Radu Maris's questions

For my work Laptop I use full HDD encryption and I need to upgrade my 500GB HDD to a 250 SSD drive, my HDD has only around 100GB of data and is created via encrypted LVM.

GParted does not support LUKS encryption, so I am unable to copy (or resize) partitions.
Using dd would be great but because of the different size I might loos data.

Then only valid option I got so far is to try and re-size the partition and then try a clone with dd (but seems very complicated and prone to failure).

There is any other way to clone the data on the HDD without reinstalling ?

Based on what I have read so far I think reinstalling would be the easiest and fastest solution, but I would like to see your ideas/opinion.

Thank you

I am using compiz to make an app transparent. I would like to be able to click through the app as well.

Q:
There are any settings in the GUI (Compiz) or via CLI to be able to set up an application (based on it's class like in Compiz) to not capture mouse events and just pass through it, or even better to enable capturing the mouse when a key combination is pressed (ex: left ALT + left Ctrl + mouse click) ?

Use case:
I am watching a conference online (let's say Google I/O), I am setting the opacity of the video app via Compiz (CCSM) to be very transparent, and only increase it's opacity when there is something that I need to see, otherwise I just do other jobs in the background, and keep an eye on the video if something interesting appears. What I would like is to be able to click through the app, because sometimes I need to change the app position just to click something and it's interfering with my work-flow.

As far as I know I did this a few years back, but can't remember how, not even what I used, maybe I did it in E16 not Compiz/Gnome/Unity, but I just can't remember.

Thank you

I have a Compaq Presario CQ-61 320SQ, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 because after update to 10.10 my mouse and touchpad won't work, network won't work, sound won't work ... (I managed to fix most of them after almost a month of googling, but not all, my 2 Desktops have no problem with 10.10) so I decided to switch back to 10.04, where I have a problem:

My broadband speed is very low beacause of the kernel module r8169, I downloaded the good module r8101 and every time the computer boots have a rc.local entry to fix this.

Question:
Can I load the modul permanently from a specific location. I heard about /etc/modules but there I need the module name, but I have to load it from a specific path (where is the default path for that) ?

Thank you.

So I studied the script:

It creates the file r8101.ko in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net so I think as long as nobody will delete that file, and I don't update the kernel, maybe adding r8108 to /etc/modules will work, and add r8169 to blacklist ... I will give it a try.

EDIT2:
So I added r8101 to /etc/modules and blacklist r8169 to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. It still uses the old module.:

radu@adu:~$ lsmod | grep r8
r8101                  67626  0 
r8169                  34108  0 
mii                     4381  1 r8169

EDIT: The module is loaded using this script that came with it.:

#!/bin/sh

# invoke insmod with all arguments we got
# and use a pathname, as insmod doesn't look in . by default

TARGET_PATH=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
echo
echo "Check old driver and unload it." 
check=`lsmod | grep r8169`
if [ "$check" != "" ]; then
        echo "rmmod r8169"
        /sbin/rmmod r8169
fi

check=`lsmod | grep r8101`
if [ "$check" != "" ]; then
        echo "rmmod r8101"
        /sbin/rmmod r8101
fi

echo "Build the module and install"
echo "-------------------------------" >> log.txt
date 1>>log.txt
make all 1>>log.txt || exit 1
module=`ls src/*.ko`
module=${module#src/}
module=${module%.ko}

if [ "$module" == "" ]; then
    echo "No driver exists!!!"
    exit 1
elif [ "$module" != "r8169" ]; then
    if test -e $TARGET_PATH/r8169.ko ; then
        echo "Backup r8169.ko"
        if test -e $TARGET_PATH/r8169.bak ; then
            i=0
            while test -e $TARGET_PATH/r8169.bak$i
            do
                i=$(($i+1))
            done
            echo "rename r8169.ko to r8169.bak$i"
            mv $TARGET_PATH/r8169.ko $TARGET_PATH/r8169.bak$i
        else
            echo "rename r8169.ko to r8169.bak"
            mv $TARGET_PATH/r8169.ko $TARGET_PATH/r8169.bak
        fi
    fi
fi

echo "Depending module. Please wait."
depmod -a
echo "load module $module"
modprobe $module

echo "Completed."
exit 0

Does anybody knows why Ubuntu's NM does'n use native implementations for networking ?

For example if I set up a pppoe connection in the network manager (using nm-applet) it has it's own way of storing connections and doesn't use native debian networking sheme, for PPPoE use pppd and store settings in /etc/ppp/pears. I once configured a wired connection that didn's show up in /etc/network/interfaces but was visible in NM ... This is BAD for me because if I don't start X, from CLI I cannot connect to my network connections configured in NM ( or not as easy I would expect), for example in CLI I could do pon "dsl-provider" or poff to turn on or off pppoe connection, but my NM's pppoe connections are not visible to pppd and if I configure a pppoe connection using pppd is not visible in NM.

Maybe I am missing something and don't know how to use it ...

Thank you.