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
Tag: hardware
May 03 2011
Faulty hardware a lot lately
I’m not sure why, but I have had a lot of service calls lately that resulted in hardware components having to be replaced. In the past couple weeks, I’ve replaced five sets of memory modules, a network adapter, three monitors, two video cards, and a hard drive. Fortunately, none of these have been on enterprise-level …
Apr 28 2011
Epson Perfection V30 scanner inside a VM
I had forgotten about my scanner that I bought a while back for scanning old family photos. Since scanner support in Linux (via the SANE backend) is not all that great, and considering I often wanted to manipulate the photos in Photoshop, I rarely even hooked it up to my main computer. Now that I …
Thought for the Moment
