Re: adding title to mpg files.

2003-10-15 Thread Bo Peng
' ones. Maybe I can add some static frames before a mpeg file. Say, I gimp a jpeg file, duplicate 30 copies (necessary?), mencoder them into a 1 second mpeg file and then join it with the mpeg file (tool? I only know avimerge.). -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: RedHat 9 on a Dell Inspiron 5150

2003-10-15 Thread Bo Peng
video card though). I manually narrowed the range of HorizSync and VertRefresh and make them closer to the idea ones. This fixed the video quality problem but the refresh rate is still not the one I would get from a windoze machine with correct driver. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: adding title to mpg files.

2003-10-15 Thread Bo Peng
sections of movies. I was trying to find a simple command to do this but I guess I will have to use kino before the second step. I will mess with kino. Thank everyone for your help. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com

adding title to mpg files.

2003-10-14 Thread Bo Peng
Hello, everyone, I am sorry if my question is far off topic. I do not know exactly which mailinglist I should post this question to. I have a bunch of mpg files. I would like to add/overlay a simple title (e.g., 1 second long of 'in backyard') to each file. I thought this is easy but I found

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
not exceed 32G though. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
files of windows. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linux reading FAT32 partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Bo Peng
100 .. more mkpart fat32 ... then insert entries in /etc/fstab like /dev/sda1 /mnt/share1 vfatuser,noauto,utf8 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/share2 vfatuser,noauto,utf8 0 0 and mount the drive as mount /dev/sda1 etc -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list

Re: locales

2003-09-30 Thread Bo Peng
do I do it in Red Hat?? /etc/sysconfig/i18n -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: LFS support

2003-09-30 Thread Bo Peng
not know what to do or wait. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: KDE/DCOP problem.

2003-09-11 Thread Bo Peng
for X-apps even though I have cable connection. For example, when I draw a picture on screen with gimp or lyx, the whole picture has to be transfered to X while VNC needs only what will be on screen. The speed difference is huge. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

KDE/DCOP problem.

2003-09-10 Thread Bo Peng
? Will it be better if I use gnome for my vncserver session? Is there a configuration of KDE somewhere to allow multiple sessions of KDE? Many thanks in advance. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: KDE/DCOP problem.

2003-09-10 Thread Bo Peng
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Is this a known problem? My google research shows that this is a KDE problem without proper solution. :-( I will let vncserver use gnome instead. Note that if I set up two X-desktops (using Alt-F7, Alt-F8 to switch between them) using

Re: How to make bootable cd-rom instead of floppy?

2003-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
Have you considered buying an USB floppy drive? This is the first time in a year that I need a floppy drive. This $20 seems to be a waste of money. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How to make bootable cd-rom instead of floppy?

2003-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
to be a safer way than the setup disk since I will have a working system even if I fail to recover MBR. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

managing Chinese filenames created by winxp.

2003-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
none of the Chinese fonts has good-looking English characters. Many thanks in advance. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: managing Chinese filenames created by winxp.

2003-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:24:38PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Hello, I have a mobile harddrive with a Fat32 partition on it so that I can transfer files between linux and winxp systems. I notice that linux can not display Chinese filename created by winxp system and vise vesa. I have tried

How to make bootable cd-rom instead of floppy?

2003-08-21 Thread Bo Peng
. boot to linux with the floppy disk. 4. re-install grub. However, my machine does not have a floppy drive. (This seems to be more and more common for new machines.) Can I use other boot devices to do this? Available options are CD-RW and USB external harddrive. Many thanks in advance. -- Bo

Re: partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

2003-07-02 Thread Bo Peng
2G of the files on ext3 file system. Is ther a way to get around this? Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

2003-07-01 Thread Bo Peng
. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

2003-07-01 Thread Bo Peng
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:19:22AM -0500, Fluke wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bo Peng wrote: When I installed my redhat 9 system, disk druid recognized my 160G harddrive and made partition correctly. I am adding another harddrive and trying to repartition (actually LVMing) the 160G one

Re: mounting device

2003-07-01 Thread Bo Peng
to mount it You did not mention what kind of usb device you have. For my mobile harddrive, I simply partition /dev/sda and mount /dev/sda1 etc. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

2003-07-01 Thread Bo Peng
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:34:13AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:19:22AM -0500, Fluke wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bo Peng wrote: When I installed my redhat 9 system, disk druid recognized my 160G harddrive and made partition correctly. I am adding another harddrive

Re: USB and RedHat

2003-06-05 Thread Bo Peng
etc immediately after I insert my USB2 mobile harddrive (actually a cheap USB2.0 enclosure + 80G Harddrive). -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Another Acrobat/RH 8.0 question/problem

2003-01-22 Thread Bo Peng
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html as someone suggested. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

hardware recommendation.

