Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home.  I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop.   Since I’ve now got a nice quad-core in [...]

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Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds a new home

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop.  I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora.  For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running Fedora on it.
But times change [...]

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Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the moving panel

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

If you’re using xrandr on a box with an Intel graphics chip in order to setup your dual displays then you might have noticed that GNOME moves its main panel to the monitor connected to the external VGA port.  This happens because the Intel chip says that the external VGA is the primary port and [...]

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F10 intel driver: a few more tidbits

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

I was reading various web sites today when I came across an article on ComputerWorld discussion the 5 best features of Linux 2.6.28.  On of these items is GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager.  This is a new architecture of sorts that allows for better X performance (in a nutshell).  Why this is interesting comes from [...]

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Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade.  F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode.  I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet.  So I wasn’t sure why things had changed.  It turns out, after a [...]

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Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server).  The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10.  However, my laptop supports dual monitors.  Of course, that didn’t work out of the box.
The laptop, my trusty [...]

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