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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Some ASUS UL80VT Problem Solved

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:34:00 +0000

When i bought this laptop (ASUS UL80VT), i never thought it would have problem with Linux, mostly about the dual VGA Card. The brightness key combination didn't work also (it worked out of the box on my previous ACER laptop).

Thanks to Ubuntu team and also member of asus-ul30 mailing list who work together to collect DSDT from other people who have hybrid graphic cards as well and analyze them, i now able to set my brightness and disable NVidia card temporarily to boot my battery life much longer than before.

To set the brightness, you can just use xbacklight command from xbacklight package, included on Slackware's default package on x/ directory. I used this two scripts on my laptop

#!/bin/sh
xbacklight -inc 10

#!/bin/sh
xbacklight -dec 10

Give them light-up and light-down and put them on some place on your PATH. I used /usr/local/bin, since it's my own scripts. Don't forget to give execute permission by running chmod +x /usr/local/bin/light-*. To make it easier for you to change the brightness settings, i made a shortcut using KDE's Input Keys so that i don't have to open a terminal.

To set the default brightness everytime i started my KDE, i used this script

#!/bin/sh
LCD_DEFAULT=10
LCD_STEP=10
case $1 in
 default) xbacklight -set $LCD_DEFAULT;;
 up)      xbacklight -inc $LCD_STEP;;
 down)    xbacklight -dec $LCD_STEP;;
 *)       xbacklight -set $LCD_DEFAULT;;
esac

About switching off the NVidia card, you can see the script on this blog.

With these problems solved, the only things that bother me is how to use NVidia card instead of Intel. I wanted to enjoy the beautiful KDE effects on my laptop. I'm waiting for that moment to come

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: New Poll

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:55:00 +0000

New poll has been made and this time, it's not related to Slackware directly (my apologies). I wanted to know whether you have a hybrid laptop or not, since it's now becoming a common thing to see many hybrid laptop on the market, but unfortunately there is no Linux support for now. I have asked ASUS (my laptop vendor) and they replied that they don't have plan to support Linux users for now, so i'm lost with both GPU running all the time on my ASUS UL80VT. This has a consequences with the battery life. Even though they said it could last for 12 hours, with 2 GPUs running at the same time, it dropped to 5-6 hours only.

So, give it a try and submit your vote on this poll

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Poll Result

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:48:00 +0000

Two months have passed since early this year and it's time to post the result of the poll i conducted earlier this year. There were 75 voters, and 36% of those people believed that next Slackware (probably 13.1) will be released on June/July, followed by 30% who believed that it will be released on April/May.

Here's the results:
April/May 2010 23 (30%)
June/July 2010 27 (36%)
August/September 2010 13 (17%)
October/November 2010 12 (16%)

Please note that this schedule is not the real Slackware release schedule. The final decision on the release date of next Slackware is on Patrick himself.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Future of GPU Switching

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:44:00 +0000

Ok, this is not related to Slackware directly, but i still wanted to post it here anyways. David Airlie has posted a video (unfortunately not the best video) about a demonstration how GPU Switching can be done in Linux. While this might not be a problem in Windows 7, this operation is not yet supported on any Linux distribution.

Nevertheless, it doesn't stop people to try to create a script that enables users to switch between GPU (mostly are Intel GMA and NVidia or ATI) so that it would have longer battery life, since if we don't turn off one of them, it will drain the battery faster.

I'm looking forward to see this script available to any Linux distribution, so i can start using my NVidia GPU instead of using Intel GMA on my ASUS UL80VT laptop.

Widya Walesa: Downgrading ruby

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

Slackware current telah meng-upgrade ruby versi 1.9 (versi terakhir di repo adalah 1.9.1_p243), hanya saja upgrade ini ternyata belum diikuti oleh SWIG (versi terakhir di repo 1.3.38). Hal ini...

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Widya Walesa: Sat Dec 19 00:09:53 UTC 2009

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

l/akonadi-1.2.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.l/liblastfm-0.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.Make sure that libraries are installed in /usr/lib64/.Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger for the bug...

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Widya Walesa: Upgrade ke Slackware64

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

Emang udah saatnya make 64-bit OS. rugi juga punya prosesor dengan dukungan 64-bit klo nggak digunakan. Setelah proses rsync untuk semua paket Slackware64 selesai dan bisa diakses dari FTP kantor...

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Widya Walesa: opencore-amr

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

New codec for AMR Narrowband and Wideband are available with more accepted license, using Apache License V2.0. This codec doesn't need any external AMR source as the code already had a native...

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Widya Walesa: Desktop System Monitor: CONKY

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

Take a look my conky, pretty isn't it?Building it using source version 1.7.1.1 and lua version 5.1.4.Thanks to joe74(http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/My+Conky+conf?content=92284)for the...

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Widya Walesa: Calming Down The Manager

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

After several upgrade process of GNOME WALESA build, i've got lots of spam message generated by NetworkManager. I have to find a solution coz the major problem from spam message is its huge size. Of...

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Widya Walesa: Pulseaudio Panic (Part 2)

noreply@blogger.com (walecha99) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000

Beberapa hari belakangan ini aku sibuk dengan kegiatan upgrade. Anda benar, ini adalah kegiatan yang membosankan. Sangat menyita waktu, menyita perhatian, dengan jaminan sukses yang kurang dari 100%....

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Widya Walesa: Unified Notification System