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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 […]

Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop

Sat June 13, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged acer / anaconda / dual monitors / Fedora / gnome / intel / intel driver / java / java native interface / jni / mingw / MythTV / nvidia / nvidia geforce / PulseAudio / Wordpress / xorg (updated 5441 days ago)

My sister needed me to pull some pictures off her digital camera so we could place an ad in our parents home paper for their 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the USB cable for the camera. However, the camera had an SD card. And my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi […]

Getting the Acer Aspire 1691 SD slot working under Fedora ...

Sat July 28, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / graphics / Linux / rpm / ubuntu (updated 6131 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 6449 days ago)

Someone wrote to me a while back after I got my Aspire working with Linux to ask which button on the front panel to push to get wifi working. At the time I didn’t realize I had to press that button. Well, after a few reboots to drag the laptop […]

Acer Aspire redux: the wifi magic button

Thu October 06, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Hardware tagged acer / aspire / Linux / wifi (updated 6764 days ago)

My CDRW/DVD RW won’t play DVDs. It handles CDs fine, but DVD playing doesn’t work. Checking the logs I found the message: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: ATAPI device hdb: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Error: Illegal request — (Sense key=0x05) Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Media region code is […]

Acer Aspire 1690 – changing region code for DVD-RW

Sun June 12, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Linux / Video tagged acer / aspire / yum (updated 6764 days ago)

I upgraded FC3 and got a new kernel: 2.6.11-1.27. This kernel supports the ipw2200 wireless correctly, although you may still need to get the updated acerhk module to enable the wireless after you power off and then back on. Once the wireless hardware is enabled, I think it stays enabled […]

Acer Aspire updates

Sat June 11, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome (updated 6764 days ago)

My old IBM iSeries 2611-412 finallybit the dust today. Strange that I was looking into buying a new laptop anyway, but right after I decided not to buy one, the PCMCIA slots died. While I might eventually get these working again, this system is 6+ years old and ready to […]

A new laptop – Acer Aspire 1690

Sat June 04, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / rpm / Video / X11 (updated 6764 days ago)

You are in a maze of twisty little configurations....

Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS with certbot

Thu April 06, 2017 in General / Linux / Wordpress tagged Apache HTTP Server / google / Linux / virtual hosts / web server / Wordpress (updated 2593 days ago)

So my little aeroponics project is growing beyond its real needs, but once you start assembling legos it’s hard to stop. I’ve added an ESP8266 for wireless connectivity and a really small OLED LCD display. The latter will let me monitor the system without either serial (FTDI Basic) or wireless […]

Adruino updates: APC w/ESP8266 and OLED LCD

Fri November 20, 2015 in Arduino tagged 4 channel relay / adafruit / arduino / FTDI Basic / PCB / prototype (updated 3095 days ago)

Once again, a new year means new toys. This holiday season, my wife got me an Acer C7 Chromebook, a pair of PowerLine ethernet adapters and a new printer. We also got new phones. On the non-techy side, she got me some classic Big Little books. The techy stuff has […]

A new beginning

Thu January 10, 2013 in Acer C7 Chromebook / BeagleBoard / ChrUbuntu / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ubuntu / XBMC (updated 4139 days ago)

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 […]

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

Sun March 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / NVidia / Video / x86-64 tagged 64bit cpu / acer / dual monitors / f10 / gdm / gnome / intel / java / laptop / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / rpm / suse / ubuntu / Video / xine

I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]

Using xrandr with external display ports

Mon February 09, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / General / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11 tagged acer / aspire / f10 / Fedora / gdm / gnome / intel / intel driver / Linux / MythTV / vga port / Video / xorg / xrandr

Michael J. Hammel

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