X11


It’s official: PiBox will be at the Colorado Springs Maker Faire on October 15th. The Maker Faire will be held at Library 21c which is just North of the Northeast corner of the Chapel Hills Mall.  Last year saw around 6300 attendees and turnout is expected to be even better […]

PiBox @ CS Maker Faire, Oct 15th


Today I finally brought X up on the BeagleBoard!  The configuration is not ideal and there is much work to be done to stabilize and optimize it, but at least X is running.  Here is how I get it done with BeagleBox. What to build to get X running with […]

BeagleBox: X is working, stability and optimization still to ...




I’ve been having problems playing flash video on my new system at home.  The system is a 64bit AMD running F10.  Flash video plays but the audio skips a lot.  I had similar problems with other applications but was able to get around it by using the right audio setup, […]

Quickies: Flash 64, fixing skipping audio, mapping keys to applications


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I’ve been working with the various incarnations of Red Hat Linux, including Fedora, since before the company went public.  In that time I’ve done more than just a few upgrades from one release to another.  With each upgrade I learn just a little more about administering my own Linux system.   […]

The Everyday Guide to Fedora Upgrades


Judging from the most used searches and posts  (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high.  While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having […]

Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about ...



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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 […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead


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 ...




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)