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Hi,
I just drop a line quickly to inform about the FOSDEM event happening in Brussels, Belgium this week-end (4-5 February).
It is a free access conference about many open-source related topics, you can check the schedule here: http://www.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/tracks
Cheers,
a
Hey guys, thanks for this thread and the donations. As you will have seen, Philip is setting up a new CrunchBang website and I've been nagging him like mad to get his backside on here to explain more about what he's doing and the direction that he wants to take CrunchBang in, but he's just really busy at the moment doing it!
He will be on here soon to explain all soon - he has promised me!
Thanks for the news bobobex 
looking forward to know about the good ideas papanom has in mind for crunchbang
@johnraff : I have just found a solution to the brightness problem in this thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … amp;page=3
the scripts attached by keptile work for me. I couldn't set the acpi event to map fn keys, but I will use super +F5/F6 instead.
Hope this helps,
alef
old thread, but I finally found the solution for this, it might help other azerty keyboard users:
Works well in Statler.
The "caps:shiftlock" option has to be added in /etc/default/keyboard :
XKBOPTIONS="caps:shiftlock".
Reboot, and then you finally have a correct behaviour when typing to number keys in caps lock.
Hi,
last night, not long after playing with dd command to create live usbs, i was asked to copy a movie to a friend's external hard disk.
unfortunately after failing the copy from file manager (not authorized) i typed
sudo cp movie /deb/sdb1instead of
sudo cp movie /media/whereverThen the partition was overwritten by the file, instead of the copy I was willing to do. I have interrupted the command when I noticed the error, fortunately quite early. I am currently recovering data with photorec, and will check whether testdisk can recover the partition afterwards.
My questions are:
Should I have used some options when executing cp to avoid this kind of mistake?
or should not cp display a warning and ask confirmation each time it is asked to copy to /dev/sd*?
related topics for partition/data recovery:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ition-how/
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ry-solved/
Hi,
I wanted to share this optimization which looks interesting:
howto: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790311/e4rat-c … e-commands
tool website: http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
enjoy it
P.S. : I have not tired it myself yet, but certainly will do as soon as I am in front of my netbook...
Hi,
On a Statler install I could not compile a software (couchdb 1.0.2) because of iceweasel beta 4, that's probably normal because of some conflicting dependencies.
To check that iceweasel was the problem I tried compiling it on another statler fresh install without iceweasel 4 and it worked fine.
Applying the rollback procedure proposed by corenominal does still not allow me to compile, same errors appear.
To solve the issue on one of my machines I reinstalled statler keeping the home partition. Has anyone got any idea on how I could do without a system reinstall? I still need to compile the software on the second machine and would like to avoid having to reinstall / configure stuff again.
Thanks.
P.S. : in my case iceape was not installed.
Hi mikel,
Sorry, I have no idea about that, I'm not using memory sticks...
Good luck
Hi,
I have installed Statler on my Vaio VGN-FE21H, it installs and starts well it but I have some problems with the webcam: works in cheese but no image appears in skype even though /dev//video0 appears as a device in cameras list and there is no way to adjust LCD brightness. Default Fn keys have no effect (although I can see that they an event is fired when I press them using xev).
I have been searching many sites since yesterday to solve the brightness issue and I am getting desperate. I have tried various techniques unsuccessfully, most of them are outdated, and I don't know anything about kernel compiling.
Both the default kernel and liquorix have the problem. Sony_laptop module is loaded in the kernel, but not sonypi. Some websites stated that sonypi is deprecated and that sony_laptop integrates all of its features.
For the camera issue I have just noticed it actually, but I had already read that it was not supported...
Can anyone point me to good locations to find up-to-date information? Even in debian wiki pages are outdated and removed from squeeze: advising to use deprecated update-modules command (http://wiki.debian.org/Modules).
Thanks a lot
edit: added details on webcam problem: actually works fine in cheese
as this seems to be obsolete I want to point out that there still is a reference to ubuntu in the short description. Does anyone know who can change this?
it's correct now
Hi,
My gdm autologin acts weird too: it works whenever I'm on AC power, but whenever I boot only from battery then it does not work, I have the login screen showing-up.
Any idea about a solution for this?
P.S.: I'm not using liquorix kernel.
P.P.S: related topic: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/90320/#p90320
[edit]: added post scriptums
There are the vids from previous eyars : http://www.youtube.com/user/fosdemtalks#g/u
great speeches on many topics...
Funds are not the problem, I cannot get the time off work.
maybe you should try to go to work with a jerrycan of petrol and matches, this might get you few days off until your employer finds new premises...
Makes me wish I was going to FOSDEM.
Maybe you should try to raise funds 
Hi,
I have just read this interesting text, since the reason of the move to Debian is often asked in this forum, I thought it might be a useful resource:
I have installed r20110105 over the existing one, keeping /home. I did this rather than a dist-upgrade because of some problems I caused that I could not resolve.
Everything went smoothly, I did not need to use my backup of the home folder.
The new installer "looks" nicer (is that really important?), as some others mentioned the partition setup interface is quite disturbing.
The only problem I had was that there was no option to install grub in other partitions than in the MBR...
Great work, thanks papanominal
Hi,
Is any crunchbanger attending to Fosdem 2011? http://www.fosdem.org
About FOSDEM
The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.
Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free Software and Open Source events in Europe".
