Re: RH 8.0 DVD
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 14:23, Blaise Pascal wrote: > Apologies in advance if this question has already been > posted... > > I have not seen this yet, but is there a chance that > Red Hat (or another company) would offer Psyche on DVD > just by itself (without the CD's, without the > manuals)? A while ago someone posted a "recipe" for creating a DVD ISO from the psyche CD ISO downloads. I've tried it and it worked, including booting from DVD. It's on: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000323.html > If not, this next question is OT: if I wanted to burn > a copy of the DVD, what DVD format should I use? > DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD+RW? DVD-RAM? Go with what your DVD player supports. I've had problems with DVD+R/RW in a Pioneer 106 drive; older DVD drives may have problems with any kind of DVD+/-/R/W type, but most seem to do fine. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: RH 8.0 DVD
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 01:13, Blaise Pascal wrote: > > Go with what your DVD player supports. I've had > > problems with DVD+R/RW in a Pioneer 106 drive; older > > DVD drives may have problems with any kind > > of DVD+/-/R/W type, but most seem to do fine. > Going OT again, I *do* have a Pioneer 106S, so what > format does it support? I'd definately go with DVD-R, since that's the standard Pioneer co-developed. It's the same stuff Apple uses btw. Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: X Server for NT
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 00:01, Listman wrote: > I have an X Server for NT installed but I am unable to display my RH 8.0 > Window Manager KDE. What do I have to set to query the ip address and > display the Linux machine remotely? > > TIA > Mke > It depends on what the X server expects, but probably you need to enable the XDMCP protocol in the configuration of the xdm (of in KDE, kdm) program. This enables other displays on the network to get the "login screen" for your RH8 system. The configuration files for kdm should be in /etc/X11/kdm -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Removing Old Kernels
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 17:11, Harold Helmich wrote: > Side note: df also hangs - but only at the end. It prints the output > and then hangs. Takes a while for the command prompt to come back. I > do not know if they are related. If df hangs, check if you have mounted network shares (smb, nfs etc); when the other system is disconnected, df will try to query the free disk space and timeout after a while... -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Alsa sound drivers w/ via82xx chipset.
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:37, Dan Devine wrote: > After install, I get some sound. The desktop sounds work and I even > get music/effects from the included game "Chromium"..But no sound > from my beloved "Tux Racer" or the CD player? > > Anyone know what's going on?why sound from some sources but not > others? Tux racer has broken sound in redhat 8. I don't have the exact remedy (it has been discussed on this list), but you'll have to rebuild the package or install it from another source. To get CD sound, you'll need to increase the CD volume in the sound mixer. -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:45, JD wrote: > I remember soffice 5.1 & 5.2 that was so java..., thanks goodness it's > gone! Interesting thing then that soffice 5.x is (and 6 still is) written in C++. It's just the scripting engine which uses the Java runtime. Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: CVS Installation...
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:42, Bruce Douglas wrote: > Hey > > Has anyone performed a complete/thorough/working installation of CVS on a > Redhat 8.0 system. I'm looking for pointers to accurate docs, or to talk > with someone to work through this issue. I've tried a couple of different > attempts based on different internet sites/postings.. no luck... and I can't > afford to screw this up!! > > Thanks for any help/assistance you might be able to provide You might want to check out http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/ No guarantees though... Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: key repeat stops on Psyche
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Wade Hampton wrote: > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p > with RH 8.0 loaded. X was running. > -- No idea; just a "me too" here. I noticed the same here yesterday; standard desktop system (p3, intel chipset). Setting the keyboard repeat rate with xset worked a while, but the repeat "disappeared" again.. greets, Klaasjan
Re: key repeat stops on Psyche
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:11, Wade Hampton wrote: > More info. > > Keyboard repeat now works. > > Perhaps there is a time issue when the clock is changed back 1 hour? > You could be on to something... I did the rdate -s thing too... Have to check my RH8 machine at home later. Klaasjan
Re: Maximum memory under Linux
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:26, Ronald Hermans wrote: > At the moment we are writing an application for the windows environment that > needs in some situations a lot om memory (+ 2GB). We are thinking to switch > over to Linux. Can someone tell me wat the memory limit under LInux is at > the moment? I'm hearing sounds of 64 GB and 2GB per process. On x86 it's 64gb if your processor/chipset supports it. 2gb is the maximum size of a process. If you need more than that maybe it's time to move to 64-bits architecture (ia64, ultrasparc, alpha). (or optimize your software ;) greets, Klaasjan
psyche DVD iso?
