Debian & Enlightenment = elive
I was looking for something new in linux desktops. Ubuntu and it’s deriatives never really gave me what I wanted from a desktop and they always felt a bit slow on this system at least. I installed Archlinux and discovered the speed I was missing, but it’s too much tweaking neccesary really, ( Archers, please don’t kill me! I like Arch! 
) but the point in bringing up Arch, it is where I rediscovered the enlightenment window manager! Installation is easy in Arch:
`pacman -Sy e17-svn e17-extra-svn desktop-file-utils`
and you’re done! Easy. But still, if you really want to enjoy enlightenment you have to check out elive. It is the most beutiful system you will ever see.
It is built on Debian testing, “Lenny”, the 2.6.26.8 linux kernel, and the enlightenment wm.
Thunar is the default filemanager, wich you might know from Xfce. It does a great job, but fails to browse network shares, as in samba. I have yet to find an replacement, I do not want nautilus eiter, so I’m stuck with sftp through the console for now.
Iceweasel 3.0.3 with the iFox theme is the default web browser, and has
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
Java 1.0.6
Mozilla-mplayer
Google Preview
Installed as plugins.
I removed mozilla-mplayer and replaced it with the newer gecko-mediaplayer, wich can play the movie trailers on Apple.com without any problem. Mozilla-mplayer cannot.
The installation of gecko-mediaplayer is not that easy, a simple `aptitude install gecko-mediaplayer` will not do, as it is not in the repos. It can be found, however, in the unstable, or “Sid” repos of Debian. You need to get the dependancys too:
For gecko-mediaplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb:
gnome-mplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb
libdiscid0_0.1.0-1_i386.deb
libmusicbrainz3-6_3.0.2-1_i386.deb
Install those, and the movie trailers works! yay!
So far I have been very pleased with elive. More to follow in the few days, when I’ve been using this system for a longer time.
This is the development release of elive, not the stable one. the stable download requires a small payment, but the development version is free of charge.
It comes with multimedia codecs and drivers for Nvidia ( probably ATi too ) installed by default. My nvidia 6200 was detected and resolution was correct on boot.
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My pretty much default desktop:
My Desktop
Now, go GET IT!
Switching to Ubuntu, an adventure.
Found this great review of Ubuntu. AshPringle has a plan:
The plan: Ring in the new year by switching over to Linux for a week, documenting each day of the transition.
A very humoristic review too.
segmentation fault….50%
Today i got a segfault from aptitude on Ubuntu 8.10. This is caused by corrupted files in /var/cache/apt/ and is usually caused by bad hardware like harddrives and such, I discovered a bad memory module when I ran memtest.
The corrupted file in /var/cache/apt stops you from updating and installing packages, which isn’t very nice now is it? Here’s a fix for you:
run this in a terminal
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin && sudo aptitude update
Then I would suggest you run memtest86+ and check for memory errors to be on the safe side.
Thanks to Dean Lee for solving this and the guys and girls at ubuntuforums too.
Fedora 10 Multimedia
This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an example.
First we need to enable the repository for RPMFusion.org as it contains everything we need.
Paste this in the terminal:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' That command installs the RPMFusion repository for you. Now the codecs we need: yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc xine-plugin xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld libquicktime x264 xvidcore Adobe's Flash Plugin: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm' yum install flash-plugin Nvidia driver: yum install kmod-nvidia (not necessary as the 6200 is supported outofthebox™ it seems) All done!
Ubuntu 8.10 IOMMU
Since I installed Ubuntu Intrebid Ibex and upgraded my RAM to 4 gigs, i have been getting something like this message at boot:
[ 0.004000] Checking aperture…
[ 0.004000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.004000] Node 0: aperture @ 20000000 size 32 MB
[ 0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[ 0.004000] Your BIOS doesn’t leave a aperture memory hole
[ 0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
[ 0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
[ 0.004000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000
So I searched the ubuntuforums for the solution to this, and it was pretty simple:
add iommu=noaperture to the kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.list file. When You reboot, you will no longer get the error message.
If the above solution doesn’t work, try iommu=soft instead.
This is on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 with an AMD Turion x2 processor and ATI chipset / graphics. Acer Aspire 5100 series.
Flash 10 64bit Linux Alpha
Howto install the new alpha of Adobe’s Flash 10 on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10.
Download the plugin and extract it somewhere.
Uninstall flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper using Synaptic “Mark for Complete Removal“.
Then copy the libflashplayer.so you extracted earlier to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ .
Edit: Gentoo users should copy to /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
That should be it!
Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 Suspend
Laptop,
Acer Aspire 5102 wlmi
4 GB RAM
120 GB Harddrive
And suspend to ram is finally working!
had to add this little file to /etc/pm/config.d/ to get the atheros wifi to get back up when resumed.
/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:
SUSPEND_MODULES=”ath_pci”
that did the trick.
I have installed the fglrx drivers via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers application, and I haven’t got the desktop effects enabled due to slower window drawing using these drivers compared to the default ones (ati? / radeon?).
Thanks to paulsiu for the information.
Update:
here is my config files for reference.
/etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module:
/etc/default/acpi-support:
/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:
Also, lspci output:
And lsmod output:
EDIT: fixed typo.
blog moved to wordpress.com
I moved my blog today. It sits now on wordpress.com after many failed attempts to move it to my own server, some weird dns issues probably… I’m not fit to play with it now. In a few weeks my hosting plan will be discontinued and I am either going to change webhosting or do it myself like I did a year back. I am having problems however setting up the server , Ubuntu 8.10 Server on an old Athlon 2600+ box with 512 megs of RAM. Should be enough for apache + mysql. Or is it?
Ubuntu Server 8.10
That swap stuff seems odd, I dunno. But here’s another picture for your wieving pleasure?
free -m
64bit Flash Player 10
Adobe Systems has spun out an alpha version of its Flash Player 10 technology for 64-bit Linux software users today, to satisfy the needs of freetards everywhere.
The multinational said it has done so to underscore its “commitment to the Linux community” which is ahead of Windows and Apple Mac OS X in the 64-bit processor support game.
Previously, Firefox fans could only use the 32-bit version when running the Flash 10 plug-in because, at release last month, the software needed 32-bit emulation for it to work on Linux platforms and other operating systems.
Adobe pinballs 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha into Linux orbit
ultamatix
I am in no way a coder, but this I understand.
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/99905.html