detoxsmurf

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

maybe it won't work with .so.5libs & you need .so.4?

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