[newbie] sound doesn't work - mandrake 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread joe
think) modules loaded emu10k1 ac97_codec sound soundcore - alsa isn't running and doesn't want to start... Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel...

2001-11-28 Thread joe
the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? Anyway problem solvedboth components successfully recompiled and are being installed Joe

[newbie] ripperX proHi,blems

2001-12-07 Thread joe
I can't get ripperX to create mp3 files. I am working backwards and can create the WAV files but when I try to create mp3 direct from the audio cd I end up with a 0K file...even though ripperX reports completing the job satisfactorily... joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] new partition and moving /usr/local - help

2001-12-16 Thread joe
. Currently, /usr/local is part of the / mount point. I would really appreciate having someone help walk me throuhg this process. I took a look a cfdisk ... I can't afford to wipe out the 12GB partition...which is what I am concerned about doing... Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init - Fixed

2001-12-29 Thread joe
adding the parameter nobiospnp to the append line in lilo.conf fixed the problem as Franz pointed out. Thanks, Franz! Joe On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:36, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:45:36 GMT Joe Sotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong

[newbie] wierd open url' action occuring

2002-02-23 Thread joe
://www.mandrakesecure.net/en is referenced. When I click on it the browser window is opened to the following location - file://localhost/en/sectools.php Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shell question

2002-02-23 Thread joe
with exp2 in the last command Yes ... my first system was some late 70s BSD My friends almost fell of their chairs laughing when they saw me using these aqnachronistic commands to do command line manipulations. Joe On Saturday 23 February 2002 07:45, you wrote: Use the up arrow on your

[newbie] setting default browser in 8.2

2002-03-31 Thread joe
I'm trying to set up opera as the deault browser association with urls in klipper -regexp ^https?:W -action opera '%s When I click on a url, konqoruer still fires up joe ps. I've also tried ^http?:W which only demonstrates my lack of understanding of regular expressions :) Want

[newbie] x-cdroast broken, non-gui alternatives - HELP !

2002-04-04 Thread joe
attempts which have resulted in creating drink-coasters. I would be very greatful. Joe ps. If anyone has had an alternate experience with cd roast and audio cds please contact me off-list and we can go in to the errors I am getting and post a summary to the list resolving this issue. Thanks again

[newbie] editing .avi files

2002-12-06 Thread joe
I am looking for something like virtualdub(nandub) that I can use to split an avi. Does anyone have a recommendation because my searches have been fruitless so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-14 Thread joe
I was thinking of either a plain old hub (don't have the money for a router), or another NIC. Next most important consideration is ease of use, for a newb like me. Will be using either mdk 7 or 8.2 on one box (old pentium) and 9.0/XP on the other. TIA for any suggestions, words of wisdom. Joe

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-15 Thread joe
Stephen, Thanks for the quick reply. I am going to get my hands on another NIC and a crossover cable and will give this a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-15 Thread joe
for both file sharing and for sharing the cable connection.Was I wrong? Also what is the #1 port? Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes

2002-12-17 Thread joe
to beat those prices. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] switching my mouse in 8.2

2002-12-28 Thread joe
I have never had any luck with switching to a different mouse when I try to (in 7.2 or 8.2). I start up, kudzu detects my old mouse is gone,and removes it. I run mouseconfig and choose something close to the description of my new mouse (ps2 generic 3 button trackball through an adapter to

Re: [newbie] Evolution password

2003-01-17 Thread Joe
Hi there, talking about Evolution (1.0.2)... i haven't been able to enter any contact into my Evolution's Contacts. Anything wrong here or something amiss? Thanks a lot for the help. Best regards Joe On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: As we've found on the Evo listing

Re: [newbie] Evolution password

2003-01-26 Thread Joe
No.. both ways don't work. thanks for the help anyway. Best regards Joe On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 16:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 17:47, Joe wrote: Hi there, talking about Evolution (1.0.2)... i haven't been able to enter any contact into my Evolution's Contacts. Anything

Re: [newbie] Evolution Sending

2003-01-26 Thread Joe
I think what he meant is offline or online, i don't care. don't send any emails until i tell you so, evolution! keep 'em in the outbox first. The M$ Outlook or Outlook Express has the option not to send messages immediately. That's what he wants, i guess. best regards Joe On Sun, 2003-01-19

[newbie] Kemulator mdk8.2

2002-09-18 Thread joe
Has anyone successfully compiled Kemulator using 8.2.? When I run the ./configure script I get: configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH. Any help would be great! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kemulator mdk8.2-update

2002-09-19 Thread joe
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 11:48 pm, joe wrote: Here is an update to my problem: I figured out that I needed gcc installed so i found and installed gcc-2-96-0.76mdk (with all dependencies and no errrors). Here is the new message the configure script gives me: ./configure loading cache

Re: [newbie] mldonkey problems

2002-10-02 Thread joe
Thanks for the suggestions, I still cant seem to connect to any servers other than mldonkey servers, but I found that pausing and resuming my downloads helped to get them started again. On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 23:38, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:52:48 -0600, joe [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] help with MPlayer

2002-10-05 Thread joe
on the video tab. I think xv X11/Xv is the best (for me anyway). And do I need to install some additional libraries or plugins to view divx movies? Assuming you didn't have to force anything when you installed mplayer it should play divx using the win32 codecs. thanks Good luck, hope this helps. Joe

Re: [newbie] help with MPlayer

2002-10-06 Thread joe
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 14:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 03:57 am, you wrote: there is one more thing, selecting fullscreen only adds large black borders but does not enlargen the video picture. I didnt find any settinds conserning that ? doubt that its the way it

[newbie] how to enable DRI on ATI radeon 32mb pci ?

2002-10-06 Thread joe
I have noticed that i cannot play tuxracer because it is so slow, I found this how-to for AGP Radeon cards: http://linux.ats.com.pl/radeon_dri_howto.txt which i tried to follow. (I inserted Load dri into the module section and created a DRI section with Mode 0666 in my XF86Config-4) But after

[newbie] how much ram should MDK be using?

2002-10-06 Thread joe
I have found that under LM 9.0 using KDE it always shows 119mb of ram used according to gnome system monitor. This doesn't seem to change no matter what i run. Is this an accurate measure of my used ram? I found that under some other window managers there will be slightly less used (such as

Re: [newbie] p2p programs

2002-10-07 Thread joe
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:42, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Robert Beach wrote: Is there a program for linux that you can use for finding mp3's or movies. Sorta like Kazaa or Morpheus? giFT - http://gift.sf.net/ -- The newer versions of mldoney support openFT, so why

[newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-27 Thread joe
I have removed the drive on which XP and my boot loader was installed (hda)and want to re-install it in a partition on my other drive (was hdb). I know XP is going to take over, how can I get a boot loader back without installing mandrake again? Can I just use the update option on the cd and not

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-28 Thread joe
. On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:46 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:00:54 -0700 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know XP is going to take over, how can I get a boot loader back without installing mandrake again? Can I just use the update option on the cd and not choose any

[newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-29 Thread joe
I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-29 Thread joe
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:05, Spencer wrote: On October 29, 2002 08:49 pm, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Check

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-29 Thread joe
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 18:15, Michael Notforyou wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first

Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-30 Thread joe
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 01:36, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 30 October 2002 05:49, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help

[newbie] copying from evolution into Open Office in KDE3

2002-10-31 Thread joe
Running MDK 9.0, but have found myself unable to simply copy and paste from evolution to OO, but not vise versa. Error message reads: Requested clipboard format is not available. Any ideas why? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] how to check or change refresh rate?

2002-10-31 Thread joe
I suspect my refresh rate is not as high as it could be, but could not find any settings for this. Please point me in the right direction. TIA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] how to copy a svcd?

