Funky Cat Studio

Current Mood: tired

So when I first got my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000), I had Fedora for awhile and of course quickly went to Ubuntu.  For the longest time, I didn’t hear the clicking sound coming from it that Whitepaws insisted it was making.   Finally I heard it when it progressed to an annoying and contestant squeaking.

After doing some research on this, I learned that it was likely a hard drive syncing.  Its supposed to be some sort of feature for laptops to help save data in case of dropping the laptop or… something like that.  I don’t remember anymore.  There is a big hush-hush about it, and when you do hear about it there is two schools of thought about it: It’s a problem and its not a problem.

I decided to say that its a problem because the sound certainly didn’t start out like that and anything is a problem when it gets worse and its annoying as fuck.  Soooo special thanks to my ex for sending me a link (need to get it again, will get it later) that has the solution.

After booting up, in terminal, stick this in:

sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda

… and that’s it.  Problem solved.  Blessed silence.

Friday I discovered that my printer (an HP Photosmart) works right out of the box, like a charm.  Victory is delicious.

This will likely be it for my little Fixing Hardy Heron series.  I will be reinstalling my Never Winter Nights but I didn’t have much problems with it last time… so yay!

Current Mood: content & sore & tired

I went to my Synaptic Package Manager, looked up “wacom”.  There were 2 results.  One thing was installed, the other was not.  I installed the non-installed thing.

I then went to Ubuntu Forums, looked up from where I posted my old, trusty rusty .xorg file, copied some info from it and pasted it into my current xorg file.

I copied this:

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “stylus”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “eraser”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “eraser”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “cursor”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

And this:

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
screen “Default Screen”
Inputdevice “Generic Keyboard”
Inputdevice “Configured Mouse”
Inputdevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
Inputdevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
Inputdevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
EndSection

After backing up my xorg first, of course ^-^

Current Mood: ecstatic & impressed & nerdy

Well I am now happily (so far) running Ubuntu Hardy Heron! I just need to get my Wacom up and running but I suspect no problems.  I tried upgrading automagically from 7.10 or whatever it was on, but it froze.  And the only fix Whitey could find for me didn’t fix it.  so I installed from scratch and it was fucking FAST.

The only problem I’ve found so far is with my wireless.  It took a a little poking around to find the solution and here it is:

How to - Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG - on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

All my thanks go to this thread here at Ubuntu Forums.  I luffs yous guys.

So after enabling my wireless (which was showing up under System -> Administration -> Network) I went to my Synaptic Package Manager (which I always call the Suppository) and installed linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic.

I then did this in Terminal:

sudo rmmod -f iwl3945
sudo modprobe iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

… and rebooted.  While it was rebooting I switched my wireless switch to on and watched as it automagically turned blue.  Blue is for yay, in this case.

Current Mood: indescribable

So these past couple days I was hooked to Second Life I have no clue why I was hooked to it as there wasn’t anything likable about it past its prettiness.

I did find a few cool places to visit, like Buddhist Hell, the Titanic, Black Pearl and a knitting cabin.

I had fun with some screenshots. I only got 1 of Buddhist Hell. I had more that I took but… apparently I didn’t take them O.o I also had some of me on the Titanic and some of flying on a giant butterfly but who knows where they went.

And sometime this morning Second Life decided it wasn’t going to work anymore. I got a “window creation error” window when I try to stop it. The best I can figure to do it upgrade my Ubuntu to 8. I’ve been meaning to do that for a long time anyway. So right now I’m backing up files… just in case something goes horribly wrong. One can never be too safe with computers, especially Windows. I’ve never had a problem upgrading with Ubuntu but I’m still going to walk on the safe side.

I have a feeling I’m going to get a lot of knitting done while I wait for backups/upgrades…

So to everyone out there, if you don’t see me for a couple days, something wet horribly wrong LOL