Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
I haven't used VB but you have a custom kernel 3.7.1-gnu kernel Which apparently doesn't have that module included vboxdrv Looks like the virtualbox-dkms package provides the source code for the virtualbox kernel module to be build with dkms. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this module. So perhaps you need to compile the module?
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 6
dunno
[Trisquel-users] firefox 18
please update trisquel repos to firefox 18
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Trisquel 6 on a Thinkpad X230
I think I've seen the x230, if it's what I think it is, congrats. Probably one of the best laptops you can get. Nice to hear it is working so well with Trisquel too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card [for a Thinkpad]?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13-01-09 12:29 AM, m...@lavabit.com a écrit : I need to replace this card: http://i.imgur.com/QlFdw.jpg for an IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T42 2374-Y1Z laptop. I don't think it is compatible. Do you have the system at hand? It would be most useful if you could post its information (or even update h-node.org). I recently got an X230 and went through the same process to learn about the DRM implemented by Lenovo on their systems. The Thinkwiki page referenced at the LibrePlanet page mentioned in this thread has extensive information on that: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card If you search through that page, it seems it may be possible to remove the whitelisting restriction by hacking your BIOS (other methods are listed on that page too). Your model isn't specifically mentioned, though. In order to make a request for a modified BIOS, you may read this: http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-VERY-IMPORTANT-Bios-whitelist-removal-requests It also seems the T61 model mentioned by someone else is on that list. Every thinkpad model has a page at Thinkwiki.org. If you scroll down yours, you will see other issues/tips for your specific model. The MiniPCI DRM problems page was not linked, I've since fixed that: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T42 BTW the USB adapter sold at http://libre.thinkpenguin.com is always good to have in hand, not only for these cases. It's helped me in many other occasions testing and installing new systems too :) Cheers, Fabian - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://trisquel.magicfab.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDtiVoACgkQfUcTXFrypNWiNwCePfmyLPc+wsP0Ilw71945jItm QqwAoNyUvSALMpjw3L40fRSWggKqRLM9 =c7Jq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 on a Thinkpad X230
Thanks a lot for reporting your laptop to h-node. Contributions are highly appreciated and they benefit us all. Good job! By the way, have you tried the newest linux-libre with your laptop? I think there is this one guy here in the forums who has his own repository for the latest libre-kernel. I haven't tried it myself though. If I recall, the guy is known as jxself.
Re: [Trisquel-users] firefox 18
There is no firefox in the Trisquel's repos because firefox suggest's some non-free add-ons to the user. There might be some other small freedom issues too if I recall but I'm not sure. Anyway, we have abrowser (which is basically firefox with the freedom issues solved). It would be nice if we could have the latest version of some really important applications like abrowser in the repos.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6
Thanks everyone for the informations. for now i went for the libre kernel 3.6 and the drivers offered by https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/intel-graphics-updates I will see how that behaves. what i am wondering though, in the system-details-graphics it says: Driver: Intel Ivybridge Desktop Experience: Fallback couldn't it say something more better sounding than fallback? and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log i find [22.418] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [22.418] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa [22.418] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev so am still not sure, if the drivers are correct.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
So perhaps you need to compile the module? I've never had to compile any packages I got from Add/Remove Applications or Synaptic before. Never got those package-name-src packages, and I guess you're saying this could be like one of those? Where do I go to compile it? What command do I run? Thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6
oh, well
[Trisquel-users] Re : firefox 18
I've noticed lately that I am unable to browse some sites (my bank for instance) correctly with abrowser (v16), although it used to work fine, and it works perfectly fine with Midori or GNU IceCat (v17). I'll try to empty my cache and see if things change, but if it doesn't, then it would be another argument in favor of having an up-to-date default browser.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6
If you want GNOME Shell, install gnome-session, then pick GNOME for the desktop session when you log in (instead of GNOME Classic). I'm using GNOME Shell on Trisquel 5.5 right now. I gather it's a bit more complicated with Trisquel 6, but I haven't read the details: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/gnome-3-trisquel-6 Or, alternatively, you could install unity and choose Ubuntu to use Unity. Again, I don't know if there are any issues with that in Trisquel 6.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
With regards to the BIOS patching, I should firstly add that it is a potentially risky process and it might leave your laptop in a non-working state. This might just be a routine warning, as I don't know how often the process fails. Having said that, I did in fact patch my BIOS (IIRC: http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/459591-t61-x61-sata-ii-1-5-gb-s-cap-willing-pay-solution-8.html#post6501443) but it was for the SATA speed and not for the whitelist, although it is the same patch. I have not tested whether an alternative wireless card works, so I cannot comment on that. As mentioned, having a USB wireless adapter is useful in any case. I had to run the patch, which is specific for the 60/61-series, in Windows. Luckily (!) I had Windows Vista on the laptop when I got it. The patch was the only thing I did with it before I installed Trisquel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
Well, first find out what the package contained dpkg -L virtualbox-dkms Then make a temporary directory somewhere where you have write privileges, e.g. ~/temp and copy the source tree there. Including the subfolders and their contents. (This way you don't have to compile as root.) ( ~ means your home folder btw, that is /home/$YOURUSERNAME/) Now would be a good time to install the compiling tools sudo apt-get install build-essential Then jump to the temporary folder and follow the standard compilation protocol ./configure make sudo make install These commands can give you warnings and other kind of output which can be ignored but they can also produce an error which means the process had failed and stopped. Usually means you're missing a development package needed for compiling. Now the original modprobe command should work. It inserts the kernel module you just compiled into the running kernel. Did I manage to be confusing enough?
