Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing video freezes my netbook!

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
It's the acpi_osi= (everything other in unimportant). This switches off the dedicated (NVidia) GPU, using only one graphic chip at a time. You can check this by entering lspci|grep VGA which should not output anything if the dedicated chip is not in use. Also, I recommend SMTube over MiniTu

Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing video freezes my netbook!

2013-09-24 Thread janeandreas
I have not yet addressed the resume script or made a hot-key to set brightness, but I am happy to report that my battery life fully doubled by deactivating the NVIDIA ION.

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread chris
What exactly is preventing people from going to these events? It doesn't appear to be distance or cost. Is there some huge financial barrier I'm missing or visa requirements (last I checked that wasn't an issue any more, I thought)? I understand if it's too expensive in general vs the benef

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread chris
Clearly I'm not a native... umm however I did only really quickly skim that list in my defense. Germany and France popped out at me. I am aware of two others on the list (Romania & the Czech Republic). I also know where they are on the map (well, Europe, anyway). My mind doesn't recall Mold

Re: [Trisquel-users] Watching Vevo videos without Gnash

2013-09-24 Thread stask
Excellent! Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread chris
Yes- maybe. But what about France? I also was trying to compare it to someplace nearby in the US. If you compared it to the west coast you'd be significantly farther away.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread chris
Just imagine what we could do if we actually stood up now. Unfortunately almost nobody is. We got Linus to give NVIDIA a stern yelling at and all it achieved was was documentation on stuff that wasn't needed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Watching Vevo videos without Gnash

2013-09-24 Thread ejectmail
Bingo! Found a GPL Firefox addon that does the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5/?src=api

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread icarolongo
In my opinion Trisquel Mini only with 256MB or less.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread icarolongo
Desktop(2004) Celeron 2.5Ghz running Trisquel 64-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2004) Pentium M 1.8GHz (32-bit only) running Trisquel 32-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2008) Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz running Trisquel 64-bit with 2GB of RAM DDR3. Desktop(2011) Core i3 3.10GHz running Trisquel 64-bit w

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread em9002
I use both. I use Trisquel on my desktop and Trisquel Mini on my netbook.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread fernando . negro
Mini. Because I use it on an old laptop (secondary) computer, in which GNOME wouldn't run as well or as fast as LXDE. Besides, I stopped using GNOME, a long time ago, for being unnecessarily "heavy". And, I think that Xfce is the best DE, that now exists, in terms of speed vs. functionali

[Trisquel-users] Re : Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread mtlben
I use Mini on my netbook. It is much faster than all the other desktop environments I have tried on it (GNOME Fallback, GNOME Shell, KDE, Cinnamon, Unity...). I find the Trisquel theme and the transparent taskbar quite pleasing to the eye, too. Midori is very fast, compared to abrowser. I

[Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?

2013-09-24 Thread adel . afzal
I haven't tried Mini, but I'm thinking about switching when the new edition comes out. How do the two compare? How do Midori and Abrowser compare, for example?

Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread zatroch
Exciting news anyways. Perhaps if there were more middle-fingers raised.. (;

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?

2013-09-24 Thread onpon4
> Trisquel includes emulators too, like Zsnes and Scummvm. Yes, but the Trisquel community isn't centered around them. Take a close look at the OpenPandora website and you'll notice that emulators are heavily flaunted; it's the main purpose of devices like these. > Also these pc's are very

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software replacement for iTunes

2013-09-24 Thread davidvargas1
JXSELF Respectfully, your answer is not what people from other places in the world want to read. That is, "smart ass" answer from a guy of your caliber and intellectual. Not everyone has that kind of "FREEDOM and Choices in their own countries." What they are looking for Is: "an advise,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?

2013-09-24 Thread shiretoko
Trisquel includes emulators too, like Zsnes and Scummvm. We had this discussion once if there's a problem with those old roms. Many people in the free software movement share my opinion that playing these roms is acceptable; you may think differently but you can't blame this project for some

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Perhaps the terminal is not your forte. Try gksudo nautilus

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?

