September 2009 Archives
Thu Sep 10 14:06:44 EEST 2009
Ubuntu 9.04 Restoring the Shut Down entry to the System Menu
After upgrade of Ubunto to Jaunty
(9.04) release, I came across an annoying issue. The System menu on
the gnome-panel is missing the "Log Out" and "Shutdown Entries".
I've red in Google in ubuntuforums where discussion emerged about
the topic. It seems that this missing entries are not a bug but a
feature in this release of Ubuntu. To simply restore back the
entries it's necessery to remove the fast user switcher from the
panel. Here is a link to a blog describing the whole problem and
what is causing it Ubuntu 9.04 restoring the
Shut Down entry to the System menu
Wed Sep 9 23:04:41 EEST 2009
Safely upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
I've used the following
Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade tutorial to safely upgrade ubuntu
to Intrepid Ibex (8.10). The only thing that seemed a bit broken on
the first view is splashy which seemed not to show up properly
anymore.
Wed Sep 9 16:43:21 EEST 2009
Group Windows on a Taskbar in Gnome (on Debian GNU/Linux) in Vista like fashion
I wanted to have my gnome windows be
handled in a Vista / XP like fashion in other words I wanted my
Gnome to Group Windows (that means if many Windows originating from
the same source program then let them be grouped in one Window so
any time you press that Window a menu pops up letting you choose
between the desired Window). This window management aproach has one
main advantage it saves space on your desktop and least but not
last makes it much more ordered.
Here are the steps you need to follow to achieve Gnome Group Windowing.
The same is also explained on on Lifehacker therefore credits go to the above article.
Here are the steps you need to follow to achieve Gnome Group Windowing.
1. Right click on the dotted section (that's just to the left of your windows list section) you should find that between "Show Desktop" button and the rest of the windows buttons. 2. Select "Preferences" there and then choose according to your preferences either: "Group windows when space is limited" or "Always group windows".
The same is also explained on on Lifehacker therefore credits go to the above article.
Wed Sep 9 16:25:52 EEST 2009
FreeBSD 7.2 java jdk16 bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 install problems fix
I needed to install jdk16 (e.g. java
on my FreeBSD) system, I had some struggles doing that. It's a real
pain in the ass everytime I have to install Java on FreeBSD. I have
to download a bunch of files, both from Sun's website and eyesbeyond's
website . Afterwards still the built failed due to failed MD5
and SHA265 checksum of bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2. It took me some
time to notice the problem and the solution to the problem was
proposed by a guy in ##freebsd irc.freenode.net. The solution comes
to:
1. md5 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2; edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo and replace the file MD5 checksum.
2. sha256 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 and again edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo replacing with the right SHA256 checksum.
Now Thank the Lord! And hopefully enjoy your build
1. md5 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2; edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo and replace the file MD5 checksum.
2. sha256 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 and again edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo replacing with the right SHA256 checksum.
Now Thank the Lord! And hopefully enjoy your build
Tue Sep 8 21:08:52 EEST 2009
Quake3 Arena on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze / Sid Unstable
I wanted to have running Quake3 on my Debian GNU/Linux just like I have it running on my FreeBSD system thus.
1. I've downloaded linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run .
2. I executed :# chmod +x linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run; linux32 ./linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
Note: make sure you have installed linux32 and ia32-libs packages!I tested directly executing # linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run, but that was a failure, since the self extracting binary could not recognize the amd64 system architecture
After installing it via linux32, all went smoothly. Next I needed to copy all my game pak files into
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3. Remember that here it's absolutely vital to have q3config.cfg file to your baseq3 directory. To make your life easier I've tarred the Quake Arena pak files, so you can freely fetch them via this baseq3 link
Now untar the newly fetched baseq3.tar.gz to /usr/local/games/quake3/ Last step in the installation is to link the game binary to your /usr/games, I did this via
ln -sf /usr/local/games/quake3/quake3-smp /usr/games/
In your case it might be not necessary to link quake3-smp if you're not running 2 Core CPU.
Hopefully, Now with God's grace you should be having a fully functional Quake 3 Arena installation on your Debian Unstable GNU/Linux.
Enjoy!
Tue Sep 8 19:44:19 EEST 2009
Web Development & System Administration Company DreamupWeb
I've noticed an ex-colleague as well
as a friend of mine's recently started company who does provide
just Wonderful Web Development, SQL database and data processing
System Administration services. The new company is named dreamupweb . The whole project
looks quite promising. The already completeled projects do testify
the good quality work of the company.
