Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Lawson, Jim wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. 120 is the silver level, 60 is for standard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
Lawson, Jim wrote: What is the difference? Does silver offer anything more? Silver members could download the isos of the powerpack through bittorrent. However, standard members have the download edition + access to all commercial packages, so you have exactly the equivalent of a powerpack. You just have to install commercial applications by yourself (for example pre compiled ATI or nvidia drivers), on a powerpack it would be installed during the OS installation. But urpmi/rpmdrake makes it easy to use, since club repositories are media like any others (with login/password access). So you just need to install the download edition, add the club media (commercial, test) and you have an equivalent access to the CDs of the powerpack. See my guide about the software installer and media management : http://www.zebulon.org.uk/ICML0.HTML Cheers. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 01:41 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Thomas: Thanks for clearing this up. -- cmg Yes, they are identical to those that have been released to the members. I guess Mandrakesoft does not want to give freeloaders a better product than the paying customers get. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Fred Albrecht wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for anyone ? Works fine for me. Although on second thought it's with the stuff from PLF, not just the stock version from MDK. I've watched several DVDs and numerous clips from the web with it without problems. Basically if Xine works, Totem should work as well. It's mostly just a change of interface. As for MP3 files, I use Zinf, so I haven't tried Totem. There is a bug in libxine and some alsa drivers that has been corrected in the CVS. Update to the new libxine1 rpms that are in PLF (add PLF medium with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon), they are the rc2 and include the patch. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, what is the tmb kernel? It's a kind of cooker but for the kernel only. It receives untested patches, that are backported to the normal kernels when they have been thouroughly tested. Now there are 11 kernels, that are described in : http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MdkKernel92 Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0 (and maybe even before). Am I mistaken ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003 07:28 schrieb Joeb: I don't have broadband at home, but I do at work. Therefore, installing 9.2 at home but not having the kernel sources is a real problem (since it also effectively kills off my modem, since I can't compile it's drivers and my NVidia card, too). Yes, I can go to work, download the sources, burn them to CD and then bring them home and the problem is resolved (but not solved). But, how many people without broadband will buy CDs from one of the web-sites that sell them and will be stuck because they can't effectively create a source for URPMI with their dial up. Or what about the poor people in Europe who have monthly download/upload minutes who have used up most of the month's quota just getting the ISOs only to find out they need to download more, but now have to wait till next month? The kernel sources should have been included! As for Emacs, I agree, but, just about anybody who is a fan of Emacs is going to want/need the kernel sources anyway! Joeb Its sure not nice that kernel-source is missing from download edition. I think its an oversight. Stating that this will put people off of mandrake is sure a bit much I think. the 3-cd iso set of powerpack contains the kernel source, so at least no problem for me, as if i get it downloaded at work, i will have all i need for the first. And also i have my DVD-only version ordered, so its just a question of time i would suffer from it. Steffen Add the main source of the 9.2 branch and you can get it with urpmi through FTP. But I agree it is nice to have it on the 3rd CD. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD backup
Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software that makes this easy? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com contrib of cooker/9.2 contains k3b 0.10 CVS that supports DVD writing. I don't know the requirements to backup a whole DVD though. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for the info. I've just spent the past hour chasing this gremlin and come to find out that it appears the samba client packages did not install correctly which is why I'm having trouble accessing this share. Are you talking about updating all of the packages, or just the ones I need to make this work? As you wish. Personnally, using cooker, I prefer to update regularly, on a daily basis. Actually there have been much improvements/corrections since the RC2 release. You'll find a cooker guide here : http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo or a urpmi one on my page : http://www.zebulon.org.uk Don't forget to upgarde the kernel specifically using urpmi kernel. For all others : urpmi --auto-select Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on the workstation. ( its really the only problem this version seems to have. ) RC1 and beta2 had no problem at all printing to this samba shared printer. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this problem and if so, what did you do to correct the problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi Update to today's cooker (use the main and contrib sources from cooker see plf.zarb.org/~nanardon) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NIC interrupts
Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, I've persuaded a friend after a lot of nagging to move over to linux, so he's bought the boxed MDK 9.1. The onboard network card was found but the interface eth0 would'nt come up as it complained the device was busy. So onboard NIC disabled in the bios and a card fitted , realtek 8139 clone. Eth0 comes up OK and data goes out , but not seeing anything incoming. The card is OK , checked on another machine. However the interrupt its using is INT 6, which if I remember correct is the interrupt reserved for the floppy drive. This makes me a little suspicious !, Is there away of forcing the interrupt for the NIC to use,its plug and pray . Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Try two things : - in the bios : Plug and Play OS should be set to No - when booting : boot zith option noapic (at boot, press esc, then type the name of your lilo entry followed by noapic. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi Maybe you should check your mirror. Did you try urpmq -f to check the new packages are available in your URPM base ? I guess you did an urpmi.update -a too before trying the update ? There was no error message ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tuxtype2
Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hi I was trying to install tuxtype2, but both the RPM and building from source fail. Has anyone been able to get this running? I'm on Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Could you provide the compilation error ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
Hi Jack, Thanks for the reminder... However I should have been more clear in what I was trying to say. We can all agree that Mandrake is known as the newbie's Linux while of course still remaining a powerful operating system. I was suggesting that Mandrake include some type of update app automatically ready to be configured in the window manager (etc). Therefor, when the newb logs in, they are asked to configure the update app just like in XP. While the updates may not be as severe and critical as they may be in the Windows world, they are still important. I guess I should have anticipated your reply since I AM posting on the expert list ;) Tango I proposed that idea on the cooker ML after release of 9.1. The idea was to perform an automatic urpmi.update command on a medium if the install of a package failed with error message you may have to update your medium. Apparently it has not been implemented yet, but this could be a good idea to mdernise rpmdrake with such options : - an automatic update of media at specific times - an automatic update in case of install failure I think media sources needs to be modernised indeed. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf-space in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box. There are Mandrake boxes in PCWorld in UK (9.1). Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 9:46 am, Eric Fernandez wrote: T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf-space in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box. There are Mandrake boxes in PCWorld in UK (9.1). Eric Really? I shall be going to the Huddersfield branch sometime this week. I'll see if they have any Anne Yes, I saw them in Canterbury. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility
ed tharp wrote: When you look, see if the box has any mention of McMillian Publishing. THese are the same company that puts out Que books, and at one time was the USA (possibly IIRC for the English language Areas version) distributor for MDK, and may still be. The boxes I saw in Canterbury were the Mandrake ones, the same than those you can find in France (but in English, of course). Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 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 this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for just the reasons that you mention, and it works great! Just urpmi audacity I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found for most everything. :( One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually you have urpmi.setup as a GUI for adding sources (same team than nanardon) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCO
BTW, can't we just use Redhats newly formed Linux Legal Fund to help Mandrake become solvent? big grin French law does not allow donations to a company (except the French state however) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?
Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:41, Todd Lyons wrote: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the advantage to this option, which has no background explanation, and leaves only a very short amount of time in which to make a decision? I've always found it confusing and leaving me wondering what the heck is the right thing to do.. You are right, and it has been modified in cooker. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCO
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: * Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-06]: BTW, can't we just use Redhats newly formed Linux Legal Fund to help Mandrake become solvent? big grin French law does not allow donations to a company (except the French state however) Wrong. See MandrakeSoft donation page dated April 19, 2001 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ wobo These are donations given to Free projects supported by Mandrake: Mandrake Linux Open Source developments, not to the Mandrakesoft company.These donations cannot help Mandrakesoft (the company) decrease its debt, which can only occur by selling products. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?
Hi everyone. I am looking for an ADSL PPPoE modem/router. Can some people do suggestions ? I was looking to the web, netgear seems to be nice (G814) but seems to have a lot of problems of synchronisation. The Efficient 5400/5500 has good review though, and an integrated firewall. Have you some good/bad experiences to share ? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reinstall missing files from RPM package
Guy Van Sanden wrote: In my quest to get networking running on my portable, I got some files from the initscripts package to go missing. Can I reinstall them without having to 'rpm -e' the package first? (Some scripts/settings have been modified by drakconf) I tried 'rpm -F', no success... Thanks Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com No, use the force, Luke ! Actually use : rpm -Uvh --force foobar.rpm Regards Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
I also use mencoder to record tv.