2013-09-24 Thread tegskywalker
It seems that one of the motivations for Valve creating an OS is that they can create a custom distro based off of Ubuntu (rumored to be 12.04) and create a walled garden for their services. The stories say they wanted to improve the video and audio support in the Linux ecosystem, but is it

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
The command you entered it incorrect. Just follow what I already wrote above, it's not that hard.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software replacement for iTunes

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
I really does not know if this is about searching for a free software replacement for iTunes on Trisquel, on the way one should buy music, so I'll try to answer both. First, the closest FLOSS iTunes replacement I am aware of is called Nightingale, which is a fork of Songbird, made of a frus

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread falmvtex
i'm using a lenovo computer, and have tried variations of /home/fr33z3w1zar5/desktop/to/fw htc_9271.fw /lib/firmware your help is much appreciated!

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread nux
Overall it seems to me that people in UK shouldn't have too much of a problem getting to one of the events in Europe if they really wanted to. The only way I could get to either is if I walked/hitchhiked to the South Coast (from Birmingham), then swam the channel and then walked/hitchhiked to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?

2013-09-24 Thread onpon4
I know about that; it's basically just a less powerful and keyboardless version of the OpenPandora (even though it's made by different people), and it shares all the same problems: no wireless or hardware acceleration without nonfree software, designed to play nonfree games via emulation, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread falmvtex
*to/fw/htc_9271.fw/lib/firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread falmvtex
I tried to no avail cp/home/fr33z3w1zar5/Desktop/to/fw/htc_9271.fw/htc_9271.fw/lib/firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ark unar (RARV3) integration not working in Toutatis

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
Sorry for may late reply. It's Trisquel 4.1 with Gnome2 desktop, if that's what you'd like to know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread falmvtex
thank you for the insight. Where should my fw files be when I copy? right now they are sitting on my desktop. your help is truly appreciated!

Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
At least they support 2D acceleration on Tegra line of GPUs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread jason
Hold on there. Don't get too excited. It's not as if NVIDIA has just released all of their technical documentation to the public. Rather, all that's happened is that NVIDIA has provided one (1) piece of documentation -- which everyone knew already -- and there is no promise of any future docu

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread jason
Use sudo when copying. sudo cp /path/to/fw/file /lib/firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread in . r4inbows
Can you believe this? "NVIDIA will begin publishing NDA-free GPU programming documentation" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2NzY AMD is on on the action too. "AMD Publishes HDA Audio GPU Documentation" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2NjU

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271

2013-09-24 Thread myself600
You mean Nautilus (the default window manager), right? If so, follow: press ([Fn]+*)[Alt]+[F2], a new window called Run Application will pop up paste "gksu nautilus /lib/firmware" (without quotes) into it, press [Enter] (or click on the Run button), then confirm the command by entering your roo

[Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project

2013-09-24 Thread in . r4inbows
Wonderful news friends! http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-September/014480.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread adel . afzal
I hope to attend the one in Kitchener. Thanks for the info Lembas and Chris.

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread mampir
"... US only has one event. Europe has two (Germany and France) ..." Isn't that stereotypical. ;) There are 4 events in 5 European countries listed. Czech Republic France Germany Romania Moldova Also, I'm organising in Bulgaria, which is also in Europe.

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread mampir
I'm also organizing a series of events in Sofia, Bulgaria. I wrote a couple of days ago, asking for them to be added to the list, but they still aren't and I haven't received a reply. If you're interested and you can read Bulgarian, you should see this page: http://www.libtec.org/bg/2013/g

Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon

2013-09-24 Thread shiretoko
"Overall it seems to me that people in UK shouldn't have too much of a problem getting to one of the events in Europe if they really wanted to." I'm very sceptical about the event in germany. I will be there, but I read somewhere on the internet about the location it takes place and about the