Re: [newbie] Source tarballs and directories...

2001-10-05 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
On Friday 05 October 2001 16:41, you wrote: Thanks. This looks like a great tool. I just installed it and ran it for the first time, per the documentation, I ran checkinstall after doing the make install, but I come up with this error: cannot open file

Re: [newbie] xmps win32 divx plugin...

2001-07-24 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 11:01, arro wrote:  well i was installing xmps to watch divs movies under linux , as they  claimed to have a plugin that uses the win32 dll's .  libxmps/libxmps_config.h:39:18: glib.h: No such file or directory  i was wondering why there is the message of a missing

Re: [newbie] xmps win32 divx plugin...

2001-07-24 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 13:03, arro wrote:  sorry , there was a little typing error ...i meant glib.h and i have the  file , version 1.2 and 2.0 ..that is why i was wondering ...the file exists  !! Let's have a look at the compilation line in your original post: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..

Re: [newbie] Couldn't log on tty1-6/ kdm crashes/ gdm crashes/ X crashes

2001-07-07 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Many good questions, let me break the answer down. On Saturday 07 July 2001 07:01, etharp wrote: so it looks to me as if you have not tried the second PCI slot and I would wonder if you might not make the changes in BIOS to lock in a IRQ at a certain PCI slot. I moved the ethernet card to

Re: [newbie] Couldn't log on tty1-6/ kdm crashes/ gdm crashes/ X crashes

2001-07-06 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Saturday 30 June 2001 07:51, etharp wrote: slot. If so, you can either move the WINTV to another PCI slot, form the system BIOS you might be able to enable a PCI slot for bus mastering. my experiance has been that video cards, winTV cards, IDE and SCSI controllers, network cards and sound

[newbie] Couldn't log on tty1-6/ kdm crashes/ gdm crashes/ X crashes

2001-06-29 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Hi, and sorry for the long email. Let me start with a summary: 1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error messages and then I couldn't log on!!! I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no

[newbie] XKDE crash/ATI Xpert 2000 setup

2001-06-21 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Hi everybody, I'd be grateful if somebody could please help me with the following problem. Every now and then ( once a day!) Xfree86 crashes on me. I may be inside KDE, doing my work or just browsing away in konqueror when it crashes and restarts and I get the graphical login. Sometimes it

[newbie] repartitioning

2001-06-08 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Hi, I accidentally only have 1 linux partition, /dev/hde1 For some reason DiskDrake didn't allow me to rearrange that partition during the install, I chose expert install and the Auto Allocate option in DiskDrake just gave me an error message [forgot what it was] . And now I'd like to

[newbie] Japanese IM in 8.0

2001-06-05 Per discussione H.Narfi Stefansson
Hi, I'm trying to set up Japanese on a fresh Mandrake 8.0 install so that my wife can at least read and write emails in Japanese. I've got the standard 2 downloadable CDs w. 8.0. Here's what I've tried so far: During install, I selected English as the main language, Japanese, Icelandic and