eek!

posted @ 11:20 pm on Monday, August 26, 2002

I must be getting some life threatening illness or something, I created 2 more debian related howto documents this evening. That makes 3 howto’s in a week! ;-)

The two new howto’s are for recompiling a kernel the Debian way and for installing/configuring lm-sensors under Debian. I will also be creating another howto with specific instructions on how to compile a new Debianized kernel from the kernel sources found at kernel.org and also including kernel source tree patches for those who require such a thing. Just covers the most common aspects of compiling a new kernel.

On that note, I have spent aaaaages whinging and moaning about how the stock Denian kernels would only ever detect 900Mb of my machine’s 1024Mb of ram installed but I found today that its all because of the kernel config option of CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y not being set. Once set, I can see the full amount of ram I have installed on my workstation. :)

More howto’s are in progress too as my next task is to get ALSA running on this machine. I go on holidays soon, so i will have lots of time to play around.

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new howto!

posted @ 12:26 am on Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Its amazing! I have finally got off my arse and written another howto on getting those damn nvidia modules installed and running the Debian way! Check it out over here.

And my, hasn’t it been a while since updates? Yes I know I am slack but I have been working a lot *grunts something about a pager and being oncall*, working on myrddin.org v2 and just general gaming. The new broadband rawks! UT is awesome with a fat link. Speaking of gaming, I have been hooked into playing DiabloII in a big way. I can’t get enough of it.

UT2003 is also just around the corner! I am waiting eagerly for my pre-ordered copy.. tho the release date keeps creeping further and further back :( ahh well, it’ll be here one of these days and when that day comes I’ll be a very happy man, gaming like a crazed monkey!

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