Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
back with more info about your OS and equipement. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
own first. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
memory. John John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
it and store in the fat32. OK, but what if you loose your Hard drive? Better to write to CD and be covered. Once you have adequate, preferably external, backup and restore facilities, you can partition your hard drive and begin playing with Mandrake installs. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Kooka Config

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Kooka Configuration === I think you can see from snapshot403.jpg that kooka doesn't load properly. I did create the desired directory, /~/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages/kooka01 I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
hangs, or it does on mine.If I have media in the reader the fsck is completed and the mount is successfull, always provided that there is a line in fstab to mount it. So, what is the line in fstab ? Do you include media in the reader at boot time? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Kooka Config

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:42, John Richard Smith wrote: I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? Well for one click on settings, go to toolviews and select all the options there. The program is there, it just isn't configured properly

Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
know why. It should work and does the majority of the time, but not always. When it doesn't I have to reboot. All this is just my experience I don't pretent to know it all. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
configured as a device to the system, only a usb connection in the hub, if you see what I mean. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Xsane does have OCR capability. Now that I've installed GOCR it works too. so, After you have scanned the article in question and in viewer XXX scanner window there is a little tab ABC/DEF to click

Re: [newbie] Kooka Config

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 13:09, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote Of course you are right HarM. However it's a little bit odd , the basic overall primary kooka window is quite detatched from all the other windows, when it suggests that they are part

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:23, John Richard Smith wrote: How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? Yes I'm no expert at all, just feeling my way along . You don't need

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:51, John Richard Smith wrote: OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John That is good Anne. I just didn't find the editor a familiar thing to use. Now the item scans

Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
recognised just for a few hours. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 10:25, John Richard Smith wrote: If I can get it to work well, I certainly would have a regular use for such a tool. John Use it with kooka on KDE if you want a gui for it. Well I don't mind having one really, I don't mind at all, in fact I

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
an image you've already got, you have to move it into that folder. OK, done that, but again my CL sane is near nothing. I suppose I ought to remidy that. I will have a try later. Good luck, HarM John I wonder whether Gimp can also convert .pnm to .txt ? -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:28 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I wonder if Xsane works with OCR ? Ya, get that workin' so you can send me nice TXT or PDF files instead of those jpeg's of the FT ;-) Not complainin', keep 'em comin'! I agree, it would

Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
or is it the equipement or what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Mike Adolf wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:03 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribió: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik John Richard Smith napisa: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's any

Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 01:06 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: But what actually controls whether they are connected to USB1/USB2 in the hub is still not clear to me. All right we have both USB1/USB2 capability but how the system decides what is which isn't clear to me

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
up, you have an USB mouse in a usb hub and you have a USB mouse configured in mousedrake. then to my mind it has to be display ? or else you have some B 'horrible type of mouse no one has ever heard of, that works differently. If so, buy yourself a mainstream mouse. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
like yoir out of luck. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
it is disconcerting to hear the audio and one or two seconds later see the mouth move). How do you (or others) take care of the synchronization problem? Best place to ask, http://lists.exit1.org/mailman/listinfo/transcode-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: -Yes, good thinking, -I think usb-ohci,and usb-uhci, actually refers to usb ports that -are either built into the mobo or are, how do you call it, on a riser -board, and are attatched by cable

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 08:11 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So the ehci-hcd is a controller of the usb hub of some sort ? I am pretty sure that module is for the USB 2.0 Hub on your machine, same as mine. The uhci and I assume ohci on your machine should both

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
productive, indeed positively futile. Nobody should be shy to report less than good results. All software has to be experimented with, tested, and deployed . Nobody can produce perfect code first time. Just my two pennies worth. rant over. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot384.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? John Later = OK I figured it thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot384.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
://www.mandrakestore.com 140dpi here if I measured it right. Northgate Innovations 19 Flat Panel Troy 101.568x107.608 dpi on generic 17 CTR or 225x165mm John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
needed.Is there some sort of lock on the acquisition of this file or do you think it's my mozilla browser settings or something? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot386.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
, but since you say you have a usb mouse, which you didn't mention before, maybe the problem has less to do with the mouse configuration than maybe the usb setup itself. KDE - information - USB Devices, displays the usb hubs, does the mouse show up there ? If so, what does it say . John -- John Richard

