Friendliest Laptop??
Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick
Re: Friendliest Laptop??
Heather wrote: > Improve the criteria please, do you mean "current models I can buy with > a manufacturer's warranty" ? Also what sort of "friendly" features are > you looking for? Sorry I was a bit fuzzy on that one. A new one. PIII-800 Mhz or around there. Right now it's a standoff between Dell and Toshiba... > LAPTOP Magazine, lists in its charts at the back a number of vendors > including a column showing their sound chip and video chip. These might > not be at the level of detail we'd really enjoy but if you've been keeping > up one which chipsets are a pain, it could keep you out of trouble. Cool I'll check this out. > Also, some vendors actaully preload with Linux - while admittedly these > are usually RedHat, you can look at the configs, copy off any modules > or services that support proprietary annoyances, and then use them in > your debian kit. Or be an RH/Debian dual boot :D Any vendor in particular (I'm in Canada) Thanks! Yannick
LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000
Hi guys. I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a network (http) installation. Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End BlocksID System /dev/hda1* 28 659 5076540b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 26 2716065 83 Linux /dev/hda3 660 1322 5325547+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 660 902 1951866 83 Linux /dev/hda6 903 1291 3124611 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1292 1322 248976 82 Linux swap There's a empty part (for hibernation) at the beginning and the end of it hasn't been formatted yet (it's a 32GB IBM drive). hda2 would be /boot, hda5 would be /, and hda6 would be /usr. Now it won't work to put the boot part in either hda2 or MBR. I tried with and without the hda2 enabled for boot. It won't even create a boot disk. I also tried booting with the rescue disk and giving it "rescue boot=/dev/hda5" but nothing seems to work. Am I doomed to use WinME?? Thanks! Yannick
Re: LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000
Gyurko Szabolcs wrote: > > Hi ! > > You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5 > Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ? > Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help. I get a "Warning: unable to open an initial console." when I use the rescue disk to boot into my root partition. It just sticks there and doesn't do anything. It must be something I need to put in the lilo parameters, anyone knows what would fix this? lilo.conf is the default one, I haven't touched it except for what the installation program did to it. I stripped the comments: lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional This is all the active lines for lilo.conf in /target/etc/ Thanks! Yannick
I8000 LILO install problem - fixed
I tried again with a different diskette set (idepci) and the stable distribution and all is well now. Thanks! Yannick
alsa troubles
I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA website and install the sources and try to compile them, there's a whole bunch of errors. I'm using kernel 2.2.19. I've also tried compiling them against Kernel 2.4.4 but there were some missing include files there too. I don't mind waiting a bit for Debian to add .5.10 to their distribution, but if there was a quicker way to get it working, I would be a happy camper. Thanks! Yannick
X11 at different resolution for I8000.
Hi guys, I have a Inspiron 8000 and it works great. I've just finished setting up DRI if anyone needs help with that I can prolly help you a bit (been working on it for over a week :) Doesn't seem to be very stable but I'm not blaming my install for that ;) But now that I can play all these games and look at these nice graphics, I'd like to switch resolutions to something else than 1400x1050, but when I change to other modes, it doesn't look so good (some kind of delay/refraction going on).. I guess I need the modelines for these other modes, if anyone has them or knows a fix for this, I would really appreciate it! Thanks! Yannick
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick
Friendliest Laptop??
Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Friendliest Laptop??
Heather wrote: > Improve the criteria please, do you mean "current models I can buy with > a manufacturer's warranty" ? Also what sort of "friendly" features are > you looking for? Sorry I was a bit fuzzy on that one. A new one. PIII-800 Mhz or around there. Right now it's a standoff between Dell and Toshiba... > LAPTOP Magazine, lists in its charts at the back a number of vendors > including a column showing their sound chip and video chip. These might > not be at the level of detail we'd really enjoy but if you've been keeping > up one which chipsets are a pain, it could keep you out of trouble. Cool I'll check this out. > Also, some vendors actaully preload with Linux - while admittedly these > are usually RedHat, you can look at the configs, copy off any modules > or services that support proprietary annoyances, and then use them in > your debian kit. Or be an RH/Debian dual boot :D Any vendor in particular (I'm in Canada) Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000
Hi guys. I've been trying to get debian (woody) installed on my new I8000 and I can't get past the lilo installation. I'm using the compact diskette set and doing a network (http) installation. Here's how I partitionned my drive (fdisk printout) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3890 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End BlocksID System /dev/hda1* 28 659 5076540b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 26 2716065 83 Linux /dev/hda3 660 1322 5325547+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 660 902 1951866 83 Linux /dev/hda6 903 1291 3124611 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1292 1322 248976 82 Linux swap There's a empty part (for hibernation) at the beginning and the end of it hasn't been formatted yet (it's a 32GB IBM drive). hda2 would be /boot, hda5 would be /, and hda6 would be /usr. Now it won't work to put the boot part in either hda2 or MBR. I tried with and without the hda2 enabled for boot. It won't even create a boot disk. I also tried booting with the rescue disk and giving it "rescue boot=/dev/hda5" but nothing seems to work. Am I doomed to use WinME?? Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO won't work on a Inspiron 8000
Gyurko Szabolcs wrote: > > Hi ! > > You can boot up with rescue disk as follows: rescue root=/dev/hda5 > Why won't lilo put the boot to MBR ? > Send your lilo.conf please, and I'll try to help. I get a "Warning: unable to open an initial console." when I use the rescue disk to boot into my root partition. It just sticks there and doesn't do anything. It must be something I need to put in the lilo parameters, anyone knows what would fix this? lilo.conf is the default one, I haven't touched it except for what the installation program did to it. I stripped the comments: lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional This is all the active lines for lilo.conf in /target/etc/ Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I8000 LILO install problem - fixed
I tried again with a different diskette set (idepci) and the stable distribution and all is well now. Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alsa troubles
I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA website and install the sources and try to compile them, there's a whole bunch of errors. I'm using kernel 2.2.19. I've also tried compiling them against Kernel 2.4.4 but there were some missing include files there too. I don't mind waiting a bit for Debian to add .5.10 to their distribution, but if there was a quicker way to get it working, I would be a happy camper. Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
speeding up DVD on I8000
Hi Guys, I've started moving my music onto my computer so I can travel and not have to carry all my CDs with me all the time and I'm kinda dissapointed with the ripping speed of my DVD drive. It hardly ever goes more than 3x (using GRIP and CDParanoia). Anyone knows how I can speed this up? I tried doing the same I did for my primary hard drive (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb) and while that sped it up a bit (psychologically perhaps?) it still doesn't go as fast as what I would expect a 8X DVD to rip a CD... Thanks for any input! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
