On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:41:12PM -0400, Dutch wrote:
> I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker
> and use the bloody thing!
If you don't care about 3D then you should be able to run it quite
happily with the framebuffer device driver and standard Debian packages
fr
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:41:12PM -0400, Dutch wrote:
> I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker
> and use the bloody thing!
If you don't care about 3D then you should be able to run it quite
happily with the framebuffer device driver and standard Debian packages
f
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:40:08PM -0500, Brett Sealey wrote:
> So, any comments on how ACPI helps? Can it exploit PowerNow or is it
> something else that makes it run cooler?
The main trouble with ACPI on Linux appears to be that Linux's support
for it is still in fairly early stages and may or
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:40:08PM -0500, Brett Sealey wrote:
> So, any comments on how ACPI helps? Can it exploit PowerNow or is it
> something else that makes it run cooler?
The main trouble with ACPI on Linux appears to be that Linux's support
for it is still in fairly early stages and may or
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:32:03PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Then I must have completely misunderstood about speed-step - I didn't think
> it could do anything about voltage. And if you only slow the clock, can you
> really get any saving in a busy loop over the use of idle?
Even if you're
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:05:54PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sure - but how does Intel benefit from it unless the O/Ss are capable of
> using it? The only business reason for Intel to keep it secret is if they
> did it for a specific customer.
One could say the same thing of any hardware i
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:27:24PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > as a reasonable choice. (Am I right assuming SpeedStep _is_ supported?)
> As I understand it, speed-step is not supported because it's a typical
> kludge for Windows. Linux doesn't need it because it idles when not busy
> inste
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:32:03PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Then I must have completely misunderstood about speed-step - I didn't think
> it could do anything about voltage. And if you only slow the clock, can you
> really get any saving in a busy loop over the use of idle?
Even if you'r
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:50:07PM +0100, Markus Amersdorfer wrote:
> I know it's bit off-topic, but I'm going to buy a notebook (and of
> course install Debian), and I can't believe that AMD's PowerNow is not
> supported with Linux!? To me, this actually just leaves Intel-Processors
> as a reason
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:05:54PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sure - but how does Intel benefit from it unless the O/Ss are capable of
> using it? The only business reason for Intel to keep it secret is if they
> did it for a specific customer.
One could say the same thing of any hardware
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:27:24PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > as a reasonable choice. (Am I right assuming SpeedStep _is_ supported?)
> As I understand it, speed-step is not supported because it's a typical
> kludge for Windows. Linux doesn't need it because it idles when not busy
> inst
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:50:07PM +0100, Markus Amersdorfer wrote:
> I know it's bit off-topic, but I'm going to buy a notebook (and of
> course install Debian), and I can't believe that AMD's PowerNow is not
> supported with Linux!? To me, this actually just leaves Intel-Processors
> as a reaso
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:35:26PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> If you're using IMAP like me, you need to have some sort of caching or
> you'll have to find a network to be able to access your messages. On the
> other hand, a laptop if often not a good place for permanent storage, so
> having
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:35:26PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> If you're using IMAP like me, you need to have some sort of caching or
> you'll have to find a network to be able to access your messages. On the
> other hand, a laptop if often not a good place for permanent storage, so
> having
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but
iBooks are rather nice wi
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but
iBooks are rather nice w
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> I am not using kde or gnome. Can someone suggest me something which can
klaptopdaemon wants to go into a docking panel like that on the KDE or
GNOME panels. It also appears to want to be configured from the KDE
control cent
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> I am not using kde or gnome. Can someone suggest me something which can
klaptopdaemon wants to go into a docking panel like that on the KDE or
GNOME panels. It also appears to want to be configured from the KDE
control cen
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive
> parking and all that power saving goodness?
It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes to
disk every so often (the frequency with which
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive
> parking and all that power saving goodness?
It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes to
disk every so often (the frequency with which
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:09:58PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I use Windows2000 and Cygwin everyday for work. I have not rebooted my
> system in over 3 months. Windows2000 is much more stable than Win95/98
It still lacks session saving, unfortunately.
> and Cygwin is very useful indeed.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:09:58PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I use Windows2000 and Cygwin everyday for work. I have not rebooted my
> system in over 3 months. Windows2000 is much more stable than Win95/98
It still lacks session saving, unfortunately.
> and Cygwin is very useful indeed
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> A program that measures the clock() and uses rdtsc the measure the
> MHz rate, might work. Or maybe not, I'm not sure if rdtsc returns
> useful value in this case (I think it depends on the CPU).
x86info has the ability to do this
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> A program that measures the clock() and uses rdtsc the measure the
> MHz rate, might work. Or maybe not, I'm not sure if rdtsc returns
> useful value in this case (I think it depends on the CPU).
x86info has the ability to do thi
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:07:05PM +0200, Martin Skøtt wrote:
> Disabling SpeedStep is a workaround, but it's not acceptible for me as a
> private laptop buyer. What is the problem with Linux and SpeedStep? Does it
> affect all machines (judgeing from this list, no) and what is that happen? In
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:07:05PM +0200, Martin Skøtt wrote:
> Disabling SpeedStep is a workaround, but it's not acceptible for me as a
> private laptop buyer. What is the problem with Linux and SpeedStep? Does it
> affect all machines (judgeing from this list, no) and what is that happen? In
interact well when you could
just as easily move that job into a separate program that everything
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And the modules. Actually, we could probably do with a better way of
handling kernels and things that depend upon them generally - make-kpkg
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ticular aspect. I felt I should ask among my "own"
> Debianites before crossing over to them.
They're more likely to know than us. It's all about cooperation :-) .
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ticular aspect. I felt I should ask among my "own"
> Debianites before crossing over to them.
They're more likely to know than us. It's all about cooperation :-) .
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