Re: [newbie] 10.0

was thinking of trying out 10.0 is it worth it or should i wait i tried to download and burn the cd but i cant get it to work right so i was thinking of buying the cd thanks greg -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake

and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake

By the way, yes, I'm actually checkmarking the packages to download. :) Intall box still remains greyed out. On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:22 pm, Rory wrote: When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm

Re: [newbie] APT for Mandrake

. As an aside, it's nice to be able to actually compare these distros and see strengths and weaknesses, between them. I could never do that with XP. Rory On Sunday 25 April 2004 8:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it working

Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?

them and Ogg at circa 200bits. The problem with WMA and AAC is they lock you in (Steven Jobs and Bill Gates just can't seem to find a new song to sing after all these years), which is why I avoid them. Rory At 11:51 PM 22/04/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:44 pm, Marc Resnick

[newbie] MDK 10 DVD w/ Linux Magazine

There's an MDK 10 DVD with Linux Mag for May. Does anyone know which version of MDK? I'm assuming it's Official, of course. But, does anyone know if it would be the MDK Powerpack or MDK Powerpack+, etc? http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42 ~Rory

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10

On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:53 am, Ian MacGregor wrote: I have been using a download edition which I purchased from almostfreelinux.com about 3 months ago for $10.00 US. I'm familiar with almostfreelinux.com. Are there other CD-purchase sites people can recommend?

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

to give Windows away. Still, Windows would finally be priced in direct relation to it's actual value! Lanman -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] soundcard woes

the alternate ALSA driver with no luck, though.Humph On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:46 pm, Rory wrote: Hi folks, No luck on other venues I've tried, so I'll give newbie@ a shot. I'd love if someone could give me some clues on this one. I've posted more info than less

Re: [newbie] soundcard woes

or cures (not sure which g)a lot of problems. No, aumix wasn't installed by default. Just installed it now. Still, no luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# aumix -q vol 59, 64 pcm 64, 64 speaker 64, 0 line 64, 64, R mic 64, 0, P cd 64, 64, P igain 64, 64, P line1 64, 64, P phin 64, 0, P phout 64, 0 video

Re: [newbie] No ADSL after upgrade

this volume of issues installing any OS before. But, I must say, MDKMove seemed to have a better handle on things. By the way, I believe there are some acknowledged issues with the 2.6 kernal when it comes to ADSL that they've been sorting out during the last couple of revisions. ~Rory

Re: [newbie] Yet another mdk 10.0 sound problem

. The help of people on these forums has been most impressive, though. I've search MDK Bugzilla and haven't really found a bug filed that fits this problem, so it may not be seen by the developers as a priority. ~Rory Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?

2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?

Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text boot.0301 initrd-2.6.img

[newbie] soundcard woes

but not on 10.0** alternate driver: ALSA snd-ens 1371 **I've tried this but it didn't work** I also tried the debugging options (I'm doing my best to be self-reliant when solving Linux problems) available under Hardware in Control Centre. Below is the ouput: Any ideas? Rory

Re: [newbie] No sound

, is this something that Mandrake has acknowledged and is trying to sort out? I imagine it must be a pretty simple fix, given MDKMove was fine. Rory On Tuesday 13 April 2004 6:10 pm, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote: Found a workaround in a post

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

be: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz Wasn't there a layout of the new mirror structure released somewhere. I'm going back and can't seem to find it. Thanks, Rory On Sunday 11 April 2004

[newbie] Challenge/Response Spam Black

always find workarounds for. I had found a very good one for XP, but have been out of luck on Linux, so far. Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

Thanks, Ronald. On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:15 pm, Ronald wrote: Op zondag 11 april 2004 19:28, schreef Rory: SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi thing, I just want to confirm: Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setting up

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

or does this seem right to people? Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

), right? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/contrib/i586 Apologies for the basic yet particular questions. Just trying to figure out my way around and what I should be adding. Thanks, Rory Want to buy

[newbie] urpmi strategies

for a newbie? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

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.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies

Rory wrote: Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, is it prudent just to update everything from stable/official first? Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) cover

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

and need to test in an Windows environment. So, that part of my computer experience won't be migrating over to Linux with me. :( ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

What version of LAME are you running? It should be 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

of Shiite? I've used ogg for so long, I dunno how good the MP3Pro format sounds. But last I listened, a 128 original MP3 sounded much worse than even a good radio. Comments? Miark -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is.

Re: [newbie] Any update site that works?

On Friday 09 April 2004 5:47 pm, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 9 april 2004 23:31, schreef John Wilson: On April 9, 2004 08:44 am, Schwartz Avi wrote: Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

Robin -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] how to verify that urpmi installed?

I'm trying to establish if urpmi actually installed the updates that it downloaded. I've checked the urpmi.log, which appears to have every other detail but no confirmation of actual install. Can anyone point me to the right log/file/area? Thanks, ~Rory

Re: [newbie] MP3 players

or iPod? They're based on FAT32 systems, I believe. On Thursday 08 April 2004 4:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I just bought an mp3 player GTX 2GB Mdk can see the hard drive but I cannot write to it it uses a vfat format any one else have _Any_ experience with mp3 players under Linux? -- ~Rory

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

Isn't it great that the Linux community can build camps around distros, bad mouth other distros and talk about how there's is the best and why??? Over in the MS OS community that I just left two weeks ago, there's none of this talk because... there's no choice. Rory P.S. Make no mistake

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

there be unintended consequeces by doing this? Thanks, Rory Greg Meyer wrote: I would suspect you chose an LSB install, which forces the 2.4 kernel because 2.6 is not LSB compliant yet. On Friday 02 April 2004 08:33 am, Rory wrote: Hi folks, Well, I just discovered that when I installed MDK 10 from

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

could install the MDK Online Wizard. After I did a big install, I noticed that the last item that follows was added to my boot options. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# lilo Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added floppy Added 2425-2 So, it added a login option of 2425-2, which is the kernel

Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

Something does appear to be funky with sound card recognition in 10.0. My card is found and listed in 10.0 but no sound. However, when I pop in the Mandrake Live CD, it always activates sound. Hmm... Rory On Tuesday 30 March 2004 6:06 pm, Wayne Petherick wrote: Stevie, I wish! It doesn't

Re: [newbie] Internet stopped working

package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-1mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) do you agree ? I can't seem to find the right package for perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon to download). If anyone can point me in the direction of the specific package, you'd make my day! Rory

[newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

for each one I got the following error: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) Does any know why? Thanks, Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

Hmm... interesting... I keep getting error. At least it's working for someone: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) The file says owner: rory group: rory Could this be a privilege/access issue I'm having? I've been

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

. Does installing the Mandrake RPM and the superkaramba program both need gcc? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

Okay, I'm looking through the development tools right now. I was just going to install the whole package, but a number of them give you a choice of which tool for a sub-group. Any suggestions? I must have missed an option during install, I guess. R. On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:19 am, Rory

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

? Rory On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:28 am, Rory wrote: Okay, I'm looking through the development tools right now. I was just going to install the whole package, but a number of them give you a choice of which tool for a sub-group. Any suggestions? I must have missed an option during install, I

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

Okay, I just installed a tonne of stuff from development tools. No luck. Can anyone recommend specific packages I should run to get this thing going? Thanks, R. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] need bootloader each time I start-up - how to stop?

-up?   Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I'm brand new to Linux, so talk to me like I'm a Windows Lemming because I am!     Thanks, -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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