Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Mandrake 9.2: I now have connection to the internet and before I try to improve anything I think I should upgrade. I have some questions as to how to prepair for this. I know that some of you have done this recently. 1. How long does it take on a dialup system? 2. Is there an upgrade program like getright or simular that can be used? 3. What should I do to get ready for this? # 3 is the biggest concern. I.E. Should I uninstall the program currently installed before installing a new version? How does the system know what programs to download or do I have to do each rpm by itself? I need as much verbage as you are willing to write. Regards; Hoyt 1/ It will take a gazillion years on dialup. There are a lot of updates for 9.2 However you can do it in small steps at a time. Implement the important upgrades first and do a few each time you connect. The most important package to upgrade is the 'rpm' package because that one causes your KDE menus to disappear if you do not upgrade it. Through Mandrake Club it is possible to download a set of ISOs with the updates already included. Some linux CD suppliers will also sell you for a small sum a CD containing the updates http://www.linux-emporium.co.uk/products/compilations/#MandrakeUpdate 2/ Yes of course there is. In Mandrake Control CentreSoftware there is the Mandrake Update GUI which will manage your updates for you. You can filter on security updates, bugfix updates, and normal updates. You can select which packages you want to update. Where upgrading one package demands the updating of another. The other packages will get included in the update automatically. Before you can do the updates you need to define an update source. The easiest way to do that it to go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and select an update source for 9.2 Tip: The nearest source is not necessarily the fastest Tip: The rediris source in Spain is *really* fast The web page will give you the text to type into a root terminal. Tip: To get a root terminal type su in a normal terminal. Tip: To copy paste in Linux highlight with mouse to copy. Press mouse wheel to paste. Do *not* follow the advice on the web page about doing urpmi.removemedia -a It will screw up your CD sources if you do. When you define a source it will download a file listing the packages available. At a later date you might like to come back and define sources for contrib and plf Then you will be able to install lots of extra software online. 3/ You do not need to uninstall anything. Just run the Mandrake Update GUI. It will first of all check to see if there any new updates. Then select the update types you want to check for. Then read the descriptions of the available updates and decide if you want them. If you do tick the box, and then press the Update button when you think you have ticked enough. It will remove the old versions and replace them with the new ones. The only problem you will have is it will be slow because you are on dial up. I suggest just updating 1 or 2 packages each time. See here http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/92/en/Starter.html/software-management.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samsung says: CD Writers don't work under Linux.
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 04:45, anton wrote: Is the quote still there? I can't see it... what is the faq? Cheers Anton ps Worried Samsung people? Seems so - they've removed it. The link Joe gave took you straight to the quote, but if you check the FAQ (hit 'List' at the bottom of the entry that's now there) it no longer exists. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finally, a socially responsible virus
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 22:14, Warren Post wrote: This story caught my eye: MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3304311 I wonder if it would run under Wine? :-) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copn, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ I read elsewhere that it would act like most other worms for the remainder of January, then change to a DoS attack on SCO between Feb1 and Feb12, then revert to normal worm behaviour. Whoever wrote this is doing us no favours. Everybody is hurt by this one. Incidentally, I got my first infected email yesterday - it was spoofed as a returned undeliverable. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test please ignore.
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Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I swapped back to the old router for a while. And yes I am using routable addresses, my ISP gives me a chunk of them. My guess about tmdns is based on the fact that you are using routable addresses. That is not normal. It is definitely not normal for an ADSL router. It also may cause additional problems. I am not a networking guru by any means, but if you run a DHCP server that assigns routable addresses, you must also couple this with routing tables and DNS entries that get updated for the target machine. If you have a single connection (ADSL) to the ISP, I don't think that it is possible to have multiple routable IP addresses that all go through that single LAN connection without some kind of central router device to perform NAT. Normally, an ADSL router is not authoritative for a DNS server, so assignments from your ADSL router do NOT get updated into the DNS tables/routers of your ISP's network. This understanding is based on the idea that you have a single MAC address for your router and a single LAN connection (ADSL). Thus all network traffic to your ISP and Internet appears to be coming from a single network device. Normally, the ADSL router assigns internal addresses to separate devices and routes the packets back to the individual originating devices. In your case, the address is routable, which means that ISP DNS is responsible for sending the packets back to the device which is different than the ADSL router that made the original request. So, your ADSL router sends a packet request and the return packets get routed back to whereever authoritative DNS says that IP sits rather than back to the ADSL router. Normal path like this: Machine1 \ -- ADSL Router -- ISP -- Internet / Machine2 And follows the same return path back again. With your setup, the path seems more like this: Machine1 ---- \ \ -- ADSL Router -- ISP -- Internet where the return packet bypasses the ADSL Router and gets routed directly to Machine1 by the DNS of the ISP which is authoritative for routeable addresses on their network. So, either I am missing something obvious about your setup or you have left me confused about what your network architecture really is. How do I disable tmdns? service tmdns stop chkconfig 2345 tmdns off But see my note above. I should suggest that you take a look at the current configuration settings for your working router device and try to replicate those settings over to the new device. That might be the shortest route to get a working connection. Your ISP may have an expected MAC address for the router that you need to clone to use the new router. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Video Card Problems
