Diego, el gnomo

So I have a loyal R50e, thing is that resuming from suspend breaks graphics, I had that working back in the days but recent upgrades of drivers and stuff broke it for some months, I didn’t care to fix it since I didn’t have battery anyway.

But now I fixed it again, trick is to edit /usr/share/acpi-support/IBM.config:

# R50e
1834*|1842*|2670*)
ACPI_SLEEP=true;
SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true;
# toggled false ->; true
SAVE_VBE_STATE=true;
POST_VIDEO=true;
;;


There! You must make those two vars be true. Maybe some tweaking to /etc/defaults/acpi-support would be needed. Most of time this should be all you need to do.

Just for the records, gmail’s SMTP server uses port 465 for SSL and the 567 (or a similar number, too lazy to search for it) TLS, I had SSL + port 567 and I have been wondering why Evolution didn’t send my mails. Now I found out.

I totally forgot how to fix this, so to not forget it again, here is it:

Add “$include /etc/inputrc” to your ~/.inputrc.

From lp #89235

I updated my ephy extensions page.

Go ahead, try them and send some comments!. I set up bzr repos for them, you can find instructions and urls in the page.

Also I must say that bzr is quite nice and simple, I’m using it to manage some projects and files and it’s quite cool. The push_and_update plugin is highly recommended.

The results of this year soc has been published: GNOME SoC projects.

And I’ll be mentoring Johan Svedberg in his project: Modern download manager for GNOME.

My frog bro was selected for Mono: Visual XAML Editor.

It will be a great experience!

Everything slow when using X with the sis driver? Well, here it’s awfully slow, made me want to trash my old pc… but then I discovered this bug in Launchpad : lp #26637.

Turns out that vesafb and vga16fb modules are responsible for this chaos. They seem to be stealing the memory managemen and hence making sis driver impossible to use due to it’s lack of descent performance.

What’s the fix? Blacklist vesafb and vga16fb and add sisfb to /etc/modules. You can try to add video=sisfb in the boot line of the kernel (grub’s menu.lst) too.

Note that Fedora doesn’t have sisfb built and is forcing vesafb into the kernel for it’s graphical boot. Ubuntu is doing the same, but they also build sisfb as a module.

So if you are using Fedora, you are screwed unless you rebuild your kernel, if you are using Ubuntu or Debian, make sure vesafb is not loaded (nor vga16fb) and have sisfb loaded sometime before X starts.

How can you be sure it worked? Grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log for ‘memcpy’ and see if the MB/s rate is descent, you can try with and then without the sisfb module to check if it’s making a difference. Here it does.

Dear Fedora dudes,

please fix your graphical boot screen in your livecds, normally working videocards get this message without any clear clue on what to do. I see that google doesn’t have good responses, so to help the world be a better place while you fix this bug, here’s the answer:

just type linux or linux0 and hit enter.

You are welcome dear googler.

Note: The local video canvas is blank because my driver sucks for screenshots, check the remote canvas and see that the n800 actually shows a remote video. Trust me on this one :).

Revision numbers of what I’m using:

• empathy: 826
• telepathy-glib: (i have no idea how to get darcs rev no., last change in “changes” shown)
  • Tue Mar 25 10:13:08 PET 2008  Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net>
    * glib-client-gen.py: Fix identation
• telepathy-gabble:
  • Wed Mar  5 18:35:45 PET 2008  Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
    * gabble_connection_advertise_capabilities: fix previous commit that rename local variable iface to channel_type
• libtelepathy:
  • Mon Mar 24 16:47:29 PET 2008  Olivier Crete <olivier.crete@collabora.co.uk>
    tagged farsight 0.1.26
• stream-engine:
  • Tue Mar 25 06:10:48 PET 2008  Robert McQueen <robert.mcqueen@collabora.co.uk>
    * don’t set audio src or sink elements on the farsight stream when maemo support is enabled, unless FS_AUDIO_{SRC,SINK} env vars are set
• farsight:
  • Mon Mar 24 16:47:29 PET 2008  Olivier Crete <olivier.crete@collabora.co.uk>
    tagged farsight 0.1.26

Those guys in the back made it again, we got another rocking release!

As always, release notes in Spanish are ready! (with some special bits this time).

(roughly translated from Spanish, check the original press release)

This March 7th and 8th, as part of the involucrate.org project, Lima will host an international FLOSS event that for the first time gets together the real actors of its development.

involucrate+GNOME is the name of this event, and despite the name makes the topic clear, there will be participation of diverse other FLOSS projects.

Thanks to the support by the GNOME Foundation and our generous sponsors, this time we’ll have the presense of developers from GNOME (Chile, Colombia), Dokeos from Belgium and peruvians from projects like Debian, Ubuntu, PHP, FreeBSD, GNOME, among others.

The website has more details about the schedule and the speakers, whom will be eager to share their experience and knowledge about this wonderful experience of contributing to FLOSS. There will be time for BoFs and hack sessions.

The event will have Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Computo y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima - Perú) as its venue.

Participation is free of charge, as long as you register yourself. We are waiting for you!

-involucrate.org Team

About involucrate.org
involucrate.org is a project coordinated by DebianPerú with the goal of promoting the participation of new peruvian contributors and developers in FLOSS projects.

Through the creation of spaces, momentum and ways that facilitate a close experience with the real actors behind FLOSS. We are looking to help create a point of reference, a model, that can lead our country to be noticeable in the worldwide FLOSS map.

It’s also a good excuse to repost the poster: