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Yesterday I installed Ubuntu Linux – at first view a great distribution. I havn’t replaced my Debian installation (yet), but I must say that Ubuntu seems to have excatly what I have missed in Debian.
- Release cycle that I can use (every six months)
- GNOME focus
- A slick finish
I resized an NTFS partition from my harddrive to release 8GB of space. I rarely use Windows and if I took the time, I could release alot of unused space locked to a NTFS partition.
The Ubuntu installation went smooth and tonight I will try to upgrade the Warty Warthog to Hoary Hedgehog
I’m looking forward to se how GNOME 2.10 is comming up.
At work I have been working on some graphics for an OpenOffice.org CD production. But the graphics for print needs to be delivered in TIFF CMYK format. For this I found a CMYK plug-in for GIMP.
The installation is a bit tricky for GIMP 2.0 under Linux (haven’t tried the other versions/platforms).
First the installation guide doesn’t mention GIMP 2.0 for Linux second it differs from the 1.2 installation guide.
The binary provided in the file for GIMP 2.0 under Linux isn’t compiled for GIMP 2.0 but for the development version 1.3. This means that you either have to make symlinks on your system for the plug-in to hit the correct libs, or compile yourself.
I compiled the source myself and installed the plug-in i my .gimp-2.0/plug-ins/-dir because I don’t like to tinker to much with filesystem outside /home.
To compile you need the following dev-libs:
rohan:~# apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev liblcms1-dev libtiff4-dev
I also had to modify the Makefile to use GIMP 2.0 libs instead of 1.3.
The GIMP 1.2 installation also mentions the file: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm
But this file isn’t provided by the GIMP 2.0 files you can download on the homepage. I found the file in the download for GIMP 1.2 instead.
I would be nice if the plug-in was provided by a Debian package.
I have just installed a 2.6.9 kernel and now my laptop wakes after suspend with acpi. But as soon it has awoken it stats to shutdown 
I have to find out why this happens… but it is getting there YE YE 
Update: Suspend actually works now. Just me who thinks you have to wake the computer up with the power button. (I had disabled lid-suspend because it didn’t work with earlier kernels).
After yesterdays small data loss I have been working hard tonight to prepare the site for the update that I have been working on for so long now. All the pieces seem to have fallen together now and the new site seems to be running just fine.
The transission to Smarty and an enchanced data structure was hard work by I hope that it eventually will pay off. I have made a small update to the 3 old wallpapers. I have removed my email from them which was tagged on the lower left corner.
Next step(s) for the Debianart website:
* Different sorting of submissions (oldest, top downloads etc.)
* Graphics and news submissions directly from users
* Give me your ideas!!!
Now I’m tired 
Today, while I was fiddeling around with my laptop, I tried transfering a file from my Nokia 6630 mobile phone to my laptop. I didn’t expect it to work becauce last time it didn’t.
But this time it just worked!!
I have installed a few bluetooth Debian packages like: bluez-pin and bluez-utils. I use Bluetooth for GNOME (also packaged for Debian).
I have no idear what I have changed since the last time I tried it, but now I can extract all the pictures I have taken to my laptop. The only thing I remember having altered from the default settings is the device section in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf:
device {
name "IBM X40";
class 0x100100;
...
Look at the gnome-bluetooth mailinglist for more information about why I altered this.
I wanted to update my kernel to the 2.6.8 kernel but I had some troubles compiling the Madwifi source code because a change in the kernel source code. I found a patch for the 2.6.8 kernel (only) and a Howto for applying the patch.
In my search around the net for info on my laptop, I found out how to enable the led that indicates activity on the wireless card. Before compiling the driver you have to set an environmental variable:
export COPTS="$COPTS -DSOFTLED"
Now that I recompiled the driver anyway I enabled the variable and BINGO… now my led lights up as soon the driver is loaded. And thats just the half of it… sometimes it also blinks 
Though I havn’t testet it under heavy load (to test if the blinking increases under heavy traffic).
HURRAY… I have an extra led blinking on my laptop.
The last two days traffic have increased heavily on Debianart. Downloads have doubled the last days. After investigating the log files I found that a Spanish Debian news site had a link to my site. Cool
I have now installed Webalizer to keep track on the traffic.
I have experienced that my mouse isn’t working after a reboot a few times. I think it happens after a system update… and this morning I was hit again. When starting X the mouse pointer wouldn’t move.
After googleing around for a while I found out that the psmouse module wasn’t loaded. I compared an lsmod output I had found on the net with my own and discovered that the above module wasn’t loaded:
modprobe psmouse
Did the trick and even without reloading X.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found out that I had been using a completly wrong driver for my wireless card. The juice for my card is a Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (MADWIFI). I found a Debian specific driver compile guide on their homepage.
It is a good guide but for Debian users with less tech-knowlegde and rutine it misses a few things IMHO. I have addressed the problems I ran into here.
A part from the packages mentioned in the guide I was missing shareutils (providing uudecode), lib6-dev and sysutils to follow the guide and avoiding error messages ofcource. The missing uudecode was beginning to give me grey hair (in an age of 24 that is not a good sign). The warning (error) message was hidden in the output code many lines before the make-file actually worte ‘Error’ and exited:
apt-get install sharutils lib6-dev sysutils
I’m using Debian pre-compiled kernels (at the writing time a 2.6.7-1) which tricked me a bit.
I used the make-kpkg –append-to-version “-686″ –revision 2.6.7-1 which is wrong!
Instead use (look in guide to know where and when):
make-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686" --revision 2.6.7 --config old configure
make-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686" --revision 2.6.7 --added-modules madwifi modules_image
Writing this post in my weblog on my laptop sitting in my bed without any wires connected at all – Now everything is forgiven and forgotten.
This was quite easy:
apt-get install cpufreqd
apt-get install gnome-cpufreq-applet
Finally add the applet to the GNOME panel.
Make sure that the acpi module is loaded in order to get cpufreqd to run, because without cpufreqd no frequency scaling will happen.
Now when ever you pull the power for your laptop the frequency will be scaled down to 66% until the system requires the recources. This can be cunfigured in /etv/cpufreqd.conf.