Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
' choose 17) on the menu. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Patching Kernel with ACPI Support--Update

2004-01-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:18 pm, marc resnick wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:50 pm, marc resnick wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:31 pm, marc resnick wrote: I found my kernel version, and used the patch that went

Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages

2004-01-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
insists on lookin to my DVDrom for CD's. NBD, first thing I usually do is remove them as sources anyhow. If you want to add your CDrom as source, then follow the usuall CL advice given many times on this list (check the archive). I don't know it, I always get rid of CDrom sources. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Patching Kernel with ACPI Support--Update

2004-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
sure your hardware is ACPI capable? It works in Windoze doesn't count. If you get ACPI enabled, check /var/log/dmesg to see how succesfully it was implemented. I have ACPI enabled. If you want I can send you my dmesg file offlist as an example. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
version. 'urpmi Video-DVDRip' from a PLF source. (Video-DVDRip-0.50.16-1plf) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
) usage for many minutes. Make sure your hardware is up to the task. At least you're not so afflicted as me. Rather than ask for help, I just keep fsckin around till I get it to work ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Blank Screen at boot. Can't load Linux(again)

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
'linux acpi=off' (or acpi=ht). I believe it's similar for grub, but I don't know. I don't use grub. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
idea what I'm doing, just borrowed an example command line. Anyone know why it hates my /dev/scd0 ? John What does 'll /dev/dvd' say? tom $ ll /dev/dvd lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jan 14 01:25 /dev/dvd - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
,   append= devfs=mount nobiospnp You'll need to be root to do this, then run 'lilo'.    Your append line probly has more entries, the above is just an example. --       Tom Brinkman                 Corpus Christi, Texas Thanks for this, I have tried booting with linux nobiospnp

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
John I meant to ask before, your DVD is a scsi? ... or if not, you must have it scsi emulated. Why? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] problems with 2.6.0

2004-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
, sombody needs to be testin it. Guess that's us ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
(2nd). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cd with faulty md5sum

2004-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
, making the aliases in /etc/bashrc 'Sides all burning GUI's suck ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT

2004-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 January 2004 03:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 07:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:12 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Any way, next time I will use urpmi.update. I like it better myself. I just pulled a dummy ..I did an easy urpmi

Re: [newbie] cd with faulty md5sum

2004-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:31 pm, Johan wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 19:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:35 am, Johan wrote: Now thankyou very much to those that made input. ^^^ biso knop33.iso (alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject

Re: [newbie] Speeding up X

2004-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
proprietary drivers and software is a bigger issue. I've only done so with Mandrake's unsupported (Sun) java and Flash rpm's and they're both slow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT

2004-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
didn't lose any data :-) What does 'cat /etc/mandrake-release' say? If you are running 9.2, you should also get the kernel, 'urpmi kernel' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
is strictly a Windows thang. I'm firing up the Tom Brinkman Signal as we speak ;-) Hmmm, what *would* the Tom Brinkman Signal look like anyway? Nothin good to say. I was stayin out of this for just that reason. And 'cause I don't know why anyone would want an nforce* chipset system

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [23:47:43] error: wrong format of --max_upload_rate - invalid literal for long(): 100k run with no args for parameter explanations Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy Paddy, as I recall Tom Brinkman has

Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

2004-01-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
' beta 1 iso's. Both failed to do much. Restarted my 10.0. beta 1 torrent on rebooting. It's still goin. I reckon I've uploaded both iso's twice in return so far. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
=nopentium, never seems to have any affect at all on any AMD systems I've had using 2.4.x kernels. IIRC, on some systems it's mandatory to use apic, eg, SMP systems. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] power down

2003-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
Interface -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Guarddog (was: Ownership changes on its own)

2003-12-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:47 am, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:15:36 -0600, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own: If I were to criticse Mandrake, it would be for not installing

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
.' Not you Kaj, me ;) Merry Christmas -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What video player software?

