tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56987282892304264722024-02-08T05:29:38.481+01:00Dorien Herremansdorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-63820751020487766742017-03-07T07:44:00.001+01:002017-03-07T07:44:08.662+01:00Creating a hard link to a directory/folder in mac os<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #242729; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">
Install Piffle: </div>
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The you can just create the link: </div>
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Deleting is a different story: if you go about it the usual way to delete directories, you'll delete the contents. So you <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">must</strong> "unlink" the directory:</div>
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dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-64993759333296473112016-01-21T22:33:00.000+01:002016-01-21T23:50:54.355+01:00F.lux for Ubuntu 15.x - blocking out blue light to improve sleep and reduce headachesGetting strained eyes from looking at your screen too long? F.lux adapts your screen display to the time of day by blocking out the blue light. Blocking out blue light supposibly has lots of benefits including improved sleep, reduced adhd symptoms and many more. See <a href="https://www.lowbluelights.com/">this page</a> for more info.
Installing f.lux on ubuntu is easy:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blackmage/f.lux; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y fluxgui</blockquote>
If the gui fails for you, you can get it to work via terminal: xflux
You might also want to give <a href="http://jonls.dk/redshift/">Redshift</a> a try. dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-90486285931594556552015-09-21T14:25:00.003+02:002016-03-28T14:08:59.039+02:00Dell xps13 (2015) - updates and bios flashingI got a new Dell xps13 (2015), thinking it would work with linux as well as my beloved old xps13. Unfortunately... that was not the case...<br />
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After struggling with OpenSuse installers and lack of touchpad fixes (my favourite distro of all time), I felt defeated and installed Kubuntu.<br />
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I must admit a lot of things worked out of the box with ubuntu. Except for:<br />
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- flashing screen<br />
- touchpad going crazy<br />
- repeated keys<br />
- battery draining fast<br />
- kernel panics<br />
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I struggled for days to find a way to update the firmware (I use grub as a bootloader and had turned UEFI off somehow to be able to boot usb disks). Then, when I had given up, I stumbled upon this extremely easy method: http://askubuntu.com/questions/100945/how-do-i-update-the-bios-of-a-dell-laptop<br />
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Download the WIndows/DOS BIOS installer for your hardware from dell.com</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Download the latest <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #962d0c; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SystemRescueCD</a> and burn it to a blank CD or install it to a <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #962d0c; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">USB flash drive</a>. <span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Copy the Windows/DOS BIOS installer to a FAT formatted USB stick or the one that you installed the SystemRescueCD on.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Boot from the CD or flash drive.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Choose to boot from FreeDOS in the floppy images menu.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Make sure you do NOT load HIMEM and EMM386 memory managers.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Change to the USB stick (typically C: if you do not have any FAT partitions on your HDD). Remember to change, just type: "C:"</li>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">The touchpad is still abit crazy. Each time I scroll, a right mouse click happens. Why? Sometimes the mouse gets stuck in "clicked" mode. And I see some flashes around my screen... I hope a new update of either ubuntu or dell bios fixes this soon. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">UPDATE</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">I couldn't take it anymore, so I did a fresh install after the firmware upgrade. All was fine, until I installed chrome and oracle java 8. The computer seems to flip on everything with java... I'll keep you updated what I figure out, installed openjdk 1.8 for now and removed chrome. Will investigate further. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">UPDATE<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">2</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">The kubuntu updates seem<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"> to have f<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">ixed the </span></span>jumping cursor pro<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">blem. <span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">Fin<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">al<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">l<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">y! