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I'm using onboard sound (KMix says CMI8738-MC6) and I want to play UT2004 while using teamspeak (RC2). Whenever teamsspeak is enabled, there is no sound output from the rest of the system, so no sound from UT2004. Sound works fine if teamspeak isn't running. Teamspeak mic appears to detect my voice. I don't know if it will play other people's voice, because nobody was on the server I used when I tested it tonight. I don't know much about linux sound. The "sound system hardware" in the KDE control panel is set to "AutoDetect"

The motherboard in my linux machine died, so I decided to upgrade it (now a Shuttle AK35GT2). when I do a sensors-detect it tells me that I need to do "modprobe w83627hf", but when I do that I get "FATAL: Module w83627hf not found." I read somewhere that someone with the same problem solved it by installing lm_sensors-2.8.5. I have 2.8.4-2 (note that the guy on the internet had 2.8.7, so for him it was a downgrade). something about kernel version vs lm_sensors version. I have kernel 2.6.3-7mdk like he did. So the question is: why do I get this error? If I can't get this question answered, where can I find v2.8.5 of lm_sensors (couldn't find it in PLF). I could find some Fedora rpm but I don;t know if they're compatible with mdk 10. I could install from source but then urpmi "looses track" ofthe version of lm_sensors and gets me hell in the future.

Once in a while K3B fails with an "error code 255, please mail me the log". Very often when that happens Ican't burn CDs anymore. The log shows that the device is "busy". If I reboot my computer everything runs fine again. One of the reasons I run linux is so that I don't have to reboot my machine so often. Is there a way to reset the CD burner without rebooting?

How do I set the icon to Firefox's? the only icon I can find is in ~/firefox/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm but menudrake seems to insist on using png files. Edit: I used the gimp to create a png image from the xmp but the file is still grayed out in menudrake. What am I missing?

can anyone let me know what the default value for network.http.proxy.keep-alive is? I think I may have changed it accidentally (it's set to true but I don't use a proxy) Thanks

I would like my KDE panel icon bar to launch FireFox instead of Konqueror. I right clicked on it, changed properties to point to FireFox, and when I click on it it launches firefox but prompts me to select a profile. When I type FireFox from the command line it doesn't. How do I make it use the same profile as the one from the command line? Also, is there a way to have FireFox always start maximized?

you can always install it in your user directory, it'll still work.

I think it's ddclient -daemon, not dameon ddclient -daemon Not sure it's your problem though. can you see the start message from the init.d script? anything in syslog? do you see the service running? (using KDE system guard, or mdk control center, or I guess ps) I think there is also a verbose option, I think it's called -noquiet but you may have to look it up in the man page, I haven't use ddclient in a while. There may also be a -debug switch.

Control panel? how do you get to it?

so what you're saying is that ddclient works, but that the script that's supposed to kick it once in a while is not working? Can you post the script?

how do you do this exactly (the associating .rm part)

While I agree that NVIDIA drivers are easier to deal with in Linux, both NVIDIA and ATI make great quality cards and they bothe work great, with each camp claiming each is better. Under Windows games work great with either card, so the issue here is not the card but the availability and ease of use of Linux drives which gives NVIDIA an edge. Does anyone do TV in with their NVIDIA? One of the requriements of the original poster is to watch movies and I don;t knwo which NVIDIA cards do that and how well they work for TV input in linux. Anyone has experience with that? Kieth, does that 5300FX you're looking at have video input? Also, unless you're going to play 3D accelerated games, I'd go with the cheapest card that has TV in. Anything else is overkill and will just add fan noise to the computer.

You're right, I had already found it and it did answer a lot of my questions. I recommend anyone needing help with multimedia to start there.

There doesn't seem to be a libdvdread3 and a libdvdread-utils in the PLF repository for mdk10 ?!?!?!? Edit: a urpmq libdvdread returned both packages, so I guess they're now part of the standard install and don't need to be pulled out of PLF. Only libdvdcss needs to be pulled from PLF.

are the real codecs for mplayer something that you need to add separately? The Helix Project made the front page on Slashdot today, so I might try and install their software although it's alpha.

An example of RealMedia video that I can;t figure out how to play would be : http://www.uefa.com/video/ I can;t try this at the moment because I am at work but I fouwnd the following resources for RealPlayer: Real Player 10 Alpha by the Helix project: https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads Real.com's official linux player. they have an additional link for RealPlayer 9 codecs: http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html Anyone using either of those and what is you feedback?

What kind of software can I use to sniff 802.11b packets with my Orinico card? I want to see individual packets, not just locate APs a la wardriving. Ideally I'd like to see 802.11 control and management packets (ACKs, Probes, ....) but I don't know if there are drivers that do that. At a minimum I would like to see raw 802.11 packets in promiscuous mode. I would like to inclide this on a live CD so I could turn my laptop into a wireless sniffer. At work I use NAI sniffer and AiroPeek Netsasyst but those tools are way too expensive for personal use and debugging my own 802.11b projects.

