date:20030121

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:33, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

 You lucky man, you! 
 I never get to do more than point 8.
 By then they've either gone completely off their rocker or are starting to 
 foam at the mouth.
 What really kills 'm is when they need to get on to the internet for their 
 nifty modem's driver. =:o)
 Every reboot they get asked again and again and again..=:oD
 
 Maybe the Aussies do have more stamina after all.
 
 Good Luck,
 HarM
 

Ex-yank, New-Aussie. Besides, I think it has something to do with living
in the Southern Hemisphere and quitting drinking. I've a greater sense
of patience nowadays than I've ever had before...(not according to my
wife, though - same with the stamina bit)

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Re: [newbie] No video with avifile

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:39, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote:
 I put this problem here again.
 Using avifile with Mandrake 9.0, I only get sound but no video. I have a
 NVIDIA TNT2 card and drivers from NVIDIA (the are automatically installed
 during installation).
 The error message points at a failure to initialize the decoder. It is
 looking for dvsd and obviously can't find that. 
 It happens both with Mandrakes RPM version as and the tarball that was
 processed using configure;make;make install.
 I may have forgotten to install another package but in the past I many times
 succesfully installed avifile on several SuSE versions, Caldera and Red Hat.
 
 The win32 codecs are all in /usr/lib/win32. 
 Mplayer and kino work fine.
 
 
 Ed Vaessen

You're going to want to make sure that the lib paths point to that
directory - hence editing your /etc/ld.so.conf file to include that
directory would resolve the issue.

1.) Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and include:

/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/win32

...save the file
2.) Run ldconfig (without the quotes)

3.) Sacrifice a fish to the Penguin God - Tux
4.) Fire up aviplay and see what happens

If you are still unable to play the video file, it could be that there
are still unresolved lib paths that need to be sought out, or that
aviplay needs to have the command line options appended to it, or Tux,
the Penguin God feels you need to sacrifice more fish to Him, or Tux,
the Penguin God feels you need to dig deeper into the Sacred Workings of
The OS to find the truths you seek.

Either which, after you've done the above, let us know how it goes mate!

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RE: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Wideman

 I suggest you do
 urpmi.removemedia -ac
 to remove *all* sources and start again.


 just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put
 your CD sources
 in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then

 urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom

Ok, did that.  At this point i can remove things from the Sources
Manager and it actually goes away AND without closing the program, WAHOO.

Issue:  I am now trying to add sources.  I tried through the Sources
Manager and it cant retrieve the list.  So i tried to manually doing
it through urpmi.addmedia.here is what i got (this happens on
any ftp/site i try to add):

# urpmi.addmedia --update Updates
ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub.linux/mandrake/updates with ../base/hdlist.cz
added medium Updates
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1
(x86).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2
(x86).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD
(x86).cz]
retrieving description file of Updates...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Updates...
curl: (7) Connect failed
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0

retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium Updates
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium Updates
unable to update medium Updates




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Thanks
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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:45 am, Pilagá wrote:
 El Lun 20 Ene 2003 19:38, Anne Wilson escribió:
  I found that I had both installed.  I've removed linxine0-0.9.13.  Do I
  need to get rid of libxine1-1-0.beta2.plf and re-install it?  I ran
  ldconfig -v but xine-check gave me

   Anne, check your /etc/ld.so.conf This is mine:
 /usr/X11R6/lib
 /usr/lib/qt3/lib
 /usr/lib/wine
 /usr/lib
 /usr/local/lib/

I have the same, apart from the wine line, which I don't use

   Re run ldconfig -v and xine-check.

xine-check is unaltered, but there are clues, I think, in the ldconfg output:

ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib' given more than once

then a whole list of links


/usr/lib:
ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/lib/libgtkodbcconfig.so: No such file or directory
ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/lib/libodbcinstQ.so: No such file or directory

then more links

 This are the files that I have installed (+ decss)
 xine_dmd_plugin1.0.7-1plf
 xine-dvdnav1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-plugins1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-win32 1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-ui 0.9.17-1mdk
 libxine1 1-0.beta2.1plf

   But I think that a fresh install is a better way for you. Before doing
 this, remember:
 If you haven't just forgotten to install a recent xine-lib (or xine-ui)
   then you probably have upgraded from an older version and some of the
   old files are still around, being in the way. Maybe it's even just
 some bad leftover symlinks.

   This can happen if you install from source or use a packaging
   system that doesn't clean up previous installations thoroughly
 enough.

   Remove all older xine libraries manually (rm $prefix/lib/libxine*.
   and while you're at it, throw away any old plugins in
   $prefix/lib/xine/plugins/ as well, just to be safe.) Then install
   xine-lib and xine-ui again. This should fix the problem.

   file:/usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.9.17/FAQ_en

I think it's probably a good idea to start again.  I'll print out your post 
and use it as a check that I've removed everything possible before 
re-starting the install.

Meanwhile, one last question before I do this.  Am I right in simply avoiding 
anything with the 0.9.13 numbering and taking everything else?  Is there 
anything else I should avoid?

Thanks for your time and patience

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[newbie] Remote access configuration

2003-01-21 Thread Marc Bannink

Hello,

i would like to change the default screen size of the windows terminal 
services client. 

default is set to 800x600 when just starting rdesktop by hand i off course can 
change with the g(eomatric) option this but i would like it to be changed 
when using the Virtual Network Connection to a Microsoft windows terminal 
server.

Is this possible?

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:06 am, Len Lawrence wrote:
 Could you look at your /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory and compare it with
 this:

 nvidia_vid.la*
 nvidia_vid.so*

These don't exist, but I don't have a nvidia card, so probably don't need 
them.

 vidix/

There is a fidix subdirectory, but it is empty

xineplug_inp_cda.so* *** this is missing ***
xineplug_inp_d4d.so* ***  in plugin directory ***
xineplug_inp_d5d.so* *** in plugin directory ***
xineplug_inp_dvdnav.so* ***  this is missing ***
xineplug_inp_rtp.so*  ***this is missing ***  
xineplug_decode_sputext.so* ***this is missing *** 


The plugins directory contains the fidix subdirectory, a 1.0.0 subdirectory 
and

xineplug_as_out_esd.so
xineplug_inp_d4d.so
xineplug_inp_d5d.so
xineplug_inp_dmd.so

With the exception of the few marked above, all the others are in the 1.0.0 
subdirectory together with many more.  Before I try a complete clean out and 
re-install, I would like to just try copying these into the plugins directory 
to see if they are recognised.

However, that still leaves the dvdnav one missing - and I am certain I 
selected it.

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Re: [newbie]

On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:10 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
 On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 02:36, Richard Gelling wrote:
   Hi
  
   You might want to sign this petition at
   http://www.petitiononline.com/endtcpa1/petition.html re TCPA
  
   Richard G.
  
   Registered Linux User: 256848
 
  Signed and forwarded.

 Sorry, this reads like Microsoft FUD. Does anyone have more facts? Press
 releases etc.

This subject has had a good bit of coverage in the British computer press.  I 
can't give you references, but I have read quite a bit about it.  It exists, 
all right, and is as serious as it sounds.  Surf around.  I'm sure you will 
find some of those articles I read.  For a starter, you might try PCPlus, 
Computer Shopper and Linux Format sites, as those are the ones I read 
regularly.

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Re: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Derek Jennings

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 9:44 am, Robert Wideman wrote:
  I suggest you do
  urpmi.removemedia -ac
  to remove *all* sources and start again.
 
 
  just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put
  your CD sources
  in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then
 
  urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom

 Ok, did that.  At this point i can remove things from the Sources
 Manager and it actually goes away AND without closing the program, WAHOO.

 Issue:  I am now trying to add sources.  I tried through the Sources
 Manager and it cant retrieve the list.  So i tried to manually doing
 it through urpmi.addmedia.here is what i got (this happens on
 any ftp/site i try to add):

 # urpmi.addmedia --update Updates
 ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub.linux/mandrake/updates with ../base/hdlist.cz
 added medium Updates
 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1
 (x86).cz]
 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2
 (x86).cz]
 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD
 (x86).cz]
 retrieving description file of Updates...
 retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Updates...
 curl: (7) Connect failed
 ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0

 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
 no hdlist file found for medium Updates
 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates.cz]
 problem reading synthesis file of medium Updates
 unable to update medium Updates




 Any ideas?
 Thanks
 Rob


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a browser indicates that this is not a valid address. Try another one.
I get good performance from 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS

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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread David Robertson

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:50, Anne Wilson wrote:
 I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email.  I haven't 
 seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were 
 still around. :)
 
 Anne

I get one of these messages every couple of months, and have done for
the last year or so. I guess someone somewhere must still be making
money out of it, despite all the publicity, or it wouldn't still be
going. I believe there have in fact been a number of arrests over it.

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Re: [newbie] VueScan

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:49 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote:
 It seems that i can get better pictures scanning in windows than in linux
 with iscan.
 Maybe is because that iscan interface seems so clean.

 BTW, what can i do to scan images frm gimp using iscan?

Filipe, I'm using the default driver, not iscan, but I think this comment may 
also apply.  I had to play around a little with scan settings to get a good 
result.  The default settings were not right for my printer.  Resolution is 
important - there is a known issue (in windows too) that choosing a 
resolution too high gives as bad a result as choosing one too low, so it is 
important to experiment.  I have generally found that resolution around the 
200 mark gives best results.

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:30 pm, Chuck Burns wrote:
 On Mon, January 20 2003 5:21 pm, robin wrote:
 *super.snip*

  I see the detoxification process is complete.  Maybe we should have a
  12-step program for Windows dependency.  It should start with everyone
  getting up and saying My name is ..., and I'm a Windows user.  I must
  admit I haven't kicked the habit completely - I still tell myself Well
  just one little reboot into Windows won't hurt.
  Sir Robin

 *snip*

 Well.. If I can't do it in Linux, I don't need to do it.  I have 3
 computers, one of which is a laptop, and none of them even have wine, much
 less any installed windows at all.  The only computer I use that has
 windows is my fiancee's.

Sorry, but your needs then are much less than mine.  There are a few 
applications for which linux can not yet offer a good solution.  I believe it 
will come, but it is not yet there.

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Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

2003-01-21 Thread Wei Wang

Hi,

This sounds a bit soothing for me. ;-) Now it takes about 45 minutes to compile
the whole kernel. I've heard the Pentium4 deficiency problem before I bought this 
laptop. But the comments I found gave me an impression that P4 1.8GHz is aboutthe same 
performance as a P3 1.2GHz, but there is SSE2 to consider. So I bought it. So I'd be 
happy to keep this laptop with the similar performance with an
Athlon 1.4 GHz. Maybe I should get a P3 1.2 instead? To wait for Centrino product 
means another 12 months maybe.


Many thanks,

Wei



make dep clean bzImage~ 5 mins.
time make modules ~ 38 mins.
make modules_install install  ~ 1 min.
 
On a 1.4 gig Athlon.  But it's always 1.4 gig ...
 
  takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a
  second or so that you can read almost every one of them. Is it
  normal? The gcc is version 3.2.
 
   ... your laptop (mobile cpu) isn't always 1.8 ghz. It slows down 
 under load.  A P3 would probly be faster too.  So yes, it's a 
 hardware deficiency ... get a real computer ;~
 -- 
 Tom Brinkman  Corpus Christi, Texas
 
 


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Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

2003-01-21 Thread Wei Wang

Many thanks for your input. Have you done anything to the OS such as optimising
or tuning? Since this is a new laptop and I am thinking of returning it if there
is a hardware deficiency with it.


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:13:48 -0600
Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 OUCH, how the hell???
 My computers and times that i have used for linux:
 -Compaq 7180 (p100) and it takes 1.5 hours to compile a complete kernel.
 -Clone all SCSI p3-450 and it takes 30 mins to compile a complete kernel.
 -Dell Optiplex GX1 P3-450 and it takes 35 mins to compile a complete kernel.
 
 You guys might want to rethink your timing.
 
 Rob
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Burns
 Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:26 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8
 machine
 
 
 On Mon, January 20 2003 11:01 am, Wei Wang wrote:
 *snip*
  I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake
  9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling
 make
  clean bzImage modules
 *snip
  takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second
 or
 *snip*
 
 I have a P4 1.6 desktop, and it takes me about 45 minutes to compile
 everything, all modules and everything.  My P3-500 desktop takes almost 2
 hours, however, my P3-500 laptop takes over 3 hours.
 
 In case you didn't know, ALL x86 laptop cpu's are NOT the same cpu as the
 desktops, which makes them just a little better than half the speed of their
 respective desktop counterparts.  While they both run at the same speed, the
 pipelining, power control, etc etc is much different.  Data bus width also
 comes into play.  AFAIK the only computers that use the exact same
 processors
 for both desktops and laptops are Apples.
 
 So, in answer to your question, no, there's probably nothing wrong with your
 hardware other than the fact it's a Mobility CPU, hooked to the cheapest
 components the maker of that laptop could find.
 
 --
 Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ---==---
 You are old, Father William, the young man said,
   All your papers these days look the same;
 Those William's would be better unread --
   Do these facts never fill you with shame?
 
 In my youth, Father William replied to his son,
   I wrote wonderful papers galore;
 But the great reputation I found that I'd won,
   Made it pointless to think any more.
 
 
 
 
 


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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

On Monday 20 Jan 2003 11:19 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
 On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:50, Anne Wilson wrote:
  I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email.  I
  haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew
  they were still around. :)
 
  Anne

 Who'd you get? I have 2 from Dr. Uba Jega. I'd be willing to part with
 one if you've got something different. Mint condition!


 ;)
 http://www.quatloos.com/cm-niger/nigerian_scam_letter_museum.htm

Mine is from Maryam Abacha (note the spelling is different from the ones on 
your site) and the amount is  $21.5 000.000.  It appears to be a variation on 
the ones you list.  Would you like me to forward it to you off-list so that 
you can add it?

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Pilagá

El Mar 21 Ene 2003 06:49, Anne Wilson escribió:
 Meanwhile, one last question before I do this.  Am I right in simply
 avoiding anything with the 0.9.13 numbering and taking everything else?  Is
 there anything else I should avoid?

Yes, because 0.9.13 is the old version.
And also check that /home/anne/.xine is deleted.

This is my xine-check output:
[pilaga@localhost pilaga]$ xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.4.19-16mdk)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0 exists.
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/cdroms/../ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
[ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive
[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUV overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports packed YUV overlays
[ good ] Xv ports:  YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420 YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420

Now, I'm listening radio with xine. It's a very powerful program.

 Thanks for your time and patience

De nada.

 Anne

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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 10:36 am, David Robertson wrote:
 On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:50, Anne Wilson wrote:
  I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email.  I
  haven't seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew
  they were still around. :)
 
  Anne

 I get one of these messages every couple of months, and have done for
 the last year or so. I guess someone somewhere must still be making
 money out of it, despite all the publicity, or it wouldn't still be
 going. I believe there have in fact been a number of arrests over it.


I read a couple of months ago that there had been some complaints from people 
who had been caught by the scam.  I find it unbelievable that people could be 
so gullible.  Or just plain greedy?  Or maybe stupid is a better word.

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Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:55 am, Kesav Tadimeti wrote:
 Hi All,
 I believe, windows 2000,is a relatively stable OS for desktop uses. I use
 it at work, and it does not need a reboot as often as NT 4.0 used to. 

I found W2K relatively stable, but drivers were as big a problem as linux 
drivers (much worse than they are now, in both systems) and much of my 
existing software wouldn't run.  Eventually it crashed so drastically that it 
wouldn't even allow a re-install.

