[newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files

2005-04-11 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double

[newbie] Installing Mandrake on 9.1 on ppc

2005-02-13 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Can anyone tell me the successful way install mandrake on a macintosh? I can't do this to save my life and I can't tell what my problem is. It seems my issue is with the install display which I don't have the first clue how to fix. Even if I do the install via text-installer, when I go to boot

[newbie] Bash Prompt Missing?

2004-12-27 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I recently posted about haingabout having a problem installing Java. Not it seems that while I was doing this, I screwed up some settings. I noticed that I when I logged into my machine that I got the intial wizard that comes up when you first install MDK. This is the on that

[newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

2004-12-24 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but I have not yet had any luck. Is there something I am missing? I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java. Followed there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight forward).

Re: [newbie] re: SSH

2004-12-08 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
How did you set your firewall preferences when you installed Mandrake? If I recall, if it's set to high then it will deny port 22 as well. If you think you set it two high then you can lower it in your mandrake control center or if you want to keep it where it is, you can specifically allow

[newbie] sound in mdk 9 vs sound in mdk 10

2004-11-16 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I remember sending a post a while back about my sound not working on mdk 10 with the machine I had it installed all. Now it seems I am having the same problem but its slightly different. In the case of last time I was running mdk 10 on an old micron laptop and it didn't

[newbie] ssh port forwarding more then one port

2004-11-12 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I am trying to forward more then one port over ssh via command line on my linux box but I can't seem to get the syntax right. I have copied my script blow can anyone tell me if my / are right or if there is something that I am missing. I am also having trouble trying to get to any

Re: [newbie] 10.1 PPC?

2004-11-10 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
I have also had my issues with mandrake on the powerpc with regards to installing on my blue and white g3 or my bronze g3 laptop. I would much rather have mandrake then the mac os that is on it but when I go to install it, the gui comes up all funky and when I try installing in text mode it

[newbie] vnc over ssh

2004-11-09 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I am trying figure out what my issue with connecting to my linux machine via vnc over ssh. I had no problem connecting to my machine via ssh but my window manager got all screwed up. It was grey and black just as is was before I specified the session I wanted to displayed. Is

[newbie] Tightvnc and gnome desktop manager

2004-11-02 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I can't seem to get the gnome desktop manager when I try to view my mdk machine here at my office. I have put the following in my xstartup but it doesn't seem to be working #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc exec /usr/bin/gnome-session I

Re: [newbie] Tightvnc and gnome desktop manager

2004-11-02 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Well I found the issue.. I didn't put a at the end of my gnome-session statement. It works with no problems now. Stephen Khn wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 04:09, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I can't seem to get the gnome desktop manager when I try to view my mdk machine

[newbie] compatible web cams

2004-09-24 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
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