Howto: Via Chrome9 IGP on Ubuntu Linux

This tutorial is an updated version of the one made two years ago. For some unknown reason, that post keeps getting lots of visitors. After two years of development, the OpenChrome drivers are looking much better than the Via one’s, being the case, it’s in everyone’s best interest to use them instead of the ones provided by Via.

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Firefox and KDE: Open Containing Folder in Konqueror

I’m in a frenzy to change every Gnome related menus and windows, as i find them extremely ugly and useless, for the much better Konqueror and KDE open file style windows in my Firefox.

The other day I managed to change the open file menu using the KGtk application, now I’m going to change the “Open Containing Folder”, available in the right clicking menu, over a downloaded file in the download manager window.

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How-to: VIA K8M890 Chrome 9 IGP and Linux’s Xorg – Ubuntu Edgy 6.10

After posting about the Spanish version of this tutorial here, I decided I should give back (a little) to those who so many times saved me, and did so in English.
I wont translate the whole history on how I ended buying this motherboard, but this is what i got: I was expecting my post-install to be a flawless one, when i found out that windows moved extremely slow, not to name Firefox scrolling of webpages crawling like if I were playing Quake 4. This last issue didn’t precisely help in the search for this driver.

Español: Esta es una traducción del articulo en español que publique hace algunos dí­as. Si querés verlo, lo podes encontrar acá.

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