I’ve had a few issues recently opening a VMWare Server 2.0 web based console with Firefox 3.07 running on OpenSUSE 11.1. The console session just didn’t appear, which is a problem when you can’t SSH into the target VM due to lack of networking. The answer is obscure but works well:
VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=TRUE firefox &
With this, the console works correctly as expected. Lovely.
What I like to see, a lovely ‘No problems’ icon in my browser telling me that all is well in the world and I’m doing my job:
The addition of the ‘Zzz’ text, showing me that my duty is done for today and it’s time to get some sleep is especially welcome. Tomorrow, we’ll be back on the job.
It’s been a chilly week in the UK, colder than it has been for a few years. The low point was -12 just up the road from us in Benson, Oxfordshire. This is Grimsbury Castle yesterday afternoon, with the hard frost still sticking to the branches of the trees.
I was having dreadful problems on my HP Laptop with KDE4 or Compiz – jaggies, slow performance, difficulty switching tabs in Firefox, the whole experience was poor. After a spot of Google trawling, I added these to the /etc/modprobe.conf.local on my installation of 11.0 (and 11.1)
#
# please add local extensions to this file
#
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords=”PerfLevelSrc=0×2222″
options nvidia NVreg_Mobile=1
This was with a Geforce 8400M GS which shows up in lspci as:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)
The difference was pretty dramatic. KDE 4.1is usable with KWin display effects turned on, tab switching is smooth and generally it’s pretty usable again. All using the NVidia 177.82 driver.
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