Posts by lamarque

It depends on the distribution, most of them have a file /etc/<name>-release that has the distribution name and version inside. Others, like Slackware and Gentoo, do not use this file. Did you dowload the iso image (.iso file)...

stronzo, what distribution is your live CD based on? 10.0 seems to a Mandrake or Slackware version. Probably the live Cd is using a wrong modeline for the graphic card.

Mine is a Li Shin one and has the problem.

No dead pixels here too (I bought mine late October), actually I haven't had any problem with it so far. Even the bluetooth mouse works ok on my Linux, but in Windows it's laggish. I almost don't use Windows so this is not a problem to...

I owned a HP nx9010 before my Ferrari 4005 and believe me, that nx9010 was a really noisy notebook, and worse the noise was sharp so very irrateting in a totally silent room (I bought some earing protectors to save my sanity hehe). The...

Mine doesn't have this problem too. I have it for one month and everything works ok. My only concern was a strange noise in ac/dc adapter, although the adapter has always worked ok. The noise used to last 2 or 3 minutes after I turn on...

There is a little problem: the remote control must be no more than one meter apart from the IR port, this is a technical limitation of the IR port of this notebook. My old HP nx9010 also had this limitation, not all notebooks have it...

Hi all, After five days with my Ferrari 4005 I noticed a strange noise inside the ac/dc adapter. The noise is hearable with the adapter hooked to the power line and even with the notebook turned off (you need to get your ear close to...

Hi, I got tvout working. I'm using this driver: fglrx64_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.x86_64.rpm and I need to start a second X server with these options on device section: Option "DesktopSetup" "Single,Reverse" #...

Try out atitvout. It's a old program that might work with ATI X700, it works with my ATI IGP 340. My Ferrari 4005 is arriving in a week or so, then I'll be able to test it with atitvout.