I am using the latest fglx drivers with X.org for Mandrake 10.1 Here is some guidance Copied and pasted from some forum I visited when having issues...
BEGIN QUOTE yeah i also am using slack 10 and my graphic card is 9600 pro here is how i did it
1. download the ati drivers, make sure you get the xfree 4.3 ones. 2. open terminal. 3. su 4. cd into directory containing the drivers you just downloaded 5. rpm2tgz fglrx****.rpm 6. installpkg fglrx****.tgz 7. cd/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod 8. sh make.sh 9. cd.. 10. sh make_install.sh 11. fglrxconfig 12. rename/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf (backup your xorg.conf first) 13. reboot or restart x server 14. open terminal 15. glxinfo it should say near the top direct rendering YES. (which means hardware opengl working) END QUOTE
I must saying being able to use both my monitors in Linux finally is Swa-friggin-eet!
Yeah... call it nostalgia but I keep saying its a VCR... I tried to tell my wife about it when I got home and she was just like "Too bad they don't have a DVD player like that..." I was like "They do!!! I just told you about it!".
Heh... They say the minds the first thing to go with age... being only 24 I think it safe to assume I am screwed.
I've actually read through the PDF users manual on the site and it looks like its a pretty great player actually. Progressive scan support. Optical Audio out... Mp3 and wma support not to mention vcd/svcd... At 80 bucks this thing is a steal even if you never turned clearplay on.
Okay... so Spielberg can take the guns out of the theatrical re-release of E.T. because he doesn't feel right with HIS KIDS watching it that way... But if the rest of us are offended by the swearing thats just to bad!
THAT my friends is hipocrisy... Hipocrosy is not a Mormon, or a Catholic, Protestant, Budhist, Atheist, or Christian radical trying to uphold their personal moral standards to the best of their ability.
My wife and I decided to no longer watch rated R movies a while ago. Because of excessive foul language we even avoid some PG-13 movies. Some of these R rated movies don't deserve the rating they are given, but we avoid those the same as a movie that has earned it in every way... My wife and I used to purchase between 5-10 DVDs a month. That number has sharply declined as movies of late seem to be more often than not getting the R rating... Now we purchase about 1-2 dvds a month...
If they don't like this VCR idea why don't they come up with their OWN IDEAS. Instead they blame piracy, they blame tivo, they blame, DVD Burners...
What makes me not buy is the fact that if I really like a movie (Like Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition) But no longer want to be subjected to the profanity every time I watch it... I can't make my own edited copy because I'd have to ILLEGALLY break the copy protection... I can't buy an edited copy because no one can "legally" sell any. And The producers themselves don't offer one... But they aparently had no problem letting USA Network modify the content for viewing on standard cable...
Most DVD players now already have parental controls that allow the dvd player to not allow playing of certain rated titles without a password... why not extend this idea to what is actually provided on the DVD...
Provide the original uncut theatrical edition at whatever it was rated but alteratively offer tamed down cuts of the movie on the same disc (So for example with terminator 2 you could choose... uncut. or a PG-13ish version). You could even build the DVD player so that unless you know the Password for the rated R capability your DVD player will only allow you to play the pg-13 cut, or if there is no such cut it just does as it does now and refuses to play...
My point is GIVE ME SOME KIND OF AN OPTION other than "don't buy this movie" obviously there will be movies where that is all I can do (something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre). But for the ones where I could have just as good an experience without all the swearing or a 5 second nude scene. (Terminator 2) I would like to have the ability to enjoy the film in with out the bits I would deem offensive. For now I will just continue on the path I am on. And with all my possible options deemed ILLEGAL and the content eventually becoming what I percieve to be absolute trash I will eventually will stop watching TV, DVD, Etc all together!!!
Not because of piracy, or dvd burners, or tivo... but simply because I can't choose what I want my media experience to be... This is about choice people! and choice is a good thing... If you don't like this VCR DON'T BUY IT. Problem solved! NO ONE IS FORCING EVERY HOME TO HAVE ONE!
