Posts by yazdzik

Dear Friends, For purposes of comparison, I run what is now an antique, a 5680, on debian. Everything works, period. The only reason I do not dump windows entirely is because of streets and trips. Now, I am not a gamer,...

Dear Friends, Any of the gentoo experts want to take a poke at this? 5680 PHP Code: bash-2.05b# uname -a Linux genlap1 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #2 SMP Wed Jan 26 23:54:27 UTC 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz...

Thank you very much.

Dear Friends, In the midst of a gentoo build - sage 5680 I need to stick the firmware for the prism54 driver somewhere. Does anyone know where to make the directory to stick the isl file in? I know the debian tree well, but the...

Dear Friends, Whatever distro you use, there are kernel modules that will not not allow fglrx frivers to compile, load, &c. Make sure you have the firmare loaded for wifi, else it will not work. Now, you can go to...

Dear Friends, 5680 here, 9600 card,and getting 3d acceleration with the new sarge installer, kernel 2.6.7 is a really bitch. Using the debian testing version of xfree, and drm enabled in kernel, the installer tells me I have not the...

Dear Rob, I used libranet(debian) on my 5680, and the only things one needed to do were upgrade the kernel to recognise the 8169, install the ati drivers, and the linuxant loader for the prism wireless g card. I'll try the sarge...

Dear Friends, I noticed that I could not create free space on my hd, so I did a complete chkdsk /f/r. I still have 4 kb on a bad sector, which prevents me from using any partitioning tools. The prevailing opinion seems to be...

Dear Friends, How do I force LBA in bios in 5680? Best, Martin

and the prism dirvers for those who ordered the bloody integrated wireless cards! thanks mm, as always, you have done a big service! best, M