Start rhythmbox to play music, use sound-juicer to convert CD's to mp3/ogg/flac/whatever Playing videos I installed rhythmbox / sound juicer, which are two tools providing a music library (a bit like iTunes) sudo apt-get install rhythmbox soundjuicer mp3lame Then fullscreen works great ! Playing/Importing CD's Then fix nf by changing the Screen refresh rate and commenting out the DRI driverįontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"įontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"įontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"įontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"Īfter changing this restart X (kill -HUP gdm) or simply reboot. Press: CTRL-ALT-F1 (together) to get to the text console Then i booted it on the mac, the CD would start and then it would try to start Xubunut (LiveCD), which would fail (blank screen) because teh nf file needed tweaking. Update: you could now get the newer Feisty ISO: Feisty ISO I Downloaded the PPC image of xubuntu Edgi ISO and burned it on a CD. I choose Xubuntu, because it's nice and lightweight (Ubuntu based with XFCE), so it runs nice and fast on the Imac. It came with OSX (10.3), which surprisingly ran pretty well, but i want to use some free kiddy software and more speed from it, so it was time to install linux.Īnother thing i added are some external speakers because the built-in speakers sound terrible, not sure if they are busted, if it's a Linux thing, or if those speakers where just crappy out of the box. It came with the original keyboard with the annoying little arrow keys, as well as the original mice, promptly discarded for a 3 buttons I/R specimen i had on hand. I especially liked the extra ram cause 320MB is great for running linux. It's an Imac Indigo G3 400Mhz, it had upgrades such as 60GB HD and 320MB of ram ! i found a great one (newer with nice hardware) 20 miles away for only 90$. I figured it would suck to pay 50$ for shipping for a 75$ computer and have to retuen it. So i decided to go and look for an Imac on ebay, but the specs where not always precise and/or the listing person was not sure it even worked. Seriously it's a standalone unit with all that's needed to me built-in. I figured one of those "classic" all in one Imac would be just the thing, it looks like a toy anyhow I did not care for something way fast, just something that's clean, works well and can run linux. I wanted something sturdy, cool for kids and compact/practical for her. You need to add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.My 2+ years old daughter needs a computer (so she won't play with mine). You need to add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list file It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. It has many MX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2.
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