gregoa's blog

I'm quite happy that I've completed the "philosophy and procedures check" — commonly referred to as P&P — of my new maintainer process. let's see what T&S (the "tasks and skills check") will bring.

il sabato. il sole. il municipio. l'ultimo giorno.

la città. le donne. la musica. la pioggia.

yesterday I realized that direct rendering (dri) is not working anymore on my xserver (checked as usual with glxinfo | grep -i direct).

the solution was:

Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
        Driver        "intel"
        ...
        Option        "Cachelines"        "3582"
EndSection

& the most interesting part: all this fuzzing around for dri or the modlines is not the xserver's fault, not the monitor's fault, not the graphic card's fault — but it's necessary because there's a KVM-switch between the monitor & the machine. if I plug the monitor directly into the machine's vga-port I don't even need an xorg.conf.

the CDs are roasting, the web page is updated, the batteries for the {pre,mini}-amp are bought, the t-shirts are drying — this year's trip to ferrara is getting closer.

a few hours ago I was assigned an application manager for my new maintainer process (the path to becoming a Debian developer). — exciting :-)

I got my fonera on monday, named her kes, had to reset her once 2 hours after connecting her (deleting too many files is no good idea), had no real luck with trying to convert her into a repeater — & today I bricked her (by trying to install a newer busybox package). the wlan led is dead, no wlan signals, no connect on the lan port, ... (resets didn't help, & a flashing lan led when the cat5 cable is connected doesn't help either.)

I guess the only solution involves a serial cable, & that's far beyond my capacities, therefore I hope that my friend & hausmasta chrisu will take this challenge :-)

btw: playing with the fonera firmware (based on openwrt) could be fun.

what's this? armageddon, an eclipse of the sun, nuclear fallout? outside the window it's dark as at 21:30.

thunder starts rolling; probably we'll have a nice thunderstorm here in a few minutes.

the guiding & scouting movement celebrated its 100^th birthday today — on 1907-08-01 the first scout camp on brownsea island started.

I wore my neckerchief at the office & also on the first evening of this year's open air cinema season at the zeughaus.