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Re: TV Tuner Sound On All the Time
by bryantyson＠earthlink.net 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:06:27 -0500 Message-Id: <00111919203802.00721@desk> Subject: Re: TV Tuner Sound On All the Time On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ben wrote: > possibly signal overload on the line-in jack? If there is signal overload, why does the problem not happen in Win98? > is the tv-out amped? To the best of my knowledge the TV-out is not amped. > is the tv on or off when you boot? When booting, the TV is off (as far as Windows is concerned). What I am especially curious about is what is different between Linux and Win98 that makes Win98 start up with the tuner sound off (as expected when not using the tuner) but Linux starts up with the tuner sound on. I wonder if it is something about the tuner card itself (ATI TV Wonder), since I have used the ATI All in Wonder and the Haupage Win TV in dual boot boxes without this problem happening. > possibly signal overload on the line-in jack? is the tv-out amped? is the > tv on or off when you boot? > > ^ben^ > >Some might recall a problem I had a while back with Linux > >and a Creative AWE64: as soon as Linux began to boot, the TV tuner sound > >would blast at absolute maximum volume. > > > >Several stated the problem was ISA PnP, so I replaced the card with > >a > >Creative PCI 128. Now at least it does not blast, but the TV sound > >still comes on (now after booting instead of right at the start of > >booting) and stays on all the time. The Tuner is an ATI TV Wonder, which > >as far as I know does not even work with Linux. (The system is > >dual-boot, and I use the tuner in Win98.) > > > >The TV sound comes from the line-in of the sound card. What is causing > >this? I've had TV tuners in several other Linux machines and never had > >this happen. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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linux/format
by landie＠concentric.net 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:22:50 -0500 From: Landy Roman <landie(a)concentric.net> Message-ID: <20001119162250.A1040(a)concentric.net> Subject: linux/format some time ago someone asked and i gave them a link for a tutorial on firewalls on linux format did someone copy the article i am in need of it and they no longer have at their site -- Rolando Roman SuSe 7.0 Linux virtuoso 2.2.16 #1 Wed Aug 2 20:22:26 GMT 2000 i586 unknown

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Matrox and X
by jpg＠cvs.agilent.com 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Message-Id: <200011192205.OAA06714(a)cvuxgc.cvs.agilent.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:05:05 -0800 From: John Griffin <jpg(a)cvs.agilent.com> Subject: Matrox and X Hello, I am attempting to get a functional XF86Config file created for a Matrox MGA-IMP+/P4 video card. I tried /usr/X11R6/bin/sax, however it fails miserably; brings up a tiny 120x80 pixel window of an apprx 1024x768 screen. So needless to say I cannot navigate through any of the menus or screens. I then tried xf86config, ran through all the menus up to the 'Do you want to look at the card database'. I looked through it but no Matrox MGA-IMP+/P4 was defined in it. I then exited xf86config and reran it again up to the question 'Do you want to look at the card database'. I answered NO this time and continued on through the questions up the the 'What Clockchip setting do you want?'. Hmmmm, I am NOT a video card designer, so I had no clue as to what a Clockchip is, what it does, or which one was on the Matrox card. I checked the documentation from Matrox, and nowhere in their documentation is 'Clockchip' ever mentioned. So I chose the 'Just press enter if you don't want a Clockchip setting' option. Next came the information about a 'Clocks line' and how this was not desired, and not required for modern configurations. It also states that 'clock probing is inherently imprecise' and will 'vary per run'. Then I was asked if I wanted to run this undesired, unrequired, imprecise and non-repeatable command. Hmmm, let me think; 'NO' comes to mind for some reason. I then answered the last questions and set the modes for all the bits per pixel settings to 1024x768. Since I rarely switch between resolutions and I don't need anything fancy for this machine. The '/etc/XF86Config was then created. I then fired up x11start as a normal user and I got a 320x200 display with no virtual windowing. Hmmm, I don't remember anywhere that I stated I wanted a 320x200 display. So I captured all the output from startx and found the following lines, of some help. (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox Unknown chipset (0x0d10) rev 0, Memory @ 0xa0000000 (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (**) SVGA: videoram: 2048k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200 (**) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) SVGA: Generic SpeedUps selected (Flags=0x30) So, lines beginning with '(--)' are probed from the card, and lines beginning with '(**)' are taken from the '/etc/XF86Config file. So SVGA is apparently telling me that it doesn't have a clue as to my card type, and since I am not a video card design engineer I have no clue what I need to be correcting to get XF86Config to properly identify my Matrox card. I then ran XF86Setup and started going through its menus, which by the way actually come up quite nice at a very reasonable resolution; unlike sax. I filled in all of the information it required for all the tabs (Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor, Modeselection) except Card. The Matrox MGA-IMP+/P4 was not listed, so I selected the 'Detailed Setup' option. However the hardware questions it wants answered for the video card, i.e. Chipset, RAMDAC, ClockChip were not anything I knew (Sorry to say I don't have a doctorate in the black art of video card nomenclatures), and only the RAMDAC was listed in Matrox documentation, so I exited out of this tool as well. Is there anyone out there that has one of these old Matrox cards up and operational? Or is there a video chip design engineer that can direct me in how to let xfree 3.3.6 accurately talk to a Matrox MGA-IMP+/P4 PCI Video Adapter Card? Best Regards, jpg

