in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1pre/firefox.sh

EDIT: the path on Fedora 11 is: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh
you add export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 at the beginning of the file, but underneath #!/bin/sh

So it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#fix the goddamn flash bug.
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

# Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration helper for
# temporary profiles used during alpha and beta phases.

…

Save, and try out some flash video in fullscreen.

This should work for Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu. The path to firefox.sh might vary though.

Workaround taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127/comments/13

I installed Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 1 on my main desktop, Athlon XP 2600+ , 1,5 GB ram, Nvidia 6200 AGP and 40GB /, 80 GB /home with ext4 as file system. It’s using less than 500 megs of memory as I type this while Amarok is playing in the background and Firefox running with 1 whole tab open. I realized I suck at writing reviews, so I’ll shut up and post some pictures for you instead, ok?

While I was taking these, Ksnapshot caused KDE to become unresponsive to anything but ctrl + alt + del bringing up the shutdown menu, and I found out ctrl + alt + backspace is disabled. Annoying.

The calendar has gained some new features, you now get to see the holidays marked in red on the calendar. Configurable too by Country. This one is showing all holidays in Finland.

You can find out more about KDE 4.3 here, and about Koala here.

If you wonder about the theme I’m using, it’s called air and available on http://www.kde-look.org

`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.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCJ8QDfA95U&hl=en&fs=1]

My pretty much default desktop:

My Desktop

Now, go GET IT!

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.

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.

[    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.

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!

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:

http://pastebin.com/f363af213

/etc/default/acpi-support:

http://pastebin.com/f3c99b2a1

/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:

http://pastebin.com/f2e58ab3c

Also, lspci output:

http://pastebin.com/f21cdcc67

And lsmod output:

http://pastebin.com/f27f162aa

EDIT: fixed typo.

Ubuntu Server 8.10

That swap stuff seems odd, I dunno. But here’s another picture for your wieving pleasure?

free -m