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Get a 1440x900 boot screen in Ubuntu 9.04

This is useful if you have an nVidia gfx card and want to boot in 1440x900 resolution. Problems are normally encountered because of this bug. Is this procedure to work around it.

• Add nvidiafb in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
• When editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf, also comment out:

blacklist vga16fb

blacklist nvidiafb

• sudo modprobe nvidiafb
• Use vga=0x365 in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Date: 02.06.10 Time: 21:56 PM
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How to auto-mount eSATA devices

By default it seems that eSATA devices are treated as evil foreign things that only super users can mount. Thunar will bork with somehting like this:

org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <— (action, result).

I am toor and I expect to be able to do things like this, therefore do the following:

In /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy, modify (change no to yes) [See this]

Code:

  <action id="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
    <description>Mount file systems from removable drives.</description>
    <message>System policy prevents mounting removable media</message>
    <defaults>
      <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
    </defaults>
  </action>

In /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, add:

Code:

<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
  <match user="your-user-account">
    <return result="yes"/>
  </match>
</match>

[Also see this]

Tags: linux thunar esata automount Date: 01.12.10 Time: 17:00 PM
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