Tue Sep 8 17:02:46 EEST 2009
Some Old School from Dobrich (Alegoria!)
I was examinining my Desktop machine
which I haven't played with for a year and I found a nice dir
"from_jivko". Jivko is a friend of mine who played in a nice old
school band in Dobrich. The band is called Alegoria. That was
awesome times, probably because this was the times of my youth, I
would hardly forget all the nice Rock concerts organized in the
"Mladezhki Dom" (Young's House), a place left from communism
dedicated to be a center of development in the spheres of art,
music, dance etc. for the teenagers and developing youth. Alegoria
was a band who played actively in music genre of Punk/Rock in the
period (1997 - 1999), it's possible that there latest concert was
in 2000. Even though the band does existed for so little time. It
was quite productive and their sound I would call unique :). In the
same period there was another interesting band playing in Dobrich,
their genre was mostly similar to Nu metal (Coal Chamber and
alike), as well they played sort of mix of Coal Chamber and
Rage
Against the Machine , the letter band was named BFD. Last year
a friend of mine Jivko who was a member of Alegoria playing the
drums. Sent me an Archive which included some of the Alegoria songs
as well as if I recall correctly one of the tracks baked by BFD,
the archive also included also an old school bulgarian in the punk
tradition called Abort.
Anyways Download the Alegoria songs here , the rest of the Abort songs could be found in here . I enjoyed a lot listening to this nice old crap! Hope somebody out there would enjoy it too.
Anyways Download the Alegoria songs here , the rest of the Abort songs could be found in here . I enjoyed a lot listening to this nice old crap! Hope somebody out there would enjoy it too.
Tue Sep 8 15:58:04 EEST 2009
Today our Orthodox Church does celebrates the birth(nativity) of the Holy Mother of God (Mother Mary)
Today I went for the church
feast of Nativity of The Theotokos (ever virgin) - a title assigned
to our Mother of God. Herein I include a bit more about the feast.
And yes, I have to say OrthodoxWiki is
a great resource for Orthodox Christians.
Mon Sep 7 21:08:06 EEST 2009
How to properly Start Compiz in Gnome
Since I've upgraded to Debian Sid /
Squeeze e.g., Debian unstable I'm using compiz and the default
patched debian metacity to support it. Thus until today I've it
setupped to start up with
1. compiz --replace on each and every login session on my account. Today I had my doubts that this is correct since I've noticed that compiz terminates after some of the OpenGL games I have started. After some Googling I found a blog post which was discussing the issue. Here is the post how to properly start compiz in gnome . As you could read in the blog post it is wrong to start compiz with compiz --replace cause in that case metacity starts for a couple of seconds during gdm login screen as well as it has to replace metacity afterwards. It is explained that the proper way to start compiz is via the .gnomerc . BTW I was not aware that gnome had that handy .gnomerc file which pretty much like the good old .bashrc. So back to the proper way of running compiz.
1. compiz --replace on each and every login session on my account. Today I had my doubts that this is correct since I've noticed that compiz terminates after some of the OpenGL games I have started. After some Googling I found a blog post which was discussing the issue. Here is the post how to properly start compiz in gnome . As you could read in the blog post it is wrong to start compiz with compiz --replace cause in that case metacity starts for a couple of seconds during gdm login screen as well as it has to replace metacity afterwards. It is explained that the proper way to start compiz is via the .gnomerc . BTW I was not aware that gnome had that handy .gnomerc file which pretty much like the good old .bashrc. So back to the proper way of running compiz.
Edit ~/.gnomerc in and put export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compizCongrats now you should have compiz to run properly.
Mon Sep 7 20:57:02 EEST 2009
Some Old Pictures of me and some close friends
I was digging to my old files and I
digged up some old nice pictures taken with Niki (Shanar). Who has
recently left us for heaven Here are the
pictures themselves . I also found on my FreeBSD 7 old system
some pictures of me Toto, Nomen, Niki and some others who more or
less relate to my past. Here are the rest of the pictures 100SSCAN .
Mon Sep 7 15:04:59 EEST 2009
QuakeForge on Debian Unstable
I wanted to have running Quake on my
Debian GNU/Linux. Thus I looked as usual in google for the possible
solutions. There were a couple of options I could approach. One of
them was to use QuakeForge's (QF)'s Quake engine. I tried to
compile Quake Forge from it's latest version 0.5.5, however that
didn't worked out. Therefore I needed another solution. I wanted to
make installation of quakeforge as quick as possible. After some
googling I found
The Following Quake Debian Repository . Next I've downloaded
all the necessery deb files on the Apache and installed them. File
by file. I have to install the files with debian package manager
file options --force-all because I'm running a Debian amd64
release. I did the deb binaries installation using the
command:
. dpkg -i --force-all quakeforge*.deb. It might be a wise idea before executing the above binary to install either quakeforge-oss or quakeforge-alsa binary file otherwise while dpkg executes dpkg-reconfigure to quakeforge-common the package configuration will fail. There is one more thing to be done before you're having a runnign version of Quake on your Linux. Be sure to download Quake's original binary pak0.file and place it into the /usr/share/games/quake/id1 directory. Of course as you could expect in Linux things almost never work perfectly. I was unpleasently suprised when I started quakeforge and I realized I can not run the good old Quake with sound effects :(.
. dpkg -i --force-all quakeforge*.deb. It might be a wise idea before executing the above binary to install either quakeforge-oss or quakeforge-alsa binary file otherwise while dpkg executes dpkg-reconfigure to quakeforge-common the package configuration will fail. There is one more thing to be done before you're having a runnign version of Quake on your Linux. Be sure to download Quake's original binary pak0.file and place it into the /usr/share/games/quake/id1 directory. Of course as you could expect in Linux things almost never work perfectly. I was unpleasently suprised when I started quakeforge and I realized I can not run the good old Quake with sound effects :(.
Sat Sep 5 21:24:17 EEST 2009
Two Spiritual Movies to see
Today I've taken my time to watch two
nice. Spiritual movies on christian thematics. Here are the movies
titles:
- Luis Bunnel - Nazarin (1959)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951) Robert Bresson.
First movie is in the protestant lutheran tradition about a priest who more or less imitated our Lord and saviour Christ in his daily lives. Second one emphasizes on a life of a true Catholic priest who used to have a spiritual insight, a monk like so to say.
I felt a bit refreshed watching the movies hope that it would be of any value to somebody out there.
- Luis Bunnel - Nazarin (1959)
- Diary of a Country Priest (1951) Robert Bresson.
First movie is in the protestant lutheran tradition about a priest who more or less imitated our Lord and saviour Christ in his daily lives. Second one emphasizes on a life of a true Catholic priest who used to have a spiritual insight, a monk like so to say.
I felt a bit refreshed watching the movies hope that it would be of any value to somebody out there.
Fri Sep 4 20:07:33 EEST 2009
Make Icedove a.k.a. Thunderbird have a Gnome look
I wanted to make my preferred mail
client application Thunderbird look a bit more decent and Gnome
like. Thus I've downloaded
tango_icons_for_thunderbird-0.7.0-tb.jar . The add-on is also
available for download via Thunderbird's
Official Addon web page . Another option for changing the
outlook of Icedove (as named in Debian for some licensing reasons)
is to use GNOME-Tb2
a thunderbird theme addon by Hugo Gonçalve.
Fri Sep 4 18:52:00 EEST 2009
A few Christian bands recommended by a friend of mine
I've recently been to a friend's work
place for a reason and in the mean time I got a couple of
suggestions of a nice christian bands. This are:
1. ApologetiX - A nice christian band who does cover a famous rock / metal / pop songs changing the lyrics with a christian bible based lyrics. More about the band here .
2. Andy Hunter - A Christian DJ who happens to be the creator of the music of some famous computer gmes like for example Need for Speed Undeground.
3. Glenn Kaiser - A band named after the guy Glenn Kaiser who was a long time guitar player and a singer in the great famous christian hard rock band "Resurrection Band" or as we fans call it in short "Rez Band".
Next I'm going to list a couple of nice Christian Industrial bands worthy to listen.
1. Argyle Park
2. Klank
3. BrainChild
4. Chatterbox
5. Circle of Dust
6. Cyber Shadow
7. Juggernautz
8. X-Propagation
Something else really valueable to me is a band called: Neuropunk Ru, I've downloaded this from another friend of mine known under the alias Static. I have to express my gratitude to him for sharing this valueable peace of music with me.
1. ApologetiX - A nice christian band who does cover a famous rock / metal / pop songs changing the lyrics with a christian bible based lyrics. More about the band here .
2. Andy Hunter - A Christian DJ who happens to be the creator of the music of some famous computer gmes like for example Need for Speed Undeground.
