Leo
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I also looked at this and there was a piece in the installation documentation for FreeBSD all about dual booting. I had trouble locating it for you but some of it is here
The main points as I remember them are to ensure FreeBSD is installed on a primary partition and that you will be given the option of replacing the boot loader or appending to the existing one.
Sorry I can't be more help
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FX, did you manage to install from the cd to your pc/laptop? did it work?
I tried with Morphix but could not get my PC to boot after.
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As CD distros go, Slackware Live CD looks fantastic, I didn't really like Morphix much and had real difficulties getting it to boot on a fujitsu laptop (worked fine on my thinkpad though)
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Here's one for the newbies like me who have trouble with large Man pages (like for mplayer). I am sure I picked this up from somewhere else but cannot remember where (so apologies if it was your idea).
Instead of trawling through lengthy man pages simply type at the command line
man <man page description>|grep -C <lines to show> <search text>
for example
man mplayer|grep -C 3 dvd
This would return three lines above and below every instance of the string "dvd" in the man pages for mplayer. It will also separate out each block of text with "-------"
This has really helped me recently whilst trying to get mplayer to work.
Leo
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So is the difference between a skin and a front end that the front end is another app that uses some of the original apps functionality whereas a skin is just graphical?
Or have I misunderstood?
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For mplayer I prefer the KDE frontend called kmplayer
I think I have a copy kicking around somewhere, I may well give it a go. Thanks
Leo
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I have just installed Mplayer and it works fine from the command line but the gui is a bastard to get going and still does not work quite right. If you do try Mplayer I would recomend setting the default language option in the config file, it took me a while to work out why I could only watch Blade Runer in Italian
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I also recently got a wireless mouse and keyboard (Trust) and it all worked straight out of the box in Linux, even the keyboards sleep button!
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My intention was to attempt to learn more by going the long way round, I also only have a 56k modem so can't download anything too large.
I am also a bit wary of some of the "easy" tools since I haven't yet managed to do anything with MCC that has not cocked up, I am guessing it is more the users fault than the tooll though so once again I am back to attempting to lear what I am doing before handing control over to the software.
At times it gets a bit disheartening, however, having spent the best part of the afternoon at work trying to work out why a certain OS was telling me my password was wrong only to find out that what it meant to say was that my connection was down, I think I will hang in there.
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That makes sense, thanks
Leo
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Lol what's "reasonably priced"?? My parents (who happen to pay the phone bill and internet bill) think that paying £14.99 or whatever it is a month for internet is way too much anyway
:D
I must be showing my age, I'm with them :lol:
I'm reckoning having paid well over the odds for the network for all these years the least BT can do is give me something back without holding me to ransom for it. I really am turning into a grumpy old bastard (where's the emoticon for that?)
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If you want a gui in mplayer I think you have to do:
Code:
./configure --enable-gui
or something like that. It's been awhile but I know it's discussed in the ReadMe file that comes with it.
Yes, I also need to install libpng and zlib but was wondering whether I ought to be putting the associated source files and directories in any particular place (to aid smoother installation and maintenance , also just to keep my directory structure in some kind of order :) )
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OK:
[root@localhost src]# locate mplayer bash: locate: command not found [root@localhost src]# whereis mplayer mplayer: /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib/mplayer [root@localhost src]#
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No I didn't, I got mplayer off a magazine (actually of a disk on the front of a magazine but now I'm splitting hairs :) ) so I followed the instructions given which were
./configure make make install
It has not worked quite as it should have so I have been playing around (I got it to work from the command line and am now working on getting the gui working).
I am quite happy buggering about this way (I realise that there are simpler and easier ways to do it but I would like to learn more about what they actually do by doing it the long way myself). I also quite enjoy puzzling this stuff out for myself before asking for help.
Am I right in assuming that urpmi would install it and all its dependencies?
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First off, apologies if this is in the wrong place, please move it if necessary.
Where should I be putting the source for new applications when I download and install them? What I mean is that I have recently tried to install mplayer which I installed from my home directory this put all the mplayer files in
/home/leo/MPlayer-0.90/
inorder to get the gui working I need libpng so I got the downloads which I put in
/home/leo/src/libpng-1.2.5/
but I am wondering if I ought to be putting all these files somewhere else as it seems a bit odd to have them in my home directory when, theoretically, they would be used by all the other users. What is the 'best practice' for this, I ask because I can see myself getting my files into a right state and not being able to find anything if I go on like this.
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Cinelerra is good too.
Thanks, I have it on a disk somewhere, I'll install it and see what she thinks (not too impressed at the moment though as I have not managed to get mplayer working yet :?
