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Alan McKinnon | 1 Apr 2006 01:14
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Re: patents

On Friday 31 March 2006 22:41, mrwolff wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >On Friday 31 March 2006 05:00, Chanchao wrote:
> >>I'm only asking a similar level of
> >>support in Ubuntu: Having the (a) included media player be able
> >> to play mp3.
> >
> >Reasonable thing to ask for, the way to do it is this:
> >
> >Get a letter from the mp3 patent holder which gives a permanent
> >irrevocable right to anyone to implement the mp3 standard without
> >payment of a license fee or signing of a contract.
> >
> >The ONLY reason Ubuntu doesn't have default mp3 support is because
> >no-one has that letter yet. We can bitch and moan all we want but
> > the truth is that we don't include it because in many places
> > there is a valid legal law that says we can't do it.
>
> The one thing I never got about this stuff is why one of the large
> corporations, for example IBM, doesn't just throw down a very large
> one time sum of money to buy the rights to whatever they need to
> make it free.  Especially since it is in the best interest of those
> companies to promote and spread Linux.  If the cost is too great,
> what about a partnership with a few other companies who extensively
> use Linux like Novell, etc?  You might say the cost of doing that
> is too great, but I haven't even heard of any of the corporations
> trying.  The same I think could be done with other formats.

Again, possibly a good idea, but consider this:
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gymsmoke | 1 Apr 2006 01:25
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apt-get strangeness

sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver produces this...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package fglrx-driver is a virtual package provided by:
  xorg-driver-fglrx 6.8.0-8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package fglrx-driver has no installation candidate

apt sources has uni and multi-verse selected...
apt-get update/upgrade runs ok...

tried installation of the xorg-driver-fglrx (installed ok)

same message appears.

what am i missing?
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Me - Atlantic | 1 Apr 2006 02:16

apt-get...

sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver produces this...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package fglrx-driver is a virtual package provided by:
  xorg-driver-fglrx 6.8.0-8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package fglrx-driver has no installation candidate

apt sources has uni and multi-verse selected...
apt-get update/upgrade runs ok...

tried installation of the xorg-driver-fglrx (installed ok)

same message appears.

what am i missing?
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ispmarin | 1 Apr 2006 02:04

Re: apt-get strangeness


Is this the right package? Do a

apt-cache search fglrx

and you will get

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==

ivan <at> monge:/usr/local $ sudo apt-cache search fglrx

xserver-xorg-driver-ati - X.Org X server -- ATI display driver

fglrx-control - Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-19-amd64-generic - Non-free Linux
2.6.15 modules on x86_64 generic

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-19-amd64-k8 - Non-free Linux 2.6.15
modules on AMD K8

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-19-amd64-xeon - Non-free Linux 2.6.15
modules on Intel x86_64

xorg-driver-fglrx - Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators

xorg-driver-fglrx-dev - Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators
(devel files)fglrx-kernel-source - ATI binary kernel module source

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-18-amd64-generic - Non-free Linux
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Me - Atlantic | 1 Apr 2006 02:33

Re: apt-get...

I copied this here, since it is a reply to this post, but I changed my
email address for the list (gmail bites)...

Anywy, 

apt-cache search fglrx-driver produces this for me (it depends on whats
in your apt/sources.list)

xorg-driver-fglrx - Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators
xorg-driver-fglrx-dev - Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators
(devel files)

I'll give this pkg a go...

Is this the right package? Do a

apt-cache search fglrx

and you will get

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==

ivan <at> monge:/usr/local $ sudo apt-cache search fglrx

xserver-xorg-driver-ati - X.Org X server -- ATI display driver

fglrx-control - Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-19-amd64-generic - Non-free Linux
2.6.15 modules on x86_64 generic
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John Richard Moser | 1 Apr 2006 03:38
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Authentication, application, active directory servers?


I would like to set up a small shop in my house to satisfy the
requirements of running a small enterprise network with the following
features:

 - Centralized authentication
   - Kerberos 5, Active Directory, etc
 - Application Server
 - Roaming profile

The ideal set-up is thus:

ROUTER---INTERNET
 |
SWITCH---SERVER (Auth, Roaming profiles, Application, VPN)
       |-LINUX WORKSTATION
       |-WINDOWS WORKSTATION

The problems I'm having are relatively straightforward:

 1.  I have no idea what "Active Directory" is, I THINK it's a Microsoft
product that does roaming profiles, authentication, and application
servering.
 2.  I have no idea how to set up any Linux server for roaming profile,
application server, authentication, or VPN.
 3.  I don't know how to set up clients for these, at all :)

What I CAN do is set up a server running a LAMP stack.  I can install
Linux fine (Gentoo Ubuntu Slackware Fedora Mandriva SuSE...).  The basic
stuff.  This is a huge learning experience for me; I want a skill that I
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C Hamel | 1 Apr 2006 04:34

Re: apt-get strangeness


On Friday 31 March 2006 17:25, gymsmoke wrote:
> sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver produces this...
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package fglrx-driver is a virtual package provided by:
>   xorg-driver-fglrx 6.8.0-8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1
> You should explicitly select one to install.
> E: Package fglrx-driver has no installation candidate
>
> apt sources has uni and multi-verse selected...
> apt-get update/upgrade runs ok...
>
> tried installation of the xorg-driver-fglrx (installed ok)
>
> same message appears.
>
> what am i missing?
That looks just like the output I got when I forgot to run 'apt-get update' 
after installation (because I had no connection while installing).
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Karl Goetz | 1 Apr 2006 04:54
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Re: Enterprise install

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:52:02PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
>> 1. Is it possible to install Ubuntu with the standard Debian setup of a
>> root user?    I know that the default is to have a standard local user
>> who belongs to various groups and can use sudo.  We don't want that.  We
>> will be pulling user and group information from LDAP, and don't want any
>> local users other than root.
> 
> Yes. Install in expert mode and give a root password, and you'll get
> this behaviour.
> 
>> 2. Is it possible to seed the Ubuntu install in the same way as Debian?
>>  We would like to automate large parts of it, with regard to things like
>> network configuration, installed packages etc.
> 
> Yes. See:
> 
>   http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ch04s06.html
>     (Breezy)
> 
>   http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/install/i386/ch04s06.html
>     (Dapper)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
iirc FAI [1] works perfectly with Ubuntu, but for a half a dozen
machines it would probably be massive overkill.

[1] http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
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Karl Goetz | 1 Apr 2006 04:59
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Re: Running GDM on Two Consoles

Ben Edwards wrote:
> I have one of my PC set up so GDM auto loges in and starts mythtv.  Is
> there a way of starting GDM on another console so I can log in as
> another user at the same time.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben 
> 
> 
to enable logging in on 2 VC's edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf-custom .
its a file with no comments, just to be extra helpfull.

In the [servers] block, add the line
1=Standard

save adn exit.
Auto logins i havent tried, but i'm sure its not so hard
kk

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Matthew R. Dempsky | 1 Apr 2006 05:13

Re: Ubuntu on Dell PowerEdge 2850

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:34:46PM +0100, Cygnus1 wrote:
> I heard on another forum that the OS could only see 1GB of memory..Is
> this true??

I believe this is only true for 32-bit kernels without highmem support.  
You should be fine if you use a 64-bit kernel (or even any 32-bit kernel 
other than linux-386).
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