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Re: [newbie] Slow

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote:
 I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a
 crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes
 over one minute. I reinstalled and it worked until I shut down and then on
 reboot it slowed again. I am using KDE 3.0.
 AMD 600 mHz processor with plenty of memory. LM 8.1 worked great.

Are you on a lan?  I had a big problem with this, and it turned out that my 
hosts file was wrong.

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Re: [newbie] M9.1beta2

Dennis Myers wrote:


On Monday 20 January 2003 07:02 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Charlie wrote:
   

On Monday 20 January 2003 05:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

When I started downloading M9.1beta2 that's all it was, but as I
finished it became
M9.1beta2-cd2, which puzzled me.
I suppose that matters not but where is M9.1beta2-cd1
please see attatched , there does not seem to be a cd1.
Anyone got any ideas what is going on.

John
   

Here's one John:

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586
 

ok, thanks, I'll give it a go.

John
   

John be sure to check the md5sum. I would be suspicious of that first cd you 
got. cheers,
 

 

Rest assured I would not even mention a completed download whose md5sum 
did not check out.

John

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Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

Stephen Kuhn wrote:


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:55, Kesav Tadimeti wrote:
 

Hi All,
I believe, windows 2000,is a relatively stable OS for desktop uses. I use it
at work, and it does not need a reboot as often as NT 4.0 used to.
BTW, Yesterday's newspaper (here in New Delhi) carried an ad from Microsoft
claiming that it has the most stable  secure Server OS (Windows 2000
Datacentre edition) around. They also claim that compared to UNIX, the TCO
is 49% less and 22% less compared to Linux. 

At the end of day, it is an IT manager who, being ignorant of real issues,
makes purchase decisions, so that he doesn't get singled out for following
the masses. 

Tadimeti Kesav
   


How absolutely true.

I'm rather thankful that alot of managers that I have worked either
side-by-side with, or directly under have had open minds, and have had
the ability to see in a bigger picture - with tight budgets and less
and less manpower, they had to make some decisions that could have gone
a Microsoft way, but ended up going the way of least work involved, and
if it works really well, we don't tell.

In the past I was more than happy to setup and install an OS/2 server
for a group of telecom engineers that DEMANDED an NT box - back when NT
4.0 wasn't really as stable as MS claimed - the box still lives and
serves files today - and that was in 1997 - very few reboots, very few
changes made to the box. Just works.

At Samsung Telecom America in Richardson, Tx., I helped to install RH5
boxes to ease the DNS burden on the network - one per floor and one in
the warehouse in Plano - management - higher management - not the IT
department, literally demanded that all of that be done on NT, but when
faced with purchasing 2 $15,000 boxes AND the software, they choose to
let us, the IT department, use 486's w/ RH5 that were already in stock
and on hand (Samsung builds computers, remember) and the job was
completed in two days time by two guys.

I've seen how some management is coerced and hornswaggled into heavy
purchases - especially MS purchases, but at the end of the day (a real
working day, not a 9 to 5 bankers day) it's what works that SHOULD be
chosen - and I do say SHOULD.

I find it rather strange that there are times where upper management
makes these types of decisions for entire IT infrastructures - based on
either hearsay or just on advertisement - yet, they're the ones that
whinge the loudest when it takes a single tech all day to fix one damn
computer running a Microsoft product...but they're the ones that made
the decision in the first place...

When I was at Siemens, most support calls came from NT and from
Windows98. We had 50+ Sun workstations - in the time I was there, I had
one call on a Sun running Solaris - and it was to connect a new Sun box
to the network. 5 minute job - up, running, no probs. Yet, about six
months later, one of the managers (soon-to-be-ex-manager) wanted to
move all the engineers on the Sun boxes to NT 4.0 on 300GL IBM
machines...upper management ALMOST went for it (and it would have been a
very pricey purchase), until we showed them our support reports on the
Sun workstations. Nicht NT! (g)

It's sad that some people in such positions have to be yanked in a
direction that is going to cost more money and time in the long run -
but I guess that's the way that the world goes round...sad but true.

 

In your experience is it still the case, I mean you mention NT servers 
were unreliable
as against linux server boxes. I have no personal experience whatsoever.

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

Len Lawrence wrote:


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:02:25 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 

Can someone tell me  in terms of xine, what region number am I in when I am
in UK

John
   


For a DVD bought here in the UK xine reports maybe region 2.  It appears 
to get that information from the Region mask on the DVD.
 


 

Well I ask because xine appears to set that manually in the config 
section of the app.
you have a choice 1 to 8 , in video,mine was set on installation at 1 as 
default  , so obviously
mine would not of worked for that reason. However be that as it may it 
is not the resaon
on it's own, why xine is not working.
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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

Stephen Kuhn wrote:


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:23, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

I did so and things changed a bit.

now I still get an exine engine error but the message changes,

no demuxer plugin available to handle
/mnt/xdrom/video_TS/video_TS_IFO
usually this means that the file format is not recognised.


well of course the dvd is an encrypted dvd cd.

does this mean I need to add a path to the demuxer plugin ?

John
   


Short answer:
Y

 

Next question how do I know which is the demuxer pluging,
by way of help here is a list of packages installed so far.
cd /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/dvd/xine/xineplf0103

ls
libdxr3_0-0.12.0-4mdk.i586.rpm  xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf.i586.rpm
libxine1-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpmxine-dvdnav-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
libxine1-devel-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm  xine-dxr3-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
libxine1-docs-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-esd-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
xine-aa-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm xine-faad-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
xine-alsa-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-plugins-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
xine-arts-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-ui-0.9.17-1mdk.i586.rpm
xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm xine-ui-aa-0.9.17-1mdk.i586.rpm
xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf.i586.rpmxine-win32-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
xine-divx4-0.9.13-8plf.i586.rpm xine-xvid-0.9.13-8plf.i586.rpm

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

Len Lawrence wrote:


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:31:13 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 

On Monday 20 Jan 2003 1:21 pm, Pilagá wrote:
   

That's the one.
Could you look at your /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory and compare it with this:

nvidia_vid.la*		  xineplug_dmx_mpeg_audio.so*
nvidia_vid.so*		  xineplug_dmx_mpeg_block.so*
vidix/			  xineplug_dmx_mpeg_elem.so*
xineplug_ao_out_oss.so*   xineplug_dmx_mpeg_pes.so*
xineplug_decode_a52.so*   xineplug_dmx_mpeg.so*
xineplug_decode_adpcm.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so*
xineplug_decode_cinepak.so*   xineplug_dmx_ogg.so*
xineplug_decode_cyuv.so*  xineplug_dmx_qt.so*
xineplug_decode_dts.so*   xineplug_dmx_roq.so*
xineplug_decode_ff.so*	  xineplug_dmx_smjpeg.so*
xineplug_decode_fli.so*   xineplug_dmx_wav.so*
xineplug_decode_lpcm.so*  xineplug_inp_cda.so*
xineplug_decode_mad.so*   xineplug_inp_d4d.so*
xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so* xineplug_inp_d5d.so*
xineplug_decode_msrle.so* xineplug_inp_dvdnav.so*
xineplug_decode_msvc.so*  xineplug_inp_dvd.so*
xineplug_decode_roqaudio.so*  xineplug_inp_file.so*
xineplug_decode_roqvideo.so*  xineplug_inp_http.so*
xineplug_decode_spucc.so* xineplug_inp_mms.so*
xineplug_decode_spu.so*   xineplug_inp_net.so*
xineplug_decode_sputext.so*   xineplug_inp_rtp.so*
xineplug_decode_svq1.so*  xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.so*
xineplug_decode_vorbis.so*xineplug_inp_vcd.so*
xineplug_decode_w32dll.so*xineplug_vo_out_fb.so*
xineplug_dmx_asf.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_opengl.so*
xineplug_dmx_avi.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so*
xineplug_dmx_cda.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so*
xineplug_dmx_film.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_vidix.so*
xineplug_dmx_fli.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_xshm.so*
xineplug_dmx_idcin.so*	  xineplug_vo_out_xv.so*

