Monday, 7 May 2012

Slipping Away

Every second I'm not doing what I want to do, makes me feel that I'm missing an opportunity.

Some of the decisions in life may initially seem like a good idea, but later it will turn out to feel to be the wrong thing. There's no way of knowing what the right route is. Or maybe there is a way of knowing.

Money is the first thing most people will think about before venturing into anything. It's also the thing that prevents most people from doing what they really want to do.

The important thing is that most of us can do what we want to do. We have to find time to do it. Whenever there is any spare time, just do what you wanted to when you didn't have any spare time.

Another thing that you need to keep in mind is not to tell people about your plan. Doing so usually leads to the feeling of fulfilment even before starting it.

What may help is finding someone who will help you in your venture. Even if you don't find anyone to help you directly, at least don't sit and work on your own while working. Again, don't boast about your results until you have results.

Modo fac!

Friday, 20 April 2012

Ubuntu 11.10

I've finally got Ubuntu working on my m1530 laptop!

So some issues i ran into:

Wifi - easy fix. I just went to Additional Drivers in the settings page.
Screen - Because the m1530's screen is dead/broken/unfixable i've had to change the xorg.conf file manually so that the right screen resolutions can be used for my dell u2412m monitor. First i had to run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

to create a new xorg.conf file, then i ran:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

to edit the file itself. Here's is the final output:


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 295.40  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-04.nvidia.com)  Thu Apr  5 22:33:07 PDT 2012

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL U2412M"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
    #Option         "Rotate" "Left"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

The most important bit was:

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL U2412M"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
    #Option         "Rotate" "Left"
EndSection

and this was the only bit which i edited.