Antonio

Subscribe to RSS feed

Sticky post

OpenSuse 12.1 (x86_64) on a MacBook Pro (MacBookPro5,5)

Sunday, January 1, 2012 6:42:02 PM

Howto install OpenSuSE 12.1 on a MacBook Pro (MacBookPro5,5)

My linux system configuration

Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:55:16 AM

Vim, rpmmacros and bash_rpofile settings

Acer Aspire One - The software

Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:24:52 PM

Unfortunately this is linux-world.

Acer Aspire One - The annoying fan

Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:14:16 PM

Yes that's annoying! I use the AA1 while in bed
in a silent environment and the spinning fan is really
loud (in relative terms, of course).
First be sure you've got installed my identity key:

There is the rpm to use to stop the noisy thing:

If you haven't done this before install the identity key
Install the rpm

For reference this is the source patch-fan-0.0.1-7.src.rpm

Acer Aspire One - Setup for the patches

Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:30:12 PM

Ok, my second day with the AA1: overall I'm very please with it.
Few bits must be fixed so I decided to publish few rpms
(point and click installing file) in order to clean up a bit the
system.

Because I don't want to fiddle with the command line, I've decide
to prepare few rpm packages. In order to give the bare minimum safety
I've decide to signe all the packages: this means you need to install my key.

WARNING: This involves a lot of trust: you accept the fact
I won't accept any responsibility for any damage to your system
or any loss of data.

First you need to install my public key: although it is not
necessary it will garantee your system won't be tampered.
If somebody has changed the rpm package the installer
will warn you and you should NOT install it.

To install the public key:

Download The key into the Downloads directory
Bring up the launcher Alt+F2
Type: sudo rpm --import ~/Downloads/gpg-certificate.txt
Install this rpm antonio-aa1-0.0.1-11.i386.rpm

Acer Aspire One

Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:09:11 AM

I've got the ONE!
Yes and it's a Linux machine. The impressions so far:

It's small
It's noisy
Despite being Linux it just (almost) works!
Its Fedora core 8 based

Samsung R20 wireless driver patch

Monday, November 12, 2007 8:53:56 PM

This is a patch for the samsung R20 laptop wireless driver. The Samsung R20 is quite a nice (and cheap) machine to run under linux. I use it under OpenSuSE 10.3 with no big issues. The only annoying bit is the wireless driver: the card should be an Atheros of some kind. The bad news is that is not recognised by default. The good news (there is always one!) the reason is because has some non standard device id not matching the madwifi driver code. To get it running you first need the svn source code and the patch
1madwifi-samsung-r20.dif: