[SLUG] Starting up problem

should flash. At this point the keyboard is locked out so turn off and restart is the only option (hard reset using just goes through the motions and gets back to the same point). I also noticed that it always has the message: Aug 6 15:01:57 heracles kernel: [ 47.173023] codec_read: codec 0

Re: [SLUG] I've stuffed up my display

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Howard, I would check that the video card is not set incorrectly. Doesn't Fedora still have a text mode version of xconfigurator? Heracles Howard Lowndes wrote: My environment is Fedora 6 with KDE and I went to change the display resolution

Re: [SLUG] Widescreen Monitor, ATI Radeon and desktop positioning problem.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bill, I had heaps of problems with ATI cards using the open source drivers and could never get the proprietary ones installed so I ended up buying an nVidia card (agp card). I hope you have better luck. Heracles bill wrote: I have an LG 206WTQ

[SLUG] Monitor problem

Ubuntu unusable as a desktop/workstation option. I can find no simple hardware tool to change anything in either of my installs. Any suggestions appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [SLUG] Monitor problem

driver and make a backup of her home directory and then reinstall. Heracles Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Heracles If you change monitors on a Ubuntu 7.04 machine do you have to reinstall to get the system to use it or is there a simpler way? This is long-term suckage. The easiest way

Re: [SLUG] Monitor problem

by the new nvidia driver. I've tried both nvidia drivers using the add/remove software graphical interface and both apt-get and downloading the driver package. The last system worked well on my machine with a GeForce 6200 3D card. Both cards have 256Mb of RAM. Heracles Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who

Re: [SLUG] Monitor problem

August 17). Does the system do something to the modules on the reboot or am I missing something? NOTE: If I go through the install procedure again - X works perfectly in tty2 before but on reboot the same thing happens. Heracles Jeremy Visser wrote: Heracles wrote: I did that and screwed everything

[SLUG] Nvidia problem - The continuing saga

when I use startx and does it then overwrite the modules so startx will also not work. It is really a oain to have to run through the NVIDIA driver setup each time I restart the machine. There must be an easier way. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [SLUG] Nvidia problem - The continuing saga

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jeff, Do you mean that I should remove all reference to NVIDIA from the /etc/modules directory? TIA Heracles Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Heracles I can install the new NVIDIA drivers and startx works and all is well BUT as soon

Re: [SLUG] Nvidia problem - The continuing saga

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, I meant /lib/modules TIA Heracles Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Heracles I can install the new NVIDIA drivers and startx works and all is well BUT as soon as the machine is restarted X fails to load and complains of a module mismatch

[SLUG] Windows and Ubuntu

maker and it worked perfectly when I changed drivers. This is why I used the same procedure on hers. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGyM5XybPcBAs9CE8RAquvAJ4thP

Re: [SLUG] Nvidia problem - The continuing saga

a treat. Now all I have to do is get her Dell Sound Blaster Live working properly and she will be over the moon. Thanks again Heracles david wrote: I had the exact same problem and used envy to solve it: http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html The problem appears to be that you need

Re: [SLUG] Nvidia problem - The continuing saga

and patient assistance of the SLUG list and in particular -yourself and Jeff. Thanks, I really do appreciate it. Heracles david wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:21 +1000, Heracles wrote: Now all I have to do is get her Dell Sound Blaster Live working properly and she will be over the moon

[SLUG] Microphone problems with Creative/Ectiva 5.1

'Mic' ; Item #1 'CD' ; Item #2 'Video' ; Item #3 'Aux' ; Item #4 'Line' ; Item #5 'Mix' ; Item #6 'Mix Mono' ; Item #7 'Phone' : values=0,0 So it should work. Anyone have any ideas? TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] Microphone problems with Creative/Ectiva 5.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Denis, Sorry it took so long to get back - I went for a short break up the coast. All works in Windows but no luck with the microphone in Linux. Line is has not been checked in Linux but works in win XP. Thanks Heracles Denis Crowdy wrote

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

. Automatic configuration(DHCP) should be showing and no other entries. Next click OK and select the DNS tab. In here put the DNS of your D-Link router (ADSL modem). Click close and open Firefox. It may respond a little slowly, but it should work fine. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day Slug

