james

Testing out transparencies in kde. plastik for style and decoration. default icons, color and gkrellm theme. mdk 10.1oe

If anyone is interested, the pic is named Corereflex1x.jpg and was taken by a guy who had photographed his processor with a microscope.

I placed it temporarily here - http://www.geocities.com/axelj96/wallpapers/Corereflex1x.jpg

Just my 2 bits...

ECS isnt shaky also. They are ISO certified and they do produce a lot of mobos.

ECS mobos are not just overclock friendly. (For example, my current Sempron 2400+ can only reach 2 Ghz as the limit on the ECS KT600A mobo is 200 FSB).

I guess Microsoft knows best .... check Netcraft as of Feb 13, 2004. :)

Its included in beta 4620 drivers. you can however use it in other drivers, just copy nvidia-settings file from /usr/bin directory then place it back when you install newer drivers.

try to go to MCC, install package "sndconfig". If you are using MDK 9.2, it'll install sndconfig-0.68-1mdk and 4 other dependencies.

then open a terminal / CLI, su to root and type "sndconfig".

please post the results...

(am changing mobos sometime next week so i might not be able to compare 7012 specific results...)

I've been using xscreensavers in kde of mdk9.1 that i didnt notice the screensavers were missing in kde. The above solution fixed it.

Thanks AussieJohn ! :)

i see those errors in alsa problems in the web.

btw, are you running MDK 9.2 or 9.1 ?

if for 9.2 , do you have sndconfig installed? you should have sndconfig-0.68-1mdk.

have you tried running "sndconfig" as root in terminal /CLI ? maybe it'll work in CLI rather than in MCC. (just a thought ...)

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one more thing to try,

is your fax-modem built into the system or is it a pci card?

if it is a pci card, can you take it out first and try to configure your sound again?

could it be automake?

the 1.7 is available in cd2 but the one which installed by default was 1.4 .

from my box...

[james@localhost james]$ rpm -qa|grep gcc

gcc-colorgcc-3.2.2-3mdk

gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk

libgcc1-3.2.2-3mdk

gcc-3.2.2-3mdk

gcc-doc-3.2.2-3mdk

gcc-cpp-3.2.2-3mdk

[james@localhost james]$ rpm -qa|grep make

make-3.80-3mdk

makedev-4.0.1-1mdk

automake-1.4-21.p6.mdk

nice link. :)

i was wondering where i've seen this before. i went to the weblink section and from Mystified's entry for Hacker Emergency Response Team, it is noted that the HERT page is a snarf of the above link...

now, how many of us visit the web links section? :)

i for one rarely, but i just realized links posted by Mystified and others are golden. .

Sorry for the late reply, just couldnt figure out the cause of the errors.

Am grasping at straws here, did you perhaps downloaded the ALSA drivers (or are you using the one installed by Mandrake?) and performed ./snddevices after make install?

Saw this below in the HOWTO for K7S5A (its under Hardware - The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO).

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Install your kernel sources, in my case:

"rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk.i586.rpm"

Then decompress alsa drivers:

"bzip2 -d alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2 && tar -xvf alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar"

Make them and install them and create the devices files:

"cd alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10 && make install && ./snddevices"

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i tried to swap disk from my sons comp (the system was using crystal sound card drivers and VIA mobo), did an "upgrade" from 9.1 cd1 and the ALSA drivers ran for 7012 (well, it took several times of selecting alsa in mcc then logging in and out, even several reboots before the alsa drivers were firmly in place but it did install). i hope i could help more, but for now, am stumped. maybe someone has a better idea ...

Worked with MDK 9.1, GeForce 3 ti-200. installed using depmod -ae. Slow compared with beta 4620 drivers. :(

Rolled back to beta 4620 drivers ...

Vote posted and counted ! :)

Thanks for the Holiday Skin Scoopy !

Thanks SoulSe and Bvc ! :)

Yup, as Tons had stated, Firebird can do it.

(just found out after reading this thread :lol: )

Thank you Iphitus and Thanks for reminding me about geocities, i forgot i had a free yahoo account . Its been some time since i visited geocities ... . I placed the pngs in tar.gz format in a directory in my geocities account.

The 1600x1200 version (1.3MB) is here while the 1024x768 (746KB) is here.

