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No wonder you were having problems with your scanner. The front end for SANE is not, repeat not, kooka.

 

It is XSANE

SANE has several frontends, such as CLI scanimage, hell-knows-what-based xscanimage, GTK-based Xsane and KDE-based Kooka (surprise, surprise :))

Kooka is the cd burner program.

Kooka is not and never has been. OTOH, K3B is.

As far as I remember, Kooka has been designed as SANE frontend with kind of "integrated" OCR abilities. Sort of running GOCR from within, sparing users the need to issue a number of cryptic commands.

Is it just me or there indeed is some little bug in your review?

One more level up, scannerdrake clearly indicates that the remote host is known to the system.

After this sentence, you put some image to illustrate your words.

And finally it is clear that the remote scanner is available (naturally, after switching it on):

Here, the image appearing is the same as the previous one. It should have been different, IMO.

Otherwise, well done :-)

/dev/sda5 /mnt/Ny_enhed ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0

 

If you created it yourself...

Note this managed option. Clear sign of udev at work.

SB Audigy DE here, same problem with KMix. No problem with Alsamixer, though. Try kamix, it handles Audigys much better, all the tabs are in place.

I've used it on Fedora, works fine, but I still like command line tools better :)

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Wait... Smart is a command line tool, is it not? You don't have to run it in GUI mode! :)

My opinion - barring little annoyances here and there, smart is what rpmdrake should have been.

1. Pull down a short shell script from here and run it as a user, once only: setup4rpms.sh

Good to know there is a script for this matter :)

For each RPM you wish to build:

2. rpm -ivh /path/to/source.rpm

3. cd rpm/SPECS

4. rpm -bb rpmname.spec

5. rpm -Uvh ../RPMS/i586/rpmname.rpm

Problem solved, everyone can relax now.

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And why not just

rpm --rebuild /path/to/source/rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm/RPMS/586/rpmname.rpm

?

BTW, what about build- and run- time dependencies?

mencoder may do the trick. transcode tools may do it as well ( PLF ). Nevertheless, take into account that due to the very nature of MPEG compression, converting DivX( which has already been converted from the original DVD) back into DVD would result in quality degradation, and the result wouldn't generally be equal to the original DVD.

And one more thing : transcode / avidemux / mencoder wouldn't bring you complete DVD image but rather MPEG files in DVD compatible format. You'd need the "dvdauthor" application to form VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories for you, and it's these two directories you need to feed K3B with, in order to burn your Video DVD.

do yourself a favour and create a spare partition for future use as root (/) partition of some alternative system

Unfortunately, a lot of otherwise good applications tend to introduce a lot of incompatible changes of their configuration file formats. You run the new version, and suddenly, the old one starts misbehaving.

So, I'd add "/mnt/althome" to your proposal.

One may do even some more radical thing, namely, allocate a separate partition for documents/pictures/music files/etc, and restrict /home to configuration files only.

Note: since this is Free/Open Source software, the applications don't have a tendency to duplicate efforts as is common on other platforms.

Hmmm.... I wonder why there are scores of text editors etc, most of them half-baked, if there is indeed no tendency to duplicate efforts... Unfortunately, there certainly is. By the way, "handling png files". If I'm not mistaken, there are about some dozen of different image viewers in Mandriva, all doing approximately the same thing with slight variations here and there.

For instance, to display png images, only one such program is needed, libpng. If there's a security issue with it (which has happened), only this lib has to be updated, not all programs that deal with png images

This is applicable to any platform using dynamic/shared libraries wisely.

So what does 10GB mean to the user? Basically, it means that any Free/Open Source software project that is even remotely interesting has been packaged.

And what should one do if some interesting software has just got a new shining version finally repairing some long-standing bug? There may be a package for it, that's only that it would be a Cooker one, and not one for 2005LE/2006. There, you're stuck with an old buggy version. Unless you know to recompile source RPMs.

As far as I understand, this embroidery machine emulates serial printer, not parallel. If it's on a USB port, it should emulate some serial-to-USB converter.

"Generic non-Postscript" printer is called "raw printer" in CUPS.

So, what needs to be done is the following, IMHO:

- Check /dev/usb/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyUSB0 for existence ( check what appears in /var/log/messages or in "dmesg" when attaching the printer)

- Using CUPS or Drakprint, define some "raw" printer attached to /dev/ttyUSB0 ( or whatever seems relevant).

I would ask, if someone who has nvidia GF5200,mandriva 2006,and tv-out working,would post me their xorg.conf file,so that i may get the right direction pointed?

My TV-Out used to work with GF5200 and Mandriva 2005/Cooker 2006, so there should be no reason for it to stop working. I'm not able to check it right now, though, due to some technical problems.

Now, to the xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monitor1"
   VendorName "Plug'n Play"
   ModelName "Flatron"
   HorizSync 30-83
   VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "tv"
   HorizSync 30-50
   VertRefresh 60
EndSection

You may drop "HorizSync" and "VertRefresh" and use "UseEdidFreqs" only. I use them because Nvidia driver has some problems reading my keyboard/mouse/monitor switch EDID data.

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
   BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
   Driver "nvidia"
   Screen 0
   BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
   Option "DPMS"
   Option "NoLogo" "1"
   Option "RenderAccel" "False"
   Option "UseEdidFreqs"
   Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
   Option "NvAGP" "2"
EndSection

Pay attention to "Screen 0", "BusID" and also "ConnectedMonitor". These options are mandatory.

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device2"
   VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
   BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
   Driver "nvidia"
   Screen 1
   BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
   Option "DPMS"
   Option "NoLogo" "1"
   Option "RenderAccel" "False"
   Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
   Option "NvAGP" "2"
EndSection

The same for "Bus ID","Screen 1" and "ConnectedMonitor". These are mandatory.

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen1"
   Device "device1"
   Monitor "monitor1"
   DefaultColorDepth 24
   
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 8
       Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection
   
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 15
       Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection
   
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 16
       Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection
   
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 24
       Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen2"
   Device "device2"
   Monitor "tv"
   DefaultColorDepth 24
   
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 24
       Modes "640x480"
   EndSubsection
   Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
   Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen 0 "screen1"
   Screen 1 "screen2" rightOf "screen1"
EndSection

And finally, we define the Server consisting of two separate displays. Not clone, but good for watching films on TV. I used to get work done on my main monitor while watching films on my TV, at the same time. Just run the player as follows:

DISPLAY=:1.0 player your_movie_file

... as far as I know scsi and sata devices do not use dma

If I'm not mistaken, they do use DMA, it's only that you have no influence upon it.

The module is now called it821x, and not iteraid. No need to compile, it is provided by default Mandriva kernel "out of the box".

You need to use a CD player that supports digital audio extraction, such as KSCD, Amarok, Kaffeine etc.

ok guys, I have mandrake 10.0 installed now the sound only works when I have the speakers plugged into the first port of the card right next to the joystick port.  but when i switch to windows XP I have to switch the speakers to the second port of the card (2 ports away from the joystick port)

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My guess is that Windows configures the card to perform digital output, hence the need to switch ports.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

 

Hit Enter, wait 45 mn, shut down the pc when it's finished, open the pc, remove the old hda, don't forget to put the old hdb as master so it became hda, switch on the pc, THAT'S ALL !!

It may actually work, but there is one little problem - your new 160 GB is partitioned exactly ( almost ) as your old one was, so the 120 free GB are in an unpartitioned space. And one more thing - it works only for new big disks, that ( logically ) do not differ in geometry.

  Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"

  Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a wheel supposed to work as a regular button, when you press it rather than rotate it? It has been like this on all wheel mice I've encountered. IMHO, there is no sense to enable 3 button emulation for a wheel mouse.

