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Re: DVD drive for linux
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:52:12PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: >Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do >list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an >issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, >but not excessively scarce. >Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better >than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS >doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate. From the beginning (many years ago) I have had problems with some DVD drives not reading video DVD's correctly so these days I usually have 2 DVD drives, and LG and either a HP or Pioneer DVD, if the disk wont work on one it will (usually) work on the other. Note: I do not have a TV or infact watch TV at all, I do though uses DVD's for some entertainment, because of this it was worth my while to go to some effort to watch DVD's. Robin Humble said... >region free firmware is the main stumbling block for me. I lived >overseas for quite a while, so I need to play region 1 as well as >region 4 discs. some uk discs too. errrrrrrrrr, lets put it this way......... libdvdcss allows one to watch DVD's from different regions, its a cryptographic cracking system so some distro's (Debian any way) do not package it. For a long time I have sucessfully viewed zone 1, 3 and 4 DVD's using this library. The library is transparent in use if its present a player (eg xine) will use it, if its not present it will of course not use it. Lindsay

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Re: Ripping DVD with Subtitles
by Peter Ross 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

From: "hannah commodore" <hannah(a)tinfoilhat.net> > I've been using the CuBox from Solid Run for an XBMC player - No inbuilt > optical drive, but it has USB and could easily use one external. My media > is served via NFS > > http://www.solid-run.com/ > http://cubox-i.com/ Sounds cool! There are images for Debian. Do you know whether they contain closed source binaries? Can you upgrade from official Debian repositories? (Info for other distributions would be welcomed too). Thanks Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Global warming and survivalism (fork from Linux != Poltics)
by Daniel Jitnah 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

On 28/04/14 13:21, hannah commodore wrote: > > On 25 Apr 2014, at 22:08, Daniel Jitnah <djitnah(a)greenwareit.com.au> wrote: > >> By the way, I believe "John Wayne" did this ... ride his >> horse to a place and change to a new horse somewhere on the trip and >> continued his trip on another horse!!! > > This was actually normal Pony Express practice. The riders would swap horses > at each station, where the horse could recoup and await the next rider to > come along > Yes, I was pointing out that its not a new idea at all! Daniel. > hannah >

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Ripping DVD with Subtitles
by Andrew Greig 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Hi all, I am putting my DVD collection onto a hard drive and I am using DVDRIP, and I have been unsuccessful in getting subtitles to display in the end file. How do I configure DVDRIP to grab the subtitles please? Andrew Greig

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Re: Disabling/bypassing UUID on Ubuntu Trusty
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Some comments based on a number of points by Rick Moen........ >> You haven't been using GRUB nearly that long. >Quite right. And I've been seriously tempted to give that piece of junk >the heave-ho and go back to lilo. (On EFI, there's elilo.) >It wasn't broken, and I am annoyed by distros fixing what wasn't broken. >(Your mileage may differ.) Lilo is still availible on Debian under "expert install" and works very well. I dislike grub greatly and have always had problems with it. Lilo is simple and I understand it and its limitations very well. The more complex something is made the chances it has to breakdown in some way! >> having multiple drive controller technologies - sata and sas, for >> example - is not at all uncommon. >I've already stated my view that this is something to avoid (concerning >main storage) if reasonably possible - and also stated that my view >applies within the scope of the usage scenarios I've found myself in >over the past 21 years of Linux use. I've also said that I think it's a >great idea to, at minimum, retain UUID-based lines in one's /etc/fstab >as comments in case the information therein is ever needed. I used for a while the combination of SCSI (3 hard drives) and a PATA data drive. (reason for this set up was large scsi drives being difficult to get) It for most part was not satisfactory, the Linux kernel having some kind of built in bias far PATA. For instance when uodating the kernel with lilo one had to unplug the PATA otherwise the lilo command would fail. As for UUID's I do not use them mainly for the reasons given by Craig and have never really had any problems. As for UUID's there is little info about them and how to use them and in a recent experiment one a system using them.... On a UUID enabled system (before I changed it back to using device's) I swapped a pair disks between devices. On reboot system failed as it could not mount the drives. I had assumed according to the UUID docs that the drives would be mounted according to UUID to mount point mapping given in fstab, this did not occur. Lindsay

