Re: new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Jun 2017 at 18:09:33 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Georgi Naplatanov writes: > > > try to install : > > > > firmware-linux > > firmware-misc-nonfree > > firmware-realtek > > intel-microcode > > > > HTH > > Thanks Georgi for this. > > Since I've installed them its stopped showing that

Re: new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
Georgi Naplatanov writes: > On 06/18/2017 11:51 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't >> loading due to missing driver/s. >> >> Logwatch shows this - >> >> --8<--

Re: new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 09:51:21 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't > loading due to missing driver/s. > > Logwatch shows this - > > --8<---cut here---start-&

Re: new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-18 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 06/18/2017 11:51 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't > loading due to missing driver/s. > > Logwatch shows this - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >

new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-18 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't loading due to missing driver/s. Logwatch shows this - --8<---cut here---start->8--- WARNING: Kernel Errors Present EXT4-fs (sdd1): error count since last ...:

Re: New computer

2014-06-18 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:22:44 + Артур Истомин wrote: > what a cute boy.. May be a little anxiety: "won't my capacitors be in heat this summer" (or perhaps the fear of the black screen of death that kills:) -- What is called liberty, in poliotics language, is the right to make laws; in oth

Re: New computer

2014-06-18 Thread David Guntner
Sounds like an interesting project! I look forward to seeing the results! --Dave -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity & lack of my usual quote-and-reply style. On June 18, 2014 1:08:40 PM PDT, Steve Litt wrote: >Hi all, > >I just bought a

Re: New computer

2014-06-18 Thread Артур Истомин
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just bought a new computer, going cheap instead of going top of the > line. It has a 4.1Ghz dual AMD FM2 processor, 16GB of RAM, and ASUS > mobo, and I'll be doing both business computing and

New computer

2014-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just bought a new computer, going cheap instead of going top of the line. It has a 4.1Ghz dual AMD FM2 processor, 16GB of RAM, and ASUS mobo, and I'll be doing both business computing and experimental virtual machines on it. All my previous daily driver business machines have

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:35:41 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > > > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > >

Re: New computer planned. Now: New computer delivered.

2012-02-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
artin Steigerwald  wrote: >>>> >>>>> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: >>>>>> >>>>>> Curt Howland  wrote: >> >> Well, I have the new computer and booting up is definitely faster. >> As it happened, both

Re: New computer planned. Now: New computer delivered.

2012-02-27 Thread Doug
On 02/27/2012 09:43 AM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: Curt Howland wrote: Well, I have the new computer and booting

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Weber wrote: > > Funny enough nobody talked about energy consumption yet. If you would > buy a car or any other device, this would immediately be a point worth > considering, wouldn't it? > > I suggest you buy a Mac Mini (-Server if you like to have 2 disks

Re: New computer planned. Now: New computer delivered.

2012-02-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:43, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > One problem. The Wifi card is a RealTek TL-WN781ND You mean TP-Link TL-WN781ND RealTek is a wifi (and other) chip manufacture, not a card maker. Atheros is the the chip make for this one. > which according to > my web search for Linux dr

Re: New computer planned. Now: New computer delivered.

2012-02-27 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 >> Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >> > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: >> > > Curt Howland wrote: Well, I have the new computer

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-27 Thread Andreas Weber
Funny enough nobody talked about energy consumption yet. If you would buy a car or any other device, this would immediately be a point worth considering, wouldn't it? I suggest you buy a Mac Mini (-Server if you like to have 2 disks). - works fine with Debian - uses only a fraction of power compa

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 feb 12, 15:34:51, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I recommend Wheezy for Sandybridge. For Squeeze you´d need recent > backports of kernel, X.org and mesa. Which are available in backports. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alio

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Miles Bader
Doug writes: >>> I like PCLinuxOS, which is a rolling release, and is always up to >>> date, if you just remember to update it once a week or so. > > >> sounds like debian/testing :-) >> With debian/stesing there is a benefit: You can stop updating once >> "testing" is declared "stable". > > At th

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Doug
On 02/26/2012 06:50 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Doug wrote: This may be heretical for this list, but there are other distros in the world. I like PCLinuxOS, which is a rolling release, and is always up to date, if you just remember to update it once a week or so. sounds like debian/testing :-)

