Monthly Archives: May 2012

General

CUDA gpucomputingsdk-4.2.9.linux compile on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS fails with undefined reference to ‘gluErrorString’

HAY GUISE.

Once again, the common.mk files in CUDA SDK are not completely usable and minor adjustments are required.

Out of the box compile gives you errors like:

../../lib/librendercheckgl_x86_64.a(rendercheck_gl.cpp.o): In function `CheckBackBuffer::checkStatus(char const*, int, bool)':
rendercheck_gl.cpp:(.text+0xfbb): undefined reference to `gluErrorString'

Quick fix is the following as I have found out from these sources.

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General

Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional2: How to use meta-key (◇) for keyboard shortcuts in gnome2 (change from Muhenkan)

If you have a brand new Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 (jp_src) and you don’t know how to use your Meta (◇) key for gnome keyboard shortcuts because it detects Muhenkan instead, simply switch on Dip switch SW1 on the back of your keyboard. This will map Super_L (Left_Win) to the ◇-key, which is recognized by gnome as Mod4. Now you can compose whatever key-combo you wish using the ◇-key.

EDA Xilinx

Module windrvr6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the cable drivers. See Answer Record 22648. Digilent Atlys on CentOS 64-bit. Xilinx ISE 13.2

Greetings,

If the title is familiar, you probably are going through the same hell that took away 2 days of my life.
I got some new cool prototyping FPGA boards from Digilent: Atlys with a Spartan-6 XC6SLX45 FPGA on it.
Trying to program the board in ISE iMPACT you get the following error:

WARNING:iMPACT - Module windrv6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the cable drivers. See Answer Record 22648.

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General

Fixing “vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image”

vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:

If you’ve ever encountered the above error while trying to boot Linux Mint off an USB stick, here’s the solution!

  1. Browse the USB device to the syslinux folder
  2. Open and edit the syslinux.cfg file
  3. The first line should read: default vesamenu.c32
  4. Change it to: default live
  5. Save and close the file.

That’s it.

Andrei