Posts by sinoth

Another noob question.. I'm not familiar enough with laptop screens to know if this is possible or not. I'm extremely jealous of the new WSXGA+ screens on newer laptops. Is there -any- way to get one of these screens in an 8890? I...

Here comes a very noob question.. I apologize if this has been discussed a ton before. Seems I remember reading that the m10 in the 8890 was the first or one of the first laptop video cards that was easily replaceable. Maybe I read...

I've had this problem a while and am finally stumped enough about it to run to you guys for help. Ok, I'll try to be as detailed as possible... At very random times, my sound card will simply stop working. The music I am listening...

My 2 cents is that this is an overheating videocard issue. Chances are, the white/black shapes/spots you are seeing are called artifacts. Artifacts appear when hardware is pushed to its limit.. for me, I see them more often when I...

I'm extremely happy. I was having strange problems in Tribes and Tribes 2. It was like I was lagging in game even though I was playing over a LAN.. the graphics were very choppy. But after installing the new drivers it runs...

Wow, many thanks on the speedy reply! I'll give the firewire enclosure a shot Another question for ya.. when you plug it in, how does your computer identify it? Does it require any special drivers, or is it pretty standard like a...

I did a little searching around and surprisingly couldn't find much information on this subject I have a 40 gig IDE hard drive thats simply collecting dust.. is there any way I can connect this to my laptop, via a serial or parallel...

Hi, I've been wanting to disable my hardware RAID, but I lost the sheet of paper that shipped with my 8890 explaining these jumpers! Could anyone tell me which jumper does what? I really have no clue. There are only two of...

what xiphus said using the alsa now, runs fine

I've become fairly adept at installing Gentoo on the 8890 lately.. I know the 8887 and 8890 are not identical by far, but perhaps you can post what problem you're having so we can try to help?