[SLUG] Back installation problem.
I've Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon installed on the laptop. And, as I'm fed up with it, I've decided to reinstall Feisty Fawn, which, though an earlier version, didn't give me the aggro that I have with the Gibbon. However. I'm having trouble installing Feisty. A friend says it's probably due to my trying to install an earlier version over a version that supercedes. Is he right? If he is, is there any way around it? Regards, William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Back installation problem.
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon installed on the laptop. And, as I'm fed up with it, I've decided to reinstall Feisty Fawn, which, though an earlier version, didn't give me the aggro that I have with the Gibbon. However. I'm having trouble installing Feisty. A friend says it's probably due to my trying to install an earlier version over a version that supercedes. Is he right? If he is, is there any way around it? Ubuntu is designed and tested to be upgraded, not downgraded. If you want to move backwards, you're best off wiping gutsy and installing feisty from scratch. Or better yet, how about you tell us what makes you aggro about gutsy, then maybe we can try and help you? :) Speaking for myself, there were a few things about gutsy that drove me bananas, but I found some workarounds and everything is peachy now. -- Society is important because of Ubuntu. - Bill Clinton, September 2006 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Back installation problem.
quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan Speaking for myself, there were a few things about gutsy that drove me bananas, but I found some workarounds and everything is peachy now. A pirate walks into a bar, with a steering wheel attached to the front of his pants. The barman says, Excuse me sir, do you realise you have a steering wheel attached to the front of your pants? The pirate says, Arr, it's drivin' me nuts! - Jeff -- GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org/ http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [OT]Facebook app
Hi All, I just wrote a facebook application for playing Sudoku. Those interested.. http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ For non-facebook users: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Regards Deepan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Back installation problem.
Speaking for myself, there were a few things about gutsy that drove me bananas, but I found some workarounds and everything is peachy now. A pirate walks into a bar, with a steering wheel attached to the front of his pants. The barman says, Excuse me sir, do you realise you have a steering wheel attached to the front of your pants? The pirate says, Arr, it's drivin' me nuts! Lets see (dons sea faring pirate hat that I used to wear when I lived in the Caribbean back in the 1980's) I've noticed that the 64-bit versions of Etch and Gutsy were just appalling. Still using Gutsy. Whereas the 32-bit versions weren't all that bad in direct comparison. At one point I found myself sending mail to the Debian KDE list about this and someone from Berkeley over in California wrote back in to to explain that so far he hadn't been able to do any work on any 64-bit software due to the lack of hardware. Lead developer not able to write software. I've managed to struggle through all of this but I have to admit it's a lot like going back to the mid-90's once again when you didn't quite expect something to work. I suppose I really shouldn't say anything because I don't give money to keep the whole thing running. However, I do have the distinction of being one of the people who started ManLUG in Manchester and when on holiday in Brussels in Belgium back in 1995 unwittingly started Fosdem by cycling out to the ULB one afternoon for a coffee break only to find that a team of Belgian academics descended on me and asked me to start Osdem or Fosdem as it became. Right, where's that OpenSuSE DVD gone to ? (puts on kevlar vest) -- Richard (parrot drops off shoulder drunk again) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?
Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi all, lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree events. I started tagging the pictures. People Family Brother People Family Sister People Friends ... Places AUstralia ...Uluru Places Germany ... Events holiday 1 Events holiday 2 other ugly people other cows and so on for 160 photos I created around 20 tags... Then I thought about my other more than 1 photos and all the tags they will need. Of course I know that the tags will grow slower by time but even now all my tags wont fit onto one screen height. So what is your experience with tags, with many of them? How do you guys organise/structure you tas? any thoughts? which struckture is not good, hard to scale Cheers, seb PS: I posted this on ubuntu-au list a while ago but got no reply :-( I have started to tag things then stopped as I realised that potentially there were so many categories that tagging photos took longer than finding them on a visual time line. I have then in groups from particular trips, and F spot puts them on a time line which is a similar pattern. So far memory and time line is working and that has been easier than creating a different tagging system. This is similar to my slide collection which is mostly from trips in sequential order and I just use memory and labels on the actual slide, which has mostly worked, but all this will fail some day as I get more photos and less human memory. cheers Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] HP Laptop Mic
Hi All, I have Fc 6 on a HP Pavllion dv 6000. I am able to listen to music on the built in speakers.The inbuilt mic doesn't work and when connecting external speakers I don't get the sound on the external speakers thought my built in speakers continue to work. After searching on the internet, came to know I had to upgrade alsa drivers. I downloaded the latest version and alsa-drivers and als-libs and did as mentioned in the README. But /proc/asound/version still shows me the old version. What have I missed ? Do I need to recompile the kernel ? Regards Deepan Facebook Sudoku Solver: http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Home Page: http://www.codeshepherd/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] how to verify time zones are corrected for new DST ?
