Subject: Re: Laptop Key Problem
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh. Sorry, I forgot not everybody is going to have a bunch of
floppies full of old software. :-)
What? So, what do people keep at the back of all their closets? What
do you do with all that room if you don't keep
On Nov 13, 2007 11:27 AM, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: Laptop Key Problem
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh. Sorry, I forgot not everybody is going to have a bunch of
floppies full of old software. :-)
What? So, what do people keep at the back of all
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:08 -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote:
What about going the other way around? Try the GUI CD burner - you
should be able to right-click on the .iso and select Write to
Disc
That was my starting point. I glossed over that since there was no
useful error output. The GUI
On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've
discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs.
In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount
daemons trying to auto-mount a disc as I'm trying to write
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've
discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs.
In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount
On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
busy)... retrying in 1 second.
That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry
succeeds.
Right, because the auto-thingies all work by polling the device. So
FWIW, I've not had any problems like this w/Gnome/Ubuntu and it has
the automount thingies. the automount stuff does annoy me from time
to time, but it doesn't cause failures when burning CDs or DVDs.
Cheers!
Ty
On 9/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:03 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
busy)... retrying in 1 second.
That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry
succeeds.
Right,
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've
discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs.
In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:23 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:03 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
busy)... retrying in 1 second.
That exclusivity error only
I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've
discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs. I have an old CD-R burner,
so this is not critical yet, but I will need to get this figured out.
The drive is identified below in the wodim output, but is a fairly
typical IDE combo
I know there are innumerable places on the web selling used/refurbished
gear, but just thought I would mention this one since I had good luck
with them. Ordered a T30 with 256M and 60G and DVD for $285 with no OS.
Unit came in a shipping box made for laptops and unit was pristine.
Much better
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:49:32 -0400
Ed lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know there are innumerable places on the web selling used/refurbished
gear, but just thought I would mention this one since I had good luck
with them. Ordered a T30 with 256M and 60G and DVD for $285 with no OS.
Unit
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:27:29 -0400
Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Double check your warranties.
Very good point.
I guess I have been spoiled by my HP 4150 which ran like a tank for
years and years. I really don't worry about warranty stuff on used
equipment I buy for mixed
On Mon, June 4, 2007 7:56 am, Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 07:16 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux laptop,
that would
be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a DVD player, where would you
get
it?
Peg
) this
laptop is hard to beat. Here are the specs:
AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core TL-50 @ 1600mhz per core
OSGenuine Windows Vista Home Premium
RAM1 GB of 533mhz DDR2 occupying a single slot, leaving 1 slot available
Display17 WXGA+ 1440x900 Diamond Brite screen
GraphicsNvidia Geforce Go 7600
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux laptop, that
would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a DVD player, where
would you get it?
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On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Tech Writer wrote:
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux
laptop, that would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and
a DVD player, where would you get it?
Peg
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 07:16 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux
laptop, that would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a
DVD player, where would you get it?
Peg
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I got this for about $850 direct from Dell, and a lot of that was
upgrades from the basic.
http://oddones.org/newsys.html
Upgrades I got were:
Screen to max res: $100
CPU to Core 2 Duo instead of Core Duo: $70 ?
RAM to 667 MHz instead of 533: $60 ?
Linux issues (Debian specifically, not sure how
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux laptop,
that would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a DVD player,
where would you get it?
Dell offers an Inspiron, currently starting at 599$ that ships with
Ubuntu preinstalled (http://www.dell.com/open
On 5/31/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As incredibly knowledgable as I am in linux I'm a total dolt in windoze.
For reasons that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose
laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any
computers I have in house
As incredibly knowledgable as I am in linux I'm a total dolt in windoze.
For reasons that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose
laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any
computers I have in house are running linux and all have static addresses
that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose
laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any
computers I have in house are running linux and all have static addresses
assigned.
Can some kind soul tell me what I need to do (prefereably at both ends) so
On 5/31/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... winblose laptop ...
What flavor of Windows? 2000? XP Pro? XP Home? Something Vista?
Something Older?
