Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART3

Automatic brightness control very very annoying, it dims down almost random, so you have to set it couple times...


To disable improper automatic brightness control, uncheck this:

To control brightness manually from 0% to 100% , install xbacklight

$ sudo apt-get install xbacklight

Don't know how to overwrite functional keys for brightness, so I made two new shortcuts for brightness control, with commands:

$ xbacklight -inc 5
$ xbacklight -dec 5

For non 60 fps videos, mplayer works pretty well with this config:

$ cat ~/.mplayer/config
# Write your default config options here!

vo=gl_nosw
af=equalizer=0:-1:-2:-3:-4:-4:-3:-2:-1:0
cache=8192
cache-min=4
nosub=1
framedrop=1

Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART2

Linux Mint 17 on Laptop Acer Aspire-E5-571G PART1

• Nvidia driver

I added this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
And install Nvidia-343 driver
I find out that prismusrun is alternative to optirun

• Avoiding Video tearing while watching 60 fps video

VLC useless

Mplayer works only with Intel vaapi

$ export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl &&  mplayer -cache 8192 file.mkv 

XBMC kodi can use both Nvidia or Intel vaapi (default)
$ prismusrun kodi
$ kodi

Totem works with Nvidia
$ prismusrun totem

• Gaming

I Instaled Wine1.7 and using prismus StartCraft II works!
$ prismusrun wine /path/to/StarCraft-II-Setup-enGB.exe

• Resource

http://askubuntu.com/questions/305305/running-xbmc-on-bumblebee-nvidia
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121749

• Note

Hard drive on this laptop is large 1TB, but not very fast. Thats why mplayer better works with bigger cache option. I came to conclusion that most of the lag is hard drive retailed. So I made a few more settings. Set swappiness to 1 (how to) ant added "noatime" to FSTAB.

Favorite Linux applications

Video Player: mplayer
               without skin 

Media Center: xbmc  (PC video on TV)
            This is the reason for baying HTPC not a player with embedded software inside...

Music Player: deadbeef
         Preferred  lossless audio (flac)

Mail Client: gnome evolution mail
          on Debian works better then on Mint or Ubuntu

Internet Browser: Firefox

Text Editor: Medit
          For those how like notepad++ on Windows, I think, Medit is the best choice on Linux

Torrent Client: Deluge

Calculator: Galculator
         for hex to bin & dec to hex ...


Disk & Partition Tools: Gnome disk utility
        Debian squeeze version only (bad update for Ubuntu or Mint)


Home server: lighttpd,proftpd


Communication: skype 2.2.0.35 beta
        I gonna use skype until this version works (updates not welcome!)
        Now tying to find free & so-so working voip client, no success jet.

USB Boot disk creator: unetboot

Development: Qt-SDK, Codelite-IDE