1 Topic by CrunchyFree

(3 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))

Alright, so I've got this sound, right? And it's not working. I know, I know. Common problem with linux noobs, RTFM and google it and all that. The thing is I've tried to just hit up alsa to gimme sound, that didn't work. When I try to run music on console it complains about driver problems and of course drivers were installed and did nothing.

It's an IBM Thinkpad T22. From what I could gather from the wiki it has two sound cards and it's a matter of what you want to install.

I tried installing the cs46xx drivers because I know you guys stopped including them since the last image of #! I used (I'd still use it but it breaks whenever I update it) so I hope I don't seem rude by placing a link to the thinkwiki with the stats to my laptop and ask you to help me.

Link.

Thanks!

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2 Reply by CrunchyFree

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Thank you so much for this! The only thing that was stopping me from crunching around anymore was driver installation issues! Now I'm back to dual monitors on the greatest OS ever!

/me bows down to your greatness

Now I'm gonna install i3 like a /g/

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3 Reply by CrunchyFree

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I've disassembled my PC a few times, a lot of case is gone simply b/c it was giant and plastic and ugly.

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4 Reply by CrunchyFree

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I'm installing DragonflyBSD, with my Arch and Gentoo experience I should feel right at home.

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5 Reply by CrunchyFree

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I can't  count
Syllables for I am
An American

That's 5-7-5, right?

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6 Reply by CrunchyFree

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It's running, ended up just using Windows 7 b/c I didn't have any 32-bit copies of Linux available.
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/304154_252494781468242_100001231673750_731018_432019835_n.jpg

Got my record player and stereo in the corner too.

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7 Reply by CrunchyFree

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I use freenet in conjunction with TOR. I'd recommend FROST while your at it.

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8 Reply by CrunchyFree

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replicant wrote:
CrunchyFree wrote:

You can't use APT on an Emerge system

Degenerates!

Emerge has a command-line search function tongue

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9 Reply by CrunchyFree

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merelyjim wrote:

^
It's very easy, and very quick. The latest version of Xfce from Debian seems to have some serious lag time between when you right-click for the menu and when it pop's-up*. Not so with Sabayon!

Some things are weird; Midori is the default browser? Command line tricks I know& from Debian-based distro's don't always work, but for a stable rolling release... again, time will tell. Very much worth a download and look-see.

* I've bitched about this before to various parties who either haven't experienced it, or who have and can't figure out how to correct it - mostly in LinuxMintDebian, but I noticed it a bit in #! when playing with "testing" repos.

& mostly from people here who were kind enough to help me out without flaming the snot out of me. Thanks, everyone.

/facepalm

You can't use APT on an Emerge system, it's like trying to use pacman -S on Fedora. Sabayon is based on Gentoo which uses Emerge and Portage as opposed to APT and dpkg. Stop trying to apt-get install when you need to emerge --sync.

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10 Reply by CrunchyFree

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i3 has been my favourite so far, it uses dmenu though so when you enter the shortcut for menu you type in the application you want to launch as opposed to the usual right-click. That's better imo.

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11 Reply by CrunchyFree

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Making a headless server for a jukebox, going to need a GUI real quick b/c I'm too lazy to transfer files from different partitions and then go CLI with mocp (music on console).

Debian Server or #!? Or something else? There won't be SSH or anything b/c it won't be hooked up to the router, it'll just have music stored on it that I'll play on a command-line music player.

merelyjim wrote:
rstrcogburn wrote:

Anyone tried the new Sabayon 7 "Spinbase" release?

Installed the Xfce-32bit version on the netbook last night, everything working out of the box. Like #!, it's fast and responsive. The only drawback that I see is I have to spend some time on the wiki figuring out how to update from the command line; apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't work, and had to update the system via the GUI-tool.

Having said that, it's been less than 24 hours on the machine, and the real test of a rolling release is how it performs over time. Plus, I'm betting you want to know how the server-side runs, rather than just if we can live with using Gnome Movie Player rather than VLC...

It's Gentoo-based, emerge --sync.

