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Well….since I moved over to Linux completely around nov 3rd, I have managed to get (almost!) everything working, most of the time. Its been like this….if A and B worked, C and D wouldnt. (I dint know this at the time). Then all of a sudden, C and D started to work. A also worked, but now B got pissed off by something. Probably by A’s desertion…and sulked.

Had a tough time with B. Coaxed and cajoled and it worked….

SO, for a few days, I had this thing going GREAT!! everything was working….

It was too good to be true, hence I decided that it was no fun.

I tried to update a few things -dont really remember what now -and B went bonkers…..I mean really nuts….no amount of cajoling/coaxing yielded any results…I even threatened to throw it out, but it didnt make any difference. If anything, it made things worse.

Key:

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A = Network Connections = Ethernet LAN

B = Sound System = Sound Drivers + codecs + Media Player(s) = ALSA, OSS, aRTs + DVD plugins + Xine, Totem

C = Network Connections = Wireless LAN, (never worked even during install and afterward)

D = Touchpad and Mouse playing hide-and-seek

[Coaxing/Cajoling = Trying to find out what configuration files are needed/modified and manually figure out the problem and the solution.

Throw it out = Un-install ]

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Bottomline:

A = Supposedly been configured for office network, will have to test it tomorrow…er..today (2am now..) and check

B = FUBAR…the only thing that works is XMMS – for audio files and erratic video, The others (Xine, Totem show great video, without any Audio). Both I guess are using the ALSA system and in KDE, aRTs is having control over the driver right now….

C =WLAN funnily working, even hotplugging works

D = removed the external mouse, restarted machine, it detected removal, said OK, rebooted, reinsert ext mouse, got detected, now both work. well 2 out 4 aint bad….so ….

So, this has been a long blog, even longer nights spent on understanding how things worked in the Linux world.

*Yawn* I’ll sign off now with this link – looks like a pretty good site…

Making the big switch – from Windows to Linux – http://www.jediknight.com/~smpoole/switchtolinux.html