2002-11-02 Thread joe
I haven't had any luck using X-cdroast to copy a svcd. I get some kind of read error.Here is all the feedback it gives me. Capacity: 357081 Blocks = 714162 kBytes = 697 MBytes = 731 prMB Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes Copy from SCSI (0,2,0) disk to file '/home/joe/incoming/svcdimagecd3-01.img' Time total

[newbie] avi-xmms in mdk 9.0

2002-11-12 Thread joe
I have tried compiling this plugin from source with no luck. used: avixmms]# ./configure make make install error message: checking for sdl-config... no checking for SDL - version = 1.1.6... no *** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found *** If SDL was installed in PREFIX,

Re: [newbie] avi-xmms in mdk 9.0

2002-11-12 Thread joe
Thanks for the direction, though I am still getting the same error after installing the SDL (cooker) rpm.Still didn't see any sdl-config script in the files installed by the rpm. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 17:50, joe wrote: I have tried compiling this plugin from source with no luck. used

playing or transcoding WMA was:Re: [newbie] avi-xmms in mdk 9.0

2002-11-12 Thread joe
. If anyone knows how i can install the sdl-config script; or somehow transcode this in linux (unfuck.exe is not an option now that i have no windows in my box), Please let me know. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:47, joe wrote: Thanks for the direction, though I am still getting the same error after

Re: [newbie] avi-xmms in mdk 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread joe
/Makefile creating lib/audiodecoder/mpeg/Makefile creating include/Makefile creating include/wine/Makefile creating lib/videocodec/DirectShow/Makefile creating src/Makefile creating config.h cd . autoheader make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joe/.xmms/Plugins/avixmms' Making all

Re: [newbie] avi-xmms in mdk 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread joe
Stephen, It is safe to assume i am doing this as su. On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:29, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:31, joe wrote: Stephen, thanks for your input, i managed to get the sdl devel libs installed and got a little further..Now the configure is completing

RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.

2002-11-13 Thread joe
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:32, Franki wrote: one email will do nothing, ten emails will do little, fifty emails and the tech guy will ask someone what to do about it.. then the ball starts rolling.. OK you have convinced me. I am going to spend some time writing ATI a few words. Want to

[newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread joe
Anyone else find that the spell checker is especially poor in open office? I know that none are perfect but...other than really common errors that it fixes automatically, it doesn't seem to find them. I have found that evolution is better at pointing out my mistakes. Any yet I can't copy text from

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread joe
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely

[newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-18 Thread joe
I have no idea where to even start looking for my problem on his one. Cdr/rw worked like a dream, and is currently burning a cd as i write this. But it will not read a cd in konqueror.When I try to install a package from my mandrake 9 cd it spins up,then opens and asks for cd1 again when it is

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-18 Thread joe
cd as having 0 files, but I just hit refresh a couple of times and my files would appear.No longer. What would make supermount stop working like this? On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:41, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 10:32 pm, joe wrote: I have no idea where to even start looking

[newbie] re:lets get some linux drivers [Fwd: My experience with ATI TechnicalAssistance]

2002-11-19 Thread joe
bullshit. I am also forwarding to the list their response to this email, and mine again in return. This should give everyone a good idea what to expect from their respective hardware manufacturers. On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:01, joe wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 00:15, ATI Customer Service Canada

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading: Problem SOLVED

2002-11-21 Thread joe
never crashes, and when It does I think I am usually at fault :) On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Joe, when I look at the fstab below it strikes me that there are commas just in front of the fs-statement. I think you should try to replace those commas with an empty space

Re: [newbie] Review of Mandrake 6.0

1999-07-07 Thread joe
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, you wrote: Anyone know who has the box set in south Florida ? jsm Art Rowe wrote: I read the review earlier and thought it very good. I just saw this boxed Mandrake set at Costco for $29.99 Canadian. You can't hardly get an update OS disk from Microsoft for

Re: [newbie] Change default KDE install directory?

