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libmesa conflicts with Gnome 3 on Fedora 18 – run into black screen after libmesa update

Posted on June 4, 2013 by daveti

A recent update on libmesa caused my Fedora 18 running into black screen during displaying the login screen. Note that Fedora 18 is using Gnome 3 as the default login desktop before you could switch to others, like my favorate … Continue reading →

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Make my own Linux workstation – Dell Precision T5600 + Fedora 18 + Mate

Posted on February 4, 2013 by daveti

An introduction to my recently constructed  Linux workstation: WORKSTATION: Dell Precision T5600 MONITOR: Dell UltraSharp 2412M POWER: 825W CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2609 4-core 2.40GHz (http://ark.intel.com/products/64588/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2609-10M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI) MEM: 8G ECC 1333MHz GPU: 512M Nvidia NVS300 HD: 500G WD 7.2K XL500S RAID: H310 … Continue reading →

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