Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-07 Thread Barry
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Barry wrote: Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Barry
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-15 Thread Barry
sane alternative to alsa... (: Cheers, Steve I dumped pa for alsa and had no probs since. What apps are you using? Barry

Re: Twisted Hop Evening

2010-05-16 Thread Barry
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 17 May 2010 12:32, Solor Vox wrote: Are you going to have a tux on the table? =) He and I have had a wee conversation. Initially. he stated that he is feeling very shy and frightened of being expose

Re: serious X problem

2010-04-26 Thread Barry
Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. Every time I try to view any movie X crashes

Re: serious X problem

2010-04-26 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. Every time I try to view any movie X crashes requiring a

Re: serious X problem

2010-04-22 Thread Barry
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. *any* movie? What codecs are you trying? Perhaps you're trying to play something you don't have a

Re: connecting 2 boxes

2010-04-22 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this

Re: connecting 2 boxes

2010-04-17 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and

Re: connecting 2 boxes

2010-04-16 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry does this help? (Google found it i

connecting 2 boxes

2010-04-16 Thread Barry
I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry

Re: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Barry
] terminated with status 32 I don't think your /etc/fstab is quite right. Can you post the file so we can see it. Wayne Could you move /var to where you want it, /new_pos/var,then make a soft link to it from /var.Then alter fstab to mount the ptn, then reboot???? Barry

Re: OT - Sommet digital tv tuner

2010-02-20 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry wrote: Hi all, This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list and are interested in tv. My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a

Re: OT - Sommet digital tv tuner

2010-02-19 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry wrote: Hi all, This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list and are interested in tv. My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a specialised computer.The code running it is held in flash memory

OT - Sommet digital tv tuner

2010-02-18 Thread Barry
any of tuners on the market, or other war stories. Any comments appreciated Barry

Re: Linux and xD memory card

2009-12-27 Thread Barry
problem may be unsolvable; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211287 The path of least resistance seems to be acquire an external card reader. Cheers Ross Drummond I have a usb card reader you can try if you are coming to Chch and you are using a lappie Barry

Re: cups & lp0 problem

2009-12-14 Thread Barry
Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/12/12 Barry Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Barry wrote: I have a old printer which gets used once per month and is unplugged and stored most of the time. When I plug it in cups recognises it but produces 'permission denied'

Re: cups & lp0 problem

2009-12-12 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Barry wrote: I have a old printer which gets used once per month and is unplugged and stored most of the time. When I plug it in cups recognises it but produces 'permission denied' messages even though I have added myself to the lp a

cups & lp0 problem

2009-12-10 Thread Barry
s not work To get output I have to alter the permissions on /dev/lp0 from 660 to 666. This to me is a dirty way of fixing the problem. Is there another way, or is it a cups fault? (cups 1.3.10). There is no problem with my usb printer. The problem reoccurs after rebooting. TIA Barry

Re: Skype on Kubuntu

2009-11-26 Thread Barry
reset with xvattr -a XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY -v 1 You need to install xvattr Barry

lp0 permission problems

2009-10-28 Thread Barry
. System is Mandriva2009.1 TIA Barry

Re: qemu problems

2009-09-15 Thread Barry Marchant
Craig Falconer wrote: Barry Marchant wrote, On 14/09/09 23:58: When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is "VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900'". this is the same whether or not I give it a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being hel

qemu problems

2009-09-14 Thread Barry Marchant
t being helpful. The start instructions in qemu docs do not work the same image file opens without problems under qemu-0.9 Any ideas appreciated, thanks Barry

Re: Pronounce "sudo"

2009-09-09 Thread Barry Marchant
Round here, when I am already root, and want to run dolphin which for some strange reason barfs up if I forget the sudo it is pronounced 'bugger' Robert Fisher wrote: Today I came across a reminder of the meaning of "sudo" "super user do" So how should it be pronounced? soo-doo or soo-dough

Re: Kopete 4.2 & msn

2009-08-24 Thread Barry Marchant
steve wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:03 +1200, Barry Marchant wrote: Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete

Re: Kopete 4.2 & msn

2009-08-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete 0.70.4 has a bug which crashes it when trying to add a contact. Plenty

Re: Kopete 4.2 & msn

2009-08-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Robert Fisher wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:03:16 Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? Yes it has changed its name to WLM - Windows Live Messenger plugin Rob

Kopete 4.2 & msn

2009-08-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry

Re: python coding problem

2009-08-12 Thread Barry Marchant
Thanks for replies. Putting the ampersand in the 3rd line thus "qiv %s" % self.filew.get_filename() did the trick The exercise is to persuade a file selector to display images. I'm learning. Barry --- Hadley Rich wrote: On Wed, 2009

python coding problem

2009-08-12 Thread Barry Marchant
displayed while the python app continues running. Google produces lots of answers, none of which I can understand. What alt should I make to the code? TIA Barry

paradise having trouble????

2009-07-12 Thread Barry Marchant
I have waited about 5 mins for 1 of telstras own sites to come up! sending speed +- 23 B/s av Receiving speed abt 200 B/s av Is this normal / what should i expect? from telstra cable Are all the kiddies playing & causing problems Barry

Skype video problem solved!!!!!

2009-07-08 Thread Barry Marchant
mplayer is 1 of them reset the attribute to '0'. It is an instant fix if you are looking at a black rectangle in the options->video menu! of course this could be easily fixed in skype - if it was open source Barry

Re: OT Press co hogging cpu usage

2009-06-25 Thread Barry Marchant
Thanks for the replies, I fixed my problem by turning off every optional extra in opera. Perhaps someone with greater knowlege than me should tell them?? Barry Barry Marchant wrote: Hi All, has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having

OT Press co hogging cpu usage

2009-06-25 Thread Barry Marchant
also appauling. Barry

Re: dodgy hd

2009-06-15 Thread Barry Marchant
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure was more than "just" the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to the partition table. That comment was aimed at Barry, the OP wh

Re: dodgy hd

2009-06-14 Thread Barry Marchant
oops, 120 gig from dove Craig Falconer wrote: Barry Marchant wrote, On 15/06/09 16:30: had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. 12 GB and 6 months old? Did you get it from a time warp or something?

dodgy hd

2009-06-14 Thread Barry Marchant
discovered anything missing yet, what further checks should I do, or should I just return it as being faulty? Barry

A firefox addon by ms

2009-06-03 Thread Barry Marchant
Some might find this item about ms addons interesting http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/01/ms_firefox_extension_row/ Barry

Re: Not sure if anyone has seen this already.

2009-06-03 Thread Barry Marchant
an interestin 29 minutes listeming, has anyone saved it? Barry David Lowe wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen wrote: Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806

Re: Not sure if anyone has seen this already.

2009-06-03 Thread Barry Marchant
works for me using opera but slow to get started. Its on BBC radio4 Barry David Lowe wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen wrote: Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode

Re: ekiga not creating sockets

2009-05-31 Thread Barry Marchant
thers decidedly flakey, and a call to skype and their offer of a reply within 2 days or so was ignored. Barry

Re: ekiga not creating sockets

2009-05-30 Thread Barry Marchant
Derek Smithies wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009, Barry Marchant wrote: Thanks for the replies, it now works. The problem was in the original configuration druid which set NAT to STUN when it was not required. I have just altered it to "None" and now get a test reply. now to test it

ekiga not creating sockets

2009-05-30 Thread Barry Marchant
lution yet. Camera works OK, sound test in setup works ok. Running Mandriva 2008 with 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv kernel & 512 M memory. Any ideas how to fix the problem welcome. TIA Barry

Re: Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch

2009-05-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Gold wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Gold wrote: And wifi? I dunno, but we are talking about a SOCIAL gathering! _Without_ wifi? ;) How do you function without a net connection? ;) Verbally --> face2face?

