Because of the problem with a good, fast and working nvidia driver, I’ve tested the actual beta driver from Nvidia. After installing it on my system (Dell M4300, with zen-sources 2.6.29-r3 running fine on it) everything seems to be fine. But there was the first fault. The character set in the Terminal swaps. The next serious error was restarting the X-Server or crashing the whole system while surfing with Epiphany. So I downgraded my system to nvidia-drivers-180.29 again as mentioned here. It seems Nvidia has to do some work on it, still we have another working release. Stay tuned, we will test it and tell you our experience with any new driver we found from Nvidia.

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Today there was xorg-server-1.5.3 in the portage of gentoo as stable. But there are some hints on it. Now hal and evdev are recommended. If you haven’t used it till now, you have to. If you have emerged hal and evdev ( emerge hal evdev -uND ) you have to copy the policys for hal to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ . The default policys can be found in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy. Then ’emerge xorg-server -uND’ and do the things mentioned in the emerge message. If everything is emerged you can go on with renaming of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old . Then you can stop x and generate a default xorg.conf with Xorg -configure and copy the generated file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf . Then xorg should start probably. Now you can configure everything you wan’t, perhaps you should read on wiki.x.org about what is new and howto deal with this version. Further details can be found at gentoo.org and if there is a problem we might help you.

LG xexplorer

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A few days ago  zen-sources 2.6.29-r1 was published. I tried it on my Notebook and it looks quite fine. There is only one thing which seems to be broken. It’s TuxOnIce. I’ve tested many ways to get it running but it won’t work. The serious thing is that every thing looks normal. When there is a solution I will post it here.

So stay tuned till this is fixed.

Best regards

Thorsten

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Just in case Pi Day is new to you, we thought we’d list out the top Pi Day activities for you, so everyone can celebrate Pi Day this year:

1. Bake a Pie with the symbol Pi on it, measure its diameter, calculate its circumference, and eat the Pie.
2. Use a piece of string to “prove” Pi by measuring other circles’ circumference & diameter.
3. Recite as many digits of Pi as you can as a team taking turns, or have a memorization contest and the winner gets to eat Pie first.
4. Send your friends Pi Day eCards to remind them it’s Pi Day.
5. Give everyone a “High Pi” instead of a high five.
6. Get creative and write a song about Pi, or listen to music based on Pi.

Happy Pi Day 2009!

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