New PC at home

Monday I bought a brand new Asus Pundit Barebone, and hadn’t got time to build it up and test it.
This morning I did it with a classmate -which is really pro in building PCs- and tested the software behaviour (I reused my 60GB HDD):

• M$ Windows XP: Didn’t work. It even could not start up. My mate (a Windows user) told me that it was mandatory to reinstall it. Sucks. Really sucks.

• Debian GNU/Linux: It started up. I had to configure the network (load b44 module and restart the network subsystem), the soundcard (load i810_audio and restart sound system -alsamixer doesn’t work, don’t know why since GNOME volume control does) and X (used a config file from GNOPPIX). All works perfectly. I love it.

TODO Plan

Remove M$Windows XP from my PC. It sucks.

Linux 2.6.0

Finally got it working! Steve Kemp gave me the solution to my problem:

image=/vmlinuz
      label=Linux
      read-only
      initrd=/initrd.img
      append="root=/dev/hda2"

After putting this in Lilo, loading mousedev and psmouse modules made the /dev/psaux mouse (and the X) work:

> uname -r
2.6.0-1-686

Linux 2.6

VFS: Cannot open root device "302" o unknown-block(3,2)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(3,2)

That’s what I get when I try to startup with my Linux kernel 2.6. I cannot understand it, as long as I installed it from the official Debian package.

Back to 2.4…

CSI

I’ve finished to see the first half of chapters of its first season. I love it. Reminds me the books I read by Sir Arthur about Mr. Holmes…

GNOME

Next milestones:

• gnome-hello
• Bugzilla’s easy-fix
• Other bugs / BugDay

Techs to review:

• libGlade-xml
• gtkmm
• GConf
• Bonobo

Que es portin bé els Reis!

New Year

Happy and really FREE 2004 for everyone!