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Merrick Baldelli
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Re: Dell "Back To School Catalog Aug edition" Where is Linux????????
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:17:40 -0500, JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
wrote:
>On 2008-08-08, Merrick Baldelli <mbaldelli@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:41:04 +0200, "Dirk T. Verbeek"
>><dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>> Because people can turn on a MS machine and have it work without confusing
>>>> scripts and complicated installation of inexpensive hardware.
>>>
>>>Then why does it on the same computer take at least 4 hrs to install
>>>Vista or XP but less than an hour for one of the 'Buntu's.
>>>And the first one is then still without basic applications...
>>
>> While I *GREATLY* appreciate that Ubuntu was loaded up on its
>> partition in about 40 minutes, it took approximately 3 1/2 hours more
>> to get most of what I would use the partition for running, and there's
>> still parts of the hardware that still don't work the way that I want
>> it to. (SAA7130, SB Audigy OEM - that still doesn't have complete
>> support in ALSA and wonky support in PulseAudio, the USB Webcam that
>> only works in one program so far, just to name those that are on my
>> immediate hit list)
>
>That sounds odd.
>
>If it works at all it should work everywhere.
>
>Something as crude as cat /dev/video0 | random_app should be
>enough to get it working pretty much anywhere...
>
>[deletia]
Yeah, I was able to get that Video portion of it working, for
the most part. Sometimes though, Ubuntu treats me to randomly
swapping the Video controls of the SAA7130 to the Webcam, which I get
on either one side or the other "no signal".
However, the core of the issue is that the OEM Audigy Card
uses a shared Mic/Line-Out port which doesn't have complete support
according to the ALSA Site the last time I checked it a couple of
months ago. They said that they were working on it, the end of
spring, but unfortunately I haven't had the time to check it to see if
they've completed the work on the drivers.
What makes it even more fun (and by fun I mean scratching my
head and wondering, "WTF?") was that when I was running in Gutsy, I
had an OEM Soundblaster Live, I had removed and replaced with an
Audigy, which Gutsy had no problems treating the soundcard to
Soundblaster live Emulation, and would allow me to swap the controls
between mic and line-out.
Do a complete install (from scratch) and suddenly it doesn't
work.
Fun huh?
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:17:40 -0500, JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
wrote:
>On 2008-08-08, Merrick Baldelli <mbaldelli@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:41:04 +0200, "Dirk T. Verbeek"
>><dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>> Because people can turn on a MS machine and have it work without confusing
>>>> scripts and complicated installation of inexpensive hardware.
>>>
>>>Then why does it on the same computer take at least 4 hrs to install
>>>Vista or XP but less than an hour for one of the 'Buntu's.
>>>And the first one is then still without basic applications...
>>
>> While I *GREATLY* appreciate that Ubuntu was loaded up on its
>> partition in about 40 minutes, it took approximately 3 1/2 hours more
>> to get most of what I would use the partition for running, and there's
>> still parts of the hardware that still don't work the way that I want
>> it to. (SAA7130, SB Audigy OEM - that still doesn't have complete
>> support in ALSA and wonky support in PulseAudio, the USB Webcam that
>> only works in one program so far, just to name those that are on my
>> immediate hit list)
>
>That sounds odd.
>
>If it works at all it should work everywhere.
>
>Something as crude as cat /dev/video0 | random_app should be
>enough to get it working pretty much anywhere...
>
>[deletia]
Yeah, I was able to get that Video portion of it working, for
the most part. Sometimes though, Ubuntu treats me to randomly
swapping the Video controls of the SAA7130 to the Webcam, which I get
on either one side or the other "no signal".
However, the core of the issue is that the OEM Audigy Card
uses a shared Mic/Line-Out port which doesn't have complete support
according to the ALSA Site the last time I checked it a couple of
months ago. They said that they were working on it, the end of
spring, but unfortunately I haven't had the time to check it to see if
they've completed the work on the drivers.
What makes it even more fun (and by fun I mean scratching my
head and wondering, "WTF?") was that when I was running in Gutsy, I
had an OEM Soundblaster Live, I had removed and replaced with an
Audigy, which Gutsy had no problems treating the soundcard to
Soundblaster live Emulation, and would allow me to swap the controls
between mic and line-out.
Do a complete install (from scratch) and suddenly it doesn't
work.
Fun huh?
--
-=-=-/ )=*=-='=-.-'-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
_( (_ , '_ * . Merrick Baldelli
(((\ \> /_1 `
(\\\\ \_/ /
-=-\ /-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
\ _/ Who are these folks and why have they
/ / stopped taking their medication?
- Captain Infinity