Brave souls can get their filthy paws on my driReInitKludge patch/binaries. If you use a Radeon under linux with DRI (i.e. hardware accelerated DRI) and wish to be able to suspend/resume, this is for you. The page is here
Whoohooo, XFree86 + DRI hacked to suspend/resume
Yes, dear reader(s), I have hacked the radeon drivers so that I can suspend from and resume to an XFree86 server running with active DRI. You can read the low-down here. There is probably going to be some resistance from the developers, as this is still a kludge. It’s quite a good kludge though, don’t you think?
By the way, please read the posting carefully. Some people haven’t and got the wrong idea…
Yet another jewel at emusic.com
Just for clarity: no, I don’t work for emusic, nor am I affiliated with them in any way. However, I would like the concept of affordable and legal on-line music to be proven viable.
In anycase, if you have a taste for for the alternative/industrial (I hate to categorise), you should take a listen to the Evil Mothers. You could perhaps start with Pitchforks and Perverts or even I Love Fur.
Laptop causes Labour of Love
I’ve ported the XFree86 Synaptics touchpad driver to GPM.
I’ve spent too many hours trying to diagnose the VT switch bug and finally fixed it with the help of Michel Daenzer.
Now I’m trying to get the Radeon to survive a suspend-to-disk and resume whilst in DRI mode. I can suspend and resume (with swsusp) out of X successfully if I’m not using DRI. With DRI I resume into a frozen X. I would really like to be able to suspend with DRI, as I do “3d thingies” often. At the moment I’m scratching in the Radeon kernel DRM to see what can be done. As always, I’ll keep you posted.
News flash.
Those l33t Python scripts are now both available at <http: cpbotha.net="" leet_scripts.html="">. </http:>
Toe matj toe sei, not enaf taim!
The laptop has arrived. It’s big, it’s bad and it’s a bit cranky, which is why I’ve decided to call it Dr Evil. It racks up a pretty respectable 1700 to 1800 FPS with glxgears and the bleeding edge DRI tree Radeon drivers. There is still a (known) problem w.r.t. switching to a VT and back which I’ve documented here. I will let you know if/when this is resolved. I am planning to generate more documentation in the form of a mini-review and of course a Linux howto for this laptop: stay tuned. All in all, I’m very happy with my purchase.
gphoto2 and Kodak dc2xx TIP
If you want hotplugging and gphoto2 (and consequently things like gtkam, KDE kamera, etc.) to work nicely with your Kodak dc2xx, remember NOT TO COMPILE DC2XX SUPPORT into the kernel. This sounds counter-intuitive, but trust me. Please.
Aaaack…
Yes boys and girls, the bitch of a motherboard (MSI-694D dual FC-PGA) in my work machine went tits up last week. I never trusted the regulator on that thing: if the CPUs were under an oscillating load, one could see small fluctuations on the screen in time with the load. This was the case even when it was new, but do you think any of the suppliers took my complaints seriously? So, the regulator has finally gone bye-bye… I believe it’s just shit quality on the MSI-694D.
Bliss.
I finally broke down and ordered that laptop: Promedion (Clevo) 5600 with Northwood P4 1.8GHz CPU, 256MB DDR ram, 30G HDD, 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 15″ 1400×1050 TFT, 3 year on-site.
When I get the thing, which should be in a week or so, I’ll make sure to write up a detailed review and document the laptop’s transcendence to the next level of computer consciousness (i.e. the Linux installation). Fortunately I didn’t have to pay the Microf*ck tax (the forced inclusion of a Microslop OS) like with so many other mainstream notebooks.
More 5600 info
I found this posting on groups.google.com, bless its heart. It’s very positive about the Clevo 5600 and mentions that it’s also marketed as the Fosa 5600, Prostar 5694 and the Area 51 gaming laptop by AlienWare. I’d been drooling about the Area 51 before, but at that time I didn’t know what the Clevo looked like, so I didn’t recognise it.