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Apparently one can use some Windows XP drivers under Windows Vista, but not all features apparently are going to translate correctly. I installed video drivers and sound drivers and thankfully could set the resolution to 1280x1024x32. Click the smaller image for larger 🙂

Well, I signed up for Windows Vista Customer Preview Program, received a product key and subsequently downloaded the Release Candidate 1 version of Windows Vista from Microsoft. The installation was painless, requiring virtually no interaction save the product key and time zone. The installation was also a bit lengthy and uninformative. I can say that […]

I downloaded kernel 2.6.17.1 and tried a few things like makeallmodule and that simply is a BAD idea. It did not add support for ext2 or ext3 (I am using ext3) filesystems. Kernel Panic! I can say that the makesilentconfig option is fairly outdated when upgrading from 2.6.13 to 2.6.17.1 . I decided to cat […]

Thanks to DDC of Linux, I now know my monitor’s specific phosphor spacing so I can more accurately calibrate the display. RedX=0.625 RedY=0.342 GreenX=0.280 GreenY=0.595 BlueX=0.155 BlueY=0.070 WhiteX=0.283 WhiteY=0.298

Well I have installed and configured a few more things with my linux box now. I have installed aMule (p2P client) which also required wxWidgets. I also figured out with some help how to mount my /mnt/WinXP such that non-root users can read. fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinXP ntfs ro,gid=100,dmask=0227,fmask=0337 0 0 This journal entry is being […]

Well I discovered today the reason why my kernel recompile was not behaving as expected. Here is what I was doing, first I was taking the config.gz that is located in /proc folder and moving that to /usr/src/linux and ungzip, then rename to .config. If the kernel was a different build than the current one […]