Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

[Paul Sutton]

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James Mansion wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>> Still, sounds good that they are releasing something under the GPL, 
>> funny how they didn't release it under GPL 3.
>>
>>   
> Because that would mean it couldn't go into Linux?
> 
> James
> 
> 
I was thinking that,  as I am sure the kernel is still gpl version 2,  I
assume even as a module, it would need to be version 2.

Paul

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

[James Mansion]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Still, sounds good that they are releasing something under the GPL, 
> funny how they didn't release it under GPL 3.
>
>   
Because that would mean it couldn't go into Linux?

James


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

[alan c]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Chris Rowson wrote:
>> Interesting little story found on /.
>>
>> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL
>>
>> Chris
> Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-)

yes, I think the last I heard the flying pigs were suddenly at risk of
being hit by snowballs
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

[Rob Beard]

Chris Rowson wrote:
> Interesting little story found on /.
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL
>
> Chris
Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-)

Still, sounds good that they are releasing something under the GPL, 
funny how they didn't release it under GPL 3.

Rob


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[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

[Chris Rowson]

Interesting little story found on /.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/20 Rob Beard :
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> 2009/7/19 William Anderson :
>>
>>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
 [snip]

 #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically
 half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT
 equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working
 life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing working kit
 with something newer, you waste energy.

>>> Or you could recycle the old displays and use a KVM switch instead,
>>> which would save using the energy required for the extra display in the
>>> first place :)
>>>
>>
>> It *is* connected to a KVM & it is already serving 2 servers, on top
>> of which it neatly sits. If I can find a 3-way KVM I plan for it to be
>> the main display of my Mac OS X Server box, too.
>>
>>
> Okay having a further play, removing splash quiet from the kernel line
> in menu.lst and replacing it with vga=791 does actually set the screen
> to 1024x768 in 16-Bit colour, it stays like this all the way through to
> the console login prompt (okay it starts X and I have to manually switch
> to the 1st console but it is running in 1024x768 rather than switching
> back to a non framebuffer console).
>
> fbset doesn't seem to do anything though, not sure if it's to do with
> the fact I have an Intel video chipset in my notebook.
>
> If it helps I'm running the 32-bit server kernel (2.6.28-13-server)on
> the desktop release of Ubuntu 9.04.

Thanks for that!

The trouble is, that's changing /graphics/ mode. I do use that myself,
mainly on my notebook machines so that the console mode matches the
native resolution of the LCD. My desktop machines all run CRT
monitors, not LCDs, so they don't /have/ a native resolution.

On my server, though, I don't have that option - my screen does not
display colour at all, just black & white & shades of grey, and
640x480 is its maximum resolution.

But in text mode, VGA supports the following /character/ resolutions:

40x25
80x25
80x43
80x50

I think there might also be 40x43 and 40x50 modes and possibly others besides.

You can select these by passing the kernel vga=1/2/3/4/5 or 6.

That's the type of mode I need, and that's what init setting the
console font resets.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

[Rob Beard]

Liam Proven wrote:
> 2009/7/19 William Anderson :
>   
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>> 
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically
>>> half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT
>>> equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working
>>> life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing working kit
>>> with something newer, you waste energy.
>>>   
>> Or you could recycle the old displays and use a KVM switch instead,
>> which would save using the energy required for the extra display in the
>> first place :)
>> 
>
> It *is* connected to a KVM & it is already serving 2 servers, on top
> of which it neatly sits. If I can find a 3-way KVM I plan for it to be
> the main display of my Mac OS X Server box, too.
>
>   
Okay having a further play, removing splash quiet from the kernel line 
in menu.lst and replacing it with vga=791 does actually set the screen 
to 1024x768 in 16-Bit colour, it stays like this all the way through to 
the console login prompt (okay it starts X and I have to manually switch 
to the 1st console but it is running in 1024x768 rather than switching 
back to a non framebuffer console).

fbset doesn't seem to do anything though, not sure if it's to do with 
the fact I have an Intel video chipset in my notebook.

If it helps I'm running the 32-bit server kernel (2.6.28-13-server)on 
the desktop release of Ubuntu 9.04.

