Today, I am retiring one of my previous servers, Aristotle. It has been a good machine, but I no longer need it because it has been replaced by a newer machine in a different datacentre. It had a good run of a couple years, with a nice uptime: bsbc-aristotle aristotleadmin # w 18:22:34 up 475 …
Category: Linux
Jun 17 2011
New nvidia-drivers fix the fill error
After the version bump yesterday to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07, the problem with LXterminal drawing a black box in the upper-left corner of the primary display is no longer present. Though I don’t see any specific mention of this bug in the release highlights, the changelog can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
May 12 2011
Bug confirmed in LXterminal
Recently I posted about the rendering issue with LXterminal. I just found the confirmed bug report on LaunchPad for Ubuntu. It seems that the issue, then, is not distribution-specific. Therefore, I would imagine that the bug report should be filed upstream with the LXDE project. Once that is done, I will post a link to …
Thought for the Moment
