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Everything was working well today. I took the laptop over to Panera Bread at lunch and got the wireless working there with a little script (the RH network config doesn’t bring it up for some reason). Then I managed to squeeze in a little writing work on my book. But […]

More laptop troubles

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged atrpms / rpm / Writing / yum (updated 7117 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]

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 7117 days ago)

This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday season in the US. We call it Thanksgiving but it’s really just a 4 day weekend to prep for the craziness of the end-of-year festivities. My family celebrated with dual Thanksgiving dinners – one on Thursday with my inlaws and […]

Holidays and projects

Sun November 28, 2004 in General / Linux / Software Development / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / holiday / Linux / rpm / ximba / xnotesplus (updated 7458 days ago)

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7463 days ago)

I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.

Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / GTK+ / kde / rpm / Wordpress / xnotesplus (updated 7470 days ago)

I’ve finally got my minimyth build environment for the PXE files (boot kernel and cramfs ramdisk) working to the point where MythTV will come up. The build process is fairly clean – you can build different components individually then rebuild the “pkg” (kernel and cramfs). That makes working on updates […]

MiniMyth Build System

Thu October 07, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / rpm / Video

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…