Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
William Case wrote: Thanks Patrick; Just a little note below that does not require a response. On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 08:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:05 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Max and Patrick; On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 10:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan

Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread William Case
Hi; Just wondering about a few things: 1) I noticed a program in the latest update list called 'augeas' for editing config files. I have gone to their site etc.-- looks interesting. Has anyone have experience using it and would like to comment? 2) I have just installed kmod-nvidia from

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 10:16 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Hi Bill, Just wondering about a few things: 1) I noticed a program in the latest update list called 'augeas' for editing config files. I have gone to their site etc.-- looks interesting. Has anyone have experience using it and

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:16:39 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) My project for the next while is to work out how various multimedia work. I'd tackle something simpler if I were you, like maybe quantum theory or ending war. All I know is that the only tool that (so far) has worked

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WebCam UVC is a (relatively) new standard for webcams. I see the latest fedora 8 kernel (and fedora 9) includes the uvcvideo driver by default (previously I had to build it myself). It seems to work fine for me with my

Re: Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:05:06 -0400 William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions of additions or deletions gratefully accepted. I just remembered another thing for the general multimedia list: LIRC: http://www.lirc.org/ It is another thing I have to manually build the driver for (my