Posts by uberamd

uberamd · Help & Support (Stable)

I know this is an old post, but I was able to solve this issue by switching the BIOS settings for storage from IDE to AHCI.

uberamd · Introductions

Just wanted to briefly introduce myself. My name is Steve though online I go by "uberamd".

I've been using Linux since the mid 1990's. I want to say my first forray into Linux was when I was about 9 years old (~1998), I installed Red Hat Linux on my Packard Bell desktop only to discover that the xserver wouldn't start! Oh boy, troubleshooting X settings at the age of 9 with nothing but a Linux for Dummies book was quite the task. Eventually, after getting all of my monitor refresh, resolution, video, etc. settings right I was presented with a lovely GUI. It's amazing how closely the DE Red Hat used resembled Windows. It basically had a "start menu", but with the Red Hat logo on it.

I did a bunch of distro hopping in the 90's: Caldera, Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, SuSE, and who knows what else. I dabbled in FreeBSD in the early 2000s and used a lot of Ubuntu (until Unity came out), Red Hat, Fedora, and OpenSuSE.

At work dabble in Linux Server admin, VMware clusters, and development. I use OS X as my primary work OS because it has a nice blend of development applications, UNIX support, and nice looking hardware. I can't wait until #! works natively on my Retina MBP.

At home I've got a desktop running Windows for purely gaming purposes and Linux Mint XFCE for getting stuff done. #! runs on my Lenovo T60 and it runs very very well on it. I really love using #! because of its simple interface and Debian core. Getting a vanilla Debian install to look and work as good as #! is something I'm too lazy to do, so I'm glad you fine folks took care of the leg work for me smile

uberamd · Help & Support (Stable)

There are two things that are really preventing me from not using Windows as my desktop OS:

Teamspeak Support
Heroes of Newerth (game) Support

Let me explain.

TeamSpeak is supported on Linux. Running Linux Mint I'm able to get TeamSpeak up and running out of the box. That wasn't the case on #!, sadly. In order to get TeamSpeak audio to even function on #! I had to use the ALSA OSS Compatibility Wrapper (aoss) and the audio was still quite crackly with lots of microphone interference, but it worked. So then whats the problem? Wrapping it with aoss means that it blocks all other audio from working. YouTube videos won't play with sound until TeamSpeak is closed -- or worse, Heroes of Newerth has no sound. So I need to decide: do I want to hear my teammates via TeamSpeak, or hear game sound.

Heroes of Newerth bundles into this because as I said, with TeamSpeak running the audio for the game is gone entirely. If I close TeamSpeak I do get HoN sound working again, but the one or the other approach is killing me.

I've done a ton of googling around, tinkered with it for a number of hours last week, and eventually gave up and went back to LMint. I really want to use #! because I love the out-of-box DE, but can't commit to it at the moment due to the issues I've seen. Has anyone gotten TeamSpeak working without aoss? If so, was the audio clear and microphone functioning?

The audio always worked fine for things like YouTube in Firefox, but fell apart with 3rd party apps (mainly due to blocking audio).

Cheers

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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Boot menu freezes on selecting "Install" or "Live Session" [SOLVED] » 2013-12-11 14:29:17

#2 Introductions » Glad to be here! » 2012-08-17 15:23:25

#3 Help & Support (Stable) » 2 things stopping me from ditching Windows - Guidance? » 2012-08-12 17:49:28

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