Posts by Master Chef

I have an inspiron 9300 voided warranty. It's about that age where the battery's lifespan is down to 60WH out of 80WH, or say... 16 months. ;| The screen will die sometimes on return from standby. I've tried to adjust the brightness,...

Might not apply to you, but when I run linux, alsamixer (from terminal) shows the subwoofer as Master Mono (as opposed to Master Stereo control). Now if only you could bind the two together.

I ran into this problem a while ago. The screw I had was pretty stripped, I mistook it for a screw hole. I went to Sears, bought a new screw phillips driver of the right size (don't remember it). I lined up the cross with the way it...

Quote: Originally Posted by falerus to the two ^ there. i'll have an ini for you in a few minutes to test. i've been busy so just give me a sec edit: apparently i'm too tired and stupid to figure this out right...

Wow blksqrl, it's like you're me except an hour ahead. I'm certain a lot of folks would appreciate not having to deal with that crap-constructed headphone jack. I just ripped mine out a while ago to see if that would help, nope....

Quote: Originally Posted by Ice-Tea \\* Having a 1,5Gb/s eSATA link is cool but also rather pointless given the theorectical maximum PCI throughput of about 1Gb/s. And that's theoretical, not practical and only...

Although, undervolting and using speedstep will save you about 14 celsius degrees (does for me). Lower temperatures, less fan noise, and silence is beautiful. That and some people get noise from the processor itself when it's at a higher...

Quote: Originally Posted by jabulani_jonny Questions: 1. There's Ubuntu with Gnome and Kubuntu with KDE. It seems that the only differences are the GUI. Is that right? Can anyone provide relevant insight into why...

Well, while on the hunt for artifacts or just general signs that something is wrong, I used dxdiag's display Test3d test. Yeah, I get something like a star that gives seisures. I assume that the cube is spinning very fast, which isn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by alterstill Everything works? I wouldn't say so. What about card reader? Card reader works with a recent patch to the kernel. Credit and criticism goes to the link, not to me:...