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
has a bit more, not sure why, I do have usb1 and usb2 ports, maybe that has something to do with it? probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd usb-uhci John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:10:35 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't use urpmi. You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
anton wrote: I guess I don't have some package installed ? I usually get chastised when I am this lazy so... Lazy bones! urpmi htmldoc and there we have it! Cheers Anton So whuch htmldoc package does it require. I don't use urpmi. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
of. No I was not kidding ya. It's why I asked. Never mind though. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cpuinfo

2004-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
not sure, form your description, which way round it is. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot

2004-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
and until then it's hard to say what you are doing to make things go wrong. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
/RpmHowTo Is there a nice little pdf file of this to be had anywhere ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information

Re: [newbie] Changing order of boot options in LILO

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
. TIA Correct. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] reading audio

2004-02-19 Thread John Richard Smith
timeout 300s I cannot see why is it none of the audio read programmes cannot read the audio disc in M9.1. Now I know it cannot be the drive itself, works ok with EZCD5 in windblows. Something about my setup seems to be blocking the read.But what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Is CDparanoia broken

2004-02-18 Thread John Richard Smith
System error: Input/output error snip and so on. It used to work well at one time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats your thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read recently AMD have a chip

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
so, though. Did you use PM to partition for SUSE ? is so continue to use it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:31 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze runnin, to flash the bios. If for any

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
commands. Anne I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's any help. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd

[newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
nevertheless. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:43 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: At the end of the day the decision whether to use PM has to be yours. All I can add is, that in my now fairly extensive experience I would not mix my partition tools on the same drive. If something went

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
to them and complaining, as they won't want to know. I sign myself A disgusted viewer. Keith. I don't mind complaining, is there an email address I can write to that puts the indevidual concerned to right ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 13 October 2002 07:34 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Bios upgrades = Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze runnin

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing

[newbie] Missing kernel config file

2004-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
to accomplish a kde kernel configeration interface John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Missing kernel config file

2004-02-07 Thread John Richard Smith
to accomplish a kde kernel configeration interface John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread John Richard Smith
care to insure that your media is large enough to receive all the data, using the -ignsize option allows your to override it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
? That is the question ? My MSI mobo has both a bios and a boot sector virus checker and neither interfere with lilo and my mandrake boots. It's odd that you are having this problem, is there a genuine virus in there ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Ide task - not cyncing

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
If you sometimes get warning messages on bootup, Ide task - not cyncing kernel panic killing interrupts handler- not syncing what does it actually signify ? what should I be looking for ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
to be in the address book of someone who has an infected computer. Same goes for spam - I've had mails ostensibly from myself offering the usual viagra, organ enlargement etc. Sir Robin You too. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
conditions. Hmm. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Robert Walker wrote: On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 3:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: That is so interesting Tom, I had wondered whether most of this attention to make and model would be mostly hype. I currently have an all ally evercool ND15-715CA it has a 70mm fan controlled by bios. I think

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Robert Walker wrote: On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 1:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: CPU temperatures and cooling issues+ memory === I decided to start this thread again. The precious thread had become a bit rambling. Well, My cpu / heatsink and case

Re: [newbie] XCDRoast goes belly up!

2004-02-01 Thread John Richard Smith
is that somehow your drive has become unhinged as a device to the system. Did you run something by way of a configuration programme recently ? anyway, in a terminal, cat /etc/lilo.conf cat /etc/fstab cat /etc/modules.conf cdrecord -scanbus and report. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-30 Thread John Richard Smith
to be the main task ahead of me at this time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-29 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:50:23 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 512MB of DDR ram, but sorry I don't understand the rference, make -j 100 # of parallel compiles: i.e., make -j 4 issues 4 gcc's on files in parallel. If you have a big source tree

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-29 Thread John Richard Smith
=3 1/7, goes on for ever, well mprime does something different looking for special numbers that take eons of calculus to find. So your processor works overtime looking for these numbers, and that tests it till eventually it overloads and hangs, eventually. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-29 Thread John Richard Smith
, beats me and I would never allow that on principle, but judge for yourself. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot354.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-28 Thread John Richard Smith
:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD Memory size (MB): 512 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Vcore 1.712 Vtt 1.376 V10 3.264 +5v 5.030 +12v12.228 -12v -11.989 -5v -5.077 Battery 3.424v +5v SB 4.969 The seem OK to me, I've disabled all the AGP stuff, No improvement in the torture test. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 01:53 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: mprime has been running over an hour, decided to end it there for the moment, Anyway no apparent problems there. I don't agree, 1 hour is an indication, IME you pass after about 8 hours or more, ie

Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!

