Due to mesa bug compiz fails on large virtual screens on Intel Graphics hardware

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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