[Lubuntu-qa] playing multimedia with lubuntu raring-desktop-i386

[Nio Wiklund]

I have installed Lubuntu raring-desktop-i386 in an old but once powerful
hp-workstation, where I work with video clips from my video camera.

This exercise is also reported in the qatracker, daily build 2013-04-21.

The computer has double xeon processors (2x2 cores) and an nvidia
geforce gt430 graphics card.

Nouveau works well. I did not see any difference compared to
nvidia-current (the proprietary driver) running mplayer. Of course
nouveau doesn't offer vdpau, but running mplayer without any explicit
options gives the same result with HD 1080p video (with a margin fast
enough for a difficult video clip). And this graphics card runs vdpau
with the proprietary driver, which leaves very little to do for the CPUs.

I need not install flashplugin-installer to play HD 720p video from the
internet in chromium-browser and firefox. This is different from the
alternate iso. Video and audio work out of the box when playing video
clips from the internet. But I need to install pulseaudio and
pavucontrol to get sound via an aureal vortex card, when I play audio or
video from local files with mplayer. Otherwise the audio is 'hijacked'
for hdmi by the gt430 graphics card, and I failed to fix it with alsamixer.

 -o-

The following commands were taken from .bash_history and show what I
have installed and the mplayer commands.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
nvidia-settings # to be prompted for the next command
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo reboot # to start using the proprietary graphics driver

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

mplayer 7.MTS # play a file created with my video camera

alias mplayervdpau='mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau \
-lavdopts skiploopfilter=nonref -use-filename-title -fs'

mplayervdpau 7.MTS

 -o-

Question:

I noticed that jockey-gtk is not bundled with lubuntu, but it seems to
be available in the repos. Is there supposed to be any automatic
searching for hardware, where proprietary drivers should be used?


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Re: [Lubuntu-qa] raring-desktop-i386 - Can not connect to a wireless network

[Ali Linx (amjjawad)]

Hi,

@Ioannis and Jose

Well, I can't even do anything right now on the Network Manager :D
I can't disable/Enable, I can't click Edit, nothing is working and I don't
know what is going on?
Whatever I click on, it does not work.

To answer this Q:
*Do you see the wireless network(s) that are available, and just can't
connect, or you see no wireless networks at all?*

Yes. I see the list of the Wireless Networks :)
Everything is there and listed.

Whenever I click to my Wireless Network to connect, the Indicator Applet
Icon will be changed showing the progress of trying to connect to a
wireless network but nothing is moving on, it does not connect and I'm
still connected ONLY to my wired connection.

I have a Wireless USB Adapter:

*-network
   description: Wireless interface
   physical id: 1
   bus info: usb@1:1
   logical name: wlan1
   serial: 00:1f:1f:a8:e5:21
   capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
   configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb
driverversion=3.5.0-27-generic firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

Now, because nothing is responding on the Network Manager, I can't do
anything.

I need to increase my Networking Skills (System Wise) and learn more
commands in order to track this issue and try to fix it.

Never mind guys, I will do my digging and come back if I fail to find
anything ;)

Ali


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Jose Lopez  wrote:

> Ali, I know that what i'm about to share is probably old hat. I never get
> my wireless working out of the box. I usually have ti right click on the
> Internet icon in the lxpanel uncheck the wireless item go out of it , then
> go back to it and click on it again. go back out of it, wait about five
> seconds. left clinck on the Internet icon again, and all the time it will
> show my network. That is just the way I do it, or else it will not work.
> jose
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Ioannis Vranos 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> Do you see the wireless network(s) that are available, and just can't
>> connect, or you see no wireless networks at all?
>>
>>
>> Ioannis Vranos
>>
>> http://www.cppsoftware.net
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Phill and thanks for your quick reply,
>> >
>> > I'm on 10.04 right now. I have checked on 12.04. NO chance at all.
>> >
>> > Yes, this is ASUS F3F Intel Core Due @1.86GHz and 512MB RAM. That thread
>> > didn't help :(
>> > Unless you suggest to use:
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper ???
>> >
>> > I think the Wireless here was working fine. I'm not sure but I think it
>> > stopped after using LAN connection. Now, even if I unplug the wire
>> (LAN), I
>> > can't connect.
>> >
>> > So, it seems not a release/OS issue but a Hardware issue? I'm a bit
>> confused
>> > about it.
>>
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Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Kubuntu

[prairie zephyr]

Please disregard the previous request for direction (also I forgot to Cc L-qa). 
Found the Kubuntu PPC at 
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/243/builds - just learning my way 
around.


On 2013-04-21, at 12:29 PM, Phill Whiteside  wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> the PPC tester for kubuntu has mis-placed the charger for his machine. Can 
> you please 'adopt' that iso for testing through to release. I'll let you know 
> if he finds it and resumes testing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phill.
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Re: [Lubuntu-qa] raring-desktop-i386 - Can not connect to a wireless network

[Ali Linx (amjjawad)]

Hi,

Problem Solved, Guys :)

Moral of the story or Wisdom of the day:
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, and ALWAYS (did I say always?) do the most simple and easy
step before checking anything else.

I'm connected to the internet via Wireless Range Extender. It has 4 LAN
Ports and of course Wireless Signal. The wired connection was obviously
fine. It seems the Wireless was not. I unplugged it from power, re-plugged
it again and everything is FINE now :D
I'm connected to the internet via my wireless not wired. I should have
rebooted the range extender last night but it didn't come to my mind.

Again, lesson of the day: do step 0 before step 1 :D

Thank you all and sorry for the false Alarm.

I'm glad my network device is still supported, even with Kernel 3.8 :D



On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm having some problems lately but I will start with the one that most
> important and I know we are few days to the final release but I must report
> this.
>
> I'm using my test laptop right now to type this. I'm connected to the
> internet via LAN.
>
> Long story short, I can not connect to my Wireless Network, neither from
> 13.04 beta 2, nor 12.10 nor 12.04 and all on the same machine.
>
> *-network
>description: Wireless interface
>product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection
>vendor: Intel Corporation
>physical id: 0
>bus info: pci@:02:00.0
>logical name: wlan0
>version: 02
>serial: 00:19:d2:b8:99:77
>width: 32 bits
>clock: 33MHz
>capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
> physical wireless
>configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945
> driverversion=3.8.0-18-generic firmware=15.32.2.9 latency=0 link=no
> multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
>resources: irq:43 memory:fdfff000-fdff
>
> Just did a system upgrade and same result. Just in case it is a bug and
> the fix has been released. I'm sure this is not news for you.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S.
> This is Beta 2 installation.
>
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