Posts by Ratha@PCTorque

Quote: Originally posted by dstanek The only problem I have seen with the gentoo-sources kernel is that my 8139too card does not work. (Most likely I messed up the kernel build) That is a story for a different...

Sorry, it was nothing personal. Private emails should stay private. For anyone that is concerned about a sale where they are not certain the selling party will deliver the merchandise, you might consider using an escrow service. As...

I deleted the post by JeffInFlorida because posting private email on a public forum is not acceptable, especially when it is accompanied by abusive language. If there is a disagreement on price, that is your business we would rather...

oh yeah and if anyone wants any of my copious notes (and screenshots) on installing debian on this machine please let me know. otw i'm letting drop it to my backburner to be filed in the archives.

Quote: Originally posted by hrana good work, i've been a redhat goon every since I stopped rolling my own distros (before kernel 1.something--yes a long time ago). I would like some commentary from you about the distros...

Well, I spent most of the day today trying to get video fully supported. I now believe the full 1440x900 resolution was never supported in Slackware under X either - it just looked nice enough at 1024x768 that I couldn't tell. I am...

Quote: Originally posted by nebulaskytrick Would it be possible to spray paint the laptop with a stencil without any warranty problems? As long as you don't take anything apart, your warranty should hold. The main...

For my fourth go-round (after gentoo, slackware, redhat) I tried Debian. It was a 3.0 (woody) ISO that I had around from like two years ago, and I was surprised to find that a newer major version wasn't available so I went ahead and...

Quote: Originally posted by xiphux (sorry if this is obvious info that everyone knew) Not all all - as always thanks for the info! There was very little that I found when I searched the web about...

I have had some major headaches with compiling kernels for my 4760, because almost every one I have tried, I have ended up getting the error message "hda: lost interrupt" on boot. (and sometimes "hdc: lost interrupt"...