Ubuntu Rlease 4/19/07

[bnflaherty]

Possibly -- I have yet to even try that yet.

Anyone care to give it a shot?

Does support 1.1 -- so there is a Slim chance it may actually work


edit -- ah no -- DirectX support will come into play.

[Mistergq]

I have a feeling transgaming could help to get the directX alternative (Swiftshader) into Link software, but the problem with them is they are going to charge us user with a monthly/annual fee to use the Cedega product to run Link in Linux. That would completely defeat what many of us envision of building a linux box to run Link without having to pay M$ for an OS. http://www.transgaming.com/index.php...isplay&ceid=29

[jkirk]

what about this?
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...hp?storyid=846

[ZetaVu]

Man, I can barely keep up.

It is too nice of a day to mess with the computer, but I did make some progress. I decided to start here - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...x/article.html , mainly because it had seven items and seems simple enough. Got Automatix, setup beryl, tweaked Firefox and thunderbird, got all my codecs, mapped drives, on and on...

Anyway, we really need a working link solution. For now an emulator would be fine if it can handle HD playback, but long term SS needs to plan out a solution. The way I see it, the server will still be on XP (for now) so SS can still control who logs onto the server via product keys. More importantly, that can then be extended to stream over internet (although that will need a resolution adjustment like orb based on connection speed).

Anyway, I'll try out any suggestions as I get a chance. It's a learning curve for me, but I'm doing all right so far it seems.

[dequire]

Originally Posted by queonda

Check out this video I found (http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...77313460&hl=en) Linuxmce is crazy nice. Wow, someone actually put thoughts into it. It has sooo many cool options which work natively. I like you can control a vcr from any place in the house or home automation or using your bluetooth phone as a remote control, OR you only need to install the program on one computer and don't need to install anything on other computers (I wonder how this works).


That's actually my plan, is to try to see how btv acts when using WINE and also for a learning experience.

I'm going to try out LinuxMCE on an old ADM 3200+ box and see how it flies. The video convinced me lol. I'll report back later as to how it's going.

[ZetaVu]

Ok, my Fiesty update. Found you can copy your windows settings to linux for Firefox and Thunderbird, import all data, settings, messages, addressbooks etc. Just copy the files from C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\thunderbird\default\random.slt. On linux your profile is a hidden folder in your home directory, /home/(username)/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/random.slt/ Similar for Firefox. You have to change settings to show hidden files.

Only issue was the default firewall blocks ports used by my webmail for yahoo and hotmail, so I set those ports to 1110 and 1025 instead of 110 and 25.

I was going to try and use the vnc player to access my server, until we get a link solution. Haven't figured out how to access windows shares on other computers yet, any advice would be appreciated.

chugging along.

[dequire]

Originally Posted by ZetaVu

I was going to try and use the vnc player to access my server, until we get a link solution. Haven't figured out how to access windows shares on other computers yet, any advice would be appreciated.

chugging along.

It's been a while, but I think you have to use Samba to access Windows shares.

[Mistergq]

well, ubuntu is up and running on my laptop. I had two problems: one, I was an idiot with partitions (but at 2:30 AM finally got it finalized) and two, my wireless card was not initially recognized. After I get Ubuntu set up the way I like, I may play with link on my laptop.

[queonda]

I played around with Kubuntu 7.04 but just as a live CD on my BTV sever. Just wanted to play. Only for a short while though cuz I had recordings coming up.

I tried on an old laptop but it only has 128K of memory, and didn't work with the regular build. So, I'm down loading an alternative Ubuntu for computer with less memory to see how that goes. I'm glad your Chugging along, ZetaVu. Good 2 u, misteregg.

I'm ready to play but slowly but surely (hopefully).

[ZetaVu]

I was able to access my windows shares with the network icon on the top bar, this let me browse and log into my windows network, and I mounted my shares (using samba in the background) However, cannot play the files yet, mplayer does not support samba out of the box (if you doubleclick the file, mplayer opens and doesn't work) and I haven't figured out how to do it in VLC yet.

Other sticking point, I have a Creative zen xtra mp3 player (yeah, its a big hulking thing, but it has a 60 gb 2.5" hard drive and I could theoretically insert a 160gb one, so it is basically a battery powered portable usb2 HD, only wish it charged through the usb port instead of the ac charger) anyway, totally off topic, but I installed gnomad2 and haven't gotten the two talking nice yet.

But, still chugging along, I hope to have a working way to connect at least to recordings on my BTV server, then I start playing with WINE and/or the other emulators.

[queonda]

ZetaVu, Any chance your using Kubuntu? If so, I read something over the weekend (can't find it again) that said Kubuntu may have this issue (but not sure). There was a solution for it but like I said, can't find the link.

They tried Ubuntu and didn't have that problem out of the box.

[queonda]

But this is different, but don't know if it will help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[ZetaVu]

I'm using gnome. I tried mounting the drives and got an fs wrong type error. I'll keep at it, got some info on editing samba settings. Apparently a lot of people are having similar issues. (playing media files from windows shares).

[ZetaVu]

ok, fixed (I believe) my network media issue.

First, tried to relaod samba, had the latest.
Then, edited samba settings - in terminal, sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbconf
search, find the term browseable, then remove the ; in front the first phrase and change from no to yes (not sure if this one was required but did it). then find next until you find the browseable under share definitions, and remove ; so it says
browseable=yes
then go a few lines down and remove ; in front of writeable and change no to yes.

save this. then back in terminal
sudo mkdir /media/(namepershare)
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
at the end add this for each share you want to mount at boot:
//(computer name)/(shared file) /media/(namepershare) smbfs username=(windowsusername),password=(windowspasswo rd) 0 0 (note, two spaces before first 0, seven to second, assume this is important)

to test, in terminal sudo mount -a
you should have drives appear on your desktop for each share, and they are under you file system, /media directory. More importantly, now the media files play in mplayer or water you want.

Next step, zen player and pocketpc activesync.

[queonda]

ZetaVu, Ru having FUN? Sounds like it. LOL