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You Must Be Fucking Kidding Me

marcmagus: Ten the hard way (ten the hard way)
Friday, July 2nd, 2010 12:18 pm

Apparently, and I'm not sure if this is a change and I haven't found any documentation for it anywhere, the "intel" X.Org driver will not permit access to hardware acceleration and the DRI unless the user is a member of the "video" group. That was a good hour of Googling to find.

So, if you use an Intel-based graphics controller such as the Intel 82945G/GZ (or any other 945G chipset controller), make sure to add your primary user to "video" if you want hardware acceleration.

I was wondering why it was using the software renderer; I thought I'd gotten this working last year. Oh, well...working now.

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What to watch?

marcmagus: Me playing cribbage in regency attire (Default)
Monday, May 10th, 2010 05:55 pm

I have about 12 hours of flight time and potentially four hours alone in a strange place with no internet ahead of me, and I want to travel light. I have about 30 GB of portable storage space.

I should use at least some of the time to explore and get to know the area I'm likely to be living in, but there's still probably a lot of downtime I'll be looking to fill (the plane, if nothing else). I figure this is a good opportunity to catch up on older television or movies I may have missed, since books really don't travel well enough for this trip with current checked-bag fees.

Any suggestions of things I may not have thought of?

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