Roundtable December 2001

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9 participants
17 discussions

CD, VCD & DVD Burning
by John Lange 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of various command line tools for converting video formats and burning making it quite difficult at best. I recently stumbled on the following software: http://www.k3b.org/ which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line tools). However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl and report back on success? Thanks. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com ltd (204) 885 0872 Toll free: 1-866-690-8297

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mouse failure on bootup
by S/C Conway 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot. Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1 Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions. Sean

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Kguitar installs. Thanks!
by author 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

I must have had too much 'egg-nog' when last I tried to install Kquitar, because today, December 23, it installed with no trouble after I made the soft link: /usr/lib/ln -s qt-2.3.0 qt2 Thanks for all the help.

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Application installation problem
by author 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Thanks for all the help but I've given up on Kguitar for now. Kguitar didn't like /configure with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0 or a variety of other attempts like the above. So I made a soft link for qt. Kquitar then found some other problem to complain about. I gave up on the .tar.gz and got the .rpm. It didn't install either. Some library was missing. I'll send them a detailed error report. But I've learned some stuff, thanks to you guys, so it wasn't a waste. Thanks again.

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power filter
by author 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Could someone advise me on a good power line filter to filter out electical spikes? A couple weeks back the electric motor on my furnace fan died. Since then, whenever the furnace fan starts, there's some disturbance on the computer monitor screen. I'm not sure how serious this is, but I'd like to put a stop to it. I've got a cheap Magnavox ($35) surge protector with a 15 amp circuit breaker, but its obviously not doing anything for this problem. First thing in January ( when I've got the money) I'll have someone qualified take a good look at that furnace fan.

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Authors?
by Sean A. Walberg 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Is there anyone interested in writing a condensed study guide for the LPI level 2 certification? The list of topics is here: http://www.lpi.org/p-L2-obj-pre.html An example of what the end product looks like is here: http://studyguides.cramsession.com/cramsession/comptia/Linux/ Please contact me privately for more info. Thanks, Sean -- Sean A. Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://www.ertw.com Join the weekly cramsession.com Linux newsletter for news and resources! Archives and more info at http://www.ertw.com/~sean/newsletter

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application installation problem
by author 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

I was wondering if anyone knew a way around this installation problem that happened during ./configure. I was trying to install an application called Kguitar in /usr/local/Kguitar-0.4 The installation can not find the necessary QT files even though my system does have them. Kguitar looks for these files in a series of directories, but none of these directories is correct. My QT is in: /usr/lib/qt-2.3.0/include All the QT files that Kguitar says are missing are in this directory. How do I get Kguitar to find the necessary QT files to install? Should I move all the QT files into one of the directories Kguitar is searching? Or is there a way to point Kguitar towards the correct directory? I send in bug-report a couple weeks ago, go a reply saying this was 'strange' but otherwise no answer. I can't blame them. It's free software and I'm sure they all have jobs and families to tend too, especially so near Christmas. And Happy Christmass to you all! Here are some details: > My system is.. Red Hat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2 > KDE 2.1.1 QT 2.3.0 > error during ./configure stated in config.log > if ! ( QT_VERSION >= 2.2.1 ) > error 1 > #endif Here is the end of the Kguitar 0.4 config.log configure:5273: checking for Qt tried NO tried /usr/local/qt/lib tried /usr/local/qt tried /usr/lib/qt2/lib tried /usr/lib/qt2 tried /usr/lib/qt/lib tried /usr/lib/qt tried /usr/X11R6/lib tried /usr/lib tried /usr/local/qt/lib tried /usr/X11R6/lib configure:5434: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wnon-virtual-dtor -fno-builtin -INO -I/usr/X11R6/include -LNONE -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lqt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE 1>&5 conftest.C:2:21: qglobal.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:3:26: qapplication.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:4:18: qapp.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:5:22: qobjcoll.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:6:20: qevent.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:7:21: qstring.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:8:20: qstyle.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:8:20: qstyle.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:9:23: qiconview.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:11:2: #error 1 #endif int main() { QStringList *t = new QStringList(); QIconView iv(0); iv.setWordWrapIconText(false); QString s; s.setLatin1("Elvis is alive", 14); int magnolia = QEvent::Speech; /* new in 2.2 beta2 */ return 0; } #include <qapp.h> #include <qobjcoll.h> #include <qevent.h> #include <qstring.h> #include <qstyle.h> #include <qiconview.h> #if ! (QT_VERSION >= 222) #error 1

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ftp server
by Brock Wolfe 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Recently I have been getting an error message "Error 502, Illegal Port Command" when I try to connect to ftp.muug.mb.ca using gFTP. Any thoughts on cause of problem and/or fix. I have connected many times successfully in the past. Brock

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ftp server
by Brock Wolfe 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Recently I started to get a "Error 502, Illegal Port Command" when trying to connect to ftp.muug.mb.ca via gFTP. Any thoughts/clues as to cause/fix of/for problem. Brock

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Community Connections: Internet (fwd)
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

I'm forwarding this just FYI, since it seems like a worthwhile project... -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <200112122136.fBCLa7X09614(a)smtp1.mts.net> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:38:47 -0600 From: Randy Tyler <randytyler(a)mys.mb.ca> Subject: Community Connections: Internet Macdonald Youth Services, a 72 year-old leading charitable treatment support agency and United Way member agency, has just opened a gov't sponsored Community Connections Site. The aim of the site is to allow Internet Access for those who presently do not have the opportunity for volunteers to provide basic computer instruction, including set-up, mail accounts and use of Office XP. Those who would like further information may contact Randy Tyler at 477-7051 today. I would appreciate your assistance in announcing the above opportunity to your user group members. Regards, Randy Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------ Randy Tyler, Co-ordinator, Volunteer Program/Webmaster <mailto:randytyler@mys.mb.ca> Macdonald Youth Services <http://www.mys.mb.ca> 175 Mayfair Avenue (Head Office) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3L 0A1 Voice: 1 (204) 477-7051; Fax: 1 (204) 284-4431

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Roundtable December 2001