Laptop progress
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elfsMaking progress on the laptop. It turns out that the major bug was in the ATI video card drivers. I upgraded to the "beta release" drivers from their website and it suspended to RAM and then came back without complaint. Well, okay, there was complaint: the networking card didn't come back. I'll have to find the setting that causes it to reset after suspend. But the video card came back and I didn't get the "Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a1 on CPU 0. You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue..." message from the kernel, which is associated with the bad driver.
Anyway, I'm getting closer to having everything working. It's that last 5% of things that don't quite work that drive everyone crazy, isn't it? I did get Freespace, MAME, and so forth up and running so I have all my favorite games-- not that I ever have time to play any of them. I also got Blueproximity working, a small service that can tell if you've stepped away from your computer (it uses bluetooth to tell how far away your phone is) and immediately runs whatever script you want: lock the screen, encrypt your home partition, whatever. I haven't experimented with the IR port yet. I have not done any heavy 3-d work with it. I have Scribus, Kompozer, Umbrello, Wordnet, Rhyme, Noweb, Inkscape, Xaralx, Kchmviewer, Flock, Wine (which works pretty well; it even ran Bloodrayne, but not perfectly. It does run the dictionary, which is all I ask of it), MySQL, Rails... I'm almost set, I think.
To run Bloodrayne, the raw cdrom device must be readable by the user so Wine can determine the WINLABEL. ITunes will probably never run on this thing; it's way too sensitive to being hacked. Haven't tried either Half-Life or Warcraft. SecondLife "runs" but I can't seem to log in, and whenever I try to get into the residents' section of the website it gets up to the "password confirmation" page and then boots me out to the home page, no explanation given.
Japanese kinda works. I mean, everything works, but I'm not happy with the "upgrade" to the input method. It's... annoying. Or maybe I just haven't figured out how to use it yet.
Anyway, I'm getting closer to having everything working. It's that last 5% of things that don't quite work that drive everyone crazy, isn't it? I did get Freespace, MAME, and so forth up and running so I have all my favorite games-- not that I ever have time to play any of them. I also got Blueproximity working, a small service that can tell if you've stepped away from your computer (it uses bluetooth to tell how far away your phone is) and immediately runs whatever script you want: lock the screen, encrypt your home partition, whatever. I haven't experimented with the IR port yet. I have not done any heavy 3-d work with it. I have Scribus, Kompozer, Umbrello, Wordnet, Rhyme, Noweb, Inkscape, Xaralx, Kchmviewer, Flock, Wine (which works pretty well; it even ran Bloodrayne, but not perfectly. It does run the dictionary, which is all I ask of it), MySQL, Rails... I'm almost set, I think.
To run Bloodrayne, the raw cdrom device must be readable by the user so Wine can determine the WINLABEL. ITunes will probably never run on this thing; it's way too sensitive to being hacked. Haven't tried either Half-Life or Warcraft. SecondLife "runs" but I can't seem to log in, and whenever I try to get into the residents' section of the website it gets up to the "password confirmation" page and then boots me out to the home page, no explanation given.
Japanese kinda works. I mean, everything works, but I'm not happy with the "upgrade" to the input method. It's... annoying. Or maybe I just haven't figured out how to use it yet.
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Date: 2007-12-18 01:07 am (UTC)To make networking not die, add "ipw3945" to the MODULES whitelist in /etc/default/acpi-support.
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Date: 2007-12-18 01:49 am (UTC)It suspends to RAM now. Haven't tried TuxOnIce to disk yet.