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Open Standard recognised
by Ian bell 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Thought you might be interested in the following: ==================================================================== [5] Audio cores add Ogg Vorbis support Tensilica has added an Ogg Vorbis decoder for its popular Xtensa HiFi 2 audio engine and Diamond 330HiFi processor core. The Xtensa HiFi 2 audio engine is the most popular audio processor core on the market, designed into devices ranging from cellular phone handsets to prosumer audio. This year, Tensilica's customers will ship tens of millions of products using the Xtensa HiFi audio engine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Click here to be sent free information on this: http://www.electronicstalk.com/rdx/da/tey/144/5 Ian

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Ubuntu Boot Splash
by Wayne Stallwood 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

A quick question to those who have upgraded to Edgy. Should I still be seing the Testcard during boot, it's not clear from the forums if this was replaced as promised before release and I wonder if the disputes/arguments regarding the edgy artwork have delayed this. I only ask because it is blooming ugly and I am hoping that I have just missed an update that replaces it.

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Olympus c-460 with Linux
by cl＠isbd.net 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

I have an Olympus C-460 digital camera and, at the moment, I can't get Linux to see it at all. If I run xcam it simply hangs. The camera doesn't appear at all as a USB device when I plug it in. It works fine in Win2k. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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How to print one image on multiple pages?
by cl＠isbd.net 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

I used to be able to do this by mistake! Now I can't work out how to do it on purpose. I want to print a .PDF diagram on two sheets of A3 rather than a single sheet, it's too small on a single sheet. How can I do this? I can't see any options in gv or, more to the point, in the CUPS printer set up, that allow me to tell the printer interface to do this. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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Using Lightscribe with Linux
by Keith Watson 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

If there's anyone on the list who, like me, has a lightscribe capable drive and has just accepted that they can't use this feature under GNU/Linux then take a look at this post on the Ubuntu forums; <http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282313> I hope to give it a try over the w/e. I'll let you know how I get on Regards, Keith ____________ It's easier to go down the mountain than up, but the view is best from the top.

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by Jonathan McDowell 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday, 9th November. It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City Gate. People will be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people there earlier. I will finally be able to make it again myself. Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with biscuits, if you're lucky). Directions to the Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2006-02-ALUG/ http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for. We're /normally/ just to the left of the main entrance, though sometimes we've ended up at the far end of the pub beside the pool table, as there are comfy seats at that end. J. -- "I can see an opening for the four lusers of the Apocalypse... 'I didn't change anything', 'My e-mail doesn't work', 'I can't print' and 'Is the network broken?'." -- Paul Mc Auley, asr ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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RE: [ALUG] Audio problems
by Keith Watson 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

> From: Martin Collins Sent: 24 October 2006 20:19 > > I'm using Ubuntu Dapper on my laptop with kernel > 2.6.15-27-k7. There's a problem when playing DVD's or video > files with the lip-sync. The audio is 200-400 ms ahead of the > video. I've googled for answers but just can't seem to find > any. This wasn't a problem before I installed Dapper, but I > don't want to uninstall it because of one annoying little problem. > > I know it's the computer and not the files because I've seem > them played on Windows machines with full lip-sync. Has > anyone experienced any problem like this, or should it be > reported to Ubuntu as a bug? > > Its an nforce3 audio chip (0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: > nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)) > > Thanks all, > > Martin Have you tried installing the EasyUbuntu upgrades? (http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/) Fixed a similar problem on my desktop system. Regards, Keith ____________ FUNDAMENTALIST, n. One who believes that their cult's scriptures are divinely inspired works admirably suited to the spiritual needs of their neighbours. - after Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Re: Any Sane experts out there? (cl@isbd.net)
by Peter Alcibiades 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

No kind of expert on anything, but I fixed a similar problem by installing Epson's own package. iscan. Just went in and then sane worked fine. This was Mandriva and also Suse, for a 1640. And another epson at my little charity. Without iscan Xsane wouldn't work, with it it went perfectly. Peter

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Any Sane experts out there?
by cl＠isbd.net 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Sane as in scanners on Linux that is, you don't have to be actually sane! :-) I have an Epson V700 scanner which is listed as supported by the sane-epson backend. However I'm having a hard time getting the thing recognised by anything at all. It is connected and functioning because "sane-find-scanner" successfully finds it and lists the right parameters:- found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:7:2 So it's there and connected to the USB OK. But that's as far as I can get and the Sane documentation isn't very forthcoming on what I have to do next. Should it "just work" now or is there a configuration file that needs editing? Nothing in the Sane documentation seems to tell me what's needed. The above "sane-find-scanner" also says "Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.". I've done that, "scanimage -L" doesn't detect any scanners and the sane.epson man page leaves me none the wiser really. I have tried adding the following line to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf:- usb 0x4b8 0x12c but it hasn't helped. I'm stuck, what do I need to do to actually get some sane front end to see the scanner via the back-end? -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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digikam (and/or kde) help needed
by cl＠isbd.net 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I have installed digikam on my Slackware system and it appears to have installed OK (now that I've added the required libraries). However there are a couple of issues:- When I run it I get a whole load of warning messages from kbuildsycoca, mostly about undefined mimetypes, should I just ignore these? It seems to run artsd (/opt/kde/bin/artsd) when I start digikam, since that's a sound application it seems a bit unnecessary, can I prevent it from starting? ... and don't tell me to go to the KDE Control Panel to sort things, I'm not running KDE even though I have all the KDE libraries installed. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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