 

Well we have an extra directory,

cd /usr/lib/xine/plugins
ls
1.0.0/  xineplug_decode_divx4.so*  xineplug_inp_d4d.so*  
xineplug_inp_dmd.so*
vidix/  xineplug_decode_xvid.so*   xineplug_inp_d5d.so*

cd 1.0.0/
ls
post/   xineplug_dmx_cda.so*
vidix/  xineplug_dmx_eawve.so*
xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so*xineplug_dmx_film.so*
xineplug_ao_out_arts.so*xineplug_dmx_fli.so*
xineplug_ao_out_esd.so* xineplug_dmx_idcin.so*
xineplug_ao_out_oss.so* xineplug_dmx_ipmovie.so*
xineplug_decode_a52.so* xineplug_dmx_mng.so*
xineplug_decode_adpcm.so*   xineplug_dmx_mpeg_audio.so*
xineplug_decode_cinepak.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg_block.so*
xineplug_decode_cyuv.so*xineplug_dmx_mpeg_elem.so*
xineplug_decode_dts.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg.so*
xineplug_decode_dxr3_spu.so*xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so*
xineplug_decode_dxr3_video.so*  xineplug_dmx_ogg.so*
xineplug_decode_faad.so*xineplug_dmx_qt.so*
xineplug_decode_ff.so*  xineplug_dmx_rawdv.so*
xineplug_decode_fli.so* xineplug_dmx_realaudio.so*
xineplug_decode_gsm610.so*  xineplug_dmx_real.so*
xineplug_decode_idcinvideo.so*  xineplug_dmx_roq.so*
xineplug_decode_interplayaudio.so*  xineplug_dmx_smjpeg.so*
xineplug_decode_interplayvideo.so*  xineplug_dmx_snd.so*
xineplug_decode_logpcm.so*  xineplug_dmx_sputext.so*
xineplug_decode_lpcm.so*xineplug_dmx_voc.so*
xineplug_decode_mad.so* xineplug_dmx_vqa.so*
xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so*   xineplug_dmx_wav.so*
xineplug_decode_msrle.so*   xineplug_dmx_wc3movie.so*
xineplug_decode_msvc.so*xineplug_dmx_yuv4mpeg2.so*
xineplug_decode_qtrle.so*   xineplug_inp_dvb.so*
xineplug_decode_qtrpza.so*  xineplug_inp_dvd.so*
xineplug_decode_qtsmc.so*   xineplug_inp_file.so*
xineplug_decode_qt.so*  xineplug_inp_http.so*
xineplug_decode_real_audio.so*  xineplug_inp_mms.so*
xineplug_decode_real.so*xineplug_inp_net.so*
xineplug_decode_rgb.so* xineplug_inp_pnm.so*
xineplug_decode_roqaudio.so*xineplug_inp_rtsp.so*
xineplug_decode_roqvideo.so*xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.so*
xineplug_decode_spucc.so*   xineplug_inp_vcd.so*
xineplug_decode_spu.so* xineplug_vo_out_aa.so*
xineplug_decode_svq1.so*xineplug_vo_out_dxr3.so*
xineplug_decode_vorbis.so*  xineplug_vo_out_fb.so*
xineplug_decode_w32dll.so*  xineplug_vo_out_none.so*
xineplug_decode_wc3video.so*xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so*
xineplug_decode_yuv.so* xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so*
xineplug_dmx_aiff.so*   xineplug_vo_out_vidix.so*
xineplug_dmx_asf.so*xineplug_vo_out_xshm.so*
xineplug_dmx_avi.so*xineplug_vo_out_xv.so*


I think maybe plf does it this way and the programme needs reconfiguring 
to understand it.

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Re: [OT]:RE: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:25 am, Kesav Tadimeti wrote:
 Hi Kal,
 In India, RedHat and Debian are popular. Haven't heard
 of ELR. g And no, Indians have *NO* plans to take over
 to innovate a new distro, not to speak of taking up
 French govt. contracts. /g Tadimeti Kesav
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 NEPZ
 NOIDA - 201 305
 U.P, INDIA


Thanks for your reply, Tadimeti. I just apologize for being 
incorrect about the Indian linux-distro. The correct name 
is ELX ( http://www.elxlinux.com ). Here's a quote from 
their website :
quote
ELX is being developed by Everyone's Linux Pvt. Ltd, a 
highly progressive India-Hyderabad, (Also known as 
Cyberabad for its great IT talent ) based organization of 
young, dynamic and hardworking professionals yearning for 
perfection.
/quote

Hope that clarifies matters.

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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread

Hi all,
I get something like this almost every 2 weeks! From the most amazing
places, like Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Russia. You name it.

Still trying to figure out a procmail recipe that dumps that stuff
immediately! ;-)
Paul

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I read a couple of months ago that there had been some complaints from
peop=
le=20
who had been caught by the scam.  I find it unbelievable that people
could =
be=20
so gullible.  Or just plain greedy?  Or maybe stupid is a better word.

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Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

2003-01-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich

 On Monday 20 January 2003 05:17 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

snip
  Send them klez for giggles and grins
/snip

Stephen, please send me one (off-list) to play with.

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[newbie] Rear and center channels?

2003-01-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall

Hmm, seems like I spoketh too sooneth. In another thread - I mentioned that my 
Soyo Dragon Plus MB's rear and center channel sound seemed to be working 
fine. Guess I was wrong - I unplugged my front speakers and...no sound. Well, 
the subwoofer is working fine. 

Anyone have any ideas on how to get center and rear channel sound working with 
a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard?

With the SB Live on my 9 year olds computer, I used the Alsa utils/mixer to 
get rear channel sound working.

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:56 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 Thanks Stephen, that got me going in the right direction (I had to copy the
 entire /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory over to /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins
 to get it working) .. at least temporarily .. *sigh*

xine-check still insists that it cannot find a confi file.  There is a config2 
file, which appears to recognise all my plugins, so I think it's OK even 
though they're not where xine-check expects to find them.

I think it's just the dvdnav problem I have to solve now.

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Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

2003-01-21 Thread Raffaele Belardi

Don't know if it makes sense, but have you tried

$ whereis g++

On my MDK9.0 I get:
g++: /usr/bin/g++ /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.bz2

From your log looks like g++ is not installed. It could be in a
different package than gcc (i.e. gcc-c++)

raffaele

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below is the output when trying to run ./configure from a source tarball of gtop 1.0.13.
I've never seen this error before below also is my gcc version.
i've tried running it as root with the same results.

any ideas why?

Jerry.

[jerry@main gtop-1.0.13]$ ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gnome-config... /usr//bin/gnome-config
checking if /usr//bin/gnome-config works... yes
checking for orbit-config... /usr//bin/orbit-config
checking for orbit-idl... /usr//bin/orbit-idl
checking for working ORBit environment... yes
checking for gnorba libraries... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
[jerry@main gtop-1.0.13]$

[root@main gtop-1.0.13]# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[root@main gtop-1.0.13]#

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[newbie] hdparm and DMA

I definately have DMA enabled in bios.

But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA.

my hard drive is /dev/hda

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:56 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:


 Am I missing something to be able to view DVDs?  I'm so confused ... my
 brain hurts .. :-)

Terry - have you tried several dvds?  I can't see any of the Warner Bros dvds 
that I have, nor the Columbia one.  I don't have many dvds, but I can see 
about half of them.

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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-21 Thread magnet

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Why limit a perfectly good description to a single word? *g*

 I find it unbelievable that people could b so gullible.  Or just

 plain greedy?  Or maybe stupid is a better word.

