Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) > > > > It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3 million years into the > > future. It was a great show, som

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:33:28PM +1100, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Debian 2.6.18-4-686 in my two computers, both have > difficultis to run web brower to connect to some web pages. I thought > it is a brower problem so I have tried different browsers, firefox, > icewealsel and opera, e

Re: Can't find ndiswrapper.ko on debian stable :o(

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:30PM -0800, Mr Smiley wrote: > I have googled around and most people using debian say > that the install of ndiswrapper via apt-get install > ndiswrapper is flawed. Huh? > I can't find ndiswrapper.ko which is needed by > modprobe. > > People have said install ndiswr

Re: force kernel panic

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:20:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi to all, > I have a problem, I need to test a kernel panic crash, I have an server > Debian 4.0, some body know the way to force, may be to ins a module in the > kernel, a kernel panic? > Thanks in advance > Possibly ... a

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:22:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/04/08 21:26, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > When I installed Etch for the first time, I installed > > msttcorefonts. I recently heard of the liberation fonts p

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > Hey, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) > > It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3 million years into the > future. It was a great show, somewhere in the void between space balls and > star trek. A giant space

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:34:14PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. > > My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water, some of which (I > > don't know how much) hit the keyboard. > > I have

Oi Fotos de quem te ama muito.

2008-03-08 Thread Oi Fotos
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Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-08 Thread hce
Hi, I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stopped at following last line "Writing inode tables: 14/1864": # mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Filesyste

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
>> I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used >> in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit >> grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I >> should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal >> insulator but I'm unsure wh

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread hce
On 3/9/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/08/08 17:34, hce wrote: > > On 3/9/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> On 03/08/08 17:05, hce wrote:

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal insu

Re: convert video to audio

2008-03-08 Thread cothrige
KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > laura eznarriaga wrote: >> >> * >> *convert video to adio* >> >> how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio >> is their a program for this ?_ >> * >> > > Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 20:15, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:02:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As an "old timer" I would suggest you try what we used to clean the >> contacts of connectors-an eraser. > > But its all over the whole

Re: /media and /mnt ownership and permissions

2008-03-08 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 08 March 2008 21:35, Haines Brown wrote: > Be default on my system, both are owned by root/root, and since that got > in my way when I was in a hurry, I simply changed their ownership to > owner/owner. I know this isn't proper. My setting up a sidux on X61s > Thinkpad is an opportunity

/media and /mnt ownership and permissions

2008-03-08 Thread Haines Brown
Be default on my system, both are owned by root/root, and since that got in my way when I was in a hurry, I simply changed their ownership to owner/owner. I know this isn't proper. My setting up a sidux on X61s Thinkpad is an opportunity for me to start out the right way. My inclination would ge

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:02:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As an "old timer" I would suggest you try what we used to clean the > contacts of connectors-an eraser. But its all over the whole motherboard. I'm wondering if its tobacco residue. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug As an "old timer" I would suggest you try what we used to clean the contacts of connectors-an eraser. Larry Original Message: - From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:45:24 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [OT] how to clean grime off o

[OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal insulator but I'm unsure what

Re: convert video to audio

2008-03-08 Thread KS
laura eznarriaga wrote: > > * > *convert video to adio* > > how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio > is their a program for this ?_ > * > Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux the audio and video for you. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 18:22, Andrius wrote: > Andrius wrote: >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20: > technical question: is it possible to extract text from PD

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 3/8/08, *Ivan Glushkov* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo, which has an NVIDIA nForce4 sata > > raid controller and I tri

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Andrius wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters shou

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Andrius wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20: technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to txt. There have already been some useful suggestions. One more: on kpdf, the r

system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-08 Thread tom arnall
my system is going crazy with disk-head parking when i watch movies. below is ouput of: date >> ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 193 >> ~/logfile sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep " 9" >> ~/logfile

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20: technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to txt. There have already been some useful suggestions. One more: on kpdf, the right mouse button

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 17:39, Andrius wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Yes. It's not as important now, though, as when modems were *slow*, > monitors small, and disk space expensive. > > Just don't go crazy. > >> >> > Look at that. It is a signature for

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 17:34, hce wrote: > On 3/9/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 03/08/08 17:05, hce wrote: >> > On 3/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, M

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, hce shared this with us all: >--} Works for me.  Even http://202.2.56.40/ brings up the page. >--} >--} That looks like the problem of my debian installation. >--} >--} >  Did you happen to install the Noscript plugin? >--} >--} No sure about that, how can I check it >--} Works

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread hce
On 3/9/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/08/08 17:05, hce wrote: > > On 3/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:03:46PM +1100, hce wrote: > >> > On 3/8/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Keith Richie
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 5:11 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/8/08, Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Works just fine in Rhythmbox. Looks like you don't have the codecs > > needed to play the stream. gstreamer-good/bad/ugly/ffmpeg/fluendo. > > You mght have replied t

