bfrond - my linux notes

Grub2: terribly slow at boot

2010-02-22T08:35:00.002+01:00

Karmic Koala comes with Grub2, on a fresh install (but it will keep grub legacy on upgrades). Beside the scarcely comprehensible layer of complexity that grub2 has added to the great old grub, I was very disappointed by the long delay on boot.After BIOS, the booting process just hanged with a "GRUB starting" message on black screen.It stays like that for ~15-20 seconds.Than grub menu shows

Sound issues on Karmic 64bit

2010-02-19T15:03:00.002+01:00

Issue and possible solutions, just listed, very few comments.=================No sound problem:=================Live CD --> everything's fineInstall --> fineRestart --> install nvidia proprietary --> restart --> no sound!200+ updates --> restart --> continuous whistleDisable on board Audio card --> crappy sound, but something, at least.Movieplayer and Rythmbox ask for additional codecs (to play

Karmic Koala 64bit: almost fresh install

2010-02-19T14:56:00.002+01:00

Fresh install of Karmic Koala, but keeping the previous /home partition unformatted.Installation quite OK, but a few issues immediately arose.Most important of which, several sound issues.More detailed installation description in a later post.As for now, the overall impression is that compared to 8.04 this Ubuntu release has several improvements, but it's missing loads details and functionalities

O2Media HMR-600W

2009-12-17T17:27:00.004+01:00

Ho appena comperato l'oggetto qui sopra, con l'idea di fare principalmente un lettore di file video, immagini e magari prepararsi al digitale terrestre.Una delle caratteristiche interessanti per l'utente finale (genitori) e che lo rende teoricamente molto semplice da connettere, e' la presenza di due scart (in e out) per collegarsi alla televisione e per collegare magari il videoregistratore (e

Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys

2009-05-18T12:20:00.003+02:00

http://fosswire.com/post/2007/09/fix-a-frozen-system-with-the-magic-sysrq-keys/It says:You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing [...]The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing its job.Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to

ZyXel G-220 v2 on (Myth)Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64

2009-05-18T11:48:00.004+02:00

Issue:System hangs upon insertion; need several reboots before working.It used to work fine with Mythbuntu 7.10 x86_64.A friend tested it on its Ubuntu 8.10 x86 and it works --> is it a 64-bit issue?Suggestions:1. blacklist:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/74362Tim Gardner wrote on 2007-03-27: (permalink) Try a more current driver by blacklisting zd1211rw: edit /etc/

PVR-150 IRBlaster

2009-05-04T12:25:00.001+02:00

Periodically, I spend some time on the internet looking for a "simple" and "working" method to let the IRBlaster of my Hauppauge PVR-150 pilot a SKY satellite receiver.The system is now upgraded to a Mythbuntu 8.04.1 x64.Recently I've found two interesting hints:This last post here, and the raw codes for the SKY receiver here (only italian).rkocher writes:Remove lirc by running:"sudo apt-get --

PCLinuxOS 2009.1 installation

2009-04-16T16:07:00.004+02:00

PCLinuxOS 2009.1 installation Apr 08, 2009My previous post on PCLinuxOS 2007 installation is here.Upgrade attempt:The instructions on the forum or website are not at all easy to find.Actually I couldn't find a description of the upgrade procedure.Luckily, our friend Google brought me here.I've followed this simple guide, but the dist-upgrade command didn't complete: halfway up it started

HandBrake 0.9.3

2009-01-12T17:19:00.000+01:00

Good news: this new version has a linux GUI available as well.xBuntus debs can be found here.Forum thread here.

Links to wake/shutdown mythbuntu

2008-12-22T12:06:00.001+01:00

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5775203&postcount=60http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5776393&postcount=65ACPI wakeup wikiUbuntu community docs

Sound issues on my Hardy 64bit

2008-12-12T13:10:00.003+01:00

Still no success with the Alsa/PulseAudio settings on Hardy 64bit (Hercules Game Theater XP 5.1, CS46xx).Only way I can get the sound to work, is to set everything to OSS.Now, a few links with hints/guides to follow:Alsa:need to have soundcore loaded:modinfo soundcoreMultiple soundcards:explicitly assign the default device numbers of our sound card drivers by adding lines at the end of the /etc/

Installazione Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 AMD64

2008-07-29T20:30:00.002+02:00

Sono passato dalla vecchia Dapper alla nuova Hardy, sul computer fisso.Di seguito i vari step seguiti, in forma di nota/promemoria.CAP 0: mettiamoci in condizione di tornare indietro, se qualcosa va storto....: Backup Dapper Disinstallare software inutili Fare lista sw dpkg --get-selections > installed-packages.txt oppure da synaptic (vengono meno voci. Perche?)

