Linux
Here’s just some links that I’ve used to set up kubuntu and the likes:
Split a large file into several small and assemble them back to one large file again
Wireless network
Using KWallet and SSH
With this nifty app you don’t have to enter the ssh passphrase, it’s automatically fetched from kwallet. Meaning, one less password to enter at startup.
To compile the code enter this in a terminal window:
g++ -Wall askpass.C -I/usr/include/kde/ -I/usr/include/qt3/ -lqt-mt -lkdecore -lkwalletclient -o askpass
I can’t wait until Firefox makes a plugin to store all passwords in kwallet. It will make my life much more ….. integrated 
KDE
Reload panels: dcop kicker Panel restart
Luks
Error: Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping.
Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-plain cipher spec and verify that /dev/sda5 contains at least 133 sectors.
Failed to write to key storage.
Command failed.
Fix: cryptsetup -c aes-plain luksFormat /dev/sda5
How to get Fujifilm Finepix F30 up and working:
The file /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libgphoto2.rules says in line 3:
BUS!=”usb*”, GOTO=”libgphoto2_rules_end”
while recenly updated udev doesn’t produce BUS properties in corresponding event. Thus this line makes the whole file useless, because BUS!=”usb*” is never true. Something like
SUBSYSTEM!=”usb_device”, GOTO=”libgphoto2_rules_end”
instead would work.
Creative Zen Touch
Getting the mp3 player up and running since I updated the firmware to the latest version was not an easy task. The trials and errors are based from this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199250
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
mkdir libmtp
cd libmtp
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libmtp/libmtp-0.1.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf libmtp-0.1.5.tar.gz
cd libmtp-0.1.5
./configure –prefix=/usr
sudo make
Installasjon av gnomad
sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev libid3tag0-dev
installerte libnjp - http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/?section=download
wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libnjb/libnjb-2.2.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf libnjb-2.2.5.tar.gz
cd libnjb-2.2.5
./configure –prefix=/usr
sudo make
For å kompilere gnomad:
sudo aptitude install libxml-perl
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnomad2/gnomad2-2.8.10.tar.gz
cd gnomad2-2.8.10
./configure –prefix=/usr
sudo make
sudo make install
Graphic driver
Figuring out the computers graphics driver:
~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400
The drivers can be downloaded from here: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/
Old: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
Update: it seems like ati have managed to fix this problem in their later releases of their driver, so now it’s just run it and be happy.
When upgrading my xorg.conf I always get a large square block on my second display instead of a mouse pointer. To resolve this I download the latest driver from ati and run this command: X_VERSION=x710 ./ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run Source
