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I've finally got my hardy installation working the way I want it, so I figured I'd share what I had to do to get it to this point. Note that these solutions are for a MacBook 2,1. They may or may...

Okay, here's the script:

#!/bin/sh

if [ $1 ]; then
if [ $1 = "on" ]; then
TODO="on"
elif [ $1 = "off" ]; then
TODO="off"
elif [ $1 = "auto" ]; then

Sorry, I forgot a very important step. By default, only enough memory is allocated for the internal monitor. You have to tell X11 to reserve more. First, figure out the maximum total dimensions...

Screen Resolution doesn't work properly on my macbook. To get dual head working, I had to run this command:

xrandr --output VGA --auto --below LVDS

Note that if you are using compiz, the...

Back before I started using Ubuntu, I read somewhere that the whinning noise was caused by the processor dropping to c-state 4 (the lowest power state, used when the CPU is idle). There was a...

To elaborate on what cyberdork said, once you have your partitions set up, all you need to do is boot off a windows CD and run the installer on the correct partition. No boot camp required.

Obviously, my macbook keyboard has no sysrq key. Is there an equivalent key combination I can press instead? If not, is there any way I can remap sys rq to some other key combination that goes...

I feel stupid for not trying this earlier, but it turns out that my second X server fails to grab DRI even if it's the only one running. I know DRI works because my gdm-controlled server has no...

I'm trying to set up a second X server on which to play games. So far I have it working for non-OpenGL games. I just run the games through the following script:


#!/bin/sh

sudo xinit...