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The return of Averatec 3200 video problems

Friday, 21 August 2009 19:48 Alexander Romanenko Linux
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A while back I made an article on how to deal with video problems on Averatec 3200 starting from (x)buntu 7.04, or more acurately any distribution with xorg-server > 1.2.0.  That time the fix was as simple as editing your xorg.conf file.  However, after yet another major change in the way xorg-server operates since 1.6.0 that won't work anymore: X will crash with
(EE) CHROME(0): No valid modes found
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
 
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Last Updated ( Friday, 21 August 2009 20:05 ) Read more...
 

Adventure with Arch Linux 64 bit

Friday, 21 August 2009 19:42 Alexander Romanenko Linux
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I wanted to write about something other than zend framework and web dev in general and my latest experience with Arch x86_64 is definitely worth a few lines.

Last time, about a year ago, I had a somewhat bad experience with 64 bit linux platform. There were a lot of workarounds I had to do to get things working, a lot of which involved installing 32 bit libraries. Finally, the fact that it was using up double the usual memory, as expected of 64bit, was not worth the trouble of running a limping 32/64 hybrid. So all this time i've been on an old 32 bit. However, last weekend I felt adventurous and thought I'd give it a try.
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broadcom wireless with (x)buntu

Friday, 21 August 2009 19:16 Alexander Romanenko Linux
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If in the past you had to go through a day's worth amount of work to get ndiswrapper to work then today ubuntu and its derivatives finally came up with an easy solution: b43-fwcutter.

First of, make sure that you actually have a broadcom chip. Use
lspci
to get a list of your hardware and look for a wireless devices. Mine was
03:03.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller

And now just install b43-fwcutter from your package manager, follow the wizard, reboot (it doesnt tell you to but it won't activate otherwise) and you are done!
Last Updated ( Friday, 21 August 2009 19:47 )
 

Ubuntu and OpenGEU on Averatec 3200

Friday, 21 August 2009 19:01 Alexander Romanenko Linux
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Here I am trying to get E17 Enlightenment desktop environment on an old averatec 3200. Why did i choose enlightenment this time when I am such a die hard KDE user? Even though E17 is mostly featureless from productivity stand point, it is very lightweight with marvelous graphics work making it perfect when you need your computer up in few seconds to simply browse web or watch a video while looking cool in front of your friends. E17 can be installed from their SVN trunk but everytime its a gamble whether the current revision is stable enough. There are also missing or incomplete features here and there that make it very akward.
Last Updated ( Friday, 21 August 2009 19:04 ) Read more...
 

listening to video/x-ms-asf online source on ubuntu (workaround)

Friday, 21 August 2009 18:59 Alexander Romanenko Linux
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If you try to listen anything from web sites such as russiandvd.com that has a wma video/x-ms-asf stream you are in a load of trouble.  Not only does linux not know how to deal with wma, wma file contains links to the actual stream with even more troublesome formats.  In case of russiandvd, wma links to a windows media stream and a real player RSP stream which is the default. Getting RSP to play is very difficult and sorry, but I didn’t get it. May be next time.  For now, this is a workaround for wma that has an HTTP stream source available using Ubuntu or OpenGEU. (I would usually work with Kubuntu, but this time I only needed it on my secondary laptop which i don’t use for work)  (I will not provide step-by-step-what-button-to-click instructions but will assume you know how to deal with package manager).

  1. Get rid of totem-gstreamer
  2. Install totem-xine
  3. Install FireFox plugin MediaPlayerConnectivity
  4. Just in case, get w32codecs from restricted repository.

Now, once you click on that “listen” button MediaPlayerConnectivity will take over. Select the HTTP source and it will open up totem player ready to buffer.

Review the experience on my twitter between 11:12 AM Mar 22nd and 2:48 PM Mar 22nd

Last Updated ( Friday, 21 August 2009 19:04 )
 

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