Re: [Trisquel-users] best thinkpad x60 wifi card

2014-01-26 Thread mono

thanks for clarification about the non-free bluetooth driver.

I got a AR5B97 AR9287 card for cheap at ebay. it is getting warm too, but far  
from the hot temerature with the intel card. It needs some custom  
modification though because it's a half size card and the laptop is made for  
full size cards.


Re: [Trisquel-users] coreboot flashing

2014-01-20 Thread mono
A few days ago I did the same with a x60. It took me about a week to 1) read,  
2) understand most parts, or at least understand enough for success and 3)  
actually upgrading the BIOS. Once you know which steps to do, it will take a  
few minutes only.


You might want to read a few more pages. GNUtoo has a spearate coreboot  
branch with removed microcode and a so-called native vga code that replaces  
the non-free vga code. this branch is used by gluglug too, as far as I  
understood and thus this branch is what is ryf-certified by fsf


http://www.coreboot.org/User:GNUtoo

https://www.gitorious.org/gnutoo-for-coreboot/coreboot/source/0c4ce5539a16ea32c903e7596f12a412f9afe2ca:

make sure to checkout the production-x60+v5 branch, not the master branch.

On GNUtoo's page the description is mostly about how to flash (this means  
write) the new BIOS to the eeprom chip (aka flash chip). To my understanding  
you should not skip the step that says: get to know which chip is installed  
in you computer by inspection. I had to remove almost all parts from the x60  
inside to find this chip and I had to use a magnifier glass and good zoom  
photo to be able to read the chip name. The lenovo hardware manual is a very  
good resource for how to install and deinstall all the parts.


For actually learning how to build coreboot, which results in a file named  
coreboot.rom and which is to be flashed/written to the eeprom chip you might  
read the generic HowTo


http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO

and for me this was even more helpful:
http://www.coreboot.org/User:Fchmmr
it uses GNUtoo's code.

For me it was very new that the bootloader grub now is stored in the eeprom  
chip, it is not stored at the hard disk anymore. well there are other  
possibilities, you should read about it.


hope this helps a little,
cheers Mono


Re: [Trisquel-users] best thinkpad x60 wifi card

2014-01-14 Thread mono

thanks both of you!

AR5B22 looks interessting because it includes bluetooth too.

Still don't know, if looking at temperature the newer cards are better than  
the older once.


[Trisquel-users] best thinkpad x60 wifi card

2014-01-13 Thread mono

Hallo again

I want to install a wifi card in my x60. Before the BIOS was upgraded to  
coreboot, an intel card was installed and it got really hot (right hand palm  
rest). So I wonder which of the atheros cards is best regarding temperature?  
Well of cause it should provide a stable connection too. Please, share your  
experience!


Also, I wonder if it was worth installing a three-antenna card. Is this  
possible at all? Can I just add a third antenna?


Any hints are much appreciated!
Cheers


Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-29 Thread mono
The wikipedia article says ATM is available with Intel Core vPro processor  
family. Am I correct that a missing vPro feature successfully avoids ATM?


I asked because there seem to be some X201i thinkpads with i3-330M, i3-370M,  
and i5-430M processors which according to the specs provided by Intel don't  
have vPro. Could these machines once flashed with coreboot respect your  
freedom?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Think Penguin Laptop Questions

2013-12-28 Thread mono

found this review, including a photo from inside the notebook

http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=9495.0


Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Bluetooth Mouse

2013-11-16 Thread mono

Just for the record, it seems I got it working again. Below is what I did.

!!! Beware this might not be safe !!!

Because it seems the device name is created by the kernel, I added a small  
patch to the hid driver which sets a generic name whenever it would be an  
empty string.


