{"id":270,"date":"2007-02-02T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2007-07-29T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T19:42:24","slug":"getting-stuff-working-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"getting stuff working on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by <lj user=\"greatbiggary\">&#8216;s recent wibblings on Linux, I decided it was time to iron out my own wrinkles. So after a very little googling, I was able to get a bunch of stuff working that for one reason or another had broken when I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy.<\/lj><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sound works on the desktop again (a simple matter of an outdated .asoundrc).<\/li>\n<li>Eclipse works (an x86_64 bug was mitigated).<\/li>\n<li>My webcam works (after a quick compile of the latest module) which means I can use Ekiga to talk the family.<\/li>\n<li>Flash 9 works through nspluginwrapper (Adobe are apparently incapable of releasing a 64-bit version).<\/li>\n<li>And I downloaded some games: Neverball and the Neverwinter Nights Linux client binary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only time I have to boot Windows now is if I want to VPN to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by &#8216;s recent wibblings on Linux, I decided it was time to iron out my own wrinkles. So after a very little googling, I was able to get a bunch of stuff working that for one reason or another had broken when I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy. Sound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}