I finally updated my wiki page, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on a Toshiba Protege M400, with more information on rotating the screen, and how to get the fingerprint scanner working.

I installed the firefox-3.5 package in Jaunty and found that the facebook chat applet on their page stopped working. It seemed to think I was running an outdated browser. A quick google search came up with a result: http://rrenomeron.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/ubuntus-firefox-3-5-and-facebook-chat/

I could’ve …

Sorry it took me so long, but I’ve updated my wiki with information on how to get most everything working on the tablet. The wacom tablet works out of the box now with no xorg.conf, but it took me a little while to figure out where all of the devices were being created and what they were now called.

This has already been done before, but I wanted to try to do it myself. It turned out a bit more complicated than I thought it would be on Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10 because of the way gconftool-2 now interacts with D-BUS.

First, I created a script …

After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) on my Toshiba Portege M400 there were some configuration changes that needed to be made

The following 4 guides have been moved over to my MediaWiki site and updated:

• Intro to the ViM Editor
• Vim and R
• iPhone 1.1.4 and Ubuntu Linux
• Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on a Toshiba Portege M400

http://wiki.control-d.com

I think it makes them much, much …

After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my Toshiba Portege M400 there were some configuration changes that needed to be made.

This is a short guide of my experience of getting Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 to run correctly on my Toshiba M400.