ichtus

almost 1 month ago, my laptop battery having very low capacity / drop,
It can only use for 1 hour with normal usage (firefox, evolution, gnome-terminal, xmms)…:(
it only have design capacity: 1667 mAh before, and a week ago asking surabaya shop in THR
about how to fix and replace it if necessary…surely it can’t fix they said, they offer to
replace to battery cell with the new one (of course not original from HP) with only Rp. 600.000.

that’s still expensive for me, so I decided to search the internet about this problem,
some site having the information about how to maintenance the Lithium batt,
some of rule that I need to remember is:
1. do not plug the battery while you are using electric power more than 24 hours using
2. for the first time usage, charge the battery over 1 night with power off condition
3. having full charge and discharge minimum 4 times to get optimal battery performance

and for the user with drop battery that can’t be help with anyways, search the google how to minimize usage of unused hardware component like pcmcia, and optimize use of harddisk, cdrom, LCD that  can take most of the power of your battery.

so until then, now when the battery fully charged, I plug off the cable, so it using the battery power until fully discharged, and so on…
thanks God :D, the battery cell doesn’t damage, now my battery capacity is
[root@ichtusmobile ~]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/C11F/info
present:                 yes
design capacity:         3663 mAh
last full capacity:      3663 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          14800 mV
design capacity warning: 366 mAh
design capacity low:     0 mAh
capacity granularity 1:  100 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  100 mAh
model number:            Primary
serial number:           00 CC 10 4F 00 64 B8 00
battery type:            LIon
OEM info:                 Hewlett-Packard
[root@ichtusmobile ~]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/C11F/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            1454 mA
remaining capacity:      1910 mAh
present voltage:         14787 mV

I think because before I never used the battery, it just need to "train" for fully charged and discharged cycles for refresh the battery

in this few days, I have already running FC6(Zod) in my laptop, first impression looks good,
have first installed in Dell 160L Desktop PC:
P4, 256Mb, VGA Intel onBoard, ethernet Broadcom,
Zod installed smoothly,

but I have some problem, I think the anaconda(redhat installation program) wrong to choose the kernel (but not sure about it),
the installation finish with
kernel-xen (kernel default to 2.6.18), it can’t load the broadcom ethernet driver, so I must replace it
manually with the standard kernel (without Xen).
just for more information FC6, have better support for Xen
for more information about FC6:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

it running well after installed the standard kernel, and wow compiz with AIGLX can be enabled
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/AiglxOnFedora
and Desktop Effects can be seen in my photo in friendster (http://www.friendster.com/ichtus)..

but that only the first step, because my laptop cdrom still broken, can’t read anything,
I have to bought
a converter 2.5" HD to USB, so I can move the hard drive, plug in to the USB port
and copy manually / directory to my Laptop Hard drive..

the process itself takes very simple step, I just need,
# cp -a /mnt/source /mnt/laptopHD

and after completed, it needs to
- modify partition numbering in the /etc/mtab,
- mount with bind for the /dev and /proc,
- chroot to the mounted partition (/mnt/laptopHD),
- install the grub in the
my laptop HD (grub-install /dev/sda)

whoop lah…
- my laptop now have FC6 installed:
is that it? no2x..it still have some problem to resolved..

1. the dialup for gprs using my Motorola C650 can’t connect to the internet

2. the eth[x] ordering problem for the ethernet driver and ip2100 wireless driver

3. desktop-effects runs well, but cut off my screen to 1024×768
(it actually using Mobility Radeon 9200, Compaq x1217)
after investigating,
first problem cause by,
1. I have put the hostname (ichtusmobile.org) using IP address 192.168.0.1
[root@ichtusmobile ~]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost      
192.168.0.1   ichtusmobile.org        ichtusmobile

this somehow cause, everytime I connect using gprs connection (using ProXL GSM operator),
it always used 192.168.0.1 as inet address,
so put the hostname now,
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       ichtusmobile.org        ichtusmobile

still dunno why this problem can happen :(…

2. very confuse at first time, my Realtek 8139cp can’t detect, I checked with
# ifconfig eth0 (it doesn’t seem there)
looking at the system-config-network, and having 8139cp at eth1
have to modify /etc/modprobe.conf
[root@ichtusmobile ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
remove snd-intel8×0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r –ignore-remove snd-intel8×0
alias eth0 8139cp
alias eth1 ipw2100
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8×0
options snd-card-0 index=0
———-
but after reboot, the ordering still 8139cp in eth1…but because no problem can cause by this
kind of problem, so I leave it till now

