Posts Tagged ‘ codec ’
I was looking for something new in linux desktops. Ubuntu and it’s deriatives never really gave me what I wanted from a desktop and they always felt a bit slow on this system at least. I installed Archlinux and discovered the speed I was missing, but it’s too much tweaking neccesary really, ( Archers, please [ READ MORE ]
This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an [ READ MORE ]
Saturdays are made for totally rebuilding your system! This time it is time to try out PCBSD, never used a bsd system before, and this one seemed simple enough to start with. The install took a whopping 16 minutes on desktop machine, which is a few years old, I have all the drivers installed, no effort [ READ MORE ]
Updated make.conf and kernel.config, have to update BIOS = install xp Might as well change the filesystem back to ext3 at he same time, JFS sucks. kernel.config: # # Automatically generated make config: don’t edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 # Tue Oct 21 18:58:46 2008 # CONFIG_64BIT=y # CONFIG_X86_32 is not set CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG=”arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig” # CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y # CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO is not set CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_DMI=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM [ READ MORE ]
Rescued from failure, make.conf from my laptop. 64bit version, just for future refernce. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example. CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. MAKEOPTS="-j3" USE="X -kde [ READ MORE ]
Just an updated version of my make.conf. Athlon XP 2400+ version. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example. CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" USE="X -kde gnome acpi [ READ MORE ]
Äntligen har Gentoo fått sin grafiska installerare att fungera så man faktiskt kan använda den! Körde in Gentoo i morse på rekordtid: lite under en timme, och då hadde jag ett fullt fungerande desktop environment, xfce4 igång. Brukar normalt gå en par tre dagar att kompilera allt som behövs. Installationen är ändå inte att rekommendera [ READ MORE ]