Synaptics makes great touch technology. Their performance and drivers have always been, in my experience, much better than their Alps counterparts.
Except in one specific situation: using the trackpad’s edge scrolling feature in Pidgin.
Turns out the problem is because the Synaptics touchpad enhancer app displays a custom cursor while scrolling in such a way that prevents GTK apps from reading the scrolling action. Not sure on what end the bug is, but the good news is there’s a simple registry fix:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh]
"UseScrollCursor"=dword:00000000
Either copy-paste the above into Notepad and save as “DisableSynTPCursor-FixScrollPidgin.reg” or something less complex, and import it into the registry. Or make the change manually.
Fix thanks to mindelirium88. http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10768
This script will read the container ID from the file name, and use it to restore the tgz dump to the same ID on the new OpenVZ/Proxmox server.
Note that this only works if the default name for the vzdumps is kept, and it only works for the next 89 years, because I’m lazy.
Thanks to
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-loop-over-file/ and http://bashcurescancer.com/10-steps-to-beautiful-shell-scripts.html
#!/bin/bash
VZDUMPS=/path/to/backups/*.tgz
for f in $VZDUMPS
do
f2=${f#*openvz-}
VEID=${f2%-20*}
echo "Restoring $f to $VEID"
vzrestore $f $VEID
done |
#!/bin/bash
VZDUMPS=/path/to/backups/*.tgz
for f in $VZDUMPS
do
f2=${f#*openvz-}
VEID=${f2%-20*}
echo "Restoring $f to $VEID"
vzrestore $f $VEID
done
Use this link to add the default Google search provider to IE or Firefox. Useful for IE, or Firefox on Linux Mint.
For Firefox:Google.xml
For IE: MS-Google.xml
I had noticed this a little while ago, but it seems they’re stepping it up.
Seriously, does CBS have no better revenue generation method than to install crapware on people’s computers?
See for example Pidgin Portable: http://download.cnet.com/Pidgin-Portable/3000-2150_4-10834880.html?tag=mncol;3
and this post on UltraVNC forums
https://forum.ultravnc.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28692
cd to the folder, run :
$ find . -name '*attach*' | xargs rm
where attach is the keyword present in all filenames to delete.
I’m currently running Ubuntu Natty as my primary OS at work.
My setup is a Precision T3500 workstation that came with two NVIDIA Quadro cards which were a nightmare for Linux support. I heard that ATI cards supported 3 monitors on one card, as long as one of them was DisplayPort. I saw a cheap Radeon HD 5450 on sale for about $40, so I picked it up only to notice that it had an HDMI port instead of DisplayPort. I figured I’d try it anyway and was surprised to find that with the open-source radeon driver, 3 monitors work! One is connected by VGA, one HDMI and one DVI.
I had, however been experiencing random X crashes, and I suspect the problem was with the radeon driver.
Currently testing out some updated xorg drivers found at:
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?50038-Updated-and-Optimized-Ubuntu-Free-Graphics-Drivers
My system specs:
$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
====================================================
system Precision WorkStation T3500 ()
/0 bus 09KPNV
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3530 @ 2.80GHz
/0/400/700 memory 256KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/400/704 memory 8MiB L3 cache
/0/1000 memory 14GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/1 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/2 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/3 memory 4GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/4 memory 4GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/5 memory DIMM DDR3 Synchronous [empty]
/0/100 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port
/0/100/1 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1/0 eth0 network 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/3 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3
/0/100/3/0 display Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]
/0/100/3/0.1 multimedia Manhattan HDMI Audio [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
/0/100/7 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7
/0/100/14 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers
/0/100/14.1 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers
/0/100/14.2 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers
/0/100/1a bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a.1 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/0/100/1a.2 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
/0/100/1a.7 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.5 bridge 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0 eth1 network NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
/0/100/1d bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 250GB ST3250318AS
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 101MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 4102MiB Linux swap volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 20GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 208GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/sdb disk 1500GB WDC WD15EARS-00M
/0/100/1f.2/1/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 499GiB Data partition
/0/100/1f.2/1/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 897GiB Data partition
/0/100/1f.2/2 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-ROM TS-H353C
/0/100/1f.2/3 /dev/cdrw disk DVD+-RW TS-H653F
/0/100/1f.2/3/0 /dev/cdrw disk
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
PulseAudio, as usual, has been annoying me.
This time, it’s because it’s blocking the S/PDIF passthrough via HDMI from XBMC.
I found a great tutorial on how to disable it at http://www.jeffsplace.net/node/12.
However for some reason I had no sound from the TV. That’s because the default device for ALSA is the analog audio output rather than the HDMI port. To fix this, run aplay -l in terminal to determine the card ID for the HDMI out.
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Then, create a ~/.asoundrc file with the following:
pcm.!default "plughw:0,3"
Where 0 is your card ID and 3 is the device ID found from the aplay -l.
Now all apps should be able to play audio through ALSA/HDMI.
yer -ao alsa -ac hwdts -vo vdpau qgh_dts.dts
D620-Extra.tar.bz2
This is more for my own use, but if it helps anyone, great!
This is the set of kexts I use in the /Extra folder of my Dell D620 with Intel GMA950 video and Broadcom b/g wlan card. Latest addition was the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext which finally got me working ethernet.
Now to try the 10.6.8 update…
A friend posted this on Facebook today:
Quite an accurate depiction.
Image credit: The Shoze Blog
Update: Just went and exchanged the HD 6450 for an HD 6670. This one works great, runs Starcraft II on High and doesn’t crash the machine!
After some discussion with a coworker, I decided to try putting a Sapphire Radeon HD6450 into my Mac Pro, since the 8800GT was a real power hog and heater.
Just my luck that today the 10.6.8 update was released, containing – you guessed it – HD6xxx drivers!
So I ran the update, then popped in the HD6450, and what do you know, it works! Only two problems: First, no EFI support which means no boot screen (white/grey apple). Second, it seems to crash when launching any game. I tried Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Starcraft II, and both caused the screen to go blank and kernel panic.
Anyway, nice experiment, and at least it works for regular desktop work….
For anyone interested, here are all the Radeon HD6000 series cards supported by the 10.6.8 kexts, IDs and names.
- 0x67681002 CAICOS 6450M
- 0x67701002 NI CAICOS [AMD Radeon HD 6400 Series]
- 0x67791002 NI Caicos [AMD RADEON HD 6450]
- 0x67601002 NI Seymour [AMD Radeon HD 6470M]
- 0x67611002 NI Seymour [AMD Radeon HD 6430M]
- 0x67501002 Turks [AMD Radeon HD 6500 series]
- 0x67581002 Turks XT [AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series]
- 0x67591002 NI Turks [AMD Radeon HD 6500]
- 0x67401002 Whistler XT [AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series]
- 0x67411002 NI Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series]
- 0x67381002 Barts XT [ATI Radeon HD 6800 Series]
- 0x67391002 Barts PRO [ATI Radeon HD 6800 Series]
- 0x67201002 Blackcomb [AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series]
- 0x67221002 ATI Radeon HD 6950
- 0x67181002 Cayman XT [AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series]
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