Duc's Linux page

This page contains a bunch of linux/cygwin related stuff. I regularly use both linux and windows (mostly because Origin and my copy of Matlab only run on windows), but I prefer linux.

070309: Added a article on using an old laptop baseunit (from Ebay - where else?) as a desktop-replacement.

061224: Added some scripts to the random hacks section: A Makefile for LaTeX documents; a c program to justify text on the console; a script to randomly play mp3s in a directory (and recursive sub-directories).

061223: Added a howto for getting Gentoo running on an Acer Travelmate 4151LMi (my new laptop!). I haven't tried to get the builtin 5-in-1 card reader to work yet but I think that shouldn't be too hard, otherwise everything works. There's a small problem in that the laptop has a new Serial AT Attachment (SATA) hard drive with an intel controller which is supported by both the SCSI and IDE drivers in the kernel. The IDE driver is more stable (as of 2.6.18) but does not support Direct Memory Access (DMA) so the it's much slower and some fs tools complain. This driver labels the partitions /dev/hdc*. The SCSI driver is less stable but does allow DMA, and labels the partitions /dev/sda*/. This means that you can't just compile two kernels and switch between them using GRUB or LILO, as you have to specify your mount table in fstab with hdc* or sda*. I also can't seem to get the 3D acceleration on the Intel GMA900 card to work under X.org, but it's a pretty feeble card anyway, and I don't have any time for games at the moment...