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: >>> Lads, >>> >>> would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. >>> How many characters should be in the row of

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 17:05, hce wrote: > On 3/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:03:46PM +1100, hce wrote: >> > On 3/8/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you. But that is not a dns problem. I have no

Re: ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread David Zelinsky
Never mind, I found my mistake. Sorry to bother people. It turns out routing table on the 10.0.0.2 host was wrong, and it was causing the return packets to be lost. When I made the configuration agree with what I describe below, everything works as expected. -David David Zelinsky <[EMAIL PR

No orig.tar.gz or diff.gz with pdebuild

2008-03-08 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm trying to build some packages, and am using the following: pdebuild --auto-debsign --buildresult /tmp/$(basename $PWD) \ --debsign-k 0x5005EF07 --debbuildopts "-D -sa" The packages build properly, but despite the -sa option I'm not getting the orig.tar.gz or a diff.gz file added t

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread hce
On 3/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:03:46PM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 3/8/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you. But that is not a dns problem. I have no problem to open > > google or other hundreds web pages, but just a few web pages

Re: Failure of Ethernet link with Belkin adapter & Netgear hub.

2008-03-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:07:16PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a > Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, > an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub, > communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. The > light on the Belkin adap

Re: ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David Zelinsky wrote: >With this setup, I expect to be able to ping 10.0.0.2 from 192.168.0.2 >(and vice versa), with packets routed through the firewall, but it >doesn't work. >What am I overlooking? It looks like that 10.0.0.2 does not have a route to 192.168.0.0/24 or that 192.168.0.2 does no

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached t

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. > How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? > Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached to > Thunderbird

Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached to Thunderbird, some rows was broken and ASCII art together. Were suspect that i

Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries

2008-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:48:16PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > logcheck.conf offers a choice of where to send notifications. I had > set it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". It looks as though I would > have spared myself a lot of headaches, if I had selected > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Why is that? Your ex

Re: ripping cds

2008-03-08 Thread Allan Wind
I have not tried it, but it looks like cdparanoia can do what you want: Extract from track 1, time 0:30.12 to 1:10.00: cdparanoia "1[:30.12]-1[1:10]" It might be faster ripping the cd as one track and the split it afterwards (for example cdparanoia + flac). /Allan -- To

debian orca accessibility adventures; latest update

2008-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I got a clean lenny system using speakup and ran tasksel and selected desktop environment. At least 10 packages failed to install due to errors. Okay no problem because my next step was to remove gdm and all dependencies. It was recommended I use startx and then run orca and all would be fin

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:12:03AM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The ffmpeg version in the debian-multimedia repository is build without > > MMX, I don't know exactly why. And this makes the program quite slow > > (something like 3 time

Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries

2008-03-08 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:02:22 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 21:22:40 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> >> After switching to mbox format, I can receive >> >> "echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test-local" [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> when run from a "user" terminal. >> >> zil

Re: good network

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 12:41:27PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:01:38AM +0100, stephane lepain wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I read a couple of post on ipv6 and most mentioned a point about IPv6 > > being the main factor for sluggish connection. So my question is that >

Re: ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:37:54PM -0500, David Zelinsky wrote: > I'm trying to set up a firewall/gateway, and I can't seem to get > ip forwarding to work. I'm using linux kernel 2.6.23 with iptables > enabled. Here's what happens. > > The firewall machine has two interfaces (both on private net

Re: ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:57:14AM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, asm4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the nominal bit rate shown by xmms or mplayer on out.ogg is 0k and > > average bit rate is 41.7kbps I don't think you can compare bit rates, ogg has better compression than mp3 so 128kb og

Failure of Ethernet link with Belkin adapter & Netgear hub.

2008-03-08 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub, communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. The light on the Belkin adapter is green. If the AT hub is removed and the Belkin adapter is

ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread David Zelinsky
I'm trying to set up a firewall/gateway, and I can't seem to get ip forwarding to work. I'm using linux kernel 2.6.23 with iptables enabled. Here's what happens. The firewall machine has two interfaces (both on private networks, for testing purposes): IFIPNetmask eth0 192.168.0

Re: ripping cds

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 13:36, laura eznarriaga wrote: > > * > * > *Ripping CDs Without Splitting Tracks* > > Many of the CDs I listen to have tracks that run into each other (yes, I > know,

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Fox wrote: I can always try that. Meanwhile, I can't get the darned thing to build :( Am getting errors when trying to build some of the MMX stuff: i386/h264dsp_mmx.c: In function 'avg_h264_qpel16_mc32_mmx2': i386/h264dsp_mmx.c:1371: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break st

Re : rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

2008-03-08 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Ken, Artur, Kumar, Dusan, Jeff, Mihira, Crank, > ... you're using layer rotate. use normal rotate ... And I selected the image first in at least one attempt. > ... Image -> transform -> rotate ... That's better. Thanks, ... Peter E. http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The --disable-mmx switch is hardcoded in the debian/rules file. You'll have to unpack the source (dpkg-source -x .dsc-file), edit the file, and OK, got that far and added the tune for athlon tbird as well. Seem

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The --disable-mmx switch is hardcoded in the debian/rules file. You'll > have to unpack the source (dpkg-source -x .dsc-file), edit the file, and OK, got that far and added the tune for athlon tbird as well. Seems to be building OK thus

Re: ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, asm4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the nominal bit rate shown by xmms or mplayer on out.ogg is 0k and > average bit rate is 41.7kbps Is the quality (or lack of) extremely noticable? Ogg is variable rate, and by "VOB" i'm thinking "movie", where there may be a large variation of sound so

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Fox wrote: Oddly enough, I inspected the /etc/apt/sources.list and the line was definitely there. But I worked around that problem well enough by using apt-build, and the package (revision 0.1 even though there is a 0.2 on marillat's site - it must just not be available in lenny yet) is bui

how to hook up pc to tv?

2008-03-08 Thread laura eznarriaga
- I have hooked up my pc to tv using s video. I restarted my pc and the start up ubuntu screen showed up perfectly on my tv but when the login screen came on my tv distorted completly. I have lines runinng thru the tv now. it looks scrambled. I tried changi

ripping cds

2008-03-08 Thread laura eznarriaga
Ripping CDs Without Splitting Tracks - Many of the CDs I listen to have tracks that run into each other (yes, I know, I'm an aging hippy!). In Windoze I used MusicMatch to rip CDs which, to the best of my knowledge, was the only product that allowed y

convert video to audio

2008-03-08 Thread laura eznarriaga
convert video to adio - how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio is their a program for this ?_ - Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! El correo favorito de los internautas..

green screen in movie player

2008-03-08 Thread laura eznarriaga
green screen in movie player hey, sup everyone, i know this has ben asked befor but none of the posts (atlest the ones i found) had a fix to it. now most of the time i would just get a different player, but i

how to hook up pc to tv?

2008-03-08 Thread laura eznarriaga
- I have hooked up my pc to tv using s video. I restarted my pc and the start up ubuntu screen showed up perfectly on my tv but when the login screen came on my tv distorted completly. I have lines runinng thru the tv now. it looks scrambled. I tried changi

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really now. I think there were some revisions in which MMX was > causing problems, but in that version there seemed to be no problems I had some bizarre issues with ffmpeg before, (especially the 3/27/2007 release leaking gobs o

display problem with lenny

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Dressel
Hi, since I have upgraded from etch to lenny the display (Xorg, gtk ...?) seams to have a problem. When I scroll up or down with the web browsers epiphany or iceweasel horizontal lines appear on the web page. It also happens when I move another window across the web browser. The stripes go awa

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The ffmpeg version in the debian-multimedia repository is build without MMX, I don't know exactly why. And this makes the program quite slow (something like 3 times slower). I wonder why -disable-mmx was chosen

ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-08 Thread asm4
i upgraded my unstable-debian last week and i am seeing quality issues with ripping sound from a .vob file. when i do: ffmpeg -i MTK_RECORD_VOLUME1-1.vob -f ogg -vn out.ogg the nominal bit rate shown by xmms or mplayer on out.ogg is 0k and average bit rate is 41.7kbps if i dump out a .wav from

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The ffmpeg version in the debian-multimedia repository is build without > MMX, I don't know exactly why. And this makes the program quite slow > (something like 3 times slower). I wonder why -disable-mmx was chosen? Stability possibly

Re: lenny help needed

2008-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 19:03:57 -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/7/08, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I took a clean install of etch up to lenny on a debian-speakup disk and > > tried adding the desktop environment using tasksel. Aptitude failed since > > I suspect at least 10 of those packages had errors

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Debian Enthusiasts, Does anyone have any suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance. To make a long story, well, not quite so long, I recently converted my home desktop box from ArchLinux to Debian. Back when I was running ArchLinux, and maybe one or two distros befo

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:04:50AM -0700, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, > and the installer is also working correctly. > > Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. > > Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer & Co. :-) If you have t

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just installed mplayer from debian multimedia -> kmplayer didn't feel > like upgrading same probs. OK. But in the last post I forgot to mention that in today's dist-upgrade for lenny there were new versions of many of the backends - including li