Related topic: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ecordings/
Hi,
Thanks for your answers guys
Have you looked in your BIOS? Many of them will have a setting for "permanent on". Not that an OS upgrade should change that ...
I have double-checked, No such option in my BIOS 
...
Then if there is no magic trick to restore situation as it was I will install fancontrol, thanks jpope.
Hi,
I am using Statler Openbox in my eeepc 1000H. Things were great until an upgrade about one month ago, when the fan control were a bit wrong. Now the fan is always on, a little bit noisy. I preferred before when it was automatically running less or more fast according to the temperature.
As far as I know the only specific acpi package installed on my machine is eeepc-acpi-scripts.
Is there any setting I can restore somewhere in order to get a more quiet fan ?
Do I rather need to install some fan control app?
Thanks for your help.
Related topics:
eee-control on statler: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … eecontrol/
pwmconfig daemon: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … terdebian/
eee-control like cpu controls for statler: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … u-control/
Hi,
Interesting thread, thanks for starting it Ali.
Here's my point of view:
does the concept chrome os scare anyone?
Not Chrome OS especially, but I think we should be careful with cloud computing in general:
do I still own my data ?
Do I have full control over it ?
Is it secured, and who else may access it ?
Recently we could observe that cloud computing removed to wikileaks it's freedom of sharing information - Even though right now no jurisdiction at all has ever stated that what wikileaks does was illegal (as far as I know).
I may understand amazon's behaviour, as according to some countries laws they are hosting data which are quite obviously illegal.
What I do not understand it Tableau software's reaction. They were only hosting world maps showing the number of cables for each country (still visible via google images). Nothing secret or bad in it.
everything stored online, you know, a no-hdd/sdd drive?
Well the chrome os netbook prototype has a 16GB SSD. Anyone might install the OS in the machine he wants, with the quantity of storage he wants.
Maybe you are considering a longer-term perspective ?We don't know yet for sure whether we will go towards a world where your device has only CPU/RAM, and all your data are somewhere else, do we ?
because it sure scares the crap out of me
Let's do something about it. I don't mean think about somethign else and stop being afraid, but take actions to ensure that we people don't get trapped in a digital dictature in the future.
but imagine that there will someday be free internet no matter where you are, the idea of exclusive online storage terrifies me
If you have full control on your data it should be ok, not very different from current situation, would be terrifying if anyone could get physically into your place and do whatever with your hard drives...
The online storage would have very good aspects for the average non geek windows user, as every year most of these people get infected with viruses, and have their OS reinstalled by someone who would not bother to recover their documents, photos ... - even when it's easily possible.
Would be great for my parents for sure. since they went digital they keep loosing their older photos... can't make them do backup regularly in picasa web album...
that will totally kill piracy and privacy, but it's the piracy i'm concerned about
lol
will keep it that short... for the moment at least
First impression: It does not just build a data base. It actually makes copies of all my photos!! After several minutes of doing so F-spot crashed.
Hi, when importing pictures, you have the option 'Do not copy to the photos folder'.
I had no problem using f-spot in #! 9.04. The default debian squeeze/ statler version (0.6.2) crashes, I might consider moving to 0.8.
Good luck for your problem. Have you had a look at f-spot FAQ or at other forums ?
ok, it started to snow here too.
thanks for the fast reaction papanominal, bobobex and other UK citizens
corenominal wrote:
^ Our garden this morning. Cool!
And a day later. Double cool!
Here in Brussels Belgium we don't have enough snow , because you British people take all of it for yourselves. Please share and let some clouds move a bit further to the east and reach us...
Hi,
I am in the process of switching from Cruncheee to Statler Alpha 2 on my eeepc 1000h. I have installed statler few months ago on a separate partition to test it, had several issues (mainly connection and skype stability) at the beginning but update after update things got sorted out by themselves. Will very soon format the disk and make a clean install, I have already backed-up everything.
There are some features from older #! that I will be missing, mainly system apps, and I am searching for suitable alternatives. These were from package gnome-system-tools which apparently brings a lot of dependencies( http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … nbox-menu/ ):
user management with users-admin
shared folders administration with shares-admin
services/daemons with services-admin -> this one is solved, I will use rcconf as alternative. (related post http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … on-if-not/ )otherwise directly tweak into rc.d (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ng-194496/)
Are there simple tools that one would recommend to replace these? Even CLI will be fine.
Then, what would you recommend for network browsing support. My experience in both cruncheee 8.10 and crunchbang 9.04 was pretty negative, could not find a stable and flexible solution (automatically showing me machines and shared folders).
minor issue: no notification appears when I use Fn keys to increase/decrease volume. Does anyone have any idea of how to solve this? For other keys like brightness things work fine.
feedback (I had left one for Alpha 1, can't remember if I did for Alpha 2) for Alpha 2 openbox 32 bits eeepc 1000H, based on the test install on a spare partition
no problem at install
acpi ok after install of eeepc-acpi-scripts package
sound, mic, webcam work fine directly
skype installs with no problemonly after running updates and calls are stable
really missing from alpha2: system monitor htop (easy to install though)
25 seconds boot time, from grub to usable desktop
did not check whether battery is happy
btw, how do you make ramdisk for /tmp?
I think the technique is explained here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/crunche … ll_tips?s\[]=fstab#purge_logfiles_at_boot
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