ShineDesign

I'm not familiar with coolbit, so I would assume no :) Sound works fine from windows, and again the CD player in MDK10 plays sound just fine as well. It's only files stored on the harddrive, played through linux that don't play anything but static.

No errors with alsa, and I do get noise from my speakers when I play MP3 files...it's just static noise though. Like a really bad radio reception that doesn't have any audible song playing.

 

I play an MP3 file and only durring the duration of the song does static come through my speakers...

Hi everybody,

 

I need some help in configuring my MDK10 network settings to add it to my workplace domain. Our BSD webserver went down yesterday (most likely hardware problem = hard drive) and since I know MDK10 better, I'm transfering it to that. However, no matter what I do I cannot seem to get my new MDK10 webserver recognised on the network. I have the IP's and all that good stuff entered in and it doesn't work. I assume this is because I can't find the place to say "Add me to the domain "componentconcepts.com"". Where can I define the domain to add this to? Other than that I'm pretty set I think...but then again this is my first time setting up a linux box as a server...so who knows.

Thanks for the reply!

 

I already have gone into alsamixer and muted / unmuted every chanel individually, the only one that made a difference was Capture. So that's muted now, but still no audio from MP3's. Any other ideas?

 

Thanks

 

-SD

I don't really know why I would, I was just going off of what others had said to do. They said with TwinView, I needed to specify the resoluctions in the metamode option. aka, if monitor 1 was set to 1280x1024, set monitor 2 to 1280x1024. Do you see this as irrelevant? Should I remove it?

 

Thanks for your help!

Ok, so I thought it may be an issue with my ALSA, so I ran:

 

alsaconf

alsamixer

alsactl store

 

and now I get sound...but it's static. At first, right after running alsaconf I got a horrible high pitched sound, so I muted the Capture section of alsamixer and that fixed it. However, my audio for mp3/wma files still don't play...only static can be heard. What's going on here?

Hey everybody,

 

My CD-ROM drive will play audio CD's just fine, I can hear them and everything.

MP3 / WMA / System files however are a different subject...they ACT like they're playing...but no audio comes out. Any ideas why this is?

 

-SD

Nevermind...I figured out the problem. Thanks for your help though!

 

I realized after double checking the fstab file, there's no command to mount the dang win_c! Hah, I added that command to the fstab and now I see it just fine. Thanks again!

 

-SD

This problem happens to me all the time, for some odd reason the windows option on the bootloaded somehow doesn't boot windows anymore and shows that pesky cursor (which is actually attempting to suck the lifeblood from your body as you watch it slowly and methodically flash before your eyes...) Booting from the Mandrake CD and doing as suggested before (F1, Restore, but instead of restoring the windows bootloader I restore the main bootloader (as my linux and windows drives are seperate, linux as the master (I don't want it to affect my windows bootloader at all))). However, since I have an NVidia graphics card, I get to then change the inittab back to 3 and re-install the nvidia drivers or my linux install will for some reason say no screens found! Gotta love the glitches in Linux...but it doesn't even compare to the multi-fasceted frustration of Windows!!

 

Have a good one...

 

-SD

Thanks for the replies!

 

No hardware changes to my system since the install have been made, the file system of my windows drive is FAT32 (even if it was NTFS, I believe Mandrake 10 has everything needed already compiled into the kernel, right?)

 

Here's my fstab

 

/dev/hdg1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hdg6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hde /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hdf /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hdg5 swap swap defaults 0 0

none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

none /mnt/hd2 supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

Hi everybody,

 

I've been trying to configure my XF86Config-4 file for quite some time now to allow for my dual monitor rig. I've got the NVidia GeForce FX5600 Ultra vid card, VGA output and DVI output. I've got the DVI - VGA adapter, which is how I do the dual monitor. Windows XP does it just fine...but that's windows, it's dummy proof. Anyway, take a look at my XF86Config-4 file and tell me if you see why it continues to give me the infamous "No screens found" error when I startx:

 

# File generated by XFdrake.

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx"

# 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "Keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"

Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

ModelName "Sony CPD-15SF2"

HorizSync 31.0-65.0

VertRefresh 50.0-120.0

 

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?

# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync

ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "TwinView"

VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "DPMS"

Option "RenderAccel" "1"

Option "CursorShadow" "1"

 

Option "TwinView"

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt,crt"

Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"

Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-90"

Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60-140"

Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"

 

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "TwinView"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Twin"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

 

 

See anything in particular? I'd really love to be able to use both my 22" monitors with my Mandrake drive :) hehe

 

Thanks in advance,

 

-Justin

Hello all,

 

I just installed Mandrake 10 on a seperate hard disk from my WindowsXP Pro installation. My XP disk is the primary slave, while my Mandrake is the primary master (didn't want to affect anything on my windows install, such as the boot loader etc...) So now they both boot fine, all works well. Except for one thing, when I go into /mnt/win_c it shows no files or folders (win_c is my windows installation drive). Why isn't it showing my windows disk? The only reason I need this accessible is because I have two 120GB drives raid5 together via windowsXP (software method, not hardware) so I need to transfer my FTP files from that to the windows disk, and from the windows disk over to mandrake. (mandrake won't see the raid since it is recognised from windows, after the system boots). Any ideas?

 

-SD

 

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