Alice@Ubuntu

Splitting a GEDCOM family tree

2011-12-28T05:18:00.001-08:00

Use PAF (Personal Ancestral File), a free product of FamilySearch, to export a part of your tree.
It's a Windows software. Install through WINE.
PAF has a very good selection mechanism in exporting, and this makes it possible to split a GEDCOM Family Tree.

Workaround with TwinView

2011-11-17T03:42:00.000-08:00

FINALLY:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" "TwinView" horizontal
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 0, 18630
xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "TwinView" none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630

or, sometimes they work with the same settings... still testing... still testing...:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" "TwinView" none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "TwinView" none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630


-----------------------------Let's pretend we are surprised that the whole thing does not work if we want to rotate the display of the tablet..
So these will work for the tablet screen rotated upside down:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" twinview none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630
xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" twinview none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630

Amazing, these are the same settings :-)
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Let's pretend we are surprised when turning back, some other settings apply correctly:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" twinview none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630
xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" twinview horizontal
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630
 
:-)
this will be fun, setting it up every time differently.
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WORKAROUND:

Written here wisely:

UPDATE:  since version 0.10.11
support for TwinView and Multimonitor has been removed from the driver.
to map the tablet to only one screen use something similar to this:

xsetwacom get "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" Area
0 0 14720 9200

to map it to the left screen, double the third value and set like:
xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" Area "0 0 29440 9200"
for the right screen use the negative third value as the first:
xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" Area "-14720 0 14720 9200"


If I want to apply it for my 1024x768 Tablet PC environment with a 1024x1280 Monitor on the left side, I'll have to:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" "TwinView" horizontal

Now, for some reason xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" 0, 0, 12390, 18630 maps my tablet monitor in single view.
And it maps the complete 2048x1280 area in twin view.

In theory these numbers are: TopX, TopY, BottomX, BottomY
Where X is the horizontal and Y is the vertical value.

xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" 0, 0, 24780, 18630
this maps the 1024x1280 screen, which is to the left of the tablet monitor.

xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 0, 18630
for some reason this maps the stylus tablet area :-)

I have to map the eraser separately
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" 0, 0, 24780, 18630
this maps my eraser in singleview. (white stylus is in twinview)
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630
for some reason this maps the eraser tablet area in singleview :-)

Wacom options

2011-11-17T03:28:00.000-08:00

xsetwacom --list
xsetwacom --list --verbose
xsetwacom --list param
xsetwacom --get "[device]" all
xsetwacom set "[device]" "[option]" [parameters]

xinput list
xinput list-props [id]
xinput set-prop "[device]" "[option]" [parameters]

man wacom

gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf

Software checklist

2011-05-30T02:58:00.000-07:00

For image editing:

Gimp
ImageMagick (convert, mogrify, identify)
mkbitmap in Potrace
DjvuLibre-bin (cjb2, djvm)
PdfJam (pdfjoin)
Ubuntu's ps2pdf12
Ubuntu's pdfimages
InkScape
FontForge for fonts

For windows programs:

VirtualBox
wine

For office stuff:

OpenOffice
Gedit

For E-Books:

Sigil
Calibre
Comic2lrf

Internet tools:

Firefox with Sun Java 6 JRE plugin for comfort
Chrome for stability
FileZilla for FTP
Transmission for Bittorent
DC++
Skype
Seamonkey for HTML editing

Viewing /editing media:

Ubuntu Movie Player
Mplayer & Mencoder
SoundConverter with MP3 plugin
Ubuntu Sound Recorder

Burning DVDs, CDs:

System configurations:

Terminal
Gedit
Nautilus Scripts

File manipulations:

Nautilus
MuCommander
RSync

Tablet tools:

Xournal
Cellwriter
OnBoard

NOTE: Making movies from image files using mencoder / ffmpeg

2011-04-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

Here's a site. It describes something I wanted to do / did half a year ago but made no blog-post of it.

What I originally wanted to do was to have a single image as a video, and put some music to it and post it on youtube.

I somehow managed it, but I have no idea anymore how.
And I also found mp3tube, so I don't really need this anymore, if I don't care to have a special picture for my music.

Mplayer is too quiet

2011-04-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

Actually my problem was only, that MPlayer's own volume wasn't turned up.
Key 9 and 0 are used for volume - and + on your keyboard.

However, here's the manual on MPlayer volume adjustment.

MPlayer error messages

2011-04-22T08:29:00.001-07:00

I get this when I open anything in MPlayer:

bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing Movie.mp4.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [avc1]  800x440  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.

To get rid of all of this, do the following:
1.)Turn bluetooth on.
2.) Disable LIRC support.: ~$ sudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and add the line: nolirc=yes
3.) Define X11 as default video output: in ~$ sudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf search for the line: # vo=xv,x11 -> uncomment (remove # from the beginning of the line), change to vo=x11, or whatever is the best.

Editing, manipulating Subtitles

2011-04-21T03:39:00.000-07:00

I used Subtitle Processor under Windows XP.

Under Ubuntu:
1.) Subtitle Editor (from Synaptic): something is wrong with the input methods and I cannot type in anything, and I don't like the environment either, so Subtitle Editor is DROPPED.

2.) AegiSub: nope, it didn't play the sounds, and I didn't like the environment.

3.) Gnome Subtitles: LIKE :-) Can do shifting easily.

DVD ripping with MEncoder

2011-04-20T07:12:00.000-07:00

From where I learned:
MEncoder DVD to MPEG-4
Making a high quality MPEG-4 (divx) rip of a DVD movie (mplayerhq manual)
HOWTO: rip DVDs in MPEG-4 (ubuntuforums)

And this turned out to be the most useful:
SimpleRip: Ripping / Encoding DVD-s to Xvid with MEncoder

An automated way should be AcidRip, but it somehow got the code messed-up, when shell-script exported, and I had to correct it manually. What I learned from it is how to handle frameno.avi and divx2pass.log:

#!/bin/sh
echo "***********************************************************"
echo "Automated script created by AcidRip - http://acidrip.sf.net"
echo "***********************************************************"

unlink frameno.avi 2> /dev/null
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd  -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=740:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=3:vpass=1 -vf crop=672:432:24:22    -o "/dev/null"
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd  -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=740:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=3:vpass=2 -vf crop=672:432:24:22    -o "/home/user/movie.avi"
unlink divx2pass.log  2> /dev/null

As for the subtitle (.idx + .sub = VOBSUB format):
I want to convert them to SRT.
--> I used AVIDEMUX (downloaded from Synaptic) It worked fine.

DVD Burning

2011-04-19T07:09:00.000-07:00

I plugged in my NEC AD-7201A (manufactured in April 2008) DVD writer drive via USB with the intent to burn a lot of DVD data disks.

1.) I tried Gnome's own burner software, but it's not really working anyway (It's stuck at "starting to record, after finishing a complete simulation), so I downloaded k3b.

2.) k3b seems to work fine. And it's very similar to Nero, which I used previously.

How to install Windows XP from a pendrive?

2011-03-17T11:26:00.000-07:00

Use FlashBoot!

Total Commander alternative for Ubuntu

2011-03-17T11:22:00.001-07:00

1.) DoubleCommander -> it has all the functions (incl. tabs), but it froze down on me repeatedly -> dropped.

2.) muCommander -> it's java based and has no tabs, but it worked fine for file manipulations. -> keep.

Flash Plugin is crashing constantly

2011-03-17T03:34:00.001-07:00

The newest version of Adobe Flash Plugin crashes every other time.
I solved this by using an older version which I found in my Jaunty installation folder.
Here it is - a 2009-11-14 version of Flash Plugin.

Now testing version 10.3.181.14.

Sorting out input devices 5.

2011-03-17T02:10:00.000-07:00

For a temporary solution, here are the codes to turn the WACOM device on and off:

~$ xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Device Enabled" 0
~$ xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Device Enabled" 1

0 in for turning it off and 1 is for turning it on.

EDIT:
in my case, when turning on the Wacom device, screen dimensions are off, so I had to add an extra line to the nautilus script:
~$ xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "325" 0, 0, 24780, 18630

or

~$ xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" 0, 0, 24780, 18630

Sorting out input devices 4.

2011-03-11T05:45:00.000-08:00

As I wrote in the previous post, the pen tip cursor started jumping.
This time I did not only separate the Eraser into a new cursor, but I did it with the Pen too, so now there are 3 cursors on my desktop, and I'm waiting for one of them to jump.

xinput create-master Second sleep 1&&xinput reattach "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Second pointer" xinput create-master Third sleep 1&&xinput reattach "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Third pointer"

This is the latest xinput -list

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
⎡ Second pointer id=15 [master pointer (16)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=12 [slave pointer (15)]
⎜ ↳ Second XTEST pointer id=17 [slave pointer (15)]
⎣ Second keyboard id=16 [master keyboard (15)]
↳ Second XTEST keyboard id=18 [slave keyboard (16)]
⎡ Third pointer id=19 [master pointer (20)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet id=13 [slave pointer (19)]
⎜ ↳ Third XTEST pointer id=21 [slave pointer (19)]
⎣ Third keyboard id=20 [master keyboard (19)]
↳ Third XTEST keyboard id=22 [slave keyboard (20)]

Some more information:
~$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'Serial Wacom Tablet eraser':
Device Enabled (154): 1
Device Accel Profile (273): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (274): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (276): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (277): 10.000000
Wacom Tablet Area (339): 0, 0, 24780, 18630
Wacom Rotation (340): 0
Wacom Pressurecurve (341): 0, 0, 100, 100
Wacom Serial IDs (342): 144, 0, 10, 0
Wacom TwinView Resolution (343): 0, 0, 0, 0
Wacom Display Options (344): -1, 0, 1
Wacom Screen Area (345): 0, 0, 1024, 768
Wacom Proximity Threshold (346): 0
Wacom Capacity (347): -1
Wacom Pressure Threshold (348): 7
Wacom Sample and Suppress (349): 2, 4
Wacom Enable Touch (350): 0
Wacom Hover Click (351): 0
Wacom Tool Type (352): "ERASER" (332)
Wacom Button Actions (353): "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0)

~$ xinput list-props 13
Device 'Serial Wacom Tablet':
Device Enabled (154): 1
Device Accel Profile (273): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (274): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (276): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (277): 10.000000
Wacom Tablet Area (339): 0, 0, 24780, 18630
Wacom Rotation (340): 0
Wacom Pressurecurve (341): 0, 0, 100, 100
Wacom Serial IDs (342): 144, 0, 2, 0
Wacom TwinView Resolution (343): 0, 0, 0, 0
Wacom Display Options (344): -1, 0, 1
Wacom Screen Area (345): 0, 0, 1024, 768
Wacom Proximity Threshold (346): 0
Wacom Capacity (347): -1
Wacom Pressure Threshold (348): 7
Wacom Sample and Suppress (349): 2, 4
Wacom Enable Touch (350): 0
Wacom Hover Click (351): 0
Wacom Tool Type (352): "STYLUS" (354)
Wacom Button Actions (353): "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0)

