Robert Hoekstra's blog » Gentoo http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress Because I like to share. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:35:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:44:47 +0000 robert http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=9 With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.

My configuration:

laptop, HP nc8430 two displays, panel (1680×1050) and an external monitor (1280×1024) Gentoo Linux, at time of writing kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 (stable) ati-drivers 8.532, the 8.9 version of the ATI Catalyst driver

The problem: Besides known issues . . . → Read More: fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration/feed 0 Keyboard problems in GNOME http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=6 I can’t understand why, but as a Dvorak typist I run into problems with GNOME. GNOME has a nice feature to switch the keyboard lay-out from the default, QWERTY, to the Dvorak layout.

But, it doesn’t (reliably) work for Ctrl and Alt keys. I am not sure what causes the troubles, but according to . . . → Read More: Keyboard problems in GNOME]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome/feed 0