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Another couple of hours down its gullet (nVidia still gives a blank black screen on startx)
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Have now patched the nvidia-kernel drivers with two different x86-64 patches that are supposed to fix various problems, yet no change in the symptom. Takes a very long time for the change-test-reboot cycle on this. Oh well, for now I still have to run with the (flickery, slow) vesa driver. Not pleasant... a few minutes ...
Fumbling towards KDE (Get nVidia driver to load, but just a blank grey screen on startx)
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Since the chance of getting any significant amount of work done before needing to leave for the meeting seems to be pretty close to nil, I've been working on the video-card problem. I rebuilt with the ~amd64 nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel stuff from source, no change.
However, when I did a search of the drivers/*.so directory ...
Limping nVidia card (Vesa-driver only!)
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Burnt off some of the excess energy last night trying to get the new video card working (there were some posts to the gentoo amd64 list that suggested the problem might be solved by updating to the ~amd64 drivers). No such luck.
Still, got the desktop running with the vesa driver so that I don't ...
Some month soon I need to get the video card installed (Silly Linux drivers...)
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Was just looking at the video card that's been sitting on my desk for far too long now. I just keep avoiding looking at it, as I don't feel like spending hours on hardware that just seems not to want to work. Still, I really do need to get it installed so that Rose can ...
ATI TV Wonder Pro under Linux (Works again w/ 2.6.11-r9 kernel)
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Okay, got the capture card working again. One of these days I guess I should figure out what's changed between the 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 kernels that's messing up. I've tried copying the .config over any number of times, so I'm guessing something changed in the code that either requires a new setting/option/module, or something was ...
Workstation has almost finished rebuilding itself (Churns away in the background all day...)
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The bulk of the software about which I care has been rebuilt now. About the only thing that's still both major and missing is the MythTV support for the ATI TV Wonder Pro. Weird thing is that I keep reading about how this card doesn't work properly, but with the bytesex.org patches it's been working ...
A perfect dismount (Okay, more like "managed to avoid landing flat on his face")
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As of just this moment I've managed to load X11 (and KDE, and Mozilla) on the new Linux instance. I've also fixed the problem with the delay during BIOS startup (it was the lack of a floppy that caused the problem, I'd detached it so I could add the SATA drive to the drive-cage and ...
Last breath before the leap (Kind of cool that it's gotten this far rebuilding itself in the background...)
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The new drive (and video card) came today; but without data or power cables, causing me to make a trip down to College street to pick up the power cable (Ken had found a data cable after ordering one yesterday). So much for paying to get the drive delivered to avoid impinging on work-time. To ...
Bit of Linux hack-and-slash (Since I can't sleep)
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Couldn't sleep again, so I decided I'd try one more time on the 2005.0 upgrade for Gentoo. Once again I just ran into walls where the emul-linux packages stopped doing anything once the script failed during the run. So I went a little nuts and started thrashing away at copying the missing pieces from the ...
Sigh... bust (So tantalisingly close!)
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I finally got past the block that's been sticking for more than a month (the inability to get a multilib version of both glibc and gcc), and was happily rolling through the automated update script when I hit one of the expected snags. No big deal, obviously others have hit it, and there's detailed instructions ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.