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Bye fglrx...

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 09/04/2009 - 9:59pm

Thanks to all the hard work by the fglrx packaging team, DRI, MESA, Xorg, Radeon,... etc people!

I've been using fglrx with my laptop since I've had it:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400

And to the people behind the Debian packaging..
* xserver-xorg-video-radeon from testing.
* libdrm-intel1 and libdrm2 from unstable
* libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental

vader:~# apt-get --purge remove fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 fglrx-sourceReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:
   fglrx-driver* (9-2-2)
   fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686* (9-2-2+2.6.26-13)
   fglrx-kernel-src* (9-2-2)
   fglrx-source* (9-2-2)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
After this operation, 38.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I probably lost the ability to suspend and resume but I don't usually do it with that laptop.

Now let's hope my lapop at work will be adapted easily too :)

UPDATE: Seems you lose OpenGL 2.0 if you use the free driver. If you are doing OpenGL stuff like me then you are in trouble ;-|


Quick summary

Submitted by msameer on Sat, 27/12/2008 - 11:31pm

Long time since I posted anything here. I just have nothing to say. Nothing is happening in general and all days are almost the same!

* Went to Egypt on vacation and came back.

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I hate reCAPTCHA

Submitted by msameer on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 4:30pm

Really, I f****** hate reCAPTCHA. I decided to input "foo" instead of the hard to read word (Which is the scanned part probably).


Have you ever forgotten to have breakfast ?

Submitted by msameer on Wed, 13/08/2008 - 9:21pm

This is an example of a clueless and non-informative blog entry. Please feel free to skip it.

Years ago when we were young at school, teachers used to ask as:
* Did you forget to eat ?


تعقيب علي بنت مصرية حول الثانوية العامة

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 2:38pm

قرات عند بنت مصرية.

احب ان ادلي بدلوي في الموضوع لاني قد مررت بهذه المرحلة

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Katoob, the baby has a new father.

Submitted by msameer on Mon, 12/05/2008 - 9:31pm

This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!

The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.

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يا مصطفى يا مصطفى

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 14/02/2008 - 11:41pm

انا باحبك يا مصطفى

النهارده وصلني بعد الضهر كتاب رحاب, أرز باللبن لشخصين. لا و انا اللي الصبح كنت لسه باقولها عايز نسجه موقعه لما انزل اجازه!!

لا و انا اللي لسه عامل معاه حركة ندالة من يومين!! بجد اودي وشي فين:-(

طب ماحدش عايز يبعتلي عايزه اتجوز بمناسبة اني عايز اتجوز برضو ؟ :-)


Of GNOME and fonts.

Submitted by msameer on Mon, 28/01/2008 - 3:52pm

Thanks to those 2 comments. Although placing Xft.dpi: 96 in my ~/.Xdefaults did not help, but I managed to do it through the appearance control center applet. I had to purge the gtk-qt theme engine because it was freezing the dialog and setting it via gconf-editor didn't work as expected.

I had to fight with my fonts this morning but here's my configuration. Maybe it'll be useful to anyone:
DejaVu sans book 12
96 DPI
greyscale smoothing, subpixel slight RGB.

I'm not yet satisfied but it's more usable now.

Thanks Phaeronix for the help too.


I love KDE. It just works!

Submitted by msameer on Fri, 25/01/2008 - 7:13pm

I have 2 laptops. My personal one at home and my work one at the office. Both are running testing. A month or two ago, I did a dist-upgrade on the home one. Later on I rebooted (DUH!) it for a reason I can't remember just to end up with very tiny fonts under GNOME. It took me some time to tweak them back again and play with the GNOME anti-aliasing dialog. Now if you know me well, you know that the last thing someone should do to me is to touch my font settings. I have a very sensitive eye (Because I have a very low vision) and I hardly tweak the fonts. All went somehow fine after that. Problem is I wasn't sure whether it was fglrx or GNOME who's responsible for that.