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Tuesday 21 September 2010

Amarok problem under Ubuntu Lucid

By dooblem on Tuesday 21 September 2010, 21h23

If Amarok doesn't work on Ubuntu Lucid. Playing any song fails.

Simple solution: install apt://libxine1-ffmpeg

sudo aptitude install libxine1-ffmpeg

Possibly restart Amarok.

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Sunday 20 June 2010

Windows XP broken after Ubuntu Lucid upgrade

By dooblem on Sunday 20 June 2010, 23h12

A friend of mine has a PC with Windows XP / Ubuntu in dual boot. After the Lucid upgrade, Windox fails to boot (strange lines on the screen after Grub...).

TestDisk saved us:

sudo aptitude install testdisk
sudo testdisk
  1. Choose [ Create ] Create a new log file
  2. Choose windows physical disk, then [Proceed ]
  3. Choose [ Continue ] Continue even if there are hidden data
  4. Choose [Intel ] Intel/PC partition
  5. [ Advanced ] Filesystem Utils
  6. On Windows XP partition, boot sector is generally bad or non identical to backup sector (Sectors are not identical.).
  7. Choose [ Backup BS ] to copy the backup sector to the master sector.
  8. After that, quit, reboot and test.

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Thursday 3 June 2010

3D performance problems with KMS

By dooblem on Thursday 3 June 2010, 13h48

With the last Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 come a new graphical module: KMS or Kernel-based Mode-Setting.

If you have performance problems in some games like Quake 3 or TCE / Enemy Territory, try to disable KMS. The problem can also be with the mouse pointer (slowness, lag, delay or inacuracy).

Grub 2

Add nomodeset in /etc/default/grub then issue the command update-grub.

vi /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
update-grub

Grub 1

Add nomodeset at the end of the # kopt line, then issue command update-grub.

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro nomodeset
update-grub

Someone also told me that disabling KMS solved his Firefox javascript speed problem in Yahoo Mail.

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Thursday 20 May 2010

Brasero Bug Copying Audio CD in Ubuntu Lucid

By dooblem on Thursday 20 May 2010, 23h53

Audio CD copy is actually not possible with Brasero on Ubuntu Lucid. All details in the bug report.

As a workaround, you must install cdrdao version 1.2.3, which is not yet available as a package.

To install it, you can use CheckInstall which is a bit cleaner than the old make install:

tar -xjvf cdrdao-1.2.3.tar.bz2
cd cdrdao-1.2.3/
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall make install

Note: the make command can fail because of missing dev packages you'll have to install.

CheckInstall builds and installs a nice Debian package.

You can also use cdrdao directly. ps axf shows us the command Brasero is using:

cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sr0 --read-raw --datafile /home/dooblem/brasero.toc.bin -v 2 /home/dooblem/brasero.toc

Here we go!

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