by Dave | Jun 3, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve had lots of trouble since migrating to openSUSE with playing video files of nearly any kind. Running it in the terminal just results in errors usually including something like x11 video output error: X11 request 141.19 failed with error code 11: BadAlloc...
by Dave | May 23, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Even though my Macbook Pro has an excellent graphics card, I still got a warning when I turned on Desktop Effects (Compiz). They work but I had (I think) more than my share of what seemed to be Compiz related crashes. But when things crash, the best thing to do is to...
by Dave | May 19, 2009 | Tinker Blog
In a previous post I offered a download of the fdi file I had to get the two finger scrolling working for the touchpad on my Macbook Pro in Ubuntu. openSUSE didn’t seem to recognize the fdi file at all. It seems that any mouse, keyboard, or monitor must be in...
by Dave | Dec 9, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Since installing Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro I have been stuck (when I’m away from my wireless Mighty Mouse which works flawlessly by the way) with clicking F12 to get the context, or right-click, menu. This is very lame. So a couple days ago I took a minute and...
