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Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:21 am
by mbrantley
Now that I have video hardware acceleration working at last one one of the trio of Linux flavors I've tried on my X1000, I am notincing a couple of oddities about my MintPPC install. I might be better served on the MintPPC forum, but I thought I would start here to see if I am alone with this.
To start with, I want to make an adjustment so the screen does not go blank after a few minutes. In the preferences menu, the two places I might choose to start looking for this setting are Screensaver and Powerprefs, but when I choose either nothing happens. Do I have something borked with my install?
Perhaps these menu selections are pointing to things I have not installed. But just checking... on the default install should this stuff be working? Thanks!
Another oddity... in Blender 2.63, my mouse "target" is about a half inch or more above the mouse cursor. Makes it hard to work in that program.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:48 am
by tommysammy
mbrantley wrote:Now that I have video hardware acceleration working at last one one of the trio of Linux flavors I've tried on my X1000, I am notincing a couple of oddities about my MintPPC install. I might be better served on the MintPPC forum, but I thought I would start here to see if I am alone with this.
To start with, I want to make an adjustment so the screen does not go blank after a few minutes. In the preferences menu, the two places I might choose to start looking for this setting are Screensaver and Powerprefs, but when I choose either nothing happens. Do I have something borked with my install?
Perhaps these menu selections are pointing to things I have not installed. But just checking... on the default install should this stuff be working? Thanks!
Another oddity... in Blender 2.63, my mouse "target" is about a half inch or more above the mouse cursor. Makes it hard to work in that program.
That problem with the mouse is here too. I don^t know it why it happen. I am no Linux expert
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:43 pm
by zzd10h
Hello,
For Blender, i have the same issue than you.
For the screensaver, I had a problem to launch it, the screensaver window never opened it, neither when called by xscreensaver-demo command.
i have just reinstalled xscreensaver by synaptics and now it works.
Screensaver is running nicely, no white scrren
Maybe the same issue for you ?
Edit : I just realize that I don't verify the Powerprefs, I will check it tomorrow.
Edit : it seems that Powerprefs is for pbbuttonsd, a tool to configure apple keyboard (/dev/pmu who doesn't exist on x1000)
Are you sure for Powerprefs ?
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:18 pm
by tingo
mbrantley wrote:To start with, I want to make an adjustment so the screen does not go blank after a few minutes. In the preferences menu, the two places I might choose to start looking for this setting are Screensaver and Powerprefs, but when I choose either nothing happens.
Have you tried the easy things first?
Perhaps DPMS is active as default. What does
in a shell (as your user, not root)
tell you about DPMS?
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:32 pm
by mbrantley
Guys, thanks for the responses. Sorry I have not been back to this thread earlier. I have not had an opportunity to get back into MintPPC and do any tweaking, but I expect I'll be able to do so over the weekend. I'll be sure to post back to the thread and let you know my progress.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:55 am
by mbrantley
Finally got back to MintPPC. Thanks, folks, again for the suggestions in this thread. Indeed, marking xscreensaver for reinstall did solve the problem with the screen saver. Now I have disabled it complely, because it was annoying as it was previously set to blank the screen after such a short time.
Forget what I said about Powerprefs. Not related to power settings. Heh.
And best news is I found a solution for the offset mouse click in Blender. Simply press F11 to enter a fullscreen mode, and then the mouse pointer will point precisely on what you expect to click.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:43 pm
by elginseam
Blender: F11. So simple yet so effective.
Now I have no excuse but to learn to use it!
Thanks a lot.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:02 pm
by mbrantley
elginseam wrote:Blender: F11. So simple yet so effective.
Now I have no excuse but to learn to use it!
Thanks a lot.
elginseam, I am glad you found that little trick helpful. I discovered it my accident -- probably while reaching for F12 to render something. Blender 2.63 with video acceleration under MintPPC is very snappy on the X1000. I just got a new Blender book to learn about the interface overhaul since the 2.4x days. Everything is in a different place, and not all the keyboad shortcuts are the same.
NEW QUESTION FOR THE X1000 LINUX CROWD:
Sound from the onboard audio chip under MintPPC is scratchy for me. Can this be fixed? Better yet, how can I enable my SoundBlaster card uunder MintPPC and use that? That's what I use with AmigaOS.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:24 pm
by mechanic
mbrantley wrote:elginseam wrote:
Sound from the onboard audio chip under MintPPC is scratchy for me. Can this be fixed? Better yet, how can I enable my SoundBlaster card uunder MintPPC.... .
My SBLive! dosen't work with the 3.5.7 kernel either.
I looked at the emu10k1 module and I 'believe' it does not contain everything necessary to operate the soundblaster. If I get time I'll rebuild the kernel & modules to fix it, but other projects and life have prevented this thus far.
Edit:
Forget that.
I just checked my Debian distro and the SBLive is working with 3.5.7 so the problem is something with Mint. I'll be back.
Re: Configuring MintPPC installation
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:37 pm
by mechanic
Open Sound & Video > VLC media player, then Tools > Preferences > Audio.
And see if you can select ALSA audio output and SB Live! ADC bla-bla 5.1 bla-bla for the Device.
Yes/No?