This is a script I use :
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
1 ) freq=647.25
chaine=tf1 ;;
2 ) freq=687.25
chaine=france2 ;;
3 ) freq=735.25
chaine=france3 ;;
4 ) freq=823.25
chaine=canal+ ;;
5 ) freq=671.25
chaine=arte ;;
6 ) freq=799.25
chaine=m6 ;;
7 ) freq=775.25
chaine=tv5 ;;
* ) echo unknown channel
exit ;;
esac
echo Press ENTER to start recording channel $chaine...
read
mencoder -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:freq=$freq:width=768:height=576 -vop
pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o
${chaine}.avi
Note 1 : this is for France, with SECAM. In another country, you might find
your channel frequencies on the web : . If you use PAL, change norm=SECAM to
PAL of course.
Note 2 : vcodec=mjpeg here : picture will be very nice, and does not need a
powerful CPU, but the file is huge, you need a big HD. You may use
vcodec=mpeg4 but you may see compression artifacts and need a good CPU for
25 fps encodings. Make some tests !
Note 3 : if you have no sound, open aumix and check not only line level, but
also IGain level (very important). It has to be non null !
Note 4 : this script is very simple, with shutdown and acron you may use it
as a real programmed VCR.
- Original Message -
From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
Hi Grant,
I got mplayer and mencode. Mencoder works gracefully. But I recommend to
compile from scratch.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, J. Grant wrote:
Hi,
I was tempted by the lure of a digital video recorder.
I found this http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html
It seems great, my tv card is working fine with xawtv, so i checked vcr
out. However, there are so many deps, I cant even get the avifile src
on this site to build, (seems automake files are corrupted). main
avifile.sf.net does not build either, until i install some other libs
etc. Fianlly failed with
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `pci_db2c.awk', needed by
`pci_dev_ids.c'. Stop.
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/index.html?page=download
I downloaded the avifile rpms from plf, but they need even more
Has anyone used vcr with mdk9 ? Are there any rpms floating around?
Seems even the extra rpms I installed are now out of date too:
win32-codecs-1.0-1plf
xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf
Has anyone got it to build from scratch ?
Cheers
JG
--
---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
Yes, because of DVD regulations, descrambling libraries are not included in
Mandrake.
However, they are included in PLF packages.
You'll want to add a PLF source (and contrib) using, for example,
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon
and install :
urpmi libdvdread2
urpmi xine-dvdnav
It will also automatically install libdvdcss2 (the one necessary for
decrypting DVDs), check it did it.
Then you can use Xine for DVDs.
You may want to use mplayer as well, or Ogle.
Eric
- Original Message -
From: Tru64 User [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
I could not even play DVD on my Mandy 9.1rc2!! using
xmovie!!
Any pointers? Have to admit i did not perform any
tweaking, just installed the OS, with xmovie, popped
in the DVD, and expected it to work
Any pointers i should be reading to enable this?
I might get some time to work on it this weekend.
_Thanks
Richard
--- Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also use mencoder to record tv.
This is a script I use :
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
1 ) freq=647.25
chaine=tf1 ;;
2 ) freq=687.25
chaine=france2 ;;
3 ) freq=735.25
chaine=france3 ;;
4 ) freq=823.25
chaine=canal+ ;;
5 ) freq=671.25
chaine=arte ;;
6 ) freq=799.25
chaine=m6 ;;
7 ) freq=775.25
chaine=tv5 ;;
* ) echo unknown channel
exit ;;
esac
echo Press ENTER to start recording channel
$chaine...
read
mencoder -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:freq=$freq:width=768:height=576
-vop
pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mjpeg -o
${chaine}.avi
Note 1 : this is for France, with SECAM. In another
country, you might find
your channel frequencies on the web : . If you use
PAL, change norm=SECAM to
PAL of course.
Note 2 : vcodec=mjpeg here : picture will be very
nice, and does not need a
powerful CPU, but the file is huge, you need a big
HD. You may use
vcodec=mpeg4 but you may see compression artifacts
and need a good CPU for
25 fps encodings. Make some tests !
Note 3 : if you have no sound, open aumix and check
not only line level, but
also IGain level (very important). It has to be non
null !
Note 4 : this script is very simple, with shutdown
and acron you may use it
as a real programmed VCR.
