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 […]
Hardware
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
6 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
Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]
Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...
I downloaded Google’s Android SDK today. The kit is about 55MB for Linux and was a breeze to get running. The kit comes with an emulator that displays a generic phone with the Google UI. The majority of the online help is geared towards creating applications that run on Android. […]
Google’s Android – a first look
I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]
Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless
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 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
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)
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 ...
Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day. My wife’s web site had problems delivering image galleries. We’d get about 4 thumbnails downloaded and then the connections seem to go away and the page would never completely load in the browser. I couldn’t find the exact […]
Upgrading a WRT54G’s firmware to DD-WRT
I recently saw some discussion on the Griffin PowerMate, a USB connected volume knob, and it’s use with GIMP. I’ve been trying to understand exactly why this would be useful. While it’s possible to map the features of the knob to various functions in the GIMP, it would require yet […]