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If you only want to play them one after another without having them listed on a menu screen, you can do it by editing the dvdauthor format file, and passing it as an argument: dvdauthor -x xml-file.xml. dvdauthor's doc page contains some examples, I'll quote two that might be relevant for you, adding also destination and file format tags, to make the examples complete: 1.2.2. Two chapters, two sources Adding a second chapter is quite simple if it is in a separate file. <dvdauthor dest="out.dvd"> <vmgm /> <titleset> <titles> <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576"/> <audio format="ac3"/> <pgc> <vob file= video1.mpg /> <vob file= video2.mpg /> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> </dvdauthor> 1.2.3. One chapter, two sources <dvdauthor dest="out.dvd"> <vmgm /> <titleset> <titles> <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576"/> <audio format="ac3"/> <pgc> <vob file= video1.mpg chapters= 0 /> <vob file= video2.mpg /> </pgc> </titles> </titleset> </dvdauthor> a "chapter" is a unit that is between two ">|" button presses of your dvd player.

I'd say I experienced similar problem with time keeping, except that all other bits of the OP's problem are different. Still, since there is no obvious solution offered, I put my 2 cents in it. I have a 64-bit system, dual core, ABIT mobo, ntp enabled. The clock in Linux ticked way ahead of real time. Because NTP synchronises a few times a day, it looked like "random time" indeed, because every moment it was so-many seconds after the last synchronisation. I solved that problem by updating the kernel. In my case I had to compile it myself (I also needed some other functionality not available in Mandriva's shipped version), but perhaps you could get away with the latest mandriva's kernel RPM , it should be 2.6.12-18, if I remember correctly. It won't harm to install the latest kernel anyway, if you have not done it yet.

BigJohn, bokmarks, preferences, themes, extns and even some plugins are installed under user's home directory, in .mozilla sub-directory, independent of the location of firefox executable which you are trying to install. The only thng to look at is that when uprading from a very old version, there might be compatibility problems I am not sure which, as I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.5 without those. But you might have seen advice to rename .mozilla to .mozilla-old in some threads here. If the user has to rename his .mozilla forder, then they have to impot bookmarks and re-install themes/extensions/plugins. Stil, location and contents of bookarks for a user is not affected by the location of firefox executable file, whether it is /usr/bin or /usr/local or even /the/very/nice/unknown/location

i guess if you go to IRC you expose your both IP and username, aren't you?

indeed, that was the case, DPMS option was commented out. I changed it back and now my display falls properly in coma. Many thanks! Hurra!

I noticed that since some time ago my monitor has not been falling asleep/turning itself off anymore. I have the screensaver "aware of power management" and in the "power contrlo" the display power management is enabled, too. However, the display never goes into stand by / off mode, and sometimes the screensaver does not start at all. It used to work with the same configuration. Obviously I have changed something, but I don't know where else to look. Any ideas? I have mandriva 2006 x86_64, KDE 3.4.2, kernel 2.6.15, a desktop system with Abit motherboard, nVidia graphics. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

on the other hand, if it is a dual-core machine, then -smp is exactly that "normal mandriva stock kernel" that is installed by the mandriva installer. I also used to get this error. I can also tell you that in the next kernel, at least from 2.6.14 on, you'll get: shorewall: ipt_owner: pid, sid and command matching are not supported anymore. I don't think it is a problem for a "regular" workstation. As it is gone from subsequent kernels, it must have been not that essential.

This is my file .htaccess, and it works. It does not ask for password if I view pages from local network or from the same server (you may remove that line: "aloow from 192.... ") . Note that the "Basic" type of authentication is kind of child-proof, not more than that. It is not recommended as a security measure by the apache site. My .htpasswd contains the list of users and their hashed passwords. <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> IndexIgnore README .ht* *~ Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AuthType Basic AuthName "Please identify yourself" AuthUserFile <path to>/.htpasswd Require valid-user Order allow,deny Allow from 192.168.2 127 Satisfy any

I found tilde on the key ] } when using finnish keyboard layout. You have to press Alt + "]" twice or press Alt + "]" , <spacebar>, indeed.

If you change your mind about killing something, press those button combinations again. Otherwise, whatever you click, it will be destroyed! :D BTW, I had an impression, that this scull-n-bones method is not "clean". It looks like it only kills the actual widget, and, accidentally, the process associated with it. You would normally want to take all subprocesses as well; I guess, kill does that. There are other signals apart from -9, just read manpages for kill, invoked by the command "man kill"

Is that mpeg-only player you mention a stand-alone kind of home appliance, or is it an application? Because as far as I know, the latter should play AVI as is, without the need to "convert" them.

tf1, it is not exactly clear what do you want to achieve by "converting avi to mpeg". if by "mpeg" you mean MPEG Program/Transport Stream (because *avi is an mpeg encoding in an AVI container), then you can choose "MPEG PS A+V" or "MPEG TS A+V" on the button in the bottom left, under the tag "Format". If your goal is to make a DVD-compilant video suitable for , e.g. dvdauthor, from a non-compliant source, you should select the corresponding format under "Video" tag on the left. Then you choose "Save" from the menu, and it will save the desired format. Make sure you choose a different filename than the open file, otherwise it will destroy your video.

I guess this should be true for logs related to the system functioning. Concerning (un)returned pings, the linux firewall ("iptables" which may be setup via shorewall which you can setup in MCC :) ) can either REJECT or DROP packets. In the former case you get a bounce, in the latter you get silence in reply instead.

