Tag Archives: xorg

a switch to ubuntu.

2007.10.23 – 2:31 pm PDT

A couple days ago I accidentally(and I did the first step of it on accident, truthfully. ) switched the Operating System on my dad’s laptop from Windows XP Home*barf*, to Ubuntu. In that process I later decided to try out the encrypted drive option on the alternative install CD. With little hesitation after I decided [...]

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pci config space bits.

2006.11.26 – 6:26 pm PST

[disclaimer]THE FOLLOWING CAN DAMAGE STUFF[/disclaimer]
My laptop has a SiS5513, well atleast linux thinks it is.  It’s really a SiS962.  I’ve had my laptop for a few years now, and I wish I would have “figured” this out sooner.

/*
* The original SiS5513 comes from a SiS5511/55112/5513 chipset. The original
* SiS5513 was also used in the SiS5596/5513 [...]

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friends’ laptop

2006.05.31 – 9:42 pm PDT

ok, well we ditched windows xp on the laptop, and i decided to reinstall the latest version of ubuntu on it. it runs ubuntu pretty well for being an older system, but linux does love old hardware. i managed to get my Proxim RangeLAN pcmcia 802.11 card to work using wpasupplicant, which apparently is [...]

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Bad Behavior has blocked 2217 access attempts in the last 7 days.

>>>>>>> .r246