Posts by mmarkin

Quote: Originally Posted by lenk /dev/hda1 20GB NTFS winxp /dev/hda2 512MB ext2 linux boot partition /dev/hda3 1GB linux swap partition /dev/hda4 18GB reiserfs4 root partition /dev/hda5 540MB powercinema...

Alsamixer? Thats just a volume control. Not sure what you meant, Bill. Mikhail

LOL, yeah, I never use that thing so I never bothered to compile support for it BTW, with my card, I had to jump through some hoops to get sound mixing working transparently through ALSA (ie before I did anything, only one...

You got lucky you said 'my network' in the post. If it was a school network, etc., like some people hinted, this thread would have been gone in no time. If its your own network, just block the person's MAC on your router (it's really...

Yeah, its not just gkrellm either. You may remember my frantic posts about this behaviour; I turned my system up-side-down, stripped it all the way down. The problem went away but then, just a few weeks ago, it froze up when I ran a...

I can't see anything troublesome in the hardware specs. Could you state the chipset info?

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade ...especially with some manufacturers putting out laptops with questionable ACPI functions in their BIOS. Indeed. For example, I can't run temperature or battery monitors...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf i am trying something straight out hard core right now. i am just using X. none of that fancy eye candy stuff Now thats just masochistic.

Oh and guys, please don't start another distro war . Linux is about choice - every person is unique and has a distro that suits them better.

Quote: Originally Posted by frostedegg install fluxbox. It is lightweight and configurable. Amen. The reason I do not like KDE and GNOME is because they have too much useless stuff bundled together. I like a...