Hi there (especially redhat employees), Will there be a downloadable DVD iso for psyche? A while ago I read it was unclear if there would be one due to technical issues. Or is redhat keeping the DVD as an extra for people who buy the boxed edition? Anyone tried something alternative (like copying the 5 cd's contents to one dvd)? greets, Klaasjan
Re: psyche DVD iso?
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 16:10, cfraz wrote: > Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~ Will there be a downloadable DVD iso for psyche? > ~ Anyone tried something alternative (like copying the 5 cd's contents > to~ one dvd)? > ~ > Jay Berkenbilt posted an "How to make your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from > the CD ISO images" on Wed, 2 Oct > should be found in the ml archives Found it on: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story.php?id=14425 Missed it in this mailing list; although I'm subscribed since it started and looking for a way to write it to DVD for a while... Klaasjan
psyche-list@redhat.com
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:48, Tommy McNeely wrote: > > I "upgraded" from a SBLIVE to a Creative SB Audigy sound card.. and now the > system hangs detecting hardware.. if I go interactive (and skip kudzu) it > boots but I have no sound. It appears that I have upgraded myself right out > of support too... > > Has anyone else had this problem? is there an easy way around it (besides > putting the SBLIVE back in) No idea why kudzu hangs (maybe you could report that as a bug), but my audigy card works fine in rh8... maybe you could try changing the sblive driver module in /etc/modules.conf to the audigy driver. greets, Klaasjan
Re: Oval Screen With PNY Verto GeForce4 MX 420
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 07:40, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > I installed a PNY Verto GeForce4 MX 420 (64 Mb, an AGP card) in my Asus > P4T533 motherboard. When the machine boots I first see the Nvidia BIOS > message. It displays within a strangely oval, "fishbowl" shaped screen. > The left and right edges of the screen curve inward at the top and > bottom, leaving a bulging middle section. Sounds like it's time to play with the monitor settings... try adjusting the "pincushion" setting of your monitor (the one with the fishbowl-shaped icon ;) greets, Klaasjan
Re: CD-ROM dma activation
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:03, Gerhardus Scheltema wrote: > Hello > > I'm having problem activating the dma on my DVD/CDROM > > doing : hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda (HardDrive) works fine but > doing : hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc (DVD/CDROM) gives me > > /dev/hdc: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) > > Can anybody please help? > > Gerhardus Try unmounting your dvd (and maybe removing the cdrom module) before changing dma settings. It seems the redhat kernel doesn't allow changing dma settings while the drive is in use... stock linus kernel has no problems with it. -- groeten, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Mmm.. Is someone trying to hack me?
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:12, Joshua Melbourne White wrote: > I currently have apache up and running and I was looking through my > security log, and this popped up: > > 199.203.11.241 - - [26/Nov/2002:01:43:58 -0500] "GET > /scripts/..%255c%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir" 404 346 "-" "-" Just someone (or an infected system) trying to break into your system by using Microsoft IIS leaks. > Doesn't look too good to me. Can someone explain what this person was > trying to do? Whatever he did, it gave the following error: > > [Tue Nov 26 01:43:58 2002] [error] [client 199.203.11.241] File does not > exist: /var/www/html/scripts Since you don't have IIS you don't have the vulnerable /scripts directory. Be glad you chose Linux ;) -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Plextor CD-RW won't read audio CDs?
