RE: CMI9738 in kernel 2.6

2003-09-04 Thread dbalder
Thus spake Pigeon: >Don't you mean CMI8738? Or am I being ignorant? >The CMI8738 support in 2.6 seems to be light years ahead of what's in >2.4. Unfortunately I can't run it because ini9100u is borked so I >wouldn't be able to accesss my hard drives... :-( This thing is actually CMI9738 sound ch

CMI9738 in kernel 2.6

2003-09-02 Thread dbalder
Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone has noticed availability of support for CMI9738 sound chip in the new kernel. I just wanted to find out before I download anything. Once upon a time a patch was available that would run this chip. I can run the chip using i8x0 sound driver using OSS, but I w

RE: Is it likely that a malfunctional PC internal speaker can make a PCappear "dead"?

2003-05-30 Thread dbalder
>I turned on my PC as usual which did not run POST and there were no beeps >from my internal speaker to indicate a POST error. There was no video, >and hence no error messages. My system appears to be dead - although the >fan on the CPU and the system fan are obviously running, and the LEDs on >th

RE: no war

2003-02-27 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > Iraq. > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for >Idiot. >Please consider that you have just sent (presumably everyone you know)'s >email address to a public list. This message is off-topic and >inapp

Piping sound through arts in KDE

2003-02-24 Thread dbalder
Hi all, Someone once mentioned they managed to pipie sound from Quake 3 Arena through arts in KDE. I'm working on getting Alsa working, but in the meantime I thought I might just try this arts piping thing once. I know sound is sluggish then but I just want to satisfy my curiosity... : -) So,

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2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-14 03:02]: > Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. > >oooh i810. what sound card are you using? sis chipset onboard-sound? >if yes, then i had the same problem.. and, as sorry as i am, the >only way i got sound in q

RE: Problems with Quake]I[ Arena

2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-14 03:02]: > Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. > >oooh i810. what sound card are you using? sis chipset onboard-sound? >if yes, then i had the same problem.. and, as sorry as i am, the >only way i got sound in q

RE: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. After trying 1.32b point release and after a *lot* of googling I am convinced that the problem (crashing with sound) is related to i810 sound driver. I am using i810 sound driver (OSS) (which is reporttedly 'very alpha') and s

RE: Problems with Quake 3 Arena

2003-02-12 Thread dbalder
>You either want to kill artsd or do an: >artsshell suspend; quake3. I tried this. output in shell still shows that /dev/dsp is not available. Note that I can listen to mp3s. Q3A can run without sound but not with. Still need to try Q3A 1.32 point release though. >Do you have any output from the

RE: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
nvidia cards work Basically, if you really want X now, try vesa drivers. That will give you GUI until you have a stab at nvidia drivers. Otherwise, download non-free (proprietary) nvidia drivers from their website. There are two files (tarballs of course) and you need to match the numbers. Every

RE: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
Thanks guys!!! I will have a look at that point release tonight... I didn't know that was available... And one more time I will look into stopping that artsd! Not many people in my street will be sleeping tonight if I get Q3A working past the first level... Mwahahahaha!! (that's my evil laug

Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
Hi All, I have recently installed Q3A on my debian Woody box. I can start the game in KDE from K menu, but no sound. I read solutions to this and I tried running under twm and it works. However, I noticed that when I start Q3A from twm window manager, I can play the first level, and then when it

RE: KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread dbalder
>Does the whole machine lock up, or just X? Can you Ctrl-Alt-F2 to the second virtual terminal? Can you telnet/ssh in to the box? Can you ping the box? >If "no" to the last two questions, do you have an eepro100 NIC? I ask, because I have >a machine that kept locking up totally during network act

KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread dbalder
Hi all, Yesterday I finally got to upgrade my woody box. Later I noticed that the system froze when I was performing apt-get upgrade from debian security repository (whish was not available before). Has anybody else notice this? The problem happened while I was opening a pdf file from my email. I

RE: Own kernel doesn't work

2003-01-22 Thread dbalder
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have following problem with my new kernel I compiled myself: > > Making the kernel was perfectly ok: > > I got the kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 with dselect, bunzip2ed it, > u

RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-22 Thread dbalder
>Hey everyone, >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows >system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at >least taht's what the string listing the supported car

RE: Can't get sound to work (CMIxxxx)

2003-01-21 Thread dbalder
>I installed debian from the CD as the normal install, I do think that I'm >missing something but I don't know what package contains it (dselect what?) >Thanks again! >- Jay. OK, now I get it. You will need to install kernel-source-2.4.18 or something like that and compile your own kernel with

