On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:31:01 EST, David Z Maze writes:
>Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> - Trouble for performing BIOS upgrades (anyone can tell me what BIOS
>> these machines have anyway?)
>
>I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the
>Inspiron and Latitud
bpgm@libero it writes:
> The video card is controlled by the chipset Intel 830M. It has 8 Mb of
> RAM. The monitor is 15" 1024x768 XGA 60 Hz (I don't know if horizontal
> or vertical ones).
This chipset is currently only supported in XFree CVS (the soon-to-come
XFree 4.2.0). You'll have to wa
Hi,
I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
(under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
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Texas Instruments, India ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the
> Inspiron and Latitude lines. Recent 2.4.x kernels include a driver to
> access the fan and temperature state in the BIOS; the i8kutils package
> in unstable might be useful to you.
Hi
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good
> laptop (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the
IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good
as well. You might run into
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
you travel? if
Serge Rey wrote:
>
> are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
> you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on
I am planning to buy one after reaching US. Laptops are prohibitively
expensive in India.
> thinkpads (like an x20 or x21). i picked
Hi,
I would suggest a Toshiba. I own a Satelite 3000 series and after some hints
and some rethinking I got Debian up and running on it perfectly. Most problems
were caused by my problems and my strange ideas about Linux and Laptops. ;
Official retail is $1600, but I have seen shops in the US
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:14PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Serge Rey wrote:
> >
> > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
> > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on
>
> I am planning to buy one after reaching US.
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:17:25PM +, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the
> IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good
> as well. You might run into problems with spares for any of these ?
If you choose tos
Hi,
though I know solutions to get a laptop 2.5" hdd to work
in a desktop. Or as an external hdd with USB or PCMCIA
connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
> hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
> laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
There are several solutions to this prob
Quoting Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530:
> Hi,
>
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
>
> --
> Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/)
> Te
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
Quoting Mark Janssen on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:04:11PM +0100:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
> > hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
> > laptop. Especially I
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:38:39 +0100
> "Axel Bojer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Debian-users!
> > Thank you for the formers answers to my questions, wich of many was
> helpfull. Now Im stuck with anotgher problem (honestly, I was from the
> very beginnig ...): When I try to start up gn
Hello!
One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set Lilo
up to be in MBR, I no longer can use windows. To be exact: it starts up in
windows, when I type "windows, as I wanted, but then Windows gives the error:
Himem.sys is missing (or something similar). And I KNOW T
I had this problem on my Sony Vaio... try turning the power completely
off after you shut down linux and before you boot up windows.. worked
for me :)
Eric
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 10:27, Axel Bojer wrote:
> Hello!
> One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set Lilo
> u
Hi Axel,
> One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set
> Lilo up to be in MBR, I no longer can use windows. To be exact: it starts
> up in windows, when I type "windows, as I wanted, but then Windows gives
> the error: Himem.sys is missing (or something similar). And
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +0100, Frank Trenkamp wrote:
<...snip...>
> [Paths]
> WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
> WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
> HostWinBootDrv=C
>
> [Options]
> BootMulti=1
> BootGUI=1
> DoubleBuffer=1
> AutoScan=1
> WinVer=4.10.
> ;
> ;The following lines are required for compatibility w
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote:
> laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
> supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop,
> but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends
> (my disk is just broken, can you check it with Linux?) this
> is important to
Quoting Russell Coker on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:24:08PM +0100:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote:
> > laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
> > supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop,
> > but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends
> > (my
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but
> iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous screens.
Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from that
it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get.
I was just checking out the new Dell Precision M40:
7.89 lbs.
Pentium III 1.2 GHz processor-M with large 512KB L2 cache
ISV certified 3D OpenGL accelerated workstation graphics
NVidia Quadro2 Go 256-bit, 4X AGP video chipset
32MB DDR video memory
POWERdraft, QuadroView, MAXtreme workstation appl
On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:31:01 EST, David Z Maze writes:
>Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> - Trouble for performing BIOS upgrades (anyone can tell me what BIOS
>> these machines have anyway?)