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Doug wrote: > This may be heretical for this list, but there are other distros in > the world. > I like PCLinuxOS, which is a rolling release, and is always up to > date, if you just remember to update it once a week or so. sounds like debian/testing :-) With debian/stesing there is a benefit: Yo

Re: [LAU] New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Robin Gareus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/2012 09:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [..] > What Debian should we install, to get a working system? > > Go with stable if you use NVIDIA, you are an idiot if you use NVIDIA, > use Intel and install Debian, but not stable :D??? http://jaqque.sb

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:03:46 +0100 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > >> Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. > > > > Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around > > saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is > > shipping badly broken so

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 06:03 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > >> Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. > > > > Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around > > saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is > > shipping badly broken soft

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 20:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-25 Thread Doug
On 02/26/2012 12:03 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Celejar wrote: Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is shipping badly broken software for mature and not obsolete

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Celejar wrote: >> Squeeze stuff is rather old by now. > > Fair enough - I'm just saying that perhaps we shouldn't go around > saying that linux support for Intel is perfect, when Debian stable is > shipping badly broken software for mature and not obsolete hardware. > Well, this is the way the d

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:21 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 02/24/2012 09:22 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > >> Curt Howland wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > >>> perfectly well with the st

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:22:32 +0100 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread David Christensen
On 02/24/2012 06:34 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I recommend Wheezy for Sandybridge. For Squeeze you´d need recent backports of kernel, X.org and mesa. That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Doug
On 02/24/2012 09:22 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: Curt Howland wrote: ... It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay purely open-source. That's what everyo

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Still 0,4% annual failure rate for X25-M is 4 drives out of 1000 in > one year and it is always good to keep a backup! I have not yet seen > numbers for Intel SSD 320 tough and they have had and probably even > still have a 8 MB bug. Searc

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unlikely to affect norm

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:17 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > > Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache > > if nothing else. > > For heavy audio production I never noticed that even the swap gets > touched with 4GB RAM. That d

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb David Christensen: > On 02/20/2012 06:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in), > > I prefer full FOSS HW support OOTB and have had the best experiences > wi

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 17:09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can > >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > Curt Howland wrote: > > ... > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > > purely open-source. > > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > > thing. > >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Curt Howland writes: > The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board > graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not > "bleeding edge", even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has > it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thin

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:58:03PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > The computer consultant has actually printed out on a piece of > A5-sized paper just what he's offering. I'm going to ignore the > Intel Core i3-2100 with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM and get the higher > spec. machine. > It will have Inte

Re: New computer planned -- (cleaning old keyboard)

2012-02-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> >> Maybe I should keep the keyboard I am using. >> It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. > >   How to clean a dirty (fatty) keyboard: >   -- > > Mix liquid ammonia concentrate

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:19, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Wifi: yes. I do not have broadband. The consultant has a Wifi network which > I can pick up in my living room. Ah, I did not see this when I wrote my response. Check on the card/chipset. As I said, drivers can still be iffy, though much

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Randy Kramer
Sian (and all), Congratulations on the work you've done with Algol, Literate Programming, and such! Those are all interests of mine, as well, (Well, from Algol, I eventually moved on to Pascal, and never really grokked C/C++, although I'm still making sporadic efforts to learn enough C++ to

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 21 feb 12, 22:58:03, Sian Mountbatten wrote: It will have Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Socket LGA1155, MSI Z68S REV B3 motherboard, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB PCI-Express graphics, an SSD OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA instead of a hard disk drive

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Monsieur Louk
I wouldn't worry about SSD failure. At least, not as much as one usually worries about HDD failure :) The guys at hardware.fr did a nice experiment: they set up a computer to do continuous write-erase cycles on an SSD in order to see how long it would last, and when performance decreases would sta

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/21/2012 9:15 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: > What do you think about this article on SSD and errors? > Link:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224322/SSDs_have_a_bleak_future_researchers_say I'll tell you in 2024 at 6.5nm when we reach "the end". In the mean time, anyone using a consumer MLC

