CNC and Stuff V2

Here are the new links to download KaiserDroid:

KaiserDroid-1.0-full 57.34 MB

First Release of KaiserDroid. To install put androidinstall.tar on your sdcard inside a folder called andboot... more details

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KaiserDroid-1.1-update 384.61 KB

Update for KaiserDroid. To install put androidupdate.tar on your sdcard inside a folder called andboot... more details

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KaiserDroid-1.1-full 57.34 MB

Updated release of KaiserDroid. To install put androidinstall.tar on your sdcard inside a folder called andboot... more details

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I have been trying to enable compiz for awhile now. See the problem is that I have a dual monitor setup and that makes my total screen resolution 2880×900. So what’s the problem you ask? Well it seems that due to many various reasons Compiz has been set to only allow a maximum width of 2048. So here is what I did and how I got it working:

Step 1 Figure out how to get Compiz to load without freaking out on me.

Terminal command:

SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz --replace&

That was easy enough.  The problem was that my video card shared the pci id of a blacklisted card.

To make the change permanent add SKIP_CHECKS=yes to ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

Another problem that many encounter has to do with xgl.  Intel chips are not correctly recognized and as such you have to launch compiz with the above command for them as well.

Step 2 Figure out why the desktop still stops at 2048 px from the left and how to fix it.

This is a little tougher, it seems  that compiz can handle larger resolutions as long as your video card can.

Thanks to a hard to find post, that I can no longer find, I found the answer it is a bug in the Mesa packages.

I will not post this solution here, only link to it as I deserve no credit for this at all.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~cavedon/+archive/ppa

Please visit the above link and enable his PPA as a trusted third party and then update your packages.

After this reboot your computer and everything should work!

How to install x11vnc on Debian based systems. This will give you the ability to login remotely vis vnc without the need to leave the user logged in continuously.

Open a terminal

Enter the following commands in order:

sudo apt-get install x11vnc

Enter your password
Type “y” to install

Next:

sudo nano /etc/gdm/Init/Default

paste the next line of text into the end of the file before the “Exit” line if it exists

x11vnc -nopw -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -display :0 -noxfixes -bg -sb 11 -forever

Exit nano (ctrl+x) type “y” to save.

sudo nano /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom

Add the following lines, the [daemon] section might already exisit, if it does just add the middle line “KillInitClient=false”

[daemon]
KillInitClients=false
[security]

Exit nano (ctrl+x) type “y” to save.

Then reboot:

sudo reboot now

NOTE – Please click on the title of this post and view it by itslef to see the whole text, I am having issues with my template not wrapping long line right now.

Here is a easy script to correct issues when you do not have the correct resolution available in Ubuntu 8.10 for your external monitor.

This script checks for a usb hub in my docking station and if it is present adds the non-detected, but supported, resloution to the external monitor. I am checking for the hub instead of the monitor because xrandr seems to think it is always connected!?

I just added this to my /etc/gdm/init/Default script

if lsusb | grep "Cypress"; then
echo "Changing LCD resolution"
xrandr --newmode "1440x900_60.00"  106.50  1440 1528 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA 1440x900_60.00
xrandr --output VGA --mode 1440x900_60.00
else
echo "No Changes"
fi

What this does is add the resolution 1440×900 at 60hz to the external monitor.
This is a supported resolution but is not detected for some reason.

Any questions or comments please feel free to let mw know!