william

Hi All: It has been almost 1 year since I decided to give linux a try, nowadays I don't use windows at home anymore, all my needs regarding a PC desktop were fulfilled (web surfing, audio, games, office suite and photo editing), but the only thing that I do really miss since I opted for not being infected by a virus on almost a monthly basis is digital video editing. I have a sony DCR TRV 140 camcorder which I've been trying to get it properly working using its usb interface, I've already done a google search in order to see if any lucky guy has already succeeded in doing that, but I'm always stuck at that IEEE-1394 thing that according to what I understood is a kind of interface (FireWire), faster then USB, that I'm not sure if my Sony camcorder supports it.(I don't think so,) I've already installed cinelerra and kino, the first one despite of being able to see its splash screen when initialized seemed to be not working (the splash screen appears for some minutes and suddenly it disapears), I tried kino which loads, but whenever I try to open its preferences tab, it warns me that ieee1394 modules were not loaded, so that I'm not able to capture any video from the camcorder, actually it doesn't recognize my camcorder. Sorry for my stupidity, but are camcorders supposed to work under linux? I think it's feasible, but how? My USB digital still camera works pretty welll with gtkam without any kernel compilation or whatever, just plug it and play....What the hell am I doing wrong here? I've been using kernel 2.6.3.7. Thanks for any input.

Ok Guys, thanks for all your help, as soon as I have the oportunity I will check that in windows and give you a feedback.

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aRTee, I've inserted that entry in fstab and at least now the system is no re-wrinting anything in fstab anymore. That's my output with hdparm: [root@poseidon william]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 928 MB in 2.02 seconds = 459.48 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.60 seconds = 2.22 MB/sec Isn't that command wrong? The device is not sda anymore, isn't it?

I'll try that aRTee and let you know the result.

pmpatrick, that's what I have in my fstab after copying and pasting what you suggested: /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,exec,quiet 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 . Unfortunately, It hasn't worked....during booting process the entry gets written again, despite hotplug is stopped. I've already spent a lot of time on it and so have you. I'll still have to put xmms to read my cd's, man. All the best, man!

I'm at work at this moment and: pmpatrick: I will check the hotplug aRTee: what I did was to put this entry here: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 and the system insists in writing this one: none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 Note the iocharset is not the same in the entries, I've just copied what you put in your review, but I will change the first entry in order to make iocharset matchs what the system keeps writing. i.e.: iocharset=iso8859-1 instead iocharset=iso8859-15.

harddrake was already turned off, i had checked that before. edited: does hotplug have anything to do with that?

Since I installed the new kernel 2.6.3.7mdk, whenever I type reboot in terminal, the rebooting process get stuck at a point saying: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB BUS 5 DEREGISTERED and in order to complete the reboot I have to press enter and type reboot again. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on here? Thanks. PS: sorry if I'm wrong, but posted here, not sure if it's a hardware related problem.

pmpatrick, I tried commenting the line for my flash card, but still no change in the speed. aRTee, I've already read and read and read your review, but what happens here is that whenever I delete the entry given by the system or edit it accordingly, as soon as I reboot the system, it insists in re-writing in the fstab the original entry. I've already checked if supermout was enabled in mcc (mount points session) and it was not. So, I think that I should be doing something wrong here.... Here, my fstab: [root@poseidon william]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 As you can see, the system is re-writing the "zip2" supermount and "dev/scsi" lines whenever I reboot the computer.

I installed yesterday the same kernel version you have, but the speed hasn't improved. Today I will comment out that line in the fstab and let you know if there was any success. thanks

thank you guys!!!

bvc, I was just trying to figure out how to make gdesklets load this clock as a new display. I downloaded the zip. file but only png files inside. I went to /usr/share/gdesklets folder and find a folder full of png files. In my ~/.gdesklets directory there wasn't any file or folder that could give me an idea of how make it work. Actually, I don't have any clock display installed, could you let me know how to make these icons work with gdesklets?

kmc, maybe this link could be helpful in the future despite of being a red-hat link (it's unix!).

ok, thanks. Everything working like a charm, up till now any improvement was noticed, as for instance, usb 2.0 support. thanks bvc.

The new kernel is already installed, I followed the Black Magicof updating kernels and have it i my lilo. Actually, that trick of copying and paste the new lilo.conf and edit those 3 lines in order to preserve the old kernel in case of any problem worked, but I think it was not necessary to copy and paste, just edit the entries of your old kernel (that was modified after new kernel installation). Now I will have to re-edit my lilo.conf cause I have more than 5 option there in lilo screen to boot the system. At this moment I'm downloading the new kernel source, so that I will be able to install nvidia driver. bvc, wasn't MDK 10 supposed to come with kernel 2.6.3? If everything here works properly,I feel like deleting the old kernel, how to do that? rpm -e? mcc? what's the best way?

