Jimmmac1

Good morning I have been having some strange occurences with RedHat 9 and decided to do a reinstall. So I start, and ask it to format the partitions and check for bad blocks. I have /dev/hdd1 for / and /dev/hdd7 for /usr. When it finished /dev/hdd7, it said there were bad blocks, stopped the installation and rebooted. I tried starting up Knoppix, ran fsck -a on /dev/hdd7, which finished. I then restarted the install and did the same thing. Got the same message and it stopped the format and install. I would figure fsck -a would with either fix the bad blocks or mark them and then I could re-install and everything would be fine. But this didn't happen. I am not sure about skipping the check for bad blocks and just formatting, because the install could produce more problems than I currently have. Question is, how do I fix the bad blocks so RedHat 9 will install? Thanks in advance for the help Jim Macdonald

Good evening. I have read the threads about mplayer and they are just about incomprehensible. And I hear the people who created it are not very newbie friendly. Well anyway, I downloaded the source .bz2 for mplayer, version .92. I did a ./configure, a make and then a make install. So I try this : mplayer Panama.wma and I get the following from mplayer. [root@localhost scratch]# mplayer Panama.wma MPlayer 0.92-3.2.2 © 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Panama.wma ASF file format detected. Clip info: name: Panama author: Van Halen copyright: Copyright © (p) 2001 Warner Bros. Label. All rights reserved. comments: Not Available ========================================================================== Requested audio codec family [wmadmo] (afm=dmo) not available (enable it at compilation) Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available (enable it at compilation) Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16002->176400 (128.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg)) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... Video: no video Starting playback... A: -0.0 0.0% 0% Exiting... (End of file) And nothing is played. Could someone tell me how to get this thing to work, or to find another way to play wma files. Thanks. Jim Macdonald

Hi everyone I use Konqueror as a file manager and I tried changing the view mode to Icon View. Now it asks me for my root password, starts up and immediately shuts down before I can even change the view mode. Help anyone. Thanks. Jim Macdonald Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl.