» Archive for November, 2006
Fedora Core 6 - ATI
Two days ago I finally finished downloading Fedora Core 6, I was very excited because this is my favorite distribution. Installation went fine, but when I logged into my account, I saw something what I didn’t want to see, the same problem which I had on Ubuntu - not properly configured screen resolution. The only proper values for my screen was 1024×768x70Hz and if I changed to 85Hz I could see only 3/4 part of the desktop, however I didn’t have to install desktop effects, because all packages was already installed - AIGLX instead XGL or Beryl. But I want to work in 1024×768x85Hz mode.
On Ubuntu I had to play with something what is called modeline, but I had to know my monitor parameters, This is not a good metho
d because I don’t really know if this parameters are correct, just didn’t want to blow up my monitor. The second way was to install graphic card drivers, that helps all the time (ATI in my case). But this meant that
I had to say goodbye to AIGLX, because it not w
orking with fglrx (and I think Beryl also have problems with fgrlx on Fedora 6)… I had right, after installing ATI drivers the screen resoulution with 85Hz works properly. Everything works fine but I couldn’t install XGL, I think the drivers are properly installed, so I don’t know where the problem is.
How did I install Ati drivers:
First: I did everything what was described here
Next:
aticonfig --initial
and
ati-fglrx-config-display enable
I did some changes in xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
- Section “ServerLayout”
- Identifier “single head conf iguration”
- Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]” 0 0
- InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
- EndSection
- Section “Module”
- Load “extend”
- Load “glx”
- Load “dri”
- EndSection
- Section “InputDevice”
- Identifier “Keyboard0″
- Driver “kbd”
- Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
- Option “XkbLayout” “pl”
- EndSection
- Section “Monitor”
- Identifier “aticonfig-Moni tor[0]“
- Option “VendorName” “ATI Proprietary Driver”
- Option “ModelName” “Generic Autodetecting Monitor”
- Option “DPMS” “true”
- EndSection
- Section “Device”
- Identifier “aticonfig-Device[0]“
- Driver “fglrx”
- BoardName “ATI Technologies Inc RV360 AS [Radeon 9600]“
- Option “VideoOverlay” “on”
- Option “AllowGLXwithcompos ite” “true”
- Option “RenderAccel” “true”
- Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true”
- EndSection
- Section “Screen”
- Identifier “aticonfig-Screen[0]“
- Device “aticonfig-Device[0]“
- Monitor “aticonfig-Monitor[ 0]“
- DefaultDepth 24
- SubSection “Display”
- Viewport 0 0
- Depth 24
- Modes “1024×768″ ” 800×600″ “640×480″
- EndSubSection
- EndSection
- Section “DRI”
- Group 0
- Mode 0666
- EndSection
- Section “Extensions”
- Option “Composite” “Disable”
- EndSection
Custom Search Engine
I have been working on my Google Custom Search Engine, you can see the actual results here. The GSE documentation is not very comprehensive, for example, I can’t find anything about AdditionalData tag, but it is used in one of the featured examples (same with timestamp attribute). It is not very hard to build your own CSE because almost all what we need we have in the control panel of each search engine, and also we can use advanced options to extend our engine. But I think the best way to build more interesting application is to use Custom Search Engine and Google Ajax Search API, however doing that, we have to
find a compromise between full control and quantity of results. I will try to take as much as I need from both CSE and Google Search API, but I don’t really know how this frankenstein will be look like. 
Ascii and Ansii Art - 1999
I mentioned in the About page, that in the past I was on polish demoscene as a coder. I started in 1996, and I had been working very hard for about 4 years before I decided to leave the demoscene for good. I still have a box with diskettes from that period.Yesterday I checked it and I saw that most of these disks are not in a good condition, however I could read files from few of them without any difficulties. This is what I found, the ascii and ansii art, most from 1999. I used AcidView 6.1 to convert them from text to image. Respect for the authors…
Steal these buttons
My collection of antipixels grows fast. You probably ask why this “2.0″ near Antipixel name. The popular buttons looks not very attractive for me, not very high quality images, or just only text with boring fonts, that’s why I decided to make my own collection using multicolor palettes and small logos of the specified services, website, applications. I like to use the original style: same colors for background, fonts, etc. Doesn’t looks better?
I hope you like them and will use them a lot. If you have an idea for the high quality antipixel, or just have one (or more), and would like to add it to my collection, please contact me by email or post comment here… (Soon I will make an upload form)
Green-links v1.0 (beta)
It is time for a new version of my Google Ajax Search API project, which I called the Green-Links!.
This is BETA version, becouse I didn’t test it very much, however it works fine since I implement it on this blog.
What’s new:
- New Code,
- Preloader,
- Icons in tabbar (Icons downloaded from Google),
- Back button instead of Close button,
- Video search,
- Query redirection to the Google main page,
- Multicolor background..
- Add to Google button - bookmarking results,
- New items in the results:
- Blog: Author, Date
- News: Location, Date, Publisher
- Video: Duration, Date, Publisher
Click on the GreenLinks in posts, to see how it works… Google
Also look at the standalone example.
enjoy…
Antipixel addiction
The antipixels definition is really simple: small picture (about 80×15) presenting logos, graphics, texts, etc. and usually linking directly to products, services, blogs, application,
websites, etc. (the second and popular name of antipixel is the button).
You can find biggest antipixels collection on Taylor McKnight’s blog.
Browsing through the websites you can find a lot of antipixel online generators, that creates buttons with desired text.
Of course, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t try myself as the antipixel maker, so here is my work. This collection will be growing.
If you want to use some of my buttons, feel free, but please save to your own server).
Beryl screenshots
Welcome in the future. Today I’ll show you a few interesting
screenshots of my Ubuntu with the Beryl on board. I met XGL on a SuSE 10.1, which had been using compiz as
a windows manager. The compiz growed up to Beryl and now it kick Vista’s ass, before Vista will be released. Truly amazing and all for free.
Ubuntu 6.06 (drapper) with Gnome
Beryl v0.1.1
Screenshots captured via Ksnapshot
TRUE SCREENSHOTS NOT RETOUCH