egorgry

I put my order in about two weeks ago. 5 amd64 and 5 i386 discs. I really like what ubuntu is doing and it's a great distro and they are off to a good start.

Thanks DapperDan. That may be enough for me to try it out I'm always looking for a good debian based distro to recommend. I have no problem paying for a good stable desktop or recomending it to someone who isn't technical enough to run debian/sid. I use sid because I like messing with all the latest stuff, fixing things when they break, and it puts me in a better position to help my friends and family that use linux. If I can get them on a debain based distro it's easier for me to help.

Pop the cd you burned into the primary cd/dvd drive and see if it boots up. If not you will need to change the boot order in the bios as Soul has suggested. If this also fails you will need to burn the iso as a bootable image. Let us know the application you are using to burn the cd and we can try to help you get it right. More info = more better help.

I've heard nothing but great things of Mepis it would be a great choice from what I've read, and yes it's Debian based. Don't you need to pay for a subscribtion though or is there a downloadable ISO? I'm interested in trying sometime.

What does dmesg report when you plug in the device? if you see it try to bring up the network with hiconfig hci0 up

I will always recommend a debian based distro over rpm. So I'll say ubuntu. I'm biased.

sorry man I'm a little rusty. I hope this works plugin the device then... modprob hci modprobe hci_usb modprob l2cap modprobe bluez hiconfig hci0 up you can browse the docs. http://www.bluez.org/documentation.html

is the notebook usb 1.0 or 2.0? if it's v.1 it may not have enough power for the drive, just a thought. when you plug it in to the notebook what does dmesg report? I recommend installing usbview if you can. it's a great gui to see your usb devices. dmesg should look like this. Quote: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x40000 usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered.

see if you have blurtooth compiled in to the kernel. the good news is it's native to 2.6.x so you should be able to load it if you have the kernel src. lsmod should return something like this... Quote: l2cap 16496 1 (autoclean) rfcomm 31648 0 (autoclean) hci_usb 6680 0 (autoclean) bluez 32548 1 (autoclean) [l2cap rfcomm hci_usb] ...if you already have bluetooth enabled. if not you'll need to recompile with the bluez stack or whatever it's called and install the following pkgs * bluez-utils * libbluetooth1

Originally posted by matttah: Quote: libdvdcss is my guess...maybe you dont' have encrypted dvd read support and that library will solve it...also make sure you got libdvdread installed=) Daum That is without a doubt the problem. you need the decss code from libdvdcss to decrypt teh dvd which make you a criminal as far as the RIAA is concerned. Just get the pkg for your distro and install it.

anyone have a frys near them? You may want to pick this up.THey have a raptor 10k sata hard dive 36gb for $70.00 http://www.slickdeals.net/#p5396

what distro and what kernel are you using. you may need to compile bluetooth into the kernel. This is not going to be trivial. here's a start. http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/

Totem should play everything you just need with the w32codec pack. I use Mplayer with the w32codecs on Debian/Sid and I can play every video format using Totem or Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

Seems like you should be able to get almost everything working. Check this out. http://www.richsawin.com/vaio/

try this cdrecord dev=help or cdrecord dev=version. I'm on a hpux workstation so I can't test the commands. That should let you know any potential issues with your version of cdrecord, kernel, and drive. Trondare is exactly right about the kernel versions too.

so your question is the version of cdrecord on fc2 differnt then that of rh9 and if so is the usage syntax differnt? If that's it I can't answer that one. I've never used Redhat or fedora. I know that cdrecord can behave differntly across distros and kernels but it's unlikly that the syntax changed.

My advise is to dive right in and hit the online resorces. This board has some of the best moderators I've seen on a linux board so this place is a great start. If you are technical and want to learn as much as you can as fast as you can I recommend Debian or Gentoo it's way harder then anything else but you learn so much more. Some people recommend installing a something like mandrake or suse so it's up and running you can start exploring imediatly. BOth have advantages and disadvantages but I prefer to struggle and fully understand everything I've done. It may take a week or two to get a fully working debian system but in the end it's worth it. If you choose to go teh debian way I'll help as much as I can. another great distro is ubuntu it's debian based and it's easy to install. The only distro I stay away form is redhat/fedora I have my reasons.

I'm confused too. You say cdrecord 0,0,0 works fine but when you scan the bus it reports 0,1,0? Does it work with a burning app such as k3b or nautilus burn? In the man page of cdrecord you should see an option for verbose (-v -V maybe??)that output could be helpfull.

Welcome and you will love VI once you learn it. umask=000 is the permissions on the drive in this case read write execute by all. auto is for auto mounting at boot time. if you need to use a nice text editor as root on the console type gedit /etc/fstab you should be comfortable with gedit it's liek notepad but a better.

I have almost the same drive it's the 8x burner LDW-811s and it works with Debian/Sid. you may need dvdrtools or something, I forget. I'll try to be more help after I get more time to think.

as far as building gnome from tarballs it's a pain in the arse and it may kill you. The best part is when you think you are all done and it's all broke and acting funky. Here is a great project called garnome it's scripts that build gnome from tarballs for you, it's brilliant. http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/ here is the gnome build dependencies list. http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rninstallation.html alot of makes and ./configures

ubuntu does not install qtparted by default but you can install it using apt. Fire up synaptic and find qtparted mark and install it. or from the command line type sudo apt-get install qtparted. Then you can just launch it from the applications menu > System Tools> QTParted or cmd line sudo qtparted you can also use fdisk to recreate that partition. It's all command line but if you are comfortable exploring it it's not that hard. I'm pretty sure ubuntu creates a / and /home I've always done custom partitions when I set it up. go to the cmd line and type df -h this will show you the parttitions, devies name, and sizes. Quote: greg@milo:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde1 5.6G 1.6G 3.7G 30% / tmpfs 380M 0 380M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hde2 50G 36M 47G 1% /home

sid is always the latest and greatest followed by sarge then woody. Woody is know for it's outdatesd but stable pkgs sid is known for it's bleeding edge sometime unstable and broken pkgs and sarge is right in tehm idle. I think woody stilluses the 2.2 by default but you can get it with teh 2.4 kernel. good list of installers http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html pkg lists http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

There are many reasons why the linux software model is not at great risk for spyware/virii. The main two are the os design is secured where applications don't access kernel space as root or administrator. the other is open source software has so many developers looking at the code it would be hard to get some bad code checked into an application by some anonymous cracker type. excellent article here. http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

lucky for you mythtv has some great docs. I did this about a year ago as test then never did anything wiht it. I'm looking to start up the project again soon I remember the HOWTO docs were very helpfull. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html