krisbee2000

I have been having so many problems with running xmame without having proper open gl support that I want to get a new video card. Funds are limited, so I was thinking about getting an ATi Radeon 7000... they can be had for $15 USD... How is the open gl support on this card? The most I run is xmame or even Quake 1!... I would like to be able to run Tuxracer and some other things too, but I don't need a powerhouse.... Eventually this computer will be converted into a cabinet for xmame and daphne, and that's all... I have a Voodoo Banshee, but the opengl support kind of got phased out... I can run an accelerated server, but it acutally doesn't accelerate anything... everything runs at a crawl. Thank you in advance for your help. I know the stuff is old, but that's what make linux great!

My wife and I use amsn to webcam back home.

Jumping late into the game, but if I had a camcorder, and it was dv compatible, sometimetimes the video input in the camcorder can capture directly to dv, and then you capture via firewire in you box. This solution is $15 if you don't already have an ie1394 card/port installed. It also gets you into editing your videos easily from your camcorder. Now remember, this would only work in your dv camcorder can convert live... Some can't, some can.. but it is easy enough to check or look up in most cases. You will have to convert your dv into mpeg, but that doesn't take a super long time (worst case, like mine, is two to three times the length of the video... and I am using an AMD 700mhz) I would recommend Kino as your capture and editing software, and I have made lots of home movies with it quickly.

I figured it out, I think. It had to do with hal. I deleted all lines about the cdrom in my /fstab, and then hal created one when I rebooted. Then i went into MCC to make my changes. No problems since.

I just started to do this as well. Basically, almost all minidv cams will work. You will need a firewire card (20 dollars, us), and a cable. Kino will import the video, and then you can edit with that. There are other programs, but for general use, I don't see the bother... kino is fine. Then, you would export the video either back to the dvcam to record, or as a file. You can export as an mpeg2 file for dvd burning. Good luck, and check out the above site to get you started. There are a few things you will have to set up, but it is all explained on that site.

I have two cd-rom drives installed on my box. I pulled the Master drive (which was a DVD-ROM) and replaced with a DVD-RW (19 bucks, who could pass that up!). The problem is that there is a line in my fstab for a cdrom drive, so that makes three mount points that show up... /cdrom /cdrom1 /cdrom2 I tried just deleting the line in fstab, but that didn't work... it showed up again (I gues you have to use fstab-sync, huh?)... I know there must be an easy way to correct this, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out... Thanks in advance!

If you are only using msn, you can also try amsn... I use that because it has webcam access also.

We were in the same boat... ended up installing amsn, which has limited webcam support. We used it to chat with the folks back north.

Using Mandriva LE 2006... and even after the monitor shuts off, and I dont' have any real programs running, the HD keeps getting accessed in little tiny bursts... like; Click....... Click...... Click..... Is this normal for Linux/Mandriva? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

This printer works fantastic. The driver instructions at http://solutions.brother.com work as stated. I installed with no problems. Printer and scanner work perfectly. A great printer for $89. (Though I got a remanafactured with rebate for $39!)

You know, TMPEGENC (I think that's the name) works. Its' a great freeware Windows program that works under WINE fine. Umm... as for the importing... I know with my computer the time it took to encode was so unacceptable, that I just ended up buying a card that could do the compression. It was worth the $100 to me to just drop it in and fix it real quick, and export it to a VCD (which is all I needed... DVD burners were a dream back then).

It's a standalone app that you build... there wouldn't be a menu point until you create one. You have to take the three programs that are created, bplay, brec, and gramofile, and first; make them executable and available to anybody you want, and second; copy them to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin... otherwise they won't execute unless you run them as ./ which works for gramofile, but not when it calls upon the bplay and brec programs. This information is in the README, in one single line hidden... Good luck. I have tried krecord, and I still prefer gramofile, even though it is a shell program. --Kris

You are probably right. I think the card stopped doing well awhile ago. It is a shame, because the drivers then should work now... they haven't changed! But, obviously... getting this thing going isn't going to happen. I just hate the idea of giving up... I rarely need 3d anyway, but, I just wanted to make it work, despite all of the odds. Which is what Linux is really all about, isn't it? I think you are on the money on using an older distro. Probably should load an old slackware, minimal window manager, and use the games on that... but, honestly, I don't have the time to get into it... New job starting up soon. And the weird thing with this card is that I have to have a vesa mode selected during startup, otherwise when the monitor goes into standby and comes back, there are these etched lines in the corners of some objects... another weird problem with the tdfx driver, I guess. Just figured I'd take another quick stab at it. Thanks for your help! --Krisbee

bump. This is a real problem... any pointers? --Kris

bump. I still haven't been able to solve this, and nobody onthe dri group is interested in solving this problem.

