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In a terminal, type

kwrite /etc/fstab

Then just select "Save As", and save it under a different filename in your home directory.

That's all you need to do to back it up.

To disable supermount, in a terminal:

Log in as root.

Type "supermount -i disable"

To re-enable it if you determine supermount is not the culprit, type "supermount -i enable".

I still have a Windows 98 partition, but rarely boot to it anymore (I haven't even bothered to install my scanner or digital camera over there).

But I keep a Win4Lin installation for a couple games, Yahoo messenger with webcam, and Finale (A music notation program, which almost works with Wine, but the notation fonts currently don't load all the way, although I haven't tried the latest version of Wine yet).

At least I don't use the stand-alone Windows installation anymore.

Because I have been experimenting with Linux music recording/making apps and I have caght the bug again ( after a two year or so break). Unfortuantely, Linux apps don't really seem to be up to the task - or if they are the docs are so rubbish that they are effectively useless. I want to get a PC that will be exclusively for music making. Ideally it would be a linux box - but I don't think this is realistic.

What programs have you tried? I use my Linux machine for music making as well. I use Ecasound for multitrack recording, and, by itself, there are some things missing. However, used in conjunction with the swh-plugins and with Audacity, it has everything I need for a top-quality recording and then some. Now, Ecasound by itself is a command-line program. However, there is a GUI for it as well, and the GUI is very straight-forward and self-explanatory. (You can get it at Ecasound's website) I'm not saying it's perfect, and you may still not be satisfied with it, but it's an excellent program that's worth a look.

I also tried Ardour, but I find the program just too confusing.

Open Office does indeed have a Presentations application. Open Office Presenter is what it's called.

Failing that, you might still be able to find the Linux version of Corel WordPerfect suite 8 or 9. They stopped developing for Linux some time ago.

Try this command to start Jack instead:

jackd -d alsa -d hw:0

Should work as both normal user and root.

For your audio applications, you might want to check this site out, as it has Mandrake RPMs for lots of audio stuff:

http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.1.html

To start Jack use either this command:

jackstart -d alsa -d hw:0

(assuming you're using the multimedia kernel)

Or this one:

jackd -d alsa -d hw:0

I didn't write any MIDI tutorials!  

Sorry, I thought it was you that wrote that tutorial. My mistake. :wink:

And it turns out I did actually already have the plugins available to Mandrake's Audacity, just never noticed before. :P

Forgot to mention, in the MIDI sequencer area, soundfonts are supported via software sequencers like fluidsynth or timidity, or via the SBLive MIDI howto that was written by you. :wink:

By the way, I'm interested in where you found the 88 LADSPA plugins for Audacity. I already have the swh-plugins installed.

Have you looked at this site?

http://www.linux-sound.org

* I need a MIDI sequencer, similar to Evolution MIDI or CuBase even, which supports some kind of sound font files. I have a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card at the moment, and I'm using ALSA 0.9.4 or whatever the versions are (0.9.6 is the latest, I just didn't install it yet).  

I'm a fan of MuSe myself, and there's also Rosegarden.

* I need a WAV file editor. Currently I use Audacity 1.2.0-pre1, and it's doing the job well. GoldWave is what I used to use, and it's supposedly being ported, but it's not a free program (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I just have no cash at the moment) and Audacity seems to be as good or better... Audacity supports plugins, so I have the LADSPA plugin pack installed (apt-get install swh-plugins) and there they are in my Audacity menu. If there are other decent editors out there, please let me know. I know of Sweep, but it's not ideal for me, except I may use it for the scratch pad feature, but I'll record that as a poor-man's turntable.  I use Audacity for recording tracks mainly, and editing them how I like them (ie: noise removal, pitch change, etc).  

Stick with Audacity.

