Linux for Keysers | Adventures in Open Source

Dual booting. It can be a wonderful thing or a horrible nightmare. With Windows 7, users may have more than one reason to want the ability on their HTPC machines. Especially if several pieces of hardware just don't work as they should in Ubuntu. The trick is, Windows 7, by default, wants to be the ONLY OS on your computer, even if you've already installed other OSes. My recommendation? Install Windows 7 first, in a carefully planned partition (create using Ubuntu LiveCD and GParted, of course), and then install Ubuntu. But what if you just HAD to install Ubuntu first in that secondary partition and now need to install Windows? Windows will erase your Grub settings from the boot sector. This means no more ability to boot into Ubuntu. Oh No! Not to worry, there's an easy way to recover from said disaster. I found this excellent post and here are the details for archival purposes: This post discusses the easy way of restoring Grub2 using Ubuntu Live CD. First, boot with the

Really just posting this for my own reference later, but here's the link and the details: Enter this into your Terminal it is the code for the firmware and to install it Code: wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh Code: sh extract.sh;sudo cp *fw /lib/firmware you need to install mercurial and build essential for the next steps Code: sudo apt-get install mercurial libncurses5-dev then we need the driver using this command to fetch Code: hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/ now change to the directory Code: cd saa7164-stable then run make Code: make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n that will take some time, go grab a drink and wait it out, when it completes run this command Code: sudo make install wait for that to complete and reboot from the command line Code: sudo reboot Note that an application like TVtime will not

I recently setup a Win 2008 R2 VM and proceeded to remote connect to it from Ubuntu 10.04. Everything worked perfectly except the mouse cursors were black (and some were corrupt). Solution? Use a newer version of rdesktop that doesn't ship with Ubuntu. There is a handy PPA that can be added using the following command: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ricolai/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rdesktop [UPDATE] It appears ricolai may have removed the package from his PPA. To remedy the situation, I've uploaded the working binaries for x64. Sorry, I don't have the x86 any longer. More information on the bug can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/385974?comments=all