Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (23 Viewers)

[JCK]

In the meantime (Martin I hope you're listening) anyone knows how to configure KDE to automatically detect WiFi networks?

I don't think it is possible in the time being.

 

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[V]

@ gray; pass on rtorrent, trust me.
i've downloaded the latest utorrent and set it up in wine, runs as smooth as a baby's ass.

 

[gray]

Yeah, that's why I use azureus myself, it makes that stuff easy cause everyone has already seen those problems a million times and they've been fixed.

Grrr, I reinstalled Azureus and my torrents are running now... :irritated

@ gray; pass on rtorrent, trust me.
i've downloaded the latest utorrent and set it up in wine, runs as smooth as a baby's ass.

Hrmm I'll have to have a think about my torrent clients, but I must admit I have my reservations about running things in wine... I don't really know why; maybe because I fear it'll remind me of my Windows days :scared

EDIT: I forgot to mention my other two favourite messages:

1) Error: disk read error: NullPointerException
2) Waiting for other torrent(s) to Queue... just start downloading you mofo! Even Force Start doesn't kick some sense into it
3) Scrape error: BDecoder: zero length file

 

[gray]

Bah, I'm sick of doing triple-edits so I'll just double post...

Trying to update Amarok from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4, I used:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install amarok amarok-engines

I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
amarok is already the newest version.
amarok-engines is already the newest version.

Whyyy

 

[Martin]

Bah, I'm sick of doing triple-edits so I'll just double post...

Trying to update Amarok from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4, I used:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install amarok amarok-engines

I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
amarok is already the newest version.
amarok-engines is already the newest version.

Whyyy

This is very simple. Ubuntu does not offer amarok 1.4.4 at the current time. You could add some repository that has more ahem experimental packages, but that could be broken. And in the long run, adding more repos I've noticed is somewhat risky to the overall integrity of the system.

What to do. Wait until they release it stable. Or looking for a bleeding edge kde/amarok repo.

 

[gray]

Cheers for the simple explanation.

I guess I'll wait.

 

[JCK]

I'm waiting

 

[V]

me too. perfectly pleased with 1.4.3 tbh.

Hrmm I'll have to have a think about my torrent clients, but I must admit I have my reservations about running things in wine... I don't really know why; maybe because I fear it'll remind me of my Windows days :scared

yeah i'm not too crazy about it either but some windows apps are irreplaceable, to me at least. best examples are utorrent(best torrent manager by a mile, easy on the system too) and dvd shrink(no dvd back up solution works as well as this one, fast and simple as well). these 2 work perfectly well in wine and i'm using them.

 

[gray]

me too. perfectly pleased with 1.4.3 tbh.

Yeah I've got no gripes with 1.4.3 but it's always nice to feel up-to-date

yeah i'm not too crazy about it either but some windows apps are irreplaceable, to me at least. best examples are utorrent(best torrent manager by a mile, easy on the system too) and dvd shrink(no dvd back up solution works as well as this one, fast and simple as well). these 2 work perfectly well in wine and i'm using them.

Ahh yes, I used those two programs exclusively for their respective purposes back in the day (and by that I mean last week, but I'm trying to distance myself from my dirty past AMAP), and Azureus is annoying me because it's the only program that seems to be able to download my torrents properly, but its way too fat for my liking (the only proggy I've encountered in Ubuntu that makes me wait )

 

[V]

well if you change your mind, automatix sets up wine pretty well, just run winecfg afterwards, set up your drives and stuff. download the setup files, enter "wine setup_file" in the terminal and click on next like back in the old days.

 

[gray]

my gosh, they even made the wine installer resemble windows?

 

[V]

my gosh, they even made the wine installer resemble windows?

not resemble, it's the same installer only ran from linux. next> next> next> accept> next> next> next> finish.

 

[gray]

oooh right! We were talking about wine, what was I thinking

 

[Rami]

not resemble, it's the same installer only ran from linux. next> next> next> accept> next> next> next> finish.

You forgot the EULA Accept tick box


On another note, I have been running Amarok 1.4.4 for two days now, it's running smoothly thus far, no problems whatsoever. I installed moodbar and a couple of scripts also. TBH not much difference except for the magnatunes integration function, and I am not even using that....

 

[gray]

And I enter my 3rd hour of trying to get my ATi card to work with Edgy... I'm getting damn sick of uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, getting stuck in the "can't load X" void and having to actually learn how to use the terminal (I guess that's one good thing I can take from this nightmare)

Apparently in Edgy (but not Dapper) you have to add an option to your xorg.conf to enable 3D, but that doesn't allow one to use XGL

Seriously, ATI and Linux just aren't very good friends are they?

EDIT: I'm about to reboot after uninstalling anything related to my gfx card and following the advice from about 50 different guides from scratch...

EDIT2: Hallelujah! It finally works The only problem now is that it's 4:45am and I should really sleep, but now that I've got it working I'll inevitably spend the next few hours setting up my eyecandy

 

[JCK]

Martin always complained about his ATI.

 

[V]

have you tried this?
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/overview.html

 

[gray]

Cheers vlatko, that'll definitely come in handy!

Man I just realised how much of a whole new dimension Compiz/Beryl/XGL is going to be, and I don't think I have the energy at this time of day to be able to set it all up, so I'll probably get some sleep and come back to it tomorrow.

I'd made it one of my main goals this week to get my gfx card working :geek: so I'm rather happy and looking forward to playing around with it now

 

[JCK]

The enthusiasm

 

[Martin]

And I enter my 3rd hour of trying to get my ATi card to work with Edgy... I'm getting damn sick of uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, getting stuck in the "can't load X" void and having to actually learn how to use the terminal (I guess that's one good thing I can take from this nightmare)

Apparently in Edgy (but not Dapper) you have to add an option to your xorg.conf to enable 3D, but that doesn't allow one to use XGL

Seriously, ATI and Linux just aren't very good friends are they?

EDIT: I'm about to reboot after uninstalling anything related to my gfx card and following the advice from about 50 different guides from scratch...

EDIT2: Hallelujah! It finally works The only problem now is that it's 4:45am and I should really sleep, but now that I've got it working I'll inevitably spend the next few hours setting up my eyecandy

Let me say this. ATI's video driver is a piece of crap. Always have been, probably always will be.