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hard disc and laptop
by Bryce Martin 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Hi, Does anybody know how to stop SuSE 9 from writing data to the hard disk of my laptop so very often. Basically, if you have done this already yourself, and are quite familiar with the set of things that need to be done and how to do them, please get in touch with me. I have changed a couple of settings that helped (I'm not usre if these changes were durable from one session to the next) that helped but I can't remember what I changed, so I probably need to re-visit this topic myself and post some more useful info to help with this query. I think I changed the percentage of a buffer that could be used up before it had to be written to disk, and another thing or two also, but I can't remember more now. Anyway, I thought someone might actually know everything off by heart, and could pass it on. -- Bye, Bryce.

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realplayer 8.0.3.465-10 and bbc video files
by Bryce Martin 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Just noticed - you are typing the first letter as 'i' (I) - that should be 'l' (L) Regards Syd Thanks Syd, I had no idea the command was ldconfig. I got the command to run, but it didn't solve my problem. I'm using realplayer 8.0.3.465-10 that came with the SuSE 9 discs. I have uninstalled and installed again using yast, but unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem either. I always use the bbc world http://news.bbc.co.uk/default.stm website to play audio and video links because in the past they have always worked properly. Now, the video links don't play. The message is that the AV console is not yet supported for my system. This is strange because only two weeks ago I was playing video files of Prof Collin Pillinger about Beagle 2 that lasted for an hour, and Tony Blair's interview with Frost (also an hour long). The audio links still work though. Could it be that the bbc site has upgraded and my player is no longer supported? Can you play the files? -- Regards, Bryce.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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DreamW***er users
by MJ Ray 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Hi, I'm looking for some former DreamW***er users to help test a visual web site editor. Please send me an email off-list if you're interested. I will, of course, summarise the test outcome to the list. (Sorry about the *s, but dealing with its output seems to have harmed me.) -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Debian apt-get upgrade question
by Nick Heppleston 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Morning all, Hope you can help. Started playing with Debian after deciding it was time I got upto speed with it. I've just gone for an 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' and received the following warning (see below). Could anyone help decipher it for me. As far as I can see i'm running kernel 2.4.18-1-386 already, so how come the apt-get upgrade command wants to upgrade my kernel to the current version? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nick <snip> You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.4.18-1-386) However, the directory /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 still exists. If this directory belongs to a previous kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 package, and if you have deselected some modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. However, if this directory exists because you are also installing some stand alone modules right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. Unfortunately, I can't tell the difference. If /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 belongs to a old install of kenel-image-2.4.18-1-386, this is your last chance to abort the installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed right now, or if it does belong to an older kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 package but you know what you are doing, and if you feel that this image should be installed despite this anomaly, Please answer n to the question. Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386 out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-386.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. </snip> -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk

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konqueror and plugins
by Bryce Martin 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Content-Type=message/rfc822 Content-Description=embedded message From: Paul <bdi-emc(a)ntlworld.com> To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] plugins & KDE Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:53:04 +0000 >Hi Bryce >Having just experienced KDE hanging during one of the initial stages of >startup, you may want to try running ldconfig.. It solved the problem I was >having. >Regards, Paul. On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:32 am, Bryce Martin wrote: > konqueror and navigator have stopped playing video files on bbc websites that > they were playing without the slightest trouble last week. -- Thanks for the tip Paul but I need to know how to run idconfig. I mean, I tried typing idconfig as root and a user at the command line, but nothing happens of course. What do I need to do? The thing is that all the plugins (realplayer and the like) are already present and correct on my system. Last week konqueror and navigator used them properly and realplayer did it's job. Somehow, the system has got itself confused and thinks the plugins are not present (or something like that because it prompts me to download them). This is one aspect of linux that really annoys me. Everything is set up correctly and working one week, and the next things stop working for no apparent reason. Anyway, if you can give me as much detail about running or doing this idconfig thing, I would be very grateful. Regards, -- Bye, Bryce.

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Has anyone used Linphone ?
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

I have set up Linphone, the Internet SIP telephone software, and my brother, who is also using Linphone can call me but I can't call him. If I run it from a terminal window there are no error messages but the call just times out. I can call a computer on the internal network without problems. I, and my brother, are using ADSL and I have a 4-port ethernet router with a firewall enabled. The firewall is set to allow anything out and the appropriate ports (5060 & 7078) are open for incoming calls. If I call my own internal address I get a popup window saying 'User is busy' but if I call my own external (Internet) address I get nothing and it eventually times out. I have now run out of ideas (doesn't take much) and would very much appreciate any new suggestions. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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plugins & KDE
by Bryce Martin 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

KDE and navigator have stopped playing video files on bbc websites that they were playing without the slightest trouble last week. They both have the relevant plugin installed and available which is the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin and I don't understand why neither will recognise they have the ability to play the files. This is very frustrating because everything worked fine last week. I have checked that the mime files are present and correct, and I've restarted my computer a few times to see if that might fix things, and now I don't know what to do. The computer tells me I need to download Realplayer, but it is already installed on my machine. Can anyone help? -- Bye, Bryce.

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #36 - 6 msgs
by Richard Bensley 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Thanks to Richard and Wayne for replying about the Gentoo Distro's. A copy of gentoo is currently coming my way. Cheers guys for the help. (just wait till I start pestering about how to install it!)

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Re: [ALUG] Hi
by Edenyard 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Ian Bell wrote: > I use it for circuit design and PCB layout i.e 2.5D Hope you don't mind me being nosey, Ian, but which package do you use for PCB layout? Is it well-sorted? I'm still on an old DOS package that needs a stupid dongle on an LPT port and I'd dearly like to get shot of it. Not too sure how I'd get on moving all my old designs over, though.... Whilst we're on the subject, would you happen to know/recommend anything that runs on Linux that could read Orcad 3.11 (DOS) .SCH files? Cheers, Gerald.

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