--- John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of David Freeman Sent: 31 March 2001 19:47 To: alug@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.
- 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?
- Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts
project?
Missed that put me down for an xxl
- 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?)
- 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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David Freeman wrote:
Configure APM in the bios to do so and it should work.
APM?? whats APM?
Advanced Power Management...
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?)
I've been in contact with the gllug and lonix (london user groups) about Entora doing on-site demonstrations for companies the week before/after the install fest. If there is significant interest around East Anglia then I have people who can demo complex linux based systems to companies... If people want to contact me directly (save cloging up the list) then we can arrange something...
Regards Neill
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of David Freeman Sent: 31 March 2001 21:30 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: RE: [Alug] ATX, Open Tshirts, 29/4/01 and DVD
--- John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of David Freeman Sent: 31 March 2001 19:47 To: alug@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.
- 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?
- Who was the person on mondays IRC who had started a open tshirts
project?
Missed that put me down for an xxl
- 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?)
- 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
Bugger,
Sorry, didn't reply to all I keep forgetting.
I meant Monday night, only got 3 hours sleep last night so my brain is on a go slow tonight.
APM is the power management set-up in the bios. If you run MS operating systems they override APM in the bios and do their own thing afaia Unix needs bios support of apm for auto turn off on halt.
Loads of stuff on usenet about which DVD drives can do the multi region thing, do a search on http://groups.google.com/ formally dejanews.
Cheers, BJ
--- John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
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. :(
Am I right in thinking that the regionalisation is all tied up with the encryption and that different region players have different decryption keys?
Assuming the above is true, and given that I beleive computer DVD players send the encrypted stream to the computer, then in the case of a computer DVD player it would be the software that would determine regionalisation. If that is the case I would expect the Linux players to be multi-region.
Steve.
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