3. Glenn Kaiser - A band named after the guy Glenn Kaiser who was a long time guitar player and a singer in the great famous christian hard rock band "Resurrection Band" or as we fans call it in short "Rez Band".
Next I'm going to list a couple of nice Christian Industrial bands worthy to listen.
1. Argyle Park
2. Klank
3. BrainChild
4. Chatterbox
5. Circle of Dust
6. Cyber Shadow
7. Juggernautz
8. X-Propagation
Something else really valueable to me is a band called: Neuropunk Ru, I've downloaded this from another friend of mine known under the alias Static. I have to express my gratitude to him for sharing this valueable peace of music with me.
Fri Sep 4 18:36:07 EEST 2009
Make Pulseaudio play multiple sound strems in Gnome 2.26
I've recently upgraded my Debian as
you've probably red in my previous posts, anyways. I've noticed
that after the upgrade I couldn't play parallel sound streams of
let's say rhythmbox and audacious. So logically I started looking
for a fix. First I tried to install the
Here is the solution itself:
1. I've created .asoundrc file in my home directory containng:
paprefsdebian package. That nice gtk interface for configuring pulseaudio includes a menu called
Simultaneous Outputthere I've ticked the
Add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all local sound cardshoping that this would solve my issues. However that was no go, so I googled around looking for a solution and I came upon The following forum thread discussing howto solve the simultaneous sound issues. I tried some of the solutions proposed there and figured out the fix for me.
Here is the solution itself:
1. I've created .asoundrc file in my home directory containng:
pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse }I needed to restart my gnome session in order to make the changes in .asoundrc noticeable to pulseaudio although probably simply restarting the pulseaudio server would be a solution that won't require to restart your current gnome session. Cheers!
Fri Sep 4 01:21:21 EEST 2009
ipw3945 on kernel 2.6.30
I've loosed big time trying to
compile ipw3945 on my debian amd64 system running kernel 2.6.30,
unfortunately at the end I couldn't make ipw3945 run correctly.
However I'll try to explain just in case if somebody out there
succeeds in running the ipw3945 driver on kernel 2.6.30. First I
needed to compile the ieee80211-1.2.18 subsystem correctly. That
gave me a hard time cause the damned thing won't compile on my
kernel version. I've googled about the solution and had to combine
a couple of solutions before I succeed compiling. Here is what was
required
1. First in ieee80211.module.c change proc_net for init_net.proc_net.
2. Next change in ieee80211_crypt_wep.c and ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c .page for .page_link
3. Next download ieee80211_wx.c-2.6.27.patch.txt
4. Patch ieee80211-1.2.18 e.g. in my case: # cd /usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18; patch -p0 < ieee80211_wx.c-2.6.27.patch.txt
5. Overwrite the file ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c in /usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18 with the following ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c file.
6. Now with God's help you might try: # make && make install
Now let's proceed to the compilation of the ipw3945 driver itself.
I've used the the ipw3945-1.2.2 driver from the Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Driver Website . In kernels newer than 2.6.22 on 64 bit architectures in order to make the driver compile, you have to apply the fix-for-64-bits-2.6.22-onwards.patch patch.
Now enter the ipw3945-1.2.2 source directory and execute patch -p0 < fix-for-64-bits-2.6.22-onwards.patch ,hopefully it should patch correctly.I had to also use the ipw3945-1.2.2.patch patch.
Again patch it with: # patch -p0 < ipw3945-1.2.2.patch.
Next in order to compile it I had to execute: # make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18 IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y && make install. Next I have downloaded the ipw3945d-1.7.22 . Untarred the archive file
# tar -zxvf ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz and last but not least:
# cp -rpf x86_64/ipw3945d /etc/init.d/ The ipw3945 loaded correctly with modprobe ipw3945, however the wireless device wasn't detected ... Even though the failure to make the ipw3945 driver running what I did gave me hope that eventually if I invest some more time and efforts attempting to make it work I could eventually succeed and enjoy the benefits of a better wireless networks signal strengths. Until that happens I'll hold up to the newer iwl3945 to use my wireless.
1. First in ieee80211.module.c change proc_net for init_net.proc_net.
2. Next change in ieee80211_crypt_wep.c and ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c .page for .page_link
3. Next download ieee80211_wx.c-2.6.27.patch.txt
4. Patch ieee80211-1.2.18 e.g. in my case: # cd /usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18; patch -p0 < ieee80211_wx.c-2.6.27.patch.txt
5. Overwrite the file ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c in /usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18 with the following ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c file.
6. Now with God's help you might try: # make && make install
Now let's proceed to the compilation of the ipw3945 driver itself.
I've used the the ipw3945-1.2.2 driver from the Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Driver Website . In kernels newer than 2.6.22 on 64 bit architectures in order to make the driver compile, you have to apply the fix-for-64-bits-2.6.22-onwards.patch patch.
Now enter the ipw3945-1.2.2 source directory and execute patch -p0 < fix-for-64-bits-2.6.22-onwards.patch ,hopefully it should patch correctly.I had to also use the ipw3945-1.2.2.patch patch.
Again patch it with: # patch -p0 < ipw3945-1.2.2.patch.
Next in order to compile it I had to execute: # make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211-1.2.18 IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y && make install. Next I have downloaded the ipw3945d-1.7.22 . Untarred the archive file
# tar -zxvf ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz and last but not least:
# cp -rpf x86_64/ipw3945d /etc/init.d/ The ipw3945 loaded correctly with modprobe ipw3945, however the wireless device wasn't detected ... Even though the failure to make the ipw3945 driver running what I did gave me hope that eventually if I invest some more time and efforts attempting to make it work I could eventually succeed and enjoy the benefits of a better wireless networks signal strengths. Until that happens I'll hold up to the newer iwl3945 to use my wireless.
Thu Sep 3 01:26:27 EEST 2009
Debian Squeeze/Sid Unstable Compiz fix Gnome Run Application Alt+F2 problem
I've happily installed and use
compiz-gnome. In order to succesfully run compiz I was required to
execute it via the command
1. # compiz --replace &
Compiz broke the default behaviour of some of my assigned keys like for example the nice handy Alt+F2 Run Application dialog box. That made me irritated and therefore I wanted to have the handy feature working as before. The suggested solution to the situation was proposedby user kiprit on the following post in ubuntuforums . I will quote here what the valueable post reads:
Start Compiz Config Settings Manager Go to General Options, under Commands tab under the commands fold, command line 0, type: gnome-run go to "key bindings" fold, Run command 0, assign Alt+F2
It seems gnome for some reasons does not include application that invokes the Gnome Application Run menu. To fix that somebody out there has written a small program in C language that refers to the Run Application dialog.
Download the program gnome-run.c here . To properly compile the program use:
2. gcc -o gnome-run gnome-run.c -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11
If you're lucky gnome-run should be now poping up the Run Application dialog.
Afterwards please follow the instructions in above's forum post . I wasn't completely happy with the solution because gnome-run doesn't execute the Run Application dialog front focused. I've googled for other swift way to execute commands through a command and I came upon gmrun . Happily for me gmrun was already included in a packaged deb binary so all I had to do is install it via apt-get install gmrun and set it for execution on alt+f2 key press again as explained above.
1. # compiz --replace &
Compiz broke the default behaviour of some of my assigned keys like for example the nice handy Alt+F2 Run Application dialog box. That made me irritated and therefore I wanted to have the handy feature working as before. The suggested solution to the situation was proposedby user kiprit on the following post in ubuntuforums . I will quote here what the valueable post reads:
Start Compiz Config Settings Manager Go to General Options, under Commands tab under the commands fold, command line 0, type: gnome-run go to "key bindings" fold, Run command 0, assign Alt+F2
It seems gnome for some reasons does not include application that invokes the Gnome Application Run menu. To fix that somebody out there has written a small program in C language that refers to the Run Application dialog.
Download the program gnome-run.c here . To properly compile the program use:
2. gcc -o gnome-run gnome-run.c -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11
If you're lucky gnome-run should be now poping up the Run Application dialog.
Afterwards please follow the instructions in above's forum post . I wasn't completely happy with the solution because gnome-run doesn't execute the Run Application dialog front focused. I've googled for other swift way to execute commands through a command and I came upon gmrun . Happily for me gmrun was already included in a packaged deb binary so all I had to do is install it via apt-get install gmrun and set it for execution on alt+f2 key press again as explained above.
Wed Sep 2 14:33:16 EEST 2009
Debian Lenny 64 AMD to Debian Squeeze 64 AMD update
I decided to upgrade my Debian to
Squeeze on my Thinkpad R61 because I was not happy with the
software prebundled with Debian Lenny 5 is already one year behind
the recent versions available in unstable.
The update wasn't anything special as a procedure. I've googled around to find a tutorial or somebody else experience on the topic and I stumbled upon The following upgrade instructions . I've followed literally the steps described there.
