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How to waste a Friday night.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

Syd Hancock wrote: >Also willing to burn copies of Woody for the cost of CDs and >postage if anyone is interested. I have all 7 CDs if you want the >lot. Syd - may I take you upon this offer? I'll mail you off-list but thought I'd share my story of how to waste a large amount of time first: On Friday night I tried to get my winmodem going. In order to do this I had to install a bit of software from the linmodem site. In order to do that I had to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.ancientthing to 2.4.x. In order to do *that* I had to update and upgrade all my packages and dist from potato.ancient.stuff (I only have one phone line with a dialup modem connection so don't tend to do this very often)(and as the modem has been out of order for several weeks even less so). I couldn't point sourceslist to the internet obviously, so I used the main woody install disk someone had burnt for me. Guess what, the cdrom wasn't functioning. So I set up a samba share to the windows cdrom and tried that, which didn't work as samba asking for a password coincided each time with apt-get asking to insert cdrom and press enter, so it kept going in a loop. So I copied the entire 650m cdrom contents to the linux box and pointed apt at that, whooping with joy when I got the source-list right, but it kept erroring out halfway through. So on Saturday I put in a cdrom drive that worked, pointed sources list back to the cdrom, and then found out the burnt cdrom was faulty and the second half wouldn't read. Of course, I could have saved hours of time and had an internet connection simply by putting the winmodem in the windows machine, but that would have been *far* too easy. Anyhow, thanks to all for the USB and kernel answers, I'm now about to upgrade the laptop as that seems the best option. Thanks. Jenny.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Fwd: Re: [Alug] CD Sound?
by Wayne Stallwood 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Also what sound card have you got ? I have a soundblaster Live 256 and I had this problem because I had connected the CD Audio via the Digital output of the Drive rather than the more conventional Analogue outputs. By default on the Soundblaster drivers, Digital inputs are muted hence no CD sound. Have you checked the volume setting of the CD inputs on your soundcard (use Kmix or someting similar) CD sound does not require any interaction of the software drivers or computer apart from setting the volume as they are simply a passthrough to the soundcard output. On Friday 04 October 2002 22:20, MJ Ray wrote: > BenEBoy <mail(a)psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > 8.0. My machine beeps at me, makes whooshing noises when KDE starts up > > and XMMS works fine. Unfortunately, I can't get any sound to word when > > playing CDs. gtcd will recognise a CD and bring up the artist/title info > > but pressing play doesn't do anything. KsCD works a bit better. [...] > > Things to check: > - do you know that the CD is connected to the sound system by a cable > internally (ie, has it ever worked?) > - has the KDE sound system got your soundcard exclusively? If so, you > need to either stop it, or make the CD player use it. I know how to do > that for esd (with esddsp) but I don't know arts... anyone? -------------------------------------------------------

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USB + kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Oct '02

04 Oct '02

Would anyone recommend a kernel other than 2.2.20 for USB support? I'm having problems, even after following many steps in many threads and howto pages. I did read kernels 2.2.x have only flaky USB support, maybe that is the problem. Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] USB + kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Oct '02

04 Oct '02

Adam Bower wrote: >What kind of problems? 2.2 may not be as good as 2.4 but it should all >work ok, although maybe a jump in kernel version will fix things as I >was having problems recently with 2.4.18 until 2.4.19 came out. Well, I did a lsmod and the uSB wasn't there, so i did a modprobe usb-storage then there was stuff in lsmod, then i did insmod usb-uhci, and it said it was using uhci.o, then i did an ifup usb0 (after putting the right stuff in interfaces) and it said, don't be daft. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] USB + kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Oct '02

04 Oct '02

Douglas Willis wrote: >Ive been using a range of 2.4.x kernels on my IBM Thinkpad since >Feburary 2001 with little problem. The biggest problem was the >occasional Win device showing up that Linux did not have a driver for. >Winmodems arrggghhhhh..... Well, funnily enough, that is the problem I'm about to go home to. USB at work, winmodem at home, nothing is ever all working just how I'd like it. I've got 2.4.19 on my box here at work and there is no problem with the USB connection on that. Since 2.2.20 on the laptop appeared to have USB support, it would have been easier to get that going though. Thanks. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] Meeting at London Linux Expo?
by tom potts 04 Oct '02

04 Oct '02

I know it sounds daft but as we're generally talking about freeware do you think someone could organise a weekend expo somewhere? My company wont give me time off for a Linux expo and holidays are hard to come by. I'd certainly think about paying at the door if that would help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] Meeting at Syleham?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 04 Oct '02

04 Oct '02

John Woodard wrote: >The hall is booked on that date but the following week 3rd November is free >so I've penciled it in for then if that's ok. Gorgeous! Jen.

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Re: [Alug] Meeting at Syleham?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Oct '02

03 Oct '02

John Woodard wrote: >As we haven't had a meeting for a while shall I go and book one at Syleham >for the third Sunday in October? I'll be up in the Lakes visiting my folks that weekend so won't make it. (were you to choose the *fourth* Sunday however... :-))) Jen.

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Sound editing
by John Woodard 03 Oct '02

03 Oct '02

I'm doing a pop music quiz for our local social club and I need to get some 10 - 15 second clips from various mp3 files and save tham as stand alone wave or mp3s. What is a good simple tool to use under either kde or gnome? Cheers, BJ

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