October 2011 – My Thoughts

android-x86

USB install:
zcat android-x86-….img.gz |dd of=/dev/sdb

How to wake up:
the following keys are working: ESC, Menu, left, right, up, down

to wake up the machine the keys must be pressed for at least one second

you may use the mouse wheel to unlock the screen

if you encounter graphics problems you may use the following options:

kernel initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0
androidboot_hardware=generic_x86 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode video=-16 SRC=DATA=DPI=240

the parameter xforcevesa enables VESA graphics driver for X

nomodeset disables the kernel mode setting

Both options may be used to play around and getting graphics to work.

Navigation:
HOME – windows key left
BACK – ESC
MENU – menu-key

pyload reverse proxy config

Here is a config for apache to enable reverse proxy access to a pyload webinterface I found on the net:

ServerSignature off
RedirectMatch ^/(.*)$ https://pyload…/$1

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

ErrorLog /var/log/apache/pyload_error.log
LogLevel emerg
CustomLog /var/log/apache/pyload_error.log combined

no KMS to enable hibernate on Thinkpad with Radeon graphic

I had severe problems in getting my Thinkpad with Radeon 9100 graphics card to hibernate. But after some weeks of googling around I found to disable KMS to solve the problem.
To disbale KMS I either used:
boot command: nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0 or a modprobe option like:
/etc/modprobe.d/radeon_KMS.conf with contents:
options radeon modeset=0

I also found some instructions about disabling DRI which did not do the job but I append them for showing blacklisting of modules:

/etc/modprobe.d/DRI.conf with contents blacklist DRI
There might also exist a file called blacklist.conf alternatively which should include: blacklist DRI

depmod -ae
update_initramfs -u -k ‘uname -r’ -v to also disable DRI in initial ramdisk.
reboot and lsmod|grep DRI