On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:57 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Greetings, > > I got an old Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 to configure and play around > with. ... For some reason I also thought that there > is no root-user on ubuntu. On my system su and logging in over ssh with > username root all work well.
Of course it has a root user, but the root password is locked unless you set it (sudo passwd root, but last time I mentioned that method Jim smacked my hand). sudo is a good habit to get into, I use it as a result of a play with ubuntu. > > I only have some problems with 2d-graphics. When I try to play > Flash-games they are extremly slow and the cursor flickers while it is > over the movie. Fading effects, e.g. what happens with the background > when one clicks on System -> Log Out in Gnome 2.10, and scrolling are > also slow. The former owner of the laptop said that he experienced > somthing similar with Fedora. Easy things such as moving windows still > work well. I found out that the grahics card is a trident CyberBlade: > It could of course simply be underpowered. > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems > CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d) > > I tried googling for the card/laptop but I could only find things that > are too old. I also had a look at xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log but > could not find anything there: > > [xorg.conf] > ... > Section "Device" > Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1" > Driver "trident" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > VideoRAM 8192 > EndSection > ... > There are other options that might be appropriate to set or unset. man trident. > [/var/log/Xorg.0.log] > ... > (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) > ... > I heard that some people have problems with ACPI and that using APM > instead should work. I am not sure what ubuntu uses as I have not > compiled this kernel myself. Whatever it does use, it seems to work. I > can powersave the monitor, display battery usage and even hibernate. > > Any help welcome. > > Happy Hacking, > Robert Himmelmann > I like the buddhist philosophy, i just wonder whether it is appropriate to have a sig this long on a mailing list? > Buddha said: "about 20% of the lines in this email" :-) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