Josh, Have you got the screen and the monitor set up to be the same res? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Video Card Problems Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse over to see the rest of the desktop. When I set it at 640x480 some of mandrakes config windows are too large for me to get to the OK buttons. I've spent hours (it seems like) choosing different configurations for the video card and have only got this one to work. The card is an S3 Trio 3d Onboard (86C386). I'm beginning to think I may need a new video card. Any more suggestions? Thanks, Josh -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Problems
At 09:48 AM 1/28/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse over to see the rest of the desktop. When I set it at 640x480 some of mandrakes config windows are too large for me to get to the OK buttons. I've spent hours (it seems like) choosing different configurations for the video card and have only got this one to work. The card is an S3 Trio 3d Onboard (86C386). I'm beginning to think I may need a new video card. Any more suggestions? If this is onboard video (as its name implies), perhaps there is a BIOS setting to give it more RAM? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Thanks Tony I thought there was a program to stop it from checking new hardware. Ill Check on google David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Is hardrake the program that checks for new hardware, and hardware changes. Maybe if I turn that off on boot that will keep it from detecting changes. could that work? David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 03:21 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade? On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Mandrake 9.2: 1/ It will take a gazillion years on dialup. There are a lot of updates for 9.2 However you can do it in small steps at a time. Implement the important upgrades first and do a few each time you connect. The most important package to upgrade is the 'rpm' package because that one causes your KDE menus to disappear if you do not upgrade it. Through Mandrake Club it is possible to download a set of ISOs with the updates already included. Some linux CD suppliers will also sell you for a small sum a CD containing the updates http://www.linux-emporium.co.uk/products/compilations/#MandrakeUpdate 2/ Yes of course there is. In Mandrake Control CentreSoftware there is the Mandrake Update GUI which will manage your updates for you. You can filter on security updates, bugfix updates, and normal updates. You can select which packages you want to update. Where upgrading one package demands the updating of another. The other packages will get included in the update automatically. Before you can do the updates you need to define an update source. The easiest way to do that it to go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and select an update source for 9.2 Tip: The nearest source is not necessarily the fastest Tip: The rediris source in Spain is *really* fast The web page will give you the text to type into a root terminal. Tip: To get a root terminal type su in a normal terminal. Tip: To copy paste in Linux highlight with mouse to copy. Press mouse wheel to paste. Do *not* follow the advice on the web page about doing urpmi.removemedia -a It will screw up your CD sources if you do. When you define a source it will download a file listing the packages available. At a later date you might like to come back and define sources for contrib and plf Then you will be able to install lots of extra software online. 3/ You do not need to uninstall anything. Just run the Mandrake Update GUI. It will first of all check to see if there any new updates. Then select the update types you want to check for. Then read the descriptions of the available updates and decide if you want them. If you do tick the box, and then press the Update button when you think you have ticked enough. It will remove the old versions and replace them with the new ones. The only problem you will have is it will be slow because you are on dial up. I suggest just updating 1 or 2 packages each time. See here http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/92/en/Starter.html/software-management.html derek Excellent response. Thank you very much. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Video Card Problems
Um, I don't know. What is the differnce/how do I change them? Josh, Have you got the screen and the monitor set up to be the same res? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Video Card Problems Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse over to see the rest of the desktop. When I set it at 640x480 some of mandrakes config windows are too large for me to get to the OK buttons. I've spent hours (it seems like) choosing different configurations for the video card and have only got this one to work. The card is an S3 Trio 3d Onboard (86C386). I'm beginning to think I may need a new video card. Any more suggestions? Thanks, Josh -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 update
Title: 9.2 update I have been using 9.2 for several months and at first had a problem loading ethereal because it wanted tcpdump and wouldn't allow me to install. I fixed this by going over to http://rpm.pbone.net/ I found everything I needed to make 9.2 work fine. But when I did an update last night to fix some vuls in gaim and totem the menu changed. I cant see any of the old icons, they changed to folders, and some programs I cant view. I should be able to open them from a term but what happened. Anyone else have a similar problem. thanks dave
[newbie] sound
