This all started out as a desire to control the fan speed on this
computer. In XP I use Speedfan.
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky.
Problem 1: I cannot figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have
got the acpi temperature showing.
Problem 2: Every time I start an
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
temperature showing.
I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1) from the
lm-sensors package. It's old and not properly
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
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On Saturday 29 May 2010 13:09:17 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
If you need any assistances with Simply
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:23 +0100, Tim wrote:
On Saturday 29 May 2010 13:09:17 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
First, to measure the speed I installed Conky. Problem 1: I cannot
figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
temperature showing.
I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1)
Hi Peter,
I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1) from
the lm-sensors package.
Apt-get cannot find lm-sensors.
That's odd. It seems to be available.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lm-sensors
Does
dpkg -l '*sens*'
list it?
Cheers,
Ralph.
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:59 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful.
Why? I've never tried it so please enlighten me on why it sucks so much.
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor programmes 'unstart'.
Freezes at kernel level on boot up-login.
Apart from that, it's brilliant!
Ubuntu has:
Networking
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:24 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor programmes 'unstart'.
Freezes at kernel level on boot up-login.
Apart
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:43 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:24 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor
SimplyMEPIS?
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Look, boys, I've already got a job.
What do I need this grief for?
Actually I'm having some success with the Mepis boys' product. Still not
as easy as Ubuntu, but I am still at the stage of quite liking it.
Simono
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Next meeting: C4L and
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:59 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
SimplyMEPIS?
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Look, boys, I've already got a job.
What do I need this grief for?
Actually I'm having some success with the Mepis boys' product. Still not
as easy as Ubuntu, but I am still at
Thanks Tim.
I am now in possession of a fully operational Death Star, sorry, Mepis
Installation.
Can't get it to see my Ubuntus yet, but they can see it very easily and
when I make a change it implements straight away.
I couldn't understand why the system speaker was being used.
Then I plugged the
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
dpkg -l '*sens*'
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*sens*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
Glad you are enjoying Mepis.
Tim
On Saturday 29 May 2010 16:37:14 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Thanks Tim.
I am now in possession of a fully operational Death Star, sorry, Mepis
Installation.
Can't get it to see my Ubuntus yet, but they can see it very easily and
when I make a change it
Hi Peter,
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
dpkg -l '*sens*'
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*sens*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required
Read this thread at the time and kind of thought I'd would stick to the Hardy
Heron. However someone gave me a laptop which had an amusing black screen when
XP was booted up because it went wrong a few years back and the costs quoted to
fix put them off fixing it. So they stored this Pentium 4
On 29/05/10 13:09, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
Sounds like a workman blaming his tools ;-) I'm been
On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:25:02 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
As a workman, if somebody gave me a banana to knock in nails, I would
blame the person who gave me the banana.
But if thousands and thousands - maybe millions - of people were
successfully using bananas to knock in nails,
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:30 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:25:02 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
As a workman, if somebody gave me a banana to knock in nails, I would
blame the person who gave me the banana.
But if thousands and thousands - maybe millions -
At the end of the day we have all had those distro that looked good on paper
but
once we have committed it to disk it a different ball game and that can be down
to A) lack of user knowledge, B) bad hardware combination (also linked to A)
and C) the fact that some of us just want to get on
On 29/05/10 21:46, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I didn't make it swallow 20% of a 250 GB drive just for the root
partition; I didn't make the sound fail totally; I didn't make it file a
kernel crash report on every, single boot up.
So long as the Linubs think it acceptable to produce unreliable,
To be sure, for a user who wants to do basic things, Fedora is an easy
install, wifi works right away, and most of it just goes.
For anybody doing anything more advanced the misery just piles on.
I tend to judge these things by the amount and quality of support on the
web; Ubuntu and MEPIS have
Hi folks,
The '10.04? Not bloody likely' thread seems to have turned into a distro
debate so I thought I'd throw in my bit. I appear to differ from most in that
I do not like to have the latest greatest, my computer is a tool I want to
be able to rely on so I prefer the proven. I also believe
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