Re: [ubuntu-uk] Need help with SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card

2007-06-26 Thread John Watson
Thanks for replying but I had already checked alsamixer(gui) and the gnome volume control ;) The analogue sound is fine (to my headphones). The digital out does work BUT only works if I play a Dolby Digital source. If I play a simple mp3 / stereo file, nothing is heard from the digital out. So

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnucash accounts

2007-06-26 Thread Adam Funk
On 2007-06-26, michaelweaver wrote: > I do not know if I have got this right but having a look at the Gnucash > concepts guide when creating accounts in Gnucash, I create for example > an account called assets as a top level account but do not put in any > details such as an account name or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound and software speech

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Mike You may well need to have something like Alsa (not sure on spelling) installed. My understanding is that natively Ubuntu is a single sound source system unless the apps in use use Alsa or a similar library to enable software mixing of soundstream unless your card supports this in hardware

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repository Contents

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Pascoe
Cheers Alan Merci beaucoup! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 25 June 2007 22:55 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repository Contents Hi Ian, On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 21:27 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Forgetting a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2007 17:21, John Taylor wrote: For the life of me i cant find the correct path, none of your suggestions or my permutations will work. What on earth am I doing wrong? John John, When you installed seamonkey, using the installer thing, did you accep

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnucash accounts

2007-06-26 Thread Keith Bowerman
Michael, I have 12 accounts in Gnucash and they were all entered as Top Level accounts. I've been using Gnucash for a long time now (since version 1.something) but I don't recall it being particularly difficult to set up. Keith. -- Keith Bowerman, Prestwood, south Staffordshire, England. Using

Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound and software speech

2007-06-26 Thread Rob Beard
michaelweaver wrote: > I have a soundcard in my PC which I know works with both sound and > speech under Windows so I can play a DVD while navigating it with my > screenreader as speech is produced through the soundcard. > How do I get multichannel sound using the same card in Ubuntu because at > s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 17:21, John Taylor wrote: > For the life of me i cant find the correct path, none of your > suggestions or my permutations will work. What on earth am I doing wrong? > > John John, When you installed seamonkey, using the installer thing, did you accept the default locatio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:49, John Taylor wrote: Sorry but its KDE Extra cheers John No problem! Right click the menu button in the bottom left of your screen, and select Menu Editor. As this is a browser, right click the Internet option in the Menu Editor option

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnucash accounts

2007-06-26 Thread Leon Barker
On 26/06/07, michaelweaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not know if I have got this right but having a look at the > Gnucash > concepts guide when creating accounts in Gnucash, I create for example > an account called assets as a top level account but do not put in any > details such

[ubuntu-uk] gnucash accounts

2007-06-26 Thread michaelweaver
I do not know if I have got this right but having a look at the Gnucash concepts guide when creating accounts in Gnucash, I create for example an account called assets as a top level account but do not put in any details such as an account name or number and then add my actual accounts as p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:49, John Taylor wrote: > Sorry but its KDE > > Extra cheers > John No problem! Right click the menu button in the bottom left of your screen, and select Menu Editor. As this is a browser, right click the Internet option in the Menu Editor option which has now come up.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 14:24, John Taylor wrote: > > These are the error messages > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ seamonkey > bash: seamonkey: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd seamonkey > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/seamonkey$ ./seamonkey > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 16

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
John Taylor wrote: > Mark Jose wrote: > >> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:12, John Taylor wrote: >> >> >> >>> We have lift off but where should it be (Seamonkey) >>> >>> file:///home/john/seamonkey >>> >>> If its this one how do I activate it? >>> >>> Sorry to be a pest >>> >>> John >>>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
John Taylor wrote: Mark Jose wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:12, John Taylor wrote: We have lift off but where should it be (Seamonkey) file:///home/john/seamonkey If its this one how do I activate it? Sorry to be a pest John Good news :) To run it, you can cd int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:12, John Taylor wrote: > > >> We have lift off but where should it be (Seamonkey) >> >> file:///home/john/seamonkey >> >> If its this one how do I activate it? >> >> Sorry to be a pest >> >> John >> > > Good news :) > To run it, you can cd into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:12, John Taylor wrote: > We have lift off but where should it be (Seamonkey) > > file:///home/john/seamonkey > > If its this one how do I activate it? > > Sorry to be a pest > > John Good news :) To run it, you can cd into the seamonkey directory and use the command ./

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Need help with SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card

2007-06-26 Thread luxxius
gord wrote: > also you might want to take a look at the sound settings in alsa mixer > (there should be a little speaker icon on your panel somewhere that you > can use to change the volume. right click and goto open volume control, > or alternatively run 'gnome-volume-control' from a terminal). b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 12:02, John Taylor wrote: > > >> Not sure this helps. but >> >> ./seamonkey-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: >> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> > > Yes it does. Looks like you are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Need help with SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card

2007-06-26 Thread gord
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 21:47 +0100, John Watson wrote: > I am having some difficulties with my sound card. It only started > happening recently. If you are familiar with the SB Live! card you will > know it has a digital out socket. This is the output that has stopped > working. > > Normal analo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 12:02, John Taylor wrote: > Not sure this helps. but > > ./seamonkey-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Yes it does. Looks like you are missing libstdc++.so.5 That is a runtim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 11:14, John Taylor wrote: > >> Mark Jose wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:47, John Taylor wrote: >>> Mark I have GTK2 version from yesterdays download. If I run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./seamonkey-installer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 11:14, John Taylor wrote: > Mark Jose wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:47, John Taylor wrote: > >> Mark > >> > >> I have GTK2 version from yesterdays download. > >> > >> If I run > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./seamonkey-installer > >> bash: ./seamonkey-installer: is a dire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:47, John Taylor wrote: > > >> Mark >> >> I have GTK2 version from yesterdays download. >> >> If I run >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./seamonkey-installer >> bash: ./seamonkey-installer: is a directory >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >> what do I do now? >> >> Joh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:47, John Taylor wrote: > > Mark > > I have GTK2 version from yesterdays download. > > If I run > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./seamonkey-installer > bash: ./seamonkey-installer: is a directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > what do I do now? > > John try [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd .

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread John Taylor
Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007 06:18, John Taylor wrote: > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksudo ./seamonkey-installer >> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 >> Major opcode: 145 >> Minor opcode: 3 >> Resource id: 0x0 >> Failed to open device >> >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 06:18, John Taylor wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksudo ./seamonkey-installer > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 > Major opcode: 145 > Minor opcode: 3 > Resource id: 0x0 > Failed to open device > > > What more can I tell you? > > > J

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-26 Thread Mark Jose
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 06:18, John Taylor wrote: > Mark > > You are a late bird - you need your beauty sleep! > Indeed I do! At least, thats what the wife says! > This is what I have done so far > > wget -c > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/1.1.1/seamonkey-1.1.1.en-US.l >inux-i68

[ubuntu-uk] sound and software speech

2007-06-26 Thread michaelweaver
I have a soundcard in my PC which I know works with both sound and speech under Windows so I can play a DVD while navigating it with my screenreader as speech is produced through the soundcard. How do I get multichannel sound using the same card in Ubuntu because at some point I am hoping to go tot