Re: [vox-tech] mencoder - slower and scaled?

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
Eureka! Okay, I'm making MPEG4 (Bill Broadley suggested that's suitable, rather than needing to use MPEG2), and got them 1/2 size and running at the original 'real life' speed. (xvidcap only seemed to capture about 5-6fps) $ mencoder foo.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop scale=320:240

Re: [vox-tech] SMTP problem with cs.ucdavis.edu

2004-10-04 Thread Rod Roark
On Sunday 03 October 2004 07:04 pm, Mark K. Kim wrote: From USC, I get this: aludra:~/telnet cs.ucdavis.edu 25 Trying 169.237.6.6... Connected to cs.ucdavis.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220 baton.cs.ucdavis.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:02:07 -0700

[vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Hans W. Uhlig
Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be able to swap out to an external usb mouse. X doesent want to see it without me booting with it in and then the internal mouse go haywire(They still work on occasion but they are dyeing.) how can I turn off one mouse and turn on another in X. Ive

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:13 AM, Hans W. Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be able to swap out to an external usb mouse. X doesent want to see it without me booting with it in this can't be correct. X will work perfectly even with no mouse. the key is

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Bryan Richter
First, people will probably need your config file. Hans W. Uhlig wrote: Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be able to swap out to an external usb mouse. X doesent want to see it without me booting with it in and then the internal mouse go haywire(They still work on occasion but

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:21:54 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:13 AM, Hans W. Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be able to swap out to an external usb mouse. X doesent want to see it without me booting with it

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:52 AM, Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:21:54 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:13 AM, Hans W. Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be able to swap out to an

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Luke Crawford
Hmm... what kind of laptop (make and model) I have a whole bunch of laptop keyboard/trackpoint assemblies (mostly for older ThinkPads) Failing that, your best bet, I think, would be to either try an external ps/2 mouse, or set the x mouse to 'sysmouse' and mess with it using moused on the

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Hans W. Uhlig
Sigh, its a dell inspiron 8100, and the mouse isnt the only thing near death. The video card gives me fits, the memory had to be replaced and the hard drive was bad. Worst part, its only a year and a half old. --- Luke Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... what kind of laptop (make and

Re: [vox-tech] Multiple Mice in X

2004-10-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
and dell won't take it back? pete On Mon 04 Oct 04, 10:48 AM, Hans W. Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sigh, its a dell inspiron 8100, and the mouse isnt the only thing near death. The video card gives me fits, the memory had to be replaced and the hard drive was bad. Worst part, its only a

Re: [vox-tech] SMTP problem with cs.ucdavis.edu

2004-10-04 Thread Dmitriy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ telnet cs.ucdavis.edu 25 Trying 169.237.6.6... Connected to baton.cs.ucdavis.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220 baton.cs.ucdavis.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:33:33 -0700 (PDT) QUIT 221 2.0.0 baton.cs.ucdavis.edu closing connection Connection

GUI-unfriendliness (was Re: [vox-tech] bring to front X-window command)

2004-10-04 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Finally got around to trying this, and it does work directly in simple windows managers (tested in openbox). However, it doesn't quite work in KDE.

Re: GUI-unfriendliness (was Re: [vox-tech] bring to front X-window command)

2004-10-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Jeff Newmiller wrote: I detest programs designed to behave this way... from helpful cpu status displays to Did you really want to quit this program? dialog boxes to Your Windows resources are running low to We are backing up your data... please wait dialog boxes... they all suffer from either

[vox-tech] VTK 3D image capturing (was: GUI-unfriendliness (was bring to front X-window command)

2004-10-04 Thread Mark K. Kim
Can you double buffer the output and save the buffered image? -Mark On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Jeff Newmiller wrote: I detest programs designed to behave this way... from helpful cpu status displays to Did you really want to quit this program? dialog boxes to Your

Re: [vox-tech] VTK 3D image capturing

2004-10-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
What's a double buffer? Really, until 2 days ago I've never even thought about how X is programmed. Is there a good web reference? Thanks Mark! Jonathan Mark K. Kim wrote: Can you double buffer the output and save the buffered image? -Mark On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Jeff

Re: [vox-tech] VTK 3D image capturing

2004-10-04 Thread Mark K. Kim
Well, I'm just taking a stab in the dark so it may be totally irrelevant, but... When rendering an image, it can be done in several ways. *In 2D*, you can draw directly to the hardware, or you can draw it in memory then copy the drawn image to the hardware. The former is faster but it can end

Re: [vox-tech] VTK 3D image capturing

2004-10-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Mark K. Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm just taking a stab in the dark so it may be totally irrelevant, but... When rendering an image, it can be done in several ways. *In 2D*, you can draw directly to the hardware, or you can draw it in

Re: GUI-unfriendliness (was Re: [vox-tech] bring to front X-window command)

2004-10-04 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Jeff Newmiller wrote: I detest programs designed to behave this way... from helpful cpu status displays to Did you really want to quit this program? dialog boxes to Your Windows resources are running low to We are backing up your data... please

Re: GUI-unfriendliness (was Re: [vox-tech] bring to front X-window command)

2004-10-04 Thread Richard Harke
I have worked a little with VTK and I know that it is built on OpenGL VTK gives you a couple of options. The default is that VTK just creates a single window for the 3D display and the actions of the mouse are predetermined, rotate, pan and zoom If you want to have more elaborate control you can