>My New Ubuntu Desktop

Posted on August 12, 2010 by martadinata666

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>How is your ubuntu desktop???

Posted on August 11, 2010 by martadinata666

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My Desktop
yeah this is my desktop. How abt you?

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>Conky

Posted on August 11, 2010 by martadinata666

>Conky di desktop anda… Conky merupakan salah satu barang yang dapat membantu mempercantik desktop anda, penggunaannya sangat flexible dari kode yang sangat sederhana sampai yang sangat rumit sekalipun.

Bagi saya yang ingin serba otomatis saya gunakan ConkyWizard, cukup download extract dan jalankan comkywizardnya… tapi sebelumnya anda harus menginstall conky dahulu.
#sudo apt-get install conky
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>Open Office 3.3 Beta

Posted on August 11, 2010 by martadinata666

>Bagi yang ingin mencoba open office 3.3 bisa download di Open Office Beta

Karena masih beta kmungkinan crash sangat besar, tidak di sarankan untuk pemakaian sehari-hari.
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>Avant Window Navigator

Posted on August 11, 2010 by martadinata666

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Installing AWN
To load AWN, I used the Ubuntu Software Center for variety. After launching the Software Center, I entered “avant-window” in the search box. Below are the applications that came up. The ones with the green checkmarks are the ones that I installed to support AWN:
Running and setting up AWN
Once installed, simply go to Applications -> Accessories -> Avant Window Navigator. That will start AWN with its default settings, which include the application launcher/task manager and the settings icon. Click on the settings icon on the far left to get the AWN settings:
You can quickly set the icon sizes on the dock by clicking on one of the three folder icons in the center of the settings display. To set up AWN’s details, click on the tools icon (crossed wrench and screwdriver) on the right side:
The settings shown are the ones I’m using right now. Note the “Start Awn automatically” checkbox on the lower left. Checking this will ensure that AWN starts up whenever you reboot. If you are replacing Gnome panels, this is very important to check. For a configuration, I chose to use the 3D dock with Intellihide to Transparency.
Intellihide hides the dock whenever the dock would overlap an active window. You can choose to make the dock go invisible, go behind the active window, or simply become transparent. I chose the latter, which works great. I also chose the classic Icon effects because it simply lifts the icon a short distance off of the dock base. Other icon effects are very slick, but become a bit tiresome after a while.
The next tab is the Task Manager:
Again, these are my current settings. The easiest way to populate the Launcher is to right click on a running application and choose Add as Launcher:
Otherwise, you have to hunt down the application’s icon on the disk. This adding process works very simply. To reorder the applications, simply drag and drop them on the dock itself. The dock is active and updated realtime while changing settings.
The way that the launcher and task manager interact proved simple and space saving. When you launch an app from the dock, it gets a small triangle under its launcher icon. No extra horizontal space is used. Very slick. I added all the applications to the launcher that I had on my top Gnome panel.
Next comes the real plus for AWN, the applets:
AWN has a good number of applets. You add them to the dock by highlighting applets and using the down arrow below the list. Remove them from the dock by highlighting them on the bottom of the window and using the up arrow. Change their order by dragging and dropping them in the bottom of the window. Individual applet settings can be changed by right-clicking them on the dock.
I laid out my dock with, going left to right: AWN Settings, Cairo Menu (includes Places as well as all Gnome menus), Separator, Launcher/Task Manager, Separator, Shiny Switcher (shows all workspaces with backgrounds and active apps), Weather, Hardware Sensors, Separator, Notification Area, Volume Control, and Garbage. This provided all the functionality of the Gnome bottom panel, plus most of Gnome’s top panel. I could have duplicated all of Gnome’s top panel functionality as well, except for the Indicator Applet, but didn’t for reasons I’ll mention later. Net result (all the running applications have small triangles under them, the other programs are available in the launcher):
AWN provided some excellent applets that I didn’t expect. The Hardware Sensors applet takes full advantage of lmsensors and hddtemp. I find that it has an advantage over the corresponding Gnome panel applet. When you left-click on the dock icon, it lists all sensor values that the user has selected to display:
Clicking the weather icon provides a 5-day forecast:
The radar picture can be accessed by right-clicking the weather icon and choosing “Show map”.
Relatively unique to AWN is the Notification Area applet. As you can see from the above screenshot, it shows the network status, Shutter’s system tray icon, and Radio Tray’s icon – all fully functional and taking very little space. Awesome.
Note, though, that I DID NOT replace Gnome’s notification system with the one offered as an AWN applet. Either way, the AWN Notification Area will not run as long as Gnome’s Notification Area is running. So, you have to right click on Gnome’s notification area on the top panel and choose “Remove from Panel”. Then right-click on AWN’s notification area and it will run correctly. I apparently had two instances of Gnome’s notification running and had to shut them both down.
Gnome Panel Surgery
I made it my goal to replace all the Gnome panel functions with AWN. With the launcher, task manager, Shiny Switcher, and garbage applets installed, I could and did delete the Gnome bottom panel. To do so, right click on the bottom panel and choose Delete This Panel. After dismissing the warning about losing the panel’s settings, it was gone. One down.
It turns out that you cannot delete all of Gnome’s panels. At least, right-clicking on the top panel after deleting the bottom panel shows that Delete This Panel as grayed out. If there’s another way to get rid of the last panel, I didn’t find it. However, I could trim the panel down. So, I right clicked on the menus and other panel items that I didn’t want and selected Remove From Panel for each item:
Since I had to keep the top Gnome panel, I decided to keep the Indicator Applet since AWN doesn’t have one, the time/date to save space on the dock, and the Indicator Applet Session for restarting the system, also to save space on the dock. Right clicking on a blank spot on the panel:
I selected Properties:
I cleared the Expand checkbox. That reduced the panel size down to the remaining elements. That seems the best option at this point.
Final result
The new desktop setup:
Notice that about the center of the dock one of the icons is rising and fading. That’s the animation of Shutter closing to the system tray. When a program closes, the program’s icon rises and fades away, then the dock closes the resultant gap. Pretty cool.
I think that I’ll continue to use and work this setup. So far, it works like a champ with no stability issues. And, it takes up a lot less real estate.
Update:
After I published this, I remembered that I could autohide the top Gnome panel and thus cleanup the screen. So, I added the Digital Clock applet to the dock, autohid the Gnome top panel, and netted a cleaner screen:
I lose the email notification, but this definitely works for me.
Update 2:
Thanks to psalmodyguy6o8 and jtr0 in the comments below, I am now rid of the Gnome panels. I used Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor, went to desktop –> gnome –> session –> required_components. Then right-click the panel key, select Edit Key, and change the Value “gnome-panel” to “avant-window-navigator” without the quotes. Restart and the gnome panels are gone. Sweet. Thanks guys!

