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NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESAview story

http://linuxo.com – Phoronix: "NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set of features besides that" (General)

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Radeon GPU Recovery To Hit Linux 2.6.34 Kernelview story

http://linuxo.com – Phoronix: "This branch provides fixes to the DRM core, Nouveau, and Radeon KMS. The new Radeon DRM code brings fixes, but it also brings a clean-up to the ASIC tables and GPU recovery support." (General)

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[ubuntu] Enabling standby in old computer hardwareview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I am using an old machine (Windows 98 era) to run Ubuntu 9.10 and I'm trying to get it to enter a standby/suspend state. When I choose suspend from the user menu, the monitor shuts down for a second then returns with with a textual display naming my motherboard/processor. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] 10.04 Beta - Acer Aspire 8942Gview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I have an Acer Aspire 8942G on which I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 Beta. For the most part, I am happy with the installation. I have three problems that I would like some advice on. (Hardware)

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Cron daemon - Debian and Arch Linux -view story

http://www.go2linux.org – Until now I have been always using Debian in my servers while Arch Linux as my Desktop and Laptop's operating systems. A week ago I decided to run Arch Linux in one of my servers, and yes, there are some differences, for instance Apache, where even the name of the daemon is different (Apache2 in Debian and httpd in Arch Linux). (HowTos)

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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 Releaseview story

http://news.opensuse.org – The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. (Distributions)

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[all variants] Hotkeys not working on Philco PHN 10103 netbookview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I bought a Philco PHN 10103 netbook and got everything to work, but the hotkeys. (Hardware)

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Pommed 1.32 releasedview story

http://mac.linux.be – Pommed v1.32, a minor maintenance release for the 12″ PowerBook G4 was just released. There is also support for the MacBookPro5,4 (15″ June 2009) and the latest wireless keyboard since version 1.31. Link (Distributions)

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[ubuntu] HDD failing? sytem crashes and smartctl outputview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello, I am experiencing system freezes, the type where ALT sysrqd REISUB etc have no effect, and the only escape is a hard reboot. These have been happening mainly when encoding DVDs with the tovid suite, but not exclusively so. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] Ubuntu 9.10 Ndrive GPS USB keeps disconnectingview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I have a Ndrive GPS (WinCE) and when I connect to my Acer laptop (Aspire 5630), it keeps conecting/disconnecting. Here are the relevant entries in my log files: ... Mar 25 09:45:35 uhuru kernel: [ 2725.184145] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12 (Hardware)