Linux is not an operating system, but a kernel to an operating system. Mandriva is simply one distribution of Linux, or style/type. There is also Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and many more. You can install...

I use ALSA, not ESD. It's always running with pulseaudio, however.

EDIT: I also failed to mention that the sound plays on the videos, the video doesn't play and the mouse can still move. I just...

I can play AVI, WMV, etc. in VLC, mplayer, etc. (Ubuntu Linux 8.04). However, mpeg doesn't play, it hangs and crashes X, forcing a hard reboot. Does anyone have a suggestion or solution?

This is why I love the Linux community. I didn't even post my problem at another forum, and in less than two weeks, a new kernel was released (2.6.24-19), and my problem was fixed.

Compiz is the only thing I can think of.

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

Using VLC or Totem, playing a video file hangs my entire system. The audio still plays, and I can still use the mouse, but my keyboard does not work, and I can't...

Why not just type 2^3? You still get 8. Maybe it's because you're using more complex functions, and as John A said, the range is large with bc, but the precision goes down.

I've never had a...

Do you have VNC installed on both machines, as well?

Bump -- anyone?

Yeah, I meant VNC, not krdc. I forgot we had begun talking about VNC. Haha. Yeah, Google is your best friend here.

I have no idea, again, I have no personal experience with it. Try Googling krdc.

I don't have first hand experience with it. But, from a terminal:

sudo apt-get install krdc
Will grab and install it for you. It should be self-explanatory.

No. Remote desktop meaning you want a graphical environment? Use krdc or something. PuTTy is SSH, which is text-based.

Yeah, I was stating that echo something > file.txt would do that.

Why don't you install it through your package manager?

Well, wherever your history log is stored, just use echo "whateverthehistoryis" > "XXX.txt"

Or find the history log and copy and paste the file into a new directory.

[ 870.033842] rtc: lost 2 interrupts
[ 877.531867] rtc: lost 1 interrupts
[ 880.956371] rtc: lost 1 interrupts
[ 889.335974] rtc: lost 1 interrupts
This happens with I use LMMS, a media...

Now WAV files work, but for mp3 I get:

play soxio: Failed reading `Tilt.mp3': unknown file type `mp3'

EDIT: I installed libsox-fmt-* (which had mp3, ogg, flac, etc.) and now it works! Thanks!

Okay, so here's the deal. I used to be able to use the application / tool "play" in a console to play mp3 and wav files, but now, I get errors:
alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ play Tilt.mp3
play soxio:...

I have no personal experience with OpenCV. But, you should compile/install OpenCV with the command ./configure --prefix=/usr

Or wait until John A comes in here and destroys my tiny amount of...

2>./configure --prefix=/opencv_library_install_path/opencv-1.0.0
Did you install libcv separately, or is it a part of this? You need to install both of them to the same path.

Well, where did you install libcv and where did you install OpenCV?

Your OpenCV and your libcv aren't installed in the same path. If you compile libcv from source, using ./configure --prefix=SAME_PATH_AS_OPENCV will fix this.

Well, did you download the image, or did you make it yourself? I know that many images you download have no ethernet built in.

By simpler, maybe he's intimidated by the terminal?

You could open Synaptic or your package manager and install the package rar.

mv -f .deps/misc_confirm.Tpo .deps/misc_confirm.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DMOUNT_BIN=\""/bin/mount\"" -DUMOUNT_BIN=\""/bin/umount\"" -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\""/usr/local/share"\"...

Well, to answer your second post, your kernel doesn't seem to support user threads at the user level (as stated by the error/message). So you can fix that by either compiling or installing a new...

Okay, so autogen.sh worked with your flags, but make gave me an error:

alex@alex-laptop:~/Apps/Source/Applications/gtkpod_svn/gtkpod/gtkpod/trunk$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
processing ....

From ./configure on:

alex@alex-laptop:~/Apps/Source/Applications/libgpod-0.6.0$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is...

Alright, I have a deb file that I just installed, and it's the same thing. It says it's installed, even in Synaptics it says its checked (package: libgpod3). But gtkpod doesn't see it. I did copy the...

That was my first explanation. I INSTALLED it, but it appears to not be installed.

That worked, kinda. It passed autogen, but now, make errors (sorry, this is LONG):

alex@alex-laptop:~$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig
alex@alex-laptop:~$ cd Apps/Source/gtkpod-0.99.12/...

alex@alex-laptop:~$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH = /usr/lib/pkgconfig
bash: export: `=': not a valid identifier
bash: export: `/usr/lib/pkgconfig': not a valid identifier

/usr/lib/pkgconfig is mine. Now, what do I do to set that?

Okay. Attached.

EDIT: But wait. I was running autogen.sh, not configure.

I'll upload it. This is from the libgpod install.

alex@alex-laptop:~$ sudo !!
sudo find / -name "libgpod*.pc"
[sudo] password for alex:
/home/alex/Apps/Source/Applications/libgpod-0.6.0/libgpod-1.0.pc...

Still, same error. But that's odd, because I've used gtkpod with libgpod3 before.

Also, Amarok can't compile with libgpod3 either. It doesn't pass through the configure script. It completely...

Alright, so I got libgpod3 installed, finally! However, it isn't seen by my system.

alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ whereis libgpod3
libgpod3:

However:

alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ ls...

[ 405.681685] wlan0_rename: authenticated
[ 405.681688] wlan0_rename: associate with AP 00:18:f8:42:5f:ed
[ 405.683255] wlan0_rename: RX ReassocResp from 00:18:f8:42:5f:ed (capab=0x411 status=0...