Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried it in real mode, and the same thing happens.

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. First off, do (as root) a: lsof /dev/dsp

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick with Windows as Linux

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:24 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation. Hmm, I disagree. My 10 and 12 year old (not to mention

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find it to look it up in the DNS so that I don't have to constantly change the setup in kmail? I

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I've noticed the exact same thing, DL. In fact a young person I know recently told me that he could install and run Mandrake without trouble, yet couldn't seem to get winblowz to operate as easily, and deferred to a local shop for

Re: [expert] lm_sensors

2003-11-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:23 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, what do I know about this system? Where do I go from here? And what about the bogus reading on fan1? And how about the boundaries, can I be certain that they are correct for my system? How do I get ksim, or any other hardware

Re: [expert] CD and k3b

2003-11-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 November 2003 02:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: hmmm it would seem that in this configuration cdrecord is able to find the drive ok. Now I'm going to ask the group as a whole. Given the above should Charlie submit a bug on k3b? James I've not been following this thread

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Dark Lord. I haven't forgotten that you are wrestling with the same thing. Within the next 24 hours, all being well, I'll send you a summary of the steps I took and why. Anne Thanks Anne - much appreciated! --

Re: [expert] GL screensaver crash

2003-10-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:25 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with mouse or keyboard

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:53 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Actually, he is quite correct. /mnt/cdrom is a directory located off of /mnt which in turn is located off of /. Until you mount a cdrom in which case /mnt/cdrom actually starts pointing to the /dev/cdrom device which is then the

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 October 2003 04:31 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: Sheesh, what next? Can we get an explanation of this phenomenon based on Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. After all, when dealing with charged particles, you wouldn't want to omit any kind of explanation based on quantum mechanics,

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. Thanks, thats what I thought and it makes sense...so when /mnt/cdrom here is *not* mounted (when it is mounted, it shows the size of the

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:32 am, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: /mnt/cdrom *IS* your CD-ROM drive. its size varies depending on what type of CD you insert just then. to copy a CD, you can use a mkisofs or something to create an ISO out of it; or use the TAR or some other command to compress the

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:36 pm, Eric Huff wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: (null): *

[expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
How to? I've got a game, Jedi Academy that works under WineX but you have to copy both CD's to /mnt/cdrom since it won't release the drive to change CDs. When I try to copy the 2nd CDs' contents into /mnt/cdrom though, I get a disk full error - and no - its not full. Or rather - it is, its

Re: [expert] LM9.2: Pbm extracting Enemy territory and America's Army

2003-10-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 20 October 2003 07:40 am, Tango Echo wrote: snip Signal caught, cleaning up Note: Same pbm with America's Army Any idea? Your /tmp is likely too small. When you do a df -h what is the size for /tmp? Ronald had the same problem. I believe he setup a link for that directory to

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks darklord, If I can't get decent performance out of regular wine, I may have to pay for the wineX. Until then I'll struggle :) In any case, yesterday I re-built DRI (Xfree86 that is). It took ages (for some reason its make

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:40 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at 60fps; and

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 13 October 2003 04:37 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hi there - I just installed the CVS version of wine, to my Mandrake 9.1 (with kernel 2.6.0test7), and noticed that OpenGL applications complain that 'that mode of openGL is not supported', regardless of which mode I use! Are there

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 13 October 2003 03:06 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Hi can some please tell me which file to download to install - libgal.so.11 I tried libgal-2.0 but that seems to give libgal.so.21 Tnx Richard Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you can't find it, have you tried linking libgal.so.11

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 10 October 2003 10:14 am, Miark wrote: This may be just me, but locking out anybody based on their browser is not a tactic that is compatible or consistent with the Open Source way. In fact I think it's below us. We should be taking the high road and setting an example cuz 1) that's

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:32 pm, Jack Coates wrote: a) rules of thumb are always at least a little wrong b) is it wasteful if you only use it every few months? How about once a year? In all honesty, I hardly ever touch swap; it's my safety net for runaway processes and the occassional

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use of it? Regards, Norman yes Hmm, I thought (referring to an

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:58 am, ed tharp wrote: you are correct, that was me not paying attention very well as I copy and pasted the history from a term window... sorry for the confusion No problem - had me hoping I was missing something important though! Oh well, back to square 01

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that, all I did was urpmi the gnomemeeting packages and then I

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:04 pm, ed tharp wrote: who owns /dev/v4l/video? [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ls -al /dev/video0 crw---1 darklord sys 81, 0 Jun 12 22:35 /dev/video0 I put this because there is no /dev/v4l on my system. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you tried as root with out the quotes; cd /etc/security/ chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 02:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having to do ´su´ everytime. Is it a good answer? No. I have a Logitech quickcam as well (I don´t know about the 3000 part), and my setup consisted of pluging it in. The

Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 01:24 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there a tool for converting wav files to mp3s enmasse? Right now I am using Lame at the command line, but it is getting old. I would like to point Lame at a directory of wavs and have it encode the mp3 files using the same name.

