Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU-Linux on Wikipedia

2013-08-25 Thread swrnjtbs
I think calling the system GNU (slash) or (plus) Linux sounds a bit odd. But calling the whole system Linux is another problem because it gives away all the credit to one person whose views I completely disagree with. Yes, Freedom is more important than practical convenience, and it so unfort

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why did you switch (or use) Free Software?

2013-06-20 Thread swrnjtbs
It started out with my eager to learn to program. I wanted to learn how the softwares I used actually work! Then I came across a magazine I can't remember which one that mentioned about "Open Source" Softwares and I wanted to learn more. After few days of searching and re-searching I was very

Re: [Trisquel-users] lavabit and evolution email

2013-06-20 Thread swrnjtbs
I followed the settings guide but I am having problems sending mails, a message box appears after I enter the password saying "Unable to authenticate to SMTP server. Bad authentication response from server." I tried changing the given ports but nothing worked. Though IMAP works fine!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini

2013-06-20 Thread swrnjtbs
Hey thanks! that did it. :-) Yes such missing features should be included as it gets quite fraustrating after a while when you know you have installed everything required but still can't figure out which one is missing!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?

2013-06-19 Thread swrnjtbs
Thanks for the heads up! I'll take a look at it. But can you suggest converter for video files to these free formats? The OggConvert converts mp3 files to ogg like magic with no degrade in quality but when it comes to converting video files I am a bit disappointed as the converted video files

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini

2013-06-19 Thread swrnjtbs
Yes, I think it has. The other machine running 32-bit Gnome has no built in GPU, where nouveau is running fine! Is that problem? What to do next?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?

2013-06-18 Thread swrnjtbs
Being extremist particulary in the case of Free Software ain't such a bad thing! Yes, the word extremist might sound intriguing to some people but that might be a good thing. You see, people might be interested to know more about the movement if we continuously strive to make our views heard

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini

2013-06-18 Thread swrnjtbs
lspci -nn|grep VGA outputs: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] [10de:0640] (rev a1) I know it's not a GPU problem cause I have another machine that is running Trisquel 32-bit Gnome which has the same GPU. I can't figure out what seems to be t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini

2013-06-18 Thread swrnjtbs
No! I did run the 64-bit client, and for installing 32-bit libraries it causes another problem similar to this: http://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155

Re: [Trisquel-users] RMS Tells it like it is about Ubuntu

2013-06-18 Thread swrnjtbs
Yes that's probably the reason I switched to Trisquel. Another reason was the Ubuntu Software Centre which I beleive now hosts more proprietary software than Free Software!!

[Trisquel-users] Graphics driver problem in Trisquel mini

2013-06-18 Thread swrnjtbs
problem still persists. I get the following messages when I try to run OpenArena for example: ioq3+oa 1.36_SVN1910M linux-x86_64 Dec 25 2011 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/swrnjtbs//.openarena/baseoa ./baseoa/pak6-patch088.pk3 (711 files) ./baseoa/pak6-patch085.pk3 (559 files