[HLUG] Gee its quiet here these days !!

[Graham Cole]

Very quiet! If you want a meeting at Canal Rd on WED 17th it will be ok but the room is booked by others and we have to use the main hall, which seems good enough. I'll be away on a long trip so won't be coming myself. Melodie Winch would be pleased to have confirmation of HLUG coming: style.winch at virgin.net
Graham


On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:06:12 +0000
Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Happy new Year to all Herefordshire LUG Members
> 
> Since its been quiet recently, I thought I'd post a few Linux good and 
> bad issues I've been having in case this will help others or myself.
> 
> I bought a little Freecom USB Freeview digital receiver - amazing it 
> works being so small! Unfortunately, even when running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 
> and supposedly being supported, it wasn't quite. Actually, this is where 
> the fun began. Me thinking well Edgy is only two months old, why doesn't 
> it work, when the drivers from linuxtv.org say it should ? In the end, I 
> found that there were newer drivers than Edgy and compiling new driver 
> modules, was actually really easy - a 10 minute process and very 
> straightforward.
> 
> So I can now watch Freeview on my PC, all I have to do is get MythTV 
> setup properly, and get a decent aerial feed to it, as the reception is 
> fairly poor in Leominster for DTV (it works, but you need a high 
> position or a medium /high gain well sited antenna).
> 
> Next. My birthday was today ;-) and I got a nice LG1900R Ring LCD 
> Monitor to replace my ageing 17" Iiyama CRT monitor which had provided 
> me with many many years of good service, but was just looking a little 
> tired.
> 
> I'm pleased with the new screen, but one problem :- Like a few new TFT 
> monitors, it doesn't actually have physical buttons to change 
> brightness, contrast etc. You have to install a Windows app it do this. 
> Great but what about Linux? Well I tried installing the Windows 
> ForteManager software with Wine ( which worked), and ran the program - 
> and as expected didn't get any further ...
> 
> Little on the web about this, apart from a Brazilian Forum post on same 
> issue with same monitor. 
> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.forumpcs.com.br/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D194597%26start%3D0&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfortemanager%2Blinux%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-45,GGGL:en
> 
> Basically after being lambasted for buying a TFT, someone mentioned to 
> him that there is a linux app that will work with these protocols to 
> control the screen characteristics, i.e. SoftMCCS .
> 
> I haven't looked thru this yet, but hope it'll work.
> 
> Anyone who can offer any advice on this -please email. Interestingly, 
> the Windows software also allows you to control the screen via SNMP and 
> other network means, which in theory could allow a virus to control your 
> monitor, ie turn contrast up or down or turn it off I guess ..
> 
> Scary....
> 
> So if buying a new monitor - check if it has real buttons first! I am 
> happy with mine anyway, and was aware of this ....
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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