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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from June 2010</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from June 2010</description>
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  10                 <title>KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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  15 &lt;p&gt;It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
  16 start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
  17 problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
  18 initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
  19 wait.&lt;/p&gt;
  20
  21 &lt;p&gt;I came across two bugs related to this issue,
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;#583312&lt;/a&gt; initially filed
  23 against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
  24 that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
  25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/524751&quot;&gt;#524751&lt;/a&gt; initially filed against
  26 kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;p&gt;To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
  29 problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
  30 distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
  31 maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
  32 the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
  33 while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
  34 distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
  35 but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.&lt;/p&gt;
  36
  37 &lt;p&gt;I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.&lt;/p&gt;
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  42                 <title>Togsatsing pÃ¥ norsk, mot sykkel</title>
  43                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p_____norsk__mot_sykkel.html</link>
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  45                 <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
  46                 <description>
  47 &lt;p&gt;Det stÃ¥r dÃ¥rlig til med toget nÃ¥r en finner pÃ¥ Ã¥ la det
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3677060.ece&quot;&gt;kappkjÃ¸re
  49 med sykkel&lt;/a&gt;...  Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for Ã¥ fÃ¥
  50 fikset pÃ¥ togproblemene i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
  51
  52 &lt;p&gt;Mon tro hva toglinje mellom Narvik og TromsÃ¸ ville hatt slags
  53 effekt pÃ¥ omrÃ¥det der?&lt;/p&gt;
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