Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-07-01 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 04:12 am, C.Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: When I 'hung up' before, it gave an error message about noatun crashing. Is this related? noatun seems to have started at boot-up. well in my experience,

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-30 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 9:15 am, you wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 05:58, Anne Wilson wrote: Paul wrote: In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know 'kill' is supposed to get you out of trouble, but you

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-30 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Jun 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 9:15 am, you wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 05:58, Anne Wilson wrote: Paul wrote: In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 30 Jun 2002 12:12 pm, you wrote: snip I'm still having problems with my sound - the startup sound arrives minutes or hours after startup - and sure enough aRts was taking a slice of CPU and memory. I used the hang-up (this in Process Management) and got a crash message, though

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 12:26 am, you wrote: C.Anne Wilson wrote: I have been exploring, trying to find out what is happening (or not) with these devices that I can't get working. Twice today I have got into the Control Panel, Information, and asked for information about usb devices,

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Well, whenever you cannot get to a console with ctrl-alt-F2 and login as root and 'ps ax | grep DrakConf' and kill it with a 'kill -9 (id of the program)' When you cannot do that, then ALT-SYSRQ (screen print key)-R puts the keyboard in RAW mode ALT-SYSRQ-S syncs the disks

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 07:08 am, C.Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: ALT-SYSRQ (screen print key)-R puts the keyboard in RAW mode ALT-SYSRQ-S syncs the disks ALT-SYSRQ-B reboots Not sure I entirely understand. Are

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble - (a reference for the legally blind?)

2002-06-27 Thread Josef Lowder
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:09, you wrote: SNIP Not sure I entirely understand. Are you saying that these three commands will, between them, cause a timely and controlled shutdown? This tells you all about it http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html Whoa!

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
But I definitely get sound from 4 speakers (not sure about the centre one) when I play mp3 files. This with an analogue cable. It may be stereo duplicated, of course, but it sounds good to me. Anne On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 4:05 am, you wrote: Jose, All I know is when I used the analog

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-26 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Jun 2002 6:22 pm, you wrote: In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know 'kill' is supposed to get you out of trouble, but you need to know what you're going to kill, don't you? First see if

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-25 Thread Paul
In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know 'kill' is supposed to get you out of trouble, but you need to know what you're going to kill, don't you? First see if sndconfig (as root) can bring your sound

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
Paul wrote: In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know 'kill' is supposed to get you out of trouble, but you need to know what you're going to kill, don't you? First see if sndconfig (as root) can

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
Up-time was just long enough to write the email, then I halted, getting a failure message, due to /proc being busy - this after a halt/fresh boot. Does that suggest anything? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-25 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:22 am, Paul did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Secondly, I would advise you to get GPS (Graphical PS). http://gps.seul.org This will show you all running processes in a window and allows you to Hang Up