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Re: How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird

RobSteve — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:50:15 -0000

It did help me, thanks!

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Eduardo — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:13:45 -0000

I tried to follow this tutorial to install tp_smapi on Fedora 17, but without success :-(

Re: Missing or Corrupted Textures on Linux, with Intel Integrated Graphics

Paul Gideon Dann — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:59:41 -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!

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

amluto — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:51:07 -0000

As an alternative to tp_smapi, try this:

https://gitorious.org/linux...

There's a userspace tool and a kernel module. I hope to get some form of this into the upstream kernel.

Re: How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird

avelex — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:54:56 -0000

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

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Jonathan Pritchard — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:01:15 -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

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Johnnytc3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:50:04 -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...

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Jonathan Pritchard — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:04:37 -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.

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Johnnytc3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:26:21 -0000

Sorry i meant my smapi folder...

Re: How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

Johnnytc3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:25:38 -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?

Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review

Emad — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:22:14 -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.

Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review

C. M. Giblhauser — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:40:29 -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.

Re: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review

Yuriy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:04:02 -0000

Thanks for your information. It was very helpfull

Re: Fragmentation on the Mobile Web

FlameFox — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:19:47 -0000

i also agree with every word. However i was wondering what you think the best value-for-money phone out there is. Hope you had a great Christmas, and that Santa brought you a lot of good-ol-fashioned open source presents. Ha. Keep up the good work, i find your entries very stimulating, and love to get stuck into one with a nice big mug of coffee!

Re: Fragmentation on the Mobile Web

texrat — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:37:32 -0000

I agree with every word, and contrary to the comment you left on my article, there's nothing inelegant about yours at all. Nicely done.

Re: Welcome

Dead1nside — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:17:09 -0000

I did actually get quite a few people looking at it... boring tech stuff of course, but nonetheless. However the last site broke so you couldn't get to what you were searching for. So it just slowly died.