8 entries from anti tagged with ‘linux’

Linux SUN UNIX Keyboard & Linux Gnome

I shot a UNIX keyboard on ebay. Of course, it “just works” when you plug it in. However, I want it to work properly, that is, the special keys on the left should show their labels when assigning them e.g....

Linux ASRock X58 Extreme3

Installed an ASRock X58 Extreme3 motherboard, so far the following results: Linux Kernel 2.6.34 basic function works out of the box (as expected!) hibernate (suspend to disk) breaks should work if you unload xhci_hcd (USB3) suspend to ram (mem) suspends,...

Linux Thinkpad S3 after s2disk wakeup workaround

There is a problem with recent kernels (I think to recall 2.6.20 as the first to tail) and Thinkpads wakeup behaviour. Please read the following problem description twice as many people seem to misunderstand my problem: After the first (successfully)...

Linux, Programmierung Direct I/O filesystem access in Linux with O_DIRECT

I just tried to read files from the filesystem using direct i/o to avoid the operating systems caching effects. The manpage of open lists the flag O_DIRECT for this. Although I included fcntl.h, my compiler complained that it couldn't find...

Linux, Netzwelt Shell.FM: A textmode last.fm-player

If you like last.fm, but (like me) you don't like all these shiny gui players, because you think that you don't need a gui to play music, you should try out Shell.FM. Shell.FM is a very simple console player for...

Linux BitchX on Debian amd64 Or vserver debootstrap chroot

Let me put it straight right away; I didn’t get bx to work reliably on amd64 and I don’t have the necessary C knowledge nor enthusiasm to endulge myself in finding the problems. What I’ll outline here is just the...

Linux lirc and linux kernel >= 2.6.17

If you are using lirc, you might have noticed, that you can not compile the modules of the latest stable version (0.8.0) with a kernel 2.6.17 or higher. The reason for this is, that devfs was removed from the kernel...

Linux, Programmierung Deutsche Umlaute auf Tastatur mit US-Layout

Wer viel programmiert hat wahrscheinlich bemerkt, dass das englische Tastaturlayout dafür besser geeignet ist, als das deutsche, da dort viele Sonderzeichen leichter zu erreichen ist. Allerdings stehen dort keine Umlaute zur Verfügung. Oft kann man diese zwar nur ae, oe,...


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