TV-out su Radeon Mobility M7 (7500)

2007-10-01T12:43:00.001+02:00

Sto cercando di far funzionare il TVout del mio IBM ThinkPad T40 sotto PCLinuxOS.Nel passato, con Mepis (e XFree86) funzionava (male) con atitvout.Qui con xorg non sembra funzionare.Ho trovato queste istruzioni, pero'.E anche queste.Ci devo provare.c'e' poi un tipo sul forum di pclinuxos che ha fatto cosi':Ran XFdrake: Selected "ATI Radeon (fglrx)" Answered YES to "proprietary" driver prompt

Recently tested distro

2007-09-06T18:12:00.001+02:00

All of them in Virtualbox or VMware.Sidux GaiaDebian Sid, KDE, very recent Kernel, nice tools for TV and nice scripts and customization scripts.Menu is confused, too many applications. Nice way to approach a "pure" debian.Also 64bit.Klikit alphaVery nice look, needs at least 192MB RAM in the virtualbox and it's still slow.Kubuntu Feisty based, KDE, one-clik install, kooldock, to be tested deeper,

USB speakers

2007-08-22T11:20:00.001+02:00

On PCLinuxOS I can't let the USB speakers work.I think it might be a missing feature in KDE, more than a pclos issue.The USB speakers are recognized as a different sound card.In Gnome there's a nice setting were you just declare which soundcard is your default.On boot it tries that card, if not present it falls back to the other card.This works nicely with the USB speakers, just declearing those

PCLinuxOS 2007 installation

2007-07-09T18:26:00.000+02:00

PCLinuxOS 2007 installation jul 09, 2007tot install time ~20mintot personalization so far <2h00The notebook:IBM ThinkPad T40CPU intel pentium M 1300MHzRAM 512MBHF fujitsu 100GBSound max integrated digital audio from Analog Devicesvideo: ATI mobility radeon 7500 (32MB shared memory)modem: agere system AC'97infrared, LAN, 2 USB 1.1, docking stationBASE INSTALLpartitioning scheme:hda1 (/winXP not

copiare gruppi di appartenenza utente

2007-06-19T15:34:00.001+02:00

Understanding /etc/group filecdrom:x:24:vivek,student13,rajmolto interessante anche questo:migrate user accounts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~da feisty su virtualbox: utente std base appartiene a questi gruppi:$ cat /etc/group | grep zagoradm:x:4:zagordialout:x:20:cupsys,zagorcdrom:x:24:haldaemon,zagorfloppy:x:25:haldaemon,zagoraudio:x:29:zagordip:x:30:zagorvideo:x:44:zagorplugdev:x:46:haldaemon,

ho distrutto sudo!

2007-06-19T13:13:00.001+02:00

Nel seguire la guida http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L237 con troppa fretta ho lanciatousermod -G printadmin davidequesto ha cancellato tutti i gruppi di appartenenza dell'utente e quindi sudo non funziona piu'.root non e' abilitato e non ho altri utenti sul sitema.che fare?idea: avvio con una live, accedo al file etc/sudoers e aggiungo l'utente "davide" ai sudoers.poi, se funziona sudo, dovrei

installare XP al posto di vista

2007-06-12T11:49:00.001+02:00

Dell Solution Network: risoluzione guidata dei problemiOPERAZIONE: Install the hardware drivers on the portable computer.Install the appropriate hardware drivers. Locate the Drivers and Utilities CD you received with your computer. For the system to function properly, you must install your hardware drivers in the following order: Desktop System Software or Notebook System SoftwareChipset or

mythTV e dazzle hybrid TV

2007-06-01T15:36:00.006+02:00

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Em2880#Installationhttp://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4074690.html?sid=cfa6e502d15f032e1db15b3c1d3d744dhttp://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Setup_Mythtvhttp://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/pctv_hybrid_pro_stickhttp://eduard.caliu.cat/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/em28xxdmesg2917.188000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00[ 2917.251000] em28xx v4l2 driver version

residence nelle marche

2007-05-08T18:06:00.001+02:00

mappa per i residence nelle marche che stiamo valutando.in particolare questo (residence casale del conero)recuperato da qui

installing klik on sabayon 3.3

2007-04-26T08:38:00.000+02:00

To setup klik:"To quickly prepare your system for klik, install the klik client (NOT as root):Code:wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|shand follow instructions on screen."Since I receive a rpm2cpio missing message:Klik users faq says:"rpm2cpio (part of package "rpm") [missing f.e. on Arch Linux -install rpmunpack, and symlink it to rpm2cpio - and not installed bydefault on (K)Ubuntu and

alimentatore silenzioso e media center

2007-04-24T20:12:00.000+02:00

mi sono imbattuto in un sito che descrive come creare un media center linux, nel quale a un certo punto si descrive un alimentatore esterno. potrebbe tornare utile.qui per comprare materiale elettronica che fa al caso del media center

