Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:58:50 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab Angus Auld wrote: Thanks guys, I was having a LOT of trouble getting things to go

[newbie] Transcode

2004-01-15 Thread John Richard Smith
/dev/scd0 ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
it. So first off you have got to sort out bios recognition of your rom and hard drives. my cd rom is not detected in the bios must be addressed first. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:17:46AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie wrote: Sorry been busy and haven't followed this thread, but on the little gimp window, left mouse, double click the T then enable use dynamic text Open a pic and click the T and all

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a previewis displayed of every font. The quantity is impressive

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:24:33PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: With the method I described, once you anchor the layer you can reposition it wherever you like using the move tool (the 4 directional arrows). Just make sure you have the right layer

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:51, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Well, several questions actually... I received a cd I ordered containing 6800 true type

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:26:36PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
a truely flexible environment to create text and add it in any position and style imageinable.I have a feeling there are more ways than one in gimp. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
. That will leave your text a floating selection, which you can anchor using the anchor button on the L, C P dialog. Todd John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot276.jpginline: snapshot277.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:51, John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John John, I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a previewis displayed

Re: [newbie] fstab and lilo

2004-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,rw,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Epson Stylus C84 photo edition

2004-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
, and needs fixing.I'm sure I am not the only one to observe this. Otherwise if you are willing to use only high quality and above the results are quite satisfactory. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: Epson02.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 photo edition

2004-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 14:49, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of record,I managed to borrow an, Epson Stylus C84 photo edition Printer to test out in Mandrake. Using the C82 driver Foomatic+Gimp-Print(recommended) I am able to report that it does print off

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:51, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Well, several questions actually... I received a cd I ordered containing 6800 true type fonts. Installing them with Mandrake Control Centre goes smoothly. But: 1. Are there any

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 10:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Your run: MPEG Stream reached EOF0%) 19fps Trem: 0min 529mb A-V:-0.046 [817:96] A/Vms 4/40 D/B/S 28985/1/0 ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Forced video codec: ffmpeg12 Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec... VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 6:41 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:59:19 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? I dunno, but I think this thread is heading for a record...holy shite

Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?

2004-01-08 Thread John Richard Smith
message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Margot I haven't noticed any of your messages recently but this one got to me via the list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: Looks good. But I'm afraid I don't have time to look at it tonight. Sure, We all have to fit this inbetween everything else in our lives. Please let me know what you think when your've had time to think about it. thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] installing a CDRW

2004-01-07 Thread John Richard Smith
your've got the writer set up correctly as a device the system can use. John John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-06 Thread John Richard Smith
0x08065bbf in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at mencoder.c:1081 #8 0x402257f7 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (gdb) thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where's KPPP?

2004-01-06 Thread John Richard Smith
then on. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] AA fonts in GTK 1.2 apps

2004-01-06 Thread John Richard Smith
, and there is a rather fearful warning on the site: A botched install of gdkxft has the potential to make your X configuration unworkable. Anyway, here it is: http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net/ I just wonder whether this would cure my kword character spacing problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 5:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: First off this is the instruction as per source code debug readme:- B.4.6.1 How to conserve information about a reproducible crash Recompile MPlayer with debugging code enabled: ./configure --enable-debug=3 make

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 05 Jan 2004 10:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: High quality encoding selected (non real time)! get_buffer() failed (0 -115967 0 0x40d5df30) Oh look at that. Can you run it again, but before starting the application (run -v ...) set a breakpoint on the line

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 12:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Now I have some reason to suppose that it is an issue to do with how mencoder rips AC3 sound, which is dolby's surround sound. Sometimes it makes a dogs breakfast of encoding and creating the all important index

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:07 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: You have tried the -idx flag to mencoder? Oh gosh yes, always include it without fail, Not quite: On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Core

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details.This GDB was configured as i586-mandrake-linux-gnu... (gdb) I'm now a bit lost what do I do next ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 5:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: First off this is the instruction as per source code debug readme:- B.4.6.1 How to conserve information about a reproducible crash Recompile MPlayer with debugging code enabled: ./configure --enable-debug=3 make

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 9:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: $ gdb ./mencoder (gdb) run -v [options to mencoder] and reproduce the crash. Then give the following commands: backtrace disass $pc-32 $pc+32 info all-registers info threads (gdb) gdb ./mencoder Undefined

