Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-25 Thread George Dancheff
Perhaps you'll find handy that simple Makefile I use to get and build CVS and stable sources of MPlayer. http://elemag.virtualave.net/files/mplayer/Makefile create a source dir for MPlayer and put it in inside, then type: make help [it need some improvements/cleanups though, but works for

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread George Dancheff
man consolechars man setfont consolechars -h (see -H, -char-height= and others) --- Dobrev, Evgeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean? the console or the xterm? One of the ways is the frame buffer? You might want to read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt hope that

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-13 Thread George Dancheff
I guess that there is something wrong with your inbox file(s), cd $HOME/Mail mv inbox inbox.bak touch inbox Then fire up your KMail and it will load both inbox and inbox.bak so you can select move your stuff from inbox to inbox.bak within KMail. It should be correct now. --- Jose Manuel

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread George Dancheff
--- Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice until i looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my screensaver had stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried to login but no dialog box noting. Then I tried

Re: Resolved: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-03 Thread George Dancheff
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:30:09AM -0800, George Dancheff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can

Re: Resolved: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-03 Thread George Dancheff
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:35:08PM -0800, George Dancheff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:30:09AM -0800, George Dancheff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: first try

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I extract the big file and run setup, it only says: glibc 2.2.4 then exit Is there any way

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- Steve Kieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know a solution, I can only confirm the bug. OpenOffice is particularly poor at documenting known issues with particular builds. Discouraging as these are 10 hour downloads for me (56k modem). I've discussed the issue

Rebuilding Debian from source

2001-11-30 Thread George Dancheff
Reading that discussion http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=521 I've assembled a really simple script trying to implement the apt-get -b source-upgrade function (since apt has not such feature, but I don't think this is a lack of functionality, but anyway). I'm not sure if

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread George Dancheff
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html --- Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then what? Is there a simple how to? Thus spake Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:00AM

Xwapper

2001-06-01 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, after the last upgrade of X I have been asked if xwapper could be used so the users to start the X through . I answed No and now only root can start X , how can I fix that so the other user can start X too . How to setup this xwrapper ??? Thank you in advance !!!

swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my swap space instead of my free memory , so the performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine is not overloaded , free outputs the following : debian:/# free total

Re: xdm and gdm

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
just type: # apt-get update # apt-get -f install gdm and Debian will do the rest Hope you have the relevant /etc/sources.list pointed to any Debian archive mirror. --- Tushar Naik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been using xdm as my display manager recently on Debian Potato 2.2.

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread George Dancheff
http://gcc.gnu.org --- Karl Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform system. Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's (libraries) to use? I'd like to develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and windows. I'm even about to pay a little