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gmountiso rpm for PCLinuxOS

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

This how-to applies to the xfce4 version of PCLinuxOS (Phoenix). My guess is that it will work ok with gnome, but KDE users should think twice before trying it because of all the dependencies that KDE will require. And it still may fail to work. I’m not sure about that, though. Try it if you’re [...]

nVidia Legacy, Compiz and Ubuntu 9.04

Friday, April 24th, 2009

I’ll bet the reason you are reading this article is because you have had some trouble getting your new Ubuntu Jaunty installation working correctly with the nVidia 96.43.10 Legacy driver. This is how I got it all working on my old HP Pavilion 760c desktop with 19 inch CRT monitor, nVidia geForce MX 100/200 graphics [...]

nVidia Legacy 96.43.11 driver on Ubuntu 8.10

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Manually Installing the nVidia Legacy driver ver. 96.43.11 on Ubuntu 8.10 may be your only option for enabling your use of 3D acceleration so that compiz effects or video games played under wine render correctly. I have not tried this driver on Ubuntu 9.04, maybe it will work. Anyway, read at your own risk. Backup [...]