Sansa e200 Seires not mounting: Bug #355998 in linux (Ubuntu): usb-storage

For anyone that has a Sansa e200, e250, e270 etc, series, and they've upgraded / updated to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, you may have run into some of the issues that I did. - The thing just won't mount. Sorta kills the gPodder and OggCast joy. So I found this patch that solves the problem. Yet you'll get prompted to update the new patched code. I know there's away to stop that, but I'm not sure how, at this moment. I tried the Synaptic Force Version, and I ended back up with a new version. So... I'm not the one to ask about that. But this link, is the one that helped out.

Bug #355998 in linux (Ubuntu): “usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning”

Please note, you need to have the Source Code option turned on in your Software Sources. - something most people don't have turned on.



I spaced out this little checkbox, ran into errors, it wasn't working for me at first. I needed the source code. DOH!


cd /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/
sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts

apt-get build-dep libgphoto2
apt-get source libgphoto2
sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25783305/libgphoto_sansa.diff
sudo patch -p0 -i libgphoto_sansa.diff
cd libgphoto2-2.4.2
debuild -uc -us
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i libgphoto2-2_2.4.2-0ubuntu4_i386.deb


And you'll get a screen full of stuff like this:

It'll take a little time...

From Synaptic Package Manager I've tried to "Pin" it, and lock it, and I'm not doing something right, as I keep getting an update prompt... Sigh...

R_

gPodder and Enqueing your Oggcasts / Podcasts

I was fooling around trying to figure out how to use a lightweight media player, such as XFMedia Player a few days ago, trying to figure out how to enqueue a file to the play-list from within gPodder without overwriting the current file. Seems that most of the Linux Media players behave that way by default, Save Amarok. "Enqueue In SMPlayer" works well also. But I had started a hunt, and off I went. I never did find the one line command line fix to use XFMedia, but I did find a couple that I didn't know about.

Aqualung

aqualung -N0 -E

This option loads the files, but does not start playback automatically, you can try the -L command for that, but that tends to start playback on the last one loaded. For more info look here. Options for remote cue control
Since I was looking for a lightweight media player I've kinda grown fond of Aqualung. It does provide some Podcast Support and also has a cool and funky way of adding media to it's Media List. I discovered Aqualung when I was testing out Sidux XFCE a month ago.


For VLC fans, Try:

vlc --playlist-enqueue --started-from-file

For Audacious

audacious --enqueue

Seems to work ok, but seems to be "skippy" Audacious wouldn't be my first choice.

I welcome any hints tips, comments or other tricks that I might have missed,
Randy

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Alarm Clock Program causes Ubuntu 9.04 to Lock up / Freeze after upgrade

I ran into an Upgrade Snag when going from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 I Googled " Old Alarms preventing logging in to Ubuntu " and found this:

Bug #321176 in alarm-clock (Ubuntu Jaunty): “[Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze” after upgrade.

I'd like to (need to) file or confirm a proper bug report on this. But as I'm pressed for time, I promised the son some Sub-Urban Golf today, I'm going to post this here, and if someone comments, or finds this useful cool. That's why I did it.
(note to self, DO get learned on proper bug-report filing, soon)

I ran into a problem using the upgrade button on my secondary laptop, I was going from 8.10 -> 9.04 Jaunty. I had a utility on the computer called Alarm Clock, Also know as Alarm-Clock. My computer went through the proper upgrade without a hitch, but this utility cause my machine to freeze while booting. With little work or though, I found that from the GRUB menu I could boot into:

Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)

Pick Root [drop to shell prompt]

From this Shell Terminal do a:

Apt-get remove alarm-clock

Exit back out and boot into my System

All things back to normal, minus the Alarm Clock on the panel.

Freenode's staffblog - 2007 - March NickServ is your Friend

While Trying to figure out how to recover my password, I ran into this article, and thought that others that are new to IRC might find it useful. - No, I still haven't figured out what I did with that password, but I probably saved it to my Gmail Account, and flushed that saved message out by accident. IMAP is very powerful, LOL...

NickServ Is Your Friend Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Nickserv, unbeknownst to many, has many useful features. In addition to handling nick registration, it allows you to change your password, hide certain information about your nick and online status, recover your nick from another user who is using it (or a dead computer connection), turn on/off the ability to receive and be notified of new memos. Here are some of the major features of nickserv. Don’t be afraid to poke around with /msg nickserv help.

