Back to Linux!
At the end of the last week i did some “kamikaze” (software) tests with my Windows and, of course, it went wrong 
I lost both Vista and Win7 so, i had to find my Sabayon CD to recover grub again.
As soon as i logged in i saw over 500 updates 
but loosing 2 operating systems was not enough 
Checking Sabayon website i found a new version, 4.2.
I decided to download the ISO before starting to update 500 packages because i was almost sure something will go wrong.
And it went!
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Sabayon: touchscreen tutorial.
Finally, the Sabayon Wacom (touch, stylus, eraser) tutorial.
First of all, Sabayon already have wacom kernel module included and wacom tools in repository so, i will split the tutorial in a few parts:
1. Using included driver.
2. Compile from source.
3. Configure X server.
4. OnScreen keyboard.
Posted: February 7th, 2009
at 4:33pm by Catalin
Tagged with Cellwriter, Linux, OnScreen, OnScreen Keyboard, Sabayon, Touch Screen, Touchscreen, Wacom
Categories: Linux
Comments: 1 comment
Sabayon: after 62 updates…
Last 3 weeks i didn’t have too much time to play with Linux so, i didn’t even boot in Sabayon. A few days ago i finally decided to do it and make the touchscreen to work. The first thing i saw: 62 new updates.
Well, update then
Not a good idea. In fact, when i play with distro’s like Sabayon which include the latest packages i always expect something to go wrong after a big update. This time wasn’t different.
Next step, Wacom driver (tutorial will come soon). Super, working from first attempt.
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Sabayon: scrolling && compiz.
This is not a Sabayon related problem. Probably is happening no matter what distribution is used but I will try with an Ubuntu Live just to be sure.
While looking for tutorials, tips, tricks to setup the Wacom digitizer i have to scroll a lot and every time i have huge problems. Because of scrolling, the entire system is freezing for a few seconds. This happens almost every minute and is pissing me off, really.
Watching the system load with top, i saw the Firefox and X using 100% of the CPU. After searching with google and checking tons of bug reports Read the rest of this entry »
Sabayon: grub recovery.
Two weeks ago i installed Windows 7 Beta to see why peoples have so many good words but, with this install i lost grub and i wasn’t able too boot in Linux until now.
Not that the grub recovery is hard but i didn’t have time until today.
Grub recovery is easy. Only a few steps to follow.
Sabayon: suspend and dvd
Today i tried to add a new user but users-admin did something wrong and after a reboot nothing worked and i had to reinstall.
After reinstall, Scroll, Tap and DoubleTab worked by default no idea why first time didn’t work out of the box. Anyway, i found the solution for Suspend. The problem is because of compiz so, before suspend the window manager should be changed to metacity. The second problem, after resume keyboard and touchpad don’t work (you need a usb keyboard/mouse to restart X). Sabayon is using pm-utils so, 3 files are needed.
Sabayon: touchpad scroll and tap fix
Yesterday trying to fix different bugs i found another issue:
My touchpad didn’t work as expected. No “tap“, “doubletap” and no “scrolling“.
After checking blogs and forums trying to find a fix, doing a lot of changes in xorg.conf i decided to check the synaptics manual to find the correct options and values:
cmc@atlantis ~ $ man 4 synaptics
After a few hours of testing different things i came out with a small working tutorial.
Of course, if synaptics is already installed and X is already working, this tutorial should work on any Linux distro.
Posted: January 9th, 2009
at 1:28pm by Catalin
Tagged with DoubleTap, Linux, Sabayon, Scroll, ScrollArea, Synaptics, Tap, Touchpad
Categories: Linux
Comments: 2 comments
Sabayon: little success
Not much success yesterday.
I found a nice wallpaper and successfully configured Conky:
- CPU Usage
- Processes
- RAM, Swap, HDD IO
- HDD space
- Wireless
- Battery/AC
- Sabayon world
- Weather
- Gmail
Wallpaper + Conky
I had a problem with Conky. Every time it was started manually everything was ok but when was started at login time by gnome session was always on top.
The fix: a small wrapper to start Conky after 10 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »
Sabayon: after install
Yesterday i managed to install Sabayon v4-r1 x86-64 and, as i expected, i have a lot of problems.
What worked out of the box?
- Wired network (RTL8111/8168B)
- Accelerated graphics (ATI Radeon HD 3200)
- CPU Scaling (AMD Turion X2 64, RM-70)
Posted: January 7th, 2009
at 12:33pm by Catalin
Tagged with Audio, Conky, Desktop Customization, Linux, Sabayon, Wireless
Categories: Linux
Comments: 9 comments
Linux, first day
No, no, don’t get me wrong is not my first day with Linux.
Actually i used Linux for long long time but today, is my first day with Sabayon Linux.
Maybe i’ll write a new post… “Linux: making a choice” to explain why i made this choice.
Sabayon Linux version 4 was released on 31 December 2008.
Is a Live DVD based on the source-based distro Gentoo. Read the rest of this entry »