Apr 302008
 

apple heronSome days ago I upgraded my Gibbons to Heron and I had to change some small thing to make everything work well.

First of all I had to change xorg.conf to make my touchpad works again, I think it is a problem related to the last realease of xorg, not to ubuntu.

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
# Option “AlwaysCore” “on”
Option “SendCoreEvents”
# Option “Device” “/dev/input/touchpad”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “LeftEdge” “10”
Option “RightEdge” “1120”
Option “TopEdge” “10”
Option “BottomEdge” “1050”
Option “FingerLow” “10”
Option “FingerHigh” “20”
Option “MaxTapMove” “220”
Option “MaxTapTime” “180”
Option “MaxDoubleTapTime” “250”
Option “MaxTripleTapTime” “250”
Option “SingleTapTimeout” “150”
Option “VertScrollDelta” “20”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “50”
Option “VertTwoFingerScroll” “true”
Option “HorizTwoFingerScroll” “true”
Option “FastTaps” “false”
Option “TapButton2” “3”
Option “TapButton3” “2”
Option “MinSpeed” “0.1”
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.9”
Option “AccelFactor” “0.3”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
EndSection

The second problem was orginated by wi-fi card. Obviously I had to recompile madwifi driver for the new kernel, but this time I followed a little different way.

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion autoconf automake
svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi
make
sudo make install-modules
echo -e ‘#!/bin/sh\n/sbin/iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0’ | sudo tee -a /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh
sudo chmod 755 /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-madwifi-bgscan.sh

Now I am using kubuntu with kde4 on my mbp and I think it is quite good even if kd4 still suffers of a lot of problems. But it is usable and I always like to try different and innovative things.

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