hee hee hee hee hee

[solarbird]

So, ysabel played the short test recording of January to a friend, and now diego001 is my first CD's second sponsor! Thanks! ^_^ (I still can't get over the idea that anybody would want to do that. It just makes me giggle. Hee hee hee hee hee *^_^*;; )

(I guess I'm gonna have to actually make all this shit work now! Today it only took 10 minutes to get the DAW to acknowledge my microphone inputs, and it didn't even break output fixing it. I don't know why it quit; I even left it running overnight after yesterday's misadventures. Oh, yesterday it wouldn't do input OR output OR talk to my monitor properly anymore (to wit: fuck! they broke plug-and-play again!) and that took 3.5 hours to make go. So I left it running. I thought that'd mean everything would still work today. Well, mostly. Anybody who thinks Linux is "ready for the desktop" needs to come off the crystal meth. Now.

But honestly, there must be a stable point in here somewhere. People actually use this shit! And it can't be like this for everybody! I blame, I dunno, Compaq. And possibly global warming.)

Comments

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

What distribution is that? My Ubuntu systems just have xorg.conf replacing the old XF86Config, and even that is semi-optional these days.

Though to get multi-monitor to automatically work properly with my laptop I did have to add "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --auto --above LVDS" to strategic places, not something most people would be up for.

[solarbird]

It was Ubuntu, but xorg.conf did not look comprehensive to me. But it has been a while since I've looked at an actual XF86Config in the wild, and it scared me. Perhaps there is less in it than I remember.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

These days most of what used to be in XF86Config *can* still be defined in xorg.conf, but is normally detected automatically and therefore omitted from the config file, making it normally much smaller than the old XF86Config files. My current laptop xorg.conf exists for the sole purpose of defining a virtual display large enough for two monitors.