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Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

Hello, I have been a user of Trisquel for about a week and have accumulated some items and questions:

First of all I am using a HP mini-note 2133 with a VIA C7M 1 Ghz cpu and 1 Gb RAM.

On the USB Disk I made, I noticed it said Trisquel 3.0 at the boot prompt rather than 3.5 even though it was the 3.5 version. Why is that?

I installed Klavaro, but it will not start at all.

Sound went out upon editing the mixer. It says "dummy output" in output tab. I think my chip is not fully supported? How would I go about seeing if 100% free software supports this? The unit also has 2 microphones built in which do not as of now work.

the battery monitor shows up unreliably on battery and drops out when I need it- near the end of life.

Why does the system monitor show 875 Mib total RAM when in fact I have 1 GB?

The system has frozen numerous times (over 4) in related-to-video appications. When I try to scroll page on Youtube with Greasemonkey script installed as per your tutorial, it reliably freezes.

I have had a few ethernet troubles but refreshing works.

Since this is a lesser powered unit, I have some Trisquel Mini suggestions:

include PHC to let users undervolt if possible. Do you know if I can do it on VIA cpu? Unit gets VERY hot

way lighter Desktop that uses max 90-110 MB Ram when idle

Finally, help me check if hardware is up using free software (or has hope in the future of getting a driver)

VIA chrome 9 gpu
broadcom 4312 wireless

Thank you for patience

(struggling in Colemak)

akirashinigami

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Iscritto: 02/25/2010

I just installed klavaro to test it out, and wasn't able to start it either. I then tried starting it from the command line, and got the following message:*** glibc detected *** klavaro: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08db11f8 ***There's some information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_free#Use_after_free about what that means.It's possible that the issue might be fixed in a newer version of klavaro.

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

Thank you for the info.Is there a reason this does not work with Trisquel specifically?

akirashinigami

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Iscritto: 02/25/2010

I don't know.  I imagine we use the same version as the corresponding Ubuntu release (9.10, I think).  I imagine that it doesn't work there, either, but I don't have an Ubuntu 9.10 installation on which to test it.

flop

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Iscritto: 02/16/2009

You may google about this problem. It seems it happens the same on Ubuntu and it has to do with system language setting not being recognized by Klavaro. Some discussion and solutions to the problem in these two links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/klavaro/+bug/353608https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/klavaro/+bug/439753

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

I fixed it by using terminal to mkdir .klavaro then I had to use GUI to make preferences.ini file in said location. (touch would not work) Thanks, one less issue!

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

any chance of the bcm4312 ever working? I feel a little dumb with it just sitting dead... anyone know how I could begin to make it work? how do I check if openchrome is installed? 
 

AndrewT

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Iscritto: 12/28/2009

I have the same wifi card. It supposedly works to some degree in kernel 2.6.33 or later, according to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

ivaylo
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Iscritto: 07/26/2010

janeandreas writes:

> any chance of the bcm4312 ever working? I feel a little dumb with it
> just sitting dead... anyone know how I could begin to make it
> work?

Wireless devices manufactured by Broadcom in the bcm43xx series usually
need a firmware. Luckily there is a free firmware for these devices,
but I do not know does your card require firmware or is it supported by
OpenFWWF. [1] It is available as a package (Trisquel 4.0 do not know for
earlier versions), so it must be supported by Linux-libre.

[1] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

It does not work with bcm4312 and i am not sure how to load firmware if it has to be done manually.  
 

Luis A. Guzmán García
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Iscritto: 06/13/2009

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:17 AM, <name at domain> wrote:

> It does not work with bcm4312 and i am not sure how to load firmware if it
> has to be done manually.
>
>

It won't work since it requires non-free software to work.

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Luis A. Guzmán García

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

So should I just give up? what about reverse engineering? If there is free firmware for 4311, is it a lost cause?

Jayn
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Iscritto: 08/27/2010

Sound is still buggy. I frequently have to reboot just to get it to start.

DanTrisquel
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Iscritto: 04/08/2009

Just on the ethernet issue, I also had a similar problem. I got no IP address from my router, until I disconnected and reconnected using the sys tray icon. I discovered the cause was the Edimax switch I was using. I removed the switch and connected directly to the router. that solved the issue, although now I can't really use that switch.It looks like there's some issue with this Edimax switch and Trisquel. I suspect this may also happen with other switches. So maybe removing or changing your swtich/router could be a solution for your ethernet problem.

anneli
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Iscritto: 01/14/2011

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grvrulz
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Iscritto: 09/23/2010

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