Pants Green's Adventure: 2006

Friday, December 15, 2006

Ever heard of GKRellM?

It's a small tool for Linux to monitor the usage of the PC resources.

And for Windows?

You wouldn't believe how much links that Google points to a "404 not found" pages when u search it.

But I finally found it . Here, give it a try.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Unix-Like commands on WindowsXP's command prompt

Well, this may sound strange. But my WindowsXP system can do commands like: ls, chmod, mkdir, make, etc; just like Linux !!!

I've installed WinAVR , then suddenly all those basic Linux command became available on command prompt.

Isn't that ... whoaaa...?

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Ubuntu + ATI + XGl + Compiz = Better and lighter than Vista

Now it is time for :.... XGL + Compiz.....!!!

First of all , make your direct-rendering enabled, and install these packages including it's dependencies.
1. xserver-xgl
2. compiz
3. compiz-core
4. compiz-plugins
5. compiz-gnome
6. gnome-compiz-manager

A good source for those package is ubuntu.compiz.net .
Note that i've tried several version of no. 1 and only xserver-xgl_7.0.0+cvs20060625_i386.deb works for most of PC's that i've tested with.
For no. 2,3, and 5 I suggest you use version 0.0.13.41-0ubuntu1.
For no 4 use version 0.10-0ubuntu1.

You MUST use the mesa libs version >= 6.5.1 to make the compiz works.

After all of those packages installed (by mirrors repositories or by dpkg, its up to u), backup and edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom and add these lines:

[servers]
1=Xgl

[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer
flexible=true

Save, then, backup and edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf , find

0=Standard
#1=Standard

switch it to:

#0=Standard
1=Standard

And change

GdmXserverTimeout=10

to

GdmXserverTimeout=50

Save, restart X or reboot.

and run compiz-tray-icon

Try it out. Let me know if it works

Friday, November 03, 2006

ubuntu + fglrx + noapic + ethernet card problem = solved

I've found a solution to the ethernet-card-doesn't-works-with-noapic issue.
Just add "irqpoll" on the command line of your grub boot-loader.

Both problem (USB and ethernet card) solved (for now)

Monday, October 16, 2006

Historical Log: USB freezes on Ubuntu

   After I managed to enable video hardware acceleration on Ubuntu with fglrx, suddenly at random times the USB mouse freezes. And the flash disk that plugged in is freezes too.
    Forums on the internet says that it is because of the APIC module. So I tried to disable the APIC with "noapic" line on bootup.
     And the problem solve with another problem showing up: the ethernet card freezes....
    I hope this bug will be fixed soon. Anyone know how to solve this bug maybe?

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Enter Ubuntu!

Enter Ubuntu!First time I tried ubuntu, I was quite dissapointed. It offered ugly desktop environment and static system management. But after I tried the 6.06 LTS, the changes they made is quite wonderfull. More user friendly GNOME and administration steps that I finnaly understand.

So, I tried to install it on my notebook PC. Some problems occured... The system lockups at installation process. I think it is because there is not enough physical memory on my notebook.

Then I tried to create swap partition first, but the problem is still occured at the partitioning step. Finally I was able to solve this problem by running gparted first so the installer's partitioner program can be loaded to the memory first.

It takes about half an hour to finish the installation, and my Ubuntu is ready.

Here is my Notebook Ubuntu Laptop test result.

First Timer

Welcome to my blog-paradise.

Well this is my first post, so I think it is best to Introduce myself.
My name is Antok, I live in Indonesia, and currently studying at Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology. I am new at blogging.

Because of my current activity background, this blog will be focusing on computer-related things, and musics.

Have a good time...