Hi folks, here I am again with my laptop graphics glitch. It's been a rainy day and I have returned to my linux glitches. On my laptop I have tried other distros than Debian. Earlier versions of Puppy and Macpup, which I really like, recognise the graphics correctly and display a full screen, 1024*768. But they fail on Grub. After the full installation process I am told sda1 is mounted as read/write, but unmountable, or something like that, so I have reverted to Debian, as that install runs well - other than the fact it gives me a small screen on a 14" laptop. Harking to the advice given here, I can't find the driver and do not know how to install it. Googling gave me the Intel site, which says 'In general, many Linux* distributions already include Intel® graphics drivers. If you are looking to update your driver, Intel recommends checking on availability and obtaining precompiled driver packages from your Linux distribution vendor or computer manufacturer. Support for these drivers will be through your Linux distribution vendor or computer manufacturer. ' Not very helpful. Can I extract it from the Puppy (4.2 as the later version doesn't have it) CD? The chip is an Intel 815EM, max 11Mb video ram, 3D accelerator.
At the moment I am setting up two machines, also an Acer tower on which I have Ubuntu. Seems good. I have dealt with Wine, which required a command line before it would run exe files (?!), and found the 'mute' button which was ticked by default and meant my sound didn't work. (seems to me like having a 'don't work' button which you have to find buried in the tabs, but I'm a newbie). At the moment I am stymied by tape backup utilities. I was excited to find these, as I am a photographer, and have a modest but growing 60Gb of images backed up on external HD. I want to be able to retrieve the files as they were at a known date, and have an external Lacie tape drive and a stack of tapes from my ex employers. Firstly I couldn't find mondorescue or tob, both installed but not shown in menus. I retrieved the documentation from Mondo's website - have no idea where the installed document went. But, sorry, it's written in computer speak and cannot interpret the instructions. Eg, it says 'you must specify one of the following' and, '-t Use tape streamer as back up device' .... It can't mean that to do so you must type that command in terminal, for if I do so, I am told 'command not recognised' 'mondoarchive-O', again, not recognised. 'mondoarchive' 'Please run as root' - I thought I was in root? Typed in my password 'command not found'. Sanity compromised. I do emphasise that Ubuntu is described as user friendly. The basic issue with linux seems to me not so much it's difference, but that assumptions are made as to what is known. Am I expecting too much or simply awkward about what I attempt? What do I need to do to be able to attempt such things, and how do I obtain that information - clearly I have some way to go? I'm going to do something else this afternoon. Tony ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