2003-01-16 Thread Bo Peng
($500) Many thanks in advance. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

upload files to http folder using ftp.

2002-12-22 Thread Bo Peng
but this does not work. (note that I will change anonymous upload later to a special account.) Many thanks in advance. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

rpm rebuilddb after reinstallation.

2002-12-18 Thread Bo Peng
previous /var/lib/rpm. I tried 'rpm -initdb' and then 'rpm -rebuilddb' but the problem still remains. What should I do? Can I remove /var/lib/rpm/Package and rebuild it? Thank you very much. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: Telnet

2002-12-09 Thread Bo Peng
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:31:22AM -0500, IS Department wrote: How do you enable Telnet on a RH 8.0 system? Thanks use gnome-lokkit -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat

Re: Multiple log-in session, GNU screen.

2002-12-06 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:01:59PM -0600, Blaine Armsterd wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Bo Peng wrote: I was looking for some way that let me have multiple independent log in sessions. For example, a root session in text mode, a user session in X mode and ways to switch between them. Logging

Re: Multiple log-in session, GNU screen.

2002-12-06 Thread Bo Peng
can switch between them by C-A-F1 ~ F8 and log in from X:0 and X:1 with different user name... Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Multiple log-in session, GNU screen.

2002-12-06 Thread Bo Peng
will try to log in with different user name or use gnome for another session. I am using x86/redhat8/kde. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Multiple log-in session, GNU screen.

2002-12-05 Thread Bo Peng
screen. I was confused by its manual. What is this application for? Can anyone tell me a scenario that it is useful (than a normal terminal)? Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: redhat 8 UTF-8 problem, how to use acroread under RH8?

2002-12-02 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:45:35PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, After I upgraded to redhat 8, I find that acroread does not work. It gives error message like 'does not support UTF-8' and then core dump. I searched the list archive and changed LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n

rpm --rebuild

2002-11-30 Thread Bo Peng
of them help. What did I miss? Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: rpm --rebuild

2002-11-30 Thread Bo Peng
instead. instead of an ice-cold error message (while there are instructions about 'rpm --rebuild' all over the internet)? -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

redhat 8 UTF-8 problem

2002-11-30 Thread Bo Peng
, the font for my terminals behave strangely after this change. The display of mutt, mc etc are distorted. Is there a thorough solution to this problem? I am now thinking something like aliasing acroread to set LANG=en_US.ISO-8895-1 | acroread. Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Getright-like?

2002-11-30 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:15:04AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: FWIW, I'm a command-line lamer and use either curl or wget for automatic download jobs. sirobot and its gui (name?) is a teleport like (fetch links of a html document) downloader. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list

xbiff behavior

2002-09-19 Thread Bo Peng
I am sorry if this is not a core Linux question but I would like to start xbiff with Always on Top and To All Desktops and maybe No title. Is there command line options or any other way to do it automatically? I am using RH7.3 + KDE. Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Free partitioning software ?

2002-09-04 Thread Bo Peng
. Then, start your PC with the first Mandrake CD ... Good luck. Bo On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:13:42AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 21:44, Bo Peng wrote: Anyway, Mandrake linux's partition tool diskdrake supports resize. Does anyone know what kind of resize it is? Can

Re: Want to upgrade to Mozilla 1.1

2002-09-04 Thread Bo Peng
download all of them, use rpm -F mozilla* (F means Freshen.) Bo On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:34:02PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: I want to upgrade to Mozilla 1.1. I have all the redhat RPMs downloaded, but when I try to do the upgrade I get some failed dependencies because I'm using Evolution.

Re: Want to upgrade to Mozilla 1.1

2002-09-04 Thread Bo Peng
I have them all downloaded. mozilla-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-js-debugger-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-chat-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-mail-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-devel-1.1-0.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.1-0.i386.rpm

Re: Free partitioning software ?

2002-09-03 Thread Bo Peng
If you are using win2k, you can use its own disk manager to make partitiona, format etc. And then run Linux installation. It worked well for me, even for my 80G HD. Bo On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:21:56PM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hi all, I have a machine with Windows 2000 pro as the

Re: Free partitioning software ?

2002-09-03 Thread Bo Peng
it. That would be good news. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bo Peng Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free partitioning software ? If you are using win2k, you can use its own disk manager

Re: Free partitioning software ?

2002-09-03 Thread Bo Peng
I read a little bit of its FAQ. If I am not mistaken, it resizes partitions by: 1. change the partition size. 2. let win2k/win98 fix/recover the remaining files. This is NOT safe at all. If I have 2.5G data on a 6G drive and resize the partition to 2G, I will lose data. Also, data on a partition

Re: Free partitioning software ?

