After having more problems installing the proprietary driver for my HD4710 ATI graphics card, a forum post pointed me towards a tool named SMXI. This will automate the dist-upgrade of your system, but more importantly, is a simple way to install the current fgrlx drivers without any weird performance issues!
Also note that for crunchbang linux I had [...]
Another quick note just in case anyone is searching for PNG EXIF information in DigiKam. I’ve just found that officially, PNG does not support EXIF data, google it. (Another waste of time). I’ve found that most of the time, it seems to work. I’m not sure if this is just an internal DigiKam thing, since [...]
Latest ubuntu ball-ache started when I wanted my wireless network to use DHCP and the ethernet to use a static address.
I’ve now moved back to Kubuntu, and I am sure that I am going to stay.
Nearly top of the list is to get my XBox streaming back up and running. This post details my Fuppes installation process and thoughts. Initial thoughts is that this doesn’t look very mature. There is no GUI and it was [...]
I’ve had major problems getting the newest ATI drivers, both proprietary and open source. Black screens, freezes, everything.
The solution (so far) is to use an older ATI Catalyst driver. I have tested up to 9.12 to be working. Download, sudo sh -i ***.run, sudo aticonfig –initial -f, restart, sudo amdcccle, to setup. Done.
Having problems where I couldn’t see the xbox on the network.
Turns out that all I had to do was disable the SSDP discovery service and the Upnp service that comes with it. That
My first post on my new PC!
So my power supply on the old PC blew, zapped and caused a noise, and I decided that it was about time I got a new one. It had lasted me 7 years, overclocked for all of that and had about 14000 hours on it. She had a good [...]
I tried to get the open-source drivers working, but it just messed things up. So I used this guide to install the propriatey drivers.
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Update: As of Ubuntu 8.10, my Buffalo adaptor was recognised instantly and WPA2 works out of the box. Well done ubuntu!
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Background:
I am using a Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54 USB wireless device and the default linux USB driver (the rt2500usb) would not support WPA encryption and it would not work at all. After days of searching through other [...]
This is a post containing all the problems I had installing and using Qt. Most of them can be fixed quite simply.
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Error: Qt does not compile certain programs on Windows Vista (In my case this was qwt)
Error Code: “gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1′: No such file or directory”
Solution:
to solve the problem, you have [...]