Written by Actually a workaround… Asus P5LD2 fan speed control using ‘fancontrol’ not workinng since pwmconfig says “There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed” Kernel 2.6.38-8-generic (actually 2.6.31 and up) Workaround: Edit boot/grub/grub.cfg Find first ‘menuentry’ line and add “acpi_enforce_resources=lax” option right after “splash quiet etc”. Reboot, and pwmconfig will detect everything correctly.
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HTC Android custom mp3 ringtone
I find a little confusing how to use a custom MP3 as a ringtone on HTC android devices. So here’s how to do it: 1. Transfer the mp3 file to your phone ( duh ) , using a usb cable or bluetooth, download it, or just copy it to the sdcard, the method doesn’t matter [...]
READ MORE »Ubuntu 10.10 Thinkpad T410 screen brightness fix
The solution below was tested on Linux Mint 11 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a Thinkpad T410. After installation for the most part, everything worked right away and on an SSD drive, it felt blazingly fast. However, the screen brightness controls did not work. Some online research suggested adding acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel boot parameters and [...]
READ MORE »Windows 7 theme manager
The change in theme handling under Windows 7 has made it a lot easier to install themes for the operating system. All that is needed now is to double-click on a themes file to install and activate it. While that’s only changing the basic color scheme, backgrounds and sounds, it is easier and faster than [...]
READ MORE »About URL shorteners
It can seem to us that the internet is a limitless place, and in many ways it is. Organizations can always expand their servers to accommodate more traffic, or more content, of whatever it is that they feel they need more of. With space on Facebook, huge swaths of free room in email accounts and [...]
READ MORE »Wxcam – use your webcam as a security camera
wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number [...]
READ MORE »Linux Burn DVD from the command line
So, I’ve just successfully downloaded an image of Linux Mint 11, and I’m ready to burn it. It’s a DVD ISO image and I downloaded it on my CLI only server, so I have no access to brasero or some gui tools, but since brasero is buggy as hell anyways, let’s see what other solutions [...]
READ MORE »Linux kernel 3 ubuntu install
Now, when Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.0-rc many people are trying to update to this version. I did it recently on one of my machines and decided to share instructions with others. For Ubuntu ‘natty’ 11.04 users the easiest way is to use packages from ‘oneiric’ 11.10 release. There are few ways of doing that. [...]
READ MORE »Monitor CPU/NVdia GPUs/Hard Disk temperature in Ubuntu using Psensor
Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor: the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors). the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl). the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp). the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors) Installation First step is to install lm-sensors: sudo apt-get install [...]
READ MORE »Install latest development Ubuntu-Software-Center in Ubuntu 11.04
The Ubuntu Software Center is a utility for software management in Ubuntu. Current versions allow easy finding and installing of software. In addition to that it supports software purchases, includes a recommendation features, and replace other tools such as apturl and gdebi. Future version may allow replacing of APTonCD, and most of the Computer Janitor. [...]
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