Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
I could well believe that Vista would struggle on anything less than a Cray, but Linux isn't *that* demanding is it? I had a look at the T22 specs and they seem pretty respectable to me, at least compared to some of the systems I have Linux running on (eg 64MB, 266MHz Pentium MMX). And BSD is

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Charles Forsyth
than a Cray, but Linux isn't *that* demanding is it? last week i added 1gb RAM to my previously 512mbyte lenovo (3000 N100) to stop the linux system from thrashing. all i run directly is firefox and drawterm. the system was fine at 512mbyte until a few weeks ago (when more updates arrived). i

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
Who needs firefox having abaco ;) In fact I think linux has become more and more bloa... I mean resource demanding lately. Some years ago I had a 100MHz IBM (Cyrix?) 8MiB ram machine that made marvels for me... It is impressive what we did with so little... 3d modelling, raytracing... What did

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
Actually, since you mention it, a Toshiba Libretto is one of the 'modest' machines I have Linux running on: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux/xaccel ro root=306 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz monitor=xaccel Initializing CPU#0 Detected 166.637 MHz processor. Console: colour

Re: [9fans] usbohci in pccpuf

2008-06-09 Thread erik quanstrom
Hello 9fans, Jsyk, I had to comment out usbohci in /sys/src/9/pc/pccpuf for the usb keyboard to work with a freshly built 9pccpuf. (there's only usb ports on the eserver 325). System pulled last friday (06/06/08). Cheers, Mathieu. likely if you turn off usb legacy in bios, you will be

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
I am trying Eeepc... But I've had a lot of work lately, so I've fallen into the lunix dark side in the meanwhile. I think it is mostly an usb bootability matter. Eeepc ain't very exotic... On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in March people were trying the EEEPC

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:45 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: than a Cray, but Linux isn't *that* demanding is it? last week i added 1gb RAM to my previously 512mbyte lenovo (3000 N100) to stop the linux system from thrashing. all i run directly is firefox and drawterm. the system was fine at

Re: [9fans] Streaming on venti

2008-06-09 Thread erik quanstrom
It's part of the EFI promise: everything they touch will turn to merde :-) optimist! - erik

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

2008-06-09 Thread lucio
3 buttons and a nipple not a touchpad no Windows key :) These are concrete assets. I know at least one other laptop user (I have an old Compac Presario 900, he has a newer Acer or some such) that manages to trigger the touchpad without touching it. Very, very annoying. As for the Windows