| TommyT | anybody awake? | 03:31 |
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| kwadroke_ | yeah | 03:52 |
| TommyT | any familiarity with tweaking Radeon cards? | 03:53 |
| TommyT | I was given a laptop and the stock open Radeon in Ubuntu doesn't sleep right. fglrx doesn't work with it. | 03:54 |
| TommyT | there's a program called radeontool that's supposed to let you tweak bits but it apparently does nothing. | 03:58 |
| kwadroke_ | might be using the opensource driver | 03:58 |
| TommyT | yeah, it's the open source driver, but I gather from my searches it hasn't gotten a lot of attention, at least for the Radeon 1100 | 03:59 |
| TommyT | or whatever the chipset is actually known as | 03:59 |
| kwadroke_ | might be able to do something with xset, I think | 03:59 |
| zillah | hi all | 03:59 |
| TommyT | howdy, zillah! | 04:00 |
| zillah | hows it going? | 04:00 |
| kwadroke_ | hello zillah | 04:00 |
| zillah | hi kwadroke | 04:00 |
| TommyT | I used radeontool to read some registers in the video card, put the thing to sleep, woke it to garbled screen, and via a ssh tried to write the registers using radeontool and ... nothing. the registers didn't update. | 04:01 |
| TommyT | I haven't played with xset but I think it's not low-level enough, unless it can tweak registers. | 04:01 |
| az7 | what isup | 04:02 |
| zillah | hey az7 | 04:02 |
| kwadroke_ | not sure. I had some issues with my Ubuntu shutting off the monitor, and xset is supposed to fix it | 04:02 |
| D0ubleB | Hi az7 | 04:02 |
| TommyT | yeah, reading the man page, xset lets you mess with X defaults and stuff, like the font path and the Energy Star settings. | 04:04 |
| TommyT | I think to diagnose my Radeon problem I am going to have to get hardcore enough to compile it... or at least load the -dev packages. | 04:05 |
| kwadroke_ | I personally don't like putting computers to sleep | 04:08 |
| kwadroke_ | I'd just shut them down | 04:08 |
| TommyT | yeah, but it's a laptop, and it's easy to forget and close the lid | 04:08 |
| kwadroke_ | I usually disable that | 04:08 |
| TommyT | I guess I will have to. | 04:09 |
| TommyT | I don't know if this particular one overheats when the lid is closed, but that would be my big concern | 04:09 |
| kwadroke_ | I like the computer to still run when I close the lid as I'm usually just moving it and will use again | 04:09 |
| kwadroke_ | I don't give it time to over hear | 04:09 |
| kwadroke_ | *overheat | 04:09 |
| TommyT | Yeah, I'm probably over-thinking this. I always try to fix them up well enough I can pass them on to the next person with a minimum of explanation. | 04:10 |
| TommyT | This one came with Windows Vista Home Premium on it <gag> | 04:10 |
| TommyT | amazingly painful, that OS is | 04:11 |
| Ahmuck | hello, hello | 04:11 |
| TommyT | greetings! | 04:11 |
| D0ubleB | Ahmuck, hello | 04:12 |
| zillah | hey Ahmuck | 04:12 |
| TommyT | anybody else been following the HBGary breakin in Ars Technica? Most educationial. | 04:13 |
| TommyT | http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars | 04:13 |
| TommyT | this is the latest, describing exactly how they were broken into | 04:13 |
| zillah | i've been reading some of it | 04:13 |
| zillah | i thought the just emailed an admin and askin him to change the pass to changeme123 | 04:14 |
| zillah | the=they | 04:14 |
| D0ubleB | me too I follow @ioerror on twitter he talks about all the time | 04:15 |
| TommyT | it sounds like they unleashed all their techniques for maximum embarrassment of the target. | 04:15 |
| D0ubleB | good i say | 04:16 |
| D0ubleB | should'nt have went after anon | 04:17 |
| TommyT | actually the publicity is bad for HBGary but I'm glad it's being described in detail because it will help more folks know best security practices | 04:18 |
| D0ubleB | true | 04:22 |
| TommyT | I have to go... goodnight, all! | 04:25 |
| D0ubleB | any one ready for natty? | 04:27 |
| az7 | heard there wasn't going to be a release candidate? | 04:28 |
| D0ubleB | no i haven't | 04:29 |
| zillah_ | im not sure i think he was going to reinstall the other day | 04:31 |
| zillah_ | i think he may be waiting on me to give him a disc to re-install | 04:31 |
| zillah_ | he's on satellite internet | 04:31 |
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| zillah | oh wrong window | 04:31 |
| D0ubleB | ha! | 04:32 |
| zillah | lol | 04:32 |
| Ahmuck | it means if you don't know security, find someone that does | 04:37 |
| D0ubleB | :) | 04:39 |
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