Monthly Archives: May 2010

fancontrol working every now and then…

I had troubles with fancontrol on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My config file /etc/fancontrol was set up to use hwmon1 as device, but after reboot, fancontrol didn’t work. Changing the config back to hwmon0 made fancontrol work again. Problem was caused … Continue reading

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GPU Hardware video acceleration for ATI / AMD (or NVidia) in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx

Enabling GPU Hardware video acceleration for ATI / AMD and Ubuntu. Assuming a clean install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx and an ATI GPU (for NVidia, use vdpau-video instead of xvba-video) It’s probably not necessary to have a clean install, … Continue reading

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