Wait, what? I distro hop too much...btw what's sabayon like? Only tried Gentoo and been curious about Funtoo. Too much work for me to use day-to-day though, it's like Arch with a source-based, gross...I like things to just work, if I decide to edit the conf file later I will.

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12 Topic by CrunchyFree

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Right now I'm making a jukebox out of an old PC I had laying around. Moved my stereo and record player into my room today b/c my phone died so I had no use of my computer speakers. Then I went on the computer and saw the old hand-me down I used to use until last December when I got the beast and decided she deserves to live on thus the "Lovely Music Box of Libre Linux Love" was to be made. Right now I have to transfer all my music from my homegroup onto it first though so a quick Windows 7 install, dual boot between it and #! and then delete the Windows 7 install for more #! space. I'd SSH it but the jukebox won't be on the network (no wireless adapter and my room is too far from the router to plug it in). So it'll just be on the network for long enough to install music on console (mocp) and transfer all my sweet, precious music files. It'll be good for backing up files and such plus when it's set up in my room it'll be a headless CLI interface so the only electricity used will be on the tower itself and of course the stereo it'll be plugged into. Beautiful I say, beautiful!

I'll probably upload the running rig on Youtube along with a showcasing of the rest of my magic. I've got Monster-PC which is my main rig as of December, it's for gaming and has Radeon 6950 glory in it and a 750w power supply I got for 70 bucks and it's 80+ Gold certified or whatever, my hand-me down which is what made me go to #! in the first place with it's 1.2 GHz processor and 768MB of RAM, my stereo which is less than impressive and my record player/collection which is a work in progress. More or less a collection of hobbies that I burn all my money on.

What do you guys think? I know that's a lot of words.

tldr: I'm making a jukebox out of a crappy computer, a discarded keyboard from an e-cycling bin and a CRT monitor found on a sidewalk and might put up a video of it soon.

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13 Topic by CrunchyFree

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So I got the latest issue of Linux Format Mag (expensive here in the states btw) and decided to install #! on my gaming rig to play around. I wanted a super light OS to experiment on where I can try lesser-used applications and alternate kernals so when I get a new hard drive for my laptop I can make it faster then ever. Here's what I got so far:

AwesomeWM - Minimal use of mouse and screen real estate is pretty much what tiling WM's are for and Awesome is just that, awesome! I use the first screen soley for web browsing, the second is IMing/file managment and the rest are aux in case I do other things

Midori - Don't normally use anything besides Firefox but when Chromium was freezing my system I decided to try it, worked great for my old laptop, light enough to actually run another application on.

Pidgin - I could probably find a lighter application (or go CLI) but I like it, it's light enough and I don't think I could use another client

Liquorix - Amazing! I'm glad this is in the welcome script b/c using it as a kernel made my old laptop able to use Pidgin and Midori at the same time and still be able to open file managers and terminals if need be. I'll use this for now on.

PCManFM - I've used it since before it had a trash bin (Don't like trash actually). It's extremely light and I prefer it a lot to Thunar. It's beautiful.

That's about all the replacing I did on my laptop though, saves a lot of resources which is good since it's stats are 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz Coppermine processor (Intel Pentium III). It's a thinkpad btw.

On my 64-bit machine I'm using about 170MB of RAM on a 64-bit system with Midori running btw. 64-bit systems use more RAM though, I think my laptop could idle at 80-100MB and with both pidgin n midori it'd be like 150-180 with the CPU going between 90-100%.

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14 Reply by CrunchyFree

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crunchy wrote:

I've got this occasionally too. usually updating my system works smile


First thing I did, didn't work...

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15 Topic by CrunchyFree

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When I try to open the volume control from the menu I get this:

GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions problem.

When I use VLC to watch videos I get this:

Potential ALSA version problem:
VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue.

Help please! I'm using #!10 on an old IBM Thinkpad with Pentium III inside.

idk wtf happened but after I decided to switch to that other kernal in the cb-welcome script volume  worked fine/ Weird...

