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

Fri Apr 28 21:45:13 BST 2006

Alternatively I would suggest installing Fedora Core 5, it's a massive 
jump ahead from 3 on the desktop front.  Linux User and Developer are 
bunging it on their DVD this month and you can also get a "special" mag 
in WH Smiths that comes with a bunch of tutorials.

I'm running FC5 as my main OS and was impressed to find EVERYTHING 
worked out of the box, my iPod syncs with Amarok, I can play all video 
formats with mplayer.  The only thing i'm struggling with is getting my 
bluetooth keyboard n mouse running in proper bluetooth mode, a problem 
not helped by the fact I dont have a spare keyboard which means if i get 
the config wrong I have to power down totally to get control back (which 
as you can imagine makes it less than appealing to attempt repeatedly).

To be honest whilst Fedora can be a bit bloated and isn't as hardcore as 
say Gentoo, installing it is a doddle, it has good package support and 
you can quite easily get a working desktop up and running in about 30 
mins replacing pretty much all functionality you would expect from an MS 
desktop (which to be controversial ain't a bad model to work from)

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>    1. Re: 'home' users of Linux: sources of help (Christian Trapp)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:53:00 +0100
> From: Christian Trapp <Christian.Trapp at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] 'home' users of Linux: sources of help
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> Hi Steve,
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> Play a little bit with the program KMix. Probably, that solves your
> problems. Enclosed 2 screenshots of my settings, especially look at this
> with the black arrow...
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> Christian
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> From: Quentin Wright <qwright at uklinux.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] 'home' users of Linux: sources of help
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> Hi Steve,
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> I don't know whether you had come across this FC3 link, which I used
> when I was last playing with FC3:
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> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.html
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> I used alsamixer, and got recording working OK.
>
> Q.
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> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 21:38 +0100, Steve Greig wrote:
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>> Hi, thanks for your replies. I have got a Toshiba Satellite 1110 lap top
>> and am running Fedora Core 3. I am not sure if Fedora would be
>> considered as multi media oriented or not.
>>
>> Thanks Christian for suggesting I might drop round with the lap top and
>> you have a look at it. I would really like to take you up on that at
>> some point especially if I am headed that way (I live the other side of
>> Swindon from Glos so it is a bit of a trek). Will get in touch over
>> that.
>>
>> So much of the system is going well that I am quite reluctant to change
>> the distro. This is also partly because I did try Ubuntu at one stage
>> and (I am sure it was me not Ubuntu) but I found it really
>> disappointing: I couldn't seem to download and install applications and
>> had loads of other problems. So I am keen to stay with Fedora at the
>> moment and try and work on the problems which I have got with it.
>>
>> With regard to the sound card I imagine that because I can play CDs and
>> listen to radio on line that there is no problem with that and it is
>> just the microphone input or something. The microphone did work with
>> Skype on the same computer.
>>
>> Fortunately none of the glitches I have got is stopping me do anything
>> vital but I feel I need to get to a source(s) of information to help me
>> with general maintainance and improvements to my computer.
>>
>> I will check out the links you sent.
>>
>> Best wishes from Steve
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 20:38 +0100, Quentin Wright wrote:
>>     
>>> 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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