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:08, Sage wrote: > I am running Red Hat 8.0 with kernel version 2.4.18-18.8.0 in smp mode > on a dual Pentium III workstation. I have a Plextor 40x12x40 speed CD-RW > drive. It will read data CDs perfectly, though it has some trouble with > CD-R and CD-RW discs. More importantly, though, it refuses to read any > audio CDs that are placed into it. > > If I run grip or the gnome cd player, the application acts as though no > disc has been inserted. The drive spins and tries to read the disc but > never succeeds. At worst, the application will lock up and I will have > to kill the process. > > Does anyone know why this is, and how I might fix it? Is anyone else > experiencing a similar problem? More importantly, has anyone else used > the Plextor 40x12x40 CD-RW drive successfully without such problems?P Sounds like your drive is a bit whacky. The disc recognition is done by the drive's firmware, so it's not a Linux problem. Hanging applications are a Linux problem - the kernel has problems dealing with "misbehaving" IDE hardware (long timeouts on reading discs etc). Since it seems to be a new drive, I'd take it back to the store and ask for a new one... greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Testing Psyche - Newbie performance questions
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi to all: > Well, after upgrade from RedHat 7.3, booting to init 5, 90% of memory > seems occupied. If I start any 'big' application as Mozilla, swap to disk > begins :(. It could be Gnome2+mozilla is a bit too much for 128mb. I assume doubling the memory of those machines would help a lot. Maybe try another browser (galeon, opera, konq) with a lower memory footprint... Is the swapping really hurting performance? On my 512mb system there's still a bit of swapping when the kernel decides memory can better be used for disk cache than just for holding unused program data... > System monitor claims that X server is near to 80 MB, is normal? My > resolution is 1280x1024x24bpp. The memory allocated by the X server includes memory for the framebuffer and backing store, most of which is virtual address space mapped in by the X server. It's not really using 80mb ram, but I don't know how much it's really using... > I had added the next hdparm values : -c1 -d1 -W1 -p4 -X69 -u1-m0 ( > m16 slows transfer rates in -tT tests ) Does setting the pio mode _and_ the dma mode make sense? The hdparm man page says you shouldn't have to fiddle with the -X setting. Is your transfer rate better after running this hdparm command than before? > Not recompiled kernel yet. I did; doesn't make that much of a performance difference... even the pre-emptable/low latency kernel patches don't give me really noticable improvement. > I'had looking in www for tips about performance, but a lot of them > seems to be outdated. > I will recompile all src.rpms, any tip obout optimizations flags? ( > I'm evaluating different combinations and pretend to use -02 -march=i686 > -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 with > gcc 3) Have you measured performance increase with those settings? Redhat 8 is already compiled with i686 optimizations (although code should still run on older pentium-class machines). This will not give your system the "boost" some people think it will... > Any type or advice? Don't waste your time recompiling stuff. The packages Redhat delivers are _almost_ optimized, so there's not much to gain that way. Instead, try leaner software and/or increasing memory. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Calling all KDE fans!!
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 15:14, Anthony Abby wrote: > Don't the overwhelming majority of Linux/Unix users use KDE? > I'll bite: since Red Hat has a market share of about 60-75% of the Linux installations in use and the default desktop is Gnome the logical conclusion is that a _lot_ of users use Gnome. Not everyone is a desktop fanatic... greets. Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: audio skipping with 2.4.18-18.8.0 kernel
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed the recently released 2.4.18-18.8.0 kernel, and now I > consistently get skips in the audio output from grip. Has anyone else > seen this behavior? Is there a vm parameter I can tweak to up the > priority of audio data moving through the kernel vm? > > -- > Michael D. Jurney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does your audio only skip when playing with grip or also when playing from other programs? If it's only grip you could try increasing the priority. Otherwise, you're in for some serious system tuning. I found the following guide helpful: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/tuning.html Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: help for freshrpm's videolan package needed
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:24, Peter Boy wrote: > I just tried to update my videolan client 0.4.1-fr1 with the current one > from freshmeat. Unfortunately it fails complaining about missing > dependencies: > > libasound.so.2 is needed by videolan-client-0.4.6-fr1 > liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.4.6-fr1 > > I couldn't find a hint on freshrpms where to find them. liblirc could be > ifra red project but I have no IR hardware here and videostreaming using > IR? Uhm... lirc is for controlling your media player with a remote control, it's not for networking (check irda for that). It seems the videolan client rpm is built with a dependency on lirc and alsa. The easy way is just installing the alsa-lib and lirc rpms from freshrpms. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: today's nightly gtk2 mozilla build
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 04:21, Jim Christiansen wrote: > Hi, > > Just to let everyone know that today's build at: > > http://ftp26moz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/gtk2/ > > still has a printing problem, although I do prefer it to the default > Mozilla... > > Has anyone has come up with a solution to stopping the 7 pages of blanks > before the real printing begins? :-) Gtk2 moz rocks :) I downloaded it a few days ago, but have not switched yet because https doesn't work for me; it keeps complaining psm is not installed... anyone got that to work? greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: today's nightly gtk2 mozilla build
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 09:37, Raul Acevedo wrote: > Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > > Gtk2 moz rocks :) I downloaded it a few days ago, but have not > > switched yet because https doesn't work for me; it keeps complaining > > psm is not installed... anyone got that to work? > > Install the mozilla-psm RPM. PSM = Personal Security Manager, it > enables HTTPS in Mozilla. I installed everything from the mozilla snapshot directory _including_ the psm rpm. Still no go. I'll try again tonight with a newer snapshot... -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Grub question
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 11:21, Guillermo Mulliert Carlín wrote: > Hello, > I received a computer with RedHat 8.0 installed and grub as the > boot loader. I have never used grub. With lilo at the commnad line prompt I can > type "linux 1" or "linux 2" if I do not want a normal boot. How to do this with > grub? With grub, set the cursor on the kernel to boot and press "e". Then select the "kernel ..." line and press "e" again. You can edit the kernel command line and add arguments like "single" etc. Press enter and "b" to boot the edited configuration. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Joystick with Psyche?