2004-01-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Terence Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:13, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 04:36 am, John Richard Smith wrote: cd to directory source of iso file cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -pad -data -eject -ignsize iso file John That's be OK for data CD's

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-27 Thread John Richard Smith
for the equipement. Anyway I've got a few other things to do for a while now. Back later. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-26 Thread John Richard Smith
that there is a windblows version of mprime, it might be interesting if I downloaded it and installed in W2K and run the test again from there. But for now food for thought. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 05:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy job, which do you use ? John ftp

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-24 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the same directory as mprime. Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more knowledgeable about

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-24 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the same directory as mprime. Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more knowledgeable about

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy job, which do you use ? John ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz extract (it creates it's own

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-23 Thread John Richard Smith
and the other diagnostics on your system? mencoder does do a lot of work, but it shouldn't lock your system up. I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the same directory as mprime. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] 9.2/Move Confusion - HELP! My first convert!

2004-01-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrake92-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Is this 9.2 or Move? If it is 9.2, is this a complete set of files or does he need anything else? Thanks Margot Those are the download CDs so don't worry. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-22 Thread John Richard Smith
were something much easier to remember like guiboot and txtboot.I mean it's nothing to do with the splash screen as such, but the manner of the boot script, text, or flashy gui ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot) my append line looks like this, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash acpi=off and the nosplash is wrong , what should it be ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

[newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot) my append line looks like this, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash acpi=off and the nosplash is wrong , what should it be ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
, I've still got that pain in the backside gui boot script.I think if they cannot get it to be easier to change around then it would of been better if we haddn't had it at all.I recon that it's going to mean rebuilding the boot image again. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Recovering Files

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
these files and recover the data on them? Yeah I know I should have thought of that a bit sooner. TIA Marc Cann't you put the backup cd in a drive and right mouse click the file icon to some display programme. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
for an experimental purpose, which did not include 'nosplash', somehow or other it's gone and re-written the boot image again. Pain. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
2.4.21-0.13mdk mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) then run lilo and reboot, GUI boot script gone. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-19 Thread John Richard Smith
not enclude decryption, I don't know ? But mine is a cvs install. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-19 Thread John Richard Smith
jason pearl wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't think it's relevent to my problem as such. One thing that has ocured to me overnight. What installation are you running. Is your

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-19 Thread John Richard Smith
jason pearl wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:03:02 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jason pearl wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't think

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-18 Thread John Richard Smith
jason pearl wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:36:24 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great. Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-18 Thread John Richard Smith
. Incidentally, do you have scsi-emulation on your drives ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-18 Thread John Richard Smith
bugs that do matter. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Resuming down load

2004-01-17 Thread John Richard Smith
, Owen Command line include wget and curl gui include NT or D4X available as rpm packages , probably on you discs if not search on www,rpmfind.net for a mandrake version. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 13:24, John Richard Smith wrote: It shouldn't make any difference whether I have scsi-emulation or not , it's covered either way, with the /dev/dvd --- link to /dev/scd0 ,the real device, and I need scsi-em for various reasons. I think the next

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:03:20 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab My K3b system device entry looks like this: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/cd (0, 0, 0) I

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:12 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# transcode -i /dev/dvd/ -x dvd -V -j 16,0 -B 5,0 \ -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U my_movie -y xvid -w 1618 transcode v0.6.12 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg [transcode

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 16 January 2004 02:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks Tom, Didn't know you were a transcode user.anyway, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ll /dev/dvd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Jan 16 12:24 /dev/dvd - /dev/scd0 thats because my true device is /dev

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