Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbfd It's looking for libbfd.so. i currently have binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk installed... That provides /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so. But you need libbfd.so. How do you find it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf libbfd.so libbinutils2-devel:/usr/lib/libbfd.so Note that the libification (style of naming the libs and devel packages) is kinda confusing. Wouldn't it be great if you installed the binutils package to run things and the binutils-devel package to compile things? Well you can! It turns out that the libbinutils2-devel package provides binutils-devel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmq binutils-devel libbinutils2-devel So all you have to do is run 'urpmi binutils-devel' and it will install it. - -- i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom drive does not work on this laptop... i downloaded libbinutils-devel-2.12.90 from the web and tried to install that package but it says: libbinutils2-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm: read manifest failed: Success why does it do this? thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I must first state that I do appreciate the efforts of Vincent and all of the others that worked on and contributed to this book. I am also pleased to see that this book has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License. But... I just got my copy today and I am disappointed. If you are looking for a book to cover all of the specifics of Mandrake -- look elsewhere. If you want to learn about msec -- look elsewhere. (Two short pages showing GUI configuration using draksec, 11 pages on 'Instant messaging and IRC') The index is almost completely useless, 6 pages. If you ignore the inadequate use of ink (especially when looking at the images/screenshots), this book would be a decent deal at $10 to $20, but not a great deal. At least none of the pages have starting falling out. In all fairness, this wouldn't be a bad book for a beginner to Linux systems in general. A little pricey though... I already have tons of books covering bash, editors, and Linux in general. All of these books cover Linux in a general, distribution neutral way. I was looking for something else, something I could use. There exists a need for a book to show the internals specifically on a Mandrake system. Something that fully documents the advanced features that are found on a Mandrake system but not others. Mandrake is a unique distribution and the developers have made lots of decisions and changes in many areas of the operating system, many for the better. I would love to have a copy of documentation showing these things -- something that would save me some time when I am trying to figure out what's wrong in some package or system that has been 'modified' Mandrake style. I didn't need a 500 page paperback to hold my hand while using the gui tools... Urpmi does not appear in either the index nor the table of contents. Give me a fscking break! - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/PJXYWOfRC7Rnmv8RAlQFAJ4kJd6K7yMZGUKwhGBgowtSSCPPFACfTyhY xNOzN3wDxx+3NykDW/A7c/o= =MEgj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:27 pm, Sevatio wrote: I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software RAID without having to do a full re-install? The Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid mini-HOWTO has a section on this that will walk you through it. Section 4 I believe. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
KevinO wrote:
I must first state that I do appreciate the efforts of Vincent and all of the
others that worked on and contributed to this book. I am also pleased to see
that this book has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
But...
I just got my copy today and I am disappointed.
I just read the TOC of that book when it was published on the MDK site
and gave up on it at once. It was obvious that the thing was useless for
an advanced user.
This doesn't mean the book per se is useless though, however it's title
is misleading. It should be an introduction to Mandrake or something
like that.
--
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Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
Well spoken Kevin. I agree. I asked for URPMI information after the 9.0 book was released. I don't see much difference in the two books except for the pages not falling out. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate
At 19.37 14/08/2003, you wrote: *** Olaf Marzocchi Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:26:51 +0200 : Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. How about xvidtune? You open a xterm, su to root, start xvidtune. After adjusting everything to your liking (and the limitations of your hardware) you can CP the modeline into your XF86Config. man xvidtune Thanks. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LDAP authentication but no SU for ldap users
I have a client box I just installed that works fine with the exception of the fact that only local users can use the su command. I suspect it is something simple but I've not been able to find the problem so far. Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no /dev/tty1. The device should be ttyACM0, but AFAIK the system doesn't recognize that the USB modem should be driven with the acm module. Harddrake or whatever it's called lists it under unknown devices, and for its module, harddrake has unknown. The portable computer does have a Conexant winmodem built-in, but I don't use it and harddrake doesn't see it at all. There are no serial or PCI ports. Just the USB ports. The Zoom Telephonics 2986L Faxmodem was quite literally the only hardmodem that I could find for a USB port. insmod says /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/acm.o.gz is installed. When I look under /dev, there is /dev/usb/acm -- but it only contains a single file -0 with a major number of 166 and a minor number of 0. Is there some way to tell minicom about the device? I saw stuff in the configuration file for a serial port, but as I mention above, there are no serial or PCI ports on this computer. Thanks, deedee Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:22 -0700 From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried insmod acm, it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A spelling error, should be minicom. Have you tried loading the module by: modprobe acm then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pan articles expiry
Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
Possibly it's looking for a /dev/modem in which case try making a link to the /dev/usb/acm/0 device. In the kernel doc sections see: file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.21/usb/ acm.txt Larry I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no /dev/tty1. The device should be ttyACM0, but AFAIK the system doesn't recognize that the USB modem should be driven with the acm module. Harddrake or whatever it's called lists it under unknown devices, and for its module, harddrake has unknown. The portable computer does have a Conexant winmodem built-in, but I don't use it and harddrake doesn't see it at all. There are no serial or PCI ports. Just the USB ports. The Zoom Telephonics 2986L Faxmodem was quite literally the only hardmodem that I could find for a USB port. insmod says /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/acm.o.gz is installed. When I look under /dev, there is /dev/usb/acm -- but it only contains a single file -0 with a major number of 166 and a minor number of 0. Is there some way to tell minicom about the device? I saw stuff in the configuration file for a serial port, but as I mention above, there are no serial or PCI ports on this computer. Thanks, deedee Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:22 -0700 From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried insmod acm, it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A spelling error, should be minicom. Have you tried loading the module by: modprobe acm then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom drive does not work on this laptop... Not cool. Then add a urpmi source for main using the ever helpful page at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php. Then urpmi it again. Assume you call the source main, then you can do: urpmi --media main binutils-devel and it will download it and install it (along with any dependencies it migh thave). i downloaded libbinutils-devel-2.12.90 from the web and tried to install that package but it says: libbinutils2-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm: read manifest failed: Success why does it do this? I've never seen that. Don't know what causes it. - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints. --Paul Rickard Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/PWwMIBT1264ScBURAu33AKCsnuwsRLKU3UIgjrFwUBAUTy+Q6ACeN/59 eeihT4uigC1yeQu5yDfnRYY= =lrXW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] k3b CD writer
I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and harddrake configured it to mount on /mnt/cdrom2. When running harddrake, it sees the device as /dev/hdd, and claims that it is a cd burner device. So far, so good. Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into the k3b configure screen (from the option menu), it shows both of my CD drives (one a DVD ROM and the other the CD writer), and it even identifies both devices by name and so on. But they both show up under the CD Reader tree. The CD Writer tree is empty. So the question is, how do I get k3b to recognize the CD writer as a CD writer? Any help/pointers/etc. would be appreciated. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything I want and more. - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc P.S. Before I clicked 'send' on this composition I decided to consult the oracle, I mean Google, on the question of...--Clay Claiborne Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/PX37IBT1264ScBURAhTjAJ9pcGXX5LFsTO2sM91SUzUvTAHH6gCeI1v+ glShgwxI6fyKps4V0fmf9w8= =zq0Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry
Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. I can't find it either. Sorting by date and then flagging the articles for delete might work. But it takes a long time... actually I'm wanting to do this as well as I had difficulties with Pan eating up all available memory and swap when requested to get new headers for about a dozen or so subscribed groups. It seems my news server keeps articles for quite sometime, and Pan wants to keep headers around for all of them too, and the result is over 3/4 of a million (!) articles in these groups. I solved that last problem by nuking the .pan directory and starting over. Anne David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
David Guntner wrote: I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and harddrake configured it to mount on /mnt/cdrom2. When running harddrake, it sees the device as /dev/hdd, and claims that it is a cd burner device. So far, so good. Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into the k3b configure screen (from the option menu), it shows both of my CD drives (one a DVD ROM and the other the CD writer), and it even identifies both devices by name and so on. But they both show up under the CD Reader tree. The CD Writer tree is empty. So the question is, how do I get k3b to recognize the CD writer as a CD writer? Any help/pointers/etc. would be appreciated. --Dave 1. Take a look at your /etc/fstab file. see if you have and entry for none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ... 2. Look in the file /etc/lilo.conf and that you have an append line that has the cdwriter as hdd=ide-scsi. This will id it as a cdwriter. You ca also set the regular cd or dvd as scsi by placing in in the append line hdc=ide-scsi. *** By making changes in the lilo.conf file you must run (as root) lilo -v *** Then reboot 3. Check in the /dev folder to insure you have the links for @cdrom, @crdom0, @cdrom1 pointing to the correct device. Say /dev/cdroms and /or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0 or target1. 