Re: USB DVD movie playback

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:11:46AM -0700, Jack Pistachio wrote: > Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD > device? Wow, that's probably the most obscene misapplication of USB I've heard of yet... Hmm. We'll if you must, this drive is used mostly for DVD ba

USB DVD movie playback

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD device? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Fwd: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Pistachio
What is the graphics card and how much memory does it have? Check /etc/X11/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if using X v4). What is the default setting there and what modes are set? I could run 16 Bit 1024x768 on an old 486 motherboard with onboard graphics card that only had 2MB memory. Wasn'

mplayer won't play dvd

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Pistachio
I have Mplayer installed and working on numerous different file formats. I also have a USB 2.0 HP DVD+RW drive working with scsi-emulation. I can do most everything with this drive, including transferring at USB 2.0 rates and burning DVD+RW/CD-RWs. However, when attempting to play LOTR dvd mplay

Fwd: Re: exim outgoing emails always timeout

2003-07-16 Thread Jack Pistachio
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:58PM -0700, Jack Pistachio > wrote: > | exim isn't sending out any messages to other mail > servers. > | My setup is on a dialup connection, but it used to run > | great for a long time. The only messages being > delivered are local (

exim outgoing emails always timeout

2003-07-16 Thread Jack Pistachio
exim isn't sending out any messages to other mail servers. My setup is on a dialup connection, but it used to run great for a long time. The only messages being delivered are local (to AMDKing). Now every attempt returns something like the following from an output of tail -n 20 /var/log/exim/mainl

Re: Mouse Configuration

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Pistachio
Use the ImPS/2 driver instead of the regular PS/2 driver. gpm is generally a console mouse daemon. However, I find it a better to use with some mice through the repeat protocol than the regular X driver. - jackp --- Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have a Cordles

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
Uninstall xdm, the x display manager which simply causes X to startup with a logon screen at boot. --- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on > my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
--- Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to > Debian systems > > and Linux in general, but have some experience with > RPM based > > systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian > package > > system, but want to make sure that all

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Pistachio
It just makes sense... Sid has all the broken toys, or, perhaps, the coolest toys. Ah, the experimental toys is the best way to put it. --- Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 22, 2003 08:27 am, Sharninder wrote: > > hi, > > anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid becom

Re: New

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Pistachio
The one I began with is very good for newbies. Got it from a Linux expo in San Jose: Learning Debian GNU/Linux Bill McCarty O'Reilly -jackp --- Jerome Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very new to Debian Linux Can anyone help me by > giving me a good online reference and pointing me on

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
addgroup username video --- Isuru Binduhewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. > > Please help me. > > Isuru.. > >

Re: CD burning question

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
I did something like this on accident. I appended to a CD but wrote over its fixation. Got back to the needed data previously on it by ripping a CD image and then mounting it with the loopback interface. Probably not what you want to do though. -jackp > I burned a CD-R in DAO mode (I used the late

RE: Offtopic : MS Linux :)

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
Note the bottome of the page: How do I get MS Linux? We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships. MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means yo

Re: (SOLVED) exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
believe gets past some mail servers that do a DNS lookup. Anyhow, it works, although it is true that noone will send mail to this machine unless they know the given IP. -jackp --- Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:04:18PM -0800, Ja

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
line options at boot (you can reintall LILO or whatever boot loader you are using with these options to avoid needing to enter them in at each boot): ide-cd ignore=hdd Then try the below again with the line "pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd" removed (since ide-cd isn't

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-18 Thread Jack Pistachio
Er, yes. The file /etc/modutils/ide-cd passes the parameters to the module when it is loaded. Try the following now (per the CD-Writing-HOWTO), add the following lines to /etc/modules/actions: pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-18 Thread Jack Pistachio
What does cdrecord -scanbus give you? Make sure that the ide-cd modules isn't already controlling that drive. A way to prevent this is to create a file ide-cd in /etc/modutils with the following line: options ide-cd ignore=hdd -jackp --- Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Lidakis

Re: USB printer: no such device

2003-03-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
Does it show up in /proc/bus/usb/devices? What does /proc/bus/usb/drivers say? --- Florian Sukup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've read HOWTOs and asked Google but I can't find the > solution: > > I've a postscript-usb printer. And I am running Debian, > 2.4.18 kernel > (selfcompiled b

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
info correctly? -jackp --- Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:05:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0800, Jack > Pistachio wrote: > > > Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? >

