Hardware

I just wanted to brain dump a few things I thought were interesting and worth looking at more deeply.  This is just so I don’t forget about them. Making KVM images I got this from Linux Journal’s August 2009 issue, in Serge Hallyn’s article on Making Root Unprivileged: qemu-img create […]

Interesting stuff, nothing major

 in General / Hardware / Linux  tagged arm port / cool devices / kernel / Linux / linux journal / Open Source / peek / qemu / real time (updated 5770 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 ...

 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 been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days.  When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]

Setting up scanners under Fedora 10

 in Art and Graphics / Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Scanners  tagged epson / Epson Perfection 1260 / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / rpm / sane / Scanners / xsane (updated 5918 days ago)
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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 […]

Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the ...

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11  tagged dual monitors / gnome / intel / kde / laptop / MythTV / projector / vga port / xrandr
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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

 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
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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

 in Aiptek Tablet / Art and Graphics / Fedora / General / GIMP / Hardware / Linux / Wacom  tagged aiptek 12000u / drawing tablets / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / input drivers / Wacom / wireless mouse
The Boulder Linux User Group mailing list had a short but interesting discussions today.  Karl Horlen asked how he could reduce a constant buzz he was receiving from his power amp/speaker connected to his laptop.  The buzz only occurs when the power supply is plugged in.  I found this problem […]

Reducing audio buzz for the average guy

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Audio / Hardware  tagged battery powered speakers / Boulder / cheap microphone / electromagnetic interference / ground loop / isolation transformers / laptop / recording
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 ...

 in Fedora / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11  tagged dell / drm / graphics / intel / intel driver / kde / kernel / Linux / nvidia / Open Source / Video / Wordpress / X11 / xorg (updated 5949 days ago)
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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

 in Asterisk / Hardware / Linux  tagged Asterisk / audio transcription / BLUG / Boulder / boulder linux users group / CLUE / CLUE-North / colorado springs / David Anselmi / Linux / livescribe / Open Source / PBX / recording / Sean Reifschneider / Writing
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

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11  tagged aspire / computerworld / dual monitors / f10 / Fedora / graphics / intel / intel driver / kernel / laptop / Linux / lwn