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Belonging to this posting I want to present you an easier way to fix the cursor bug caused by the radeon opensource driver.

• Add two new entries to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• Add PPA Key from Tormod Volden (sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x4b1e287796dd5c9a)
• Upgrade Drivers (sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade)
• Reboot Box and have fun

Afterwards you can remove the last added entries from the sources.list if you want.

Hey dear followers.. My NSLU2 with Debian installed on it had a blackout some time ago and for example the /tmp directory was no more usable (Errormessage: “Stale NFS file handle”). First I tried to do a fsck on reboot, but I had no success, the check could not be done. The conclusion was that I plugged the external drive, where the corrupt filesystem is stored on, into a personal computer and made a fsck with it. I was astonished that the whole procedure took about 6 hours and many files are now located in the /lost+found directory, unfortunately i spotted some config files there aswell. I’m curious if its still working.. I will see.

The other thing I did today was reinstall my eeepc. All worked fine and I restored the most of my settings. Its alot faster now than before, all the obsolesce stuff isnt installed anymore. I couldnt test the UMTS-card yet, but I think it will work fine.

Yesterday I did the jaunty upgrade on my eeepc 900. The icon umts network card is no longer recogized by the network manager.  I suppose it has to do with my manual configuration I did on Ubuntu 8.04 when I had to configure it by hand. My solution is quite simple: I will do a clean reinstall, because the system has gotten slow anyway with the time. -> Save the Home dir and I am ready to reinstall.

There are news to the last-mentioned display bug with the radeon driver.  Alex Deucher has begun to solve the problem and has already commited a first solution. Keep yourself up to date by subscribing the official bug in the freedesktop bugtracker or keep reading this blog

Yeah, today Canonical is releasing the new version of my favourite linux distribution Ubuntu. I already upgraded my computer at home to the release candidate and everything is working fine.  I like the new notification area which gives applications a standard interface to inform the user about things going on on his computer. I didn’t try the ext4-filesystem yet, but the benchmarks proof that its a little faster than ext3.

On my computer at work I did the upgrade to the RC aswell. Because AMD (formerly ATI) stopped supporting the fglrx driver for the Radeon x1300 I had to switch to the opensource driver “radeon” or “radeonhd”. These drivers corrupt my mouse cursor in a really annoying way, on some random vertical areas of the screen the cursor shows like a square.  Unfortunately I didnt find a solution for this yet and theres already a bug (#291053) opened in the launchpad.  I’ll keep you up to date if I find a solution.