How-To Change The Default Sound Card in Slackware Linux

Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in linux, slackware | Comments Off

How-To Change The Default Sound Card in Slackware Linux My case: I have an on-board sound card that I use for everything except for Skype, where I use my Logitech ClearChat ... Read more..

Active Perl’s Package Manager: ppm

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in perl, programming, slackware | Comments Off

It allows you to get Perl pre-compiled packages. You can avoid installing a C compiler which is needed for some packages (KinoSearch for example). http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/ Alternate packages repositories: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/ Read more..

Compile MythTV 0.21 Slackbuild for Slackware 12.1

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in linux, slackware, video | Comments Off

with the latest ffmpeg installed, I add to temporarily move the following directories in my home directory for the MythTV compilation to go smoothly: /usr/include/libavcodec/ /usr/include/libavformat/ /usr/include/libavutil/ Read more..