This is the patch for jxself's kernel 3.12.0 (It works the same with 3.11.7,  
although the line numbers are slightly off. I did not try to patch Trisquel's  
generic kernel, which has the same problem with my mouse.):



diff -ruN linux-source-3.12.0-gnu.orig/drivers/hid/hid-core.c  
linux-source-3.12.0-gnu/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
--- linux-source-3.12.0-gnu.orig/drivers/hid/hid-core.c 2013-11-04  
00:41:51.0 +0100
+++ linux-source-3.12.0-gnu/drivers/hid/hid-core.c  2013-11-16  
14:14:14.936673567 +0100

@@ -1490,6 +1490,8 @@

 int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
 {
+   if(strlen(hdev-name)==0)
+   sprintf(hdev-name, empty);
static const char *types[] = { Device, Pointer, Mouse,  
Device,

Joystick, Gamepad, Keyboard, Keypad,
Multi-Axis Controller


What is possibly unsafe: I am not sure, if the memory for storing the name  
must be allocated and how that would be done. However, until now it didn't do  
any (noticable) bad.


Compiling the kernel
Download the sources and copy, extract at some other place

# apt-get install linux-source-3.12.0-gnu
cp /usr/src/linux-source-3.12.0-gnu.tar.bz2 some/place
cd some/place
tar -xjf linux-source-3.12.0-gnu.tar.bz2

Patch it

cd some/place/linux-source-3.12.0-gnu
patch -p1 -i path/to/patch

Copy original kernel config and build it

cat /boot/config-3.12.0-gnu .config
make oldconfig
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg -j1 --initrd kernel_image

Install it

# dpkg -i some/place/linux-image-3.12.0-gnu_3.12.0-gnu-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb

Funny
On the same machine booting Parabola which to my understanding uses the same  
kernel sources as Trisquel and jxself do, the kernel names the mouse Apple  
Magic Mouse. Well, this seems to say: there should be a smarter way of  
setting the mouse name, than ugly patching the kernel. I am not sure, if it  
is the kernel config file, or some other software involved (maybe systemd vs  
upstart)?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Lavabit shut down due to U.S. government

2013-08-12 Thread mono
posteo.de provides 2GB email accounts, charging 1EUR per month. no ads,  
secure mail transport were possible. they store user data as few as possible.  
payments are separated from account data. when sending the payment via analog  
mail, you can have it completely annonymous.

just another option


[Trisquel-users] DSL modem

2013-07-25 Thread mono

Hallo,

am very happily running free software on three computers (trisquel and  
parabola)


now, am wondering about my internet connection. am using a proprietary device  
which includes a DSL modem for connection to ISP, a router and a WLAN access  
point. who knows what this device is doing (other that providing internet  
connection)?


my question:  Is there any device existing, old or new, that can replace the  
proprietary device by running 100% free software? The most required  
functionality is that of the DSL modem connecting to a line with standard  
ADSL2+


cheers,
Mono


Re: [Trisquel-users] DSL modem

2013-07-25 Thread mono

i was afraid you would say so.
anyway, if anyone else can provide some hint, I’d be very interested.

e.g. at h-node [1] there is one modem listed to work with trisquel. it is a  
pci card, but actually i do not understand who is the manufacture and where i  
could buy it.


[1] http://h-node.org/modems/view/en/458/Xilinx-Corporation-Device-0300


Re: [Trisquel-users] unreadable system notifications

2013-05-22 Thread mono
i use gnome classic, kde is not installed. xfce is installed because i was  
curious how it looks like. should i uninstall it?


The themes selected are
Window theme: Adwaita (default)
Cursor theme: DMZ-White
Icon theme: Trisquel
GTK# theme: Trisquel


Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy Security Tech to Watchful of: vPro

2013-05-22 Thread mono

thank you Chris for pointing this out!

Half a year ago i bought the i7 3770K, because of the free driver graphics  
and at the same time the absence of Intel Trusted Execution technology.  
Possibly i read about it in this forum. am glad it also does not have vPro!


[Trisquel-users] unreadable system notifications

2013-05-21 Thread mono

Hallo,

whenever the system pop ups a notification, e.g. network connection  
established or disrupted, it is kind of not readable such that the color  
theme might be not suitable.


please see the attachment for an example.

does anyone else have this issue?
how can i make the notifications better readable?

thanks in advance

attachment: Screenshot from 2013-05-21 18:29:35.png

[Trisquel-users] roadmap

2013-05-04 Thread mono

ahoi, am very happy with Trisquel 6.0 and curious

are there already any plans for what comes next? where is it going from here?  
i believe there have been discussion about
(i) should the next Trisquel release again be based on Ubuntu or Debian or  
something else?

(ii) if it stays with Ubuntu, what version will it be based on? LTS or STS?

well, as i said, am just curious and wonder what the current plans might look  
like


Re: [Trisquel-users] graphics mode while booting

2013-04-14 Thread mono

thanks for the help!

somehow grub seems to ignore GRUB_GFXMODE.
building and installing grub-2.00 from source [1] it shows the mascot  
out-of-the-box


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/


[Trisquel-users] graphics mode while booting

2013-04-13 Thread mono

how can i change the graphics mode for the boot process?
am using the libre-linux kernel from jxself's repository and it used to show  
me a penguin mascot while booting. at some point the graphics mode must have  
changed, i can't say when that was, but now i see some garbage pixels during  
boot. later it changes to the correct graphics mode showing the boot messages  
and login correctly.


Any idea on how it can show the Freedo mascot again?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel Release Graphical Installer for Their GNU/Linux Drivers

2013-04-11 Thread mono
so yes, the installer wont work for Trisquel, but there is a description how  
to add the driver repository manually to the system. i tried that and it  
seems to work.


http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/how-to-use-intel-linux-graphics-drivers.html


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel Release Graphical Installer for Their GNU/Linux Drivers

2013-04-07 Thread mono

thanks, that is good info

i run that installer on my system, it says


Checking if Intel graphics card available... OK
Retrieving information from 01.org... Failed

Diagnostics finished with an error


well will try again later


[Trisquel-users] 64 bit Trisquel and 32 bit graphics

2013-04-06 Thread mono

Um, i just figured my machine can run the Trisquel 6.0 64-bit version.
Everything works just fine, though i dunno what is going on on the graphics  
side. Graphics work well, i just don't know how.


The machine is a Macbook2,1 Mid 2007. It boots in 32-bit EFI mode and loads  
the 64-bit kernel. The CPU is 64-bit able:  
http://ark.intel.com/products/27255/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T7200-4M-Cache-2_00-GHz-667-MHz-FSB



$ uname -a
Linux MyMachine 3.8.5-gnu #1 SMP Thu Mar 28 21:33:10 PDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64  
x86_64 GNU/Linux



For the graphics it says:

$ sudo lshw -c video
  *-display:0
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics  
Controller

   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 2
   bus info: pci@:00:02.0
   version: 03
   width: 32 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
   resources: irq:16 memory:d038-d03f ioport:20e0(size=8)  
memory:c000-cfff memory:d040-d043

  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
   description: Display controller
   product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics  
Controller

   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 2.1
   bus info: pci@:00:02.1
   version: 03
   width: 32 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm cap_list
   configuration: latency=0
   resources: memory:d030-d037

so there is some 32-bit thing about the graphics card. but the driver again  
is 64-bit:


$ file /lib/modules/3.8.5-gnu/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
/lib/modules/3.8.5-gnu/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB  
relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),  
BuildID[sha1]=0x55f457d3d49b6158a2170ed218c2520589f902fc, not stripped



please help me understand how and why this works
cheers Mono


Re: [Trisquel-users] 64 bit Trisquel and 32 bit graphics

2013-04-06 Thread mono
so it is just fine running the 64-bit system which uses 64-bit drivers to  
talk to components via 32-bit and other buses?


Re: [Trisquel-users] 64 bit Trisquel and 32 bit graphics

2013-04-06 Thread mono

thank you Michał!
i didn't get it to its full extend, well, this is ok for now.
i understand there shouldn't be a problem with my setup. nice :)


Re: [Trisquel-users] On the conversion of a Macbook Pro

2013-04-03 Thread mono

you can boot the mac from usb device/pen.
you whould need to format it with gpt and have an EFI System patition on it.  
Booting the mac with holding down the  key then allows to select a bootloader  
from the EFI partition. grub would do and then could boot a liveCD.iso which  
is on a second partition on the usb device


Re: [Trisquel-users] make-doc

2013-03-25 Thread mono

thanks for the appropriate keywords!

i now see the older discussions and what debian and FSF are saying about  
GFDL.


so for now my conclusion is that trisquel follows FSF in terms of defining  
free. The package description somehow is coming unmodified from debian,  
thus it calls the package non-free referring to the debian definition of  
free


Re: [Trisquel-users] Blurry icons in Gnome Shell Activities

2013-03-25 Thread mono

i have the blurry icons too. didn't try any fix yet though


[Trisquel-users] make-doc

2013-03-24 Thread mono

http://packages.trisquel.info/taranis/make-doc
says: ... the documentation is covered under a non-free license ...

is that true and the package should not be available? or is the package  
description just wrong?


Re: [Trisquel-users] On the conversion of a Macbook Pro

2013-03-16 Thread mono
am running Trisquel 5.5 on two MacBook2,1 (late 2007) machines. One is set up  
as dual boot besides Snow Leopard (my mums machine) and mine as single boot.  
most things work out of the box even the wifi, but not so the camera. i dont  
care about that though. there are lots of informations for other macbook  
(pro) versions on the ubuntu forums, they call it mactel i believe... most  
things i found there also work for Trisquel.


well i just remember that i had to add something to the grub.cfg file to make  
the graphic card work. (Intel 945GM Chipset, GMA 950) adding
fakebios and fix_video before the kernel is loaded and kernel options  
video=efifb noefi did it for me.


besides that i'd think lembas' idea using a live-cd and try sounds good


Re: [Trisquel-users] taskbar clears after updating 6.0

2013-03-13 Thread mono
my panel lost all manually icons when i added gnome-shell gnome-seesion to  
Trisquel 6.0 pre-release. the default icons are still there, so its kind of a  
revert to default here.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 Officially Out; yes- really this time!

2013-03-12 Thread mono

Congratulations for this new release!


Re: [Trisquel-users] Wallpapers

2013-02-25 Thread mono

that is nice!
could you maybe make it a 1920x1200 png too?
and maybe a bit less dark?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Wallpapers

2013-02-25 Thread mono

thanks! i'll use that one and see how it fells like


Re: [Trisquel-users] Remaining issues in Trisquel 6.0

2013-02-24 Thread mono

i dunno how to edit the wiki page:

here is what i posted earlier on the VPN icons:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7474


Re: [Trisquel-users] Hey, I need some help :)

2013-02-06 Thread mono

Hallo, i didn't use that yet, but
System Settings - Startup Applications
might be what you are looking for


Re: [Trisquel-users] Spam-Bot Exploiting My Email -- Please HELP

2013-01-31 Thread mono

this may sound odd, but did you try change to a strong password?


[Trisquel-users] abrowser 18.0.1

2013-01-25 Thread mono

just got that update. Thank you!


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-22 Thread mono

having said the kernel is running nice, i found something in dmesg:



[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[0.00] Linux version 3.7.2-gnu (root@pc) (gcc version 4.6.1  
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 09:47:07 PST 2013
[0.00] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.7.2-gnu  
root=/dev/mapper/vg_trisquel-root ro allow-discards root_trim=yes

[0.00] KERNEL supported cpus:
[0.00]   Intel GenuineIntel
[0.00]   AMD AuthenticAMD
[0.00]   Centaur CentaurHauls
.
.
.
[   18.749967] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.749971] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.751581] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.751583] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.752413] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.752415] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.754136] microcode: CPU4 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.754139] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.755370] microcode: CPU5 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.755373] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.756198] microcode: CPU6 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.756200] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.756889] microcode: CPU7 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x12
[   18.756892] microcode: Missing Free firmware
[   18.757565] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 , Peter Oruba



the missing-free-firmware part makes me worry. this is on an Intel i7 3770K  
CPU. shouldn't the micro code be free and available to the kernel? 


[Trisquel-users] [SOLVED] Screen stays black after Waking Up from Suspend

2013-01-20 Thread mono

just for the record, i copy the solution to that problem into our forums.
it seems its an upstream problem to 12.04

press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then Ctrl+Alt+F7, and my desktop shows up

http://askubuntu.com/questions/124413/screen-stays-black-after-waking-up-from-suspend


Re: [Trisquel-users] [SOLVED] Screen stays black after Waking Up from Suspend

2013-01-20 Thread mono
thanks for the link. for i needed a quick solution. will probably look into  
that any time later :)


Re: [Trisquel-users] installing tikz-cd LaTeX package

2013-01-19 Thread mono
hmm, if memory serves correctly Trisquel comes without texlive installed, but  
its repos provide the 2009 version.
to remove it, go to Synaptic Package Manager, search for texlive and mark all  
of which are installed to be removed. apply that change.

then your system doesn't have any texlive from Trisquel repos anymore.

now you probably want to continue with installing the most recent dvd  
download which is version 2012 as far as i know


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel theme - keyboard focus ring hardly visible

2013-01-16 Thread mono
hmm, changed that to integer 5, but don't notice any change. (tried reboot  
machine)


[Trisquel-users] Trisquel theme - keyboard focus ring hardly visible

2013-01-15 Thread mono

Hallo everyone,

i sometimes like jumping around by the tab key forth and back and thus  
navigate somewhere by keyboard in some gui rather that clicking the mouse.  
but i notice the focus ring around what ever element is active for the  
keyboard is hardly visible for me (1920x1200 resolution screen). is there any  
way to increase the visibility by a thicker line and/or different color? i  
was searching in dconf-editor and /usr/share/themes/Trisquel but didn't find  
anything promising.

is one of those places the right one to go for?

thanks for any advices and cheer
Mono


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-09 Thread mono

Thanks everyone for the informations.
for now i went for the libre kernel 3.6 and the drivers offered by

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/intel-graphics-updates

I will see how that behaves.

what i am wondering though, in the system-details-graphics it says:

Driver: Intel Ivybridge Desktop
Experience: Fallback

couldn't it say something more better sounding than fallback?

and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log i find

[22.418] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[22.418] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[22.418] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev

so am still not sure, if the drivers are correct.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-09 Thread mono

oh, well


[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-09 Thread mono

Thank you for that suggestion!

I was curious what GNOME Shell might look like.
Installing on a second machine running Trisquel 5.5 gave me the GNOME desktop  
after installing gnome-shell and gnome-session.

On the Trisquel 6 machine:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gnome-session : Breaks: gnome-shell (= 3.0) but 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 is to be  
installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

it appears only one of the two packages can be installed at the same time.  
and there is no GNOME at the log-in menu selectable or offered (using GDM).


but, well, i figured i'd stay with GNOME Classic anyway, as the short test on  
Trisquel 5.5 didn't feel comfortable to me.


thanks anyway!


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-08 Thread mono
hmm, they list a couple of device ids at wikipedia 0162, 0166, 016A, 0152,  
0156, 015A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#Seventh_generation


[Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-07 Thread mono

Hallo,

i have just installed Trisquel 6 (01.Dec.2012) on a machine with the Intel  
Core i7 3770K CPU which comes with onboard GPU HD 4000. somehow i believe i'd  
need a more recent driver to support the graphics.


is there any chance to make me add what intel supposes here:  
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2012Q4.html ?


it says i'd need kernel 3.6, so i added the repository offered by  
http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ and installed the latest 3.6 kernel. this  
seems to work, the new kernel gets loaded.


then they suggest using an ubuntu repository which would provide the new  
driver(s): https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers
would it be safe to add this one? does someone know if it uses only free  
software?


the other option would be compile the packages myself. here i'm not sure if i  
should replace, what comes with trisquel, or should i build besides trisquel  
stuff in the /usr/local space. assume there where two drivers, one by  
Trisquel and a second in /usr/local build by myself, would the system load  
the more recent one?


any hint is much appreciated


Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel HD 4000 driver in Trisquel 6

2013-01-07 Thread mono
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200  
v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0162] (rev 09) (prog-if  
00 [VGA controller])

Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device [1849:0162]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at f780 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at  [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915



[Trisquel-users] legal problem mkisofs genisoimage ?

