Re: Creating a DVD from .avi movies?

2005-10-27 Thread csj
On 25. October 2005 at 9:11PM -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:47:46 +0200 Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from normal avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual

Spellchecking fails in OpenOffice 2

2005-10-26 Thread csj
After building the Debian source for over 10 hours on my AMD Sempron 2500+ and using up nearly 10GB of hard disk space, I now have OpenOffice 2 up and running. The only problem is that spellchecking no longer works (i.e., it used to work under OpenOffice 1.X). I have the following

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-24 Thread csj
On 23. October 2005 at 7:53PM -0700, Andy Streich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure. It's always something left to the user. It's like selling a car

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-22 Thread csj
On 20. October 2005 at 6:43PM +0100, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Perhaps what we need is a more streamlined kernel building process. The current fallback is roll your own kernel. I would agree that this mentality has to go at some point. To me the important thing is that the source

Re: Anyone know how to do a timed program with mplayer?

2005-10-19 Thread csj
On 17. October 2005 at 5:03PM +0100, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this command: mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration RealPlayer

Archive (or package) signing

2005-10-18 Thread csj
I've built a small (3GB) archive for (internal) use in my mixed testing/unstable system (since it tends to be more stable that way). The new version of apt that drifted into testing keeps giving me warnings about my packages. Could somebody give me a link on how to (a how-to would be nice) build

Re: Building Tuxmath with KDevelop

2005-10-13 Thread csj
On 10. October 2005 at 5:20PM -0400, David Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, please let me know if another list would be better. I'm using Sid and want to modify TuxMath to make it more configurable for my young daughter. My programming skills are clearly in the amateur level,

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-13 Thread csj
On 11. October 2005 at 9:08PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and knoppix distros? Ubuntu (Live) and Knoppix are obviously more user-friendly than Debian proper (since both doesn't require the new user to go through

Building gcc-4.0 source package under i386

2005-09-25 Thread csj
Could a developer subscribed to the list explain the following anomaly to me? I had always assumed that amd64 was a separate architecture. With the amd64 libs installed, the gcc-4.0 source package fails to build on my machine. alpha:~# uname -m i686 alpha:~# apt-get build-dep gcc-4.0 Reading

Re: Digital Voice Recorders/iRiver T30

2005-09-24 Thread csj
On 15. September 2005 at 9:14PM -0400, Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A report and a request for advice: After doing some research, I decided to buy an iRiver T30 for use as a small digital voice recorder for meetings, interviews, and so on. It's a very cool little device and the

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-24 Thread csj
On 21. September 2005 at 12:22AM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:21 +, Pollywog wrote: On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: Josh Battles writes: [snip] I would have bought a UPS for my computer but I don't know of any low cost UPS units

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-24 Thread csj
On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400, Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many crashes. I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one bad Maxtor drive that started spouting read errors the first time I tried to format

Re: PCI modem suggestions

2005-09-13 Thread csj
On 4. September 2005 at 2:01PM -0700, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: [...] Perhaps the original poster should explain his motivation for requiring an internal PCI modem? Dave. All I want it for is callerid on a sarge based myth system. The reason I wanted a

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-18 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 10:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:57 am, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame'

Re: Changing Bitstream Vera

2005-08-18 Thread csj
On 18. August 2005 at 11:42AM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at Bitstream Vera and have found it to be a very pleasing font. I have just one question: Is it possible for a user to tune the font -- actually it is only one letter I want to change, the lower-case l.

Re: CD file copying problem with kernel 2.6

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 12:22AM -0400, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:55:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dual boot this computer to Debian 3.1 Sarge with kernel 2.6 and Windows 2000. Some time ago I created some VCDs on the Windows 2000, using Nero, on

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread csj
On 17. August 2005 at 6:04PM +0200, Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ogg (Vorbis audio) is a much more recent technology than mp3, twenty or so years if I'm not mistaken. mp3 has been around a lot longer than it has been popular, mostly because PCs only became strong enough to

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-14 Thread csj
On 10. August 2005 at 10:50AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or so tries so far (many

Re: Illegal instruction on Gimp startup

2005-07-17 Thread csj
On 16. July 2005 at 9:05PM +0200, strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Gimp 2.2.8 on a Pentium 2 and when it starts, just after initializing script-fu, it says : (script-fu:24106): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error Illegal instruction Apparently this has

Re: type= parameter missing from linux-2.6.12 tuner module

2005-07-17 Thread csj
On 17. July 2005 at 5:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be significant differences between the tuner module in linux 2.6.12 and the same module under linux 2.6.11. In particular the type paramater is missing from linux 2.6.12.3, as shown by a comparison of the truncated

Re: question about growisofs

2004-09-02 Thread csj
On 31. August 2004 at 9:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember being able to overwrite the contents of a dvd+rw by using the -Z option. That was from 6 or 8 months ago, and using woody rather than sarge. And, I distinctly remember that such a use of -Z was explained

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

2004-09-02 Thread csj
On 2. September 2004 at 1:19PM +, Will Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested on IRC that I post the error log onto the mailing list for others to look at, and perhaps to solve my problem. The question is how do I do this on a strictly

Re: Modems for Linux?

