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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, which I sent from my laptop, did - even though they have identical Identity info on both 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 new P4s, 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 quite inevitably want 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, it says (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, software scaling 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 mention that I 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 such programs at the time. However, ALSA doesn't shut down properly when I shut the computer down, but it does when I run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa stop", which I thought was the same thing? 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 Audio CD: 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?) to do 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 inbox file from my laptop to my new desktop (by FTP), it says "I/O error". It transfers about 25Mb before giving up. I think it might well be a local problem, but the Inbox file is fine when read under KMail on my laptop. Sorry to bamboozle everyone with all my linux problems, but hopefully that's what this list is here for :-P May I suggest that you reply to each problem with a suitable subject (ie. break it off into a new thread), to help me deal with 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.