Posts by aaronjb

Quote: Originally Posted by blizard8 sli is only compatible with a single moniter? Yep, when SLi is enabled you can only use a single head, disable SLi and you can use multi-head as normal. No idea if...

Just a month or so for this one.. But about 4 years for the previous Sony Vaio - it simply did everything I needed.. Heck, it still does aside from gaming - I only upgraded so I could get back into gaming

Ahh BSD vs. Linux - it's almost as old as the Apple vs. Windows war, or the Amiga vs. Atari war (that one was fun back in the day ) We use both extensively at work - our earlier generation products were based on BSD, while our later...

I've never had to restart either; and I've run 84.15, 84.4x, 84.74 and 91.xx series drivers. The only thing I have found is that during the switching process it basically resizes your screen to 640x480 - so it's best not to have...

Trolling: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trolling I rather like this definition: Act of appearing on internet forums and boards with malicious intent. Trolling includes... -batting people to flame at you -putting the...

That would be something going 'kaboom' and dumping a stack trace to the screen - given the box dies afterward, probably the kernel (the linux kernel doesn't dump core, so it just punts a stack out to the default console and dies) So...

It took a loooooooong time.. actually so long that I gave up on it once it was installed (I needed to turn the thing into a mail relay) and switched to Slackware instead.. A much better idea all round, really. But hey, I had to try..

Quote: Originally Posted by abf lets just say at one point i ran a fully bloaded KDE setup of Mandrake 10 on a pentium mmx with 64mb ram. Pah, I did a Stage1 install of Gentoo on a Penty with 64Mb.. Ha! I...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade 30 MB for bare minimum running system is probably on the high side ABF It's about right for a system that's half useful, though The devices we make at work have a...

Incidentally - and I realise this is in the Dell forum - I tried various versions of the XG drivers on my Arima W830-DA (same machine as the AW m9700) - the 84.xx series drivers worked well, giving the best scores in benchmarks.. Sadly...