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My daughter is heading off to college shortly and I’ve been informed that mother and daughter will be communicating via text messages.  I disabled text messaging on my and my wife’s phones to prevent unwanted charges from dorks sending unwanted messages.  Now I have to turn it back on.  Oh […]

Getting new phones: argument for the Palm Pre = Linux ...

 in Hardware / Linux / Personal / Software Development  tagged capitalism / consumer choice / gsm network / kernel / Linux / music / sim card / sprint phones / text messages (updated 5366 days ago)
Another kernel upgrade, another VMware failure.  This gets old.  It used to be you patched using the vmware-any-to-any patches but these appear to have dried up.  Now we have a new patching mechanism: google till you find someone who fixed the problem.  Fortunately, someone fixed the problem for VMware Workstation […]

VMware Server 2.0.1 on linux 2.6.29

 in Linux  tagged Fedora / kernel / vmware
I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon.  The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones.  Who needs a colored one for hacking?  Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday.  In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]

Peek ordered, learning about the hardware

 in GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / Peek  tagged framebuffer device / GTK+ / jtag interface / kernel / Linux / mobile wireless / peek / standard vga / usb port / video display / wifi / wireless lan (updated 5393 days ago)
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 5405 days ago)
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 5584 days ago)
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
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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

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / MythTV  tagged autogen / drm / f10 / freedesktop / graphics / intel / intel driver / kernel / laptop / Linux / live tv / MythTV / rpm / Video / xorg / xrandr (updated 5594 days ago)