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Alternate Install CD for Ubuntu Trusty?
by Carl Turney 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi, Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases? Want to do some stuff to the hard disk before the actual install of Trusty. Otherwise: Should I just do the trial run and do things via a terminal window there, or boot up off an old Alternate Install CD? Ta, Carl Bayswater

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Re: google earth of Debian testing
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

I mentioned in my previous post that I was getting an "invalid HTTP request" error on search's. Now this is caused by the Debian built package including a problematical version of libcurl (/usr/lib/googleearth/libcurl.so.4), to fix the above problem all that is required is to remove this library (googleearth will use the systems libcurl). I did this by renaming libcurl. Note, the Debian package supplied by the google earth web site does not have a version of libcurl with it. Lindsay

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Re: google earth of Debian testing
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Finally got it working on Debian 7.4. NVidia closed src driver was removed and reinstalled, google earth mostly works OK, I say mostly as search does not work but comes up with an "invalid HTTP request" error, everything else though seems to work. Interestingly the package from google earth works, the Debian generated package comes up with a library error message from one of the Qt libraries. This may be fixable, a post on the google earth help forums provides a archive of 4 Qt libraries that the post say create some problems on Debian based distributions. The two versions APPEARS to be able to co-exist as the main exicutable runs under different names. Lindsay

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Re: google earth of Debian testing
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Many thanks for the replies, unfortunately nothing has so far worked. A small correction the distribution used is actually current Debian stable. A search on the net shows a lot of people are having problems on both Debian and Ubuntu. Interestingly the symptoms on my system do not match any of the above problems. It seems to be worth a try to get rid of the NVdia closed src drivers and see what happens as quite a number of cures have invloved playing around with the closed src driver files. Various solutions have been put up and it appears that clear it does work on some systems. Google earth though appears to be quite a fragile/picky program. In my case it certainly worked on Debian 6.0. Of my 4 systems one is running Debian 7.4 i386, another 7.4 amd64, the third debian testing i386. The forth is running 6.0 i386, GE was working on this (note 1), unfortunately this has had an Intel 530 series SSD fail recently and is out of action till I get around to replacing the drive. I will keep it at Debian 6.0 and see if GE (still) works on it............. Note 1, the amount of Debian i386 in the above list, 3 out of 4 machines, is because I use wine I have compiled myself (a later version of wine than Debian had being required). Now the debian packages of wine do work on my amd64 machine but I simply have not been able to get wine to compile on amd64 inspite of following a number of sugestions from various forums. Lindsay

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Re: Linux PPPoE bridge mode issues - again
by Peter Ross 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

From: "Toby Corkindale" <toby(a)dryft.net> > On 16 April 2014 13:00, James Harper <james.harper(a)bendigoit.com.au> > Last time this came up, in 2013, you checked the inbound packets, and > reported: > "I can confirm what we thought - pings <= 1492 bytes get a response, > pings > 1492 bytes get no response, not even a 'fragmentation > required'." Sorry, I did not read all of your conversation before, just remember bits and pieces but it really reminds me of the introduction of a new ADSL router a few months ago. (From my e-mail conversation to the ISP then: --- With the old one[old router], I can ping up to 1464 bytes (ping -s 1464 -D www.zeit.de) above it fails. The new one I can ping just up to 1430 bytes (ping -s 1430 -D www.zeit.de) 1432 is too much. BTW, on the old one I can ping with bigger packets (e.g. 1600 bytes) as long as I allow fragmentation. So, there is something blocking packets bigger than 1430 bytes (ICMP+header), compared to 1464 on the old link. If I have packets above 1464 my end complains (ping: sendto: Message too long) because it knows its own MTU. So the 1430 limit is not on my end, it is further away. .. P.S. After this, I set the MTU at 1458 at the proxy server (not the gateway itself which sits between proxy and the ADSL modem). Then it works. --- I have no access to the ADSL router so I had to report from the device behind it (a FreeBSD router). The ADSL router was doing PPPoE. In-between the technician considered a faulty ADSL router but finally figured out: THe ADSL router had a configuration error (not a hardware problem) I vaguely remember that it had to do with path MTU discovery and blocked ICMP packages further upstream (so the result was not the same on all websites, hence my test with the "reliably failing" www.zeit.de website), as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery#Problems_with_PMTUD Unfortunately I cannot access the ASDSL router so I do not know exactly what the change in the config was. Regards Peter

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