Re: dri/3daccel radeon9600

2004-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:51:33PM -0400, my wrote: > After recompile, the ati proprietary drivers should simply install from the > alien made deb there is a deb package here : http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html HTH, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUB

Re: 3d acceleration for radeon mobility 7500

2004-07-20 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:15:36PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote : > There have been reports of success with the fglrx drivers with 7500, I > believe. These are downloadable from the ATI website as an RPM package, > which you can convert to a .deb with alien. Hi, There are unofficial .debs that

Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie

2004-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
nd support on my targa lidl laptop (<http://charles.plessy.org/lidlpenguin.html>), but I don't know if it is still relevant for 2.6 machines : I upgraded, it continued working, but I have no idea about how It would behave with a new sarge install... -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCR

What about using the popcon data?

2004-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Maybe modifyine popularit-contest so that you could select a standardised laptop name in a list would yeald interesting information for new users? For instance : 90% of users who have the same laptop as you have also installed pachage kernel-patch-foo ? -- Charles -- To UNSUBS

Re: ati radeon 9700M and X

2004-09-07 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:19:56PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote : > Also, any journaled filesystem is slower at many things than a > non-journalled filesystem, since the presence of the journal adds choke > points and additional work. In some ways, ext2 *is* better than any of > the others. :)

Re: Installation instructions for Laptop

2004-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:28:35PM +1000, Peter Gatt wrote: > I had the same sort of setup on my thinkpad. I used partition magic to > shrink the current partition that has WIN xP installed down first Note that knoppix ships qtparted, that is able to do the job, and is free. -- Charles Plesy

Re: Installation instructions for Laptop

2004-03-29 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:28:35PM +1000, Peter Gatt wrote: > I had the same sort of setup on my thinkpad. I used partition magic to > shrink the current partition that has WIN xP installed down first Note that knoppix ships qtparted, that is able to do the job, and is free. -- Charles Plesy

Re: dri/3daccel radeon9600

2004-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:51:33PM -0400, my wrote: > After recompile, the ati proprietary drivers should simply install from the > alien made deb there is a deb package here : http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html HTH, -- Charles Plessy

Re: 3d acceleration for radeon mobility 7500

2004-07-20 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:15:36PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote : > There have been reports of success with the fglrx drivers with 7500, I > believe. These are downloadable from the ATI website as an RPM package, > which you can convert to a .deb with alien. Hi, There are unofficial .debs that

Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie

2004-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
nd support on my targa lidl laptop (<http://charles.plessy.org/lidlpenguin.html>), but I don't know if it is still relevant for 2.6 machines : I upgraded, it continued working, but I have no idea about how It would behave with a new sarge install... -- Charles Plessy

What about using the popcon data?

2004-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Maybe modifyine popularit-contest so that you could select a standardised laptop name in a list would yeald interesting information for new users? For instance : 90% of users who have the same laptop as you have also installed pachage kernel-patch-foo ? -- Charles

Re: ati radeon 9700M and X

2004-09-07 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:19:56PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote : > Also, any journaled filesystem is slower at many things than a > non-journalled filesystem, since the presence of the journal adds choke > points and additional work. In some ways, ext2 *is* better than any of > the others. :)