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  gas 22:15 on 17 July 2008 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: howto (13), laptop (3), Linux (28), ubuntu (7)   

  Ubuntu on Toshiba A300 PSAJ4E 

  Info
  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4355 (rev 12)
0a:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
0a:01.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02)
0a:01.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)

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    Dave 10:37 on 30 dicembre 2008 Permalink | Rispondi

    Hy!
    Thanks for sharing your experience!

    I plan to buy a “Toshiba Satellite A300-1NO” notebook and use it with Ubuntu.
    Is there any problems with Ubuntu on it?
    Thanks!

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    d1337r 13:42 on 15 marzo 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 x86-64 on Toshiba Satellite A300D and everything goes OK, except for bluetooth. Now setting up omnibook…

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  gas 17:21 on 12 June 2008 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: gentoo (8), graphics (2), Linux (28)   

  Superkaramba and Gentoo 

  Nowadays it seems that superkaramba works well, in the past it was heavy and buggy and I used to have conky. There are no particular reasons that made me switch to superkaramba , other than moving from Gnome to Kde.

  My superkaramba monitor is based on the dual cpu monitor by Loacoon, I changed it a little to show some useful stuff , some of them gentoo specific ( last sync, last emerges, currently emerging….. genlop is a dependency).

  

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  gas 17:44 on 7 June 2008 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: laptop (3), Linux (28), ubuntu (7)   

  Laptop ubuntu suspend and nvidia virtual tty 

  I decided to keep ubuntu even if I don’t like this new release ( hardy ) at all. When it came out it used to hang for no reason , the new kernels seem to have solved the issue.

  I had two big problems, I couldn’t hibernate/suspend and I couldn’t switch to the ttys with Alt+F1 for example.

  Starting from the latter I realized that the nvidia-glx package instead of the nvidia-glx-new does the job. Since I don’t know the difference between the two packages and I really don’t care to have the newest nvidia driver I consider this problem fixed.

  Now suspend works and not sometimes or just one time like it used in the past, I had to change some config options in /etc/default/acpi-support

  SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true

  Hiberating is still a problem or better waking up from hibernation is a huge deal on my laptop. It does hibernate and it tries to wake up during next boot but when X starts everything freeze. It seems a kernel or xorg problem because I can’t turn on/off the capslock led. Here’s the bug I’ve filled, hopefully someoene will look at it.

   
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  gas 23:44 on 22 February 2008 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: computer (8), gentoo (8), gnome, gnu (3), Linux (28), n95 (3)   

  Nokia N95 and UPNP 

  Finally i got it….at first it was a mess, some explanations on what does what:

  • Media Server: it serves the content on the network
  • Media Renderer: it renders the content served by a media server

  So I actually needed both on my gentoo linux.

  Probably the easiest way to browse content served by upnp servers is djmount , it works as a FUSE file system ( that can be mounted by a normal user) and it looks for all the upnp devices in a network. It works very well even with content provided by Windows Vista (or better from the Media Player that comes with windows vista). You create a directory and simply “djmount it”, in that directory there will be other subdirectories , one for each media server you have in your network.

  Easy and working but not that cool, I mean…all this new stuff and , in the end, I still have to browse directories. I’m not using these new things just because I don’t want to plug in an usb cable, I’m not that lazy. So I went searching in various forums another solution.

  My first choice as media server was ushare, somehow connected to the geexbox project but it had its limitation, one above all that it doesn’t read tags, so when you copy a music file to another device you must retag it manually. Another problem was the init script that didn’t work that well and I didn’t have time/will to fix it. Mediatomb seems the definitive choice to me, it seems a nice project, it reads metadata and has a built in sqlite backend. (you can use mysql too but i don’t have the server on my box). Mediatomb has a webserver you can connect to and you can add/delete content to your share and chose how to rescan your library , you can chose inotify on that ( if you are using beagle you should already have inotify in your kernel).

  When it goes to the Media Renderer it seems that there is not much choice yet, but there is some and in particular there is gmediarenderer from the GNU guys. GmediaRender , as the names says, it’s able to render content served from a MediaServer, it needs gstreamer as a backend for all the codecs (it actually uses gstreamer to render the stream ). If you have gmediarender running you can simply go to your nokia N95 media player , chose a song and in options chose “execute on personal network” ( or something like that) and your computer (not the phone) will sound. You can do the same for videos or pictures.

  What about coherence? I have it installed and the rhythmbox plugins actually works , I can see my N95 and browse its contents but you can’t (yet) make rhythmbox work as a MediaRenderer. Coherence is supposed to be a full UPNP solution with its server, renderer and controller but the people who develop it are very good in making Youtube videos but not that good to explain the world “how the hell that damn thing works”.

