[Scottish] Hoary install - ISA CS4236 and ALSA config?

2005-10-27 Thread Harry F Doherty
Hi I mentioned this briefly on irc the phrase world of pain was used - thanks for the warning! I just installed Ubuntu Hoary (5.04) on a friend's desktop as his '98 install died. It didn't recognise his soundcard. I'm pretty sure the mobo's a Dell OptiPlex GX1 (I can't read my own

Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-16 Thread Harry F Doherty
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:55:23PM +0100, B C Kupris wrote: Harry F Doherty wrote: Hi I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard or mouse. My machine started locking up seemingly randomly yestarday evening, I opened her up and checked the CPU heatsink

[scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread Harry F Doherty
Hi I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard or mouse. This has happen both mid X session and when trying to log on a tty. I assume this is a hardware problem? All my hardware is pretty suspect as I found it in bins. I think I've ruled out memory (memtest) and

Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread Harry F Doherty
I need to check my logs, but where and what? I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20. I'll put money on that being a possible issue; try a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. You're running 2.2 on testing? Is it a handrolled kernel? Uh, no I started with stable and then upgraded the packages. I was

[Scottish] fwd: [glasgow-freecycle] OFFER: Monitor (approx. 21 inches), Paisley]

2005-06-06 Thread Harry F Doherty
Hi As seen on freecycle, thought this was more the demographic. H. - Forwarded message from flyght_of_fantasy valerie ixnay onway ethay atway flyght-of-fantasy.co.uk - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: flyght_of_fantasy valerie ixnay onway ethay atway

[Scottish]Software patent directive adopted

2005-03-09 Thread Harry F Doherty
Hi The directive will now go to the Parlement. It can only be rejected or ammended if there is an absolute majority of all possible MEPs. Link: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39190497,00.htm Time for a letter or two? (OT: apologies and thanks to everyone who gave me advice on distros for