CNC and Stuff V2

I have been trying to enable compiz for awhile now. See the problem is that I have a dual monitor setup and that makes my total screen resolution 2880×900. So what’s the problem you ask? Well it seems that due to many various reasons Compiz has been set to only allow a maximum width of 2048. So here is what I did and how I got it working:

Step 1 Figure out how to get Compiz to load without freaking out on me.

Terminal command:

SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz --replace&

That was easy enough.  The problem was that my video card shared the pci id of a blacklisted card.

To make the change permanent add SKIP_CHECKS=yes to ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

Another problem that many encounter has to do with xgl.  Intel chips are not correctly recognized and as such you have to launch compiz with the above command for them as well.

Step 2 Figure out why the desktop still stops at 2048 px from the left and how to fix it.

This is a little tougher, it seems  that compiz can handle larger resolutions as long as your video card can.

Thanks to a hard to find post, that I can no longer find, I found the answer it is a bug in the Mesa packages.

I will not post this solution here, only link to it as I deserve no credit for this at all.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~cavedon/+archive/ppa

Please visit the above link and enable his PPA as a trusted third party and then update your packages.

After this reboot your computer and everything should work!

This is awesome, stay tuned for more.

Ok so this is not a full review but a first glance kinda thing.

First off be prepared to sit awhile for the software to finish installing. I have a 7500rpm sata drive with a 32M buffer backed by a dual core 3.2G AMD proccessor. It still took 15 minutes to complete!

First thing first, I love the feel of the printer. Yes it is fairly large, but it has a very clean look about it. It has 4 buttons and a 3 inch touchscreen for controls. See my previous post for what you can do with those few buttons!

Did I mention that you can load both standard and 4×6 photo paper at the same time?

Next off is connectivity. The printer has ethernet, wifi, usb and can use a bluetooth adapter as well. I have used ethernet, wifi and bluetooth to print so far. The setup could not be easier thanks to it’s web based config page.

I didn’t mess around with all the software or all the settings available in the drivers yet as I just wanted to get the thing to print a photo so I could check it’s quality against my Olympus ILP-100 dye-sub printer.

I was shocked….

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(picking my jaw up off the floor)

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(wiping the drool off my chin)

I had a perfect, borderless 4×6 print in less then 30 seconds! I mean freakin awesome, can’t tell the difference between my dye-sub 90 second print perfect. I have yet to try for a full 8×10 photo print yet but the text printing is quick and sharp as well.

The only thing that I have found that I don’t like, and I am sure that I can work around it, is that when printing borderless photo prints the printer will “correct” the image and enlarge it to fill the page if it is within a 1/4 inch or so of filling it.

Stay tuned, I hope to have a video of the photo printing up soon as well as some more info on the hidden menus.