Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:00:16 +0200, Richard Hector wrote: > Ok - the HP I mentioned has the GMA965 chipset, including the X3100 > video chip. I assume this is ok? I use this chipset in my new laptop and it works beautifully, external screen and all. The only bug (which is known by the developers

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: > One of my main concerns is keeping at least my hardware drivers Free - > I'd rather not have firmware blobs either, but I can tolerate those if I > have to. I can also tolerate drivers that aren't in the standard kernel, > but again I'd rather not if possible. You may want

Re: Video Card and Hard Drives

2007-08-14 Thread Alexander Danilov
Unk McThunderpants пишет: Hi, I'm running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and KDE on a Toshiba TE2100 (tecra), and I'm having some issues with my video card. It's an nVidia GeForce4 420 GO, which is, as far as I know, supported by the Legacy nvidia drivers. I've tried the NV driver for XOrg,

Re: kernel problen 2.6.21

2007-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Cavan Mejias wrote: > Has anyone had installed the 2.6.21 kernel from backports.org on a > Inspiron with a Turion 64 single processor and then had the boot process > hang after detecting the cdrom drive? Are there any known bugs relating to > this problem? Any workarounds? This is one of those no

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:53 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > Video: > > Some of the recent intel chipsets are not supported well in etch but are ok > with lenny. > > compare: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-i810 > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:19 +, Ondrej Balaz wrote: > I heard rumors that only the new Intel graphics chipset contained in "Santa > Rosa" isn't supported well. But Intel actively develops drivers for new HW. > > The best choice for non-gamers is today imho GMA950. I'm using this adapter > in

Re: Suspend and Hibernate in Etch not working on Asus L3400Tp laptop

2007-08-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I believe that has no influence on my main problematic case: > 1- the user hits the power-button because (s)he wants to hibernate the >machine. > 2- each and every user logged in with Gnome gets to process the request via >its own gnome-power-manager, isn't it wonderful? Just to clarify:

Video Card and Hard Drives

2007-08-14 Thread Unk McThunderpants
Hi, I'm running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and KDE on a Toshiba TE2100 (tecra), and I'm having some issues with my video card. It's an nVidia GeForce4 420 GO, which is, as far as I know, supported by the Legacy nvidia drivers. I've tried the NV driver for XOrg, the proprietary nVidia driver

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Stuart Prescott
> Video: Some of the recent intel chipsets are not supported well in etch but are ok with lenny. compare: http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-i810 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-intel Recent ati cards are a real trap. Ther

Re: Choosing Hardware

2007-08-14 Thread Ondrej Balaz
Hello Richard, On 2007-08-14, Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking at buying my first ever brand new laptop, and I'm a bit > rusty when it comes to the available technology. > > One of my main concerns is keeping at least my hardware drivers Free - > I'd rather not h