Sun, 31 Oct 2004
Inclusion of a CPUFreq applet in GNOME Applets05:20
The discussion about the inclusion of a CPUFreq applet in GNOME Applets is now open
Wed, 20 Oct 2004
Dell Latitude D60011:14
I've acquired a new laptop: Dell Latitude D600. I'm going to talk here about my experiences with it because I think it can be useful for somebody.
First of all, the laptop has the following components:
- 1.6GHz Intel Pentium-M (2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB)
- 14'' SXGA+ TFT LCD (1400x1050)
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, AGPx4, 32 MB DDR
- 2x 256MB SDRAM
- 80GB hard disk (EIDE ATA 100)
- 8 x DVD / 24 X CDRW
- Intel soundcard (AC'97 Audio Controller)
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN (Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet)
Linux Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Kernel version: 2.6.9 with no patches
| ATI Radeon 9000 M9 | |
| Works perfectly at 1400x1050 using Xfree 4.3 and radeon driver, but without 3D. You can check if you have 3D: $ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" direct rendering: No To get 3D: Add the following line to your /etc/sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./ then # apt-get update # apt-get install xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk Reboot the X server and check it again: $ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" direct rendering: Yes My Device section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon 9000"
VendorName "ATI"
Driver "radeon"
VideoRam 32768
Option "AGPMODE" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "SWCursor" "true"
EndSection
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| ATI TV-OUT | |
Works out of the box by doing the following:
Option "SWCursor" "true" |
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| SpeedStep / CPUFreq | |
| Since my CPU model is not still recognized by the cpufreq, I had to compile the kernel with the option [*] Use ACPI tables to decode valid frequency/voltage pairs (EXPERIMENTAL) and it works perfectly |
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| ACPI | |
| Works without patching the kernel |
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| Dell i8k | |
| The module has to be loaded with the force=1 option | |
The rest of the components works perfectly and they don't need to be commented
Mon, 11 Oct 2004
Hackergotchi12:01
I already have a hackergotchi for Planeta GNOME Hispano. Thanks to zioma!
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| Zioma working on my hackergotchi |
JuventudeCantabriaNet
Photos in my gallery :-)
Sun, 03 Oct 2004
Change the CPU frequency with GNOME CPUFreq Applet02:45
A new GNOME CPUFreq Applet release is available for download
The most important new feature is the frequency selector. Although it's a feature requested by many people, I've not included it before now because of security reasons. By default the frequency selector is installed suid root. But you can avoid it by using --enable-suid=no as a configure script argument or even if you don't want to install the frequency selector you can use --disable-frequency-selector
The frequency selector is not cpufreq-applet specific, but it's a generic tool that it can be used by other applications.