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">Remaining issues: the system is unstable, <span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">it crashes <span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">often when I click on the wifi icon<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">; vlc doesn't work pro<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">perly due to a qt5 problem (haven't figured that out yet)<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">; battery seems to drain when I close the lid<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">; I <span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">I close the lid with external monitor connected everything flips an<span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">d <span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;">keeps running... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu" , "arial" , "libra sans" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-68903776025690850412014-12-09T20:19:00.005+01:002014-12-09T20:20:10.760+01:00Internet speed test from terminal<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test10.zip</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">> to download a 10M file. </span>dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-43615325054262099792013-11-26T12:12:00.001+01:002013-11-26T12:12:53.538+01:00install hp network printer in linuxIf you know the network address of your printer it is very to install it through cups. If you don't have the network address try to ping it first or ask your network administrator.<br />
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Install hplib on your system, it should be included in the repository and it includes a very useful hp command line tool.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">>> hp-makeuri yourip</span><br />
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This will give you a url like such:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_600_M602?ip=xx.xx.xx.xx</span><br />
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Go to cups and add a printer. Choose any of the protocal types and give in the above url. Voila! It is as simple as that!dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-5093258321322275352013-11-21T12:31:00.000+01:002013-11-21T12:45:24.787+01:00Installing OpenSuse 13.1 on Dell XPS13 UltrabookFollowing up on <a href="http://dorienherremans.blogspot.be/2013/05/installing-opensuse-123-on-new-dell.html" target="_blank">my original OpenSuse 12.3 installation</a> on this fantastic laptop, I decided to perform a new install of the latest OpenSuse (13.1). As usual I kept my home partition and reformatted my /.<br />
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Everything works out of the box. Even (and finally) the multitouchpad. Full resolution even when my external screen is added. WiFi worked immediately. Also the screen brightness adjustment keys work (perhaps due to my fix that was still in place, see <a href="http://dorienherremans.blogspot.be/2013/05/installing-opensuse-123-on-new-dell.html" target="_blank">here). </a><br />
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Only pitfal so far: my webcam is not responding and cheese stays black. Will find a fix for that : ) I could use it in a google hangout yesterday though, don't know where this sudden lag comes from.<br />
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Follow fixes for the webcam <a href="https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/492303-cheese-stays-black.html#post2599669" target="_blank">here. </a>dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-89107876600842433812013-07-17T15:07:00.004+02:002013-07-17T15:09:49.764+02:00Installing Picasa 3.9 on OpenSuse Linux through Wine (and fixing google web logon)I love using picasa from Google, as I miss the multiple select tool in Digicam. Altough facebook upload is still missing (I think at least), I wanted to reinstall picasa. Unfortunately, google discontinued the linux version, so I installed the latest version with wine.<br />
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1. Download picasa 3.9 (or latest version) for windows and open it with wine:<br />
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<i>wine picasa39-setup.exe</i><br />
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2. This actually already works quite good, except for the google login features, which is quite essential if you want to share your pictures. To fix that, you need winetricks to install ie6. On OpenSuse, this is already included in Wine. If you have an older wine version, you might want to look for it separately.<br />
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3. Download <a href="http://www.oldversion.com/download-Internet-Explorer-6.0.htm" target="_blank">msie60.exe</a>, place it in /root/.cache/winetricks/ie6<br />
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4. If you have a 64 bit system, you need this extra tweeking step:
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<i> env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.google/picasa/3.0/ winetricks ie6</i><br />
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Otherwise, on 32 bit systems, just use <i>winetricks ie6
</i>dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-63159129685619688132013-06-04T14:23:00.003+02:002013-06-04T14:23:57.895+02:00Running graphical applications through sshI wanted to run Weka on our office's shared server, which is accessible by command line ssh.<br />
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I therefore used:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>xhost +hostname</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>ssh -X hostname</i></span><br />
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Hopla, that's it!dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-75761822051236949082013-06-01T22:02:00.003+02:002013-06-01T22:02:43.610+02:00Fix for brightness adjust bug on Del XPS13 Ultrabook with OpenSuse LinuxAfter installing OpenSuse Linux on my new Dell XPS13 Ultrabook, as I read on a bug report <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-03/msg03428.html">here</a>. I discovered that the brightness adjust controls did not work. See my full post on the installation <a href="http://dorienherremans.blogspot.be/2013/05/installing-opensuse-123-on-new-dell.html">here</a>.<br />
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I was able to fix the brightness buttons by running this command as su (also works after reboot):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">/bin/echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness </span>dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-32915008063307494112013-05-30T10:45:00.001+02:002013-05-30T10:45:17.440+02:00Restoring multiple deleted files from dropboxWhen I arrived at work this morning my university folder was empty. Oeps...<br />
Apparantly some syncronisation error happened when I copied my files to my new laptop, and reorganised them. When I turned on my old laptop at home it the evening, it deleted everything from Dropbox.<br />
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Luckily, Dropbox maintains a history of your files so you can recover them up until a month ago (longer if you are a Pro user).<br />
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You can log into Dropbox.com and restore the files one by one. Unfortunately, this will take forever.<br />
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The solution. I found a script offered by Dropbox. One you install <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/">Greasemonkey</a> plugin for Firefox or <a href="http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/tampermonkey/">Tampermonkey</a> for Chrome, you can just run this script: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/780382/jsbox.user.js">JSBox</a>. It will give you the option to mass recover your files through the web interface!<br />
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This little script gives you some nice little options:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After installing the extension or logging in using the fake server, just browse your files as usual. </span></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you click this option, a new Modal box will open with a text
box containing the contents of the file. Just make your modifications
and click Save to submit the changes and automatically sync it with your
all your computers.</span></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You can click the link Open in new window to work in a new Window with the file.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Restore groups of files
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Another useful missing feature for Dropbox is to restore groups of files when you accidentally delete them.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When you click your events page after installing this extension
(or on the fake server), you will see a special link next to the deleted
events feeds:
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Just click this link and in a few seconds, all the files deleted on this event will be restored.
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Source: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/JSBox <br />
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I just ctrl-A selected all the folders, right click, restore. That saved my day today!dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-72068803227685500142013-05-28T17:01:00.001+02:002013-11-21T12:46:44.434+01:00Installing OpenSuse 12.3 on the new Dell XPS13 UltrabookCheck out the install for OpenSuse 13.1 <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5698728289230426472#editor/target=post;postID=509325832132227535;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname" target="_blank">here. </a><br />
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I just got the Dell XPS13 Ultrabook. It looks amazing... It feels very sturdy with the Aluminium exterior and is just very cool.<br />