If you're not sure, click Start, then Run, type WINVER, and click
OK. That should open a window which tells you the flavor
management software is a bit less intuitive
than the SuSE, but that is also because I am more familiar with YaST.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:44:36 -0700 (PDT)
Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been around Linux a while, but my experience with laptops is minimal.
I bought a laptop
On 3/16/07, Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bought a laptop recently with two SATA hardrives.
Did it actually have two physical disks, or just one disk split into
two partitions?
Either way, it would be useful to know what partitions exist on what
disks, and what their purpose
also give make and model of the laptop.
HP dv9000z
Did the laptop come with restore/re-install media?
It comes with a restore partition (on what we call
/dev/sda2 or WINDOWS/D), and I purchased a CD, too.
And, no, I don't trust the veracity of this recovery media - I suspect it will
simply
I've been around Linux a while, but my experience with laptops is minimal.
I bought a laptop recently with two SATA hardrives. The major OEM
that made the laptop very generously made the second drive D:,
and the BIOS does NOT support booting off of the second hard drive, only off of
the first
Hi,
Does anybody have recommendations for an MSI /Asus laptop ?
I am planning to use it for Java/C++ development (need to run eclipse),
general browsing and editing documents with Open office.
Any recommendation on the following retailer is also appreciated.
http://www.rkcomputer.net/store
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From: Alexei Isac
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 3:54 PM
Subject: Linux Laptop
Hi,
Does anybody have recommendations for an MSI /Asus laptop ?
I am planning to use it for Java/C++ development (need to run eclipse),
general browsing and editing
On 2/25/07, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that mystifies about purchasing one of these erector set
notebook computers - they are definitely more expensive than buying a ready
to use notebook ...
One also has to remember that you're taking on the system
integration and support
Here are some drivers that have at least a shot at recognizing
that card:
8139cp 8139too r8169
...so it might be interesting to see the results of this:
modprobe thatDriver
...for each one.
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Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN
My HP zd7000 has a wireless chip that until recently had no
Linux supported, no thanks to the super-geniuses at BroadCom.
However, I just upgraded the Debian distro on that machine
and was pleasantly surprised to see that there is now a
native driver, so I guess the
Hi All,
I recently inherited a fairly new Compaq Presario
V2000 Laptop (V2606CU). It came to me with MSW Home
on it and I'd like to switch it over to FC, CentOS, or
Ubuntu. (Any suggestions or caveats welcome).
CPU is a Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3000+ (787 MHz)
Current RAM = 256 MB (I
40 GB HDD
Matsushita UJDA 770 DVD/CDRW drive
RealTek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN
Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN
My Dell has this part, had to install an NDIS driver
as there are not Linux drivers for it. Unless one has
been released in the last two years.
Mike
shlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...
Hi All,
I recently inherited a fairly new Compaq Presario
V2000 Laptop (V2606CU). It came to me with MSW Home
on it and I'd like to switch it over
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:11:12PM -0500, Tech Writer wrote:
Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area
that can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP Pavilion
that I just finished loading Linux onto. It was working great until the
dog ran
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From: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:11 PM
Subject: Laptop repair
Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area
that can perform a simple laptop repair
that can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP
Pavilion that I just finished loading Linux onto. It was working
great until the dog ran by, and yanked the power cable out. The
connection is now loose and won't hold the cable. The lowest price I
can get from HP repair
Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area that
can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP Pavilion that I
just finished loading Linux onto. It was working great until the dog ran
by, and yanked the power cable out. The connection is now loose
If you can't find somewhere professional to do it cheaply, I have a
setup at home good enough for working with 0402 surface mount
components, and could do it... disassembling and reassembling the
laptop is a lot harder than the soldering itself, though, so you'd
have to find directions
I have done a lot of work on my old Inspirons myself, but never soldering. If
this is an older laptop as you say, you may be able to find another identical
model on eBay for real cheap, especially if it has a broken screen. Then,
with all those spare parts, you can replace just about anything
On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:08, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
I have done a lot of work on my old Inspirons myself, but never
soldering. If
this is an older laptop as you say, you may be able to find another
identical
model on eBay for real cheap, especially if it has a broken
screen
On 10/1/06, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first thing that hit me when I booted XP was how bad the initial
Windows graphic is. It sucks. It's grainy and shitty looking!
