Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 2/11/16, Martin Smith wrote: > On 11/02/2016 06:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> The essence of a keyboard is found in the keyswitch -- the plunger and >> the contacts. >> >> A good plunger is not lubricated and does not bind even if the key is >> struck at an angle. Any external lubricant e

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/13/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> If it ever began to irritate you, however, there have been microcode >> updates - there were several from Intel - and you might be able to >> install >> one and get rid of the message. > > For AMD processors the microcode updates are available in linux-firmware, >

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/13/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > "However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no > support for this CPU vendor" error." > > He did not mention having solved this particular problem. In fact, it looks > as though he may still be having it. You must have missed the followup post, in which I wrote

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/13/15, Brian wrote: > On Mon 13 Jul 2015 at 18:54:31 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Monday 13 July 2015 18:39:42 Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> > Ms. Reisz >> > Please read before replying in future. Mr. Levine had pointed out >> > one of his goals was minimum data charges during install. I >> >

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > Reinstall; one partition for everything. > > The base system is installed next. You have no control over this. > > When it comes to installing other software do not install anything. > Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected. > > Complete installation and re

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > Not knowing how how you installed, do you fancy trying this: Sure, no reason not to. > Reinstall; one partition for everything. That's how I did it first time around, as that was the default. I'm accustomed to more complex partition schemes in other unixen, but figu

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Gary Dale wrote: > That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui? As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks it's trying to run. I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line on this thing. And it does (inconsistently) f

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Richard Owlett wrote: > You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}. > The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running" > when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I > purchased live-cd's > [https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/]

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > A nice account. > > At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and > add > >longhaul.enable=1 > > to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on. Did that. Result was exactly the same, with the exception of not getting the longhaul

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > >> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be >> gentle and use words without too many syllables. >> >> I've just completed t

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 7/10/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2015 04:29:23 Jonathan Levine wrote: >> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current >> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP >> 6000. I went with all th

New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-10 Thread Jonathan Levine
Greetings: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP 6000. I went with all the defaults and i