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>Upgrade ALSA ke 1.0.23

Posted on August 11, 2010 by martadinata666

>Berdasarkan post dari ALSA Upgrade Script maka saya coba lah sedikit tuh tutorial….

Latest post update 05/10/2010
Latest Alsa-Upgrade-Script update 05/11/2010 Rev. 1.0.23-2.sh
Latest alsa-info.sh update 05/10/2010 (1.0.23)
Latest Alsa-Package update: 05/10/2010 (1.0.23)

BACKGROUND:

The audio functionality of any computer system belongs to the very basic functions of a PC and OS. No sound, poor sound, limited functionality – No use for such a system!

The main idea behind upgrading ALSA with attached script is to make Linux available to a slightly wider community.

The script bridges the huge delay (up to a year) of Alsa updates supplied through the official channels.
By running the upgrade you’ll have a much bigger chance to get your soundcard working or problems resolved.

The script installs the latest official stable ALSA release. (optional the even more up 2 date driver snapshot will be installed)

Upgraded packages

Alsa 1.0.23 (stabil)

See: Changelog Alsa 1.0.23 

DRIVER=alsa-driver-1.0.23
FIRMWARE=alsa-firmware-1.0.23
LIB=alsa-lib-1.0.23
PLUGINS=alsa-plugins-1.0.23
UTILS=alsa-utils-1.0.23
TOOLS=alsa-tools-1.0.23
OSS=alsa-oss-1.0.17

Supported kernels: 2.6.24/26/27/28/29/30/31/32 family (including rt-kernel & NON-Ubuntu ZEN-rt-kernel)

Note: The restore currently does not not work on custom kernels!

UPGRADE:

The script is not in line with Debian/Ubuntu rules for package handling. It just overwrites existing files.
You won’t see any changes on the ALSA package-ids within Synaptic!

The script recognizes severe problems during the installation and will stop automatically. It shouldn’t mess up your setup.
If the script stops with an error-message nothing should have been touched!

In the worst case scenario the -r restore option restores your old system status as good as possible. It’ll reinstall kernel, kernel-headers and Alsa related packages.

Ubuntu upgrades/updates might overwrite your Alsa installation once in a while (e.g. Major upgrades, kernel-upgrades or ALSA-package upgrades).
You just need to rerun the upgrade-script using the -i option in this case (if you still have the compiled sources on the disk).

