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03
October

KDE 4.2 (trunk) Now Rocking On My Thinkpad T61!!!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 12 comments Posted in: KDE, Linux
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My work laptop and main computing device is a Thinkpad T61 with an nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) card. It’s been a frustrating last year in trying to run a KDE4 desktop as my main work and development environment because of the problems with the proprietary nVidia drivers that show up in KDE4. [...]

03
October

Multi-Monitor Setup On A Single Physical Head (Now Better!)

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 11 comments Posted in: Desktop, KDE, Linux
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That’s a big title, eh? I blogged previously about setting up a multi-head X environment for development and testing, even though I’m working on a laptop with only one card. My previous attempt used Xdmx and multiple Xephyr displays, and there were some problems with it. Thankfully, Lubos commented about his nifty little fakexinerama library [...]

16
September

Modeline Generation and Xinerama Info

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 9 comments Posted in: Linux
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So, I’m trying to think positively about the 3-hour battle I just had with X. I learned 2 new things today, which I didn’t really want to learn but yay nonetheless.
First, Xinerama. I’m going to be doing multiple monitor stuff for work, which should be really interesting if I can keep my self-imposed stress level [...]