Posts by dirtboy

I tried debian and it worked fine. The only problem I had with it is that I prefer grub to lilo, and the version on the debian sources hosed my windows partition everytime. And I do mean EVERY time. Tried it about 6 times. But, if...

I'm installing Gentoo at the moment, but I wanted to check what I have against what your distros installed. Can one of you go to a terminal, su to root, and give me the output of lsmod? That lists the modules that are loaded for the...

Windows 2000, but I think XP may be the same. Device Manager, go to View and choose Show Hidden Devices. Look for the NT Apm/Legacy Interface Node. Double click it and under Device Usage choose Do Not Use This Device (disable). See...

Try this, go into Control Panel->Power and disable APM. I am having the same trouble, but it only happens when I enable APM. I turn it on and the touchpad goes nuts, but the USB mouse works fine. Use the USB mouse to turn off APM...