4. Once thing are set correctly you should rerun K3b Setup. I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wanted us to know: Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. Ah. In the back of my head, I *was* wondering if maybe this was a supermount thing. BTW, in /etc/fstab, should I leave the entry for the burner as ro, or should I change it to rw (since technically, it *is* a writable device)? k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything I want and more. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll remove k3b and install gcombust and see how it goes. Does gcombust also have a problem with supermount, or does it know how to play nicely? --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. Hmm. That might explain some of the issues I have had with it; mostly what seems to be permission related, although permissions seem to be right, and dfox is a member of the cdwriter group. Occasionally it just craps out saying that it's only able to burn an image. (But at least if that crashes, you're not out a CD, and can redo the image and burn later with cdrecord.) :) k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything I want and more. I have not as of yet been able to correctly put a number of mp3s on an audio cd. It still thinks I want to make a data cd containing the audio mp3s. k3b (at least so far) seems to correctly recognize the sampling rate and converts properly to a wave format file. Others have proven not very successful at this. k3b is OK if I make images - at least some of the time. I can (and usually do) manually convert via a pipeline between mpg123 and sox for this. That's not too difficult, but batching up a bunch and converting en masse is more difficult to automate. Not only that, the GUIs are easier to use when it comes to putting a number of (converted) mp3s on a cd and being able to estimate how much space, and how long, the disk will be. For instance, I'm in usenet now and there's another ween cd ready for me to download and convert and make a new cd from :). My approach for this will likely be the same for the other ones: do the mpg123 to wav conversion one at a time, to files in /tmp named '01.wav 02.wav 03.wav' and then cdrecording all these files at once. Or maybe yet - maybe I will scrap this as playing the first mp3 results in an error big values too large and an error Illegal Audio-Mpeg header in input. The post says they're vbr's encoded with mmjb. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 1. Take a look at your /etc/fstab file. see if you have and entry for none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ... 2. Look in the file /etc/lilo.conf and that you have an append line that has the cdwriter as hdd=ide-scsi. This will id it as a cdwriter. You ca also set the regular cd or dvd as scsi by placing in in the append line hdc=ide-scsi. *** By making changes in the lilo.conf file you must run (as root) lilo -v *** Then reboot 3. Check in the /dev folder to insure you have the links for @cdrom, @crdom0, @cdrom1 pointing to the correct device. Say /dev/cdroms and /or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0 or target1. 4. Once thing are set correctly you should rerun K3b Setup. I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. At Todd's suggestion, I'm going to give gcombust a try, but should I decide I don't like that, I'm willing to give k3b another look. In the meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? Thanks. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Sword wanted us to know: I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected sigh - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol overhead. --Mans Nilsson Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 7 users, load average: 0.13, 0.88, 0.78 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/PZq+IBT1264ScBURAoCKAJ4/q3BJTTK6FKVwZccCanRCQd/EAQCcCWJc b3L2FiBJYsYlbng55YCLr8A= =gmWE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? In the words of the great Jeff Garzik, because the cdrecord author refuses to rewrite the code. That's why other people have been distributing patches to cdrecord to make it use the packet layer of the ide devices directly. (I may be mixing terminology, sorry) The new 2.6 kernel will no longer use an ide-scsi layer. - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc There's a medical term for that: freakishly dorky. --Gash Oh wait, is today cynical Friday? --NANOG Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 7 users, load average: 0.39, 0.86, 0.78 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/PZsoIBT1264ScBURAu1cAJwKbQxLQQMsGrA3fm6QYs1FCrXPrQCffUeg BNXy3K4f/9CHnZAZSpSP6Vw= =wRbF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:42 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything I want and more. And easier too. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wanted us to know: meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? In the words of the great Jeff Garzik, because the cdrecord author refuses to rewrite the code. That's why other people have been distributing patches to cdrecord to make it use the packet layer of the ide devices directly. (I may be mixing terminology, sorry) The new 2.6 kernel will no longer use an ide-scsi layer. So that means that the kernel will handle this itself at that point? BTW, do I want /etc/fstab to list the device as ro or rw? --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] decoding a VBR mp3
Hello - In a prior post (subject K3b cdwriter) I explained the method I use for decoding mp3s to wav files so I can make a CD from them. I mentioned that I was planning on scrapping this because mpg123 fails to play the file(s) in question. So (presumably) decoding via mpg123 is not an option here. What I subsequently found -- mplayer to the rescue. At least mplayer will play them when mpg123 refuses to do so. I also tried lame to decode one of these files, and the result is a segmentation fault preceded by a number of unsupported messages relating to bitstream resyncing and frequency changes. The process (in comparison with mpg123 piping to sox) is *significantly* slower. I'm thinking along the lines if mplayer can play it, it should be able to decode it. mplayer -streamdump file dumps core. :( And the (incomplete) dumped stream is in mp3 format. Somehow I don't think it's going to work. I imagine folks here have tried this before. Any help? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd
Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 02:26, Todd Lyons kirjoitti: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom drive does not work on this laptop... Not cool. Then add a urpmi source for main using the ever helpful page at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php. Then urpmi it again. Assume you call the source main, then you can do: urpmi --media main binutils-devel and it will download it and install it (along with any dependencies it migh thave). i downloaded libbinutils-devel-2.12.90 from the web and tried to install that package but it says: libbinutils2-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm: read manifest failed: Success why does it do this? I've never seen that. Don't know what causes it. It's caused by a bad download, or broken package on the mirror, so atleast the rpm headers is screwed up... Only solution is to redownload it, maybe even from another site... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:33 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Hello - In a prior post (subject K3b cdwriter) I explained the method I use for decoding mp3s to wav files so I can make a CD from them. I mentioned that I was planning on scrapping this because mpg123 fails to play the file(s) in question. So (presumably) decoding via mpg123 is not an option here. David - I missed that thread (well, actually I just didn't follow it - I use Gcombust without problem here). Anyways, have you tried the diskwriter plugin with XMMS to see if the resulting WAV file is acceptable for you to use? Just a thought... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:42 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything I want and more. Yea! Another Gcombust advocate! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3
David - I missed that thread (well, actually I just didn't follow it - I use Gcombust without problem here). Anyways, have you tried the diskwriter plugin I'm going to give gcombust another try. Specifically, did you see my comment about it making data copies of the mp3s rather than doing the decoding? I'm pretty sure I selected audio cd and not data cd. with XMMS to see if the resulting WAV file is acceptable for you to use? I installed it, and configured it, but I'm not sure that it's convenient from an automation standpoint. I'll try and see if I can just select all the files and run them through en masse with xmms-diskwriter. Seems like it might actually work. I added the files and selected the diskwriter and it's a disk writin' :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3
On Saturday 16 August 2003 12:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: I'm going to give gcombust another try. Specifically, did you see my comment about it making data copies of the mp3s rather than doing the decoding? I'm pretty sure I selected audio cd and not data cd. If you mean pick .MP3 and wind up with an audio track on your disk in one fell swoop...well, I've never tried that. I always converted a bunch of MP3s with the diskwriter plugin in XMMS, then ran normalize on them to equal everything out, then used Gcombust to burn them as audio tracks to disk. (BTW, this process was passed on to me by the venerable Tom Brinkman, to give credit where credit is due!). :-) I installed it, and configured it, but I'm not sure that it's convenient from an automation standpoint. I'll try and see if I can just select all the files and run them through en masse with xmms-diskwriter. Seems like it might actually work. I added the files and selected the diskwriter and it's a disk writin' :) Yes, I can pick individual viles, groups, or whole directories with it. Very handy, just change the audio i/o to diskwriter, make your selection, hit play and boom! hey-presto! instant WAV file. Hope this helped ya! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3
If you mean pick .MP3 and wind up with an audio track on your disk in one fell swoop...well, I've never tried that. I always converted a bunch of MP3s with That's precisely what I'm trying to do. BTW, the xmms-diskwriter thingy worked fine - I just su over, run cdrecord and give him all the wav files. I'm the proud owner of a new Ween CD :). Now I'm getting kiss alive II :) guess I'll be up all night :). Originally this was a double lp. Maybe it'll all fit on one CD. the diskwriter plugin in XMMS, then ran normalize on them to equal everything out, then used Gcombust to burn them as audio tracks to disk. (BTW, this I don't think I can find fault with that method. What I am looking for is an easier way to automate much of the background processing, and when burning a set of mp3s in wav for cd, making sure I can fit the # of mp3 files to the CD, and not run out of room. It's simpler of course to do that in a GUI. I like cdbakeoven's interface btw. It'll keep track of the time your tracks use as well as give you an indication of how much space you've wasted. For much of what I've been recording, straight mp3 to wav conversion proves effective since I'm just burning single radio shows (OTR) to the cd. But I have a couple where I think I could get 2 or maybe three on 1 cd and being sure I don't run out of room helps. I don't want to try overburn jsut yet :). These aren't typical 44.1k stereo things; that's where the sampling rate needs to match in the decoding process. Yes, I can pick individual viles, groups, or whole directories with it. Very handy, just change the audio i/o to diskwriter, make your selection, hit play Ok... yes, as I tried that, it works just fine. I'll have to remember to do that - especially when confronted with vbr's in the future. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
