A working xorg.conf for Gutsy and Hardy on the M1530

It ends up looking like this:

The above was done with emerald and Compiz Fusion.

Horray!

1. Click on “System | Administration | Software Sources”
2. Under “Ubuntu Sotware” tab, choose “Other” in the “Download from” list box.
3. Choose your country and then click “Select Best Server” and choose the recommendation.

This automatically updates the /etc/apt/sources.lst file. The same utility can also be reached from the Synaptic Package Manager, through “Settings | Repositories”.
In action:

It says mirrors.rit.edu is the best one for me. Makes sense.

  Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>=1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed

The solution is adding this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

Apparently, they only put the new libpango libraries into gutsy-updates. That’s kinda lame IMHO.

hank@rofl:~/tmp/coreutils-6.7$ cp -g coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb /nexus/mod0/www/deb/binary/
coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb         |  48% |   3.2 MiB |   118 KiB/s | ETA

The Easy Way

Hopefully coming soon…

The Hard Way

WARNING! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! THIS BROKE MY SYSTEM AND I WENT BACK TO THE DEFAULT COREUTILS PACKAGE

• Get coreutils 6.7

• Get the corresponding patches

• Edit patch/generic/001_all_coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch with vim:

:%s/coreutils\///g

• Patch the tree with patch -p0 < patch/generic/001_all_coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch

• Run a magical loop:

# From http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3691686&postcount=2
for file in src/{copy,touch}.c lib/utimens.{c,h} ; do \
   cp -v $file{,.orig}
   sed 's/futimens/gl_&/' $file.orig > $file
done

• ./configure --prefix=/ && make && sudo checkinstall
• Restart your terminal

Make sure you don’t completely hose your system and end up having to do this:

hank@rofl:~/tmp/coreutils-6.7/src$ sudo ./cp rm cp mv /bin/

Yes, that’s me using the cp binary from the current working directory to copy itself and some friends to /bin to resurrect my coreutils…

Also, I found out that there is a core package that externally manages the hostname command exclusively, and dpkg whines when you try to overwrite it with the awesome coreutils one. I don’t currently know how to make dpkg just do it’s job. Here’s the output:

hank@rofl:~/tmp/coreutils-6.7$ sudo dpkg -i coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 235274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 5.97-5.3ubuntu3 (using coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
dpkg: error processing coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/bin/hostname', which is also in package hostname
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb

If I can get that small bug fixed, I can actually implement the Easy Way. I ended up conceeding to a dirty, dirty make install. I also found out that you need a Depends: entry in each deb package even if it just contains bash. Apt is apparently pretty stupid about parsing Package files from repositories.

The Result

hank@rofl:~$ mv --help
Usage: mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
  or:  mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
  or:  mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
Rename SOURCE to DEST, or move SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
      --backup[=CONTROL]       make a backup of each existing destination file
  -b                           like --backup but does not accept an argument
  -f, --force                  do not prompt before overwriting
  -g, --progress               show a progress bar if operation is going to
                                 take a long time
# ...

Notice that I can do a -g for a progess bar! Yay! Now for an action shot:

hank@rofl:~/tmp/coreutils-6.7$ cp -g coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb /nexus/mod0/www/deb/binary/
coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb         |  48% |   3.2 MiB |   118 KiB/s | ETA

And then I rebooted

I rebooted, and all hell broke loose. I couldn’t get permissions for various devices in /dev, etc. There must be some dependency on ubuntu or debian patches in the boot process. Yuck.

Most people will want this. Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list at the bottom:

# Hankzilla
deb http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/~hardwarehank/deb binary/

Then run a sudo apt-get update. Then install it with sudo apt-get install wxwaste. Run it with waste.

Building from source

• Get it
• Install some dependencies:

# Checkinstall is optional, but it makes it nice since removal is just thru apt.
sudo apt-get install wx-common libwxgtk2.6-dev wx2.6-headers checkinstall

• Unpack the source, then ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall
• Add a nice menu listing:

# Put this in /usr/share/applications/waste.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.5b4
Name=WASTE
GenericName=Secure Filesharing
Comment=Facilitates encrypted filesharing between trusted clients
Icon=gnome-term-linux.png
TryExec=waste
Exec=waste
Terminal=false
Categories=GNOME;Application;Network;

• Configure and have fun!

21:06 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: ah there is the problem, if the settings are not saved then try to disable Integration in the Preferences  section of ccsm
21:07 < hardwarehank> Jupiter1tx: thanks - trying it
21:07 < hardwarehank> ok - it still deletes the settings and never starts working
21:08 < hardwarehank> i close ccsm and restart it, and its remapped to Button:None
...
21:14 < hardwarehank> what does it mean when binding names are blue?
...
21:14 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: it means Integration is still enabled
21:15 < hardwarehank> DAMN!
21:15 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: you might find it easier just to change to flat-file backend
21:15 < hardwarehank> heh ok
21:16 < hardwarehank> Jupiter1tx: you're my hero - it works
21:16 < hardwarehank> oh man im so happy

The solution is very simple.

Disable Integration into the Desktop Environment

This is accomplished through Preferences from the root screen of ccsm.

Map the keys in Rotate Cube

Now that that’s done, go to the keybinding section of Rotate Cube and look for blue text in the expanded tree. If you see it, Stop and check the first step again! This was tricky since I had to do step 1 twice. If there’s no blue, then set the Rotate Cube Left/Right button fields to Button8 and Button9 respectively.

Finally – I have all the functionality I had with Feisty/Beryl.

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
  Driver    "mouse"
  Option    "CorePointer"
  Option    "Device"  "/dev/input/mice"
  Option    "Protocol"  "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option    "Buttons"   "7"
  Option    "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
  Option    "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

Also, Compiz Fusion seemed to keep control of my Windows key after I disabled all it’s bindings for it, and wouldn’t let it go until I restarted X. Oh well, my Amarok rating global hotkeys work again now!

The fonts are a little screwy in Gutsy – I’m going to check someone’s Feisty/Edgy install to see what I have set badly.