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 06:57, Elton Woo wrote: > Kitesmurf wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm using RH8 and a MS Precision Pro joystick connected with the > >joystick port of my SB Live! card. As far as I know, RH8 already comes > >compiled with joystick support. However, it doesn't seem to recognize my > >joystick. Do I have to configure anything else to get it to work? > >According to the joystick readme, it is supported. My best guess would > >be that the joystick port is closed, not sure though. Question: if so, > >how do I open it? > > > >Thanks in advance for any help. I'm pretty new to Linux, my apologies if > >I have merely overlooked a small detail. > > >Login to a console as root and do: > 'modprobe input' > 'modprobe hid' > 'modprobe joydev' OR > 'modprobe -l|grep joystick' > -- > Put these lines at the end of /etc/rc.local: > modprobe joydev > modprobe analog > > My joystick is the Logitech Wingman Rumblepad. which is an usb joystick I guess. For an analog stick on a sblive you need the modules: input, joydev, gameport, emu10k1-gp analog If you "modprobe" them in that order it "works for me"(tm). greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
RE: Adding an 80G Seagate IDE drive....
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 02:35, Bob Parry wrote: > I think that is the problem, I have a SCSI drive and IDE Drives in my > system and the boot system has to be on the first IDE drive. I believe > there is a way to avoid this although I was never able to find it and > it was just easier to put Grub on the first IDE drive. I don't think so. I ran into this a year or two ago and according to the grub people (who flamed me because I didn't read their faq careful enough :| ) it's purely an issue with the pc bios's dos legacy which makes it unable to use a scsi disk as boot device when an ide drive is installed in the same machine. -- Klaasjan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: How to port existing apps to xft2?
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:24, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Yet another xft question: I have found lots of info for users who need > to add new fonts in their xft based distro, but how to port a pre-xft2 > app to the new system? What a developer should read? Xft2 is the font-rendering back-end, and not meant for everyday use. If your application uses Qt2 or higher or GTK2 it's already using xft2 (on psyche that is). If your application uses GTK1, you probably want to port it to GTK2. If you insist on doing everything yourself, some documentation is availably on http://fontconfig.org/. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: How to port existing apps to xft2?
