Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Fonts License

2013-02-27 Thread ejectmail
I'm aware of that last point already. I mentioned it in my post. You can revoke Canonical's permission to collect your information in the settings.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hibernate disabled by default on Trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread andrew . roffey
Check out these links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop-privileges/+bug/812394 https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hibernate disabled by default on Trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread tegskywalker
I think hibernate was disabled by default in 12.04 due to potential data loss. Dunno why it didn't affect earlier releases though.

[Trisquel-users] Re : I have no sound

2013-02-27 Thread magicbanana
You probably meant: $ sudo adduser USERNAME audio

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread chris
The 9500GT is a good choice if your going to get an NVIDIA card with good graphics support: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/geforce-9500gt-1gb-pci-express-20-video-card-gnulinux It is well supported by the nouveau project and the nouveau driver is now in the mainline kernel so pretty

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread viniciussm
Even my 945GME from 32 bit Atom supports 1080p.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
Monitors are (supposed to be) plug-and-play. If the Intel HD 4000 supports 1080p, it supports that monitor. I assume it must (1080p is not exactly new), and if for some strange reason it doesn't, you can always buy the video card later. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] I have no sound

2013-02-27 Thread viniciussm
You have to add your user to the audio group. sudo addgroup USERNAME audio

Re: [Trisquel-users] I have no sound

2013-02-27 Thread pascal
I do know why. It's because I'm running all my programs on user mode : I have no Display Manager, and I run my WM with 'startẍ́'. The problem is, if I'm on super mode (loged with root), the sound works well, but not on user mode. My sound is at 100%, alsamixer shows me. So, how can I fix it?,

[Trisquel-users] Re : Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread marc-antoine . cardia
Yes I should forgot the NVidia... But why I want a Graphic Card ? Because in a few weeks, I will have a LG IPS277L-BN. I don't know if the INTEL i7-3770K will support this monitor.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hibernate disabled by default on Trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread gustavo_cm
The /var directory is intended for variable data files (many temporary), not for configuration matters; it is best to use /etc for this purpose: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html You could copy that file to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/ , an empty directory which alre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
I would forgo the Nvidia card and just use the Intel graphics you say you're getting, but that's fine. You can always take it back out, after all.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fonts & Font rendering

2013-02-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
>I'm just asking for DejaVu Sans Mono size 11 to be rendered consistently on all Ubuntu-based distributions! Not exactly a Trisquel's goal. I doubt any other distro's either...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread marc-antoine . cardia
My future PC will have : CPU : INTEL i7-3770K 3.5GHz - Graphic HD 4000 NVidia GeForce GTX 670 2Go 2 x HDD Seagate Barracuda 1 To (one for Windows and one for Trisquel motherboard : ASUS P8Z77-V I want to use Windows because I need Internet Explorer to test my HTML, CSS, PHP code. And of cours

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread chris
I don't know what you mean by "support" although the best thing you can do is contribute. For most people that means a financial contribution. Donate: https://trisquel.info/en/donate Ir becoming a member: http://trisquel.info/en/member And there is also a "gift store" with branded products

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fonts & Font rendering

2013-02-27 Thread tegskywalker
Anytime I install Trisquel from scratch, I increase the font size and do RGB instead of greyscale. It looks better and I have no idea why these aren't set like this by default. I also switched from Droid Sans to Roboto: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/fonts-roboto

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fonts & Font rendering

2013-02-27 Thread John Smith
Thanks for the suggestions, but it did not work. I tried all possible combinations with no result. Finally just installed Mint 14 instead. The font there looks exactly the same. I have only one pair of eyes and it's more valuable to me than a completely free GNU/Linux distribution. But was that rea

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
The thing about Nvidia cards is since Nvidia does not cooperate with us, the only support available for them is from reverse-engineering. It has produced good results, but that means newer cards might not work so well yet. Like I said, you really should get Intel graphics if you can. Intel ac

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread migatheotaku
I have a Kepler chipset, a GTX 660. It IS NOT stable with 3D. Kepler support was only introduced in Linux 3.8, so you'd have to be using a very recent kernel to get it to work, but regardless, it crashes A LOT. I'm talking probably 4-5 GPU lockups a day using just Compiz, forcing me to have t

