[SLUG] Surround sound cards?
So, I have a sound card with a CM8738 chipset, that I picked up from Dick Smith fairly cheaply. I'm using it with a set of Logitech 5.1 surround speakers, with plain old analogue connections (three 3.5mm stereo connections). This all sounds great, and the driver works reasonably well. But the driver on my ubuntu hardy machine (kernel version 2.6.24-12-generic) has one glaring problem - it's only able to control the volume for the front-left and front-right channels. In stereo mode this is fine, but in 5.1 mode the other three channels are pegged at max volume. So, can anybody recommend a sound card? I'm looking for: - 5.1 surround support, with analogue output - reasonably cheap, and reasonably good quality - good linux driver support Thanks, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] wireless card that just works?
(Ubuntu 7.10) What are people's recomendations for a PCMCIA wireless card that just works (tm). I bought a cheap DLink DWL-G630, and I'm having headaches with it. Driver loads, Network Manager sees it and tries to associate with networks, but never finishes. I'm now playing with ndiswrapper... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [ot] cheap sms?
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 10:00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing remote telemetry with a small linux box (of course) and then using sms to transfer the data. Can anyone recommend a supplier of cheap sms for large quantity? Within a few months 2000 per day. Notwithstanding everything West of Alice is Largely Unexplored telstra's nextG in Perth is OK certainly good enough for what you require. Data rates range from 10K to 300K and can vary in seconds. The biggest issue is finding YourBox behind their network. I have the data logger make regular ssh calls to TheServer to establish a tunnel back to the logger. All cheap and easy. You could also have the loggers call and dump James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] wireless card that just works?
Sonia == Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sonia (Ubuntu 7.10) What are people's recomendations for a PCMCIA Sonia wireless card that just works (tm). The netlink ones worked for me. So did the Compaq WL100. In fact, all the Prism-1 based cards I've used `just work'. I've had endless trouble with more recent cards. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Auntie excludes us
ABC website users will soon be able to watch TV shows in full-screen format. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187599.htm The link on the front page to register for ABC Playback (http://www.abc.net.au/playback/) doesn't work. Certainly if the experience with ABC Now is anything to go by, this is going to be Windows-only with limited Mac support and no other OS support. http://www.abc.net.au/now/#faq16 This page might be helpful: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complaints_process.htm Not sure how one requests a refund. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:18 +1100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: ABC website users will soon be able to watch TV shows in full-screen format. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187599.htm The link on the front page to register for ABC Playback (http://www.abc.net.au/playback/) doesn't work. Certainly if the experience with ABC Now is anything to go by, this is going to be Windows-only with limited Mac support and no other OS support. http://www.abc.net.au/now/#faq16 This page might be helpful: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complaints_process.htm Not sure how one requests a refund. This is the response I got from the ABC when I queried them about this back in December. Dear James, Thank you for your message regarding ABC Now. ABC Now does have a little similarity to the BBC's iPlayer but is not intended to be the same service - instead we offer a way for our audience to aggregate a selection of our most current radio, TV, news, sport and weather content into a small desktop application. With regard to your query regarding a Linux version - due to the technical requirements of ABC Now we have been unable to find a robust and secure tool for making the Flash based code into a stable Linux version at this time. We are keeping an eye on developments in this area and hope to bring a Linux version to you as soon as practicable. In terms of our use of Real Player with ABC Now - our audience has the choice to use either Real Player or Windows Media to listen to live radio via ABC Now, and this is because we are aggregating live streams from around ABC Online which use these formats. In the future we are hoping that all live streams will be offered in mp3 format so that we can drop the need for Real/Windows from ABC Now but this is yet to be resolved. We've passed your feedback regarding this issue onto our production team and technical staff. Kind regards, The ABC Now team. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
