Hi There, How can I interact with the system when starting - i.e. choose which init.d script to start or not. I put my own script into rc2.d, the system halts at my script when starting. I cannot login =( I also post my script below: ( it works before I put it into rc2.d) > /etc/rs2.d/S99myownscript #!/bin/sh SCRIPT=/myownscript [ -f $SCRIPT ] && python $SCRIPT > the python SCRIPT #!/bin/env python import os a = os.popen('iwlist ath0 scan').readlines() ... ... END The error message is 'ath0 doesnt not support scan, network is down' =( Thanks, CC <div>On 5/13/06, <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Send ubuntu-users mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com </a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Google Video (Senectus .) 2. Re: Compress an avi file? (Joel Bryan T. Juliano) 3. Re: cannot get USB scanner detected - dapper beta (Paul Trevethan) 4. Re: Alternative to LaTeX? (Christoph Bier) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:20:39 +0800 From: "Senectus ." < <a href="mailto:senectus@gmail.com">senectus@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: Google Video To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:d12e5c90605130220p56f179b8pea9c10b555d6c606@mail.gmail.com">d12e5c90605130220p56f179b8pea9c10b555d6c606@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 5/13/06, Rajiv Vyas <<a href="mailto:rajiv1@gmail.com">rajiv1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Is there a way to run Google Video on Ubuntu. I've VLC installed and > when I try and play a Google Video it plays for a second or so. > Google video web site seems to play "flash video" so I suspect you'll need one of the flash players. I have it working on my laptop (not sure _how_ I got it working) but not on my desktop.. -- <a href="http://www.modmeup.net">www.modmeup.net</a> Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 The less you know, the more you believe. - Bono ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:33:27 +0800 From: "Joel Bryan T. Juliano" <<a href="mailto:joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com">joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: Compress an avi file? To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1147512807.5168.12.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 10:05 +0200, Nik wrote: > In article < <a href="mailto:b43bf2080605122109x7bc29981y625366758d131fde@mail.gmail.com">b43bf2080605122109x7bc29981y625366758d131fde@mail.gmail.com</a>>, > Sebastian Bassi <<a href="mailto:sbassi@gmail.com">sbassi@gmail.com </a>> wrote: > > I have a big avi file (2.8Gb) I'd like to upload to Google Video. I > > have memcoder and a lot of video player programs installed in Ubuntu, > > but I dont know how to encode it to make it smallers, like 600 or 700 > > Mb. It is a 1 hour 45 minutes video. > > I think you could probably re-encode using mencoder. DVDRip uses this (I > think) to make vcds - ie a whole film on one or more cds, exactly what you > want. > > Nik > > Have you tried converting your AVI file to OGG Theora? Ogg Theora can make the filesize much smaller, and can make your video quality good. My testcase is a 300x200 mpg file, which is pixelized when I fullscreen it, but when I convert it to OGG Theora, I can't barely see any box pixels. And you don't need any codecs to install to play it, because it's a default install in Ubuntu. Download ffmpeg2theora from <a href="http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/</a> and convert your avi file by running # ffmpeg2theora ./file.avi -- Joel Bryan T. Juliano <<a href="mailto:joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com"> joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com</a>> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I have a HP 6200c usb scanner > > attached to my machine that runs fully up-to-date dapper beta. > > > Ever since the installation of dapper flight 6 (as a fresh > > install), I have not been able to get the scanner detected at all. > > I mean "scanimage -L" and "sane-find-scanner" both show nothing > > detected. The device itself is not detected, which to me indicates > > something amiss with my usb setup? > > Can you see it using "usbview"? > > Nik > > No nick I cannot. It only shows 4xuhci and 1xehci controllers? As I say, it seems to be a usb detection problem, not just a scanner issue. I don't have any other usb devices to plug in to try. Cheers, Paul. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 12:44:00 +0200 From: Christoph Bier < <a href="mailto:christoph.bier@web.de">christoph.bier@web.de</a>> Subject: Re: Alternative to LaTeX? To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:e44d95$s9c$1@sea.gmane.org"> e44d95$s9c$1@sea.gmane.org</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sean Hammond schrieb am 12.05.2006 18:19: > Are you sure that would be in an introductory book about LaTeX? Yes, if it's a good one ;-). Unfortunately I don't know good english literature for LaTeX except "The LaTeX Companion" (de facto standard documentation) which has about 1200 pages. Recommendable! Have a look at comp.text.tex. > I have read The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX, and I really know > the basics of LaTeX quite well, but it doesn't cover anything useful > about colours or styles and I haven't been able to find anything great > online. $ texdoc color or $ texdoc xcolor > This koma class looks nice and it seems its provided in tetex on > ubuntu by default, Yes, it is, but I guess it's not up-to-date. v2.9u is the recent one. Be careful with teTeX in Dapper. Hyphenation is broken: <a href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tetex-bin/+bug/36145">https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tetex-bin/+bug/36145</a> > and indeed the command you provided works and my > document looks quite nice now (thanks). Fine :-). > But there doesn't seem to be > much in the way of english documentation for the koma class, and > googling for that \addtokomafont command (I'd like to see what other > parameters it can take) turned up nothing either. $ texdoc scrguien This works for (nearly) every package: texdoc <package>. It's not true for graphic{s|x} (-> texdoc grfguide), hyperref (-> texdoc manual) and maybe some other. All documentation is located in texmf/doc/latex. This tree can be found in your $HOME, /usr/local/share or /usr/share/. $ texdoc TETEXDOC # teTeX documentation > Is \addtofont a general LaTeX thing or something added by koma? KOMA-Script Best, Christoph -- +++ Typografie-Regeln: <a href="http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf">http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf</a> (1.4) ------------------------------ -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> End of ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 176 ********************************************* </blockquote></div>