[Lancaster] Few things

[Ken Hough]

Hi Wayne!

All being well, I hope to get to the 'Brit' on Wednesday. Provided that the 
weather isn't a problem and my squeaky back holds out, I should be there.

As I mentioned previously, I've been playing with Debian Lenny. Have now got 
64 bit version up and running to play CDs and DVDs, and to run my digital TV 
card. All working just fine with no wobblies when playing CDs which I 
experienced with the 32 bit version of Lenny.

For anyone who is interested, my TV card is a Hauppauge WinTV Nova TD500. Info 
about installing under Ubuntu can be found at:

<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI>

The article states that this card didn't work under Ubuntu 8.04 (kernel 
2.6.24), but did under Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27).

I can confirm that it works under 64 bit Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.26).

Look out for the version number 'gocha' with the firmware module.

I've just managed to install 'CodeBlocks'. This is a cracking windows 
programming IDE and works well with the wxWidgets C++ library.

Regards

Ken Hough

On Monday 30 November 2009 15:49:51 Wayne Ward wrote:
> Hi guys hope all is well !
> I have to go in a sort out the lancaster lug xmas bash this wednesday - but
> had few replies who is going to able to make it!!
> Anybody else can give me a yay!! so I have more of a idea who will be
> coming!!.... Before wednesday would help a lot.
>
> Im still sorting out the linux workshops for the new year in the lancaster
> library i should know more for the meeting....
>
> I see www.linux-gamers.net is down - the domains expired aswell
> I own www.linuxgamers.co.uk if anyone is interested in setting up - I ran
> it for about a year
> But got busy and didnt get time to update it - I had people looking after
> the forums and stuff but got proper busy
> If anyone is interested let me know..