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unli

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 22:58:03, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > It will have Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Socket LGA1155, MSI Z68S REV > B3 motherboard, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB > PCI-Express graphics, an SSD OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA instead > of a hard disk drive, a Samsung DVD-R

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 Curt Howland wrote: It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay purely open-source. Well, the comments on t

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 > Curt Howland wrote: >> >> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work >> perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay >> purely open-source. > > That's what everyone s

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 Curt Howland wrote: ... > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > purely open-source. That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze is shi

Re: New computer planned -- (cleaning old keyboard)

2012-02-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Maybe I should keep the keyboard I am using. > It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. > -- > Sian Mountbatten > Algol 68 specialist Moin mitnanner, How to clean a dirty (fatty) keyboard: ---

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:48, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2012 10:17:46 am Allan Wind wrote: >> You did not mention monitors but high definition has brought the >> larger ones way down in price.  30" monitors (2560x1600) are >> still in a different price league but to me it is wor

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 20 February 2012 10:17:46 am Allan Wind wrote: > You did not mention monitors but high definition has brought the > larger ones way down in price. 30" monitors (2560x1600) are > still in a different price league but to me it is worth it. If > you are buying a 30" consider one with Displ

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 19:38:30, Doug wrote: > After the plug game, the k/b works fine, and I never used a numberpad > anyway--all my boards have numbers on the top row--don't all of them? Yes, but the numpad is very efficient if you have to input a lot of numbers. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic d

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 7:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 sockets for keyboards. I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 > > sockets for keyboards. > > I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards lately and I seem to

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > a limited read/write cycle. Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are unlikely to affect normal usage. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions am

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread David Christensen
On 02/20/2012 06:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also consider Intel cards (or even built-in), I prefer full FOSS HW support OOTB and have had the best experiences with Intel processors and integrated motherboards (video, sound, PAT

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 9:19 AM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only downstairs from me, to

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: > > I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 > sockets for keyboards. I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards lately and I seem to recall models without PS/2, but you are probably right about full-sized ATX

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:15 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> The card has >> it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing > > It's a myth that shared RAM for the framebuffer is less good than a > graphics with it's own RAM.

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 17:09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in) > > Do the

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:17 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache > if nothing else. For heavy audio production I never noticed that even the swap gets touched with 4GB RAM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:15 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > The card has > it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing It's a myth that shared RAM for the framebuffer is less good than a graphics with it's own RAM. What exactly should be better if the graphics has got it's o

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread green
Andrei POPESCU wrote at 2012-02-20 08:58 -0600: > OTOH I doubt tuxracer has very high 3d performance requirements. Extreme TuxRacer works fine on my Intel GM965, fullscreen. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I always use two HDDs, to make backups from one to the other, but just > two, to get less noise and power consumption. > The casing is the week point of my machine. > Good point about the case. I've seen so many cases that only have

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in) Do they have 3D support? > You can > drop ATA, all you need is SA

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:58, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a >> new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good >> thin

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Especially today most distros dropped the nv driver, > but the proprietary can't be used all the times. The nouveau driver for > most distros, including Debian ex testing, is the only alternative to > the proprietary one. This driver is mark

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:15, Curt Howland wrote: > > The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board > graphics. Onboard graphics (Intel) is the best way to get Linux compatibility, actually. Although they have not provide specs like AMD, the level of support they put in

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > > thing. >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:19, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new > computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. > > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only do

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > thing. > If you plan to use wireless networking, make sure you check

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Allan Wind
Hi Sian, Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache if nothing else. There is a large difference in performance of SSDs and the score board changes fairly quickly. Make sure you have non-crippled SATA 3 controller to get most out of them. Consider some of the high-end l

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Lisi
On Monday 20 February 2012 14:19:36 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. Perhaps clean it??? I use methylated spirit here in the UK. You just want alcohol, a lint-free cloth and cotton buds. Then you would not have to live with it. I would certainly recomm

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Curt Howland
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only > downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d > acceleration, solid-state drive, 8Gb RAM. What else should I ask for and > what works with Linux? Sian, Two years ago I did the same thing. Q

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > thing. > > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only

