Nuno Sousa's Corner

I bought a Samsung SyncMaster XL2370HD recently. It has more than what I needed but I couldn't find one without the features I didn't need (HDTV) for a cheaper price so I bought it. I honestly though about returning it because the colours and fonts were horrible when I first connected my laptop through HDMI. I played a LOT with the settings but didn't get anything good. I finally solved the issue by renaming the source. That's right: you go the options, rename the source HDMI to PC and everything should start to working perfectly. They should call this feature "Source Fixer" instead of "Name Editor" as it turns off many of the "default" processing features that I don't need. So, if you had a problem with weird colours or fonts in your monitor when using an HDMI cable try to rename the source HDMI. It is called "Edit Name" in my monitor and it will show you a list of devices (it won't allow you to input one). Just choose P...

The year has just begun and my laptop decided to bork. It already borked some time ago. The problem was the backlight: it started blinking and the laptop would go to sleep. I search the web and found this blog . I tried to figure out if this was the problem with my laptop, but I was almost sure it wasn't, because even if I connected an external monitor Linux kept receiving spurious lid close events. It turned out to be the board that had the lid closing button. The trick was to find the parts, but I was lucky enough. I called my old boss, who also bought the same laptop as I did and asked her what happened. Well, it turns out that the laptop was going for recycling. Not a moment too late! I asked for it, she gave it to me for free (thank you!!!) and I repaired my laptop using the board of her laptop - which seems to have a broken video card... Today the backlight finally hit the fan. I had been noticing some flickering of the backlight for some days but I completely ignored it and ...