1. aptitude update
2. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
3. aptitude full-upgrade
After that I had to confirm a couple of times that I do agree the selected packages for upgrade to proceed. After the packages were downloaded and installed, I was required to decide if I want to keep some of the old custom configuration files I've edited or accept the package maintainer version. This was the hardest part of the upgrade since I have to check file by file what custom settings have I set in a numerous conf files. After some time when all that was over. I had to execute again
4. aptitude full-upgade, one more or times until no more packages were left for upgrade.
. Then I executed,
5. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and upgraded even some more packages :). After that I had fully functional update. Debian Unstable Squeeze/Sid prooved to run correctly, it comes with kernel 2.6.30, Gnome 2.6.26.1. Right after I did login into my Gnome Profile, an error message poped-up. I did a quick check in Google about the problem just to find The following Bug Report . The gnome-settings-daemon package that was problematic is 2.6.24 just to compare the rest of the gnome package versions are 2.6.26. The suggested solution to the problem was to install gnome-setting-daemon from Debian Unstable or simply ignore the error message, since the message showed up and seemed not to have any impact on the gnome operation. Many things changed there behaviour like keyboard settings and the way the system works. That irritated me a lot. My video players (mplayer, vlc) subtitles in cyrillic (cp1251) aren't showing correctly as well. I have to note here that my default language settings are on a purpose set to en_US.UTF-8. I'm still looking for a permanent solution to the problem. I've discovered that if I do
set: # export LANG=bg_BG.CP1251 to my gnome-terminal and then execute the players the cyrillic show up correctly. I've tried various things and configurations in both mplayer and vlc. My current mplayer.conf settings are:
Right after the upgrade I was also experiencing warnings during boot, proclaiming messages like:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
. To get rid of this annoying messages I had to enter /etc/modprobe.d/ and assure myself that all file names possess the extension .conf.
To sum up I was quite disappointed of my stupid idea to upgrade my debian distro to unstable. I would probably not upgrade it if I was aware of the consequences ...
The update wasn't anything special as a procedure. I've googled around to find a tutorial or somebody else experience on the topic and I stumbled upon The following upgrade instructions . I've followed literally the steps described there.
1. aptitude update
2. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
3. aptitude full-upgrade
After that I had to confirm a couple of times that I do agree the selected packages for upgrade to proceed. After the packages were downloaded and installed, I was required to decide if I want to keep some of the old custom configuration files I've edited or accept the package maintainer version. This was the hardest part of the upgrade since I have to check file by file what custom settings have I set in a numerous conf files. After some time when all that was over. I had to execute again
4. aptitude full-upgade, one more or times until no more packages were left for upgrade.
. Then I executed,
5. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and upgraded even some more packages :). After that I had fully functional update. Debian Unstable Squeeze/Sid prooved to run correctly, it comes with kernel 2.6.30, Gnome 2.6.26.1. Right after I did login into my Gnome Profile, an error message poped-up. I did a quick check in Google about the problem just to find The following Bug Report . The gnome-settings-daemon package that was problematic is 2.6.24 just to compare the rest of the gnome package versions are 2.6.26. The suggested solution to the problem was to install gnome-setting-daemon from Debian Unstable or simply ignore the error message, since the message showed up and seemed not to have any impact on the gnome operation. Many things changed there behaviour like keyboard settings and the way the system works. That irritated me a lot. My video players (mplayer, vlc) subtitles in cyrillic (cp1251) aren't showing correctly as well. I have to note here that my default language settings are on a purpose set to en_US.UTF-8. I'm still looking for a permanent solution to the problem. I've discovered that if I do
set: # export LANG=bg_BG.CP1251 to my gnome-terminal and then execute the players the cyrillic show up correctly. I've tried various things and configurations in both mplayer and vlc. My current mplayer.conf settings are:
zoom=1 subfont-encoding=unicode subcp=cp1251 subfont-autoscale=1 subfont-text-scale=3,60 subfont-osd-scale=6 font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arhangai/arhangai.ttf framedrop=yes slang=bg alang=bgThis settings are reported to work by many people out there and they really do if I export my LANG to bg_BG.CP1251, however with a different LANG settings they fail to work :(.
Right after the upgrade I was also experiencing warnings during boot, proclaiming messages like:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
. To get rid of this annoying messages I had to enter /etc/modprobe.d/ and assure myself that all file names possess the extension .conf.
To sum up I was quite disappointed of my stupid idea to upgrade my debian distro to unstable. I would probably not upgrade it if I was aware of the consequences ...