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
in the directory of the core file. If I understand this correctly I can run gdb with the programme in question , which might yield up better information, so if I figure out how to do this maybe that is the better route. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 13:11, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks Richard and Dick, That is neat. One question though, in my example man mencoder then /AC3 it highlighted an instance, but suppose there were more than one instance, how does it behave, I mean I suppose

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul wrote: I think I found what you want: man mencoder | col -b | grep AC output I found this trick at the bottom of 'man man'. HTH, Paul yep that works too. Not sure what the | col -b is supposed to do for you ? I think it works without it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
to a text file and opened that in an editor, but I think yours ought to open the file as well , which just putting kwrite at the end doesn't do in my setup. I suppose you could use a terminal and use the cat command to dispay the content ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul wrote: On 01/03/2004 03:58 PM, John Richard Smith wrote: I think I found what you want: man mencoder | col -b | grep AC output I found this trick at the bottom of 'man man'. HTH, Paul yep that works too. Not sure what the | col -b is supposed to do for you ? I think it works without

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
no use just sending them the core dump, for istance, together with the my mencoder output ? I know for a fact I'm not the only person with this problem, but most people feel intimidated by the developers. Richard , how would you go about it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:48:36 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] How to search text: One question though, in my example man mencoder then /AC3 it highlighted an instance, but suppose there were more than one instance, how does it behave, I

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: #0 0x081b5fb8 in ff_combine_frame () (gdb) --- later = I should of read your email more carefully #0 0x081b5fb8 in ff_combine_frame () (gdb

[newbie] How to search text

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
it doesn't, so there must be some other easy way on the the job perhaps on the CL at least. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How do you search a manual for specific references without having to eyeball the entire document. I'd like to scan man mencoder for references to AC3 surely there must be some simple way of doing this man mencoder | grep AC3 See man grep for options (e.g

[newbie] Core dump

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Dick Gevers wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:22:25 +0200, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] How to search text: John Richard Smith wrote: How do you search a manual for specific references without having to eyeball the entire document. I'd like to scan man mencoder for references

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 11:59 am, John Richard Smith wrote: - When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? - Have you tried: gdb -core=3Dcore file name Lets see now, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx [EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# ls

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Dick Gevers wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:22:25 +0200, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] How to search text: John Richard Smith wrote: How do you search a manual for specific references without having to eyeball the entire document. I'd

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 02 Jan 2004 5:30 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 11:59 am, John Richard Smith wrote: - When you get a core dump, what can you then do to read it ? - Have you tried: gdb -core=3Dcore file name I don't see why the 3D. Try gdb -core=core

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
just passed this along to John after searching the archives. I've never had reason to run this (so far). :-) Trouble is, I cannot seem to get the 3D bit to work at all. gdb -core=core.7674 doesn't give you much, so if 3D is to work how does it go in the line ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] How to search text

2004-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
not exactly what you're looking for though... well, man mencoder | grep AC3 /root/Desktop/man.txt creates a nice little txt file of the findings but sticking kwrite on the end merely raises an empty kwrite. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Mplayer/Mencoder issues

2003-12-29 Thread John Richard Smith
I find mencoder isn't handling AC3 surround sound well. Does anyone have any experience with this problem. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

2003-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
the originals form CD Anyone got any idea which packages supply GS fonts ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

2003-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Ghostscript 7.05, whereas M8.1 uses Ghostscript 6.51 , unless there is something else that effects ghostscript performance, like additional libraries that I don't know about. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Seasons greatings

2003-12-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Best Wishes for Christmas and a happy New Year, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: out102.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] printer recognized, not working

2003-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
by running lpq in a terminal , then , even if you are getting a print file job, but it still doesn't want to print, then I would first suspect the connection as outlined above. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] X font server

2003-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone know anything about how the X font server works ?? take a look at, /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
script halt, what makes you feel that you need the above packages anyway. Lastly , try to stay calm, we all feel frustrated , I am currently frustrated over an issue of font mapping in kde=ghostscript and feeling decidedly out of my depth, so your not alone by any means. John -- John Richard

