Re: ALSA upgrade

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Are you using ALSA for all sound stuff? If not, you could simply disable it (at compile time) for Xine. What format did you install ALSA-0.5.12a (tgz, RPM)? You can prolly just compile, and then install, but you should make sure that its going to install the newer version in the same directo

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:18:47 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:11:30 -0500 > begin "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > [snip] > > > >No insult Jerry sent a post to put a xserverrc file in > >x11/xinit. > > There was not

ALSA upgrade

2002-07-04 Thread edj
I have ALSA 0.5.12a installed. I can't get sound in XINE - it complains that I need ALSA 0.9.0. I have the 0.9.0 tarballs, but how do I upgrade? Simply compile? Remove all old alsa stuff first? Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Nothing. Just that most distros released in the past 6 months use glibc-2.2.x, rather than glibc-2.1.x. Michael Hipp wrote: > What happened 6 months ago to fix this problem? > > Michael > > On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:41 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > >>You *should* be able to. That doesn't guaren

Re: KDE 3.02 Yipes!

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Jerry McBride wrote: > I'm just begining to iron out some minor flaws with KDE 3.02. During on of > my breaks I > ran du on the directory that holds all the uncompressed and compiled > source code and > wow! 1.6gig... The i18n internationalization stuff accounts for about a > third of that... > >

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 11:50:24 -0700 Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I easily > >>reinstall the old glibc? > >> > > >

Re: United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Hipp
What happened 6 months ago to fix this problem? Michael On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:41 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > You *should* be able to. That doesn't guarentee that you'll be able to. > You'll prolly still see all sorts of deps errors, but in many cases > they can be safely ignored. > > Matthe

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Keith Morse wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Net Llama! wrote: > > >>On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Keith Morse wrote: >> >> >>>What I'd like to know is why cdrecord gets hung when doing a -scanbus on >>>/dev/sg0? >> >>Isn't sg0 like a scanner or something similarly unrelated to CD burners? > > > > And thin

Re: M$ and LInuxWorld

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Since when is one a requirement for the other. I guess you've never been to linuxworld before, cause alot of the participants dont' sell anything related to linux. its a trade show. if they think it will sell something, they show up. m.w.chang wrote: > > Why could she join a linux event when

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Joel Hammer wrote: > I am still confused. Should I just rpm -e glibc-localedata-2.1.3-6 and try > again? > > BTW, what will happen to my other glibc's (wine, fontastic) if I am > successful in installing glibc-2.1.3.6 ? Will they still work? > What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
Jerry McBride wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I easily >>reinstall the old glibc? >> > > > What I did before I installed those rpm's was to study them with midnight > commander.

Re: USB-Storage issue

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
http://www.linux-usb.org/ stayler wrote: > Ok, > > SO I spoke to soon. It appears my lockup problem was being caused by > the USB device itself. Sorry for the bandwidth. > > I have both modules installed now and no problem. The card reader has > been removed and will be returned to the vendo

Re: ranking of distros by service

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
I report bugs to the package maintainers, not the distro house. Collins wrote: > I've been pretty much stuck on one distro for a long time, and I've > followed the user group almost since inception. Other than Mandrake a > few years back and Caldera before that, I haven't followed other > distro

Re: United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
You *should* be able to. That doesn't guarentee that you'll be able to. You'll prolly still see all sorts of deps errors, but in many cases they can be safely ignored. Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Sorry. I guess that's coming from the fact that I haven't kept up lately. I didn't >realize MD

[Fwd: Re: DVD-XINE]

2002-07-04 Thread Net Llama!
For anyone else struggling to get Xine working Original Message Subject: Re: DVD-XINE Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:15:07 -0400 From: Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Enterprise Information Systems To: "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 3.02 Yipes!

2002-07-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It's trying to be Windows on Linux so it will get much bigger . Collins wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:16:17 -0400 Jerry McBride > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm just begining to iron out some minor flaws with KDE 3.02. During >> on of my breaks I >> ran du on the directory that holds al

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:14:13 -0700 Jim Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They've been flubbing the xterm for a while now... :') > > what does that mean? What are the symptoms you see where xterm is > broken? Boot to runlevel three, login, execute startx... get a gray screen with an x... no

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:11:30 -0500 begin "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: [snip] > >No insult Jerry sent a post to put a xserverrc file in >x11/xinit. > There was not > one there originally. I put it in and now can startx and xfce starts > real nice now at 0.0.

