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Switchable Graphics
The topic isn't something new - to equip a computer with two graphic cards to make it save power. The idea bases on the fact that you don't need high end graphical performance for your daily work and so a less powerfu...
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Lenovo W500 - Part 3
After the first installation steps were done, it was time to get Xorg running, which reminds us of one of the oddities of this notebook. Remember, we have to VGA cards here. But it would be too simple if things are wo...
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Update: Finally it arrived!
After the big download, I kick-started the installer and I couldn't believe my eyes: That service pack wants to have 1475 MB free space while installation - true, that number sounds scary, but it wasn't better with th...
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ATI - All technical idiots?
I got a real bad opinion about ATI today. Reason is the drivers update as my support for my old Radeon mobility got dropped. OpenGL is only possible with the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver and regarding the ABI Change i...
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ATI binary drivers und Xorg 7.1
Ein Update der Treiberschnittstelle von Xorg setzte aufgrund einiger Änderungen in der ABI mein X11 ausser Gefecht. Also mal kurz in den Gentoo-Foren nachgeschaut was da zu Bruch ging. Die Lösung war denkbar einfach -...
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ATI binary drivers und Xorg 7.1
Ein Update der Treiberschnittstelle von Xorg setzte aufgrund einiger Änderungen in der ABI mein X11 ausser Gefecht. Also mal kurz in den Gentoo-Foren nachgeschaut was da zu Bruch ging. Die Lösung war denkbar einfach -...