 Anne

I received this email on my linux box with an added bonus of a virus 
attachment... Kmail was a little confused as to what it was supposed to do 
with this extra file so it replied 15 times and every month I got $59,000,000 
deposited in my bank account curtasy of the good Dr.
The trouble was, the bank questioned it as their M$ accounting package 
received a telnet connection one night that reveiled a buffer-overflow 
feature on my account and all the money disappeared!
Damn these spammers ;-)))
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Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Richard Gelling

/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda

put that line in rc.local file to make it permanent


Richard G.

At 15:39 21/01/2003 +, you wrote:

I definately have DMA enabled in bios.

But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA.

my hard drive is /dev/hda

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra

Anne,

I've tried several different DVDs, none of which work.  The problem I'm 
having is that when I run Xine, I don't even have the option of playing 
a DVD (on the GUI), just a VCD and a DVB (whatever that is).  When I 
install the dvdnav package, I have the option of playing a DVD, but all 
it does is just open the DVD menu, all garbled and mangled, and refuses 
to play any of them.

Terry

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:56 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:

 

Am I missing something to be able to view DVDs?  I'm so confused ... my
brain hurts .. :-)
   


Terry - have you tried several dvds?  I can't see any of the Warner Bros dvds 
that I have, nor the Columbia one.  I don't have many dvds, but I can see 
about half of them.

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RE: [newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)

 You're going to want to make sure that the lib paths point to that
 directory - hence editing your /etc/ld.so.conf file to include that
 directory would resolve the issue.
 
 1.) Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and include:
 
 /usr/lib
 /usr/local/lib
 /usr/lib/win32
 
 ...save the file
 2.) Run ldconfig (without the quotes)
 
 3.) Sacrifice a fish to the Penguin God - Tux
 4.) Fire up aviplay and see what happens
 
 If you are still unable to play the video file, it could be that there
 are still unresolved lib paths that need to be sought out, or that
 aviplay needs to have the command line options appended to it, or Tux,
 the Penguin God feels you need to sacrifice more fish to Him, or Tux,
 the Penguin God feels you need to dig deeper into the Sacred 
 Workings of
 The OS to find the truths you seek.
 
 Either which, after you've done the above, let us know how it 
 goes mate!
 


Could we consider starting a new religion?
As my frequent contacts with Islamic and Christian websites reveal their
utter lack of anything even closely resembling  humour, I think we may hit a
hole in the market.
Nevertheless I will try your suggestions.

Ed

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Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 I definately have DMA enabled in bios.

 But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA.

 my hard drive is /dev/hda

Attached is my notes on hdparm, mostly supplied by Technoslick.

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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:47 pm, magnet wrote:
 On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Why limit a perfectly good description to a single word? *g*
 
  I find it unbelievable that people could b so gullible.  Or just
 
  plain greedy?  Or maybe stupid is a better word.
 
  Anne

 I received this email on my linux box with an added bonus of a virus
 attachment... Kmail was a little confused as to what it was supposed to do
 with this extra file so it replied 15 times and every month I got
 $59,000,000 deposited in my bank account curtasy of the good Dr.
 The trouble was, the bank questioned it as their M$ accounting package
 received a telnet connection one night that reveiled a buffer-overflow
 feature on my account and all the money disappeared!
 Damn these spammers ;-)))

LOL

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Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Joan Tur

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Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure:
 I definately have DMA enabled in bios.

 But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA.

 my hard drive is /dev/hda

 John
Install hdparm, then edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and uncomment the line 
USE_DMA=1
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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:44 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 Anne,

 I've tried several different DVDs, none of which work.  The problem I'm
 having is that when I run Xine, I don't even have the option of playing
 a DVD (on the GUI), just a VCD and a DVB (whatever that is).  When I
 install the dvdnav package, I have the option of playing a DVD, but all
 it does is just open the DVD menu, all garbled and mangled, and refuses
 to play any of them.

Doesn't sound as  if you've actually progressed from where you started? g  I 
didn't have the dvd button when I had the old (mixed) install.  After the 
latest clean install I have that, and as I said it plays some of my disks.

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Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

2003-01-21 Thread Jerry Barton

ah yes... thanks i've upgraded all the glibc and must have overlooked gcc-c++
it worked.  thanks

Jerry

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:38:10 +0100
Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Don't know if it makes sense, but have you tried
 
 $ whereis g++
 
 On my MDK9.0 I get:
 g++: /usr/bin/g++ /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.bz2
 
  From your log looks like g++ is not installed. It could be in a 
 different package than gcc (i.e. gcc-c++)
 
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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra

Hey Anne,

Thanks for the reply.  No, I don't mind an off-list post whatsoever, and 
welcome it.  I read through the attachment you sent, and I was 
completely baffled by what it had to say.  From what I could make of it, 
I do believe I have what is needed to play DVDs on my laptop (as I can 
play DVDs using Ogle or VideoLan), just not Xine.  From what I've seen, 
Xine looks to be the best player out there, and I would love to give it 
a chance, if I could get it working.  But alas, perhaps I was never 
meant to get Xine working.  I still welcome any more suggestions to try 
and help me get over this very big hurdle.

Thanks! :-)

Terry

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 3:44 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 

Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   


Terry, I don't know whether you've come across this, or whether it will help.  
I hope you don't mind an off-list post, but I thought that with the 
attachment it was better this way.

Anne
 


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Re: [newbie] Rear and center channels?

2003-01-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 Hmm, seems like I spoketh too sooneth. In another thread - I mentioned that my 
 Soyo Dragon Plus MB's rear and center channel sound seemed to be working 
 fine. Guess I was wrong - I unplugged my front speakers and...no sound. Well, 
 the subwoofer is working fine. 
 
 Anyone have any ideas on how to get center and rear channel sound working with 
 a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard?
 
 With the SB Live on my 9 year olds computer, I used the Alsa utils/mixer to 
 get rear channel sound working.
 
 Thanks everyone!
 
 -- 
 
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  \/ 

DL --

Try going to www.opensound.com and downloading the latest OSS drivers
for the C-Media chipset you have.  Back up your modules.conf before you
install them.  Read the docs after install; seems like I remember
something about rear and center channel soundbut I can't remember
which doc it was in.  I think it's README.ConfigOptions.

There's a time limit on the default license for these drivers, but you
can quickly decide wether they are working for you or not; the tech
support is really good.  There's a phone number you can call:

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4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA.  
Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com
Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Or you can email or use their forums on the website for questions you're
willing to wait on.  Hope that gets you going; I've certainly been happy
with these drivers.


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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Pilagá

El Mar 21 Ene 2003 11:56, Terry Sheltra escribió:
 good .. I got it to see my stuff.  Now when I run Xine, I STILL don't
 get any kind of option to view a DVD, only a VCD and a DVB.   Doing a
 search via rpmdrake shows I have the following Xine-related packages
 installed:

 libxine1-1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf
 xine-plugins-1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-ui-0.9.17-1mdk
 xine-win32-1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf

 Am I missing something to be able to view DVDs?  I'm so confused ... my
 brain hurts .. :-)

Terry, as I have posted early, you need (only) this rpms:

 This are the files that I have installed (+ decss)
 xine_dmd_plugin1.0.7-1plf
 xine-dvdnav1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-plugins1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-win32 1-0.beta2.1plf
 xine-ui 0.9.17-1mdk
 libxine1 1-0.beta2.1plf
And, of course, libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf

Suerte.
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Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread et


 hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read
 english er somthin?
or they are less likely to give a $hit than my cat


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[newbie] XINE

terminal , xine,
snip
dxr3_decode_video: dxr3 not present
load_plugins: plugin dxr3-mpeg2 failed to instantiate itself.
snip


/etc/ld.so.conf
---
/usr/lib/
/usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/
/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/
/usr/lib/xine/plugins/

ran ldconfig

NB, all the dxr3 are in within above paths.



rpm -qa | grep -i xine*
xinetd-2.3.7-3mdk
xine-dvdnav-1-0.beta2.1plf
texinfo-4.2-5mdk
xinitrc-2.4.4-69mdk
xine-faad-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-ui-aa-0.9.17-1mdk
xine-esd-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf
xine-arts-1-0.beta2.1plf
xinput-1.2-5mdk
xine-win32-1-0.beta2.1plf
libxine1-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-dxr3-1-0.beta2.1plf
libxine1-docs-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf
libxine1-devel-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-alsa-1-0.beta2.1plf
xinetd-ipv6-2.3.7-3mdk
xine-aa-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-xvid-0.9.13-8plf
xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf
xine-divx4-0.9.13-8plf
xine-plugins-1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-ui-0.9.17-1mdk

So I cannot at the moment see what is wrong.
seems as though xine check is happy.

xine itself finds the dvd files, they show up,
I can select them, but when I come to play them
it says no demuxer.