>
>I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the
>Inspiron and Latitude
[EMAIL PROTECTED] it writes:
> The video card is controlled by the chipset Intel 830M. It has 8 Mb of
> RAM. The monitor is 15" 1024x768 XGA 60 Hz (I don't know if horizontal
> or vertical ones).
This chipset is currently only supported in XFree CVS (the soon-to-come
XFree 4.2.0). You'll have
Hi,
I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
(under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
--
Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/)
Texas Instruments, India ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the
> Inspiron and Latitude lines. Recent 2.4.x kernels include a driver to
> access the fan and temperature state in the BIOS; the i8kutils package
> in unstable might be useful to you.
I
Hi
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good
> laptop (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the
IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good
as well. You might run into p
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
you travel? if t
Serge Rey wrote:
>
> are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
> you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on
I am planning to buy one after reaching US. Laptops are prohibitively
expensive in India.
> thinkpads (like an x20 or x21). i picked
Hi,
I would suggest a Toshiba. I own a Satelite 3000 series and after some hints
and some rethinking I got Debian up and running on it perfectly. Most problems
were caused by my problems and my strange ideas about Linux and Laptops. ;
Official retail is $1600, but I have seen shops in the US s
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:58:14PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Serge Rey wrote:
> >
> > are you looking to buy while in the u.s., or while you be buying before
> > you travel? if the former, you might want to look for good deals on
>
> I am planning to buy one after reaching US. L
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:17:25PM +, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> I like Toshiba myself. Low cost and very reliable. There's also the
> IBM ones. Good prices for these in the States. Compaq can be good
> as well. You might run into problems with spares for any of these ?
If you choose tosh
Hi,
though I know solutions to get a laptop 2.5" hdd to work
in a desktop. Or as an external hdd with USB or PCMCIA
connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
s
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
> hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
> laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
There are several solutions to this probl
Quoting Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:34:52PM +0530:
> Hi,
>
> I will be travelling US shortly, and would like to buy a good laptop
> (under $1200). Could someone give a recomendation?
>
> --
> Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/)
> Tex
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
Quoting Mark Janssen on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:04:11PM +0100:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > connected to a laptop, I don't know a solution to get a desktop
> > hard disk to work as external storage device connected to a
> > laptop. Especially I d
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:38:39 +0100
> "Axel Bojer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Debian-users!
> > Thank you for the formers answers to my questions, wich of many was
> helpfull. Now Im stuck with anotgher problem (honestly, I was from the
> very beginnig ...): When I try to start up gno
Hello!
One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set Lilo
up to be in MBR, I no longer can use windows. To be exact: it starts up in
windows, when I type "windows, as I wanted, but then Windows gives the error:
Himem.sys is missing (or something similar). And I KNOW TH
I had this problem on my Sony Vaio... try turning the power completely
off after you shut down linux and before you boot up windows.. worked
for me :)
Eric
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 10:27, Axel Bojer wrote:
> Hello!
> One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set Lilo
> up
Hi Axel,
> One other Problem Ive been troubeling with: When I (using linuxconf) set
> Lilo up to be in MBR, I no longer can use windows. To be exact: it starts
> up in windows, when I type "windows, as I wanted, but then Windows gives
> the error: Himem.sys is missing (or something similar). And I
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +0100, Frank Trenkamp wrote:
<...snip...>
> [Paths]
> WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
> WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
> HostWinBootDrv=C
>
> [Options]
> BootMulti=1
> BootGUI=1
> DoubleBuffer=1
> AutoScan=1
> WinVer=4.10.
> ;
> ;The following lines are required for compatibility wi
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote:
> laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
> supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop,
> but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends
> (my disk is just broken, can you check it with Linux?) this
> is important to m
Quoting Russell Coker on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:24:08PM +0100:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote:
> > laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power
> > supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop,
> > but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends
> > (my d
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) but
> iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous screens.
Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from that
it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get. B
I was just checking out the new Dell Precision M40:
7.89 lbs.
Pentium III 1.2 GHz processor-M with large 512KB L2 cache
ISV certified 3D OpenGL accelerated workstation graphics
NVidia Quadro2 Go 256-bit, 4X AGP video chipset
32MB DDR video memory
POWERdraft, QuadroView, MAXtreme workstation apple
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