I am organising a seminar on Linux and Open Source software at the
University of Birmingham on April 24th. The seminar is sponsored by IBM
and features speakers from IBM, Red Hat, SUSE, Fujitsu and the
University of Birmingham. The intention of the seminar is to highlight
the advantages of using Linux/Open Source software in a business
environment.
If anyone from Anglian LUG is interested in attending, there are further
details, including registration forms, at
http://www.advanced-telematics.com/ or please contact me at the number
below.
Many thanks.
Dr James Drever
The Centre for Advanced Telematics
University of Birmingham
0121 414 2215
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All,
As usual it never rains but it poors. I have a number of questions, and
was wondering if anyone else on the list could help.
1) Is it possible to configure linux to turn an ATX pc off when you run
halt?
2) Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts
project?
3) Does anyone know if and what is happening on 29/04/01 with regard
National linux day? We only have 29 days left to plan!
4) And finally, I currently refuse to buy a DVD player(as in Hi-fi
seprate) for a number of reasons, most notably I feel that region
coding is an infringment on my rights. But I do feel alot happier with
the idea of playing DVD's from linux with the DeCSS(or similiar) code.
Can anyone advise on what I would need to play DVD's full screen(or
even better 16:9 on a normal screen) with normal stereo sound out the
sound card.
4-b) What would I then require to output the sound to a AC-3 decoder?
Thanks
D
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--- John Woodard <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alug-admin(a)stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On
> > Behalf Of David Freeman
> > Sent: 31 March 2001 19:47
> > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Alug] ATX, Open Tshirts, 29/4/01 and DVD
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > As usual it never rains but it poors. I have a number of questions,
> and
> > was wondering if anyone else on the list could help.
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to configure linux to turn an ATX pc off when you
> run
> > halt?
>
> Configure APM in the bios to do so and it should work.
APM?? whats APM?
> > 2) Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts
> > project?
>
> Missed that put me down for an xxl
>
> > 3) Does anyone know if and what is happening on 29/04/01 with
> regard
> > National linux day? We only have 29 days left to plan!
>
> Mark Ray was getting a room booked. We must do some publicity etc.
> though,
> I suggest we meet to discuss on IRC tomorrow night.
very good idea. Does someone want to take owner ship of this? (tomorrow
as in the normal monday meet of tomorrow the sunday meet?)
> > 4) And finally, I currently refuse to buy a DVD player(as in Hi-fi
> > seprate) for a number of reasons, most notably I feel that region
> > coding is an infringment on my rights. But I do feel alot happier
> with
> > the idea of playing DVD's from linux with the DeCSS(or similiar)
> code.
> > Can anyone advise on what I would need to play DVD's full screen(or
> > even better 16:9 on a normal screen) with normal stereo sound out
> the
> > sound card.
>
> Plenty of de-regionalized stand alone players on the market. Is your
> DVD
> drive firmware fixed or can it be de-regonalized by a flash upgrade?
> Mine
> can't so I'm stuck with region 2. :(
I don't yet have a DVD drive as I wasn't sure If I could get a multi
region one or not. Can you? if so which ones are any good?
> I'd also be interested in trying out full screen DVD anyone got it
> working?
When I find out how I'll put it on my web site.
Thanks
D
> Cheers,
> BJ
>
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Hullo list.
I'm stuck in a loop installing this here debian......
"do you want to create /etc/X11/XF86Config file? y/n" y
......."_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Unable to communicate with X server!
The /etc/X11/XF86Config file was not created.
Press [Enter] to switch to graphics mode.
This may take a while...
Press [Enter] to continue
Pressing enter, of course, takes it back to the beginning, but there
doesn't seem to be another option.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Jenny.
Hi all,
Just trudging along trying to install ALSA. Have recompiled kernel to
support VFAT, sound (with no modules), and loadable module support. Compiled
the ALSA driver (finally), after realizing it was looking for sources in
/usr/src/linux and inserting --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12
(where my recompiled srcs live). Now though, a problem with recompiling the
lib packages (alsa). On the mailing list archives, it says I might have to
upgrade libc (suggestion was to upgrade to frozen/potato libc6)...
Is it alright to have sources live as kernel-source-2.2.12?
How do I change that to /usr/src/linux if I need to?
Because I wanted to boot an NTFS partition also, I did 'make zdisk' after
'make bzImage' (linux kernel how-to) so I could boot from diskette...is that
the problem?
How do I actually get libc6 installed?
sorry for the multiple newbie questions, just excited to be close to having
ALSA-SBLive! working.
d
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Greetings,
I've just reinstalled RH61 onto the same (local) box it was on before - but
now for some reason when I try to FTP or telnet into it it makes the
connection but never sends a response request for username and password (or
at least it times out after a couple of minutes) so I can't actually log in!
I can however Samba into it no probs and http works fine too - any ideas as
I'm only a low-to-middling propellorhead. I have changed nothing
hardwarewise all I did was reformat and install from the exact same copy of
RH61 as previously - I suspect I may not have included something in the
custom install.
Kind regards,
Dave Howe
hippy(a)thehippy.com
"apt-get install"?? groan, there go the next three months for a
start............the nice Debian book has a section on it, minds.
Thanks, though, basic it is. I have to learn sometime, ...........[When's
the next meeting......? ;-)]
Jen