2004-08-28 Thread csj
On 27. August 2004 at 10:13AM +0800, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I checked around the net for a list of modems

Re: ide-scsi emulation deprecated

2004-08-26 Thread csj
On 26. August 2004 at 1:26PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:52:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Rob Benton wrote: OK I may be slow, but I just noticed in my boot messages the other day that in the 2.6 kernels ide-scsi emulation is

Re: alternative to cdrecord?

2004-08-23 Thread csj
On 23. August 2004 at 3:06PM -0700, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: I've been hit with the issues between cdrecord and the 2.6.8 kernel. The issues... what issues? Pretty well-known issues;-) 2.6.8.x breaks current

[OT] GNU/Linux livecd for oldworld macs

2004-08-21 Thread csj
Does anybody know of a Knoppix or Bootable Business Card-type GNU/Linux distro that runs on an OldWorld Mac? I've found isos for NewWorld macs (e.g. knoppix-MiB-PPC-alpha-2e.iso) but none for OldWorld Macs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-08 Thread csj
On 8. August 2004 at 2:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otto Wyss([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill it).

Re: libxine1 or xserver-xfree86 bug? (Was: on sarge xine crashes X)

2004-08-03 Thread csj
On 2. August 2004 at 3:16PM +0200, Fabio Marzocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem (X crashes on xine.) If I run xine -V XShm it works fine, so the problem is related to XVideo of my ATI Rage Pro card. XFree86 4.3 ATI driver does not support XVideo. I should try installing

Re: root file system has unknown type

2004-08-03 Thread csj
On 2. August 2004 at 10:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as unknown? Filesystem corruption most likely. What sort of filesystem corruption are we looking at? I'm

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-07-31 Thread csj
On 31. July 2004 at 11:49AM -0400, Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You only need a rescue CD if you screw something up. (Which I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your back pocket. :) Make sure it stays flat: sed s/back/shirt/ ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-30 Thread csj
On 30. July 2004 at 5:02AM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:15:16AM +0800, csj wrote: On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create an audio cd image on disk? I tried looking into xcdroast (which I

Re: Convert Real video to MPEG4 or QTime

2004-07-30 Thread csj
On 30. July 2004 at 1:12PM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do a one time massive conversion of video materials currently in Real's .rm files to MPEG4 and/or QTime (switching from RealServer to the open source Darwin Streaming Server). Can anybody recommend a free

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 28. July 2004 at 6:13PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-07-26, csj penned: [...] Does this mean the bittorrent upload rate equals the download rate? This doesn't look good. A look at my ppp stats shows that for the 159MB I downloaded this day, I sent out 4MB

Re: Xsane Segfaults, xscanimage not.

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 28. July 2004 at 10:33PM +0200, Chrissie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Anybody has the same Problem?? Any Ideas how to fix this? I really like xsane, and will continue using it. Maybe you can try something like: mv ~/.sane/xsane/ ~/xsane-old Then fire up xsane. You can delete

Re: svg support under Linux

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 28. July 2004 at 8:20AM -0400, John Taber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) do any of the browsers support SVG or support the Adobe plug-in ? Amaya should support SVG. After all it's from the same organization that made SVG. 2) do either gtk or Qt have a canvas that will display SVG ? There

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 2:19AM -0700, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands requiring root (i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What choices do are there? If you can stand Gnome or KDE that

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create an audio cd image on disk? I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, burn, mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools, and it seems that there is no problem to write audio directly

Re: AnyOne got Rekall working on Debian

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 1:06PM -0500, John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get Rekall 2.0 to compile on Debian sid. It seems to crap out saying that there are no headers or libs installed. I have qt3-mt installed, am wondering if the 'mt' is the problem. I ran into a similar issue

Re: burning a VCD with xcdroast

2004-07-27 Thread csj
On 27. July 2004 at 11:35AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, if this is not really a Debian question, but I am getting really frustrated trying to figure this out. I have created an mpg file (MPEG1) and authored it for vcd. After authoring it, a second mpg file was