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> nope, vlc looks fine.. should i get kmplayer from the debian multimedia? > > Minor correction - kmplayer is indeed from debian testing repo here. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nope, vlc looks fine.. should i get kmplayer from the debian multimedia? Minor correction - kmplayer is indeed from debian testing repo here. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-cache policy kmplayer kmplayer: Installed: 1:0.10.0c-1 Candidate: 1:0

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/7/08, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp > (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The totem I had just now tried to add it to my stream collection in Amarok - which incidentally uses libxine1,

Re: Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

2008-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi All, > > The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 > thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard. > > I'm trying t

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-08 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 3/8/08, *Ivan Glushkov* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo, which has an NVIDIA nForce4 sata > raid controller and I tried to install Debian with the testing > netinstall cd, but it does not r

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing >> any media (dvd, file etc) > > I haven't noticed anything like that. I run lenny, on a desktop, > Nvi

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C != en_US > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | sort > a > B > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LANG=C sort > B > a > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LC_COLLATE=C sort > B > a > > > The built-in C locale has no sorting order. All others provide orderi

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread David Fox
On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing > any media (dvd, file etc) I haven't noticed anything like that. I run lenny, on a desktop, Nvidia FX5200. What video and driver are you using? Does it look different for

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:03:46PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 3/8/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. But that is not a dns problem. I have no problem to open > google or other hundreds web pages, but just a few web pages including > my bank web pages could not open in Debian. I suspect

Re: Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting

2008-03-08 Thread jsg-madura.rangana07
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kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've moved most of my machines from mandriva to debian, hada few hitches, but god move i think. however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing any media (dvd, file etc) It seems to have too much yellow also, but i'm not sure

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 10:21, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 03/08/08 09:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> > On Sat March 8 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Oh, I thought you only meant that t

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat March 8 2008, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >  You must be using Stable.  (Maybe you mentioned that, but I don't > >  remember.)  That could be why Rhythmbox isn't working for you at > >  Radio Free Georgia. > > That wasn't me looking for aqualung.  I'm on a newly installed testing > system, and

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:11:39PM +1100, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 3/3/08, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a number of different dhcp clients in Debian; dhclient3, > > dhclient, and pump are three that come to mind immediately. > > Theoretically, a

Re: Soundcard Trust SC 5250

2008-03-08 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 08 March 2008 07:53, David wrote: > How can I under Debian (etch and lenny) use the Soundcard Trust SC 5250 (I > want to buy one)? > > Will it be found when I enter: discover --debug ? > > What kernel modules must be installed? > > David Following on from Ron Johnson's reply, the only

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/08/08 09:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Sat March 8 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Oh, I thought you only meant that totem/xine played DVDs like you > >> wanted them to. BTW, I just noticed that I don't even have

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 09:53, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:59 -0500 >> "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> AFAIK (<<--see the disclaimer?) in the USA, you are allowed to make >>> personal copies of me

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 09:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat March 8 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Oh, I thought you only meant that totem/xine played DVDs like you >> wanted them to. BTW, I just noticed that I don't even have >> rhythmbox installed. (Aqualung f

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Celejar wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:59 -0500 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK (<<--see the disclaimer?) in the USA, you are allowed to make personal copies of media you own for your own use (not to install on multiple machines). This has been upheld time and time ag

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat March 8 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > Oh, I thought you only meant that totem/xine played DVDs like you > wanted them to.  BTW, I just noticed that I don't even have > rhythmbox installed.  (Aqualung for music, and vlc/mplayer for video.) http://aqualung.factorial.hu/download.html Aqualung is

Re: Restore apache help

2008-03-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
John Fleming wrote: Continuing to restore my server - I've installed apache and restored my home dirs and /etc/apache dir. That's not adequate though, as other configs are needed. Right now every browse is directed to the default /var/www dir and my httpd.conf is being ignored due to various re

Restore apache help

2008-03-08 Thread John Fleming
Continuing to restore my server - I've installed apache and restored my home dirs and /etc/apache dir. That's not adequate though, as other configs are needed. Right now every browse is directed to the default /var/www dir and my httpd.conf is being ignored due to various references to other conf

Re: fsck'd - FIXED

2008-03-08 Thread John Fleming
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > > Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the > > "enter root password to enter maintenance", I did that, and at the > > prompt entered fsck. It warned me

Re: Soundcard Trust SC 5250

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 00:53, David wrote: > How can I under Debian (etch and lenny) use the Soundcard Trust SC 5250 > (I want to buy one)? > > Will it be found when I enter: discover --debug ? > > What kernel modules must be installed? What research have you

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 08:28, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 03/07/08 23:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> > Provocative question, I realize. >> > >> > But here's why I ask: >> > >> > to

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/07/08 23:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Provocative question, I realize. > > > > But here's why I ask: > > > > totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what > > plugins I added, it just playe

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