* I need a multitrack-type of program... Multiquence is what I used to use in Windows, and so far I haven't found a decent one in Linux. Instead, I've been using SoundTracker unorthodoxically (is that a word??) basically as a multitrack. I can live with it, but the CPU usage or something is too high, and it skips frequently, which sorta sucks. However, I like how XM files store the sound files in them, so you don't destroy the originals, and you also have a quick record function that sometimes introduces blips into the sound, but it's decent for basic recording when I don't have Audacity handy.  

I'm a fan of Ecasound myself. At its base, it's a command-line program, but there's also a GUI for it. There's also Ardour, which looks more powerful, but I found it too confusing to use.

* FREE high-quality samples! The more, the merrier. Specifically: cymbals, hi hats, bass drum, and snare drum.  

You could start by looking at http://www.hitsquad.com but I don't really know the answer to this one.

* I wouldn't mind some real-time effects for my recording source, a-la Guitar FX Box for Windows (which I have a registered copy of but doesn't work in Wine either (I had to see if it'd work, heh)). I've tried lots of Linux programs that do similar tasks, but they are either too unintuitive or they didn't work...  

I have Ecamegapedal installed, but I haven't had the time to try it out. I tried ExEf, but I couldn't figure the darn thing out.

* All programs must be intuitive. If they are all over the place, and don't at least have some good docs, then they are useless to me. I want programs that are going to get the job done quickly and efficiently. I don't want this "learn the interface and you'll get real good with it but it will take you like, four years of 24/7 usage to learn it like Blender" crap, if you understand where I'm coming from.

All the programs I use I've found to be very intuitive, with the exception of MuSe. I had to set a few more functions to get it to work the way I wanted, but it's not too bad. Ecasound, using the command line interface by itself, is not intuitive, but if you use the tkeca front-end, it's very straightforward.

Hardware:

Don't use onboard sound. It uses too much CPU and memory. For consumer grade sound cards for recording, probably the best kind you can get is a Soundblaster Live (which I'm guessing you already have). As far as CPU and RAM requirements go, when I had a 500 MHz AMD K6-2 processor and 192 MB of RAM and Windows 98SE, I was able to record and play back 16 tracks at a time in stereo without a problem. However, I couldn't add real-time effects to more than four or five tracks at a time. That should give you an idea as to what kind of hardware you should need.

I'm sorry I'm not more helpful. I've been so busy lately that I really haven't had the time to do a whole lot of audio recording (which sucks because I also have a mixing board, effects module, compressor, and a new faster computer to do it with). Anyway, I hope this helps a bit.

Well, I broke down and treated myself to an Epson Perfection 1260 (Photo). I was a cheapskate this time, though. I only spent $80 on it at Comp USA.

Went to Mandrake Control Center, it was immediately listed as there and ready to use.

Fired up XSane, everything worked like a charm. I have to say that Xsane is extremely easy to use, unlike the software that came with my dad's scanner or my significant other's scanner.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Epson is a company that will be on my good side from now on. :wink:

I haven't yet installed it on my Windows side. I think that might be a little bit more trouble.

I didn't get a desktop icon, though. No big deal, though. I can always make a desktop icon for Xsane.

Looks like the consensus is with Epson scanners.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Most companies don't do in-house Mac ports either. MacSoft does the majority of them, and the way they do it is using a DirectX wrapper, which means they can port easily. No one has done this for Linux yet, and by the sounds of it, no one wants to.

I was under the impression that Transgaming was also in the business of helping game companies port their games to Linux if they were interested, in addition to providing WineX for games that aren't ported. At least that's what I've read from various press releases.

If I take a serial port modem, one that I know works in Linux, and use a Serial-to-USB cable to connect it to a USB port instead, will it still work?

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

It seems SCO is acting like they've already won and are threatening everyone that doesn't pay them with a lawsuit.

They're trying their case in the court of public opinion, which tells me they don't really have a case.

Generally, you want to use CD's from the same version of the distro.

I doubt you will get the install to work with one 9.2 CD and 2 9.1 CD's.

You can go to http://www.linuxiso.org and download CD1 of Mandrake 9.1

I have to wonder if I'm in the minority.