  What is missing? On my nokia I can chose to copy or move stuff to my personal network, I can’t do it and don’t know what part of this upnp mess should provide this feature.

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    dev 00:05 on 17 marzo 2008 Permalink | Rispondi

    I can now tell you a bit more why the N95 doesn’t work together with Coherence.

    The long story you can read here: https://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/NokiaN95

    In a nutshell it’s due to a flaw in the Symbian UPnP stack, that doesn’t react on UPnP v2 devices, which Coherence announces itself as default.

    I’m trying to find a solution for this, unfortunately limiting Coherence to v1 isn’t a good one, as that interferes with other things we are working on. :-/

    The whole idea behind UPnP is “that these damn things work”, so if that Symbian stack would follow the spec only a ‘ little bit’ more, you would happily browse and control Rhythmbox/Coherence via UPnP.

    Re your question about copying things from the Nokia to the UPnP MediaServer, there are methods in the ContentDirectory service there, that allow creating and importing of media objects – music, images,…

    The Nokia phones are actually one of the first consumer devices, that unveil these methods to a broader audience. What a shame they fail on such a basic level.

    It seems to be fixed in a future versions of S60 3rd, but I have no idea if that will be available for our ‘older’ phones.

    Ciao,
    dev

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    zx 02:04 on 14 febbraio 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    Hi,

    could you please explain how you have setup the gmediarender.
    I was able to compile it and also to start it. Here are the last lines of the output:
    gmediarender
    …
    Registering support for ‘application/x-gdp’
    Registering support for ‘audio/x-ttafile’
    Registering support for ‘application/x-icy’
    Registering support for ‘video/x-mve’
    registering ‘/upnp/rendertransportSCPD.xml’
    registering ‘/upnp/renderconnmgrSCPD.xml’
    registering ‘/upnp/rendercontrolSCPD.xml’
    Ready for rendering..
    GStreamer: play: State change: OLD: ‘NULL’, NEW: ‘READY’, PENDING: ‘VOID_PENDING’

    But I don’t have any clue how to use it. The documentation is a little bit limited
    The gmediarender is not found by my control point.

    Regards,
    zx

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    Anonimo 15:27 on 25 febbraio 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    Hi,
    I am also facing same problem …Any one have solution for it

    Regards,
    Avinash Magdum

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    roxen 11:36 on 18 marzo 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    Hi all,
    me too.. I have the same problem..
    Does anyone know a good how to for gmediarender??

    Regards,
    Roxen

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    Kuang 00:01 on 31 luglio 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    I got the same problem. Let me know when you get to know how to do next

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  gas 14:12 on 14 February 2008 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: debian (6), gentoo (8), Linux (28), p2p, ubuntu (7)   

  Mldonkey and conky 

  In the past conky had some built in features regarding mldonkey that have been dropped later. I launch a script that uses netcat to do the same thing ( at least what I need).

  
#! /bin/sh
USER=user ## mldonkey user
PASS=pass ## mldonkey password for user
HOST=192.168.1.2 ## host where mldonkey is running
PORT=4000 ##port
(echo "auth $USER $PASS";echo $1;echo q) | nc $HOST $PORT

  and then for conkyrc

  ${execi 50 ml_command bw_stats|grep Down|awk -F " " '{print $1,$2,$3,$10,$11,$12}'}


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    motarion 23:02 on 30 luglio 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    I tested your script and it worked only with a “-a” option for the grep. Exemple:

    ${execi 50 /home/motarion/conky_mldonkey bw_stats | grep -a Down|awk -F ” ” ‘{print $1,$2,$3,$10,$11,$12}’}

    This is because of the “>” in the mldonkey command line result

    Thanks by the way for this !

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  gas 18:08 on 29 December 2007 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: google (10), howto (13), mozilla (2), n95 (3)   

  Sync: Nokia , Thunderbird and Google Calendar 

  I need to sync many applications on different devices so the best idea for me was using a central server where I can sync too. ScheduleWolrd is a funambol based service that regardless of its ugly interface does what I want .This small howto covers my Nokia N95 , thunderbird + lightning and Google Calendar but it should work with many other devices or applications. Syncing between ScheduleWorld and Google Calendar works mostly out of the box.
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    Antti Lagus 13:27 on 21 gennaio 2009 Permalink | Rispondi

    Thanks!

    This is the best solution for linux- and nokia users! GREAT HowTO !
    Now I got everything syncing. Great!

    I sure hope others find this post too.