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on your system. -jackp --- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

wma in linux

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness to ogg format? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
> > Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell > script > > or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in > the > > filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize > > really old files by date stamp. There are a number of > > possible options here, but I wouldn't be incline

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is what I mostly use: wget -r -np -nH --convert-links http://www.domain.edu/page the -r recursively retrieves subdirectories and referencing pages -np = -no-parent makes sure it doesn't go all over the entire web. -nH = no host directories --convert-links makes sure the page works off the fil

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
If you don't want to pass these options each time you reboot (and ide-cd is compiled as a module) add a file ide-cd to /etc/modutils with the following line: options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd' Is there any reason to not use scsi emulation for the DVD too? --- Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qu

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Exactly what type of Promise controller do you have? Is it a PCI card or an onboard chip? If its an onboard chip, what is the chipset for you're motherboard? The bf2.4 flavor kernel should have what you desire. -jackp --- Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I get the kernel module

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell script or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in the filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize really old files by date stamp. There are a number of possible options here, but I wouldn't be inclined to mousing around for

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
You need to use scsi emulation to enable cdwritind. cdrecord -scanbus scans the scsi bus. See the CDWriting HOWTO. -jackp --- Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to set things up with a DVD on hdc and > > a CD-burner on hdd using modules, but without success. > > I a

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2003.03.11.1909 +0100]: > > I get the same error he mentioned previously and have > also > > excecuted the script install-css.sh > > can you please send me the install-css.sh script? >

Re: PPP failling to connect to ISP

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
Make sure you have at least the following modules installed: ppp_generic ppp_async ppp_deflate (zlib_inflate and deflate are good too) bsd_comp -jackp --- Aedificator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After successfully turning a Winmodem into a Linmodem I > am not able to setup > a dial-up connection

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
I get the same error he mentioned previously and have also excecuted the script install-css.sh What's the deal? -jackp --- debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:32:58 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard > and wrote: > > > also sprach John

Re: Sound Card Configuration

2003-03-10 Thread Jack Pistachio
What card is this? Is it a non-pnp 8-bit soundblaster? Looks like it might be, considering its an ISA. Believe it or not I actually tried one of these throw-backs out recently and got it to work well with the alsa drivers (well is relative considering its only 8-bit). If the ioport/dma/irq are

exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is for a dialup using exim. Is there anyway to dynamically configure exim so that it uses the IP address provided by the dialup ISP? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UN

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
yes, thanks. err should have probably skimmed man exim first. mainlog gave the following info: 18r7I2-A7-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=1533 18r7I2-A7-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spoo l/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8) 18r7I2-00

Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just set up exim for my outgoing mail server using eximconfig. I gave the following responses: Select a number...2 Visible mail name...Enter Other system names...Enter Domains for relay...Enter Local machines for relay...Enter RBL...Enter Smart host...smtp.myisp.com User...myuser Then I tried (

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
Just comment out the corresponding line for GLcore and dri. ie: # Load"GLcore" # Load"dri" Then change the driver line in Section "Device" to: Driver "nvidia" Also, make sure you have the NVIDIA-GLX package installed to. That should work for you. -jackp >

RE: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
>Before I go off experimenting with modconf, I wonder > if anyone has >been over this ground. If I add a driver using modconf > and get no >result, how do I remove it? >-- >David That's an easy one... remove it the same way you added it. You could also do: bash$ rmmod MODNAME

USB device detection problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
After either rebooting from windoze to linux, or even with a complete shutdown/poweroff, my two usb mass-storage devices aren't detected unless I boot Linux twice! Loading and unloading modules doesn't help. Everything USB works fine in linux afterwards (and beforewards). There are no error messa

Re: SOLVED User dialup access

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Problem solved. Looks like I had a bad default route and simple file permission issues from messing with this long ago. - jackp --- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jackp writes: > > What is missing here? > > What happens when you configure with pppconfig and have > the users start ppp >

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Hmm, looks like either a driver issue, or a corrupted fs. Possibly the drivers are trying to overoptimize the dma interface. I got similar errors before when fiddling with hdparm... didn't really pay attention to all the warnings in man hdparm until afterwards... -jackp --- Cristi Banciu <[EMAIL

