EgoWarrior

Were you logged in as root or su'd? If you were su'd you need to do "su -" in order for the path to be changed to the proper root path, the service executable is in /sbin on rh systems iirc. I haven't played with redhat since 7.3 tho so I'm not sure if they changed anything with their system. I don't know why /etc/init.d/ doesn't exist for you, thats a bit weird. Does an "ls /etc/init.d" work?

ctrl-alt-backspace will end your current xsession. But if you run xdm or gdm you should log out, switch to a console terminal (ctrl-alt-1 through 4 usually) and stop the gdm or xdm from running. Then you can upgrade X. (xdm and gdm are the graphical login screens, if you run these they'll try to keep restarting X, so just log out, then switch to the console by pressing ctrl-alt-1) If you run RedHat you can stop gdm or xdm by typing: Code: $ service xdm stop for xdm, or Code: $ service gdm stop for gdm. If you run debian do: Code: $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop or Code: $ /etc/init.d/gdm stop as required.

They're just a set of differences between files. You use it with patch (see man patch). It should say in the README how to use them, but usually its something similar to: patch -p1 -E < <filename> But CHECK THE README because the number after -p might be different, or it might need different options

Ok, after more testing I've found xine does indeed play any region DVD on my region 2 hitachi player. It takes a bit longer to load sometimes tho because it has to search for the CSS keys (thats how come I didn't think it was working the first time). Some of my region 1's only took a few seconds, some took over a minute, but they all loaded eventually. Hope this helps.

Ok thanks thats great, if you use "lsdvd" that comes with acidrip you might easily be able to locate the movie on the disc. http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip/

I've been trying to find out the same thing, you can get a pop-up box in windows asking to change the DVD region but I can't find a similar app for linux. I looked on a DVD firmware page and it couldn't find much more about it. If you do manage to find a solution please post it because I'd really like to know.

I use redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3. I'm using sawfish as my window manager but those tips are taken directly from xfree86.org so they shouldn't be dependant on kernel, distro or WM, its purely X settings. /etc/X11/Xmodmap and ~/.Xmodmap are called by xdm and startx so it should work straight away. I got my 4 button logitech mouse working without any hassle following the instructions from www.xfree86.org, sorry I can't be much more help.

Thats odd, it works perfectly for me, if that doesn't work I don't know any other way of helping you, sorry.

put this line in a file called .Xmodmap in your home folder: Code: pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 Then it'll automatically set the buttons up when you log in, if you want it to be a global setting then put that line in /etc/X11/Xmodmap instead.

This probably depends on your distro, but for my Red Hat box you want to edit the file in : /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called "ifcfg-eth1" and make it so it reads: DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes That should work for you, it should bring the device up on boot, and assign it that address, Hope this helps.

The best thing is to see if your soundcard is supported by ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture) at http://www.alsa-project.org/ it can be difficult to install because the documentation isn't fantastic (its no better once its installed either, i can't find anywhere that tells me what all the options in the sound mixer mean )

You'll need to get Maya 4.5 for Linux, I don't think it works in RedHat 8, you need RedHat 7.2/7.3 for it. I've got RedHat 7.3, it all installs fine, the window opens and gets to where it would be usable and just crashes out with an unknown error It may be something with my set up, but I've checked the Maya website and my setup should be ok. I hope you have more luck than me.

Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to get multi-PCM channel sound from a Santa Cruz / Sonic Fury sound card? This site says tis possible: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=9196993&list=12349 I downloaded the drivers and followed the instructions given in their, however there was nothing specific on how to set it up to play more than one sound at once... as you can guess, it doesn't work. Went to the alsa-project website and got the latest drivers, installed them, followed all the instructions, still only one stream at once. Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? TIA

RH 7.3 doesn't have NTFS support in the kernel, you'd need to recompile the kernel with NTFS support in order to be able mount the drive. You should be able to see the "man fstab" pages on what options you need to enable, either that or it'll tell you where else to look and find out. Mandrake does have NTFS support built in. There are some others which do too but I can't remember them off the top of my head, sorry.

My santa cruz works fine on the front 2 channels, but unfortunately no other channels are in use No good for my speakers, but its fine if i'm just listening on my headphones.