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Aargh! 
Installed Wheezy and as soon as I logged into Mate.. journaling on my ext4 partitions turned off and the filesystem got corrupted. Read something about udisks or S.M.A.R.T. being the culprits, overriding something, I don't know anymore...
EDIT: I'll just have to use linux on a stick and stay away from the internal drive as the sata_sil module doesn't come with any options.
Problem: ACPI regression, fixed in 3.4 kernel
Solution: added processor.nocst=1 and only that to boot line
Link: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p … 9eb39f9695
Swapped my perfectly working netbook for a regular laptop, a 2007 Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Li 1718 made for Windows Vista 
The problems I have had with it are the following:
No BIOS options to speak of
Broken BIOS (only works 100% with MS Windows/Mac OS X)
ATI IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (non-AHCI in IDE mode)
Strangely enough OpenIndiana and the *BSD livecds had no trouble with my hardware when the current crop of linux distros hung or half ran with ACPI turned off - yes, even the mighty Statler failed 
EDIT: Backports version works, quite possibly Waldorf
Yesterday I tried the new ArchBang booting with libata.force=noncq pnpbios=off irqpoll and got a lag free desktop without those damn lost interrupt ATA DRDY DRQ messages. Guess they reinstated the IRQ fixups in the latest kernel 
[ 2.399835] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 2.400669] pata_atiixp 0000:00:14.1: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2.402471] scsi0 : pata_atiixp
[ 2.405685] scsi1 : pata_atiixp
[ 2.406347] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x8460 irq 14
[ 2.406351] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x8468 irq 15
[ 2.520381] pata_acpi 0000:00:12.0: enabling device (0005 -> 0007)
[ 2.567339] ata1.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq)
[ 2.567347] ata1.00: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7540A, 1.42, max UDMA/33
[ 2.580579] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 2.595021] sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.4
[ 2.598810] scsi2 : sata_sil
[ 2.602194] scsi3 : sata_sil
[ 2.602448] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xc0507000 tf 0xc0507080 irq 22
[ 2.602454] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xc0507000 tf 0xc05070c0 irq 22
[ 2.920053] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 2.926978] ata3.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq)
[ 2.981654] ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD1600BEVS-07RST0, 04.01G04, max UDMA/133
[ 2.981658] ata3.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (not used)
[ 2.994071] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3.313366] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)So, my question.. is there any flag to force the SATA driver to IDE compatibility mode directly and not probe for any of the fancy tech that's not there?
Have a GPT table on my hackintosh netbook (with MBR added for Haiku, AROS) and with linux installs both grub & lilo are able to boot from their root partitions. As main bootloader I use Chimera.
startx, LXDM in newer distros due to policykit changes 
I could not care less if there are some millionaires losing some pennies. I pay taxes on hard disk drives, removable media and nearly everything else in this sector.
Same thing over here, there's a levy for copying on recordable media and yet the very act is considered illegal Talk about double standards.
But I'm pragmatic.. I share & watch a lot of films, most of them crap, but keep only those that are unavailable in stores (mostly weird B-films from the VHS era) or that the commercial equivalent is truly inferior (horrible quality).
Consolekit is eeeevil.
OK, GTK2 is the only requirement for LXDM but it can use consolekit if so wanted.. and wasn't consolekit from startx broken in Wheezy?
Why not use LXDM as display manager? It's very light and easy to build (GTK2 and consolekit) on Squeeze.
Besides OS X 10.6 and Haiku alpha3, there's a Squeeze netinstall running LXDE with dwm as the window manager on my Aspire netbook and I love it! 100% keyboard driven with one graphical (in case a family member needs to browse the web) and one command line application for every task - just like #! 
I was under the impression you had to apt-get -t squeeze-backports install "package" to install from backports?
Yes, one effect of nomodeset is getting rid of the EDID spam and more:
Older Radeons get video overlay back (besides textured video) 
GNOME3 only works in fallback mode
often needs manual monitor setup in xorg.conf.d (refresh rates etc)
Xorg just crashes in Scientific Linux 6.1 
Noticed I hadn't bought any boxed PC games since 2004/05 so I set up an AthlonXP desktop with Windows2000 (abandonware since summer 2010, ancient win98 license lying around) & unofficial SP5.1+hacks, and Linux/Wine/DOSBox. The games I'm interested in work perfectly
The Shimmer Project does have some rather nice Xfce themes, my favourite still being Albatross. Oh, Greybird's GTK3 version is still buggy and doesn't blend in so well.
I used to be agnostic and confused, but there's a way out
Hmm.. why does this line sound so familiar? 
OK, rotten joke - but citing bible verses like the words themselves had magic (Snow Crash ) just rubs me the wrong way. God don't need ya to question him.
Chalk me up as another one interested in a PPC flavor of #!. I already dual boot OS X 10.4 and Debian Squeeze on my old 600Mhz G3 iBook. Debian was great under Lenny, but doing a fresh install of Squeeze left me without WiFi, as per some package policy changes made with Debian. That and some other firmware issues (like drivers for some of the ATI/nVidia chips Apple used) might be something to look at when #!-ifying with a script.
The Radeon 9250 on my PPC needs firmware-linux-nonfree for 3D and overlay video if I remember correctly.
You'll make a nice Openbox machine from the Debian PPC netinstall but some packages are unavailable/have to be compiled/won't run on PowerPC.
The themes from Statler? No problem.
No problems with AAO or Crunchbang . . . . no workarounds needed.
Actually the original Aspire One's BIOS is pretty broken for non-Windows systems so for a accelerated 2D/3D environment in Squeeze you need to add enable_mtrr_cleanup to the grub commandline in /etc/default/grub. No more jumpy video playback or lousy 3D. This simple fix won't work in kernels newer than 2.6.32, those need to be patched. A prepatched generic AA1 kernel can be downloaded from http://thibm.free.fr/
Sounds like Flash.. you could try the newer Flash beta from Adobe but the Linux port blows.
Yeah, the xorg metapackage installs all drivers, for a minimal X install you only need what? xserver-xorg-core, xinit and your keyboard/mouse/video drivers. And let's see.. from the Humble indie bundle only Braid and Penumbra won't work on my i9xx chipset.
You should have made the entire 4GB SSD into / and had /home on a big SD card - I'm not even using 3GB for my current system and that's with a rather full Gnome desktop. Binary tarballs of Skype or Firefox I usually just extract to ~/Apps and make a launcher from there.
Are these external drives? I'm reading over at http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=146789 about fixing spindowns on WD Passports.
I use -S 240 (240 * 5s = 20min) for my sda drive in /etc/hdparm.conf
Do you have a space after the S?
Can you elaborate?
There are plenty of programs starting with ntfs* in #!
I believe ntfsresize and ntfsfix to be the linux commands you want, the latter should force Windows to do a thorough chkdsk after a reboot - this can be done in win rescue/safe mode with MS own tools as well.
I remember resizing an NTFS partition way back when I still dual booted. The thing was it's not enough to change the partition size and think it'll work, you have to tell the NTFS file system it has more/less room to play with. Windows and Linux both have the tools to do this.
Yeah, I'm using an old CRT monitor right now and it does look like crap. My guess is ~/.fonts.conf as well - change the rgba value from rgb to none if you're not using an LCD monitor.
dwm netbook
Deb 6, Slim, Xfce & GTK apps and conky.
Fullscreen: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/ … 32wfab.png
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