[SLUG] Hardware problem

Hi there, I'm Gerd, new on the list, having used different flavours of Unix since 1989. Since 6.3 I'm using almost exclusively Suse's distribution. I bought a new laptop about a year and a half ago, MEDION Akoya MD96852, Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS. It was furnished with Vista. I

Re: [SLUG] Hardware problem

It sounds like the nvidia graphics card maybe the problem but it could be a change to some other component of opensuse... On 11.3 were you using the proprietary nvidia drivers? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a number of years and that machine has just died. Anybody have any recommendations for a small form-factor machine (shuttle sized or even mac-mini style) that can be bought without paying the windows tax? Sydney local

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Zazz.com.au has ubuntu installed pc's from time to time. They seem to be ex-leases, form factor is usually smallish. Although you have to wait for them to come around for sale :) Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Hi Erik, I'm a computer dealer and a reseller for Altech and various other suppliers. I can get most anything. Have a look at kits at the address below... http://www.altech.com.au/kit.aspx Ignore the windows components as I can get everything without the windows tax. You can also mix and

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Oops sorry, I really did mean to keep it off list... Ben On 30/06/2010 11:25 AM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Erik, I'm a computer dealer and a reseller for Altech and various other suppliers. I can get most anything. Have a look at kits at the address below... http://www.altech.com.au/kit.aspx

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Asrock ion 330 is great as it accelerates video using an nvidia ion. I use one as my xbmc box Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

Many of the APUS machines come without O/S. For example, http://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/p_14849_APUS_AMD_Athlon_X2_245_Dual_Core_Budget_System They have a shuttle-like system too, http://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/p_9245_APUS_INTEL_Q8400_CORE_2_QUAD_MINI_PC_SYSTEM__1TB at a slightly

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendations

On Wednesday 30 June 2010 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a number of years and that machine has just died. Anybody have any recommendations for a small form-factor machine (shuttle sized or even

[SLUG] Hardware stress test for 64bit arch

Hi all, I'm after some hardware stress testing utils for 64bit linux - specifically network, CPU and memory. I have a feeling this has come up recently but can't find the reference - I know someone suggested bonnie++ on a similar thread recently, but as far as I can see that hasn't been

Re: [SLUG] hardware for Asterisk server - Digium TDM400P, X100P FXO??

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:56 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: One other small point. Make sure that the PCI bus is at least 2.2 spec. That TDM400P doesn't work with earlier PCI specs - ie. no old hardware as the server - been there, done that, got the scars... Another question - a normal modem

Re: [SLUG] hardware for Asterisk server - Digium TDM400P, X100P FXO??

On Sat, February 2, 2008 12:37, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm doing some volunteer work with a non-profit (in Guatemala), and they want me to set up a small Asterisk server (as they've been waiting 2 weeks for the PABX serviceman to come out and he charges $US75/hr - expensive for a 3rd world

[SLUG] hardware for Asterisk server - Digium TDM400P, X100P FXO??

I'm doing some volunteer work with a non-profit (in Guatemala), and they want me to set up a small Asterisk server (as they've been waiting 2 weeks for the PABX serviceman to come out and he charges $US75/hr - expensive for a 3rd world country). I just want to check with the Asterisk 'experts'

Re: [SLUG] Hardware Question

Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: Hi all I am building a Production FC4 box with Scalix (www.scalix.com) for use in a small site (12 users). The site is My church and I don't have Bucketloads of $$ to spend but I have two available boxes to build on. 1Ghz Celeron with 1.5Gb SDRAM (3 slots) 2.8Ghz P4

Re: [SLUG] Hardware Question

On 4/30/06, tuxta2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question = Don't p4's have ddr ram? (I'm not a hardware person) Depends on the motherboard chipset... but yeah its more likely to be ddr sdram, maybe the poster should be more specific about the system boards in the machines, so that we can comment

[SLUG] Hardware Question

Hi all I am building a Production FC4 box with Scalix (www.scalix.com) for use in a small site (12 users). The site is My church and I don't have Bucketloads of $$ to spend but I have two available boxes to build on. 1Ghz Celeron with 1.5Gb SDRAM (3 slots) 2.8Ghz P4 with 1Gb SDRAM (2 Slots)

Re: [SLUG] Hardware Question

IMO, for what you are talking about, both machines are over-spec'd. Email is not time critical and 12 users and Samba will hardly cause any box to crack a sweat - we're not talking Windows here. If I had this situation I would use the 1GHz box, pull out 1Gb of RAM and sell it to recoup some of

