santner

I have a few more questions. Why would I want to buy the 350 over the 250? What is the decoding good for? Can you use Freevo to select the FM stations that the 350 receives?

Does this work with satelite? I am assuming that it does, just wondering though.

I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 with 128 MB of RAM on the video card. Is this sufficient?

I will also need to purchase a sound card, any recommendations?

I am very interested in using an extra computer I have for freevo, however I have no experience with TV tuner cards. So what I am asking is this:

First off, which ones are linux compatible.

Second, what should I look for when purchasing one?

Freevo is a linux application used to pause/record live tv, play movies stored on your hard drive as well as music.

If you have a dv camcorder then try my software. Here is the sourceforge page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdhomevid/

and here is the post I had several months ago:

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16648

Enjoy!

Worked great. Security setup was the issue!

I bet thats it. I forgot that on the server machine I setup a firewall (shorewall) through MCC. I only allow http, ftp and ssh and I denied all others which is probably the source of my problem. Thanks for jogging my memory with:

oh and check you don't have security stuff running...

I have. I actually rebooted and double checked that it is set to start when booting up.

I have two computers connected on a locan LAN through a 4-port linksys router. I have nfs set up on both computers, and it worked fine on both computers until I booted into windows on one of them. When I rebooted back into Mandrake it froze for what must have been 10 minutes on 'mounting nfs filesystems'. So now I have nfs working on one computer but not on the other. I have checked the /etc/exports file for both and they seem fine. I have also done:

rpcinfo -p

and it shows that the normal nfs daemons are running. After I boot into Mandrake, if I try to mount the nfs from the command line I receive no errors and it just sits there, not doing anything.

Has anyone seen this before?

Yes, there is. It's called ogg2mp3, oddly enough. It's in plf. Normally, you can go here to add new mirrors:

 

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

 

but they seems to be experiencing problems at the moment. My plf mirror of choice is

ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/10.1

 

urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/10.1 with ./hdlist.cz

 

Then

 

urpmi ogg2mp3

Could you give me step by step instructions as you were a little unclear. I know, pretty sad attempt at sarcasm. Thanks for the advice.

Is there software that exists that will convert .ogg music files to mp3's? I'm asking because I would like to burn an mp3 disc to play on my dvd player (obviosly won't play ogg vorbis files) but I don't want to convert each file using audacity which could take days.

Basically I am looking for a simple command line utility that will convert all of my ogg files to mp3's. Does that software exist?

Updated my urpmi and everything worked great. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Anybody?

Found the answer for anyone interested:

mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

Just found this:

find / -name avifile*
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7

So apparently I need to update this file, anyone have any ideas how?

When I try to urpmi transcode, I get this:

urpmi transcode
Some package requested cannot be installed:
transcode-0.6.14-4plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied avifile[>= 0.7.39-0.20041117])
Continue? (Y/n)

I type y and press enter and nothing happens. Has anyone else seen this?

What does 'unsatisfied avifile" mean?

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New computer, trying to get dvgrab to work. The modules I have loaded are:

lsmod | grep 1394
raw1394                24492  0
dv1394                 17196  0
eth1394                17000  0
ohci1394               30788  1 dv1394
ieee1394              292056  4 raw1394,dv1394,eth1394,ohci1394

However when I try to run dvgrab I get:

raw1394 - failed to get handle: No such file or directory.

I believe that on my old system I had:

/dev/raw1394 but I no longer have that since I upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 Community. Any ideas?

:o :o :o

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I have an ftp server for family pictures. I have setup an account called userftp. I have tested it and the user can log in fine, change directories etc. However, when they attempt to download a file everything appears to be working ok but they never actually receive any data. If you look at the properties of the file after the download it shows 0 bytes. Here is my proftpd.conf file:

# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to 
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use.  It establishes a single server.

ServerName                      "TESTING FTP Server"
ServerType                      standalone
DefaultServer                   on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                            21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask                           022

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd).
MaxInstances                    10

# Set the user and group under which the server will run.
User                            userftp
Group                           userftp

# To cause every FTP user to be "jailed" (chrooted) into their home
# directory, uncomment this line.
DefaultRoot /var/ftp/pub

# Normally, we don't want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory />
 AllowOverwrite                off
 <Limit READ>
  userftp
 </Limit READ>
 <Limit WRITE>
  DenyAll
 </Limit WRITE>
</Directory>

#
# Limit login attempts
#
MaxLoginAttempts                3

# Set the maximum number of seconds a data connection is allowed
# to "stall" before being aborted.
TimeoutStalled                  300

# Enable logging to /var/log
SystemLog    /var/log/proftpd.log
TransferLog    /var/log/xferlog	

# Record all logins
ExtendedLog            /var/log/proftpd.auth_log      AUTH auth

# Paranoia logging level....
ExtendedLog            /var/log/proftpd.paranoid_log  ALL default

Do I need to allow more access than just READ access? Is this the source of the porblem? :o :unsure:

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I have a cron script that mounts a seperate partition, backs up my files and then unmounts the partition. I then also burn a data dvd disc once a month as an extra means of safety. I would then recommend keeping the burned dvd backup in a firesafe box in case the worst happens.

I had this happen to me once. I was working with some video files and had accidentally written to my / partition instead of my /mnt/Video partition (30 GB) What I ended up doing was clearing a few hundred kilobytes from my / partition, then executing this:

du -b / > usage.txt

This gave me a file containing the size of every single file on my root partition. Then I wrote a simple C program to check the size of each file from usage.txt, looking for a file that is abnormally large. I think I set the limit to > 1GB.

Good luck!

Can't find mcc either. I guess I will try again. This time however I would like to download a DVD iso. Any ideas of where to go? I tried justlinux but the server is slow - 30 KB/sec.

I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition and I can not find urpmi. How can I install this vital tool? What is the best way? Also, 'configure your computer' is missing also? Any ideas?

Same errors as described above. kcminit and ksplash crash, arts crashed (sound issues) may be due to oss not compiled because it is deprecated? No bootup verbose screen. It gets to the lilo screen where I have three options:

2.6.8.1

2.6.9

windows (only for my scanner)

and when I select 2.6.9 the progress bar goes past where it should and it just sits there. Not I know that it is working somewhat because I can hear it checking for new hardware. I haven't had much time to play with it. When I get home I will hit escape and type 2.6.9 5 so that I can see whatever else is wrong.

But what I really don't understand is how this could affect my kde when I boot into 2.6.8.1?

I have always enjoyed upgrading to the latest and greatest kernel as soon as it comes out. It gives me good experience at compiling my own kernel and it keeps my system up to date with bug fixes and security patches. Anyway, I upgraded to kernel 2.6.9 and have had all sorts of problems. But here is the important part, now when I boot back into my 2.6.8.1 kernel (previously working fine) I receive errors from KDE at startup that kcminit and ksplash have crashed. I have not seen any performance differences but it still is never a good thing when a program crashes.

So here is my question: why would compiling a new kernel (2.6.9) affect KDE performance when booting into my old kernel (2.6.8.1)?

For anyone interested, I went ahead and just created a shared directory for both computers. It's on /mnt/shared. Thought it would just be easier that way. Thanks for all of the help!

I thought this also. So before I mounted the network /home I deleted my .kde directory on my second computer. I then mounted the network /home directory and it seemed to work at first... What is also strange is that after having these problems I rebooted and the .kde directory that I deleted permanently (rm -fr .kde) was back?!?