Listed below are things I had to do to get various things working on my dell D610 with fiesty
INDEX
- Getting DRI working
- Firefox with Gnome
- Xmms/audacity menu fonts
- VIM Syntax highlighting over ssh
- getting sound off realplayer
- Sync your Palm pilot with jpilot
DRI (direct rendering ) : Here's the important part of my Xorg conf. Make sure that you have installed the fglrx drivers . You can do that by apt-get install fglrx-driver . I get a decent 1591 FPS (glxgears) .
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Section "Device"
Identifier "GeATI radeon M220"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell D610"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-50
VertRefresh 43-75
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "GeATI radeon M220"
Monitor "Dell D610"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Fluxbox with gnome : I love to use fluxbox . So i decided to launch some gnome services with firefox . In the .fluxbox directory (in your home dir) edit the file called startup. add the following lines to the "Applications you want to run with fluxbox section."
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# Applications you want to run with fluxbox.
# MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END.
#
gnome-settings-daemon & # loads various gnome settings including audio control OSD for the volume buttons, theme etc
gnome-power-manager & # loads the gnome power manager , for standby, hibernate etc,
nm-applet & # loads the gnome network manager applet
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XMMS / Audacity menu fonts :
It's a locate problem .Add The following lines to your .bashrc file and then run sudo locale-gen. restart the window manager and fire xmms/audacity ( or just fire it in a new bash instance)
export LANG=en_US
export LANGUAGE=en_US
VIM Syntax highlighting with Color over ssh
Syntax highlighting will mostly work if you have two things
1) enable it by :syntax on
2) defined the correct term type on the server . echo $TERM and see what it shows. .. For xterm , export TERM=xtermc worked for me on a sun server . Also check that the term you have specified exists in the termcap database.
Getting sound off realplayer
I listen to the BBC radio each day, it seems that the realplayer 10 gold player is incompatible with alsa ,hence one may not get any sound output whilst playing a file in realplayer. The solution si very simple, just install the alsa -oss compatibility package .
sudo apt-get install oss-alsa
aoss realplayer [path to the file you want to play]
alternatively, you can alias the realplay command (prepend aoss to realplayer)
Sync your Palm pilot with jpilot
apt-get jpilot
in the settings menu , under the "serial" section add " usb:"
This works , i dont know why ! .. strange .. gotta find out how it works..
note : works fine for palm Tungsten E (usb cradle)