Posts by adewolf

Well I got installed OK but am having sound problems. Alsaconf works but the mixer is complaining about missing gstreamer plugins. Any ideas? Alex

Well I got installed OK but am having sound problems. Alsaconf works but the mixer is complaining about missing gstreamer plugins. Any ideas? Alex

abf: Thanks. I am currently having Direct Rendering probs with Ubuntu so I will save my data and do another Arch install. Thanks for the info. The crashing probably was due to the rc.conf daemon list in the wrong order. Alex

I so wanted to like this as Arch is really fast.. Alas Gnome and X kept crashing and latching up (completely unresponsive ctrl-alt-f1 did not work) I have a Dell E1705/9400. Now I am running Ubuntu Dapper with no probs. Another question,...

I have been a UNIX admin since 1985 so Linux is very easy for me to install and maintain. Alex

I got a e1705/9400 last month and this is really a pain in the butt. Why did they put this on the machine when there are no cards for it. Alex

adoroar: Please post the modeline of the xorg.conf or the entire xorg.conf, please. I am trying to get Gentoo installed. Alex

I had so much trouble with My Sager 9860 RAID controller that I got an Asus Z71A and am very happy with my Mandrake 10.2 (mandravia) on it. Even detected the wireless card correctly. I am planning on selling the Sager. And the Asus...

Thanks bsmith, I will check this out. I am running the latest Ubuntu. Alex

Anyone able to get PCMCIA cards to work? Alex