[ubuntu-us] linux newbie / convert, well, almost.:
Ariel Goldblatt
a.k.a.gldbltt at gmail.com
Sat May 23 14:43:47 BST 2009
I do have an answer to your MythTV question... You can get Mythbuntu, a
community- supported add on for Ubuntu "focused upon setting up a standalone
MythTV based PVR system", to use MythTV. You can also download the actual
source code at mythtv.org and compile that.
Good luck and happy trails to you!
Ariel
P.S. Here (and the open-source community in general) we like to use plain
text emails, if you can help it.
From: ubuntu-us-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-us-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Mitchell McClure
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:38 PM
To: ubuntu-us at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [ubuntu-us] linux newbie / convert, well, almost.:
Importance: High
Hello everyone,
Well, Ive finally reached my limit with Microsofts BSODs, and am
attempting to make the leap from Microsoft XP-MCE to Linux. I have a fairly
mature system at home to test with
about 5 years old, and because of its
age, the makeup of this system would be considered rather generic. I.E.,
all of its components have been around undoubtedly long enough for drivers
to be embedded in any Linux variants installation packaging.
It is a Gigabyte, Intel P4-3GHz, Hyper-threading Northwood with 1.5 GB
RAM, and a 20 GB drive for its OS & APPS, and a 160 GB drive for data and
document storage. I also have an external 500 GB drive in a fireproof box
for backups.
I have successfully installed the latest version of Ubuntu
9.04 onto said
computer, and was a bit surprised to find, even though it found / recognized
ye old Nvidia G-Force 5700, it did NOT install the recommended driver,
but instead, added it to a sort of alternative driver availability
listing. Well, after struggling for an hour or so to shape-shift this
dialog box, so it would allow me to click the activate button
a real treat
at a driverless 640x480; I was finally able to usefully boot into the OS.
Wow! Although the initial look of Ubuntus GUI is fairly basic, I quickly
found that it could be easily customized to look and behave even more
elegantly than an Apple-Mac system. OK, it runs so fast and its so
beautiful, now I really dont want to turn back!
BUT
My dilemma is Im leaping to Linux / Ubuntu, at least trying to do so, but
Im being held up mid-leap, as it were, by what should be simple fixes for
simple problems. There are four issues that seem to be standing in my way.
Again, I would have thought as old as these components are, driver support
would not be a current issue; and maybe its not; maybe Im just ignorant of
where to look or what to do. Hence, thus, and therefore, I am in dire need
of some assistance
1. I have a three year old VersaPoint RF keyboard / integrated mouse that is
not working.
2. The system does seem to see my Philips 50 plasma screen, but Im afraid
to enable it for two reasons:
a. Even though the MFG lists the resolution at 1360 x 768, because of
the bezel, only 1200 x 664 pixels are viewable, and theres no apparent way
to customize / modify this.
b. When I enabled it the night before, the plasma screen made itself
the default display, so if I booted with the TV turned off, there was no way
to see the login dialog.
3. Since this system was running XP Media Center, it also has a slightly
newer ATI PCI Theater 550 tuner card installed-(its about 2 years old), and
I would like to know how to install the Myth TV application that Im hearing
the Linux world is GA-GA over, along with the necessary drivers for the
tuner card. Not only can I NOT find anything out from Googles Web or
Groups, I have no idea where to look to see if any of these devices are
already / partially installed
a device manager of some type. Again, Ive
only been playing with Linux for two days, so it may be that Im not
familiar with where to look.
4. Ive always used Outlook at work and at home, and I realize theres
probably an Outlook-esc email client for Linux out there somewhere. But
since my Contact list has grown to well over 300 entries, I dont want
synchronizing them with my Alltel HTC to be a manual process. So, in
addition to an Outlook-esc client, I need some type of an ActiveSync-esc
application that will synchronize my phones Contact & Calendar data?
Speaking of work, I havent tested it yet, but I hope that the Linux RDP
client software works so I can connect to my works desktop. Let me know if
theres anything weird I need to do
their firewall is called a FortiGate.
p.s., If you have recommendations on a replacement for Microsoft FrontPage,
that would be helpful as well.
________________________________________
Thank You, Mitchell McClure, Information Technology Engineer
@ Medical Software Solutions
E-Mail: mailto:mmcclure at medicalcarellc.com
Work: (423)431-0528, Mobile: (423)946-2551
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