Friday, July 04, 2008

How automount NTFS drives in Ubuntu

It's so easy. Just list your drives with:
fdisk -l


Make folder in media(ubuntu) or mnt(other distro):
mkdir /media/winxp


And add to /etc/fstab lines like this, just change drive id(sda1):
/dev/sda1 /media/winxp ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Thursday, May 01, 2008

How use broadcomm wifi in Ubuntu

add resources in system->software sources->tab ubuntu software

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR=”/lib/firmware”
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w “/lib/firmware/wl_apsta.o
uninstall network-manager
sudo apt-get remove network-manager

install wicd package

reboot

in wicd is show wifi, choose encryption wpa1/2 a fill out key = password

Saturday, April 26, 2008

How fix too big font in ubuntu login screen

I read many solutions, how fix too big font in ubuntu login screen on many forums. This one easy works for me:

1. Open System->Preferences->Appearance
2. Select the "Fonts" tab
3. Click the "Details" button (lower right)
4. Adjust the Resolution down to 96dpi
5. Make sure you have Subpixel (LCD) Smoothing enabled
6. Save the preferences
The change for X restart after Ctrl+Alt+BckSP was not successful, but real computer restart did it.