Enabling 3D with ATI and NVIDIA - ubuntu and debian
hmm.. getting 3D enabled for ATI and NVIDIA is still very tricky. With ubuntu you can recompile a kernel package AND/OR recompile restricted modules AND/OR compile a custom kernel with ATI/NVIDIA modules. There are 4-5 different options for getting it done. Each has it’s drawbacks. And even after spending lot of time figuring it out - next time you update the kernel, you’re screwed again :)
You can scratch your head for hours wondering why everything should work but glxinfo shows Mesa as active driver. You need direct rendering! Even if you’re not playing any games. 2D rendering saves a lot of CPU and linux runs much faster.
For ATI, when you download the linux proprietary driver installer - I’ve never seen it working without any special tweaks. Plus their installation guide is quite out-dated and not in sync with the real installer.
SO - Here’s the lifesaver - Envy! It’s a small utility that takes care of these tweaks and with a very simple user-interface fetches all the important packages, installs all the properietary stuff and makes sure that conflicting drivers are disabled/uninstalled/removed.
I gave it a try and - this thingy started from scratch and - I was done in 5minutes - everything working great!
Envy main screen
New Memberships
Just for the record, Codehoop is now the member of “Eclipse Friends” and official OSGi Supporter.
Summer of Code: writing PHP plugins
Toomas finished the official part of the google summer of code program. It was an honor to be the mentor and I had/still have a lot of fun with him.
Grab The PHP writing plugin for Eclipse from the update site and check it out if it works for you!
Sorry, but java6 and eclipse 3.3 only! (jsr-223 scripting engine starts from java 6)
Quercus GPL-licensed PHP Fragment is not mandatory - the plugin supports also javascript (and possibly all JSR223 scripting engines).
Have fun and let him know if you find some cool usage for it. Commenting at his blog is a good start.
I had to disable comments at my blog :(
A cool feature would be to write a small snippet that sends selected text to some rafb/etc pastebin and prints the url to the eclipse console view.
when in doubt, blog
nice quote of the day
Comments closed, stay tuned for changes
Thanks to the ones bugging about posting new stuff. no thanks to my side for not doing this.
summer has been busy yet slow-paced regarding online presence.
ALL Comments are now disabled to prevent spamming. All moderation-queue comments were deleted (sry for the serious ones, over 3000 comments was too much to filter manually).
Yes, this blog gets back to live and kickin’. Maybe! ;)
At least one eclipse-related post is already in draft stage.
AND there’s a cool release shortly coming in from one of the Google SoC this year students (khm, yes the one I have the privilege of mentoring).
