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Some people here may remember a former moderator called Darkmatter.

He never made it known, but he had battled with Leukiemia for many years.

Finally, on Sunday May 26th, it claimed him.
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Yes, can confirm fixed with update.

Ok, not sure whether to mark this as solved, but it appears that there is breakage in the package, and the Primus devs have confirmed it on IRC.
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I have an Acer V5 571G with Optimus.

I added the bumblebee PPA as advised, then installed Bumblebee and Primus.

It was all working fine until an update yesterday.

My games will run with...

I wonder if I hold the record for "longest running forum thread" in here yet?

This is so cool that 8 years later, its still going.

The cause of this problem HAS been found, its caused by the way in which linux shutsdown systems. However, the cause of the problem is very technical. It s a failure of the kernel to properly...

Hey guys, i was googling around for a solution to this, and someone using Fedora is suffering the same thing, but found out the cause; its connected to the USB Bus not powering down correcty.

He...

I have a Linux game on my Optimus system, that requires me to run



$optirun bash
$./rolauncher


It will not run if I just attempt to start it with $optirun ./rolauncher, the launcher...

I am also getting this frankly strange behaviour. Anyone got any ideas? Like OP, just installed Xubuntu ontop of ubuntu 12.10.

Edit: solved this after another 10 minutes of fiddling. Try editing...

Well, here I am, back after a 5 year hiatus, spent on Arch Linux. Running 12.04, did try to upgrade to 12.10, but it didnt want to install the fglrx drivers for the ATI GPU in this lappy. I didnt put...

As a now long committed user of Arch Linux, I was quite interested to read this post on the Arch Linux Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125423

As many of you possibly know, Arch...

oh, wow....6 years later, and this thread is still going......just...wow.....I am now an Arch Linux geek for those of you that are wondering, but still lurk around here occasionally.

Can you post the config to this setup please? The simple two rings is exactly what I'm after.

Freenode:

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##linux

I have a chair similar to this, except it was much cheaper.

"This is the story of four people named Everyone, Someone, Anyone, and No-one.
There was an important job to be done and Everyone was asked to do it.
Anyone could have done it, but No-one did it....

Just so people are clear on this:

GTK = Gnome Tool Kit

Qt = Qute

I went out yesterday to hunt for a new keyboard, and I decided to have a quick look in my local PC World (for you merkins: Think best buy). First off, I found the keyboard I was looking for (minimal...

I will admit to being a fan of CSI:Miami, and numb3rs.
I find numb3rs very intriguing, the way he comes up with mathematical solutions to some of the crimes, and some of the background stories are...

I've been using linux as a sole OS since October '99, which makes it just over 9 years since I started with it.

hrm...just tried 3.0.4 v 3.1b2 in Arch, and in start up time they are just as fast, but I disabled all my extensions first. However, it does seem that 3.1 uses less memory.

Ok, gonna update the links a bit;

http://www.7digital.com --Legal site, mp3's have no DRM, wma's do.
http://www.mp3sugar.com
http://www.mp3fiesta.com

Last two are russian.

My Desktop is Dwarfstar, and my lappy is whitestar

The first distro I used was an SLS server (Soft Landing Systems) in 1996, then I installed Caldera Linux on a pentium 1 I had in 99. Then, I met Paladine (aka Beamerboy on here), and he introduced me...

I came from a different curve altogether.
Since 2000, I had been a die hard Slackware user, but then built a 64 bit machine in 2004, and wanted a more up to date distro, with a 64 bit release....