Re: [Scottish] several linux problems

2007-12-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:49, Kyle Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:22:23 Richard Wright wrote: Hi, I've got a few problems I was wondering if anyone could help with? The hardware is a toshiba laptop from 2000 with 1.2ghz, 512m ram, 20gb hdd, a dial up pci card and a

Re: [Scottish] several linux problems

2007-12-19 Thread Claudio Calvelli
[...] ? Kernels aren't really interested in modems (except for those nasty hardware modems) have you tried pointing minicom at each serial port and seeing if you get a response to AT? Unfortunately, modems in laptop belong to that nasty category. Often lspci will find them, but whether

[Scottish] Holy 3D batman!

2007-12-19 Thread Colin McKinnon
Hi all, About a year ago, Lawrence showed me Beryl (the Window manager with cool eye-candy accelerated graphics stuff). It was very, very impressive. I recently had cause to reinstall my [c|t]rusty old laptop (1GHz / 384Mb / 10 Gb). I was toying with the idea of a solid-state system using