Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Compiz works fine on my new 64 bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop’s LVDS screen. Only after connecting a big LCD screen and using gnome-display-settings to extend my Desktop to this monitor, compiz fails to start and makes the following complaint:
Comparing resolution (3040×1200) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Failed.
I was wondering why. I hoped it [...]
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Since VMWare Server 2 everything is administrated from a webinterface. This works nice and looks nice. Unfortunately I could not open the Console to the Guest OS. Starting and stopping the Guest OS no problem, but no graphical console. When opening the console in the webinterface, a plugin must be installed in firefox. This is [...]
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
The CTRL-ALT-DELETE option in the Server Console of VMWare Server 2.0.1( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) is missing. This is very anoying. In Ubuntu, when pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE the ‘Close Computer’ screen appears. Also pressing CTRL-ALT removes keyboaard/mouse control from the VMWare Server Console window back to Ubuntu/X Server. So is there no way yo login [...]
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
vlc, mplayer, kdenlive are not able to open my webcam(/dev/video), while aMSN is able to. I have the following webcam:
ID 046d:08ad Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
It seems that Ubuntu recently switched from V4L to V4L2 causing some trouble with some devices. Fortunately there is a solution:
sudo apt-get install ld.so.preload-manager
sudo ld.so.preload-manager /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
alternatively (note the lib32. You [...]
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I created a very nice project which turns an OpenWRT supported router into an embedded device running a full Debian ARM GNU/Linux distribution instead of the default small Busybox/uLibc based OpenWRT distribution. I called the project DebWRT. It took me a lot of time to make all the pieces work together.
I tested everything on an [...]
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Finally, it’s working. Mounting the iPhone in Linux over USB. No stupid (ADHOC) wireless connection is required. It also works on non-jailbrroken iPhones. Though, the developers still say that only “developers” should use it. Of course there is still a problem accessing the Media iTunes library on the iPhone – the key Apple uses on [...]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Finally after a very long time, I now can work with OpenWrt kamikaz with a 2.6 linux kernel. Problem was that there was only a binary driver for kernel 2.4 available for the specific Broadcom wireless chipset in the Asus WL-500g Deluxe. The driver module was called wlc.0. For some time now the new b43 [...]
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
For some time now I experience problems with my Atherios Wireless NIC in combination with NetworkManager. For quite some time now, it’s possible for me to connect to a normal Wireless Access Point. Now I have an iPhone and want to use PDANet to connect a Laptop to the Internet using the iPhone 3G fast [...]