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-26 Thread csj
On 27. July 2004 at 5:19AM +1000, bob parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:30, Katipo wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-26 Thread csj
On 26. July 2004 at 12:10AM -0400, Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users

Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-26 Thread csj
On 26. July 2004 at 12:21AM -0400, Kyle Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the real device name of your cdrom (not the link) before you installed udev? /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd might be the device you need to put in /etc/fstab. Another solution would be to have udev create the link

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-26 Thread csj
On 26. July 2004 at 2:32PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some unknown reason, everything works now. Netscape prints. Konqueror prints. lp book.ps lpq lprm lp book2.pdf All working! I selected lazerjet4 driver. I know it didn't used to work. Seems rebooting the computer

bittorent on dialup

2004-07-25 Thread csj
A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple wget -c linux.iso (a 52K modem that feels more like 45K).

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-25 Thread csj
On 25. July 2004 at 3:11PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some documentation at: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php It seems cups can print postscript, even if your personal printer can't, but there are not examples of how to set it up. The Debian cups packages should do the

Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-25 Thread csj
On 25. July 2004 at 2:47PM -0400, Kyle Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to experiment with udev, hal, dbus and gnome-volume-manager so I installed all of the above and rebooted everything seemed cool except I no longer have a /dev/cdrom link. It appears udev didn't find my cdrom and

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-23 Thread csj
On 22. July 2004 at 11:32AM -0600, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed Debian on, also doesn't have a /media. ??? Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the installer. I believe the

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-23 Thread csj
On 22. July 2004 at 4:12PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printing from Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer. But there are free software postscript emulators that will let you print as though you have a postscript printer, e.g.

Re: via82cxxx

2004-07-20 Thread csj
On 20. July 2004 at 4:19PM +0200, Frank Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see 'snd_rawmidi' and 'snd_seq_device', so I think it should work. Any hints to make it work? You're lacking snd-seq-oss, the OSS compatibility module for the ALSA sequencer. Thank you for replying. I have

Re: DVD Writing HOW TO

2004-07-20 Thread csj
On 19. July 2004 at 6:32PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ppl, got to put a dvd rw and cd-rw working in the same computer, i have allready a cd-rw working but have no clue where to start with the dvd rw, i have install the dvdplusrw package, by the way im runing

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP

2004-07-20 Thread csj
On 19. July 2004 at 10:46PM -0700, Mark e Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just read your article as best I could. I am confused, but not by you but by me. I have been using Firefox as a browser and Thunderbird as mailbox for about a week and a half now and I love them. I am thinking

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread csj
On 16. July 2004 at 9:59PM +0800, Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to ask. What is the command that limits output from a command to just a page at a time, like the /p command in DOS? command | more command | less command | pager

Re: Software to HTMLize a text file?

2004-07-16 Thread csj
On 16. July 2004 at 9:45AM -0400, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some ssytem staus reports that are generated by shell scripts and emailed to various people. Now Iwant to put these up in a wbserver. Now I know I can just stick the plain old ASCI files in a directory, or I could

Re: USB keyboards and linux 2.6

2004-06-09 Thread csj
On 8. June 2004 at 6:18PM -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:25:22AM +0800, csj wrote: ... It seems I have all the necessary kernel bits in place. But rebooting with the USB keyboard attached causes my computer to hang (with or without my normal keyboard

USB keyboards and linux 2.6

2004-06-07 Thread csj
Does anybody have a link to a quick howto on getting USB keyboards to work with kernel 2.6? All my google searches on the subject turn up links on kernel 2.4, which tend to list kernel modules which aren't available on 2.6. The best advice I've gotten thus far is to disable the kernel's entire

Re: bookmarks.html

2004-05-25 Thread csj
On 25. May 2004 at 11:38AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-25, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: An open letter to Mozilla package maintainers (and a warning to those who upgrade): I have a very simple request... Please, when versions of browsers are upgraded

Wrong characters displayed in console

2004-05-23 Thread csj
Since I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel series, I noticed that extended characters like the German umlauted vowels are being displayed wrong on my framebuffer console. If I open, say in Emacs, the same file in an xconsole the characters are displayed right (so I know the problem isn't an Emacs

Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.

