Tag: nvidia
Slackware, Wine and OpenCL (NVIDIA)
by BenV on Jan.29, 2012, under Software
While updating wine-1.4-rc1 I thought it would be interesting to see if I could get their OpenCL stuff to work. The lack of information on how to do so is really annyoing, so here’s what I did to get it to compile. (continue reading…)
Pokemon OS, it just works! ™
by BenV on Aug.05, 2009, under Software
Or… not. Oh, the pokemon reference comes from the brilliant webcomic XKCD.
Usually I have little problems getting stuff to work on it, but as hardware gets older and support gets worse thing get more interesting.
First things first: I have no issues with ubuntu, they’re doing great work. In fact, the machine worked fine after installation, except for I can’t live with 800×600, so I wanted a better video driver.
Needless to say that means NON OPEN SOURCE GARBAGE FROM NVIDIA (ATI is just as bad btw). Although their binary driver usually ‘works’, you’re royally screwed if your system doesn’t meet their requirements. (continue reading…)
