Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

2005-05-21 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Samedi 21 Mai 2005 17:02, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > for all .ogg files in this directory and all subdirectories > cddb = ogginfo | grep "cddb" | some fancy sed stuff > abcde -C $cddb > done Erm, of course, that won't work, because ABCDE only needs

Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

2005-05-21 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Vendredi 20 Mai 2005 08:44, Mark Janssen wrote: > You can specify which steps you want to perform (cddb, rip, encode,tag, > rename, delete temp files) So you could do the ŕip/encode step when > offline, and later do thecddb and rename steps later Yep, I'll be using ABCDE for the rip & encode, a

Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

2005-05-19 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Jeudi 19 Mai 2005 20:40, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > I think Easytag has these features. I had a look at Easytag and couldn't work out how to use it! Of course, there's no documentation anywhere :-( This would seem like a really easy thing to do, which I would have though lots of people would w

How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

2005-05-19 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
For various reasons, I need to be able to rip a CD whilst not connected to the Internet, then tag the files with the correct metadata (from FreeDB) at a later stage. Is there any linux software that can tag FLACs and Oggs from their disc-id? Ie., for any given Ogg or FLAC file: 1. Read the cddb d

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: > Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm pretty > sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels  (those with enterprise  in their > names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes. Huh, I thought I was on the debian-user lis

Re: Compatibility of external drive enclosures

2004-07-25 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 07:43, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > I'm looking to buy a USB 2.0 5.25" external drive enclosure.  Which > > ones are linux compatible? > > > > I've been unable to find any useful information despite my Googling > > efforts, so any pointers would be most appreciated.  :-) > >

Re: wrong dial up password

2004-07-24 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 02:18, Dougpol1 wrote: > Hello somebody, > I'm using Debian3.0r2 and I've installed the wrong ISP password > and wvdial can't connect. How do I change that password and in what file. Try doing "dpkg -L wvdial | grep conf". The first bit lists the files owned by that

Compatibility of external drive enclosures

2004-07-24 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I'm looking to buy a USB 2.0 5.25" external drive enclosure. Which ones are linux compatible? I've been unable to find any useful information despite my Googling efforts, so any pointers would be most appreciated. :-) Cheers, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Since upgrading my system on 10th July, webmin hasn't worked. When I try running "/etc/init.d/webmin start", it says "Starting webmin: webmin" and returns control to the command line - but no processes persist and no ports stay open. What's more, I don't even get any log output in /var/log/web

Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Since upgrading my system on 10th July, webmin hasn't worked. When I try running "/etc/init.d/webmin start", it says "Starting webmin: webmin" and returns control to the command line - but no processes persist and no ports stay open. What's more, I don't even get any log output in /var/log/webmin

Re: dd to make full copy of dvd?

2004-07-11 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Saturday 10 July 2004 23:13, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > would dd make a full-complete copy of a dvd? checking with dvd::rip, > the obetained directory is almost twice as large. That would not fit > in a 4.7 g regular dvd, which is the size of the original. Hmm. > ? Don't forget that most DVD fi

Re: IMAP: migration tools

2004-05-17 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, are there good tools which enable to migrate from a former IMAP to a new one ? There are tools, I can't vouch for whether they're good or not! I came across one earlier this evening; I can't remember what it was called, but I was searching for "IMAP" on http://s

Re: can dvdrip copy DVD

2004-05-17 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Travis Crump wrote: Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: So I guess what I am looking for is a simple dvdrip howto for copying DVD. A DVD-R is single layer while a DVD is double layer[ie has twice the capacity] so a complete copy is obviously impossible. But I see no reason why it would be impossible to co

Re: fax in linux

2004-05-17 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i would like to know how can i send a fax from linux. kde is version 3.2. i am bahind an ADSL connection. could somebody tell me a quick and easy way to do that? as i am quite new. You can't send faxes using an ADSL modem, you need a "normal" PSTN modem. You coul

Re: Debian install on ibook, blank screen

2004-05-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Ben Cade wrote: 2. I can also allow the system to boot into the yaboot prompt, in which case I can only boot to Linux and again I get a blank (black) screen. What is my next step??? Do you get a blank screen straight away, or do you get some text bootup messages and then the screen goes blan

Re: Integrated video and audio-OK for Linux?

2004-05-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
alex wrote: Is it a given that if a computer's motherboard has integrated audio and video that it is unsuited for Linux unless audio and video cards are installed? No. It depends what chipsets are on the motherboard. Would running a KNOPPIX CD be a reliable test? Yes. Although if it doesn't wor

Re: problem with TV recording

2004-05-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
j smith wrote: i have bt878-based TV card, i can use xawtv to watch TV, but when i use streamer to record TV, it complains "no audio". needless to say, the output has no audio. can you help me? Can you record sound successfully in other applications? If you can, then I'd suggest contacting the "

Re: Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?

2004-05-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Silvan wrote: I'm thinking a (Cygwin) bash script on the Windows box to rsync (or something) his files. It needs to be able to grab everything. I haven't thought it all the way through, and I'm looking for clever ideas. Dircha's solution is probably going to be a lot easier for 10Mb of files

Re: what is available for reading mail stored in mysql

2004-05-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Kevin Mark wrote: The thing I'm missing is a client to access (read. move, delete) my email DB. Does anyone know of a mail client that can access mail stored in a database like mysql? No, but you I think you could use Postfix with MySQL, then use any IMAP-compatible email client to interact with

How to set up wi-fi device?

