Linux - I hate it

I tried to set up a PC with Linux (Ubuntu) to do some recording-jobs with a built in DVB-S (skystar2 + 2/1 DISEqC Switch) card using vdr. Just "power on" - "dump the stream" - "power off".
After 4 days I am finaly able to say

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGH

I must be really stupid.

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I tried to run TC:E on linux, never managed

It's fuckin hard to understand for lil fuckerz like us comin from windows

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test-dr powns with linux, or fishface.. ask them Laughing

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"One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." Uncle Bionic

install tce of a linux os is easy when you will send me a pm a I help you. and triffid read this perhaps you can need it http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/B2C2. When not ask in a ubuntu forum

	TriffiD wrote:
	I tried to set up a PC with Linux (Ubuntu) to do some recording-jobs with a built in DVB-S (skystar2 + 2/1 DISEqC Switch) card using vdr. Just "power on" - "dump the stream" - "power off". After 4 days I am finaly able to say AAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGH I must be really stupid.

chill.. smoke.. calm down.. chiiiiiilll.. yeeeaaah.. rasta, homey!

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"One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." Uncle Bionic

	TriffiD wrote:
	I tried to set up a PC with Linux (Ubuntu) to do some recording-jobs with a built in DVB-S (skystar2 + 2/1 DISEqC Switch) card using vdr. Just "power on" - "dump the stream" - "power off". After 4 days I am finaly able to say AAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGH I must be really stupid.

relax triffid, it takes some time (seriously) to get the settings done. scientific working is awsome on linux, thats why i installed it. (free compilers, plotting programs, already installed pdf-converters, LaTeX, and once your used to it, the almighty bash.
On the other hand: you cant listen to mp3 streams from the scratch, installing GFX-drivers is a bitch.
Once all was setted for TCE, i realised that i cant press more then 3(foward+scoreboard+run+jump+shoot) keys at the same time. but as rudi already mentioned you arent the first person with these problems, search a random ubuntu forum and read,read,read.

Oops - Sorry guys - I didn't mean to cry for help actually. I just wanted to cry a little.
This was my third try with linux and I even got a general idea of what its all about. I know the console and I managed to install samba and make up a SSH connection so I can login from anywhere and work on it. That was really easy, but whenever I try to make Linux do some work for me, I fail.

I searched google for hours, found a ton of solutions and there was not one (!) working. I tried to compile sources - it didnt work! There were errors every single time (surely because some fancy dependencies I did not install before). I found a lot of (admittedly ingenious) apt-packages that I could install with apt-get, but it never worked properly.
In the end I managed to dump a stream (alright - no DISEqC support, but what the hell... at least it worked a little) and I tried to setup a package to wake my pc up from standby or hibernation... and guess what... it didn't work at all. I even nearly killed my BIOS NVRAM.
I could go on for hours like that and that is it why I wanted to cry. This was really ridiculous.
I don't want to post on a forum. I wouldn't even know what to ask exactly. And I don't have the patience to wait for days to get answers to take me only to the next millimeter-step. That would go on for years.

But Rudi: Thank you - Though I searched a looooot, your page really was on of the best so far and helped understanding.

For now I activated the windows-partition. Maybe I try again in a few weeks. It is actually fun to work with linux, but I still doubt its practical values for anyone but the real gurus and in highly specialised devices (like my router e.g.).

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compiling under ubuntu suxx Very Happy

you don't even have the default headers installed with a fresh ubuntu argh!

had similar fun like you triffid when i tryed to get the bloody graphics driver run (needed to compile a new kernel in the end and therefore i needed to get the compiler and the headers Very Happy

) but yes wiki.ubuntuusers.de is the best webpage i found so far (theres a solution for nearly everything there, and when i go there i read one article and another and another, because theres so much interesting stuff linked xD)

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"Fog is no water and no air it's something between it" Merlin

have I ever mentioned that linux really s***$$!"§$!"$!""§&$& ass?

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Deimos: His name means dread, and he was a fearsome son of Bull & Dirty the fearful gods of war. He always attended his gay fathers on the battlefield, along with his compadres.

ohhw oki....so I guess I just wanted to let you know again....

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Deimos: His name means dread, and he was a fearsome son of Bull & Dirty the fearful gods of war. He always attended his gay fathers on the battlefield, along with his compadres.

I don't really feel like contradicting, Deimos... Maybe it is not really a bad thing, but only useful if you are an absolute geek.
I will try it again, though. I think there is a way. Maybe vcr is the wrong choice. I think - with a few scripts, xine alone could do the trick.
Hmmm - maybe next year.

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Umpf - The name of the Software is 'vdr'. Embarassed

I tricked Windows into what I want. Lets see how stable it is.
If it fails to record this years Dr Who Xmas Special (25.12. 19.00 [CET] BBC1 - In case u don't know) I'll blow it up.

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n e r d

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	Spliffy wrote:
	n e r d

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	Bonzo wrote:
	Have to say you Germans look very well behaved if that was the Uk you would see drunk fat girls fighting

Oh sure - Unable to get the most-noob-orientated-Ubuntu-Linux running properly. Boy do I own...

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