Tim
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Jan 16, 2010 20:41:31 GMT
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Scary - How do you configure the monitor to shut down when you close the screen. I'm using Ubuntu and can't see an opton for this (i'm assuming it goes into hibernate when i shut the lid).
Did you do it via terminal?
Cheer
Tim
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I right clicked the power icon in the lower panel and selected "power preferences" from the pop up menu. This works for xfce4... might be different in gnome (if it's regular ubuntu you are using) but there should be a menu entry in system>preferences for power control. Failing that, open a terminal and type gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon to start it.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Tim
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At the moment it is regular ubuntu. I'll have a look cheers. Its a music box so i want to be able to set it going then shut the lid to turn off the monitor. I might have to pull down the xcfe environment anyway as gnome is a bit slow on this laptop but i've read that wireless is easier to configure initially in ubuntu. Cheers!
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Tim
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Jan 17, 2010 14:15:55 GMT
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Doesn't give me the same options as you...i'll have a google
thanks though!
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Jan 17, 2010 23:03:19 GMT
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Doesn't give me the same options as you...i'll have a google thanks though! It won't show you options it hasn't got - check that apci is running properly, and that your laptop doesnt need a special config file to make the buttons work properly (you may even find apci is turned off in the bios... happened to me before) I've been playing with wireless this evening (no, not radio 2) but kismet and wireshark. Kismet running a scan. It takes over a wireless card (I'm using a USB stick configured as wlan1 so I can keep my wireless network up) and scans for available networks. when it finds them, it starts to log data It even co-relates GPS data so you can find wifi hotspots on the move. Wireshark then lets you examine that data. If you can log into a network, wireshark can give you pretty much anything you need to know about it. Obviously, I'm only playing with my own network here. I'm not making next door's printer (an olivetti anyway) do page feeds all the time, honest.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Jan 19, 2010 14:13:00 GMT
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tim, strange that you don't have those options, try going into synaptic and search for laptop, you should have acpi and laptop-dectect installed
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Tim
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Jan 23, 2010 22:47:12 GMT
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Cheers guys, will have a play
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Wow, has it actually been a fortnight since I posted anything? Time flies.... Actually, I've been completely absorbed with a knotty problem all this time, and the eeePC has been invaluable to me in helping figure it all out to my satisfaction. It's that topic dread to moderators everywhere..... Global Warming (or as now rebranded Climate Change) so I'd just like to say straight off that this is 100% NOT the place I want to get into a diatribe about who is right. There is plenty of that elsewhere. If you want a summary of what I think, search out my comments in this thread, but I wouldn't have even started looking if Gordon Brown hadn't called me a flat earther and now look... Ed Miliband has declared war on me! www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/31/ed-miliband-climate-change-scepticismI'm afraid there are about 800 comments (mostly rubbish or irrelevent, from both sides) but if you use search to pick out my username (yeah, the usual one) it should help. Anyway, I'm done now. My conclusions were as follows.. 1/ last century the planet did warm up (mostly agreed.. how much is not agreed so well) 2/ this century so far it hasnt. Stable temps from about 2000 onwards (maybe a decline last 3 years, jury still out) 3/ CO2 levels continue to rise (actually faster than we pump it out....) 4/ point 3 may not have anything to do with points 1 and 2 (we just don't know) Someone asked me for a personal theory on the guardian thread after going into the above points, I think it bears repeating here. So there you go. If you do want to discuss it at all, feel free to PM me instead.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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chevazon
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Andy - are you Swampy in hiding ? ;D
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Decide for yourself.... makes a change from looking like the unabomber, I suppose.....
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OK, back to the hacking... lol I have a problem with the router despite reading the whole book, and the documentation on the openWRT wiki things don't exactly work like they should. The book (and the wiki) both say to alter settings use the command nvram but I get an error that says -ash nvram: not found and google isn't very helpful on that (except that a couple of other folk have the same trouble, and no-one helped them ) Eventually (I've spent half the evening reading the wiki) I find out what the trouble is, heretrouble is thats the ref page for the wrt54gl, not the gs. the GS page says no such thing, and even directs to download links that give you a 2.6 kernel image (all kamikase builds are. last 2.4 build is in white russian 0.9). Problems are: 1/ the firmware I downloaded yesterday isn't the right one for my needs - it was a test load so I can access the hardware. 2/wifi doesn't work it's a known bug, there is a fix BUT.... 3/ I can't use nvram, and I need to set the boot_wait flag so the router will accept new firmware again. The solution is to add some serial ports and use the serial recovery console to directly set boot_wait via PMON. If I wasn't already going to add some, and didn't have all the kit to hand (remember the nokia lead? It's about to make another appearance in this thread) I'd be pretty hacked off by now. So, warning to all who want to play, do this... download a 2.4 kernel image to your PC (from here upload it to router using the "upgrade firmware" screen in the linksys web interface (192.168.1.1) Log into it and do any essential nvram tasks (like set boot_wait) download another image (the one you wanted in the first place.. this is the latest RC) tftp it to the router during a boot sequence to upload it. That's what boot_wait is for. On a restart the hardware looks for an image sent to it on 192.168.1.1 and installs it if it finds one, otherwise it will continue to boot the old image. Without boot_wait, it doesn't even check, it just boots. Oh well, screwdriver and soldering iron time again, lol Back to the hacking again tonight. (my new guitar didn't turn up today ) This evening I added a USB/serial connector to the router (it's the nokia lead again, lol..) and started adding wiring to interface the arduino. (thats the grey wires that don't go anywhere.. I also have an SD slot to add) Seeing as I already worked all the software bugs out of this lead trying to get the GPS to work it wasn't very hard to get it working (3.3v already, tx,rx,gnd,done...) booted straight to this... which is the same root console I had via ssh and still I can't access nvram. Reading the openWRT wiki, it suggests to type reboot, then hit ctrlC repeatedly until it gives you a CFE> or PMON> prompt. (mm, reboot and ctrlC.. that sounds familiar, lol..) so I did that and bing.. cfe bootloader console and boot_wait finally set. Now I can change firmware version again ;D Except it's 2am, and I'm going to bed.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Feb 24, 2010 23:09:29 GMT
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see, thats what I meant ;D Its about the size of a paperback, but it's a proper fully functioning PC. google images says it looks like this (and the pic might well be fullsize, lol) I have one of those Slightly diff. version, but its been doing me fine for ages... and is about that size
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Nathan
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101 uses for an eeePCNathan
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Feb 25, 2010 12:13:20 GMT
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By the way I have 25 of them ALL Brand new boxed and sealed if anyone wants one (Good price to RRs)
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Nathan
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101 uses for an eeePCNathan
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Feb 26, 2010 10:51:25 GMT
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Just to Inform people, I am slowly going through the PMs with details etc as I have had quite a few.
Sorry for the Hijack
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Feb 26, 2010 11:41:43 GMT
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No problem!
Do I get commission? ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Feb 27, 2010 12:44:13 GMT
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By the way I have 25 of them ALL Brand new boxed and sealed if anyone wants one (Good price to RRs) how much are they bud?
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'90 Audi B3 Coupe 2.3 Auto [gone] '92 Audi S4 Avant 2.2 AAN Turbo Auto [gone] '93 Audi 80 Avant 1.9TDi [gone] '96 Audi A4 Avant 2.6 Quattro [gone] '97 VW T4 1.9td LWB [gone] '03 Skoda Octavia 1.9TDi [gone] '05 VW T5 Shuttle LWB 1.9TDi '15 VW Caddy Maxi Kombi 1.6TDi
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Tim
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Feb 28, 2010 11:12:32 GMT
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I right clicked the power icon in the lower panel and selected "power preferences" from the pop up menu. This works for xfce4... might be different in gnome (if it's regular ubuntu you are using) but there should be a menu entry in system>preferences for power control. Failing that, open a terminal and type gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon to start it. Still don't have any of that - i'm tempted to grab the XFCE environment and see if that helps
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Feb 28, 2010 13:53:45 GMT
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I can't see how it will, Tim. XFCE is just an alternative desktop to gnome, I'm still running ubuntu underneath it all. Did you check the package manager for laptop-detect etc? Also, how old is the laptop (if the bios is pre 2000 you need the option apci-force in the kernel options to start it) and did you look for power control settings in the BIOS?
ooh, edit.. just remembered something that happened to me last year - ubuntu 8.04 sometimes messes apci settings due to incompatability with some network cards. Does the lappy hibernate/suspend properly? Upgrade is the answer if it doesnt (to 9.04 at least if not 9.10)
PS, athough it won't help the power problem, xfce is worth a try... I like it more than gnome or KDE, and its quick and fairly lightweight.
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Feb 28, 2010 18:00:08 GMT
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By the way I have 25 of them ALL Brand new boxed and sealed if anyone wants one (Good price to RRs) how much are they bud? Yeah I'd be interested too. Which spec are they? Just wondering what the normal price is. I don't NEED one but if its a bargain I could always use a new toy. ;D
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Feb 28, 2010 18:27:20 GMT
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Speaking of toys... conor got a Pleo for his birthday (baby dinosaur robot toy) and boy, are these things coming on fast.... 2x32bit ARM processors (one for main, one for sound/video) and 4 auxilliary 8 bit controllers working 24 servos There is also a developer's kit, the whole thing was developed in python and pawn and the dino has both an SD slot and a USB port (and hidden 3.3v ttl serial, but that's warranty-voiding) Here's a quick you tube of today's messing around (conor thought it "too cute" so we gave it an attitude ) and here's a screenshot of the console output (surprising how all these different things use the same methods, isn't it?) more coming soon on the arduino and the router, plus (hopefully) a demo of the sort of app I have in mind for all this.
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