1999-07-14 Thread Joe
allow you to use the --prefix and --relocate to move the destination joe -- Check out and support the next generation of cpu - http://f-cpu.tux.org/

Re: [newbie] Real Audio

1999-07-17 Thread Joe
ested RealAudio decoder" ughhh.. -Bill this is what my /usr/bin/rvplayer script looks like: #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/rvplayer LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/rvplayer/libnblock.so export LD_PRELOAD export LD_LIBRARY_PATH exec /usr/lib/rvplayer/rvplayer "$@" and it fixed

[newbie] blank screen on X

1999-07-25 Thread Joe
with my configuration. I tried many combination including the resolution given by the probing, but what I getwas still the blank black screen. Can somebody help me ? thx ... btw, I installed Mandrake 6.0 regards, Joe

Re: [newbie] blank screen on X

1999-07-26 Thread Joe
I'm using SiS 6326 for the Graphic Card and Compro monitor (since it is not listed I used Generic Multisync for Xconfigurator). And I did try every single resolution possible (8-bit, 16-bit somehow it cannot use 24 bit), but still no effect. Joe - Original Message - From: Patrick

[newbie] LS-120 SuperDisk Help please

1999-08-06 Thread Joe
me message no matter what i try. I also checked the modules, and it seems that the ide-floppy.o module is loaded. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, I could use some tips on adding it to my fstab. thanks, Joe

Re: [newbie] Perl RPM

1999-08-09 Thread Joe
rpm Joe

Re: [newbie] Swap size

1999-08-11 Thread Joe
640k of memeory" :-) For a more real appriasal check out this page: http://epsilon.silicon.net.my/adrian/Speed_Demonz/Swapfile_Optimization/Swapfile_Optimization_01.htm Enjoy(and stop spreading those damn rumors!) Joe -- http://f-cpu.tux.org/

Re: [newbie] Commands In linux

1999-08-13 Thread Joe
or any free os. Joe - http://f-cpu.tux.org/ the future of the CPU!!! http://www.lsl.com/ the best in linux products!

[newbie] New to linux

2000-02-05 Thread Joe
Can anyone tell me the steps to take to upgrade mandrake 6.5 to 7.0? Warning: I dont know anything about linux, but I am a fast learner, and have a programming background. Joe

[newbie] tar files

2000-01-30 Thread joe
Hello everybody! Sorry for my horrible English.I'm a new Linux user from Spain and I'm trying to learn more about this fantastic OS. I'm having a lot of problems with "tar" files.I'm trying to install Gnome-Chess,which contains a file called "gnome-chess-2.2.0.tar". How can I install this on

[newbie] sound card config

2000-04-26 Thread Joe
I have a turtle beach montego II sound card that came wiht my dell computer. I went to aureal and got all of the sound drivers that are needed, I ran make install and it keeps telling me that the Device or resource is busy. I turned off pnp in my bios, and i don't know what else to try.

Re: [newbie] sound card config

2000-04-27 Thread Joe
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote: gerald green wrote: help, i have a soundblaster pci 128 that will not work for me, my install of mandrake 7.0 was not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Have you tried sndconfig? Lothar does not do a very good job with that card; in fact, I've

Re: [[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM]

2000-06-19 Thread Joe
the writer are more interested in successfully installed Linux with everything configured during installation then after. How do you configured a newly installed device in Linux i.e. Ethernet card, MPEG card, etc. Thanks! Joe - Original Message - From: Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM]

2000-06-21 Thread Joe
try your solution first. thanks best regards Joe - Original Message - From: Linux Neophite [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM] friend, 1.) add this line to you /etc/conf.modules alias eth0

Re: [newbie] Windows Manager

2000-07-03 Thread Joe
Linux Friends, may I know why each of you like the window manager of your choice? Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager. Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:24 AM

Re: [newbie] How i mount my externall Zip Drive

2000-07-04 Thread Joe
. 6. Put in /mnt/zip in the Mount Point box. 7. Put in vfat in the Filesystem box. You can change the icon as well there. That's it. Hope it helps you. Have a nice day Joe - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:08 AM

[newbie] WordPerfect and Lotus WordPro to StarOffice

2000-07-05 Thread Joe
Best Regards Joe Linux

[newbie] GO!ZILLA-like program for Linux

2000-07-16 Thread Joe
Hi Linuxers, Is there any program like Go!Zilla (win9x/nt/2k) on Linux? I need to have something like that on my Linux thanks Joe

[newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating

2003-04-04 Thread joe
I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an hour or so. Pretty sure this is a heat problem as it gets almost too hot to touch. Anyone know how to slow it down to a reasonable rate, or who could point me in the right direction for finding this