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:09, Derek Martin wrote: > > Xft2 is the font-rendering back-end, and not meant for everyday use. If > > your application uses Qt2 or higher or GTK2 it's already using xft2 (on > > psyche that is). If your application uses GTK1, you probably want to > > port it to GTK2. > Ok, well where do Xt apps fit in? Or do they, even? Both Qt and GTK do not depend on Xt. This does not prevent you from running Xt applications. If you want to you could port Xaw to Xft. > I'll take xterm over any of its replacements any day of the week. > IMO, no one can touch it. I don't much care if the fonts are > anti-aliased, or if I can make my background "transparent" -- all that > seems to accomplish is to slow command output WAY down... It's called sacrificing performance for rendering quality and no sin. Maybe you haven't found out, but it seems there's a button to turn the anti-aliased stuff off... > For comparison, open an xterm, gnome-terminal, and konsole all next to > eachother (if you have room, or near to eachother if not). Then: > > $ ls -laR / > > ...in each of them. Interesting benchmark, but when do you actually do that in real life? If your terminal is scrolling so fast you can't read the text what is the value of having a terminal instead of eg a progressbar? > Notice that xterm blazes. Konsole is noticably slower, and gnome-term > is /dog/ slow. The latter will eat up all of your CPU, even on a fast > machine, whereas xterm uses very little cpu (of course both cause the > X server to work). And, xterm is more configurable, to boot (or if it > isn't, then at least how to do so is well documented). > Then make the terminal windows as tall as they'll fit on your screen > and repeat. Watch the effect become amplified. xterm continues to > zip along smoothly, KDE gets a little worse, and gnome-terminal is > very choppy. The xterm uses about 3-4% of the cpu, konsole uses about > 40-45% of the cpu, and gnome-term sucks up about 60% of the cpu, with > the X server using most of what's left in each case. > > Yucky. Keep in mind that xft/render is quite new in the mainstream distributions and will be optimized further. If you don't like it, just use xterm. Your choice. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: How to port existing apps to xft2?
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:19, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > documentation is availably on http://fontconfig.org/. > > > Thanks for the explanation and the link. I was already going through > the fontconfig site and the links it provides. One thing that still > confuses me a bit, however, is the exact relationship between xft2.0 > and fontconfig. I'm not planning to develop anything right now, just > need to understand xft2.0/fontconfig better. Are they both libraries, > and if so, how do they relate > to each other? Is xft2.0 a server coded with the fontconfig library? I don't know much more that what's on the site, but my impression is that Xft is the library that is used to draw the fonts while fontconfig does the higher-level font selection/installation and - when a font is not available - substitution. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: How do I disable a PCI card
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 17:01, Treyvan wrote: > Surely there must be a way to disable it from the software? > > I tried disabling it in the BIOS but the system loaded it anyway. > > Suggestions appreciated. Check the file /etc/modules.conf; there should be a line like: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx (last word is the driver name, so it's different for each controller type) Put a # symbol in front of it and the kernel will now no longer load the driver. If you don't want to reboot you should use the "rmmod" command to remove the already loaded scsi modules. greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:59, James McArthur wrote: > Just pondering doing something similar. Is it possible to build the > kernel on one machine, copy the kernel directory to another machine, and > then do a 'make modules_install'? Worked for me... greets, Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Mozilla and flash plugin
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 22:05, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Some of you had trouble with the flash plugin > I did notuntil i starting xmms and play some mp3 files at that > moment mozilla hangs when trying to open a flash site > > stop playback from xmms and return to mozilla and it loads the page in > good fashion. > > So it has something to do with playing sound, in my case mp3 (i do not > have ogg file). and the plugin. > > Are there more people with this problem. (and does it occur on a system > playing ogg) > > Johan I've had the problem too. It's a bug in the flash plugin. When playing sound the plugin tries to open /dev/dsp which is in use when you're playing mp3's. The plugin just hangs at that moment which causes the whole browser to hang. One workaround is to set xmms to esound output instead of oss output. Using a soundcard which allows multiple programs to open /dev/dsp works too of cours (sb live/audigy users don't have this problem). greets, Kj signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: DVD player?
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:41, Gerry Tool wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I'll try the freshmeat packages. > > Why is xine not included in 8.0? I discovered it is in 7.3. > -- > gerry Maybe because it's useless without the encrypted dvd player plugin? (I guess red hat doesn't want to ship the divx player codec too) Kj signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: i810/ac97/alsa: no sound
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:55, Fred Bartlett wrote: > I am the proud^H^H^H^H^H owner of a machine with the Intel i810 > soundchip. I have installed the ALSA drivers, edited etc/modules.conf, > and run modprobe in accordance with the instructions at > alsa-project.org, but still have no joy. > > redhat-config-soundcard does correctly detect the soundcard; but the > test sound doesn't play. > > I figure I must be missing something simple. Any clue what it might be? My guess: alsa drivers set all mixer channels to "mute" by default. Try unmuting at least your master and pcm channels with amixer. Kj
Re: Rescue CD
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:14, Dušan Đorđević wrote: > Can ISO image of card size rescue CD, which is shipped with professional > version of RH Linux be downloaded from somewhere ? I successfully > broken mine :( > -- > Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) I got it from ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd/ greets, Klaasjan
