Archive for the 'FOSS' Tag

FSM: Mister Pitcock’s wild ride

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I haven’t written about the FOSS community for awhile…

William Pitcock (aka nenolod, aka the guy who wrote Audacious, aka the guy behind atheme.org) has decided to, in spirit, respond to my earlier article about ESR and the Bazaar. Every good reply deserves a reply in turn.

Read the entire thing here at Free Software Magazine.

FOSS Targeted Spam?

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

I was looking in my Gmail spam folder, and found a spam with the subject:

Bug #90358 Please Read

So, I’m assuming this form of spam is target to people that use bug reporting systems.

Synfig Ubuntu Debs

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Update: (July 13th 2006) These debs are out of date and are no longer available for download. I have no interest on packaging these anymore.

I’ve recompiled Paul Wise’s Synfig Debian debs for Ubuntu, until Ubuntu Universe inherits them from Debian SID. Just add…

deb http://mjr.iki.fi/ubuntu/synfig/ ./
deb-src http://mjr.iki.fi/ubuntu/synfig/ ./

…to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update and you’ll be able to use them. Please note, the binary packages are for x86 only; you’ll have to build from source to get these to work on other platforms. Also note, this version of etl is broken on x86-64, but has been fixed in CVS.

Thanks mjr, for hosting them!

R300 DRI on Radeon 9600 Pro

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Damnit, I know the R300 DRI driver is alpha code and all, but it doesn’t work on my card at all! I’ve been slowly working with the dri-devel mailing list on how to get it working, but no one has been able to figure out whats wrong.

  • Windows works fine.
  • The ATI binary driver, fglrx, works fine.
  • Removing Load "DRI" from Xorg.conf and then starting Xorg with R300 DRI works fine.
  • Xorg.0.log doesn’t give me any hints as to whats wrong.
  • dmesg gives me no hints as to whats wrong.
  • Running DRI, libDRM, and the DRM kernel modules from CVS doesn’t fix it.
  • It isn’t the agpart driver, because fglrx uses the agpart driver instead of it’s internal one due to how Ubuntu Dapper works
  • Fast write is not on.
  • AGP speed is set to default, which seems to be 4x.
  • I use GDM, and the Ubuntu GDM drum sound doesn’t play.
  • It does, however, play if I manually go to a text console, but trying to go back to X leaves me with a scrambled screen with a working mouse curosr, and input doesn’t work; sysreq, however, does.
  • Starting X by itself without GDM doesn’t fix it.

Anyone out there have an idea of how this can be fixed?

Update: In October of 2005, I bought this card, under the impression that ATI would support it under Linux, and they have failed. They did not give any help to the DRI R300 project, nor did they improve their fglrx drivers. On October 11th of 2006, I have replaced this card with a Geforce 6800XT.

However, I wish the best of luck to the DRI team. Not everyone is willing to shell out $120 to get rid of problematic drivers.