Ubuntu

You must have the following essential stuff installed for power scaling in laptops to work:

sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils
sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
sudo apt-get install pm-utils

Source: http://forum.notebookreview.com/linux-compatibility-software/257220-m133...

First error message and fix

Second error message and fix

Third error message and fix

For all the gory details, visit Updating CheckGmail to Fix Login Errors.

For the lazy, just do this:

Voila, fixed.

Troubleshooting

The first time I did this, I got the following error:

GUI

• Right click on the clock that displays in your taskbar.
• Choose "Adjust Date & Time"
• If the resulting window is greyed out, click "Unlock" at the bottom and enter your password.
• Choose your timezone.

Command-line

For step-by-step instructions, go read the mastermind\'s article, from which this is derived. This is mostly for my future reference. I was given an exe (M1330A12.EXE) by Dell and told to flash my BIOS with it. Right. Then I was given the world\'s most incomprehensible instructions on how to supposedly get it working with linux. Thank god for the aforementioned article -- the following worked like a charm.

Firefox uses <Ctrl>Tab and <Ctrl><Shift>Tab for switching between tabs. Eclipse at least lets you assign these same keybindings to its tabs. Wouldn't it be nice if gnome-terminal would allow the same thing? No such luck.

The symptom, as described by Daniel DiPaolo:

Yes, /tmp is for temporary files... but cleaning it out on every boot? Whose bright idea was that?

Here's how to fix it. In /etc/default/rcS, locate this line:

This is where the number of days old a file needs to be for it to be deleted on boot is supposed to go. Notice the offending 0. That means delete everything, every time. Change this value to something sensible like 15 or 30.

Other distros use cron to clean out /tmp, and the default for those is 720 hours (30 days).

This is the quickest way I've found to install fonts. I'm sure there's an equally easy system-wide method, but I haven't stumbled upon it yet... this is working for now.

• Create a directory called .fonts in your home directory
• Copy .ttf files into ~/.fonts
• Done

For reasons that elude me, the normal way of handling this does not work for wireless interfaces:

...but this does work:

Thanks to Lih for figuring this one out...

I was getting this error:

Apparently the xulrunner package is needed:

...then close and reopen eclipse. Works like a charm.