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by heywoodj
Tue 31 Mar 2009, 03:52
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Multimedia on an old lo-RAM PC solution
Replies: 32
Views: 19017

rjbrewer, you were right on the money, I had bad downloads on the .iso file. The md5 checksum showed I had downloaded bad files three times from the Dublin site (www1.geexbox.org). Anyone else have this problem? I found an alternate source, as the French sites wouldn't load. http://www.filewatcher.c...
by heywoodj
Sun 29 Mar 2009, 14:29
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Multimedia on an old lo-RAM PC solution
Replies: 32
Views: 19017

Thanks for your reply, but I'm running a 4.1.2 full install. So, what I've been doing (unsuccessfully) is: 1. Clicking on the geexbox-1.1-en.i386.iso icon in ~/my documents in ROX, that is in /root/my-documents . 2. That opens a new ROX window /mnt/+root+my-documents+geexbox-1.1-en.i386 that contain...
by heywoodj
Sun 29 Mar 2009, 08:40
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Multimedia on an old lo-RAM PC solution
Replies: 32
Views: 19017

Sorry to be such a dolt, but is there a trick to copying the contents of an .iso file? After I downloaded the geexbox-1.1-en.i386.iso file, ROX mounts and shows the GEEXBOX main directory and its sub-directories. When I try to move or copy GEEXBOX main directory(over to /), ROX says the move or copy...
by heywoodj
Tue 24 Mar 2009, 06:59
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Playing AVI and other videos
Replies: 3
Views: 1370

Bingo! Good call, I edited xorg.conf and set the "OverlayMem" option to "829440", and restarted X. Amazing what that one little line can do. Now I can work on tuning out the jerkiness of the frames. Do you think that increasing the OverlayMem value more will help? So, Patriot, do...
by heywoodj
Tue 24 Mar 2009, 04:00
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Playing AVI and other videos
Replies: 3
Views: 1370

Playing AVI and other videos

Hi. First post here, been here lurking a while. I'm running 4.1.2 full install on a Toshiba Portege 7020CT (PII 366Mhz, 192 Mb RAM, 20G HD, 3G for Puppy with 196 Mb swap space, dual booting with Win2K on rest of the HD). I've played with various distros over the years, but this seems to be the most ...