-
Installing Beryl and Xgl
Ubuntu experiences entry.ATI/Beryl/KDE/Dapper/My Guide
-
Needed to reinstall nvidia driver on Edgy Eft.
Did a distro upgrade on Kubuntu to 6.10. Everything was working nicely–firefox 2.0, etc… but I hadn’t rebooted yet. My linux box isn’t a critical system at work, it’s subjected to the whims of the neighborhood power grid. Thus, it had to be turned on after the long weekend. This morning, I discovered that I…
-
select() system call in Linux vs. other *nix flavors
From the Linux Programmer’s Manual:“On Linux, the function select modifies timeout to reflect the amount of time not slept; most other implementations do not do this. This causes problem both when Linux code which reads timeout is ported to other operating systems, and when code is ported to Linux that reuses a struct timeval for…