Re: [Hampshire] Today's Surrey LUG BBQ

2012-07-15 Thread Tony Wood
On 14/07/12 21:33, Robert Longstaff wrote: Hello. Just wanted to thank JohnW for hosting the BBQ today - we suffered a downpour right at the beginning while setting up but after that it cleared up and there were only occasional spots of rain (which was better than the forecast which predicted

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus Voice Recorder: accessing files

2012-07-15 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Sunday 15 Jul 2012 11:28:21 you wrote: Hello Tim Thank you for your response. The computer identifies the device (sudo lsusb) but I still can't see the actual files on it. Output of dmesg with device plugged in then removed is attached as a screen dump. I don't understand: ohci_hcd

[Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity Tutorial video

2012-07-15 Thread Alan Pope
Hey, I finally got around to making a simple intro to the Unity desktop. Some of you may find it useful for other new users. Feedback welcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9EHaNc2VI Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus Voice Recorder: accessing files

2012-07-15 Thread Tony Wood
On 15/07/12 12:10, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: On Sunday 15 Jul 2012 11:28:21 you wrote: Hello Tim Thank you for your response. The computer identifies the device (sudo lsusb) but I still can't see the actual files on it. Output of dmesg with device plugged in then removed is attached as a

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus digital voice recorder and Linux

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Andrijeczko
Tony The trick with USB (or indeed any device) is to work out whether there's a supported driver for it, either in the kernel or as a third party one. Since you've said that a USB memory stick works okay, then it's fairly safe to assume that the correct chipset drivers are being loaded by Ubuntu

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus digital voice recorder and Linux

2012-07-15 Thread Tony Wood
Thank you Peter. I'll copy the Surrey correspondence to the Hampshire list. Tony Wood (from Linux PC) On 15/07/12 22:34, Peter Andrijeczko wrote: Tony The trick with USB (or indeed any device) is to work out whether there's a supported driver for it, either in the kernel or as a third party

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus digital voice recorder and Linux

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Andrijeczko
Tony I've Googled the DVR model number you gave for Linux support and came to this page, but note that it's 18 months old: http://catontech.com/blog/2011/01/04/using-the-olympus-digital-voice-recorder-with-linux/ Note the Google link for the odvr project, but if you go there even that is three

Re: [Hampshire] Olympus digital voice recorder and Linux

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Andrijeczko
Tony Incidentally, the reason why USB device IDs are far more important than the make and model number is because one Linux kernel driver could support a number of devices with different USB IDs - that's why searching on the USB ID is usually the best and quickest way to find out the supported

[Hampshire] Fwd: Re: Olympus Voice Recorder: accessing files

2012-07-15 Thread Tony Wood
On 15/07/12 22:34, Peter Andrijeczko wrote: Tony The trick with USB (or indeed any device) is to work out whether there's a supported driver for it, either in the kernel or as a third party one. Since you've said that a USB memory stick works okay, then it's fairly safe to assume that the