ubuntu woes

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Tue Oct 26 02:33:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:50:16AM +0100, dfear wrote:

> Firstly most things that i have installed in my PC or have connected to
> it, do work like the usb card reader i just plug in - worked flawlessly
> and was asked if i wanted to import the photos into an album. This sort
> of feature is one of those little things that impress me.

Great!

> Now onto the negative things. 
> 
> First thing i  that didn't work properly at first was my tv card. I have
> a fairly ordinary Hauppauge WinTV-GO tv card and use tvtime to watch tv.
> I struggled to get it to search for channels and only managed to get it
> to work properly once i installed the xawtv package.

TV tuner cards are not yet supported as a proper feature in Ubuntu.  There
is some unsupported software in universe that you can use, as you
discovered, but it doesn't Just Work as yet.

> next one. I have a Logitech USB Headset which i want to be able to use
> with sip clients and skype. The headset shows up in hal-device-manager
> but i can't seem to get it to work and not sure want to do to get it to
> work. My primary sound device on ubuntu is my Soundblaster Live Platinum
> which uses /dev/dsp and the secondary audio device i have connected to
> my PC is the aforementioned Logitech USB headset, which i assume,
> rightly or wrongly, would use /dev/dsp1 for playback and recording. The
> headset previously worked on mandrake 10.0 and used /dev/dsp1 for
> playback and recording; *and* worked with skype. Skype on linux uses oss
> and only uses audio devices connected to/using either /dev/dsp
> or /dev/dsp1.

You say that you can't get it to work. Can you be a bit more specific about
what goes wrong?

> next. I have a Trust Compactscan 19200 USB scanner which is not working
> properly.  I know it uses a mustek driver in sane and appears in
> hal-device-manager as a Mustek ScanExpress 1200 UB. If i run xsane or
> kooka as a non-root user it fails to detect the the scanner, but if i
> run xsane or kooka as root user (using sudo) it detects the scanner. So,
> to be able to run xsane or kooka, i have to run it as root; and when i
> do run it the quality of scanning is terrible and have had no luck
> trying to improve the quality. I have used the scanner with other
> distros and scans that i have done are pretty good and of good
> quality.    

The permissions issue sounds like https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485
I know of no reason why the quality would be any different under Ubuntu,
unless you had used something other than SANE before.

-- 
 - mdz




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