RE: Can't get sound to work (CMIxxxx)

2003-01-21 Thread dbalder
>Hello everyone! >I know that this topic may have been typed to the death already, but I need >help getting my soundchips (CMI8xxx, the ones that are already built in to >the motherboard). >I read the old SuSe Linux manual, it had some instructions for sound which I >tried to follow and so far I

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-20 Thread dbalder
>I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) >They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no >ethernet ports. If those powerbooks have SCSI ports, then you might be able to connect a SCSI cdrom drive or alternatively another powerbook with cdrom drive using

RE: CD difficult to burn

2003-01-19 Thread dbalder
>I posted a message to the list a while ago, some time in the early afternoon >about a CD difficult to burn, but the message got somehow lost. In essence, >how do I burn a CD difficult to burn, using "readcd" or "dd", any one, I >don't really care which tool. I tried dd and readcd, both gave me err

Solved: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-19 Thread dbalder
Thanks to all who offerred suggestions for software that can be used with MSN. Sorry about late follow-up, things have been rather busy down here. All suggestions show that there are plenty of solutions for messaging, but only one (so far) for Hotmail. Gotmail is the package of choice for downloa

RE: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-16 Thread dbalder
Hi everybody... >I've got the following problem: the mouse >doesn't react - that is, it works (on windows) but >Linux doesn't yet detect it or something; >I tried the following: >apt-get install hotplug what *sort* of mouse do you have? And where is the mouse plugged in? During the installation

Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
Hi all, I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there was something called everybuddy (Is that what I should apt-get?). 2.) Is there a program that will download Hotmail email (I know one versio

RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both > in /usr/src. > I've used the following commands (as suggested by > Ochronus somt time ago) > > cd /usr/src/ > tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > export KSRC=/usr/src/ > - or - > export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/ > > export KVERS=2.4.

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2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both > in /usr/src. > I've used the following commands (as suggested by > Ochronus somt time ago) > > cd /usr/src/ > tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > export KSRC=/usr/src/ > - or - > export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/ > > export KVERS=2.4.1

RE: kernel 2.5.55

2003-01-09 Thread dbalder
Hi everyone, i upraded kernel 2.4 from kernl 2.5 and my nvidia geforce 4 and snd-emu10k1 are not working anymore. Also, make xconfig is not working. I got a lot of error. I already have qt-dev install. Is there any package I need to install? Where can I find documentation installing my video card a

RE: Komodo Monitor

2003-01-09 Thread dbalder
>I have the woody linux, Geforce video-card a Komodo 16" monitor 1280x1024 >@60HZ and error NO SCREEN Found. What should I do to get X to work. The problem is not in monitor. You should download the drivers. You should download nVidia (proprietary) drivers from their website and follow the instr

RE: MPlayer audio video out of sync

2003-01-06 Thread dbalder
>Hi, >I just installed MPlayer on my system >and it is working fine ,but the audio is a little out >of sync with video . >how do I fix it ?? >any help is appreciated >thanks in advance >suresh Hi Suresh, There are many reasons why audio-video may be out of sync. The problem seems to even be rela

RE: Help Configuring Sound

2003-01-05 Thread dbalder
However when I try to start any sound application, I get a "/dev/dsp: No such device" error message. The above modules do not appear to be using any ioports or interrupts according to /proc. dmesg says that isapnp, ad1848 and opl3sa2 did not find any plug and play devices. It seems to me that I

[SOLVED] CMI9738 sound driver

2003-01-04 Thread dbalder
Hi all, Thanks to all who have replied to my post regarding CMI 9738 chipset audio driver. CMI9738 at least in my case was somewhat misleading as I later found as on my board there is SiS 7012 audio accelerator. Driver that is actually needed was i810_audio.o driver (I found sndconfig package t

[OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread dbalder
Hi all, A few weeks ago my power supply died (smell of burning plastic and other components of the power supply). I would later realise that I *used* to have PIII system. It as a VIA chipset system with on-board audio. I changed the power supply (to a higher wattage, power supply for Pentium IV).

RE: Mac Fonts

2002-09-18 Thread dbalder
>Hello, >How can I installed some Mac fonts on my x86 Linux Box ? >Thanks >Yogesh Mac fonts are not any different than those ttf fonts in Windows but anyway... 1. Use ttfconverter (a handy Macintosh utility that should still be folating around the cyberspace) to convert Macintosh true type f

Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-26 Thread dbalder
Greetings!! I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on CD-Writing HOWTO) that tracks are ripped first, then p