I ordered a 9.1 Power Pack straight from Mandrake's site, and I received it a week later ( I installed it and have been using it ever since).

Even after the horror stories I've been hearing, I still went ahead and ordered directly from Mandrake, and didn't have any problems at all.

:?: :?: Who knows :?: :?:

Any particular company I should pay attention to?

I'm already looking at the list for sane, so I have an idea.

I'm not looking for anything fancy, just something I can scan the occasional picture into, and maybe my butt once in a while..... :wink: Errr, on second thought, maybe not.........

Anyway, any advice anyone can give?

what you don't think the majority of both users don't expect stuff for free?

Actually, I don't. It's just that the software they've grown accustomed to using just happens to be free. I think that they're not going to change what they're using just because something that isn't free happens to be ported. But it will make a difference in people switching to Linux (I know many people that would switch if Photoshop were available for Linux, for example) Personally, I would buy a Linux version of Finale from Coda Music if it were available.

i am not the only one who has noted this but the growing number of p2p users get agry when their access to "free" stuff is "violated". I am also not so blind as to realize that most users of linux relate gpl and other "free" licenses to meaning free as in beer.

 

i also know that there are users of both that buy/donate or contribute their time they are not the majority though.

 

like it or not that is reality.

I'd like to understand better why you think this way. I'm not trying to start an argument, I just think you're being overly pessimistic. I think you might be misinterpreting things that are being said by these "users".

I don't think the absolute worst-case scenario in things is always the most-likely outcome.

damn linux people and p2p people think everything should be free  :x  :x  :x

Nothing like a sweeping generalization...........

You can also run draksound as root.

It should detect which sound modules you have and select the correct one.

What sound card are you trying to make work?

WOOOHOOOO! i did my first ./configure, make, make install!  :D okay, enough with the celebrating. now that i've installed the KCDLabel tar.gz, i took a look at the program & it wasn't quite what i was hoping for. i then installed the GCover rpm & that's the shit! many more options, easy to use interface, it's a keeper. soooo.......my question is, what is the proper way to uninstall a tar.gz installation? i mean, with rpm's you can use rpmdrake uninstaller. do i just delete the KCDLabel directory, or is there more to it then that? and thanks for links, 'specially spinynorman!

Chris

Go into the directory where you compiled the program, and type "make uninstall" as root. Then you can delete that directory.

For your webcam, is it a USB webcam?

For that, you should just be able to plug it in and it's ready to go. You should see an Xaw TV or Gnome Meeting icon on your desktop if you have these installed if your webcam is supported.

I'll look into it when I get home.

I also have another idea I can try.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it didn't work.

I also tried deleting the entire ".openoffice" directory in my home directory, and it didn't work.

Any other suggestions?

I've never had this problem before, and I don't know why it has suddenly surfaced now.

Namely, I install fonts using the "Get Windows Fonts" option in Mandrake Control Center. Up until about a week ago, Open Office had no probelm at all using the fonts. Now it refuses to see any of the Windows Fonts.

I've tried the following:

1. Uninstalling and re-installing Open Office

2. Re-installing the Windows Fonts

3. Manually installing the Windows Fonts one by one.

4. Restarting the computer

5. Going into the ttf directory, where the fonts are kept, and manually running the "ttmkfdir" and "mkfontdir" commands

6. Uninstalling the Mandrake Open Office and installing the 1.1 release tarball.

None of these options have worked. Any suggestions?

I should state that the Mandrake Control Center sees the fonts just fine, and so does KWord.

Using Mandrake 9.1

After doing proper steps and make install I get this output

 

The installed Wine libraries will not be found!

You can either:

  Add the line '/usr/local/lib' to /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

 

 

I added the line to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran /sbin/ldconfig as root through run command.  But the last part on export didn't seem to work.  It still says command not found when I run wine notepad.

Are you in the directory of notepad when you try to run it?