Insecrure Screensavers with Xorg 1.11+

Due to a serious bug, pretty much all screensavers are vulnerable if they run with a recent Xorg 1.11+. I leave it to others to describe mor...Read more »

New Open Source Poulsbo Driver in 2.6.39 staging

It works pretty nicely - though just as a framebuffer device so far. A specialized Xorg userspace driver for the new staging kernel driver i...Read more »

Understanding the Necessity of Wayland

Questioning the necessity for Wayland and the wiseness of the choice has become a phenomena, especially after Mark Shuttleworth annouced ...Read more »

Quick Fix for Your Multimedia Keys

If your multimedia keys give this warning in dmesg: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf7 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: U...Read more »

Moblin 2.1 IVI FC Release tested on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA 500/Poulsbo)

Phoronix hasn't gotten to it yet , but now I've done a quick test with the Moblin distribution IVI version with supposed GMA 500 sup...Read more »

How to set up X and VAAPI Accelerated HD Video on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA500 - Poulsbo) and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

The following guide is now slightly outdated as Ubuntu 10.04 is out and new drivers are necessary, also some of the repositories I originall...Read more »

X Video finally works - Poulsbo and Linux on the MSI Wind U110 - Fix for BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000

If you tried to get poulsbo to run on your system and you get a message like this, you should try the fix posted below. "kernel BUG: un...Read more »

Automatically switch to connected External Display on Boot with XRandR

I bought a notebook to be flexible, but when at home I use it with external monitor, keyboard and mouse to be comfortable. Now the problem w...Read more »

Blanking External Monitor to Save Energy with Xorg

I've just found out that my external monitor remains on for quite a while in the suspend and off modes (xset dpms force off). The only o...Read more »

NVIDIA Brings Fast GPU Video Acceleration to Linux

It's been a while. I've sat here on my chair for a long time and thought to myself: Hey, if you want to do it, video acceleration wo...Read more »

Disabling Touchpad on Demand

There's now an alternative to using the shared memory of the synaptic driver to enable and disable the touchpad: xinput set-int-prop ...Read more »

Ubuntu 8.10 No-Go for Dual Head

Don't upgrade your Ubuntu to 8.10 if you want to use a dual head setup. There second screen will reguarly turn off for a second while ...Read more »

KDE 4.1 with Multi-Head

Just a short note: If you plan to use KDE 4.1 with Multi-Head, make sure you do *not* do it using xrandr, otherwise KDE gets confused and m...Read more »

Multiseat Display Manager Out Now

The Multiseat Display Manager is now out and (hopefully) helps you to set up a multiseat environment (much) easier than before. I have alway...Read more »

Minimal X Environment

If you want to e.g. use nxserver, but only for a few selected applications it is often wise to install just the most basic packages, in ubun...Read more »

Helping Windows Users with UltraVNC Single Click and ssvnc from Linux

If you ever (try to) use UltraVNC Single Click to help Windows users from Linux, you will find out that it's not that easy. Though you c...Read more »

On a quest to get a 3D desktop

I'm very excited with 3D desktop after watching AIGLX and XGL in action with beryl or compiz window manager. I haven't been able to...Read more »

ATI releases Linux driver and update

PEOPLE often complain about ATI Linux support. Nvidia rocks with driver support for the OS, and we know that Nvidia has just released a driv...Read more »

How to setup USB Scroll Mouse in Linux

This is my experience in setting up my mouse ( USB , scroll mouse) in my new Slackware Linux box. On standard installation, Slack install...Read more »