umm. Sorry to disappoint you, but onboard intel GFX is not up to driving
3D rendering in real time on a decent screen size.Neither does a low end MOB feature surround sound or digital audio out
And in my case, the reason the pc was a scrapper was because the onboard ethernet had blown up :-)
Not the first board with U/S ether I've seen either.
GB. oops.
One on the way:-)
No doubt you will all learn how I get on:-)
Hmm. I am writing one.
Its not brilliant so far, but it looks like it will work
If I need to rewrie te sound device driver I will.. :-)
IT doesn't 'compile drivers into the kernel' They are all loadable modules same as winders.
Part of them need to be LINKED with the kernel in order to better communicated with its kernel libaries.
Mmm. advanced audio is pretty crap in almost all places.
Which is why I am coding up my 'guitar amp in software' as low as I need to go.
Fortunately I don't need this.
Odd. The only hardware problem I've had in the last 20 years was with a hard disk after a thunderstorm. The controller board was fried. So the girlie at a Mac store in Cambridge charged a tenner for the working board off a similar drive with a head crash. Sorted.
Don't understand. Do you mean "how do they get into the kernel?" to which the answer is;
man modprobe
NAME modprobe - program to add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel
SYNOPSIS modprobe [ -v ] [ -V ] [ -C config-file ] [ -n ] [ -i ] [ -q ] [ -b ] [ -o modulename ] [ modulename ] [ module parameters... ]
modprobe [ -r ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -i ] [ modulename... ]
modprobe [ -l ] [ -t dirname ] [ wildcard ]
modprobe [ -c ]
modprobe [ --dump-modversions ] [ filename... ]
DESCRIPTION modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel:
etc., etc., etc.
Or do you mean "who writes the drivers"? That's a much harder question.
I've got that ticked. I've got "Computer" but no icon for the hard drive or for the host's shared volume I mounted in the Terminal.
BTW, does Mint have anything resembling Visual Basic? I want to make a double-clickable executable that can run a script, get the exit code from the script, and if required put up an alert panel with a message.
Odd. that suggest that the daemon that detects mounted volumes in not running. (dbus?) Try unticking everything, rebooting, and then reticking what you want.
There is some evidence of issues with CIFS/samba style 'windows' mounts.
What about inserting a dvd or a thumb drive?
Mm. python is probably your best bet for that.
the main problem is that even with GTK, actually opening a window is a bit opaque (sic!)
If I use the Virtual box menu item to "mount" the VirtualBoxAdditions virtual DVD, then that appears on the desktop.
Hmmm, I'll take a look at that. Can't be worse than AppleScript, anyway :-)
I also found an apparent bug with drag and drop of a file from one File manager window to another. To effect changes, I've been editing under OS X, and saving a copy into the shared folder. The shared folder is mounted under Mint, but is owned by root so I drag it from there into my testbed in my Mint home directory. Last times I did that, the destination file was then missing about its last 350 bytes (out of about 300k). Copying with cp was fine so testing proceeded, but perhaps I should report that.
BSD unix. And I never bother with the discs that come with e.g. a new printer. Plug it in and OS X will download the right driver for you.
Are you running mint in a VM?
these all sound like samba bugs to me.
I use NFS whenever possible because it 'just works'
Only my XP in virtual box uses samba, and that works OK with windows client and samba server.
Let me try and mount a smb volume on raw linux
nope, that show up OK too
Yes, using VirtualBox.
Where is your mount point? In /media? I'm mounting it into my home directory.
both. nfs mounts are under home. The other was just wherever it showed up
I used the gui tool to mount an smb partition
hang on its still mounted..
hmm I can't see it actually mounted anywhere at all as such, but I can access it with caja.
ah. its /run/user/1000/gvfs/nameofshsare
caja hides all that stuff from you.
It doesn't show in the mount table tho
Oh, it does, just not as expected
mount | grep gvfs
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=me)
it may just be that /media and /mnt are excluded from showing up
I cant say for sure, but a couple of threads suggest that may be the case.
Thanks. I'll poke around those forums a bit. I'll prolly never be that expert in it, (any more than I am in apache configs) but I'll need to know more than I do now.
My email client is now running in Mint, AFAICT, but a few more things to figure out yet.
You can do all that with a shell (bash) script. If you want an icon you can use a Launcher (does right click ion the desktop pop up a menu with an entry that says "New Launcher"?) And there are several programs that will pop up a window from a shell script - I use "zenity".
Under Mint, yes it does - thanks, something else for me to look into.
(I avoid shell scripting as its too arcane. PHP scripts do what I need and are much more comprehensible).
I knew there was something newer than xdialog but was struggling to remember it
Python is tidier than PHP which is too much of a rag-bag for me.
Well that is all a bit more than 'just bash'
yes. I sue PHP for simple web pages, and C for everything else.
But python is definitely something I would use to lash up a GUI based program. I just haven't got around to needing it yet.
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