Mon, 07 Jul 2008
Blackberry Woes
After picking up one of these newfangled devices and playing with it for a bit, I realized that although the calendar is pretty nice, there is no way to sync to my desktop (or vice versa). After a little research I found googles application that enables me to sync the blackberrys calendar to GCal, which I can then grab with a cron job and use ical2rem to convert it to sweet sweet remind. However, going the other way is a mess. I have yet to find a way to get remind (which can be made into ical, at least) to sync over to GCal, which would then sync to the Blackberry. I'll continue the hunt, but it's looking as I'll have to create something. So, it is up to you, my intrepid google searchers. Contact me with the solution to this problem and save me the work!
Posted at: 14:33 | category: /linux
Fri, 11 Apr 2008
Xorg /dev/agpart
Came across an interesting problem in #archlinux tonight. Someone (fackue) was getting an error regarding /dev/agpart upon startx. He was using the xf86-video-intel on one of the 810 cards. Some investigating led us towards kernel modules being the issue, where we discovered he was missing intel-agp.ko. Some googling really didn't reveal much. It kind of looks like this was a problem with some distros from earlier kernels. Anyways - the solution (there are a couple of variables):
mkdir/mkdev /dev/agpart
downloaded intel-agp.ko
insmod intel-agp.ko
It seems this did the trick. Does anyone know what causes this?
Posted at: 23:24 | category: /linux