Well Finally after months, I have a working winxp and linux 9.2 on the same hdd. Thanks to all the people who helped me with this, especially Anne and Greg. Only one problem left STILL NO SOUND ?/// Anyone know why Its a clean fresh install with all the default packages. Philip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 23:51, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:52:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE When I start the KDE Control Center and choose LookNFeel - Screen Saver there are no screen savers listed, and under the Mandrake install I did chose all X screensavers. Does this mean I cant run X screensavers in KDE? Also I installed the tux screenserver and the qstars screensaver, and i can run both manually, but none of them show up in the KDE configuration tool also. What can I do to get this to work? Best regards Søren ** Hi Soren, I had the same thing happening here with my 9.2, until I downloaded and installed all of the updates for 9.2. Make sure you check off in addition to 'Security updates, Bugfixes updates and Normal updates, in Mandrake Update box. I think if you install all updates available, you will have the screensavers you are looking for in KDE Control Center. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Oh sounds nice :) One question though. I have always been scare by automatic update tool, they tend to break things. Are the Mandrake update tool safe to use, or will there be a good chance that it breaks things? Not to offend Mandrake, I just wont be able to fix whatever is broken (newbie). Best regards Søren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: Anyone know why Try to run alsaconf in a console window. Gruß / regards ce == Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200: http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGARNgCBqix845w0RApF4AJ9E8u8gJUXM4U0TdSwsZKKImGO4CgCfZoB2 rt7jvzdGouL7FWz36qVhxBI= =dn/D -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Warning was Re: [ jEdit-users ] Status
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 1:41 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:37:57 +0100 Frans Ketelaars disseminated the following: A new virus, as of today. Rated High-Outbreak by Mcafee: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=descriptionvirus_k =100 983 (Only affects Windows, of course.) I noticed this: quote Denial of Service Payload On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127. /quote That's _not_ the right way to fight SCO IMHO. Agreed. It just contributes to the image which SCO is trying to paint of the Linux community, a bunch of 'hackers' (which of course, many are, but they don't get the diff between 'hacker' and 'cracker', CNN be praised). Fighting SCO, and MS for that matter, is done most effectively by getting the truth out there. The SCO attack is badly done. Giving them several days warning allowed SCO to patch their servers to reject the DOS. The HTTP request is smaller than a browser would create, allowing it to be recognised. At least one researcher was unable to get the virus to launch the DOS at all (he only saw a DNS request for www.sco.com) All they have to do to avoid it totally is to change their DNS to www.scox.com for a fortnight. The virus has other damaging payload, which does not stop on February 12. This includes a keylogger and installing software. (eg, credit card and password capture, and installing spam senders.) Groklaw is divided on the issue, but it is far from clear that this is an attack by the Linux community. The more paranoid suspect SCO of creating it. It really is not going to do them much harm, and the PR is probably a bonus. This will probably give them ample excuse to default in the 6th February hearing, and they have been consistently stalling for time; Groklaw is unanimous that they are facing a defeat real soon now. The informed Linux community would agree that giving SCO any excuse just helps them. My take is that some spammer wanted to hide the real payload, and decided the SCO battle was the ideal camouflage. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:00 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: Looks like I'm ok with checkdrive anyway. Below is the output from a CL run of cdrecord: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy -nofix /home/terryg/ISOs/Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso Drive is 12x so I'd burn isos's at 4x. Disk type:unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo. As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information, it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding. Trying to clear drive status. cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on standard 74min There's a lot here I don't think is good. Media quality is suspect to unusable. Also so is capacity. Your problem is simple. You're tryin to burn 697 MB's to it. That ain't never gonna work. No way, no how is what cdrecord should'a said ;) Plextor's are about the most lenient for marginal media, but it looks like your drive really hates this one. Seems I read a few articles about 'illegal media coding' a year or so ago, but for the life of me I've got CRS about it. I know there's been many user complaints about fly by night media for years, that it won't take the advertised MB's. More like no more than 600 on a advertised as 650 blank. IIRC, that's mostly what the 'orange forum embargo' was about. That and licensing, patent violations. That's academic tho, you need a decent 700MB CDr. Come'on over an I'll give you a few ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
Hi, Maybe for those who does not hate GUI the same can be accomplished via MCC without mistakes. Johan ** On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:34:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 12:13 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:25:29 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:20, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have 9.2 installed and updated/config'd for the most part. It was a looong weekend downloading all the updates on my dialup. ;-) I seem to be encountering something that seems odd with the urpmi db. There are some packages listed as installable, which I know are already installed. The packages show as being 0bytes in size. Anyone know what is going on here? I have tried rebuilding the the db with rpm --rebuilddb. Also, concerning urpmi. I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. If I just click OK, the installation goes fine. I tried deleting my contrib source and using a different one, but the same warning keeps appearing. Anyone else having this happen? What might I try to fix it? TIA for your time/help. Best regards. --Angus Angus, as always Derek answered this a few weeks ago : Go to /var/lib/urpmi and remove the offending file listfilename. That's all. Next time you update the annoying message is history. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks Kaj, I must have missed Derek's post on this. He certainly is on top of things, and a credit to this list. As are you, and all of the many others here. :-) Best regards to you. --Angus Hey you will make me blush. I was just repeating what I read on the expert list. I read some additional info on the expert list on this subject recently. Apparently the problem can come back unless you edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg Find the stanza for contrib, and remove the linelist: list.contrib derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hyperterm app
