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Comment on Missing or Corrupted Textures on Linux, with Intel Integrated Graphics by Paul Gideon Dann

Paul Gideon Dann — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:59:00 +0000

It looks like this has done the trick for the HD3000 integrated GPU in my Dell Latitude E5520. I was seeing corrupted textures in KDE Plasma and some of the Kwin decorations. This tweak seems to have fixed it. Thank you!

Comment on How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird by avelex

avelex — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:54:00 +0000

I have looked EVERYWHERE for this information. Thank you so much for taking the time to post it! Worked like a charm.

Comment on How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14 by Jonathan Pritchard

Jonathan Pritchard — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Have you examined the boot logs?

cat /var/log/boot.log

Look for where it says ‘Checking kmods exist for 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE [ OK ]‘ or something similar. You need it to say OK and not FAILED.

If it says failed, then you need to reinstall it, I’d use my instructions above to delete the files manually, as if it was a failed build it won’t be in YUM. Then check your kmods in yum, and delete the appropriate ones too, before reinstalling. Test again. If not come back, and I’ll try and help.

The fact that it’s not showing you charging threshold values when you execute the following (as root, you must use su to login explicitly to the root account, no sudoing):

cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh

Comment on How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14 by Johnnytc3

Johnnytc3 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:50:00 +0000

I just did a clean install of fedora 14, 32bit and updated all updates as of yesterday. Only other thing i changed was the swappiness to 0 and installed virtualbox…

Comment on How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14 by Jonathan Pritchard

Jonathan Pritchard — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:04:00 +0000

Have you recently upgraded your kernel? I’m having a similar issue at the moment, and have experienced it in the past, where after a kernel upgrade, the thresholds are gone, because of perhaps some error while building the new tp_smapi kernel module on boot.

If this is the case, a method that has worked for me in the past is to do the following. Delete the tp_smapi modules by using the following command:

rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/thinkpad_ec.ko; rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/tp_smapi.ko

Then restart, and check the boot messages. I press esc during the graphical bootup to see the different stages, and you should see it rebuilding the kernel modules, and have a green [Success] next to it. You can obviously check the boot logs after start up.

The next thing to check is that as root, if those commands work.

Hope that helps. Feel free to come back if it doesn’t and we can try and work it out.

Comment on How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14 by Johnnytc3

Johnnytc3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:26:00 +0000

Sorry i meant my smapi folder…

Comment on How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14 by Johnnytc3

Johnnytc3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Thank you! It works…. however, is there a reason why my tp_smapi folder would be missing now and no longer able to display the thresholds using your command?

Comment on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review by Emad

Emad — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:22:14 +0000

Thanks for information about the Java problem. I am using Zotero in firefox and the new add-on for OpenOffice does not work with the olderversions of Java.

Comment on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review by Using the OpenJDK Java Plugin With Firefox 3.6 « Jonathan R. Pritchard's Homepage

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Comment on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review by C. M. Giblhauser

C. M. Giblhauser — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:40:29 +0000

Thanks for the information with regard to java. There seem to be a lot of people struggling with that. I think the java.com website should mention that instead of instructing people to install the wrong plugin.