Rob


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

[Rob Beard]

Liam Proven wrote:
> 2009/7/19 William Anderson :
>   
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>> 
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically
>>> half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT
>>> equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working
>>> life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing working kit
>>> with something newer, you waste energy.
>>>   
>> Or you could recycle the old displays and use a KVM switch instead,
>> which would save using the energy required for the extra display in the
>> first place :)
>> 
>
> It *is* connected to a KVM & it is already serving 2 servers, on top
> of which it neatly sits. If I can find a 3-way KVM I plan for it to be
> the main display of my Mac OS X Server box, too.
>   
Doing a bit of a search I found this:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_fbset.htm

It looks like you can use fbset to set the resolution, however on my 
laptop I tried it and it couldn't find /dev/fb0, so I presume my machine 
hasn't got the framebuffer installed.

Not sure however if this is something to go on.

Am I right in thinking that when the Framebuffer is installed and the 
kernel boots with the messages it shows the Tux logo in the top corner 
of the screen?

I'm going to have a little play as thinking about it, on my server I 
have an old 15" LCD screen (it's on it's last legs and about 7 or 8 
years old but does the job) and maybe having a framebuffer installed 
might be an advantage if it means I can fit more text on the screen.

Rob



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/19 William Anderson :
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically
>> half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT
>> equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working
>> life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing working kit
>> with something newer, you waste energy.
>
> Or you could recycle the old displays and use a KVM switch instead,
> which would save using the energy required for the extra display in the
> first place :)

It *is* connected to a KVM & it is already serving 2 servers, on top
of which it neatly sits. If I can find a 3-way KVM I plan for it to be
the main display of my Mac OS X Server box, too.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencasts was:Linux in an Audio Environment

[Chris Weaver]

Thanks for the links. I'll download the torrent and have a watch. I think
the real issue is the numerous audio "frameworks" on Linux such as ALSA,
OSS, Pulseaudio etc etc each with their own advantages and disadvantages,
hence making tweaking a system problematic.

- chris

2009/7/17 Alan Pope 

> 2009/7/17 Chris Weaver :
> > Wow that sounds incredibly opportune! I'm down in London sadly but would
> > certainly appreciate a video link.
> >
>
> A while ago Tony Whitmore made some screencasts showing how we edit
> and mix the audio for the podcast using free software on Ubuntu. It
> shows how we get from audio recorded in Tonys lounge to a fully edited
> and mixed podcast. If you ever wondered how we do it, this shows it.
> Probably best to watch the editing series first then the mixing one to
> get them chronologically right, but of course you can pick and choose
> which ones to watch yourself.
>
> There are 21 videos in total, 8 on editing and 13 on mixing. They're
> in freedom loving Ogg Vorbis/Theora format. Some are recorded at quite
> a high resolution due to Tony showing lots of stuff on screen at once.
>
> I've uploaded them to blip.tv and have made a torrent file (because
> all-told they weigh in at 1.2GB).
>
> Here's the link to the torrent file:-
>
> http://popey.com/~alan/screencasts.5008235.TPB.torrent
>
> Simply stuff that into your torrent client of choice and start downloading.
>
> This is the first time I've created a torrent file myself, so
> apologies if it's not exactly as you expect.
>
> If you want to save them directly via http rather than use bittorrent
> then grab this file which has all the URLs to the videos in it.
>
> http://popey.com/~alan/screencast_urls
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

[Chris Weaver]

Thanks for all the pointers. Maybe I'm just unlucky with Audacity. Weirdly,
enough a circular email has gone round announcing the release of Audacity
1.3.8.

I'm downloading a copy of 64studio to have a look at.

cheers,

Chris



2009/7/17 Ian Pascoe 

> Chris
>
> Have a look see at a Linux Weekly News of about two weeks ago about the Low
> Latency issues that Rob mentions.  It also refers to an article at a site
> that I can't remember at the moment written by Dave Phillips, I think, who
> is always looking at linux audio.  Might give you some pointers.
>
> Ian
>
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Rob Beard
> Sent: 17 July 2009 18:44
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment
>
>
> Chris Weaver wrote:
> > Do you get satisfactory performance from Audacity? It always seems to
> > crash at the critical moment!
> Seems to work okay for basic stuff that I do and I've found for simple
> recording, basic editing (cutting bits out) and exporting it seems to
> work fine.  I haven't really tried it for anything more advanced (well I
> did try a bit of noise reduction which seemed to work okay).
>
> Rob
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