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I'm currently 'using' Mandrake 9.0 although having problems getting stuff working, each time I put something new on it takes a good week to fix either it or the rest of the system, but I'm learning :D .
I tried Morphix and Slackware as live-cd distros and really liked the look and feel of Slackware (not so much Morphix) once I am feeling a bit more confident I will give Slackware a go (Debian sounds interesting though :) )
I also got a copy of FreeBSD but I reckon that may be a bit too advanced at the moment.
I do still have win98 as dual boot, my wife refuses to give it up for her video editing however it has saved me a few times when I have completely screwed up the internet connection and needed help
.I'm not a particularly demanding user so if I did not enjoy buggering about with the OS and had vast sums of cash I would probably stick with it *ducks*. But then I do enjoy playing with (and breaking) my system and have no rich relatives close to death (or near cliffs
)Leo
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I have a version of Slackware to run off the CD, is there anyway to set it up so that the hard disk can be written to?
Thanks
Leo
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Are they the ones you are referring to?
Yes, but also I am still getting the other errors.
I guess if it works I shouldn't really complain (I'm whining about aesthetics now... :wink: )
BobGuy: thanks for the code, mine looks similar now.
Leo
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:D I added the lines you suggested to /etc/ppp/options and now when I connect the connection is recognised by both galeon and evolution (MCC also recognises it).
However, I still get all the error messages described above when I run it from the terminal. I'm not as bothered since it obviously works, however I am curious as to why they appear and what the changes you advised actually do. Where would be the best place to read up on them?
Thank you very much for your help
Leo
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I did check the resolv.conf files however as I don't really know what I am doing I could well have missed something obvious
. What should the dns entries be (my ISP's IP address?)I will give Wvdial a go although it feels like giving up and I hate to be beaten by a machine :)
My /dev/modem is a symbolic link to /dev/ttySHSF would I be able to use Modem=/dev/modem in this case?
Many thanks for your help
Leo
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OK my setup is:
750 Athlon
15 GB generic harddrive
40 GB Maxtor second hardrive
Conexant 56K modem
creative soundblaster
nvidia tnt2 video card
no ethernet cards or network
dual boot mandrake 9.0/ win 98
I use Gnome as it seems faster
Mandrake was installed from the powerpack edition however I have not installed amny updates as it takes too long on my connection whihc cuts out after 2 hours use (back when it worked :) )
The drivers for the modem are the most recent I could find (a few months ago) as I could not get it to work without them.
Would I be better off trying wvdial?
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I uninstalled shorewall which changed the error slightly. I can connect to the internet via my modem (I can hear all the right sounds) but no applications recognise that it is connected.
If I run kppp from the terminal after logging on I get the following:
[root@localhost leo]# kppp -T Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy [root@localhost leo]# kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. [root@localhost leo]#
which I don't really understand, however when I change the owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix and rerun kppp I get:
[root@localhost leo]# kppp Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed DCOPServer up and running. Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Opener: received SetSecret Opener: received SetSecret Opener: received OpenLock Opener: received OpenDevice Opener: received ExecPPPDaemon In parent: pppd pid 2026 Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Kernel supports ppp alright. Opener: received OpenResolv Opener: received OpenResolv Opener: received OpenResolv Opener: received RemoveSecret Opener: received RemoveSecret Opener: received KillPPPDaemon In killpppd(): Sending SIGTERM to 2026 Opener: received RemoveSecret Opener: received RemoveSecret Opener: received OpenResolv Opener: received OpenResolv Opener: received RemoveLock It was pppd that died pppd exited with return value 5 Sending 2004 a SIGUSR1 [root@localhost leo]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit.
kppp appears to run fine but nothing else seems to agree.
I have tried google and have found similar problems but no solutions, I have looked at the man pages for pppd (which I will admit I don't really understand) but nothing springs out. I have checked log files for any errors or messages but nothing appears out of the ordinary.
I have been trying to sort this for two weeks now and it is really pissing me off as it just makes me feel stupid
. Any help (and an explanation if it is not too much trouble) would be really appreciated, even a shove in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
What about BSD?
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I am in the process of trying FreeBSD on a spare pc. I installed a mini version and it worked OK (no X) when I tried to fix it I screwed it up good and proper. I am going to reinstall using a full version and see if it makes a difference.
From what I have seen I prefer Linux, but mainly because it is swisher (couldn't bring myself to say "more like windows" :o ) but I think it will teach me more about unix so is worth persevering with.
Leo
Offtopic PS: hey I've jus noticed there is a spell checker on this board :D , how cool is that?