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Thanks to everyone, especially paul and rich, who suggested solutions to my various problems. I managed to get Xine working reasonably well, although there still seems to be a problem with lip-sync! It also randomly crashes, which is a tad annoying when watching a film... However, I'm still no further with copying CDs. The problem is actually with reading them, not writing them (I haven't got to that stage yet!). xcdroast (run as root) says "Fatal error: did not drop group privilege." when it tries to read the tracks off an audio CD. Any ideas? As for transferring my emails across, I will probably try to update my system without losing data. When I actually have basic commands like "cat" and "tail" working, I'm sure I can manage to pipe them across... Jon On Thursday 29 August 2002 13:37, you wrote:
cd burner, When I try and use the koncd with a normal user, it complains that the permissions are not correct and by correcting them could pose a security risk, have you tried using the cdburner as root, also what are the permissions on the device, you should have write permission on the device. FTP Is there a way of splitting the file in 2, like you split pics with uuencode, (or used to). or is there a file size limit for ftp, Also if you are linking via a hub try switching down to 10mb rather than 100mb this sometimes helps. Alternativly you could always e-mail the file to yourself and pick it up on the laptop, you may have to encrypt the file, but a last resort, if you have ADSL would be quite quick also. HTH Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Melhuish" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: [LUG] Problems, problems (and more problems)...I'm afraid these have kinda mounted up, as my previous posts to the list didn't seem to get through, even though the response about Hosting, whichIsent from my laptop, did - even though they have identical Identity infoonboth machines. Not quite sure why that was... I've just built myself a new machine: Athlon 550Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 80Gb hard drive, surround-sound card, D-link Ethernet NIC, and of course, Linux (Mandrake). I see you all looking down your noses from your shiny newP4s,but I don't reckon it's too bad for under £200 :-P But of course, now that I have all this processing power, I quiteinevitablywant to do something with it (apart from just install Linux on it). Like play DivX movies... XINE loads fine and seems to load the file OK, but when I click play, itsays(in the console): xine-panel: PLAY xine_play: xine open /mnt/cdrom/MATRICE1.MPG, start pos = 0, start time =0(sec) xine: using input plugin >file< for this MRL (/mnt/cdrom/MATRICE1.MPG). demux_avi: AVI_init failed (AVI_errno: 9) xine: using demuxer plugin >MPEG< for this MRL. metronom: audio stream start... metronom: waiting for video to start... metronom: video stream start... Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform Using MMXEXT for motion compensation metronom: audio stream start...done audio_loop: using decoder >mad< video_out : thread created video_decoder: using decoder >mpeg2dec< mpeg2dec: frame size 352 x 240 spucc: new frame size: 352x240 spucc: update_intrinsics metronom: set_video_rate 3003 video_out_xshm: unknown aspect ratio (12) in stream => using 4:3 video_out_xshm: frame source 352 x 240 => screen output 704 x 528,softwarescaling yuv2rgb: using 2*zoom optimized scale_line libmad: audio sample rate 44100 mode 00000008 audio_oss_out: ao_open rate=44100, mode=8, dev=/dev/dsp audio_oss_out: audio rate : 44100 requested, 44100 provided by device/sec audio_oss_out : 2 channels output audio_out: output sample rate 44100 Segmentation fault The last line of which seems particularly encouraging! I should mentionthatI am using KDE/ARts/ALSA and that sound works fine in other programs (eg. XMMS) when set to "OSS" mode, although I wasn't using any other suchprogramsat the time. However, ALSA doesn't shut down properly when I shut the computer down,butit does when I run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa stop", which I thought was thesamething? The second problem involves copying CDs. My CD burner seems to have been automagically installed and appears in the list of possibles in xcdroast. Bad news is I get this error when I try to read the tracks off an AudioCD:recording 4440.00666 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz ->'/home/jon/track-01'... 0%Fatal error: did not drop group privilege. child reader sem request failed Needless to say nothing is extracted. It may have something (everything?)todo with these errors I get when I start xcdroast: ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/mkisofs ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/readcd ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/cdda2wav Not quite sure what I'm supposed to do about it... And a slightly more minor problem: I can't transfer my old 31.2Mb inboxfilefrom my laptop to my new desktop (by FTP), it says "I/O error". Ittransfersabout 25Mb before giving up. I think it might well be a local problem,butthe Inbox file is fine when read under KMail on my laptop. Sorry to bamboozle everyone with all my linux problems, but hopefullythat'swhat this list is here for :-P May I suggest that you reply to eachproblemwith a suitable subject (ie. break it off into a new thread), to help medealwith the influx of help I am bound to receive ;-) Any help much appreciated... Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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