And some more:

Serial Wacom Tablet Stylus	Serial Wacom Tablet Stylus	Serial Wacom Tablet Stylus	Serial Wacom Tablet Stylus	Serial Wacom Tablet Eraser	Serial Wacom Tablet Eraser	Serial Wacom Tablet Eraser	Serial Wacom Tablet Eraser
TopX	0	- Bounding rect left coordinate in tablet units.		TopX	0	- Bounding rect left coordinate in tablet units.
TopY	0	- Bounding rect top coordinate in tablet units .		TopY	0	- Bounding rect top coordinate in tablet units .
BottomX	24780	- Bounding rect right coordinate in tablet units.		BottomX	24780	- Bounding rect right coordinate in tablet units.
BottomY	18630	- Bounding rect bottom coordinate in tablet units.		BottomY	18630	- Bounding rect bottom coordinate in tablet units.
Button1	1	- X11 event to which button 1 should be mapped.		Button1	1	- X11 event to which button 1 should be mapped.
Button2	3	- X11 event to which button 2 should be mapped.		Button2	2	- X11 event to which button 2 should be mapped.
Button3	2	- X11 event to which button 3 should be mapped.		Button3	3	- X11 event to which button 3 should be mapped.
Button4	4	- X11 event to which button 4 should be mapped.		Button4	4	- X11 event to which button 4 should be mapped.
Button5	5	- X11 event to which button 5 should be mapped.		Button5	5	- X11 event to which button 5 should be mapped.
Button6	6	- X11 event to which button 6 should be mapped.		Button6	6	- X11 event to which button 6 should be mapped.
Button7	7	- X11 event to which button 7 should be mapped.		Button7	7	- X11 event to which button 7 should be mapped.
Button8	8	- X11 event to which button 8 should be mapped.		Button8	8	- X11 event to which button 8 should be mapped.
Button9	9	- X11 event to which button 9 should be mapped.		Button9	9	- X11 event to which button 9 should be mapped.
Button10	10	- X11 event to which button 10 should be mapped.		Button10	10	- X11 event to which button 10 should be mapped.
Button11	11	- X11 event to which button 11 should be mapped.		Button11	11	- X11 event to which button 11 should be mapped.
Button12	12	- X11 event to which button 12 should be mapped.		Button12	12	- X11 event to which button 12 should be mapped.
Button13	13	- X11 event to which button 13 should be mapped.		Button13	13	- X11 event to which button 13 should be mapped.
Button14	14	- X11 event to which button 14 should be mapped.		Button14	14	- X11 event to which button 14 should be mapped.
Button15	15	- X11 event to which button 15 should be mapped.		Button15	15	- X11 event to which button 15 should be mapped.
Button16	16	- X11 event to which button 16 should be mapped.		Button16	16	- X11 event to which button 16 should be mapped.
Button17	17	- X11 event to which button 17 should be mapped.		Button17	17	- X11 event to which button 17 should be mapped.
Button18	18	- X11 event to which button 18 should be mapped.		Button18	18	- X11 event to which button 18 should be mapped.
Button19	19	- X11 event to which button 19 should be mapped.		Button19	19	- X11 event to which button 19 should be mapped.
Button20	20	- X11 event to which button 20 should be mapped.		Button20	20	- X11 event to which button 20 should be mapped.
Button21	21	- X11 event to which button 21 should be mapped.		Button21	21	- X11 event to which button 21 should be mapped.
Button22	22	- X11 event to which button 22 should be mapped.		Button22	22	- X11 event to which button 22 should be mapped.
Button23	23	- X11 event to which button 23 should be mapped.		Button23	23	- X11 event to which button 23 should be mapped.
Button24	24	- X11 event to which button 24 should be mapped.		Button24	24	- X11 event to which button 24 should be mapped.
Button25	25	- X11 event to which button 25 should be mapped.		Button25	25	- X11 event to which button 25 should be mapped.
Button26	26	- X11 event to which button 26 should be mapped.		Button26	26	- X11 event to which button 26 should be mapped.
Button27	27	- X11 event to which button 27 should be mapped.		Button27	27	- X11 event to which button 27 should be mapped.
Button28	28	- X11 event to which button 28 should be mapped.		Button28	28	- X11 event to which button 28 should be mapped.
Button29	29	- X11 event to which button 29 should be mapped.		Button29	29	- X11 event to which button 29 should be mapped.
Button30	30	- X11 event to which button 30 should be mapped.		Button30	30	- X11 event to which button 30 should be mapped.
Button31	31	- X11 event to which button 31 should be mapped.		Button31	31	- X11 event to which button 31 should be mapped.
Button32	32	- X11 event to which button 32 should be mapped.		Button32	32	- X11 event to which button 32 should be mapped.
DebugLevel	Property for 'DebugLevel' not available.	- Level of debugging trace for individual devices, default is 0 (off).		DebugLevel	Property for 'DebugLevel' not available.	- Level of debugging trace for individual devices, default is 0 (off).
CommonDBG	Property for 'CommonDBG' not available.	- Level of debugging statements applied to all devices associated with the same tablet. default is 0 (off).		CommonDBG	Property for 'CommonDBG' not available.	- Level of debugging statements applied to all devices associated with the same tablet. default is 0 (off).
Suppress	4	- Number of points trimmed, default is 2.		Suppress	4	- Number of points trimmed, default is 2.
RawSample	2	- Number of raw data used to filter the points, default is 4.		RawSample	2	- Number of raw data used to filter the points, default is 4.
Screen_No	255	- Sets/gets screen number the tablet is mapped to, default is -1.		Screen_No	255	- Sets/gets screen number the tablet is mapped to, default is -1.
PressCurve	0 0 100 100	- Bezier curve for pressure (default is 0 0 100 100).		PressCurve	0 0 100 100	- Bezier curve for pressure (default is 0 0 100 100).
TwinView	none	- Sets the mapping to TwinView horizontal/vertical/none. Values = none, vertical, horizontal (default is none).		TwinView	none	- Sets the mapping to TwinView horizontal/vertical/none. Values = none, vertical, horizontal (default is none).
Mode	Absolute	- Switches cursor movement mode (default is absolute/on).		Mode	Absolute	- Switches cursor movement mode (default is absolute/on).
TPCButton	off	- Turns on/off Tablet PC buttons. default is off for regular tablets, on for Tablet PC.		TPCButton	off	- Turns on/off Tablet PC buttons. default is off for regular tablets, on for Tablet PC.
Touch	off	- Turns on/off Touch events (default is enable/on).		Touch	off	- Turns on/off Touch events (default is enable/on).
Capacity	-1	- Touch sensitivity level (default is 3, -1 for none capacitive tools).		Capacity	-1	- Touch sensitivity level (default is 3, -1 for none capacitive tools).
CursorProx	0	- Sets cursor distance for proximity-out in distance from the tablet.	(default is 10 for Intuos series, 42 for Graphire series).	CursorProx	0	- Sets cursor distance for proximity-out in distance from the tablet.	(default is 10 for Intuos series, 42 for Graphire series).
Rotate	NONE	- Sets the rotation of the tablet. Values = NONE, CW, CCW, HALF (default is NONE).		Rotate	NONE	- Sets the rotation of the tablet. Values = NONE, CW, CCW, HALF (default is NONE).
RelWUp	Property for 'RelWUp' not available.	- X11 event to which relative wheel up should be mapped.		RelWUp	Property for 'RelWUp' not available.	- X11 event to which relative wheel up should be mapped.
RelWDn	Property for 'RelWDn' not available.	- X11 event to which relative wheel down should be mapped.		RelWDn	Property for 'RelWDn' not available.	- X11 event to which relative wheel down should be mapped.
AbsWUp	Property for 'AbsWUp' not available.	- X11 event to which absolute wheel up should be mapped.		AbsWUp	Property for 'AbsWUp' not available.	- X11 event to which absolute wheel up should be mapped.
AbsWDn	Property for 'AbsWDn' not available.	- X11 event to which absolute wheel down should be mapped.		AbsWDn	Property for 'AbsWDn' not available.	- X11 event to which absolute wheel down should be mapped.
StripLUp	Property for 'StripLUp' not available.	- X11 event to which left strip up should be mapped.		StripLUp	Property for 'StripLUp' not available.	- X11 event to which left strip up should be mapped.
StripLDn	Property for 'StripLDn' not available.	- X11 event to which left strip down should be mapped.		StripLDn	Property for 'StripLDn' not available.	- X11 event to which left strip down should be mapped.
StripRUp	Property for 'StripRUp' not available.	- X11 event to which right strip up should be mapped.		StripRUp	Property for 'StripRUp' not available.	- X11 event to which right strip up should be mapped.
StripRDn	Property for 'StripRDn' not available.	- X11 event to which right strip down should be mapped.		StripRDn	Property for 'StripRDn' not available.	- X11 event to which right strip down should be mapped.
TVResolution0	0	- Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 0.		TVResolution0	0	- Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 0.
TVResolution1	0	- Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 1.		TVResolution1	0	- Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 1.
RawFilter	on	- Enables and disables filtering of raw data, default is true/on.		RawFilter	on	- Enables and disables filtering of raw data, default is true/on.
ClickForce	7	- Sets tip/eraser pressure threshold = ClickForce*MaxZ/100 (default is 6)		ClickForce	7	- Sets tip/eraser pressure threshold = ClickForce*MaxZ/100 (default is 6)
xyDefault	0	- Resets the bounding coordinates to default in tablet units.		xyDefault	0	- Resets the bounding coordinates to default in tablet units.
mmonitor	1	- Turns on/off across monitor movement in multi-monitor desktop, default is on		mmonitor	1	- Turns on/off across monitor movement in multi-monitor desktop, default is on
STopX0	0	- Screen 0 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX0	0	- Screen 0 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY0	0	- Screen 0 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY0	0	- Screen 0 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX0	1024	- Screen 0 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX0	1024	- Screen 0 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY0	768	- Screen 0 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY0	768	- Screen 0 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 1 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 2 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 3 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 4 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 5 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 6 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 left coordinate in pixels.		STopX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 top coordinate in pixels.		STopY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 right coordinate in pixels.		SBottomX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 bottom coordinate in pixels.		SBottomY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	- Screen 7 bottom coordinate in pixels.
ToolID	354	- Returns the ID of the associated device.		ToolID	332	- Returns the ID of the associated device.
ToolSerial	0	- Returns the serial number of the associated device.		ToolSerial	0	- Returns the serial number of the associated device.
TabletID	144	- Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.		TabletID	144	- Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.
GetTabletID	144	- Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.		GetTabletID	144	- Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.
NumScreen	Not implemented.	- Returns number of screens configured for the desktop.	[not implemented]	NumScreen	Not implemented.	- Returns number of screens configured for the desktop.	[not implemented]
XScaling	Not implemented.	- Returns the status of XSCALING is set or not.	[not implemented]	XScaling	Not implemented.	- Returns the status of XSCALING is set or not.	[not implemented]
all		- Get value for all parameters.		all		- Get value for all parameters.

What to do with a write-protected USB filesystem?

2011-03-11T05:33:00.001-08:00

My MP3-Player mounts write-protected on Ubuntu (since Gutsy).

Here's what works for me most of the time:

1.) Insert your USB Mp3-player to an USB slot, let it mount automatically.
2.) Check the System Monitor -> File Systems for the proper /dev address of your device (In my case this is /dev/sdc1)
3.) Open a normal Nautilus window and press the Eject button next to the usb device, which causes the device to unmount but stay in the system: If you open your "Computer" location from "Places", you'll see your device is still there.
4.) Open a root Nautilus:
~$ sudo nautilus
5.) Create a directory in your /media folder that will be your mount point for your player (I named mine "player")
6.) Mount your mp3-player with root access to the desired mount point:
~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/player
7.) Now you can manage your files in the root Nautilus as you like.

Cursor jumping around #2

2011-03-11T05:04:00.000-08:00

Unlucky me...
I got my TC4400 back from the Service with a whole new screen and motherboard, and now - unlucky me... - the pen tip is the one causing the cursor jump and NOT the eraser as before. I was quite fine with not having an eraser as it solved my problems completely, but I'm pretty unsatisfied with not being able to use the pen tip, so I guess I'll have to do a big workaround and hope for the best.

As for differences, now the cursor jumps when it's caught by the pen too.

Restore Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combination to restart X-windows

2011-03-11T04:06:00.000-08:00

Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap

Using GNOME

* Get to the System->Preferences->Keyboard menu.

* Select the "Layouts" tab and click on the "Layout Options" button.

* Then select "Key sequence to kill the X server" and enable "Control + Alt + Backspace".

If this doesn't work (e.g. the option is unchecked but the key sequence still works), you can edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

The DontZap option in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file enables or disables the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE shortcut to restart the X-server. In previous Ubuntu releases, this shortcut was enabled by default, however this has changed with 9.04 "Jaunty", as a number of users have complained about accidentally restarting their X-Server, which results in a sudden, unexpected logout which brings to the logon screen.

You can install the dontzap package and use the command dontzap --disable, or you can manually edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then type your password, press enter, and use the simple text editor to add a ServerFlags section like this to the start, end, or middle of the file (Ctrl+O to save file):

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

And then restart the Computer (or log out and back in) to apply the changes. The shortcut should be re-enabled now.

If you want to disable the shortcut, either delete the section (in Jaunty) or change it to this or add this:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "true"
EndSection

And then restart the Computer (or log out and back in) to apply the changes. The shortcut should be disabled now.

Fix Firefox backspace to take you to the previous page

2011-03-10T04:34:00.000-08:00

Source: http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/21/fix-firefox-backspace-to-take-you-to-the-previous-page/

Type “about:config” in the address bar of Firefox and press Enter.
`Filter` (Ctrl+F) for ‘browser.backspace_action’ and change its value to 0 (zero).

Ubuntu 10.04.1

2011-03-09T06:19:00.000-08:00

After getting a whole new motherboard and screen for Alice, I installed a fresh copy of Lucid Lynx. So here's what has to be done to restore her old self:

- Change the MAC address for the registered one
- Java for Firefox
- Xournal, Gimp
- RSYNC the stuff back
- Nautilus Scripts
- Firefox Preferences, etc.
- Gnome themes, background, etc.

This time I installed a Total Commander like program called DoubleCommander. I'll see where I'll get with it.

Change networking hwaddress under Mac OS X

2011-03-01T04:10:00.000-08:00

to be able to use sudo:

$ su MYUSER

to see detailed networking information:

$ ifconfig

to change ethernet hardwer address:

$ sudo ifconfig en0 ether MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS

SED in text editing.

2011-01-06T12:15:00.001-08:00

Sorry guys for the comments are in Hungarian language, but it was so complicated and I spent the whole day doing it.

The project was about: matching two lines within a file, withing a single text file. Actually, it was matching the beginning of following two lines and comparing them. It was a dictionary having separate lines for all the meanings and the point was to put all the meanings in a single line.

# szótárunkban minden szócikk minden jelentése külön sorban volt.
# egy szócikk és egy jelentés kettő darab space karakterrel volt szeparálva, sehol máshol nem volt két space a fájlban.
# feladatunk, hogy egy szócikk összes jelentését egy sorba tegyük, pontosvesszővel elválasztva.
# ez végül így sikerült:
# sed -n 'x; s/\(.*\n\)\(.*$\)/\2/; G; s/\(.*  \)\(.*\)\n\1\(.*\)/\1\2\; \3/; h; s/\(.*\n\)\(.*$\)\|\(^.*\)\(; .*$\)/\2\4/w output.txt' input.txt
# mindezek után még ki kellett törölni a felesleges sortöréseket geditben.
# a parancsok kifejtése alább.

sed -n ' # csendes üzemmód.
x; # a pattern-space-be behívott sort felcseréli a hold space-szel
s/\(.*\n\)\(.*$\)/\2/; # az előző cycle-ből megmaradt hold-space-es anyagból leszedi az első sort, ha van, ha nincs, nem csinál semmit.
G; # hozzáírja a most hold-sp-ben levő új sort a most pattern-sp-ben levő régihez egy sortörés után
s/\(.*  \)\(.*\)\n\1\(.*\)/\1\2\; \3/; # ha a p-sp-ben levő 2 sor eleje karakterre megyegyezik, akkor a második sorból törli a szócikket és hozzávezeti a jelentéseket az első sorhoz egy pontosvessző és egy space kíséretében. ha nem egyezik meg, akkor marad a 2 sor, nincs törlés.
h; # felülírja a h-space-t az új 1 vagy 2 sorunkkal.
s/\(.*\n\)\(.*$\)\|\(^.*\)\(; .*$\)/\2\4/w output.txt # ha két sor van, a másodikat, ha egy sor van, az utolsó szót pontosvesszűstül és szpészestül belevezeti a megadott text fileban egy új sorba.
' input.txt # ezt a fájlt dolgozzuk fel.

The SED MANUAL was a huge help, thank you!

OGM to AVI with hardcoded subtitles

2010-11-18T07:54:00.000-08:00

I was trying to hardcode a subtitle while "-ovc copy". How silly of me. It is only possible to hardcode a subtitle if mencoder has to process the video file frame by frame, as it modifies the pictures when hardcoding.

For whatever reason MEncoder didn't want to work for me recoding a Vorbis audio stream to mp3 with Lame, so two steps were added in between.

#1. Demuxing OGM to separate stream-files
ogmdemux input.ogm

#2. Converting audio track to mp3
soundconverter -b -m audio/mpeg -s .mp3 input.ogm-a1.ogg

#3. Muxing video, audio and subtitle into an avi

mencoder input.ogm-v1.avi -o output.avi -audiofile input.ogm-a1.mp3 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -sub input.ogm-t1.str

#1-3. Of course at the end I managed to do steps 1-3 in a single step:

mencoder input.ogm -aid 1 -sub input.srt -o output.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

I guess to achieve the all inclusive #1-3, I had to install some stuff and make mplayer for myself...
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libmp3lame-dev libfontconfig1-dev libexpat1-dev ogmtools
./configure --enable-theora --enable-libdv --enable-mp3lame --enable-mp3lame-lavc --enable-mp3lib --enable-debug
But of course I don't know what exactly did the trick.

For a better quality it's possible to use extra options, like -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=5000:mbd=2:trell
To get needed value of vbitrate do a mencoder -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac copy input.avi and read your value in the terminal window.

Sources:
Gentoo Forums
MemoryLeak

ImageMagick BMP compression

2010-11-14T06:09:00.000-08:00

To make uncompressed BMP files, or to decompress BMP files in ImageMagick, use the -compress none option.

To make less then 24-bit BMP files in ImageMagick, use the -colors 256 option, which would make a 8-bit BMP file.

Use these settings to be able to import scores into Neuratron PhotoScore.

image to pdf

2010-11-13T00:55:00.000-08:00

I really can't handle ImageMagick when it comes to pdf files. It creates such huge files they are completely useless.

I tried out another way: pbm -> ps -> pdf:

first I ImageMagick convert pbm-s:
mogrify -format ps -density 300x300 *.pbm
then put them into ps2pdf:

#!/bin/bash
lista=(`find -iname '*.ps' | sort`)
for i in "${lista[@]}"
do
ps2pdf -r300 -g1880x2688 $i $i.pdf
done

and bind them:
pdfjoin *.pdf --outfile output.pdf

It worked brilliantly. This way my pdf is 8 times smaller then my original pdf, and it's only 1.5 times bigger then the djvu I made from the same images.

Djvu was made directly from pbm files, converted with cjb2 and binded with djvm. No special option was used.

Image INFO through ImageMagick

2010-11-07T01:46:00.000-07:00

identify -verbose image.jpg

To get only what you want to see you can use GREP like this:

identify -verbose image.ps | egrep "Resolution|Geometry"

This will return you the lines with Resolution and Geometry. Just what I need to make good compressed pdf files with ps2pdf.

Working in Imagemagick

2010-10-27T02:42:00.000-07:00

Clearing margin area

I'm working on a scanned text page, that needs a cleanup on the margins.
the original image size is 2736x3928 and it's a pbm file.
~$ convert orig.pbm -crop 2320x3928+120+0 crop.pbm
this cuts down 120 pixels from the left side, and 2736-120-2320=296 pixels from the right side.
~$ convert crop.pbm -bordercolor white -border 296x0 -gravity none -crop 2736x3928+176+0 back.pbm
this puts back the cut-down border in the color white. (first we add a 296 pixel wide border to both sides, which makes our image 296+296+2320=2912 wide. we only need the 296 border on the right side, so we crop the one on the left to be 120 px with 296-120=176 pixels. check: 2912-176=2736 we counted right.)

You have to do this 2 step separately. You can use mogrify instead of convert to edit multiple files, but ALWAYS make a backup copy of your files before using mogrify!

That's it. Enjoy.

Still on my to-do list

2010-10-06T08:16:00.000-07:00

The only serious problem remains the Eraser jumping around.
I already reported this bug, and I don't seem to be alone with it. You can find out more about it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-wacom/+bug/588435

I want the scroller back! (Success!)

2010-10-06T02:51:00.000-07:00

The TC4400 has a jog dial for pgup/pgdn on the side of the screen. The last time it worked out of the box was (when I used it) Gutsy Gibbon.
Recently I tried it, and it works in Hardy Heron also, where the wacom stuff doesn't work o-o-t-b.

Today I had to skip a class to get back my scroller, but at least it payed off. It was a lot easier than I thought. My bad luck was that I'm just a windows-user and not a linux-guru.
Here's how it works:

xev - "print contents of X events" - is the command to check, which button moves which key. The jog dial wasn't recognized in xev.

dmesg - "print or control the kernel ring buffer" showed me what is happening behind the screens.

