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NewLine: Beer, Talks and Hacking

Mimor — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:09:22 +0000

Keep 25 & 26 March free on your agenda’s!
Last year, on the 1st of April, the Whitespace was officially launched… So now:

More info: https://0×20.be/Newline

Ubuntu 10.10 and ATI Radeon HD 6870

Mimor — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:44:59 +0000

So, quite some time ago I made the mistake of buying the ATI Radeon HD 6870 without first checking if it would play nice with my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.
Turned out it didn’t

But now, there are proprietary Linux drivers released by ATI/AMD

First, you should update your system (just to be sure).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
If you’ve been using older drivers, remove them.

sudo apt-get remove –purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Download the install package from the AMD suppot pages and make it executable

chmod +x ati-driver-installer*.run
Run the installer as sudo-user

sudo ./ati-driver-installer*.run
Reboot

Enjoy!

The Linux 2.6.38 kernel carries the ATI Radeon HD 6000 open source support. (just fyi!)
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This way, I can adjust it to the needs of my readers.

New screen

Mimor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:44:17 +0000

Today, I bought my second 22″ Widescreen (Medion) monitor for only €150.
With its maximum resolution of 1680×1050, contrast of 1000:1 and a 5 ms reaction speed, it makes just a simple yet perfect addition to my desk.
This is one of the devices that just does the trick.
If I had spend 35 Euro more, I could have bought a Full-HD 23″ monitor from samsung… but I just can’t find a purpose for the Full-HD function and the 23″ would denigrate my other (also a 22″) screen.
It’s main purpose will be browsing, coding and a little bit gaming or designing.

I’m proud to present, my new screen (middle) functioning as a second screen for my portable (Dell Latitude D820).

I had to disable Compis Fusion on my laptop so that I could disable screen monitoring on the dual-head.