On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:24, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 14.03.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 06:10: > > > Ok Ok! > > I am irritable right now I still cant get this up2date story working, I > > struggle with command line stuff, I am by no means a programmer. I would > > like to get my linux system to do simple things, at least simple to me. > > > > Here is my list of snags, lets see if we can sort them out one by one. > > > > 1. Up2date hangs when reading headers > > This has an own thread "Kernel Upgrade Help needed!" > > Did you try setting the proxy for up2date inside the source file with > "httpProxy=proxyhost.domain.tld:3128 _and_ exporting > "http_proxy=proxyhost.domain.tld:3128", as well with "export > HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy" (exporting proxy_user and proxy_passwd as well)? > Yes still no luck! > > 2. My kernel needs upgrading to install a USB printer. > > Why does an USB printer need a different kernel? Can you be specific: > which model, which driver required, for what reason kernel exchange? > The driver provided by lexmark is for kernel 2.6.xx > > 3. I have a USB modem that is provided with a Linux driver but I also > > need to upgrade my kernel for that > > Which USB modem? Are you sure there are no FC1 compiled drivers already > available i.e. throug Dag Wieer's repository? Even if not, you in > certainly most cases you do not need to rebuild the whole kernel but > only need to have the fitting kernel source installed to build the > device driver module. > So how does this work what can I read? > > 4. I would like to install a DJ Mixer for XMMS or a media library so > > that I can search for a song in my digital audio list and queue it in > > the main playlist of XMMS > > http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ has quite a lot of > audio applications compiled for FC1. Nothing there for you? > > > 5. I need to install some rave special effect software that requires QT > > 1.4. I am busy compiling [its been going since 3am] > > That application need qt version 1.4? Wow, what an old peace of software > must that be. Certainly from last century (1998 or so). Thats the point the software is great now I have to downgrade to compile and upgrade back to Qt-3.2.3 when finished. > > > 5. I need to be able to rip mp3s @ 196kbit sample rate in ten minutes. I > > normally rip peoples CDs at gigs straight to the hard drive while they > > wait. this prevents CDs disappearing and getting damaged, and even > > mixed. Parties get quite wild after everyones had a few you know. > > And what is the problem with that? It takes over an hour per cd on a P4 2.4 HT and 512mb DDR/400 Ram with a 56X cdrom. I need speed to satisfy customers who have bought these PCs from me. > > > 6. The problem I have is that most of the stuff I am looking for isn't > > available in rpm format. and isn't in the repositories. > > If you know how to use the compiler it should be no problem at all. > > > So how do we continue? > > Giving details? > > > Chad > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > Sirendipity 17:00:14 up 5 days, 17:19, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.03 > [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] > my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars > >