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

corrected automatically for you. Hope that helps Heracles Murray Waldron wrote: G'day Heracles, This worked, but I'm not sure exactly which address the DNS of my modem is. There is a WAN address and a LAN address, I used both. Also, the connection drops out after a couple of minutes. So

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

a software or possibly authentication problem. This we can solve. Check these and let me know. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day Heracles, The connection dropping out was only a one off. It was the modem that dropped out. I had already set up the connections for eth0, and the computer

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

probes for DNS each time it is run (check out the line after the one you edited) and will change anything you put in your network settings dialog box. NOTE: If you do this and it works you will be bypassing your router and its firewall. Heracles Murray wrote: G'day Don't know if this helps

Re: [SLUG] Printer

/Database/SuggestedPrinters Heracles gav wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? Thanks, Gav

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Download the GoogleEarthLinux.bin file. Become root and make it executable. Run it. It will install. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How does one install google earth on Fedora 7 as the download does not start on the google site

Re: [SLUG] CAD software for architecture?

to use than QCAD although both packages are good however, depending on the packages you have used in the past, you may find it differently. Heracles Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Hi folks. I'm planning some building alterations and was wondering if anyone could recommend any free CAD-type software

Re: [SLUG] webrowsers and jre plugin

for the java plugin subdirectory you want and accept it. (Note: you will only see directories NOT files with this Directory browser) Then restart Opera and java will be there. Heracles David P wrote: You should already have the java browser plugin if you installed the JRE, it's just a matter

Re: [SLUG] Suse 10.3 booting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Check the grub.conf file. I know that Fedora 7 uses this rather than the menu.lst. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Hope you guys can help me. I was trying out Suse 10.3 over the weekend and tried to dual boot it with Windows Vista

Re: [SLUG] switching debian architecture in place?

unless you need access to more than 4GB of ram why bother changing it? Heracles Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Someone I know keeps installing debian i386 on amd64-capable systems. Is there a way to switch over to amd64 system without re-installing the system from scratch? Thanks, --Amos

Re: [SLUG] Re: An exceedingly courteous .jpg enquiry

a little smoothing would be your best bet. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with a Desktop background. Say the resolution of my desktop is 1024x768 and that the image is 640x480 A higher resolution is unavailable. Is there any way of taking the image's resolution up

[SLUG] Internet connection problems

hardware is non existent (and also avahi appears as another network option... what avahi is, i dunno, but it always pops up as an option when I can't connect) I haven't come across this problem before. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

ADSL) if he shuts it down and shifts the network card to a different PCI slot, on reboot into Linux, the system will connect to the internet the next time (sometimes the next two times) but then the next time will refuse to connect and even refuses to recognise eth0. Heracles Linux Wongy wrote

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

and and received the return email saying: did all as instructed! to no avail! I would have suspected the hardware except that winXP (dual boot machine) has no problem connecting to and using the adsl connection. A very frustrating puzzle. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: [SLUG] xterm fonts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard, I've always found Utopia to be readable in the smaller sizes. Heracles Richard Heycock wrote: Does anyone know how to set up a proper bold font in xterm? I've got a low res screen so I've got everything as small as possible but bold

Re: [SLUG] Re: python-uno open office depends problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mike, Isn't the -f option for fix-broken rather than force. I think it only works with install/remove also not with upgrade. I know on my system I have run 'apt-get -f install' on occasion and it has worked reasonably well. Heracles [SLUG

[SLUG] Lucent winmodem question

? Thanks Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaKNfybPcBAs9CE8RAokzAJ0Q0SX4LCkm8CRE4TJReSECbzdvrACgkXSw 7jfhs0m+eTLQwbC9qBTAP+k= =S40+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Let the UMPC wars start :)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With other (regular) Laptops starting at around $500 or so, what is so special about the eeepc etc. Is it the tiny screen or something else? Heracles Alex Samad wrote: | Is 512M really enough memory ? | | | On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:46:57PM

Re: [SLUG] Re: Let the UMPC wars start :)

power than the average calculator! Heracles Peter Rundle wrote: | 512MB is more than enough for ordinary graphical duties... | | Blimey you guys are greedy, when I was a lad we used to have to get up | half an hour before we went to bed *and* get by on 32Mb running System | V. My Unix desktop had

Re: [SLUG] Question on pixels.

and simplest solution. Heracles Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: | Follow up question: | | I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop, and I've noticed that Dell offers the | option of high-resolution displays on some of their models (like 1920x1200 or | 1680x1050 on a 15.4in, and 1440x900 on a 14in). | | I like

Re: [SLUG] Someones bouncing funny

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm also getting that email on a regular basis. I think it may be some form of spam or something. Heracles Dean Hamstead wrote: | when i post, someones mail server sends me this | (see attached) | | i have no idea whos email is causing

Re: [SLUG] iAudio mp3 player won't automount after upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10, suggestions?

user account just to check if it is some configuration item in my old account is causing the problem or the upgrade. Heracles Rev Simon Rumble wrote: | This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: | I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 yesterday. My mp3 player (an iAudio) | automounted ok under Ubuntu

[SLUG] External modem problem

?) TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHk931ybPcBAs9CE8RAiuCAKC5+3Zte9yD7RUtvzccju3ZqolW+gCfdynN EnmZl4GVZWXL85ZZJmQb6wA= =QrWU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] External modem problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Erik, I'll be ringing my daughter (She lives in Sawtell and I am on Lake Macquarie) tomorrow evening and post the output from the wvdial log then. Heracles Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: | On Jan 20, 2008 3:49 PM, Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[SLUG] Firefox woes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have noticed lately that firefox locks up quite a bit and needs to be killed and restarted. Is anyone else having this problem? (Ubuntu 7.10, firefox 2.0.0.11 and gnome 2.20.1) Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: [SLUG] Firefox woes

dual boot. Heracles Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: | On Jan 29, 2008 1:46 PM, Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have noticed lately that firefox locks up quite a bit and needs to be | killed and restarted. Is anyone else having this problem? (Ubuntu 7.10, | firefox 2.0.0.11 and gnome 2.20.1

[SLUG] Debian on AMD64

usually use Ubuntu I am not familiar with Debian. Is this a common error and is it easily fixed? Any clues appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [SLUG] wireless card that just works?

the updates all the way up to 7.10 and still works perfectly all be it at 11 Mbits/s. Heracles PS. I may not be able to make the AGM. How can I pay my subs this year? jam wrote: | On Wednesday 12 March 2008 21:40:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ubuntu 7.10) | What are people's recomendations

Re: [SLUG] Boot problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try the super grub disk if you can get a copy. It should let you boot the system. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have LinuxMint KDE 4.0.44 installed | | My system has suddenly decided not to boot, giving the following error | from /var/log

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use ntp.nml.csiro.au and time.esec.com.au as my time servers and all seems to work well. DST is not yet ended. I'll know more on Sunday! My system is ubuntu 7.10. Heracles Bruce Bruen wrote: | Greets, | | env: PCLinuxOS 2007. | | For some reason

Re: [SLUG] OpenSuse 10.3 and NTFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just a thought: If the remmed out statement was created by the SuSE install you could try removing the # and see if that helps. Also check that you have a /windows/C dorectory for it to mount on. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all

Re: [SLUG] Debian question

created by Alberto Milone called 'envy'. HTH Heracles DaZZa wrote: | No, I'm not being converted (shaddup David!) | | I've been, erm, asked to work on a little embedded box that $POE is | trialling for a POS graphical display terminal. | | Said device runs Debian - and has issues with running

[SLUG] prboom problems

to start and locks up all the time. I have an AMD64 with i386 ubuntu 8.04 and one gig RAM and a 256MB nVidia 6200 with the proprietry drivers. Any clues would help. TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?

there are other issues. Maybe my problem stems from doing the upgrade online (2 GB of download) rather than just starting from scratch. Heracles david wrote: | I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): | | After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties

[SLUG] Video card problem?

or nvidia driver problem. Any ideas appreciated. = Jun 18 09:38:45 heracles gdmgreeter[5920]: Gtk-CRITICAL: gtk_tree_view_get_selection: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_VIEW (tree_view)' failed Jun 18 09:38:45

Re: [SLUG] Video card problem?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haven't actually tried to log in over my network but next time I have the startup problem I will see if I can. Jeff Waugh wrote: | quote who=Heracles | | This is the only part of syslog that I could find that may be a clue but | I am not sure how

Re: [SLUG] Video card problem?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard, It's a 6200 series and the driver is the nvidia but it is version 171.06 not the latest on Ubuntu 8.04. I've used envy before, I'll try it again and see what results. Thanks Heracles Richard Neal wrote: | Some more info would help

[SLUG] enigmail problem

Enigmail: Enigmime service not available. Either fix the problem or uninstall enigmail... Is enigmail available for x86_64? Any help appreciated Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] enigmail problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Solved this during the delay. Turned out that the plugin had a problem. I removed it and reinstalled it using apt rather than Thunderbird's install and now it works. Not really sure why there is a difference but it works perfectly now. Heracles

[SLUG] Ubuntu upgrade stalls

at this point and has been stopped there for about two hours. Any ideas Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIhqFQybPcBAs9CE8RAnO0AJ4q7k4FPcNjdXsanqlWN8Q84AxumACeN/sR cs3XgYX7e3uLNY2CMsnX9d8= =EZU9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Breakout2

using the 32bit version. Also, Doom2 works in 32 bit but freezes in 64 bit. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIqiPsybPcBAs9CE8RAkRNAKC0QFOuDA/skYcBiXePHtmItD+YtgCcDGoS 7oTtxJDZ90B/QFxV/O88naQ= =OyqW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Browser problems

quitting and at other times they crash as soon as they start to load a page. There is no trace of a fault that I can find in the logs and most other programs I have tried seem fine. Any ideas appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [SLUG] Browser problems

hurt. I did almost exactly that. I found that one of my iGb modules has problems. I removed it and all seems to be working properly again. I've had faulty memory before but never from new. Thanks for all the advice, I guess it's back to the computer shop. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[SLUG] General Protection Fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Anyone know what this message means: Sep 26 11:58:34 Heracles kernel: [ 6732.917592] general protection fault: [1] SMP I have searched with google but although it gets lots of mentions no one seems to have a reply. Is this a hardware

Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Peter, Unfortunately the next message is: syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart. The previous message is just the DHCP renewal: Sep 26 11:54:31 Heracles NetworkManager: info DHCP daemon state is now 3 (renew) for interface eth0 Sep 26 11:54:31

Re: [SLUG] General Protection Fault

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Ben, I replaced the memory and the machine is now more stable. Firefox is still a bit of a problem, but only with some flash videos. All else is fine. Heracles Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Heracles, to me it sounds like it is doing something

[SLUG] WMP54G

drivers that work with it? Do I need to change anything else to speed my connection up? I tried google but could not find anything useful (other than using ndiswrappers and the windows drivers - I'd prefer not to travel that route as I have never had any success with it) TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP

Re: [SLUG] WMP54G v4.1

which had somehow set the download speed at 412 instead 1500. It got sorted after a reboot. The Linksys WRT54G2 wireless router works perfectly and was easy to set up using its web interface. Note: Ubuntu sees the wlan card as: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g Heracles Thanks James for starting the little

Re: [SLUG] Where to buy cheap Cisco routers?

very reliable. I also use Linksys WMP54G wireless cards in my PCs and all works well under Ubuntu 8.04. Heracles Dean Hamstead wrote: Ebay cisco stuff is constantly churning through. However your question seems two fold. 1) im not sure what router i want 2) where can i get one. so

[SLUG] linksys wireless router

Linux distros can't handle Linksys. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJJV75ybPcBAs9CE8RArSpAJ0Rsc7SSoCVwMihG4+cctGrRP/N4QCeISxu o2QI42kvJL/kUyricsCAGr0= =yd5Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] linksys wireless router

back home on Monday. Thanks again Peter Heracles Peter Chubb wrote: heracles == heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heracles Hi All, I have a Linksys wrt54g2 wireless router which plays heracles very happily with the Linksys wmp54g wireless network card heracles under Ubuntu 8.04

Re: [SLUG] Help Please Fedora 10 Video nVidia Driver issue

-restricted-modules/2.6.17-11-generic/nvidia /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-11-generic/nvidia_legacy and then install the nvidia drivers again. This worked for me. One other thing to check would be what settings are being used for your monitor. They may be the problem. Just a thought Heracles

