@waltisfrozen: If Obama was keeping all of his campaign promises, some of the 30,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan would be gay.

For some reason, sometime after I upgraded to Karmic, the screensaver stopped working. No matter how long I leave the computer idle for, the screensaver does not come on and the screen will not lock. The computer refuses to acknowledge that it is in fact idle. The screensaver is one and it will enable and lock when i type in:
gnome-screensaver-command -l

That works fine. I've tried changing the idle time, disabling any applets, but I'm stumped. Any ideas?

So after my upgrade to 9.10 I can't play a lot of flash video (ala youtube). This seems to be not uncommon and more people suggest reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree (as well as uninstalling other flash stuffs). this did nothing for me.

Here's what I've got:

Shockwave Flash

File name: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

I ran the following:
sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

this did not solve a thing. I'm still staring at a big play button that does nothing.

Thoughts?

• 23:47 I have had 1 day off in the last 3 weeks. Busybusy. I built a staircase on Friday. Moved last of office gack, built shipping station. tired #

I have Master of Magic running at high speed and with working PCM sound under dosemu. But I can't seem to get MIDI working. The weird thing about dosemu is that it has no internal MIDI support, so it writes MIDI data to a file (~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi). If I set MoM to use SoundBlaster Pro (later), the MIDI file is created but it's empty. If I set MoM to use General MIDI, the file contains Roland SysEx data (according to file).

If I understand correctly, when MoM tries to use the SB to play MIDI, it would normally do so via wave table mapping provided by a driver like AWEUTIL.COM. But dosemu won't load the AWEUTIL driver, and it has no MIDI emulation of its own, so nothing is written to the dosemu-midi file.

So what I need is a way to play the SysEx file. If that even makes sense... I'm not completely sure what SysEx is. Timidity says it's not a MIDI file, midid dumps a bunch of stuff to stdout and exits without playing any sound, and amidi just pauses for a few seconds and exits. I think the problem might be with my system's ability to play MIDI, but I'm not sure. (Timidity plays regular MIDI files via wavetable synthesis, so the fact that it works on other files doesn't mean much.)

I've tried running it in dosbox, and it works, but it's extremely slow and the sound quality is terrible. I've tried setting cycles to auto (3000), 10000, 25000, 50000, and max, and at all settings I still get crackles and lag. Also, dosbox takes control of the X mouse pointer and doesn't let it move out of its own window. For that reason alone, I'm determined to stick with dosemu...

EDIT: I converted the raw SysEx dump to MIDI using the syx2midi DOS app found here, and it does contain the expected music. Now I just need a way to convert or play it in realtime...

• 09:50 Recently I logged into yahoogroups. It was like going into the dark ages. Everything is twits & blogs & Fbook now. I miss usenet. And bbs's #

Hello everyone,

I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and this is the first time I've seen this problem. Basically, it's Firefox's (ver 3.5.5) problem because there are certain websites (realmadridtalk.com, justintv.com, ebay.ph) I cannot access unless I use a proxy. My FF preferences are technically at a default, allowing java scripts and the "No proxy" setting is ticked for the network connection. I've also installed Opera and was able to access a channel on JustinTV but when I tried again, it's back to the same problem.

It always shows this:

http://img101.photolava.com/2009/11/29/screenshot-oops-this-link-appears-to-be-broken-www-oleole-com-blogs-realmad-2ok5qu8j.png

I installed NoScript and AdBlock Plus yesterday when this happened, thinking that it's because of the two add ons, I removed them but the same thing happened. My problem (on not being able to access certain sites) is not limited to me only. I tried asking friends (using Firefox) through chat to access the 3 sites I've mentioned and they gave the same results. My other friend who tried it with IE however, made realmadridtalk.com worked.

If anyone can enlighten me on this, I would really appreciate it. I know basic troubleshooting and I've Googled around to no avail.

Someone from ubuntuforums.org suggested that it might be because of my ISP but my other two friends whom I asked to access the same sites I mentioned, they got the same results (one is using broadband and one is DSL, from two diff services).

Is it possible to hook my computer up to the TV to watch shows from my computer on my TV? I have a TV output and AV cables that are for PC to TV, but when I try to connect it doesn't seem to work. Is there a certain program I have to download first?

Thank you!

edit: I am running ubuntu 8.10

The SB emulation in dosemu was designed to work with OSS, so it attempts to open /dev/dsp directly. I've tried running it with -s, wrapping it with padsp, and both at the same time, but it still cannot access the sound card.

kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$ padsp xdosemu -D +S
kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$ cat boot.log | grep SB
SB: SB Initialisation
SB: Initialisation - Base 0x220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, HDMA 5
SB: FM Initialisation
SB:[Linux] FM Driver Initialisation Called
SB: Resetting SB
SB: Disabling Speaker
SB: Speaker already disabled
SB:[Linux] SB Driver Initialisation Called
SB: /dev/dsp open failed, Device or resource busy
SB:[Linux] No sounddevice for SoundBlaster emulation found.
SB: Resetting FM
SB:[Linux] FM Driver Reset Called
kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$

Any suggestions? I've also tried dosbox, but the sound is choppy and it takes over the mouse until it's closed.

ETA: lsof /dev/dsp reports nothing.

ETA2: After trying many more things that didn't work, I met with partial success by double-wrapping dosemu with padsp and aoss, like so:

LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD libaoss.so libpulsedsp.so" dosemu -D +S

PCM output is working, but there's still no MIDI or mixer.

"OLD MAN! YOU SEEK THE SPELL OF MASTERY!" :D :D :D

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell inspiron E1705. The volume since I upgraded from 9.04 is no longer very accurate. Like since I upgraded from 9.04 there is still volume but the sound is no longer playing. I am confussed since if I recall correctly in 9.04 it used to be the ALSA sound driver but now it is saying it is the internal audio analog stereo. I am unsure if the ALSA and the internal audio are the same or this litterly is the internal driver for just the pc speaker. I can not describe it but it sounds different now comparing it to 9.04. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

David

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