Archive for the 'Linux' Category
I’ve been using the community “radeon” drivers for a while, and I found them to do everything I needed… until I need solid OpenGL support. I didn’t realize the problem when Scorched3D didn’t work. However, I tried Blender and K-3D and was not having success. I also noticed that glxgears failed. The errors were all [...]
Throughout my life, I have found that relating ideas and concepts to people through analogies works much better than trying to explain details. A common example is showing how (in a simplistic sense) the flow of electricity in a circuit can be compared to water in pipes. Clearly, most analogies are limited and can be [...]
I had a few quirky things happen when I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). One was sudo not working. It complained about my hosts file, which was weird but I fixed it by used “gksudo gedit,” since I couldn’t use “regular” sudo to get to it. The other major problem [...]
I recently bought two new 19″ monitors (with a nice 1680×1050 resolution each). I was surprised that I simply plugged them both in and started the computer and Gnome was correctly displaying a cloned image (i.e., the same thing on both screens) at the correct resolution on both monitors. Unfortunately, getting them to work as [...]
I did a post on this previously, but that solution was not ideal. Essentially, there are two versions of Totem, one using xine and one using gstreamer. The gstreamer one is the default and it is the one that has color problems when paired with an ATI card and (I believe) the FGLRX drivers, so [...]
