A new release of Fedora is out, which means an entirely new fight with hardware for a lot of folks. My struggle from Fedora Core 4 through Fedora Core 5 has been dealing with the synaptics driver for the touchpad on my Toshiba M45-S269 laptop. And with Fedora Core 6 out, the synaptics [...]
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Turning off synaptic driver in FC6
November 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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Getting the free radeon driver working in Gentoo
October 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
Diverting from our normal comic book geekery, it’s time to tackle some tech related stuff.
As promised a while back, here’s the lowdown on getting the DRI radeon driver working on my desktop computer. I tried the proprietary ATI fglrx driver, but couldn’t get a vertical refresh rate above 60Hz. After some work, I [...]
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Linux and superheroes: Two geek tastes that geek well together
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Via TLLTS:
The KDE desktop running on Linux, which is what I use at home and work, appeared in the opening episode of NBC’s “Heroes”. That is so cool to see the Linux desktop make its way into the mainstream. Also goes to show that the Linux desktops are good looking enough that most [...]
Gentoo Linux, why must you be so cruel to me? Gentoo Linux, ATI drivers and Xorg 7.0
September 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Gentoo Linux, ATI drivers, Xorg 7.0, and a gigantic mess
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Turning off synaptic driver in FC5 without gsynaptics
June 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments
I’ve had a lot of luck fixing my various Linux related problems by stumbling into various blogs and personal websites. Rather than just take and take, it seems only fair that I start giving back when I figure out a solution to a problem.
I just updated to Fedora Core 5, and found most everything [...]
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