So for a year now I’ve been using ati-drivers (fireglrx, ccc, catalyst, watever you want to call that garbage) and wishing every other day that I didn’t have (some versions simply doesn’t work, older versions won’t compile with newer kernels – which I sometimes need for other bugfixes wrt wireless and possibly due to external requirements – asterisk’s dahdi driver comes to mind). So finally during the week when the proverbial shit once more hit the fan where I wanted to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.32 for some intel wireless fixes and the newest ati-drivers simply exploded in my face and the version just down didn’t want to work … I decided it’s time. Time to try the OSS drivers that didn’t want to work slightly over a year back again. And this time the story is quite different … (more…)
Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Google Servers
Friday, April 3rd, 2009After reading the article at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html I figured that it had to be a hoax. I mean, that just looks like it’s looking for trouble. However, after about a 20 minute discussion around this with one of the guys working at Google I am now reasonably convinced that this may very well be for real.
nVidia bluez
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Those who know me will instantly tell you that I’m a nVidia fan in the whole nVidia vs ATI debacle. So big was my surprise this morning when I couldn’t get a nVidia Quadro NVS 440 working by simply going “apt-get install nvidia-glx” on that ubuntu box …
Making the BNT-600 UPS work with NUT
Monday, August 4th, 2008I’ve had my blacknight 600VA UPS for a while now, and was well aware of the fact that NUT makes use of the powercom driver to interface with it. I also knew that it was supposed to be able to do things like auto-shutdown and restore power on resume (unlike some of the considerably smarter UPSes it won’t wait until battery restored to a certain point). Well, I finally made it work the way I want it…
