Recently I stumbled on the Nouveau WiKi. Nouveau is a community-driven effort to develop open source X.org drivers for nVidia graphics cards:

“nouveau” [nuvo] is the french word for “new”.

The Nouveau community is reverse engineering the closed-source, privative nVidia driver. They claim that nothing currently works, but that’s not exactly true. For example, you can check [...]

I made some modifications to the original bl1.c program from Nicolas Boichat. In summary, this modifications allow:
Specify an absolute brightness value
Let x be the absolute brightness value, such that 0<x<16, that is, the value must between 1 and 15, where 1 is the minimum brightness level before turning off the screen, and 15 is the [...]

Yesterday I bought a SMC EzConnect 54g Wireless CardBus adapter for my Linux laptop. There are, at least, two different and incompatible versions of this card. The SMC 2835W V2 uses the Intersil 3890 Prism54 chipset, which is supported natively by Linux Prism54 driver. The SMC 2835W V3, which is the one I bought, isn’t. [...]

The new nVidia GeForce FX5200 is an AGP 8X, 256MB DDR2, DVI-enabled speed-demon that, when used together with KDE 3.4 translucency effects, gives an incredible, nice-looking, awesome desktop full of window drop shadows, translucent windows and fadding effects.
However, in order to be able to get the last bit of performance out of it, I must [...]

After upgrading my Compaq laptop from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3, CUPS printing stopped working due to some problems caused by udev. After the upgrade, the /dev/usb directory, which usually held devices files for printers and scanners, has turned itself into a device file.
Now, udev is unable to create /dev/usb/lp0, since /dev/usb is [...]