i've been having an array of issues lately with X and with playing dvds and i
was hoping for some input in this area. ok, here's the deal. i'm having
three different problems, but they all may be related:
problem 1.
starting up by box will bring me to kdm, and if i select "kde-3.1" all is good
and i can go about writing you this email. but if i (or any other user)
select "X-Session" the kdm window disappears and i get a single white box
appearing with the following message inside:
chooseSessionListWidget
and two options (3more were greyed out) i can't remember what any of them were
outside of "cancel" which only made the box disappear, i was unable to create
any new windows. i had to ctrl-alt-bkspce to restart X.
problem 2.
i just went out and bought "babylon 5 season 1" on dvd. discs 1 and 2 play
well in mplayer (well, the audio sync needed adjusting and there were dropped
frames, but it's what i've come to expect from dvds in linux) but playing any
track on disc 3 brought up a garbled, mostly-green screen with the audio
(mostly clear) in the background. no amount of fiddling seemed to help. the
disc plays just fine in windows though (took me an hour to track down and
install the drivers and authenticate with a stupid serial.... this is why i
like free software).
problem 3.
in an effort to play disc 3 in linux, i tried to emerge xine-ui and
xine-dvdnav. but the emerge fails on one of the dependencies: "xine-lib"
(see "blob" at the end of this email).
so now i'm stuck. "X-Session" used to bring up a single xterm, now i get a
weird error, but i only used to go there 'cause i got slightly better dvd
performace (guess it's kde chewing up memory or something). unmerging
ati-gatos and re-emerging X did absolutely nothing except remove my ability
to watch tv in xawtv. i'm hoping someone can at least shed some light on my
problem(s), even if there's no known resolution.
thanks
here's my specs:
t-bird athlon 800
512mb ram
kernel
2.4
agpgart & ati-radeon video driver compiled as a module
gentoo 1.2
kde 3.1
relevant make.conf settings:
USE="cdr dga doc dvd -gtk maildir mozilla mysql pda perl samba scanner
tiff zlib"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
<blob>
Making install in input
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/work/xine-lib-0.9.13/src/input'
make[3]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/work/xine-lib-0.9.13/src/input'
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_file.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_file.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_file.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_dvd.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_dvd.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_dvd.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_vcd.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_vcd.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_vcd.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_cda.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_cda.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_cda.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.la' to
a directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_net.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_net.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_net.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_rtp.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_rtp.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_rtp.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_http.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_http.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_http.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
/bin/sh ../../libtool-nofpic --mode=install /bin/install -c
xineplug_inp_mms.la
/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/image//usr/lib/xineplug_inp_mms.la
libtool-nofpic: install: error: cannot install `xineplug_inp_mms.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/lib/xine/plugins
make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/work/xine-lib-0.9.13/src/input'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/work/xine-lib-0.9.13/src/input'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2/work/xine-lib-0.9.13/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
!!! ERROR: media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r2 failed.
!!! Function einstall, Line 10, Exitcode 2
!!! einstall failed
</blob>
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soul that has lost its way. the war we fight is not against powers and
principalities, it is against chaos and despair. greater than the death of
flesh is the death of hope. the death of dreams. against this peril we can
never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of
transition, to be born in moments of revelation. no one knows the shape of
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