Randall R Schulz wrote:
So I take it you didn't build this system yourself? Replacing RAM is not
that big of a deal, but if you want to take advantage of the
manufacturer's warranty, then I guess it doesn't really matter.
If it's Dell, they probably *will* ask you to open the machine up
Good or bad this could force Novell to fix a few annoying issues like
crippled mp3 and video playing. Just make it an option via Dell which
is big enough to make bulk licensing cheap enough to interest the end
user.
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Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy:
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote:
However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the
grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird
regularly freezes or crashes and has to be re-started
Peter Bradley wrote:
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley:
Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy:
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote:
However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the
grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird
regularly freezes or crashes and
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz:
[ For this kind of information, turning off line wrap when sending is
advisable. ]
Thanks. I'll remember that in future.
The bottom table was coloured a frightening shade of red. Do I have
a problem?
What do you think??
Hoping against hope,
Peter,
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:08, Peter Bradley wrote:
...
Did you, by any chance, tweak your RAM access parameters in the
BIOS for speed purposes? If so, go back into the BIOS and let it
use the RAM's SPD (Serial Presence Detect) to determine the
appropriate RAM access
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz:
Peter,
Well, BIOS configuration doesn't involve internal surgery, you know.
It's just more of that magical keyboard incantation stuff that
programmer geeks do so well...
Hell no! I might be tempted to write the program that allows you to
make the
Ysgrifennodd Greg Freemyer:
You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run
it most of the time.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso(See the 6th download choice)
For windows people it makes them better understand that it is just a
diagnostic tool not related at all to
Greg, Peter,
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:12, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 3/6/07, Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... You put *what* on it??? Linux
You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run
it most of the time.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso(See
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz:
I think Peter was just anticipating the response of his hardware vendor.
Anyway, the SuSE installation disks include Memtest86+ as one of their
boot options.
Greg
Yeah, I was; but there'd be no harm is saying to the vendor:
Here's a boot CD with
On 3/6/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg, Peter,
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:12, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 3/6/07, Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... You put *what* on it??? Linux
You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run
it most of
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote:
However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics
card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or
crashes and has to be re-started (in fact this is the second time I've
written this
Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy:
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote:
However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics
card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or
crashes and has to be re-started (in fact this is the second
On Sunday 04 March 2007 20:18, Peter Bradley wrote:
Thanks Hans. I will be doing that, when I get the time. I'll be very
upset if I find anything wrong. The machines on 6 months old.
This mail comes to you after 3 Thunderbird crashes and two KDE SIGSEGs.
And my desktop now does not show
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 20:18, Peter Bradley wrote:
Thanks Hans. I will be doing that, when I get the time. I'll be very
upset if I find anything wrong. The machines on 6 months old.
This mail comes to you after 3 Thunderbird crashes and two KDE SIGSEGs.
John Andersen wrote:
Nor is anybody asking them to.
All they need to do is put their secrets on the chips and keep their
drivers free of patented or secret code.
The insistence on moving most of their copyrighted/patented property
indo binary driver blobs is what gets them in trouble.
Yet
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
Yet few people object (that I've heard) to copyright firmware being
uploaded to devices, e.g. in Hauppage's dec-2000t. How is this
different? I wonder what stops nv/ati from providing a GPL driver that
just does an upload of copyright/patented
John Andersen wrote:
I run servers 24x7, but I shut my desktop machine down when it's not
being used to conserve power. I used to rarely reboot my laptop, just
suspend/resume it, but 10.2 totally broke suspend/resume so now I'm
forced to actually shut it down.
