Well, since I have completed the oh-so-very-important task of setting a banner for my blog, I can now start performing the actual act of blogging.

The weekend has been going quite peacefully thus far and I really have no complaints. I spent a majority of yesterday’s time helping Sam set up Ubuntu on his computer. We had to redo the process several times because he wasn’t able to get hardware rendering switched on for X. I checked my own notebook and noticed it actually wasn’t on for me either and took a brief five minutes out of my time to go through a wiki article at Gentoo’s wiki to set myself up. A modification of xorg.conf and a recompiling of a slightly tweaked kernel quickly got it done for me. On the other hand, Sam was still fighting the system.

We proceeded to try to install Gentoo, but his notebook did not feel like staying up for past ten minutes or so since it just “ran itself to death” by shutting down…again. We’ve had these same ACPI problems the last time we tried to install Gentoo, I guess it just wasn’t going to work out for him there. Anyway, to keep a long story short, we decided to just install Ubuntu and then just stop and leave the 3D hardware acceleration as something to be worked on another day.

Today, Sam took it upon himself to tackle the problem again and got it working thanks to some ATI Linux drivers wiki. Kudos to Mr. Shih, really, he’s now one step closer to understanding the world of UNIX, having solved a problem by himself, even if he was probably just following the steps word-for-word.

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