3. desktop-effects runs well, but cut off my screen to 1024×768 from 1280×800
this can be resolved now,
I just use driconf to raise the value GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE:
[root@ichtusmobile ~]#  LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 glxinfo -l | grep GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE
    GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 1024
download driconf from: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf
cat /etc/drirc:
<driconf>
    <device screen="0" driver="r200">
        <application name="all">
            <option name="force_s3tc_enable" value="false" />
            <option name="nv_vertex_program" value="false" />
            <option name="fthrottle_mode" value="2" />
            <option name="tcl_mode" value="3" />
            <option name="texture_depth" value="0" />
            <option name="def_max_anisotropy" value="1.0" />
            <option name="no_neg_lod_bias" value="false" />
            <option name="texture_units" value="6" />
            <option name="dither_mode" value="0" />
            <option name="hyperz" value="true" />
            <option name="round_mode" value="0" />
            <option name="no_rast" value="false" />
            <option name="allow_large_textures" value="2" />
            <option name="color_reduction" value="1" />
            <option name="vblank_mode" value="1" />
            <option name="texture_blend_quality" value="1.0" />
        </application>
    </device>
</driconf>
after restart X,

[root@ichtusmobile ~]#  LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 glxinfo -l | grep GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE
    GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

now compiz can run in widescreen mode at resolution 1280×800

More information about Fedora Core 6,

What’s New in Fedora Core 6?

A series of screenshots and demonstration videos have been produced by the Fedora community, as an introduction to Fedora Core 6.

Desktop

There are a variety of additions to Fedora Core 6 that interesting to desktop users, including:

• A new theme is introduced, courtesy of the Fedora Artwork Project.

• The system’s default font is now DejaVu, which increases Fedora’s support for many languages that use the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.

• The Compiz
  window manager provides better visual feedback and a variety of desktop
  effects, using the AIGLX framework. More information is available from
  the Fedora Rendering Project.

• Enhancements in package management by way of pirut and yum-updatesd, which combine to provide a notification applet, alerting the user when there is updated software available.

• A rewritten system-config-printer
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  customize their printer settings without having to modify system-wide
  configurations. Additional technical details are available here and here.

• GNOME 2.16 and KDE 3.5.4, as well as the latest upstream versions of many standard open source applications, such as Firefox and OpenOffice.org.

• Fedora Core 6 includes Dogtail, which provides a graphical test and automation framework.   

• Totem has replaced Helix Player as the default media player in Fedora Core 6.

Performance

• All Fedora Core applications have been rebuilt using `DT_GNU_HASH`, which provides a significant performance boost during start-up for applications using dynamic linking.   

• This release improves package management and
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  Packages rebuilt in this manner include beagle, evince, gnome-utils, and NetworkManager.  More information is here.

• The performance of the Fedora’s default ext3 filesystem has been boosted in recent versions of the 2.6 Linux kernel. 

System Administration

• Arguably the most useful new feature in Fedora Core 6 are the
  improvements that have been made to Anaconda, the Fedora installer. At
  install-time, the user can specify third-party repositories, and if the
  install is network-aware, Fedora can reach out to those repositories
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• IPv6 is supported in Anaconda.

• A graphical virtualization manager is included to simplify the creation and management of virtualized systems.

• SELinux is enhanced by means of a graphical troubleshooting tool and enhancements to the Nautilus file manager.

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beberapa minggu lalu ada temen, yang minta saran untuk membeli HP baru, dengan fitur terkini,
salah satu prioritasnya adalah kemampuan web browsernya

so akhirnya aku sarankan Nokia E61 (http://www.nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,,91830,00.html)
but sepertinya di seri Nokia yang terbaru ada bug yang menganggu

"Web: Already in use" error pada waktu menjalankan web browser,
akibatnya sama sekali tidak bisa browsing 

abis cari di internet dan menanyakan sana-sini,
ketemu web:
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=messaging&message.id=2917 

dan sepertinya hal ini juga dialami di nokia seri N71, N73, N90, N91
saran dari nokia untuk melakukan update firmware,

ini juga merupakan hal yang baru, user diberi program untuk bisa update firmware sendiri,
http://www.nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,6771,96197,00.html?E61

but untuk solusi sementara:
To perform a hard reset, you should dial these numbers as if making a phone call:
*#7370#
You will receive the following message:
Restore all original Phone settings?
Phone will restart. If it asks for security code try 12345 which is default.
I’ve
tried to perform a backup using the backup function in the operating
system into my miniSD card, but after resetting “from scratch” I could
not retrieve my contacts back again.
Be careful with your contacts and all the appointments.

but anyway, karena saya penggemar Motorola,
saya belum pernah pegang handphone2x itu, jadi maafkan saya tidak bisa memberikan informasi yang lebih detail

oh yah, User Agent dari Nokia E61:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
KHTML?? apa sudah pake produknya Trolltech kah? keren juga nih..