Posts by chiphart

Quote: Originally posted by Icefluxx xine...i think it sucks....it does not play out of the box and you have to dl some other stuff for it to work.... If having to download a really nice, free software program is...

Quote: Originally posted by gsferrari I love the look of the thing...is it called GNOME ?? or GRUB ?? theres also a desktop called KDE - how do I activate it?? You have a somewhat limitless choice in desktop...

Actually, here at work, we have a lot FEWER problems getting our wireless cards to work under Linux than under, say, XP. On my 5660, for example, the Orinoco card continues to crash my windows side...yet works beautifully on the Linux...

First, what drivers are actually installed now? Second, post a copy of your XF86Config file, at least the relevant parts. Whenever I change resolutions, I just hand-edit the file and restart X by hand [init 3; init 5] and it works...

bsmith: I should have noticed your sig - I would have been even ruder (kidding). I have to use XP at home (spouse) and it kills me. I can't even get friggin' networking to work properly - my 2 98 machines and Linux read and write...

There's no way I'm moving into XP or anything like it - I use Windows only when I must (it's an abomination...but that's my only troll/response on that side). I've tried what you've suggested, no luck. One problem: I can't even GET...

I have an Orinoco / Lucent Gold Wireless card. I used it in my Dell before I got my Sager without any problems. When my Sager arrived, I tossed my card in to get a wireless connection and...it reboots my computer. That's right, if...

LC: I've got ACPI working fine with my 5660 by simply grabbing the beta 20.21 kernel from RH (my dist). Works fine for me...let me know if I can poke at anything to help you.

Before I started to play around too much, I decided to go back and RETRY booting into my original kernel (20-19) to see if the programs I use still hang. I don't know what I did wrong last time - picked the wrong one from grub? - but...

That last idea is a good one. I'll poke around this weekend. Thanks for the help.