Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’
SOLVED: Blank or Dark Reddish Video on Ubuntu Karmic with ATI Graphics
I have just recently splashed out on a Dell Studio 17 which comes with ATI HD3650 graphics. I would have been happier if they still did this laptop with Intel graphics which, in my experience, work hassle free out of the box.
I took my hard drive out of my old laptop which had Intel GMA graphics and put it in my shiny new Studio 17. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried playing a video in Totem or VLC. The video was very dark and reddish. I tried installing the proprietry crap fglrx which seems to suck at multi head if the external monitor has a higher resolution than the laptop screen. With this fglrx driver enabled the video completely disappeared and left just a blank black window in Totem. Read the rest of this entry »
Roadsend PHP Compiler Ubuntu 64bit deb package
I have built a binary package for Roadsend Compiler. Unfortunately It does not include support for GTK 2 but the website says support is under development. The PHP-Qt website also says its working on support for Roadsend. I had trouble compiling in ODBC support so I expect this will not work. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP-GTK Ubuntu 64bit deb package
I’ve looked everywhere for a binary deb package for PHP-GTK so I have compiled my own and posted it here to share. To use it you will have to manually edit your php.ini file but I have writen instructions for this below. Read the rest of this entry »
SOLVED: O2 Pay & Go Mobile Broadband on Ubuntu Karmic
I don’t know about other distro’s but the mobile broadband data in Ubuntu is inaccurate for O2 Pay and Go broadband. In Jaunty I could just use the Network Manager to correct the APN to m-bb.o2.co.uk. However, after upgrading to Karmic Beta, Network Manager seems to have a bug and does not save any edited connection data. This bug may be fixed in the final release but for now there is an easy solution to this problem. Read the rest of this entry »