Re: [newbie] sound problems Via AC97 on Sony Vaio

2003-06-17 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:57, Lavanya Vasudevan wrote: Thank you, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either. The alternative driver seems to be an OSS one, via82cxxx_audio. It also freezes my system. I checked on the ALSA web page and snd-via82xx does seem to be the driver recommended for my

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try

2003-06-04 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 15:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Wow - I would have assumed (key word = assumed) that if you have the ability to read cyrillic in any other application (and the font set is installed) you'd be able to read it in ANY application under ANY window manager or desktop... Jeez

[newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try

2003-06-03 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hello! This list has been full of praise about Sylpheed and Sulpheed-claws. And as much as I've tried it, sylpheed is worth the praise, too. Except for one thing - from time to time I get some Russian mail and Sylpheed shows only mumbo-jumbo instead of cyrillic letters. No mention of cyrillic

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-30 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (Thursday 29 May 2003 06:16) kirjutas Harv Nelson: Harv mounts the soapbox and clears his throat . Here are a couple suggestions you might like to try: 1) Situation from a real life: My friend who got Linux infection from me decided to give it a try and went to buy a

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-28 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:51, Femme wrote: When drak first time comes up it gives you the option (in KDE anyway) to choose which WM to run on top of KDE itself. Like Enlightenment. NOw I chose that option once, couldn't figure out how to undo it. Silly me. Simply run this wizard again? I

[newbie] path to synthesis/hdlist?

2003-03-31 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Sorry for stupid question, I want to set up ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib as an urpmi source. Where is the subject? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected

2003-03-31 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
hel kenal peval (phapev, 30. mrts 2003 23:55) kirjutas lewis: I have checked MCC but there is no sound card detected. When I run sndconfig it doesn't detect the card. I pick the card from the list and it tells me: The following error occured running the modprobe program:

[newbie] trouble with locale/fonts

2003-03-31 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hi! I happen to live in a corner of the world that does use latin alphabet but also does add quite many letters that are specific to our language (Estonian). 9.1 seems to have broken support for this locale: - KDE is mostly OK, except for some apps - Fluxbox menu has no special letters at all,

Multiple X sessions was Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now!

2003-03-30 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (laupäev, 29. märts 2003 19:12) kirjutas Derek: If you want to see something really funky. Once you have everything installed and X running, enter Ctl+Alt+F1 Log in as a user then enter startx -- :1 Now I have known for quite long that this is theoretically possible but it

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected

2003-03-30 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
hel kenal peval (phapev, 30. mrts 2003 07:38) kirjutas Guy Rouillier: Well, there you go. You don't have a SoundBlaster 16. You have an Ensoniq AudioPCI. Go here http://www.americas.creative.com/support/welcome.asp and search for your model number. Dig around the support materials and see

Re: Multiple X sessions was Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now!

2003-03-30 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 30. märts 2003 21:29) kirjutas Derek: Then instead log in as root and type gdm (assuming you have gdm installed) gdm will work out which display is in use, and start a new one. Yess! It works Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-25 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance, mandrake starts at 500, the other distro might start at 100. Naah, it started at 501 ;-) Case

[newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use

Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards

2003-03-04 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:52, you wrote: how do I install wizdrake? First way. Open any of consoles (like konsole or rxvt). su to root (that is, type 'su' and give the password it asks). Type 'urpmi wizdrake'. Insert any CDs it asks. Done. Second way. Run Mandrake Control Center. Find

[newbie] cyrillic encodings in sylpheed?

