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lfs and blfs frustrations

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Posted by Justin on July 20, 2012 – 11:16 pm
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Today has been a frustrating day. I finished my lfs (linuxfromscratch) 6.3 build and was starting the blfs portion. While I was working on installing xorg and xfce, I ran into some issues.
first issue was dhcpcd build. version 5 will not compile,  ipv6 issues I believe. I gave up since static ip is fine.

second issue,  .xz ….
in the blfs build it instructs you to download. xz files. This is a problem, since blfs book does not inform you or give you the resource to unpack this file.
To remedy this you can download 7zip,  specifically p7zip.
To install it,  use make,  then make test, then make install.
this will install it to /usr/local.
to use it use, 7za x /your/package.xz
And that will remedy that whole .xz crap…….

Third issue,  when compiling xorg protocols ,  xbc(xcb?)_proto requires python interpreter,  so install python first. but remember to install 7zip so you can unpack it lol.
**Edit** xcb does mention python, it is built after xorg protocols

I am sure to find more things that don’t make sense with the build. When my box is done,  I will post on the whole process and more of the issues I ran into.

Hope this helps someone,  because I would hate for someone else to give up on there build  due to poor information. Let me know what ypu think.

Getting use out of a thin client

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Posted by Justin on July 3, 2012 – 2:30 pm
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Today I setup my evo t20. I used the built in terminal emulator to connect to my linux box. So easy and super simple. All that is needed is inetd and telnetd installed on the linux box, no configuration necessary. once installed I set up windows ce to telent to that box and that was it. One thing I did notice was that I couldn’t get nano to work and vi acts all funny. So I will have to figure out a telnet compatable editor so I can use mspdebug and be able to edit the code as well……One step closer to getting a useful work area. If you have any suggestions on telnet editors please let me know.

Coders with a sense of humor!

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Posted by Justin on June 14, 2012 – 9:14 am
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This is one of the best comments on commercial source code I have ever seen. This is from the dgrp source code for a Digiport driver, from around 1999, I think.

My battle with Ubuntu 11.10

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Posted by Justin on April 15, 2012 – 4:17 pm
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I decided to finally upgrade my Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10 and deal with unity or gnome 3.4. Neither of those options looked promising to me. But change is inevitable.

The whole process was painless, only a few unnecessary librarys removed. When it all finished, unity loaded up and I got to work, trying to make my desktop productive.
So I went searching and found this link http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/09/08/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-11-10/. It definitely helped, like, getting dvd movies to play. Most of it is pretty good advice and the rest is personal preference.

My opinion on 11.10, I like it but I have my complaints. For example, gnome-shell or gnome classic, when logging in, is better then unity (I’m not going to get into this Unity just sucks, especially on a 32″ monitor) . Gnome-shell ‘s menu bar, it’s very hard to customize it, I’m still looking for the auto-hide option or the opacity setting. And I still can’t figure out how to add things to the top menu bar like the system monitor graph or even a fortune cookie app. The gnome tweak tool helped a bit but there are still large holes in the setting that need to be filled, but over all it does run on my i5 much better then gnome 2. Time to continue on customizing and tweaking the desktop.
Next is to upgrade to 12.04 lts.

The battle continues!

Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 The bane of my existence!!

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Posted by Justin on November 28, 2010 – 11:51 pm
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I have been an avid fan of ubuntu and I still am, but for newer hardware only. Recently I had to upgrade to 9.10 and then to 10.x. let start with my first issue in 9.10  and we will go from there. In 9.10 my sound and video would not play. this was caused by pulse audio and also not working together or something like that, personally i could not find the exact issue or cause, which made this issue very hard to fix…. but a fix was found….i will go over that in a min or two lol.

Next issue was the keyboard and mouse locking up on ubuntu 10.04 and higher, this is a big pain, because once they lock up, both the PS2 keyboard and mouse freeze, and so do the usb keyboard and mouse. This makes is very hard to find a fix since i may have 2 secs of the mouse moving or i might get 5 mins, either way it locks and i have to reboot, and thats not a guaranteed fix.

So lets start on how i fixed the 9.10, 10.04, 10.11 with an audio issue. The symptoms are choppy music play and then it cuts out, log file filled with “karmic pulseaudio [1653]: ratelimit.c: 2 events supressed” also video usually stops or wont play as well…… to Help most of you out, i have tried everything from recompiling the kernel, to installing from source, compiling pulse from source, changing alsa drivers, changing the scheduling, using every google fix there is……not even launchpad couldnt give me any info. There are bugs listed but no real fixes or workarounds…until now lol.  if you have applications that use pulseaudio ( im not sure what depends on it) this may not be a good workaround.

Fix:

Unistall Pulse Audio!!! (Thanks Kevix from the 43oh IRC room/forums!!) He stated that most programs still use alsa and dont need pulseaudio.

as soon as i did that, my sound worked as well as my video, even the system alerts could be heard!!

this worked for me, on my audiology and on board sound card…..I do not know the extent of pulse integration with ubuntu desktop so try at your own risk and feel free to let me know how it worked out for you. :)

on to my next issue Ubuntu 10.4-11.04 Keyboard and mouse do not work/ freeze after a few min.

This issue has been going on since i had tried 10.04 a little after the initial release, I haven’t tried nearly as much as i had worked on the other issue, but this one is inherently very hard to pinpoint for me. no log messages or errors, even on verbose…….tried combination of ps2 and usb with no luck at all.  I even tried reinstalling Dbus and Hal with no luck ….. and this is where i am stuck.

My choices are continue on working on the issue and be down a PC (this is my main PC used for everything) or find a distro that works with my older PC, both require a decent amount of work to get it all going, including all the programs i have compiled from source.

So any ideas ? any thoughts? another distro i could try? im willing to try almost anything to get my PC up and running so i can watch youtube on my tv!!

PC specs

P4 2 x cores with asus motherboard

ATI 9600/128mb

ram 1.2Gb

nothing too special lol

Leave some comments :)

-justin