Thursday, December 3, 2009
Want to build packages for the N900 from Gentoo? Gwax on the Maemo forum has excellent instructions posted.
One addendum, the ebuilds are now in Portage. There’s on unresolved bug, scratchbox-toolchain-cs2007q3-glibc2_5 needs this line added:
RESTRICT=”strip binchecks”
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Rewrote this after the comment from Leo and some work getting my Amarok install done properly.
Amarok 1.4 has been my favorite media player for years. It rocks. In the early days it was unstable but we can forgive in development software for that.
I gave 2.0 a try in the svn head days when nothing at [...]
Sadly, the sixteen boot penguins get cut off because the Nvidia GPU installed doesn’t have kernel mode setting.
Hexadecatuple core probably won’t enter the vernacular but nothing else runs Ubuntu 9.10 quite like sixteen cores of sweet, sweet, Opteron.
I put this hardware together as a VM platform for running large numbers of KVM systems. It’s 32GB [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
There’s lots of reasons to avoid these seemingly tempting low-power graphics chips. Adam’s post sums it up for Linux. While it’s now possible to get something working, and I have, it was slower than a well tuned VESA driver at 2D drawing operations, and only barely faster at anything else. It won’t work moving forward, [...]
I already mentioned graphics configuration for the Vaio P. There’s not a lot more to do on this machine for Gentoo, but this guide might help some.
Booting from USB works well, so I’d suggest a USB key image to do the basic install from. I skipped ahead a bit in my own install, having an [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
I just got a Sony Vaio P, and I’m very impressed. Long live the trackpoint and high DPI screens. I gave Ubuntu 8.04 Netbook Remix a try on it, but couldn’t work around some graphical corruption. So instead I copied Gentoo over from my Dell Mini 9, and booted that.
The Vaio P uses Intel’s GMA [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I installed the SMC and EFI firmware updates that were released today. The Intel X25-M SSD is still unbootable in BIOS mode, and elilo/grub2 still do not load in EFI mode.
Another change I noticed was the maximum fan speed was lowered from 8000 RPM to 6200 RPM. I haven’t paid close attention to the actual [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
When I started using Linux in 2003, ACPI was a convoluted mess caused by plague of power management: Windows XP. Microsoft did a number of things that led to broken ACPI implementations (the most obvious and annoying was implementing a DSDT compiler that built broken tables). Of course it all worked mostly if you used [...]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Tired of lugging my 40 pound desktop between cities, I’ve replaced it with the slightly less powerful but much more portable MacBook Pro. OS X didn’t last very long.
A few things to be aware of with Apple’s Intel-based hardware. Most of it (all currently shipping) comes with the capability of loading the machine in either [...]