I had a rough experience upgrading Edgy to Feisy. Hardware listing, for generations to come: Motherboard Abit IB9, including on-board IDE controller IT8211 with firmware 1.3.1.67 and no BIOS upgrade in the near future. Nvidia 7700 with 256MB RAM on PCIe Problems: 1. With IDE controller enabled in BIOS system hangs during startup. This is…
If it works, don’t touch it. This is one of my mottoes. I have broken this rule just yesterday when I decided that I was too lazy to install Pidgin from source, and decided I wanted it to be installed directly from deb. Unfortunately, there was no pidgin deb for Edgy. None that I was…
As you can see in my previous posts, I have an NVidia card. It worked quite well while using XGL, but due to XGL’s memory consumption (it takes a lot of memory), I have decided to try for AIGLX, which is part of the X.org system. In my previous post you can see that (and…
Using Nvidia propriety driver version 9755 allows using AIGLX instead of the slower and deprecated GLX interface. AIGLX nowadays is part of Xorg 7.1 and above. You can find a guide in OpenSuse Wiki which will describe the required actions. I have attached here my own xorg.conf file which allows Dual-head setup with 2 LCD…
