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Here ar ethe current settings. I played with them a lot but since I don;t know what half of them are, I may just not have hit the magic combination: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Simple mixer control 'Headphone LFE',1 Simple mixer control 'Headphone',1 Simple mixer control 'Headphone Center',1 Simple mixer control 'Tone',0 Simple mixer control 'Bass',0 Simple mixer control 'Treble',0 Simple mixer control '3D Control - Center',0 Simple mixer control '3D Control - Depth',0 Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0 Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Simple mixer control 'Center',0 Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 Simple mixer control 'Synth',0 Simple mixer control 'Wave',0 Simple mixer control 'Wave Center',0 Simple mixer control 'Wave LFE',0 Simple mixer control 'Wave Surround',0 Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Simple mixer control 'Line LiveDrive',0 Simple mixer control 'Line2 LiveDrive',1 Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0 Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0 Simple mixer control 'Video',0 Simple mixer control 'Phone',0 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Coaxial',0 Simple mixer control 'IEC958 LiveDrive',0 Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical Raw',0 Simple mixer control 'IEC958 TTL',0 Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Simple mixer control 'Aux',0 Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Simple mixer control 'Mix',0 Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0 Simple mixer control 'AC97',0 Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0 Simple mixer control 'SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack',0 aRTee I'll check out your page, I wouldn't find a page that explained how to enable/disable digital audio when I was playing with this yesterday. I didn't think about looking yours up.

This problems has been plaguing me forever. I have tried to fix it multiple times, but I can't figure it out. Spent another 2 hours playing with KMix and alsamixer but to no avail: I have a Live! 5.1 running under 2005LE snd-emuk101 driver. I only get sound when I plug the speakers in the black jack, which is supposed to be the rear speakers. The green jack doesn't produce any sound. I only use a 2.1 speaker set, and the subwoofer simply filters uses a filter to pick up the bass, so I really used only 1 jack. This means I can sort of live wiht the situation, but it means thatthe "Wave Surround" slide in KMix is what controls my volume, the "Master" slider has no effect. This means that the KMix applet slider has no effect either. Strangely enough the volume slider in Amarok or Kaffeine do work to control the volume. The main issue is, why don't I have any sound to the front speakers? I have tried going into alsamixer and turn all the sliders to 75% (and enabled the corresponding output toggle). Played with the "switches" tab, then did this all over in alsamixer. No luck.

The official download from openoffice.org Basically it's the "generic" version of OpenOffice 2.0 rather than the one packaged for Mandriva by the Mandriva team. Depending on your school of thought, it's a better thing to do or it's heresy.

OpenOffice 2.0 is now available to club members: If you are a Club member, simply visit the Mirror Finder tool in the Download area of the Club, use the tool to add an urpmi "Club software" media, and use urpmi or rpmdrake to install the updated packages. Note that the updated OpenOffice.org packages are named openoffice.org2, openoffice.org2-gnome, openoffice.org2-kde and so forth. The previous OpenOffice.org 2.0 packages were named openoffice.org-go-ooo, openoffice.org-go-ooo-kde and so forth, so you may end up having both versions installed together. They will both work in this case, but if you want to remove the older version to save disk space, you may safely uninstall the openoffice.org-go-ooo packages. Don't know if the "official" Mandriva 2006 will be available for everyone else at some point.

Cool native linux support is good! I'll check out the demo

no demo for linux or windows as far as I know. just videos.

Seems to be an issue with firefox 1.0 under linux (not windows) I've heard from other people that can open the site with 1.5 beta. Weird, but I guess I won't worry about it. I set up a shortcut for the kid to open the site with Konq. I'll upgrade FF when it's official.

My kid wanted to go to www.pokemon.com, which is a flash based site, but if I load it in Firefox the left quarter of the page or so is all that displays, the rest of the screen is grey. If I open the same site in Konqueror it works fine. If I go to the macromedia stie, it tells me that I have flash 7.0.... and that it's working fine. The web site opens properly in firefox in windows XP. Any idea what is going on? Can't sell the family on linux if some of those "important" sites don't work. Well, like I said, it works in Konqueror so the main crisis has been averted :+)

I wanted to re-install quake II on my linux machine, but the idsoftware web site keeps telling too many users are connected. Do you know of a mirror for them? the few I know of seem to be down completely.

Look at this, on the same week the Windows game gets released, Id Software releases binaries for linux: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/ This is both the game/client and dedicated server. A licensed copy of Quake 4 retail for Windows® is required You will copy the assets files from it and use the CD key ( a CD key is not required to run a dedicated server ) Way to go! Thanks for providing native linux support for a recent game.