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread Jim Bonnet
>>I did also replace the libxie.a file with a different one and that >>seemed to help also. Could >>have Caldera screwed the poch here on some of these files? I do not >>know. Just wondering out >>load. I doubt its hosed from cald if it were everyone would probably have the same problem as you.

Re: KDE 3.02 Yipes!

2002-07-04 Thread Collins
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:16:17 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just begining to iron out some minor flaws with KDE 3.02. During > on of my breaks I > ran du on the directory that holds all the uncompressed and compiled > source code and > wow! 1.6gig... The i18n international

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:11:30 -0500 "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- >Jerry sent a post to put a xserverrc file in >x11/xinit. > There was not > one there originally. I put it in and now can startx and xfce starts > real nice now at 0.0. > > I did also replace t

Tiny news item for UK folks

2002-07-04 Thread Collins
Please delete, if you are offended. Excerpt from a posting on another list. we (www.yourlinux.co.uk) now sell Gentoo. ... We are selling version 1.2 for £2.50 a piece (around $3.50). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-galeon ___

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Collins
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:10:11 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---snip--- > > > What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I > > easily reinstall the old glibc? > > A little advan

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 06:02:04 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:17 -0500 > begin "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > MR. BANDEL > > > > OH Mighty one , oh Master of Linux Guru of Gurus. > > Well, insult me if you must .

KDE 3.02 Yipes!

2002-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm just begining to iron out some minor flaws with KDE 3.02. During on of my breaks I ran du on the directory that holds all the uncompressed and compiled source code and wow! 1.6gig... The i18n internationalization stuff accounts for about a third of that... I wonder how much bigger this kde s

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ---snip--- > What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I easily > reinstall the old glibc? > What I did before I installed those rpm's was to study them with midnight commander. You can easily browse t

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I did as you suggested. This command seems to be an improvement over my trial and error approach. However, here is all I get. [root@jhammer6 Glibc]# rpm -Uvh glibc* failed to stat /mnt/NetWork/HAMMER8/D: Input/output error package glibc-localedata-2.1.3-6 is already installed I did install

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Kurt Wall: > > Also sprach Collins: > > > > >Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of > > > >something with a database of installed packages, of course. > > less /var/adm/pkgs/* Um, I meant $ less /var/adm/packages/* > Source code tarballs. > > Kurt > -- > D

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Collins: > > And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically > updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages? Installed packages: /var/adm/packages /var/adm/scripts Uninstalled packages: /var/adm/removed_packages /var/adm/removed_scripts > I already know h

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Collins: > > >Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of > > >something with a database of installed packages, of course. less /var/adm/pkgs/* > I don't think you're mislead, but I'm looking for something other than > the standard Slack offering, since that only a

Re: USB-Storage issue

2002-07-04 Thread stayler
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 03:31:27 -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: >I have a Dane-Elec Photo-Mate Combo - USB, does CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards. >Works just fine. > >http://www.dane-memory.com/content/flash.asp Thanks Ronnie ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: USB-Storage issue

2002-07-04 Thread stayler
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:36:02 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: >Yes had that problem myself in the beggining, was told that it had to be Mass >Storage Compat to work with linux, not all are. What I have at the moment is >a Sandisk Imagemate (SDDR-31). I have a small convertor adaptor by FEIYA >for the

Re: X fails

2002-07-04 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:35:17 -0500 begin "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > MR. BANDEL > > OH Mighty one , oh Master of Linux Guru of Gurus. Well, insult me if you must ... > Well , I found the - problem libxie.a was bad. Your last > suggestion pointed out a l

Re: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

2002-07-04 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 11:15 PM Subject: Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install > Anyway, I downloaded the four libraries from the Caldera 2.4 current rpm's. > They are: > glibc-2.1

Re: USB-Storage issue

2002-07-04 Thread ronnie gauthier
I have a Dane-Elec Photo-Mate Combo - USB, does CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards. Works just fine. http://www.dane-memory.com/content/flash.asp On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:07:02 -0700 (PDT) "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, > > SO I spoke to soon. It appears my lockup problem was being