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't know about their 3G service, but I have been with iPrimus now for many years (phone/mobiles/broadband) and have always found then easy to deal with. Even their help desk is sometimes helpful. Heracles Marghanita da Cruz wrote: With the Demise

Re: [SLUG] Update Manger error messages

the cdrom entries (probably under the third party software tab. Heracles Chris Allen wrote: On my Ubuntu 8.04, I keep getting an icon (to right of screen) to say I should check update When I run Update manage, it says my system is up to date but hitting the check button yields the error

Re: [SLUG] Request for assistance

and set it up. Let me know if this is the type of connection and the type of modem and I will do what I can to help you through the setup process. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJYWe5ybPcBAs9CE8RAtouAJ9ju/UNanFzsBhj1ELroMBMeaSyRQCgtJnl

[SLUG] WEP problem

reason for the wireless setup. I am new to wireless encryption and am a bit puzzled. Any clues would be appreciated. I use Ubuntu 8.10 on my Laptop and 8.04 on my main machine. The router is a Linksys wrt54g2. TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

want to memory sticks. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJmM6UybPcBAs9CE8RArRfAJ91Wn65T2pjGkihKWPOcU/UO/4/mgCgiEB0 b0DVv+27G7ONrbDtuV+27/A= =OHTK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

to diagnose. I fixed the problem by getting a better quality power supply. Heracles elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I have Mythbuntu running on a 3Ghz P4 1.5G RAM, 500G HDD, two PVR-150 video cards and a 128mb nVidia card. On the odd occasion the machine decides to reboot, for no particular reason

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Re: Computers software for schools]

on their Microsoft trained advisers 3. The argument that the students will only ever encounter MS based software in the workplace (also based on their advisers). I know that these are bogus arguments, but the powers that be are convinced that they are true. Heracles lloyd wrote: Like Richard Hayes, I

[SLUG] 64 bit flash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone had much luck with the 64 bit flash plugin. I can't seem to get it to work properly. All I get is a black screen. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ/mD0ybPcBAs9CE8RApnBAKC+PdQd/Tu

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Just found my own answer. I still had the old libswfdecmozilla plugin loaded so it was trying to display the flash. Removed the link and it now works EXCEPT for the sound. Heracles Heracles wrote: Has anyone had much luck with the 64 bit

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just found out that one of the flags is LAHF_lm. Environment is Ubuntu 8.04 X86_64 with 1.5GB RAM Flash now works with no sound. Thanks Heracles Daniel Pittman wrote: Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au writes: Has anyone had much luck with the 64

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

off in the BIOS so all shpuld be fine. I have sound in all other applications and if I capture a flash file and play it back using Totem 2.22.1 I get sound. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ/vRHybPcBAs9CE8RAvuWAKCAgVDpcMM1UrkL22w8D+vzIOfaogCdGoTR

[SLUG] Sound in Flash

well in my alternative OS which is SuSE 11 but I find SuSE much slower than Ubuntu so I would prefer to get it working well. Any suggestions? Do I need to upgrade to 9.04 to solve the problem? Do I need to reactivate my AC97 on board Sound? Heracles PS. How is the parking at the new venue

[SLUG] Sound in Ubuntu 9.04

system at least, pulseaudio gets in the way of sound. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoR4jwACgkQybPcBAs9CE+I1ACgw5WlK0Xut938P8D4BOuS2jtA fBAAoLMunmCpvgIfAho2lnnDT3UUJ+K2 =3niJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Minimal Partition, types and sizes needed for Linux (Ubunut 9.04)

recommend just two partitions (/ and swap) on the smaller drive with /home on the larger as you propose. Heracles On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:15 +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: What are the Minimal Partition, types and sizes needed for Linux (Ubunut 9.04) I have 2 sata HD, 250Gb and 1Tb. The 1Tb

[SLUG] Volume control

it fully and then adjust the volume from there using the front control. The Master has no effect on volume at all. Is this normal for Ubuntu 9.04 and if so, how can I set it up so that volume is easily controlled from the widget directly? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: [SLUG] Send Link in Firefox?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It works fine on my setup. I have Thunderbird for mail on Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox is 3.0.14. Heracles Arnaldo Ariel Arrieta wrote: Hi. Im using Firefox (Shiretoko) 3.5.3 on Jaunty, with Evolution as mail client. And Send Link is not working