The problem is that on boot it randomly decides that the SMC USB device is eth0, and the 8139 is eth1. This is annoying in the extreme requiring multiple boots before the system comes up as I want it.

 

How do I force the behaviour I want?

I believe that it has a lot to do with driver loading order. "alias eth0" and "alias eth1" have an effect only when the drivers are loaded along the lines of "modprobe eth0", or if there is any request to eth0. If the USB driver loads first, it catches eth0 regardless of the aliases.

So, what you have to do ( and what I've successfully done before to solve a similar problem ) is to force 8139too to load before the USB driver. One way to do this is to put "8139too" line into /etc/modules ( for kernel 2.4.x ) or into /etc/modprobe.preload ( for kernel 2.6.x).

Wow, you guys here don't mess around here, super fast post, Wow!!

 

In the "Module" Section below I remove the "#"'s

 

Section "Module"

    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

    Load "extmod"

    Load "type1"

    Load "freetype"

    Load "glx" # 3D layer

    #Load "dri"  <- remove #

    #Load "GLcore"  <- remove #

DON'T REMOVE #s HERE. Leave them as is!!!!!! :-(

And in the "Device" Section below I remove the "#"'s, also I replace the Driver "vesa" with Driver "nvidia",  and still get the cannot load the GLcore module (EE)??

Why not? Don't load it by force, the driver knows to load this module by itself.

Section "Device"

    Identifier "device1"

    #BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE" <-remove #

    Driver "vesa" <- replace with Driver "nvidia"

    Option "DPMS"

    #Option "NVAgp" "2" <-remove #

EndSection

 

Thanks,

-SP

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Can you post your XF86Config-4 as well?

 

 

Here is the XF86Config-4 file:

 

XF86Config_4.txt

 

Many Thanks,

-SP

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It seems to be all right, just replace 'driver "vesa"' with 'driver "nvidia"'. Don't change anything else.

here is the XFree86-4.log:

Can you post your XF86Config-4 as well?

Generally, PnP must kick in. But if it doesn't, there is not much work to correct the situation. Regarding "clean re-install" - forget it, it's not needed :-)

Do the following before you switch the card. It would be useful even in case PnP does actually kick in.

- Download NVIDIA drivers for your card. Read their instructions regarding installation, they have VERY GOOD README.

- Upon popping the new card in and switching on your computer for the first time, load linux in text mode instead of graphical. It's done by hitting ESC at the LILO prompt and typing "linux 3" ( or whatever you use ) instead of choosing "linux".

- Install the NVIDIA drivers and edit XF86Config-4 according to instructions.

- "init 5" - and enjoy your new card in GUI.

I have 3 harddrives on Windows XP (currently labelled as  C:  D: and E:) Every time I do a new Windows installation on another drive, my computer(or windows?) changes the drive names automatically, without me having any control over it.

You may have a control over it, it's present in XP PRO, as far as I remember it's called "Partition management" or smth. like this. It also gives you a possibility to see which drive is which.

NOW in Mandrake it gives me the options  hda, hdb, and hdd. (Why is there no hdc??? )

hda is "master device attached to primary IDE channel".

hdb is "slave device attached to primary IDE channel".

hdc is "master device attached to secondary IDE channel" ( I strongly suspect that you have a CD-ROM or smth attached there, and not a harddisk ).

hdd is "slave device attached to secondary IDE channel".

The most chances are that hda corresponds to your C: disk, hdb - to your D:, and hdc to your E:. But you better check it with Windows partition manager.

May it be that the sound is just muted? ALSA tends to such a stupidity.

Boris : no, PNP only refers to ISA, not PCI

 

You : ok thanks

 

 

Now I'm even more confused I thought PNP was to do with auto detecting hardware and automatically configuring what IRQ etc it is assigned? Help!  :?

He's completely right. ISA devices started as non-PNP. PNP was defined for them later. PCI devices are PNP by definition. They don't start working till they are configured.