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Thanks tobiaus
I am pleased that dsl will allow me to view dvd although, as you say, I tend to watch from a more comfortable chair...it never ends does it..scru-ray..Hmmm
sorry..my posting is not very good but a happier ending is always nice

..it seems that this box likes dsl better..so I am going to get it working here then try the other boxs..if the primary cd is a cdrw then the burner works fine. I just burned some files and folders

I managed to get an account configured manually for the dialer.. further reading regarding the dialer is a must, as you say..I have no idea how I got it working....it detects the internal (linux friendly) modem and dials a connection. Opera extension seems to save settings after reboot...so far so good on this machine. but..still not sure why the dialog dissappears.

so a little more effort was fruitfull....dsl4x is as rockin as the last with the slight disappointment that some older extensions no longer work..to be expected..maby someone with packageing experiance will repackage dia and k3b and add stardict...which begs the question:

can I ./configure.. make..sudosu makeinstall...on dsl? I have added gnu utilities

maby I can add stardict and dia that way...who knows, maby I can learn how to pack it up for dsl...ok a little ahead of myself..

thanks

The first thing I do when an application disappears for no apparent reason, or when it crashes, is to reopen the app in a terminal.
Open an aterm and type in the command that starts the program instead of starting it from the menu. You can see the command in /home/dsl/.jwmrc. I think the one you're talking about might be "sudo /usr/sbin/pppdial". Maybe not? Opening an app in the terminal will hopefully print any error messages the application give. Unfortunately, sometimes all you get is something like "segmentation fault", but usually error messages will point you in the right direction.

In order to build software, you need a build environment. The compile extension provides a lot of what is needed. This is not to say it provides everything you need for all compiling...that would be a nearly impossible task. Some applications you will try building will almost definitely require additional libraries, which you will usually need to find and install yourself.

I had built dictd in DSL a long time ago, but never sent it due to the huge size of the dictionary data (I wanted a self-contained full dictionary rather than a web-dependent client). If I remember correctly it was very simple to compile in DSL.

The DVD issue might be simply due to your CPU speed. My machine is 600mhz, which is barely adequate for playing video in general and not terribly good with DVDs.

Hi Mikshaw
Thanks..yes I did think to open in a terminal but there was no error message as I recall..

.it seems to open fine but is flacky after..ie I click create and the dialog disappears...

once it allowed me to create an account but then the next time it disappeared...

I went to /opt/ppp/ and discovered that the fake account I had created all looked good so edited there and created an actual account and am useing it now..I just feel a little unconfortable as I do not know that much about what happened.

I have the .debs for dictd still...I installed it to a hd install of 2.2 on a p166...actually I think I downloaded it for a dx2-66...anyway

It installed to the hd fine but when installed to the thumb at the time it would not persist and was lost at reboot...it was timely to reinstall each time so I gave-up...I found stardict for another linux..it is small and you add the dicts from the site...a good candidate for a dsl pkg..will see if I can install it later if I have the compile package required.

by compile package do you mean gnu utilities?...I did add that but perhaps there is a newer version.i'm a little rusty...thats green rust too..haha

I can play dvd ok on this box--p3-650 with 512 at 50%...good enough for me.

I'm wondering how to burn an .iso for a live cd at the moment...I can create iso and burn data fine but how would I create a live cd from an iso..

I did try the k3b package but it is not working....could search for errors as you mention but thought maby the onboard could do it if I knew how or there is another program for it....curious as always

thanks very much...

lovdsl

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