the assistance you've given me over the past year and a
half. It's been fun and educational.
All the Best in your endeavors,
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:28:43 +1000, Brian Parish
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ext3 is just ext2 plus journalling, so you don't need to reformat
to convert. I presume that MCC just did a tune2fs command to add
journalling and adjusted your fstab file. man tune2fs will tell
you more.
Thanks
Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following:
If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most
features, I
highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers
for your sound card. OSS is superior to Alsa.
Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS
is
From
Scratch partition and I'm booted into it right now. Everything
seems okay, but I'm concerned about my first crash and if the Ext3
recovery programs will work properly.
Am I okay er, let me rephrase that... is my Ext3 partition okay?
GRIN
The Other' Stephen Stubbs
Hello John,
Maybe your problem is with the ISP and the login prompts.
I haven't had time yet to work out my problem using Linux From
Scratch 5.1, Wvdial, and my ISP; but here's what the ISP did for me
to assist:
-
Instead of trying to login at the prompt, try just starting up ppp.
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:31:19 +0100, John Richard Smith
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In KPPP under modem, there is a line termination field with 3
choices.
Hello John,
When KPPP was giving me fits, I went to WVdial. That seemed to work
okay. You'll have to open a terminal window and then log in
to uninstall that particular
application.
Obviously, this utility/program wouldn't be able to deal with
dependency issues.
Now to determine how important it is for me to manually deal with
dependency issues or use a package manager. Hmmm
Thanks, David, Derek
The Other Stephen
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:36:21 +0800, wrote:
The Other wrote:
Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have
a 56Kb
Modem to use to get the updates.
If its apt-get compared to plain jane rpm, there is no contest,
apt-get
wins hands down.
If it was between apt-get and urpmX
entry, I'd su to root and type
'urpme kernel-tmb-2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-1-1mdk'
(use copy'n paste to avoid typos).
Tom,
I know this method will work if you installed a kernel rpm with
urpmi.
But will it also work if you compiled the kernel from it's source
tarball?
The Other
Hello All,
Anybody else been struggling working through the Info and Man pages,
trying to figure out how to navigate them?
I'm still not sure how to browse the Man pages with anything other
than up and down, but last night I had the insight to try something
new with the Info pages.
info info
on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable
Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award
BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for
this test.
The Other
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have been the victum of an
early bug. The G400 card seems to be very stable.
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of the reasons I went to an Epson USB printer...
If memory serves, IRQ 7 is typically used in PC systems for the printer.
I think my old, unused, ISA Sound Blaster AWE32 would allow you to select
IRQ 7, but I can't remember any other cards I've used allowing me that
option.
From what I've been reading
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:09:24 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote:
My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS.
Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control
all of the system's memory. When I turned off
Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check:
PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set
it to NO
And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically
detected and installed:
Parallel Port Mode-- set it to ECP+EPP (or at least ECP
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:25:33 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons
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Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and
better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running
on Linux.
Anyone else have any feeling on it?
FWIW, I like and use it.
The Other
to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I
would bet the RAM is fine.
Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it
will
create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the
test
run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most
. It took me over 4 months to figure
this solution out. Sympathies.
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(start with Normal, it may be the one you need)
and highlight the font name. Double-click on the font name or click
on the Choose button. This brings up another dialog box that lets
you change the font, size, and other parameters. For my
astigmatism, I like the Helvetica (Adobe) at 14. normal
another workspace to work in.
But I'd really like to have this version of IceWM available as a
choice in the drop down box on the graphical login screen. Ideas?
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to switch
operating systems.
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this problem?
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This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org.
I'm sorry to have
for the file management
duties.)
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on the Linux Audio User
mailing list and post the question there.
The website to get subscribed is:
http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user/
HTH,
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the 'kppp' waiting to connect
parameter (or whatever it's called) to 60 seconds and the problem went
away.
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allocate. That time it stopped at the point that it stopped
the first time.
Hello Russ,
Have you turned off all Shadow RAM in your BIOS? If not, try that.
I had irratic install problems when my video ROM was being shadowed in RAM.
HTH
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code go???
What directory was it placed in??? Are all those files hidden and 'ls
-l' won't list them??? And in what language are these source files, C
perhaps?
As a second question, is there any way you can open up an RPM and find out
where it will place the files???
Thanks All,
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Nevertheless, when I went to DocumentationHelp it was opened by Galeon,
not by Mozilla...
The documentation you want must be around here
/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html
Or you can reinstall Galeon again!
JM
12/27/03
To: JM and All
I had removed Galeon (and Mozilla). That
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:28:30 -0200, Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other
HTML
reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and
Galeon(spelling?).
Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's
12/23/03
Hello All,
When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML
reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and
Galeon(spelling?).
Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML
format (under the Documentation menu), nothing
12/21/03
To Melissa and other The Bat! users.
I'm looking into Opera 7.23 (web-email-news program), a Linux program
available at www.opera.com in free download or $35USD version to remove
the small banner ad. As far as I know, there is no other difference
between the free and purchased
of your mixers and volume
controls available under your desktop environment and increase the
volume levels. Most of the mixers and volume controls have turned
down the playback sound to 0 volume. Many times, just raising those
volume controls will give you sound.
Best,
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the documentation may
be found?
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program in
Linux?
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minutes.
Wouldn't those be 10MB files at least?
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11/27/03
It's probably been mentioned before, but on the IBM developerWorks
website, they have some excellent Linux tutorials.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/tutorials.jsp
55 tutorials were listed (if I counted correctly.) Some of them are
for the LPI Certification 101
the same out of memory error.
Is my solution to get more memory?
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is click the Okay button to close this box. Then
the terminal window that had the ! Not modal yet (above) line
returns to the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micorsoft Money]$
==
Does this help to explain the problem?
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on the
installation.
Question: Do I have a security problem doing things this way?
(While connected to the Internet, I do have a SuperUser terminal
session running that is managing the WVdial program.)
TIA, The Other
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working with VIP files, the editing can be
non-linear and non-destructive. You're only working with pointers
and not the actual physical audio file.
Anyone know if there are comparable software programs for Linux?
I haven't had time to check into that yet.
Regards,
The Other.
Yea - I've always
arm of the Y cable , and the CD/Tape into the other arm.
Now you don't have to reconnect anything when you want to record
from the DVD or the CD/Tape. Using a Y cable you may
experience a little signal loss, but you simply increase the
volume level on that input source. No big deal and you won't
I've found so far is:
http://www.linux-sound.org/one-page.html
Keep us posted of your endeavors in sound. ;)
The Other.
On Friday 24 October 2003 12:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Can you cache up audio files from an external source like an
audio CDplayer ?
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and if they
have a driver for it.
They offer a free driver that is limited to 14.4Kb. This will
allow you to determine if you have a working driver.
You can then upgrade to the full V.92 driver for $14.95 USD.
Regards,
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Hello
. I restart the computer, do all the file
system fixes suggested during bootup, and everything comes back
fine in X Windows, running the Gnome desktop.)
Hope this Helps,
The Other Stephen Stubbs
Champaign, IL USA
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:15 +0200
Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
.)
Mozilla internet browser has no trouble finding the live dialup
connection and I can surf away.
What setting in Mozilla Mail (or in KPPP) do I need to set to avoid this
problem when in the Mail system?
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Hello All, from The Other
A few of you may remember I've been trying to get a stable installation of
Mandrake 9.1 since May.
Thanks to my niece for sending me a Debian distro 3.x with documentation. I
may have figured out what was going wrong all this time.
The Debian documentation
.
Power supply is Antec 300W, model SL300S
HP DeskJet 540C printer.
Need anything else?
TIA,
The Other.
- Original Message -
From: Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For any information about the system that isn't known to the OP there's a
utility that runs under Windows (the OS he sent
.
It came set with a jumper on (top pin 1 to bottom pin 1), and a second
jumper on (top pin 2 to top pin 3).