Re: [newbie] compare 2 cd's

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
CD === cd /mnt/cdrom dd if=/dev/scd0 | md5sum - 1219072+0 records in 1219072+0 records out 4293645f7890624d124e6451dd04d1f6 - perform the test on the second disc , they should agree. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] WIN XP and all that

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
and the best resolution available, on a WIN XP only driver (no OEM XP driver) is, 1024x678 @ 60Htz I'm sure XFdrake would allow at least 1280x1024 @ 70Htz(the limitation of the monitor) John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
modification there, but the tar ball has to be out of X windows at a root consul, and you will need to do the edit form there, something like MC, or if you can fathom it vi. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anguo wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Pound to a penny you forgot to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv --- change

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
appreciated. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 16:31, John Richard Smith wrote: Here is the relevant section in mine: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS EndSection you mean I should

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: Anguo wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Pound to a penny you forgot to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 17:38, John Richard Smith wrote: I didn't know that HarM, So how do you get the hardware acceleration going then, because if just nvidia nothing works ? John There's only one prerequisite: The binary nvidia-drivers for the kernel

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:19:27 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm astounded that you can get any nividia driver to work with nvidia instead of nv Strange, I must be lucky, I've never had one bit of trouble with the Nvidia drivers, other than never being

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
script and replaced it with the usual B/W text But not the blue gui boot-up script , odd ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. done [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# scanimage -L device `epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Epson GT-9300 flatbed scanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# And report what the two command find. John -- John Richard

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
it with the gui. Mike John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John John, are you talking about this entry

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
choice and change the append: splash=quiet John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
-0.13mdk label=91-2.4.21.0 root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 read-only John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
make or model you have, but it would help if you went and assertained what sane believes your scanners is suported or not. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 03:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk May I come back to this see prior email

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk Can I first understand what we are doing

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen (I saw

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
on the net. Seems like, that at some historic point a change was made but no effective description of how it all works has ever been written down. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John I uninstalled bootsplash urpme bootsplash

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John I've read the rest of this thread

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
with a good screen resolution. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:52:24 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I have not been closely following this thread but if you are running 9.2 the configuration option you

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what I'm trying to do. The bootsplash and theme are all tied in together. If you boot with splash=no all you will get

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT. How do I get back to what I want ? John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood that was what you were

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
vga=791 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 02:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: JR Yes, well I'm stuck with it for the moment. JR I have seen it before, and delt with it before, but for the life of me I JR cannot remember what I did to change it back to what I want. It's some JR text

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is giving you the blue background. I am not talking about

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:18 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: snip The system here with 512 MB RAM has never used swap, but I do have a 128 MB swap partition just in case. Charlie Heck charlie , I have 512 MB of RAM and mine often needs it, especially

[newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-14 Thread John Richard Smith
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 13:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John, I have the nice, black screen writing

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 14:57, John Richard Smith wrote: snip So I don't get it. /snip Neither do I, John. But I remember having this graphics on my initial install of 9.2. As usual when upgrading (=install), I start tweaking things, including lilo. If I recall

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-14 Thread John Richard Smith
much. I'm not opposed to gui as such , but why cut the width and the vga setting down to narrow width, chunky writing for a normal boot script ? Anyway I'm still stuck with this squashed up gui boot script that annoys me and I just know there must be a way to alter it ? John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-13 Thread John Richard Smith
and mine often needs it, especially on those big number crunching jobs like analogue to digital sound creation, dvd to divx creation, you need all your system has then. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Scannerdrake doesnt save config

2003-12-13 Thread John Richard Smith
in the way the detection sets it all up. Funny thing was I didn't need to in M9.0. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing with a (new) second Hard drive

2003-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
will in the above setup be hdb. Format and install programmes, set boot script, and configure you video card make boot floppy and your ready to go. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
problems. Mozilla is called by lp -s -dZ53f, while kword uses kprinter. If the same kword file prints ok to anouther printer but not mine why is it that Mozilla has no trouble sending an identicle script to my printer ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] LaTex

2003-12-11 Thread John Richard Smith
of it without the hastle. At the end of the day it's nearly always fonts that are the deciding factor, especially if you require something specialised as in the scientific or art world. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] LaTex

2003-12-11 Thread John Richard Smith
people and the more people request the more they are going to do their best to fulfil your needs, and the sooner the app grows into a beter tool. That would be my approach. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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