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. I changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec kept changing the permisisons back.) The end result was that the people who

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from the cli? Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 03 October 2003 10:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? Rob Generally speaking, this will vary a bit with taste, but I would'nt let more than say 5 or 10

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I saw a message where you had tried rm and it said you didn't have permission, I did not see the ones where it was giving you a hard reset of the system. Sorry. No problem. :-) You coming up in init 5 or 3. I mean, graphical

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dark, Another possibility that Mail-old is sitting on a bad sector. Either bad as in physically bad or bad as in the sense that it's lost it's connection to reality. James Yep, although it is a fairly new 80 gig Maxtor

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 05:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Right - this one gave me the clue. I had checked the settings in aumix, but I hadn't realised that I needed to change the Rec to red - should have done. However, now I can get sound easily with the aumix line showing red. As soon as

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, DarkLord. OK - if I turn igain down to 0 I lose the noise, but even 3 brings it back. I presume it is some sort of feedback, but I don't know what's causing it. Meanwhile, I had looked at Audacity and Rezound, but without

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 03:59 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: I just dealt with a SBLive 5.1 on a friend's MDK 9.1 system, and I got the best results by using the OSS driver (emu10k1), and enabling record within aumix for the IGain channel *only*; this is a composite of the other input sources,

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:17 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Well no matter what I do, aumix, kmix, or anything, the tracks are getting overrecorded, and distorted. Any ideas? Odd. I'm assuming you adjusted the gain down with the slider? I had to take mine from 100 down to about 8-10,

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will actually work, but

Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I need to record some of my vinyl collection as wav files to burn onto audio cd. So far I haven't found anything that is actually reading the input, either from the soundcard direct or from the Audigy front panel. Some time ago

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote: have you considered this mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null/ Only the last slash as a diff? Well, I tried it, as user and root - same result. Thanks for the suggestion though. --

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: or as Root rm -rf .Mail-old from the directory it is in. I am not aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do it and that you specify exactly what you want to target. Umm, have you read the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: No, I didn't see it. Thanks for sending it on. I got LVG's though. Before I saw this I had found an article on Gramofile through google, so I've installed it. I'll also take a look at LV's suggestions of audacity and rezound. I

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your undeletable file but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory. I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and since

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:48 pm, Terje Heen wrote: Phil ! I mannaged to save the lilo.conf but the word I edited was changing color from magenta to light blue. (vga=normal) And My framebuffer is still active. is this because this blue text?? It seems that linux does not recognize

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Richard, if I'm understanding you, you are saying that an on-board nic is working fine? The reason I ask is that most people advise not attempting it. If you know of one that works, could you put a line or two on the TWiki?

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: There's no mention of that motherboard on the harware compatibility page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Please pleading could you add it? Anne Well, I tried - got an error message saying it was

Re: [expert] Devfsd

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having been told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my trouble) I came across this: quote The following addition needed to be added to '/etc/fstab': none

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Old enough to be a grandpa, Young enough to have a 3 year old *grin* James 8-) Heaven forbid my 12 yr old makes me a grandparent but I do have a 19 month old baby girl! :-) --

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: Here's an idea tho... I was recently in a local bookstore that caters to *NIX junkies and saw some Yellowdog packages there. The cool thing is, tho, that they came in a regular DVD case, just like a movie. I'm wondering if there is

Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:50 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: To hear 'Too bad for you then..' coming from a Mandrake employee is just the pits. Anne I'd have to agree there Anne - unprofessional at best. :-( --

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 11:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great ... I was looking for qa way to do this :) I did you say and put in a script in /etc/init.d/idedma (the script you attached). I wonder ... if there a way to see that the script is starting correctly and the

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:08 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Yes, /etc/sysconfig/harddisks is the usual place to put those settings - remember to copy harddisks to /etc/sysconfig as harddiskshda or harddiskhdb or whatever your setup requires. hdparm needs to be installed as well. Argh - typos

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 12 September 2003 01:41 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Jumping in late, I want to reiterate that you must remove MesaGL rpms if they are installed. They will dork up your nvidia. praedor Hmm, which Mesa stuff is that? I have the following installed and it doesn't cause any problems

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:29 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:26, Anne Wilson wrote: snip can I ask if 'onto the scanner database' implies that you have actually had it working? I have a CanoScan FS2710 which is recognised, but I get a 100% freeze when I

[expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on this list have one of these boards, and if yes, then have you ever recorded anything using the line-in jack? I've got some older (20+ years) cassettes that I'm trying to convert to .ogg using Gramofile and oggenc. I've got a cassette player with separate line (r/l) stereo jacks, that

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: One thought here. If you open aumix there are a bunch of green squares and one red square. Now give that in aumix a checkmark next to mute all means that it isn't muted. I took a gable on this thought and it seems to be true.

Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:06 am, Vincent Chen wrote: Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:18 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote: Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go. Was there any tricks you used to get

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: You are correct... couldn't open the game and type the e-mail at the same time james I hear ya buddy - I have that same problem while trying to drink a coke, eat cashews, and tickle the 18 month old little girl while

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 05:45 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You do watch Enterprise, though...right? :) LX *Anything* Sci-fiespecially Trek... :-) -- /\

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:53 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Loads of hints on how to effect the install but no-one's asked if you're still married or isn't he back yet He took it better than I expected g, presumably because he'd

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Might be as elusive as the chalice of Yendor (sp?) *grin* James Er...isn't that amulet of Yendor? (or is that why the chalice is so elusive!!!) grin --

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:08 pm, Guilmot Mike wrote: Apu??? Apu nahaseesomething ... in The Simpsons ? :-) Kind regards, Guilmot Mike Ah - I must be the only person in the western world that has never seen The Simpsons g

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:07 pm, Vox wrote: I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:44 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. Missed the first part of this thread, but the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: When I initiate a transfer on a Linux (Samba) box to or from another Linux(Samba) box, or to or from a Windows box, I get 3-4 meg/s tranfers. This is the one I'm trying to fix. Yep, that definitely seems slow to me. Isn't there

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. Mark, you can do cat *.(file_extension) yourfile.ext but I don't think it combines some files

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 August 2003 06:22 am, ed tharp wrote: I can take no credit. uubp was brought to my attention by Tom Brinkman some time ago, and I just searched uubp on google for a link. I think Tom is like H.P. Lovecrafts cthuhlu, he's been around so long he's become an ancient one and knows

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 29 Aug 2003 1:18 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Never tried that (18 beers %-D ) ;) but it would explain why he can't see what he writes :-) Anne lol! --

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appear

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:44 am, Larry Sword wrote: Ronald, ?? Another thought squashed. I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not call

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 04:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Ronald, This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't found out where.

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:22 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Well after some sleep last night I renewed my search. My face is quit raw from the slapping myself silly inflected on myself. The solution was right there on the print panel: 1. From within KWrite go to print screen and on that panel,

[expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on the expert list got the latest version of Gnomemeeting working with version 9.1 of Mandrake? Anne and I have been trying to get it to work - we can run it as root, but if we use our normal user accounts we get an error message saying that /dev/video0 can't be accessed. I tried

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:01 pm, Philip Webb wrote: Hi Philip, thanks for the reply. on Linux, it's best to use the right tool for the job, rather than trying to stick to an environment (as in M$ Windows). Okay, but if I have kedit open, and click on the print icon, shouldn't I be able to

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 12:28 am, Larry Sword wrote: You need to review two docs: file:/usr/share/doc/cups/sum.html and man lpoptions. Look for headers and prettyprint. Larry Hi Larry. Thanks for the reply. I looked at sum.html and according to that, lpoptions -r prettyprint is supposed

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got it working here. Dunno what I did except install it. I've a creative webcam on it (usb) and it works fine. I do get one error when starting from the command line. (gnomemeeting:2861): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file

[expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tried this under the newbie list - didn't solve it. I just want to print out (kedit or the printer icon I manually put on my KDE desktop) plain ASCI files without the header being appended to it by CUPS. Anyone have any idea how to turn it off? I went thru KDEs control center and looked at

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:29 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: What it is, is a re-implementation of Novel Network. And is supposed to be (according the the website I was directed to by someone) in very alpha form. As for the why. After watching the list on 9.1, I got the feeling that they

Re: [expert] memtest86 other hardware testing utilities

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:15 pm, Jim C wrote: I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86. It looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff. Anybody know where I can find a Linux based hardware

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm Has anyone installed

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:38 am, Miark wrote: As for being forced to buy a pricy monitor I think you're being overly dramatic. You can buy a new monitor, at the same physical size as your existing monitor, and with much better resolution and image quality for less than $100, shipped. You

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 August 2003 01:25 am, David E. Fox wrote: 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

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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! :-) --

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all others on the net.

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