November 1st, 2008 by acmelab68
Serial LIRC receiver diode with an D-Sub 9 connector
This is a little HOWTO about setting up
LIRC at another port than usual.
Nowadays most boards coming to market do only posses one serial port. Unfortunately it’s a common habit leaving away the D-Sub 9 back-panel mount. Actually there’s only a pin array on the motherboard itself.
If you only have a serial LIRC receiver you want to connect, and nothing else, like a UPS or stuff, you can just buy such a cable for a few cent. See pic:
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October 27th, 2008 by acmelab68
[NOTE]Please drop a comment, if this article solved your problem. Many people are coming to this page having printing problems on Ubuntu 8.10, but I don’t know if the solution described on this page really helps. Thanks a lot.
I’m on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) now, and wanted to set up my printer, which actually is remotely connected to my server.
The Server is an Ubuntu 7.10, but with a very old (about 4y) samba config (smb.conf) and a freshly installed CUPS server. Originally it was a set up from the
C’t Server project. I’ve tweaked the smb.conf a lot since those days, to keep this whole thing going. All was fine, even with my last client. It was an Ubuntu 8.04 installation.
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October 26th, 2008 by acmelab68
All of a sudden I couldn’t compile mplayer on my fedora8 box:
Linux moon 2.6.26.6-49.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 15:59:36 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
I’ve tried to compile revision #27827, but it gave me after the make command always this (see below), no matter what I’ve tried.
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collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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and a really big bunch of undefined references.
I’ve installed ffmpeg and x264, and compiled mplayer like this:
./configure --disable-libavutil_a --disable-libavcodec_a --disable-libavformat_a
Then it worked. Since I’m not an expert, I don’t know what exactly I have done. However it’s working now.
October 25th, 2008 by acmelab68
I’ve created a new MMS icon for the final release.
Let’s see if Anders is going to like it. I do 
The black color in the background comes from the conversion of the png image. It should be white actually. Click on the image for the bigger [148kb] png image to see the correct colors.
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