2003-12-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
the codecs an ability an right to play it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU

2003-12-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
. At least I will. For the others you'll just have to see if they volunteer. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

2003-12-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
is winning out, as this NIC uses a chipset furnished by SysKonnect, not 3com. http://www.syskonnect.com/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Thanks Tom. I will try it once I get printing, radeon 9200, scanner, and a few other things working. Have you tried the SATA yet

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
to such degeneration. Opinons are always inescapable. So IMO, TWiki should prominenty be displayed as At the current time, this is a best guess from various contributors, mostly gathered from mailing lists. It is not supported or endorsed by anyone. Use at your own risk. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
have two to boot to. You really should be usin the updated kernel anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
--slave--master and make sure pin 1 on the cable is alligned with pin 1 on the drive(s). It's difficult to get it wrong at the mobo end, but it can often easily be reversed at the drive connection. Maxtor/ Maxtor works just fine, that's my setup. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
, particularly with nVidia's modules. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
to change now. An UPS is a must have here, to cover brownouts more than outages. Particularly in rural areas. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
protector, I get 130 to 140KB/s. With the DSL run straight to the 'modem', I get 150 to 170 KB/s. (1.5Mbit aDSL) I've opted to risk the 'modem' ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
to various real world IDE operations. IMO, better to stick with ATA/133 for now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
a likely cause of it, and should be eliminated in any event. Even if it's not the ultimate culprit. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Frame buffers was Re: Lilo start entries

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
'frambuffer' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
supported in Linux. As it stands, better HDD performance is currently achieved with high rpms and bigger bigger faster drive caches. Yet the PCI/IDE bus hasn't been fully exploited yet. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 08 December 2003 12:27 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 2:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I don't know the situation in the UK, but here in the US power is 110v per leg. Two legs on the same circuit (what you refer to as a ring?) yields 220v for things like electric

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
with which board you use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
spikes than surge protectors are, they also protect against 'brownouts'. Providing steady clean power. Consider an UPS as protecting all your hardware, not just the PSU. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Lilo start entries

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
. All nonfb does is the vga=xxx line is removed from this boot option. vga=xxx is what sets the FB resolution. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
exit aumix. You should'a mentioned what WM you're using. If it's KDE, you can use kmix after doin the aumix deal above, to adjust sound levels as user. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
an alias. EG, alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -dao' To burn the iso you simply type 'biso name_of.iso' (just type the first 3 or 4 letters of the iso name and hit Tab). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 24 November 2003 10:44 pm, Andrew Mann wrote: - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] What CL syntax are you usin with mencoder to do this? I'm mostly just curious as I only recently got a DVD/CDrom myself. The command I use is mencoder dvd

Re: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
is true for past and current Mandrake versions and 3rd party sources. Mandrake relies on donated mirror space, sysadmin, and bandwidth so we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth in that respect ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 9.2 running worse than windoze

2003-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
?). I'm not pushing the Asus quite as hard ;) The 3000 is now at 2.2 Ghz, XP 3200+, 1.65v, the Crucial at 2.5-3-3 at 2.65v -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking md5som of iso created from burnt CD

2003-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
(genhdlist). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync

2003-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
contrast, brightness, tint, color level, sync, and sound volume on the fly during playback. I'm currently usin, mplayer-1.0-0.pre2.4plf mencoder-1.0-0.pre2.4plf libdvdread3-0.9.4-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.8-1plf plus all the other PLF codecs -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] 9.2 running worse than windoze

2003-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
there won't cause the menus update to be unsuccessful. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SOS mdk v9.2(Download ED.) freezes on boot

2003-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
that by usin any one of MCC, editing /etc/inittab, or hit Esc at the lilo screen and typing 'linux init 3'. You can also do that from the 1st CD by pressing F1 at the first screen and typing 'rescue'. After you log in at level three, you can then start your WM with 'startx'. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] do 9.2 isos contain the fix for lg cdroms?

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
as useless. The fix is to fix the LG's. http://us.lgservice.com/ click on 'Device Drivers', then 'Cdrom'. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
of the subject line will screw up threading (sorting) worse than hijacking will. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
recently. After using the 1st CD rescue option, and still getting a lilo failure, I booted a DOS boot floppy and ran 'fdisk /mbr' (w/o the quotes) from the A: prompt. That completely resets the MBR. Then I used to 1st Mandrake CD to restore lilo and it was then successful. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Can't make boot floppy - make boot CD with mkrescue

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo appends under MD 9.2

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
, but IIRC, resume wasn't used there either, and Goggle didn't help. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
then, hand holding by peers is often needed. Winblows should be retained for a long time (dual boot). Like I say, I was lucky, havin the world's largest computer group behind and with me. Many don't, or aren't willing to join. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Download Managers

