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Users / Want to use the md's for regular computing as well, need to install new locale

« on: March 14, 2008, 08:02:38 am »

I would like my kids to try and have my kids use their md's as regular computers as well.
I order to do this, I need to install Hebrew support on each of them.
I have followed this guide and everything seems find accept for one thing.
In the guide, I need to go to system-->administration -->language support, and install the language, but under kde desktop, in the system administration menu, I can't install another language in the system settings/regional options, the language is not in the list, and it wont install anything else using the apropriate button either.
Any ideas ?

thnx
Itsik
 

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Users / Re: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Looks HOT!

« on: March 10, 2008, 07:33:48 am »

I've added a wiki page on this board with a description of what I've done so far and where I'm at.
Hopefully, some one will find this info helpfull or maybe even be able to pickup where I left off.

Itsik

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Compatible Products & Services / Does any one have any expiriance with the ASUS P5E-VM HDMI ?

« on: March 10, 2008, 07:27:12 am »

As the topic states, is there anyone using this board ? I'd really appreciate any info.

Thnx
Itsik

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Users / Re: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Looks HOT!

« on: March 04, 2008, 06:12:57 am »

A couple of quick questions

Did you start out with no playback devices at all after a fresh install (thus no alsa installed as well ...)

Your aplay -l output reads ALC662, while the only time I maneged to get something recognised it was ALC885 (tough it's supposed to be ALC889A ...) so are you strugling with the exact same board ?

What mode is your sata set to in the bios ?

Thnx
Itsik

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Users / Re: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Looks HOT!

« on: March 03, 2008, 09:13:09 pm »

A quick update (and nt a very good one unfortunately ...)

So far nothing, and I mean NOTHING has been able to convince the onboard sound to work.
I've been working on it for 3 days now, tried anything I could find on the net, Realtek Drivers, Alsa 1.0.16 and anything else I could think of.
For the system the on board sound simply does not exist.
This is getting really annoying now...
God I hope B4 has had something done to it's sound drivers other wise I'm just about ready to give up...

Itsik

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Users / Re: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Looks HOT!

« on: March 02, 2008, 12:58:28 am »

Well, I finally got to tinkering with this board and here's the first part of the report as promised...

I loaded it up with 2 gigs of ram and a Pentium Core2Duo 6550, a LG SATA dvd/rw and a WD 160 gb HDD,  and decided to make a core/hybrid out of it.
0710B3 dvd install went smooth with special issues untill the AVwizard froze on the DTS test. I hit Ctrl+alt+F2 to try and unmute the spdif out, enter "alsamixer" and it's not there. I try to see what sound card I have just to discover the NO sound card was detected at all.
A quick google search tells me 2 things. What I have is a Realtek ALC889A HD Audio chipset and this thing has problems under windows as well.
A little more digging and I find that Realtek have released a set of linux drivers for this chipset. So I downloaded the driver and installed it, and now everything's working fine, including the AVwizard which does not freeze altough there's still no sound. I unmuted the spdif in alsamixer but still no sound. I might have a defected cable so I'm gonna buy one tomorow just to be on the safe side and continue from there.
More to come ...

Itsik

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Users / Re: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Looks HOT!

« on: February 27, 2008, 11:41:48 am »

I have one of these too, and I'm going to try and make an MD out of it. I'll post my expiriance here once I get to it ...

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 27, 2008, 11:30:20 am »

Yes Kir, when this file is played in windows the recieves Dolby Digital indicator turns on and shows this as an AC3 file (it has indicators for AC3 and DTS as well ...)
I see the differance betwin your readout and mine ...I really don't know what could be causing it ... I'll try to play one of these files from Kubuntu tonight and see what happenes ...

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 27, 2008, 10:25:21 am »

Even if windows did some upmixing (which I find hard to believe... ) I don't think it could cheat the reciever ...
Maybe there's some setting somewhere that needs to be adjusted but I really do not know where to look ...

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 27, 2008, 07:27:01 am »

Finally  ... There you go:

Code: [Select]

FFmpeg version SVN-r19403, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al,
Configuration: --prefix=/opt/pluto-ffmpeg
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.42.0
libavformat version: 51.12.2
built on Jan 15 2008 04:32:06, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2
16ubuntu2)
Input #0, avi, from '/home/public/data/other/Internal HDD-CORE (sdb1) [35]/Itsik/Videos/Action/NEXT/NEXT.avi':
Duration: 01:31:57.9, start:0.000000, bitrate 1063 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 616x254, 25.00 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x2000, 48000Hz, stereo, 192kb/s
Must supply at least one output file


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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 26, 2008, 10:44:41 pm »

that's the only thing I'm getting

I'm trying to reboot now ... maybe it'll help ...
Are you on the chat by any chance ?

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 26, 2008, 10:26:10 pm »

ok ... here goes ..:

FFmpeg version SVN-r19403, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al,
Configuration: --prefix=/opt/pluto-ffmpeg
libavutil version: 49.5.0
libavcodec version: 51.42.0
libavformat version: 51.12.2
built on Jan 15 2008 04:32:06, gcc: 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2
16ubuntu2)

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 26, 2008, 09:59:03 pm »

It gives me info on the codec versions ... could you tell me what exactly do you need or how can I copy and paste the content of the terminal (I opened it with ctl+alt+F2 ... )

Thnx
Itsik

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 26, 2008, 09:16:08 pm »

I'm a total noob to linux so please bare with me ...

it gives me "unrecognized option '-i/home/public/data/other/internal' "

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Users / Re: DivX movies dont play AC3 Passthru

« on: February 26, 2008, 07:22:10 pm »

I'll do it once I get back home in a couple of hours ...