2003-03-03 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Is it possible and how? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 2. märts 2003 06:34) kirjutas Bob Read: I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong

[newbie] Wine and Win licensing

2003-02-21 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hi, IANAL-s :-) There is an old Win95 comp in my network. Legal setup. Now I want to run a Windows program (certain bookkeeping soft) in a Linux box in the same network using Wine. Is it legal to point Wine Windows folder to this Win95 box using Samba? Or is it compulsory to use only Wine

[newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
What files are .mpga files and how can I convert them into .wav or any other burnable format? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-20 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 20 February 2003 18:12, you wrote: Maybe someone made a typo? I suspect they're mpeg-2,3, or 4 files (.mpg, .mpeg, .m2v, etc), which are video files. If you play one with mplayer from the CL, in the console ouput you'll see the actual file type. Mplayer, (maybe other players

Re: [newbie] Samba Wizard

2003-02-14 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 13 February 2003 18:27, you wrote: Yes. Install drakwizard and you will see it in mcc BTW: In 9.1 drakwizard also includes a simple NFS wizard as well. derek To all those in trouble with Samba. Tried dereks suggestion and had it working in minutes with NextNextNext routine.

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-12 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:32, you wrote: (An example of a neglected new feature is the Samba setup wizard - To set up a basic Samba server, all you have to do is press the Samba wizard button in Mandrake Control Centre. Aaarrg Guess what I spent all

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice1.0.1 gui fonts

2003-02-10 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Monday 10 February 2003 14:51, you wrote: You need to add an entry in the font replacement table under tools = options = font replacement, that replaces the ui font (nimbus sans ui) with the font of your choice. Wasn't it Andale Sans UI? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-07 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:03, you wrote: Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) hey! Good to see someone else on exactly the same trip! I

[newbie] Playing LPs in Linux

2003-01-28 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hello! I happen to have a rather largish LP collection gathering dust for almost a decade since the player broke. Now I thought it would be cool to somehow digitize it all and acquired old grammophone (is this the right word?). Connected it to my soundcard. But nothing. No sound in speakers, no

Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-24 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Friday 24 January 2003 12:31, you wrote: I'd agree, except that some of them get killed from it.. It is impossible to protect a human beings from their own greed. End of story. Believe me, I am ex-senior official of stock market supervision in my land and I talk from personal experience. Its

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-01-22 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 15:09, you wrote: My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any further than that.

[newbie] Wine and Steel Panthers

2003-01-20 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
OK, for the first time I have found a good use for wine. Being a military strategies fan I installed Steel Panthers World at War and succeeded running it with wine (from Mandrake 9.0 CDs). Which makes me really happy. I still have few problems. 1) SPWAW is supposed to run fullscreen. And so it

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-17 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 16 January 2003 20:02, you wrote: Mandrakesoft is GPL with everything it does except on the commercial software disks and the club downloads. Thats what I thought. If you folk have checked other distros lately, ... ...Forget it. Yess And, yes, if I did something to

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-16 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 16 January 2003 07:52, you wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:39, Miark wrote: Despite today's date, he doesn't know what's going on with Mandrake's bankruptcy. He complains about the low value of boxed Linux-Mandrake, and say that Mandrake Club is useless and that votes mean

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-16 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:14, you wrote: Getting rid of those debts is crucial - make no mistake about it - and cannot therefore be seen as a waste of our money. Sure but if Bens financial info is correct, there is no way to do it in few next years. Saving the company is going to hurt

Re: [newbie] Sort of OT - language

2003-01-09 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Thursday 09 January 2003 15:47, you wrote: Agreed, Anne. Being American, I'm equally amazed that many who speak something other than english as a primary language can converse in english so much better than many who are raised with it as their only language. Those who can - and do - show

Re: [newbie] Sound Problem

2003-01-02 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev, 2. jaanuar 2003 14:21) kirjutasid sa: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no

[newbie] trashed my system - lots of rant

2002-12-18 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
I am amazed. I bought a new Athlon in spring. Mandrake 8.2 installed faultlessly and the only piece of hardware ever needing my attention was Lite-on CDRW that needed some configuration to start roasting CDs. Ah yes, in order to get 3d acceleration for my Geforce2 DDR I downloaded Nvidia

[newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-11 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hello! Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0. After two weeks I have list of problems: 1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in other WMs there