Re: Fedora desktop experience: Great, but not quite all I need

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> 1) Email.  I had some problems getting Evolution 1.4 to talk nicely with 
> my RH 9 email server via imaps and smtp-auth over tls.  I'm still working 
> through that, but I got email working by allowing relay from the desktop 
> box.  My wife is getting used to the interface, but it's no big deal for 
> her, so that's a plus.
>
>  
What is the configuration of the server? If it is using postfix I may be 
able to help you... What errors do you get?

> - Olympus C-750 UltraZoom.  I couldn't get gtkam to initialize the 
> camera, no matter what camera I selected.  The autoselect kept finding it 
> as a C-2040Z, which would have been fine if it could have initialized the 
> camera.  I suppose I'd have to use one of those card readers, but I don't 
> know if any of them read Olympus xD cards.  This one's a deal-killer for 
> my wife.  I'll have to dual boot if I can't get this one working.
>
>  
I looked at the gphoto2 website , and they list this camera as 
supported..  (http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php)  Maybe 
you could try it instead of gtkam...

> 5) Video.  I couldn't even get my video off of my Canon Optura 20 
> camcorder and onto the computer with dvgrab.  I've left a message on 
> the dvgrab message board and haven't heard back these last few days.  
> I found a couple of messages in archives that hint that ieee1394 isn't 
> working properly yet in linux, so that may be why I had the problems.  
> I could control the camera, but just not capture the video over the 
> firewire port.  Go figure.  I may try again when I get the new motherboard 
> installed.  I don't think it's the board, though, since this works 
> flawlessly in Win2K.
>
>  
I cant speak for myself , as I dont have any Firewire devices , but I've 
heard that firewire support is problematic only in the 2.6 kernel (in 
FC2T3 , it was disabled , because trying to use it could hang the 
computer very badly) , but looks like 2.6.6 has a fix already...

> Bottom line:  Fedora is almost there for my personal needs.  Great look, 
> good experience, but not all of the apps I need are working yet.  For now, 
> I may have to look at purchasing XP to take advantage of the SATA ports 
> on the new motherboard.
>  
Well, that's one reason why I still dual-boot (it was tri-boot with FC1 
, FC2T3 and windows xp , now it's only FC2T3 and XP).. I'm really a game 
addict , so I need XP.. But besides that , I can live happily with 
fedora as my main OS...

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Pedro Macedo