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Wherein I jot down interesting Linux and other geeky tidbits.Arch Linux

Jun 14, 2011 10:56am
Feb 21, 2011 8:08am
Jan 7, 2011 10:19am
Ouch. Too true…
xkcd: Good Code

Ouch. Too true…

xkcd: Good Code

Nov 2, 2010 4:11pm
Geek And Poke: Old Geeks
Yup, I really miss my HP-16c, although the Android app I have, RealCalc, does an excellent job of emulating one on my G1.

Geek And Poke: Old Geeks

Yup, I really miss my HP-16c, although the Android app I have, RealCalc, does an excellent job of emulating one on my G1.

Nov 2, 2010 9:12am
Oct 26, 2010 7:39pm
The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. - Taco Bell Programming
Oct 21, 2010 4:56pm
Oct 18, 2010 11:26pm

Write in C - Let it be Cover - Piano (via schoedav)

Too funny! And I surely agree - Write In C!

Oct 16, 2010 7:39am
Programmer’s Limbo
I hate it when this happens.
via xyne.archlinux.ca

Programmer’s Limbo

I hate it when this happens.

via xyne.archlinux.ca

Oct 12, 2010 9:38am

Mouse problem?

Having problems with a stuttery or even frozen mouse when playing Linux games like Doom, OpenArena or Teeworlds? Or a non-functioning mouse in your precious DosBOX games? Try setting an environment variable in your .bashrc file:

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc
# Set this to fix mouse problems in Linux & DosBOX games
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
^D
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ dosbox -conf master_of_magic.conf

VoilĂ , it should work! After digging deep into my Google-fu, I found that “DGA” stands for “Direct Graphics Architecture”, an XFree86 proposal for better dealing with fullscreen graphics. I guess it proposes some kind of hardware rendering for the mouse and other lowlevel things, but it looks like the latest X.org 1.9 driver broke things. My DosBOX games were working just fine and then the mouse stopped working. Setting SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE means to don’t use the “DGA” mouse and all of a sudden, my mouse was working again.

Hopefully, this is something that a later revision of the X driver will address, as I didn’t used to have this problem.

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