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I’ve recently had opportunity to install Fedora on Dell Precision M4300 laptop. It has pretty powerful nVidia Quadro FX 360M video adapter with 512MB of video memory. However, desktop 3D effects sometimes were not very smooth, especially after some time of inactivity. The first few movements (like cube rotation, dragging windows) seemed to be quite lazy in response for the first few seconds, but later it is getting very smooth. The reason behind that is video adapter’s GPU being stepped down to the lowest performance level after some time of inactivity. Once desktop got busy again – performance level jumped up, and effects were smooth again. Simple as that, and it can be easily monitored via nVidia X Server Settings utility, in PowerMizer section. Of course, there is a solution for that. (more…)

I’ve been using ipw3945 driver ever since I’ve had a laptop with Intel 3945ABG wireless adapter. Despite few issues it had in the beginning, I was really happy to have that driver on-board, as the very latest version 1.2.1 of ipw3945 proved to be very stable and reliable. However, some time ago, someone decided to drop ipw3945 development in favour of iwl3945 / mac80211 projects. If you’re interested what do I think about it, read on. (more…)

Right-click file in Nautilus & send via Thunderbird feature never worked correctly for me. Well, compose window was always popping up, but instead of file attached, I could only see recipient (To: field) as attachment=/home/evad/somefile.txt. Lovely. But when I’ve once spotted colleague at work, an Ubuntu user, who had that feature working properly I’ve decided to put some work on Google. (more…)

Installing new kernel very often brings a lot of joy and excitement for a user – 2.6.24 was not an exception. VMware didn’t compile, throwing nice and friendly Unable to build the vmmon module error in my face. Don’t we just love that? (more…)