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kubuntu doesn't suspend properly
I used to use kubuntu, but on a much less-endowed laptop than you just described (try 800 mhz, 256MB RAM); I had no trouble with it. I could give you a checklist of things like making sure your swap>RAM (yes, that will help), properly configuring ACPI (ACPI_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support), etc...
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Know anyone who has IE6 successfully running on DSL with wine?
Sorry. I don't run WINE, I've never used IE. I also blacklist sites that don't work under Seamonkey or Firefox (or one of my peeves, that are entirely or mostly Flash-based). Which sites are giving you trouble, and have you contacted the webmasters?I agree... however one of my online financial institutions, Wells fargo, requires IE. Kind of stupid.
Also, I am a science teacher, and some of the interactive tools I use for my kids uses Shockwave and I like to experiment with those at home before I have the kids do it. I can Shockwave to work in Kubuntu feisty running Firefox 2.0.0.4 windows version with wine. I can't seem to accomplish that under DSL. The version of wine is too old and the fonts don't show up, although the windows version does run quite well otherwise. I was hoping IE might do it.
Not a biggie. Thanks for your help and quick replies.P.S. help with kubuntu suspending to ram would be grand. Actually, it suspends fine, but when awaking, the screen just flickers and I never get the login screen back. On my laptop, this works fine with kubuntu-edgy. My desktop never suspended in dapper/edgy/feisty.
Any checklist would be very much appreciated, even though this isn't the proper forum for that.Hello! ie6 is running successfully. The following is on a clean boot (no restore whatsoever) from livecd.
1. wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ngl.dsl 2. mydsl-load wine-0.9.28_with_opengl.dsl 3. wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz 4. tar xzf ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz 5. ./ies4linux/ies4linux 6. "You need to install cabextract first! Download it here: http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php" 7. I load self-compiled cabextract from my hard disk partition: mydsl-load /mnt/hdaX/cabextract.tar.gz (-> /opt/bin/cabextract) 8. ./ies4linux/ies4linux 9. "You need to install 'wget' first!" 10. I load self-compiled wget: mydsl-load /mnt/hdaX/wget.dsl (-> /usr/bin/wget.dsl) 11. ./ies4linux/ies4linux 12. "You need to install 'unzip' first!" 13. I load self-compiled unzip: mydsl-load /mnt/hdaX/unzip.dsl (-> /usr/bin/unzip) 14. ./ies4linux/ies4linux - Success, installation starts. Afterwards (screenshot): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1216/622030614_b4e2f84451_o.gif
(Just personally) I prefer compiling utilities separately rather than struggling with package dependencies.
To make cabextract: wget http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/downloads/cabextract-1.2.tar.gz tar xzf cabextract-1.2.tar.gz cd cabextract-1.2 ./configure make strip cabextract Then copy cabextract into some bin directory. I used /opt/bin. cp cabextract /opt/bin
To make unzip: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/infozip/unzip552.tar.gz tar xzf unzip552.tar.gz cd unzip-5.52 unzip doesn't have autoconfiguration. Instead, you must use one of the makefiles provided. linux users can use 'unix/Makefile'. make -f ./unix/Makefile linux cp unzip /usr/bin strip unzip cp unzip /usr/bin (this is usual location)
You can keep cabextract, wget, unzip tarred up on hard disk for later uses. You can do: e.g. tar zcvf wget.dsl --numeric-owner /usr/bin/wget (./wget.dsl is created.) To load it you can just do: mydsl-load /mnt/hdaX/wget.dslHmmm... when I went to ./configure the cabextract, I got an error saying "no acceptable C complier found in $PATH" so I could not proceed to "make" Do I need to have a DSL app installed. I went to synaptic to see if "build-essential" was installed, and it is.