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Working Locally from a Remote Location
Mar 2nd
Yes, I know it sounds funny. You can work locally from a remote location. I am specifically referring to use of LTSP. I am managing a server for a company, and I will be placing the server in an air conditioned server room; and I don’t want to sit in that room all day long. I installed an LTSP server so I can sit in the main office and boot a PXE enabled computer from the system. LTSP allows you to login directly to the server from a remote location. The desktop environment will be exactly the same as if you were sitting in front of the machine. The only difference is the LDM login screen, which technically you can change to anything including GDM.
I want to take the graphics card out of the server; its a nice Nvidia card; in the end I will not being doing what I want because I cannot leave the server completely without local video capabilities. I will be relying on the motherboard integrated Intel video chipset on the PXE enabled computer. It will server its purpose. I will be taking the 1080p capable monitor from the server, to use on the client; this I can get away with. Its a nice system and a pleasure to manage.
Nvidia Driver on Linux – Easy, and Quick
Feb 7th
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There is a buzz that installing the Linux based Nvidia accelerated graphics driver is complicated. I consider it rather straight forward. First install build-essential, and the headers for your kernel. Those may appear to be some bigs words in the previous sentence, but it is really one line in a terminal window. Build essential installs GCC and its dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Now download the latest and greatest Nvidia driver. Choose the correct build type for your architecture. Conveniently save the file to your desktop and rename it to nvidia.run. The change your tty to another. To change to tty2 press control-alt f2.
Shut down gdm, which will stop X11:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
Or if you are using the new process manager in Ubuntu 9.10 you can use also:
sudo service gdm stop
Then execute the Nvidia installation script. Login to the command prompt and navigate to the desktop:
cd Desktop
sudo sh nvidia.run
Basically answer yes to everything, let the driver compile, and then when it asks you to configure the xorg.conf file, let it. Nowadays the Nvidia driver basically works out of the box. In the past, with Ubuntu in particular, you had to comment out the included driver in Ubuntu’s modules package, otherwise the custom compiled driver would not load on startup. The open source driver used to be commented out in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common (comment NV); note that this is not needed any more except in Hardy (8.04).
Then start your gdm session, which will take you back to the login window, or your desktop depending on your startup settings:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
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VirtualBox 3.0.4 DHCP Hard Lock
Aug 22nd
As previously posted there is an ongoing issue with vboxnet0. It is the apparent cause of a system wide hard lock. I don’t think its a hardware issue, although it may end up being one. I hope not, therefore I will be investigating all possible software causes. Given the complexity of my system if can be many many things. It could be the bios, and general motherboard instability; and virtualbox has reported stability issues. It could be compiz, or the the binary nvidia drivers. I will know more soon.
Nvidia-Settings – Automation Options – Dependencies
Dec 17th
After installing an NVIDIA product in your computer, you most likely installed the Linux drivers. The drivers provide a graphical configuration menu called nvidia-settings. To make permanent changes to your video settings open the menu as root: sudo nvidia-settings Configure your video resolution accordingly, and then click save to xorg.conf. If you change your digital vibrancy settings your going to want nvidia-settings to load its configuration settings on login. Add the following to your startup sessions menu in preferences>>sessions: nvidia-settings --load-config-only Nvidia-settings also requires pkg-config; to install this dependency use: sudo apt-get install pkg-config
Nvidia-Glx-New Gutsy DV2000 Buggy
Oct 29th
Enabling the NVIDIA drivers on my HP DV2000 with an Ubuntu Gutsy OS causes system instability. With the driver disabled the system appears to operate stably therefore I have high opinion of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbion; some new additions on the part of Canocial are rather refreshing. While the effects associated with use of the NVIDIA driver, Beryl in particular, are enjoyable, a reliable system trumps all. I have had the best experience using Debian Etch; the NVIDIA driver compiled perfectly with the software package they provide on their website. It also operated completely stable for many months.
Nvidia GLX New for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Oct 26th
Ubuntu Gutsy does not use the same package name that was used in Feisty. In Feisty the NVIDIA driver was installed with: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx In Gutsy the driver is installed with: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new You can also use the restricted driver manager, which most likely recognizes your NVIDIA hardware 
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