2004-05-18 Thread csj
On 18. May 2004 at 2:03PM GMT, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:50, Colin Watson wrote: Those both set the COLUMNS shell variable but fail to export it to the dpkg subprocess (you need an explicit 'export' to do that). 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l' is a special syntax

Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem

2004-05-14 Thread csj
On 14. May 2004 at 3:11PM +0200, John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yup... anyway i discovered that to get audio etc i just had to add myself to the audio and video groups... problem solved, just one now, when i create a '/dev/sound' directory and put

Re: 2.6 and nvidia

2004-05-13 Thread csj
On 13. May 2004 at 4:56AM -0700, welly hartanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running debian sid 2.6.5-1-686 with Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440. I'm not using the driver from NVidia web site, since I'm too lazy to search for it...;-) What I did is : - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common - apt-get

Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem

2004-05-13 Thread csj
On 12. May 2004 at 8:59AM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 06:22 +0800, csj wrote: On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using unstable) - the upgrade went OK

Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem

2004-05-11 Thread csj
On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using unstable) - the upgrade went OK but now i have two problems: 1. the nvidia graphics module isnt loaded on startup (i have to do insmod

Re: Compatible DVD Burner with Linux

2004-05-11 Thread csj
On 11. May 2004 at 11:01PM +0200, Pedro M. (Morphix User) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hugo vanwoerkom escribió: David Cunningham wrote: Thank you. Yes, that post shows their GUI successfully burning a DVD under Linux. (I couldn't read the French.) I find that reassuring! There is an

devfs.rules vs. udev.rules

2004-04-23 Thread csj
What's the relationship between /etc/udev/devfs.rules and /etc/udev/udev.rules? With the latest udev upgrade (0.024-6), I lost my video for linux devices. Before the upgrade they were in /dev/v4l/*. Sure enough I found that the rules for them had disappeared from /etc/udev/udev.rules. They're

TV tuner misdetection in linux 2.6 v4l

2004-04-18 Thread csj
The tuner of my TV card is apparently being misdetected by linux 2.6's video4linux drivers. The tail of `grep -ih 'tuner:.*type' /var/log/syslog*` makes me suspicious: Apr 18 09:15:40 chilia kernel: tuner: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw] Apr 18 09:43:30

bad v4l2 colors in linux 2.6

2004-04-10 Thread csj
I have a Bt878-based TV tuner card (WinFast something) that's producing satisfactory video in linux 2.4. Under 2.6 the video is under-saturated (i.e. the colors look pale). What am I missing? Are there any magic options to pass to the v4l2 (linux 2.6) drivers to get my rich v4l (linux 2.4)

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-09 Thread csj
On 8. April 2004 at 9:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's to be expected. It's the framebuffer. It exists because it works better for some people. Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. not really a 'must' but console looks better :-) Does it crash

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-09 Thread csj
On 8. April 2004 at 1:02AM -0700, William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:55:20AM +0200, Frédéric Dreier wrote: Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. not really a 'must' but console looks better :-) I don't use the Framebuffer

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-07 Thread csj
On 6. April 2004 at 10:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything unless they have to. So how do you get the cute bootup penguin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: 2.6.4/i810/AGP GART issue

2004-04-05 Thread csj
On 5. April 2004 at 9:30AM -0700, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently upgraded from 2.4.25 to 2.6.4 via a source from kernel.org. I'm having the somewhat common problem with my x server. The message is: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory.) AGP GART is not

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-26 Thread csj
On 24. March 2004 at 10:51AM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0800, csj wrote: On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I

Re: use udev

2004-03-26 Thread csj
On 24. March 2004 at 12:48PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, to summarize : . udev is dynamaic management of /dev along the lines of devfs . udev is purely userspace (no kernel module or driver) . therefore the naming scheme is defined purely

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-23 Thread csj
On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-16 Thread csj
On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid

linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-15 Thread csj
For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above site) works with linux 2.6?

[Solved] Re: debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen

2004-02-29 Thread csj
On 28. February 2004 at 11:30AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 21:02:41 +0800, csj wrote: I see a doxygen *++-related bug, but so far the version of doxygen in unstable is still the same as the one in testing. Around the time you wrote

debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen

2004-02-26 Thread csj
Am I the only one who can't build gcc-3.3 (3.3.3ds5-1)? The build appears to succeed until the point where the documentation is being built. Tail of gcc-3.3_3.3.3ds5-1_i386.build: To avoid this warning please update your configuration file using doxygen -u Warning: Tag `EXT_DOC_PATHS' at line

scanners under 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread csj
It seems that CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m which produces the scanner module, has disappeared from kernel 2.6.3. I copied my working 2.6.2 config, passed it thru make gconfig without any manual changes, and now grep -i scanner .config returns nothing. Any idea (tips, URLs) how to get scanners working

Re: CLI (was Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space)

2004-02-16 Thread csj
On 16. February 2004 at 5:47PM +, Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:17:15AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-16, Ken Gilmour penned: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:38, David T-G wrote: What?!? A girl who uses the command line? That's even

Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?

