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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> >      Yes, I knew about that.  As it happens, double-space (copyright 
> > infringed) was Stacker,
> > and is better than the MS replacement.  I used to use it, but no more.
> 
> I recall leaving double-spaced or drivespaced drives overnight to defrag.  
 
    I never had any problems like that.  But then I never used doublespace 
except to increase the effective 
capacity of quite small hard drives.
 
 
> > > >    I had to format the new DOS partitions, and even then they failed
> > > > Norton's Disk Doctor check, so I let NDD fix them.
> > > 
> > > THere was something wrong with the drives?
> >  
> >    Yes, NDD found problems.  This is Norton 8.0, written by Peter Norton,
> > before Symantec got their hands on it, and I trust it.
> 
> What sorts of problems does NDD fix?  Can it remove EZ-Drive?  We were 
> unable to repartition any drive with EZ-Drive on it using Partition Magic.
 
   This Norton Utilities is version 8.0 for Windows(3.1)/DOS, 
with utilities upgraded to handle doublespace. Previous releases 
would have scrambled doublespace drives.

   What is EZ-Drive ?  Same as doublespace ?  
   

> >    To learn how to network between two partly identical linux 
> > installations.
> 
> What have you learned from this challenge?  

    That, after help from Steven and others on the list, I can do it.  And 
after struggling for months with
first serial cable, then laplink parallel port movements, that a network card 
is the only way to move
LARGE volumes of data.

 
> Have you tried compiling anything?  

    Yes, unsuccessfully.  :(

    At the moment it is more irritation than urgent.

    And I have mixed libraries, some added to support phoenix and some added 
to support some other
applications (not always successfully of course).

> In theory compiling is pretty simple, 
> if you don't mix up your glibc like I did.  And if you do upgrade to glibc 
> 2.2.5 you can use deb 3.0 packages and there are lots of those for sound.
> Just install with mc/mcmenu or unpackage with ar -x filename.deb and 
> data.tar.gz (one of three resulting files) can be installed manually.
> I would be happy to try to help you with compiling or deb packages.

   I seem to remember adding stuff from deb and getting it to work OK.
 
> Some day when I get my new linux computers done I might ask you again for 
> help getting sound to work.  Perhaps my library mixup was causing problems 
> somehow, or the wierd old Creative sound card was not very compatible (the 
> one that I could jumper to irq 15 but not 5).

    I can only help if you can get hold of an original SB16 card. That's all 
I know.
 
> >    On that machine (lois), there is a Vibra16 sound card that Peanut can 
> > use, 
> > but I haven't found the necessay mods for SW 7.1 yet.
> 
> Is it possible to use a later kernel in BL2, for which there are the
> required modules?  Even the kernel from Peanut linux, as an experiment?

    I suspect that it will come down to using the right mod, but I can 
confirm 
that it isn't the sb.o mod for a vibra16.
 

> >     My main machine plays MIDI, MP3, MOD, MPEG, AVI, MOV, QT, RAM, RA, 
> > audio CD.
> How many hours did it take to get this all working?
 
    Quite a few hours.   :)

    Timidity plays MIDI and MOD, from the CLI or in an xterm, or as a helper 
to emelfm (X)
    and Links graphic (CLI).
    (I haven't worked out how to add "helpers" to Netscape or Phoenix.  
Anyone ? )

    MPG123 plays MP3s from the CLI, and as a helper for emelfm and Links.

    GQMPEG plays MP3s under X ( a front-end to mpg123 with playlist support, 
skins).

    QV plays AVI, MOV, QT and MPEG from the CLI, but without sound - still 
under development.

    MTV/MTVP plays MPEG under X, with sound. MTVP is freeware and runs on 
calls from other 
    applications, while MTV is commercial-ware (US$10), and is stand-alone 
with gui.

    Xanim plays AVI under X, with sound.

    RealPlayer8 (+ updates) plays RAM, RA, MP3 under X, with sound.

    Workbone plays audio CDs from the CLI.      

    I also have VLC, which runs under X and claims to play DVDs (all zones) 
as well 
as streaming video from a LAN or by http. But I don't have a DVD drive, and I 
have 
only just started to play with a peer to peer network.
 
    I got XINE to run, but at the cost of farkling my libraries. It took a 
long 
time to recover the system, and I am not in a hurry to try again. I will, but 
maybe not on this machine. Xine plays all the things that mplayer does - AVI, 
MOV, QT, MPEG, 
RAM, RA, plus WMV, VIV, and many other obscure video formats.

> I might eventually also ask you for help with DVD playing if you know how 
> to do this in linux or even Win98.  First we need a working motherboard.
 
   First you need a DVD drive.   :)
 
   Then you can go to: http://www.videolan.org/  for VLC, or
                       http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/slackware.shtml 
for OGLE.

  I cannot help you with Win9x - I know nothing about any of them, except 
that my wife 
has had all kinds of grief with them.  I choose not to bother. 

Regards,
         Ron 


-- 
Ron Clarke 
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