Re: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS?

2009-03-11 Thread Bret Busby
ay to find whether components such as the graphics card, are compatible. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker'

Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
with a big enough screen, the characters would not drop off the end of the screen ;) -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of

Re: K12 Broward Virtual School Information Sessions

2009-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
the blacklists that companies use in anti-spam software) as a spammer, but, they are options. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of B

Re: Laptop Screen issue

2009-08-31 Thread Bret Busby
Debian 5.2 released? This is the first I have heard of it. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to t

Re: Please do not discuss spam on list (was: Re: K12 Broward Virtual [...])

2009-09-06 Thread Bret Busby
appears that subscribers to this list, are not supposed to respond to queries on the list. Ho hum. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of B

Re: linux certified laptops

2009-09-06 Thread Bret Busby
of Mandriva and Ubuntu, what may work with one distribution (and version of the distribution), may not work with another. Unfortunately, having got the NX500 expanded to 2GBN of RAM, that is as much as it will take, and, to have 4GB of RAM, from what I understand, requires a 64 bit OS, to be

Re: Please do not discuss spam on list (was: Re: K12 Broward Virtual [...])

2009-09-06 Thread Bret Busby
appears that subscribers to this list, are not supposed to respond to queries on the list. Ho hum. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of B

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-09 Thread Bret Busby
ieve that somthing similar, but, not exactly what I have described, "Hardware4Linux", already exists as an RPM, for Red Hat based distributions, but is not included on Debian LiveCD's) could generate a report, which, when a user runs the application on a computer owned by the perso

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, António PT wrote: I agree with Jason. I have an HP laptop. Its wireless card is supported (ath5k) and so is the graphic board (ATI - with open source drivers). 2010/2/6 Jason Filippou On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Daniel

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Bret Busby
properly. So, it appears that new computers are simply best given up on, as a lost cause, due to the attituide of the manufacturers. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.&quo

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:51:47 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... So, I am stick with my NX5000, with a Celeron and 2GB RAM, and, my desktop with (from memory) an AMD K7 and 2GB RAM, and frequent crashes (every day or so), due to running out of memory, due

Laptop GUI crash - was - Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-18 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:11:10 +0800 (WST) From: Bret Busby To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:51:47 +0800 (WST

Re: Laptop GUI crash - was - Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-18 Thread Bret Busby
stem. But, if the crashes are attributable to the current version of Xorg being no longer supported, due to it being too old, as it is the current latest version for the current "stable" (?) version of the operating system, then I suppose that I would just have to accept that De

HP/Compaq NX5000 laptop Broadcom network card problem

2008-10-25 Thread Bret Busby
le. And, in reading the README.TXT file, the driver is apparently included with kernel 2.6.x, and so it is apparently already included in the installed Linux and apparently, simply does not work very well. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. &qu