If you have an original Radeon AIW, or the AIW 7500, you have to pay extra to get MMC 8.0+. If you try to download and install the version available on ATI's website, it won't work. You can still install MMC 7.x however.
Well i read the documentation, and it clearly says that the AIW 7500 is supported, so i went out and got it!
If I weren't so happy with my ATI Radeon 9000 (and ATI's support of it with drivers!) I would get one of these.
Huh? You may be the only one in luck to get good drivers for them. Fact is, everybody knows ati has the worst drivers in the industry. Just last week i wanted to upgrade my older AIW to the latest driver and multimedia application, and the installation of neither worked (told it couldn't detect the hardware, and i uninstalled the other version and launched vga mode like the docs said, so i had to install manually by upgrading them in the device manager), and even after i finally installed them, the tv application didn't launch with no error messages.
I had to system restore my way out and install the original drivers on the cd.
They name themselves as the developers of the most secure linux version out there, and they get compromised just before the 3.0r2 release. That's got to hurt their credibility.
Number 1: since binary packages are not needed, new versions get out very soon in Gentoo, because it mostly is renaming a file containing the location of the new source file with its md5sum. That's why gnome 2.4 , kde 3.1 and xfree 4.3 where released the same _day_ it was announced. Debian just can't do that.
Number 2: i was yesterday apt-getting gaim on my debian install (which has its days counted). It forced aspell as a dependency. Wtf? I don't want aspell or any dictionary, i actually look at what i type before i send it, and english is not my primary language, so i would still need to apt get the spanish dictionary. With gentoo, i would just configure my USE variable to disable aspell.
-Fork for architectures: i know lots of people don't like to wait for upgraded packages because they break on different architectures. This is what's happenning with xfree 4.3 not being available. If there were a debian-x86 fork, it would use optimization and wouldn't be behind other distros in package versions.
-Dselect needs to be sent to/dev/null. The debian installer was never the problem. It isn't harder than slackware, but dselect really, really sucks.
-Loose the restrictions a little bit: why mplayer is missing and xine not? Mplayer has been 100% gpl since 0.9 and it was rejected from getting a package because of ffmpeg, which xine also has.
-More customization: the USE variable of Gentoo is really powerful, and it would be great when apt getting source packages. I want package X, and it wants me to install package Y that is optional and i dont want.
-Updated versions! Slackware is current, and it's stable.
-Re-do the stable, testing and unstable package list: they should only contain base, critical packages. So i want to run the latest kde with my stable setup? Is kde 2.2 more stable than 3.1? The security bugs fixed between them say no (yeah, i know they backport, but those packages never get the same QA) User-level desktop apps which aren't critical shouldn't be restricted in the same stable, testing and unstable trees, or at least they could mix and match.
I asked this on a local linux mailing group recently- what do people think about the idea of a version control file system? Disk space is cheap these days, we can afford it space wise. Think of all the problems it would solve.
Windows does this. It's called "system restore".
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Or you can just use Gentoo, which does this automatically when you update your system, pointing out the location and files that are different, all with diff output, and the ability to merge the changes, overwrite or ignore the change.
At least, since countries like mine prefix cell phones differently than city codes. There are mostly 4 cell phone companies and all numbers start with 041x x being in [2,4,6,8]
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If you're not using Windows then why are you using FAT? Even if you are using Windows why are you using FAT?
Easy. I use FAT on windows because linux can't write to NTFS
What is the educational system in this country coming to when people can't even tell the difference between too and to?
Where's LoseNotLooseGuy when you need him? He would mod you up!
Minion.de has patches for nvidia's drivers to work under 2.6
Perhaps this girl can solve the biggest problem out there:
1.-Random stuff
2.-??????
3.-Profit!
If you have an original Radeon AIW, or the AIW 7500, you have to pay extra to get MMC 8.0+. If you try to download and install the version available on ATI's website, it won't work. You can still install MMC 7.x however.
Well i read the documentation, and it clearly says that the AIW 7500 is supported, so i went out and got it!
If I weren't so happy with my ATI Radeon 9000 (and ATI's support of it with drivers!) I would get one of these.
Huh? You may be the only one in luck to get good drivers for them. Fact is, everybody knows ati has the worst drivers in the industry. Just last week i wanted to upgrade my older AIW to the latest driver and multimedia application, and the installation of neither worked (told it couldn't detect the hardware, and i uninstalled the other version and launched vga mode like the docs said, so i had to install manually by upgrading them in the device manager), and even after i finally installed them, the tv application didn't launch with no error messages.