I have now given this a lot of time without result.

John

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Re: [newbie] hdparm and DMA

Joan Tur wrote:


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Es Dimarts 21 Gener 2003 16:39, en John Richard Smith va escriure:
 

I definately have DMA enabled in bios.

But how do I get hdparm to check and enable DMA.

my hard drive is /dev/hda

John
   

Install hdparm, then edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and uncomment the line 
USE_DMA=1

 

Thanks everyone,

John

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:49 pm, Pilagá wrote:

   Terry, as I have posted early, you need (only) this rpms:
  This are the files that I have installed (+ decss)
  xine_dmd_plugin1.0.7-1plf
  xine-dvdnav1-0.beta2.1plf
  xine-plugins1-0.beta2.1plf
  xine-win32 1-0.beta2.1plf
  xine-ui 0.9.17-1mdk
  libxine1 1-0.beta2.1plf

 And, of course, libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf

Fool that I am, I can't leave anything alone.  Yes I was missing 
libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf.  So with high hopes I launched xine again.  But 
meanwhile I had tried to install ogle, found it didn't work (presumably 
missing packages again) and uninstalled it.  Now xine has stopped working 
again.

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Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver

Charlie,

 As far as I can discover Jordan the best shot you have at copying DRM (copy
 protected) CDs is a Windows program called Clone-CD or a drive that
 supports DAO in Linux. A friend has a lot of PC games and has a lot of
 small children around frequently (, pretty shiny fwisbee me play!)
 so he went hunting for a back-up utility. That's all I know about it.

Yeah, I already use that under Windows. I just find it very frustrating that 
Linux can't do this.

 I can't remember the commands Jordan, sorry. Open a terminal and type

 man hdparm
 or hdparm --help

I'll take a look throught the archive as well. It's definately been raised 
here before.

 What help? :-)

Sometimes, just talking it over with someone else helps :)

Cheers,
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Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver

Hi,

 Yes, it's possible.  However, making your own backup copies of copy
 protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your
 software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic
 things.  In linux the hardware necessities you can get; the software you
 cannot.

 There are only two brands of burner software that I have tested that are
 capable of creating backup copies of copy protected cd's with the proper
 hardware.  Neither one of them run on Linux.  This is a major problem
 and I wish both of the two burner software firms would port to linux.
 Either that or an enthusiastic brainiac capable of authoring a new
 project.

Very frustrating. cdrecord seems to be the tool everybody uses, is that what 
is usuallu recommended? 

 You have what looks like a PX-W1610A; correct me if I'm wrong. You can
 check the performance/capabilities of your drive on the following page:

Thats it.

 When selecting a burner, and you are looking at doing bit for bit
 copies, possibly with copy protected material, you absolutely need to
 use the CloneCD burner evaluation list for making a decision.  Otherwise
 you are walking into it blind.  I recommend Liteon brand burners as a
 start; personally I have here a Toshiba SD-1202 DVD Combo drive that
 burns with the correct EFM encoding, plus does RAW-DAO 96 write, and
 RAW+96 read.

I've been using Clone CD under windows. Copied what I wanted to fine. 
Obviously software, as you said above. Nevermind.

Cheers,
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Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Jordan Elver

Hi Damian,

 most likely. That cdrecord output you posted there was at
 31% fifo fill... that's hardly a good level. And then:

I suppose nearer 100% would be good :)

 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0

 Loss of streaming...

  Is this a DMA issue? I read some posts here before regarding turning on
  DMA

 just in case:
 hdparm -d1 /dev/devicename

I'll look into it. Do you know how to run a benchmark with hdparm? Someone 
showed it a while back and I can't remember the switch.

 However i would not bet on DMA being the problem. As a rule of thumb,
 i NEVER do cd-to-cd copy on the fly. It is faster, yes, but what happens
 when dd if=/dev/cdrom gets stuck trying to read one sector from beneath a
 scratch in the middle of the burning session? At 16x speed, it's really not
 hard to get a buffer underrun...

 If you are absolutely in love with this method, try lower speeds and always
 make sure the original CD is in good condition.

Yeah. I'll probably try a make an iso with mkisofs first in future. Is that 
the proper way of doing it?

Thanks,
Jordan
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Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Adams

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:14, Jordan Elver wrote:
 Hi,

  Yes, it's possible.  However, making your own backup copies of copy
  protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your
  software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic
  things.  In linux the hardware necessities you can get; the software you
  cannot.
 
  There are only two brands of burner software that I have tested that are
  capable of creating backup copies of copy protected cd's with the proper
  hardware.  Neither one of them run on Linux.  This is a major problem
  and I wish both of the two burner software firms would port to linux.
  Either that or an enthusiastic brainiac capable of authoring a new
  project.

 Very frustrating. cdrecord seems to be the tool everybody uses, is that
 what is usuallu recommended?


snip
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Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

2003-01-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:02, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:


Hi,

Is GMC available on MDK 9.0 software control centre?



As in Gnome Midnight Commander ?

Yep.

It was THE file manager I have got used to after coming from a windows 
environment. Someone commented that it is not in MDK 9.0 and suggested 
nautilus, which I really DON'T like. Asides from the cli version of mc 
could I download and install the one on TUCOWS Linux or can I can kiss a 
useful app goodbye?

P.S. I;m setting my email to stop receiving from the newbie list as I 
currently cannot deal with a full days work at a new job and the list 
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Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread et

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 01:17 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
 et wrote:
 hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read
 english er somthin?
 
  or they are less likely to give a $hit than my cat

 yeah...i guess you're right, but ya can't blame a fella for tryin. what
 else could I do? guess I shouldn't complain too awfully much because it
 does cause me to have to learn more about securing my box and it's
 services.
No, don't get me wrong... I think,,, no I KNOW you did the right thing,,, I 
just also know that sometimes, after doing the right thing you might not 
ever perceive a change at all from it. especially if it requires action from 
someone that is not going to receive compensation for the time involved for 
them.


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Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

2003-01-21 Thread et

this is linux... if you want to download the source and compile it (and all 
the depends), you can run stuff from all kinds of places. if you have an 
older version, you can even very often add that disk to the software sources 
and install what ever was on that disk... I still use ViaVoice that was on 
the 7.2 power pack, but I also have to install a few other things (Blackdown 
JRE and UnixOBDC)

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:48 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
 Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:02, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is GMC available on MDK 9.0 software control centre?
 
  As in Gnome Midnight Commander ?

 Yep.

 It was THE file manager I have got used to after coming from a windows
 environment. Someone commented that it is not in MDK 9.0 and suggested
 nautilus, which I really DON'T like. Asides from the cli version of mc
 could I download and install the one on TUCOWS Linux or can I can kiss a
 useful app goodbye?

 P.S. I;m setting my email to stop receiving from the newbie list as I
 currently cannot deal with a full days work at a new job and the list
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Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Damian Gatabria

 
  just in case:
  hdparm -d1 /dev/devicename

 I'll look into it. Do you know how to run a benchmark with hdparm? Someone
 showed it a while back and I can't remember the switch.

hdparm -tT /dev/device 

too bad it didn't support benchmarking a floppy disk when i tried ;o)

  If you are absolutely in love with this method, try lower speeds and
  always make sure the original CD is in good condition.

