In my continued coverage of getting my BenQ S52 laptop running correctly under Ubuntu Linux, I recently had the need to use the integrated memory card reader with an SD card.
And Lucky me it didn’t just work so I hunted around the internet which lead me to an article on the Ubuntu forums. However I [...]
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Card Reader on BenQ S52
The coolness of a 3D desktop
Well it’s happened I have been working full time for over a year now and I am just getting more and more slack at writing valuable stuff on my blog, he he he.
But something most wonderful has happened over the Christmas break the alsa bug report tracking the problem with my soundcard has heated up, [...]
Open Java and Windows Options
Well it’s officially been announced that Java J2SE, J2ME, J2EE will all be released by sun as reference implementations under the Gnu GPL + classpath exception. Which I’m sure will bring a new era of Java, especially to Linux since Java will be able to be shipped with distributions without concern just like Mono is [...]
BenQ s52 v54 ACPI
I have now had a few requests from non native English speakers for the compiled version of the ACPI DSDT that I have created for my laptop. So it is linked here.
Compiled DSDT for BenQ s52 v54
The source copy is located on the acpi website. Please note that this is the upgraded BIOS that you [...]
Laptop Support From Where?
I would like to say that I am completely disgusted with the support some vendors provide for their hardware. I have been trying to get sound working under Linux now for my BenQ S52-v54 for a long time now, it has now come to the point that I am trying to write a patch myself, [...]
Freaking ALSA
Well I am still trying to get my sound card for my lovely new laptop to work in Linux, but it’s just not. I have googled so much and there is just an underlying problem with the card :(. The soundcard for this computer is actually part of the modem which really sucks and it [...]
Thin Client Fun
After reformatting our old Celron 400 Laptop to Hoary Hedghog, Oh the joy of only having Linux on a computer. However since most of my time at the moment is taken up doing C# development and more importantly of the MS.NET kind rather than the Mono
But I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu comes [...]
Contract
Yey for money I have signed a contract for a graduate position with VSL(Vision Systems Limited). Which makes everyone really happy :).
Back off to Uni on Monday week off to finish the final year project and all that guff and repeat that stupid subject I failed :(.
Also once again the superiority of Linux came through [...]
ep0in
For weeks now my computer, in Ubuntu of course, has been having trouble with ep0in at every boot my messages have been filled with:
Jun 14 08:36:45 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: hald timed out on ep0in
Which has in turn stopped hal from working properly so mounting my usb key most of the time just wouldn’t happen.
However [...]
Cups wrapper for HL-2040
I was fiddling around with the windows drivers for my Brother HL-2040 the other day and pressed the button to goto the solutions page lo and behold they had finally written a cups wrapper for their Linux driver :). I don’t really have any qualms about running proprietary drivers, ie. I run my nvidia Linux [...]