Need help choosing a distro - Page 2

And I just realised you havent posted your xorg.conf yet, go ahead and post that up? Along with 'lspci -v' (No quotes obviously) and again use the code tags of course.

Seablade

I know this might be a little advanced for your stage, seeing as you haven't gotten your X server to run perfectly yet - but I would like to recommend that you use AmaroK as your music program. It's the best music player in the world IMHO and it's the reason I switched to linux =)

Here's a guide to get media working on your computer:
METHOD 1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
METHOD 2: http://www.getautomatix.com/ (This is a more automated way to get media working)

Here's a guide on how to get AmaroK working:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ghlight=amarok

Good luck with your other problems

lordsavant...thanks for derailing this thread. amarok is ok, but just like itunes its ungodly bloated.
that said...your "guides" are useless in teh age of automatix.


back on topic...i am cluelessa bout intel graphics as well...haha..can we get some help about this?

Abf - sorry to "derail" this thread, but please don't ever again compare AmaroK to iTunes. That's like comparing a Ferrari to a Ford Fiesta.

Nadav2605 - Try this link - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=198297. It might help solve your problem. For future reference, try searching on www.ubuntuforums.org for any linux problems (esp ones related to Ubuntu). It's a really great resource.

Amarok is far from the best music player in the world, if you want a good music player on linux, if quality is an issue aqualung is probably the best. Amarok has severe issues with decent DSP based sound cards and finding the right output thus preventing me from using it, and Aqualung I found out about after I was already in New Mexico for the summer, so I wont be back to my machine, if I choose to install it, for another couple of weeks. At any rate though ABF was right, feel free to promote amarok or whatever, but please let us take care of one issue at a time as this one is tricky enough as it is. That being said..... I found this link on a search... http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_...ccelerator_950 So I would guess that the driver is correct, but out of date as that seems to be a fairly new chipset. As such you would need to download the updated driver, and that in Ubuntu is where I leave off as it has been a while and I cant remember if you have to compile it from source or if you can get testing drivers from apt cleanly, ABF or BT? Unfortunatly looking at Intel's site it seems that the driver itself hasnt been updated since January. Ok so I am typing this as I look things up at work, so for my own reference a few more things for me... Dang I hope that version number doesnt match Intel's versioning system... Other odd thing that makes me suspect the driver, you mentioned 950 graphics but the driver is detecting it as a 945, so I will keep looking. Seablade

And following the link posted earlier by lordsavant eventually you can find something truly useful for a newcomer...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/i915Driver

That should provide a nice walkthrough for the time being. It appears the i915 resolution hack will eventually be added to the i810 driver, which is probably the testing driver I found has it in it, but in the meantime this should work for you.

Seablade

nice job.

what else do you need help setting up?

No problem NaDav I just needed time to do some searching for it, despite what some may think I dont have the entire linux development effort in my head

Though with enough Alcohol I might think I do....

At any rate trust me I am much happier you were able to figure that out on your own, the more you can research and figure out on your own with linux the better off you will be in the long run as it means you will make more sense of how the OS operates. This doesnt mean dont post questions, please feel free to, most of us have no problem answering questions AS LONG AS people are willing to at least attempt to do research first, and your problem was a tricky one.

That being said, now we can tackle lordsavant's topic of media players if you want

Seablade

http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/

If you want the highest quality you can get on linux Aqualung is your best bet, though it is not exactly user friendly at the moment. Aqualung is dedicated strictly to audio reproduction, you wont find visualizations or any other eye candy on it really. Also if you choose to go with it, youll want to read this...

http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2006/06/0802.html

Mark Knect set up some scripts that help you populate the 'music store'(Not a store but a database that it store all your songs in) that hsould help with useability somewhat.

That being said most people probably wont be to bothered about using Amarok which will work fine along with half a dozen other players as well, and are probably more user friendly.

Seablade

xmms is the linux clone of winamp. have fun.

do the read-only access.....ntfs writes are indeed extremely risky. readonly is pretty safe though

Dang imageshack is slow.

Other than that though not bad.

Seablade

kinda messy, then again i like mine to be really polished. i am still working on a custom theme, but for now i am using default xfce themes and wallpapers.





btw...nandav...a little hint for themeing gnome. get gnome-art ..you can install it through APT. makes things easier to find load and install. also make yourself familiar with the ~/.themes folder for themes, ~/.xmms for xmms themes, and /usr/share/gdm/themes for gdm themes.