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In my first post about my "fit PC 2", I mentioned my problems with the GMA 500 graphics and the closed source driver by Intel (iegd). Recent iegd version doesn't work with up-to-date X.org-server 1.7 in Ubuntu 10.04.

Today, I tried it again because of a post in the "fit-PC2" forum. User "fly" describes the steps you have to follow to use the psb ("poulsbo") driver with Ubuntu 10.04 on the "fit-PC 2". The following steps is only a copy of his howto:

1. Install Ubuntu 10.04
2. Install latest updates (will be done automatically if you use the GUI upgrade tool)

3. Add ppa:gma500 repository

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/ppa && sudo apt-get update

4. Install patched poulsbo drivers

   sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d poulsbo-config

5. Use Compulabs xorg.conf

   wget -c "http://fit-pc2.com/download/ubuntu/files/xorg.conf"
   sudo mv xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

6. Reboot

Unfortunately, the screen was black after the reboot and the keyboard didn't work :-(

My solution was the following:

1. login via SSH on the running fit-PC2 with the black screen. Of course you should enable the sshd before upgrade!

2. rebuild the psb driver for the new running kernel 2.6.32-24-generic:

   dpkg-reconfigure psb-kernel-source

3. Reboot



Now the 2D works perfectly for my needs. Only with audio I was fighting a short time, and suddenly it worked. Unfortunately I don't know why :-(

Quite often I want to set a link to an article I wrote somewhere else on this TYPO3 page. This is no problem, if this article is on a separate page with a unique ID.

But howto set a link to a t3blog article or a tt_news article?

As usual, there are several possibilities:

• add the AOE Linkhandler extension
• add the RTE Generic Record extension
• replace your htmlarea RTE with tinymce_rte with buildin linkhander support

I tried them all. To link a tt_news article is no problem with all of it. But howto link a t3blog-article? This seems to be not so easy if you're using realurl!

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By adding the following Typoscript to your page TSconfig (Page->Edit->Options), tinymce_rte shows you the articles and t3blog-categories when selecting the blog-record folder (in my case ID is 3):

RTE.default {  
     linkhandler {       
       tx_t3blog_post {          
           default { 
              # instead of default you could write the id of the storage folder             
              # id of the Single News Page             
              parameter = 3             
              additionalParams = &tx_t3blog_pi1[blogList][showUidPerma]={field:uid}
              additionalParams.insertData = 1
              select = uid,title as header,hidden
              sorting = crdate desc
           }
       }        

       tx_t3blog_cat {            
           default {                
              parameter = 3                
              additionalParams = &tx_t3blog_pi1[blogList][category]={field:uid}                
              additionalParams.insertData = 1                
              select = uid,catname as header,hidden                
              sorting = crdate desc            
           }
       } 
    }
 }

Unfortunately it is not possible to select the tags from the menu. This is because all tags of one post are stored in the tagClouds field of the tx_t3blog_post table. So still have to add an external link to your page and add e.g. "blog/tags/typo3" if you're using realurl, your blog is located on page "blog" and you want to select the "typo3" tag.

What I like very much in the book is the part "There's more" in every section where the author refers to further information if you want to get deeper in a special topic.

In the chapters 6,7 and 8 the author is creating several extensions to handle multimedia tasks: connect to Amazon S3, get and upload photos from/to Flickr using its API, get a list of videos via the youtube API, extract metadata from OpenOffice documents or converting video formats.

At this point you should really know writing TYPO3 extension otherwise you get lost. And this stresses the lack of good multimedia extensions in TYPO3. So you really need to write your own stuff from time to time. The book really helps you with it because provides ready to use sourcecode for its examples.

Conclusion:

The book covers a very wide area in about 200 pages. It encourage you to embed multimedia content on your website even if you need to write some tiny extensions to meet your requirements.

It's easy to read. If you know TYPO3 extension development already you may profit a lot without getting bored. If you're not so familiar with it you must be aware that this is no "easy-click-manual".