Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread Timo Boewing
Preben Randhol wrote: [...] Do somebody know of particular problems with 2.4.16? Well, for the first time i had a similar problem with GNOME/screensaver under 2.1.16 (custom), bot only once and do not really know if this is related with the kernel. just my two eurocents, Timo

Re: woody and mozilla 0.9.5

2001-12-04 Thread Timo Boewing
I had similar symptoms with a non-deb mozilla as of version 0.95. I recommend to install 0.96 (if not available as .deb) from mozilla.org directly. Between 0.95 and 0.96 about 1500 bugs have been wiped out. Give it a try, not only it is noticeably more performant than the 0.95. hth, Timo

Re: free/open documentation formats

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Hey, thank you all for your reply. Regarding PDF/PostScript that was exactly what i was thinking of, the LZW compression. But good to hear it is possible to avoid this compression. Regarding the authoring tools, i am using a selfmade XML format that i transform into XHTML using XSL Templates.

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
There are : vlc and xine DVD players. Hi Chris, there is also ogle. I also tried vlc and xine, but i got the best results with ogle. why? vlc suffered from hangings and segfaults on my system, and later on i never could get acceleration to work (e.g. via libsdl). Xine did also some

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello Chris, sorry, i cannot further help with this. i was glad that dvds work on my linux box, but i never ripped one. those i know still use windoze :-( So far, the old trick warez dvd rip linux (or similar) on google should help. greetings, Timo

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Thomas Hallaran wrote: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ http://www.hut.fi/~mhkinnun/downloads/dvd/LXDODRIP.ZIP Hey, thanx for these hints! greetings, Timo

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Ogle also has issues. mh, so far i discovered none, but also watched only two movies with it (T2, Episode1). From my point of view, ogle seemed to have the same probs on smooth cam movements like all the other players have (linux and windoze). May this be due to

Re: mouse problems using x

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello Isidor, from experience, please check for these reasons/try this: a) try to use ImPS/2 protocol in X config b) check if gpm is running (general purpose mouse, e.g. for console) typically, i could isolate these two reasons for the symptoms you mentioned.. hope that helps, Timo

Re: Ghostscript/Fonts problem

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Hi Thomas, dunno if that would help, but please try these: a) check if you have dir lines in /etc/X11/XftConfig (dunno if this applies, had to use id for font AA in KDE...but am back to GNOME again ;-] ) b) reinstall XFonts (quite large...if not using a fast inet conn) c) try to embed the

Re: DVD player

2001-12-03 Thread Timo Boewing
Alec wrote: How much RAM on the video card? I'm wondering what kind of hardware one needs to play DVDs and MPEG-4s under Linux. Alec The Laptop: PIII 850MHz w/ 256MB SDRAM 133, GeForce2Go w/ 16MB DDR, Desktop:Athlon A 500MHz w/ 384MB SDRAM 133, GeForce 1 w/ 32MB DDR works mostly

free/open documentation formats

2001-12-02 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello all, for some future and current works i want to provide my writings additionally in other formats than xhtml. Has anyone a link to a list of free documentation formats? The problem is that i want to avoid using formats on that evtl. patents are pending. for example, i would like to