Just a quick Linux moment
I couldn't resist ... I booted into Linux for about 40 minutes tonight.
I think I did it in hopes to download Rogue (a Dungeon and Dragons like game, I guess) for Linux. I grew up on this game on our old PCs and never conquered it. I thought it would be cool to put it into something closer to it's original environment. But I didn't find what I was looking for -- granted I didn't try very hard.
Instead I started messing with the external DVD burner ... I don't know why, seeing I didn't anticipate it working out, but I actually figured out how to get it recognised, which is rather cool.
First I learned about the command: lsusb which lists all the stuff attached to USB ports. It found both the burner and the webcam. Kind of cool.
Then, I read something about saying that /dev/scd0 would be the external drive. I don't know *why* this is the case, but it turns out to be true in my case.
Next (as root), I mounted the external drive (a few different ways, but settled on the following...) ... seeing that /mnt/cdrom was not in use, I went for mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom and then found a movie player already installed that recognised the DVD in the drive. (And any fellow newbies, don't forget to unmount when you're done. umount /mnt/cdrom )
Now, I'm not totally satisfied. I did get the sound quality to improve, with a little more tweaking within alsamixer but the picture quality wasn't as good as what I use in XP. :( Seemed jerky and stuff... it might need better drivers or something? Also, I have noted that I cannot get a better screen resolution than 1024x768 ... which is a silly thing, considering my lovely 19" LCD monitor.
And before I forget, for some reason, I can't press a keyboard key, hold it down, and input more than one character. This is annoying for backspace or when I really want to type hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That, also, is just silly.
But all of that is for another day.
I think I did it in hopes to download Rogue (a Dungeon and Dragons like game, I guess) for Linux. I grew up on this game on our old PCs and never conquered it. I thought it would be cool to put it into something closer to it's original environment. But I didn't find what I was looking for -- granted I didn't try very hard.
Instead I started messing with the external DVD burner ... I don't know why, seeing I didn't anticipate it working out, but I actually figured out how to get it recognised, which is rather cool.
First I learned about the command: lsusb which lists all the stuff attached to USB ports. It found both the burner and the webcam. Kind of cool.
Then, I read something about saying that /dev/scd0 would be the external drive. I don't know *why* this is the case, but it turns out to be true in my case.
Next (as root), I mounted the external drive (a few different ways, but settled on the following...) ... seeing that /mnt/cdrom was not in use, I went for mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom and then found a movie player already installed that recognised the DVD in the drive. (And any fellow newbies, don't forget to unmount when you're done. umount /mnt/cdrom )
Now, I'm not totally satisfied. I did get the sound quality to improve, with a little more tweaking within alsamixer but the picture quality wasn't as good as what I use in XP. :( Seemed jerky and stuff... it might need better drivers or something? Also, I have noted that I cannot get a better screen resolution than 1024x768 ... which is a silly thing, considering my lovely 19" LCD monitor.
And before I forget, for some reason, I can't press a keyboard key, hold it down, and input more than one character. This is annoying for backspace or when I really want to type hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That, also, is just silly.
But all of that is for another day.
Labels: external drive, linux, Slackware, USB
posted by olivepeople at 11:30 PM
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