Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 00:39 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went to http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi And downloaded the

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:38 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 14:35 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: May be time to change my choice of OS, or just to keep using it and start bitching, because that seems to be what you

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 454127 And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long time though. What the specfile does goes against existing guidance. If you want static libs then the package should provide a -static subpackage. For example look at

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well supported, at least in basics. Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:44 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I saw a message go past not too long ago about making fedora 10 the best ever. If anyone has any desire to cater to reactionary stick-in-the-mud users like me who hate almost everything new, then take a look at:

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Oh, you want bugzilla entries? I can do bugzilla entries. BTW, the problem *is* with pulseaudio. Alsa is working just fine underneath, but guess what?

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it. Bug 458574 submitted. Let's see what happens. --Russell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:34:01 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that you recognize that unless you submit bugzilla entries for those things, they are unlikely to be fixed. Oh, I got lots of bugzilla entries for all those and more. (Including bugs like 447442 which claims to be

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500 Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really crappy a few versions ago). While I think there needs to be away to have a

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:01 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 07:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500 Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really crappy a few

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went to After I fixed that wonderful permissions problem it almost all

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
After I fixed that wonderful permissions problem it almost all started working. I can't get youtube videos to work for some reason, and the USB audio adapter I just bought refuses to output stuff, but the azalia is working. But then I tried to install the proprietary ATI driver (because

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Alan Cox
I really shudder to think of how a newbie would have tried to handle this whole thing. It ain't pretty. Linux is *not* ready for the desktop, and Im starting to wonder if it ever will be. I suspect that until Nvidia leave the PC market and the ATI open source drivers render the binary junk

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 10 August 2008 20:54, Russell Miller wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went to After

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500 Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2008 20:54, Russell Miller wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell, I've got a K9A Platinum. I've had sound working from day one, with a better set of drivers and a better mixer. The difference is that I went to After I fixed

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After I fixed that wonderful permissions problem it almost all started working. I can't get youtube videos to work for some reason, and the USB audio adapter I just bought refuses to output stuff, but the azalia is working. But then I tried to

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
In all fairness Russel, unless you specifically want to mess with this problem, the common way is to use Livna/Atrpms.. Livna even has a kernel independent package whose name i can't remember which will/should work with any kernel. So really, you chose the toughest way if you ran into that

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Arthur Pemberton wrote: yum install libflashsupport from the Adobe repo It comes from the Fedora repo and not the Adobe repo. It is a hack to workaround the broken way in which Flash uses ALSA. This has been fixed by Adobe in their latest beta release of Flash. Rahul -- fedora-list

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
yum install libflashsupport from the Adobe repo That did the trick, thanks. But I had to yum install libflashsupport.i386. --Russell -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In all fairness Russel, unless you specifically want to mess with this problem, the common way is to use Livna/Atrpms.. Livna even has a kernel independent package whose name i can't remember which will/should work with any kernel. So really,

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: yum install libflashsupport from the Adobe repo It comes from the Fedora repo and not the Adobe repo. It is a hack to workaround the broken way in which Flash uses ALSA. This has been fixed by

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yum install libflashsupport from the Adobe repo That did the trick, thanks. But I had to yum install libflashsupport.i386. I got the advice via irc://freenode/fedora myself, didn't need the i386 suffix however. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the advice via irc://freenode/fedora myself, didn't need the i386 suffix however. You'll only need it on a 64 bit system. I also needed to install the 386 version of nspluginwrapper and a whole bunch of other

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie would likely either stick with the OSS drivers, (assuming they get at least 1024x768) or they would Google it, or they would give up. That last option is to me what's inexcusable. We (and by we I mean the

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie would likely either stick with the OSS drivers, (assuming they get at least 1024x768) or they would Google it, or they would give up. That last option is to me

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2008/8/10 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie would likely either stick with the OSS drivers, (assuming they get at least 1024x768) or they would Google it, or they would give up. That last option is to me