The Whole Entry from the staffblog, 2007 March

Sidux 2009-01 Xfce4

So, Here I am. A Geek, and awake at 7am on a Saturday morning. I don't want to go back to bed, as I'll probably have to get up at 3am tomorrow, and that would just screw up my sleeping pattern even more. Having entered the Linux world just a little over 2 years ago, I found Ubuntu to be very friendly, and usable. Very well designed for the noob. Any Kind of Noob. :) I figured it was time to look into another Distro, in depth, to see how it did things.

I had installed Sidux, the XFCE (complete list ) version on my hard drive a few weeks ago, and hadn't given it much of a go, as while it was Debian based, they're doing things different from the folks over at Canonical.

I've found myself with Ubuntu Gnome as my primary main machine. It's ease of use and support make it such a joy to learn Linux with. Another one of the nice things about Linux is that one can have as many distro's on their box as they desire. So, I decided that I wanted to to take a little more in depth look into Sidux, XFCE. I figured maybe it'll make it simple to boot into it, and run a full backup on the Ubuntu side while I'm fiddling around on the Sidux side. That Means, that I want a browser, and all of it's trimmings. IE Java, Flash, (yea, freedom hatin' me) and my Google tool-bar.

One of the first things I notice with Sidux is that it uses Iceweasel, not Firefox. That's cool. But my Google Tool bar doesn't know what Iceweasel is, or how to install to it. So I need to use the About: command and change the identity of Iceweasel. I feel like I'm committing some kind of identity theft, but meh, it's only my browser lying to Google, and lord knows they already know enough truth about me. It's just that Iceweasel won't get the credit for being used as a browser. Sigh.

OK, got that done. Wow. Where' s my Add-Remove program? Not in here. Ok so I look at their manual and find that I need. Debian Package Search. Cool, something different. A bit more lightweight, but it looks usable.

I've got Debian Package Search installed, yea, it wasn't part of thier distro packaging.

Just flashed on the screen and showed very little info, when I tried to install Java. A Little bouncing around in the menus in Debian Package Search I notice that I had the ability to copy a and paste command into the terminal window. When I did copy it into the terminal. I got:

/usr/bin/apt-get install sun-java6-jre

But it should have read

apt-get install sun-java6-jre

Not sure what that happened, or if I messed up or missed something but eh, small glitch either way.

Now that I have Java installed. I want test it. I go to JuicedPenguin.com to see if I can get the ogg file to play in a pop-up window. Nope. Iceweasel wants more plug-ins. Another Search with Debian Package Search and I find the Sun-Java6-Plugin, to add Java support for Iceweasle Or any Mozilla Browser, and install it, and now I'm able to listen to that fine Ogg Media via a dandy pop up, if I so desire.

Oh! Also missing, from the "out of box" experience, was a spell checker with AbiWord.

I've yet to get around to playing around with a backup scheme for the system... I'll have to come up with a second part for that. But so far. Yea, I do like it. For some reason this XFCE experience seems a little more fluid then when I'm using Xubuntu, and I'm not sure exactly why. Or it could be that I've become more accustomed to XFCE?

And with that, my fee time is no more, and I need to get out the door.

Bottom line. I like it. Not sure that it would be my first choice to recommend for a newcomer to the Linux scene, but it would have to be a consideration if weak hardware were a concern.

Get Android’s fonts on Ubuntu [HOW TO]

Get Android’s fonts on Ubuntu [HOW TO]

These are some GOOD fonts. I added them to my older machine that has a smaller "square" screen, and reduced my desktop font down to 9 (that alone would have helped) and garnerd more desktop space. I'll be adding them to my main machine also. Just due to the fact that they do save some space.


- I wish I had time to create some oddball fun fonts...

Download - Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

Download - Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

Or for $9.94 you can get a paper edition. - I've put this on my wish list... I'd like to get it. :)

Single on/off switch for conky - Ubuntu Forums

And oldie but goody from the Ubuntu Forums. While I was looking for a command line switch to turn conly on or off, I found this:
[save the file in your home folder, and name it something like Conky-on-off.sh]

Single on/off switch for conky - Ubuntu Forums:
"Single on/off switch for conky Here's a simple script to turn conky on and off. Just copy the script to a empty text file and make it executable(properties>permissions)->

#!/bin/sh

# click to start, click to stop

if pidof conky | grep [0-9] > /dev/null
then
exec killall conky
else
exec conky

fi

Then just create a single launcher for it(right click panel/desk) and point it to what ever you named your file, add a icon and your all set. I use mine so i can change my .conkyrc to try things and skip using the terminal to kill conky and start conky, clicking on the icon is way faster.
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