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Not sure about the keyboard error, but the LSR safety check messages are because setserial is trying to load your autosaved seriel port settings, which are now different. To update it (and thus fix the error message) do the following: man setserial setserial /dev/ttyS0 autoconfig setserial /dev/t

DVD player

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I have an USB HP DVD+RW which is working well so far. I have yet to be able to view any commercial DVDs with it yet. Tried xine from 3.0r0 with dvdnav, which I believed includes css abilities. I get the following errors: libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed, make sure DVD ioct

User dialup access

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup priveledges from debian. I use wvdial to connect as root. I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME. The user can successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started it exits with error code #2. From man pppd this code corresponds to mutually e

mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Jack Pistachio
How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
udio exactly as described in the ogg file. jackp --- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) > Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when > converting > > back to wav the in

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
. Hence, when I converted ogg to mp3, I set the mp3 encoder to nearly cd audio quality to reduce that second loss. It still sounded crisp when played back. jack --- James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:03AM -0800, Craig Dickson > wrote: > > Ja

Re: OGG para MP3

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
Se voce queira um script para convertar OGG para MP3, veja minha posta (en engles)... Vou escrever um pouco aqui: Utilizando ogg vorbis e um lame encordante, pode convertar ogg para mp3 e tocar no carro. Posso mandar um script simples por email se voce (ou sergio) queiram. Faz tempo que nao escr

Re: SOLVED ogg to mp3 audio (SOLVED also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
nks, jackp --- Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg > vorbis > audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info > in > the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of > course. > > - jackp >

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg > vorbis > > audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the > info in > > the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of > course. > > Such a

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded files. Perhaps I'm wrong? --- Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2003-02

ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of course. - jackp by the way, has anyone else had a lot of difficulty ripping audio cd's with a via8233 chipset? I understand

Re: Strange problem w/Ripping CDs

2002-11-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
The problem with that is that this is a CD-RW drive. I believe that to burn cd's the scsi emulation is required. Anyhow, that's all I've used when burning. cdda2wav does do just what you described. Someone must have an inkling as to the source of this problem. > From: Jack

Re: Strange problem w/Ripping CDs

2002-11-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
channel 0. scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 217, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 UNKNOWN(0xbe) 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 07 f8 00 00 hdc: lost interrupt ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data ide-scsi: transferred 7056 of 9408 bytes Help! - jackp Jack

Strange problem w/Ripping CDs

2002-10-26 Thread Jack Pistachio
Recently I've ripped most my CD collection (with jack using ogg vorbis encoding). However, now I can't rip audio files (wav) from my cd-rw drive anymore. Here's the skinny: I used to have both an internal CDROM and CD-RW. The CDROM drive was a piece of crap so I removed it from the IDE bus (had b

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Jack Pistachio
: > Subject: Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10 Oct 2002 15:51:32 -0500 > > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:54, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > I need to get an HP DVD+RW USB drive wo

Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Jack Pistachio
I need to get an HP DVD+RW USB drive working under debian for research (we write tons of data to DVD disks). Haven't had any luck yet (or any response from the forum). My USB, SCSI emu, and CD_ROM setup is fine since I have a working USB ZIP drive and IDE CD-RW. Supposedly, from the USB HOWTO t

HP USB DVD+RW & Woody

2002-10-09 Thread Jack Pistachio
Can anyone give me information on how to setup an HP external (USB 2.0) DVD+RW drive in debian? I have an external ZIP 250 drive already working. Which means I've compiled a kernel with SCSI, USB, etc support. I also have a CD+RW drive working (internal), which means CD-ROM support is all corre

nvidia and X with 2.4.19

2002-09-26 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just recently tried to get XFree86 4.1 working with the newest nVidia drivers (1.0-3123). I'm running a custom 2.4.19 kernel and compiled the nVidia kernel drivers against that. Seemed to work fine and the NVdriver modules installed ok (after some troubleshooting since I keep my kernel source

USB Printer setup

2002-01-22 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'm having some trouble setting up an Epson Stylus Color 880 USB printer on my linux system. I've compiled a new 2.4.17 kernel since the 'older' 2.2.x kernels do not have much in the way of USB support without a patch (or so I've heard). Seems to be working fine and my OHCI USB port can detect an

Bad header/ Subjects line in debian-user-digest

2002-01-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
What's the deal? Every email I get has the same header and subjust line which doesn't match with the actual messages. I usually just browse the subjects to see if there is anything I'm interested in. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 > > debian-user-digest Dige