Re: text sizing - Ekiga Help

2009-05-24 Thread Barry Marchant
To change the display font in ekiga Help.. 1. open ekiga 2. select Help --> Contents 3. select Edit --> Preferences 4. unselect 'Use System Fonts' 5. make your choice Barry Nick Rout wrote: For posterity you should tell us how. On Sun, May 24,

Re: text sizing

2009-05-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Replying to myself . I have now solved the problem!!! Barry Marchant wrote: Hi All, I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up as

text sizing

2009-05-24 Thread Barry Marchant
the font size used by ekiga help? TIA Barry

Re: OT: I can haz cheezburger

2009-05-19 Thread Barry Marchant
separately kill the netscape process. Quick test on opera, the site appears to work ok Barry -- Another source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 20/05/09 09:24: This message's link with Linux is that the expression in the subjec

grub problen

2009-05-12 Thread Barry Marchant
ng no init found Both ptns are ext3. All appropriate files appear to be present The 2nd will boot using a system rescue dvd but of course this has its own kernel Any ideas why the 2nd fails will be welcome TIA Barry

skype

2009-04-08 Thread Barry Marchant
Has anyone any experience of running skype for windows in an emulator? Why do it you ask? In order to run the latest version tia Barry

ms docx files

2009-04-05 Thread Barry Marchant
Could someone please advise what readers are available for ms docx (xml) files. Barry

Re: testing...

2009-03-25 Thread Barry Marchant
John Rye wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: one... two, buckle my shoe. Three four, kick in the door five six, I live in the styx

skype video

2009-03-05 Thread Barry Marchant
indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. All suggestions welcome TIA Barry

Movies from a still camera (was: Remove a watermark ...)

2009-02-18 Thread Barry Marchant
For my camera I browse from time to time, it still intrigues me with its capabilities. Barry

Re: locale problem

2009-02-15 Thread Barry Marchant
Thanks Steve, looks like the problem started with the installation of updated glibc. I reverted to the old one, installed the locale files and the problem has disappeared. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: I did of course mean set LANG to C, not LOCALE in my previous

locale problem

2009-02-15 Thread Barry Marchant
, locales-en are not installed, and appear to not be installable (glibc problem?) All ideas to fix the problem welcome. Barry

Re: Kubuntu local feedback

2009-01-29 Thread Barry Marchant
some tricks needed to include jpegs (for headings etc) Barry Robert Fisher wrote: I have recently bought a video camera which can save AVCHD files (High definition). I have found what looks like a very good Video Editor for Linux - kdenlive. Unfortunately my current

mandriva2009 & kde4

2009-01-22 Thread Barry Marchant
the bb modem (package missing?) I can not unpack the .gz file on the cd i burnt for the install, which contains the pkgs, with what has been installed. Any help will be appreciated Barry

Re: help with mencoder/kino

2009-01-13 Thread Barry Marchant
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Lee Begg wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:42:16 Barry Marchant wrote: mencoder reports Video stream: 28800.000 kbit/s (360 B/s) size: 1800 bytes 5.000 secs 125 frames Audio stream: 352.800 kbit/s (44100 B/s) size: 220500 bytes

help with mencoder/kino

2009-01-13 Thread Barry Marchant
frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Any ideas welcome TIA Barry

skype video problem

2009-01-06 Thread Barry Marchant
show any processes running which may require video and anyway it is video in which is affected, not video out. Xv uses port 62 with XShm support enabled. Barry

Re: Newest Penguinista

2008-11-15 Thread Barry Marchant
A!! So you've got a little gnome, nuff sed. Congratulations to you both. Barry --- yuri wrote: On 2008-11-15 at 14:53 the newest Penguinista arrived: Marijke Aroha Anne de Groot 3.47kg (don't ask about lbs and Ozes - ~$ man units) Mother and baby are both happy

Re: CLUG meeting

2008-11-06 Thread Barry Marchant
Next years fine Barry - Zane Gilmore wrote: There did not appear to be a reply to my suggestion the other day for the meeting next Tuesday. Steve and Roger... Are you guys going to be able to do your thing? Derek and Barry... do you have any objection to doing your talks next

Re: [OT] Telstra Clear cable usage meter unobtainable?

