Posts by aliensub

The things that are most important is as Tommi states that it´s a prety silent machine. And then you should a fast harddrive. "normal" laptops come with a 4200 rpm harddisk, you should look for a minimum of 5400 rpm or if it´s...

ahhh, and should start to actually read what peoble write in the first place You can do a textinstall, although grapical would be much nicer. A guy has tried the "dma=nodma" and "allowcddma" but i´m not really...

Just found a short guide: Power on machine when you get to the grub screen where it is counting down and asking you to select the kernel you hit the 'a' key this will drop you to a screen where you can modify kernel arguments add...

Try the "no frame buffer" option. Can´t remember the command. It´s something like nofb. You can check it out by pressing one of the F keys which contain help docs for boot commands. Usually they are on F1 - F6.

woops it´s not Ctrl + BackSpace it´s Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace

I have never installed the rati drivers on a RedHat system but it is something like this: download the driver from ati´s website: http://www.ati.com/support/products/...8&submit=GO%21 When you have done that open up a console...

hmmm maybe it´s using grub as a bootloader. Does it say anything about lilo or grub in the boot menu? Look for something that mentions command line options. It´s in there you should write the: linux init=/bin/sh (works in lilo, don´t...

the ati drivers can be bit messy to deal with. Do you use the rpm packages for them? There is a nice tutorial here: http://mrhammy2.ath.cx:81/m6n.html Although it´s for Asus M6n it shouldn´t matter when it comes to the ati stuff. You...

You can do the following. Boot linux by pressing shift when the bootmenu comes then write: linux init=/bin/sh When it´s booted do: mount -n -o remount,rw / (re-mount / read-write) passwd (change...

I usa a cloth that came with a screen protector for my palm. IT´s functions really well both the screen, touchpad and for the "rubber" edge you refer to.