What Have You Done with Linux Lately?

I have burned my first ever DVD over a network on a 20 year old Atari running System-V via a Sabayon FileServer.

Might not sound much, but I was absolutely stunned to buggery cos I never thought I would ever do it.
 
Lately I've been trying to figure out this Gentoo install. :p After various problems (not my or Gentoo's fault!) I've finally managed to compile the kernel, but still no go. Reckon I'll get it going by tomorrow :) . Going from Arch to Gentoo makes Gentoo seem overly complex compared to Arch's simplicity, but USE flags seem to make it worthwhile in the end... (I hope)
 
Got uShare working first time, set it so that it starts the service when I log in. It's working flawlessly right now, really chuffed as it's a big part of why I wanted a big file server. Just need to fix a few things then try and get torrentFlux working. Learning more about fedora everyday lol
 
Currently in the process of creating a game server management system for the company i work for I'd say I'm about 35% complete :)
 
I have done a lot of productive things these last few days.

I made it rain on the desktop, then turned on the wipers. Wrote fire with the mouse. Span the desktop round and round etc. Compiz is fun :)

After seeing all the pics of it, I installed AWN, it is very nice.

Messed about with getting different backgrounds on each cube face, but the way I found of doing it meant you lose all the desktop icons, can't even right click.

Only problem really is the sound. I have the X-Fi working, just waiting for them to make it better, i.e more than 1 sound at a time. And sound in flash..
 
Creative, ALSA, OSS, Pulse, I don't care who, just someone :)

I can live with this at the moment. Videos still work, but would be nice to have music on and other sounds at the same time.
 
Sound for me is fine, I have no need for lots of apps to be playing lots of sounds all at once... As long as I can play an MP3 or whatever, while I work, Im ok.

One thing that does bug me however, is that the last time I was able to play back a MidiFile using Linux, was with Mandrake 6.1... I know that I also managed it with MDK7 but using the 6.1 Timidity sounds and XMMS, but never been abel to since then, and thats been a while now!!!
 
I've recently gone from being a Linux n00b to setting up Postfix properly with MailScanner, SpamAsssassin and ClamAV and have now installed and configured two CS:S servers and a TF2 server with TeamSpeak running on my CentOS box! :D

I'll hand out the IP for the servers if anyones interested..
 
Fanatic said:
Only problem really is the sound. I have the X-Fi working, just waiting for them to make it better, i.e more than 1 sound at a time. And sound in flash..
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Gah, I still can't get it working :(.


BillytheImpaler said:
Ha! Waiting for drivers from Creative? We'll all be commuting in flying cars to our jobs on Mars before that happens. :p
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If Nvidia can manage, I don't see why Creative can't. Nvidia's linux drivers are pretty good.
 
If you don't have much to lose then you can always reinstall and start from scratch. I can't see why it won't work. There is a package in the repositories called oss-linux. All I did was turn off ALSA, download and install the package, set the system to use OSS and it worked. Some applications may need to be told to use OSS specifically.

Disable onboard sound in BIOS. If you updated your BIOS recently this may turn itself back on, mine did.
Disable system sounds in Ubuntu if you have them on, as OSS can only do 1 sound at a time and the system sounds seem to take over.
 
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On-board is disabled. Guess I could reinstall and give it a go from scratch.

Might just get a different sound card if OSS can only do 1 sound at a time. Is the quality good?
 
Yup sounds is good quality, playing my music and watching videos in VLC seems just as good as Vista.

Have you done:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

Then set it to OSS?

Can also try removing ALSA:

sudo apt-get remove alsa-base alsa-oss oss-compat
 
Can't remember to be quite honest, I'd spent so bloody long on it my head started swimming :p.

I shall give it a go when I get home, if all else fails I might reinstall tomorrow.
 
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platypus said:
If Nvidia can manage, I don't see why Creative can't. Nvidia's Linux drivers are pretty good.
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They COULD manage, if they cared. They already have your money and they have darn near a monopoly on the discrete consumer-level sound processing market. They have little incentive to make any drivers that don't suck, particularly ones for Linux.

Vista's been out for what now, two and a half years? Creative STILL hasn't got non-sucking drivers for the platform.
 
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