Sabayon Linux - Getting flash 9 to work with sound
Do the following in a terminal:
su emerge --sync emerge emul-linux-x86-soundlibs emerge netscape-flash emerge nspluginwrapper
Reboot your computer after doing the above.
Note: the first time you try and play a flash file there will be no sound, so close firefox and try again. It should work the second try.
Load windows partition at boot
First disable selinux. Not positive that you have too, but read that you need too. You can try without doing so, but you might end up having too anyways. Selinux will probably cause other problems anyways…
Go to Administration | Security level and firewall.
Click SELinux
Under setting choose disable.
Now open a terminal and do the below:
su mkdir /mnt/windows yum install ntfs-3g //only do if your file system for windows is ntfs kedit /etc/fstab //or gedit
add:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 //change /dev/hdc1 to whatever the partiion is for windows.
You can see what it is by typing fdisk -l as root. Change ntfs-3g to vfat if the file system is fat.
Then save the file and run:
mount /dev/hdc1
Make sure you mount your windows partition first.
This is what I did:
su yum install thunderbird exit //Exits su cd "/mnt/windows/Documents and Settings/user/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/" //replace user with your user name for windows. dir cd xxx.default //There should be one folder for the output of dir, if you have multiple profiles, then it might not be .default<br /> thunderbird -P
If there is a profile delete and create a new one. For the directory you should already be in the right one, if you did the cd xxx stuff above. Just click choose folder, and then click open. If your not in your thunderbird profile folder for windows, then browse there. It should be something like /mnt/windows/Documents and Settings/user/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxx.default
First install xawtv
yum install xawtv
then run
v4lctl volume mute off
That will unmute the sound from the card, you still might have to go into kmix, and adjust the settings there too.
To make that command run everytime you login to kde:
Open kedit and add v4lctl volume mute off to the file and save it as tv.sh under ~/.kde/Autostart/
Then in a terminal:
chmod 755 ~/.kde/Autostart/tv.sh
Sound should work fine now.
Getting font to show up in steam
Edit /home/tommy/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Valve/Steam/resource/steamscheme.res in kate or vi or nano or something. Basically search for Tahoma and replace with a font you have. You have to replace all instances of Tahoma with the other font name. I replaced them with AlHor. Which looks the best to me. If you use kate then you can go to Edit then Replace, and put in Tahoma for text to find and AlHor or whatever in replacement text.
Some of the font was to small for me to read, so I changed the tall to 16. Unless it was bigger then 16 already.
You can see the font names by going into kcontrol and clicking fonts, and then click change font by one of them, and it’ll list them.
Update
Better solution is to copy the Tahoma font from your windows installation or download it from somewhere. If you don’t then you won’t see any text while playing half life 2, so you won’t be able to click new game. I copied all of the fonts from my windows installation, just to be sure I have everything I need. Copy the fonts to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts or install them into your system.
CPU scaling will make your computer run slower. My 2 GHz processor was running at 1 GHz, now its back at 2 GHz.
sudo /etc/init.d/powernowd stop sudo apt-get remove powernowd
I have a big speed difference from doing that.
Kubuntu - work around for power saving
Problem:
After you reboot or logout the power saving setting changes.
Solution:
kate ~/.kde/Autostart/power.sh
add:
#/bin/sh xset dpms 1800 1800 1800 #change all 1800 to the number of seconds you want it to turn off the monitor. 60 * x
save it then run:
chmod 755 ~/.kde/Autostart/power.sh
Use the Add/Remove option in the menu to install it. Make sure when you search you choose to search all packages.
Then do the below:
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
You might not have to reconfigure xserver, but I would do it just in case. You could find out the hard way by clicking ctrl alt back space. If you get an xserver error, then you know you have to reconfigure. So click through all the dialogs, and then click alt F1. Then login and run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.