I had to system restore my way out and install the original drivers on the cd.
did I miss anything?
Yes, you forgot to welcome our new MPEG overlords
They *ought* to support MPEG 4, which is the codec, and not AAC specifically
MPEG is not a codec, it's a file format, just like AVI is a file format and divx is a codec.
This release is tentatively called the "stoned beaver" release (beavers
are _almost_ as good as weasels, as I'm sure Scott Adams would agree).
If you feel strongly about the issue, please send your votes and
ideas to "feedback@beaver-overlord.com"
I, for, one, welcome our new beaver overlords!
You delayed r2 because of the compromise, release it delayed anyway and _STILL_ haven't bring up packages.debian.org, people.debian.org, etc
Nice of Slashdot to put the rocks and diamonds unreachable link too!
Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software
"DVD Jon" didn't create decss, he just distributed it
carrying an adult weighing up to 60 kilograms (130 pounds).
o tector) type
What "adult" weighs 60 kilos? Guess the "wear-pocket-protector-to-protect-their-pocket-pr
So, it comes out! This is what happens when you toy with your system ;)
They name themselves as the developers of the most secure linux version out there, and they get compromised just before the 3.0r2 release. That's got to hurt their credibility.
Not funny. Comments like this and people willing to accept this kind of messages is what makes people in your country go nuts and go postal.
...the internet connects to YOU!
Ok, that was lame. I, for one, welcome our new internet overlords...
Ok, that was worse.
Now, seriusly, when my net goes down, i go to the "can" and play domino on my palm. I am hooked on that thing
...that Neo dies
I have yet to be given a good answer
I will give you two.
Number 1: since binary packages are not needed, new versions get out very soon in Gentoo, because it mostly is renaming a file containing the location of the new source file with its md5sum. That's why gnome 2.4 , kde 3.1 and xfree 4.3 where released the same _day_ it was announced. Debian just can't do that.
Number 2: i was yesterday apt-getting gaim on my debian install (which has its days counted). It forced aspell as a dependency. Wtf? I don't want aspell or any dictionary, i actually look at what i type before i send it, and english is not my primary language, so i would still need to apt get the spanish dictionary. With gentoo, i would just configure my USE variable to disable aspell.
There you go
-Fork for architectures: i know lots of people don't like to wait for upgraded packages because they break on different architectures. This is what's happenning with xfree 4.3 not being available. If there were a debian-x86 fork, it would use optimization and wouldn't be behind other distros in package versions.
/dev/null. The debian installer was never the problem. It isn't harder than slackware, but dselect really, really sucks.
-Dselect needs to be sent to
-Loose the restrictions a little bit: why mplayer is missing and xine not? Mplayer has been 100% gpl since 0.9 and it was rejected from getting a package because of ffmpeg, which xine also has.
-More customization: the USE variable of Gentoo is really powerful, and it would be great when apt getting source packages. I want package X, and it wants me to install package Y that is optional and i dont want.
-Updated versions! Slackware is current, and it's stable.
-Re-do the stable, testing and unstable package list: they should only contain base, critical packages. So i want to run the latest kde with my stable setup? Is kde 2.2 more stable than 3.1? The security bugs fixed between them say no (yeah, i know they backport, but those packages never get the same QA) User-level desktop apps which aren't critical shouldn't be restricted in the same stable, testing and unstable trees, or at least they could mix and match.
And lot of other things i can't remember...
Better fix: don't use Windows.
How can a 1000-3000$ workaround can be called a fix?
It's not like using the iPod on windows is not supported... So stop the trolling
With OS X here and available now, why are you still using Linux? This is an honest question from me
Not an honest question, since i can't believe you are dumb enough to forget that OS X is not available on x86, which has ~95% of the desktop market.
So, you are just a troll. Nothing to see here, drive through
If she would have read Gaim's page, she would have learned that gaim needs mozilla's NSS and NSPR to get ssl support for the msn plugin.
I asked this on a local linux mailing group recently- what do people think about the idea of a version control file system? Disk space is cheap these days, we can afford it space wise. Think of all the problems it would solve.
Windows does this. It's called "system restore".
Or you can just use Gentoo, which does this automatically when you update your system, pointing out the location and files that are different, all with diff output, and the ability to merge the changes, overwrite or ignore the change.
At least, since countries like mine prefix cell phones differently than city codes. There are mostly 4 cell phone companies and all numbers start with 041x x being in [2,4,6,8]