tyme

First, I have an internal wireless(802.11b) card and i am unable to use it. At first it would stop my computer from booting, but i use interactive startup and did not startup the LAN and then disabled it. So, i was just wondering if there is a way i can configure it to work or can it never work.

which wireless card did you get? did you wait for about 5+ minutes and see if it came back with any response-such as eth0 initialization failed? If it can't get an IP (assuming you are doing DHCP) it will hang at this point in the startup for a good while before giving up (failing) and continuing on through the startup.

I dont know what happened. I am using Mandrake 9 and i just installed it days ago. It was running pretty good. Now, today all of a sudden it is really slow. Does anyone know what a probable cause of this is? also, i stopped using DHCP and havent been able to get DNS outside my router since then, so i am in windows right now. I dont know if the network would have done anything with slowing it down, but it occured at about the same time. actually, it the network was working fine when i first turned off dhcp, but after i restarted it didnt work and that is also when it started going really slow.

I used to have issues w/my system being slow and I couldn't get and IP address through DHCP-how did you configure your networking when you turned off the DHCP?

Well at least my system knows where the DVD player is.  Now I gotta figure out how to correct the error given when trying to run a DVD.  The error is:

                                -xine engine error-

there is no input plugin available to handle

'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'.

maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist  .

 

Hey, I'm getting closer, so maybe I'll have it playing later tonite.  I'm thinking that the problem might be that encrypted stuff I gotta deal with.  I'll look into it later.  Right now I gotta work on 2 whine-doze boxes before tomorrow.

 

Later.  Pepse.

this is indicating that xine doesn't have the dvd decoding plugin. i never fooled around w/xine, ogle always worked find for me...but i believe there was mention of where to find that plugin somewhere in the links above-make sure you installed it right and that xine knows where to find it.

I've played with the "ALSA mixer" and now have sound out of my rear R or L, haven't figured out which one yet, but I've got one of them working...would like both... :)

then you should be able to fix it to come out of both using the mixer-just a balancing issue i guess...?

odd...i never had issues with my SBLive...only thing i can think of:

check mandrake control center, go into the hardware section, and look under the sound car section, make sure it's detecting your sound card right and also run the configuration and see if the sound comes out right through that-although from what you're saying i don't think it will.

i'll do a little research and see if i can find a better answer...

what version of mandrake are you using?

I see the original freespace on there...does that run good in linux? i _love_ the freespace series.....

Great, now you can play games without any error messages, GL drivers, etc. It's not better or faster or more powerfull, it's just.... oh wait, yeah, it is better.

actually.....i've played the PS2, and it sucks compared to my computer. as someone mentioned before, the problem with computers is that there are soooo many different peices of hardware possible, and they change constantly. new stuff comes out, that works in new ways, and things need to be fixed so they work correctly w/the new hardware-there _is no standard_. i've never had any major issues that couldn't be fixed in a whole 10 minutes at most. PS2 graphics suck compared to computer. why? tv's can only run at 800x600 resolution, whereas my computer goes up to 1280x1024. given, i normally run games at 1024x768, but truthfully, they still look better at 800x600 then on a TV.

plus, i can do about half a million other things with my computer-that are productive-why should i spend another $200+ just to play "crap games"? screw that, give me a computer and i'm good to go......

one more thought-let's see them patch PS1 games to run on the PS2-that would make it interesting, and would be merely a _fraction_ of what happens with computers atleast _once a month_. new hardware.

do i need to get into the specific hardware configuration of the PS2 and compare it to the top-of-the-line computer configuration to show you how much a peice of crap the PS2 is? 'cuz i will... (and yes, we'll even compare it to the top-of-the-line at the time the PS2 came out)

Oh, well, notify BioWare then and tell them that we don't need a port.

 

Thank you Wine. You saved the day again. Thought we were gonna have to have a real Linux program this time, but no, you come through again with your magnificent emulation of the Windows operating system. Hooray.

why boycott just winex? why not boycott wine too? after all, it does the same thing.........

hell. boycott all emulators while we're at it........

point: winex is good for running old (as in, already released) games that companies have stopped working on and will never bother porting to linux. or games made to run in directx (those bastards), which, again, will mostl likely never be ported to linux.

it IS useful. it is NOT an excuse to not make a native port whenever possible.

linux users are not the majority, and we all know the majority rules.

at this point, i still dual boot w/XP so i can play my favorite games-accept when they are available for linux (UT2k3 for example).

did you check /usr/local/bin? /usr/local/bin/games?

if you open up kpackage, find the rpm in the list, and check the "File List" it should be listed somewhere there as to where the executable is.

But I just want to host.. not play!  I guest I could just go away and somewhen someone would kill me and that's it..

 

MottS

after you click on "Host Multiplayer Game" go to the "Server" options tab, there is a checkbox for "Dedicated Server", click that. and when you click start it will exit out of the game and start a terminal window which i would guess to be the dedicated server.

Be sure, that the port for XDMCP is not firewalled?!

it was firewalled. good thing tho :) i'm only going to open it up when i plan to connect to the machine, otherwise i'll keep it shut so no once tries connecting to it.

thanks!

i have more questions related to this.

how do you set different icons for within rox? like, the cdrom icon, etc. i saw it in your screen shots. do you use the same thing? figured this one out, use the set icon option for the file types

and how did you change the background for the rox panel? does it have to do with gtk?

first off, has anyone gotten X-Win32 working with Mandrake 9.0 running the GDM login? I seem to be unable to connect, but I set up everything for XDMCP in the GDM configurator. I'm not sure what I'm forgetting to do, any ideas?

Also, I want to set up a mail server. Exim was suggested to me, but I'm hitting errors compiling, any other suggestions of good mail servers? I see the "mailman" that comes with MDK9, but I'm unsure if thats what I want.....

Thanks for any help guys :)

only way i know to do this is using an ftp or sftp session....

i don't think ssh alone can transfer files.