Re: [PLUG] Missing root!

2010-12-12 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > I was mostly ignoring the EXT3 error on the root device and thinking > that the root device is using SATA and the Radeon video is using PCI and > the common thing between those is the PCI bus. One is messing up the > other by some unknown conflict over t

Re: [PLUG] Missing root!

2010-12-11 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > So if its not the address collision, maybe it is loading the wrong agp > module. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-979543.html > > "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" > 3. Add the following two entries without quotes to the end of the file:

Re: [PLUG] Missing root!

2010-12-11 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > Is this a sort of new motherboard? Bought it about 18 months ago, I'd guess. Intel D945GCLF2 The video card was just purchased this week. Sapphire Radeon 9250 PCI. > Sounds like this problem > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/20

Re: [PLUG] Missing root!

2010-12-11 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, drew wymore wrote: > Are you disabling the analog when booting the pci card video? There is neither a jumper nor a BIOS setting to actually disable the onboard video. I can, however, in the BIOS, select the PCI card as the "primary video". This has the exact same effect a

[PLUG] Missing root!

2010-12-11 Thread Jeme A Brelin
I'm building a media PC for someone else. For various reasons (mostly for geeky fun), I've got the thing booting from an internal IDE->CF adapter with two 1TB "green energy" drives on the SATA channels. There is an optical drive slaved from the IDE adapter. And this all works fine (except f

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo T410?

2010-08-28 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > Er, ... you'll cure your own poverty. I suspect that it would be an > easy choice for most of us between poverty and rich. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? _

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo T410?

2010-08-28 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On this topic: I've just ordered a T410s for a friend. The T410 does still use a magnesium alloy frame, but the "s" model uses glass fiber and carbon to achieve better-than-standard durability at a lower weight. They're not Toughbooks, but they'll do for most people not climbing mountains wi

Re: [PLUG] Jeri Ellsworth at Feb. general meeting

2010-01-30 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > But her talks are OUTSTANDING, and I expect this to be the > best General meeting speaker we have ever had. In my mind, this is a very high bar. Ward Cunningham blew me away. J. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-26 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Also -- are you still running Pine or have you switched to Alpine? The > latter is the currently supported version -- and it has UTF-8 support > so you can read your spam in the original Russian! :-) I just installed Alpine and it seems quite slow. Tha

[PLUG] Fileserver+ suggestions and comments.

2009-06-04 Thread Jeme A Brelin
So, here's my situation: I have a small home network included a modded XBox for playing stuff through the home entertainment center and a networked MP3 player in the living room (since living space should be as far from TV space as possible). Also, my home is in New Orleans where it is hot an

Re: [PLUG] Going back to Hardy

2009-04-07 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, m0gely wrote: > Jeme A Brelin wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> I am not smart enough to learn TeX. >> >> Then why on Earth do you think you have anything worthwhile to add to >> world literature in writing a book?

Re: [PLUG] Going back to Hardy

2009-04-02 Thread Jeme A Brelin
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I am not smart enough to learn TeX. Then why on Earth do you think you have anything worthwhile to add to world literature in writing a book? > Besides, anyone who would use something like TeX to layout a document > must be freakin' nuts. :) The