Preface As far as I can tell, the following didn’t improve anything for me. In fact, I can’t tell whether my problem was related to the quoted bug in any way at all. I would think it more likely that it was just a signal that was too weak, period. Original blog post Network-manager (nm-applet [...]
To get my Thinkpad X41 (Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller) to project to an external monitor, I used this very nicely written information. This works great. Specifically: Project to external monitor: xrandr –output VGA –auto Project to external monitor with a specific resolution: xrandr –output VGA –mode 1280×1024 Turn off projecting to external monitor: [...]
While outsourcing my memory to this blog is handy, it’s even better when I can outsource the blog’s task by just pointing to other blogs. xubuntu blog has a very nice writeup of installing Compiz on Xubuntu Gutsy. It works without problems on the Dell Inspiron desktop (nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 GS graphics card). I [...]
I was looking for a way to get dropbear, the SSH server on the Linksys (running OpenWRT), to listen on an alternate port, but wasn’t able to find a configuration file. This tip solved the problem, and another one I didn’t know I had (how to disable password authentication for remote access, but allow it [...]