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

Michael Lake wrote: Got it!! www.linuxprinting.org is the answer and for scanners see http://www.sane-project.org/ It will list scanners and how much they are supored and links to the drivers. Mike Knew there was one around for scanners but couldn't remember it either and forgot to go

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

Phil Scarratt wrote: John Gibbons wrote: Hi SLUGs, I am brand new to Linux and know practically nothing about it but somehow managed to install Mandrake 9.1 alongside XP. Need advice on suitable medium price colour inkjet printer and suitable scanner plus drivers. Also need a driver for

[SLUG] Hardware

Hi SLUGs, I am brand new to Linux and know practically nothing aboutitbut somehow managed to install Mandrake 9.1 alongside XP. Need advice on suitable medium price colour inkjet printer and suitable scanner plus drivers. Also need a driver for either Wacom tablet or Acecat Flair tablet.

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

John Gibbons wrote: Hi SLUGs, I am brand new to Linux and know practically nothing about it but somehow managed to install Mandrake 9.1 alongside XP. Need advice on suitable medium price colour inkjet printer and suitable scanner plus drivers. Also need a driver for either Wacom tablet or

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

John Gibbons wrote: Hi SLUGs, I am brand new to Linux and know practically nothing about it but somehow managed to install Mandrake 9.1 alongside XP. Need advice on suitable medium price colour inkjet printer and suitable scanner plus drivers. Also need a driver for either Wacom tablet or

Re: [SLUG] hardware time, local time in NSW, overridingdaylightsaving start/end ?

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:03:26 Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am I correct that I should set Linux hardware time to UTC, and, system to local time ? Yes, if you're not dual-booting with a windows OS. Though it doesn't really matter, as long as you remember which it is. at 23:57 local

[SLUG] hardware time, local time in NSW, overriding daylightsavingstart/end ?

am I correct that I should set Linux hardware time to UTC, and, system to local time ? at 23:57 local time I got this, am I correctly set for NSW ?: does take care for daylight saving changes automagically ? and, If wanted to overide daylight saving 'when to start' (like we did for Olympics),

Re: [SLUG] hardware recommendation

3COM or Nokia PCMCIA should work ... I've been out of the loop for a while.. I might give the Toshiba/Motorola a miss as they usen't to work when I was writing BT stacks.. Dave. On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, James Gregory wrote: Can anyone recommend me a Bluetooth interface thing that works with

Re: [SLUG] hardware recommendation

3COM or Nokia PCMCIA should work ... I've been out of the loop for a while.. I might give the Toshiba/Motorola a miss as they usen't to work when I was writing BT stacks.. actually 3COM mightnt' be the best either... any USB should in theory work, as the USB / Bluetooth interface is

[SLUG] hardware clock is standard time and linux expects utc

When I set up my dual boot laptop I said the clock was UTC and it is not (or vice versa). Unfortunately someone booted it on the lan and the hardware clock has been reset. How do I swap the settings from UTC hardware clock to standard clock? KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] hardware clock is standard time and linux expects utc

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:32:43AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: When I set up my dual boot laptop I said the clock was UTC and it is not (or vice versa). Unfortunately someone booted it on the lan and the hardware clock has been reset. How do I swap the settings from UTC hardware clock to

[SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

Slug people, I'd like to get a discussion going about licensing things through hardware or having licenses on drivers I think sometimes it is great like the commercial license for the GSM codec MS net meeting uses in the DSP chip in my quicknet card. But what really shits me is when a

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

Luke McKee wrote: These 3rd party device vendors should just rack off. It should be free or not at all. It isn't right to have Linux hardware taxes to replace the Microsoft OEM tax when it eventually goes. Why do some vendors still need to guard the API to their hardware? Let me know what

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

What's more, by buying only supported hardware, you encourage the good guys who DO release free drivers. It is for this reason that I will never buy an Nvidia card, no matter how many zillion polygons it does. Well, never unless they release free drivers. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

Luke McKee wrote: From what you've written at [1] and [2] below, it doesn't sound like you had done any research at all before purchased your hardware. LMC: True. But sooner or later Linux should stop being a DAYOR (Do at your own risk) operating system. Many people - especially the

RE: [SLUG] Hardware Theft

://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16 2002 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware Theft Take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23664.html - OK

