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Aomighty

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  1. Aomighty

    mp4 m4a

    If it's gonna have copy protection, I'll stick to Ogg Vorbis. It'll always be my one true lossy audio format lol .
  2. It will include half a million dependencies as well, so you'll need to have those available from urpmi. Just include all urpmi mirrors.
  3. Hmm, ok, I turned off the inputs I didn't need, thanks for the tip.
  4. If you ever want to switch to pure Debian, it's a bit difficult, but somehow I stumbled my way through it lol, and the benefits are quite obvious if you do. I find the documentation around the net for it quite good, so it shoudln't be too hard (I've only been using Linux as my #1 OS for a few months)
  5. I have a C-Media chip as well (though probably a different sound card, Turtle Beach Riviera), and Mandrake auto-detected it once installed. If it didn't autodetect, go to mcc and hardware and sound, and see if you can auto-load it. Also, try disabling your previous sound card (if you had a previous one).
  6. LOL, it worked! Thanks scarecrow! For some reason DVD sound works now too, though it might've been that the sound just wasn't loud enough, dunno. Thanks!
  7. KDE's plenty stable with me, though I haven't yet tried Gnome. And I agree, command-line never fails, EVER, and a lot of times it's the quickest way to do things. The other day I had to use Windows for something, and I just got this sad sensation when I realized I couldn't fall back on my beloved command-line when I was in need... :(
  8. That may just be the pitfalls of using Ndiswrapper. Though I've never used it (luckily my card has a native driver), I've heard it doesn't always work great. You can always try making sure you have the latest version of both the driver and ndiswrapper. Also, if you get annoyed with the network going down, you could write a script to quickly handle it, and even put it in your taskbar lol if you want really quick.
  9. Ok, first thing: the Full Duplex option didn't change anything. Second thing: CDs play OK in Amarok, but nothing else. Third thing, I believe I've done my volume ok, here's a screenshot:
  10. The Gentoo one was ok, but Debian was rather harshe lol. I guess being committed to free software is good. Wife: Why are you too fighting? Husband: He dissed my distro! Wife: Distro? What? Husband: He thinks Mandrake's for sissies! Well he's just an open source nazi!!!! *punch* Let's hope the world never comes to that
  11. You can 1. Try it in the mcc and do a search for gthreads-devel. 2. Make sure you have all the urpmi sources. 3. I couldn't build from source last time I tried. Use the binary RPM with urpmi mplayer and urpmi mplayer-plugin I believe (do a search for it if I'm wrong). It's probably in the contrib section of urpmi. I find that much easier.
  12. I haven't tried Nero Linux, for Nero Windows is very nice. K3b's good enough ATM, but I'm glad you support Linux with cash, always helps Ahead and other people in terms of incentives. If it's too ugly make sure you get a GTK theme in .gtkrc and .gtkrc-2.0, but if you already did that, dunno what to tell you, lol. /ramble
  13. Post a link and someone here (maybe even me!) can explain it in plain english.
  14. LOL, you're right, must be by a Mandrake user who really hates Debian and Gentoo lol.
  15. Try the config in the mcc control center, it should register if the module is loaded.
  16. Yeah, it's turned up all the way. The error message given by gmplayer with console is: Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le alsa-init: no soundcards found: Success Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound When done with kscd, it looks like it's playing and shows it playing, but nothing. I think it's something wrong with my system config. Driver is cmipci with a Riviera Turtle Beach sound card. Sound elsewhere works fine.
  17. I tried playing a DVD the other day and I could watch it just fine, but it played no sound. Same way with CDs, if I try to play it with KsCD, it plays nothing though it does recognize the tracks and such. Ripping CDs works fine and the resulting tracks play. I've tried it with artsdsp, which works with everything else, and that doesn't change anything. I've tried with mplayer and ogle, as well as with DMA both disabled and enabled in both the /dev/dvd/ and /dev/cdrom. I've tried it with Windows and it works, so it's not a hardware issue.
  18. Also, don't use startx as root. For some distros, (Debian I believe), auto-login doesn't even work it seems. Anyway, if you can't get it to work, just login each time. It's a lot more secure anyway, I believe.
  19. Ok. I wish it would list the size of the folder and its contents, rather than just the folder itself in Konqueror, is there any way you know of to do that?
  20. Heh heh, read this: Link :D
  21. Boring and generic, I know, but I'm comfortable with it and it's not slowing me down!
  22. Aomighty

    Why linux?

    EDIT: Same time posting, I said exactly as the last few :P .
  23. Recently, I accidentally did a sudo rm -rf ~ :P . I stopped the command soon enough to recover my data lol. Anyway, I'm worried it did something wierd, because now all my folders show up as size 4 K, whereas files show up fine. If I right-click and choose Properties from Konqueror, it calculates it correctly. I did a chown and chmod 775 recursively on my home directory to make sure it wasn't a permissions issue, at least within the home directory itself. Also, it happens if I create a new user as well, and it happens as root too. Any ideas? I heard the Linux filesystem (I'm using ext3) maybe does that because of cluster sizes, but I didn't think that happened before... Thanks all. [moved from Software by spinynorman]
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