2012-12-14 Thread mono
while playing around with mkisofs, noticing there is no man page, noticing  
mkisofs just points to genisoimage i found this:


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit/+bug/489077

and moreover this:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html

there seems to be some irritation on the licence, on original and illegal  
fork.
some distributions switching back from the possibly illegal fork to the  
original.


hmm, i don't fully understand the story, but figured the trisquel community  
might be interested and could help me to understand which of the programs are  
free software and which are not.


curious for your opinion and thanks
Mono


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel version question / planned release date

2012-12-09 Thread mono

i just found this http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/roadmap
it says, we already have the 3rd release candidate. good to know


Re: [Trisquel-users] rms on ubuntu spyware

2012-12-08 Thread mono

thank you for that information!

do you know if that malware feature was corrected in Trisquel 5.5 and 6.0?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel version question / planned release date

2012-12-06 Thread mono

Thank you to both of you!
i take it that the better choice is 6.0alpha by now.
especially the part on:
* upgrading 5.5 to 6.0 will not be tested by many and
* updating 6.0alpha to 6.0 is merely ordinary updating with not much  
difference to a fresh 6.0 install

convinced me :)


[Trisquel-users] Trisquel version question / planned release date

2012-12-05 Thread mono

what is the best approach to install trisquel to a new machine?
once trisquel 6.0 is released, i definitely wanna go for it.
for the time being should i install trisquel 5.5 or 6.0 alpha?
will either of the two be update/upgradable? will the release version of  
trisquel 6.0 require a fresh install anyway?


any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance


btw. is there any planned release date?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Printer (no tracking dots) and scanner for Trisquel?

2012-11-18 Thread mono
about a month ago i bought a hp officejet 6700 which works nicely, both, with  
trisquel 5.5 and also with my girly's ubuntu 12.04.

in trisquel i build the most recent hplip though myself.
also for scanning i needed to build version 3.4.2 of simple-scan to have it  
work properly.


at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html
you can look which model is supported.

what does not work under any GNU/Linux with hp printers as far as i got it,  
is scan-to-pc, which is not a big deal for me.


Re: [Trisquel-users] which kernel version? (release notes?)

2012-11-17 Thread mono
i'm not sure if this answers your question, but when i installed Trisquel 5.5  
it came with vmlinuz-3.0.0-17-generic in the boot directory which is by now  
automatically updated to vmlinuz-3.0.0-24-generic


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 Launch bar

2012-10-05 Thread mono

i just finished a second fresh install for some reason.

the alt + right-click work now out of the box showing me the wanted  
preferences.

also the launch bar is opaque now, and not solid black any more.

thank you again for the help


Re: [Trisquel-users] NoMachine

2012-09-22 Thread mono

thank you!

i built OpenNX from source and it works! yeah.

though i still have some question regarding free software.

OpenNX seems to just be a GUI which comes with GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC  
LICENSE Version 2.1, February 1999. That is free software, right?


The actual remote connection is handled by nxssh, which i needed to download  
from nomachine's website and building it.
it is provided as open source (http://www.nomachine.com/sources.php) does  
that mean free software as in freedom? it don't say any about GPL or  
something.


Also why is some code provided by nomachine (libxcomp and libxcompshad)  
within the trisquel repositories, and nxssh is not?


please help me understand the thing about freedom


[Trisquel-users] NoMachine

2012-09-21 Thread mono
Is there any change to connect to a NoMachine NX server by a free softwore  
client? i guess the NX client provided by NoMachine is not free, is it?

http://www.nomachine.com


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 Launch bar

2012-09-20 Thread mono

right, hitting alt + Richt-click on the empty space of the bar does nothing.
maybe i don't have that add-on selected? where can i select it?
or is the problem that i use xbindings to simulate a Right-Click by  
cntl-click, so that alt+right-click becomes alt-cntl-click on the one-botton  
touchpad of the macbook?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 Launch bar

2012-09-20 Thread mono

that's awsome.
i used dconf-editor to set the properties following the path you specified.
thank you!


Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 Launch bar

2012-09-19 Thread mono
hmm, that just gives me some preferences on 'window list content' and 'window  
grouping'