It said:

[ 218.438785] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x87 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 218.438791] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e007 ' to make it known.
[ 218.479875] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x87 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 218.479881] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e007 ' to make it known.
[ 218.819908] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x86 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 218.819915] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e006 ' to make it known.
[ 219.041670] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x86 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 219.041678] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e006 ' to make it known.

for moving the jog dial "up" and "down" ways.

As for setkeycodes it wasn't so trivial. The "keycodes" doesn't match any keycode that xev gives back, so I tried from 1 to 109 until I found the keys I was looking for. (104: Prior; 109: Next)

In the end, for me the following command solved the problem:

sudo setkeycodes e006 104
sudo setkeycodes e007 109

I don't know if this affected my success, but I did a

sudo modprobe hp-wmi

and I left it like that. I wanted to get the 'sudo modprobe tc1100-wmi' work, but I couldn't, and that's how I accidentally found real soultion.

By the way these were the keycodes for moving:
102: Home
103: Up
104: Prior
105: Left
106: Right
107: End
108: Down
109: Next

To make the changes permanent you'll have to add the setkeycodes lines without the sudo to the /etc/rc.local before the "exit 0".

Sorting out input devices 3.

2010-06-08T23:08:00.001-07:00

Okay, so the cursor jumped again after the last changes.
I changed the /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf like this:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/ttyS0"
Driver "wacom"
# Option "Device""/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Button2" "3"
# Option "Button3" "4"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/ttyS0"
Driver "wacom"
# Option "Device""/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

and now the system doesn't recognize the eraser. (this wasn't intended)
However, the jumping never happened ever since, and that was already about a week ago.

What in hell is happening?

2010-06-08T23:05:00.001-07:00

Ununtu takes up almost 5 GB on my hard drive, and every "Important Security Update" seems to be more than 50MB! What in hell happened?!? Ubuntu used to take up 3.5 GB, even after several updates of even after updating to a newer version. And suddenly, the 6 GB space I dedicated to it will not be enough!

Sorting out input devices 2.

2010-06-01T02:31:00.000-07:00

I didn't experience the cursor jumping jet today.
What I did today was

~$ sudo gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf

now it looks like:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/ttyS0"
Driver "wacom"
# Option "Device""/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Button2" "3"
# Option "Button3" "4"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/ttyS0"
Driver "wacom"
# Option "Device""/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

And works just right. We'll see what's gonna happen with the jumping.
What I basically did here was to add eraser and add proper device path, and remove unnecessary entries, like the one for supporting touch, and another one, which I don't know what it was for.

I didn't try removing the #-s jet. I jus put them in in case I want to adjust the file further to match what xorg.conf used to be before Lucid.

Sorting out input devices

2010-05-31T04:24:00.000-07:00

The general problem is:
The cursor jumps around and clicks on things. As described here.
This post is dedicated to cornering and trying to solve the problem.

~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]

1st try: I've got the idea from a forum saying that there's a wrong mouse or 2 mouse installed.
so I
- removed xserver-xorg-input-all, xserver-xorg-input-mouse, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
- rebooted
- experienced no cursor jumping so far. we'll see how it comes up in the future.
No, 1st try didn't help.

2nd try: I made a new xinput master like this, and attached the touchpad to it. Now I have 2 cursors on the screen.
- the cursor for the original master is jumping, the new one is not.
- I reattached a keyboard too (id=9), but after a minute it stopped working, and I ended up with no keyboard. My luck was thet the changes were not permanent.
- I reattached the mouse again, and the old one is still jumping, but the new one is not.
This starts to be interesting :-)
- the second cursor doesn't catch my clicks these times: I want to click on a button twice. First I have to move away from the button, and then I can click it again, but otherwise not.

3rd try. I reattach the pen to the second master pointer.
- it's the PEN that's jumping.
I reattach first the pen, then the eraser only to the second pointer
- it's the ERASER that's jumping!!
I'm one step forward!

This is my eraser:
~$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'Serial Wacom Tablet eraser':
Device Enabled (154): 1
Device Accel Profile (273): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (274): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (276): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (277): 10.000000
Wacom Tablet Area (339): 0, 0, 24780, 18630
Wacom Rotation (340): 0
Wacom Pressurecurve (341): 0, 0, 100, 100
Wacom Serial IDs (342): 144, 0, 10, 0
Wacom TwinView Resolution (343): 0, 0, 0, 0
Wacom Display Options (344): -1, 0, 1
Wacom Screen Area (345): 0, 0, 1024, 768
Wacom Proximity Threshold (346): 0
Wacom Capacity (347): -1
Wacom Pressure Threshold (348): 7
Wacom Sample and Suppress (349): 2, 4
Wacom Enable Touch (350): 0
Wacom Hover Click (351): 0
Wacom Tool Type (352): "ERASER" (332)
Wacom Button Actions (353): "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0), "None" (0)

4th try: disable eraser.
~$ xinput set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Device Enabled" 0
- disables whole pen.

Setting the eraser to another master pointer slowly becomes a routine, so here it goes:
~$ xinput create-master Second
~$ sleep 1&&xinput reattach "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Second pointer"

~$ xsetwacom --list
Serial Wacom Tablet eraser ERASER
Serial Wacom Tablet STYLUS

~$ xsetwacom --list param
~$ xsetwacom --get "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" all

TopX	0	Bounding rect left coordinate in tablet units.
TopY	0	Bounding rect top coordinate in tablet units .
BottomX	24780	Bounding rect right coordinate in tablet units.
BottomY	18630	Bounding rect bottom coordinate in tablet units.
Button1	1	X11 event to which button 1 should be mapped.
Button2	2	X11 event to which button 2 should be mapped.
Button3	3	X11 event to which button 3 should be mapped.
Button4	4	X11 event to which button 4 should be mapped.
Button5	5	X11 event to which button 5 should be mapped.
Button6	6	X11 event to which button 6 should be mapped.
Button7	7	X11 event to which button 7 should be mapped.
Button8	8	X11 event to which button 8 should be mapped.
Button9	9	X11 event to which button 9 should be mapped.
Button10	10	X11 event to which button 10 should be mapped.
Button11	11	X11 event to which button 11 should be mapped.
Button12	12	X11 event to which button 12 should be mapped.
Button13	13	X11 event to which button 13 should be mapped.
Button14	14	X11 event to which button 14 should be mapped.
Button15	15	X11 event to which button 15 should be mapped.
Button16	16	X11 event to which button 16 should be mapped.
Button17	17	X11 event to which button 17 should be mapped.
Button18	18	X11 event to which button 18 should be mapped.
Button19	19	X11 event to which button 19 should be mapped.
Button20	20	X11 event to which button 20 should be mapped.
Button21	21	X11 event to which button 21 should be mapped.
Button22	22	X11 event to which button 22 should be mapped.
Button23	23	X11 event to which button 23 should be mapped.
Button24	24	X11 event to which button 24 should be mapped.
Button25	25	X11 event to which button 25 should be mapped.
Button26	26	X11 event to which button 26 should be mapped.
Button27	27	X11 event to which button 27 should be mapped.
Button28	28	X11 event to which button 28 should be mapped.
Button29	29	X11 event to which button 29 should be mapped.
Button30	30	X11 event to which button 30 should be mapped.
Button31	31	X11 event to which button 31 should be mapped.
Button32	32	X11 event to which button 32 should be mapped.
DebugLevel	Property for 'DebugLevel' not available.	Level of debugging trace for individual devices, default is 0 (off).
CommonDBG	Property for 'CommonDBG' not available.	Level of debugging statements applied to all devices associated with the same tablet. default is 0 (off).
Suppress	4	Number of points trimmed, default is 2.
RawSample	2	Number of raw data used to filter the points, default is 4.
Screen_No	255	Sets/gets screen number the tablet is mapped to, default is - 1.
PressCurve	0 0 100 100	Bezier curve for pressure (default is 0 0 100 100).
TwinView	none	Sets the mapping to TwinView horizontal/vertical/none. Values = none, vertical, horizontal (default is none).
Mode	Absolute	Switches cursor movement mode (default is absolute/on).
TPCButton	off	Turns on/off Tablet PC buttons. default is off for regular tablets, on for Tablet PC.
Touch	off	Turns on/off Touch events (default is enable/on).
Capacity	-1	Touch sensitivity level (default is 3,
CursorProx	0	Sets cursor distance for proximity
Rotate	NONE	Sets the rotation of the tablet. Values = NONE, CW, CCW, HALF (default is NONE).
RelWUp	Property for 'RelWUp' not available.	X11 event to which relative wheel up should be mapped.
RelWDn	Property for 'RelWDn' not available.	X11 event to which relative wheel down should be mapped.
AbsWUp	Property for 'AbsWUp' not available.	X11 event to which absolute wheel up should be mapped.
AbsWDn	Property for 'AbsWDn' not available.	X11 event to which absolute wheel down should be mapped.
StripLUp	Property for 'StripLUp' not available.	X11 event to which left strip up should be mapped.
StripLDn	Property for 'StripLDn' not available.	X11 event to which left strip down should be mapped.
StripRUp	Property for 'StripRUp' not available.	X11 event to which right strip up should be mapped.
StripRDn	Property for 'StripRDn' not available.	X11 event to which right strip down should be mapped.
TVResolution0	0	Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 0.
TVResolution1	0	Sets MetaModes option for TwinView Screen 1.
RawFilter	on	Enables and disables filtering of raw data, default is true/on.
ClickForce	7	Sets tip/eraser pressure threshold = ClickForce*MaxZ/100 (default is 6)
xyDefault	0	Resets the bounding coordinates to default in tablet units.
mmonitor	1	Turns on/off across monitor movement in multi
STopX0	0	Screen 0 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY0	0	Screen 0 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX0	1024	Screen 0 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY0	768	Screen 0 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 1 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 1 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX1	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 1 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY1	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 1 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 2 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 2 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX2	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 2 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY2	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 2 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 3 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 3 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX3	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 3 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY3	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 3 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 4 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 4 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX4	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 4 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY4	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 4 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 5 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 5 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX5	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 5 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY5	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 5 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 6 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 6 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX6	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 6 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY6	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 6 bottom coordinate in pixels.
STopX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 7 left coordinate in pixels.
STopY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 7 top coordinate in pixels.
SBottomX7	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 7 right coordinate in pixels.
SBottomY7	Property offset doesn't exist.	Screen 7 bottom coordinate in pixels.
ToolID	318	Returns the ID of the associated device.
ToolSerial	0	Returns the serial number of the associated device.
TabletID	144	Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.
GetTabletID	144	Returns the tablet ID of the associated device.
NumScreen	Not implemented.	Returns number of screens configured for the desktop. [not implemented]
XScaling	Not implemented.	Returns the status of XSCALING is set or not. [not implemented]

~$ sudo gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom class"
MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Button2" "3"
Option "Button3" "4"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

# N-Trig Duosense Electromagnetic Digitizer
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom N-Trig class"
MatchProduct "HID 1b96:0001"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "wacom"
EndSection

~$ sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/69-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
# udev rules for wacom tablets.
# These rules were compiled for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution,
# but others may, and indeed are encouraged to, use them also.
#
# Should you do so, PLEASE CO-ORDINATE ANY CHANGES OR ADDITIONS
# of new devices with Ron so that we can try
# to present users with a standard set of device nodes which
# they can rely on across the board.

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", ATTR{id}=="WACf*", ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet"
ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", ATTR{id}=="FUJ*", ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet"
ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp", ATTRS{id}=="WACf*", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1"
ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp", ATTRS{id}=="FUJ*", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1"

KERNEL!="event[0-9]*", GOTO="wacom_end"

# Port specific link for users of multiple tablets of the same type.
# The ID_PATH variable is set by the "path_id" script in an earlier rule file.
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ENV{ID_PATH}=="?*", SYMLINK="input/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-wacom"

# Multiple interface support for stylus and touch devices.
#DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}="stylus"
#DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="01", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}="touch"

# Type-named links for multiple tablets. If you want to use multiple
# tablets of the _same_ type, you will probably need to use the links
# from /dev/input/by-path to identify which is plugged into what usb
# port. For different tablet types though, just pick your links from
# the list below.
#
# We override SYMLINK for tabletpc devices because the by-path link
# is not required with such devices, there will only ever be one.
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0000", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-penpartner"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-cintiq_partner"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0010", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0011", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire2-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0012", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire2-5x7"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0013", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire3"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0014", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire3-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0015", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire4-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0016", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire4-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0017", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-bamboofun-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0018", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-bamboofun-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0019", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-bamboo1-medium"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0020", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0021", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0022", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos-9x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0023", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos-12x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0024", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos-12x18"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0030", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl400"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0031", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl500"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0032", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl600"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0033", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl600sx"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0034", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl550"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0035", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl800"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0037", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl700"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0038", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-pl510"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0039", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-dtu710"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="003f", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-cintiq21ux"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0041", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0042", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0043", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-9x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0044", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-12x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0045", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-12x18"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0047", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos2-6x8a"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0060", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-volito"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0061", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-penstation2"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0062", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-volito2-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0063", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-volito2-2x3"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0064", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-penpartner2"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0065", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-bamboo"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0069", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-bamboo1"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0081", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-graphire_bt-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0090", SYMLINK="input/tablet-tpc90"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0093", SYMLINK="input/tablet-tpc93-$env{WACOM_TYPE}"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="009a", SYMLINK="input/tablet-tpc9a-$env{WACOM_TYPE}"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b0", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-4x5"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b1", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-6x8"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b2", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-9x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b3", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-12x12"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b4", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-12x19"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b5", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-6x11"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b7", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos3-4x6"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b8", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos4-4x6"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00b9", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos4-6x9"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00ba", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos4-8x13"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00bb", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-intuos4-12x19"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00c0", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-dtf521"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00c4", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-dtf720"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00c5", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-cintiq20wsx"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00c6", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-cintiq12wx"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00c7", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}!="touch", SYMLINK+="input/tablet-dtu1931"

# Convenience links for the common case of a single tablet. We could do just this:
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", SYMLINK+="input/wacom-$env{WACOM_TYPE}"
# but for legacy reasons, we keep the input/wacom link as the generic stylus device.
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}!="touch", SYMLINK+="input/wacom"
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}=="touch", SYMLINK+="input/wacom-touch"

# Check and repossess the device if a module other than the wacom one
# is already bound to it.
#
# We probably don't need this one in the Real World anymore ...
# See the old wacom-tools package if we actually do need to resurrect the
# check_driver script for this again.
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ACTION=="add", RUN+="check_driver wacom $devpath $env{ID_BUS}"

LABEL="wacom_end"

~$ xsetwacom --list --verbose
... Display is '(null)'.
... 'list' requested.
... Found device 'Virtual core XTEST pointer' (4).
... Found device 'Virtual core XTEST keyboard' (5).
... Found device 'Power Button' (6).
... Found device 'Video Bus' (7).
... Found device 'Sleep Button' (8).
... Found device 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' (9).
... Found device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' (10).
... Found device 'Serial Wacom Tablet eraser' (11).
Serial Wacom Tablet eraser ERASER
... Found device 'Serial Wacom Tablet' (12).
Serial Wacom Tablet STYLUS
... Found device 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' (13).
... Found device 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' (14).

Cursor jumping around

2010-05-31T03:38:00.000-07:00

I have this really "nice" problem since a while, and today I found out I'm not the only one in this situation.

Re: Mouse Jumping to corner on its own (TX2000 tablet PC)

2010-05-31 12:30 PM

Hi!

I've been having the same problem with my TC4400 tablet running Ubuntu Linux.

Here are my experiences:

- the cursor started jumping about 5 months ago. The computer is in my hands for exactly 2 years now, but it was a renew, so it's some time older, maybe half-1 year.

- the cursor first started jumping to the bottom right corner.

- it had a tendency to jump when I was using firefox watching sites like gmail or youtube, that used Java and/or Flash.

- about 2 months ago it started jumping (and clicking of course) not only when I used firefox with the mentions conditions, but also for other programs, and generally, at any time.

- about 1 week ago, I installed the newest version of Ubuntu (10.04), and since then the cursor started to jump to the bottom left corner too, so now it jumps to 2 different places.

- I also noticed, that the cursor does not jump when I use the pen. (there is no touch recognition, only the pen)

- I also noticed, that my computer started to became awfully hot at the corner of the ventilator, which is the corner, where the ESC button is.

So far I thought about disabling the touchpad and use the joystick instead, but they disable together, so I cannot do that.

I cannot afford to be without my computer, so I cannot put it to repair service. (I had a painful experience with them already anyway.)

The only way I can avoid the cursor from jumping is to hold the pen with one hand to the monitor, but this is pretty uncomfortable.

This whole cursor jumping thing is really annoying, and I'm relieved that I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Labtec Notebook Webcam on Ubuntu

2010-05-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

I bought this webcam last year. It worked with Gutsy, but it doesn't work in Lucid. Or at least with Skype not - at the beginning.

Here are some details to begin with:

skype version: Beta 2.1.0.81 for linux.

~$ lsusb
ID 046d:08aa Logitech, Inc. Labtec Notebooks

~$ lsmod | grep videodev
videodev 34361 1 gspca_main
v4l1_compat 13251 1 videodev

~$ lsmod | grep gspca
gspca_zc3xx 45189 0
gspca_main 21199 1 gspca_zc3xx
videodev 34361 1 gspca_main

here's what I did so far:
- plugged in webcam. skype doesn't see it.
- installed cheese. video works. skype sees that there is a video device, but there's no picture.
- installed guvcview. still the same.
- I restarted the computer
- I tried again with the LD_PRELOAD stuff I found in other forums, and finally, like a miracle,

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

did the trick. :-)
I submitted this info on UbuntuWiki

Screen rotation through Nautilus scripts.

2010-05-23T05:25:00.000-07:00

Here is how you make nautilus scripts work.

This is a script for rotating right (note-taking side):

#!/bin/sh
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set 'Serial Wacom Tablet' Rotate CW

This is to set back to normal:

#!/bin/sh
xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set 'Serial Wacom Tablet' Rotate NONE

I also use the following two, so I can rotate in any direction:

#!/bin/sh
xrandr -o left
xsetwacom set 'Serial Wacom Tablet' Rotate CCW

and

#!/bin/sh
xrandr -o inverted
xsetwacom set 'Serial Wacom Tablet' Rotate 3

Little Disturbing Problems

2010-05-23T03:02:00.000-07:00

I can't use xbindkeys to bind the keys I want.
The only specific key I can bind like this is the "Ctrl+Alt+Del" button on the edge of the screen. But that's the least disturbing one.
- I need the scroll button on the edge of the screen the most.
- The single button next to the volume keys would be also very useful.
- Not to mention the mouse-activated keys... which just never worked.

Setting the pen button to work

2010-05-23T02:39:00.000-07:00

As written here, in 10.04 we don't use xorg.conf anymore. We use

gksudo gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf

instead.
And what we do is, that we put Option "Button2" "3" under the section that is for the pen, like here:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class"
MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Button2" "3"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

An alternative solution is to put the

# Custom wacom settings.
xsetwacom set 'Serial Wacom Tablet' 'Button2' '3'

lines into our .profile file, in our home directory. (it's a hidden file)

Java Applets on Lucid

2010-05-23T01:23:00.000-07:00

I found this terrific post, which completely worked for me. Unlike icedtea & co.
It runs my internet bank and it runs facebook photo uploader too!!

It goes like:

The one java app I have to use does not work correctly with openjdk and icedtea, so I really must use sun's runtime and plugin. I was surprised to see that neither this thread nor any of the others I could find said anything about getting sun's plugin to work on lucid (or with firefox-3.6 in general). Maybe my search string wasn't good enough. Anyway, here's how to do it.

First, open 'Software Sources', click the 'Other Software' tab, and enable the lucid partner repo. (If it doesn't show up on the list, add it: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner )

Next, install sun-java6-plugin.

Uninstall both icedtea6-plugin and openjdk-6-jre.

And finally, due to this bug, run the following command in terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mozilla-javaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 1

This is the only step that is specific to firefox-3.6 and lucid.

Restart firefox and check about:plugins to verify that the correct plugin version is loaded.

If icedtea and openjdk work for the apps you use, then I recommend that you continue to use them rather than switching to the sun versions. However, if you use apps that do not work correct with ubuntu's default java installation, the above should work.

Ubunti 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx

2010-05-23T01:14:00.000-07:00

Yes, I changed. I didn't upgrade, because updating was simply using up the space. How in hell is Ubuntu wanting to take up more space than 6 GB?! Well, I said no to it, and installed a completely new one, the newest one, with long term support. Now, if this works out, I don't have to change for a while.

Works out of the box:
- pen, eraser and pen button in Xournal
which I'm really happy for.

also somehow the post concerning tc4400 and ubuntu grow through the years, so now I have a larger base for support. I'll see if the post will be helpful in the end or not.

I was also pleased when I experienced the new "Make bootable ubuntu USB" for the first time. It works good.

However, still, I didn't dare to go back on 64-bit.

Image rotation script in the right click menu

2010-03-07T07:34:00.000-08:00

create folder:
/home/user/.gnome2/nautilus-script

create files:
"Rotate CW"
"Rotate CCW"
"Rotate 180"

edit these in gedit, and than make them executable.

This is the script for Rotate CW:

#!/bin/bash
mogrify -rotate 90 $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS

for CCW use 270 and for 180 use 180 instead of 90.

VirtualBox printing

2010-03-06T03:33:00.000-08:00

http://funwithlinux.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/sharing-ubuntu-host-printer-with-windows-xp-running-in-virtualbox/

Screen rotation with stylus rotation on Karmic

2010-03-02T03:14:00.000-08:00

Here's what changed:

To reach metacity type in terminal: gconf-editor /apps/metacity

To rotate the screen use xinput --list to determine the nape of the stylus, and replace "stylus" to the new name in the rotate script. My stylus has the name of: "Wacom Serial Tablet PC Pen Tablet/Digitizer"

Ubuntu 9.04

2009-09-09T05:11:00.000-07:00

wow! the pen was recognized out of the box!
(while reinstalling, I kept my /home. I only formatted the partition with the system not the personal stuff.)

Now to do:
- eraser tip
- pen button
- screen rotation
- java for firefox

Things that might help in Jaunty to use tablet.

2009-08-30T08:59:00.000-07:00

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-November/006228.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136848

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WacomTroubleshooting

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man4/wacom.4x.html

Feisty and Gutsy no longer supported

2009-08-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

Since Ubuntu stopped to support the versions Feisty and Gutsy I might want to look for another operation system for any newer version of Ubuntu is unable to deal with the tablet.

As I still can run some programs under Gutsy like Xournal and GIMP to use my tablet I might split the hard disk and install a supported newer version of Ubuntu beside the Gutsy to be able to use the features of those versions as well as I might install a Windows XP on the other partition instead of a newer version of Ubuntu to enjoy programs such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Recognita, and some .NET applications I'm unable to run under Ubuntu.

As I do hate Windows for it being absolutely not user-friendly compared to linux I might split the hard disk one more time and install 2 versions of ubuntu AND a windows.

main menu disappears

2009-05-09T04:35:00.000-07:00

Check out this site.

Works fine. I had to start gnome-panel manually at the end.

~$ gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
~$ rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.gconf/apps/panel
~$ pkill gnome-panel
~$ gnome-panel

rar

2009-05-03T14:10:00.000-07:00

I downloaded from rarlabs site.
The rarlinux-3.8.0.tar.gz was the one that worked for me.
Uncompress, go to the directory in the terminal and type sudo make
The End.

2009-04-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXi

--> install libxi-dev package through synaptic.

Lexmark E323 Network Printer

2009-04-16T21:31:00.000-07:00

I installed it as > Generic > PostScript Printer, and it seems to be working fine.

A fresh copy of a 32-bit Gutsy

2009-04-16T06:51:00.000-07:00

After all, I couldn't get the java applets work under 64-bit Gutsy. As these were necessary for my internet banking I had to do something about it - I installed 32-bit Ubuntu Gutsy.

And now it works. Firefox with Java applets.
Now I'll have to try everything I tried until now again to find out if they work under 32-bit. (As soon as I get back my pen from the service.)

battery test #3

2009-04-13T09:19:00.000-07:00

This time it went 9 hours. I basically used only the winchester and some internet.

cib.hu java small applet vs firefox and opera

2009-04-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

After wasting nearly 10 hours total I finally got the youtube constantly working on 64-bit firefox (2).

However there is this site www.cib.hu which has this little button at the top-right side of the page under the title "CIB INTERNET BANK" called "Belépés". I just couldn't get the applet it opens to work.

I tried epiphany but the result was the same. I almost thought I had some problems with my ubuntu when I downloaded Opera and it worked like magic.

testing the battery again

2009-04-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

Almost idle all the time it went around 10 hours today. I had some difficulties so I will try this kind of use tomorrow again.

Testing my new Ultra Capacity Travel Battery

2009-04-09T09:30:00.000-07:00

I got this EJ092AA HP 12 cell Ultra-Capacity Travel Battery yesterday. I charged it for around 14 hours, and checked it out. My primary Battery was also fully charged.
I gave a hard time to them: CPU was running around 50% and memory around 30% all the time.

The result is a total of 4 hours (and 4 minutes) runtime with the 2 batteries used together.

Just in fact:

The 12 cell ultra-capacity battery adds + 0,803 kg-s to the 2,1 kg-s Alice already has. So it's nothing that you can call funny. I can hold it on one arm for no longer, and it gets out of balance because the weight is attached on the side and not everywhere. And it looks pretty awful too: the battery hangs out on the back 3 cm-s. I'll try to post some photos, to show it.

Positive is that I got a bunch of AC cables - every kind of specific country types.

I'm still thinking to send it back and buy some simple primary batteries as they are cheaper smaller and lighter. You only have to do a restart when changing them.

Notice: pdfnup --trim

2009-03-30T12:23:00.000-07:00

It removes a given amount of margins on the side, with the syntax 'left bottom right top'.

I dropped my tablet pen.

2009-03-30T02:47:00.000-07:00

The pen tip doesn't seem to be recognized anymore.
Now what to do? :-(

How to change default application for a filetype?

2009-01-18T02:10:00.000-08:00

Right click on the file, choose Properties, select Open with tab, change the application.

How to change your MAC Addresses

2009-01-14T17:46:00.000-08:00

$ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

add the hwaddress line under the apposite device - for example:

auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp hwaddress ether UR:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS

(ether is the type of device, according to ifconfig - "Link encap:Ethernet")

to restart / stop /start networking:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

ImageMagick converting multiple files

2009-01-02T16:38:00.000-08:00

*I do not use this method anymore, although it was a great start.*

After being a book-worm for half a day, I found out how can I write a working script to solve my imagemagick output problem.
It looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

for i in `find -iname '*.jpg'`
do
convert $i -background white -flatten -colorspace Gray -negate -edge 1 -negate -normalize -sharpen 1 -threshold 50% -despeckle -blur 0x.5 -normalize +dither -posterize 8 gif:- >> $i.gif
done

1.) open your favorite text editor
2.) copy paste the script
3.) save as anyname.sh
4.) make it executable

Usage:
1.) copy anyname.sh in the folder containing only the image files you want to make simple
2.) go (cd) to this folder in the terminal
3.) type ./anyname.sh
4.) wait and see.

How to convert this to pdf?

mogrify -format pdf *.JPG

How to join these single-page pdfs?

pdfjoin *.pdf --outfile newname.pdf

ImageMagick

2008-12-28T16:46:00.000-08:00

I gave up on tesseract, so now I'm modifying the photos I took to a smaller size, and attaching them in a PDF with gscan2pdf.

I installed ImageMagick with synaptic, and found the matching script on it's webpage.
I had to modify this script, because convert didn't find the

-contrast-stretch.
Now it looks like this:

convert eredeti.JPG -background white -flatten -colorspace Gray -negate -edge 1 -negate -normalize -sharpen 1 -threshold 50% -despeckle -blur 0x.5 -normalize +dither -posterize 8 verzio_dit3.gif

Since I want to modify a lot of images, I tried to do this simple, so I tried to use these tricks:
- input filename globbing (convert *.JPG [outputfilename])
- output filename references (convert *.jpg myimage-%d.jpg) which should produce myimage-1.jpg, myimage-2.jpg, etc.
However, the output just didn't want to work. It always gave me a single file: the last file. But the procedure was so long, I think the program did the work, just saved all the images over that one file.

To see if this is only because of the older version (2.4) of the program, I tried to install, the newest version(2.6). It installed well, however, something went wrong, and I got the following error while trying to use convert

error while loading shared libraries:libMagickCore.so.1
Now I'm reinstalling, following these tips./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib"
Installation was a success.

However, converting more files at once still doesn't work.

Cinelerra

2008-12-14T15:36:00.000-08:00

Installing:

With Synaptic Package Manager:

Open the Software Sources Window:
- Synaptic Package Manager: Settings -> Repositories.
Make sure you have universe, multiverse and restricted sources checked in the first tab.
Click on tab Third Party. Click on the Add button and enter your chosen repository (for me the next line):
deb http://giss.tv/~vale/ubuntu64 ./
(for AMD64 (and also Core Duo Intel64), by Valentina Messeri)
Clicking Add Source will display the new repository enabled in the Software Sources window.
You should now see Cinelerra in the list of packages available in Synaptic.
Follow Synaptic instructions for installation.

Tesseract

2008-11-26T02:04:00.000-08:00

Guided with the idea of language files not being separated in tesseract versions below 2.0, so that training will be not supported, I tried to install a newer version from source.
The winner was 2.01. with the ./configure, make and sudo make install it went well. I only had to install the language files manually. I downloaded the 2.00 language files, and overwrited the 0 byte files in the /user/local/share/tessdata.

Now it works fine. I only have to train it for Hungarian.
I also want to find an easier way to prepare the images...

gnokii again

2008-11-22T07:47:00.000-08:00

I get this when I try to:

~$ gnokii --identify

GNOKII Version 0.6.27
Unsupported [global] connection value "bluetooth"
Couldn't read /home/user/.gnokiirc config file.
No connection type specified in the config file.

Now what shall I do? ...
-------------------------------------

I varied some thing in synaptic like:
installed "bluetooth", uninstalled "bluez-cups", installed "gnome-bluetooth" and "libbluetooth-dev"
than I installed gnokii from source, and it worked! (at the end of the configuration check if bluetooth is marked "yes" for installation!)

MPlayer ?!?

2008-10-27T16:50:00.000-07:00

I ran into the following problem:

VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0

MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
gnome_screensaver_control()

I found this:

MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module vo_check_events or this error

"X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)" using an intel card

add Option "LinearAlloc" "8192" to xorg.conf and restart X

I added the line Option "LinearAlloc" "8192" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Device section, restarted X (ctrl+alt+backspace) and voila, it works.

Gutsy vs HP-Compaq TC4400 Checklist

2008-10-17T00:04:00.000-07:00

Tablet:

Pen with tablet - WORKING
Pen buttons - WORKING
Pen Activated Tablet buttons - NOT WORKING
Scroll button on tablet edge - WORKING
Ctrl-Alt-Del button - WORKING

Features:

Fingerprint Sensor - not tested
Ambient Light Sensor - not tested

Communication:

Wired Network - WORKING
Wireless Network - WORKING
Modem - not tested
Bluetooth - WORKING
Infrared - not tested

Slots:

MMC-SD - WORKING
PC Card - not tested

Other Interfaces:

External Monitor - not tested
S-Video TV Out - not tested
USB 2.0 - WORKING
Docking Connector - not tested
Accessory Battery Connector - not tested
LED Status Indicators - WORKING

Sounds & Audio

Mono speaker - WORKING
Line Out / Headphone - WORKING
Internal Mic - WORKING
External Mic - WORKING

Keyboard, Mouse, Buttons:

Touchpad & Mouse Buttons & Side Scroll - WORKING
Pointstick & Mouse Buttons - WORKING
Function Keys & Number Pad - WORKING
Additional Buttons - WORKING

-------------
I think this is it. Did I leave something out?

SD card slot

2008-10-17T00:03:00.000-07:00

I just tried out the SD Card Slot. It works perfectly.

xrandr

2008-10-16T02:00:00.000-07:00

For some reasons after the latest ubuntu update xrandr just doesn't want to work. I don't know exactly why, but adding the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf solved the problem. Idea is from here.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Inte$
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "RandRRotation" "true"
EndSection

Wine

2008-09-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

I had to install an .msi - I used wine (installed through synaptic) - It worked :-)

Check out: the wine FAQ page

Convertig Tiff to PDF

2008-09-22T22:45:00.000-07:00

sudo apt-get install libtiff-tools

# tiff2pdf tiff_akármi_file.tiff -z -o pdf_akármi_file.pdf

[SOLVED] flash & amd64 with nspluginwrapper on gutsy

2008-09-13T05:49:00.000-07:00

open synaptic

install flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper

download latest flash plugin and
# sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

than
# sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

restart firefox

voila.

idea comes from here.

Of course it does'nt work perfect: I can watch maybe 1 or 2 videos, and than it quits, and I have to restart firefox....

After all, this doesn't work. So what remains: 32bit firefox again.

installing nspluginwrapper 2.

2008-09-13T05:16:00.000-07:00

during make I run into the following problem:

agi@Alice:~/programok/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0$ make
gcc -std=c99 -m32 -o npviewer.bin npviewer-npw-viewer.o npviewer-npw-rpc.o npviewer-rpc.o npviewer-debug.o npviewer-utils.o npviewer-npruntime.o npviewer-cxxabi-compat.o -m32 -Llsb-build-i386 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXt -ldl -lpthread -lgthread-2.0 -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,--version-script,/home/agi/programok/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0/src/npw-viewer.map -lsupc++
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.3/libsupc++.a when searching for -lsupc++
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.3/libsupc++.a when searching for -lsupc++
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsupc++
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [npviewer.bin] Error 1

So, what to do?

GNASH again

2008-09-12T13:28:00.000-07:00

so again: feisty, than updated to gutsy.
installed firefox gnash, but youtube videos don't play. gnash 0.8.1

now trying out gnash 0.8.2

./configure:
- install synaptic packages: g++
- errors:

ERROR: No libxml2 development package installed!
or .deb users: apt-get install libxml2-dev

ERROR: No KDE development package installed!
or .deb users: apt-get install kdelibs-dev
now ./configure again

ERROR: GST media handling requested but gstreamer-0.10+ not found
Install it from http://www.gstreamer.net
or .deb users: apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev

WARNING: CURL library not found.
or .deb users: apt-get install libcurl3-dev

ERROR: No AGG development package installed!
Install it from http://www.antigrain.com
or .deb users: apt-get install libagg-dev

ERROR: No BOOST development package installed!
Install it from http://www.boost.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev

now ./configure again

ERROR: No BOOST development package installed!
Install it from http://www.boost.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev

now ./configure again

ERROR: The BOOST date_time library is needed!
Install it from http://boost.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libboost-date-time-dev

now ./configure again

no errors remain

make
- errors:

make[2]: *** [libgnashbase_la-extension.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `gnash-0.8.2llibbase'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `gnash-0.8.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I don't know what to do with this.

...and gutsy again

2008-09-08T04:45:00.000-07:00

So I updated again to Gutsy, and found out, that the cause of the xournal and X freezing and stopping to do anything is the modified LinuxWacom. As never before, after updated to Gutsy, and installed modified LinuxWacom again, the 3 onscreen button worked, and produced the same error as in feisty. So I installed the official LinuxWacom, now the 3 button doesn't work, but Xournal don't freeze.

installing nspluginwrapper 1.

2008-09-07T08:58:00.000-07:00

I reinstalled feisty, because during trying to install gnash I installed and uninstalled so many packages, I had to make it normal again.

so I downloaded nspluginwrapper 1.0.0 tar.gz, unpacked it, went to the directory, and

./configure
make
sudo make install

during make I got some errors, so I had to install following packages:

libc6-dev-i386
g++
gcc
xorg-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libc6-dev

I may missed something.
----------
I could install it, but it still doesn't work. I get these error messages:

*** NSPlugin Viewer *** preloader not found
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so

youtube & firefox & amd64

2008-09-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

1. 32bit firefox --> works
2. gnash --> following the instructions: don't work.
3. nspluginwrapper --> don't work (ia32-libs newer version not available on feisty)

installing GNASH

2008-09-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Trying to get firefox play flash files (youtube) I'm installing Gnash.
Earlier I tried installing 32bit firefox, and that's working.

Now I'm following these instructions.

./configure
There was a lot of missing packages, I finished with 2 warnings remaining, because I didn't find them in synaptic.

make
There was some problem with not finding G++. Following this and this, making a symbolic link solved this problem:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-3.3 /usr/bin/g++

make is extremly slow, I hope it will work.
--> no luck:
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libgnashserver.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/agi/Desktop/gnash-0.8.3/server'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/agi/Desktop/gnash-0.8.3/server'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/agi/Desktop/gnash-0.8.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I don't know what to do...

Back to feisty

2008-09-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

Somehow I found that Gutsy is a bit slow for me, and I reinstalled Feisty. I don't know why, but now my upper menu bar is english, but the submenus are hungarian, as they should be. And the second time I wanted to boot the new Feisty, it froze.

Another thing, that came up: partitioning the winchester: if not automated, you have to make 2 real and a logical partition.
device /dev/sda1 directory / type ex3 size 15000 MB
device /dev/sda2 directory /home type ex3 size 65000 MB
device /dev/sda5 directory type swap size 2500 MB (logical, at the end)

Some improvements

2008-08-21T01:26:00.000-07:00

With some recent updates, now I can watch youtube videos :-)

Installing Skype on 64 bit

2008-08-07T16:56:00.000-07:00

I found the solution here.
It says:

Gutsy (7.10), Feisty (7.04), and Edgy (6.10) installs:

64-bit install (or upgrade) skype 2.0 (with video):

Quote:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2; wget -N boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb; wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu; sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb; sudo dpkg -i --force-all skype-install.deb; sudo getlibs /usr/bin/skype

64-bit webcam problems:
See here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634393 for instructions on how to get your webcam to work if it doesn't.

After installing Skype you can run it from your (Applications-->Internet) Menu at the top left of your screen.

Using Gnokii

2008-08-06T02:33:00.000-07:00

File options:
--getfilelist remote_path
--getfiledetailsbyid [id]
--getfileid remote_filename
--getfile remote_filename [local_filename]
--getfilebyid id [local_filename]
--getallfiles remote_path
--putfile local_filename remote_filename
--deletefile remote_filename
--deletefilebyid id
---------------------------------------------
To get the phone's directory and filelist:
gnokii --getfilelist 'A:\*'

--getfilelist 'A:\*' (should show files stored in internal memory)
--getfilelist 'B:\*' (should show files stored in external memory, eg. a miniSD or microSD card)

To copy files TO the mobile:
gnokii --putfile /home/username/Desktop/proba.mp3 'A:\predefgallery\predeftones\predefringtones\proba.mp3'

To use GETALLFILES you have to go to the directory you want to copy files.
cd /home/username/Desktop
~/Desktop$ gnokii --getallfiles 'A:\predefgallery\predefrecordings\*'

To get files FROM the mobile:
gnokii --getfile 'A:\predefgallery\predefrecordings\Hang000.amr' /home/username/Desktop/Hang000.amr

or go to the directory you want to copy ad don't type the local path.

Connecting my Nokia 2630 via Bluetooth to Ubuntu

2008-08-06T01:26:00.000-07:00

--> gnokii.org

I downloaded a previous version of gnokii from synaptic package manager, then I downloaded the newest gnokii from gnokii.org download site.

As instructed I've run "./configure" and "make" as user and "make install" as root.

Then I edited the configuration file:
sudo gedit /etc/gnokiirc

I had to comment out lines from port, model and connection sections, and I had to uncomment lines for:

model = series40
port = aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
connection = bluetooth
rfcomm_channel = 1

Actually the "model=series40" I had to type in.
To get the mac address of your phone's bluetooth device type *#2820# in your phone.
I checked rfcomm channel with "sdptool search DUN"

In /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf I found that the "Default PIN code for incoming connections" is "1234".

After this, when I run "gnokii --identify" the connection worked, and I used the passkey "1234" for both the phone and the PC.

How to play dvd from nrg image

2008-08-01T04:16:00.000-07:00

Applications --> Add --> Gmount ISO

sudo mkdir /media/dvd
sudo ln -s /media/dvd /dev/dvd

Gmount ISO --> mount point --> /media/dvd

mplayer dvd://1

---
that's it.

Ubuntu and ADSL

2008-07-19T13:57:00.000-07:00

Open the Terminal and type: pppoeconf

Follow the instructions!

Turn on the DSL: pon dsl-provider
Turn off the DSL: poff
Check the status of your connection: sudo ifconfig ppp0

Updating to Gutsy

2008-06-15T12:49:00.000-07:00

After some time the pen just crashed: after using the pen none of the pointing devices would do a click.
So I updated to Gutsy.
...
Ta-damm:
- the scroll joystick on the edge of the monitor works out os the box.
- the 3 tablet button just don't work with the previous script.
- I had to reinstall linuxwacom to fix the pen buttons.
- Firefox works with Flash :-)
- I had to change the rotate script to this:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "$(xrandr | grep "768x1024+0+0 right")" ]; then
xrandr -o inverted
xsetwacom set "stylus" Rotate 3
else
if [ -n "$(xrandr | grep "1024x768+0+0 inverted")" ]; then
xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set "stylus" Rotate NONE
else
if [ -n "$(xrandr | grep "1024x768+0+0")" ]; then
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set "stylus" Rotate CW
fi
fi
fi

making the USB work...

2008-06-10T06:12:00.000-07:00

sudo nano /etc/fstab

comment out the cd-rom line like this:

# /dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

problems #5

2008-06-07T12:16:00.000-07:00

OSK - OnScreen Keyboard.

Well... onboard is installed, but I can't open it, so I consider is broken or something.
I tried Cellwriter, but it's only for i368 or whatever, but not for amd64.
Right now ubuntu packages is down, so i'll try synaptic with
1.) GOK. - However this was too complicated for me.
2.) Matchbox OSK

... I updated to Gutsy, I'll check this out later...

problems #4

2008-06-04T14:23:00.000-07:00

I have Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) and kernel version 2.6.20-16-generic.
I'll try to set up my wifi using this site.

I don't have any errors reported for modprobe mac80211, and lsmod lists the modul, so I only have to install the iwl3945.

While trying to make I get this error:

mh@Alice:~/Desktop/iwlwifi-1.2.25$ make
Makefile:24:
Makefile:25: WARNING: $SHELL not set to bash.
Makefile:26: If you experience build errors, try
Makefile:27: 'make SHELL=/bin/bash'.
Makefile:28:
Kernel Makefile not found at '/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/source'
chmod: "compatible/*" nem érhető el: Nincs ilyen fájl vagy könyvtár
/bin/sh: cannot create compatible/kversion: Directory nonexistent
-e
Makefile has been modified by generate_compatible, please run `make' again

make: *** [compatible/kversion] Error 1

I linked the folders:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source

I get error message:

mac80211 headers not found in:

/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/source/include/net/

Please install the mac80211 subsystem.

