Posts by Freejack

I am wondering this because Nvidia has better Linux support and appears the ATI mobility Win drivers are having a few issues with new games and video playback. I am willing to pay if it's possible.

Got tired of XP loaded Linux all drivers worked great except ATI video driver. So now dual booting. Reloaded XP, I have the new bios and tried the new video driver from Sager and it does the same as the Omega. I also get this USB ding...

To run Vmware under Linux and be smooth have at least 1GB of it. I run it so I can takes apps designed for 2000 and XP and run them in that environment before porting them over to Linux. So far so good. I even have an XP install on a...

Yep use Evolution for your email outlook users will find it's a close one. Also on anti-virus you can run clamd or avast which can both be run as crons to update and setup to filter email and files on the fly with no user intervention....

Gentoo is really not that hard. Debian will work too, it's where Gentoo hails from. So far Gentoo has given me little issue.

I'm not using the raid portion at this time, couldn't justify it. It works with raid but you need to make a change to the promise controller module. Once you make that change you should have no issues...

Ok here ya go: Gentoo 2.6.7-r11 Kernel Madwifi to run the wireless with Linux-Wlan ( your wifi is atheros) I use Xorg you can use Xfree Everything else should be to your liking or preference.

Ok here ya go the secret to getting it running is there is a patch for the Promise driver for the kernel. It fixes the DMA issue. I run Gentoo with 2.6.7-r11 on my 8790 fulltime no windows. If you go to the Gentoo forums here :...

This happens from time to time with my 8790 too. I run Linux on it. So it appears to be a firmware issue. Possible ACPI. I have tried everything and sometimes it does it sometimes it don't.

Gentoo went on mine with no problems, have everything installed except the camera, no driver for it yet.,