Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
I recentry installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with VIA82C686 AC97 sound card embedded on board. Mandrake recognized it and installed module snd-via82xxx. However it still does not work. I tried the mandrake control center and it gave me a warning that I need to run artswrapper as root, I did

Re: Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ori Idan wrote: I recentry installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with VIA82C686 AC97 sound card embedded on board. Mandrake recognized it and installed module snd-via82xxx. However it still does not work. I tried the mandrake control center and it gave me a warning that I

Re: Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
I tried what Shlomi Fish had suggested, installed sndconfig and run it. It said this sound module is not yet supported, it is strange since lsmod responded that there is a module named via82cxxx_audio loaded. Following is the relevant part of lsmod output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# lsmod | grep snd

Re: Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:08, Ori Idan wrote: I tried what Shlomi Fish had suggested, installed sndconfig and run it. It said this sound module is not yet supported, it is strange since lsmod responded that there is a module named via82cxxx_audio loaded. via82cxxx_audion is an OSS

Mandrake URPMI

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
I have some more problems with this mandrake installation. URPMI does not seem to work. for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi gedit unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.1 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.1 (ftp1u)] exists

I can't hear anything when everything seem OK (was Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem)

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:45, Maxim K. wrote: i don't exactly follow this thread. read next if this is a thread i can't hear anything when everything seems OK You are right, this is the case. the itchy thing with alsa for beginners is that for speaker safety reasons the modules init

Re: Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:23, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:08, Ori Idan wrote: I tried what Shlomi Fish had suggested, installed sndconfig and run it. It said this sound module is not yet supported, it is strange since lsmod responded that there is a module

linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Ittay Dror
Hello, I'm trying to find an online maps site (of the sort where you input source and destination addresses and it provides you with directions). I used maps.walla.co.il so far, but they upgraded the site and so it doesn't work for me anymore. I'm using firebird 0.6.1 Thanx, Ittay --

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Well, the maps at mapa.co.il should work fine (It's written in Java and I'm one of the two authors), but unfortunately Mapa's website uses IE javascript and will give you an error on anything but IE. Feel free to email and urge them to make their website standards compliant. The other catch is

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I'm a long time subscriber (at least three years now) of Mapa and miss a lot the fact that not only their maps work only with IE but also that it requires Microsoft JVM (had to disable the Sun plugin in order to work with it). Actually, the map (applet) works in any JVM - the issue is that the

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote about Re: linux compatible online maps site?: Well, the maps at mapa.co.il should work fine Very nice but... (It's written in Java and I'm one of the two authors), but unfortunately Mapa's website uses IE javascript and will give you an

Re: I can't hear anything when everything seem OK (was Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem)

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
i saw the message, but: ALSA is better. ALSA code is maintained OSS will be deprecated somewhen. if the installation of your distro does not work, maybe you should run alsaconf/soundconf/sndconf script that ships with binaries. u can try running it manually from the console. n.b. the

KAddressBook/Kpilot encoding

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
I tried using the Kpilot synchronizing my Pilot Vx to the KAddressBook (Mandrake Linux 9.1) It works great, however it shows the hebrew fields in an unknown encoding and I found no way to change the encoding. My locale is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Ittay Dror
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:14, Nadav Har'El wrote: Without saying anything on the value of this specific service, I'm always surprised about the prices that companies choose to charge for what is essentially an online versions of a books (yes, I know, the site provides more features than a

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
At 15:14 24.09.2003 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: Without saying anything on the value of this specific service, I'm always surprised about the prices that companies choose to charge for what is essentially an online versions of a books (yes, I know, the site provides more features than a book. But

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote about Re: linux compatible online maps site?: I can't comment on other services, but I'll comment on Mapa: Perhaps to you, the service is essentially equivalent to a book with maps, and that's just fine - they will still gladly sell you a

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Ori Idan
I second that. I think that really the Mapa service if it gives all what Alexander says then it absolutly worth more then the printed version. However since it work only with MSIE, I will not pay them until it works with Linux since working only with IE means not working at all to me since I

