Re: [newbie] Full screen video problem (was Games (full screen) under 8.0?)
I have a v3 2000 and have had the problems u describe and fixed them as outlined...sorry to say though that i havent experienced the problems u are having with xmms et al. All the videos it is prepared to play at all it plays wellthere may be another problem with your system ( i wouldnt bet on it but i would like to blame the banshee ( bad experience with one:))) On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:40, Sam wrote: Thanks to all who replied! Following the outlined steps, I can now switch to full-screen for games :) However I am still encountering some abnormalities: 1) using AVIplay to play AVIs or ASFs, I can now switch to full-screen modewithout X dying on me. However, the results of the full-screen mode aren't entirely consistent. For instance, if the video window was first maximised to fill the entire screen, the full-screen mode looks nice enough. But if the video window were at any other size, full-screen mode would result in a small video screen with large black border all around. 2) The same thing happens with MTV for MPEG playback. The only difference is that there's no way to maximise the video window to fill the entire screen in the first place, so I can't get the proper full-screen effect at all. 3) XMovie and XMMS-SMPEG all still segfault immediately upon any attempt to playback MPEG videos. I wonder whether these are problems only encountered by users of 3Dfx Banshee cards, or ALL 3Dfx cards i.e. including the Voodoo3 variants? Many thanks in advance. On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Sam, Francisco had it right in his reply to my message! Don't do a graphical login. In my case, I opened a shell, typed in (as su) Xconfigurator, and picked my normal: 1024x768 res 16bit depth but when it asked me if I wanted a graphical login, I said -NO-. Then, from the console login, I logon with my normal user account, type in startx, and all works fine. MTV, Xmms with the SMPEG plugin, all games. The Shogo demo even, which I couldn't get to work under my old setup (v7.0 and v7.1) now works fine in full screen. Hurrah! (and thanks Francisco!) ;-)
Re: [newbie] LM 8.0
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:44, KompuKit wrote: Well...I finally upgraded...to 8.0 from 7.2 and I love it...great job mandrake !!! everything went without a hitch...except one thing... I bought a CD set from cheapbytes... so, I assume they are the download version. I have a Pentium 233 MMX, 64 mg Ram Installed 8.0 on a Maxtor 20 gig HD (dual booting with a 8.4 gig HD maxtor win98) Before upgrading...I bought a Creative Labs ModemBlaster 56k external modem model DE5625 it worked fine under 7.2...and windows.. but now, I can't seem to get it to work under 8.0 I placed the same info...for connection just as I did in 7.2 ...it trys to connect...I see the lights flashing on the modem.. but when it gets to a certain point... ( I think it's when it says LOGGING ON TO NETWORK)... it disconnects...and gives me an error 16 (whatever that is..) I double checked all the settings...to make sure I have them right... and try again...to the same thing.. What's happening here...? why can't I connect...? i have had this a couple of time with 7.2 and 8.0 but all i had to do to fix it was delete and re-enter my username and passord. cant be any more helpful i am afraid
Re: [newbie] BSOD=Blue Screen of Death
have a look in te kde screensavers list there is a bsod saver that emulates the dying moans of about 10 different os'seven my old favourite atari creeping bombs ( where will they stop nobody knowsbut if u really know how crash an atari u cna get more than the bombcode list said was possible:)) tragically in catyclismic cockup they made the bsod black.:( On Tuesday 08 May 2001 10:51, Tycho Bizot wrote: There is a program for windows that makes sure you'll never get a BSOD again X-setup allows you to pick any fore /background color combination.So...you'll may get a GSOD or a YSOD or a SSODunlimited possibillity's!! you should really try it But i like the idea of a BSOD emulator, i only think that you have to make a setup wich requires it to register online and it is supossed to crash! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: dinsdag 8 mei 2001 5:47 To: Rules Address for MDK Subject: [newbie] BSOD=Blue Screen of Death Anyone here voleenteer to make a BSOD emulator for linux ??? Help those newbies to not get too overwhelmed with linux. you could put it in cron, to give them a nice relaxing 4 minute break every 8 minutes... Or we could go all out, and do what MS did,,, that is, set it on boot, on shutdown, randomize it, onClick, onMouseover, hell on everything, Then we can tell people that at least our BSOD can be uninstalled, whats microsnots excuse? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 7:30 AM To: Lee Martin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BSOD=Blue Screen of Death Lee Martin wrote: (Actually, Lee wrote nothing other than the subject line.) Be aware that the term BSOD is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and their intellectual property lawyers will be all over anyone who doesn't respect their legal rights to this term. It is, after all, one of their greatest innovations. Sorry, but I have to cut this short. There's a couple of suits banging on my door... Carroll
Re: [newbie] dreamweaver for linux?
On Monday 30 April 2001 12:31, kaab kaoutar wrote: Hi! I have dreamweaver for windows! Is it possible to get dreamweaver for linux for free ? Thanks Unlikely since macromedia are a big company with lots of corporate clients who run Unix ...free for linux would be dumbhowever there is SCREEM. same sort of thing though leaneru may like it, it is on your mandrake cd's or in your kmenu under networkingwww HTH _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Floppy
if your floppy is supermounted ( works in a fashion simillar to windows, most mandrake installs set this up so it probably is) then u just navigate to /mnt/floppy and the contents of that folder are your floppy On Monday 30 April 2001 16:14, Michael Scottaline wrote: kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi how to access the floppy in a root account i do in my ow account, where there is an icon in the desktop where we can access the floppy! Thanks == Open a console and type mount /mnt/floppy w/o the quotes. Before removing the disk, be certain to type umount /mnt/floppy again w/o quotes [and yes, th's umount NOT unmount. ;o) HTH, Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] CDR
On Monday 30 April 2001 07:59, John W wrote: What do I have to do to gain access to the CD-R drive to play cd's on Mandrake 8.0. I have added myself to the cd and cd writer group with userdrake but still no go! I have tried using the tutorial at the LM site for 7.2 but nothing seems to work! Any help, Thanks, John W Does it play and no sound comes out , or does it tell you you arent allowed to use it. in the first case u need an analogue sound lead in your soundcard from the cd.(does it work in windope?) in the second, check that the actually device file /dev/cdrom or dev/cdrom2 or so has the right permissiond ( the /dev/whatever your writer is will point to a scsi emulated device someting like /dev/scd0 as linux only understands scsi burners) good luck
Re: [newbie] grub and Windows
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 22:32, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi, I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of my primary IDE channel. Is this true? I just added a second 15gb disk to my currently Linux only box. Can I temporarily put this disk into the master position on the primary channel to install Windows then move the disk to the slave position (still on the primary IDE channel), point grub at its new position, and successfully boot into Windows? Would it work if the disk was on the secondary IDE channel? Thanks, ::mark I use 2 copies of windows, one for general use and one for audio work. to do this i had to do as u suggest and format both drives when there were primary master, ( actually i THINK i even installed windows on the one i moved to 2nd master by booting the machine from ide 2, it was none the wiser to my trickery as the disk had been setup as primary master hehe) If u are reinstalling linux grub should see your windows in its new posistion ( it seen both mine with no help from me) if not then i am certain u can point it at it...just not sure how as i havent had to.
