Posts by asqwerth

asqwerth · Introductions

Welcome.

I'm a very basic Linux user (albeit not a total beginner), but I don't see any problems or difficulty with using Synaptic. Just open it, update it, and initiate a search with keywords. Check out the search results and install the appropriate programs found.

As to why use Crunchbang? It's fast, stable and efficient once you get used to using the right-click button to get your applications menu. It may look coolly-minimalist, but the collection of programs it comes with is more than enough for usual needs, and you can always install whatever else you require.

But yes, you're right, it does look cool. :-)
It's more than looks, though.

asqwerth · Introductions

Hi, everyone.

I've been a long-time Linux newbie for about 4-5 years. I tried many distros, and in the initial years found that there were quite a few distros that had problems with my Dell PC's display and/or ATI graphics card or other hardware. SimplyMepis 6.5 was my favourite at that time, because it recognised all my hardware, and everything just worked, even Beryl/Compiz-Fusion (not many other distros can get desktop effects to work on my PC out of the box, even now).

Ultimately however, I found myself booting into my Linux partitions less and less because the home printer was connected by USB to my PC. My family members used either Windows or OSX machines on the home network and whenever they needed to use the printer, I had to switch back to XP (could never figure out how to set up Samba!), and the long time it took to start up made me think twice about logging out of XP once I was in.

With Unetbootin, I still tried live distros on USB once in a while, but I never bothered to install them or update those on my PC. Crunchbang 9 was one of the distros I tried, and it stuck in my mind because I was very impressed by it.

Then, 3 months ago, I upgraded the home printer to a wireless networked one. Freedom!

First distro installed in my now 7-year-old PC? Crunchbang!

It's been fast, stable and more than sufficient for my needs so far, although I'm still feeling my way around the manual editing of the config files. So far I don't find that there's any pressing need to do so though, so it's not really an issue.

However, I do miss the yellow leaf wallpaper from Crunchbang 9. Is there any way I can get a copy of that? :-)

asqwerth · Help & Support (Stable)

Hi, newbie here (level - interested beginner, have installed some distros on my old PC by being someone who can follow instructions rather than being someone with real tech knowledge).

Wasn't sure if I should post in this thread or start a potentially repetitive thread. My problem is similar to but not exactly same as original poster's. [Mods, if you feel it should have its own thread, please move it accordingly]

Just bought an ASUS laptop (amd 64) and ran Live CD of Crunchbang Statler r.20110207. Sound from laptop's own speakers was fine once I realised the alsa mixer's default channel setting wasn't the speaker. Switched the channel and un-muted the volume. No problem.

Installed Crunchbang onto laptop hard drive. On first boot, when the script asked if I wanted to dist-upgrade, I said yes. However, I said NO to the kernel update to Liquorix. Also, the Openoffice repositories appeared to be down so it didn't manage to install although I said YES. Other than that, I said yes to printer utilities and Java Run Time but skipped all the parts at the end of the script dealing with software development packages.

After that, I began using Crunchbang. Noticed my ntfs data partition didn't appear in File Manager. Installed ntfs-config and disk-manager to deal with it. Tried playing music files from said data partition and that's when I realised the sound no longer worked. Tried to play Youtube video on my browser - no sound either (both worked during the Live CD session). I've set the alsa mixer channel to "speaker" and made sure it's not muted, so that's not the problem. Volume slider shows up and is at 100%.

I'm not sure what happened. Since I upgraded practically everything, I don't know which thing messed the sound up. The irony is that I chose Crunchbang as the distro to install on my laptop because in Live CD sessions, it gave me no problems with sound, unlike Linux Mint Debian and aptosid (both use pulseaudio, I think) !!

What should I do now? Would be grateful for all your help.

UPDATE: The sound mysteriously returned this evening when I booted up the laptop again. I did a lspci in the terminal to list out the various hardware devices, then thought I'd try playing a music file for the heck of it. Worked again. Still not sure what happened.

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#1 Re: Introductions » tell me why should i change from ubuntu natty » 2011-06-02 13:38:43

#2 Introductions » Rekindling my interest in Linux (long) » 2011-06-02 08:19:03

#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Sound Problem » 2011-03-18 07:50:34

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