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 this board. In fact the driver (the free or binary one) doesn’t seems to support […]
Tags: ati, drivers, linux, nvidia, q6600, ubuntu
admin May 17th, 2008
Today, it’s the time to switch to the next Ubuntu version. One interesting stuff in the latest distro, is the KDE4, but by default you still get a 3.5.9 revision..
Here a little tips to switch easily:
First uninstall the previous version
sudo apt-get remove –purge kdebase-bin-kde3
sudo apt-get autoremove –purge
Install KDE4
sudo apt-get install kde4
As you can see, this […]
Tags: kde, ubuntu, x11
admin April 19th, 2008
After a windows fresh install, the windows setup decided to drop my MBR to put its stuff in. Fine .. but I want my grub back now !
This is an old trick, but udev added a little complexity, so let’s give it a try. First boot on a Ubunty CD, open a console and run:
(here […]
Tags: grub, linux, sata, ubuntu
admin October 30th, 2007