Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8186 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Repair xorg.conf or recover from low graphics mode
Since Ubuntu 7.10, there's a new fail safe graphics mode so you won't have to configure your graphics settings from command line. This fail safe has you stuck at 800x600 and 640x480 though.
To recover:
Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
-Be prepared to do some reading and answering questions. Most questions will have the proper answer pre-highlighted.
Last edited by madthumbs on Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:03 pm; edited 1 time in total
Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:18 pm
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Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8186 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Roadnav is an open source street navigation solution capable of running on a variety of operating systems. It can obtain your position from a GPS unit, plot a map of your area, and provide directions to locations in the USA. It can also verbalize directions using Microsoft SAPI 5.1, Festival, flite, and OS X's built in text to speech engine.
Roadnav uses the free TIGER/Line (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) files from the US Census Bureau to build the maps, along with the GNIS state and topical gazetteer data from the USGS to identify locations. It has experimental support for scripting, LCDproc, importing OpenStreetMap data, and importing GPX waypoints and tracks.
- I don't have a GPS, and just want to be able to plot maps so the above is good for me.
GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from the Internet. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running. All GPS receivers supported by gpsd should be usable.
GpsDrive is written in C with use of the GTK+ toolkit under the GPL license, and runs with Linux, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD.
Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:57 am
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Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8186 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
The makers of Wine, a compatibility tool that allows Windows applications to run on Linux machines without Windows installed, have released a stable version of Wine 1.0.
The makers of Wine claim that version 1.0 is the first such "stable" release and have said that although compatibility is not perfect, thousands of applications are reported to "work very well".
Member and former president of Linux Australia Jonathon Oxer told ZDNet.com.au that the Wine project is "an attempt to make Windows irrelevant".
"Essentially, it's an effort to supplant the underlying operating system layer and allow Windows software to run on a Linux platform without requiring Windows to be installed," he said.
A challenge for the Wine project is creating libraries that perfectly emulate Windows libraries.
"It never will be stable because the target keeps moving. As each new version of Windows comes out, the underlying libraries are also changed and so, Wine has the same problem as a typical Windows developer who is attempting to write software to run on Windows," said Oxer.
Oxer said he considers the tool a Linux "migration path" for existing Windows users because they can move their applications across, even where they haven't been designed to run on Linux.
Although Wine's original purpose was to provide a compatibility layer for office applications, the most popular use of the tool today is for gamers who want to play Windows games on Linux systems.
The only non-gaming application in Wine's top 10 most popular applications is Adobe Photoshop CS2, which is in second place behind Guild Wars.
Wine, not surprisingly, has been the target of anti-piracy campaigns by Microsoft. In 2005, Wine users were prevented under the Windows Genuine Advantage scheme from receiving Windows updates.
Fellow internet giant Google, however, has chosen to support the program, recently contributing cash to the open source project to ensure that Adobe's Creative Suite software still runs on Linux systems.
A list of Wine-compatible applications can be found here.
Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:15 am
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Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 140 Location: the forbidden zone
i run a dual boot scheme with XPpro and Kubuntu 7.4 x64. I play games so i cant run away from windows just yet but i honestly cant wait to make the switch. i like KDE better than Gnome as far as a gui, and ive tried a lot of distros (yellow dog (mac), red hat, fedora core, suse, ubuntu and kubuntu.) never tried debian as i hear its really not user friendly. I hadnt been up to date on the progress with the WINE project, perhaps ill look into some compatability with my games (counter-strike, garry's mod, perfect world). good thread.
