Today the jaunty beta as released or may be yesterday... I downloaded the desktop cd... no go.. :-(... then downloaded the alternate cd...
and installed the OS... now here is the key for it...
1. install the os from alternate.. you may have to include acpi=off in the boot option of the alternate cd.
2. after install, it will give blank screen and will not work...
3. reboot, go to recovery option and select fix x...
4. now, continue normal boot...
5. enjoi... your login screen will come up and you are all set...
some issues i have found so far...
1 compiz not working... looking at how to fix that... some how it is not using properietary driver.. have to look at that... will update once i have more issues or some other updates...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Installing Linux On ASUS ...
As I had expected based on the forums and other places I have read that there would be issue in installing linux on this baby...
The laptop looks pretty good, not stylish or as designer as the laptops like dell studio or hp hdx or lenovo ideapad... but for lesser dough you cannot get them with this config...
Anyways that is beside the point... come back to the moot point...
I tried installing alpha of jaunty, intrepid with acpi=off and noapic as per some thread but no go on that... would get stuck on some step or the other on booting itself... never came to see gdm login... so thought would try fedora instead... fedora 10.1 installed without any issue with acpi=off... but then there were some update and everything went bonkers... so now I am stuck with vista... I wanted vista to play games...
now I am waiting for the new version of jaunty to come may be beta and I will give another try to it to see if it works... if it works then custom compile the kernel to get acpi on and then if there are any other updates then I will keep updating this blog...
I am waiting for
The laptop looks pretty good, not stylish or as designer as the laptops like dell studio or hp hdx or lenovo ideapad... but for lesser dough you cannot get them with this config...
Anyways that is beside the point... come back to the moot point...
I tried installing alpha of jaunty, intrepid with acpi=off and noapic as per some thread but no go on that... would get stuck on some step or the other on booting itself... never came to see gdm login... so thought would try fedora instead... fedora 10.1 installed without any issue with acpi=off... but then there were some update and everything went bonkers... so now I am stuck with vista... I wanted vista to play games...
now I am waiting for the new version of jaunty to come may be beta and I will give another try to it to see if it works... if it works then custom compile the kernel to get acpi on and then if there are any other updates then I will keep updating this blog...
I am waiting for
Thursday, March 26, 2009
asus M51TA-X2 and kubuntu...
I am getting this new laptop ... well here is the config... I specifically bought this as it does not support linux, so would be fun installing and playing with it to make linux work :-)...
| Model | |
| Brand | ASUS |
| Series | M51 Series |
| Model | M51TA-X2 |
| General | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium |
| CPU Type | AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82 2.2G |
| Screen | 15.4" WXGA+ |
| Memory Size | 4GB DDR2 |
| Hard Disk | 250GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD Super Multi |
| Graphics Card | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 |
| Video Memory | 512MB |
| Card slot | 1 x Express Card |
| Other Features | 30days Zero Bright Dot LCD |
| CPU | |
| CPU Type | AMD Turion X2 Ultra |
| CPU Speed | ZM-82(2.20GHz) |
| CPU L2 Cache | 2MB |
| Display | |
| Screen Size | 15.4" |
| Wide Screen Support | Yes |
| Display Type | Wide XGA+ |
| Resolution | 1440 x 900 |
| Operating Systems | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium |
| Graphics | |
| GPU/VPU | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 |
| Video Memory | Dedicated 512MB |
| Graphic Type | Dedicated Card |
| Hard Drive | |
| HDD | 250GB |
| HD RPM | 5400rpm |
| Memory | |
| Memory | 4GB |
| Optical Drive | |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD Super Multi |
| Optical Drive Interface | Integrated |
| Communications | |
| WLAN | 802.11n Wireless LAN |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Ports | |
| Card Slot | 1 x Express Card |
| USB | 4 |
| IEEE 1394 | 1 |
| Video Port | 1 x VGA, 1 x HDMI |
| Other port | 1 x E-SATA |
| Audio Ports | 1 x Microphone-in jack 1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF) |
| Audio | |
| Audio | Integrated Sound card |
| Speaker | Internal Speakers |
| Input Device | |
| Touchpad | Yes |
| Keyboard | Standard |
| Supplemental Drive | |
| Card Reader | MMC, SD, MS/PRO |
| Webcam | 1.3MP |
| Power | |
| Battery | 6-cell lithium ion |
| Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Accidental Damage Warranty | 1 year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fire, Spill, Surge for purchase after 9/10/07 |
| Parts | 2 years limited |
| Labor | 2 years limited |
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Make Openoffice3 default in ubuntu removing Openoffice2.4
I am one of those who like to use latest version of the software which keeps me experimenting with new things every now and then.
So openoffice3 was released some time back and I wanted to make it as default for my kubuntu install. Here are the steps which I followed for the doing the same.
1. Download the .deb installer from open office.
2. Remove the previous version of openoffice. Open up synaptic, search for openoffice and then remove the one starting with openoffice. This will remove the existing 2.4 version from your computer.
3. Now, extract the tar file which you downloaded from openoffice.
4. Go to the DEBS folder and run the following command
sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
This will install everything... basically kitchen, sink everything.
