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post #21 of 107
10/7/03 at 11:17pm
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I got the xmms from freshrpms

will try out with the instructions from the website...will post feedback soon...

I got Yahoo Messenger to work!! YAY!! one more reason not to boot into windows

My reasons for using windows :-

1] Yahoo
2] Microsoft Office
3] Adobe Acrobat
4] Windows Media Player etc.
5] Yahoo/MSN messenger
6] Games...

and a few more...

I have eliminated almost all of those except the windows media player and the games

way to go!!

And RH9 has an ultra cool screensaver (the Matrix one) which is just droolable...
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post #22 of 107
10/7/03 at 11:37pm
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UPDATE : mplayer

This rpm just will not install (I know jaydeep asked me to stay away from rpm's but im really not familiar with src and stuff...gimme some time )

Here is the error I get :-

[root@localhost root]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg install.log install.log.syslog mediaplr VLC xmms
[root@localhost root]# cd mediaplr
[root@localhost mediaplr]# ls
aalib-1.4rc5-fr2.src.rpm kaboodle-3.0.3-1.i386.rpm
alsa-lib-0.9.7-1.fr.src.rpm mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm
faad2-2.0-0.1.rc1.fr.src.rpm
[root@localhost mediaplr]# rpm -U mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm
warning: mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
aalib is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
alsa-lib is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
faad2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libasound.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdv is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdvdread is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libfame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libmad.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libpostproc = 1.0-0.2.pre2.fr is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libpostproc.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lirc is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lzo is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
mplayer-fonts is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr


Now do I really need to download ALL those dependencies?? I started off with a couple of them but couldnt find some of them so I though i'd ask you folks first...

Oh and BTW - the mplayer was from freshrpms.net any link to the mplayer site ??

[EDIT] found it : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html
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post #23 of 107
10/7/03 at 11:47pm
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UPDATE : mplayer

went to the aforementioned site and managed to install mplayer using the instructions there

Experienced users please dont mind me - I am just updating this thread as per my experiences with linux. If it annoys you then stop short of giving me the RTFM or GOOGLE

Im having a blast here!! forgotten all about BF1942 and DC4.0 !!!

Hell im almost not missing having a Sager around!! This is weird


UPDATE :-
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mplayer is installed but when i insert a DVD it gives me this error :-

Cannot open DVD dev/dvd



any ideas!?!?

Oh and BTW - mplayer is playing my mp3's with no probs...trouble is - I dunno if this is because I installed xmms...

thank god there is an install log

Next time I do a full reinstall of linux - I will save all the files that actually worked to a CD and use that along with my linux CD's as my new OS!!

Ok im drooling all over my keyboard here
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post #24 of 107
10/8/03 at 12:25am

gs

well. gs, were two peas in a pod cuz i love the *nix environment. The only reason i bother with win is cuz primarily of the games dude...and a few others.
but the *nixez are sooo much fun to play with...soemtimes frustrating but i still come back for more...and they have nmap..the sexiest scanner known to makind. Period.

Anyways. Gs, the .tar and .gz files, to unzip em, they usuall go like this.

well, if its just tar, then

tar (argumentst..i, or v, whatever) filename.tar

.gz

gunzip (same) filename.gz

now, if its tar.gz

gunzip arguments tar.gz

then

tar arg tar

it essentially needs to be "stripped" off. At least, thats how i do it.
Any body else on this?
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post #25 of 107
10/8/03 at 12:28am
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OK!! thanks for the info on tar and gz...not sure if i'll be using them just yet - rpms are working fine so far...

can you help with the dvd problem?? just read the previous post...

in mplayer - when I try to open a DVD it gives me a "Cannot Open DVD dev/dvd" error
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post #26 of 107
10/8/03 at 1:20am
new revs of tar will handle tar.gz is tar -z bz2 tar -j and afew others. ie
$>tar -zxvf kernelsrc.tar.gz
$>tar -jxvf kernelsrc.bz2
of course you can do it in two steps but I'm lazy
man tar or info tar at a term prompt.
gsf
do you have a /dev/dvd I think not. most likely a symlink to /dev/cdrom from /dev/scd0 or cdrom0 or hdc depending on how RH installed it.
issue a
$>less /etc/fstab and look for the cdrom.
Oh wait is this a dvd/cdrw combo or just a dvd drive?
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post #27 of 107
10/8/03 at 1:40am
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Its the combo drive...