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Just a short sidenote about the XPS13 before I go into installation details... When I turned it on I noticed an extremely irritating high-pitched sound that would not go away. It varied a little bit every second. I tried all possible things to find the error (turn off wifi, switch to other screen etc). Nothing helped. So I sent it back to Dell and they changed the motherboard and the fan. It came back yesterday and I was all exited... only to still hear this noise... I read around on the internet and it must be a design thing, perhaps an electrical wire that is not properly insulated. Now, I must admit, I have extremely sensitive ears so that might contribute. Also, woman's ears are able to hear higher pitched sounds then men, so perhaps the designers or technicians did not hear it. Still... it immediately cought my attention. Anyway, I have am trying the laptop now, and I must admit, seeing it without that horrible windows makes me feel alot better about it.<br />
UPDATE: after installing Linux and peforming the BIOS system stress test the hight-pitch sound went away... thank god! <br />
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I created a bootable USB stick from the OpenSuse website, with version 12.3, 64-bit on it. Now my colleage told me that despite my love for OpenSuse, I might consider installing Ubuntu on it, since it has a dedicated release for this laptop. Well, after considering that for about 5 minutes, I put my USB stick with OpenSuse in the XPS13 and rebooted. Press F12 on startup to access USB booting.<br />
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Now how well does it work?<br />
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Only issue I could find so far is that the Brightness adjust does not work (see <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-03/msg03428.html">this bug report</a>). I will implement a fix in the coming days, and will post it here, so be sure to come back!<br />
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<br />dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-85319383498424839692013-05-26T00:40:00.001+02:002014-04-06T20:25:52.734+02:00Cool effects with Fujifilm X10 firmware 2.0 updateI just update the firmware of my Fuji X10 camera and discovered some awesome built in advanced effects!<br />
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If you go the the advanced menu (rotating button on the top Adv.), you get select the new filters. I just took some very quick snapshots (it's about midnight so the room was dark). To get an idea of the new filters.<br />
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Miniature - creates top and bottom blur for diorama effect:<br />
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Toy camera - creates shaded borders as taken by toycameras:<br />
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Second new feature in the second version of Fuji X10's firmware is the Quick Menu, already available on the X-Pro-1. Press the raw button for a bunch of usefull shortcuts:<br />
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Get full instructions on how to upgrade your Fuji X10 camera's firmware <a href="http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/x10/download.html">here. </a>It's really easy. Basically, you just download the .dat file and place in on a formatted SD card. Then you turn on the camera while you are holding the back-button.<br />
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This lists all the touchpad features.<br /><br />You can control everyoption with synclient:<br /><div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;">
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dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-2788158468731532762012-05-27T14:12:00.000+02:002012-06-13T20:21:24.057+02:00Garmin Forerunner 405 Connect to OpenSuse linuxI just got my Garmin Forerunner 405 gps watch and it looks great, a little bit on the chuggy side for my wrist, but ok, what can we expect ;-)<br />
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lsusb did not recognise the stick at first. Only when I installed garmin drivers found at software.opensuse.org, it would recognise the stick.<br />
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I downloaded and compiled gant, from: https://github.com/jamesarbrown/Gant<br />
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Now I am just experimenting and seeing if I can get a browser plugin to work... <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/GarminPlugin" style="background-color: transparent;">http://software.opensuse.org/package/GarminPlugin</a> looks promising...</div>
dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-31436447836136368692012-04-13T15:46:00.002+02:002012-04-13T15:48:19.641+02:00Kobo Touch ebook readerAfter considering somewhat all ebook readers, I just got a kobo touch ebook reader.<br />
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</div><div>The low price makes it a perfect option to stop printing out my pdf books... A friend of mine showed me his and I was seriously impressed by the e-inkt. It has 2Gb of storage (no sd slot), of which 1.2Gb at least free for books. It has touch, so you can annotate. The page turning speed is not that fast, but it is the book-reading experience... I read some other reviews and although I was also doubting the Kobo touch (both seem to be quite slow, slower that the kindle 4 which on the downside lacks good pdfs support and touch). </div><div><br />
