Need a little help/advice

TLeeNorris · posted: 2012-01-10 22:51

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52
Memory : 1811MB (164MB used)
Operating System : Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
User Name : lappy (lappy)
Date/Time : Tue 10 Jan 2012 04:35:17 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Lid Switch
Sleep Button
Power Button
Power Button
Video Bus
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
HDA ATI SB Mic at Ext Front Jack
ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA SAMSUNG HM160HC
PHILIPS DVD+-RW SDVD8820

This is my first Lappy, it was my sons he took to TQ base, IQ when he joined the Marines in 2006. Now he has upgraded to a new HP lapp and I get this. It's missing a few button but works great on antiX full.

Now I reallyed wanted to stay with a stable Mepis/Debian Stable base, but it seems Anti has taken us further into Stable/Wheezy.... less Mepis.

I miss Mepis's samba which just worked and I really miss Amarok. (Amarok really has way to many dependencies to install). Xmms and GogglesMM has ne problem and that is a lack of an independent volume slider. You turn these down, they work off the PC's main sound slider and turn down the whole PC.

I tried both core and base aniX but kept coming up with a machine choked down with too much stuff. I am using IceWM and am slowly getting used to it and its flying on this old machine.

Is there a way to get a Stable/Mepis antiX or are we stuck with testing?

I aint mad, just asking..... __{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2012-01-11 00:56

As root

Enable/Uncomment=no # out the Debian Squeeze repos in /etc/apt/sources.lst

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# Debian Stable.
# Since 06-Feb-2011 this is known as"Squeeze". Use for maximum stability INSTEAD of
# the 'rolling' TESTING release concept.
# So, for max stability, UNCOMMENT the next two 'deb' lines and
# COMMENT-OUT the corresponding 'deb' lines in TESTING above.
#deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free 
#deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Comment out=#/Disable testing repos in /etc/apt/sources.st

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# Debian Testing. Default for antiX.
# Testing enabled for 'rolling' release.
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free 
#deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

Save and close.

Open root terminal

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apt-get update

You are done.

secipolla · posted: 2012-01-11 11:58

VLC has its own volume settings.
deadbeef too:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbeef/"
linktext was:"http://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbeef/"
====================================

(I suppose many others too)

TLeeNorris · posted: 2012-01-11 22:16

VLC.. what a wonderfully usefull tool. Its quickly becoming my player of choice....Linux and Windows...

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