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 7:56 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am looking for a hyperterminal similiar app for Unix...and so far I haven't found anything, but I am very sure that something must be out there. Cheers Anders They are very rare. I was looking some time ago. Minicom is about the only one, and it isn't GUI. I ended up writing an expect script for what I wanted to do. What do you need it for? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
Tom Brinkman wrote: If your MSI board is Revision 2.0C, it's AMD approved. What PSU and DDR Ram are you usin? If you have lm_sensors running, are the voltages at or a little over spec, and are they steady, specially under load (ie, with mprime, 17 running) ? Yep BTW, you probly won't be assured you're ready for Trancode and Mencoder till you can run 'burnK7' what's burn K7 ? for at least 10 or 15 minutes and stay properly cooled at 133x11.5. OK so I've spent best part of the day bobbing back and forth into bios and back to mprime . I've varied the memory settings from the least to the most demanding, according to the mobo manual.I manually reset the cpu and memory voltages as suggested. I don't actually note any significant variance . These are the most demanding settings used. CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP Configure SDRAM by user : user SDRAM frequency : HCLK Cas latency: 2 Row precharge time : 3T Ras pulse width: 5T RAS to CAS delay: 2T Bank interleave: 4 - way Burst length : 8QW SDRAM 1T Command : Enable = 1T Fast command : enable AGP mode:auto AGP Comp driving : auto Manual AGP Comp driving : [not applicable] AGP Fast write : enable AGP aperture size: 128MB ( var between 8/256MB)(S/B 64?) AGP Master 1 w/s write : enable AGP Master1 w/s read : enable Write to read delay : enable read to write delay (manual says enable/dis) : 0 (choice 0/1/2/3) AGP read synchronisation : enabled PCI delay transaction : enabled Bios protection : enabled I didn't mess with the AGP stuff at all, just config sdram to fast command. Looks to me like I have some pretty useless memory if stressing it between most and least demanding setting appears to have so little effect. Unless there can be something else having an overall effect on performance. I have geforce3 video card The cans look normal I honestly don't think there is a heat problem with either cpu or memory. I think I had better start investigating what memory manufacture best suits my mobo. Here is sensors output, sensors lm84-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Board: +15°C (min = -1°C, max = -49°C)ALARM (LOW) CPU: +0°C (min = +28°C, max = -1°C) w83627hf-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter VCore 1: +1.71 V (min = +1.74 V, max = +1.93 V) VCore 2: +1.26 V (min = +1.74 V, max = +1.93 V) this looks low ? (What is VCore2 anyway?) +3.3V: +3.26 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.45 V) +5V: +4.91 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V) +12V: +12.20 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.19 V) -12V: -11.98 V (min = -13.21 V, max = -10.90 V) -5V: -5.10 V (min = -5.26 V, max = -4.76 V) V5SB: +5.51 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V) VBat: +3.39 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +3.60 V) fan1:0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) fan2:0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) fan3: 3708 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) vid: +1.850 V eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD Memory size (MB): 512 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:20, Søren Neigaard wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 23:51, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:52:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE When I start the KDE Control Center and choose LookNFeel - Screen Saver there are no screen savers listed, and under the Mandrake install I did chose all X screensavers. Does this mean I cant run X screensavers in KDE? Also I installed the tux screenserver and the qstars screensaver, and i can run both manually, but none of them show up in the KDE configuration tool also. What can I do to get this to work? Best regards Søren ** Hi Soren, I had the same thing happening here with my 9.2, until I downloaded and installed all of the updates for 9.2. Make sure you check off in addition to 'Security updates, Bugfixes updates and Normal updates, in Mandrake Update box. I think if you install all updates available, you will have the screensavers you are looking for in KDE Control Center. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Oh sounds nice :) One question though. I have always been scare by automatic update tool, they tend to break things. Are the Mandrake update tool safe to use, or will there be a good chance that it breaks things? Not to offend Mandrake, I just wont be able to fix whatever is broken (newbie). Best regards Søren Søren, as far as I can tell from several years with Mandrake, the Update Tool is safe with regards to not breaking things beyond repair. In the actual situation however, there are two things to consider : 1. The screensaver issue can be solved by updating, but first : 2. Update the most important packages first, i.e. rpm, drakxtools, urpmi etc., etc.. After that you may find your menus partially or completely messed up. To remedy this, open a console, become root and type : update-menus -v. Watch the text scroll by and relax. When the process stops, you probably won't be returned to a prompt. Ignore, and just press Enter, then exit twice. Now, you are in business. In general : the Update-tool is just a front-end to urpmi. This is one of the most elegant features in Mandrake and rivals the apt-get thing in Debian. Use with confidence. And Søren : Please remove the reply to line in your mail program. Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?
- Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 07:14 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade? On Wednesday 28 January 2004 04:21 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Mandrake 9.2: forever Is forever 7 days? 2. Is there an upgrade program like getright or simular that can be used? urpmi --auto-select should work nicely. What is getright? An excellent download manager for Windows. It takes care of everyting very well. 3. What should I do to get ready for this? Get a set of disks from somewhere. I have downloaded the 3 CD set in 4 days, if I had been smarter I could have done it in 3 days. # 3 is the biggest concern. I.E. Should I uninstall the program currently installed before installing a new version? How does the system know what programs to download or do I have to do each rpm by itself? I need as much verbage as you are willing to write. urpmi will automatically handle all of this, all you need is a fat pipe to the net. O well I'll just have to do it with a skinny pipe. 1/ It will take a gazillion years on dialup. There are a lot of updates for Yes, if you are on dialup, I highly recommend getting yourself a set of disks somehow. It will be nearly impossible to do on dial-up and if you try it, you could completely hose your system if the connection craps out and you can't reconnect because you are at a stage that leaves the system unable to reconnect. Get a set of disks by buying a Pack from MandrakeSoft or if you can't afford that spend the $6 to get them from Cheapbytes, or maybe a nice user will send you a set for postage if you ask nice. 9.2 However you can do it in small steps at a time. Implement the important upgrades first and do a few each time you connect. The most important package to upgrade is the 'rpm' package because that one causes your KDE menus to disappear if you do not upgrade it. To do it over the net if you can get a broadband connection, I would recommend adding the 9.2 main and update sources and then go in this order using urpmi. Where do you add the 9.2 and update sources? Make sure you included an update source when you add because urpmi is nice because it will pull the newer package if it exists and you will avoid many of the heartaches many of us went through. urpmi urpmi This will get the latest urpmi to make sure things go smoothly urpmi kernel Now reboot into the new kernel. This will install the newest kernel alongside your old one. Once you successfully reboot into the new kernel, you can do the rest all at once with. urpmi --auto-select This sounds like what I want. This will update any package you have installed. It is possible that some KDE packages will get missed because all the packages got split out for 9.2 (things like kmail and kppp come to mind) just add them with urpmi packagename Through Mandrake Club it is possible to download a set of ISOs with the updates already included. Some linux CD suppliers will also sell you for a small sum a CD containing the updates And the same length of time to deliver that it would likely take to download the updates. http://www.linux-emporium.co.uk/products/compilations/#MandrakeUpdate If you are on dial-up, it will still take forever to download these Before you can do the updates you need to define an update source. The easiest way to do that it to go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and This is where getright stands out. It manages the mirrors and if one slips it will switch to another. It selects the mirrors by ping time but dosent keep them that way. select an update source for 9.2 Tip: The nearest source is not necessarily the fastest Tip: The rediris source in Spain is *really* fast The web page will give you the text to type into a root terminal. Tip: To get a root terminal type su in a normal terminal. Tip: To copy paste in Linux highlight with mouse to copy. Press mouse wheel to paste. Do *not* follow the advice on the web page about doing urpmi.removemedia -a It will screw up your CD sources if you do. You have to remove the cd sources if you are going to try and download from the net because urpmi can't deal with duplicate sources for the same package well. So if you are going to try to update from the net, you must remove the cd sources. They can always be added back later with the following command: urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom Sounds resonable. Thank you for your input and any futher comments will be welcome, in particular if you could respond to my comments it would be helpful. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for?
- Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 07:49 Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for? Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 18:16 Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for? On Monday 26 Jan 2004 9:50 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 13:01 Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for? On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 10:13 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:34 PM 1/25/04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Development libraries are only used when you're compiling from source, and 99% of the time you're aware when you're doing that. (Installing the Nvidea driver springs to mind as a counter-example.) Which brings to mind another question. If the directories are on cd how will I be able to compile SRPMS or tarballs? Is this dependency hell? If you have all three CDs (or an Internet source set up) you should have few problems. Compiling source from tarballs won't automatically install the dependencies like urpmi-ing a binary RPM does, but the error messages will tell you what's missing, and it's usually standard stuff that you can then urpmi. Occasionally you'll have to search for an obscure library, but assuming you've already installed the standard stuff (gcc etc.) 90% of tarballs just need the usual configure make make install Sir Robin Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey Thank you for your input it helps. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Problems
Awesome! That was it! Thanks Tony! Josh From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:27:39 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Video Card Problems Josh, Have you got the screen and the monitor set up to be the same res? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Video Card Problems Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse over to see the rest of the desktop. When I set it at 640x480 some of mandrakes config windows are too large for me to get to the OK buttons. I've spent hours (it seems like) choosing different configurations for the video card and have only got this one to work. The card is an S3 Trio 3d Onboard (86C386). I'm beginning to think I may need a new video card. Any more suggestions? Thanks, Josh -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?
- Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 08:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade? On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:40 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:14:33 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: What is getright? Getright is an old Windows app, I used to use it, it's just a download manager that allows for resuming. Can you add a command line switch to urpmi --auto-select to allow for resuming? Or does urpmi do that automatically? If you specify to use wget, you might be able to specify the use of the -c option which would resume downloading. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I dont agree with you about getright though it does allow for resuming. If you tell it what URL you want it will take care of everything. I downloaded CD1 in two days. Then CD2 3 in two more. If I had included CD1,2,3 it would have been faster. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [K3b-user] Good packages for Mandrake 9.2
Hi Ales, This was ** good ** advice. I added this site to my urpmi update list and it worked like a charm. K3b installed with all its dependencies without hitch...and the GUI looks very new...not used it yet. I downloaded kernel-enterprise- 2.6.xxx..installed... rebooted and I am sending this running new kernel. I trust that no surprises waits but then just reboot in previous. Mandrake 9.2 is good once you get past the update hitches. Thanks again for passing on good info. Enjoy Johan. ** On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:27:35 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TOSOVSKY Ales) wrote: Hi, it seems, the Mandrake 9.2 k3b 0.11 package from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k3b/k3b-0.11-db.i686.rpm?download is not all right. It depends on some devel library and k3bsetup2 file is missing. Good packages can be found at ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ Thanks to Ivan Bibr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for building from the Cooker. -- Ales --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ K3b-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k3b-user Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 02:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: If your MSI board is Revision 2.0C, it's AMD approved. What PSU and DDR Ram are you usin? If you have lm_sensors running, are the voltages at or a little over spec, and are they steady, specially under load (ie, with mprime, 17 running) ? Yep Again, what ram? What power supply? If either is decent, they'll have a label on them with manufacture and specs. BTW, you probly won't be assured you're ready for Trancode and Mencoder till you can run 'burnK7' what's burn K7 ? The correct Cpuburn module for your CPU. The rpm is on your CD's. I'm usincpuburn-1.4-5mdk for at least 10 or 15 minutes and stay properly cooled at 133x11.5. OK so I've spent best part of the day bobbing back and forth into bios and back to mprime . I've varied the memory settings from the least to the most demanding, according to the mobo manual.I manually reset the cpu and memory voltages as suggested. I don't actually note any significant variance . You won't. On average you'll get about 7% better performance with the tightest ram timings. BUT only in ram intensive proccesses like encoding. Better to do with 93% efficiency successfully, no? These are the most demanding settings used. CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP Configure SDRAM by user : user SPD SDRAM frequency : HCLK Cas latency: 2 3 Row precharge time : 3T no disable? Ras pulse width: 5T RAS to CAS delay: 2T 3 Bank interleave: 4 - way You should definetly have an option to disable this Burst length : 8QW This is best disabled in any event. It provides practically no benefit at any setting, 8QW could definitely cause problems SDRAM 1T Command : Enable = 1T Fast command : enable disable both AGP mode:auto AGP Comp driving : auto Manual AGP Comp driving : [not applicable] AGP Fast write : enable AGP aperture size: 128MB ( var between 8/256MB)(S/B 64?) A safe setting is 4mb. It effectively disables sidebanding. About AGP, for the gain (not much) over PCI, it also imposes extra load on cpu/cache/ram and motherboard/PSU. AGP Master 1 w/s write : enable AGP Master1 w/s read : enable Write to read delay : enable read to write delay (manual says enable/dis) : 0 (choice 0/1/2/3) AGP read synchronisation : enabled disable all these AGP options Looks to me like I have some pretty useless memory if stressing it between most and least demanding setting appears to have so little effect. Unless there can be something else having an overall effect on performance. Just tell me what it is. PCxxx (should be at least 2100, I'd use the next label up tho). CAS and ns rating, brand would be more helpful. Hint: Samsung chips on a generic PCB = generic ram The PCB (board the chips are on) is as important as the chips used. When you find name brand chips on a generic PCB, it's most likely the chips were rejects from the first line. As to ram, performance and reliability has 4 major factors. The ram itself, the motherboard, IO/voltage to the ram, and the PSU. One weak link and you've got instability, errors. I have geforce3 video card If you're usin the nVidia driver, remove it. Then you'll also need to reinstall your kernel 'rpm -ivh --force your_current_kernel_version.rpm' ...in order to remove the nVidia's kernel taints the kernel warned you about during the nVidia driver install. The cans look normal I honestly don't think there is a heat problem with either cpu or memory. I suspect either is the problem. BTW, your problem is not transcode, it's needin to underclock to boot and run Linux. I think I had better start investigating what memory manufacture best suits my mobo. Usually the mobo manufacturer makes recommends and non- recommends. Otherwise use high quality reputable DDR PC one or more label rating above the required (PC2100 for your board). Lower CAS and ns spec's are much more important than the PC label. Your board requires a minimum of 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns ram. Cas3 is OK, lower is better. Probly can't use the lower cas timing, but it goes along way towards insuring ram quality. Here is sensors output, sensors lm84-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Board: +15°C (min = -1°C, max
