Orange – My Mobile Ubuntu Box

Ass. Wr. Wb.

Last Ramadhan i got my self my very first laptop a Compaq Presario C300, it’s a entry level laptop without any operating system bundled, the spesifications are :

• Intel Celeron M 420 (533 Mhz FSB and 1 Mb Cache)
• Intel 945 Chipset
• 256 Mb DDR2 SDRAM
• 60 GB 7200 SATA HDD
• Wide Bright View (crystal) 1280×800 resolution LCD
• Altec Lansing speakers
• Wifi

For a entry level laptop this thing is loaded with feauters

Ubuntu Edgy On Intel 945GM Graphics & Wide Screen LCD NoteBooks

Ass. Wr. Wb.

Edgy eft has been released for quite some time and thanks for the guys from the gathering i got my self a edubuntu 6.10 at first i was realy hyped and with great expectation I installed it right away on my Orange, but the this buggy release realy starts to annoy me with freezing Xwindows and crashing applets on Gnome, at the point where i was going to return to the good old Dapper i remember a phrase that my best friend used to say : “No body likes a quiter!”. So I decided to stick with Edgy and try to solve problems one at a time! Coz this is what open source is all about.. solving problem’s and sharing it with others And to the first problem that i solve is the freezin X and with this problem gone my life with edgy became stable, fast & beautifull (Thanx to beryl )

The other reason why i wrote this how to is because there’s no explaination on the unofficial ubuntu guide on installing a i945GM graphic controller, but there is nothing new in this howto, coz on that guide there’s a good howto on installing a 1915, and this guide is actualy based on that howto

First download the i945GM driver from :

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/9726/eng/dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.rpm

This driver was originaly made for SUSE 10 that is why it is in binary RPM form, but that’s okay with a little bit of magic called alien the RPM turns into a Debian Package!

Go to the folder where u put the rpm file then do the alien :
#sudo alien dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.rpm

Last thing to do :
#sudo dpkg -i dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.deb

Reboot and Thats it!!! On my Orange this installation works like a charm.. right after the reboot my screen resolution has been auto adjusted to 1280 x 800 and the wide screen now look crystal clear with no smudge like distortion like it used to have without the intel driver and 1024 x 768 resolution.

And with this driver installed installing beryl became posible, but i’ll discuss that later.. Enjoy!

Wassalam

Yogha goes blog

yup, you guessed it! my first blog ever!

I’m gonna use this nice app for documenting my works and studies only…

You won’t find anything about my personal life here, though you might find me complaining about humanity and politics

Oh yeah.. let me introduce my self :

Name : Yogha Harmadi

Gender : Male

Interest : Computers, Information Technology, Information Security, Automobil (Classic & Speed), Progressive Rock, Rock & Roll and Video Games!