Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case

2004-10-29 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Myers um 2:24:
 On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote:
  Hi all
 
  the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the
  back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is
  still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop
  cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing
  this?
 
  Alex
 Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape on 
 ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories  If I recall. Good luck. 

Thx Dennis,

I started hunting for it but it's difficult when being limited to a specific model.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case

2004-10-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 29 October 2004 06:20 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote:
 Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Myers um 2:24:
  On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote:
   Hi all
  
   the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the
   back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is
   still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop
   cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing
   this?
  
   Alex
 
  Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape
  on ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories  If I recall. Good
  luck.

 Thx Dennis,

 I started hunting for it but it's difficult when being limited to a
 specific model.

 Alex
Yes it is different, you may have to have patience and check or search over a 
period of days or weeks before the right part is up for bid. Good luck, hope 
you find it.
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Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case

2004-10-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote:
 Hi all

 the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the
 back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is
 still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop
 cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing
 this?

 Alex
Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape on 
ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories  If I recall. Good luck. 
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2003-01-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote:
 On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 08:59, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:01 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
   On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 06:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video
Accelerator?
   
Anne
  
   Aside from the fact that they suck horribly? Consider that they're bad
   enough under M$ Wingdows...but then again, I digress...what kinda
   machine is it in - something noteworthy?
 
  No - the old machine that was going to be my standby windows/linux
  machine appears to have died on me, and I'm looking for the lowest cost
  to get a working system again.  It would hardly be worth it if I didn't
  have this apparently intractable problem of being unable to mount my new
  camera.  I could buy a card reader, but neither my attempts with one, nor
  those of many other people, have been successful.  And the new camera is
  xD memory, adding one further layer of problem.
 
  I had windows on this system, but can no longer boot to it.  I can read
  the partition from 9.0, but lilo can't boot it.  I don't know whether
  having win4lin on the same system has any bearing on this.
 
  All in all, I really do want some way to access my camera without having
  to go begging to my grandson for the use of his computer.
 
  Anne

 ...hmmmunderstandable

 BTW, not being able to boot to Windows via lilo - strange - has
 something changed the /etc/lilo.conf ?

If I could solve this I could ditch the old one and save a packet.  I think 
lilo.conf may have got screwed up when I was trying to solve the 8.2/9.0 
stanzas.  Some strange lines got added - no idea where they came from - but 
I've tried booting with them in, and with them hashed out.  It seems to make 
no difference.  But since they appear to contradict each other, they are 
probably irrelevant?

When I try to boot to windows via lilo, it gets to Loading windowsOriginal, 
then hangs.  This is the stanza for windowsOriginal (win98 on a vfat 
partition, first of 5 partitions on that drive).

other=/dev/hde1
label=windowsOriginal
table=/dev/hde
map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
map-drive=0x81 to=0x80

The map lines were originally split with 'to 0x8x' on a second line, but 
rightly or wrongly I though that may be my fault through having word wrap on 
at one time.  However, it doesn't make any difference to the result, 
whichever way they are, or whether they're hashed or not.

I can read the partition fine from linux, under the fstab line

/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

so the partition is not hosed.


 OR, have you tried booting to it with a Win98 (or whatever) CD? Could be
 that the FAT boot record is hosed up - or even that there's a slight
 problem with the lilo.conf...

FAT boot record - could be.  Would that mean fdisk /mbr, then Mdk install disk 
to re-write lilo?

From a windows boot disk I can get the re-install option, which I suppose may 
work, subject to the re-writing ot lilo, or get to a dos prompt, but of 
course that has only loaded a virtual file system ready for install or 
diagnostics.  There's  no way to boot into windows from there, that I can 
see.  I have tried a fd created as a win98 recovery floppy, and a cd created 
as an install disc.  Results are the same.

I hope you can see a likely cause of my problem.  If I could mount my camera 
on windows on this machine I would be (relatively) happy, at least until the 
usb support is improved on linux.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 11:03 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
 On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 +

 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  That sounds more than enough for what I need.

 Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips.

 Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found
 on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'.
 Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a
 GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or
 keep up with your email.
 Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause
 you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and
 practitioner of procrastination.)

I'm not a gamer, so my demands won't be that great.  Really, all I need is to 
be able to mount my camera under windows, make the photos available over the 
lan, and keep husband out of my hair by making solitaire available :)  I 
would like to also install Mandrake, though, for family to explore, which is 
why I was questioning whether it was supported.  

If I can't fix up what I've got, I'm looking at a MSI-MS 6378 mobo, which has 
pretty much everything on board, for cheapness.  I don't recognise the audio 
description, but this isn't essential, and if the worst comes to the worst I 
can later disable it and add a card.

Well, the next day or two will tell.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 06:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video 
 Accelerator?
 
 Anne

Aside from the fact that they suck horribly? Consider that they're bad
enough under M$ Wingdows...but then again, I digress...what kinda
machine is it in - something noteworthy?

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 7:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video
 Accelerator?

 Anne

what about it?
It uses the 'trident' driver if that is what you want to know.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:49:49 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video 
 Accelerator?
 
Remember Anne google is your friend.

http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/showmodel.asp?pro=blade%203d


BLADE 3D is a low-power 2D/3D graphics controller for very low-priced
desktop applications. BLADE 3D delivers two key graphics features to
very low-priced desktop PCs:

DirectX 6.0 hardware for good 3D images at very low hardware cost 
Single-pass pixel processing pipeline for low-cost 3D rendering
performance

Other key features include:

Single-pass, single-pixel rendering engine operating at up to 125 MHz
system clock Supports 8 MB of frame buffer with 64-bit memory interface
in a wide variety of SDRAM memory configurations such as 4Mx16, 1Mx16,
etc. DVD support with hardware Motion Compensation for real-time
playback Digital interface to standard NTSC/PAL encoder such as
Trident's TVExpress for TV out support

Software support for BLADE 3D is complete with certified drivers for
Windows® ME, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, OpenGL and Linux.


In other words if you got 1 it will work in linux.


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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
 On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:49:49 +

 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video
  Accelerator?

 Remember Anne google is your friend.

 http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/showmodel.asp?pro=blade%203d


 BLADE 3D is a low-power 2D/3D graphics controller for very low-priced
 desktop applications. BLADE 3D delivers two key graphics features to
 very low-priced desktop PCs:

 DirectX 6.0 hardware for good 3D images at very low hardware cost
 Single-pass pixel processing pipeline for low-cost 3D rendering
 performance

 Other key features include:

 Single-pass, single-pixel rendering engine operating at up to 125 MHz
 system clock Supports 8 MB of frame buffer with 64-bit memory interface
 in a wide variety of SDRAM memory configurations such as 4Mx16, 1Mx16,
 etc. DVD support with hardware Motion Compensation for real-time
 playback Digital interface to standard NTSC/PAL encoder such as
 Trident's TVExpress for TV out support

That sounds more than enough for what I need.

 Software support for BLADE 3D is complete with certified drivers for
 Windows® ME, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, OpenGL and Linux.


 In other words if you got 1 it will work in linux.

That's really what I wanted to know.  Thanks for your efforts

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 That sounds more than enough for what I need.

Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips.

Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found
on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'.
Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a
GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or
keep up with your email.
Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause
you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and
practitioner of procrastination.)


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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-12-29 Thread Robin Turner
Charles A Edwards wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



That sounds more than enough for what I need.



Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips.

Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found
on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'.
Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a
GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or
keep up with your email.
Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause
you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and
practitioner of procrastination.)


The Trident 3dimage card caused me so much grief when I first started 
using Linux, I find it hard to look on them favourably (even under 
Windows, I had to replace it, as in many games it was a question of 
moving the mouse then waiting expectantly for the pointer to move).  I 
agree that it's not necessary to buy state-of-the-art video cards 
though, unless you're rendering 3D animation or are a Quake freak for 
whom every frameset counts.  A GeForce 2 with a decent amount of onboard 
RAM is fine for all reasonable purposes - get a GeForce 4 when the 
GeForce 5 comes out!

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Technoslick
Thanks, Bryan.

My MDK 9.0 machine is now a dual-boot with Win XP Pro. Having found drivers
for Win 2K/XP for this card, I am going to install it today, get both O/S's
running the card, and see what I can do in MDK to find the apps I need. I am
glad to hear that you didn't have to do any weird dances or mumble obscene
incantations to get the Bt card to work. 'Easy' can be a good things,
sometimes. ;-)

Thanks for info,

T

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From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question


On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote:

 I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com
 BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the
 Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can
 see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use
 the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving
 video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or
 configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does
 KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing?

I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to
view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for
creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to
record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video
+ audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I
know.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Tony Castro
I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset
and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in
linux but i do get the blue screen from the yellow
jack and i get snow from the coax. So it does work.
I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux
but I assume that it will work.


--- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Bryan,
 
 I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with
 my 3Com BigPicture
 Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that
 the Brooktree chipset
 on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can
 see on the card that it
 was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the
 Webcam that came with it,
 but instead use the card for retrieving video from
 my VHS-C recorder. Did
 you have to make any adjustments or configurations
 in MDK 9.0 after you
 installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well
 for video retrieval and
 editing?
 
 T
 
 
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 From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question
 
 
 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote:
 
  I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to
 capture stills from an
  analogue video camera.  There's no chance, I
 think, of getting a
  Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next.
 
 I have connected a camera to the composite input of
 my Hauppage WinTV
 and grabbed stills using KWinTV.
 
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Anne Wilson
This is all sounding fairly encouraging.  I know that there are many hauppage 
tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset?  Does the 
connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward?

Anne

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 3:10 pm, you wrote:
 I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset
 and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in
 linux but i do get the blue screen from the yellow
 jack and i get snow from the coax. So it does work.
 I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux
 but I assume that it will work.

 --- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Bryan,
 
  I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with
  my 3Com BigPicture
  Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that
  the Brooktree chipset
  on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can
  see on the card that it
  was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the
  Webcam that came with it,
  but instead use the card for retrieving video from
  my VHS-C recorder. Did
  you have to make any adjustments or configurations
  in MDK 9.0 after you
  installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well
  for video retrieval and
  editing?
 
  T
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question
 
  On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote:
   I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to
 
  capture stills from an
 
   analogue video camera.  There's no chance, I
 
  think, of getting a
 
   Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next.
 
  I have connected a camera to the composite input of
  my Hauppage WinTV
  and grabbed stills using KWinTV.
 
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote:
 This is all sounding fairly encouraging.  I know that there are many
 hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree
 chipset?  Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to
 bring a lead forward?

 Anne

Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip 
set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the start. 
(although I usually wind up with this icon from Hell that takes a priest to 
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Technoslick
(Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...)

Anne,

It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??. Mine
is an older card, so it has a different set of numbers than what you might
find around now. Here's the site I found that gives me some direction on the
use of Hauppage Bt848 series card in Linux:

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iocchi/bt848/

And here's a good FAQ that explains a lot about the use of Brooktree
technology in video capture cards and what can be done with them:

http://www.tv-cards.com/FAQ.htm#0

I can't wait to install mine and see what I can do with it... :-D

T





On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote:
 This is all sounding fairly encouraging.  I know that there are many
 hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree
 chipset?  Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to
 bring a lead forward?

 Anne

Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip
set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the
start.
(although I usually wind up with this icon from Hell that takes a priest
to
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-06 Thread Anne Wilson
Thanks, filed for reference.  I'll have to make a decision soon, so I'll 
follow this up.

Anne

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 9:46 pm, you wrote:
 (Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...)

 Anne,

 It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??. Mine
 is an older card, so it has a different set of numbers than what you might
 find around now. Here's the site I found that gives me some direction on
 the use of Hauppage Bt848 series card in Linux:

 http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iocchi/bt848/

 And here's a good FAQ that explains a lot about the use of Brooktree
 technology in video capture cards and what can be done with them:

 http://www.tv-cards.com/FAQ.htm#0

 I can't wait to install mine and see what I can do with it... :-D

 T

 On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote:
  This is all sounding fairly encouraging.  I know that there are many
  hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree
  chipset?  Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible
  to bring a lead forward?
 
  Anne

 Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip
 set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the
 start.
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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote:

 I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an
 analogue video camera.  There's no chance, I think, of getting a
 Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next.

I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV 
and grabbed stills using KWinTV.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-05 Thread Technoslick
Bryan,

I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture
Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset
on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it
was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it,
but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did
you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you
installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and
editing?

T


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From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question


On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote:

 I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an
 analogue video camera.  There's no chance, I think, of getting a
 Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next.

I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV
and grabbed stills using KWinTV.

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Re: [newbie] Hardware question

2002-11-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote:

 I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com
 BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the
 Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can
 see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use
 the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving
 video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or
 configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does
 KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing?

I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to 
view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for 
creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to 
record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video 
+ audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I 
know.

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