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I am using the latest fglx drivers with X.org for Mandrake 10.1
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod .. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf (backup your xorg.conf first)
Here is some guidance Copied and pasted from some forum I visited when having issues...
BEGIN QUOTE
yeah i also am using slack 10 and my graphic card is 9600 pro
here is how i did it
1. download the ati drivers, make sure you get the xfree 4.3 ones.
2. open terminal.
3. su
4. cd into directory containing the drivers you just downloaded
5. rpm2tgz fglrx****.rpm
6. installpkg fglrx****.tgz
7. cd
8. sh make.sh
9. cd
10. sh make_install.sh
11. fglrxconfig
12. rename
13. reboot or restart x server
14. open terminal
15. glxinfo it should say near the top direct rendering YES. (which means hardware opengl working)
END QUOTE
I must saying being able to use both my monitors in Linux finally is Swa-friggin-eet!
Yeah... call it nostalgia but I keep saying its a VCR... I tried to tell my wife about it when I got home and she was just like "Too bad they don't have a DVD player like that..." I was like "They do!!! I just told you about it!".
Heh... They say the minds the first thing to go with age... being only 24 I think it safe to assume I am screwed.
I've actually read through the PDF users manual on the site and it looks like its a pretty great player actually. Progressive scan support. Optical Audio out... Mp3 and wma support not to mention vcd/svcd... At 80 bucks this thing is a steal even if you never turned clearplay on.
Okay... so Spielberg can take the guns out of the theatrical re-release of E.T. because he doesn't feel right with HIS KIDS watching it that way... But if the rest of us are offended by the swearing thats just to bad!
THAT my friends is hipocrisy... Hipocrosy is not a Mormon, or a Catholic, Protestant, Budhist, Atheist, or Christian radical trying to uphold their personal moral standards to the best of their ability.
My wife and I decided to no longer watch rated R movies a while ago. Because of excessive foul language we even avoid some PG-13 movies. Some of these R rated movies don't deserve the rating they are given, but we avoid those the same as a movie that has earned it in every way... My wife and I used to purchase between 5-10 DVDs a month. That number has sharply declined as movies of late seem to be more often than not getting the R rating... Now we purchase about 1-2 dvds a month...
If they don't like this VCR idea why don't they come up with their OWN IDEAS. Instead they blame piracy, they blame tivo, they blame, DVD Burners...
What makes me not buy is the fact that if I really like a movie (Like Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition) But no longer want to be subjected to the profanity every time I watch it... I can't make my own edited copy because I'd have to ILLEGALLY break the copy protection... I can't buy an edited copy because no one can "legally" sell any. And The producers themselves don't offer one... But they aparently had no problem letting USA Network modify the content for viewing on standard cable...
Most DVD players now already have parental controls that allow the dvd player to not allow playing of certain rated titles without a password... why not extend this idea to what is actually provided on the DVD...
Provide the original uncut theatrical edition at whatever it was rated but alteratively offer tamed down cuts of the movie on the same disc (So for example with terminator 2 you could choose... uncut. or a PG-13ish version). You could even build the DVD player so that unless you know the Password for the rated R capability your DVD player will only allow you to play the pg-13 cut, or if there is no such cut it just does as it does now and refuses to play...
My point is GIVE ME SOME KIND OF AN OPTION other than "don't buy this movie" obviously there will be movies where that is all I can do (something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre). But for the ones where I could have just as good an experience without all the swearing or a 5 second nude scene. (Terminator 2) I would like to have the ability to enjoy the film in with out the bits I would deem offensive. For now I will just continue on the path I am on. And with all my possible options deemed ILLEGAL and the content eventually becoming what I percieve to be absolute trash I will eventually will stop watching TV, DVD, Etc all together!!!
Not because of piracy, or dvd burners, or tivo... but simply because I can't choose what I want my media experience to be... This is about choice people! and choice is a good thing... If you don't like this VCR DON'T BUY IT. Problem solved! NO ONE IS FORCING EVERY HOME TO HAVE ONE!