I use a program called gramofile... easy to compile, and I usually encode about three lps a day or so. Very quick, and basic. Audacity is a bit slow on huge files, I find. The pop/click filter in gramofile isn't terrific... but, I find that it doesnt remove any music, which many filters do. --Kris

What I have never tried is omitting load glx... if I have load dri in the xorg.conf, that's all I should need, correct (at least referencing that last article). --Kris

Bittorrent, yes, just install bittorrent. And a gui for it, I am assuming. K3B does all CD/DVD burning and is included in your distro. DVD Movies is also included in your distro, but you might have to dl libcssdvd (?) to play encrypted movies DOS Games.. yeah, use a program called DOSBOX Windows Programs - use wine. All those other formats? When you install Mandriva, it will install several apps for you to do that too. I think you need a book - I recommend the book by Marcel Gagne Moving to Linux. It was a great transition book, and answered many questions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032135640...5Fencoding=UTF8

I had to scan in some articles into my computer and make them pdf files. Every time I scan in Kooka, and print through the cups/kprinter dialog to a .pdf file, the resulting file has garbled lines of gray in it (when looking in ghostview, xpdf shows them as white blank lines). If print to a .ps file, there is no problem, but when I print from the .ps file to the .pdf file, the same thing happens. If I scan in xsane, save as a .ps file, open the .ps file in kghostview, print with cups/kprinter to a .pdf file, there are no garbled artifacts at all. This of course is good that I can accomplish my goals, and I am starting to like xsane better anyway, but I would like to fix this error. Any ideas what the heck is going on? Thank you in advance, Kris

Without Load DRI in my xorg.conf, there is not 3d acceleration. I am still confused by this error, but I have been focused on other projects lately, so this fell to the back burner. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. Kris

Here's a program for you: Dialer Program for Linux This will disconnect you like you want. Like anything, there are 100 programs in linux that all do the same thing.. just do a google search like I did for you. --Kris

I use Drakconnect to connect to my isp (using the little icon on my taskbar), and there is no way for me to shut the dang Modem Speaker off. In KPPP there is, and I actually send the correct AT command in an init string, just to make sure, but, I don't use that program! Nowhere in MCC is there a modem config utility that I can find, and I just hate listening to that squeal. My modem is an internal USR Sportster, configured to be on COM2. I believe there is an echo command I could put in my startup script, but I have never done that, so I don't know what file I have to edit, and what to add. Any help would be appreciated. --Krisbee

Sure do.. also have a Load dri in my xorg.conf... --Kris

anybody?

I have been having problems getting my 3d acceleration to work in Xorg 6.9 and Mandriva LE 2006. I am running a voodoo banshee card, and I think I know where the problem might lie. I can get it up and running with glxgears... glxinfo shows me direct rendering:yes. However, any other programs just won't work with it... I always get Seg Faults. Now, somewhere in the MESA readme.3dfx file says that you have to compile with MESA being aware of glide My knowledge, correct me if I am wrong: 3dfx cards use glide directly, which opengl will then talk to glide to get 3d acceleration working. So, MESA must be made aware that it has to talk to glide to get things up and running. Now, the question. When MESA is compiled for Mandriva, is this done? Is this a standard option, or is this why I keep having all of my accelerated games fail. When it is compiled, is this switch turned on (or all of them)? If I run glquake with indirect rendering (MESA Indirect), it works, but slow. If I have direct rendering, I have a crash (error 11 with glquake, SDL Segementation Fault with everything else). Same is true of crack-attack and chromium. Everyone's advice is the card is too old, but, that's why it should work... development hasn't gone further... its' worked in the past... it should work now. I want to figure out where this is failing. I have in posts before had people look at my xorg.conf, and determine everything is okay. I have the tdfx driver loading in X, so that is okay. Any help would be appreciated! I think this is where the final error lies; MESA isn't configured to use glide, therefore my hardware, correctly. --Kris