digital camera and linux

http://www.geocities.com/piccolbo/dplinux.html
http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/pepe/d70/Nikon_D70_on_Linux.html

lost interrupt with Flash Card reader on IBM TP X24 - solved

inserting a flash card into my X24 running Debian GNU/Linux with kernel 2.6.22 (same result with 2.6.18-3,4,5) initially resulted in something like:

kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
kernel: hde: TOSHIBA THNCF1G02QG, CFA DISK drive
kernel: ide2 at 0x3100-0x3107,0x310e on irq 3
kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB
kernel: hde: 2000880 sectors (1024 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=1985/16/63
kernel: hde:<4>hde: lost interrupt
kernel: hde: irq timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: ide2: reset timed-out, status=0xff

simple but not quite obvious solution was to change interrupt settings of the serial, the IRDA and the parallel port in the BIOS; note that the X24 only has serial and parallel ports via port replicator or dock...


References:

1. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_X24#Miscellaneous - a shorter version of this...
   

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anschaulich dargestellt...

no sound after resume with snd-intel8x0 driver and alsa on IBM TP X24 - solved

i have found different suggestions - and statements about whether this problem actually exists. it did for me.

with Debian GNU/Linux ranging from sarge to etch and lenny, and corresponding alsa packages, from kernel 2.6.17 up to 2.6.22 i didn't quite manage to get sound going after resume.

• first solution was to unload the driver and reload it again - which crashed all applications that were using sound at the time of suspend...

• now, i only do (in /etc/hibernate/common.conf):

OnSuspend 98 /etc/init.d/alsa suspend
OnResume 04 /etc/init.d/alsa resume
OnResume 10 sleep 3 && \
amixer set Master mute >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
amixer set PCM mute >/dev/null 2>&amp;1 && \
amixer set Mic mute >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
amixer set Mic unmute >/dev/null 2>&amp;1 && \
amixer set PCM unmute >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
amixer set Master unmute >/dev/null 2>&1

References:

1. http://en.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Swsusp

useful links when looking for irda evolution phone sync on IBM TP X24

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/
http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/computer/T41p/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mobile_phone_connected_with_IrDA
http://www.multisync.org/

http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/hcpcpi.html

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/sync-evolution-calendar-with-google-calendar/

http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gammu:Wammu

how Thunderbird (on OS X) knows about Address Book.app

it seems like the story has been going on for a while. have a look on
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927 for details.

what is working for me:

1. download http://files.mistermartin75.net/thunderbird-2.0.0.6.en-US.mac.dmg


2. edit prefs.js and add:
   

   user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.description", "OS X");
   user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType", 3);
   user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.uri", "moz-abOSXdirectory:///");

   
   
3. if it doesn't work try to delete some of the "ldap_2.server"-entries that seem as if they could interfere...
   

something for my iTunes library

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts01.php

image resize on OS X

cf. http://www.silvermac.com/2007/resizing-images-in-mac-os-x/

http://xtralean.com/IWOverview.html
http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/193/key-features.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004092804461334