Sorry people, I know there are lots of threads here on this topic, but counting on your usual help, please put here your inputs. At this moment the download reached 25% and I hople to get some help before it's finished. my current kernel version, using MKD 10 cooker.(strange, wouldn't it supposed to be 2.6.3?) [william@poseidon william]$ uname -r 2.6.2-3mdk my etc/src: [root@poseidon src]# ls RPM/ linux@ linux-2.6.2-3mdk/ I'm following this instruction from Mandrake Secure site: "x86 Kernel Updates: Open a terminal as root and update your urpmi sources: # urpmi.update -a Read the advisory so you know what kernel version to install; for instance if the filename is kernel-2.4.19.24mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm you will want to execute: # urpmi kernel-2.4.19.24mdk This will install the new kernel alongside any old kernels that are currently on your system. Next, edit the /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.list file (depending upon your bootloader). Ensure that you will be able to boot your old kernel by making sure a stanza exists for it specifically. If this is your first kernel update on the system, you likely will have two stanzas that point to symlinks; the kernel installer always updates these to point to the latest vmlinuz and initrd.img files. Usually a copy and paste of the new kernel stanza and modifying the kernel number is all you will need. For instance, if the new kernel is 2.4.19-24mdk and the release kernel is 2.4.19-16mdk, copy the -24mdk stanza and replace -24mdk with -16mdk. Is there anything else that I should be aware, what they mean by: Thanks.

pmpatrick, thanks for your help, but unfortunately things didn't get better here. Despite of using enlightenemnt instead KDE, I succeeded in changing things in fstab through terminal. I deleted that those 2 lines (garbage and sda4) and inserted what you have suggested. Actually, that garbage line (recognizing my usb zip as a scsi ) appeared since I did an update in harddrake and afterwards, whenever I booted the computer the drakconf appeared suggesting that I new device was found and by mistake I should have accepted to write the "new" hardware in fstab. Going back to the point, after all the corrections in fstab, the problem seems to persist: [root@poseidon william]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 640.50 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.43 seconds = 2.33 MB/sec my fstab; [root@poseidon william]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,exec,quiet 0 0 Very strange, isn't it? That' s what makes Linux very exciting!!!

here goes my listed modules output; [root@poseidon william]# lsmod Module Size Used by nls_cp850 4736 1 vfat 13760 1 fat 45120 1 vfat md5 3872 1 ipv6 233664 6 sg 37528 0 sr_mod 16964 0 raw 7616 1 ide-cd 39972 0 cdrom 37056 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59348 0 parport_pc 34924 1 lp 12200 0 parport 40648 2 parport_pc,lp af_packet 20552 0 eepro100 29772 0 mii 4992 1 eepro100 nls_iso8859-1 3904 2 ntfs 85900 1 supermount 37876 4 intel-agp 17372 1 agpgart 31080 2 intel-agp tsdev 7168 0 joydev 10304 0 evdev 9600 0 usbmouse 5216 0 nvidia 2068232 12 hid 63392 0 usb-midi 23844 0 snd-usb-audio 64704 0 snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-usb-audio snd-seq-device 8008 1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm 93220 1 snd-usb-audio snd-page-alloc 11972 1 snd-pcm snd-timer 24516 1 snd-pcm snd 52580 5 snd-usb-audio,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-p,snd-timer audio 45568 0 soundcore 9248 3 usb-midi,snd,audio sd_mod 16672 2 usb-storage 72900 1 scsi_mod 114712 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,usb-storage usblp 12288 0 ehci-hcd 24292 0 uhci-hcd 29584 0 usbcore 104028 11 usbmouse,hid,usb-midi,snd-usb-audio,audio,usbtorage,usblp,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 ext3 110376 1 jbd 54328 1 ext3 my fstab: [root@poseidon william]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 What the hell is that garbage "zip2" as a scsi device? Zip drive is sda4, sdb1 is my memory card, what's in dev/pts?

I had the same problem yesterday while updating only harddrake and its dependencies, my nvidia driver and glx module was changed what made me unable to play for instance tux (my 2yo son's favorite game). I did what bvc suggested, stopping harddrake service to load during the booting and at the same time renaming the nvidia driver and uncommenting that "load glx ....line" and got everything working here. It was just a haddrake updating process!!! My experience here is just to show you that not only a kernel-source update can bring you to the same problem, but a simple harddrake update.

[root@poseidon william]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1148 MB in 2.00 seconds = 572.94 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.40 seconds = 2.35 MB/sec 2.35 MB per sec against your 30 MB per sec, means to say that USB 2.0 is not enabled here. isn't it? If I'm correct, what am I expected to do?

have you been here? http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=23

cd to the directory, ./configure [enter], make [enter], su[enter] (type root password) and make install. Generally, you find the instructions in the README or INSTALL text files.

have you tried to type in terminal: fluxbox-generate_menu -help? if you don't get any output it means that only with CVS it will work. The style menu doesn't have anything to do with that.

in order to solve your icon issue why not install idesk? Just install this rpm here ,it's a reliable source. Doing a google search I found this place that will help you a lot. Just create a file named ".idesk.rc" in your home directory, and paste the following lines: table Icon Caption: Mozilla Command: /usr/bin/mozilla Icon: /usr/share/icons/mozilla.png end Pls, notice that in the "Command" line, you should put the whole path to the application and and for Icon the entire path to the icon you want to make visible. Here more advanced options for your .idesk.rc set up: table Config FontName: verdana FontSize: 11 FontColor: #ffffff PaddingX: 25 PaddingY: 25 DoubleClick: false Transparency: 100 HighContrast: false Locked: false Shadow: true ShadowColor: #000000 ShadowX: 222 ShadowY: 22 Bold: false end and play around. Good luck guy. PS: I haven't noticed in you sreenshot any "set up backgrounds" menu in flux. Try that trick!!! A complete .idesk.rc would be something like: [CODE]table Icon Caption: Mozilla Command: /usr/bin/mozilla Icon: /usr/share/icons/mozilla.png FontName: verdana FontSize: 11 FontColor: #ffffff PaddingX: 25 PaddingY: 25 DoubleClick: false Transparency: 100 HighContrast: false Locked: false Shadow: true ShadowColor: #000000 ShadowX: 222 ShadowY: 22 Bold: false end