Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-14 Thread Langsley T Russell
Charlie, you said: The next thing you need to do is open a terminal, become super user and run the command drakxservices. Be sure sound is set to start at boot as well as alsa if that's what you're using. Just scroll down the list and find the services set to start at boot. If those two

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-14 Thread Langsley T Russell
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:52, Anne Wilson wrote: I couldn't say about that particular card, but my older machine has a SB Live!5.1 which shows up as an es1371. My original SB Live!5.1 used the emu10k1, but this one will not run with that driver. It seems that boards having the same name

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:10 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Then I clicked on player settings. I noted that Use External Player was checked but that no player was specified. I deselected the use external player option and tried again. I selected the KDE open wav file and hit the play button.

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi again Charlie. You said: I thought that was fixed, or have I confused this thread with another? What sound card (on-board, PCI card???) chip-set? Do you have aumix installed, if not I recommend you do so and post the output of aumix -q OK, I installed aumix and below is the output

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Update Sources

2003-12-13 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hello yet again, Charlie. You said: Frankly I'd recommend you remove both. The source for what you want was called updates by Mandrake Update once upon a time, now it's called update_source, next week who the hell knows. g Just nuke both and let Mandrake Update set a new one up. Then

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 10:35 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi again Charlie. You said: I thought that was fixed, or have I confused this thread with another? What sound card (on-board, PCI card???) chip-set? Do you have aumix installed, if

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 6:36 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you don't document the steps and solutions and how you achieved the results Anne Wilson will string us both up. You have to post your trials and tribulations and their resolution on the Community Wiki. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Update Sources

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 11:36 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello yet again, Charlie. You said: Frankly I'd recommend you remove both. The source for what you want was called updates by Mandrake Update once upon a time, now it's called

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 13 December 2003 11:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 6:36 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you don't document the steps and solutions and how you achieved the results Anne Wilson will string us both up. You have to post

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again/Sound

2003-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 7:00 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Glad to see that you're flying the flag while I'm away, Charlie. I know my only contributions to the Wiki have been in the form of copy and pastes from answers I've posted. By others. For that I apologize. But since I was one of the

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 11:55 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi Charlie and all who have offered assistance. Ti is truly appreciated. I'm sorry I'm so late in responding but I've been unusually busy this past week. Busy is good. So are questions

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-12 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi again Charlie. You said: OK, *which* freakin' directions? (g The command line, right click the K button or??? . Actually I opted for the right click on the K button. My reasons were basically two. 1- Working from the command line I would have had no idea how to undo what I did if it

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 5:02 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi again Charlie. You said: OK, *which* freakin' directions? g The command line, right click the K button or??? . Actually I opted for the right click on the K button. My reasons

[newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi All. Having gotten no response to my original posting on this subject I'm left to wonder if I have simply totally messed up my current install of Mandrake 9.2 with my attempts to run update and therefore must simply reinstall? Or perhaps my questions were just too ignorant of the issues

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Langsley, I'm sure you are not being ignored. I for one am not sure what you were trying to do with urpmi, You talk about updating, but what ? Updating the entire OS , or just OO I would not even attempt an urpmi update of an entire OS with nothing but a dialup modem It's just too slow, my ISP

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
sorry i maybe misst youre original post... but let's do some thing about you said that the problem begans after a update process right...??? have you note that the urpmi had a bug and must be updated by hand...??? the rpm manager was closing wrong the data base so it causes the links

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. I've been getting notices from

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Margot
Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. I've

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 3:33 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Langsley T Russell wrote: The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. If you have updated your sources then it has been updating all the outstanding packages to bring things up todate with current released packages

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:12 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: whack To open a console have you tried holding the CTRL button and striking the F2 button? Type konsole in the resulting run command box then strike the enter key. Or if you want to go directly