Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
ok will do...although i did run one before ( after all these problems occurred, after i reapplied the thermal coating) but then quit after 70% ...but i will run it again! On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Rob Beard wrote: > On 06/10/10 06:58, javadayaz wrote: > > Just an update to all this..when I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Rob Beard
On 06/10/10 06:58, javadayaz wrote: > Just an update to all this..when I run livecd...it will let me choose an > option...but then the cd loads and the pc shuts down..and restarts! Okay I wonder if it's a hardware problem that has developed due to the excess heat. Try booting up the CD and when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
Just an update to all this..when I run livecd...it will let me choose an option...but then the cd loads and the pc shuts down..and restarts! > On 5 October 2010 20:02, javadayaz wrote: >> Anyone? I still can't get in..what to do? >> > > I don't know anything about Linux Mint, so can't help I'm af

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 October 2010 20:02, javadayaz wrote: > Anyone?  I still can't get in..what to do? > I don't know anything about Linux Mint, so can't help I'm afraid. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound effects ....

2010-10-05 Thread Byte Soup
> >> Just spent a long time searching through fora with no result. I want to > >> play mp3's of stage sound effects and music tracks. The problem is that > >> they have to be on cue. > >> > > > > I'm also interested in an application to do this. > > > > Not seen anything on Ubuntu. > > Probably n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound effects ....

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Fisher
Something like this? http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Soundboard-Maker-Download-13664.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound effects ....

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
songbird has a pretty good start latency On 5 October 2010 21:22, Matt Wheeler wrote: > On 4 October 2010 16:07, Alan Pope wrote: > > On 4 October 2010 15:58, Barry Drake wrote: > >> Just spent a long time searching through fora with no result. I want to > >> play mp3's of stage sound effects

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound effects ....

2010-10-05 Thread Matt Wheeler
On 4 October 2010 16:07, Alan Pope wrote: > On 4 October 2010 15:58, Barry Drake wrote: >> Just spent a long time searching through fora with no result.  I want to >> play mp3's of stage sound effects and music tracks.  The problem is that >> they have to be on cue. >> > > I'm also interested in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
Anyone? I still can't get in..what to do? > unfortunately i cant recallbut it was under uSB periprels...or something > similiar! > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > >> are there any other options? what was the setting called? >> >> On 5 October 2010 12:47, Dan Attwood

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
I use devices by id in my fstab to have unique mount points. Have a browse through /dev/ when the disk is connected Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-05 Thread Glen Mehn
On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my > backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they > end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell > which drive is which, and when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I'm reading from the file size according to ls after banshee duplicated most of my files On 5 October 2010 17:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: > Most music players just show the location of a music file as stored in a > database, not the music file itself. It shouldn't be the size of your > library, b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Simon Greenwood
Most music players just show the location of a music file as stored in a database, not the music file itself. It shouldn't be the size of your library, but could possibly its location or more likely locations. Simon On 5 Oct 2010 16:33, "Alan Pope" wrote: On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfiel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz wrote: >> (Amarok is painfully slow, especially on GNOME and Exaile is also very slow and crashes a lot). There's your answer -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 October 2010 16:45, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > before I loaded the majority of my music into it, it ran fine > Run it from a terminal and see what error you get? Perhaps there's a bug filed, if not, you could file one. Happy to help you file a bug if you're not familiar with it. Cheers, Al.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Andy Partington
On 5 October 2010 16:32, Alan Pope wrote: > On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of > > music > > > > What leads you to believe the volume of music files is responsible for > the crash? > > I have a similar volu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
before I loaded the majority of my music into it, it ran fine On 5 October 2010 16:32, Alan Pope wrote: > On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of > > music > > > > What leads you to believe the volume of music

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
You can set amarok to just scan a whole folder tree. It automatically finds new files added there. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this messa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of > music > What leads you to believe the volume of music files is responsible for the crash? I have a similar volume of music and have never seen Banshee crash as a result.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of music On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz wrote: > > > On 05/10/10 12:33, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird > > On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod > wrote: > > > > Strange that yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread pmgazz
On 05/10/10 12:33, Jacob Mansfield wrote: rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod wrote: Strange that you've had problems with these players I have used all three but have stuck with Rythmbox and Songbird. Rythmbox can play MP3 files, makes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
unfortunately i cant recallbut it was under uSB periprels...or something similiar! On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > are there any other options? what was the setting called? > > On 5 October 2010 12:47, Dan Attwood wrote: > >> This is the kind of issue that local LUG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
are there any other options? what was the setting called? On 5 October 2010 12:47, Dan Attwood wrote: > This is the kind of issue that local LUG meets are really good at solving. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Dan Attwood
This is the kind of issue that local LUG meets are really good at solving. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
i changed the Usb keyboard settings from OS to bios.! On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > you said you fidled with the usb settings, could you be a little more > specific > > > On 5 October 2010 09:25, javadayaz wrote: > >> i get a screen which flashes with weird graphics.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
you said you fidled with the usb settings, could you be a little more specific On 5 October 2010 09:25, javadayaz wrote: > i get a screen which flashes with weird graphics. Like from an 80's video > game. > > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 05/10/10 08:59, javadayaz w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod wrote: > > On 4 October 2010 21:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > >> can't find that in synaptic. AmorK can only import individual files, >> banshee duplicated everything and crashes every ten seconds and rhythmb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread George MacLeod
On 4 October 2010 21:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > can't find that in synaptic. AmorK can only import individual files, > banshee duplicated everything and crashes every ten seconds and rhythmbox > lacks the MP3 player features as well as crashing every few seconds > > > Strange that you've had pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
i get a screen which flashes with weird graphics. Like from an 80's video game. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Rob Beard wrote: > On 05/10/10 08:59, javadayaz wrote: > > all, > > > > this is the screen i get everytime i startup... > > > > GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta4 > > > > Linux Mint 8 Helena,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Rob Beard
On 05/10/10 08:59, javadayaz wrote: > all, > > this is the screen i get everytime i startup... > > GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta4 > > Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic (/dev/sdc1) > > Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic (recovery mode) > > Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-20-gener

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread javadayaz
all, this is the screen i get everytime i startup... GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta4 Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic (/dev/sdc1) Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic (recovery mode) Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (/dev/sdc1) Linux Mint 8 Helena, Linux 2.6.31-2