5. You will still not get the menus in the office section of your applications. So, you go to desktop integration folder in the DEBS folder and again run the above command
sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
And you are all set. You may have to choose for open office for the file associated for open with for some time.
Till the backport repository has the openoffice3, this is the only way I can think of using openoffice3 as default.
Thanks to this post which helped me in setting up the things.
So openoffice3 was released some time back and I wanted to make it as default for my kubuntu install. Here are the steps which I followed for the doing the same.
1. Download the .deb installer from open office.
2. Remove the previous version of openoffice. Open up synaptic, search for openoffice and then remove the one starting with openoffice. This will remove the existing 2.4 version from your computer.
3. Now, extract the tar file which you downloaded from openoffice.
4. Go to the DEBS folder and run the following command
sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
This will install everything... basically kitchen, sink everything.
5. You will still not get the menus in the office section of your applications. So, you go to desktop integration folder in the DEBS folder and again run the above command
sudo dpkg -i *.deb.
And you are all set. You may have to choose for open office for the file associated for open with for some time.
Till the backport repository has the openoffice3, this is the only way I can think of using openoffice3 as default.
Thanks to this post which helped me in setting up the things.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Error with Compiz Fusion Not Working
Well, compiz is one of the coolest thing which linux has got. It was working flawlessly on my lenovo t60 and suddenly one fine day everything went bonkers... I started recieving these dreaded messages.
libGL error: drmMap of framebuffer failed (Invalid argument)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0
when I used to run compiz --replace command. I searched the net for some time and then gave up. I thought what updates came through which screwed this up. I figured out I had only kde-core package and to upgrade to hardy I had to install kubuntu-desktop which inturn brings tons of other junk in xserver-xorg-video. So, I opened synaptic and remove all the chipset drivers. Do not remove fbdev else it will remove everything in xserver and your system will be in bonkers...
After doing that I just rebooted and yup.. my hunch was right... it was the other video drivers which were creating problem. Now, I am again running the compiz on my kde... and am loving it...
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Boot Speed Ubuntu
I tried different tweaks from here. However, my boot speed was still slow, it was taking 2 minutes or so to go to gdm login. So, I was thinking how to increase it further.
I did the concurrency=Shell as mentioned in the post above. Still the boot speed was slow. I saw that there was a culprit which used to print "Reading files for boot" for close to 45 seconds during the boot, before it proceeded further. I was sure that it was one of the services which was creating problem. I was not able to locate which one though... so I left it at that suffering with 2 minutes for booting up.
Then one fine day, I saw my cpu usage remaining 100%, so I checked top and saw apport running on top. Now, what was this apport... some googling and got to the information that it is error reporting service ... I thought I will disable it. I disabled it and also avahi daemon (I frankly do not know what purpose it serves). I connect to my serves manually as I know about them. So, disabled that too. And next boot no line of "Reading files for boot" and my boot time went from 2 minutes to 45 seconds... that was great!!!! Nice find... thought would publish it.
I did the concurrency=Shell as mentioned in the post above. Still the boot speed was slow. I saw that there was a culprit which used to print "Reading files for boot" for close to 45 seconds during the boot, before it proceeded further. I was sure that it was one of the services which was creating problem. I was not able to locate which one though... so I left it at that suffering with 2 minutes for booting up.
Then one fine day, I saw my cpu usage remaining 100%, so I checked top and saw apport running on top. Now, what was this apport... some googling and got to the information that it is error reporting service ... I thought I will disable it. I disabled it and also avahi daemon (I frankly do not know what purpose it serves). I connect to my serves manually as I know about them. So, disabled that too. And next boot no line of "Reading files for boot" and my boot time went from 2 minutes to 45 seconds... that was great!!!! Nice find... thought would publish it.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Concurrency=Shell error fix in Gutsy 7.10 Ubuntu
Well, I was trying to get my ubuntu gutsy to boot up with concurrency=shell... well for those of you who are not aware, when you boot up there are lot of init script which run. By default they run serially so if you have more than one processor only one thread runs during init i.e. boot. Concurrency=shell will create new shell and these scripts are run in parallel.
So, how you do it? Well change the /etc/init.d/rc and change concurrency=none to concurrency=shell.
Now, when you do it, there would be a problem with HAL. This happens as dbus and hal has same script order and hence creates a problem.
to fix this issue,
rename the file in /etc/rc2.d/S12hal to etc/rc2.d/S13hal
rename the file in /etc/rc3.d/S12hal to etc/rc2.d/S13hal
And that it... you are all set... reboot and you will definitely see change in the boot up time.. Give it a try.
If things do not workout then just change the concurrency=shell to concurrency=none.
So, how you do it? Well change the /etc/init.d/rc and change concurrency=none to concurrency=shell.
Now, when you do it, there would be a problem with HAL. This happens as dbus and hal has same script order and hence creates a problem.
to fix this issue,
rename the file in /etc/rc2.d/S12hal to etc/rc2.d/S13hal
rename the file in /etc/rc3.d/S12hal to etc/rc2.d/S13hal
And that it... you are all set... reboot and you will definitely see change in the boot up time.. Give it a try.
If things do not workout then just change the concurrency=shell to concurrency=none.
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