... you can also do it with you mouse, if you prefer. In KDE you can change keyboard repeat rate and delay-before-repeat by going to <menu>-System-Configuration-Configure your desktop. Then go to "Peripherials", choose keyboard there, and make some tests what setting you find comfortable. In Gnome you go to Gnome Control Centre (also under system- configuration menu). Choose "keyboard" there and, again, setup the repeat rate and delay before repeat. You can also use command line to start the config. applications, type in terminal kcontrol OR gnome-control-center for setup screen in KDE or GNOME, respectively.

good! For the record: you could probably have figured out that something was blocking Samba traffic on the other computer by looking at /var/log/samba/xxxx.log files. "xxxx" by default contains the IP address or hostname of the connecting PC. It is almost always rewarding to check log files when something stops/isn't working.

vixenk, (one newbee helps another newbee) First, let me tell you that I too have not succeeded to setup shorewall via MCC once I needed something more than a basic thing. To set up shorewall the way you want, you may just edit the file /etc/shorewall/rules. That's what gets updated anyway, if you try to setup the firewall from mandriva's MCC. The syntax for "rules" is explained in the file's comments. It looks like this: AllowSMB fw net:192.168.2.0/24 AllowSMB net:192.168.2.0/24 fw Here you setup that samba services should be allowed from you (fw) to all (net), and backwards. In this example "net" is restricted to local network only, which is denoted as :192.168.2.0/24 . /24 is a mask that says "The last octet (digits after the last dot) may be any from 0 till 255. AllowSMB is not just a phrase, but an action that resides in /usr/share/shorewall/action.AllowSMB , and is listed in /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std . Actually if you view the former you'll see the ports that should be open for samba to work. You need to make sure that either the two named lines are in /etc/shorewall/rules , or the content of action.AllowSMB is in there. If it gets written there via MCC, then there is somewhere else you should be looking. Don't forget to restart shorewall service if you edit rules, either via MCC or using command service shorewall restart You can also make sure that it is the shorewall that impedes your samba traffic. In /var/log/messages there should be lines that obviously tell you that shorewall has Dropped or Rejected some access attempts to the ports of Samba. It looks as something like that: , with different port numbers and adresses. You should be looking for lines containing the samba ports. And the last, but not least, on my system there is a bug: whnever I edit network setting in MCC (one of "reconfigure network interface" or "alter misc. network setting"), the /etc/shorewall/rules is replaced with the original version that does not allow anything. I filed that as a bug, but apparently this is not reproducable on all configurations. Hope this helps. PS concerning your other question, I use the "high" security setting, I have samba, local web server functional.

... hm. What makes PDF different from a wep page then. It still sticks to the pre-defined layout (line-breaks and pages), which makes the paper I am viewing very ugly in KPDF :( I understand, "system defaults" may be taken from different places, as the same document renders differently in different viewers. I tried changing KDE's "default" font to a serif one, that did not help. Any idea which file to edit to change substitution rules? Update: I installed MS fonts and restarted xfs. No changes.

I discovered the unthinkable: kpdf chooses self fonts in a pdf document. And kghostview and acrobat, too, in fact :blink: . They all use fdifferent fonts for the "normal" text: some ugly sans-serif, Vera serif/Chancery and Vera narrow/Palladio, respectively, if I guess right from the appearance. My question is: where can I indicate my preference for a certain font face, if I have to do it at all? I am particularly interested in kpdf as this is what I like the most. This setting is system-wide, as other users see the same. Any ideas? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Perhaps you could get some clues what is it exactly that avidemux writes by issuing a command tcprobe -i testmovie.avi You can also start avidemux from command line (it is calles avidemux2) and see whether it is complaining at anything. You can do the same with kaffeine, just to be sure. As far as I remember, avidemux comes with own copy of transcode, so it should not be dependent on external codecs (you player may be, though).

> add more innovation, stability and ease of use in future releases. Arctic, how do you think it's possible to combine innovation and stability apart from in the manager's talk :) ? I though those were kinda complementary things, the In and the Yan of an operation system. If you get more of one, you're certainly to give up some of the otther.

Should not SWAT be started from your web browser? Just go to http://localhost:901 , authenticate as root, and there you go configure samba. Besides, in the list of services in MCC there should be the box ¨start when needed¨ checked for the swat service. PS If you install samba-doc, there will be help in swat config window, explaining what each parameter, you´re about to modify, means. Useful.

I use avidemux for that purpose. That's a GUI tool. It can recode/requantise to another format/container, do basic noise reduction, rotate, add a sound track, cut and append clips. There is a mandriva package for it on PLF, but unfortunately it depends on firefox-1.0.6, so you'll have to workaround that.

Have a look in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc I found there a number of files that llok like back-up copies of the address book: std.vcf.XX Pick up the latest one that is not empty, and import it. I can't really tell you what's the best way to import the book. When I preview the file (use mouse menu "preview in kaddressbook"), I see an option to "import all". HGope this helps.

I would also recommend reading the kernel build how-to on digital hermit site. It contains generic instructions, but is worth reading anyway. If I remember correctly, that how-to also explains how to patch a vanilla kernel with, e.g., "multimedia" patch. -mm patches are, according to kernel.org, "more experimental".

my two cents: (not exactly sure what you mean by "handling camera If that's not about digital photo collection, don't read!) Digikam can handle the essential image editing, such as brightness/contrast/gamma adjustment, cropping, etc. The basic things that GIMP is not needed for. If it cannot import the fotos from the camera, just copy them yourself, digikam will find them and add to the collection. There is also KimDaBa, another app to manage/annotate/export to html etc. photos. It supports "kipi plugins" thingy as well. Further, funny enough, kuickshow can also save photos and can make basic color adjustments, but no labels, of course.