I'm having a little conversation with myself in this thread, but I figured I'd post the final solution it case it helps someone in the future. I through googling and trial and erro I managed to fix the problems above. Don't know if my solution is the "right" one but at leat it works. the only thing I have not figured out is how to force kmail to run as an icon in the system tray rather than pop a up window during the check. #!/bin/sh # start kmail and automatically check for new mail. # Since cron job is not started with a display attached, we need to specify the display kmail --check --display :0 # Wait for the mail to be downloaded. 5 minutes shouldbe more than enough # even if the scripts is not run very often, gmail has a max number of messages # that it will send in one batch (seems to be around 250) sleep 300 # exit kmail by sending it a quit command through DCOP. We must specify the user or dcop can't figure out who to talk to when run from as a cron job. dcop --user papaschtroumpf kmail MainApplication-Interface quit # Now back it all up. The grep is to prevent a message from tar saying that it's removing the leading / in the name so that the archive can be unpacked anywhere, but unfortunately it causes cron to generate an email, so we remove it sleep 5 tar czf /backup/gmail/gmail.tgz /home/papaschtroumpf/.Mail/* | grep -v " from member names"

I'm not putting down linux, I am using it daily, on two differnet computers, and it has all the good things you mention going for it. I installed firestarter on my Mandriva 2005 machine and played with it some. As far as a firewall for blocking incoming traffic, it sure beats editing IP tables by hand. It's easy to use and has that user friendly feel that some of the windows products have, with a tray icon that changes when it logs alerts for example (if you so desire). As far as outgoing traffic, it has the control I expected: you can block services (i.e. ports and port ranges) or remote hosts/networks, but not application level control like Z.A. & al do under Windows. In fact under Windows Z.A. is smart enough to see when a rogue application is "controlling" a whitelisted application, for example if the rogue application tries to access the internet through some DLL of Windows Explorer, Zone Alarm will raise an alaert and ask you if it's OK. I suppose a linux equivalent would be to detect a DCOP script trying to drive Konqueror to do bad things. We're a long way from being there. Applying security patches and safe computing practices are still your most efffective security measures in linux. I yes, I absolutely agree, those two things are much more effective than they are in Windows.

OK, it's not working from cron. It's working from the command line but if I run the same script from cron I get: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't determine DISPLAY. Aborting. ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! I'm a little fuzzy as to how cron run stuff. I know if runs it as that user, I knwo it doesn't process you batch_profile, etc..., so paths can get screwy. Fron the error above, does cron also not have access to the running session? I'm uot of my league here

As a matter of act I did look at the firestarter web page, more specifically this page: http://www.fs-security.com/docs/policy-page.php I still see no mention of denying specific applications access, although maybe it's what they mean by "service" but I doubt it. Yes it lists which application is using what port (I can use netstat to do that) but by then it's too late. I will give firestarter a try on my machine to see if I'm missing something. As far as the tirade, I agree that it is one, but I believe it is highly relevant to the conversation since the original posts specifically spells out "outgoing programs" and "Zone Alarm". I am also frustrated at the general "linux guru's" attitude of "you newbie, you don't need a firewall or an antivirus, because linux is so secure". This is not an attack on anyone in particular, more on the community in general.

aioshin, this is not an attack on you, but your answers examplify what's wrong with the linux attitude towards security in linux today and why linux is in trouble as a "general public OS" unless that attitude changes It's not going to make me feel any better to know that everyone else's account is safe, and the "OS" is safe, when some script runs "rm -rf ~" in my user account. also urpmi must be ran as root, so if I install a rogue rpm, it has root access at leat during the installation process. You missed my point entirely, I'm not talking about incoming access, but outgoing access. Maybe FTP is a better example. Let's assume that I'm not running an FTP server, so incoming port 21 is closed. I do want to be able as a user to get/put files through FTP, for example to update my web site, so outgoing connections from port XXXX to port 21 on a remote IP must be allowed by IP tables. Now let's assume I donwload and run a rogue program (maybe manually, or the rpm repository I'm using got compromised, with a DNS hijack for example). The program then connects to the ftp server from port YYYYY to port 21 on ftp.baduys.com and uploads the contents of the "my documents" directory, or maybe my ".Mail" directory. In windows, I have the ability to tell it that it's OK for my FTP client to connect to a remote port 21, but that no other application is allowed, or at least that I should be asked about it first. it's not Microsoft's fault that people don't patch their software either. A good security attitude is not to shift blame around, but assume people will do the wrong thing. Especially if my mother in law is expected to be able to use linux some day. Look at my FTP example above. Again we're talking outgoing traffic, not incoming. That's not what I meant. A lot of people say open source is safer because you can always look at the source to see what the program is doing. That's true in the long term, if enough people bother looking at it. I recently install rkhunter on my machine. The Mandrake rpm is outdated, so I downloaded his tarball and installed from source. How do I know that the guy doesn't have something hidden in his perl code that is nefarious? See previous comment. Open source in itself doesn't guarantee security. See comment about people being stupid: like it ot not people will do things that they shouldn't do. Even if it's not linux fault per-se, linux will get the black eye when their machine gets hijacked for DDOS because they installed something they got on a torrent somewhere.

