It was getting late when I finally figured out how to properly boot. Now: it was time for the actual install…
Of course: I had to partition, but I wanted to keep Windows XP (on a smaller partition) and my Recovery partition. I was happy to see a resize option …
Ubuntu’s finished installing. It all looks nice.
I picked a nice wallpaper, set my workspaces to 8, and installed gnome-art (sudo apt-get install gnome-art). Picked some nice decorations (I like the Human theme but not that much) and sat back for a few seconds to admire my new desktop …
i810… glxinfo | grep direct is giving nothing. Something about 1.5.0 expected but 1.4.* found.
Anyhow: I could not get it to work. It seemed fine however, but glgears proved otherwise: slow as hell.
I was giving up on it and decided to try and install AIGLX, so …
Good news everyone: yesterday my Thinkpad X60 arrived. I toyed a little bit but had already decided I wanted to put Ubuntu on it.
I encountered some (small) problems on my way to my perfect Ubuntu setup, but I’ve been able to solve them. In the following posts I …
Update: check out new post with updated instructions over here.
Recently I found my old copy of Sacrifice (Gamespot link). I really like this game because it reminds me of Jullian Gollop‘s Chaos. (Has anyone ever played this game on the Spectrum?) Basically, it’s a bunch of wizards …