[Lancaster] LUG Stuff..

[jonath]

A couple of months ago I finally decided to do something about the
fact that my computer was only recognising about 2.7GB of RAM (I have
4GB installed). I twiddled around with the kernel, rebooted and
finally had all 4GB available. But then, this being Gentoo, I decided
to do an 'emerge --sync' and 'emerge -uavtDN world' and then that's
when KDE4 decided to make an appearance (I think I was previously on
3.5.10). I've no idea if it was suddenly marked stable at that point
or if the change to the kernel and the reboot set things going. But
then, wouldn't computers be dull if everything just made sense all of
the time? So I was like, "Fine. Go with the flow. Let's see what
KDE4's like then."

But yeah . . . once you get used to it, I think KDE4 represents a
decent upgrade from KDE3. Sure, there are still problems, but nothing
major that I've found. Oh, saying that, I've recently discovered that
K3B no longer recognises my CD/DVD burner. No idea what's going on
there. Oh, and where the hell has all my memory gone? That 4GB of RAM
I was talking about previously; it's now all consumed by various
processes. There's nothing in particular that's memory intensive and
yet Linux/KDE4/Gentoo/something has managed to quickly gobble up all
that extra RAM I managed to free up. What is all that about?

Oh yes, Kaffeine and a decent Hauppauge PCI DVB-T card (or similar) -
fantastic combo. I got a spare Gentoo PC quite happily playing live TV
and it records stuff fine. It can be a pain to set all this up and get
the kernel to recognise your card, but nothing insurmountable. I would
use this PC in the living room to replace my digibox/TV combo, were it
not for the noisy fan/hard-drive/power-supply/etc.

jonathan

2009/11/17 Wayne Ward <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>:
> wow sounds like a full time bad experience - saying that i havent really
> seen solid action from kde4 yet
> the last time I used a stable version was 3.5.9 and that was just 100%
> couldnt fault it! then they released kontact to match the kde4 so i thought
> id try it - it was a bad experience im afraid. Ive looked at it and it
> looks pretty darn polished
> im going to build it from source on a gentoo box and test it... although it
> might be worth trying a kubuntu install!! or better still try em both!! i
> install like 3 or four different distros to test nowadays in virtual
> boxes!!!
> I did use to run Kaffeine in kde i did get it recording TV but it was
> always a bit hit and miss id probably taking a look at MythTV maybe..
> www.mythtv.org
>
> Well i hope you get sorted with your back ken and hopefully see you at the
> lancaster lug xmas bash!!!!!
>
> all the best
>
> wayne :)
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:29:02 +0000, Ken Hough <kenhough at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>> On Monday 16 November 2009 15:53:41 Wayne Ward wrote:
>>> Hi guys anybody doing anything new!?..
>>
>> Not much really, but Ive just been playing with the recently released
> open
>> SUSE v11.1 (32 bit). I downloaded the ISO and md5 files last night.
>>
>> I first tried it via VirtualBox (installed via the md5 checked ISO file)
>> and
>> found a few wobblies with the latest version of KDE4. Unlike openSUSE
>> v11.1,
>> there's no option to install KDE3.5. I do not like KDE4 !!!
>>
>> Next I did a full install on one of my Athlon boxes. This was the only OS
>
>> installed. ie no dual boot setup. The first attempt resulted in a failure
>> to
>> setup access to the Internet, so could not download additional packages.
>>
>> The next attempt resulted in a low res desktop and no contact with the
>> keyboard or mouse, so couldn't log in. Mouse and keyboard are wireless
> via
>> USB port.
>>
>> At this point I got fed up and re-installed open SUSE v11.1. No problems
> at
>>
>> all, and I got the option to set up KDE3.5 instead of KDE4. All is
> running
>> fine. This particular PC hax given good service and has been rock steady
>> (Gigabyte mobo, Athlon XP 2200+ with 1.5GB of RAM)
>>
>> A shame! I was looking forward to some new stuff. Others have given
>> favourable
>> reports on v11.2. I know SUSE quite well and am familiar with the
>> installation routine, so I'm puzzled to understand why I should have had
>> problems.
>>
>> So for now, I recommend that anyone thinking of trying openSUSE should
>> stick
>> with v11.1. This works fine for me in both 32 and 64 bit versions and on
> a
>> number of PCs.
>>
>>>
>>> In regards to free text messaging and recording from TV its probably a
>>> google search :-O good luck ....
>>
>> WRT recording from TV:
>> I use Kaffeine to run my digital TV card, play CDs, etc. Kaffeine also
>> provides for recording of TV material, but I haven't used this.
>>
>>>
>>> Im trying to get some numbers for the second week in december
>>> which is the 9th of december for the meeting - Ive managed to get us the
>>> green room
>>> sorted with some food but the lanlord wanted some idea of how many
> people
>>> will be attending
>>> Does anybody know if they will be ok for coming on that night !?...
>>
>> I would like to come along, but at this stage I don't know if I will be
>> able
>> to. I've been having back problems and have already had an MRI scan. I'm
> to
>>
>> see a specialist on this coming saturday so I better keep my diary clear
> in
>>
>> case they decide to do something for me soon.
>>
>> Hope that all are well
>>
>> See you sometime  ??????????
>>
>>
>> Ken Hough
>>
>> <snip>
>>
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> Wayne ward
>
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