The base wallpaper (link in previous post) was already big due to the transparency, the modified versions still have the transparent background which makes the file size big.

Thanks again Iphitus. :)

Well, what i did was a modification of penguin wallpaper with transparent background from http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=232 .

"Merry Christmas MUB" added on top together with some falling snow.

The background is still transparent.

Screenshot below...

The left one is 1600x1200 (1.28MB), the one on the right is the result of resampling the 1600x1200 to 1024x768 (746KB). The sign on top has a bit more snowy effect and the penguins outlines are white.

@ Iphitus,

I hope you dont mind, i took the liberty of sending the pngs to your yahoo.au address as i currently dont have a host (that is, if anyone wants to check it out... :P ).

just a bit more info (MDK 9.1 sound progs/components in my box)...

aumix-2.7-13mdk

Summary: A GTK+/Ncurses audio mixer

Description: This is a program for adjusting audio mixers from the command line or scripts, or interactively at the console or a terminal with a full-screen, ncurses-based interface or a GTK-based X interface.

kmix is part of kdemultimedia-3.1-10mdk

Version: 3.1-10mdk

Size: 17552 KB

Summary: K Desktop Environment - Multimedia

Description: Multimedia tools for the K Desktop Environment.

- noatun: a multimedia player for sound and movies, very extensible due to it's plugin interface

- aktion: a player specialiced on movies, needs xanim

- kaudiocreator: CD ripper and audio encoder frontend.

- kaboodle: light media player

- kmid: A standalone and embeddable midi player, includes a karaoke-mode

- kmidi: midi player, can use sound patch files and create a WAV file

- kmix: the audio mixer as a standalone program and Kicker applet

- kscd: A CD player with an interface to the internet CDDB database

- krec: A recording frontend using aRts

the one in the screenshot was alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk

Name: alsamixergui

Version: 0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk

Size: 69 KB

Summary: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) graphical mixer

Description: Alsamixergui is a FLTK based frontend for alsamixer. It is written directly on top of the alsamixer source, leaving the original source intact, only adding a couple of ifdefs, and some calls to the gui part, so it provides exactly the same functionality, but with a graphical userinterface.

In MCC / Hardware / HardDrake , click on the SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator, then "Run config tool"

You should see this

Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (Silicon Integrated Systems [siS]|SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator).

 

Your card currently use the ALSA "snd-intel8x0" driver (default driver for your card is "snd-intel8x0")

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there would be three selections for the driver

1. ali5455 (ALI 5455 audio support)

2. i810_audio (Intel 810 audio support)

3. nvaudio ()

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Select i810_audio (Intel 810 audio support)

This should load the OSS driver.

the next time you run MCC, you'll see this:

Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (Silicon Integrated Systems [siS]|SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator).

 

Your card currently use the OSS "i810_audio" driver (default driver for your card is "snd-intel8x0")

In the driver, you'll see this:

snd-intel8x0 (Intel 82801AA,82901AB,i810,i820,i830,i840,i845

I guess you were using the OSS drivers and not the ALSA drivers thats why ALSA was listed as stopped.

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If you want to use ALSA driver, after running "Run config tool" , click on "Let me pick any driver" and select "snd=intel8x0"

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You should also log out and log in again for the changes to take place.

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For Aumix, check in Kicker / Multimedia / Sound if Aumix is there. If not you can use Kmix or ALSA Mixer.

Anything you choose, make sure Master, PCM, Line, CD, Video are on and are not set to zero.

Hope this helps...

Am using on-board 7012 (below are the details, maybe it'll be useful for comparison). The module /driver is the one installed by the MDK 9.1, i didnt change the driver in MCC (initially i did as i thought it wasnt working, turns out that the volume was zero at default). anyway, can you try to use snd-intel8x0 driver in MCC?