2008-11-04 Thread Barry Marchant
4.20 pm Just checked my usage using Brett's suggested url, no problems Barry Brett Davidson wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Anyone else having problems with this page: http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/usagemeter/ which is pointed to here

Condolences

2008-10-29 Thread Barry Marchant
Hello cluggers, Those of you who know Chris and Caleb Sawtell will be saddened to hear that Chris lost his Partner of 20 years, and Caleb his Mother last Saturday. I am sure all cluggers will join with me in offering you both our sincere sympathy. Barry

Re: laptop blanking

2008-10-24 Thread Barry Marchant
Thank you, that fixed the problem. But is the change persistant between sessions or does it revert when I shut down? Barry --- Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, when the gui fails, just open a console on the display and type xset -dpms which disables DPMS (Energy Star

laptop blanking

2008-10-23 Thread Barry Marchant
ve i missed which is permitting screen blanking TIA Barry

Re: CLUG meeting

2008-10-13 Thread Barry Marchant
Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway

Re: Krita

2008-10-06 Thread Barry Marchant
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Barry Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI, is anyone using krita for image manipulation? The handbook says it can import xcf images, the import options will not permit [EMAIL PROTECTED] An alternative for me will be any lossless

Krita

2008-10-06 Thread Barry Marchant
rate file? Tia Barry

gimp scrollbar colors

2008-09-17 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi all, Can anyone tell me how to change the scrollbar colors so that the are readily visible? Tried gimp 2.3.14, & 2.4.0-rc2. No response to changes in kde or icewm changes google no help. TIA Barry

Re: network problem

2008-08-25 Thread Barry Marchant
start firewall now' then save and quit. With the lappie connected ifconfig shows me 3 connections - eth0, eth1, and lo so I need to run ifup and ifdown to select the connection i want HTH Barry --- Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:25 +1200 Aidan G

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-14 Thread Barry Marchant
You may need a different version of qt etc to run it Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: Just found this. Looks like its distro & qt version independent. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=com&cba=0:Q:80:::3 No dates thoug

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-14 Thread Barry Marchant
It is available on this page, I just d/l it http://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/i686/PLD/RPMS/ lots of broken links,changed names & addresses etc Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: Just found this. Looks like its distro & qt version independen

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-14 Thread Barry Marchant
Just found this. Looks like its distro & qt version independent. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=com&cba=0:Q:80:::3 No dates though Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, John Rye wrote: as root: urpmi qt4-database-plugin-ibase-l

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-14 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi Tom, I sent an earlier reply to mysellf! Oops What I meant to say follows. Sorry, I missed the fine print. Looks like the matching qt4 version has been pulled.Try a query to mandrivaclub with the problem Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread Barry Marchant
WHAT is wrong with the reference I gave you Its what you asked for. Barry - Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: What version of Mandriva are you running, The package is available for 2007 and 2008. looks like 2008.0 and 2008.1

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread Barry Marchant
What version of Mandriva are you running, The package is available for 2007 and 2008. looks like 2008.0 and 2008.1. Go to rpm.pbone.net advanced search select mandriva2008 and enter 'qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib' HTH Barry - Tom Munro Glass wrote: On T

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread Barry Marchant
to install also. HTH Barry --- Tom Munro Glass wrote: Do we have any Mandriva experts on the list? I have some questions about how to install a source package and do a custom build, but thought I'd check first if there is someone her

Unwanted popup

2008-07-20 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi all, I keep getting a popup (fromkde?) which says Could not find mime type application/octet-stream It started when i loaded dolphin, also with a jpg file. Any ideas what is missing please Barry

Re: MythTV links

2008-07-08 Thread Barry Marchant
Thanks Nick for a very interesting evening Barry Nick Rout wrote: I will put my slide show on the wiki later but thought I would put the list of links from the last couple of pages here on the list for those who want a quick information fix: General: MythTV Homepage http://www.mythtv.org

Re: HP nx9040 s-video out

2008-07-04 Thread Barry Marchant
Someone would need to bring a TV as well. After all the browsing & testing I have done I do not think this is worth persuing further . Thanks for your thoughts. Anyway Nick your presentation is going to be far more interesting. Barry

