Archive for November, 2008

How did the upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy go…?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Preparations:

  • Downloading VMWare 1.0.8 and 2.0.0.
  • Having my Huawei E220 ready
  • Having all IPs ready and logged on to the ADSL gateway put in bridge mode (if my virtual gateway wouldn’t come up in reasonable time..)

Well, after some changes in sources.list I’m starting off with

  • apt-get -u dist-upgrade

What works right after dist-upgrade and reboot then?

  • The system boots up. =)
  • 1wire mount did work
  • My Lacrosse weather station still worked and had contact

What did I have to fix?

  • Of course, VMWare didn’t work. New kernel. I installed VMWare 2.0.0 instead and used the same files. Work like a charm.
  • dvbloopback compiled for my special needs, needed just a recompile and a cp.
  • I had to do a apt-get –reinstall install mythfrond because I had a segfault. Don’t know why.
  • New installation of NVidia kernel driver, it has a kernel module. No surprise.
  • My LG1730SF didn’t work, my /dev/input/itmtouch has disapperad and it swaps X/Y, my changes in xorg.conf doesn’t work. Some manual fixes solved it. An entire blog will arrive when it comes to ITMTouch and Hardy I think.

Well, up and running, almost everything I think. Just a few hour, a lot easier than expected!

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Todays mission, upgrade my main server at home from gutsy to hardy

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

It doesn’t sound too hard but I have a lot of different specials on this on.

  • MythTV, compiled dvbloopback, some other needed special softwares, TV card and probably some more I’ve forgot from my setup.
    • LIRC
  • VMWare, my gatewith is a virtual server running in VMWare 1.0.4. Thinking about uppgradering this to 2.0.0 when everything is destroyed anyway.
  • Touchscreen, my LG L1730SF is always a problem.
  • 1wire-things, shouldn’t be a problem though.
  • Samba
  • Dual monitors with Mythfrontend on one of them.
  • Lacrosse weather station

I have prepared myself for a hard day. So why doing it? My new diNovo Mini won’t work in gutsy, don’t know why and I’ve fooled myself into thinking hardy will solve it. =)

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Problems with suspend/resume and some mouse settings

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I just updated to Kubuntu Intrepid and everything worked nice. I’ve run KDE4 for like six months and I’m very pleased with it. A not so nice bug in Intrepid / KDE 4.1.2 though is that when i suspend/resume my laptop I loose all my mouse settings. I have to go into System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Advanced and change pointer acc or something and then Apply.

Kind of annoying. Right now I don’t have any solution for this.

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Several problems with my Aspire One

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

I updated bios on my AAO to a latest version found on Acers site, version 3.305, after this everything worked fine until I came to work a few hours later. The AAO was completely dead, and I really mean dead. When I pressed the power button absolutely nothing happened. No LED showed any life.

Well, I just couldn’t get it up and running. I sent it to Acer, they switched the moderboard and when I got it back my SSD showed it was 77GB and had my ordinary three partitions and four extra ones and when I tried to boot on it all I could get was ‘No boot disk’. I tried to clean all partitions and start over. No luck.

Ialso got some nice new scratches on it from the service. Lovely. Too bad because I really did like the AAO but now I’m not that happy. I’ll get back when it’s returned from Germany or wherever it is.

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