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Linux Catalyst (fglrx): Fixing black screen issue in versions 9.12 and 10.1

2010-02-09T22:58:00.005+03:00

After upgrading AMD/ATI Catalyst driver (aka fglrx) from version 9.11 to 9.12 on Linux, I found that the new version didn't work - X would start but the screen would be black. I haven't put much time in resolving it and just rolled back to Catalyst 9.11.Now that Catalyst 10.1 is out on Linux, I tried upgrading again but encountered the same black screen issue. I found a few solutions but they

Linux & Automounting of removable USB disks: Xfce take

2008-12-26T14:43:00.003+03:00

Automounting of the removable USB devices seems to be a recurring problem for many Linux users. It's caused by the opaque interaction between ConsoleKit, PolicyKit and the desktop environment. Even if the desktop environment supports the volume management (and I believe all major Linux desktops do: GNOME, KDE, XFCE), missing just one link in the fragile chain of interactions between the desktop

HOWTO: Using nginx to accelerate Apache on Cpanel server

2008-05-30T13:02:00.011+04:00

Nginx - the small, lightning fast and very efficient web server is usually used to serve static content or as a reverse proxy/load balancer for the Apache or other relatively slow backends. So it would be natural to use nginx as a frontend for Cpanel's Apache. It would save a substantial amount of memory and CPU time usually sucked by the numerous Apache children spoonfeeding content to the

Capturing HDV stream from camera in Linux over FireWire

2007-01-21T23:11:00.002+03:00

Things are a bit in disarray in the HDV Linux department. While there are some good Linux applications out there supporting HD video editing (such as Cinelerra), getting HDV stream out of the camera via ieee1394 aka FireWire aka iLink proved to be a formiddable task.Anyway, after getting hold of HDV-capable Canon HV10 digital video camera, I quickly found that dvgrab utility which was supposed to

Mobile Action 8730P USB Cable And Linux

2007-01-15T23:40:00.002+03:00

More than an year ago, I had to use GPRS as a mean of Internet connectivity while travelling. It turned out the only option to connect my Siemens C75 phone to the notebook was a special USB cable. I double checked the Linux support, and bought the MA-8730P made by Mobile Action. It is based on pl2303 USB<->serial converter chip which is well supported in Linux.Little I knew that the "P" version (