earlier version 0.8.* - that I used in mdk 9.0, I was easily able to set links in email to open with Opera - In 9.1, with this new version, I can't seem to find how to set this up, or maybe I just forgot.. Can someone tell me where to make this change? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
As for seeing your playlist :- To start playing a CD with xmms select PlayDirectory and select /mnt/cdrom Then you can press the 'PL' button on the xmms GUI to see the playlist. HTH derek -- If I could jump in here I've been trying to figure this out but I must be doing

Re: [newbie] Tux pics...

2003-06-22 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:20:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have

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