created: 1220275830|%e %B %Y, %H:%M
tags: fretsonfire gabrys grill party pro wikidot
Today is a hard day. First of all, I've been playing Frets On Fire till 4 a.m. with Gabrys. That was A LOT of fun. And a lot of whiskey, which definitely didn't help to beat the high scores :D We barely woke up in the morning and went to the office to serve and to protect the interests of all Wikidot users.
I promised to put photos from the latest Gabrys's grill party. I'll do it in the evening, when I'll be at home.
Today is a big day. We started preparation for Pro Accounts initiation. We're searching beta testers. Guys have posted a thread. I was just overwhelmed by the response of the community. We are very happy because of that. It means, that people care about Wikidot and — what is more important — want to collaborate in Wikidot improvement process. Thank you guys!
P.S. Frets On Fire rulez!!! :D
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It has been a while since last post, but I had a lot of work on Wikidot and I didn't have much time to put my interests in it. I promise, I will write posts more regularly.
Today I uploaded a new theme, I called it Glass (I dunno why :P). I was creating it yesterday night. I hope you like it. If you want, please add your comments and/or rate it on http://www.themes.wikidot.com/glass.
Also, we have almost finished Wikidot For Education project. I hope it will start at least at the end of the week. For more details go to the Wikidot For Education page. Education Account will be free and, if needed, will provide enhanced functionalities and a higher file storage for special requests (also for free). We want to support education for free and give the oportunities to improve education standards. Using simple words, make high school easier :)
Today is a big party. Gabrys is making a grill-party. There will be a lot of meat, beautiful women (meat?) and beer (not meet). I am coming with Asia and I hope this will be a good party. I will put some photos after the party. Probably on Wednesday.
I am still waiting for new album of Lunatic Soul — a project of Mariusz Duda, the vocalist/basist and co-founder of Riverside — my favourite band.
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created: 1217006927|%e %B %Y, %H:%M
tags: 200m ati blog display dual kubuntu linux radeon xorg xpress
First day at work have brought first challenges :). Today I have encountered some problems with the electronic parts of my new workplace.
The main aim was to persuade Kubuntu to use dual-head display with Radeon Xpress 200M on my notebook (MSI). Kubuntu was the only distribution which has never disappointed me, because mostly everything was working fine just after the installation.
As most of users know, using linux on notebooks may cause several problems and issues, fortunately harder to avoid than to fix. Situation wasn't different in this case.
A friend of mine, Gabrys, definitely more advanced linux user than me, tried to fix the dual-head display uncompatibility. Seven configuration of Xorg.conf, different drivers: ati, radeon, mesa, fglrx, nothing wanted to work.
The main problem was caused by the difference in displays' resolution. Built-in monitor has a resolution of 1280x800 and external - 1650x1050. Cloning the display worked, but Radeon wanted to force the external display to show 1280x800 on 1024x768.
By using some strange manipulation in Xorg.conf, we could make extended desktop on two monitor but either with this strange resolution on external monitor, as mentioned above or with a virtual resolution on built-in display, causing desktop to move around, depending on mouse position.
The best what could we do, was to set native external monitor resolution (1650x1050), while built-in used 1280x800, but presented only part of the screen (on both monitors was the same image). Nevertheless, on the external monitor I was able to maximize windows only to the boundaries set to 1280x800. To make windows be visible on the whole screen I had to stretch them manually, which was very tiring and annoying.
Suddenly, Google helped to find solution. I found a way to solve this problem thanks to a post of medievalvent on ubuntuforums.org. You can find it here.
As the medievalvent, I calculated desired virtual resolution (1650x1050 above 1280x800 = 1650x1850).
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
Monitor "MSI Laptop Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1650 1080
Modes "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Then I restarted X server and checked settings by invoking command:
gtf 1650 1050 60
And the result included in those commands:
xrandr --output VGA-0 --newmode "1650x1050_60.00" 106.47 1650 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA-0 "1650x1050_60.00"
xrandr --output VGA-0 --above LVDS --mode 1650x1050_60.00
Note that parameter —above LVDS defines how these two display are relatively positioned. If you want different position, you should use "left-of" "right-of" "above" or "below".
By running the last command everything looked fine. Displays were configured correct.
The xrandr command should be invoked every time, when the X server is started. It is quite problematic, so these commands were added as an executive file in .kde/Autostart. I created a file DualDisplay.sh:
#!bin/bash
xrandr --output VGA-0 --newmode "1650x1050_60.00" 106.47 1650 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA-0 "1650x1050_60.00"
xrandr --output VGA-0 --above LVDS --mode 1650x1050_60.00
Of course don't forget to add +x to this file:
squark@msi:~$ chmod +x DualDisplay.sh
Since that, everything is working fine :D
