A lot of distributions ship a binary of mplayer that is one, old, and two, doesn’t have the capability to see the menu of a dvd. The reason they ship an old binary of mplayer is because the developpers of mplayer don’t believe in releases. The “latest” release dates of October 2007. Yup that’s more [...]
I tend to use the command line more often these days. When I have to do some task, I find it easier and faster to open a terminal and enter the necessary commands than using the GUI. The same thing goes for applications. When you know how to use a specific console program, it can [...]
A few weeks ago, X.org 7.4 entered the Arch Linux repositories. The X server has drastically changed compared to its previous version. It is focussed on enabling true hot plugging for input devices. This means that input devices like keyboards, mices and touchpads should no longer be hard coded in your xorg.conf file, but instead [...]
0. Contents Introduction Prerequisites Compilation and Installation Uninstall Troubleshooting 1. Introduction Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, known by the acronym ALSA, is a linux kernel component providing device drivers for sound cards. It replaced the original Open Sound System (OSS) since v2.6 of the linux kernel, while still providing backwards compatibility for it. Among the ALSA [...]