Thanks for the help.
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:57 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Sorry, I wrote aptitude while I meant synaptic.
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,
I used sudo su which worked as well.
but last time I mentioned that method Jim
smacked my hand).
I hope he won't do that with me ;)
sudo is a good habit to get into, I use it as a result of a play with
ubuntu.
Good habits are there to be broken. I do not like to type more than I
have to.
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.
I tried to use the vesa-driver. Fading &c. was as slow as before and
moving windows was also difficult. Maybe the effects I mentioned in the
first mail make use of the processor which has only 800Mhz. I will live
with it.
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.
I tried some options. All results in not being able to start X.
[/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" :-)
Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
Nothing holy, nothing holy.