From MCC

Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [siS]

Alternative drivers: ali5455:i810_audio:nvaudio

Bus: PCI

Bus identification: 1039:7012:1019:1808

Location on the bus: 0:2:7

Description: SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator

Module: snd-intel8x0

Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

/etc/modules.conf

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

probeall usb-interface usb-ohci

above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia

Driver used at default

[root@localhost james]# lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO

snd-intel8x0 : Silicon Integrated Systems [siS]|SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1039 device:7012 subv:1019 subd:1808)

What sound driver currently used

[root@localhost james]# grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

Check if driver is loaded or not

[root@localhost james]# /sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by Tainted: P

sg 34636 0 (autoclean)

ide-floppy 15580 0 (autoclean)

sd_mod 13100 0 (autoclean) (unused)

ppp_deflate 4408 0 (autoclean)

zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]

zlib_deflate 21144 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]

bsd_comp 5336 0 (autoclean)

ip_conntrack_irc 4304 0 (unused)

ip_conntrack_ftp 5200 0 (unused)

ipt_state 1080 1

ipt_limit 1560 1

ipt_LOG 4280 1

ip_conntrack 27264 3 [ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state]

iptable_filter 2348 1 (autoclean)

ip_tables 14648 4 [ipt_state ipt_limit ipt_LOG iptable_filter]

nvidia 1831136 11 (autoclean)

snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused)

snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-oss]

snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]

snd-pcm-oss 43556 1

snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss]

snd-intel8x0 21988 1

snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-intel8x0]

snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]

snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]

snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-intel8x0]

snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]

snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]

snd 40868 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]

soundcore 6276 0 [snd]

ppp_async 9216 0

ppp_generic 24060 0 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]

slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic]

af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean)

sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)

floppy 55132 0

ntfs 76812 1 (autoclean)

nls_iso8859-1 3516 4 (autoclean)

nls_cp850 4316 3 (autoclean)

vfat 11820 3 (autoclean)

fat 37944 0 (autoclean) [vfat]

supermount 15296 2 (autoclean)

ide-cd 33856 0

cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]

ide-scsi 11280 0

scsi_mod 103284 4 [sg sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi]

usb-ohci 20584 0 (unused)

usbcore 72992 1 [usb-ohci]

rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)

ext3 59916 3

jbd 38972 3 [ext3]

Init level that sound runs

[root@localhost james]# /sbin/chkconfig --list sound

sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

Init level that alsa runs

[root@localhost james]# /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa

alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If sound is muted or not

[root@localhost james]# aumix -q

vol 94, 94, P

pcm 87, 87

speaker 87, 87

line 87, 87, P

mic 0, 0, R

cd 87, 87, P

igain 87, 87

line1 87, 87, P

phin 87, 87, P

video 87, 87, P

Program using souncard (am playing something on zinf)

[root@localhost james]# /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND

/dev/dsp james 1674 f.... artsd

Saw this at nvidia bb / nvnews - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread...?threadid=21848

Download - http://public.pny.com/quadro/FX3000g/Linux/

The feedback from nviews is good, it might help out to those with X lock-ups, nonetheless....

WARNING

Needless to say you are on your own and NO ONE will take responsability if something weird happens on your computers.

Currently testing in my box, MDK9.1, 2.4.21-0.13mdk, GeForce3 ti-200.

[james@localhost james]$ glxinfo

name of display: :0.0

display: :0 screen: 0

direct rendering: Yes

server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

server glx version string: 1.3

server glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,

GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_ARB_multisample

client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

client glx version string: 1.3

client glx extensions:

GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,

GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,

GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,

GLX_NV_float_buffer

GLX extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,

GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

OpenGL renderer string: GeForce3/PCI/SSE/3DNOW!

OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 46.20

screenshot from /usr/bin/nvidia-settings

have you tried Jump'n'Bump (arcade) ?

The GUI way in MDK 9.1 is to use the SuperUser Filemanager, unfortunately its not in the menu of 9.2. But there is a solution to this, please see - http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=8786 for details.

Thanks for the heads up mtweidmann ! :D

if you have installed the nvidia driver and have problems with libGL dependency, try rpm with "--nodeps".

For MDK 9.1, i used the one from Mandrake Wilson's page.

d/k if it'll work with 9.2.

Maybe this could help...

GNOME Character Map 2.2.0.3

part of gnome-utils

Version: 2.2.0.3-1mdk (mdk9.1)

Description:

Select, copy and paste characters from your font into other applications

The Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into applications such as text editor documents. Character Map works primarily with the ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 character set. The application also provides options to work with some non-Latin character sets, such as Cryllic. The application provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on a standard keyboard.