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Logitech Cordless Click! Plus mouse
My “Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700” set came with a “Logitech Cordless Click! Plus” mouse. Its a fancy wireless thing with loads of buttons. It has the normal left, middle (pressing the wheel) and right buttons. The wheel acts as buttons 4 and 5 and the two buttons on the thumb side are buttons 6 and…
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Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700
I was getting tired of my old keyboard and decided to buy a new on. The choice fell on a “Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700”, with a “Logitech Cordless Click! Plus” mouse included. The keyboard has a gazillion extra keys, including a roller on the left side, doubling for the arrow keys on the right, and…
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SWSUSP2 working
I previously reported that Software Suspend 2 didn’t work for me. I have since installed a kernel 2.6.9 from TuxMobil.org, which has solved the problem. I’m now suspending and resuming happily.
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Asus M2400N integrated modem functional (at least partially)
After my latest kernel upgrade to 2.6.9 via the usual TuxMobil.org debian packages, I noticed that Alsa now finds naming the integrated modem. The modem is a softmodem integrated with the sound-card. Relevant output from “lspci -v“: 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC’97 Modem Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.:…
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Gnome 2.8
So Gnome 2.8 finally made it to Debian Testing, more or less. In the end I got most of the packages from Unstable. I have mostly noted two visible changes, though there are many more. The most visible is without doubt the automatic handling of removable media, though the combination of hal, udev, hotplug and…
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OpenOffice still won’t print with CUPS
Some time ago OpenOffice in Debian Testing stopped working with CUPS. I reported the bug, and it was fixed, but for some reason the fix was rolled back, so now I’m back at using a “Generic Printer” for my output, without all CUPS options.
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Linux 2.6.7 on an Asus L8400C
I have installed the same Linux 2.6.7 kernel I use on my Asus M2N on my old Asus L8400C, and the result was much the same. It runs ok, but it only boots when the kernel is given the nolapic option. The only negative thing is that the computer no longer powers down completely when…
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Transparent cursors in XFree86
My laptop used to have these fancy semi-transparent cursors, but my harddisk died and after a reinstall they were gone – just like that. It took me a while to figure out how to do it. The cursor theme is called “whiteglass”, and it can be enabled in two ways. The easiest is to set…
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Installing a new wireless mini-pci card in an Asus M2400N laptop
My Asus M2400N laptop came with an integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 mini-pci card for wi-fi access. It was ok initially, but when I upgraded the rest of my gear to 802.11g and 54Mbps, it was too slow. I used an Atheros Cardbus card for a while, using the madwifi driver, but the laptop has only…
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Linux 2.6.7 on Asus M2400N
In another futile attempt at getting SWSUSP2 to work on my laptop, I installed a 2.6.7 kernel from TuxMobil.org. The results were so so. First the kernel didn’t boot. It would hang just after a line of ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. After some searching I found the solution: add ‘nolapic’ to…
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Wifi roaming with “waproamd”
I’ve just discovered waproamd, a tool to adjust the configuration of a wireless nic to the access point it is associated with. waproamd is a roaming daemon for wireless IEEE 802.11 NICs supporting the Linux wireless extensions. It is intended to configure the WEP keys according to the networks found. It works just as well…
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Sawfish and the Gnome “Run Application” dialog
It has long annoyed me that I couldn’t attach a keyboard short cut to the Gnome panels “Run Application” dialog in Sawfish. When people ask on the net about it, the answer is usually “Press Alt-F2”, but that only works in metacity, not in sawfish. In earlier versions of Gnome there was a gnome-run program,…