On The Road with Vicky Lamburn

Ok, first of all it’s not here because the actual code is spare three lines identical to 0.1. The big difference is that the Fn+F7 part is now controlled thankfully via ACPI. ACPI in this case is the ‘thing’ that triggers hotkey events such as Fn+F7. This means the script is called in a much neater way in the system.

I’m sure many Linux gurus will be like, “Yeah so what–we knew this anyway.” Well I’ve found it now, how to call the script on an ACPI event. So this will make whatever work I do from here a lot cleaner.

I’ll post it soon.

Also I have a stack of emails to reply to, and comments here too. I’ll do my best to answer ASAP; as it’s fair and this blog has had quiet days and I’m really appreciative of all the wonderful feedback and so forth Lil old me eh, who’d have thought it; using Linux for a mere three months and already hacking around getting some stuff working fairly simply. That’s what I love about Linux in 2007; it mostly on supported hardware works great and allows you to work, but if something doesn’t work, it’s almost like you’ve got the right to rewrite the bits that are broken, with a closed source OS you’d be dependent on the vendor for that!

I hope one day I’ll get back to LyX and writing Memoirs of a Time… After all that is my real passion.

Before I went on holiday I made some discoveries.

Firstly Ubuntu’s new configuration tool for screens and displays only sets up multi screen situations using Xinerama. The new ATI (ati) and Radeon (radeon) open source drivers do not support Xinerama any more. Therefore that’s why the options are disabled.

Tapping xrandr into a terminal yields everything correctly now; and it’s a doddle to mirror, extend, change resolution and rotate any connected device which it detects via hot plugging and it works a bloody treat on my ThinkPad T40.

Ubuntu Gutsy seems a lot more inviting now. Also a GUI has been developed using PyGTK, find out more here: http://albertomilone.com/wordpress/