Posts by hbien

has anyone tried installing the codec needed and mplayer using apt-get? I get a lot of errors and can't install it.. I'll copy and paste the errors later when I get a chance. I've added all the extra repositories, just wondering if...

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Quote: Originally Posted by DivideByZero IllegalEagle: Nice desktop! What theme manager do you use? im not sure about theme manager but the theme is blueheart, you can look for it online just gunzip and untar...

lol thanks, just flashy stuff that sucks up cpu usage. It gets pretty slow unless you have a lot of RAM. Open up your terminal and run these command % apt-get install xcompmgr note: apt-get is the package manager for ubuntu. it's...

i'm using ubuntu right now on a 700m, i really love it too because it got all my hardware running out of the box (wireless/speedstepping) except for the wxga resolution (which was a pretty easy fix with all the support). What this means...

just wanted to show transparency =/ hope that's a part of desktop. heard it's gonna be included in vista/longhorn.

hey guys, my new i700m =] and my old latitude c610, which i still use because it's a great laptop. In case you're thinking about buying a lat d600 or i600m, the c610 is the same dimension, just different chassis/hardware. enjoy! ...

For all those interested, very playable, looks like they fixed that inventory bug. 800x600 resolution everything on low/off..pretty smooth. 1280x800 everything on low/off...still smooth except for when in town it gets a little...

so jealous right now.. want.. 2005fpw.. erm very nice setup !

Ubuntu Breezy configured speedstepping for me out of the box for 700m, but if it didn't get your laptop here's a link to that guide http://www.celifornia.com/documents/dell700m.html#ACPI And as for undervolting I haven't tried it...