Does it? can you block outgoing traffic on a per application basis? That's really what most windows software firewalls are useful for: you let application A access HTTP on the internet on port 80, but you don't let application B have access to an external HTTP server. With IP tables you can block access to port 80 altogether, but then firefox won't work anymore. This is a pretty big security risk the linux community has been ignoring or pretending iisn't there. It's OK as long as you use "safe computing practices", but we all know people don't do that. How do you know that nvidia driver you're downloading from nvidia doesn't email nvidia information about which kernel you're running or which nvidia card you're using? How about this cool software that you built from sources you don't understand because you're not a programmer? How about that linux game you downloaded from bittorrent? Checkout the thread about how much people ignore bad rpm signatures to see how some pretty knowledgeable people can leave their guard down when it comes to getting potential malware.

if I do: mail -s test username this is a test . then the user gets the email (I have a .forward file setup so really the mail gets forwded to my gmail account) if I do mail -s test root this is a test . then check mail by doing "mail -u root" the system tells me root doesn't have mail. If I add a .forward like I do for the user account nothing gets forwarded either. Is there something magic about root's email? EDIT: after doing some research, I modified the /etc/aliases file to send root's mail to the user account (it was set up originally to send it to the postfix account) and that seems to fix the problem, or at least root's mail is forwarded to the user. Was this the right way to fix it? is root not considered a HUMAN? why does root have to be aliased?

OK, I decided to take the opposite approach: I set up KMail to be able to read from the gmail pop3 account (using pop3s). I also decided to use the maildir format rather than mbox. I then used this hack to control KMail from the command line (actually in a cron job) #!/bin/sh # start KMail and automatically satrt retrieving messages kmail --check # wait for messages to be retrieved, 5 minutes should be more than enough wait 300 # now use DCOP to close kmail unconditionnaly (yuk!) dcop kmail MainApplication-Interface quit # finally tar the maildir into the backup directory, keep one old copy mv -f ~/backup/gmail.tgz ~/backup/gmail_old.tgz tar czf ~/backup/mail.tgz ~/.Mail/* I'm now going to try and make kmail only show up in the icon tray rather than a full window, so that even though the cron job does this in the middle of the night, it won't be disruptive if I'm still using the computer at that time.

Is ther ea way to have a volume control icon in the system tray like in windows, so that I can click and in and adjust volume on the fly?

Man this is another one of those Nightmares-That-Should't-Be. I set up a special configuration for fetchmai that feeds directly into procmail and I now have a maildir structure holding my mail. I can tarball the whole thing anbd call it a backup of my gmail account. Note the question is how do I view messages offline? I can't seem to find a graphical client that meets the following criterias: - can be update automatically from acron job without running constantly - and/or can read/view the mails in the maildir structure created above. It seems that KMail will do neither. I can use mutt to see the archived mail, but this is the 21st century and I want comething a little more comfortable to use, and espeically something that will let me handles attachments. Any ideas?

I have 5 computers at home. My main rig still is running Windows because I play a lot of games. I play games under linux only when they are native linux games (this includes dual platform games like UT2004, although I tend to play those more on the windows machien because it's got the better hardware)

use a non-standard port, forward/tunnel a few ports, etc... and you discover it's a pain to do from the command line unless you write a script for it. PuTTY works great but I think it's windows only?

Thanks. I guess I need to do some research, I'm not sure what the local "spool" really means, I though mail was getting downloaded to an mbox file.

How about you look at this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=22519 You're bound to find something you like and a lot of them are free. I just discovered superTux myself. While it's not my kind of game, my kids just fell in love with it.

I use .... firefox! I'm a a gmail user so really I could use any browser, Firefox just happens to be my browser of choice, in large part because I can use it both in windows and Linux. If I were to use pop3, I'd probably use KMail, just because I'm a KDE user. I fact, I would like to fetch my gmail mail into a linux mailbox nightly using a cron job, so that I can read it offline using a client like KMail.