[newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64

2005-03-18 Thread Bruce Ellison
I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

2005-02-06 Thread Bruce Ellison
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:22:00 -0500, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations (or horror stories) for a dual layer DVD drives? I am looking at the Sony DAU 710A ($90 - $100) and the LiteOn SOHW-1213S. ($80). Mike I am happy with my LG 4120 12x dually. Also surprisingly

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

2005-02-04 Thread Bruce Ellison
I have seen similar sites before, but this is the first one that google gave me: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers click on the player name to see a list of likely to work DVD brands. There are definitely other sites out there as well. HTH. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:30:37 +, Len

[newbie] kaffeine: All Video Drivers failed to initialize

2005-01-12 Thread Bruce Ellison
Hi all. I have been enjoying Kaffeine for a month or so now, but I recently got the above error when starting Kaffeine now (it doesn't start at all - ie, no music files even). hint 1 - I recently installed a second DVD burner on the machine (Benq 1610). Thought that its installation was

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

2005-01-06 Thread Bruce Ellison
Why would anyone want to convert a DVD quality movie and downgrade it to SVCD standard? I have been buying wy too many CD-Rs and need to use them up some how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion

2005-01-01 Thread Bruce Ellison
Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put into my cd/dvd burner drive. But as soon as I take it out, and insert another disk, Konqueror tells me that there are zero files on the new (data filled) disk. Now

[newbie] Re: cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion

2005-01-01 Thread Bruce Ellison
Answered off list. The answer was in supermounting, via the MCC. Thanks again. On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:38:19 -0800, Bruce Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put