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I have a website that i want to monitor. However, i don't want to install anything on that webserver. I don't mind settings up a seperate server on another machine to monitor my site. I've been searching the internet for good mandrake/big brother documentions, but haven't had much luck. Nate

Does anybody here have any experience with big brother? http://bb4.com/ I've seen it for myself and am curious on how it works. Do i have to set up a server, or can i just run a client side from my computer? Is there a howto floating around here somewhere? Thanks, Nate

I have an IBM ThinkPad 600e and mandrake rocks on it. The sound takes a little tweaking, but that's the hardest part of the installation. I had no problems with the DVD player in mandrake 9.0. However, I'm still trying to get it to work with mandrake 9.2. All and all.. if anybody is looking for a cheap $300 laptop that will work with linux, I would recommend the 600e. Nate

This is what I've done since my last post. 1) I installed the updates for mandrake 9.2,and then installed the ogle RPMS... no luck. 2) Did a fresh install of 9.2, still ogle won't run. 3) I went back to 9.0 and ogle played dvd's without a hitch. :) One thing i noticed was Gnome would give me a blank screen but would play the sound. KDE always gives me the above resource error. I tried installing an older version if libxine, but that didn't work. Totem crashes everytime i open it. Maybe its time to play around with other players. Nate

I upgraded my IBM thinkpad 600e from Mandrake 9.0 to 9.2. In the process I broke Ogle and it will no longer play DVDs. I've reinstalled the RPM's but i'm still unable to play DVD's. I lowered the screen resolution to 16bit and am getting the below error. When i try to play a dvd through totem, the programs crashes. I have a feeling it has something to do with the xserver as this worked fine before the upgrade. Anybody have a suggestion? Nathan [nate@localhost nate]$ ogle -u cli /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000252 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000569 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00029519 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x002bfb13 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x002bfb17 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x00350c73 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x00350c77 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0036920d libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00369211 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x003cb60a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x003cb60e libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x003cb630 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x003cb634 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x003cb64c libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x003cb650 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x003e76f3 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x003e76f7 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 8 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 Xscreensaver not running. X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 141 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () Serial number of failed request: 56 Current serial number in output stream: 56 [nate@localhost nate]$

Great post! The settings you gave also work on the 600e series. To enable sound on a thinkpad 600e with mandrake 9.0 1) load the RPM for sndconfig in the mandrake control panel. 2) open up a terminal and su to root 3) cd into the /usr/sbin directory. 4) type sndconfig --noprobe 5) Select CS423x driver with the following settings io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x300 mpuirq=5 I tried the generic SoundBlaster drivers but they wouldn't work. I am also experiencing the same issue you had, and have to do a sndconfig every time I reboot. Nate

Acording to the mandrake control center i have... automake-1.5-8, kdebase-3.0.3-68mdk and kdelibs-devel-3.0.330mdk That did cross my mind, but I wasn't able to find the .so.4 RPM's anywhere for download. The author said he used mandrake 8.3 and i'm using mandrake 9.0. Other then running a more updated library, i don't think there is much of a difference. Somewhere in my pile of disks i have mandrake 8.2 on cdrom. However, I think they were running lib.so.3 on that distro, but maybe i am wrong. Would i have to do an ldconfig after I installed those RPMs? I also tried creating a symbolic link from libstd++.so4 to libstd++.so5 but that didn't work for the installation., Nathan

I'm tryig to install this kicker from http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=2193 I have downloaded the RPMs, but when i try to install, i am getting the following error message. <st //home/nate/Documents/2193-keramik-kde3-2pdc.i686.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: libstdc++.so.4 is needed by keramik-kde3-2pdc libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1) is needed by keramik-kde3-2pdc RESULT=1 I searched my /usr/lib directory and found version 5. [nate@kittyfriedrice lib]$ ls | grep libstdc libstdc++.so.5@ libstdc++.so.5.0.0* Am i doing somethin wrong? Thanks for any suggestions. Nathan