My YDL Log

[pablo]

I just want to keep a log of what I do on my YDL 6.1. I hope this sort of thing is not frowned upon.

01/22/2009
-Finally had the time to upgrade to 6.1
-Installation was incredibly smooth and much faster than I thought. The whole process took less then 30 minutes.
-First boot as user, I had enlightment drawer/taskbar crash on me. I reported in PS3 section.
-Set up wireless, which was already right there, did not have to fiddle with anything like we did in 5.0.1.
-Just downloaded billb's Repo RPM, and confirmed that those were same as what he instructed, if we did manually.
-Will install vlc..
-Installed VLC through yum
-Package manager said I have 23 updates available, this is cool.
-Updated gstreamer through package manager
-The other 22 are still pending since I don't have time.
-Switched to GNOME
-In GNOME it says I have no compatible sound card, yet I still have sound on some videos
-Wireless Connection Manager states I am not connected to anything, yet I am connected to internet when I tried Firefox. (Did not even type WEP key)
01/23/2009
-Received the wireless mouse and keyboard combo. IOGEAR Long Range Combo $60 shipped
-Went home and set it up, it works great. I just hope it has auto off feature (who reads the manual) that turns off the keyboard (mouse is rechargeable).
-Need to set up flash/youtube/justin tv. I just tried justin TV on GameOS browser, it just doesn't work well, it starts skipping frames after about 3-5 minutes, possibly due to cache limitation on GameOS? Who knows... but the picture is perfect otherwise.
01/28/2009
-I noticed Divx/xviD movies quality is very low, as if they were actually lower resolution, I need to find a solution for this (missing plugin?)
-I tried to run yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad but it did not work for some reason, it gave me following error: (Now Installed!)
-Above error issue was caused by loss of internet connection, for some reason I am losing the wireless link, and I have to deactive and re-active the adapter for it to reconnect..
-yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly installed.
-I learned that external devices are listed under /media directory. I was looking all over for this in order to add videos to VLC playlist
-VLC crashes when I add 500 videos to the playlist. I wonder if there is any other way to play videos continuously without adding them all to the playlist.
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[billb]

I just want to keep a log of what I do on my YDL 6.1. I hope this sort of thing is not frowned upon.

No, not -- it's here! I've even done the same thing myself back on 6.0:

viewtopic.php?p=19744#p19744

Just want to make sure that you do install yum-protectbase and protect your yellowdog repos -- the "ezrepos" RPM doesn't install it for you.

[pablo]

Thanks. I thought this would be a good way to keep track of what I have done in case I had to do it again on my or someone else's PS3.
Yep I did protect them. I expected some output after the line 2 and 3 though, (echo...) but nothing happened. I assume they are safely protected. I totally forgot to open the .repo files and check if protect=1 is amended. Gotta do that.

updated the first post with more items.

[billb]

Yes, I was just trying to make it simpler by using the echo command to append the line to the yellowdog repos. If you want to double-check, you can have a look at them to be sure:

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su -

<enter root password>

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more /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog*

[pablo]

I was just editing my post above probably at the same time as you were typing yours.

[billb]

-In GNOME it says I have no compatible sound card, yet I still have sound on some videos

I wonder if it's that file you need to add ... will have to look it up though.

-Wireless Connection Manager states I am not connected to anything, yet I am connected to internet when I tried Firefox. (Did not even type WEP key)

Heh ... any unsecured wireless networks close by?

[pablo]

Heh ... any unsecured wireless networks close by?

Nope, that's the funny thing. It was the first thing I thought, but I checked www.ipchicken.com and it is my IP address!
And I can login to my router.

[billb]

Not sure about the wireless thing, but re: sound, here's the topic:

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4391&p=22253&hilit=alsa+ps3.conf#p22156

[pablo]

Thanks for that link. Regarding the network, I posted here viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4580&start=15#p24013
it seems like the Network Connections on taskbar does not work properly, and states it is not connected. I just disabled/closed that and used control panel/network settings and enabled wifi and connected. Hmm that makes me thing, Network Connections was probably not connecting because it was disabled, but then how did it see the available wireless connections.. Anyway, it works when I close that "tool" and use built in settings.

[ppietro]

Thanks for that link. Regarding the network, I posted here viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4580&start=15#p24013
it seems like the Network Connections on taskbar does not work properly, and states it is not connected. I just disabled/closed that and used control panel/network settings and enabled wifi and connected. Hmm that makes me thing, Network Connections was probably not connecting because it was disabled, but then how did it see the available wireless connections.. Anyway, it works when I close that "tool" and use built in settings.

Be sure you read thru the scenario 3 section here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4534

wicd is pretty cool, but it does have a couple of bugs. There's nothing wrong with the way you set up networking - that's the way I do it. But - if you want to use wicd - you have to work around a couple of issues.

Cheers,
Paul

[pablo]

Thanks Paul!

[CronoCloud]

Yep, I keep a log of stuff I do, if it requires me to do something unusual. Did so on the PS2 too, came in very handy sometimes.

Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)

[pablo]

I got application eog crashed today...