Monthly Archives: May 2007

Debian Etch NVidia direct rendering no

5/27/2007 – 9:50 pm

I so rarely use 3D on my Debian GNU/Linux desktop, I didn’t bother to verify it was working when I upgraded to Etch. Actually, it’s probably been busted since I moved to the unofficial Xorg in Sarge Backports in December. The Debian WiKi has the solution, essentially.

nx@faith:/home/.nx$ glxinfo | egrep “glx (vendor|version)”
server [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Quick Guides | Comments (1)

Firefox 2 an abject failure, Opera restored my faith

5/9/2007 – 8:40 pm

Okay. Enough. I’ve been using Firefox since before the 1.0 release came out. I enjoyed version 0.8, even if it crashed a little. It was light weight and fast. Browsing was fun and fully featured again. KHTML wasn’t bad, but still didn’t support enough of the Web as I [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments (1)