An engineer's life around Kyoto

I recently tried to set up Xen on my Squeeze box, with intel 945GM graphics controller. I followed the instruction on Xen - Debian Wiki . I installed the Xen hypervisor, kernel, xen-tools and other stuff, then created a domU image of Ubuntu natty. After that, I rebooted the system. But when X server was about to be launched, the screen became black out,  both keyboard and mouse don't work anymore. I reread the article on the wiki, and figured out the Xorg driver for Intel graphics controller  is suspicious. So, I changed the Xorg driver 'intel' to 'fbdev' wrting /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and rebooted.  This workaround works out! The drawback of the workaround is, 'intel' driver specific features, including DRI and XvMC, are disabled.

Kyoto is a famous for old wooden temples and shrines. They attract as many as about 50 million tourists per year. But, if you visit Kyoto for sight-seeing with your children, they might become boring with old wooden structures. Such children may be excited with japanese macaques in Mt. Iwata, just behind Arashiyama, one of the most popular sight-seeing spots in Kyoto. You can meet there with wild japanese macaques. When I visit there, I saw many foreign tourists enjoy feeding and touching them. Actually, my son was  very excited  feeding them apples and peanuts. Remember that climbing Mt. Iwata is a good exercise, and you can borrow shoes for climbing. Reference: Arashiyama Monkey Park  Iwatayama

I have been a  Debian GNU/Linux user since 2007. Since then, I experienced several major OS upgrades (dist-upgrade).  But every time I dist-upgrade, some trouble annoyed me. The most recent problem was related to the seting of Xorg server. When starting up X server (from gdm3), the xserver process couldn't find the glx symbols. In the /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols. This prevented Compiz Fusion window manager from working on the X desktop. Although the hardware video driver was "intel", it seams that some extra glx code for Nvidia caused the trouble. The following command fixed the problem:   aptitude purge fglx-glx fglx-driver nvidia-vdpau-driver (I don't know which package was actually problematic.) If you have a glx related problem with the intel graphic controller chip, try removing unrelated packages that supposed be combined with nvidia or Radeon! That save you some (small amount of ) disk spaces :-) B

Hi,  I am an software engineer, living in suburban  Kyoto, Japan. The word 'Cryptotaenian' in the blog URL comes from the plat name 'Cryptotaenia Japonica', or 'Mitsuba', which grow wild in my garden . At the same time, because the sound 'Crypto-' reminds me of the 'cryptography', which is an important aspect of the information technology, the subdomain 'cryptotaenan' seems to  symbolize me well. Anyway, the mitsuba is our good food material, especially for miso soup. Cheers.