On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:07 -0800, David Boles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ric Moore wrote: > > Xine just quit again with regards to sound. I had it working all nicely > > then a yum update removed!! packages and re-installed it all nice and > > broken again. My life seems to be draining through my fingers like sand, > > while keeping this boat afloat. > > > > So, is livna not the best source for things related to Xine? At atrpms I > > don't find xine-libs although I find xine. If I install from extras, I > > get the older xine without the nifty smoke motif of the opening screen. > > So, if anyone knows just what package to get from where, that works, I'd > > love to have that info and re-install and then mark xine in my excludes > > from yum updating ever again. Ever. Just a plain yum install from extras > > gives me a jerky playback of the video and no sound. <sigh> > > > > I'm feeling like Little Richard on that Geico commercial, > > "Some one HEP ME!!" <looking all wild eyed and distraught> Ric > > > Take a deep breath Ric. Then tell yourself that this is probably your fault. <Little Richard mode on> "Oh I have! Oh Lawwd! You know it's me that done it and feel my PAIN!" <breaks down and weeps uncontrollably> "Some body HEP ME!!" <Ahhhh-Whoowoowoo!!!> <Little Richard mode off/> > :-) Your update of official Fedora package probably replaced your ill gotten > packages from Livna so your Xine stopped. Well, I ripped everything out by the roots, like those screaming Mandrakes at Hogswarts, and tossed 'em. Re-installed using enablerepo livna install xine*. Still jerking and no sound again. Maybe if xine wasn't in extras at all, since we're all petty crooks when it comes to mp3's and shall surely burn in H E double hockey sticks, then we'd get the REALLY GOOD STUFF to satisfy our less than noble urges from a repo. :) Ric > Look at the protectbase plugin for yum. You might like it. > > - -- > > David > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFFtmryAO0wNI1X4QERAmuDAJ9JQBpxkeJHYTjyTQq8PKakv3Nt9ACg6DlC > EcT9mX9U8mIKzzTCKaWWS4U= > =0P9a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