2003-11-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] md5 checksums for downloaded 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 October 2003 08:35 am, Brian Parish wrote: Does anyone have these or know where to find them? TIA Brian http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1302 Look down towards the bottom of the page -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
something like cdrecord to support it. I post this link in another post, but if you read thru it I believe you'll see what needed, (Google will get you a lot more) http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-December/001409.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and some that are different brands than LG. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
for the discs. To me that sounds like it's the final version. What does 'cat /etc/mandrake-release' say? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
, nobody's reported any problems tho. 'Course that was the same deal with LG ;) I think there's also a newer version of Thomas' kernel available built around kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
, I've got the DSL line into the ATU-R, and using a micro filter to also connect my phone, that works. Since LV's cable is a digital line, and dialup needs analog, I reckon he's in a similar situation as mine. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
by bootloader-utils-1.6-3mdk Here we go, no dice I think ? That would be a safe bet. I checked those packages on my system. My intscripts is newer, bootloader is the same version. I'm running 9.2+cooker updates. Why, what need do you have to change kernels John? -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] df command output

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
13G 8.5G 4.0G 69% /stor3 So that doesn't clean it up. IIRC, this 'new' output from df appeared early in 9.2 development (maybe sooner). I believe it was explained on the cooker list as being due to changes, improvements in devfs. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
with knowing their hardware. That think cheap junk non compliant hardware is just fine, an should be protected by others. IOW's back-asswards -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility, they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the bleeding edge and expecting

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:32 pm, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already available, and various floppy

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
with Dell, Compaq, HP, etc. and Billy Goat. LG's just caught in the middle of those crooks. Search for the guilty, blame the innocent. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:05 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very pertinent linkhttp://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/ I presume that the link on that page means that the more

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
, you've also been runnin your DDR266 ram at DDR200. Expect most everything to jump up in speed when you get it set properly. I think you're in for a treat ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
, not changeable, or your on your own. A little more light on packet writing and UDF, http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-December/001409.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Some ftp sites have even made CD's with the current updates ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (very slow site and often off line) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
people consider laptops and desktops as computers. Desktop, or more properly, micro computers uset'a to be decent quality stuff. Now'a days, even the best is borderline junk. With only the vast majority clamorin for it that caused the decline. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
-Deluxe) HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B (motherboard: Soyo) HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B CD-CDRW (chipset: SIS 651/962) HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B (motherboard: ASUS P4P800) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 09:04 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:37 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Mandrake is already compiling a list. Search IMPORTANT on the cooker list archive. Currently, fried: COMPAQ CRD-8322B(CP1) CRD-8400B (machine: Dell Optiplex gx1

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
for their destroyed drive. Or thank him for pointin it out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 6:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Let me add some caution here. I'm not out to cause scaremongering - the opposite in fact, but I do think it's wise to say on the TWiki that if you have one of these drives

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
no problems or issues. There's always gonna be a vocal few that have problems with anything. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:47 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:31:46 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I did a fresh install of 9.2 a few days ago. Utterly boring, absolutely no problems or issues. Good to hear, Tom. I hope you didn't take me the wrong way

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:16 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
management scheme in kernels that can address over 860MB of ram, also slow things down. I've heard about 7%, I believe in the few days I've used an enterprise kernel, it's even more than that for normal desktop use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? John drakxtools-newt -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
that. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to install

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
many Linux users not being aware that not all hardware is suitable for anything but Windoze. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
use your Linux box as a recording/editing sound studio. They do have the preempt and low latency patches, but then again so do all the other current desktop kernels. The curent tmb kernels contain some additional patches which may be useful 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
more, and it is slower than non-ECC. http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC2700Attrib=Packagecat=RAM $48 for 256mb, $87 for 512mb -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
and used if Mandrake detects an i686 cpu. Type 'arch' in a terminal to see. 'Course the whole deal is much more complex than that. If ya want more, start Googling. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
to i686. For Athlon it was a little more than Intel. Athlon's do 3 fpu's per cycle, to Intel's two/cycle. That's why a 2 GHz Athlon competes favorably with a 3 GHz Intel P-4. BUT, even with Athlons, very little if anything is gained by special compiler options. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
not very nice. Seems a lot of people got theirs and then selfishly disconnected. The torrent idea depends on people staying online specially after they're d/l is complete. http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
with the connection. IOW, I've still got 100% down, and the 50% up I have left over just means it takes a second longer to send an email ;) -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just another comment: Over 4,400 people have gotten the complete iso's, but only

Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
by 8 to get kBytes/s. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
chips as they sit. Yeah, I always just use lung power ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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