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread dani . behzi
Same error for me, but it could find 2 peers via Distibuted Hash Table (DHT) and it is downloading now (5%).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread marc-antoine . cardia
I want to buy a ASUS NVidia GeForce GTX 670 2Go because I have some video games for Windows like Far Cry 3. My friends send me those games so I want to play with them !! I want to make some 3D pictures in Trisquel with Blender. Blender have Cycles, a Real Time Render Engine , and generally, G

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread zombieno . 7
The system is actually built already. The CPU is a 3930k, so no integrated graphics there, and the GPU is a 690(I am definitely not getting rid of that thing). I use it for a combination of light gaming and programming along with a bit of media playback and dvd ripping. It's running Debian

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
You probably want Intel graphics; Nvidia cards usually work, but it's the product of a reverse-engineering effort, while Intel actually cooperates (very well) with its graphics controllers, so the quality is more assured and there's no worry that you might have to wait for it to be reverse-en

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread Dave Hunt
Welcome to the community! Since you're making your computer, you can choose only hardware that will run on 100% free software. Databases like hnode.org may help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread marc-antoine . cardia
Hi ! This is my first post here (on the English Forum), sorry for my English, I'm a French user !! There is a Minecraft clone ? That is very nice, because I want to play with Minecraft on Trisquel GNU/Linux... So Minetest is a very good alternative. :) 0.a.d... This game is very nice, I l

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread viniciussm
Your card is very recent and nouveau had many improvements in Linux 3.8. You have to install the linux-libre repository to take full advantage and yes, I think performance will be good in 3.8. http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ The new lightspark supports Flash 12.1: https://launchpad.net/~spa

[Trisquel-users] Hibernate disabled by default on Trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
After some talking on IRC about not being able to hibernate, we found out that hibernate was disabled by default on my machine running Trisquel 6. I changed this in /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla and that fixed the problem. Does anyone else running Tr

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
Yep, Ryzom is really good, and yes, it is completely free; the art assets are under CC BY-SA, I think.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread mikko . viinamaki
For me the tracker didn't want to cooperate, while trying to get the amd64 torrent "not authorized" or some such error...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread matt . ivie
It seems like Ryzom could be an alternative if you want a social game to play. I've not done much with it and don't know if it fully qualifies as free software(I'm not talking game assets, just software).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread zombieno . 7
I'm personally okay with the free games. I've actually tried 0 A.D. and Xonotic and liked them. The main issues come from more social games, like WoW.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
I don't know about that card and it's not listed on h-node. Maybe someone else can jump in. With regards to games, have you tried similar free games? I don't know what kinds of games you play. If you play FPSes, some gems are Xonotic, OpenArena, AssaultCube, and Tremulous. If you play RTSes

[Trisquel-users] Re : Ubuntu Fonts License

2013-02-27 Thread magicbanana
Even not enabling the restricted and the multiverse repositories, there are many Ubuntu packages that will be available from the package manager and yet violate the free software guidelines. Here is a list that dates back to Ubuntu 10.04 (there probably are new one): aee afio app-install-data

[Trisquel-users] Re : trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread magicbanana
There are torrents at http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread zombieno . 7
Alright. The card is a kepler card, a GTX 690 to be exact. I have no problem working around Wine bugs and/or building from source, but the primary dilemma would be that of playing non-free games(and getting nouveau to work for it).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread onpon4
How well Nouveau works depends on the actual video card. Some work perfectly, others have problems. My understanding is that upgrading the kernel can be necessary for some of them to work properly. Gnash only works properly for streaming YouTube videos, where it works just fine. The Firefox

[Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers

2013-02-27 Thread zombieno . 7
I have been away from Trisquel for a while, and I very much so want to return to it, but there are still a few things holding me back. I want to game. My friends are all active gamers, and my system is set up for gaming. I know that Steam is not free software, nor are the games that I'd ru

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 6

2013-02-27 Thread dani . behzi
Why there is no torrent download file in the iso page ( http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ )?

Re: [Trisquel-users] help request for usb hub failure

2013-02-27 Thread davidvargas1
Here are my two cents to reinforce Christ previous comments; see the attached link for more information. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-things-you-should-know-about-usb-20-and-30/1265 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus