Antonella's Laptop

• Set MYTITLE = - Mytitle in Laptop
• Set MYDESCR =
• Set MYKEYS =

Under /opt it is installed:

• firefox 2.0.0.14
  • created an icon on the panel with launch this command: /opt/firefox-2.0.0.14/firefox
  • installed plugin for acroread 8.1.2
  • installed plugin for Adobe Flash Player (automatically with firefox under desanto's home directory)

• jdk 6 update 6
  • downloaded jdk-6u6-linux-i586.bin
  • create symbolinc link for firefox 2.0.0.14
    ln -s /opt/jdk1.6.0_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
  • created file /etc/profile.d/java.sh
    export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/jre
    export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  • /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.6.0_06/jre/bin/java 2
  • /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java

• Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
  By default it is recognized but it doesn't work. Module loaded snd_azx. So I downloaded alsa-driver-1.0.16.tar.bz2 and I did:
  • cp -ar /lib/modules/2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.cernsmp /lib/modules/2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.cernsmp.orig
    (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.cernsmp)
  • ./configure; make; make install-modules (NOT make install)
    in this way snd_azx is substituted from snd_hda_intel
  • created a very simple script for managing the wirless. it's /opt/bin/connection.pl and the configuration file for every SSID ar stored under /opt/bin/wirenet/

• for external wireless (NETGEAR)
  • yum install kernel-module-madwifi-`uname -r`
  • added with visudo
    desanto ALL= NOPASSWD: /opt/bin/*
    so now it's possible to use this command: sudo /opt/bin/stella.sh

• printers
  • Added "ServerName server3.pp.rhul.ac.uk" in /etc/cups/client.conf

• Hard Disk for backup
  • Initially it was recognized as /dev/sdb so with udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdb) > udevinfo.diego
    it is possible to find out the field that identify in an unambiguos way the hard disk (ex. SYSFS{product}="...", SYSFS{serial}="...")
  • I used that information to create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local-persistent.rules
  • with
    lshal > lshal.diego I took informations for creating the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/desanto_bck.fdi
  • I copied the file zz-hda-nightly-mirror in /opt/bin/ and I slightly modified it for supporting the reading of "LABEL=..." and not only "/dev/..." for file /etc/fstab.

Link

• http://www.pmw.org/~gardnerj/Thinkpad/Install.html#Installing_ThinkPad_Buttons_TPB
• http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/7669-3JG#IBM_ThinkPad_X61s_7669-3JG_Specifications
• http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Media_Accelerator_X3100
• http://ait.web.psi.ch/services/linux/guides/user/laptop/
• http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Sample_Fn-F7_script
• http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=56392&sid=71893fc87448a8c1d7705cd3e0d72294
• http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ibm-acpi