In a previous post, I looked closely the way nvidia binary driver works. In fact, like a lot of users I run into issues with firefox and other software which use Xrender extension to display stuff. A couple of day … Continue reading
tag: ati, benchmark, nvidia, ubuntu, xorg
For my new computer I bought a ATI HD 2600 PRO with a bunch of memory. This card has some really good 3D results, and works well on Linux. But I run into some issues with de xv extension on … Continue reading
tag: ati, drivers, linux, nvidia, q6600, ubuntu
Ok, I decided to change my computer a couple of months right now. But as Intel is doing some strange stuffs with the prices, this took a little longer than exepected. Some friends asked me what I bought, so I … Continue reading
tag: computer, q6600I have for a long time now, a Asus P2BD motherboard with 2 PII 350 on it. After googling a bit, I discover that I can put 2 Katmai PIII at 600Mhz on this board. I have been looking at … Continue reading
tag: computerLike a lot of users, i get an issue with my fan on the Shuttle Xpc. In fact, i found a lot of comments over the net, that Shuttle used some bad fan in this boxes. Some users decide to … Continue reading
tag: computer, fan, stk62kI now have a Dell Latitude D400 for 1 month. This little (really small) computer is pretty nice to use, but it right now, it’s really hard to have suspend working on this kind of stuff. The main reason: it … Continue reading
tag: acpi, d400, dell, linuxI just received my new hard-drive, a Maxtor Diamonstar 90 – 8M (read 80Go and 8M of cache). So I decided to fdisk + cp -a my old distros to the new drive. Everything is ok .. I have something … Continue reading
tag: hard drive, issue, stk62kYes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours … Continue reading
tag: computer, laptop, sonyI always hated closed source drivers, and ATI is one of the big guy in video card. There is a petition online to ask ATI for specification or better drivers. I sign it because my ATI 9100IGP doesn’t have TVout … Continue reading
tag: linux, video cardHardware The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use: ATI IGP9100 video board ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller OHCI based USB 2 Realtek network card As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a … Continue reading
tag: computer, linux, stk62k