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Category Archives: Linux
Logitech Premium USB Headsets and Linux
For a while I’ve been using a Logitech Premium USB Headset 300 with Fedora Core 4 Linux on my desktop computer at home. I mainly use it for Skype, though I sometimes use it for games or movies. It didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, Linux
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Backing up a damaged DVD
I have a damaged DVD that will no longer play in my DVD player. My computer seems to be able to read it OK. The official position of the MPAA is that I’m shit-outa-luck, and should just buy another copy. … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster recovery, DRM, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Linux
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Setting up a Xilinx FPGA development system
I’ve been trying to use the latest Xilinx FPGA development software (Foundation ISE 7.1i) under Linux. It’s been a huge hassle getting it set up, but it’s finally working. Unfortunately Xilinx only officially supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which … Continue reading
Posted in Fedora, FPGA
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First impression of Eclipse
When I heard that Fedora Core 2 was going to include natively-compiled Eclipse, I was excited since I’d wanted to try Eclipse for quite a while but had never been able to make it work. Unfortunately the native Eclipse didn’t … Continue reading
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Improving SysVinit
On Advogato, groom wrote: System V’s init runs sequetially from 00foo to 99bar in each runlevel (1,2,3,4,5,6 in linux). And it is long. I wonder if it could be (yes it could) possible to extend init to handle 2 more … Continue reading
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lcdtest 1.00 has new options and commands
On a mailing list, someone pointed out a Windows lcd test program that was useful for adjusting the pixel clock frequency and phase of LCD monitors with analog VGA inputs (vs. DVI). It puts up alternating white and black vertical … Continue reading
Posted in lcdtest, Linux, X11
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Video card woes, continued
I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 in a spare partition to see if the supplied X server would solve the Radeon 9200 16-bit/24-bit problem. No dice. Ended up installing a Radeon 9550SE card instead, which works OK.
Posted in Fedora, Hardware, X11
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Video card woes, DVI cables
The refurb Sapphire Radeon 9200 card arrived yesterday. The card seems to work fine, as far as I can tell. Software is a different matter.
New LCD monitor
I just got a new Samsung SyncMaster 213T LCD monitor, on sale locally for $739 with a $100 mail-in rebate (better deals can be found on line, but I like instant gratification). 21″, 1600×1200. Same diagonal and resolution as the … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, Linux, X11
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Can’t statically link with GTK+ in Fedora Core 1
I wanted to build a staticly linked CASMSIM binary for use on a system that doesn’t have all of the necessary packages installed. It appears that in Fedora Core 1 the GTK+ 2.2 and GDK 2.2 packages don’t come with … Continue reading
Posted in Calculators, Fedora, Nonpareil
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