Linux distro for HP

2005-03-02 Thread Dimitris E. Kiousis
Dear Friends! Actually I am a newbie (to be honest a newbie-newbie). I just use Linux because to run my finite element program and because I find it much cooler than Win. And eventually because I want to master it! I recently bought an HP 9030. It came with Win installation. I would

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 03:01, David Mandelberg wrote: > Dimitris E. Kiousis wrote: > > Will I encounter any problems? > > Probably nothing immediate, most basic things (e.g. keyboard, monitor, hard > drive, etc.) are supported. You may have problems with power management, > the touchpad (increa

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread Steffen Waldherr
Hi, > > E.g. if the touchpad doesn't work, search for 'linux "HP > > NX-9030" touchpad' or similar. > Most likely you will need the synaptics touchpad driver > which seems to drive all of the touchpads I have met > recently. It is packaged for Debian. my experience is that on the HP/Compaq nc se

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2005-03-02 Thread David Mandelberg
Please post to the list next time Original Message Subject: Re: HP laptop Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:06:14 +0100 From: Dimitris E. Kiousis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear David! Thanks for your answers!!! Actual

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread David Mandelberg
Dimitris E. Kiousis wrote: > and because I find it > much cooler than Win. And eventually because I want to master it! I'm getting an odd sense of deja vu like I've heard this before. ;> > I am looking for a distro that will be as automatic and with fewer > problems as possible. Maybe you'd li

Re: HP laptop

2005-03-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:12, Steffen Waldherr wrote: > Hi, > > > > E.g. if the touchpad doesn't work, search for 'linux "HP > > > NX-9030" touchpad' or similar. > > > > Most likely you will need the synaptics touchpad driver > > which seems to drive all of the touchpads I have met > > recently

Re: Linux distro for HP

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Go Ubuntu! I am learning along with you. But I tried installing Mandrake, Debian, and something else I can't remember. Ubuntu was the easiest and had the most working right away. http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/ I don't know about linux on HP, but I suspect it will be fine, google. Learn about

Re: Digital Photos

2005-03-02 Thread Marko Mäkelä
Sean Perry wrote: > I find that a image browser is the best. Just mount the card (mine are all > compact flash), browse, grab the few I like, done. [...] > I prefer the generate on upload method. Why have a dynamic site for largely > static content? Plus it means I need mod_blah + apache when ofte

Re: Linux distro for HP

2005-03-02 Thread Derek Broughton
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:43, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: > Go Ubuntu! I second that. I've recently given it a two-week trial and gone back to my Debian sid/KDE system but it's definitely a good start for a newbie. Since Ubuntu is Debian-based, I might actually just install KDE on the Ubun

Re: Digital Photos

2005-03-02 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:20:04PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > The pHoToMoLo suite is available from > http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/photomolo/, and there's an introduction Sorry, it's http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/photomolo/. > of it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/photo

supplement to keyboard problem in MEDION MD 95400

2005-03-02 Thread Steffen Schuler
Hi, I had also to reconfigure xkb/symbols/pc/{pc,de}. I mapped the keypad keys to the normal keyboard symbols. Now I can no more use the keypad but I don't need it. Cheers, Steffen Schuler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

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vga-out + lcd together

2005-03-02 Thread sime
My Toshiba BIOS gives me the option to boot with the VGA-Out and LCD being mirror. Which works partially, the kernel boot messages are displaying on both screens fine. But when X starts, the LCD screen turns off, VGA-Out is fine. I believe that this is an issue with my XF86Config-4, is there ad