Month: November 2010

  • Problems starting Eclipse

    While trying to install a plugin, i’ve made some mess which resulted in Eclipse not starting, giving the following error in the log file: !SESSION Tue Nov 09 15:18:43 CET 2010 —————————————— !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2010-11-09 15:18:43.233 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at…

  • Radeon Mobility M6 LY on Debian Squeeze

    Upgrading from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, those having this old embedded video card (my laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R40) have found their video performance dropped. This is due to debian’s policy which produced the distribution of this video card’s firmware in a package that is not installed by default with the x.org driver. In…