- Original Message -
From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
Hi Grant,
I got mplayer and mencode. Mencoder works
gracefully. But I recommend to
compile from scratch.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, J. Grant wrote:
Hi,
I was tempted by the lure of a digital video
recorder.
I found this
http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html
It seems great, my tv card is working fine with
xawtv, so i checked vcr
out. However, there are so many deps, I cant even
get the avifile src
on this site to build, (seems automake files are
corrupted). main
avifile.sf.net does not build either, until i
install some other libs
etc. Fianlly failed with
make[3]: *** No rule to make target
`pci_db2c.awk', needed by
`pci_dev_ids.c'. Stop.
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/index.html?page=download
I downloaded the avifile rpms from plf, but they
need even more
Has anyone used vcr with mdk9 ? Are there any rpms
floating around?
Seems even the extra rpms I installed are now out
of date too:
win32-codecs-1.0-1plf
xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf
Has anyone got it to build from scratch ?
Cheers
JG
--
---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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--
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MandrakeSoft?
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Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem
Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in 9.1rc2. The workstation is running undder DHCP, and I suspect that's where the name is coming from. But I've always been able to change it before. Any suggestions? Or did I miss a big one again? :) Thanks! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do not report RC2 here, but on cooker list (or bugzilla). DHCP has been debugged since RC2, update to latest cooker. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked the question, and not filed a bug report. This is not at all uncommon on this list. But thank you for being yet another, self appointed list moderator. It's good to know there are so many out there willing to interject their personal opinion as if it were law. ya know what? I've had so many problems with MDL since 9.0, that I'm just going to take it off, and re-install RedHat. It runs. Maybe I'll return to MDL when: Someone fires all the self appointed list moderators. I asked a simple question, and got a lecture. I'm tired of this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Sorry, you misunderstood me. I am not english native speaker, I have a lot of work, and I thought this would help because I had the answer. I know perfectly that RC2 is bugged at that level, since I participate to the debugging phase, and that there have been a lot of updates for the network since RC2. Do not forget this is a developer version. So what do you want me to answer ??? I did not make you any criticism about the bug report, I just remembered that there is another list for debugging cooker... I did not want to sound harsh, but I gave a simple and quick answer, and finally I am criticized. Very rude for someone who just try to help, no ? :( Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until then, you can kiss my American dollars good-bye. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You are pathetic... I tried to help you with the RC2 network bug, you have been upset because I did not give you a 3 pages answer (but my answer was accurate and genuine, I just have no time since I try to debug the future 9.1), and now you come with that American dollar story... I thought that Linux users were more intelligent to not mix international politics and computing. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL
Ric Tibbetts wrote: My two posts are totally dis-related. So you ask for help/advice about 9.1RC2, and five minutes later you decide to declare publicly that you want to boycott Mandrake ? This sounds very logical... Everybody is free to do what he thinks is just. Personnaly I still buy some american products. We do not have the same point of view about war, but I don't think that working people should be penalized because of just another classical geopolitics fight. They are not responsible. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem
Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Paul Cox wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in 9.1rc2. The workstation is running undder DHCP, and I suspect that's where the name is coming from. But I've always been able to change it before. Update dhcp-client from the cooker and it should fix it (you'll also need dhcp-common). Thank you. I'll give that a shot. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ok, apologies accepted, let's cool it down now :) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 release date?
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:05 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:45:14AM -0800 : I was just wondering if someone knows the expected release date of the actual 9.1 version? Second week of April, give or take. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd: What is the anticipated interval until the CD sets are delivered? -- cmg (no blue skies here; yet another ice storm is on the way.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Normally none. Deno posted in Mandrake Club that iso and CDs will be available to ordering people and club members first, and not publicly released before people receive them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?
Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use it. Anyway, I would like to add the 9.0 CDs to the urpmi database in place of many of the website-based sources. I only have a 56k modem conne tion and doing upgrades/installs online is painful and inefficient. How do I add the CDs (I have the 9.0 box set - Powersuite) to the database? I don't mind leaving some inet sites in the database, obviously updates or unsupported, but for basics like main, I need/prefer the CDs as they are right here and far faster than the web. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Lt391i/6R1B/Yh0RAlLJAJ48bE0MxHuzx3HgU+ITeHIt2MrNQgCfQ71v jIS6Cd/bFfGMms4ik37w1f8= =UgQs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Since you have the Powerpack, the CDs of the contrib should be already added to your urpmi database. PLF packages are not included in any Mandrake Pack for legal reasons (mostly in the US for the moment). If you have more than 3 CDs in your urpmi database they are already configured. You just have to add a PLF source. PLF packages are usually ok to install even with a 56K modem. However, if you want for any reason add a home-made CD, it is very easy using urpmi.addmedia name removable:// A new site showing all the possibilities of urpmi has been created : http://urpmi.org/ Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Dave Laird wrote:
I have a customer who, against my better judgement, runs an ATI All-in-Wonder
PCI TV card under Windows, and it works flawlessly using the default ATI
software. Despite my comments about you are what you see he consistently
spends 4-6 hours a day watching TV while doing various things in Windows.
He can switch channels, grab picture frames from the TV, and all kinds of (I
suppose) really neat things. Having seen my Mandrake a time or two, and being
passably familiar with RedHat, he now wants to switch from Windows to Linux
for a variety of reasons. Then there is the issue of that blasted TV card,
and almost immediately I hit snags.
Now I have invested over two days researching this matter, both on Mandrake
and in other venues. Has anyone actually gotten a TV card, particularly an
ATI-based card, actually working under Mandrake? Currently I am installing
9.0 but I would change that if someone has actually gotten it to work with
another release.
My All-In-Wonder AGP 128 works fine for TV and Composite/SVGA In. Recording
does not work reliably. Screen captures need to be converted using some
sort of YUV utility which I've never gotten to work. Note: This is
using an older version of the software shipped with Mandrake 8.2 boxed
version.
Glitches: Channel changes cannot keep up with key presses so holding
down a key to switch channels will lead to a few minutes of the
software flipping channels until it catches up with the key presses. In
some color modes there will be visual corruption of some window manager
elements.
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For recording tv with any working tv card, I recommend using mencoder.
It can handle nicely tv, and can use ffmpeg encoders to compress image
in real time (depending on the power of your CPU, choose your codec wisely)
Try that script :
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
1 ) channel=53
chaine=bbc1 ;;
2 ) channel=60
chaine=bbc2 ;;
3 ) channel=55
chaine=itv ;;
4 ) channel=50
chaine=c4 ;;
* ) echo unknown channel
exit ;;
esac
echo Presser ENTREE pour démarrer l'enregistrement de $chaine...
read
mencoder -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:channel=$channel:width=768:height=576
-vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o
${chaine}.avi
Notes :
If you have no sound : think to increase IGain value in aumix; this
script uses libmp3lib0 to work (in PLF)
You can use frequence value with freq= instead of channel=
You can simply play TV with that command too :
mplayer -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:freq=$1:width=768:height=576 -vo sdl
-ao sdl -vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb
Read man mplayer for other options
Eric
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Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...
For recording tv with any working tv card, I recommend using mencoder.
It can handle nicely tv, and can use ffmpeg encoders to compress image
in real time (depending on the power of your CPU, choose your codec
wisely)
Try that script :
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
1 ) channel=53
chaine=bbc1 ;;
2 ) channel=60
chaine=bbc2 ;;
3 ) channel=55
chaine=itv ;;
4 ) channel=50
chaine=c4 ;;
* ) echo unknown channel
exit ;;
esac
echo Presser ENTREE pour démarrer l'enregistrement de $chaine...
read
mencoder -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:channel=$channel:width=768:height=576
-vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg
-o ${chaine}.avi
Notes :
If you have no sound : think to increase IGain value in aumix; this
script uses libmp3lib0 to work (in PLF)
You can use frequence value with freq= instead of channel=
You can simply play TV with that command too :
mplayer -tv
on:Driver=v4l:input=0:norm=SECAM:freq=$1:width=768:height=576 -vo sdl
-ao sdl -vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb
Read man mplayer for other options
Eric
Sorry, I left a message in French, which means Press ENTER to start
recording...
It may be removed, of course.
Moreover these channels are not realistic : they correspond to UK TV, so
norm=PAL should be used, and the channel numbers are not exact. But it
was just an example... norm=SECAM is just for France (and some African
countries).
