30 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:15 pm
Well another version of WordPress was released and its now running the site. Some significant changes have been made and I will need to modify the sites theme at some point to take advantage of them. One of the changes that has already had a benefit is the automatic plugin update notifier. This has allowed [...]
08 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 1:22 pm
The Belkin Switch2 is a range of KVM switches to switch between 2 computers. Some of the range support usb keyboards and mice and include stereo audio switching, it is these particular models which are of interest. Software isn’t required for out of the box functionality but it can be used to enhance it. Belkin [...]
02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:44 pm
The Frame Buffer/Nvidia/Xorg problem To get the frame buffer support I compiled the relavent sections into the kernel and added “video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=865″ to the kernel line in my grub.conf. The framebuffer works correctly and with these settings. It is then possible to load gdm and enter gnome without issue. The problem comes when trying to [...]
02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:03 pm
Kernel Config [gentoo-sources, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5] Still alot of uneeded things in there and probably a few needed things that aren’t. It does boot though and will provide a base from which to expand from.
02 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 6:13 pm
I have recently acquired a Toshiba Satellite X200-20S laptop. Whilst it shipped with Windows Vista it was never my intention to run it as the primary OS. The primary OS for this machine will be Gentoo Linux. This is my first post in what might be a series of configuration notes for the aforementioned setup. [...]
