During the past few days/weeks, I’ve had the pleasure (and will have in the future as well) of playing with VMware ESX (2.5.2) and GSX (3.2.1), as well as Workstation in my long forgotten past, and here I try to describe my own personal impressions of the product. First – it is a good product….
Well, all it required was a little search using Google, and Voila! It appears that I needed to add inside my xorg.conf file the line Option "NoPM" in the ServerFlags section. Restart to X, and it was solved. Just like that.
Well, my laptop has been unstable. I have failed to hibernate it few times, beginning with the claim /proc/acpid/event was being used by X. I will check into it later, and once my keyboard failed to respond. I’ve decided to stop the fjkeyd service and drivers, as it’s not workth it. In the future, I…
First and foremost – Happy new year! Technically speaking, it has gone rather well so far, this new year. Although it was actually yesterday, I’ve managed to add another feature to my little laptop, and support the Fujitsu Keys on my linux – this time, with no errors, no problems, and without killing SWSUSP2 –…
I’ve had problems with this one. Although it had a built-in module in the kernel tree, it didn’t work. I’ve had to search a bit, and even when done, new kernel required new solution. I’ve managed to locate the exact place. First, if you have a Philips webcam, OV5xx, which gives these kernel prints: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c:…
I know hibernation is cool, and I know it’s possible even under Linux, but up to now, I’ve never had it as stable and reliable as one could have expected. However, using SWSUSP2.2RC on 2.6.14.2, I am impressed. I’ve been using my laptop for the last week or so, ever since I’ve discovered the problem…