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora is for a user who is interested in rapid progress or free software. It is always in a state of change, even between the stable versions. If you explicitly want a system that rarely changes, some other

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
Fedora is for a user who is interested in rapid progress or free software. It is always in a state of change, even between the stable versions. If you explicitly want a system that rarely changes, some other distribution might suit you a lot better than Fedora. I think Fedora's

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Write bug reports, look for solutions, share them with your fellow Fedorians. It is an adventure. Many things are improving and changing with new releases, but that is how software works here. It is constantly

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
Write bug reports, look for solutions, share them with your fellow Fedorians. It is an adventure. Many things are improving and changing with new releases, but that is how software works here. It is constantly evolving and moving forward. At least here you have a voice and also

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Russell Miller wrote: I did write a bug report a couple of months back that hasn't even been looked at yet - and I handed them a new specfile on a silver platter. Oh well. Maybe it'll get better the more reports I submit. What was the bz number? Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Russell Miller wrote: I did write a bug report a couple of months back that hasn't even been looked at yet - and I handed them a new specfile on a silver platter. Oh well. Maybe it'll get better the more reports I

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Russell Miller wrote: 454127 And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long time though. It would be useful to product a diff instead of a new spec and attach that instead. We have a quite large number of bugs opened so additional help is welcome. If you are

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Russell Miller wrote: 454127 And it was closer to a month ago than two months. My bad. Still a long time though. It would be useful to product a diff instead of a new spec and attach that instead. We have a quite

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Russell Miller wrote: I'm probably one of the few people who use that library, so I could co-maintain it if there aren't any objections. How do I go about signing up? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join This process might seem a bit awkard if you are new, so if you need

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 14:35 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: May be time to change my choice of OS, or just to keep using it and start bitching, because that seems to be what you guys are looking for. Well, take a tone of constructive criticism, posing problems and

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 14:35 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: May be time to change my choice of OS, or just to keep using it and start bitching, because that seems to be what you guys are looking

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-10 Thread Ric Moore
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 08:01 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:01 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that

Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
I saw a message go past not too long ago about making fedora 10 the best ever. If anyone has any desire to cater to reactionary stick-in-the-mud users like me who hate almost everything new, then take a look at: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/stick.html (Half rant, half useful information,

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad of other ways. What problem do you have with it besides that it is new? If PulseAudio is what comes standard with FC9... guess what. It doesn't work. The drivers don't recognize my sound card.

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad of other ways. What problem do you have with it besides that it is new? If PulseAudio is what comes standard with FC9...

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Russell Miller
Arthur Pemberton wrote: I'm sorry to hear that... but I don't think PulseAudio has anything to do with drivers. As I understand it, it's more of an abstraction system so applications need not support, ALSA, OSS, etc.. just PulseAudio. But of course, if your hardware isn't being recognized by

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: I'm sorry to hear that... but I don't think PulseAudio has anything to do with drivers. As I understand it, it's more of an abstraction system so applications need not support, ALSA, OSS, etc..

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip. Usually those are pretty well supported, at least in basics. Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What does lspci say it is? What kind of motherboard is it on? ~spot --

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know, if Fedora has LXDE in its repositories. Don't know the answer to that, but yum search lxde is a good place to start when asking questions like that (may produce a large amount of output though, so be

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
Do you know, if Fedora has LXDE in its repositories. Don't know the answer to that, but yum search lxde is a good place to start when asking questions like that (may produce a large amount of output though, so be prepared :-). -- Thanks. Currently taking a look to see if it is

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
Don't know the answer to that, but yum search lxde is a good place to start when asking questions like that (may produce a large amount of output though, so be prepared :-). -- Apparently it is not there :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum search lxde Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit updates

Re: Project Stick In The Mud :-)

2008-08-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:02:10 -0500 Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like PulseAudio is the way forward towards reducing the myriad of other ways. What problem do you have with it besides that it is new? As