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I’ve finally figured out how to get my external monitor working with my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi laptop in side-by-side mode. The trick is to use the Virtual option with a large enough x dimension. Most of the documentation I’ve found up till now has stated that making Virtual larger than […]

XRandr and Intel i915

Thu August 14, 2008 in Fedora / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / xrandr (updated 5733 days ago)

I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now. I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem. But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance. I […]

Fedora 7 performance issues

Wed October 17, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / gnome / intel / java / kde (updated 6036 days ago)

Well, I’m getting further along. I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr. But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

Tue October 09, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr (updated 6044 days ago)

I posted a question about getting my i915GM graphics working on my laptop with Fedora 7. Kevin Fenzi of tummy.com, who works on the Fedora project, suggested trying a stock xorg.conf config then plugin the VGA output and do xrandr –auto. The stock xorg.conf uses the intel driver, which he […]

i915GM and Fedora 7: intel bad, i810 good

Mon October 08, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr

I posted some queries about getting dual head working with my laptop, which uses the Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, aka i915GM. Under FC5 the i810 X.org driver supported dual head AND TV-out. But I’m having a problem getting dual head working under F7 with either the i810 […]

i915 dual head configuration (FC5 – F7 doesn’t work yet)

Wed October 03, 2007 in Linux / X11 tagged graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / ubuntu / X11 (updated 6049 days ago)

It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]

Upgrading to Fedora 7 and MythTV 0.20.2 (Schedules Direct)

Sat September 29, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / MythTV / X11 tagged atrpms / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / Linux / livna / mysql / MythTV / rpm / Video / xrandr / yum (updated 6049 days ago)

Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellectual property” | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com If I may speak for Linux users everywhere: Hey Ballmer. Bite me.You’ll stop me from using Linux when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. You’re IP is a (to quote another moron) "non-starter". There are those of […]

Ballmer: Linux â€œInfringes our intellectual propertyâ€ | Hardware 2.0 | ...

Fri November 17, 2006 in Linux tagged intel / Linux

I recently did a major systems upgrade at home, moving multiple systems from FC2 and FC3 up to FC5. One of those systems holds my MythTV backend server while another is my wireless connected laptop running the MythTV frontend. Obviously, the front and backends got updated too, along with the […]

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6424 days ago)

After about 1 1/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop. If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn't a straight forward configuration to get everything working. I'm pleased to say that is no longer the case. FC5 covers essentially […]

Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade

Tue September 12, 2006 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6433 days ago)

After I got X running again late last night, I didn’t look too deeply at how everything else was working. One thing that stopped working was the Synaptics pad. Before X died (and was resurrected) the Synaptics driver was loading and working fine. But that was with my own kernel, […]

ACPI update and Synaptics changes

Wed June 08, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel (updated 6748 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]

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