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  1. Which video card for Mandriva?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hm, not quite sure what you mean by "old", but I recently installed a system with ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA Mainboard. Thus I could use AGP graphics cards (up to 8x), but still plug in AMD CPUs up to Athlon64X2 BE series. Works fine; I also had less trouble with nvida graphics cards than others.

  2. Recent cooker: Kernel compiling anyone?

    in Cooker

    Posted · Edited by scoonma

    Hi folks,

     

    I'm trying to build a recent kernel, but "make" fails shortly with the following message:

     

    make[1]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target »init/main.o«,

    benötigt von »init/built-in.o«, zu erstellen. Schluss.

     

    (No rule to build target init/main.o..)

     

    Looking inside the .config file I found the following variable:

     

    CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"

     

    However, in the given directory there's no .config file. I assume this may be related to recent use of kernel tmb series. The actual kernel is a "normal" 2.6.x. Would it be sufficient to change the path to direct to another .config file working with this release?

  5. Scratching sound with Kino

    in Cooker

    Posted

    Hi there,

     

    I stumbled over a problem with Kino, some files can be handled normally, but for others I only get an evil scratching sound both while playing and also in output files. I wondered wether that could be traced back to some faulty or missing codec, but no luck until yet. However, the files which raise that annoying behaviour can be played normally with mplayer. I've appended the mplayer output for one of these:

     

    MPlayer 1.0-1.rc1.19plf2008.0-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
98 audio & 216 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing test.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO:  [DX50]  720x576  24bpp  25.000 fps  1101.7 kbps (134.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Source: 705515_203731
Name: test
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.25:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 720x576 Planar YV12  [zoom]
A:   8.9 V:   8.9 A-V: -0.000 ct:  0.000 224/224  6%  0%  1.3% 1 0

     

    The soundcard installed is an Audigy4; driver SB0610 (alsa) and SigmaTel STAC9750.51 (oss).

     

    Any ideas please?

  7. Two Network cards

    in Networking

    Posted

    Sorocco, your config does not look wrong but well, a bit strange. Is there any good reason why you chose three totally different IP home network ranges? I'd have configured as follows:

     

    eth0 192.168.2.2

    eth1 192.168.2.3

    eth2 192.168.2.4

     

    Generally, I'd put all network devices within your local domain into the 192.168.*.* range.

  9. some sites won't load in firefox [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Not every host answers ping nowadays. This is what I get with cnn:

     

    PING www.cnn.com (64.236.91.22) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.cnn.com ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 14999ms

     

    The website however is working. For testing with ping I stick to sites known to answer (www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, ...)

  11. Lexmark deps in cooker? [solved]

    in Cooker

    Posted · Edited by scoonma

    I just noticed that I cannot deinstall some lexmark drivers (2070, maybe 1100 too) without breaking dependancies. Is this some kind of historical disorder or has it more functional reasons? (Always try to keep my system clean... ;-)

  13. Software management issues

    in Software

    Posted

    No, the hdlist.cz files contain a full description of repository sites, so they are quite big. In 2007.0 (and 2007.1?) I noticed that there was no more messages displayed by curl about downloading progress when installing a repo for the first time (fixed again in 2008). This could be one reason: Your progress would simply not be displayed, but yet active.

     

    Download time depends on your internet connection speed. If you wait more than 20min on a DSL connection, something is definitely wrong. In that case, try another mirror or CTRL-C to break and retry again. Some mirrors tend to stall downloads more or less permanently (but sometimes more or less work shortly after). :-(

  14. I need a new printer

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Does anybody here have any information that will allow me to find a printer model or printer family that will work with my Linux? What kinds of printers do you guys use?

     

    Don't know about the color printers, but my B/W Kyocera laser (FS-920) worked fast and fine from the beginning. No probs until now. Plugged it in, installed .ppd file and ready to run (with CUPS). That's the way it has to be. ;-)

  19. Two Network cards

    in Networking

    Posted

    thanks for your repply ..

    Say i am having two NIC , eth0 with 192.168.2.2 with 255.255.255.0 and connected to 192.168.2.1 ( so this will be the gateay for eth0 but... eth1 ? ) and the second NIC eth1 10.0.0.1 with 255.255.255.0 so what will be the gateway on these NIC's ?...

     

    Both devices may have the same gateway address, say your first one be eth0 with IP 192.168.2.2 and your second eth1 with IP 192.168.2.3 cold have the same gateway 192.168.2.1. The string 255.255.255.0 will probably reflect your netmask.

     

    HTH,

     

    scoonma

  20. Two Network cards

    in Networking

    Posted

    Gateway normally refers to an IP that network interface is bound to; in many home networks that would be the IP eth0, eth1, ... is gated through. Check for that in "drakconnect", ethernet / config manual / gateway.

  22. Wireless internet problem [solved]

    in Networking

    Posted

    # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

    # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

    nameserver 192.168.1.1

     

    Don't know about the IPv6 stuff, but the entry above would indicate in most cases that you have a router (or similar device) running on IP 192.168.1.1, which is working as DHCP server, getting your providers DNS server name/IP number automatically and working as a nameserver for your client machine. If you can affirm, everything is okay in this field. (Most routers can be configured/checked by using a web interface; just try http://192.168.1.1 in your browser.)

     

    HTH,

     

    scoonma

  23. Wireless internet problem [solved]

    in Networking

    Posted

    DNS should be OK if he can get to www.google.co.uk OK. Browsing problems are usually IPV6 related unless the driver is problematic.

     

    Hm. I took this seriously:

    I have on one occasion managed to access www.google.co.uk, and search with it. However, I have not managed to access any other sites, nor have I been able to duplicate this success.

     

    I've never stumbled over any IPV6 related browsing problem, neither on my own machines or when someone asked me. OTOH, about 50% of that kind of problems have been related to missing/badly configured DNS entries. I also cannot see why IPv6 should cause that much trouble. Can you give me an explanation?

  24. Wireless internet problem [solved]

    in Networking

    Posted

    [..]

    Any ideas?

     

    1. Are you able to send/receive data (phyically)? Please login as root in a terminal window (open it, then type "su" and your root password after being asked) and enter "net_monitor". What is the output?

     

    2. Do you have a valid DNS (domain name server) entry? Please check and post the output of the file /etc/resolv.conf.

  25. kernel-tmb-desktop (utf8 error)

    in Cooker

    Posted

    Hi John & all,

     

    sorry I didn't notice your posting before (right in this moment I tried to answer it went away). So I can give but only few advice on this: I had the same issue (utf8 error plus character input accepted, but invisible) after switching to the cooker. I also chose the new kernel (2.6.22-3 at that time). However, the error was hard to replicate, and even simply disappeared sometimes after simply logging out and logging in again. Now cooker seems more stable after all, and that problem has gone. I've also upgraded an recompiled to kernel version 2.6.22-5 with my personal adjustments.

     

    Greetings,

     

    scoonma

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