Fedora

I've been fighting several weeks (and making a huge number of typo's due to that) with the touchpad of my macbook pro on Fedora/Gnome.

I've tested several solutions :

- disable it in Gpointing Device Settings --> fail (it always comes back after a short moment)
- use synclient TouchpadOff=1 --> fail
- creating udev rules : --> fail

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0

So the best solution I've found (one that works) is : rmmod bcm5974

Now I'll try to add it into the udev rules too.

I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13.

After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux.

I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card.

I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam:

1. download the apple firmware :

wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-...

then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) :

[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"

after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed.

first find the idProduct number:

[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep  iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct
  idProduct          0x8507 

and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value :

[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules 
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

I have tested 3 Twitter clients to use on my gnome desktop:

- Gwibber (gwibber-1.2.0-3.349bzr.fc12.noarch)
- Pino (pino-0.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64)
- Turpial (turpial-1.0-b1.fc12.noarch)

I've found Gwibber very nice, doing what I need but it's very slow and sometimes freezes (becomes dark). It has also facebook support (nice to see the status updates of your friends).

Pino is my favorite one for the moment, it's fast, doesn't support facebook (yet?).
Something I don't like is that you have to switch between the accounts (twitter and identi.ca) which is annoying.

Turpial is not was I really wanted, it doesn't fit really in the desktop and it's only in Spanish.

I hope that Pino will keep improving and stay fast as now.

http://gwibber.com/
http://code.google.com/p/pino-twitter/
http://code.google.com/p/turpial/

Update !

I've just tested Gwibber 2 (gwibber-2.30.0.1-1.fc12.noarch) and it has very nice features: possibility to see all the messages or only by account, possibility also to see images (updated in facebook for example). I will for sure test it and discover it a bit longer, nice improvements !

banquise (yet another package manager) is now released ! :)

The website is online : www.banquise.be

This is a server/client application both written in python. The server is written with django.

As requested by Pieter, here are the spec files I used to create the openERP rpms for fedora and centos.

As some packages have different names or different user management commands, I need two different spec files for same pakages in each distro.

(only the client can be the same)

I wait for your feedback

I created rpms for CentOS and Fedora of openERP 5.0.7

I didn't test them yet but you can try them and send me your feedback to improve them.

ptxArchiver 0.3 is out.

I added the possibility to not insert the delete statement in the binlog for replication. I also fixed some minor bugs.

give it a try and send me your feedback :)

On my new mac book pro 13inch, I decided to install Fedora 12 for my daily use (I like Mac OSX but not for work) and as GNU/Linux consultant I need my dear lovely Linux laptop :-)

But out of the box 3D support for the video card is not supported nouveau (open source nvidia driver) and the WIFI is also not working.

Using rpmfusion I've installed kmod-nvidia and kmod-wl and it works fine. (YOU STILL NEED TO INSTALL THEM, even with the packages bellow, the current packages are : kmod-nvidia-190.42-1.fc12.9.x86_64.rpm and kmod-wl-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.11.x86_64.rpm)

But (there is always a but it seems) the nothing comes out of my speakers or headphones... (Whhhyyyyyyy!!!?).

Due to a lack of time and a reasonable level of frustration, I stayed several weeks with my new brand silent laptop.

00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)

This is the ouput of the sound preferences :

and in alsamixer :

I finally decided to have a deeper look to my problem (frustration level reached the limit :-P )

I installed the kernel from rawhide (kernel-2.6.32.2-18.fc13.x86_64) but of course no driver for nvidia video card and wifi available for that kernel :'-( (I told you there is always a but)

UPDATE: that kernel is not more available (seems to be updated while writing this post), new packages are now attached at the end of this post for kernel-2.6.32.3-21.fc13.x86_64

So I recreated the rpms to support them.

You just need to install them and add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound :

options snd_hda_intel model=intel-alc889a

Reboot, check sound preferences:

Increase the volume and unmute in alsamixer, save it and enjoy (no more but !) :)

For those looking how to turn on the lights of the keyboard, just try this :

echo X > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

X is a value from 0 to 255

I packaged imspector 0.9 for fedora 12 x86_64

IMSpector is an Instant Messenger proxy and it supports MSN, Jabber/XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, IRC and Gadu-Gadu.

The package is available in the inuits rpm repository

Hello,

If you want to test the latest version of openERP (5.0.6) on Fedora 12 or CentOS 5, you can try the package available on inuits repo (some other packages for other projects will be available too) :-)

Those packages are still in development, don't hesitate to send me feedback.

How to setup the repository :

edit /etc/yum.repos.d/inuits.repo with (for Fedora):

 [inuits]
 name=RPM Inuits repository Fedora $releasever
 baseurl=http://repo.inuits.be/fedora/$releasever/os/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=1
 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits

Don't forget to import the GPG key (you can find it here

 rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits