Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-25 Thread George Dancheff
Perhaps you'll find handy that simple Makefile I use to get and build CVS and stable sources of MPlayer. http://elemag.virtualave.net/files/mplayer/Makefile create a source dir for MPlayer and put it in inside, then type: make help [it need some improvements/cleanups though, but works for me;

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread George Dancheff
man consolechars man setfont consolechars -h (see -H, -char-height= and others) --- "Dobrev, Evgeni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean? the console or the xterm? > One of the ways is the frame buffer? > > You might want to read > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > > hop

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-13 Thread George Dancheff
I guess that there is something wrong with your inbox file(s), cd $HOME/Mail mv inbox inbox.bak touch inbox Then fire up your KMail and it will load both inbox and inbox.bak so you can select & move your stuff from inbox to inbox.bak within KMail. It should be correct now. --- Jose Manuel Pere

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread George Dancheff
--- Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed > to work nice until i > looked at the computer again a bit later and saw > that my screensaver had > stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried > to login but no > dialog box noting. Then I

Re: Resolved: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-03 Thread George Dancheff
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:35:08PM -0800, George > Dancheff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > --- "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > > > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:30:09AM -0800, George > > &g

Re: Resolved: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-03 Thread George Dancheff
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:30:09AM -0800, George > Dancheff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > --- "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > > > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve > Kieu > > > ([EM

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know a solution, I can only confirm the > > bug. > > > > > > OpenOffice is particularly poor at documenting > > known > > > issues with > > > particular builds. Discouraging as these are 10 > > > hour downloads for me > > > (56k modem). I'

Re: Debian woody with Openoffice. Can not install

2001-12-02 Thread George Dancheff
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:57PM +1100, Steve Kieu > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I can not install Openoffice build 641b , when I > > extract the big file and run setup, it only says: > > > > glibc 2.2.4 > > then exit > > > > Is there any w

Rebuilding Debian from source

2001-11-30 Thread George Dancheff
Reading that discussion http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=521 I've assembled a really simple script trying to implement the apt-get -b source-upgrade function (since apt has not such feature, but I don't think this is a lack of functionality, but anyway). I'm not sure if the

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread George Dancheff
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html --- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile > the kernel then > what? Is there a simple how to? > > > Thus spake Stephen Rueger > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 200

Xwapper

2001-06-01 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, after the last upgrade of X I have been asked if xwapper could be used so the users to start the X through . I answed "No" and now only root can start X , how can I fix that so the other user can start X too . How to setup this xwrapper ??? Thank you in advance !!! __

Re: xdm and gdm

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
just type: # apt-get update # apt-get -f install gdm and Debian will do the rest Hope you have the relevant /etc/sources.list pointed to any Debian archive mirror. --- Tushar Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I have been using xdm as my display manager > recently on Debian > Potato

swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread George Dancheff
Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my swap space instead of my free memory , so the performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine is not overloaded , free outputs the following : debian:/# free total u

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread George Dancheff
http://gcc.gnu.org --- Karl Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform > system. > >Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's > (libraries) to use? I'd like to > >develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and > windows. > >I'm even about to pay