adamw

soulse: it's been working for me for the last three or four versions...someone sent me some digital camera pictures over msn just the other week (he uses official client). weird.

if you use the ext2 or ext3 filesystem for the drive, you can specify mount options which will do what you require - assign certain user, group and permissions to all files created on the drive. read the mount manpage for more info, or i can look it up myself later today when i'm back in front of a linux box. Once you've grokked the options, add them to /etc/fstab and they'll be used always.

thanks anna. that's the kde libxine front end, right? totem is the same thing, for gnome.

you have a b: drive? holy mackerel, can't remember the last time I had a system with one of those...

did you install the wireless-tools package?

rage3d.com is a good place to go for help with ATI drivers - I've found it useful when researching them in the past.

the post you quoted is rather inaccurate. it has nothing to do with Mandrake code; no Mandrake coders work on the acpi or apic parts of the kernel code. If you have a problem with acpi and apic you'd have the same problem using a stock kernel with those options enabled. btw, I have the same mobo as aussiejohn - A7N8X-E-DX - and no problems with acpi enabled. One thing that DID give me problems was running at 200MHz FSB, even though my CPU and RAM both should be capable of it. I'd get lockups occasionally playing DVDs, and almost immediately on launching Quake3. I backed it down to 183MHz and everything works fine. This is probably a manifestation of the nforce2 chipset's notoriously flaky memory support - I use cheap Samsung RAM, and the nforce2 has a *lot* of problems with a *lot* of memory sticks.

oh, and I see you use mplayer. you can get the same effect from that, too - do mplayer cdda:// and you'll get digital playback of the CD in the default optical device. there's also a rather neat option you can use to force it only to spin the drive up to 4x, so it doesn't make that nasty racket some drives make when they spin up to full speed, which isn't needed just to play an audio CD...can't remember what that is, have a look in the man page and you'll find it.

it's also worth noting that Totem does digital output by default. I don't know which, if any, KDE-native players do the same thing. I haven't used XMMS for a while, it's just so ugly :). I use Totem and Rhythmbox now...

that first warning is fine, it's just letting you know you shouldn't ever load the rivafb module when trying to use nvidia drivers. seems you didn't attach the log yet?

it's not actually a mandrake problem, it's a general kernel problem, but it only shows up in very recent kernels with the mm patchset, which is why many systems won't manifest the problem. it's not a mandrake patch that causes it, though.

the MacOS emulator you're thinking of is PearPC. http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

vlc, transcode and mencoder are really all just acting as frontends to the same libraries. Maybe vlc is better at picking good settings for the encoder libraries, but if you get the same settings with all three programs you'd get the same quality output. the heavy lifting is done by the xvid library, or the lame library, or the vorbis library, or the library for whatever codec you're using.

steps to fix gnome and kde soundservers: # killall esd # killall artsd # for i in `slocate /bin/esd`; do rm -f $i; done # for i in `slocate /bin/artsd`; do rm -f $i; done # jump_up_and_down_on_esd_until_it_is_killed_very_dead_indeed # jump_up_and_down_on_artsd_until_it_is_killed_very_dead_indeed those last two lines are just for safety...:P (please don't actually try any of the above. well, except the first two lines. they work great. the next two i just made up and will probably break stuff.) if you don't need software mixing, get rid of esd and artsd, and be happy. If you need software mixing, get rid of esd and artsd, set up ALSA to use dmix, and be happy. All I've ever had from esd and artsd is grief, grief, grief...

gaim now has a very nice file transfer mode, and gaim-vv (http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/) is working on video / voice. It's a royal pain in the posterior to compile at the moment, though. They're switching it to a gstreamer backend; once that's done it should get a lot easier to build. The intention is to roll the functionality back into the main gaim once it's sufficiently "done". you can get video and voice working on msn and yahoo right now though, if you're willing to persevere.

as for 2.8 RPMs, try Goetz Waschk's - http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa.../gnome2.7/RPMS/ - if you're running 10.1CE or Cooker.

1 - the print option is under the file menu *for the image you have open*. Right click the image, look under file, you should see print. 2 - check you used the right version when defining your sources (if you have 10CE make sure you picked a 10CE source, not 10OE, etc). Finding the most up-to-date medium is an inexact science...anorien.csc.warwick.edu used to be great but is now dead. I find proxad.net is a little slow to download from but usually very up to date. 3 - you need to use a kernel which can cope with larger amounts of memory if you want all your memory to be recognised. The "standard" kernel can only address the amount of memory you're seeing as available. So-called "highmem" kernels can address up to 4GB (and more, in certain systems), but take a small performance penalty for doing so. (This is why highmem isn't just compiled into every kernel ever). Depending on your version of MDK, either use the 'enterprise' kernel or the '-i686-4GB-up' kernel. 'enterprise' combines highmem and SMP (multiple processors, or Hyperthreading processors); previously it was the only kernel you could use to get highmem support. Since 10.0 there's also been the -i686-4GB-up processor, which is uniprocessor (that's what the up means) but supports up to 4GB of RAM. However, unless you're really going to *use* all that 1GB of RAM (and that's pretty hard to do), using the normal kernel may actually be a little faster. Either way, it's probably not a difference you'll notice outside of benchmarks. 4 - follow the above suggestions for testing your memory. 5 - no idea. hope that helped!

well, it does sometimes help wine to use native versions of files. If you look at your wine config file there's a bunch of entries for said files, with a preference order - either "native,builtin" or "builtin,native". Sometimes tweaking this, assuming you have the "native" (original Windows) files, can help run some apps.

another valuable lesson is - there's usually a way to do things in /home. where you can't screw anything up much at all. It's much safer to just put fonts in ~/.fonts and then run fc-cache. All remotely recent applications - those that use fontconfig, which covers any QT 3 or GTK 2 application at *least* - will see fonts in that directory, and you can't mess anything up by doing it. And if you do, just wipe 'em.

check the good old PNP Operating System setting, too. should be off...

btw, we had one of those nasty frog Alcatel modems a couple of years back for a while, and had fun getting it to work in 8.2...managed it in the end but dumped it pretty fast for a better modem and a nice router, hehe.

this is being worked on for 10.1OE to hopefully have it work more or less out of the box, and have the connection properly controlled by Mandrake's networking tools. There's a thread on the Cooker ML discussing it and apparently it's pretty close now. It'd be a huge help if people could try installing Cooker and see how it deals with their Alcatels, and post the results to Bugzilla or the Cooker ML...

erm, kernel version? easyurpmi doesn't say anything about kernels...anyway, just follow the stages. pick 10.1 CE from the drop down box. leave architecture as i586. pick servers geographically close to you from the drop-down boxes for "main" and "contrib" and make sure those two are ticked. pick a source for plf if you like, it's optional but highly recommended - it's basically for patent-encrusted stuff (and other legally problematic packages), it has stuff like emulators and the dvd decryption libs. then hit the "proceed to stage 3" button and run the commands you get in the black box as root. they will add remote urpmi sources from the servers you picked. then run urpmi --auto-select as root and it'll update all packages for which updates are available from those servers.

It's probably in /etc/kde/kdm. But I don't use KDE, so I don't know for sure. A way to verify if this is the issue is to run startx from runlevel 3 - if that works it's probably a kdm problem.

well, that's kinda like auto, except it might say "yes" to something bad, and it'll break on queries which expect a "1" or "2" kind of an answer...