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29. Lm-sensors Configuration
Type:
sensors-detect
This starts a program which detects our motherboard’s temperature sensors.
We just answer Yes to all questions. We’ll get 2-5 lines as results and we will be asked if we want it to update some files. Answer yes and exit sensors-detect.
30. Alsa configuration
Type:
alsaconf
This starts a program that automatically detects our audio card.
We just answer yes to all the questions kai after a while we’ll get 2-5 lines as results and we will be asked if we want it to update some files. Answer Yes.
Be careful in one part.
If we get more than one audio cards and one of them has "intel8x0" inside the choose this one and not the other. This happens usually for some nVidia nForce chipsets.
Exit alsaconf.
31. Final Check Up and Reboot
cd / clear
Let’s check 2-3 final things. Type:
nano /etc/rc.conf
Check for their consistency those lines:
MODULES=(powernow-k8 fuse forcedeth r8169 ac battery button fan thermal loop)
The correct order is:
- The kernel module for our processor’s power throttling if this is supported.
- The kernel modules for our network interfaces with the order we want them to start.
- The necessary ACPI modules.
Finally we check this line:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network portmap netfs @crond nfslock @nfsd @samba acpid sensors dbus @hal @alsa cpufreq @cups @openntpd @sshd @gdm)
Take care not to add or omit @. If your processor doesn’t support power throttling there should be no cpufreq daemon.
When we are sure that everything is ok exit nano with Ctrl+X
Reboot and you are ready!
cd / clear reboot
II-1 Irreplaceable Solutions
Some simple and irreplaceable solutions, for really difficult problems, are mentioned below.
- If we like to have guaranteed keyboard switch on KDE, with contemporaneous sign on the panel, with the combinations we have get used to for years from the other desktops:
Firstly, we have to be logged in on the KDE, open a new Konsole as a simple user and hit:
for ctrl+shift
sed -ie 's/Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=.*/Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=default(Ctrl+Shift_L);Ctrl+Shift_R/' ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
for alt+shift
sed -ie 's/Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=.*/Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=default(Alt+Shift_L);Alt+Shift_R/' ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
- If we want to run the weather applet of the KWeather panel:
Firstly, we have to be logged in on the KDE, load KWeather on the panel, open a new Konsole as a simple user and hit:
dcop KWeatherService WeatherService addStation LGAV
II-2 Suggested extra Programs
Here will be mentioned some programs that are considered to be some of the best on their categories:
Music Programs:
audacious audacious-plugins amarok-base amarok-engine-xine
Photography and comic programs:
gimageview gimp ή gimp-devel + gutenprint gphoto2 gtkam f-spot comix evince
Internet Programs:
d4x gftp ή kftpgrabber xchat gaim ή amsn amule
A/V encoding programs:
grip kid3 avidemux k9copy konverter
Astronomy programs:
celestia
Office programs:
openoffice-base openoffice-spell-en openoffice-el
Some of the suggested extra programs:
