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Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) mezman Profile | Email Hello all, I was looking for a linux binary alarm clock to run on my ia1 (I am running the midori image). I came across a plug in for the MMX mp3 player. This would be great but it seems to only come in .deb package. I don't know how to use this (debian) package. I would assume I would probably have to applied some build utitly that is part of Debian linux OS. Does anyone know any thing about this? Is there a binary version of this plugin, or has any one build the MMX app with this plug-in included? Or at the very least I was thinking of smb mounting a java alarm clock browser program if I could find a free one that has big numbers. Of course this is asking alot, but if never asked, never found. Thanks, Mezman 04-14-2002 06:25:17

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile .deb is the "package" format for Debian. It's analogous to a .zip file. Sortof. You can uncompress it with the "dpkg-deb" command that does come with the Debian distribution. I could also uncompress it for you and send it to you as a tar.gz file. Also, if it's part of the stock Debian distribution, you can download elements from inside of packages from their website (the packages section) at www.debian.org. If it's just somebody else's work, they won't have it. But, some other thoughts... The ia1 isn't intel-based... it doesn't have MMX. I'm not familiar with what you've mentioned, but a quick search on Google for "the MMX mp3 player" didn't get me anywhere. Also, I'm afraid that the midori that we're all using right now doesn't do java. Some folks are working on it, I think. There might be a screensaver program that is an alarm clock. Look up xscreensaver and see what you get. 04-14-2002 08:47:05

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) mj01nir Profile I'm pretty sure he means XMMS, a music file player for *nix that resembles WinAmp. The home page for the alarm plug-in appears to be: http://www.snika.uklinux.net/index.php?show=xmms-alarm and includes source code for your compiling pleasure. Joe 04-14-2002 09:42:23

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) LasersInTheJungle Profile The IA-1 does support MMX instructions, as well as 3dnow. I've compiled mpg123 with 3dnow support, decodes 18-20% faster . But, I do think Mezman is talking about the XMMS plugin ;-( Julio 04-14-2002 09:56:58

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) mezman Profile | Email Thanks All, Yes, I was talking about XMMS (Duh-sorry). It was late and I'm recovering from a bad cold…should have gotten more rest before posting. SO...Doesn't a plug-in imply that I need only put some files somewhere and point the XMMS player to them? I when to http://www.snika.uklinux.net/index.php?show=xmms-alarm it looks like this guy has the stuff I found it at packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/xmms-alarm.html Thanks RatBastard for the offer to convert it to tar.gz. I will be away from my computer for a week so I'll repost to this group when I get back, and after I check into this a little more. This is all because my wife won't give me any space to put the IA1 on the Kitchen counter. So I'm considering replacing my alarm clock on my night stand. Thanks, Chris 04-14-2002 18:01:10

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) mj01nir Profile mezman> "Doesn't a plug-in imply that I need only put some files somewhere and point the XMMS player to them?" XMMS plug-ins are still executable programs. They need to be compiled from source by *someone*. Do you (or a friend) have Linux running on any "normal" PC? If you have access to Red Hat or Debian somewhere, you could install the appropriate package on that machine, figure out which files are installed, and transfer those files to your IA-1 image. Or you can compile the plug-in from source and do the same thing. I followed a similar procedure to add Ogg Vorbis support to my IA-1's XMMS. Joe 04-14-2002 19:45:32

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) wildwildwes Profile I really like the alarm clock idea and i'll be experimenting with that at some point. The plugin looks nice but I was hoping to start using freeamp instead of xmms. I'm sure there are plenty of programs that do stuff like this though. Also, I think a clock with a large attractive display would be good to have. 04-14-2002 21:28:36

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) radarman Profile I'm amazed at the number of folks who are confused about the National Semiconductor Geode processors. They are x86 processors - they are just integrated with a lot of other peripherals on the die. They are the rough equivalent to the Pentium (I) MMX processors. They do require some special handling, due their chipsets - but in many ways, this makes them easier to code for - you know exactly what basic peripheral hardware will be present, and where. FYI - any x86 operating system will run just fine on a Geode processor. So - to clear things up, a geode is: Pentium (I) MMX + integrated video core + integrated SDRAM controller + PCI bus controller Check out http://www.national.com/pf/GX/GXM.html for more info on them. 04-15-2002 05:04:37

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) hwhack Profile Radarman, Did you mis-POST this? How the hell does this relate to the current topic? 04-17-2002 15:35:58

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) radarman Profile Yep. Not sure how, but it appears that I have. Sorry for the confusion :) 04-17-2002 20:10:28

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) mezman Profile | Email Hello I'm back, Until I get around to installing RH on my old pentium clunker, I worked out the following to implement the alarm clock: Installed netscape (4.78) on my win2k share. downloaded http://javaboutique.internet.com/PCClock/ and put that and a web page on my server. I am currently writing some javascript such that I can control the alarm function from a form. This seems to work ok, and I can make the digits pretty big although the digits flicker somtimes. Also, the au file that comes with the class would not wake me up in the morning. I will make my own sound file but am concerned that it will be too big. If any one is interested in how to do this or would like the source files let me know. mesibov(at)optonline.net 04-23-2002 09:47:17

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) NvaderZim Profile hey, wouldn't it be simpler just to add cron to the build and then put an entry in crontab to fire up your mp3 player of choice with a file of choice @ a given time? That's how I figured I'd do it, when I got around to it... 04-25-2002 13:29:28

RE:Alarm Clock plug-in for MMX (modified 0 times) radarman Profile I don't use it as an alarm clock, but I have something similar. I hate walking into a dark house when I get home from work, so I have a cron job that turns the lights out when I leave, and turns a few lights on at 6pm. Works great, and there is no reason it wouldn't work for an alarm clock application (though without a snooze bar...) 04-26-2002 10:02:56

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