Posts by Jason Kitchens

I'm sure this is a stupid question but did you verify the checksum? I tried the live cd on three machines and it worked without problem from what i remembered. a dell c640 p4 2.0ghz a emachines m6810 and an ecs p4 laptop also.

Every time I see you go through this makes me swear to never try this at home If it ever goes easy for you I just might try it.... until then guess i'll stick to the distros that are a whole lot easier. I wish you the best of luck man.

Nobody has an idea about this one? Maybe just a bad connection?

first one is a screen shot of the control panel saved off the laptop. second one is a picture of the same screen taken with a camera. third one screensaver screenshot, off of the laptop. last same screensaver taken with...

Finally had a chance to hook the laptop to an external crt, no problems on the external but still distorted colors on the lcd. Would a driver be at fault if the bios screen is also screwed up? Would a pic of the screen help out. I'll...

Have you opened the case up to see if there is an easy fix for the broken plug? It might be pretty easy, maybe a broken trace or even if the jack is broken you might be able to replace that. I hate to have a pcmcia card sticking out of...

Yeah sometimes i think it might be cheaper. depending on how much I can get a new one for. The problem is destorted colors when windows loads and a green screen instead of black during bios. sometimes its the full screen and sometimes...

thanks abf! i'll look into the link. Really just doing this to learn something else with linux... one of these days, after the move coming up I'll jump into gentoo and see how I fare with that.

I need a motherboard for my 6810. video ram seems to be corrupted. Anyone on this board have one? Second ?, Is this a common problem that I will have to deal with? Is there a fix? Thanks in advance. Jason

I have found the tarball and pkgadd file on the mozilla site, pkgadd is for compiling from source?