Saturday, February 26, 2011

Windows 7 SP1

So far, not so good. Applied successfully to my Windows 7x 64 PC at work. Applying to a VM, not so successful. Has not been able to install from Windows Update, even. Very dissapointing, as I wanted to deploy a fresh Windows 7 SP1 image to my netbook when the SSD arrives.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Fedora 14 Synaptic touchpad settings

After having a heck of a time using the mouse touchpad without the tap-click and multitouch scroll functions stumbled across a very simple solution!

In Gnome, click System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Touchpad tab
Check "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" and two finger scrolling.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Poulsbo Display driver Dell Mini 10

After adding the RPM Fusion repositories, install the Poulsbo driver by running this command:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-psb

After installing the driver, edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. These settings worked on the Dell Mini 10:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "psb"
Option "IgnoreACPI"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1024 600
EndSubsection
EndSection


After rebooting the PC the display took a bit longer than usual to load X.

Fedora 14 - Broadcom BCM4312 (Dell Mini 10)

Broadcom BCM4312 driver for Fedora 14 on Dell Mini 10.

Updated with new instructions below

Add the rpmfusion repositories.

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm


Install the driver.

yum install kmod-wl

Reboot.


Alternatively use yum install akmod-wl