Today i got new parts for my workstation: – Phenom X6 1090T – Asus M4N75TD AM3 – 8GB RAM 1333Mhz from Kingston 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX – Graphic Card Nvidia 8400GS Low Noise (fanless) runs well as low noise workstation! tests following… Board works on: – FreeBSD 8.0 (nforce 750) – Debian Lenny 5.0 AMD64 […]
Kategorie: Debian
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: Change Image Location Path of Screensaver Slideshow – Xscreensaver
If you want to use a other Path for xscreensaver Slideshow then create as user file called #nano .xscreensaver and insert: imageDirectory: /home/username/wallpapers
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: JWM Window Manager hangs on Login
Bug: If you want to use JWM as fast Window Manager instead of Gnome you got a little Bug, after Login at GDM Login Manager the JWM Desktop seems to hang. Background: missing deps of menu and menu-xdg Solution: #sudo aptitude install menu menu-xdg #sudo update-menus #sudo service gdm restart if you miss some installed […]
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Disable IPv6 (dmesg = no IPv6 routers present)
Problem: on default ubuntu lucid lynx setup ipv6 is enabled, dmesg shows boot.log= wlan0: no IPv6 routers present to speed up on a ipv4 network you should disable it. Solution: – run #sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf add lines: #disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 -quit save and reboot.. -to test system […]
Change Default Browser on Debian Ubuntu Linux to Opera
run as root/sudo: #update-alternatives –config x-www-browser System shows: Auswahl Alternative ———————————————– 1 /usr/bin/iceweasel *+ 2 /usr/bin/opera Enter: 2 relogin into X-Server/Desktop and Opera is default!
Thinkpad R50p ATI xserver hanging freeze sometimes Debian Lenny
Hardware: R50p with ATI Graphic 128MB 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (rev 80) System: Debian Lenny 5.0 Driver: fglrx Solution: install cpufrequtils #sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils edit #nano /etc/initrd/cpufrequtils change line „ondemand“ to „performance“ check System #dmesg System show „unstable clocksource“ last line edit #sudo nano /etc/boot/menu.lst add […]
IBM Thinkpad X30 xorg.conf Ubuntu Debian Intel Corporation 82830 CGC
Problem: The X30 uses a shared Videoram with a Intel Graphic Chip 82830 which makes bad errors by default, sometime the Buttons are shown grey on grey or Text is unreadable at Gnome or LXDE Solution: # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian […]
Thinkpad X30 freeze if the Lid is closed Gnome Desktop Ubuntu Intel Graphic
Problem: If you use Gnome with Ubuntu 7.10 8.04 8.10 on an Thinkpad X30 and close the Display Lid the Laptop freeze into unknown state. Only a hard reset wakes up the laptop. Solution: Disable the Lid Action at Gnome-Energy-Settings to „IGNORE“
Papierkorb Recycle Bin Samba Share Howto
How to create a Samba Recycle Bin ? (Ersatz fuer Papierkorb Windowserver) At first you need to create the /etc/samba/recycle.conf file # touch /etc/samba/recycle.conf # nano /etc/samba/recycle.conf add: ##Recycle Bin ## name = Recycle Bin mode = KEEP_DIRECTORIES|VERSIONS|TOUCH maxsize = 0 exclude = *.tmp|*.temp|*.o|*.obj|~$*|*.~??|*.log|*.trace excludedir = /tmp|/temp|/cache noversions = *.doc|*.ppt|*.dat|*.ini|*.mp3(Block unwanted Files) edit your /etc/samba/samba […]
smbpasswd changes samba password and unix password too
Problem: At newer Linux Setups with Samba 3 by default smbpasswd changes the user unix login password and samba share password. For higher security i prefer different passwords like on debian SARGE Solution: edit as root /etc/samba/smb.conf enter unix password sync = no (Yes=default) restart samba /etc/init.d/samba restart set new different passwords for a user […]