Author Archives: Guido
Make LaCie Internet Space boot Debian
Prerequisites: Get clunc, install Debian, via either telnet/ssh or just put the harddisk in an existing Linux computer. 1. From terminal : ./clunc -i 192.168.2.77 -w 120 2. Boot LaCie NAS 3. Clunc shows prompt Marvell>> 4. Enter: boot;ext2load ide … Continue reading
HP Compaq CQ10 400SD Netbook and Ubuntu 10.04
So, what was needed to make the sound and wireless network work? Wireless network The chip is an RealTek 3090. Not yet supported out-of-the-box, so install this: rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb (make sure dkms is already installed –>terminal: sudo apt-get install dkms ) … Continue reading
Wake on lan over Internet – Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
enable WOL on Network Card: ethtool -s eth0 wol g This only works once, so to keep this setting, make a bash script and run it at boot: –> file wakeonlanconfig: #!/bin/bash ethtool -s eth0 wol g exit –> chmod … Continue reading
fancontrol working every now and then…
I had troubles with fancontrol on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My config file /etc/fancontrol was set up to use hwmon1 as device, but after reboot, fancontrol didn’t work. Changing the config back to hwmon0 made fancontrol work again. Problem was caused … Continue reading
GPU Hardware video acceleration for ATI / AMD (or NVidia) in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
Enabling GPU Hardware video acceleration for ATI / AMD and Ubuntu. Assuming a clean install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx and an ATI GPU (for NVidia, use vdpau-video instead of xvba-video) It’s probably not necessary to have a clean install, … Continue reading
PC Remote Universal
Marmitek PC Remote (UR86E) Codetable Humax 5050c : 485 Samsung LE32A456 : 104 Cambridge Audo 640A : 647
Samba / CIFS mounting and changing owner
Extensively described at http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html#tempown Add in /etc/fstab : //RemoteIP/ShareName /LocalMountpoint cifs credentials=/etc/smbcredentials,uid=<youruser>,gid=<yourgroup> 0 0 /etc/credentials consists of 2 lines: username=<serverusername> password=<serverpassword>
Debian Lenny for ARM
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ download all, gunzip the *qcow.gz files and run: qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.26-1-versatile -hda debian_lenny_armel_small.qcow -append “root=/dev/sda1″
Building ARM cross compiler on Ubuntu
I’m using this site as the basis. On Ubuntu 9.10 I encountered a build error for collect2.c : –snip– … gcc/collect2.c:1537: /usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h:51: error: call to ‘__open_missing_mode’ declared with attribute error: open with O_CREAT in second argument needs 3 arguments Solution … Continue reading
Linux TV continued
Using Video in on TV card and Line in on Soundcard: Record: mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lameopts mode=1:vbr=2:q=4 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -tv driver=v4l2:norm=pal:input=1:amode=1:adevice=/dev/dsp: -af volume=10 -o tv.avi tv:// Play mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:norm=pal:input=1:width=352:height=240 -double -vo sdl tv:// :alsa:adevice=/dev/dsp:amode=1: -af volume 10