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16 Topic by CrunchyFree

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I need to get this wireless card working on my IBM Thinkpad. I've got AntiX 8.5 installed on it. It's an old Thinkpad BTW, came with Windows 95 on it.

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17 Reply by CrunchyFree

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merelyjim wrote:

There's a Linux podcast in the UK called Tux Radar.

All the hosts tried (and mostly failed) to make their own distro's using Suse Studio... Mike names his after himself, thus MikeOS... well worth listening to.

http://www.tuxradar.com/

Oh, I was talking about a 16-bit Linux OS.

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18 Reply by CrunchyFree

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merelyjim wrote:
CrunchyFree wrote:

Day 3-MikeOS

Sounds like someone has been listening to a little bit too much TuxRadar podcast... lol

What's that?

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19 Reply by CrunchyFree

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Just got a command-line book, it's ammusing to read when I'm not doing anything b/c it's so old. It says that Red-Hat is the recommended distro but you could also use Fedora Core and said Ubuntu was relatively new and that newcomers shouldn't use it.

Good times...

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20 Reply by CrunchyFree

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Sector11 wrote:
rstrcogburn wrote:

I just recently installed funtoo on my main desktop which was running statler.

Rooster, you're sick, you really need a 28 distro ... oops! ... a 28 day program!

I haven't a CLUE what what you just said!!!!

On second thought maybe I need a 28 Distro program or 90 distros in 90 days!    lol

I'd like to make a special program that'd allow a new distro to be installed on a second hard drive every day. So if you have two hard drives then every day the second one is a different distro. Like have a bunch of iso files in a special folder and it randomly selects one.

Day 1-#!
Day 2-LMDE Xfce
Day 3-MikeOS
Day 4-Arch
Day 5-Fedora Core
etc...

Are you ready for that kind of hotness?

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21 Reply by CrunchyFree

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vrkalak wrote:

Yeah, no such thing as "I used to be a Distro-Hopper"  sad

Did you see where both the new versions of LinuxMint Xfce and Fluxbox are going with a straight Debian-base.

The new LMDE-Xfce is available for downloads and testing of the .iso image now  >  http://community.linuxmint.com/iso

I'll try Xfce.

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22 Reply by CrunchyFree

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I was between Python and C++, I think I know what I'll be going with now.

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23 Reply by CrunchyFree

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machu wrote:
CrunchyFree wrote:

Change my mind. w3m, finch, bitchx, alpine and either mpd or something that'll stream to my PS3.

What made you switch from CenterIM to finch?  I ask because I'm considering the reverse due to this bug in finch.

b/c I like pidgin. Seeing that problem though I think I might stick to CenterIM. Everything else I'll stick with though. I hear great things about what BitchX did with issri.

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24 Reply by CrunchyFree

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th3pr0ph3t wrote:

Text editors: Nano, vim
Media player, (I mean, audio player): mpd

Please let us know where can we try out your cli-only distro, because I'd like to have something like that too.
One thing: Make sure the audio and the wireless (for netbooks) work!

I'm not making a public distro, I'm just setting up Arch exactly how I want it. It's the Arch way.

After I'm done making a set-up I'll make a how-to for making your distro like me.

Spoiler Alert: pacman -S w3b

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25 Reply by CrunchyFree

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johnraff wrote:

Also check out K. Mandla's blog. He virtually lives in the cli, and the archives are full of software suggestions.

Pretty cool, I saw a neat terminal program in an old Linux User and Developer which I don't see on there though. Byobu, it's an extension of GNU Screen which is pretty rad looking within itself. I think I might have to switch to either a Debian or Ubuntu server though just for the sake of the extremely large repos.

oupsemma wrote:

Check there also:
http://cli-apps.org/
http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/5- … -line.html
http://lifehacker.com/#!5622340/who-nee … t-anything
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ions-menu/

Sweet! I'll have to check all those links out. The lifehacker one looks really rad!

Awebb wrote:

Streaming to the PS3? Try ps3mediaserver. It can be run as a daemon.

I dunno about that, I've heard some bad things about PMS in the tips and feedback.

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