Monkeydust.net

Well, ive been twiddling my thumbs for months waiting for someone, somewhere to answer my prayers and create a working linux x-fi driver. Creative did release an ‘official’ beta driver last year but ive never had any luck with it like a large number of other people.

However it would appear that our prayers have been answered, at least in part. As with the latest release of OSS there is a basic x-fi driver, and whats more, it works! Its not amazing, currently only stereo sound is available but it works, and works ok therefore im happy.

If your interested in getting it running on gentoo then take a look at the official OSS forums as there is an overlay available that has working ebuilds in it.

Ive also just finished putting together a patched ebuild that adds support for OSS v4 to gstreamer so that sound works inside gnome, take a look on the downloads page for details (many thanks to seawright on the OSS forums for the patch).

So im making progress in getting this site working, although most of my tinkering has been behind the scenes lately, but i now have subversion and trac working (for anyone who cares trac is running on http://dev.monkeydust.net/trac) although i did hit some snags getting trac running in the root directory of dev.monkeydust.net so for now its running in /trac, perhaps il get round to taking another look at some point. Of course it doesnt matter much at the minute as i currently dont have anything to host there!

With any luck il have some more time to actually devote to learning python and i might even make a start on one of the many program ideas ive got bouncing in my head, so far im trying to get my head around the layman source code as id like to try and make it work with paludis (while playman works, its not as pretty as layman and wont remove repos for you), my other idea is a basic pygtk front end to tpb (thinkpad buttons) to make it a bit easier to control what button does what.

If anyone has any ideas though im open to other suggestions for useful (basic) tools, anything that will force me to learn more python is good