Well, I got in a new GeForce card with DVI and my video quality, to no one's surprised, is improved. No need to twiddle with gamma settings and the like; everything looks correct.
The problems I'm having are of the more-mundane variety. Dumb example: I've finally gotten into the world of digg and the wacky videos that people find. One wacky video showed a pair of quick-change artists that appeared on America's Got Talent (a show I refuse to watch in the same way I refuse to watch American Idol). Unfortunately, when I play it from YouTube under Ubuntu, the sound goes out of sync.
Of course, if I Google "ubuntu youtube sound" I uncover various suggestions and workarounds, and the ultimate culprit isn't really Ubuntu but the Linux implementation of the Flash plug-in. And I guess that's part and parcel of running Linux... having to take care of the fit and finish stuff yourself. It's just, well, annoying.
Edit: for my own records, here is a page that discusses how to fix the asynch sound under Ubuntu. Easy enough to follow... if you've been playing with command line stuff for a few years now like I have. For everyone else, they'll say "now tell me again why you aren't using Windows or MacOS?"
Edit #2: that page did indeed work, after I tried searching for just "firefox" rather than "mozilla-firefox" preferences. Next hurdle is trying to print. I've managed to get a single page to print out one time to the Color LaserJet 1500L I have hooked to my Ubuntu machine. In true Washingtonian fashion, I am throwing money at the problem and I bought an HP JetDirect print server; we'll see if that makes things any easier.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
To use a HP printer use hp-setup in a root terminal
Try using the command
hp-setup from a root terminal
Post a Comment