My new computer…

It Just Works! Graphics with Beryl, sound out of the box, network out of the box (no wireless with wpa, but otherwise it Just Works, and I’m not using wireless on a desktop, especially when I have dual Gigabit ethernet). Using my Samsung LCD TV also worked out of the box (after I managed to actually hook up the last power supply cable, which I’d forgot…)

Installation of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn had no hitches at all. Only thing that doesn’t work is lm-sensors, due to it (monitoring for ASUS P5B/Dlx mobo) not being supported properly in the current Feisty kernel. Gkrellm does work though. So gpu and hard drive monitoring works using gkrellm. I’d really like to have the sensor-applet work, but this is definetely minor.

The most important thing is: my first real attempt to build a computer works!

E10update in English!

Maintaining one page instead of multiple posts. That just gets less confusing for me. Here’s the page

On request I translated my script to English. This version is exactly the same as the last Norwegian one.

Here’s the guide too, for those who can’t be bothered to scroll down the page

1. Download pmplib and pmplibtools. This script has been tested with version 0.14.

2. Install it. I downloaded the rpm-packages and did: $ sudo alien pmplib*$ sudo dpkg -i pmplib* (That’s for a Debian-based system, like Ubuntu. You’ll figure it out!)
That gave me deb-packages I could install by:

3. Make sure you have zenity installed (you probably do, if you use Gnome)

4. Download my English version of the script

5. Put it in /usr/bin: $ sudo mv /whereever/you/put/it/e10update /usr/bin
It’s also possible to just make a link to it, like this: sudo ln -s /path/to/downloaded/script/e10update /usr/bi/e10update

6. Make sure the script is executable: $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/e10update

7. Run the script by simply: $ e10update

8. You might want to make a menu item for it. I used the mp3-player icon from the human icon set. Use System > Preferences > Main Menu to set a menu entry for it.

Gotchas:

• Make sure your player is mounted as /media/E10. The script needs to be changed if it’s mounted elsewhere.
• There might be packages besides zenity and pmplib* that you need.
• Line breaks in the wrong place in this script will cause the script to die horribly. You should be able to figure this out by yourself.
• There is currently a bug in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, so you will get an error when the script tries to unmount your player. See this post