2004-05-12 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I seem to have successfully installed my BT Voyager 1010 USB Wifi adapter. The driver loads upon plugging it in, the "activity" light switches on, and all is rosy. But I'm slightly at a loss as to how to proceed. The README that comes with the driver slightly tersely suggests typing somethin

Re: DVD-rip

2004-05-12 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Nicholas Lativy wrote: Oh and sorry for mailing you directly, I hit "r" instead of "L" by mistake first time. I keep bloody doing that! >:-( Why can't the debian-user "Reply To:" address be set to the list address, like every other list I'm subscribed to? Cheers, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-10 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Ron wrote: Jonathan Melhuish wrote: There must surely be a table that translates these numeric codes into the right driver to load - anyone got any idea where it is? Yeah, I got an idea where it is. It is in the driver. Look at at76c503-rfmd.c of your berlios source directory. Your

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-10 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Kevin Murphy wrote: Yargh, this is too hardcore for me; I didn't manage to get this working in a couple hours today. I'm going to try this all over again more carefully and then take it to the atmel driver list. Yup, I think I'll follow you there. Ron's suggestion looks promising so if I can g

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-10 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Ron wrote: Jonathan Melhuish wrote: Jonathan Melhuish wrote: There must surely be a table that translates these numeric codes into the right driver to load - anyone got any idea where it is? Yeah, I got an idea where it is. It is in the driver. Look at at76c503-rfmd.c of your

BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Has anybody succeeded in getting either of the above devices (apparently they use the same chipset) to work under Debian? I've just spent an hour or so trying to get the Amtel driver to compile, but have got no-where :-( My (brief) notes are here, if anybody can spot my mistake: http://www.ora

"Debian architecture" for P-III?

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Googling turns up lots of arguments about whether or not it's worth creating seperate optimized binaries for 686-class machines, and I have to admit I'm not particularly fussed that they don't exist. However, I'm being forced to compile my own kernel so I thought I might as well compile it in a

Re: Compatible DVD Burner with Linux

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
David Cunningham wrote: Hi people. I'm looking at the NEC ND-2500A as a solution for writing DVDs under Linux. Does anyone have experience with using this drive for writing DVDs under Linux? If not can you recommend a good DVD burner that will "play nice" with Linux userland tools? Thanks in ad

Re: How to downgrade kernel?

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Kent West wrote: Anyway, at the expense of being locked to a specific kernel version, I'd really like to get it working. So I use apt-get to download the appropriate kernel, headers and pcmcia-modules. But how do I "activate" it? Presumably I need an initrd image in my boot partition? Non

Re: Bandwidth sharing

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Based on some man, tutoriels and docs I wrote a script that allows a connection of more than one ISP using only one NIC, via a switch (tested with 2 modems but should work with 3 or 4 ...). I don't know if such a solution already exists but all docs I've found require

Re: DVD-RW

2004-05-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to setup a DVDrw in debian with kernel 2.6.5? another device (/dev/hdd) is a cdrw and k3b recognises it. unfortunately the dvdrw is not. could somebody help me please? The setup procedure for a DVD-RW is practically the same as for a CD-RW. A good first step in dia

Re: No sound when playing games

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
tiresias wrote: --- sound initialization --- /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp What may be the cause of the silent games? It may possibly be that another program already has the soundcard open. Can you play sound in other applica

KDE upgrade troubles

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I'm running Debian unstable both on my laptop at home and my desktop at work. My desktop upgraded itself to KDE 3.2 a few weeks back. My laptop is still using KDE 3.1 - the only difference I have noticed is that all of my K-menu items have dissappeared! :-( What gives? TIA, Jon -- To UNSUB

DVD-R burning problems - solved! :-)

2004-03-28 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
As so often happens, I'm composing a message to the list and think of one last thing I could try which then fixes it. I thought I'd post anyway, just in case someone is Googling for a solution to the same problem! Basically on trying to burn a DVD in my Pioneer 105 on my linux box, I got the e

How to "downgrade" to testing?

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Although Debian "unstable" has actually proved pretty stable for me, I am aware that it is the development version and hence I cannot moan in the slightest if somebody breaks something. Upon further inspection, the "testing" distribution would seem a much better choice (this is a client machin

Re: Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon a

Re: Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon as my rsync client attemp

Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon as my rsync client attempts to send the first file. Anybody got

Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Say I've got the following files: * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups, databases, etc. * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read quickly, eg. video Can I use software RAID-1 (mirroring) on a partition containing the first type of file

Re: USB surround sound - what's my chances?

2004-02-07 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: There's a logic3 5.1 surround sound USB sound card going on eBay, which looks like exactly what I was after: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785283904&category=3701&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1 But the question is,

USB surround sound - what's my chances?

2004-02-06 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
There's a logic3 5.1 surround sound USB sound card going on eBay, which looks like exactly what I was after: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785283904&category=3701&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1 But the question is, what's my chances of getting it working under Debian?

Kernel upgrade breaks PCMCIA

2004-02-05 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I have a fully-working Debian install on my laptop 8-) but every time I (or rather, the beautiful apt-get) upgrades the kernel, pcmcia card services break. Thus breaking the PC card network interface, thus breaking my connection to the Internet. Thus generally pissing me off :-( I have booted

hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying to get all my hardware working again :-( Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4 drives (two hard drives, CD-RW, CD-ROM), it seems only the primary hard disk is usable. During boot, I noticed it say "mod-pro

Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
WTF is going on? Why is this guy bombarding the list with junk? It's not even proper spam! Can somebody block him or something? Cheers, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"hdb: driver not present"

2003-12-15 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying to get all my hardware working again :-( Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4 drives (two hard drives, CD-RW, CD-ROM), it seems only the primary hard disk is usable. During boot, I noticed it say "mod

HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which point, it worked! I suppo