Posts by vvalerio

I just sent my out of warranty 8890 in for RMA repair. Liquid spilled into it. They'll charge $45 to diagnose. I'm hoping its under $250... Anyway, I'll post my experience here.

Yeah, both of my Toshibas died too. Guess what - they have 3 year manufacturers warranties. http://www.pcs-sj.com/rma.htm Sager's still a great machine. In retrospect, I should have sprung for the hitachi hard drives.

Yeah, I'm seeing USB troubles too. I've got an external drive and sometimes it i'll hear the disconnect/reconnect sound in quick succession a few times an hour. Just before i sent this message it happened like 5 times in a row. I'm...

Well I just had a similar screen issue today - although not quite as severe. The two screws that connect the screen assembly to the pivot point broke. Thats right, BROKEN SCREWS. So now I have to find replacements - anyone know...

That sounds fine - but out of curiosity, what distribution are you using?

/ and /boot are mountpoints. partitions are /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 etc (the 1 being the number of the partition...) /proc is a virtual interface with the kernel. It doesnt take up space on the harddrive or anything. The only...

Ok, actually it was even simpler. I didnt put 'udev' at the end of the append statement in lilo...

Ah-ha! Thanks - I think I realised what the problem is now. I used genkernel, but I wanted to customise the kernel a bit, so I ran "genkernel --menuconfig all" instead of "genkernel --udev all" I bet thats it...

So I started installing 2005.0 on my 8890 last night - Just using a chunk off the end of my windows harddrive - my second harddrive failed, so I'm not using raid at the moment. Anyway, I thought things were going to work great - I...

Thanks for all the input. It looks like it might have been the 'knickers in a twist' scenario that you mentioned, aussie... I swapped the HD positions when I got home and set it up as a ultra 100... the second harddrive (the one I...