</div><div>I guess these days you should just look at an ebook reader as a cheap device that you take everywhere. It's not a tablet, but great to stop printing out what you have to read... Passing by the store later on...<br />
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Update: ok, noticed this nice gadget is 25 euros cheaper in the UK. Luckily I'm visiting a friend in Southampton next week... will pick one up there... </div>dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-22071373169260247162012-03-10T21:42:00.000+01:002012-03-10T21:42:55.659+01:00MyBook Live for Linux/OpenSuseI just spent a few hours reading up on the best way to connect my new 2T MyBook Live, NAS.<br />
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I first tried to mount the network hard disk manually, that when ok, except I couldn't get the permissions right.<br />
I fiddled with fstab... couldn't get the permissions quite right... Installed smb4k... reading worked fine... no writing, even though the files are correctly chmodded...<br />
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So... then I fixed it in 1 minute...<br />
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Open Dolphin (file browser), click on network (in the places window). Add network folder -> Microsoft Windows Network Drive (even though the MyBook works with Lenny linux). Fill in the IP addres of your NAS (check this in your router table). And voila... done... omg... IT IS THAT EASY...dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-68539380233299610112011-06-22T22:37:00.000+02:002011-06-22T22:53:09.097+02:00Old text based computer game - Kirsta Computers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://drupalfun.com/sites/default/files/kirsta.rar">I just did something I have been meaning to do for some time now... I dove into my computer file archive and dug up files of 3 floppy disks with games from Kirsta Computers.<br /><br />My favourite is KCA1.exe, an text-based adventure game.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZBGCGbG9fKCVvhegJTMqPtwLm3h3jgDY5SiW6WWvyYdQJo-_QiwxyFehnjZqhwHULFjTxJKe4Ip5yZLJdYTJdiNLNAxSXEsWoC8SWGE7oV3EjPBo4xrhy_pnPfmVSo3m6ZQV7YS86u3c/s1600/cbr33.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZBGCGbG9fKCVvhegJTMqPtwLm3h3jgDY5SiW6WWvyYdQJo-_QiwxyFehnjZqhwHULFjTxJKe4Ip5yZLJdYTJdiNLNAxSXEsWoC8SWGE7oV3EjPBo4xrhy_pnPfmVSo3m6ZQV7YS86u3c/s320/cbr33.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621146996440189778" border="0" /></a><br />The other files are some classic maze game, backgammon and patience...<br /><br />I used dosBOX to play them on my OpenSuse machine. I have put the original exe files on my site. Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HnnwptEqqOnfS_9IHVbexdQXANwKEc01aqhokmjeoz3XVBEPzI0eVMx_6h0FauNXSpJrtZqC0X7rAiGdUS-TesvGhdEwUvvxkBwUeslunE4eIwIGKagN9wtGrSTIQEmtTBiz65FIMd64/s1600/cbr32.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HnnwptEqqOnfS_9IHVbexdQXANwKEc01aqhokmjeoz3XVBEPzI0eVMx_6h0FauNXSpJrtZqC0X7rAiGdUS-TesvGhdEwUvvxkBwUeslunE4eIwIGKagN9wtGrSTIQEmtTBiz65FIMd64/s320/cbr32.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621147747111267314" border="0" /></a><a href="http://drupalfun.com/sites/default/files/kirsta.rar"><br />Download them here.</a><br /><br />Sorry, Kirsta, I hope you don't mind me giving it away for free, but I don't think you're selling it anymore...dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-46995361619594448992010-08-17T15:51:00.000+02:002010-08-17T16:37:55.324+02:00Installing OpenSuse 11.3 (64 bit) on a Dell XPS M1530 laptopI just did a fresh install of OpenSuse 11.3 on my Dell XPS 1530. This machine used to run OpenSuse 10.3 (see this post: http://dorienherremans.blogspot.com/2010/08/opensuse-110-installation-guide-on-dell.html).<br /><br />I kept the /home partition, so a lot of the settings and the desktop where already custom. I love it. Even my internet favorites are kept!<br /><br />Anyway, first evaluation:<br /><br />- Touchpad fix: no need for it this time. Works great.<br />- Ethernet: works great<br />- Wireless: will need some drivers for the BCM card etc<br />- Sound: seems to work ok<br />- 3D: will need NVIDIA drivers<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Let's fix the wireless first.</span><br /><br />Just a note. i am using the bcm wireless card. If you have an intel card, it will probably work out of the box. Fire up a console as su and type:<br /><br />cd /lib/firmware<br />install_bcm43xx_firmware<br /><br />to install the correct firmware. You need to be connected to the internet for this to work.<br /><br /><br /><br />Add some additional repositories to Yast. Especially Packman (http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories), so that you can install the following packages:<br /><br />- ndiswrapper<br /><br />Mmmm... last time I used kndiswrapper as a UI for ndiswrapper, that worked great. Seems that there is no release available yet for 11.3. Mmmm... ok, we'll have to do it manually...