 Yeah. I'll probably try a make an iso with mkisofs first in future. Is that
 the proper way of doing it?

well, i don't think there is one 'proper way', but that would be one
solution... you could also dd to a file on your hd first, like:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/username/cdimage.iso

and then 

cdrecord -v speed=16 -dev=0,2,0 /home/username/cdimage.iso

HTH

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:46 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 Hey Anne,

 Thanks for the reply.  No, I don't mind an off-list post whatsoever, and
 welcome it.  I read through the attachment you sent, and I was
 completely baffled by what it had to say.  From what I could make of it,
 I do believe I have what is needed to play DVDs on my laptop (as I can
 play DVDs using Ogle or VideoLan), just not Xine.  From what I've seen,
 Xine looks to be the best player out there, and I would love to give it
 a chance, if I could get it working.  But alas, perhaps I was never
 meant to get Xine working.  I still welcome any more suggestions to try
 and help me get over this very big hurdle.

I'm just too pig-headed to let go!  My last post, saying that xine was no 
longer working, has proved to be wrong.  Now it plays encrypted videos 
beautifully - it just won't play the unencrypted ones!

Haviong got so far, I'm hoping Pilaga is going to give me a command/line 
launch that will by-pass dvdnav when I need it to.  It would be nice to be 
able to program one of those free buttons to that, but what the hell - if I 
get it to work, I'll not complain at a little c/l :)

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RE: [newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Wideman

 I suggest you do
 urpmi.removemedia -ac
 to remove *all* sources and start again.


 just to remind you in case you missed yesterdays post. To put
 your CD sources
 in, insert CD1 in your CD drive then

 urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable:///mnt/cdrom

Ok, did that.  At this point i can remove things from the Sources
Manager and it actually goes away AND without closing the program, WAHOO.

Issue:  I am now trying to add sources.  I tried through the Sources
Manager and it cant retrieve the list.  So i tried to manually doing
it through urpmi.addmedia.here is what i got (this happens on
any ftp/site i try to add):

# urpmi.addmedia --update Updates
ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub.linux/mandrake/updates with ../base/hdlist.cz
added medium Updates
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1
(x86).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2
(x86).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD
(x86).cz]
retrieving description file of Updates...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Updates...
curl: (7) Connect failed
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0

retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium Updates
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium Updates
unable to update medium Updates




Any ideas?
Thanks
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
  But as I said almost a year ago, it's not as easy to find a linux tech as
  a windows one.
 
  Anne
 
 :)

 I'm not overly expensive! At present when I'm not doing dad things and
 I'm not over burdened with home work for school I charge $25 an hour for
 custom programming and Website design and maintainence. It helps keep me
 in goodies for my ever growing population of Penguins and their trappings.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me ;)  But I think your expenses bill might 
be too big if I asked you to pop round to sort out my usb - Yorkshire's a 
long way away g

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Re: [newbie] Usability [was: Re: Mandrake Financial Problems]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:05, John Richard Smith wrote:

 In your experience is it still the case, I mean you mention NT servers 
 were unreliable
 as against linux server boxes. I have no personal experience whatsoever.
 
 John

Let's put it this way - I always setup a scheduled task on an NT box so
that it reboots at least once per week. I don't do it for Linux, and
didn't do it for OS/2.

I have yet to meet an NT box that hasn't crashed under stress.

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:25, John Richard Smith wrote:
 Next question how do I know which is the demuxer pluging,
 by way of help here is a list of packages installed so far.
 cd /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/dvd/xine/xineplf0103
 
 ls
 libdxr3_0-0.12.0-4mdk.i586.rpm  xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf.i586.rpm
 libxine1-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpmxine-dvdnav-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 libxine1-devel-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm  xine-dxr3-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 libxine1-docs-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-esd-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 xine-aa-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm xine-faad-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 xine-alsa-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-plugins-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 xine-arts-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm   xine-ui-0.9.17-1mdk.i586.rpm
 xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm xine-ui-aa-0.9.17-1mdk.i586.rpm
 xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf.i586.rpmxine-win32-1-0.beta2.1plf.i586.rpm
 xine-divx4-0.9.13-8plf.i586.rpm xine-xvid-0.9.13-8plf.i586.rpm
 
 John

My plugins dir looks like:

[root@kma1 plugins]# ls
xineplug_ao_out_arts.so   xineplug_decode_mad.so 
xineplug_dmx_avi.so xineplug_dmx_ogg.so  
xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.so
xineplug_ao_out_esd.soxineplug_decode_mpeg2.so   
xineplug_dmx_cda.so xineplug_dmx_qt.soxineplug_inp_vcd.so
xineplug_ao_out_oss.soxineplug_decode_spucc.so   
xineplug_dmx_mpeg_audio.so  xineplug_inp_cda.so   xineplug_vo_out_fb.so
xineplug_decode_a52.soxineplug_decode_spu.so 
xineplug_dmx_mpeg_block.so  xineplug_inp_dvd.so  
xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so
xineplug_decode_divx4.so  xineplug_decode_sputext.so 
xineplug_dmx_mpeg_elem.so   xineplug_inp_file.so 
xineplug_vo_out_xshm.so
xineplug_decode_dts.soxineplug_decode_vfill.so   
xineplug_dmx_mpeg_pes.soxineplug_inp_http.so  xineplug_vo_out_xv.so
xineplug_decode_ff.so xineplug_decode_vorbis.so  
xineplug_dmx_mpeg.soxineplug_inp_net.so
xineplug_decode_lpcm.so   xineplug_decode_w32dll.so  
xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so xineplug_inp_rtp.so

(dmx denotes demux)

Not being familiar with the PLF RPM set, I'd say to install all of 'em
if you ain't already...then check the plugins dir again to see...

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update

2003-01-21 Thread Terry Sheltra

I don't know about you Anne, but when I installed Ogle, I had to 
download the Red Hat RPMs from Ogle's website.  The plf ones wouldn't 
work after I installed them.  It would just crash every time I tried to 
play a DVD.  I also had problems with dependencies as well.  It kept 
telling me that I needed to install libdvdcss (even though I had the 
libdvdcss2 RPM from plf like you).  All I did was install the pkgs with 
the --nodeps switch, and it works just fine.

Hope that helps somewhat,

Terry

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:49 pm, Pilagá wrote:

 

	Terry, as I have posted early, you need (only) this rpms:
   

This are the files that I have installed (+ decss)
xine_dmd_plugin1.0.7-1plf
xine-dvdnav1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-plugins1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-win32 1-0.beta2.1plf
xine-ui 0.9.17-1mdk
libxine1 1-0.beta2.1plf
 

And, of course, libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf
   


Fool that I am, I can't leave anything alone.  Yes I was missing 
libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf.  So with high hopes I launched xine again.  But 
meanwhile I had tried to install ogle, found it didn't work (presumably 
missing packages again) and uninstalled it.  Now xine has stopped working 
again.

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RE: [newbie] No video with avifile

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 02:53, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote:

 Could we consider starting a new religion?
 As my frequent contacts with Islamic and Christian websites reveal their
 utter lack of anything even closely resembling  humour, I think we may hit a
 hole in the market.
 Nevertheless I will try your suggestions.
 
 Ed

Well, I got a lake full of fish two blocks away - shall I build and
altar? (g)

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Re: [newbie] GMC on Mdk 9.0?

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 04:48, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
 Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:02, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
  
 Hi,
 
 Is GMC available on MDK 9.0 software control centre?
  
  
  As in Gnome Midnight Commander ?
 Yep.
 
 It was THE file manager I have got used to after coming from a windows 
 environment. Someone commented that it is not in MDK 9.0 and suggested 
 nautilus, which I really DON'T like. Asides from the cli version of mc 
 could I download and install the one on TUCOWS Linux or can I can kiss a 
 useful app goodbye?
 

