WNPP VCDImager: VideoCD Image Maker

[Gregory Stark]

http://www.hvrlab.org/~hvr/vcdimager/

> VCDImager is a "little" program which allows direct making of VideoCD
> BIN/CUE CD images from mpeg files, which can be played on standalone VCD
> players or DVD players and on computers running Linux, MacOS, Win32 or any
> other OS capable of accessing VCDs. BIN/CUE images can be burned with cdrdao
> (please use a recent version, since older ones do not support bin/cue-style
> cuesheets) under Linux (and other supported platforms by cdrdao, e.g.
> freeBSD, Irix, Solaris and even win32)


-- 
greg

libstdc++2.8 wherefor art thou?

[Gregory Stark]

What happened to libstdc++2.8 ? I have local files installed that depend on
this library. Is there a solution?

Package libstdc++2.8 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package libstdc++2.8 has no installation candidate


bash-2.05b$ ldd /usr/local/RealPlayerG2/realplay
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40026000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40029000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4007)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40127000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40134000)
libstdc++.so.2.8 => not found
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40148000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4016a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40284000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4028c000)


[PS: yes, I know "wherefore art thou" is actually not correct in the subject]

-- 
greg

How come X seems insistent on managing my XF86Config now?

[Gregory Stark]

I've always managed my own XF86Config, and the debian packages have for the
most part stayed out of my way. How come now I can't upgrade without answering
dozens of questions about my graphics card and monitor etc. I've been stuck at
this version for a while since I always C-c the configuration and that dumps
me out of the install.

I seem to have 4.2.1-9 installed and am trying to install 4.2.1-12.1:

bash-2.05b# apt-get install xserver-xfree86 
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  xserver-common
Suggested packages:
  configlet-frontends
The following packages will be upgraded
  xserver-common xserver-xfree86
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 723 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4639kB of archives.
After unpacking 901kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Configuring Xserver-xfree86
---

For the X Window System graphical user interface to operate correctly, it is 
necessary to select a video card driver for the X
server.

Drivers are typically named for the video card or chipset manufacturer, or for 
a specific model or family of chipsets.

  1. apm5. cirrus  9. glint  13. imstt17. neomagic   21. s3 
25. sis  29. tseng  33. vmware
  2. ark6. cyrix   10. i128  14. mga  18. newport22. s3virge
26. tdfx 30. v4l  
  3. ati7. fbdev   11. i740  15. mga  19. nv 23. savage 
27. tga  31. vesa 
  4. chips  8. glide   12. i810  16. mga_hal  20. rendition  24. siliconmotion  
28. trident  32. vga  
:-) Select the desired X server driver. 
...


bash-2.05b# apt-cache show xserver-xfree86
Package: xserver-xfree86
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 11728
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt
Provides: xserver
Depends: xserver-common (>= 4.2.1-10), libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), 
debconf (>= 0.5)
Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid, libglide2 (>> 2001.01.26)
Conflicts: libxfont-xtt
Filename: pool/main/x/xfree86/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_i386.deb
Size: 4384006
MD5sum: 5bd227698938e9314fa9c802f20a7401
Description: the XFree86 X server
 ...

Package: xserver-xfree86
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 10892
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.2.1-9
Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt
Provides: xserver
Depends: debconf (>> 0.5), xserver-common (>= 4.1.0-10), libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), 
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5)
Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid
Conflicts: libxfont-xtt
Description: the XFree86 X server
 ...


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greg