For the dual Slave mode, I'm currently using a jumper on (top pin 2 to top
pin 3), and a jumper on (bottom pin 4 to bottom pin 5). Is this correct?
Thanks All,
The Other Stephen Stubbs
Champaign
09/18/03
Low-level formatting:
1) Go to the drive manufacturer's website and get the toolset for your
drive. The low-level formatting utility should be in the toolset.
2) Run all the other diagnostics on the toolset first before doing the
low-level format. If it turns out you need to return
09/06/03
Hello All,
Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my
hardware being below minimum specs for 9.1
My current hardware: ASUS P2B motherboard with 350MHz PII and 128MB Ram
So I have two options: 1) locate a previous distribution of MDK that
will work with this
and the turntable's specs. No
point in buying a $500 recording card if the specs are only as good as a $50
Sound Blaster or other low end sound card.
Hope This Helps,
Stephen.
- Original Message -
From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, August
08/27/03
The left channel is by default the LEFT/MONO channel. If all your music
showed up in the left channel only, then you weren't using a stereo cable
somewhere in your connections to the IN jack on the computer.
Check again to make certain the Left and Right OUTs on the boom box are
going
08/26/03
Ronald,
See if you can find a cassette boom box or other cassette player that has
left and right PHONO or RCA outputs.
Then buy the appropriate cable to connect the cassette player to the Line In
of your sound card. That cable might be a Left and Right RCA (or PHONO) to
1/8 mini
will be 777. Am I correct?
You might want to look at:
www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~mader/FSTAB-Tuning.html
May help.
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) also appeared in 1991.
It is compatible with GM and offers extras.
XG= Yamaha's entry appeared in late 1994. Compatible with GM and
offers extras.
Most computer sound cards are going to use GM. Keyboard synthesizers
and other outboard gear will use GM and whatever else their
manufacturer
07/29/03
Hello John,
Would you consider emailing me one of your Yamaha MIDI files?
I'd like to see if I can get it to play correctly under a Windows MIDI
sequencer program (Cakewalk). That might help me to tell you how the
instruments are arranged in the Yamaha file.
My email address is:
the MIDI data back to the Yamaha and let the Yamaha play the
music? That would allow the music to be played now for your daughter
while you're working on the *all* computer solution to playing the
Yamaha MIDI files.
Something to consider.
The Other
PS: Sorry I haven't been able to respond
P2B motherboard.
It should be version 1002. If anyone has a copy, please email me off
list. I'd like to get a copy of it.
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Piano
with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you
have great control over the final sound of the piece.
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07/15/03
Hello All, from The Other
Dennis, the CDs arrived. Thank you.
3 hours of 37 different combinations of installing, and the Kernel
package failed to install each time. Same results with the replacement
CD1 and the original distro CD1. Obviuously, my problem isn't with the CDs.
I
this post to the Newbie List realizing that those
members unable to assist me would disregard the help request, and that
those members who could assist would respond to me in a private email
(of which one person so far has.)
Regards,
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failed message when just trying to install KDE as the
only option, with GNOME as the only option, and with OTHER DESKTOPS as
the only option. I got the glibc failed message when installing the
minimal system with documentation as the only option, and when
installing the minimal system with X
to play
the .z5 file format?
Send the directions to me offline, if you like. And since I'm
still waiting for the return of my hard drive to reinstall
Bamboo, would you also have directions for a Windows machine to
read a .z5 file format?
All the thanks,
The Other
Ronald J. Hall wrote
07/05/03
Hello Stephen,
I don't know. When I get the drive back so I can reinstall
Bamboo, I'll be looking for the Linux version of Hack, or NetHack
if it was officially called that.
Do you think playing Hack was ever intelligent? Addictive yes,
but intelligent? ;)
The Other
Stephen
at this time, so I'm waiting for the Maxtor's return and
will dedicate the Maxtor solely to Bamboo.
Thanks for the confidence vote in Western Digital drives.
I guess my suggestion to Tobi is still to try another drive to
install Bamboo to.
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type of hard drive are you installing to? Perhaps if you
selected another manufacturer's drive?