Well the way I look at
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:18 -0500, James Knott wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
I run servers 24x7, but I shut my desktop machine down when it's not
being used to conserve power. I used to rarely reboot my laptop, just
suspend/resume it, but 10.2 totally broke suspend/resume so now I'm
forced
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:18:29PM +, Peter Bradley wrote:
earlier. I had AppArmor going wild for no reason I could fathom and
refusing to allow Apache to do all the things it needed to do (like
access the file system). There are other, smaller, issues as
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:47:20PM +, Peter Bradley wrote:
Well, going wild may be a bit colourful :) but I somehow went from
having no problem at all with Apache to having nothing but trouble - and
it all turned out to be because AppArmor was (if I understand correctly
how it works)
John Andersen wrote:
Ah, Peter, I hate to break it to ya, but that process constitutes a problem.
It shouldn't be necessary, and its not with any card but ATI and Nvidia.
Unfortunately it's sort of the price you have to pay if you want decent
3D performance. ATI and NVIDIA have a good
On Wednesday 28 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Ah, Peter, I hate to break it to ya, but that process constitutes a
problem. It shouldn't be necessary, and its not with any card but ATI and
Nvidia.
Unfortunately it's sort of the price you have to pay if you want
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote:
WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops
checked  against linux.
Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for linux they wouldn't
be jamming ATI cards into the machines without
On 02/26/2007 10:08 PM somebody named John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote:
WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops
checked against linux.
Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for linux they wouldn't
be jamming ATI
On 02/27/2007 05:58 AM somebody named Tony Alfrey wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote:
WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops
checked  against linux.
Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for linux they
On 2/27/07, ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 02/27/2007 05:58 AM somebody named Tony Alfrey wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote:
WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops
checked  against linux.
Exactly.If dell had to
Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey:
Yes, I had noticed that they were offering ATI cards and that was
making me uncomfortable after hearing all of the angst about getting
these to work on a linux box.
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my AMD64
x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box -
Peter Bradley wrote:
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
things. I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did
aticonfig --initial and that was it. I've also installed quite a few
Ysgrifennodd J Sloan:
If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not
luck, that's extreme flakiness.
Joe
That's true, but I've always put it down to the fact that it's my home
desktop which is powered down every night and re-awoken every evening
when I get in from
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote:
Peter Bradley wrote:
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
things. I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did
aticonfig
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote:
Peter Bradley wrote:
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
things. I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the
J Sloan wrote:
Your microsoft background is showing again ;)
Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days
uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little
more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month
uptimes. At work
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:18:29PM +, Peter Bradley wrote:
earlier. I had AppArmor going wild for no reason I could fathom and
refusing to allow Apache to do all the things it needed to do (like
access the file system). There are other, smaller, issues as well.
Going wild? What
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:13:35 pm J Sloan wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote:
Peter Bradley wrote:
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, ken wrote:
One problem I generally have when I buy a machine is, if something is
wrong with the hardware within the warrantee period, the tech help won't
help you if you don't run Windows to help them diagnose the problem.
Well I'm certain that policy would prevail
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Peter Bradley wrote:
Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey:
Yes, I had noticed that they were offering ATI cards and that was
making me uncomfortable after hearing all of the angst about getting
these to work on a linux box.
Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
J Sloan wrote:
Your microsoft background is showing again ;)
Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days
uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little
more conservative on my home
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, ken wrote:
One problem I generally have when I buy a machine is, if something is
wrong with the hardware within the warrantee period, the tech help won't
help you if you don't run Windows to help them diagnose
Well, its about time. It doesn't look like Dell will be totally patronizing
one distro, but one article said Dell was working with Novell. The is a
fantastic action... because it was the result of Dell taking a hard look at
its user suggestion box... we want Linux, and we want Openoffice.
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M Harris wrote:
Well, its about time. It doesn't look like Dell will be totally patronizing
one distro, but one article said Dell was working with Novell. The is a
fantastic action... because it was the result of Dell taking a hard look at
its
On Monday 26 February 2007, M Harris wrote:
Well, its about time. It doesn't look like Dell will be totally patronizing
one distro, but one article said Dell was working with Novell. The is a
fantastic action... because it was the result of Dell taking a hard look at
its user suggestion box...
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