Re: [SLUG] Send Link in Firefox?

on that) but will do so later today. It may be a problem in Firefox 3.5 perhaps. Heracles Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Heracles wrote: It works fine on my setup. I have Thunderbird for mail on Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox is 3.0.14. Are you using Gnome? Erik -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9

Re: [SLUG] Thanks RE:Network Traffic Visualisation - any gui prgs/interfaces?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If that is the perfect solution and the VB source is available why not just use it as a template and rewrite the program you want in Gambas. Heracles bill wrote: Thanks to Glen, db, peter and David for replies re above. iftop is almost what I

[SLUG] Pulse Audio

to remove this malware. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkruN5wACgkQybPcBAs9CE+foQCfbAzL0zRrqizSEkBZvtygRzLP QkwAnRJ45AUWRzyVPhX+xtdDgnGEa6Vl =+CZs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

but everything else seems to work. Heracles Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 I no longer have sound. lspci recognises my Creative Labs Live card but I get nothing out of it. Last

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

take your point and will not do so in future. Heracles Daniel Pittman wrote: Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au writes: After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 I no longer have sound. lspci recognises my Creative Labs Live card but I get nothing out of it. Last time this happened I fixed

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

they only have to have all material that shows otherwise listed as inappropriate for public access and block it. We would be none the wiser as we would not know it existed. Just my thoughts Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

[SLUG] 32 bit compatibility

? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkswIyQACgkQybPcBAs9CE+HfQCbBnMcJ3Ht/GmNB6/ktNlNz07k XpcAoMMFCRhw72oQpeA+cctIoxEnxKZl =fmwJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] 32 bit compatibility

more reading! Thanks Heracles Jeremy Visser wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:38 +1100, Heracles wrote: I know I should know this but I want to install the Lightscribe programs onto my AMD64 system. I have put in the ia32 libraries but I still get the message Wrong Architecture and can proceed

Re: [SLUG] 32 bit compatibility

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Jeremy, The --force-architecture switch worked fine. All seems to be installed. Thanks again Heracles Jeremy Visser wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:10 +1100, Heracles wrote: # ./lightscribe-1.18.10.2-linux-2.6-intel.deb Ah, you should

[SLUG] Buffer overflow

this behaviour for some reason. What is meant by the XX and Where do I get the required GLIBC library. Any clues appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktBHP8ACgkQybPcBAs9CE/KRgCgm+xYp/Z5Z0q5lDa8FA1UPZmD I+MAn1fRlP9DI0LTcpX6GkY0kYLbvayC =sAvz

Re: [SLUG] Re: Buffer overflow

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank-you Patrick, That did the trick. I can now use Google Earth again. Stay well and happy Heracles elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Heracles, I found this (don't know if it will work): Remove or rename libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1

[SLUG] Shuttle computer and Slackware

and runs without a keyboard or mouse. He can log into it and edit what goes on the screens with another workstation and going to its web page (it runs as an internal web server with most of the code written in php) and making the changes there. Sorry for the long post Heracles -BEGIN PGP

Re: [SLUG] Shuttle computer and Slackware

with the Slackware xorg.conf file setup. Heracles james wrote: Sounds like the standard AMD fan You can put a 3 pin connector on the 4 pins - key to stop screwups, so case, chaasis, power fan connector can be used. Many bios' allow you, with a fan, to configure no cpu fan :-) (There's a hole

[SLUG] Desktop publishing

for the whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in the new body text each month. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW

[SLUG] Copying HDD

- say 20 GB. Do I need to use dd or is there a simple gui way. I need to copy ALL the files across. Thanks Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktUVVEACgkQybPcBAs9CE830gCfc98ccRjhKwDARYrGvR35AoVK iE4AoL9ZV6eby94Ps2C0OT0AcuIve1Br =gdmg -END PGP

Re: [SLUG] grub error 15

first then look for SATA drives so it is not a great idea to mix the two. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

now. The only issue I have is Firefox 3.5.7 is very slow to start (usually 90 seconds or more after I click on it before it starts). Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktwPyQACgkQybPcBAs9CE8bYwCghqQMGgZ++MWNTnw4I1JjcvpK

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