Eric
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Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Please, it's to me understand. I believe that here in Brazil we have something similar to US-Chapter 11. So, this C.11 would be like a moratorium? Like what is happening to Argentina this moment for example. Because, certainly, things don't take place here as in Germany. On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: The difficulty is to tell it to folks like mine (Germans) who don't have that kind of Chapter 11. Well in a sense we have it too but the normal way is: You can't pay your bills and you don't get investors to do that for you? You can't find a larger company to buy you out? You're out. The business will be closed and everything will be sold to satisfy the creditors. You can start with a new business. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yes, a kind of. They are under protection of the state, so that they can stop paying their debts. Then a judge is responsible to estimate the viability of the company, and they can renegociate their payments. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control
s wrote: I don't have the same device as you guys (mine came with a pixelview playtv pro - uses lirc_gpio), but I have the same problems as you Eric. I have all the configs in place, the drivers and deamons get loaded - but no device made. I'm jumping in here cause you say you might try cooker packages - but I'm running full cooker and still can't get devfs to make the device upon boot and mknod isn't interested either. I'm not inclined to disable devfs. I'll keep digging and playing as I'm sure you will. I ask that if you make further progress to please share as I will. If anyone has any further advice - hey, I ain't too proud! :) I'm thinking of booting slack to see if it will work there... :D kdh, -s Hi ! I could make it work this week-end. The way to do is to recompile lirc from source. Then loading lircd makes a working device ! I think there is a problem with the used options for compiling the lirc package in mandrake distribution. I do not know if it is corrected in cooker. I shall try when there is the next beta testing. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control
I face a lot of troubles to set up lirc on Mandrake 9. I searched in mailing lists and modified some scripts but with no success. I have a TV card Hauppauge PCI (BT878) with IR remote control. The TV card works well but I cannot make the IRRC work. It works well under windows though. I installed lirc et lirc-remotes packages, then used modprobe lirc_i2c which loads lirc_i2c and lirc_dev modules in memory. I also copied cp lircd.conf.hauppauge /etc/lircd.conf cp lircmd.conf.hauppauge /etc/lircmd.conf 1) I edited the file /etc/sysconfig/lircd to indicate which module to use # Customized setings for lirc daemon # The hardware driver to use, run lircd --driver=? for a list #DRIVER=default CONFIG=/etc/lircd.conf # Hardware driver module to load HWMOD=lirc_i2c # The device node that communicates with the IR device. # with devfs enabled DEVICE=/dev/lirc/0 Note : the line '/dev/lirc/0' was already in the file, I do not know if I need to change it (I use devfs) 2) I edited /etc/modules.conf and added : alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c However, it does not load lirc_i2c automatically when starting, I still need to load it manually 3) devfsd does not create a directory ' /dev/lirc ' then there is no /dev/lirc/0. Is there a way to create it ? 4) I found in the expert mailing-list that lirc modules where not in the correct place in the script ' /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd ', so I also corrected but no success... What is weird is that the red led of the receiver shows continuously (although it should show only when receiving a signal from the remote control). By stopping the service lircd, then restarting, or by removing and loading again the lirc_i2c module, that light sometimes turns off. However, when I press the remote control then, the led shows and stays on. Has someone the same hardware and succeeded to configure it ? Could Mandrake give updated initscripts and lirc packages for that ? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control
Mark Chou wrote: I'm using an earlier distro, but have it working. Have you tried just using DEVICE=/dev/lirc i.e. not using devfs node? If I recall correctly, the lirc modules aren't automatically loaded unless you run lircd (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd). Also, are you sure you have a TV card with the I2C receiver? Mine doesn't have a red LED. The correct I2C receiver plugs right into the TV card with a minijack. Hauppauge also had a receiver that attached to a serial port. --- I have the same device than you : the IR receiver connects to the TV card port (the shape of the plug does not allow any other port), and has a red led in front, behind the dark red receiver cache. This led shows when plugged at start but should turn off when drivers are loaded. It is the case under Windows (and it works well this way). I'll try your advice, but also I could upgrade lirc to the cooker packages if possible : mandrake bugzilla mentions some bugs with module path that have been corrected in cooker. Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