When I put a DVD in the Chapter 1 comes in the little viz part of the GUI for the player but nothing plays and when I click play I get that error...

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post #28 of 107
10/8/03 at 7:35am

dvd symlink

As root, do this :

# ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
# chmod a+rx /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
# exit
$ mplayer dvd://1

Hope that helps.
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post #29 of 107
10/8/03 at 6:38pm
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WORKED!!! YAY!!!

Now DVD works, MP3 works, Yahoo works...XMMS is awesome...perhaps there are others that are better but this does what I want it to do...

NOTE :-
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mplayer is awesome...I dunno how it does it but it seems to have better positional audio rendering than WMP!!!

I mean...I was watching The Fast and the Furious and I could hear transposing from left to right (headphones) which is something I couldnt hear in WMP!!! AWESOME!!

you guys are GR8!!!
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post #30 of 107
10/8/03 at 7:59pm
Sweeeeet so what's next on the list?
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post #31 of 107
10/8/03 at 10:17pm

Welcome

Welcome to the dark side...
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post #32 of 107
10/9/03 at 12:15am
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Boot times!!

Whats with this!?!? It takes a full 2 minutes for RH9 to boot up!! Thats approximately 1:30 seconds more than my Windows boot time!!

I didnt do an "Everything Install" - just loaded some basic developer packages thinking i'll be doing something down the line...

Any idea why I get screens of crap text before the os loads completely!?!?
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post #33 of 107
10/9/03 at 12:25am
define crap text. I know mine freaks out when the wired lan isn't plugged in but other than that it's pretty peppy.
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post #34 of 107
10/9/03 at 2:30am
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crap text is probably the wrong word...

stuff like booting this, kernel this...unpacking that...loading this...cups, sups blah!!

Black screen with white text that goes on and on...and stuff that says [OK]....[OK] and then firewire goes [FAILED]....

Its the bootup screen I think...not sure...just like the DOS screen or BIOS at the beginning of Windows Boot...
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post #35 of 107
10/9/03 at 3:54am
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Desktop Preference

Anyone have a particular preference??

GNOME
KDE

Not too many linuxxers out here but I wanna hear why one is better than the other and for what...
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post #36 of 107
10/9/03 at 4:14am

Re: Desktop Preference

Quote:
Originally posted by gsferrari
Anyone have a particular preference??

GNOME
KDE

Not too many linuxxers out here but I wanna hear why one is better than the other and for what...
Fluxbox.

Or if you want Icons then Gnome with Fluxbox.

NS
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post #37 of 107
10/9/03 at 10:27am
gsf:

mplayer always looks and sounds better to me than wmp. [Hell, on the windows side, I much prefer zoomplayer.]

Anyway, you have 1001 things to think about and poke into. Which sound drivers are you using, afterall? Have you tuned hdparm? Have you installed synaptic [not the touchpad]? ACPI? grkellmd? Seen gimp yet? Learned how much nicer mozilla/firebird are? There are dozens of little options, features, toys, utilities, etc., that you can play with. Each of the items above is discussed in this forum somewhere, too.

Meanwhile, I'd encourage you to continue your Linux trek. There are plenty of online resources. Good luck!

Oh, one fun thing: grab the Linux version of Q3 or Enemy Territory and see how much nicer/faster they run.
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post #38 of 107
10/9/03 at 10:28am

Re: Welcome

Quote:
Originally posted by Icefluxx
Welcome to the dark side...
That's funny...in my grub menu, I have three choices:

kernel2.4.20-20 (gl works here)
kernel2.4.20-21 (acpi works here)
The Dark Side (M$)
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post #39 of 107
10/9/03 at 10:34am

Re: Re: Welcome

Quote:
Originally posted by chiphart
That's funny...in my grub menu, I have three choices:

kernel2.4.20-20 (gl works here)
kernel2.4.20-21 (acpi works here)
The Dark Side (M$)
Probably just recompiles.

2.6 Alpha has some nice new features.

NS
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post #40 of 107
10/9/03 at 11:00am
I played with 2.6 for a little bit and couldn't get it to work properly. Since this is my work machine, I just couldn't give it the time (I'm not a newbie, but hadn't compiled kernels before and was trying to be pretty tricky). Anyway, I found the 20.21B kernel and that got ACPI to work out of the box, so I am using it. However, the threading changes in it - which DO make it faster, imo - cause any GL related programs (q3, etc.) to fail.
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