2004-02-15 Thread csj
On 14. February 2004 at 7:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I know how to rip to audio from a dvd using mplayer. Here's one way: mplayer -quiet -ao pcm -aofile a.wav -vo null -vc dummy dvd:// I have two questions: 1) I assume that there's some type of table

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride - personal use

2004-02-03 Thread csj
On 1. February 2004 at 7:53PM -0600, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Carrington wrote: If the GPL doesn't grant usage rights, how can a user be sure they are entitled to this? Copyright law does not limit usage. Therefor the user has such rights by default. Does this mean

Re: music maker

2004-01-30 Thread csj
On 29. January 2004 at 3:05PM +0100, Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what

Re: nVidia console terminals blank.

2004-01-26 Thread csj
On 24. January 2004 at 6:30PM -0500, Rajesh Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, again. I have the 4496 nVidia drivers installed on my debian sid running XF86 version 4.2.1.1 After startx, all the console terms from F1..6 are just blank (well, a nice glow is there at the bottom, but blank

Re: 2.6 kernel and nvidia drivers

2004-01-11 Thread csj
On 10. January 2004 at 2:55PM -0800, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:45:31PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: I have yet to find out if the Debian-provided nvidia-kernel drivers work correctly with the 2.6 kernel, and I'd really like to know before I dive

Re: fax, voice, and data answering

2004-01-11 Thread csj
On 10. January 2004 at 8:10PM -0700, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Christian Schnobrich: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 17:32, D. Clarke wrote: I'd like to be able to have a voicemail box, fax, and possibly (although not required) ppp dialup. First, you need something

Re: nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question

2004-01-10 Thread csj
On 9. January 2004 at 2:14AM -0500, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages -- I think nvidia-kernel-common -- I was asked a debconf qusiton about installing

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-08 Thread csj
On 7. January 2004 at 1:26PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I installed 1.1.0 today after removing the old backport. Initially only two fonts were aviailable (charter and courier, I believe). I then installed msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf (ignoring the

Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-05 Thread csj
On 2. January 2004 at 6:46PM -0600, Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] perhaps I need to stop looking for USB externals (that are still non-winmodems) and get a plain serial external. Because I need my mobo's lone serial port for my UPS, I got a usb-serial converter (modules usbserial

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-31 Thread csj
On 31. December 2003 at 4:50AM -0400, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 29, 2003 10:59 pm, Bradley Alexander wrote: When I tried to load the module under 2.6.0, I got the message FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.0/nvidia/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format

Re: Getting the penguin on linux 2.6

2003-12-29 Thread csj
On 28. December 2003 at 1:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:16:56AM +0800, csj wrote: Any pointers? Don't sweat the chrome if it otherwise just works. Well, I just found out that the names of some linux 2.4 .config OPTIONS= changed a little in 2.6

Getting the penguin on linux 2.6

2003-12-26 Thread csj
After three days of browsing various leads posted here[1], I managed to get my spare computer running on linux 2.6 and nVidia's binary-only video drivers (installed with the help of the non-free nvidia-graphics-drivers packages). Everything seems to be functional, including chromium, tuxracer and

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-21 Thread csj
On 20. December 2003 at 12:56AM -0800, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how to install additional codecs for it. Also, for some odd reason, the only way I can seem to run mplayer is by clicking on the KDE Start Button and

Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]

2003-12-18 Thread csj
On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] AFAIK, 2.6 is still being tested. It's not a production release, ..the truth just changed:

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread csj
On 14. December 2003 at 4:16PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped: grub menu entries, etc] Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the Debain / (while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some unknown to me way the above grub entry? Grub and lilo

minicom vs pon

2003-12-13 Thread csj
I have a serial modem connected via a usb serial converter. I noticed that if I turn the modem off then on, I can no longer connect via pon (ppp) *unless* I reset the modem or serial link by other means, like disconnecting and reconnecting the usb serial converter or invoking /etc/init.d/hotplug

Re: a modest proposal (was: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-12 Thread csj
On 11. December 2003 at 5:28PM -0600, Lucas Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent users with quite a lot of experience can come unstuck in those areas with which they are not familiar,

kppp [was Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-09 Thread csj
On 8. December 2003 at 7:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 7. December 2003 at 10:52PM +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can of course use predefined connections with pon/poff if you are in the dip group, and you

Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change

2003-12-08 Thread csj
On 7. December 2003 at 10:52PM +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 7. December 2003 at 1:32PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] I hardly think it necessary to install the Mega-size KDE

Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change

2003-12-07 Thread csj
On 7. December 2003 at 1:32PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] I hardly think it necessary to install the Mega-size KDE libs to use kppp, but what is the reason pon/poff won't do? Although admittedly that is no solution to your problem ;-)

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