Dell 1390 native linux driver

2007-04-24T19:10:00.000+02:00

Found an interesting howto on how to setup the wireless card in the Dell 1501.Dell 1390 native linux driver how-to UPDATED

compile kernel on Sabayon

2007-04-23T19:28:00.000+02:00

While looking for a working hybrid DVB-T card, I've found this "dvb-t e quickcam" useful post where the following hint is given:use genkernel to be fastCode:genkernel --bootloader=grub --xconfig allyou'll have a compiled kernel already added to grub

Ultimi ritocchi Inspiron 1501 prima della consegna

2007-04-16T22:01:00.000+02:00

Copiato diverse splash images per grub nella cartella /boot/grub/splash e aggiornato il file /boot/grub/menu.lstCambiato .bashrc per avere una console a colori e editato il profilo per abilitare le trasparenze di gnome-terminalDati pc:lspci/etc/fstabelenco partizioni e punti di mountFatto ultimi aggiornamenti disponibili (ora il kernel e' 2.6.20-15-generic)Fatto backup con partimage di sda2 (/

OpenOffice spell check

2007-04-15T22:07:00.000+02:00

Added openoffice spellcheck for italian and english to Sabayon 3.26.Code:emerge myspell-it myspell-enQuick reminder for emerge:emerge --sync to update portage package listlayman -S to update all layers (i.e. sabayon layer)emerge -S text to look for "text" into the name and description of the packagesemerge -s text as before, but checks only in the namesemerge -

gcompris

2007-04-15T22:05:00.000+02:00

Installato gcompris educational suite, ottima raccolta di software educativi per bambini anche piccoli. Installata anche la localizzazione italiana per il suono.Stranamente tuxpaint non viene installato automaticamente.L'ho quindi aggiunto a mano con synaptics.----------------------------------------------------- What is GCompris GCompris is an educational software which propose different

Special keys

2007-04-13T10:32:00.000+02:00

una buona notizia: con l'ultimo upgrade di qualche giorno fa i tasti speciali (tipo Fn+F1 per l'ibernazione) si sono messi a funzionare.forse e' per il nuovo kernel (2.6.20-14-generic).quindi: il wireless viene abilitato e disabilitato dai tasti, ibernazione e standby funzionano, volume e muting funzionano, brightness NON funziona ancora.cosa strana pero' e' che in uscita dall'ibernazione il

dvdrip

2007-04-13T00:02:00.000+02:00

non reisco a installare mplayer 32 bit per feisty64, quindi dvdrip non funziona.quindi installo xine-ui da synaptic e cambio le preferenze.anche rar va cambiato.

backup partizione vista

2007-04-12T23:30:00.002+02:00

per il backup della partizione di vista ho usato partimage.sudo apt-get install partimageprima di lanciarlo, smontare le partizioni:Code:sudo umount -aconnettere ed eventualmente montare i dischi esterni necessari (nel caso il sistema non li avesse montati automaticamente)Code:sudo mkdir /mnt/tempsudo mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/tempsudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp(o l'uno o l'altro:

ATI e FGLRX

2007-04-12T10:49:00.001+02:00

per edgy, qui c'e' uno con gli stessi problemi miei: schermo bianco appena si abilita l'accelerazione con driver free. Forse il problema e' nella memoria? mi pare strano.posso pero' provare con la guida ufficiale, ma e' troppo vecchia per feisty che dovrebbe gia' contenere tutti i moduli nel kernel.anche la parte finale con:Code:sudo aticonfig --initialsudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xve' la stessa

ancora da fare dell

2007-04-11T17:08:00.001+02:00

special keys!!! mplayer (per dvd::rip) testare stampante e controllare la libreria che fallisce on sudo ldconfig, magari non c'entra!(http://finebushpeople.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=65)(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714&highlight=lexmark+z600+driver+ubuntu+gentoo)(http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2408135&postcount=217 --> importante per Edgy e Feisty:

first post: mission

2007-04-11T16:04:00.000+02:00

this blog will be partly in italian and partly in english, depending on my mood.as for now it will just collect my notes on my linux installations on different PCs and different distros, acting as a sort of "advanced bookmark".

Acquisto Dell Inspiron 1501

2007-04-02T18:06:00.000+02:00

Un amico ha comprato un Dell Inspiron 1501 (con Vista) e me lo ha lasciato per installare Linux.La scelta e' caduta su Ubuntu per similitudine con il suo desktop di casa, per semplicita' d'uso, per la qualita' del supporto della comunita' e perche' tanto le magie del 3D ci compiz e beryl non sono fondamentali (Mandriva 2007 o Sabayon, se lo fossero).Caratteristiche tecniche di vendita (piu' tardi