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Re: [Alug] October meeting...
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Adam Bower wrote: >I will probably have to miss the meeting if we settle on this date so not >good for me, but then any date this month is not good for me. Make it the week after then? - November 4th. Then you can't wriggle out of the debian talk ;)

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Re: [Alug] Xine
by Ricardo Campos 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

> What distro/versions are you using? I compiled Xine 0.9.1 with no trouble on Slackware 8 (X 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.10, with a GeForce DDR). MDK 8.0 (X 4.0.3, kernel 2.4.1, Geforce 2 MX DDR), nvidia drivers installed. I didn't compile, but used the RPMs and followed the "if you're using Mandrake 8.0" instructions. I've just d/l the tar.gz's , but compiling on this system always seems to take so much time.... (in the sense that it never works 1st time, only on about th 10th time). I'll have to do it when all other options are exhausted. > Are you actually opening the files individually using Xine? You should > just click on the DVD (or whichever decss'ing plugin you have) button > along the bottom of the control box and it will find the whole movie. Err... mine appears to be a tab near the top that says DVD, so I clicked on that. Press the play button, and it hangs.... In one HOWTO, it mentioned that if a DVD is encrypted, you have to make sure that the device is NOT read only (i.e. have write permission on it), in order to negotiate the encryption keys. Did you do this? I mean, did your install ONLY involve compiling and away you went, or did you have to go thru setting up MTRR etc. ?? > If you still have no luck, run it from a terminal window and look at the > messages it gives out when you try and play a movie. That'll be my next step. > Once you get it working Xine is excellent, it produces smoother video > than PowerDVD on W2K on my PC (Athlon 800). Now you're just teasing me! My monitor is larger than my TV screen (only ever watch the news on TV anyway), so hence all this palaver. I'll not have access to my box til the weekend... and well, it'll be the weekend, so I probably won't get owt done till next week. Thx for the tips, perhaps my next mail about Xine will be more of a "Hooray! it works!" one. :) Ricardo -- 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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Re: [Alug] View MS shares from Linux
by Ricardo Campos 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

> >Although when I added this to my install my computer would hang trying to start up the SMB service... > > > First time out my system hung for a while, I was using the wrong > workgroup name. Well, it was the only computer on the network at the time. I'll have another go at some point. It was configured during the install, but now I'm feeling the bite of an install that holds your hand all the way and doesn't let you figure out exactly what you're doing and why. -- 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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mailing list details on lug.org.uk site
by John Woodard 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Who is looking after the list these days because now the list has a new home and the UEA list is shortly going to die we need to update the details held with the lug.org.uk website. Cheers, BJ

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Cambridge Lug
by Adam Bower 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

I just dropped a mail directly to the Cambridge lug with a bit more detail on the Alug as the crossover mail was a bit lacking in references. Anyhow I have asked them on opinions/ideas for any crossovers between the lugs etc, but have not crossposted them. btw do we have a next meeting yet? Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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Re: [Alug] View MS shares from Linux
by MJ Ray 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > you might want to check out smbmount, which allows you to mount > samba/windows shares on a unix box... Has anyone used smbfs with autofs? I don't think I remember seeing it done, but automatically mounting selected windows shares could be useful sometimes. -- 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] View MS shares from Linux
by Ricardo Campos 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

> In Mandrake 8.0 you can use gnomba, the Gnome samba browser. > Don't know about 7.2 though. Although when I added this to my install my computer would hang trying to start up the SMB service... -- 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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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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