October 2001 - main

Re: [Alug] new graphics card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

MJRay wrote: >apt-get install xserver-s3 Thanks. This was fine. XF86Config still thinks I am using the old card, but the picture is so clear and refresh rate fast that I can't see the need to alter it. There was some doubt on IRC last night if Red Lodge *was* actually booked for 28th oct, by the way - Simon? Jenny.

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View MS shares from Linux
by brodders＠cwcom.net 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Hi guys.. A Q re linking filesystems. Want to join & make filesystems transparent between 3 Windows98 boxes, a Linux server and a Linux workstation. Now I've used Samba & found it great - for servers. Clients can see the server f/s - but the server itself can't see the shares on the Windows boxes (not quite right - Samba has some command line utilities giving views onto the client). I want all the box GUIs to be able to see all the shares -so, how to get Linboxen GUIs to see the MS shares? Also, in such an environment how to connect the two Linux boxes? NFS? This is something I have not as yet done. This OK running alongside Samba? The Linux I'll be using will be either Mandrake 7.2, Corporate or 8.1 (still not 100% convinced about the new kernel). ?:^) brodders

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Re: [Alug] IDE Raid
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

"John Woodard" <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> writes: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3QHC6.3037%24CO5.528506%40news01. > chello.no Why line wrap that? Alternatively, http://google.com/groups?q=msgid:3QHC6.3037$CO5.528506@news01.chello.no -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] new graphics card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Steve Fosdick wrote: >Interesting. Which distro? Have you tried any other X config >tools - there is also XF86Setup, Xconfigurator (Redhat) anXious >(debian). >Which debian? Potato? For potato I beleive there is a version >of the X server for the S3 chipset (which has many varients) and >you would need to installed that - it is probably called xserver-s3 >If you are prepared to face the possibility that X may refuser to >work and that you'd have to come back for more help, I would install >this new package (xserver-s3) and say yes when it asks you if you >want to make it the default. I'd be surprised if the outcome was any different... >If that doesn't do the trick, you could try the other X config >tools or post your XF86Config for suggestions as to what to edit. I tried running some of the other configuring tools. Not tried anXious. Potato is the distro. I'm happy to edit XF86Config by hand if I knew what was needed - I'll post tonight if that is ok? Will I need to hunt down a copy of xserverS3, or does debian have it lurking somewhere? Thanks, Jenny.

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RE: [Alug] IDE Raid
by D 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

> > Where did you buy them from? > www.advantech.com - they've got a UK center. > > > I see no prices, thanks :) > Look, and you'll see why I made do with 16M :-( > I've been using the PC104 board with a DOC2000, rather than one of the > IDE/SCSI units. Not bad prices for machines I need to be reliable esp when they will be a an hours drive away Thanks Darren

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Re: [Alug] new graphics card
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > >If you are prepared to face the possibility that X may refuser to > >work and that you'd have to come back for more help, I would install > >this new package (xserver-s3) and say yes when it asks you if you > >want to make it the default. > I'd be surprised if the outcome was any different... Why? You have an s3, install an s3 xserver package. apt-get install xserver-s3 That will hopefully do the trick... if not, I'll try to be on IRC this evening to figure out more. -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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Re: [Alug] Replys (video digitising)
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

"Lincoln, Michael C" <mclinc(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > What the alug list needs is a replyto: in the header... No, it does not. We've been here before. A quick refresher: 1/ If alug doesn't set a reply-to, people just need to remember to use "reply to all" when they want to reply to all. This seems a reasonable requirement to me. 2/ If alug sets a reply-to, people pressing "reply to author" actually "reply to all", which is clearly broken. 3/ If alug sets a reply-to, the original value of the reply-to header is lost for all time, which may be bad. 4/ Some people (including me) like to get a copy of replies to my message faster than the list server passes them on. If you don't it's fairly easy to filter off things which have a list in the cc. 5/ There's also the wooly point that many of us are using Linux because we like something which follows reasonable standards and don't want to see it become another gaggle of conflicting closed shops. Therefore, alug will not break standards and screw the headers. PS - main(a)lists.alug.org.uk is where this list now lives. alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk will "go away" soon. Please update yourself. -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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Test- is this in HTML?
by Ricardo Campos 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

If this damned account only sends in HTML, I'll be quite annoyed. Does anyone on this list have a non-HTML supporting e-mail client? I spose there would have been the same problem with my hotmail acct.... Ricardo <<-- formerly of corez23(a)hotmail.com Now using another multinational corporate mail system. But this one's cuter. :P -->> -- Love Ricardo, "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 http://www.rscampos.net Get your @hellokitty.com FREE e-mail account at http://www.sanriotown.com Sanrio Town - Your Ultimate Community to meet Sanrio character & friends. Powered by Outblaze

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video digitising
by Syd Hancock 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Does anyone here have any experience of digitising analogue video in linux? I am looking for advice on what capture card (mid-range e.g. Pinnacle DC10plus) to use and possibly a tv tuner card. In particular, if anyone does use a DC10plus I'd be very interested to make contact as I'd like to see one in use if possible. Also can anyone comment on the current state of play with ATI graphic cards and linux? Some of their cards seem to do all that I want but... Thanks Syd

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re:Libraries
by Ricardo Campos 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Hey, I can answer my own question. Luckily the boss isn't in! Surfing for me! ;) ... This has to be done by root, and is only necessary for MDK 8.x >ld --whole-archive -shared-o /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 >/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a >rpm -Uvh xine-lib-xv-*.rpm --nodeps >ldconfig Other Redhatters merely have to: >rpm -Uvh *.rpm >ldconfig there seems to be about 5 million libraries and extra packages you need to d/l. Well, actually 4.9 million. Darn this CSS business. (Not that I would use the De-CSS plugin, of course. ;) Ricardo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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