How to get the 3 onscreen tablet buttons working?

2008-06-04T10:55:00.000-07:00

1. Download the latest LinuxWacom.
2. Install the following packages through Synaptic:

tcl8.4
tcl8.4-dev
tk8.4
tk8.4-dev
xserver-xorg-dev
libncurses5-dev

...and dependancies.

3. Unpack the linuxwacom tar.gz
4. Modify the /src/xdrv/wcmISDV4.c as follows (add the lines in blue):

/* Coordinate data bit check */
if (data[0] & 0x40)
{
if ((int)data[0] == 0xc1)
{
if (data[1] & 0x07)
{
ds = &common->wcmChannel[0].work;
/* Now fool it into thiking it's in proximity */
ds->proximity = 1;
ds->buttons = ((data[1] & 0x07) << 3);
xf86WcmEvent(common,0,ds);
}
}
return common->wcmPktLength;
}
}

5. Modify the src/xdrv/wcmCommon.c as follows (one change in blue)

/*****************************************************************************
* xf86WcmSendButtons --
* Send button events by comparing the current button mask with the
* previous one.
****************************************************************************/

static void xf86WcmSendButtons(LocalDevicePtr local, int buttons, int rx, int ry,
int rz, int v3, int v4, int v5)
{
int button, mask, bsent = 0;
WacomDevicePtr priv = (WacomDevicePtr) local->private;
WacomCommonPtr common = priv->common;
DBG(6, priv->debugLevel, ErrorF("xf86WcmSendButtons "
"buttons=%d for %s\n", buttons, local->name));

/* Tablet PC buttons. */
if ( common->wcmTPCButton && !IsCursor(priv) && !IsPad(priv) && !IsEraser(priv) )
{
if ( buttons & 57 )
{
if ( !(priv->flags & TPCBUTTONS_FLAG) )
{
priv->flags |= TPCBUTTONS_FLAG;

bsent = 0;

/* send all pressed buttons down */
for (button=2; button<=MAX_BUTTONS; button++) { mask = 1 << (button-1); if ( buttons & mask ) { bsent = 1; /* set to the configured button */ sendAButton(local, button-1, 1, rx, ry, rz, v3, v4, v5); } }

6. Go to the folder in the Terminal and type:

./configure
sudo make

7. Now you should have a wacom_drv.so in the /src/xdrv directory. Make a backup of your old wacom_drv.so:

sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so.bak

and copy the new one over:

cd src/xdrv
sudo cp wacom_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so

8. Edit your profile:
sudo nano /etc/profile

# enable buttons on HP TC4400
xsetwacom set stylus Button2 "3"
xsetwacom set stylus Button4 "core key shift F1"
xsetwacom set stylus Button5 "core key shift F2"
xsetwacom set stylus Button6 "core key shift F3"

9. Reboot.

10. Set the global keybindings and keybinding commands in the Configuration Editor /Apps /Metacity:

Global Keybindings:
run_command_1 F1
run_command_2 F2
run_command_3 F3

Keybinding Commands:
command_1 xournal
command_2 sh /usr/bin/rotate.sh
command_3 [onscreen keyboard - I don't use it yet]

------------
Thanks to Ubuntu Forum Community.

[SOLVED] problems #3

2008-06-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

I'm working on activating the 3 tablet buttons.

I already tried this method, but I sucked at assigning programs to the mouse buttons.

This other method somehow didn't work for me, but I will try again...

...I tried again, and it worked!

Where to find the XFree86 build environment?

2008-06-04T04:12:00.000-07:00

Trying to make the 3 tablet-buttons alive I run into the following problem while trying to compile LinuxWacom, and found on the internet no solutions to it. I mean I can't find the XFree86 build environment or the Xorg SDK.

checking if wacom_drv.{o,so} should be compiled... configure: WARNING: requires Xorg SDK or XFree86 build environment, wacom_drv not built

checking for XSERVER... checking for valid Xorg SDK... "xf86Version.h missing"
Tried /usr/include, /usr/include/xorg, and /usr/xc/include

Solution: install Xserver-Xorg-Dev with syaptic package manager.

problems #2 - Xournal

2008-06-01T06:26:00.000-07:00

After some time Xournal just didn't start.
I got a tip, that this is the software-s problem, and I should use another handwriting-notepad. Next step is to find one.

For Xournal I had to reinstall ubuntu, hoping Xournal starts, because I saved some important notes in its format.

NEWS: Actually, I reinstalled Ubuntu, and installed the newest Xournal (0.4.2.1) according to the instructions on the xournal homepage. I hope it will work. From now on I will save everything to pdf :-)

How to connect to another PC? (Windows)

2008-06-01T02:16:00.000-07:00

System / Administration / Share Folders -> set up folder sharing.

To reach your Ubuntu using laptop from a Windows you must set up a password for the Ubuntu.

I found the solution here.

It says:

sudo smbpasswd -a USERNAME
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

You should use your username, and it is preferred to give not the same password as your root password, because windows will store it.

Sound control buttons & No Sound problem

2008-05-31T12:15:00.000-07:00

Volume Control buttons:
I opened the System / Preferences / Hotkeys and redefined the buttons for sound controlling.

No Sound problem:
This was very trivial...
I opened the Volume Control and found the PCM mute :-)

Making Firefox work with Flash and Java plugin

2008-05-31T11:50:00.000-07:00

I found a great solution on this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1174435

It is based on installing a 32bit version Firefox.
Follow the instructions on the page :-)

Follow this guide to enable universe and multiverse repositories.

How to rotate the display?

2008-05-31T09:41:00.001-07:00

I found a great soultion on this page!

It needs a little alternation, so I'll copy and modify it here.

xorg.conf
Then you need to update the xorg.conf file:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Edit the Device section and add:

Code:

Option    "RandRRotation"    "on"
Option     "NvAGP"     "1"

This enables rotation capabilities. The 2nd line is to help suspend work properly.

Rotation
You will need to install wacom-tools:

Code:

sudo apt-get install wacom-tools

You will need a script and map it to a key.
The script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Change System Input orientation for Tablet Mode
# Depends on wacom-tools from repo

orientation=`/usr/bin/xrandr --query | /bin/grep "Current rotation" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $4}'`
if [ "$orientation" = "normal" ]; then
/usr/bin/xrandr -o right
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus Rotate CW
else
/usr/bin/xrandr -o normal
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus Rotate none
fi

Save it as rotate.sh and put into the /usr/bin/ directory.

Code:

sudo cp rotate.sh /usr/bin

The TC4400 has a 'presentation' key next to the volume adjusting keys. We will use it for screen rotation. To map the key, open the Configuration Editor and browse to /apps/metacity/keybindings_commands. Edit command_1 (or the 1st available command) enter: sh /usr/bin/rotate.sh . Then browse to /apps/metacity/global_keybindings and edit the run_command_1 with 0xcd .

(According to this howto, you can map the rotation to the on-screen rotation button too.)

To open Configuration Editor go to System > Preferences > Menu Editor, look under the section for Applications > System and check in Configuration Editor.

Edit:
... later I realized, that if I simply turn the tablet down, the display will be inverted in front of me, so I modified the script to turn the display around in a normal-right-inverted-normal circle.
Here's the code:

#!/bin/sh

# Change System Input orientation for Tablet Mode
# Depends on wacom-tools from repo

orientation=`/usr/bin/xrandr --query | /bin/grep "Current rotation" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $4}'`
if [ "$orientation" = "normal" ]; then
/usr/bin/xrandr -o right
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus Rotate CW
fi
if [ "$orientation" = "right" ]; then
/usr/bin/xrandr -o 2
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus Rotate 3
fi
if [ "$orientation" = "inverted" ]; then
/usr/bin/xrandr -o normal
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus Rotate none
fi

Which program to use to take notes?

2008-05-31T09:36:00.000-07:00

The answer is: Xournal.
You can download Xournal with synaptic package manage. After installing it will be in the programs / tools menu.

(Note that I'm using hungarian ubuntu, so I'm just trying to translate the menu names :-))

To make the eraser tip to work go to the Options menu, and activate the "Eraser tip" option.
To make the pen button work as a highlighter go to the Options menu and choose highlighter in Button2 Mapping submenu.
---------------------------------------
Installing Xournal:

You have to download these packages through Synaptic Package Manager before doing anything:

libgnomecanvas2-dev
libgnomeprint2.2-dev
libgnomeprintui2.2-dev
autoconf
automake
xpdf

... and dependancies.

Compilation and Installation

Download the Xournal distribution tar.gz file, and unpack it. (it will be a folder)

Go to the folder in the Terminal and type:

sudo ./install-binary

(and upgrade GTK+ and the other libraries if needed).

Then type:

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo make desktop-install

Configure error message:
If autogen.sh generates the error message configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 libgnomecanvas-2.0 >= 2.4.0 libgnomeprintui-2.2 >= 2.0.0) not met even though you have sufficiently recent versions of these libraries on your system, then you need to install some missing development packages.

Problems #1

2008-05-31T09:24:00.000-07:00

I've already installed Wacom-tools and Xserver-Xorg-Input-Wacom.
I didn't install Wacom-Kernel-Source, because it gave me some errors like kernel versions don't match.

So the first problems:
- pen button to right button - solved
- advanced input setting in gimp: can't modify the settings for the pen. -solved
- how to rotate the display - solved
- which program to use to note - solved
- can't install flash plugin under firefox - solved
- how to transfer files with bluetooth from my Nokia phone like in the Windows nokia software -solved
- problems with sounds (adjusting buttons, mic-in, headphone, NO SOUND!) -solved
- how to connect to another computer (using windows) -solved

Installing Ubuntu form USB Pendrive

2008-05-31T09:06:00.000-07:00

Making USB pendrive bootable in Windows XP
1. Format your pendrive
2. Use SYSLINUX 3.63 to make pendrive bootable:
go to the syslinux folder in command line, and type:

syslinux.exe -s -a -m k:

where k: is the drive letter of YOUR pendrive.

Copying the installation files
1. Copy all the files (including hidden files!) from ubuntu install CD to pendrive.
2. Rename the isolinux directory to syslinux and rename the file isolinux.cfg inside this directory to syslinux.cfg .

Boot from pendrive
1. Adjust your BIOS settings to boot from pendrive.

Installing Ubuntu
1. Click install in the live-cd. Follow the instructions.

Which Ubuntu?

2008-05-31T08:59:00.000-07:00

Now the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is out, however installing this version on my tc4400, Alice, was not a good idea :-)
The tablet didn't work at all.

Trying to make my tablet alive, I decided, to install an earlier version.
So second time, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
The tablet works fine, but I've got some other problems, which I will try to solve.