can dvdrip copy DVD

2004-05-17 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
Have got a DVD burner and can burn data projects fine. Now I want to start investigating DVD, so I thought I would start by simply trying to copy a DVD. I installed dvdrip and managed to rip the DVD to the hard drive. But cant work oput what I need to do next. Surley you dont have to transcode

Re: change LILO form command line to menu

2004-05-12 Thread Ben Edwards
possible to not show the menu untill shift is pressed. I had this problem and worked out what was wrong looking at the lilo.conf. If you are really stuck you can use knoppix as a rescue disk. I even managed to chroot, edit lilo and run the lilo prog from it. Ben -- Ben Edwards - currently in

Mounting NT Hipoint RAID disk

2004-05-11 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
I have a Hidhpoint RAID array in my PC whitch is accesable from XP. I am trying to work out how to mount it with kernel 2.6. in /var/log/messages i haveApr 25 16:44:14 blue kernel: Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 Apr 25 16:44:14 blue kernel: No raid array found But th

make-kpkg -revision

2004-05-10 Thread Ben Edwards
le to rerify whitch is working this way. Ben-- Ben Edwards - currently in Bournemouth http://www.gurtlush.org.uk - weblog http://www.cultureshop.org - buy alternative video -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio alsa kernel options

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
I have a 2.6 kernel and I am recompiling it to include sound suport for ' 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio'. I have included ALSA but under this there are a number of options including 'Generic Devices' and 'PCI Devices'. After mutch googling I cant work out whitch of these 'devices' to include. Regar

Re: kernel build questions

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Edwards
Colin wrote: Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: I use the command make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_image to build the kernel, whitch workes fine. However if i use Custom.2 (so I can keep my old kernel) I get the following:- blue:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.2

kernel build questions

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
I have sucsesfult managed to build a 2.6 kernel (whitch I am now using). This is great as CD burning works out of the box and startup/application launch is noticably faster. However I have a few questions. I used the hoto at http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm which is nice and strightforw

Debian WiFi card recomendations please

2004-04-02 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
response last time as I thought it was EXACTLY the type of thing you lot would hav views on. Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.co.uk criticalSite

DELL Inspiron 5000 / sarge netinstall / netgear FA411

2004-02-27 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
cker. Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.co.uk criticalSite Builder CMS http://www.criticaldistribution.com Get alt news/views films onl

Getting Firewire working

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Edwards
do this. Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.co.uk criticalSite Builder CMS http://www.criticaldistribution.com Get alt news/views films online http

CD burner setup problem

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Edwards
e sg driver and the driver for cdrecord.mmap: SCSI hardware, eg. ide-scsi if you run IDE/ATAPI drives over cdrecord.mmap: ide-scsi emulation. Read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup! Not quite sure what /dev/pg is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ben -- Ben Edwards

openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Edwards
yone know how to do this. Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.co.uk criticalSite Builder CMS http://www.criticaldistribution.com Get alt news/views f

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Ben Edwards
> What terminal emulator and shell are you using? This error usually means > that one or the other of them has screwed up SIGPIPE handling. > Just tried with xters/csh and got the same problem. Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Ben Edwards
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:23, Colin Watson wrote: > bash should be OK; try a different terminal. xterm and pterm should both > work. Tried xterm. I think there is a serous problem with doc-linux-text & dependencies but dont know what to try. ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Ben Edwards
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:08, Colin Watson wrote: > What terminal emulator and shell are you using? This error usually means > that one or the other of them has screwed up SIGPIPE handling. bash & gnome terminal Ben -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477

Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Ben Edwards
ement doc-linux-text ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. red:/home/ben/backup# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) -- Ben EdwardsTel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk Webho

Changing system/menu fonts in gnome 2.2 debian

2003-10-05 Thread Ben Edwards
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Changing system/menu fonts in gnome 2.2 debian

2003-10-05 Thread Ben Edwards
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Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-02 Thread Ben Edwards
--quiet --exec /usr/sbin/ntpd sleep 2 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec '/usr/sbin/ntpd' echo "done." ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/ntp {start|stop|restart|force-reload

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
I would go for Debian and install it for them. Once installed debian is a breeze (stick to woody and let them loose on aot-get/apt-cache). The best bit of advice I have heard for newbees is use the distribution your mates use (then when you have got the hang of that make your own judgment). T

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
Have already replaced the bios battery and it still douse not work. think there is something up with the motherboard. Greg Bolshaw wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the

NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
ystem time is, regardless if it is 1980. Ben -- **** * Ben Edwards Tel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 * * Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk * * Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
e with the command '/sbin/shutdown -h now' but it douse not work. Ben -- ************ * Ben Edwards Tel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 * * Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk * * Webhostin

Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-09-27 Thread Ben Edwards
Is there a way of allowing any user to shutdown. Idealy from the taskbar (but I guess in this case it's simply a case of writing a short script and calling it from the taksbar. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

blufish

2003-09-26 Thread Ben Edwards
Not really sure where to ask this cos there douse not seem to be any email lists or forums for bluefish. Anyway I really like it but it douse not seem to do syntax highlishting in php, odd cos it seems to have good suport for it generaly. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

compaq proliant 1500 install (sym53c8xx)

2003-09-10 Thread Ben Edwards
using the wrong boot CD? Any ideas? Ben ******** * Ben Edwards Tel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 * * Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk * * Webhosting for the masses http://www.serve

Problem installing soft modem drivers.

2003-07-10 Thread Ben Edwards
7;. Any ideas? Ben ************ * Ben Edwards Tel +44 (0)1179 553 551 ICQ 42000477 * * Homepage - nothing of interest here http://gurtlush.org.uk * * Webhosting for the masses http://www.serverone.co.uk * * Critical

MySQL apt-get problem

2002-01-28 Thread Ben Edwards
dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package mysql-server has no installation candidate * Ben Edwards +44 (0)117 9400 636 * * Critical

Re: Network card newbee

2002-01-25 Thread Ben Edwards
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Network card newbee

2002-01-25 Thread Ben Edwards
Did nave a look around the web for this but no luck. I have just put a network card in my box but how do I get debian to recognize it and configure it? Ben * Ben Edwards +44 (0)117 9400 636