Re: HP nx9040 s-video out

2008-07-02 Thread Barry Marchant
The last 1 is the s-video port. Dse item looks promising or i might get a new tv with vga in Barry

Re: HP nx9040 s-video out

2008-07-01 Thread Barry Marchant
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Barry Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Come on Barry tell us some more info. What video card is it? What driver dies it use? lspci (part) gives... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor

Re: HP nx9040 s-video out

2008-06-29 Thread Barry Marchant
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Barry Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of the the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to xorg.conf followed by a reboot. I have

HP nx9040 s-video out

2008-06-29 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi All, Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of the the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to xorg.conf followed by a reboot. I have had a 2nd monitor running as a clone so far I am running mandriva2008.0 on this box. TIA Barry

Re: Next talk MythTV 8 July 2008

2008-06-20 Thread Barry
Ross, Didnt someone in your territory make a dish out of a warehouse frypan? That would be an interesting demo! Barry Ross Drummond wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Nick Rout wrote: For once CLUG does not clash with my Board of Trustees so I will present about MythTV on 8 July 2008. I am

Re: dolphin crash - date problems

2008-06-15 Thread Barry
Thanks Chris, the problem was solved by deleting the file .dolphinview, size 0 in the affected directory. Barry Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:57:49 Barry wrote: Hi all, what is going wrong with dolphin causing it to crash when I select a

dolphin crash - date problems

2008-06-14 Thread Barry
with kcontrol as root. Thanks, Barry

networking..............

2008-06-02 Thread Barry
However I can not then go to a remote site from a web browser from either box. I have to unplug the cable before starting ppp and going on the web. I am then restricted to the box I log on from. What setup changes need to be made to fix this problem? TIA Barry

Re: eject /dev/cdrom

2008-05-26 Thread Barry
A bit late replying but I have an item set up which works directly on the cdreader, '"Eject CD1" - eject /dev/hdc' HTH Barry -- Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I make good use of the eject command which up to gutsy would work on it's own wi

Re: Recommendation for printers

2008-05-15 Thread Barry
. It prints reasonable photos as well as great text. Barry Christopher Sawtell wrote: I have two friends who have HP-1600 coloured laser printers. One has a built-in network print-server, the other a USB connection. The one with the print-server was an immediate plug-in and go situation on Ubuntu,

Re: Dates? Re: Printing woes...

2008-05-12 Thread Barry
Thanks, Please check that its ok now. Its the result of a new install which caused me a lot of grief Barry Craig Falconer wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-14 at 05:18 -0400, Barry wrote: ^ Your clock is one day fast, and you're in the wrong timezone. So your email

Re: Printing woes...

2008-05-12 Thread Barry
Problem now solved, the device uri set up with cups was wrong. I compared printers.conf with the similar file from another distro, copied the appropriate line across and restarted cups = problem solved. Thanks for the replies, see you tonight. Are you joining us @ 6.00 pm Nick? Barry

Printing woes...

2008-05-12 Thread Barry
stay until cancelled. Any ideas anyone please? Barry

Re: modem woes

2008-05-06 Thread Barry
Many thanks for the replies, I think the modem is now sorted. After reinstalling it works. Looks like something went wrong with the 1st install, and the 2nd Barry -- Barry wrote: Hi Folks, I recently did a new install of Mandriva 2008.0 on a spare

modem woes

2008-05-03 Thread Barry
es/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/other/martian_dev.ko): Invalid module format. I have checked and appear to have the correct kernel sources installed. Copying files from the earlier compile does not work. Google has not helped. After 3 days I have run out of ideas, any suggestions please Barry

compiling avidemux 2.4.1

2008-04-28 Thread Barry
ux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/CMakeFiles/ADM_utilities.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Am I correct in assuming that the file 'ADM_imageLoader.cpp' is faulty? The first time I tried to compile it a ";" was missing in the same line 341 which I inserted. Barry

Re: jpg to avi

2008-04-18 Thread Barry
Thanks Guys, This is looks like the info I need to experiment with Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:13:57 +1200, Lee Begg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Barry wrote: Sorry, I did not e

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