Re: [newbie] Multimedia.

2005-03-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:54 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: > Hello, > > While the primary reason that I do not get a broadband Link is that > I'm too cheap (poor), a strong second is the best thing about more > bandwidth is getting streaming vid, and it's been my experience that > Linux h

[newbie] Multimedia.

2005-03-22 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, While the primary reason that I do not get a broadband Link is that I'm too cheap (poor), a strong second is the best thing about more bandwidth is getting streaming vid, and it's been my experience that Linux has problems with web video. Is this impression outdated? -- JHM __

[newbie] Multimedia Kernel

2004-05-18 Thread JoeHill
Just curious, what kind of performance difference to expect from trying the MM kernel. My machine ain't the most powerful to begin with, P3 866 with the aforementioned GeForce FX 128MB PCI card. Am I lookin' at gaining like 3 FPS in MOH, or is there a noticeable diff with my specs? -- JoeHill R

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 04:43, robin wrote: > > > but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa > > -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? > > Yes (68 seconds). Is this a good thing or a bad thing? > Robin, install kickarts, add a

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread robin
et wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: et wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck g

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Rory
> > > which kernel do you boot to? > > > > I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - 2.6.3 ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclu

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) > modules.conf (2.

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) modules.conf (2.4) == modprobe.conf (2.6) Be careful in 10.0, because to accomo

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: > et wrote: > > On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: > >>I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard > >>without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't > >> recognize it and I just haven't had any

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread robin
et wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to reco

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 09 April 2004 07:33 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On April 10, 2004 12:30 am, robin wrote: > > I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even > > listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking > > some time ago, but now I try to listen to a C

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: > I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard > without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize > it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact > that MDK appears to recogni

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin

Re: [newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Thread Anarky
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday October 19 2003 05:31 am, Anarky wrote: very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for free & I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very tempted that from scratch I should start installing & configuring on the multimedia kernell ..

Re: [newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday October 19 2003 05:31 am, Anarky wrote: > very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for > free & I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very > tempted that from scratch I should start installing & configuring > on the multimedia kernell ... now thing is

[newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Thread Anarky
very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for free & I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very tempted that from scratch I should start installing & configuring on the multimedia kernell ... now thing is ... I'm wondering what kind of improovements I could be

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:20, Michael wrote: > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > Open a terminal and type: > > > > > > killall -KILL noatun > > > > > > That should kill it for good. Once it's killed, shutdown and reboo

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Open a terminal and type: > > killall -KILL noatun > > That should kill it for good. Once it's killed, shutdown and reboot (or > logoff and login again) and it won't be there. so that would just stop the program from running, right? or woul

Re: [newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:36 am, Michael wrote: > i really did a number here. somehow i accidentily added every single file > from my mswin hard drive to the noatun media player playlist. well, in > trying to remove everything from the playlist, the computer started bogging > down BAD. i closed

[newbie] multimedia player running and i can't stop it

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
i really did a number here. somehow i accidentily added every single file from my mswin hard drive to the noatun media player playlist. well, in trying to remove everything from the playlist, the computer started bogging down BAD. i closed the media player, restarted the computer. got back i

Re: [newbie] Multimedia- V,LOW sound volume?

2002-03-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Carroll, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:41 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > > Comments as I currently have sound but at a VERY LOW volume? > > Hylton: > There's a jumper on some sound cards to select/deselect the card's internal > amplifier. I don't know if there i

Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-03-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:41 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: > > > Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green > > > socket with the speaker next to it? > > > > > > skinky > > > > skinky, > > > > As a matter o

Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-03-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: > > > Just a guess, but shouldn't the speakers be plugged into the green socket > > with the speaker next to it? > > > > skinky > > > skinky, > > As a matter of fact you're correct. the line out for the speakers should > be placed in the

Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-03-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, skinky wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 18:34, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am having a very weird problem with my sound running a AMD K7 onboard > > sound card, the Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI > > > > The problem is that even though the volume is at 100%

Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-01-28 Thread skinky
On Monday 28 January 2002 23:49, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > The man's a genius, sort of! I had the speakers plugged into the > headphones socket and sweet nothing was coming from the speakers. At > least with the correct hole chosen I can just hear the sound, if I hold > the speaker to my

Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-01-26 Thread skinky
On Sunday 27 January 2002 18:34, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having a very weird problem with my sound running a AMD K7 onboard > sound card, the Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI > > The problem is that even though the volume is at 100% on the controls > the audio coming out of the spe

[newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?

2002-01-26 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, I am having a very weird problem with my sound running a AMD K7 onboard sound card, the Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI The problem is that even though the volume is at 100% on the controls the audio coming out of the speakers can only just be heard. I have been able to determine that there is not

[newbie] Multimedia woes: KMixer, KDE's Media player + Xmms

2001-11-27 Thread Hugo Ferreira
Hi, This is a long one 8-}... I have a Cyrix P200+, 64 MBytes RAM and I use a 2 disk set-up. First disk has DOS, FAT32 (Win95) and NTFS (NT 4.0) partitions each with the respective OS. Second disk I have the native Linux fs and a swap of 200 Megabyte on a 1.5 Giga disk. I boot into this disk

Re: [newbie] Multimedia performance

1999-09-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I am sorry. The development on this chip set should have gone in to > maintenance mode by now. I would suggest a log at the change logs and > see if anything has been added in the last few revisions. It also > might be worth looking in the config file to see if

RE: [newbie] Multimedia performance

1999-09-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote: > S3 Virge GX2 (4 meg) on the Linux machine. Xfree is the standard one found > on the Mandrake 6.0 cd. The work machine has an S3 DX. > > There may well be acceleration on the windows machine as the S3 virge uses > an svga server. Yeah you are right I can probab

Re: [newbie] Multimedia performance

1999-09-14 Thread Paul Benjamin
I am sorry. The development on this chip set should have gone in to maintenance mode by now. I would suggest a log at the change logs and see if anything has been added in the last few revisions. It also might be worth looking in the config file to see if there is an option for acceleration. V

RE: [newbie] Multimedia performance

1999-09-13 Thread Aaron deRozario
information however I am actually interested more in why I seemed to get better video performance from RH5.2 Aaron > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 1:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: