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Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p - All is fine!

After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade.
My first concern was about the ATI driver, which gave me some trouble with 9.04.
Anyway after a good backup, I started the upgrade, and in almost 2 hours I was [...]

Shiretoko IS Firefox, it’s only a User Agent issue

On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
but the Ubuntu Mozilla Team has decided to rebrand it as Shiretoko, and this seems to break some sites which relies on the User Agent string. Using the User Agent Switcher add-on for Shiretoko, ops… Firefox, is a [...]

ATI Linux Proprietary Driver – Catalyst 9.8 RELEASED

It is available for download here (64 bit platform).

Updated instructions for Ubuntu installation are as always here.

((enjoy))

Ubuntu Jaunty on HP EliteBook 8530p – All Issues Solved!

All the issues described in my previous post about Ubuntu Jaunty (64 bit) upgrade have been solved! Yeppa!

ATI Video Card – WORKS. The ATI Catalyst driver 9.6 and 9.5 work fine. You can read more about it here. Download the source of the driver from the ATI site and follow the instructions for building the [...]

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p

Here is a report of my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW).

The upgrade process went smooth in almost 1 hour of time. There were about 1200 packages to upgrade for about 900MB of download.

Here is a quick report about problems encountered after reboot:

ATI Video Card NOT WORKING. [...]

SVN LDAP Authentication on Apache

Thanks to this link I’ve successfully implemented the LDAP Authentication against a Microsoft Active Directory LDAP for Subversion Access via Apache2.

Thanks to the power and flexibility of Apache the configuration is really straightforward.

Install and configure Apache to serve the URL of the repository you want, for example https://svn.mydomain.com/ (SSL is preferable to clear text http).

Enable [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p

Back to posting some useful stuff with my new PC, an HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW).

Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit is working like a charm on it.

My configuration is the following:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
4 GB of DDR2 RAM
250GB SATA HDD at 7200 RPM (the model from hdparm -i is ST9250421AS)
Screen 15.4” WXGA [...]

VMware Tools and Linux Kernel 2.6.24

It seems that from Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the standard VMware Tools shipped with VMware ESX 3.5 (at least) do not compile.

It is necessary to download the Open Virtual Machine Tools and to make the following trick:

# tar -xzf open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
# cd open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
# modsrc=”/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source”
# for x in `ls -d v*`
# do
> [...]

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