This is probably the Acer laptop. The XP logo boot graphic is
displayed in 640x480 on in a VESA standard
Devils advicate responses for shits and giggles.On 10/1/06, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first thing that hit me when I booted XP was how bad the initialWindows graphic is. It sucks. It's grainy and shitty looking! Com'on, this
isn't the video hardware. If Microsoft has to run in
So I recently bought a new laptop. I don't really need one so I bought a
cheap Acer model. The laptop came with WinXP Home edition.
I have to confess, I don't use Windows on a daily or even weekly basis. I'm
lucky that way. :-) In fact, I've avoided XP almost totally. Sure, I've
played
My Linux laptop (thinkpad) was NFG for 24 hours, with GRUB Error 17.
[Duration was unrelated to severity, just I had other things to do
after I noticed the issue. ]
Problem was caused by shutting down hard (power switch) during boot
(due to real life intervening). Apparently I powered down
Hey everybody,I've tried Craigs List. Is there a better way? I listed it on Ebay and I think the problem was that it didn't have windows installed.Thanks,Kjel
LOL. Tell us what it is. ;-) Maybee you may get a bite locally on the list. ThomasOn 8/30/06, Kjel Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey everybody,I've tried Craigs List. Is there a better way? I listed it on Ebay and I think the problem was that it didn't have windows installed.
Thanks,Kjel
Kjel Anderson writes:
I've tried Craigs List. Is there a better way? I listed it on Ebay and I
think the problem was that it didn't have windows installed.
Suggestion: place your ad at your local college/university,
especially near their computer science department.
Regards,
--kevin
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(Linus claims to be against micro-kernels. It turns out he just doesn't
understand that is exactly what he created :)
I take the opposite philosophy. RMS could have claimed to have successfully
finished the GNU operating system after he distributed emacs.
md
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On Monday 12 June 2006 12:16 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
(Linus claims to be against micro-kernels. It turns out he just
doesn't understand that is exactly what he created :)
Not exactly. I believe it is the Mach Kernel and similar types of
microkernels that use message passing via some form of
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're like me and don't want or need a GUI file manager or icons
on the desktop or all that other stuff, that stuff really is just a
waste of RAM. I suppose there are those who want that kind of thing.
Me, I'll stick with my trusty screen full of
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:55:06PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're like me and don't want or need a GUI file manager or icons
on the desktop or all that other stuff, that stuff really is just a
waste of RAM. I suppose there are those who want
On 6/8/06, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You two remind me of a developer I once worked with who had a Sun 20
running emacs in text mode on the console.
I would never do that. I'd miss out on being able to resize each
xterm to fit the right amount of text for the task at hand.
On Thursday 08 June 2006 1:36 pm, Mark Komarinski wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:55:06PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're like me and don't want or need a GUI file manager or
icons on the desktop or all that other stuff, that stuff really is
On 6/6/06, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a side note... I have been a little surprised at how much disk and
memory I need for a reasonable flavor of Linux.
Most Linux distributions tend to keep pace with technology.
Unfortunately, that means their system requirements have risen
On 6/6/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm mildly curious about things like GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/),which aim to compile Java-the-language to machine code for the hostplatform (e.g., i386), rather than compiling to machine code for
Java-the-machine.In particular, I'm wondering what
The Toshiba P150 I had could only cache 64MB of RAM in the CPU. If you had more, none of it was cached. However, 80MB, even w/o the cacheing was still better then 64MB. I think the cache issue is a P150 thing.
On 6/6/06, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This old Gateway 2100 Solo laptop
On 6/7/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Toshiba P150 I had could only cache 64MB of RAM in the CPU. If you had
more, none of it was cached. However, 80MB, even w/o the cacheing was still
better then 64MB. I think the cache issue is a P150 thing.
It's actually the chipset
less technically savvy than you (or with less curiosity or patience)
could pay someone to install a reasonable copy of Linux to their laptop, then
make a backup of that for future use.
Finally:
Before this exercise began, the old laptop ran Windows-98, giving me email,
a web browser, an old
On 6/6/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
once I trimmed out a little of the extra crud... in particular
switching to a low-demand X window manager helped.
This is a good idea even on modern systems. Gnome and KDE are huge
resource hogs ...
Indeed. Until last month, my main home PC
First, I agree that the laptop mentioned above is probably
underpowered for modern Java development. I'm fairly happy running
Eclipse and other Java-based apps on my systems that are = 512MB /
1GHz, but haven't done much on anything smaller for a few years. For
that machine if the user is only
On 6/6/06, Lawrence Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Games/JeffOnPerformance
There seem to be an awful lot of exceptions and conditions in there.
For example, the author states you should have a modern JIT
compiler (whatever modern means), and ignore all the time
I've always wondered:
could you build a distro of linux that has native java support? when
you think about how java works, it compiles programs to byte code, which
is then executed on each platform by a virtual machine. what if someone
created a linux kernel that could directly interpret
could you build a distro of linux that has native java support?
While it'd certainly take some serious work, I can't think of any technical
reason why you couldn't -- and that would probably put the speed issue to bed
once and for all.
And of course, that possibility was likely one of
On 6/6/06, Christopher Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when you think about how java works, it compiles programs to byte code, which
is then executed on each platform by a virtual machine.
Correct.
what if someone created a linux kernel that could directly interpret
and execute this byte
I'm beginning to think it isn't the old system, or the slow processor that's
making it tough to add Linux to this old laptop. It's the lack of memory.
This system only has 40MB of RAM, and even Xubuntu wants 128 for a HD
install.
Peg
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...
I'm beginning to see the same thing... For example, I looked at the
Xubuntu
Somebody on this channel (maybe even me) can probably
provide you with some additional RAM if we can figure
out what sort you need. For example, I have a couple
of 64Mb SODIMMs available now that I've replaced them
with 256Mb versions in my little laptop
Peggy,
I have not seen anyone mention this, so here goes:
Some of the large memory requirements of a system are to allow installation
using the X Window system, a RAM disk, plus the kernel and the installation
programs. After the system is installed, the requirements of a lot of this
go away.
On the Java side for small memory ... if Java doesn't work out of the
box on 40MB, try J2ME.
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=31733
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This old Gateway 2100 Solo laptop doesn't hold much memory, and I'm not
exactly sure what type of memory module it is. This is what I've gathered
so far...
Page: http://www.memoryx.net/gaso21seme.html
States that the Gateway Solo 2100 system can only take 80MB:
Gateway Solo 2100 Series
began,
the old laptop ran Windows-98, giving me email, a web browser, an old
version of MS-Word, and even a few games for the kids... For some reason,
I'd always thought I'd easily find an interesting Linux that would do as
much, without requiring so much effort to get it up-and-running.
Peg
Very weird... I've installed Debian in less than 512 MB with X. (On a
CF card, actually.) I'd recommend a very minimal initial install,
then apt-get (or whatever) only the things you specifically need.
(I've done an install in 256 MB CF, but had to do some install-time
gymnastics to do so...I
With Ubuntu, you used to be able to do a server install, which I believe was a more minimal install than the regular Ubuntu install. However, I've only just started playing with the new Ubuntu LiveCD/installation hybrid, so I'm not sure how you would go about it. Perhaps it is still be an option
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 6/4/06, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... 150 MHz Pentium ... 40MB RAM ... Some of my son's friends
have decided to learn Java this summer ...
Be warned that Java may be unbearably slow on that system. (Given
that it's irritatingly slow on
On 6/5/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be warned that Java may be unbearably slow on that system. (Given
that it's irritatingly slow on much newer systems.)
By what measurement do you determine that Java is slow ...
My measurement is qualitative, not quantitative. Everything
Oh... and as a side note... I'm encouraged that there are four or five
14-year olds who want to learn more about Linux and Java, so I'd like to try
to support them as much as possible... I've actually got a second old
laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro, Pentium MMX processor, 80 MB RAM with 1.34
:57 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop in two stages
Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux distro, but I'd suspect it's not going
to perform nicely on an older laptop like that. There's a new
Xubuntu derivative that is using Xfce windowing for older hardware,
will supposedly give you the best of both
On Monday 05 June 2006 08:35 am, Paul Lussier wrote:
By what measurement do you determine that Java is slow, and compared
to what? Is it slower for developement, or just running it? Is it
slow compared to C, or Lisp, or Visual Basic? Are you doing systems
programming with it or distributed
On 6/4/06, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got an old Gateway Solo 2100 laptop with 150 MHz
Pentium processor, 40MB RAM and 1.34 GB hard vdrive. It's been sitting in the corner
collecting dust, and still contains Windows-98. Some of my son's friends have decided to
learn Java
Context is unnecessary if, for example, Java is unbearably slow
compared to nearly everything. The only things I've seen that are
slower than (aggregate of all Java apps I've seen and used) are e.g.
field simulators or modal analysis simulation tools... and since
they're doing a lot of hardcore
A lot of the claims to the effect of Java is much faster nowadays
are based on the fact that typical Java implementations nowadays
include much better JIT (Just In Time) compilers. Translating an
application's interpreted Java bytecode into native machine code can
yield some very large
On 6/5/06, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is also very possible that JVM's that run on Windows are more
efficient than those that you typically see under Linux ...
My personal experience is that the Sun Java VM is just as slow under
Windows as it is under Linux, so I don't think
be happy with the kind of
performance that you describe below.
Not only that, but the developers who write the other tools at Oracle
(Portal, XML Publisher, BPEL Designer, etc.) all use JDeveloper, many on
Linux.
My own personal experience:
I've got a 1.6GHz Pentium laptop with 2GB of ram
On 6/5/06, Richard Soule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a 1.6GHz Pentium laptop with 2GB of ram and I'm able to run the
below in quite a usable manner:
Keep in mind the context of the original post was a 100 MHz laptop
with 40 MB of RAM. Your video subsystem prolly has more RAM
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To: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: GNHLUG User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop in two stages
Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux distro, but I'd suspect it's not going
to perform
On 6/5/06, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started up the Ubunu install, but it got caught up at:
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
If I did my googling right, that means ...
Yah. In short, ACPI isn't there or is really broken. This is not unusual.
What is ACPI, you ask? It's a way
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I found some reference to turning this off via a kernel parameter ...
Yes. I think the syntax is acpi=off.
We've got grub kernel params of 'noapic', is there also a noacpi?
A quick googling for noacpi yields 'pci=noacpi' references.
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Seeya,
Paul
Fedora 4 system disables ACPI checking on a pre 1999 BIOS. I imagine a P150 laptop is 1997 era.I'd say Ubuntu needs a much more modern system with more power/ram/disk.
What modern distributions will work well on P150 systems?Is it better to go retro w/ Redhat 7 era distributions?
Last place I worked we had some kernels that
(counterintuitively) needed to be booted with
both of these:
noacpi acpi=off
...and Didn't you mean noapic? was definitely
an FAQ.
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I've run Debian recently on a 586/133 (AMD of some sort?) with 64 MB
of RAM, and it was fine once I trimmed out a little of the extra
crud... in particular switching to a low-demand X window manager
helped. I can't remember which I ended up using, unfortunately, but
it was based on googling for
Drew Van Zandt wrote:
I've run Debian recently on a 586/133 (AMD of some sort?) with 64 MB
of RAM, and it was fine once I trimmed out a little of the extra
crud... in particular switching to a low-demand X window manager
helped. I can't remember which I ended up using, unfortunately, but
it
CDrom boot works, excellent.
The Xubuntu CD is supposed to be better for old hardware than
Ubuntu, you could try that. DSL will download quicker, it's *small*
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On 6/5/06, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like Matchbox is the favorite embedded WM, according to google.
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/
The screen shots seem to imply that it's designed for PDAs,
cellphones, and the like. Might not be the best choice for a regular
PC
want to use
Commandline-only Linux, that probably mean Fluxbox or Xfce or one of
the other lightweight alternative desktops instead of heavyweight
Gnome and KDE, with a Distro optimized for old hardware (Xubuntu, DSL,
Puppy, Vector, ..).
I'm worried Eclipse won't fit on that laptop ... they'll may
iginal Message -
From: "Bill Ricker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Tech Writer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "GNHLUG User Group" gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop - still
trying...
CDrom boot
Try SLAX, it's another small one but really optimized for Pretty.
--DTVZ
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