2/15/2006
GatorLUG
Cardoe wrote this around lunchtime:
So I’m suppose to speak today at the local LUG called, GatorLUG, appropriately since most of the people involved either go to the University of Florida or work there. I’m suppose to speak about Gentoo and I haven’t a clue what to say and as such I haven’t prepared slides. Basically I feel like I can speak about a lot of topics and I’ll pretty much cover anything that everyone’s interested in. I’ll be brushing up on my eselect knowledge today thanks to this week’s Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. I might create some really rough slides without chunky good details, though I’d much rather connect my laptop to an overhead projector and show it off that way. We’ll see how it goes.
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February 16th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
[…] So just before yesterday’s GatorLUG meeting I installed Hanno’s Xgl overlay and got Xgl up and running on my ATI Radeon Mobility 9000. It’s a r200 based card, specifically a R250Lf chip. Hanno’s instructions are for a windowed X server on top of your current X session, this didn’t work for me. So I followed Sebastian’s instructions but those weren’t without their oddities. Basically I messed up at first and didn’t realize that I had to restart my X session… I know… duh! But I wasn’t thinking, just rushing. The other HUGELY important issue is to make sure you run glxinfo first, which is provided by x11-apps/mesa-progs and make sure you have “direct rendering: yes” in the output, otherwise X will just crash on you. Well, here’s the steps to make it happen. […]