New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d acceleration, s

Re: new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/25/2008 03:11 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to try and mount this drive with: S

Re: new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 03:11, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got > the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting > order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what

new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to try and mount this drive with: Script started on Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:03:35 AM E

Re: New computer

2007-04-23 Thread Richard
On 24/04/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard wrote: > Hi all > I just put a new computer together and would like to know your input > about the following problems i experience. My new system has these > components

Re: New computer

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard wrote: > Hi all > I just put a new computer together and would like to know your input > about the following problems i experience. My new system has these > components.: > > Motherboard - Intel DP965LT > CPU - Intel

New computer

2007-04-23 Thread Richard
Hi all I just put a new computer together and would like to know your input about the following problems i experience. My new system has these components.: Motherboard - Intel DP965LT CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 HD - Seagate IDE 200 GB HD - Seagate SATA 250 GB DVD-rw NEC IDE Now i tried to

Re: looking for a new computer burn in util

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:51 -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I am looking for a an all in one solution to performing a burn in of > new servers. I know there are many stand-alone programs useful for > that sort of thing, like Memtest86, CPUburn, Bonnie++, and just plain > old repeatedly compiling the Linu

Re: looking for a new computer burn in util

2007-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:51:48PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I am looking for a an all in one solution to performing a burn in of new > servers. I know there are many stand-alone > programs useful for that sort of thing, like Memtest86, CPUburn, Bonnie++, > and just plain old repeatedly compiling

looking for a new computer burn in util

2007-04-17 Thread Tony Heal
I am looking for a an all in one solution to performing a burn in of new servers. I know there are many stand-alone programs useful for that sort of thing, like Memtest86, CPUburn, Bonnie++, and just plain old repeatedly compiling the Linux kernel. But, is there a boot-able Live CD. Something I c

Get a head start on a new computer career

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Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-09 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:55:06PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: > Nano Nano <40119.nospam comcast.net> writes: > > > This low-latency ram is supposed to be nice. All my games play > > extremely well but Doom 3 is about out. > > Under Windows? I'm still tethered to XP for certain games that do n

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-09 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Nano Nano <40119.nospam comcast.net> writes: > This low-latency ram is supposed to be nice. All my games play > extremely well but Doom 3 is about out. Under Windows? I'm still tethered to XP for certain games that do not work under WINE. Always interested in tips from those who've mastered

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-02 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:02:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would consider another MB manufacture, as Asus has had problems with quality of as > late. > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13674 > > Ok this might effect their AMD line, but do you really trust a MB company which uses

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-02 Thread rthoreau
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:57:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will > it work with Linux? > > Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading > Technology - Retail > > Asus 875P Chipset

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:37:53AM +0100, Mike M wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:57:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will > > it work with Linux? > > > > Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB,

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-02 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:57:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will > it work with Linux? > > Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading > Technology - Retail > > Asus 875P Chipset

Buying a new computer, questions!

2004-02-02 Thread Nano Nano
I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will it work with Linux? Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail Asus 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "P4C800-E DELUXE" -RETAIL Corsair XMS Extr

Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-11 Thread Jason J
I thought this was a potential bad memory problem. When I get these kinds of errors consistently I grab my memtest86(check freshmeat.net) boot disk and check it out. But I could be totally wrong on this. Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrot

Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-11 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing > me the stack. It looks like this: > > ... > scsi : 0 hosts > scisi : detected total > Partition check: > hda : hda1 hda2 >

I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-10 Thread Karl Matheson
Hey, I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing me the stack. It looks like this: ... scsi : 0 hosts scisi : detected total Partition check: hda : hda1 hda2 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 general protection: CPU: 0

Re: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hunter, On 06-Apr-00, you wrote: HHM> I'm considering a new computer. I was considering 2, but maybe I'll HHM> turn my 100MHZ pentium into a dedicated browser for family needs. HHM> HHM> ANYhoo, does anyone have good/bad experiences with any of the linux HHM> hard

RE: new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
> > Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them? > They did a year or more ago but not anymore. They went to Red Hat only and > then to their own RPM based distro. Why are they still advertising Debian on their site, then? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Inter

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