Disclaimer: I won’t take any responsibility for mess-ups caused by using the script! — Of course – I do my best to avoid these and support you as much as I can.

As usual – Make a backup first! – A restore will just take 5 minutes with rsync. That might save you hours of troubleshooting and frustration  .

Please consider that I rely on your support to improve the script and really appreciate your involvement.

Short Alsa-Upgrade script install instructions:

1. download the script and save it somewhere
2. cd
3. tar xvf AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.tar
4. sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -d
5. sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -c
6. sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -i
7. sudo shutdown -r 0

Logging: I recommend to log all the upgrade steps, e.g.

script -a -c “./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -d” /tmp/Alsa_1.0.23-2_upgrade_download.log

You’ll find a log file /tmp/Alsa_1.0.23-2_upgrade_download.log as soon as the script is finished.
You need to run this procedure for every single step. Choose whatever logfile names.

Test and Troubleshooting

After reboot you can type:

cat /proc/asound/version

This will let you know if you’re running the new version.

The easiest and most reliable test to verify if Alsa is working is “aplay” – the Alsa player application. If aplay won’t work — nothing else will work.

Make sure that all your channels are unmuted and volume is up!

Type in a terminal:
$ aplay -l
(This won’t work on e.g. webcams with a microphone only. Here you need to do a $cat /proc/asound/cards to see if it is there”

If you see your soundcards, you’re almost there.

To test your first (default-index 0 X=0) soundcard, type e.g.:
$ aplay -Dplughw:X,0 -fcd //.wav
or e.g.
$ speaker-test -Dplughw:X,0 -c2
replace the X with the index of your soundcard index , which you find out by typing “aplay -l” – look for “card X”

Multichannel you can test the following way:
1. Type $aplay -L to find out about your pcm device . e.g “surround51”
2. Type $speaker-test -D surround51 -c6
Note: If the channel mapping should be wrong you need to adjust it in .asoundrc

Before reporting “NO SOUND” problems – check if your alsamixer-channels are activated and unmuted (gnome-mixer/volume-control/preferences)!!
Very often there are headphone-jack, Toslink, SPDIF or microphone issues reported. Usually this has something to do with wrong alsamixer settings or more seldom with a wrong model-id assigned to your sound-driver in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf .
If you’re lacking certain controls in alsamixer or your driver is not even being loaded, you should check-out your model-id in attached HD-Audio-Models.txt.
I strongly recommend to try similar model-id’s matching your codec to checkout if your faulty function gets working.
I’d guess 80% of the reported problems (group: other than alsamixer issues) over here are related to the model setting in alsa-base.

Howto:
1. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

2. Look for:
options snd-hda-intel index=-2
3. Lookup your model in HD-Audio-Models.txt and change entry accordingly:
options snd-hda-intel index=-2 model=XXXXX
4. Save & Exit & Reboot

Please also have a look at these sides for further help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

To avoid spaming the ALSA mailing list with problems, I strongly recommend to install the very latest driver snapshots taken from the source tree. There’ll be a slight chance that issues might be resolved already.

Use the -s option of the upgrade script to get the latest driver snapshot installed.

(NOTE: The snapshot is neither an official driver release nor an official pre-release or release-candidate – however, it reflects an “approved” status by the Alsa main developers. Therefore you don’t risk much to install it.)

Alsa provides alsa-info.sh. It is a shell script collecting all kind of data related to the audio environment. The Alsa designers will ask for the log in case we encounter rather severe problems. However before sending the stuff to Alsa the upgrade script should have been run with the -s function. The problem you’re running into might be already resolved in the latest drivers snapshot.

Download alsa-info.tar first

$ tar xvvf alsa-info.tar
$ sudo alsa-info.sh –no-upload

You can attach the log-file here or you send the output to the ALSA mailing list.
This way you also actively contribute to ALSA quality improvements.

To make troubleshooting over here a bit more efficient, report:

1. Name your Ubuntu revision
2. Kernel revision
3. Alsa revision
4. Upgrade script revision
5. A bit of background what you’ve done resp. done before
6. Attach the relevant logs


ALSA Upgrade Script silakan di download dan mencoba…
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>Mempercepat Browsing dengan Squid

Posted on July 9, 2010 by martadinata666

>Squid telah menjadi salah satu andalan saya dalam mempercepat proses browsing saya. Maklum pengguna broadband, fakir bandwith.
Karna itu saya menggunakan squid yang mampu membuat cache page browsing.
Berikut tutorial mudah dari saya….

