The Crane Has Landed


More fun with CIFS and mounting
August 2, 2009, 9:07 pm
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I’m still having issues with mounting shares over CIFS…well, with unmounting them anyway.

I have a couple of leads though – including this site and the custom script. The script is doing well so far…



Shuttle PC Wake-On-LAN
August 2, 2009, 8:50 pm
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I found instructions on how to activate the Wake on LAN on my Shuttle SK41G.

Specially:

Enable WOL in the BIOS. The options for this are in “Power Management Setup”–>”IRQ/Event Activity Detect”. There are two options: “PowerOn by PCI Card” and “Modem Ring Resume”. I’m not sure why, but either option enables WOL when the computer has just been plugged into power, but “PowerOn by PCI Card” is the only one I could get to enable WOL when linux shuts down the computer. (WOL is strange that way…)



Dramas with Jaunty and MythTV
August 1, 2009, 4:13 pm
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Turns out there is some bug – don’t know yet whether it is confirmed as being a Radeon problem or not – that stops fonts from working properly in Jaunty when trying to use MythTV…in any way. You may get all the boxes with no text. Or, you might get just a black rectangle when you try to load the app.

The first step is to ensure you’ve installed msttcorefonts. Then (from this link), workaround by using XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS="1" mythfrontend (or any other myth command).

Can’t wait until they fix this!