Posts by jamesshuang

kubuntu (and ubuntu derivatives) does not "have" a root account, per se. It forces you to do everything via sudo. Technically, that is safer, but I kinda find it a hassle when you have systems maintenance to do, and also out...

just curious, did anyone try this new driver with composite extension? I can never seem to find this info on their site, and gentoo forums is too much of a hassle to dig through.

I guess my 700m is the most senior here Used since October last year. No real complaints, still love it, but two things to keep in mind- 1) Battery dies VERY quickly... My 5 hour battery is now only a 3 hour battery... Not bad, but...

According to everyone on gentoo forums, and the kernel dev stuff, I was supposed to use the 915 driver if it was the 855 or the 865 card. So, my lsmod uses this: i915 77892 3 Assuming you're using a recent 2.6...

For a no hassle install, definitely try Ubuntu. They detected the most amount of hardware I've seen in any linux distro. Quite pleasantly surprised how many drivers they had. However, if you get to know linux a lot more, you'll probably...

Touchpad drivers are synaptics touchpad, find them here: http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ Wireless, soundcard, etc, you'll need to provide us with lspci and dmesg logs so we know what they are. As I suggested in the other...

I would avoid any ati card if you intend to run linux on it Although ATI's driver has improved, it is still LIGHTYEARS behind the nvidia drivers. You will be unable to get the nifty compositing effects using ATI's drivers, and if you...

Hmm... just curious, but why did you choose stock debian? There are so many jokes out there about how old it is I'd say, grab a ubuntu CD, and give that a try, because that is essentially a very new debian. Or if you don't like ubuntu,...

CF card slots are almost guarenteed to work. You may need to compile in the pcmcia-ide driver if the cf slot itself works off the pcmcia system, but once you insert a CF card, your dmesg should show a new device, hde, sda, whatever. SD...

I'm running a gentoo system. Using the kernel DRM drivers, I can get 3D acceleration. glxinfo shows "Mesa DRI Intel(R) 852GM/855GM 20040919 x86/MMX/SSE2" as my card. Using the actual intel drivers themselve is rather...