[SLUG] Hardware Theft

Take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23664.html - OK, it's the UK, but makes you wonder how many of OUR Government computers have suffered the same fate ? I know of one machine that was taken, the theif reaching in through an OPEN WINDOW, from Mascot Police Station, that

Re: [SLUG] Hardware Theft

Take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23664.html - OK, it's the UK, but makes you wonder how many of OUR Government computers have suffered the same fate ? I know of one machine that was taken, the theif reaching in through an OPEN WINDOW, from Mascot Police Station,

Re: [SLUG] Hardware Theft

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23664.html - OK, it's the UK, but makes you wonder how many of OUR Government computers have suffered the same fate ? According to recent reports, almost 1500 stolen in the last year. That's

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

At 5:55 pm, Sunday, November 4 2001, DaZZa mumbled: Those travelling computer fares can give some shit hot prices too - last one I attended seemed to average about 15% lower than retail. They tend to have more recent stock - but I don't know if they come to Sydney anymore. The last one I

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

Steve Kowalik wrote: I can't remember the URL for the life of me, but there's a one that goes to the Roundhouse at UNSW, Parramatta Town Hall, somewhere in Penrith and a few other places. Tryhttp://www.computerfairs.com.au Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

Greetings all, Anter much persuasion, and agreeing to put...ughhh... EvilWare back on her notebook (swapped drives !!), SWMBO has agreed that Xena, the P233 workstation, needs to be retired. Therefore, I'm looking for a new system. It will probably be a ready-built, but not necessarily

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

If you have got the Nov LJ then there is a good article on building the Ultimate Linux Box. BTW, why the 3 copies of the text? On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jon Biddell wrote: At the moment, I'm probably leaning towards a P4 1.8GHz, but would welcome thoughts on what might be better (for instance, I

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

At 08:52 4/11/01 +1100, you wrote: If you have got the Nov LJ then there is a good article on building the Ultimate Linux Box. Reading it now,..:-) BTW, why the 3 copies of the text? Yeah, sorry about that - playing around with macros in MUTT and is fscked something up - I only realised it

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Recommendations

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jon Biddell wrote: [...triple copy of text about building a new box deleted...] :-) {Proecssor Choice} Go for the Athlon. Actually, if you look on Toms Hardware page, there *might* even be a dual Athlon board available now - SMP at 1.4 Ghz on Athlon - now *that*'s speed.

[SLUG] Hardware

Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? I've found one for $750 spec'd pretty well as a desktop replacement. Jon --- WTC

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

* This one time, at band camp, Jon Biddell said: Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? I've found one for $750 spec'd pretty well as a desktop replacement. I'm running Linux

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

This one time, at band camp, Jon Biddell wrote: Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? Nup. Choose Athlon/Duron/K7 for processor type when (if) you build your own kernel. -- [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

This one time, at band camp, Matthew Moor wrote: I've had reasonably good luck with Abit boards, but dealer friends tell me that their QA has gone to crap. This is true. My first Abit board was the KA7-100, for an 800MHz Ath. Something happened that ended up frying the IDE controllers. I went

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most cantankerous piece of hardware that you've ever had Linux running on ? MacIIvx, 20M ram, 16mhz. Took 18 hours to install slink (cut down to 105M). Still got it as a curiosity. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

I've got a Multia (c 1994?) and a DEC Alpha Raster Image Processor (Cabriolet) from 1995. A mate has a Sun IPC/IPX thing that we are entertaining the thought of Linux on ... what vintage are they? Cheers, Rob At 23:22 9/06/2001, you wrote: Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Rachel Polanskis wrote: A Commodore (that's right!) 386-SX16 with 8MB. It took 10 minutes to boot and I used it as a dialup box for 3 months until I got my first 486 ;) My first system was Linux 0.99 running on a 386SX16 with 4Mb RAM. Didn't have X then, only the CLI but it ran fine. I

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Rob B was once rumoured to have said: I've got a Multia (c 1994?) and a DEC Alpha Raster Image Processor (Cabriolet) from 1995. A mate has a Sun IPC/IPX thing that we are entertaining the thought of Linux on ... what vintage are they? IPC/IPX is '92-'93 vintage I think. I know my SLC/ELCs

[SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Must be the prospect of all that gardening and cleaning up if the computer museum (i.e. the garage) SWMBO has mandated during the next 23 days of annual leave (bugger !!), but I'm bored,.. So I thought I'd start a Linux Hardware discussion topic; Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

like that! :) - Original Message - From: Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jon Biddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:22:53PM +1000, Jon Biddell uttered: Q. What

