I’ve recently ditched debian as my distro choice for my media centre and gone with gentoo (less hastle for new dvb card). I’m also updating the gentoo wiki with details on how to set up your own freevo box incase you’re interested. It’s quite amazing what you can do with a spare computer and a bit of free time.
I think this is probably a bug in FC4, even after you install with a GB setup you still get a US date in some apps such as firefox. To resolve this (it’s quite easy), simply replace en_US in your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file with en_GB. You’ll probably need to restart your system before the change takes effect, but it seems to fix all your LC_ environment variables also which is nice.
If you want to get TV out to work on Linux on Radeon 7000, don’t bother with all those little tools and things (unless you want something other than ‘clone’ mode). Simply plug in your svideo cable and use the ‘vesa’ driver for X rather than radeon. I tried for a long time to find the right modeline to use but couldn’t get it to work. However, I’ll try some more later on, chances are I might be able to find the current modeline from the vesa driver and use it on the radeon/ati one.
I’ve written a script to convert .flac files to .mp3 and retain a useful directory structure. This is mad-handy for my w800i phone.
source_path="${1%/}/"; dest_base="${2%/}/"; bit_rate=$3 if [ ! -r "$source_path" ]; then echo "Source path not found." exit 2 fi if [ ! -r "$dest_base" ]; then echo "Destination base path not found" exit 2 fi if [ ! $bit_rate ]; then echo "No bit rate specified, defaulting to 128kbps" bit_rate=128 fi artist_album=`echo "$source_path" | sed 's:^.
Well, this one has had me stuck for ages…but Antoine from the linux-thinkpad mailing list managed to help out (thanks v.much!).
This mini-howto should help you get suspend working on your R50e, and perhaps many other laptops with the intel extreme graphics 2 chipset. The main problem is that the display is not restored properly or at all and you’re left with a blank screen.
Another symptom (that I was having) which was really frustrating me was I was left with a
People ought to stop using MSN. Did you know that Microsoft legally own everything you write on there? Start using the Jabber IM protocol. There are various clients out there for windows, one of them is called exodus which looks alright. Myself, I use gaim, which is primarily a linux client although I think there may be a windows version around.
It’s a good idea to start using something else, otherwise you’ll find microsoft taking over your lives even more.
This is a work in progress Fire up dhcp on the wireless interface: dhcpcd eth1 (that should create the device also kinda thing)
The init script (/etc/init.d/wireless) #!/sbin/runscript # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 depend() { before net.eth0 } start() { #! /bin/sh # wifi: wpa_supplicant init echo " * [Wifi]: Enabling WPA supplicant..." if [ -x /sbin/wpa_supplicant ]; then wpa_supplicant -B -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.
While setting up my new laptop, I’ve found quite a handy guide for getting Gentoo working on IBM thinkpads: Gentoo Linux on IBM Thinkpad Hope it helps you as much at it helped me.
I’m getting a laptop soon, so I thought I’d jot down some ideas for work/home interoperability. If that is a word.
Cron job or something that tries to ping servers LAN address, if it can then mount server shares If ping fails then have a go at creating ssh tunnel and mount the shares As usual, I found that there’s already about 100 programs that do this sort of thing. I’ll just wait till I actually get the laptop.