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME Panel is lost
As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Personally, I like my cat and have no wish to skin it, but that's beside the point. Having only temporary success with only one of the above methods, I tried something I learned in another OS (shhh!). Here's what I did: - Press CTRL+ALT+t to open a terminal - Type gnome-panel and press ENTER. - From the Panel's Main Menu, open System Settings. - From there, open Startup Applications. - Click New Item. - Name the item Panel. - Enter gnome-panel for the command. - Save the new startup item. - Close Startup Applications and System Settings. My Panel (Taskbar - shhh!) is appearing every time I boot.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6
Thank you for that suggestion! I was curious what GNOME Shell might look like. Installing on a second machine running Trisquel 5.5 gave me the GNOME desktop after installing gnome-shell and gnome-session. On the Trisquel 6 machine: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-session : Breaks: gnome-shell (= 3.0) but 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. it appears only one of the two packages can be installed at the same time. and there is no GNOME at the log-in menu selectable or offered (using GDM). but, well, i figured i'd stay with GNOME Classic anyway, as the short test on Trisquel 5.5 didn't feel comfortable to me. thanks anyway!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
Sounds relatively straightforward :) Thanks, I will try this soon (tonight at earliest) and report back with how it turns out!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
That would be: $ mkdir ~/temp; cd ~/temp $ apt-get download virtualbox-dkms $ dpkg --extract virtualbox-dkms[...] . However, there is no configure file there. I believe the virtualbox-dkms files are used when GENERATING a initramfs image or something like this. I didn't get through that stuff, but start here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=virtualbox-dkms
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
I've bought the USB wireless adapter from Think Penguin. I'm in New York so it should be here soon. I will see about updating an entry to h-node.org. I have a handy URL address I could link here,too, about my system...instead of typing it all out. I'll just need to find it. Thank you for linking the information about the BIOS. And the summary information on the DRM, lembas. I'm interested in altering this at any expense to obtain a further conversion, away from copyrights. And as long as it's environmentally conscious. Very helpful community!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
Actually, It's FCC regulations that forced IBM to Whitelist their Wireless Cards. I have a possible solution, but it involves using non-free utility once and then you can remove it once the job is done. (well, I only know of non-free utils for this, there might be free ones that I'm not aware of) Anyway, it involves hacking your Bios, my friend bought a Thinkpad T420s for his networking class and his networking card and it didn't work with certain protocols with GNU/Linux. so he bought the best wireless card he could find and it didn't work because of the whitelist, so he hacked his bios and now he uses whatever he wants. However flashing a modified bios could brick your laptop and the method I know of involves using non-free software, but if I was sure it would work, I would recommend it because your bios isn't free anyway and I would like to know if anybody here actually uses coreboot. Out of convenience and and paranoia that the process could eff up your laptop because something went wrong, I recommend the USB adapter.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
While this was initially the explanation given they have since flip flopped. The flip flop occurred because the FCC explicitly said there was no such requirement. Everything suggests a financial motive. I also want to point out that while IBM/Lenovo may have been the first company to implement this they are not the only company implementing a white list. I can confirm these restrictions are in place on at least some HP, Lenovo, IBM, Dell, and Toshiba notebooks. At this time I don't believe there to be any other manufacturers implementing such restrictions on the installable PCI/PCIe cards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
Actually, It's FCC regulations that forced IBM to Whitelist their Wireless Cards. The FCC is a sucker for big business and proprietary software. This link is an interesting read BTW (from someone who knows FCC regulation): http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/010155.html I recommend the USB adapter. +1, that seems like the better way to go.
Re: [Trisquel-users] firefox 18
I'd probably complain to the bank. Chance are they don't have any control over it... but it can't hurt. The software is likely written by a company that is then deployed by various banks. Firefox 10 is supported on at least some operating systems. There is no technical / security justification for telling users there browser is no longer supported or banning them from using these browsers.
Re: [Trisquel-users] firefox 18
It probably would and is a better solution from a free software perspective than installing Firefox. I think for most people I'd suggest just sticking with abrowser and modifying the string. There is even a plug-in to do this too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 on a Thinkpad X230
His repository works great. There are a few minor issues if you need to run virtualbox although other than that it usually works well to fix the lack of support for at least some newer hardware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
lembas, GustavoCM: Those solutions did not work for me, and doing a web search is leading me to areas that are too complicated for me to tackle. It seems my case is sufficiently atypical that the only way to (possibly) fix it would be to re-compile the kernel. Too much work. Qemu seems to work, so I think I'll try putting my efforts toward figuring out its nuances. I don't exactly need VirtualBox, just virtualization. Thanks for the help at any rate. Hopefully this thread helps somebody else with a more common setup.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems Installing/Using VirtualBox
Looks like this one is somehow automagically compiled by dkms. Perhaps if one removes the virtualbox-dkms package and installs the dkms package and then re-installs the virtualbox-dkms package the auto compile would get triggered? And then the modprobe to add the module. If not, apparently man 8 dkms should contain answers.