2002-09-03 Thread Bo Peng
GNU parted sounds promising. Although you should be SUPER careful about its command line syntax. Anyway, Mandrake linux's partition tool diskdrake supports resize. Does anyone know what kind of resize it is? Can it move existing data around if necessary? If it can, diskdrake is much easier to

Any info about grub frontend? Re: Lilo frontend

2002-08-31 Thread Bo Peng
I am using grub and would like to change the frontend too... -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: updating rpms

2002-08-29 Thread Bo Peng
Try apt. It solves this kind of problem by automatically fetch and update bind-devel too. Search previous messages for apt-get. Bo On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:36:37PM +0100, Gordon McDowall wrote: Hi I have recently came to RedHat after using various other flavours of linux, the main

Re: Vaio help

2002-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
It is quite possible linux does not work with fancy new hardware. Did you check the hardware compatibility list? Dual booting might solve your problem. Bo On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:30:42AM -0400, Scott wrote: I have a new Sony Vaio GRX560 that I tried to install RH 7.3 on, but ran into too

Re: mozilla, netscape and CUPS

2002-08-28 Thread Bo Peng
I do not quite understand the problem. Can you print from other applications like xpdf, gv? If they can, there must be something wrong with the settings of mozilla, not CUPS. Bo On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:51:15PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I installed RH 7.3 on someone's computer.

Re: Sudden death.

2002-08-26 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 09:59:23PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 23:11, Bo Peng wrote: I just experienced another sudden death. It is when I use rpm -e kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-3 to remove the old kernel. ( I already installed kernel...-2.4.18-5) I feel really

Re: Message To Redhat.com

2002-08-26 Thread Bo Peng
Yes. I have the same question. Using apt, I can update redhat system packages easily. However, when I install non-redhat packages, apt is not useful at all. Bo On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:02:36PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:29:37AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:

Re: Newbie question: configure, make, make install

2002-08-26 Thread Bo Peng
Simply put: ./configure.. there are more than many Unix systems and they all differ in minor ways. ./configure is a script to detect your system settings. Usually, .h files will be generated for later use. make.. compile surce files (for example .c .h ) to executable files. make install...

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Bo Peng
I do not agree with the author. I do like redhat but I can freely switch to Mandrake, Debian, SuSE etc, if redhat begins to behave like Microsoft. Bo On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:06:32PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: Gentlefolk, I'm sure this will get flogged to death, but it's relevant to our

Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-21 Thread Bo Peng
Could you list the hardware specifications? Your harddrive might be too big and can not use the default partition. Just maybe.. Bo On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:40:59AM -0700, julius wrote: Five days ago I purchased a HP Pavilion xt395, supposedly identical to HP's ze5000 series. For the past

mount iso9600

2002-08-21 Thread Bo Peng
Morning, I mount redhat iso files as iso9600 on /mnt/vahalla . It is annoying that whenever I mount the file system, a file manager pops up and I have to close it by hand. Is there an option to stop this? Thanks. Bo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Samba

2002-08-19 Thread Bo Peng
Begin with the very basic smb.conf first. Clients like smbclient are easier to set up than smbserver. Anyway, depend on your smb.conf, you might need to run smbpasswd to set password for user.. I can send you my first working smb.conf is you still have problem. Bo On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-16 Thread Bo Peng
-0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 August 2002 12:18 am, Bo Peng wrote: I misunderstood your suggestion at first. I used workstation installation and did not notice the firewall and security level of my workstation. How can I chek

ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
I installed Redhat linux 7.3 without openssh-server. I then downloaded and installed openssh-server-3.1p1-6. However, when I started sshd via /sbin/services sshd -start, I could not connect to my machine from any other machine. I always get FATAL: Connecting to bp6.stat.rice.edu failed:

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
I tried from a server in the same subnet. No firewall problem, Bo On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:23:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Your firewall is probably blocking port 22...You probably need to modify the script or security level, to allow incoming ssh. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bo Peng wrote

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
the debug sshd. On the client side, you'll also see debug output. That may (but not always) give you some clues. One other thing to check before doing all that is /var/log/messages to see if the daemon you were running was giving any errors. === Al --- Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
I grab a copy of /etc/pam.d/ssh from internet, #%PAM-1.0 authrequired /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow authrequired /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so passwordrequired /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so password

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Your firewall is probably blocking port 22...You probably need to modify the script or security level, to allow incoming ssh. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bo Peng wrote: I installed Redhat linux 7.3 without openssh-server. I then downloaded and installed openssh

Re: ssh server installation problem.

2002-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
matter if you're on the same subnet, or halfway across the world. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bo Peng wrote: I tried from a server in the same subnet. No firewall problem, Bo On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:23:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Your firewall is probably blocking port 22...You