RE: [newbie] sound
says there is no such command i tried alsaconfig and still same ? no sound -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: Anyone know why Try to run alsaconf in a console window. Gruß / regards ce == Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200: http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGARNgCBqix845w0RApF4AJ9E8u8gJUXM4U0TdSwsZKKImGO4CgCfZoB2 rt7jvzdGouL7FWz36qVhxBI= =dn/D -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
Tom Brinkman wrote, Usually the mobo manufacturer makes recommends and non- recommends. Otherwise use high quality reputable DDR PC one or more label rating above the required (PC2100 for your board). Lower CAS and ns spec's are much more important than the PC label. Your board requires a minimum of 1000/133.3 = 7.5ns ram. Cas3 is OK, lower is better. Probly can't use the lower cas timing, but it goes along way towards insuring ram quality. Here are the bios hardware monitoring outputs, cpu Vcore 1.725 DDR voltage 2.7 cpu temp 50C System temp 32C cpufan 3668 rpm Vcore 1.712 Vtt 1.376 V10 3.264 +5v 5.030 +12v12.228 -12v -11.989 -5v -5.077 Battery 3.424v +5v SB 4.969 The seem OK to me, I've disabled all the AGP stuff, No improvement in the torture test. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound
On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:45, P J Scott wrote: says there is no such command i tried alsaconfig and still same ? no sound -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Eckert Sent: 28 January 2004 18:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2004 17:43 schrieb P J Scott: Anyone know why Try to run alsaconf in a console window. Gruß / regards ce alsaconf is in the alsa-utils rpm. K - Configuration - hardware - Harddrake - soundcard - run config tool - troubleshooting will give much debugging info. quote Only one problem left STILL NO SOUND ?/// /quote Maybe a little more specific info might help :-) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:18, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:00 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: Looks like I'm ok with checkdrive anyway. Below is the output from a CL run of cdrecord: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy -nofix /home/terryg/ISOs/Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso Drive is 12x so I'd burn isos's at 4x. Yeah I did that on disk three Disk type:unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo. As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information, it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding. Trying to clear drive status. cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on standard 74min There's a lot here I don't think is good. Media quality is suspect to unusable. Also so is capacity. Your problem is simple. You're tryin to burn 697 MB's to it. That ain't never gonna work. No way, no how is what cdrecord should'a said ;) Yup! I got three like that the last of my PNYs. Plextor's are about the most lenient for marginal media, but it looks like your drive really hates this one. Seems I read a few articles about 'illegal media coding' a year or so ago, but for the life of me I've got CRS about it. What's CRS? I know there's been many user complaints about fly by night media for years, that it won't take the advertised MB's. More like no more than 600 on a advertised as 650 blank. Yeah I went out and bought some phillips cdr80s 48x and burned one the first time. IIRC, I've seen this in many places but don't really know what is means? something (I internet relay chat?) that's mostly what the 'orange forum embargo' was about. That and licensing, patent violations. That's academic tho, you need a decent 700MB CDr. Come'on over an I'll give you a few ; I'll see if I transporter is working! ;) -- Thanks again Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:04 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: - IIRC, - -I've seen this in many places but don't really know what is means? -something (I internet relay chat?) IIRC is usually If I Recall Correctly... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wma to mp3
Hi, Any recommendations on a program that will do a wma to mp3 conversion. I was surprised to find that Audacity did not have that ability. I did a search on freshmeat but there was nothing suitable. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:01:47 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:11, Charles Howse wrote: Here's what I do : when listening to Shoutcast I use Streamtuner. Under the stream menu, chose record. This will save the music I'm currently having difficulty getting streamtuner to run in anything but root; if run by a normal user, it just segfaults. I've had a prior revision working OK in playback mode, but I can't get streamtuner to record anything. Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:30:03 -0600 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I opened it from the root console, it was absolutely without content! Nothing but the menus, and a blank window. Nothing worked, won't tune in, Same here. I had the previous version. It turns out that my .streamtuner directory (not present in root) was at least part of the problem, and may be part of the solution. With the prior version (0.10.1) I could not get anything other than a segmentation fault if run from a user directory. With the new version, it spit out an error message about having no handler for shoutcast in /home/dfox/.streamtuner, and then it segfaulted. Removing that directory at least lets me run the app as a user, but of course, I don't have any stations. :( I also had to urpmi streamtuner-devel because of dependency conflicts. The documentation is not very helpful. There is a low volume mailing list, but that may not be all that helpful - I don't know, I haven't tried it. There's one thing that might be causing the lack of any stations. Remember the shoutcast issue in my .streamtuner? Well, I found out that running the program as a user recreated the .streamtuner directory, without any shoutcast plugin. If I look in /usr/share/streamtuner/plugins, there's a shoutcast exwcutable. But doing the next logical thing, copying that to my .streamtuner directory, has no effect. It still shows no files. help/about shows no loaded plugins. I think we may be on to something here -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:52:56 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions : try to locate 0.10.0 first (0.10.2 could be a cooker version, not intended for 9.2). Then, download the file to some That might work. I had good luck with 0.10.0 - but still not able to record with that version. I have had difficulties in the past trying to locate that version. I found .src.rpm's for 0.10.1 a while back, but installing from those still presented me with the segmentation fault problem. I thought there had been library conflicts, not so, since I was able to run as root, and found the issue (with 0.10.2) being at least partly caused by what was in my .streamtuner directory. Strangely enough, I don't see a .streamtuner entry in root's home. Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:44:32 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/streamtuner-0.10.0-1mdk.i586.html Woohoo. Thanks, Kaj. It's up and running fine. Guess I'll not install the upgrades for a while, at least for that package. Why it stopped working still has me stumped. Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:31:48 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found mencvcd, just trying it now with a DVD. A couple fits starts, but we'll see what the results give. Following up on my own post (/slap): Well, I experimented a few times with that mencvcd script, found a few options that worked, and ended up with 2 files in /tmp: one's a mpa and the other one is an mpv file. 'file' says one is mpeg 2 audio (MP2, 224k) and the other one is an mpeg video stream. So far, that's probably what I want, right, for VCD encode? Seems like the next step is to take those two files and make a disk image (or two, as they both are larger than a single CD). What's my next step -- is this something that vcd imager or k3b is going to be able to do ... i.e., split the files up into cd-sized chunks, write out the right directory structure including a DAT file for the movie? (That's what I see when I mount some VCDs that my brother did in Windows). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] networking
hi, i have an AMD athlon 1.1 ghz,,,its a compaq 5004US. my network card is SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211TX), i just installed mandrake9.2 2 days ago with dual boot, however the network doesnt work! i did ipconfig in the console window in xp, and copied down the info... ip adress... subnet mas default gateway... Connection-specific DNS Suffix. : this is all that it gave me for the DNS. I then went to the mandrake config tool, and i wrote in the same ip address, and gateway address...then i went to the linux prompt typed #ifconfig -a the ip addresses were the same as on the xp computer, and the gateway was also the same... i then did #service network restart and the network restarted everything had an ok next to it but i think that only the lo things were working..as when i typed in #service network status or something like that...i dont rmmr now exactly...i only saw lo, not the eth0 in the mandrake computer config tool,,,my network card is up, however the internet connection is NOT working... im not in linux, now, but i think the tool was called samba, using this, i saw the other computeron my network,,,however again the internet isnt working... my router has a built it modem, and it dials by itself...under xp when i set up the network, the cpu automatically detected the lan internet connection. the router is a Dell TrueMobile BaseStation...however I'm almost sure that no drivers are needed, because i connect with a crossover cable, and not a pci-card, like my laptop does. The xp network works perfectly, it was a breeze to set up, i just went and did the set up home networking tool, on both computers and the network and internet worked perfectly... i dont know what is wrong on linux...please help as i have asked this same question on several posts, and nobody has been able to help me so far...so i turn to the linux gurus and experts here oh, btw im networking with mandrake on dual boot with xpand the other computer is windows ME thanx in advance, alexHe who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Sir William Drummond Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sidney J. Harris IF WATER WAS VODKA, AND I WAS A DUCK, I WOULD SWIM TO THE BOTTOM AND NEVER COME UP, BUT WATER ISNT VODKA, AND IM NOT A DUCK, SO PASS ME THE BOTTLE AND SHUT THE FUCK UP Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
