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post #21 of 43
7/19/06 at 7:32pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Also in your working xorg(Make a backup first of course) change the line...

driver "nv"

to

driver "nvidia"

THX, it works (glxgears 15000 FPS)
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post #22 of 43
7/19/06 at 9:21pm
No prob, I wonder why it seemed to be having problems finding your Nvidia card, maybe its not a card supported at all by nv and thus it defaulted to generic settings?

At any rate the address looks right, and obviously works as your are now getting decent numbers on glxgears, so... If it aint broke dont fix it

Seablade
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post #23 of 43
7/19/06 at 10:00pm
I had the same problem as Tristus and got it fixed, but one thing still bothers me. When I resize windows, they move really slow. Also the cpu usage is very high when doing this. I am guessing that the cpu is drawing the window and not the gpu. I just want to make sure that this is normal. Also I am running XGL. Thanks
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post #24 of 43
7/19/06 at 10:47pm
I cant speak for XGL, but if you were not doing XGL and this was true I would strongly suspect your Video setup. Not having used XGL I am not sure whether that might be affecting a working setup this way or not.

Seablade
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post #25 of 43
7/26/06 at 12:08pm
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Originally Posted by MU man
I had the same problem as Tristus and got it fixed, but one thing still bothers me. When I resize windows, they move really slow. Also the cpu usage is very high when doing this. I am guessing that the cpu is drawing the window and not the gpu. I just want to make sure that this is normal. Also I am running XGL. Thanks

Were you able to fix this ?
I've been running Dapper Drake on my Dell 9300, and this "lagg" is really driving me crazy !! kinda getting desperate now.. !!
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post #26 of 43
8/15/06 at 10:04pm

Thanks Chudd !

Thank you Chudd !

First let me say, I am not a linux guy, I have tinkered with a few distro's over the years. This went really easy.

I have successfuly installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my M1710, it dual boots well and after further reading through this thread, I have WPA Wlan going as well. All in all, not a bad couple hours
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post #27 of 43
8/16/06 at 4:15am
Thread Starter 
Greetings Darkneuros and welcome to the clan :-)

I'm glad that you got your dual boot up and running.

Has anyone had any luck with CTL+ALT+F1 (or F2 etc) to open a console login? I try it and get a black screen only. Alt+F7 gets me back to the KDE desktop ok, but sometimes a second login terminal is VERY handy.

Any ideas anyone?
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post #28 of 43
8/16/06 at 5:08pm
Thread Starter 
Solved: I simply appended " vga=normal" to the kernel line of the boot config in /boot/grub/menu.lst

If you want a different resolution in your console login you can use a variety of different values for vga:
http://www.mepis.org/node/2992

This gives you more than the default 25 lines or so...
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post #29 of 43
8/18/06 at 9:40am
Thank you, vga=... worked also on my XPS1710.

The only thing which yet bothers me is a very loud sound (sadly not caused by the loudspeakers! ), which for instance appears, when typing backspace in the terminal, or restarting ubuntu-live booted from DVD. The terminal offers an option to turn this sound off, but other programms like openoffice don't. So I would like do disable this sound globally. Is that possible (without recompiling the kernel)?
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post #30 of 43
8/18/06 at 2:08pm
Are you referring to the system beep?

On the console is one thing as you have noticed, in a desktop environment though you would probably need to configure that via their sound manager unfortunatly as standards apparently dont apply to desktop environment sound servers

In other words, what is your window manager/desktop environment?

Seablade
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post #31 of 43
8/18/06 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Are you referring to the system beep? On the console is one thing as you have noticed, in a desktop environment though you would probably need to configure that via their sound manager unfortunatly as standards apparently dont apply to desktop environment sound servers In other words, what is your window manager/desktop environment? Seablade
Yes, I meant system beep, but didn't know this phrase. I'm currently using gnome/nautilus. edit: I have disabled system beep by running "rmmod pcspcr", but when rebooting, the drivers to enable systen beep are enabled again.
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post #32 of 43
8/18/06 at 5:43pm
you can blacklist the module to prevent it from reloading on startup.
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post #33 of 43
8/18/06 at 6:02pm
OK ABF you need to fix your sig, after two posts its already annoying

Seablade
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post #34 of 43
8/18/06 at 6:34pm
i'll take it down tonight / tomorrow morning when the giant sig thread thing goes away in the OT
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post #35 of 43
8/19/06 at 3:43am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Tristus
So I would like do disable this sound globally. Is that possible (without recompiling the kernel)?
Morning Tristus, I had the same problem but simply suppressed in the KDE Konsole settings - which is of course no use to you. The following article offers some help in the matter however. I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising, especially some of the tips in the comments. Bottom line, it looks easy enough to disable... http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/110 Cheers
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post #36 of 43
8/19/06 at 8:08am
I choose to add "blacklist pcspkr" to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist , as I also dislike hearing system beep during using the login console.
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post #37 of 43
8/21/06 at 5:40pm
Thank you very much Chudd and others for i am considering purchasing an XPS notebook and putting dapper on it. THIS WILL BE A LIFESAVER
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post #38 of 43
8/22/06 at 5:50am
Thread Starter 
@Tristus:
I appended:

echo -e "\33[10;25]\33[11;5]" #bell: 25Hz 5ms

to my ~/.bash_profile file. Now I still get audible feedback when required but is much more comfortable and is subjectively quieter. This entry also works when you log into console mode (e.g. ALT+CTRL+F1) since your bash profile will be used then as well. I didn't want to dump the PC speaker altogether.

@Chodorovski - Welcome aboard. If you decide on a 1710 I hope you have as much fun with it as I have had so far. IMHO it is a great piece of kit!
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post #39 of 43
8/22/06 at 7:18am
To Chudd and others who have been brilliant with this:

I have got Dapper working brilliantly on my 1710 and now am 95% of the way to dumping Windows XP. However there is one thing I need to do (or rather need to get feedback on) is this - has anyone managed to get WoW running under (K)Ubuntu at native settings with all the eye candy. I know how to do it thanks to the superb Ubuntu forums but just want feedback from someone who has done it on a 1710.

Thanks guys and keep up the good work!
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post #40 of 43
8/22/06 at 9:09am
Thread Starter 
Hi Fuzzmo, Glad to see its going well for you! I don't have WoW so can't help. Besides if I want to play anything I still have my token XP installation collecting dust in the attic of my HD. I guess that makes my XP installation a code-bloated excuse for a PS3 but nevermind...
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