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:22:53PM +1000, Jon Biddell uttered: Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most cantankerous piece of hardware that you've ever had Linux running on ? An extremly flaky 386DX/33. Ohhh, that was fun. Not. I'm sure everyone

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Jon Biddell was once rumoured to have said: Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most cantankerous piece of hardware that you've ever had Linux running on ? Oldest would have to be SparcStation SLC w/ 16MBs of RAM... but progsoc can beat me on that one with their SparcServer 4/330. [We also

Re: [SLUG] Hardware - Antiques

Raul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if it counts, but I have an LRP setup for a 386SX/20. Naturally no hard disk and only 4M of RAM which has 2 nic's in it to be a mini router for my cable connection (it did work once before). Can't get much slower than that unless someone wants to

[SLUG] Hardware for sale

Although this is a Sydney based group I know that a lot of people are from Melbourne reading this so here it goes: After cleaning up my shelves I found some stuff for sale. I wouldnt know what how much some of the items may be (if at all). Hardrives: ~~ If new 10GB drives cost $240,

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

snipt To second the motion, I have had some intermittent problems with the intel 82559. On a Slackware 7.1 box, it seemed to work fine for a week or more but would occasionally dump the interface with errors similar to RX buffer not available TX buffer not available Rebooting (eek!) was

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

As usual, the slug mailing list is an amazing source of information. Thanks everyone for your response. The comments from Ken effectively summarise why I am intending to use the onboard nic (no fan etc). I have an existing firewall box which is performing quite nicely (P166, DFE-530, 3Com

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

|Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness |gives peope more desk space. ;) | |They also shouldnt be bad linux boxes. | |I have no gripes with inbuilt stuff when you |get such a size difference. Certainly home |machines benefit from upgradability though. | |I wouldnt buy such a thing. But

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Mboards have just about everything on board now. Our latest roll out is an i810 and soundMAX (?) onboard with a 530tx card. These machines are about the size of 2 laptops. (not inc 17" obviously) have 1 x lil fdd and 2 x big fdd Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness gives peope more

RE: RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Yes, but your cable modem is only 10Mbits/Sec, well atleast my CM100 is. Original Message: - From: Marty Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:51:56 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation Also, 486's sometimes have trouble keeping

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

|Onboard? Run away, run away! | |I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they |always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less of a |problem than a sound card or whatever, but it's always good to be able to |pull out a problem. :) Nah, they're fine.

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Netgear 310 10/100 cards are well supported with the tulip driver. However up until 2.2.18 (and possibly still) you need to reload the kernel module if the cable is pulled out or something. So be sure to have a really solid connection as short inteferences you normally wouldnt notice will cause

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

|1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same |machine? |2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth |investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg |of ram g). For the use you envisage RTL8139 is fine, just make sure to get the

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Here's me fire wall config: Intel 486 DX 2 66, (over powered btw) 32 MB (once again overkill) 2 Intel Ether Express isa Cards 1 Floppy Router, there are many option in this area eg: LRP, FloppFW, FreeSco etc etc. I had a firewall like this for years, it worked well (2.0.33 I think).

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

quote who="Nicholas Lawrence" 1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139. 2. An Aopen board with an onboard Intel 82559. Onboard? Run away, run away! I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

On Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:39 AM, Dave Fitch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote: Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down to: 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same

RE: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:15:25 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation Hi all, /de-lurk I'm putting together a new Linux firewall box for bigpond cable and am having fun trying to decide between two motherboards. Doing the relevant googling

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:15:25PM -0800, Nicholas Lawrence wrote: Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down to: 1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same machine? 2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth investing in

[SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Hi all, /de-lurk I'm putting together a new Linux firewall box for bigpond cable and am having fun trying to decide between two motherboards. Doing the relevant googling and archive searches, I have ended up with two choices: 1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139. 2. An Aopen board

Re: [SLUG] Hardware flow control on serial ports

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:42:55PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to disable hardware flow control on the port using minicom to get it going. However, I'm wondering how I would do this without minicom. As far as apt-get clean glasses :) man stty search for crtscts and ixon and

[SLUG] Hardware flow control on serial ports

I'm trying to run a serial port connection between two computers with a three wire crossover cable, just having ground, transmit receive. I need to disable hardware flow control on the port using minicom to get it going. However, I'm wondering how I would do this without minicom. As far as I

[SLUG] Hardware Vendors supporting Linux

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