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Re: [SLE] KDE 2 & keyboard layout
by eagleice＠post.netlink.se 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

From: EagleIce <eagleice(a)post.netlink.se> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:48:33 +0100 Message-Id: <00111919492801.01914@Kattholt> Subject: Re: [SLE] KDE 2 & keyboard layout Thank's for your reply Togan, but I know that it is KCC -> Personalization -> and then keyboard- or language layout to configur it. The problem is: icelandic keyboard layout isn't there! Like many other languages that used to be there in KDE 1 it is just plain missing and I need to know how on earth I can configure this, which file I could edit by hand for example if that's the only choice. I've been asking this on some other mailing lists without any answers, guess I have to try the KDE list (it's just such a damn boring list to my taste). ei On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, you wrote: > EagleIce wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I've installed KDE 2 and I like it very much except for one small major > > problem; I can't find the keyboard layout for icelandic in KCC! It is in fact > > rather weird because it was there in KDE 1 and it was very easy to configure > > and change between two different keyboard layouts (in my case swedish & > > icelandic), so now I have to log into GNOME or KDE 1 if I need to write > > something in icelandic....:-( > > If someone can help me out on this one I would be very grateful. > > > IIRC Go to Personalities and then choose keyboard this should give you > to use two keyboard layouts under KDE2 > > Togan Muftuoglu > toganm(a)turk.net > -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@

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Old style page numbers in LaTeX
by corvinr＠sympatico.ca 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:29:45 -0500 From: Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca> Message-ID: <20001111232945.A2495(a)raven.unknowing.org> Subject: Old style page numbers in LaTeX I've yet to get ahold of TeX Unbound... but in the meantime, how do you change page numbers so that they are text figures and not titling figures? Best, Corvin <p> -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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Re: [SLE] KDE 2 & keyboard layout
by toganm＠turk.net 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A1823DF.B5DFBB2B(a)turk.net> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:02:55 +0200 From: Togan Muftuoglu <toganm(a)turk.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] KDE 2 & keyboard layout EagleIce wrote: > > Thank's for your reply Togan, but I know that it is KCC -> Personalization -> > and then keyboard- or language layout to configur it. The problem is: icelandic > keyboard layout isn't there! Like many other languages that used to be there in > KDE 1 it is just plain missing and I need to know how on earth I can configure > this, which file I could edit by hand for example if that's the only choice. > I've been asking this on some other mailing lists without any answers, guess I > have to try the KDE list (it's just such a damn boring list to my taste). > > ei Oh in this case welcome to the club. Since turkish is not in the list I have the same problem. The reason behind is KDE 2.0 is using XKB from the XFree86 and if the XFree86 does not have a keyboard layout for a language than that language is not listed as one of the options under the Keyboard layout in KDE 2.0 The solution I have found is to use xmodmap.tr created by Xkeycaps (series xap) The second alternative I found is using the following in the XF86Config file this does not give me the swith option yet it has the necessary characters for me to type in Turkish. Section "InputDevice" Driver "keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbKeyCodes" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc_universal_euro" <p>The third alternative is using xkbsel program (sorry I do not remember where I found it but try to searh in www.google.com ) Again this option depends on the fact that there is a layout defined in XFree86 hope it helps and if you find an alternative please drop aline > -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm(a)turk.net 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free

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blank recording
by ethh＠satanII.enemy.org 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:55:44 +0100 (CET) From: ethhoack ethandphi exbeess <ethh(a)satanII.enemy.org> Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0011191854580.25592-100000(a)satanII.enemy.org> Subject: blank recording my hifi plays its output right into the computer' speakers, yet when i try to record it into a wav, with any program, it records blank; mixer settings are up. what should i do to fix this ? <p>ethh http://doom.enemy.org

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KDE 2 & keyboard layout
by eagleice＠post.netlink.se 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

From: EagleIce <eagleice(a)post.netlink.se> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:16:03 +0100 Message-Id: <00111918223000.01246@Kattholt> Subject: KDE 2 & keyboard layout Hi! I've installed KDE 2 and I like it very much except for one small major problem; I can't find the keyboard layout for icelandic in KCC! It is in fact rather weird because it was there in KDE 1 and it was very easy to configure and change between two different keyboard layouts (in my case swedish & icelandic), so now I have to log into GNOME or KDE 1 if I need to write something in icelandic....:-( If someone can help me out on this one I would be very grateful. Thank's, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@

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Remote date setting
by jmiller＠itc.nrcs.usda.gov 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A1473DF.F7BB6B01(a)itc.nrcs.usda.gov> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:55:11 -0700 From: John Miller <jmiller(a)itc.nrcs.usda.gov> Subject: Remote date setting I was wondering if there was an equivalent program to rdate on SuSE linux. Rdate sets the date of your machine to that of a remote machine. I have seen it on other Linux distributions but not on SuSE. John

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MP3 program
by phthor＠isat.com 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Message-ID: <3A17FACC.71011157(a)isat.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:07:40 -0800 From: nevada <phthor(a)isat.com> Subject: MP3 program Does anyone know of a program for linux that will burn mp3 songs to a cd that can be played on a regular cd player? tks, nevada -- Take Control of your Life Cut up your Credit Cards in Little Bitty Pieces

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