Re: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating

2003-04-05 Thread joe
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 02:56, Netsonic wrote: Just a thought... If the unit is getting that hot, have you checked your case fans/cooling to see if there is a problem. Maybe your system fan speed reports etc?? Nope I am quite sure it is the burner, or more accurately the firmware,

Re: [newbie] trouble installing mdk 9.1SOLVED

2003-04-06 Thread joe
Thanks for your help, the first 2 cd's failed the test. Guess know that that now I know I can prevent this problem in the future. On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 00:39, stormjumper wrote: hi joe, running md5sum on the little md5 file produces a checksum, which isn't what you want to do. instead

Re: [newbie] re: problem with 9.2 install

2003-10-18 Thread Joe
of 9.2. When it didn't work I tried to do an upgrade to see if I had done something wrong during post install configuration. Thank you for your help. Joe. You could try hitting esc at the lilo menu and typing linux noapic and see if that helps. Sis chipsets can have trouble with I/O APIC

Re: [newbie] 9.2 KDE Kmenu link drag n drop

2003-10-22 Thread Joe
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:53, Jason Greenwood wrote: How the heck do you drag and drop app links to the desktop now?? U used to be able to left click and drag,now it's x'd out??? Cheers Jason Ummm, works just like always for me. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] mozilla mail: cannot use profile default it is in use

2003-10-22 Thread Joe
What gives? I remember this one happening occasionally in 9.1. Can't remember what I did to get around it. I was sort of excited about the junk mail filter in mozilla but now... Any ideas why this is happening when I do not have mozilla or mozilla messenger running? TIA for suggestions? Want to

Re: [newbie] mozilla mail: cannot use profile default it is in use

2003-10-23 Thread Joe
Thanks for the suggestion, I went to file:/home/~/.mozilla/default/bbp9fff8.slt/ where I found a file called lock. I assume this is the lockfile? I think I will try backing it up somewhere (just in case) and deleting it. Thanks again. Joe. On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 23:37, Heather/Femme wrote

Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2

2003-10-30 Thread Joe
to install more packages later you don't have to swap disks because urpmi is allready set up to get them from the mirror. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you need more help, that's what we're here for. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems

2003-11-15 Thread Joe
.) I have no issues whatsever with 9.2 and would reccomend it over 9.1. Just my $0.02. OTOH I have a friend who is having trouble getting his onboard lan working, so there is still room for improvement :-( If you have no complaints about 9.1... go with what works. Joe. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems

2003-11-16 Thread Joe
David E. Fox wrote: I'm considering taking a look at gentoo, should prove interesting, but I think it would take a long time to bring it up on this 1.0 gig box. Let us know how it goes if you decide to go through with it. I am also interested in gentoo. I am also considering trying Suse,

Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync

2003-11-25 Thread Joe
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 24 November 2003 10:44 pm, Andrew Mann wrote: - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] What CL syntax are you usin with mencoder to do this? I'm mostly just curious as I only recently got a DVD/CDrom myself. The command I

[newbie] a success story (sort of): tv-out with radeon

2003-11-25 Thread Joe
Found out that my radeon card can output to tv under linux if I use the vesa driver at 800x600 :-) Whoohoo! But...mplayer can't use XV anymore, so it won't display fullscreen. Xine will display full screen, but drops frames :-(. I found an rpm for the gatos ati.2 experimental driver on

[newbie] no valid player models for quake 2

2003-11-30 Thread Joe
Anyone seen this kind of error message when trying to change player settings in quake 2? I think it may be related to the fact that my oppenents in multiplayer are pretty much invisible to me. Make me so much fresh meat for the grinder it isn't funny. TIA for suggestions on fixing it. Want

[newbie] DRI/DRM problems with Radeon SDR PCI

2003-12-01 Thread Joe
] drmOpen failed (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Suggestions for getting direct rendering working? TIA. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU

2003-12-22 Thread Joe
the Gl version of quake2 but... Its slow, and checking top tells me xinetd is using somewhere between 90 and 98% of my cpu. This happened again after a reboot. Suggestion as to why this may be and how to fix it? TIA. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] xinetd consuming 90% of CPU

2003-12-22 Thread Joe
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2003 08:19 pm, Joe wrote: Decided to try the 20031217 cooker iso. Got some pretty mixed results. Did the upgrade from 9.2 and it had some error relating to the rpm database. New version of glibc, gcc, XFree I think the encouragement

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-29 Thread Joe
avidemux is the best alternative from what i have read. joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] no screensavers in kde

2004-01-04 Thread Joe
I have no screensavers listed when i try to configure them in KDE. xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl and kdeartwork are installed. A look into /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers shows that they are there. Why can KDE not see this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Re: no screensavers in kde SOLVED

2004-01-06 Thread Joe
Troy Wolfe wrote: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no screensavers listed when i try to configure them in KDE. xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl and kdeartwork are installed. A look into /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers shows that they are there. Why

[newbie] intel pro/100 ve network interface on Sony Vaio - inconsistency

2004-01-09 Thread Joe
Worked under knoppix. Worked on mdk 9.2 at first. Then it didn't next time I ran my buddies laptop. Then it did. Then it didn't, and now... eth0 fails every time. Tried a few things I found from googling for similar simptoms - turned off sleep mode in the eeprom using eepro100-config. Tried

[newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread Joe
? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] network inconsistency

2004-01-12 Thread Joe
I think I will repost this problem in hopes that someone will come to my rescue. Installed mdk 9.2 on a friends sony vaio pcg-fx340, networking worked at first. Then it didn't and wont anymore even after a re-install (I know bad habits die hard).Windows says it is an intel pro/100 ve chip

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-14 Thread Joe
Miark wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after

[newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-16 Thread Joe
I am giving up on getting my friends integrated intel NIC working on his VAIO under mandrake. He is willing to shell out cash for a network card that works well with 9.2. A local mom and pop shop here in Edmonton sells an Asus wl-100 pcmcia nic for $40 canadian. It sounds like a reasonable

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Thread Joe
Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 08:18 am, Joe wrote: Could you go into mandrake control center (aka configure your computer), click on hardware, then hardrake and let me know what NIC you have and what driver it is using. This one is a pcg-fx340, not very different machine

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Thread Joe
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 21:42, Charles Ramsey wrote: HardDrake tells me that I have a Realtek RTL-8139. Hope this helps you to success. That should work with 8139too module, try insmod 8139too if it isn't mentioned with lsmod in a terminal as su/root. Different

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Thread Joe
Charles Ramsey wrote: HardDrake tells me that I have a Realtek RTL-8139. Hope this helps you to success. Regards, Charles Ramsey Different card but thanks for trying. joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-18 Thread Joe
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 03:12, Joe wrote: Another thing that I just remembered. When i start up, eth0 seems to fail if the cable is plugged in, but says OK if it isn't. Dont know if that tells you anything. Could be dhcp is getting in the way. If you can't get static

[newbie] urpmi.setup

2004-01-30 Thread Joe
plf page right now. Is this a temporary outage? Anyone know where I could find the serverlist? TIA. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] TV out with ATI Radeon 7000

2004-02-03 Thread Joe
work properly using the ATI.2 driver, google for it. Never got it to work properly before I sold the card. Hope this helps. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] 3d acceleration only works for root user

2004-02-07 Thread Joe
agp onboard video. Suggestions for making 3d acceleration work? TIA. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3d acceleration only works for root user

2004-02-08 Thread Joe
with such a phenomenon? Where might i look to find some info about what is happening? Joe. On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Joe wrote: I am running mandrake 9.2 with Xfree 4.4 rpms from cooker. Works great but... running glxgears as anyone but root shows direct rendering is disabled. Running it as root shows

[newbie] terminal server client doesn't load boot image

2004-02-09 Thread Joe
. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] terminal server:libwrap refused connection from tftp

2004-02-10 Thread Joe
this is what tail -f /var/log/messages tells me: xinetd[8966]: libwrap refused connection to tftp from 192.168.0.3 Googling has proved fruitless so far. A little help please. TIA. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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