Ubuntu Intrepid Upgrade On Eee PC Continued

Regular readers of this blog will remember that I had some problems when I initially tried to do a network upgrade to Intrepid.

Things had got busy recently, so I only returned to this problem last night. I booted up the machine with a wired network connection, and when I got to the login screen (where I couldn't type anything into the User Name field), I entered Control-Alt-F1 to get to a virtual terminal and a text-based login prompt.

After logging in, I did the:

  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

again, and let it chug away at downloading, unpacking and installing all the new packages. I then rebooted.

The reboot successfully bought me to the gdm login screen and I can now login via the graphical User Name field and get to my desktop. Yippee! Yet another problem solved by just waiting a while and letting things happen.

I don't like the new login music that comes with Intrepid. I'll have to see if I can work out how to put the "old" Hardy jingle back.

I also don't seem to be able to get wireless working, using the previous instructions for the madwifi package that I had. It looks like I'll have to google around again and see what's changed there.

Then I'll need to check out the battery management, web camera and microphone again. Who knows, maybe they are all working nicely now.

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( Oct 08 2008, 10:17:21 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

New Mailing List For Gcalctool

Robert Ancell, who is now the chief maintainer for gcalctool, the default calculator for the GNOME desktop, has just setup a mailing list for this application.

If you are interested, then details on how to subscribe are here.

Coincidentally this has just started up about the same time I closed down the old mailing for calctool (the predecessor to gcalctool), because all that comes over that nowadays is spam, and, for some reason, it got really busy last week.

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( Oct 08 2008, 09:57:45 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Arduino Night At The Next SVOSUG Meeting

Alan Duboff has just announced details of a special Arduino night at the next Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group meeting in Santa Clara on Thursday 23rd October 2008.

I plan to be there. I better dust off my Arduino board.

Work is on-going in getting the full Arduino development environment running on OpenSolaris, but things are coming together nicely, mainly due to the work of Alan and John Plocher and John Weeks.

There will be a limited number of kits available at the meeting, so if you are interested in this, it is suggested that you get one ahead of time. See the various links in Alan's post for places that sell the kits.

For a good introduction to the world of Arduino, then I suggest the various lessons provided by ladyada.

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( Oct 08 2008, 08:48:41 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink