(Sorry for the late followup) Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > Still, I suggest using a mouse. The trackpad sucks. > > Hmm, actually I'm a fan of trackpoints. They're great. I learned typing on > an old-style typewriter so I type 10 fingers and on IBM laptops, a > trackpoint is always less than an inch away. I'd certainly also prefer a trackpoint. > Still, the trackpad is okay. I've seen worse ones. Sure. > True, a mouse is better, but only if you don't carry your Powerbook around > like I do sometimes. So do I, but I have a Logitech mini wheel mouse which I can carry with me. > > > I've followed the discussions about sound a little bit. XMMS works fine > > > for me in the patched version that I downloaded from Mike Daenzer. I can > > > play mp3s fine under a normal user account (no clicks and pops). But, > > > just as it was posted here before, the volume control doesn't work. > > > > You have to enable 'Volume controls Master not PCM' in the Mixer tab of > > the output plugin preferences. > > Ah, great! Works, although it only regulates the "Volume" volume, thus the > volume on line-out, not the "Speaker" volume for the built-in speakers. Yes, use a full-blown mixer like gmix to get full control. > > > I also installed the Audio CD Reader plugin v0.11b. But this one seems > > > to be broken, it produces noise. Is there any bugfix available? > > > > It's probably an endianness bug, maybe you can figure it out and fix it? > > :) > > You kidding? I don't even know the real difference between big and little > endian and what this means for programming. And secondly, I'm a lousy C > programmer. Most endianness bugs are rather easy to fix. Unfortunately I'm bad at explaining things so I refer to the Hacker Jargon: http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/big-endian.html Good luck, -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
