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My main computer is based on a ASUS M3N78-VM motherboard with a built-in NVidia GeForce 8200 GPU. After letting Fedora 19 upgrade to the latest kernel and corresponding NVidia drivers (via akmod), the display went crazy a few seconds after logging in, and then the system would lock up completely. Fortunately I wasn’t the first […]
Somehow I neglected to upgrade to Fedora 18, which likely made the transition to Fedora 19 more complex, or simply delayed and multiplied the required changes. In general, “FedUp” works well. However, somehow the NVidia video drivers always create problems. This was exacerbated by having some ubuntu versions of the gnome-desktop in fc17. I ended […]
I’ve used gnucash to manage my finances since 2001. For quite some time, after one of the Fedora upgrades, gnucash would always die after the spash screen with a segmentation fault. However, if I ran it as a different user it would work fine. I finally traced it down to a stale LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable value. […]
My father’s day gift (to myself) was a Barnes and Noble Nook Color, which I almost immediately rooted to run a href=”https://sites.google.com/site/phiremod/nook-color-roms” title=”Phiremod” target=”_blank”Phiremod/a 6.3. This worked very well after learning that it is necessary to use a USB adapter to write the special boot code to the micro-SDCard. This weekend I updated this to […]
Yes, that’s an old joke definition for FORD, but sometimes it seems to describe my life. After spending Labor Day weekend repairing my wife’s Grand Prix ignition switch and DRL diode, and my Chevy Colorado (radio bulbs and door speaker replacement), along with other household repairs, the 2 year old 500 GB Seagate hard drive […]
