CF-30 Toughbook and Linux Mint Debian 17 32 bit (LMDE)

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After loading this OS twice...once on SSD once on 160 Gb...I like it a lot.

Started the project with LMDE 201403 MATE.

Touchscreen calibration is from my favorite freedesktop.org xinput calibrator. Then a little terminal work. I run it twice...as in run it once, touch the points and when terminal reappears [up arrow] [enter] You will notice the arrow is off a little the first time around....the second pass dials it in more precisely.
Then it says to save the file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d....well there is no such directory yet.

So we

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 mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

then the snippet is ready to be copied. I copy the snippet then

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nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

In nano right button paste, [ctrl}x, y [enter]
The next time you re-boot the system will read the /etc/X11 file and calibrate for you. See this in the top few lines of

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dmesg

if you want to.

As for the bash file see the post by mklym referencing http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 60#p928236

Go slow on this. The top section has a typo. Maybe I will do a little editing here......

Paulm wrote:
Yes, In software Sources add < deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > update the cache.
In the terminal (not the Software source manager) < sudo apt-get update >
do not do
<sudo apt-get upgrade>
as it may break some packages. Instead, use
<sudo apt-get install bash>
. NOTE: Be sure to not overwrite /etc/skel/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc if the update asks. This is because you would then be overwriting your bash settings from LMDE's default with the one provided by the sid repository. This may have unintended consequences.
Afterwords, go ahead and remove the sid repo.
jerz

Thanks to the Mint forum and the writers of the above.

Oh yeah, then after all the updates and the above I used mint-meta-debian-cinnamon (from synaptic pkg mgr) to load the cinnamon menu and etc.

Very nice.

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Oooopsie.
Cinnamon crashed on re-boot....more as I figure it out.
MATE is still good.
I'll try it in the MK3...this is a MK2 known acpi issues.




Edit: runs fine (cinnamon) on MK3.

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Multi-core and multi-CPU support in 32-bit kernel
To guarantee compatibility with non-PAE processors, the 32-bit versions of Linux Mint Debian come with a 486 kernel by default. This kernel does not support SMP, and as a consequence is only able to detect one core and one CPU. If your CPU has multiple cores, or if you have more than one CPU, simply install the 686-PAE kernel and reboot your computer.

Type the following commands and reboot the computer:

apt update

apt install linux-headers-686-pae linux-image-686-pae

Thanks to the Mint Forum.

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inxi -C

Capital C (I found this after seeing 0 CPU lock-up discovered) Plus I remember seeing it before.

Originally reported single core now dual core using the 686 kernel. I'll play with the MK1 one of these days and see what happens there as both the 486 and 686 are available in the grub menu.

Rolling along on MK2 and 3.

J'd

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CPU: Single core Intel Core2 Duo CPU L9300 (-UP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) clocked at 1601.00 MHz
lm@cf30lmde ~ $

before....stand by for after when I re-boot.

CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU L9300 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
lm@cf30lmde ~ $

12 second boot on Intel SSD

I've been using the forum here for notes on this project, hence the multiple posts.

Thanks,

J'd

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What does "sid" mean to you? I saw it above "Afterwords, go ahead and remove the sid repo."
I've seen Kode use it elsewhere also,..

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I wondered too.
Kode is the Debian guy so he may beat me too it...but I will look it up.

Which Toy Story character is Sid?
As with all Debian release names thus far, the Sid distribution takes its name from a ToyStory character. Sid is the kid next door who breaks his toys and makes nasty creatures of them. It is sometimes wrongly backronymed as "Still In Development". While other release code names progress in time from being testing to being stable, Sid is forever doomed to being unstable.

I liked this best.

From here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable# ... ith_Sid.3F .Good read...funny. End edit

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I wondered too.
Kode is the Debian guy so he may beat me too it...but I will look it up.

Nah, you got me.

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Did you write this after your package was bailed out of customs?

[kode-niner]

Did you write this after your package was bailed out of customs?

Chronologically speaking, yes.
But don't worry about it.

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J'd...I ran the code above you mentioned on the 52 GUN, and came up with this in Terminal:
gun@fiftytwo-CF-30KAPAQ2B ~ $ inxi -C
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8400 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2267.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
gun@fiftytwo-CF-30KAPAQ2B ~ $

What do the different clock speeds mean? I can't remember which version of Mint 17 is on the thumb drive, is there a code to run and find out?