[Gloucs] 'home' users of Linux: sources of help

[Quentin Wright]

Hi Steve,

Maybe you could be more specific about the model of laptop and
distribution that you are using.

With the exception of winmodems, most laptops "just work" with most
current linux distributions. In particular Ubuntu/Kubuntu seems to work
quite well.

A good place to look for the experiences of others with specific models
is:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

However you must bear in mind that things have changed quite a bit where
sound, USB and currently PCCard support is concerned, so older write-ups
may be misleading.

Where Alsa is concerned you might look at:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/faq/

Cheers, Q.


On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 16:49 +0100, Steve Greig wrote:
> Hi, I enjoyed the LUG on Friday. Thanks for putting it on. Unfortunately
> I live too far away to come to them regularly.
> 
> I have just been doing google searches to find help with sorting out
> problems with my Linux lap top and have not managed to find a site which
> seems to be pitched at the right level.
> 
> This particular problem is that I can't record sound: I open up 'sound
> recorder' plug in the microphone and start recording but when I play
> back I don't hear anything.  I have tried raising and unmuting all the
> volume controls (hoping that this won't be wrecking any other
> applications that may use them for example Skype).
> 
> Over the year or so that I have been running Linux I have struggled to
> solve problems like this and still have not found a really good source
> of tutorials aimed at the sort of level I am at.
> 
> As well as solving the specific problem I would be really interested if
> you had any suggestions for good sites for explaining Linux issues to
> people who have a very limited ability to use the command line like me
> and are a bit out of their depth but want to continue to use Linux.
> 
> There are many things I don't do like connect directly to other people's
> computers; use video; record sound; print from the gimp; OCR scan etc
> etc simply because initial attempts to sort them out have failed (many
> things have worked!)
> 
> I am really reluctant to go back to Windows or Mac but I really need to
> be pointed to some good information for my level of use if I am going to
> be able stick with Linux.
> 
> Sorry for the length of this. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes from Steve 
> 
> 
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