<br /><br />Download the (64 bit!) .exe driver from Dell, you can find it here: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE<br /><br />Go to the directory where you want to keep the driver and:<br />unzip -a R151517.EXE<br /><br />Install the driver:<br /><br />cd DRIVER<br />ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf<br />ndiwrapper -l<br />modprobe ndiswrapper<br /><br />For the first time now. I see my WIFI light burning! I first had to flick the switch on and off.<br /><br />iwlist scanning<br />It is scanning! That's a good sign!<br /><br />Now we can right-click on the KNetworkManager icon to connect over wireless. Yoehoe!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Now for 3D effects</span><br /><br />Install the NVIDIA drivers. You can do this via Yast:<br /><br />X11-Video-NVIDIAG02<br /><br /><br />Voila, after a X11 reboot, 3D should be enabled and you should be able to turn on 3D desktop effects.<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />I must say, this all went a lot smoother than with the 10.3 release.<br /><br />Thanks OpenSuse community, still my fav distro!dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-50212068975731840802010-08-04T08:29:00.000+02:002010-08-09T09:18:57.983+02:00How to install OpenSuse 11.3 on an HP TC1100 tabletI was very exited to finally get my very own tc1100 in the mail yesterday. My first thoughts, of course, where: how can I get rid of this W7 and get a nice OpenSuse on there. Well, here we go:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Create an install USB</span><br /><br />I downloaded the Network install iso at opensuse.org. To make this iso bootable from a USB key, you need to install SysLinux first (either via Yast), or:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />zypper in syslinux</span><br /><br />Unfortunalty, whatever I tried, syslinux was not recognized. Turns out, you need the very latest version of syslinux (which was not available on my 11.0), so I booted up a 11.2 computer, did the same there and all went well.<br /><br />Next we will unpack the iso onto a USB key:<br /><br />Check which device is your usb key:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"># ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*</span><br /><br />his will print out something like the following, with sdX being the actual device (for example, sdb in my case).<br /><br />lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-03-05 18:22 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Colors+_4527710EBF819BC0-0:0 -> ../../sdX<br />lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-03-05 18:22 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Colors+_4527710EBF819BC0-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdX1<br /><br />Once you know your device name, eject it:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"># umount /dev/sdX1</span><br /><br />And write the uncompressed iso to it:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /># dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.3-NetworkInstall-i586.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Boot the TC1100 from USB</span><br /><br />Put the USB in the TC1100 USB port and power on the tablet. On the bootup screen, press the scroll button on the top of the computer to enter the boot menu. Once there, you can change the boot order under the menu tools. Make sure to look under Hard Drive, that was where my USB was hiding.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Install OpenSuse 11.3</span><br /><br />Once you boot from the USB key, you see the installation program start up. Just follow the steps like any regular Linux install. Make sure to select the tablet options under software.<br /><br />Oh yeah, since we are using the network install... be sure to connect to either an ethernet network or a wireless network. I did my install wireless, I was impressed that my wifi card was recognised out of the box.<br /><br />Voila... around 3 hours later, I had a full OpenSuse install.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. What works out-of the box</span><br /><br />As mentioned before, wifi works out of the box. The tablet seems to be functionning for the most part so far. The stylus pointer also works (exept for the right button).<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Graphics card driver</span><br /><br />The GeForce 420 needs the legacy NVIDIA driver. Unfortunately, OpenSuse 11.3 no longer offers the precompiled legacy drivers. It does however offer an opensource 'nouveau' driver, that supports the card. I decided to use the original NVIDIA installer that is offered by NVIDIA here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.18-driver.html For me, the driver did not work. So I just did nothing and used the nouveau driver.<br /><br />So far, compositing does not work, but I can use xrandr to rotate my screen.<br /><br />PS: I compiled the driver from NVIDIA manually, but it did not function properly and caused my xrandr to stop working, so I'll stick to nouveau for the time being.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Enabling 3D effects and compositing</span><br />not yet<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Create a screen rotation script</span><br /><br />screen rotation should work with:<br /><br />xrandr -o left<br /><br />and<br /><br />xrandr - o normal<br /><br />Let's create a file (set permissions to executable) with the following contents. I call the file rotate:<br /><br />rotation="$(<span class="il">xrandr</span> -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted| right)')"<br /><div id=":2m">case "$rotation" in<br />normal)<br /># -rotate to the left<br /><span class="il">xrandr</span> -o left<br />xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet" rotate cck<br /> ;;<br />left)<br /># -rotate to inverted<br /><span class="il">xrandr</span> -o normal<br />xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet" rotate none<br />;;<br />inverted)<br /># -rotate to the right<br /><span class="il">xrandr</span> -o normal<br />xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet" rotate none<br />;;<br />right)<br /># -rotate to normal<br /><span class="il">xrandr</span> -o normal<br />xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet" rotate none<br />;;<br />esac</div><br /><br /><br />The xsetwacom command makes sure that the tablet's stylus functions properly.<br /><br />In order to make this executable, right click on it and set permissions to executable.<br /><br />cp /pathtofile/rotate /usr/bin/rotate<br /><br />will make it a real command. You can type rotate in a terminal and see what happens...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Fix the tablet hotkeys</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and get right click</span><br /><br />Download xbindkeys. This utility needs compiling, so make sure you have gcc etc installed.<br /><br />Next:<br /><br />./configure --disable-guile<br />make<br />make install<br /><br />create a file:<br /><br />/home/yourname/.xbindkeysrc<br /><br />with the following contents:<br /><br />"rotate"<br />c:157<br />"cellwriter"<br />c:23<br />"Menu"<br />c:156<br /><br />This will assign some useful commands to the top buttons. You can use the command xbindkey -k to find out the code of a button (or use xev)<br /><br /><br />To autostart:<br /><br />ln -s /usr/bin/xbindkeys /home/dorien/.kde4/Autostart/xbindkeys<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Some useful aps</span><br /><br />cellwriter, xournal,...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. What's left..</span><br /><br />Jacksense in not enabled, so if you plugin headphones, you can still hear sound through the speakers: just click o<a id="publishButton" class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" target="" onclick="if (this.className.indexOf("ubtn-disabled") == -1) {var e = document['stuffform'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}"><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner">Publish Post</div></div></div></a>n the mixer icon and configure channels, add line jack sense and uncheck the box. That fixes that.dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698728289230426472.post-40714413399466997622010-08-03T16:13:00.000+02:002010-08-03T16:14:54.954+02:00OpenSuse 11.0 Installation guide, on Dell XPS 1530 notebook1. Installing OpenSuse 11.0<br /><br />Yesterday morning started of great: with a phonecall from UPS asking if I was home so they could deliver my brand new Dell XPS M1530 laptop. Great! Well, it took some time and effort (around 6 phone calls) to explain to the courrier (in french) how he could find my house in the mountains... But how nice to see the UPS truck in the narrow road, with the driver smiling (did I detect a sigh of relief there...). He handed me a small box... whaaw, could there be a computer in that box...<br />I had to wait until the evening to start the OpenSuse 11.0 install. Everything went smooth (as usual with the OpenSuse intaller) until the point where it gave me "Unable to resize partition. Corrupted fs, check in windows"... Oh my... Check in Windows, that's not exactly my speciality. I spend the whole night trying to fix the filesystem in Vista. Well, no luck there. I ran checkdisk (twice, cause my battery died at 95% and it had to start again *grmbl*), deleted the rollback files, the virtual memory, ran all kinds of checks and Windows just always said everything was ok. Well, Linux has higher requirements...<br />Not to worry... I was finally able to shrink the partition to half (vista wasn't content with less than 160 Gs). I took it. I went back to the Linux installer, but no luck. The unallocated 130 Gs seemed to small and the filesystem of the other three partitions (dells media and recovery) stayed corrupted.<br /><br />The next morning... was dominated by a "honey do you really need windows for your games" and "if I get a tv card, we can buy a playstation". No seriously, the most dominant argument was the need for a good video editor... Well we'll try wine or vmware (XP please, no more Vista).<br />You now, me girlfriend is amazing... She let me delete the entire windows partition, which left me with a sweet 280 GB home partition. How great is that. A computer with only Linux, that's my first.