Well, I was able to compile and install it whilst running Gnome 1.4+ - I
still have the tarball - I know it's still out there - just have to dig
for it - and I do recall that the home page for it was very very plain
and bland - but worked like a charm. Also used it under Enlightenment as
it provided a desktop for me to have folders and files - and is
fast...if you can't find it anywhere I'll copy it to a website I got and
point you to the URL...

 P.S. I;m setting my email to stop receiving from the newbie list as I 
 currently cannot deal with a full days work at a new job and the list 
 after hours at home.

Mate, I don't blame you there - wish I could do that - but my life is
email and support - so it's in my job desc to receive several hundred
emails a day...sad but true...

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Re: [newbie] Xine - update - updated

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:08 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 I don't know about you Anne, but when I installed Ogle, I had to
 download the Red Hat RPMs from Ogle's website.  The plf ones wouldn't
 work after I installed them.  It would just crash every time I tried to
 play a DVD.  I also had problems with dependencies as well.  It kept
 telling me that I needed to install libdvdcss (even though I had the
 libdvdcss2 RPM from plf like you).  All I did was install the pkgs with
 the --nodeps switch, and it works just fine.

 Hope that helps somewhat,

Thanks Terry, but I'll not bother.  Here's the latest -

I have played a little of every dvd I have, both the old and the new, except 
for a pair of Chinese Tourist Board disks that are totally unencrypted, I 
think.  For them I get 'no plugin available for dvd:/'.

Apart from that - some disks take a long time to sort themselves out.  Some 
appear to stick on the copyright notice - I had thought they would not play, 
but if you select 'play the next scene' they will continue and all is well.

All in all, I'm well pleased - though I would like those wonderful Chinese 
ones.

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Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Weaver

et wrote:

On Monday 20 January 2003 02:56 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:


On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 5:29 am, Robin Turner wrote:


Richard Babcock wrote:


Interesting article in my local paper.


http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html


Looks like we got our user base!

Sir Robin


When I was there 18 months ago it was common to see buses with linux
slogans on the side.

Anne


as a followup to this thread this morning when I opened my email client
there was the usual message from the system with the overnight logs for
review. at the top of the list was about 75 lines revealing a brute force
attack that was launched against my server around 8:00 am Sunday morning.
apparently, from the logs they were attempting to gain access through
ipop3d by running a list of possible login usernames. they were of course
quite unsuccessful. Chinanet appears to have more then their fair share of
no-job-havin-script-kiddie-scumbags that have nothing better to do then
behave as low-brow felons.

I just wish the Chinese ISP's would respond to the emails I've been
sending them letting them know their network is being used to attempt
illegal access of remote computer systems!


you are s damn funny...I am laffing my ass off at that idea ... not even 
an anagram. 

hmwhat-er-ya trying to say et? you don't think they can read 
english er somthin?

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Re: [newbie] compile errors-- compiler cannot create executables?

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 00:52, Jerry Barton wrote:
 below is the output when trying to run ./configure from a source tarball of gtop 
1.0.13.  
 I've never seen this error before below also is my gcc version.
 i've tried running it as root with the same results.
 
 any ideas why?
 Jerry.
WHACK
 checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc  ) works... no
 configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create 
executables.
 [jerry@main gtop-1.0.13]$
WHACK

You might want to make sure that ALL the relevant dev packages are
installed - headers, libs and the likes - not being able to create and
executable is generally a header/lib issue - so once you're ABSOLUTELY
POSITIVE you've got all the dev stuff loaded, double check your
/etc/ld.so.conf file so that has all the proper bits and bobs in it -
and even add: /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for the hell of it - and rerun
ldconfig to rebuild the lib path cache - THEN try it all over again...if
THAT doesn't work, then blame Anne.

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Re: [newbie] Remote access configuration

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:28, Marc Bannink wrote:
 Hello,
 
 i would like to change the default screen size of the windows terminal 
 services client. 
 
 default is set to 800x600 when just starting rdesktop by hand i off course can 
 change with the g(eomatric) option this but i would like it to be changed 
 when using the Virtual Network Connection to a Microsoft windows terminal 
 server.
 
 Is this possible?
 
 Marc Bannink

Ok - now I'm trying to understand something here - are you actually
using rdesktop for your remote connection, or are you using VNC for
your remote connection? For connecting to a Windows box, you aren't
going to be allowed much control in that area - but in connecting to a
linux box, you can configure the screen resolution...

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Re: [newbie] Slow

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 22:03, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Geoff Thomas wrote:
  I have installed LM 9.0. It was running OK, but suddenly slowed down to a
  crawl. Rebooted and it is still slow. It works but launcing a console takes
  over one minute. I reinstalled and it worked until I shut down and then on
  reboot it slowed again. I am using KDE 3.0.
  AMD 600 mHz processor with plenty of memory. LM 8.1 worked great.
 
 Are you on a lan?  I had a big problem with this, and it turned out that my 
 hosts file was wrong.
 
 Anne

..could also be that the ethernet card's settings have been set to half
duplux and 10mpbs...that will cause some crawling as well...

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ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as between terrorists 
and freedom fighters.
(Eric)


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 6:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 But as I said almost a year ago, it's not as easy to find a linux tech
  as a windows one.
 
 Anne
 
 :)
 
 I'm not overly expensive! At present when I'm not doing dad things and
 I'm not over burdened with home work for school I charge $25 an hour for
 custom programming and Website design and maintainence. It helps keep me
 in goodies for my ever growing population of Penguins and their
  trappings.
 
  That sounds pretty reasonable to me ;)  But I think your expenses bill
  might be too big if I asked you to pop round to sort out my usb -
  Yorkshire's a long way away g
 
  Anne

 I dunno...I've always seen USB as one of those things that either worked
 or it didn't. and if it didn't it was likely due to bad hardware.
 what-cha usin USB for?

It works fine for printer, scanner and LS120, but I have no success at all 
with either camera or smartmedia reader.  I've spent so much time on both, 
but can't get the system to see either, so I've given up.  Hopefully 9.1 will 
be a little more clever, just as 9.0 was better than 8.2 :)

Anne
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Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 23:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,
 I get something like this almost every 2 weeks! From the most amazing
 places, like Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Russia. You name it.
 
 Still trying to figure out a procmail recipe that dumps that stuff
 immediately! ;-)
 Paul

Procmail is great...here's an awesome site that helped me in getting
deeper into the inner workings - and showed me The Light as to how to
filter said garbage where it belongs (/dev/null

http://handsonhowto.com/pmail101.html

...bookmark this site...it's unbelievably invaluable!

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ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as between terrorists 
and freedom fighters.
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Re: [newbie] LM9 and UT dedicated server

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 00:31, The Joker wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I hope this is a correct forum to post this.
 
 I'm trying to run a dedicated server for UT on my home LAN.
 
 UT runs fine as a single player, and the server seems to start up OK, but I 
 can't seem to connect to it from any of my other boxes.
 The server seems to run fine when I run it as a single command, the web server 
 starts up and I can administer it, but players just can't connect.
 
 .ini files and shell commands can be uploaded to a web site if anyone wants to 
 take a look.
 
 I'd appreciate any help I can get with this problem. It's a pain having to 
 reboot Linux and run XP so that I can run the server.
 
 Thanks all,
 The Devils Advocate.
 

Before firing up a game server I would want to make sure that the
machine is able to see all the other machines on the network, all the
other machines on the network to see the server, be able to ping
everyone and have everyone be able to ping back - and ONLY AFTER that
was a proven fact and it was shown that after rebooting the network it
sitll worked like a charm, THEN I would pursue the setting up of the UT
server.

...just makes more sense that wayelse ya ain't gonna run a game
server if it ain't letting anyone see it, or it ain't seeing anyone
else...ya reckon?

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[newbie] Spontaneous re-boots