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Skriven 2010-03-30 22:50:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: teenage wasteland
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey Wayne!

 MK> Using a CX23880 based card - audio doesn't work so I reroute that part
 MK> of the signal directly to a audio amplifier - in conjunction with the
 MK> inteldrmfb this is the commandline that works as a real user on the
 MK> Xeon X3220 based system to a regular tft monitor which inteldrmfb
 MK> correctly identifies as 1280x1024-32bpp.
 MK>  Channel 48 is PBS out of Seattle (KCTS9) on cable.

 MK> maurice@xena [ ~ ]$ mplayer -vo fbdev2 -fs -zoom -xy 1280 \
 MK>   tv:// -tv chanlist=us-cable:norm=ntsc-m:channel=48

 MK> If I wish to reroute the video to the secondary monitor using the
 MK> Matrox G550 which at the moment has to be the el-cheapo 15" CRT then I
 MK> first modprobe with the simple parameters since it is also standard
 MK> resolutions (ie not widescreen) on bootup and if using Slackware the
 MK> line could be placed in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules;

 MK> /sbin/modprobe matroxfb_base vesa=0x114

 MK> Personally I'd prefer not to do the above but until I get a monitor I
 MK> actually want the above idea works fine.  The commandline becomes;

 MK> maurice@xena [ ~ ]$ mplayer -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb1 -fs -zoom -xy 800 \
 MK>   tv:// -tv chanlist=us-cable:norm=ntsc-m:channel=48

Yip, there's a mouthful.
But then I've got nothing in the way of experience with a T.V. card, only
pbs.org online
video.

 MK> Not much different is it?  Which is better?  The second one but it
 MK> really needs a better monitor.  Also the TV capture card leaves much to
 MK> be desired but given the current state of affairs it isn't worth
 MK> replacing.

Heck I'd ship you one of mine but have you any idea of the cost just to
Illinois?
Over $60 bucks in shipping as I ran the numbers on UPS's web page, plus
insurance.

I've got five now, 3 - 17" Acer, HP and Dell, one Gateway 20" inch viewable
VX1110 at 27.5 Kgms
and the 15" Sony I repaired just a while back. All CRT's

The Dell was ten dollars at the local shop used, the Sony $5, the HP given to
me and 
the other two snagged off the sidewalk next to dumpsters including the 20"
Gateway that works fine.

Well I need to take off the anti-glare coating with a solvent as it's damaged
and makes it a bit 
annoying to view darker images. 

 MK> No xorg on this machine and doubtfully ever will be.  What for? The
 MK> neighbour's eeepc can handle all that crap just fine.  <BFEG> Besides
 MK> the Xeon wants the good stuff or at least emulate the good stuff. I am
 MK> thinking so does the Atom but am still working on the upgrade. Maybe
 MK> next week if things go well but I am projecting for the end of April.
 MK> xorg might make it there but I doubt it.  I am too spoiled and don't
 MK> mind putting in the extra effort to get what I REALLY want.

 MK> How about you?

Saved this post as more usual than not as reference material.
No TV card.
All user subdirectories to be copied to all other partitions tomorrow.
I've been rather busy monkeying around with the system software and haven't
buggered anything up yet.

If not for the superblock all three Linux partitons on this drive would have
been identical in size
but I ran the math first and 3 and 4 are exactly the same size right out to the
edge of the drive,
about 19777 Meg each with a 768M swap on hda2 and a 512 on hdb2.
Neither have seen much if any action with this kernel. 

Also I need to write down the beginning and ending blocks for all partitions
on both physical drives as having that information has saved me a great 
deal of effort on a number of ocassions.  

The ex-girlfriend came up with the idea I should make it up there on the tenth
of May and 
that just ain't happening as I need 90 days to prepare for such a move as well
as lose 20 LBS as to
be sufficiently underweight to actually make the trip. 

Compiling the 2.6.33.1 kernel awaits coffee on Friday so that'll likely be done
on 
my primary partition over the following weekend, after I research your tip on
altering the compile
to negate the annoying wrong mtrr address message.

Come to find out even with the kernel that came with 13.0 2.6.29.6 the ATI
motherboard AGP video 
works FAR better than the Nvidia which annoys as this motherboard is 12 years
old now and the $28 
Nvidia was brand new.

The kernel that came with Slack 12.2 just couldn't squeeze by after allocating
64 meg to the ATI
but this kernel manages it fairly well especially with using startx rather than
kdm to launch a desktop
which is invariably fluxbox now.

Even if one could stand how KDE is now laid out and where all the settings are
mysteriously 
difficult to find and the retarded default weren't to save settings upon exit
who could stand the 
design and plasma colors?
My first experience with Slackware, 10.2 on a Gateway computer was the best by
far.

Darn I just wish that woman would be reasonable and get her head screwed on
tight to the realities 
of making this all happen.

As is I'll be tossing a lot of good stuff but the tower has to go North even if
the 20" monitor has to go.

I'll offer it up to the legally blind lady that used to co-manage this place
for free 
if and when I go north.

Old reliable flatbed scanner, four laser printers sans cartridges, three bubble
jets of unknown
condition but the HP color, scanner, FAX, copier to be attempted on this one as
it has new cartridges
and CUPS is supposed to be a near universal for H.P. driver collection.

Has *anyone* ever met a truly reasonable woman?

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