<br /><br />Ok, finally I could press the install button. And we're off. I was plastering the living room when the installer was running, so I didn't really pay attention. At a certain point I looked up and saw a screensaver all of a sudden. Well, at lease X Server is working!<br /><br />2. Fixing the touchpad<br /><br />As soon as I touch the mouse, weird things start to happen. It seems to click everywhere. Oh, that's right... I read about that issue before. So I:<br /><br />- changed /boot/grub/menu.lst to include i8042.nomux=1 (I put it before splash) at the boot options. I should probably go back and add it for the failsafe install as well<br />=> ok, it works, but it clicks irregularly<br /><br />- I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Option "MaxTapTime""0", this disables the tab clicking<br /><br />It works perfectly now... Sweet<br /><br />3. Setting up 3G wireless internet<br /><br />Luckily, I've written another article about this, and it still works... You can find it at: http://dorax.naturalp.org/?q=node/16<br /><br />4. Setting up my Lamp webserver<br /><br />Since I checked the webserver option at the install, all the necessary packages for lamp are already installed.<br /><br />APACHE<br />1. Just enable Apache 2 at Yast -> System -> System Services<br />That's it. Since the php module is enabled, apache should normally handle php files correctly.<br /><br />MYSQL<br />I just typed "MySql" in a terminal and got:<br />ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)<br /><br />Well, well, that's right, I got that last time as well... Mmmmh, what was that again.<br />- The folder /var/lib/mysql/ is empty, so where is mysql.sock?<br />- ok, mysql.sock is created by mysql on startup. That means: mysql is not running!<br /><br />Same procedure as above, enable the system service mysql in Yast. Great!<br /><br />5. Getting sound<br /><br />Hey, I don't have any sound. The mixer volume is open... and even the cool touchkeys for controlling and muting the volume work. Exept.... I don't hear anything...<br />I went to Yast-> Hardware -> Sound. Selected the soundcard and pressed Options -> set volume. Apparently, you need to open the front - surround -etc mixer channels and I get a lovely sound. Great!<br /><br />6. Nvidia drivers and 3D Graphics<br /><br />The standard mode is Vesa, so I want to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers and also configure the laptop screen. You can use one-click install for Yast at NVidia.<br /><br />7. Hacking OpenSuse 11.0<br /><br />I use this subtitle to refer to a crazily popular article about an earlier version of OpenSuse. Things have gotten a lot easier nowadays...<br />I understand and respect OPENSuse's policy about licensed software... and I must say, they really offer solutions to install it afterwards if you want to. On the site http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia, there is a one click install for a few useful licensed software such as mp3, divx, java, flash etc.<br /><br />8. Wireless LAN<br /><br />Honestly, I didn't have a chance to test wireless right away. A few weeks after I got the laptop, I went away abroad and it turns out that, although the card is recognized, it can't detect the networks.<br /><br />Here is the solution:<br />First, install the firmware firmware of BCM43xx, you can use the package of packman with yast installer. You just need to type:<br /><br />install_bcm43xx_firmware<br /><br />at /lib/firmware<br /><br />Next, I installed kndiswrapper and ndiswrapper. This is a kernel module that allows a Windows driver to be loaded in the kernel. The better solution would be to recompile the kernel with the drivers broadcom offers on their website, but since I am on slow internet, I can't afford to download my big kernel sources at this time.<br /><br />Download the .exe driver from Dell, you can find it here: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE<br /><br />Go to the directory where you want to keep the driver and:<br />unzip -a R151517.EXE<br /><br />Now you can load the driver with kndiswrapper (graphical frontend to ndiswrapper). Right click on the driver and select properties to see if all is in order. In my case the ssb module was interfering with ndiswrapper, so kndiswrapper disabled it and blacklisted it for me. For the first time now. I see my WIFI light burning! You still need to configure you wlan0 to use DHCP and... on the configure button!<br /><br />Next, configure your wireless network device via yast, and fill in "ndiswrapper" in the "kernel module" box. Let's check:<br /><br />iwlist scanning<br />It is scanning! That's a good sign!<br /><br />Now we can right-click on the KNetworkManager icon to connect over wireless. Yoehoe!<br /><br />9. Ethernet<br /><br />Works out of the box.<br />Conclusion<br /><br />Well, I honestly was expecting a more out of the box functioning for the XPS 1530, and I am a bit disapointed. It has been a real challenge of putting stuff together. From Dell, who actually sells laptops with Ubuntu, I would have expected a bit more support. What about a cd with Linux drivers... whooow...<br /><br />It's been great figuring everything out finally. I hope to have helped you.dorienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06434987219025373124noreply@blogger.com0