Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Linux category.

Disable Bell in VIM

" Disable both beep and visual flash
set visualbell t_vb=

via


Linux 101 Hacks

I haven’t read it yet, but it seems a nice Linux book.
Here is the release announcement:

I’m happy to announce the release of my first Free eBook — Linux 101 Hacks. There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book [...]


Patch to Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver for Kernel 2.6.27

Update 2009-01-04: As Jose mentioned, the latest driver (ver. 5.10.27.12) no longer needs this patch!
If you have problem to compile Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver (version 5.10.27.6) on Kernel 2.6.27 and get error message like the following:

/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c: In function ‘wl_iw_get_scan’:
/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c:934: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘iwe_stream_add_event’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/ye/downloads/bcm4328/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c:934: warning: passing argument 3 of [...]


Big Day: Wine 1.0

Beside Firefox 3 officially released today, Wine also released its long waited non-beta/RC version, Wine 1.0.

You can download Wine 1.0 source code here; or you might want to wait for your distro’s update, I believe they all will update very soon!


Solution to Lenovo Y410 Sound Problem On Ubuntu 8.04

Update 2008-11-20: In a comment, Ace pointed out that Ubuntu 8.10 already has this problem fixed.
Update 2008-10-6: please don’t use the y410_sound script from this article since I don’t own a Y410 anymore, so I couldn’t test and maintain the script. Instead, please follow the solutions given in the comments. They seem to work pretty [...]