Previously, I had setup an Ubuntu Karmic box to install Boxee from the apt.boxee.tv APT repository. Since this repository appears to be unmaintained, I’m now reverting back to manual Boxee installs until an updated repository becomes available.
Did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on an old Inspiron E1505, only to find Wi-Fi not working. Fortunately the fix was easy.
Following a recent update, started getting errors copying files to a WebDAV mount point:
cp: cannot create regular file `./todo': File exists
Boxee folks helpfully host an APT repository (http://apt.boxee.tv/), but, as of this writing, only for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and 8.10 (Intrepid). But if you happen to run a later version such as 9.04 (Jaunty) or 9.10 (Karmic), you could still install from the Boxee repository through the magic of APT pinning. This method should work just as well with later versions of Ubuntu also.
I had gotten the optimal 1366×768 resolution working on the Dell Mini 10 with the optional HD display (Poulsbo chipset / Intel GMA500 video) by using the drivers provided by the Ubuntu Mobile Team.1
It’s been working great for over a month until this morning, when instead of a login screen, I was greeted with an error: “Ubuntu running in low graphics mode”.
What’s up with that? The APT log contained the explanation:
1 2 | * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-16-generic * psb-kernel-source (4.41.1)... psb-kernel-source (4.41.1): AUTOINSTALL not set in its dkms.conf. |
I guess I could set AUTOINSTALL for the psb-kernel-source module to “Yes”. I’ll think about it, meanwhile, a manual fix is easy enough:
1 2 | sudo dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source sudo shutdown -r now |
If you’re looking for a program and need to find a package that provides it, AND your package manager is APT (e.g. you’re running Debian or one of its many derivatives, like Ubuntu), you, Sir, got a couple of options.
One way is to search package contents online at debian.org, or you could use apt-file.
This is a (long overdue) follow up on my ancient post on how to setup a Nokia E62 as a bluetooth modem on a Windows laptop. It’s been a couple of years now since I’ve purged the Winblows partition from my Dell Inspiron 1501 and it’s been happily running Ubuntu using the E62 to get to the Internets. Just got a Dell Mini 10 for work, so might as well post the steps while they’re still fresh in memory (my RAM gets regularly purged, as it turns out).
This had been working without any problems for months, but this afternoon got an error while trying to connect to the Internet using my Nokia E62 as a Bluetooth modem on a Dell Inspiron E1505 running Ubuntu 8.10. Attempting to establish a dial up connection returned a rude error.
So you installed a shiny new version of Ubuntu and are having a time of your life. That is until your machine shrieks with a horribly offensive beep you hadn’t heard since 1998. It would blast me out of my chair (and send the dog scurrying for the closet) every time I would hit the backspace key at the console and reach the beginning of the line. It took about four of those beeps before ridding myself of it became a priority.
As with most things in Linux, there are a million different ways of accomplishing the task. Here’s the ultra super easy method I like.