Problem playing DVD's

[Bill Tetens]

I got some advice about loading Totem to play movies with the DVD drive 
I just installed.

Using the instructions I inslalled lidvd* libMad* totem* using Yum from 
Dag and as far as I can tell the install went without a hitch.

When I try to start the Totem movie player I get the followin error 
message.  Any one got any help I hope so.

Error message:

Totem could not startup
Could not link video output thread (cs and balance}

If you have a solution give me a lot of details as I am still a beginner.

Thanks
Bill

[Clint Harshaw]

Bill Tetens wrote:
> I got some advice about loading Totem to play movies with the DVD drive 
> I just installed.
>
> Using the instructions I inslalled lidvd* libMad* totem* using Yum from 
> Dag and as far as I can tell the install went without a hitch.

I don't know if this will address the specific error that you are 
getting, but double-check the libdvd* libmad* above. There are errors, 
spelling and capitalization, in what you provided that would prevent 
Totem from working properly.

Here is the correct command you'll want:

# yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*

Hope this helps,
Clint
> When I try to start the Totem movie player I get the followin error 
> message.  Any one got any help I hope so.
>
> Error message:
>
> Totem could not startup
> Could not link video output thread (cs and balance}
>
> If you have a solution give me a lot of details as I am still a beginner.
>
> Thanks
> Bill

[Joachim Backes]

On 01-Sep-2004 Clint Harshaw wrote:
> Bill Tetens wrote:
> > I got some advice about loading Totem to play movies with the DVD drive 
> > I just installed.
> >
> > Using the instructions I inslalled lidvd* libMad* totem* using Yum from 
> > Dag and as far as I can tell the install went without a hitch.
>
> I don't know if this will address the specific error that you are 
>  getting, but double-check the libdvd* libmad* above. There are errors, 
>  spelling and capitalization, in what you provided that would prevent 
>  Totem from working properly.
>
> Here is the correct command you'll want:
>
> # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*

I would say: yum install 'libdvd*' 'libmad*' 'totem*'

Joachim Backes

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> Hope this helps,
>  Clint
> > When I try to start the Totem movie player I get the followin error 
> > message.  Any one got any help I hope so.
> >
> > Error message:
> >
> > Totem could not startup
> > Could not link video output thread (cs and balance}
> >
> > If you have a solution give me a lot of details as I am still a beginner.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill
>
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[bobgoodwin]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 01-Sep-2004 Clint Harshaw wrote:
> > Bill Tetens wrote:
> > > I got some advice about loading Totem to play movies with the DVD drive 
> > > I just installed.
> > >
> > > Using the instructions I inslalled lidvd* libMad* totem* using Yum from 
> > > Dag and as far as I can tell the install went without a hitch.
> >
> > I don't know if this will address the specific error that you are 
> > getting, but double-check the libdvd* libmad* above. There are errors, 
> > spelling and capitalization, in what you provided that would prevent 
> > Totem from working properly.
> >
> > Here is the correct command you'll want:
> >
> > # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
>
> I would say: yum install 'libdvd*' 'libmad*' 'totem*'
>
> Joachim Backes
>
> --
>
> Joachim Backes 
> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center,
> High Performance Computing Department,
> D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
>
> Phone: [phone], FAX: [phone]
> http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html
> > Hope this helps,
> > Clint
> > > When I try to start the Totem movie player I get the followin error 
> > > message.  Any one got any help I hope so.
> > >
> > > Error message:
> > >
> > > Totem could not startup
> > > Could not link video output thread (cs and balance}
> > >
> > > If you have a solution give me a lot of details as I am still a beginner.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Bill
> >
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> > [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

I just tried that and got the following result.]

# yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
retrygrab() failed for:

http://ftp.ens.utulsa.edu/pub/linux/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/headers/heade...
  Executing failover method
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0-0 100% |=========================| 3.5 kB    
00:00    
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package totem-mozilla needs totem = 0:0.99.12-0.lvn.2.2, this is not 
available.

Is it saying totem is not available for FC2?

Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia

[Bill Tetens]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Bill Tetens wrote:
> > I got some advice about loading Totem to play movies with the DVD 
> > drive I just installed.
> >
> > Using the instructions I inslalled lidvd* libMad* totem* using Yum 
> > from Dag and as far as I can tell the install went without a hitch.
>
> I don't know if this will address the specific error that you are 
> getting, but double-check the libdvd* libmad* above. There are errors, 
> spelling and capitalization, in what you provided that would prevent 
> Totem from working properly.
>
> Here is the correct command you'll want:
>
> # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
>
> Hope this helps,
> Clint
> > When I try to start the Totem movie player I get the followin error 
> > message.  Any one got any help I hope so.
> >
> > Error message:
> >
> > Totem could not startup
> > Could not link video output thread (cs and balance}
> >
> > If you have a solution give me a lot of details as I am still a 
> > beginner.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill

I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
not available so I assure they are installed.  I probably only made the 
errors when I wrote the e-mail and did not pay attention. When I enter a 
command I always try to double check my typing which can be bad at times.

[James Wilkinson]

[e-mail] recommended:
> # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*

Bill Tetens replied:
> I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
> not available so I assure they are installed.

No, not available means not available.

If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
something like this:
[root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
No actions to take

If it's installed, you get something like this:
[root@howells root]# yum install glibc
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
glibc is installed and is the latest version.
No actions to take

Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.

Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
here.

HTH,

James.

[Bill Tetens]

[e-mail] wrote:
> [e-mail] recommended:
> > # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
>
> Bill Tetens replied:
> > I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
> > not available so I assure they are installed.
>
> No, not available means not available.
>
> If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
> something like this:
> [root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Extras
> Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
> No actions to take
>
> If it's installed, you get something like this:
> [root@howells root]# yum install glibc
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Extras
> Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> glibc is installed and is the latest version.
> No actions to take
>
> Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
> file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.
>
> Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
> here.
>
> HTH,
>
> James.

Below is the text I get when I try to install libdvd* libmad* totem*. 
The first time I got a lot of dowloading and installing and as far as I 
could tell everything was downloaded.

[root@workgroup root]# yum install libdvd* libmad*
totem*
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag APT Repository
retrygrab() failed for:

http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
   Executing failover method
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching libdvd*
Cannot find a package matching libmad*
Cannot find a package matching totem*
No actions to take

the http://dag.atrpma.net etc above I have no idea what it is. Below is 
the alternative repositories that I got off a site that had a file 
stating it is a yum.conf for fedora core.  It lists the complete file 
for a yum.core and also included the DAG file that I used and is shown 
below.

[dag]
name=Dag APT Repository
baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/d...

I just noticed that I did not add one line below the above DAG file as 
follows:

##gpgcheck=1

Don't know is that is necessary or not since I don't know what it means. 
  Hope what I have supplied is helpful.

[Oldman]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:07, Bill Tetens wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > [e-mail] recommended:
> > > # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
> >
> > Bill Tetens replied:
> > > I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
> > > not available so I assure they are installed.
> >
> > No, not available means not available.
> >
> > If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
> > something like this:
> > [root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > Server: Fedora Extras
> > Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
> > No actions to take
> >
> > If it's installed, you get something like this:
> > [root@howells root]# yum install glibc
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > Server: Fedora Extras
> > Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > glibc is installed and is the latest version.
> > No actions to take
> >
> > Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
> > file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.
> >
> > Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
> > here.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > James.
>
> Below is the text I get when I try to install libdvd* libmad* totem*. 
> The first time I got a lot of dowloading and installing and as far as I 
> could tell everything was downloaded.
>
> [root@workgroup root]# yum install libdvd* libmad*
> totem*
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Dag APT Repository
> retrygrab() failed for:
>
> http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
>    Executing failover method
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Cannot find a package matching libdvd*
> Cannot find a package matching libmad*
> Cannot find a package matching totem*
> No actions to take
>
> the http://dag.atrpma.net etc above I have no idea what it is. Below is 
> the alternative repositories that I got off a site that had a file 
> stating it is a yum.conf for fedora core.  It lists the complete file 
> for a yum.core and also included the DAG file that I used and is shown 
> below.
>
> [dag]
> name=Dag APT Repository
> baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>
> http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>
> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/d...
>
> I just noticed that I did not add one line below the above DAG file as 
> follows:
>
> ##gpgcheck=1
>
> Don't know is that is necessary or not since I don't know what it means. 
>   Hope what I have supplied is helpful.

gpgcheck=1 tells rpm to check the rpm for a gpg generated signature (the
# as always makes the line a remark), for security this is a good idea. 
Unfortunately, too few rpms are signed, which means that yum fails. rhn
handles this a little better, asking if I want to continue

point your browser to rpm.livna.org and add the livna repos to your
yum.conf (instructions are on that page) you'll find you can download
most of those rpms now! though  I couldn't find the libmad there right
now (I downloaded it just yesterday though so ???)

HTH Scott

Mouse copy-paste

[Joan Moreau]

Hi all !

I am using FC2 under KDE.

How to enable the copy-paste function with the mouse (i.e. selection = 
copy, middle button = paste) ?

THank

Joan

Mouse copy-paste

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Joan,

Joan Moreau wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I am using FC2 under KDE.
>
> How to enable the copy-paste function with the mouse (i.e. selection = 
> copy, middle button = paste) ?

If you have choosen a 3-Button mouse during install it should
be enabled by default. Cross-check /etc/X11/xorg.conf what
mouse is there in the mouse section.
> THank
>
> Joan

Alex

Mouse copy-paste

[Joan Moreau]

Alex, thanks for the answer.

there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I used 
the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function stopped working.
Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?

thanks

J

Alexander Apprich wrote:
> Hi Joan,
>
> Joan Moreau wrote:
> > Hi all !
> >
> > I am using FC2 under KDE.
> >
> > How to enable the copy-paste function with the mouse (i.e. selection 
> > = copy, middle button = paste) ?
>
> If you have choosen a 3-Button mouse during install it should
> be enabled by default. Cross-check /etc/X11/xorg.conf what
> mouse is there in the mouse section.
> > THank
> >
> > Joan
>
> Alex

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Mouse copy-paste

[Alexander Apprich]

Joan Moreau wrote:
> Alex, thanks for the answer.

No prob, you're welcome :-)
> there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I used 
> the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function stopped working.
> Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?

Hmmm, did it happen more than once, or does it happen every time you
run up2date?
> thanks
>
> J

Alex

Mouse copy-paste

[Joan Moreau]

> > there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I 
> > used the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function stopped 
> > working.
> > Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?
>
> Hmmm, did it happen more than once, or does it happen every time you
> run up2date?

Just once, and now it does no work anymore.
I join my xorg.conf attached in case

Joan

------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name 
of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "fbdevhw"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#    Option    "Xleds"        "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#    Option    "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#    Option    "XkbModel"    "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#    Option    "XkbModel"    "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
# or:
#    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
#    Option    "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
#
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
    HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
    VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0
    Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "i810"
    VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
    BoardName   "Intel 852"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        0
    Mode         0666
EndSection

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Mouse copy-paste

[Michael E. Webster]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:03, Joan Moreau wrote:
> > > there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I
> > > used the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function
> > > stopped working. 
> > > Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?
> >
> > Hmmm, did it happen more than once, or does it happen every time you
> > run up2date?
>
> Just once, and now it does no work anymore.
> I join my xorg.conf attached in case
>
> Joan

<snip>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Mouse0"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection

<snip>

Need to set your Emulate3Buttons to "yes"

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Mike.

Mouse copy-paste

[Alexander Apprich]

Joan Moreau wrote:
> > > there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I 
> > > used the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function stopped 
> > > working.
> > > Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?
> >
> > Hmmm, did it happen more than once, or does it happen every time you
> > run up2date?
>
> Just once, and now it does no work anymore.
> I join my xorg.conf attached in case
>
> Joan
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

[snip]
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Mouse0"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

Remove this entry, and you should be fine.

This is what I have

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "venus_mouse"
     Driver      "mouse"
     Option      "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
     Option      "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
     Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

(I put this in here with copy&paste ;-) )

Alex

Cannot connect to MySQL (newbie)

[Graham Cossey]

I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I am having connecting to my
local MySQL installation.

I am running FC2 and MySQL 4.0.20.

When I attempt to connect to MySQL I get the following message:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

/etc/my.cnf
-----------
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe-mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysql.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysql.pid
-------------

Looking at the running services (using the GUI tool via System settings >
Services) mysql is reporting the following in the status pane: "Usage:
/etc/init.d/mysql start|stop|restart".

Let me know what further details would be useful and I will attempt to post
them.

Many thanks

Graham.

Cannot connect to MySQL (newbie)

[jgp]

check if mysql is running

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:43:48 +0100, Graham Cossey  wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I am having connecting to my
> local MySQL installation.
>
> I am running FC2 and MySQL 4.0.20.
>
> When I attempt to connect to MySQL I get the following message:
>
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> /etc/my.cnf
>
> [mysqld]
> datadir=/var/lib/mysql
> socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>
> [mysql.server]
> user=mysql
> basedir=/var/lib
>
> [safe-mysqld]
> err-log=/var/log/mysql.log
> pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysql.pid
>
> Looking at the running services (using the GUI tool via System settings >
> Services) mysql is reporting the following in the status pane: "Usage:
> /etc/init.d/mysql start|stop|restart".
>
> Let me know what further details would be useful and I will attempt to post
> them.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Graham.
>
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Cannot connect to MySQL (newbie)

[Graham Cossey]

> check if mysql is running
>
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:43:48 +0100, Graham Cossey

wrote:
> > I'm hoping someone can help with a problem I am having connecting to my
> > local MySQL installation.
> >
> > I am running FC2 and MySQL 4.0.20.
> >
> > When I attempt to connect to MySQL I get the following message:
> >
> > ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

<snip>

Simple really isn't it... it was not running, sorry.

