Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 at 07:57:02AM +, Sean Gibbins wrote: John Cooper wrote: Though a full size laptop, ebuyer do a no OS version for £362 and gets good reviews on their site. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173882/show_product_overview Looks like it is overpowered for someone who

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-16 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them. Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I basically want a small/light box for presentations and occasional use. It doesn't need a CD/DVD or a huge screen. I've decided that a screen

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-15 Thread alan c
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, My current Dell laptop is really getting long in the tooth (~10 years old). Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them. Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I basically want a small/light box

[Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-14 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, My current Dell laptop is really getting long in the tooth (~10 years old). Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them. Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I basically want a small/light box for presentations and occasional

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-14 Thread John Cooper
On 14/12/09 21:26, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: Hi, My current Dell laptop is really getting long in the tooth (~10 years old). Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them. Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I basically want a

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptops

2009-12-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
John Cooper wrote: Though a full size laptop, ebuyer do a no OS version for £362 and gets good reviews on their site. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173882/show_product_overview Looks like it is overpowered for someone who thinks that a netbook might suffice for their needs, but I found

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread alan c
Vic wrote: Hi All. I've acquired a Novatech Laptop - not sure of their designation, but the label on the underside describes it as a L51A10. It has an ATI chipset, including an audio device that reports itself as: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Vic
At the risk of asking the obvious, have you run KMix? Yes. Also, is it all sound, or just some. For example, KDE notifications are quiet, but audio CDs and DVD audio work. Again, check with KMix, looking at the relevant mixer input and output levels. At the moment, I'm only interested

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Simon Reap
Vic wrote: At the moment, I'm only interested in what Amarok puts out. I can hear it through headphones, but not through the onboard speakers... Sounds more like a hardware problem to me. Have the speakers output anything at all? Do they work with a liveCD from another distro? Simon --

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Vic
Sounds more like a hardware problem to me. It's not... Have the speakers output anything at all? Not since moving the box to Linux. The previous owner was a Windoze user, and he had sound. Do they work with a liveCD from another distro? I've only tried MythDora and Kubuntu - and Mythdora

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Vic
Also at the risk of sounding obvious. Are you unplugging the headphones when you try the speakers? Yes. Those 3 years at University weren't *entirely* wasted :-) I ask because I came across a laptop recently that couldn't do both. Most won't, IME. Have you turned everything in kmix fully

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Alan Bell
ooh, I know what this is. You need to tell the soundcard a bit more about your speaker configuration by adding something in /etc/modprobe.d, we had this on the webbook but the other way round (the speakers wouldn't turn off when you plugged in the headphones)

Re: [Hampshire] Novatech Laptops...

2008-11-28 Thread Vic
ooh, I know what this is. You need to tell the soundcard a bit more about your speaker configuration by adding something in /etc/modprobe.d, we had this on the webbook but the other way round (the speakers wouldn't turn off when you plugged in the headphones)