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  gas 21:36 on 9 July 2007 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: audio (5), laptop (3), ubuntu (7)   

  Laptop sound working 

  I finally have sound , nice to hear

  My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote MX51-B-058 and is shipped with with Realtek ALC660 HD Audio sound chip, lspci gives the following:

  gas@gas-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/fOpteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01)


  even if it says “Audio device:nVidia” you must use the snd-hda-intel module to make it work and actually ubuntu loads it during startup but sound still doens’t come out from speakers or headphones That module supports lots of chipset and sometimes they are not recognized properly and you must tell him what kind of chip you are using.
  My “real” sound chip is the ALC660 from realtek and the solution for me was having a look at:

  gas@gas-laptop:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz


  scroll down until you find
  Module snd-hda-intel
--------------------

  Module for Intel HD Audio (ICH6, ICH6M, ESB2, ICH7, ICH8),
ATI SB450, SB600, RS600,
VIA VT8251/VT8237A,
SIS966, ULI M5461


  and down again until you find
  ALC861/660
3stack 3-jack
3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig 6-jack with SPDIF I/O
3stack-660 3-jack (for ALC660)
uniwill-m31 Uniwill M31 laptop
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)

  as you can see the default config for those chips is “auto” and thats bad….for me the right one was 3stack-660.

  Last step and we are done:
  gas@gas-laptop:~$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base


  and add as the last line the following:
  options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-660

  now, just because we mostly all come from windows,reboot.

  Have fun hearing

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    iceycold 18:56 on 17 agosto 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    great the sounds working thx in regards

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    Lucas 14:35 on 24 novembre 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    Hi! I have a problem with soundcard config with ALC861-VD chipset. The method gives no results… What should I do with it? Thanks.

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  gas 17:37 on 18 June 2007 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: f1 (4), photo (11)   

  Ferrari parts 

  aka: those nice days when ferrari used to win….

  

  

  “stolen” by nuno

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    robypam 22:59 on 18 giugno 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    Great pictures!!
    …and great times, when winning was hard, not IMPOSSIBLE!!

    Thanks Gas, thanks Nuno!

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    Steven Oliver 06:36 on 19 giugno 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    Nice pics. Not a Ferrari fan really but I have a great deal of respect for Maranello. Is that an old V10 from F1 a year or two ago? Its sexy…

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    gas 18:27 on 20 giugno 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    The car is the one driver by M.Schumacher in ‘99, the engine is from the “F1 2000″….
    Pretty old ….

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  gas 16:04 on 20 May 2007 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: Vista (3), Windows (7)   

  Vista on PackardBell 

  I got a Packard Bell with Vista on it that reminded me why i don’t like windows…..

  Vista is a bunch of shitty tools whose reason to exist is to drive you nuts.

  As soon as I started Vista I realized that having the harddisk led blinking every often would have driven me crazy in a couple of days, then I found out that my laptop had Norton installed and it is a very well known fact that after you install something from Symantec you simply can’t get rid of it, they love you and they’ll stick with you….forever.

  But you know….I have paid for a license.So the next thing was trying to shrink that smart 120Gigs partition and try to make things a little bit more clever and wow! Vista as its own partition utlity that actually is able to shrink the only filesystem it can read, for once it seemed that MS had done something almost right. Nope. That Shrink utility is (again) stupid and the best that it can do is shrinking your partition to half of what it was so I had to reboot with gparted live who actually did the job. Not completely because Vista didn’t like those changes and some repairing utility started ( by itself) that after 3 hours let me boot Vista. So as a start if Packard Bell had provided me a damn windows install cd I was done in 1 hour by instead they had to do things the cool way with their own Master DVD.( that you must make it yourself and if you lose it your fucked because you can’t make another one).

  Then usability: Vista is secure , it comes with a *nix like hierarchy , in fact when you want to do operations that could potentially destroy your computer your screen turns gray and you have to click two times rather than one and in my home this is a cracker safe environment.

  Software: the only software I use on windows is SolidWorks that does’t work on my Vista, no wonder why in April the solidworks guys said that they are going to make a linux version of it (maybe because they use opengl?).

  Solution: format and classical winxp install on is tiny 10Gigs in NTFS and the rest in something that Virus called windows can’t understand.

  P.S. btw the laptop itself as far i can tell is not bad, the Atheros wireless seems less powerful that the intel one….

   
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  gas 02:31 on 25 April 2007 Permalink | Rispondi
  Tags: Linux (28), ubuntu (7), Windows (7)   

  Bill 

  Contentone…

  

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    Paolo Slanzi 16:54 on 26 aprile 2007 Permalink | Rispondi

    …eccome no ?!
    Se potesse dare fuoco a Tovald lo farebbe subito…pero’ fa ridere.
    SULTR.