Month: June 2009

  • Bad graphical behaviour with Nvidia GeForce 9200M GS

    The following applies for those that, running a lspci, get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev a1) When trying to play a DVD or a divx movie at fullscreen, the image movement were not fluent, just like a 25fps movie played at 11fps. Similiarly, the 3D screen-savers were slow. Checking…

  • Audio and wireless on a HP Pavilion dv6-1060

    This post has been updated since something changed (yeah, the audio out jack now works great!) Making both the wireless connection and the audio board work on a HP Pavilion DV6-1060el with Debian Lenny (currently stable) and Squeeze (currently testing) needs a small effort. This is due to 2 reasons: first, the linux kernel up…

  • WICD dbus problems

    Tried WICD 1.5.9 as a network manager on Debian testing (Squeeze). After apt-get installing and running it, i got the following error: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.wicd.daemon was not provided by any .service files This is a known bug that should be fixed in future relases. To solve it, i only had to restart dbus…