Sound-Juicer and MP3 in Ubuntu Breezy

09 Aug 2005

After my success with installing Ubuntu Breezy I wanted to rip 2 new CD’s I got today. But the gstreamer MP3 encoder (gstreamer0.8-lame) isn’t in the Ubuntu repositories.

I found it at Marillat’s Debian repository (direct link) where I downloaded it and installed it with:

rivendell:~# dpkg -i gstreamer0.8-lame_0.8.10-0.1_i386.deb

You also need the package liblame0, which is in multiverse:

rivendell:~# apt-get install liblame0

In the Sound-Juicer in Breezy you can add a MP3 profil from within Sound-Juicer preferences. You might wanna take a look at an earlier entry about MP3 ripping in Sound-Juicer in my blog.

Installed Ubuntu Breezy with success

09 Aug 2005

…well it didn’t come working out of the box :-D

I installed Hoary from CD and upgraded Hoary packages from the internet (though I dont think upgrading was nessesary).
Logged into a console (Alt+F1) and shutting down X:
```
rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
```
Changed all Hoary soruces to Breezy sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
Then i dist-upgraded Hoary:
```
rivendell:~# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
```
I had to upgrade a few times before all packages was upgraded.
Now I tried to configure X with:
```
rivendell:~# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
```
Didn’t read what it was saying just pressing enter, enter, enter…

Now I tried to start X:

rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start

But got the following errors in the logfile in /var/log/gdm/:0.log:

sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Couldn't compile keymap file
(EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

And:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed';
the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
configured correctly.

Note: I had trouple using my keyboard at this point but I waas able to get through all the messages wit the ‘d’ key, and back into the console.

Surfing the Ubuntuforums.org got me to the following:
```
rivendell:~# apt-get install xkb-utils
rivendell:~# apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-base
```
xkbutils gives the needed binary xkbcomp. Actually I don’t think I had xfonts-base installed at all after upgrading to Breezy, so the option --reinstall might not be nessessary.
Now try restarting GDM and perhapes you are as lucky as me, and will now be greeted by the Ubuntu graphical login screen:
```
rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm restart
```

My computer is equiped with a fairly old Nvidia graphic card, dunno if that makes any difference.

My WINE games status

07 Aug 2005

To night I tried to play a few games with WINE (NOT Cadega) on my Ubuntu Hoary system. Here is what I found out so far:

World of Warcraft

NOGO WoW version 1.6.1. Patches apply, game starts, you can login and select a character og play with it. But it there is a bug which makes it nearly impossible to click on any in-game items such as NPC’s, mailboxes etc. I read on some mailinglists that if you put the camara just right you are able to click on them. Preferable when you can have nothing but sky behind the object you want to clock at (yeah something like running around looking up in the sky all the time). From what I have read on the mailing lists it seems to be a Blizzard bug… a few Windows users suffers from this too. Comon Blizzard… we are so close now. The game seems to run alot faster under Linux in WINE than on my Windows XP partition (though it havn’t been reinstalled for years now, so perhapes it isn’t a fair comparisson).

Update: It is actually a YEAH. Take a look at my post about WoW i Ubuntu Breezy

Sid Meier’s Pirates

NOGO Can’t make the game install. I get an error code 1628 at once. It seems that the game uses a MSI installer, but I havn’t found any guides (yet) on how you install the game, but perhapes installaing a native MSI would solve the problem (guide located in the bottom of this post). Haven’t tried to copy from my Windows partition

Risk II

NOGO Yeah this is an old game which I usually play with the guys when we make some of our small lan-parties. There is no visual evidence (spalsh screen, menu, mouse cursor etc.) that the game actually starts, it just dies almost before it is excecuted.

Warcraft III

YEAH Remove movies from the Movies/ directory. Apply a no cd patch and the game will run with the -opengl option. Haven’t looked into playing on Battle.Net… yet.

Here is a few good reads: