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OK, so how many of you are trying out Kubuntu Intrepid with a second monitor which works somewhat, but constantly sits there and blinks on and off? If you answered “ya, mine does that” then this is what you need to do:

1. Open up System Settings
2. Go to the Advanced tab
3. Select Service Manager
4. Select Detecting RANDR (monitor) changes and stop the service
5. Uncheck the box next to the previous step in order to prevent this service from starting up at login
6. Apply everything and close out
7. Enjoy the non-blinking external or 2nd display

Thanks to those of you who responded to bug #278471 for helping us out!

The new album kicks ass dude! This is why Open Source not only works, but also rocks, litterally.

Let me explain this briefly and why I am giving Kubuntu 1 and Ubuntu a 0 in this one aspect, which to me is very important, I mean very important!

I have a xorg.conf configuration that is very simple, all I do is add a virtual config to it that states I want my desktop to be 3360×1050, as I have 2 monitors that are 1680×1050.

Now with this same exact xorg.conf, Kubuntu Intrepid works like a champ with utilizing the dual monitors in a non-mirroring mode. Ubuntu Intrepid on the other hand, well it is utter garbage with or without Compiz. With Compiz you get nastiness on the 2nd display, and without Compiz you get short changed 3/4 of the 2nd display.

My video card is:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

Other than this, I do enjoy the way Ubuntu Intrepid has shaped up, and the new wallpaper, oooh I like it! Unless someone can give me the groovyness I need with my dual monitor setup, it is back to my home in Kubuntu land (I told you Harald I wouldn’t be gone long).

EDIT: I have changed the title from Kubuntu 1 - Ubuntu 0 to what it is now. Why? They are both failing right now. In Kubuntu my external screen sits here and blinks, but it is usable. I fixed this issue last week and cannot remember how I did it. I get the following error in Xorg.log:
(EE) intel(0): Unable to write to SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB Slave 0x70.

What the hell happened?

First off, it was super cool meeting The following people at OLF:

• Steve Stalcup
• Daniel T. Chen
• Mackenzie Morgan
• Eric Lake
• Jacob Peddicord
• Dave Yates
• and many more…

Friday we got in and met Jorge Castro and Jono Bacon over at Jono’s hotel lobby for a few drinks before heading out to the Happy Greek for dinner. A huge thanks to the Zenoss guys for dinner, and I will work on getting everything packaged up for you guys here shortly. After dinner we headed over to Barley for the pre-party, and wow that was crazy. That night I think most of us said “NO MORE JAGER BOMBS!” however when we left to go out clubbing, we had even more.

Columbus totally rocked! The Frog Bear and Wild Boar totally rocked on Friday and Saturday night. Friday night we did more club like dancing outside and witnessed stuff no human being ever should! We went inside and listened to a decent band. Saturday night we went back for more and totally formed a mosh pit to a pretty good metal band. My head and neck still hurt from all of that head banging.

OLF, what can I say. I talked to a bunch of great people, hung out at some great booths (Fedora, Ubuntu, and Foresight), poked fun at Ken VanDine by writing “Konary” on his Conary and rBuilder BoF whiteboard

The talks were great. Daniel T. Chen, known as crimsun the audio god to many, blew many of our minds with his audio talk. Never again will I abuse Daniel with audio problems, because if his talk gave me a head ache with all of that info, I can only imagine what his head feels like. Then there was Jono’s talk. What can I say, it was insanely good as always, and even a tad bit humerous.

It was a blast and I will definitely be back next year! Oh, and by the way, for those of you who witnessed the so-called “Dance Off”, I was totally cheated by a naked fat man!!! Kubuntu won that dance off, I don’t care what anyone says!!! Kevin, I will get even with you soon!

Well, I accidentally nuked my partitions last night so I decided the hell with it and install Kubuntu Intrepid. Due to my super busy schedule with my job and what not, I haven’t really followed the development of Kubuntu, nor KDE 4, in a few months. I apologize to the people who filed bugs that I didn’t get around to, but I should be easing my way back into things for Jaunty and hopefully getting out to FOSSCamp and UDS in a couple of months.

Well, my first though of Intrepid, argh!!!! Ya, after installing I would enter my first encrypted partition password and then the screen would go insane. Then I politely asked on IRC, “OMGWTFBBQ!!! THIS SUCKS, YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER!!!!” Luckily my buddy Scott was there to simmer me down and provide me with the fix (boot into recovery mode and then select xfix). YAY!

So now, I am logged in and the first thing I notice…Adept notifiers everywhere! That will get fixed here shortly, but I was actually impressed with the new look of the Adept notifier and Adept Updater. Good job on those of you who worked on that! After some tweaking and what not, I was up and running the way I like. KDE 4 has come a long way and it is so impressive to see the amount of work the community has pumped out in such short time. So KDE peeps, if you go to FOSSCamp, I will buy you a drink of your choice!

On that note, I just want to let the KDE and Kubuntu communities know that I am coming back! I was busy the past few months with work and personal life (got into cycling hardcore). So if you are expecting an email from me, a bug fix, or a vote on an application, you should be hearing from me in the coming weeks. Thanks again to the entire KDE and Kubuntu communities for all of your hard work and dedication!

Woohoo! We found out last night that the company I work for, Cleversafe, won the top award in the software category in the Wall Street Journal’s 2008 Technology Innovation Awards. The other super cool thing besides the fact they are my employer, is that our software is open source! With Open Source companies winning more and more technology awards these days, it is definitely reflective on how much our community has grown and how much amazing work is coming out of the many great developers out there. Kudos to Cleversafe and the entire Open Source community!