I found that the 'mysql' user & group did not exist, and these own the mysql
directories. So I created the user & group (with ID 27) and issued the
'/etc/init.d/mysql start' statement and it all works.

cheers

Graham

Mouse copy-paste [SOLVED]

[Joan Moreau]

It works ! Thanks

Alexander Apprich wrote:
> Joan Moreau wrote:
> > > > there is no proble to install the mouse. all is fine. But, when I 
> > > > used the up2date software last time, the copy-paste function 
> > > > stopped working.
> > > > Is there an option in xorg.conf that would have changed ?
> > >
> > > Hmmm, did it happen more than once, or does it happen every time you
> > > run up2date?
> >
> > Just once, and now it does no work anymore.
> > I join my xorg.conf attached in case
> >
> > Joan
> >
> > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> [snip]
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >     Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >     Driver      "mouse"
> >     Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >     Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >     Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >     Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>
> Remove this entry, and you should be fine.
>
> This is what I have
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "venus_mouse"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option      "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
>     Option      "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> (I put this in here with copy&paste ;-) )
>
> Alex

[Bill Tetens]

[e-mail] wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:07, Bill Tetens wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > [e-mail] recommended:
> > > > # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
> > >
> > > Bill Tetens replied:
> > > > I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
> > > > not available so I assure they are installed.
> > >
> > > No, not available means not available.
> > >
> > > If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
> > > something like this:
> > > [root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
> > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > > Server: Fedora Extras
> > > Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> > > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> > > Finding updated packages
> > > Downloading needed headers
> > > Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
> > > No actions to take
> > >
> > > If it's installed, you get something like this:
> > > [root@howells root]# yum install glibc
> > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > > Server: Fedora Extras
> > > Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
> > > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> > > Finding updated packages
> > > Downloading needed headers
> > > glibc is installed and is the latest version.
> > > No actions to take
> > >
> > > Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
> > > file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.
> > >
> > > Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
> > > here.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > James.
> >
> > Below is the text I get when I try to install libdvd* libmad* totem*. 
> > The first time I got a lot of dowloading and installing and as far as I 
> > could tell everything was downloaded.
> >
> > [root@workgroup root]# yum install libdvd* libmad*
> > totem*
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > Server: Dag APT Repository
> > retrygrab() failed for:
> >
> > http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
> >   Executing failover method
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Cannot find a package matching libdvd*
> > Cannot find a package matching libmad*
> > Cannot find a package matching totem*
> > No actions to take
> >
> > the http://dag.atrpma.net etc above I have no idea what it is. Below is 
> > the alternative repositories that I got off a site that had a file 
> > stating it is a yum.conf for fedora core.  It lists the complete file 
> > for a yum.core and also included the DAG file that I used and is shown 
> > below.
> >
> > [dag]
> > name=Dag APT Repository
> > baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> >
> > http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> >
> > http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/d...
> >
> > I just noticed that I did not add one line below the above DAG file as 
> > follows:
> >
> > ##gpgcheck=1
> >
> > Don't know is that is necessary or not since I don't know what it means. 
> >  Hope what I have supplied is helpful.
>
> gpgcheck=1 tells rpm to check the rpm for a gpg generated signature (the
> # as always makes the line a remark), for security this is a good idea. 
> Unfortunately, too few rpms are signed, which means that yum fails. rhn
> handles this a little better, asking if I want to continue
>
> point your browser to rpm.livna.org and add the livna repos to your
> yum.conf (instructions are on that page) you'll find you can download
> most of those rpms now! though  I couldn't find the libmad there right
> now (I downloaded it just yesterday though so ???)
>
> HTH Scott

Tried to do as you said with rpm.livna.org and adding the livna repos to 
the yum.conf but could not figure out how to do it.  I did add freshrpms 
to the yum.conf file and when I tried to install the three files I did 
get all three installed and with success. However totem still fails with 
the same error as before.  All I can figure is that the DAG function is 
down or something.

Anything else we can try????

Thanks
Bill