The Life and Programming of Cameron Crothers
In my continued coverage of getting my BenQ S52 laptop running correctly under Ubuntu Linux, I recently had the need to use the integrated memory card reader with an SD card. And Lucky me it didn’t just work so I hunted around the internet which lead me to an article on the Ubuntu forums. However [...]
Well it’s happened I have been working full time for over a year now and I am just getting more and more slack at writing valuable stuff on my blog, he he he. But something most wonderful has happened over the Christmas break the alsa bug report tracking the problem with my soundcard has heated [...]
Well I am still trying to get my sound card for my lovely new laptop to work in Linux, but it’s just not. I have googled so much and there is just an underlying problem with the card :(. The soundcard for this computer is actually part of the modem which really sucks and it [...]
Well it’s the start of a new year and I am back here at work. I have decided to get a laptop this year and finally replace my aging desktop. I got a Benq S52 v54 and got it salary sacrifice which is great. A not about this laptop and Ubuntu though.. it doesn’t work, [...]
Motivation is quite a strange beast. I can have unlimited motivation for say… Software Testing and Reliabilty which I have failed once already I have none, and stay up till all hours of the morning finishing an assignment the night before it is due? But even worse than that is when you are at home [...]
After reformatting our old Celron 400 Laptop to Hoary Hedghog, Oh the joy of only having Linux on a computer. However since most of my time at the moment is taken up doing C# development and more importantly of the MS.NET kind rather than the Mono But I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu comes with [...]
Since my great happiness with Ubuntu last post it all went down the proverbial toilet the very next day I went to install something and all my permissions were stuffed up and so it wouldn’t boot any more So I saved off my /home directory and went ahead with a reformat (to a fresh 5.04) [...]
For weeks now my computer, in Ubuntu of course, has been having trouble with ep0in at every boot my messages have been filled with: Jun 14 08:36:45 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: hald timed out on ep0in Which has in turn stopped hal from working properly so mounting my usb key most of the time just [...]
I realised that acpi was not working correctly on my Laptop installation of Ubuntu so when I saw a tip for getting it working on the Ubuntu Forums I decided to give it a shot. Just by adding: acpi=force as a kernel parameter, either at boot using grub and saved it into /boot/grub/menu.lst And too [...]
After my success with installing Ubuntu on my Desktop system last week I installed it on my old Laptop as well this weekend. Bad idea The laptop 400 Celeron with 192mb ram was running Fedora RC 2 so not too old and running at an acceptable rate :). So upgrading shouldn’t hurt it too much [...]