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: :) It appears you have better connections with them - you might have better luck. Javascript is powerful enough as it is, there's no need to use IE- specific stuff... I'd second that. And yet, Mapa chose to charge 204 shekels per year for an online subscription. Compare that

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Actually, the map (applet) works in any JVM - the issue is that the So could I try to just find the files downloaded with IE and run them with AppletRunner (or whatever it's called)? --Amos = To

Motorola C330 phone

2003-09-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Does anyone on the list know where I can get a cable for a Motorola C330 phone in Israel? Is there linux software for it? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-54-608-069 Icq/AIM Uin: 2661079 MSN IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not for email) Carp are bottom feeders, koi are too,

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I think that Alexander as one of the programmers should approach them himself and ask them to modify it so it supports Linux. He can also help them identify the places that need changes... Well, I just emailed their CEO and owner (who's a very friendly guy) about it, so we'll see. I'd like to

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
The extra features you describe (and which I also said existed) are still doable with the book, with more effort. Are the extra features you listed worth the extra 900 shekels for 5 years? Maybe to you. My claim is that most people with down-to-earth salaries and dozens of other bills to pay will

Re: Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem

2003-09-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 13:14, Ori Idan wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:23, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:08, Ori Idan wrote: I tried what Shlomi Fish had suggested, installed sndconfig and run it. It said this sound module is not yet supported, it is

Re: Mandrake URPMI

2003-09-24 Thread Vasiliev Michael
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:43, Ori Idan wrote: I have some more problems with this mandrake installation. URPMI does not seem to work. for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi gedit unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.1 (ftp1u) into account as no list file

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Mapa do have a mapa2go service for Palms, although I don't believe it features the actual maps. Telmap, on the other hand, is working on exactly that - mobile (in car) navigation. I don't know exactly when an I just remembered - Mapa used to have Destinator years

[OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The strange thing is that the online site should be cheaper for them to operate. Selling physical books has huge overheads - the raw materials, the printing presses, the commisions the stores stake (probably as much as 50% of the price of the book); All

Re: I can't hear anything when everything seem OK (was Mandrake Linux 9.1 sound problem)

2003-09-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:55, Ori Idan wrote: I tried running alsamixer and it gave the following error: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory So it seems that something is not Ok after all... That would happen when you use OSS modules. note:

Re: KAddressBook/Kpilot encoding

2003-09-24 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 15:37, Ori Idan wrote: I tried using the Kpilot synchronizing my Pilot Vx to the KAddressBook (Mandrake Linux 9.1) It works great, however it shows the hebrew fields in an unknown encoding and I found no way to change the encoding. I had the same problem on my

Re: Mandrake URPMI

2003-09-24 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 24 2003, 17:18,Vasiliev Michael: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:43, Ori Idan wrote: I have some more problems with this mandrake installation. URPMI does not seem to work. for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi gedit unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, Herouth Maoz wrote about [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?: The strange thing is that the online site should be cheaper for them to operate. Selling physical books has huge overheads - the raw materials, .. You're not in the GIS business, are you? First of

Re: [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: All they needed to do when they opened the online version is to do some format conversions, build a server farm, create some customer-tracking mechanism (passwords, credit cards, whatever) and create some scripts to display those maps online. Perhaps they also needed to buy

Call for Participation: Tel-Aviv Linux Club Lectures

2003-09-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
The Tel-Aviv Linux Club is looking for lectures on interesting topics. The lectures will be given every two weeks on Sunday. Currently, the first opening is on November 16. Those who are interested in preparing lectures should contact me (Shlomi Fish - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Eddie Aronovich

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:06:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Oops, I left out one important factor regarding Hebrew support: fonts. Does knoppix include culmus? In the default (font)config? Yeh right - I was wondering about this too but forgot to ask - are there

live website mirroring

2003-09-24 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hello We are running a website that is written in PHP and is using a MySQL database. It runs on Linux, of course. We're trying to find a method to setup a complete mirror of the server on a standby server that we can bring up easily if the main server goes down. The website is very dynamic

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Fruehauf
On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:42, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hello, I have a sollution which confronts the problem in a totally different way. Given the time and resources, what you can do is connect both servers to a NAS switch, mapping them the same storage. Then, in case of failing over, the