Posts by TrickM

Just figured I'd pop in to revisit this thread. I (for the second time) forgot to throw my power supply in the laptop bag with my 4780 before leaving for work, so I ran down to Circuit City and picked up one of the previously-mentioned...

Sagers have a lot of stuff packed into them -- do they make one with an integrated crack pipe? I think Colin's about worn his out.

Whatever computer you ever get, whenever you get it, something will come out soon after that will be better and faster. That's just the way it works.

Here's the short answer: You're not goign to be able to play CS from a car on road trips, unless you have a *very* long spool of cable in your trunk. I'd love to tell you it'd work, but it won't. The technology just isn't there...

Well, looks like I've gotten about as far as I'm going to get, so here are my final results, with any pertinent gotchas I can think of: Version: I used Gentoo 1.4, with a 2.6.1 kernel built from gentoo-dev-sources. Installation: I...

Yep -- but the original post mentioned this would be used to connect to a Linksys 802.11g router, which is why I'd recommend sticking with a g card.

For what it's worth, mine had a stuck pixel show up on day 2 (or maybe that's just when I noticed it). It's gone now, though. The only thing I did to get rid of it was to smash a banana on the lid. Now the case is a little sticky, but...

Quote: Originally Posted by swgeorge would the 802.11 g card be faster than the internal 802.11b or equal in terms of distance reception?? Speed and distance are, of course, two different things. However, in...

I've noticed mine can be a little touchy. Once I get a card most of the way in, sometimes it takes a little wiggle to get it to seat correctly.

You might also want to take a look at the thread I started on Gentoo on the 4780. If there's a way to get the ATI drivers working at 100% on the 4780, I haven't found it. Neither the kernel AGP modules or the one internal to the ATI...