On Sat, March 15, 2008 12:19 pm, Rick Welykochy wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: This was found as follows: google for linux %subject% and click I'm Feeling Lucky. thanks, Rick, I did try to search 1st, I guess I need revise my search methods -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mplayer full screen
Hi All, I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after sometime saying my system is too slow. I guess is has some thing to do with the video cards.. is there a fix ? Regards Deepan Facebook Sudoku Solver: http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Home Page: http://www.codeshepherd/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink partition ... Ok thanks for that... (everyone) I haven't installed it that way for a long time and didn't know it worked. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: mplayer full screen
Hi Deepan, Is this when you're playing movies from a CD/DVD player in the machine, or from a file on the machine? Can you check to see if there is any difference between the performance of either? If it's only from DVDs playing on the machine, there may be changes necessary to make in the settings of Mplayer. Have you tried Xine to see if that plays the performance is any better?? Regards, Patrick [SLUG] mplayer full screen Deepan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:57:10 +0530 Hi All, I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after sometime saying my system is too slow. I guess is has some thing to do with the video cards.. is there a fix ? Regards Deepan Facebook Sudoku Solver: http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Home Page: http://www.codeshepherd/ -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Boot problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try the super grub disk if you can get a copy. It should let you boot the system. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have LinuxMint KDE 4.0.44 installed | | My system has suddenly decided not to boot, giving the following error | from /var/log/fsck/checkfs:- | | Log of fsck -C -R -A -a | Fri Mar 14 23:43:10 2008 | | fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) | /dev/hda3: clean, 6800/1376256 files, 1585688/2749123 blocks | fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb1 | /dev/hdb1: | The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 | filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 | filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock | is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: | e2fsck -b 8193 device | | /dev/hda4: clean, 49472/17465344 files, 19579827/34903220 blocks | fsck died with exit status 8 | | Fri Mar 14 23:43:11 2008 | | | | /media/hdb1 is no longer attached. | | I can access /hda1( /),hda 3(/home) and /hda4 (data) from a LiveCD distro. | | What do I need to do to be able to boot ( apart from reattaching /hdb1)? | | Bill | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3fNjybPcBAs9CE8RApFTAJ0YOhdVKzINWFNS+6/wy1CWedwOLQCeNi/J wztcBRnKurLRqBU1+ypuvKQ= =tbxI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen
Deepan Chakravarthy wrote: When I play movies in my Fedora 8 system using mplayer, the movie is rendered only in a small portion of the screen. Even with full screen option, it does not render in full screen. How do I fix it ? in ~/.mplayer/config, you'll want to add the following line: zoom=yes -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen
Deepan wrote: Hi All, I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after sometime saying my system is too slow. I guess is has some thing to do with the video cards.. is there a fix ? Deepan, Here's my ~/.mplayer/config. For the vo option, you might want to play with sdl, gl and xv and see which gives better performance (I've settled with sdl on my pc) # - ~/.mplayer/config --- vo=sdl #vo=gl #vo=xv zoom=yes framedrop=yes hardframedrop=yes cache=64 cache-min=20.0 cache-seek-min =50 prefer-ipv4=yes # Change this depending on your monitor #aspect = 4:3 monitoraspect = 16:9 # enable direct rendering dr = 1 -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
