Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Tinsay
> - Original Message > From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 2, 2007 3:22:47 PM > Subject: Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop > > > > Is there a place, say in /proc, where you can set the >

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-01 Thread Pablo Manalastas
--- Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem was that when the AGP > Aperture is set to be higher than the allocate Video > RAM for the builtin video chip (e.g. VRAM = 8KB and > Aperture = 32MB), things start up slow. When the > aperture is of the same value of the video ram, or >

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Tinsay
e t. - Original Message From: Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2007 9:33:11 PM Subject: Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop Just curious. Isn't there an option

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-01 Thread ralph bacolod
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:33:11PM +0800, Rage Callao wrote: > Just curious. Isn't there an option in the 2.6 kernels setting the > memory of the PC to say < 1G vs. 1G to 4G vs. > 4G? Which of these > settings come as default in Ubuntu kernels? CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y -- -- Ralph Bacolod,RMT,MT http:

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-01 Thread Rage Callao
Just curious. Isn't there an option in the 2.6 kernels setting the memory of the PC to say < 1G vs. 1G to 4G vs. > 4G? Which of these settings come as default in Ubuntu kernels? -- Rage Callao Free Software :: empower :: educate Site: http://bayanihan.gov.ph Bayanihan GNU/Linux 4 RC1-build12

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-02-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
> So have you filed a bug on Ubuntu already? Or the Linux Kernel? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/54635 -- Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Tinsay
>From: Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop > > >So have you filed a bug on Ubuntu already? Or the Linux Kernel? > I filed one in Ubuntu several months ago. Still unresolved. It is not rea

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-31 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 1/31/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >That doesn't make sense. > >The AGP aperture size has NOTHING TO DO with the amount of video RAM! I know. But this was the case for me, believe it or not. And I've tested in on a few machines here

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Tinsay
>- Original Message >From: Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > >Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:43:39 PM >Subject: Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 lapt

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-29 Thread Orlando Andico
That doesn't make sense. The AGP aperture size has NOTHING TO DO with the amount of video RAM! People think that the AGP aperture is a "window" by which the video RAM is mmap()'ed into the address space of the CPU. What the AGP aperture actually is, is a bank-switched area which is used to tran

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-28 Thread Zak B. Elep
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you can track down what was slowing things down, it might > be interesting. Maybe some of the SELinux stuff? an strace > while starting the program might be useful, e.g., in a terminal, > you could open another terminal: > > strace gnome-terminal > s

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-28 Thread Michael Tinsay
bug tracker. No response yet. HTH. --- mike t.1 - Original Message From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop [...] My problem was, for some reason probably related to wrong choice of install options, FC6

Re: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-28 Thread Tiger Quimpo
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:10 -0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, because I > had to teach Linux system administration to old-time HPUX system > administrators. FC6 on my laptop helped me prepare to teach the > course, since I can do the lab e

[plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop

2007-01-28 Thread Pablo Manalastas
I installed Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, because I had to teach Linux system administration to old-time HPUX system administrators. FC6 on my laptop helped me prepare to teach the course, since I can do the lab exercises on my laptop, even before I had to teach the exercises