Mike Bedwell

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Customizations I do after ubuntu default install on breezy to make my machine work

Enable DMA for cdrom

Edit hdparm.conf

sudo /etc/hdparm.conf

Add this text, replacing hdd with whatever the cdrom device is on the particular machine

/dev/hdd {
        dma = on
}

Setup ATI Drivers

This works for me everytime so far in flawlessly setting up DRI with the fglrx drivers

sudo apt-get install fglrx-control xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

When running dpkg-reconfigure you'll be asked a series of questions, i've tracked my responses (hopefully accurately), here are my responses in order (someday i'll update this with the detail of the questions the responses are for) 1- Autodetect 2- fglrx 3,4,5- yes 6- 131072 (very specific to my own video card 128MB of ram, replace with a number that is accurate for the machine specific card) 7- No(kernel framebuffer question, not sure what real effect this has) 8- Yes 9- Enter 10- us 11- xorg 12- Enter 13- microsoftoffice (my own keyboard type, need to replace with whatever maches the keyboard) 14- enter 15- leave blank 16- enter 17- blank 18- no 19- yes 20,21- enter 22- star all modules listed except record 23,24,25- Yes 26- Enter 27- star the resolutions you want 28- Enter 29- Advanced 30- 30-70(specific to my own monitor, customize for current monitor) 31- 50-160(specific to my own monitor, customize for current monitor) 32- Enter 33- 24

I've numbered these, and I "think" that i've got them all in order

Logitech MX310 Setup

* enable 800cpi on mouse get and install lmctl package that is found attached to this forum thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4357 sudo nano -w /etc/udev/rules.d/logitech-mice.rules put this code in, this file can also be found in the previously mentioned thread if you want to just download and move it.

BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c00e", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c00f", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c012", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c024", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c01b", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c025", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8 --sms"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c01d", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8 --sms"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="046d", SYSFS{idProduct}="c031", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/lmctl -8"

* Enable extra buttons

sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

change mouse section to read similar to this

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "6 7"
        Option          "Buttons"               "9"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
EndSection

then create Xmodmap file to have loaded the next time you log in

nano -w ~/.Xmodmap

paste the following line into the file

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 8 9

if you don't load the .Xmodmap as directed your side mouse buttons become your scroll wheel, very disorienting and difficult to use