EgoWarrior

Were you logged in as root or su'd? If you were su'd you need to do "su -" in order for the path to be changed to the proper root path, the service executable is in /sbin on rh systems iirc. I haven't played with redhat since 7.3 tho so I'm not sure if they changed anything with their system. I don't know why /etc/init.d/ doesn't exist for you, thats a bit weird. Does an "ls /etc/init.d" work?

ctrl-alt-backspace will end your current xsession. But if you run xdm or gdm you should log out, switch to a console terminal (ctrl-alt-1 through 4 usually) and stop the gdm or xdm from running. Then you can upgrade X. (xdm and gdm are the graphical login screens, if you run these they'll try to keep restarting X, so just log out, then switch to the console by pressing ctrl-alt-1) If you run RedHat you can stop gdm or xdm by typing: Code: $ service xdm stop for xdm, or Code: $ service gdm stop for gdm. If you run debian do: Code: $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop or Code: $ /etc/init.d/gdm stop as required.

They're just a set of differences between files. You use it with patch (see man patch). It should say in the README how to use them, but usually its something similar to: patch -p1 -E < <filename> But CHECK THE README because the number after -p might be different, or it might need different options

Ok, after more testing I've found xine does indeed play any region DVD on my region 2 hitachi player. It takes a bit longer to load sometimes tho because it has to search for the CSS keys (thats how come I didn't think it was working the first time). Some of my region 1's only took a few seconds, some took over a minute, but they all loaded eventually. Hope this helps.

Ok thanks thats great, if you use "lsdvd" that comes with acidrip you might easily be able to locate the movie on the disc. http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip/

I've been trying to find out the same thing, you can get a pop-up box in windows asking to change the DVD region but I can't find a similar app for linux. I looked on a DVD firmware page and it couldn't find much more about it. If you do manage to find a solution please post it because I'd really like to know.

I use redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3. I'm using sawfish as my window manager but those tips are taken directly from xfree86.org so they shouldn't be dependant on kernel, distro or WM, its purely X settings. /etc/X11/Xmodmap and ~/.Xmodmap are called by xdm and startx so it should work straight away. I got my 4 button logitech mouse working without any hassle following the instructions from www.xfree86.org, sorry I can't be much more help.

Thats odd, it works perfectly for me, if that doesn't work I don't know any other way of helping you, sorry.

put this line in a file called .Xmodmap in your home folder: Code: pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 Then it'll automatically set the buttons up when you log in, if you want it to be a global setting then put that line in /etc/X11/Xmodmap instead.

This probably depends on your distro, but for my Red Hat box you want to edit the file in : /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called "ifcfg-eth1" and make it so it reads: DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes That should work for you, it should bring the device up on boot, and assign it that address, Hope this helps.

The best thing is to see if your soundcard is supported by ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture) at http://www.alsa-project.org/ it can be difficult to install because the documentation isn't fantastic (its no better once its installed either, i can't find anywhere that tells me what all the options in the sound mixer mean )

You'll need to get Maya 4.5 for Linux, I don't think it works in RedHat 8, you need RedHat 7.2/7.3 for it. I've got RedHat 7.3, it all installs fine, the window opens and gets to where it would be usable and just crashes out with an unknown error It may be something with my set up, but I've checked the Maya website and my setup should be ok. I hope you have more luck than me.

Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to get multi-PCM channel sound from a Santa Cruz / Sonic Fury sound card? This site says tis possible: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=9196993&list=12349 I downloaded the drivers and followed the instructions given in their, however there was nothing specific on how to set it up to play more than one sound at once... as you can guess, it doesn't work. Went to the alsa-project website and got the latest drivers, installed them, followed all the instructions, still only one stream at once. Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? TIA

RH 7.3 doesn't have NTFS support in the kernel, you'd need to recompile the kernel with NTFS support in order to be able mount the drive. You should be able to see the "man fstab" pages on what options you need to enable, either that or it'll tell you where else to look and find out. Mandrake does have NTFS support built in. There are some others which do too but I can't remember them off the top of my head, sorry.

My santa cruz works fine on the front 2 channels, but unfortunately no other channels are in use No good for my speakers, but its fine if i'm just listening on my headphones.

Linux has shell scripts, which I guess are the equivalent of dos batch files. The windows registry is like a big store of settings, these are usually kept in /etc for global settings on RedHat (i guess the equivalent of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), or in the user directories (/home/username) usually in a folder that starts with a . then the name of the application (kind of like HKEY_CURRENT_USER). A file/folder beginning with a . is a hidden file in linux, you can see them using 'ls -A' (uppercase A stops it displaying .. (parent dir) and . (current dir) in the listing). You can use windows sharing with a program called Samba, where you can setup your own shares (in /etc/Samba/smb.conf) and access other peoples shares using smbmount. The (almost) equivalent of a shortcut is symlinks and hard links, but links are tons better cos you can link whole folders and use them as if they existed in both places on the harddrive.

I think the dual column design (for the main news content) is quite confusing, when most things have dual column's you read all down the one column, then start on the next. In order to read the articles chornologically here you have to switch from one column to the other then back again. This is confusing because the stories are different lengths so it doesn't line up properly for easy reading. The news/forum/results bit at the top is handy, but maybe there are too many lines for each so you have to scroll down to get to the actual news. Consider lifting the forum part from the centre of the main page and move it to the right hand side, could have it just above the "Older news" section, and just the titles as the href, not the date or the "details" thing, it'll help clean it up and leave more room on the front page for the news content. I think the colour scheme is fine, but a different organisation could make it more readable.

Whenever I right click on a file in explorer with Win XP Pro my CPU usage rockets to 100%. I've done a fresh install, the first thing I test is going to my computer, right click a file, its fine. I press win-e, get explorer up, right click a file 100% CPU, then from then on even in my computer its 100% cpu usage everytime i click a file. I thought at first it was winzip or another program that has context menu handlers so i did a fresh instal but I just can't solve the problem. Any ideas? Thanks

I get really weird graphics glitches with my Geforce2 GTS & Win XP Pro. The backgrounds of my icons in some dialog windows are blue/pink (probably depending on which is set as the transparent colour for the icon) For example, nero looks like this: MSN looks the same except all the icons have pink backgrounds. Its really annoying. I've tried tons of driver sets from 6.31-28.32. I just can't seem to fix it. I've flashed the bios on graphics card and mobo a long time ago (this has been happening for ages), neither helped. Kinda scared of flashing them again incase they give up on me. Here's the real odd part, if I load netmeeting before nero it works fine. I'm guessing cos netmeeting uses a different driver (thats how come the screen flickers and you cant play d3d games with netmeeting open) it gets rid of this effect. Has anyone come across this problem before? Can anyone think of a solution? Thanks.

I'll test it in another machine tonight. "Are you running a third party program to do this?" I don't really understand what you mean. a 3rd party program to set the shading? My res is 1600x1200, but it happens at all from 800x600-1600x1200. Do you think its likely to be the card or something else? The same happens in some games that have transparent sections and they can have a series of pink dots on them. I'm considering replacing the card but dont want to find out it was the motherboard that had the error. I'll try it in the router and see.