I'm ready to take on multimedia capabilities for my mdk 10 box. Some stuff appears to work out of the box, some doesn't. 1) DVD: My understanding is that I need to add some libraries due to legal issues regarding playing of encrypted DVDs (most commercia DVDs), so I need to add the following from PLF: libdvdcss libdvdread3 libdvdread-utils anything else I'm missing? Currently it appears Totem is my default multimedia player (it's what opens when I clik a file in Konqueror). I assume if can play DVDs too? I know other apps can too (Ogle) but I like to limit the number of apps I install, only going to something else if I have a reason to. 2) VCD How do I play VCDs? 3) DivX I have a number of files in DivX format (tutorials downlaoded from the net). Is DivX supported natively or do I need to install from http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/ ? Is there a binary distribution (rpm) somewhere? 4) RealMedia RealPlayer G2 was installed automatically with my mdk10 install (official powerpack), but is there something more recent? Also I can't seem to play RealVideo from the internet, when I click on a link it tells me it can't find a codec. Am I truly missing the codec or is Knoqueror not finding it? 5) QuickTime Can QT be played in linux? The only solution I know of is to buy CrossOver pluggins but I'd rather use an open source (and free $) solution if there is any (I don't watch QT video often but some movie previews and internet presentation ares, so I'd like to have all my bases covered) 6) Windows Media My understanding is that installing win32-codecs from PLF should allow me to playt all windows media file. Does it work for any player or just specific ones? If so, does it work in Totem? Anything othe advice you'd like to throw in? I'm thinking about using my experience to write a FAQ, so anything would be useful.

whta do you mean about connection to a VCR? Do you want to capture video fromk your computer? (for example to maeka training video)? Do you want to capture video from a video tape to your computer? for example to put home videos on DVDs? The first case is easy, any card with "TV-out" will do (I think), buys a cheap GeForce2 based card wiht TV out and you should be set. For TV input it's much more picky and make sure that you check linux compatibility before you buy the4 card. I can tell you that non of my all-in-wonder works under linux.

If you're running KDE, go in the KDE control panel (not the mansrake control panel), I think it's under System->Configuration->configure my desktop under networking you should see "remote desktop", if you don't you need to install kdenetork-krfb (using the mandrake control center or simple urpmi kdenetwork-krfb If you installed it I think you need to resatr KDE (not sure) you should now have the remote control configuration available in the KDE control panel. Set it up the way you want (in my case I don't want the controlled side to have to send an invitation or even confirm that it accepts the connection), set the password, etc... it's basically the same info as setting up an rfbdrake server. You should now be able to connect to that machine from a VNC client (port 5900 by default). Note that there seems to be a bug in the server that prevents you to connect from a machine on the same LAN under some cinfigurations. I'm still trying to figure that one out. If this doesn't work, you can use x0rfbserver,which is the ancestor to both rfbdrake and krfb (actually I'm pretty sure rfbdrake is simply a front-end to x0rfbserver). All you should have to do is type x0rfbserver at the command line and it will show you a tiny window showing that it's running. from an SSH shell, you can start the x0rfbserver (if a previous instance crashed for example, or if you don;t want the server to be running all the time), simply type DISPLAY=:0 x0rfbserver Note that x0rfbserver appears to use port 5901 on my machine. Also note that x0rfbserver doesn't have fancy compression so it tends to be slower than krfb, but if you were using rfbdrake already, then you are probably already using x0rfbserver behind the scene. Hope this helps.

yep, your log file looks empty. I just went through an NVIDIA card installation last night: even though the automated installation from Mandrake appeared to do the right thing I was having problems. I used the NVIDIA installer instead (same as what the FAQ describes, kudos to the FAQ writer by the way, his instructions are easier to follow than NVIDIA's ) and everything works fine. Hello Chromium! UT2004 here I come! By the way, you can bet that the NVIDIA script will tell you it doesn't have precompiled libraries and ask if you want to build them. Just say yes, the installer takes care of everything in 30s. Don't forget to change your XFConfig-4 file as described in the FAQ. The while process takes about 5 minutes.

yeah, I understand about libgls.so being a link and nothing looked amiss there. I used the NVIDIA install script and it rebuilt the drive and everything is fine now. My kernel is stock Mandrake so it should have worked through Mandrake updates. Bah!

the version of libglx.so (a link) appears to match the 5336 number. I sure wish this kind of things worked out of the box... Maybe it's time to use the nvidia script instead. Do I need to clean up anything before I do?

more info: rpm -qa | grep NVIDIA returns: NVIDIA_Kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-5336-6mdk NVIDIA_GLX-5336-6mdk should I have anything else installed? This is the end of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 4X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 7

oops, sorry typo (I typed the stuff in, it's not cut and paste) it was already set to "nvidia" not "nv"