Posts by Bratag

Cool

Yeah well I never left the topic until some uppity little 3 post comes in and starts hassling.

Yes and thats just just for people want to wait for **** to compile - I dont have that kind of time anymore. I am a UNIX sysadmin so Ive dont all the step by step - recompile everything crap a hundred/thousand times - I want a system...

Arghhh - ok must not resort to RTFM. Ok basically what you want to do is use a tool called urpmi - there are also several graphical interfaces to this - namely gurpmi , rpmdrake - I like rpmdrake - they are all accessible from the mcc...

Often the way - the original is the best. Keep in mind that the backlight colour of my apps can be changed to pretty much whatever you like, change themes - change backlight colour. Also keep in mind the disk usage guage doesnt flash...

Dang - thats pretty damn nice

Can't say I do - looks nice so I might try it out - they omega drivers do come with quite a nice little set of testing utils that record artifacts etc.

I used to be a big fan of gkrellm but recently its gotten a little clunky. I resorted to writing my on side bar apps to do it.

Just out of interest they do seem to give less artifacts - they still identify my card as a NP though. Also winex stuff is a lot better.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dom02 how do I use alsamixer? Where is it? sorry for the noob question Well first make sure you have it installed rpm -qav | grep alsa That will give you a listing of...