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Windows 7 Hosed my Boot Record

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Last weekend I finally decided to give the Windows 7 beta a try. I’ve got three hard drives in my computer. Drive 1 has Windows 2000 and Ubuntu 8.04 on it. The Grub boot loader is on the master boot record to select the OS at boot time. Drive 2 is set up as a storage drive. Drive 3 is set up with a large storage partition along with a 20 GB boot partition that had Fedora 10 on it. I purposely had this set up separately for testing. It requires changing the boot order in the BIOS in order to use it. This seemed like the perfect place to install Windows 7 to try it out. Continue reading →

Force USB Device Discovery in Ubuntu

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I previously did a post on how to Create a Button to Restart USB in Ubuntu. The purpose of that procedure was to get the USB hub in my HP w2207 monitor to recognize a flash drive that had been inserted into one of the ports.

Well I’ve found a better way to force this recognition that doesn’t require root permission. It turns out that issuing the lsusb command polls all of the USB devices and causes my flash drive to be recognized and automounted. You can try this in a terminal with: Continue reading →

Ubuntu on the MSI Wind

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I’ve been using my MSI Wind U100-432US for a few weeks now. If you’re interested in my initial review, you can find it here. Shortly after getting this great small laptop I decided it was time to install Ubuntu. I decided to go for a Hardy install because of its Long Term Support status. I have several computers at home running Ubuntu and I’d rather not go through full distribution upgrades every six months on all of them to keep up with the latest releases. Continue reading →

Update: Logitech LX8 in Ubuntu

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I first wrote about the Logitech LX8 back in August, 2008. The one feature that had eluded me was the side scrolling with the tilt wheel. Through some information I found on fellow blogger Ken Zutter’s site, I now have my LX8 working in Ubuntu including the side scrolling feature. The key was to go back to the evdev driver. Once I made the driver change the side scrolling worked, except in the wrong direction. Left went right and vice versa. No changes in button mapping in the xorg.conf file made a difference, so I resolved to make the mapping changes with Xmodmap. Below are the changes I made to get everything working the way that I want it. Continue reading →

Create a Button to Restart USB in Ubuntu

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I’ve been using my HP w2207 flat panel monitor for some time now. My only frustration has been that I haven’t been able to get the USB ports on the side to work unless I have a device plugged in when the computer boots. I think this is more the fault of Ubuntu than it is the monitor. Ubuntu just doesn’t seem to care about a USB hub unless there is a device plugged into it. After a little searching on the web I found that a fellow blogger had posted a solution on Hack 2 Live. Continue reading →