Silent laptop & Q on CD-R

2003-03-29 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
This puppy is now _working_...almost. Once I rebooted the cable modem and connected it before a fresh install, using the 2.4 kernel, I got most things I want. I just have to get two pieces working and I should be outright _ecstatic_...which is rare for me. Piece 1: sound. At first it insisted

Re: apmd v acpi...

2003-04-17 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
The specifics depend on the machine and the BIOS. I was doing some resaerch on why keys on my thinkpad seemed to 'stick' and found that was blamed on APM interrupt calls. Switching to ACPI would fix that but break other things, such as my ability to use 'Fn' keys, and my kernel (2.4.20) would

Re: antialias vs. truetype

2003-04-21 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
Do you mean _must_ be, or that you expect them to be so automatically? Anti-aliasing has to be turned on. Check the Font-Deuglification Howto (FDU) at the Linux Documentation Project. - Original Message - From: Sky McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:29 pm Sub

Re: Screen resolution

2003-05-01 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
What kind of laptop is it? It may be that you _can't_ change the resolution on a laptop, that's been my prior experience. - Original Message - From: Metod Kolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 1, 2003 12:11 pm Subject: Screen resolution > Hello, > I'm stuck with this one. How

Re: Help with XFree

2003-06-02 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
www.linux-laptop.net is our friend. I looked it up and found under http://t2100cdt.kippona.net/linux/lte5200/ the following, which might be the solution for your laptop: "2003-02-09 in X 4.1.x you can use the "vesa" driver at 800x600 16 bit no problem at all! gave up on the "cirrus" driver af

Silent laptop & Q on CD-R

2003-03-29 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
This puppy is now _working_...almost. Once I rebooted the cable modem and connected it before a fresh install, using the 2.4 kernel, I got most things I want. I just have to get two pieces working and I should be outright _ecstatic_...which is rare for me. Piece 1: sound. At first it insisted

Re: Help with XFree

2003-06-03 Thread MITCHELL MALTENPORT
www.linux-laptop.net is our friend. I looked it up and found under http://t2100cdt.kippona.net/linux/lte5200/ the following, which might be the solution for your laptop: "2003-02-09 in X 4.1.x you can use the "vesa" driver at 800x600 16 bit no problem at all! gave up on the "cirrus" driver af