I love hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) -- it does a great job of stitching pictures together to make a panorama. I ran into a weird problem -- i kept getting "unconnected image group" errors. I tried setting the control point generators (not strictly need in the latest version) but each reported "Configured, not installed". Strange. The problem turned out to be that i installed hugin in a subdirectory of /Applications on my Mac and it didn't much like that. Moved it to /Applications and all was well...
Here's an example panorama from photos I took at Canyonlands National Park outside of Moab Utah.
Friday, January 28, 2011
OSX, Xnest, and the keyboard
It seems many people have found out like i did that Xnest doesn't work if the client is an OSX machine -- the keyboard doesn't work properly. I also tried a non-Apple keyboard but no happiness... My workaround? The free version of nomachine (http://www.nomachine.com/) -- works like a charm. The weird thing is, nomachine uses ssh and X11 just like ssh/Xnest does, but it fixes the keyboard problem.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Upgrade to FC14 and NIC troubles
While upgrading to FC14, the motherboard NIC on one of my machines completely disappeared. Happily, I had a spare PCI NIC and that worked fine, so I was able to fix things while have network access. Lots of things were actually wrong. The motherboard is entitled 'DQ965', well 'DQ965CO' in its full glory. The NIC is a '82566DM Gigabit Network Connection'. One needs to download a driver from Intel; the one I grabbed was entitled 'e1000e-1.2.20'. A typical 'make install' should have worked, but Fedora (I suppose correctly) took itself from i386 to i686.PAE and the kernel sources didn't come along. So, I had to 'yum install kernel-PAE-devel' to get the correct headers. Then 'make install' in the e1000e source directory worked. It also took BOTH the 'acpi=off' and 'pcie_aspm=off' kernel arguments. For more discussion around this, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649570
All that said, I have to rebuild and reinstall after each kernel update. See bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3116036&group_id=42302&atid=447449
All that said, I have to rebuild and reinstall after each kernel update. See bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3116036&group_id=42302&atid=447449
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