Setup

Totem movie player
Hello to everybody I am a completely new user to Linux and I consider the present newsgroup as the ideal to start asking for some help. I have correctly set up the Linux Suse 10 on my PC and started exploring it trying to make the switch. The Totem movie player does not play the DVD movies asking for additi... 2 Nov 2005 09:51

Kodak DVC325 webcam driver?
I have a Kodak web cam DVC325. It seems it requires a driver: SPCA501A I can't find out where to get this. I googled for it. Even yahoo'd. Just tried "Ask Jeeves" but could only find docs and lists of cameras that fit. Any ideas, hints or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ... 19 Oct 2005 23:56

conflicting types for malloc
Hi I cannot install mpack error "conflicting types for malloc" Could somebody please tell me what to check and fix? Thanks Audrey $ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking wheth... 17 Oct 2005 23:00

Wireless networking/Mepis/OS question
Group, Multi-part question. Preliminaries first: Trying to rehabilitate an older laptop. Equipment is a Toshiba Satellite 1735. 700 MHz Celeron, 192 MB RAM (all I can put on it), new 40G hd. No network port built-in, Linksys WPC54G v4 PCMCIA adapter (in hindsight not the best choice). I inherited it and it ha... 9 Oct 2005 23:19

not-quite bootable isolinux (centos) cd
I'm trying to upgrade a rh 9 system to centos 4.1. I burned the part 1 iso image onto a cd using cdrecord. Given my experience upgrading rh installations, I next tried booting from the cd. It fails with the message(s): ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 Copyright(C) 1994-2004 H. Peter Anvin isolinux: Disk err... 4 Oct 2005 16:47

Switching to Linux, now what to buy?
Hello, I am now switching over to linux as a workstation. I'm at cheapbytes.com, but I have no idea what flavor of linux to buy. I see three pages of CD's http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/scan/mp=category/se=101/tf=title.html?id=sorJVU3v I don't know much about the different flavors but long ago an SA... 26 Sep 2005 02:42

Problems with lilo on dualboot PC with SATA drives
I'm currently trying to set up my PC with ubuntu linux and Win2k. I've already installed both OSes and can boot them when I chose the proper boot partition from the BIOS (have A7N8X-E deluxe mobo with BIOS ver. 1013). Since the BIOS does not have a hot key for boot device selection I currently always need change ... 18 Sep 2005 13:47

get rid of Login Password?
Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at least automate it? ... 19 Sep 2005 17:45

Building GLIBC-2.3.5
Hi, I try rebuilding GLIBC2.3.5 but after the command $ /usr/src/glibc/configure --disable-profile --enable-add-ons --enable- kernel=2.4.0 --with-binutils=/usr/local/bin I got the error configure:156: error: forced unwind support is required I don't know what is "forced unwind support" ? Thanks for exp... 11 Sep 2005 07:07

Diskette drive 0 seek failure?
I installed redhat Linux 8 on my Dell PowerEdge 400SC. I have two hard drives in this computer. Drive C was used for WinXP. I installed linux on drive D. After installation, when system restarts, it gave the error "Diskette drive 0 seek failure". I can't even start my previous winxp anymore. Can anybody tell me... 2 Mar 2005 20:18