[Preston] April meeting

[Guy Heatley]

Hi Gena,
This is fine with me (workshop session I mean).
We'll go down as normal then for 7:30pm to CM018 in the C&T building, 
(UCLan)

If anyone else is interested please come along too!
See you!
-- 
Guy

Georgina wrote:
> Hi
>
> Strangely enough, Ubuntu is the distro that offers us the most up-to-date
> access technology.  However, installing with orca is very difficult and
> there's no support for speakup.  Therefore, providing a sighted person
> installs Ubuntu otherwise it's not much use to blind linux users.
>
> I do like to build my own kernel tailored to the hardware anyway, the stock
> kernels tend to be rather bloated and don't always provide for my needs.
> For example, Fedora 7 2.6.21 kernel have not included AX25 support.
> However, the debian sarge kernel 2.6.18 does have the amateur radio support.
> But not support for my audio which is required for some of the AX25 support.
>
> Regards
> -----Original Message-----
> From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Johnson
> Sent: 31 March 2008 17:20
> To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
> Cc: guy at member.fsf.org
> Subject: RE: [Preston] April meeting
>
>
> im running nvidia chipset and gpu on a amd64 pit machine and it runs out of
> the box fine on Ubuntu
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:14 +0100, Georgina wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guy and all
>>
>> I wouldn't want to get in the way of a man and his beer! <smiles>  But 
>> I don't have any ideas of a specific topic for demonstration.  
>> However, I wondered if you could have a workshop type session?  
>> Without any guarantees, well only to brake it! <giggles>
>>
>> I've just built a computer and I can't build a kernel for it.  I've 
>> got Fedora 8 and debian installed.  We could time the booting time 
>> between the two distros and if we can crack the kernel issue, we can 
>> time that boot time.  My problem is that the board has a Nvidia 
>> chipset.  I've never had an issue with arch=i386 Via chipsets but this 
>> arch=AMD64 Nvidia is driving me crazy.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gena
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> [mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Heatley
>> Sent: 31 March 2008 16:12
>> To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
>> Subject: [Preston] April meeting
>>
>>
>> Tomorrow is the 1st Tuesday of the month, and I'm afraid I've had no
>> time to prepare a new topic for discussion!
>> If no-one has anything up their sleeve maybe we could just go to the 
>> Greyfriar for a few beers?
>> I've been pretty busy in the last few weeks, unfortunately...
>>
>> Here are some links concerning things we discussed at the last 
>> meeting:-
>>
>> Encrypting data with the device mapper and LUKS. 
>> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EncryptedDeviceUsingL
>> UKS
>> http://feraga.com/node/51
>>
>>     
> http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-disk-encryption-with-dm-crypt-luks-and-
>   
>> debian 
>>
>>
>> Writing UDEV rules for hot-pluggable devices. 
>> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>>
>> Cheers!
>>     
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Preston mailing list
> Preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/preston
>