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Tobias Mueller wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 at one of our servers. Unfortunataly when
it comes to the install of the packages, I get a whole lot of package error
Swap file really need to
be bigger the 256MB? (Bamboo suggested 800MB last install.)
Would a 10GB partion for hard disk recording be reasonable? And
in what file format? (That would still leave me 20GB for the
remainder of the system.)
Besides / and /usr, are other mount points and partitiona
and the concern.
The Other.
Erylon Hines wrote:
I had the same alarm bells going off. The ONTRACK disk overlay and Linux have
always been incompatible (or so I thought).
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Hello All,
Anyone running Myriad's program Harmony Assistant under Mandrake 9.1?
I would expect some Windows Emulation program is necessary. I'm
looking into Wine. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card.
Anyone with experience in this setup?
Thank you,
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Want
. Is there a
configuration file I should be aware of? I've not learned about
config files under Linux yet. A tutorial on how to get MIDI through
a MIDI port working would be greatly appreciated.
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first heard the suggestion
that all the mixers set the volume values to 0, I went through the
ALSA mixer and the KDE mixer.
Besides the Master Volume setting, you *must* set the PCM value to a
high value. So I max out (100% volume) the PCM and go 90% on the
Master Volume.
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.
Does MoneyDance handle loans?
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it without
any problems.
For a second test, I used XMMS on 'Lepidoptera.ogg' by Epoq. No
Problem.
Anne, Femme Fatale; it looks like the wait for an Ogg/Vorbis player is
now over. XMMS is doing the job. (Unless you had some other type
of a player in mind, then pardon my ignorance.)
The Other
email there was a reference to a recording engineer
who was very impressed with the quality of the Ogg audio format.
Here's the URL: http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5847717353.html
I'll be looking into Ogg myself based on his experience and
recommendation.
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Hello All,
Anyway to import Outlook Express 5 addresses into KMail?
I exported the Outlook Express 5 address book as AddrBook.wab
Can I now Import it into KMail?
TIA
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06/07/03
Hello All,
I would like to migrate my Microsoft Money 95 files to Linux. I've
already exported the files from Money 95 into the Quicken for Windows
file format, .qif
Suggestions on a comparable Linux program to Import those files?
TIA
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Windows development has evolved
to make a desktop that is as human proof as possible.
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by executing 'man
*program/command*'
What I've yet to figure out is HOW TO GET OUT OF 'MAN' !([EMAIL PROTECTED]
[I'd be happy to 'man acpi' if I could get out of the man pages.]
What is the special keystroke sequence to gracefully exit the 'man'
system?
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06/03/03
Hello Stephen,
SAMBA is for networking, not for localised file mounting/browsing.
The only 'networking' I do is by 56K modem to the Internet.
Do I have any reason to have SAMBA and/or NFS installed?
If not, I'll remove the packages.
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It's as safe as anything. But just using it as a text editor -
well, you might want to consider using kedit, gedit, gxedit or kate
- but hey, to each their own...
Thanks for the tips. I haven't tried any text editors yet, or any of
the
. Do the same with the other drives.
Adolfo,
Adding 'umask=0' as you suggested, then unmounting and remounting the
drives solved the problem.
I did not need to try the 'user' suggestion.
Thanks to Everyone for the assistance.
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, the very first prompt I get is a warning that all my data will
be lost.I chicken out right there.
So how can I change the FAT32 drives to VFAT without loosing the data?
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On Monday 02 June 2003 10:14 pm, The Other wrote:
6/02/03
Hello Aldofo,
Mount it as a vfat file system. Here is my /etc/fstab entry for
the fat drive:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat
iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
I'm totally new to Linux. So bear with me.
1. I don't
06/03/03
Is it safe to use KWrite as text file editor? Or does it append
characters to the file that would cause problems?
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having
as a 'user' that I don't have as a 'SuperUser'?
File Permissions are still a tricky issue for me, coming from single
user desktop environments. Is there some way to make each Window
drive share-able on all files and all directories with all users?
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to find the configuration files and what's in them.
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with others is better. :)
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