#sudo apt-get install squid
#sudo gedit /etc/squid/squid.conf

maka editlah beberapa bagian berikut

http_port 127.0.0.1:3128
maximum_object_size 1048576 KB sebagai asumsi maksimum object 1GB, rubah ukuran terserah anda
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 1000 16 256 jumlah hardisk yang akan di pakai sebagai cache di sini 1000 MB atau 1 Gb.
Kemudian rubahlah settingan pada firefox anda.
Edit > preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings
kemudian pilih “manual proxy configuration”
ubah menjadi 127.0.0.1 dan port menjadi 3128
Restart ubuntu anda, selesai. 
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>Menjalankan Fan yang Mati Pada Acer

Posted on July 1, 2010 by martadinata666

>Hal ini telah menjadi momok bagi beberapa laptop acer, bagi saya hal ini juga terjadi.

Saya menggunakan eMachines D720 yang memang merupakan salah satu “small business” dari Acer. Di beberapa laptop Acer terdapat beberapa masalah memang, contohnya kipas tidak bekerja, atau kipas bekerja sangat cepat sehingga menjadi sangat berisik. Namun hal ini telah teratasi, dan hal berikut tutorial dari saya “untuk kipas mati tentunya”.

  • Download  acer_ec.pl script.
  • Download  acerfand daemon script.
  • Lakukan perinyah berikut idi terminal tempat direktori script :

$chmod a+x acerfand
$sudo cp acer_ec.pl acerfand /usr/local/bin/

$sudo acerfand

Menjalankan acerfand saat boot :
$sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
Ketikan sebelum “exit 0”  /usr/local/bin/acerfand
Buat konfigurasi dari acerfand
$sudo gedit /etc/acerfand.conf

Sisipkan parameter berikut:
Poling suhu >>INTERVAL=5
Mematikan kipas saat suhu >>FANOFF=60
Kipas otomatis>>FANAUTO=70

NB : Bagi yang procesor mudah overheat di harapkan memaximize speed kipas dengan melakukan editing terlebih dahulu pada acerfand. Ubah parameter yang saya tebalkan FAN_CMD_OFF=20 dan RAW_FAN_STATE_OFF=”0x55″ ini akan merubah speed kipas menjadi maksimal. Maka cpu anda tidak akan overheat lagi.

case “$BIOS_VERSION” in
“${BIOS_VERSION_3309}”)
#change: handle 3309 seperate 0xAF -> 0x20
R_FAN=55
R_TEMP=58
FAN_CMD_OFF=20
FAN_CMD_AUTO=00
RAW_FAN_STATE_OFF=”0x55″
;;
“${BIOS_VERSION_3304}” | “${BIOS_VERSION_3305}” )
R_FAN=55
R_TEMP=58
FAN_CMD_OFF=20
FAN_CMD_AUTO=00
RAW_FAN_STATE_OFF=”0x55″
;;
“${BIOS_VERSION_3114}” | “${BIOS_VERSION_3109}”)
R_FAN=55
R_TEMP=58
FAN_CMD_OFF=50
FAN_CMD_AUTO=00
RAW_FAN_STATE_OFF=”0x55″
;;
*)
err “Unsupported bios version ${BIOS_VERSION} found. Aborting.”
exit 1
;;
esac

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>Pasang Gnome global menu di Ubuntu Jaunty

Posted on June 30, 2010 by martadinata666

>Gnome global adalah salah satu alternatif menu yang cukup keren.
Dan juga merupakan salah satu tahap merubah tampilan ubuntu menjadi MacOS, karena dengan applet ini menu-menu gtk+ akan berpindah ke atas sehingga mirip MacOS. Saya pun menginstallnya bedasarlkan Google Code.
Secara singkat :
#sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Tambahkan :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main  
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main 
 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu hardy main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
 
Pilih sesuai versi ubuntu anda , tambahkan kyring ini http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/GlobalMenuKey.gpg
#sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu
Lalu logout dan login, tambahkan applet ini pada panel anda.
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>Aplikasi ZTEMTEVDO untuk Ubuntu

Posted on June 29, 2010 by martadinata666

>Aplikasi ini adalah alternatif untuk para pengguna ubuntu dan turunannya.

Dapat di gunakan di berbagai macam modem USB merek ZTE.
Daripada pnggunaan wvdial, atau gnomeppp. Dengan aplikasi ini anda dapat melakukan sms atau telepon.
ztemtevdo silakan di download.
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