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 […]
Linux
8 I’ve had pretty good luck using RPMFusion (free and non-free) to install various packages for Fedora 10. I was skeptical at first that it would provide all the packages I had been getting from ATrpms for previous Fedora releases. But up till today things have worked out well with RPMFusion. […]
RPMFusion not enough for F10 – still need ATrpms
I’ve added some slide presentations, with the help of Slideshare.net, to the Writings section. There is a presentation on using PmWiki for Project Management and a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS. I’ve also added a slide presentation on my book site on GIMP and Linux in Hollywood. Comments, […]
Online slide presentations
6 Back in late 2006 I bought an Aiptek 12000U drawing tablet to work with GIMP. I had limited success back then and put the tablet back in the box. I pulled it out again the other night to give it another try. Without any additional configuration the wireless mouse worked […]
Using the Aiptek 12000U on Fedora 10
I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work. In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work. I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes. The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the […]
Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...
If you’re like me and log into work from home, you should probably be using the AllowUsers option in your sshd_config at work. This option allows you to specify IP addresses that are allowed to login to your system. So, for example, I might have an entry like this: myUserid@192.168.1.* […]
Cutting down sshd logs
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 ...
Long ago I slid my way into the Linux world by attending and taking an active part in two different Linux user groups in Denver. One of these is the Colorado Linux User Enthusiasts, or CLUE, which got its start in the south Denver metro area. This group remains very […]
An (oral) introduction to Asterisk – BLUG 1/8/09
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 […]
F10 intel driver: a few more tidbits
My problems with the intel driver provided in the F10 distribution have been resolved. I had to compile the driver manually, along with the libdrm prerequisite, but it was rather painless and surprisingly easy to accomplish. MythTV is now happily serving up live TV and videos on my laptop monitor […]
F10 and xorg intel driver: solved
I’ve brought F10 up on my MythTV server and my laptop at home (with my dev server yet to be upgraded) so now it’s time to bring it up on my systems at work. The first box is a Dell Dimension 9150 which has a 64bit CPU. So after going […]
F10 64bit failure
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. […]