Dude, I'm sorry. You are wasting my time. And most probably wasting your own
time too. Bye.
For the chips you stand a better chance with the Linux community. And some
times with the comments in large stores like Amazon. True, most makers don't
say a thing about the contents. And they are right to do so. This way they
can write on the box their card catches signal 1-2 meters away
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On 2013-12-21 06:03, wlqdq...@sharklasers.com wrote:
[...] Then who is going to pay for the price of sending back the laptop if
anything happens? And who
is going to pay for a replacement during that time. Y'know,
transatlantic postal packs don't
I know it is a long shot in the dark, but any chance this is caused by a
graphics card mode settings by the kernel? Could you test a Trisquel
Live CD with more verbose output and nomodeset enabled?
It's a good shot in the dark. One side of the issue is the graphics card
which needed newer
Out of curiosity, where can one acquire a 1005PC as they seem out of
production.
Do you know for a fact that ldlc laptop can run Trisquel out of the box? How
about coreboot?
ISTR an FSFE newsletter lauding a French user enforcing their right to buy
a laptop without Microsoft Windows. So, please, whatever you do buy - don't
pay 'Windows Tax.'
I'm puzzled by the French so far. They have such forward initiatives, and yet
others are so backward.
Two years ago I
About two years ago I was thinking the same thing as you do. I discovered
that I need a larger bag to carry it. That the large surface of the cover can
bend in the middle as much as to see waves on the screen. That the power
needed to light up such a surface eats up the extra battery making
I bought mine used, got a great deal and a device in good condition,
basically like new. There are different revisions of the eeepc laptop, I got
the 1005PE.
Nice. I do that for bikes and anything I can fix and change myslef. For high
tech I need refurbished. Even if it's only a cleanup and a new battery.
For desktops Coreboot list support for two current AMD CPU motherboards here:
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
However, you're going to be left without 3D support unless you want to
introduce non-free code in the form of an nVidia GPU VGABIOS. Both of the
write ups seem to
Thanx Leny and the others !!
ISTR an FSFE newsletter lauding a French user enforcing their right to buy a
laptop without Microsoft Windows. So, please, whatever you do buy - don't
pay 'Windows Tax.'
Because the keyboard on the netbook I bought secondhand earlier in the year
gives me wrist pains in extended use I
If having a 17 screen is not an important feature for you, look at the
eeepc 1005PE from Asus. (Cyberhawk)
I used to use a netbook for school. I had a larger monitor at home, and I
plugged the netbook into that so that I could use the big screen at home.
Sort of had the best of both
I think this is a great laptop BUT, the screen is just to small for me. Are
there any alternatives, because i have the same problem as BMw: i live in
europe, so i don't know what funny taxes i'll have to pay if i buy from
ThinkPenguin.
It would also be nice if someone could make a list of
В 21:05 +0100 на 28.12.2013 (сб), chris.arijs написа:
I know that Atheros Wifi cards are great but what about the other
stuff ?
Check the h-node [1] project's hardware database. The information is
reported from fully free distributions. They lack motherboard section,
but still. Have in mind
В 12:01 +0100 на 21.12.2013 (сб), wlqdq...@sharklasers.com написа:
Debian 6 is out of the question, the kernel is too old.
Not only the kernel. It currently receives only security updates. Soon
it will be completely obsolete.
But Debian 7 does work, till it freezes.
Trisquel doesn't even
ah, that's why I see no changes... I'll try that now.
If having a 17 screen is not an important feature for you, look at the eeepc
1005PE from Asus. I am running Triskel (the KDE of Trisquel) on it and it's
perfect. Plasma-netbook helps with the small screen a lot, no clattering with
bars, panels and such. The keyboard perfectly utilizes the
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:02:10PM +0100, cyberh...@openmailbox.org wrote:
If having a 17 screen is not an important feature for you, look at
the eeepc 1005PE from Asus.
I've owned one 1005PE for a couple of years, I purchased a second one,
used obviously, just this week.
The only
Everything is very good with this laptop... It has one little dowside, which
is the relatively dark screen. A BIOS update should make it better though. It
may be necessary to keep Windows for the sake of updating the BIOS and only
then to install Trisquel on top
Everything is very good with this laptop... It has one little
dowside, which is the relatively dark screen. A BIOS update should
@cyberhawk have you tried, or are you using, in /etc/default/grub?
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
I didn't try it, since I thought it just makes the brightness Fn-keys work
properly (highest setting corresponds to highest brightness). I'll try that
out right now.
did you run update-grub after making the change, prior to rebooting?
It's not about signatures. It's about what comes AFTER the kernel. The init
scripts. Also, each major distribution has a particular choice of drivers
according to their policy. Some are tolerant with some proprietary code, some
bundle code they're not supposed to. Minor derivates only work
Never took that into consideration. Chromebook means Google. And Google made
Android. I have been suspicious from the start with the always positive
attitude towards Android. Everywhere it is written Linux to imply FOSS, to
receive a TiVo device with closed apps. This last year the news were
What about buying a Chromebook? They're cheap, available locally from France,
and compared to ThinkPenguin, Chromebook's BIOS'es are based on Coreboot.
Also, all the post-Pixel models (including the Pixel itself) comes with
SeaBIOS, which means that you can directly install Trisquel without
The problem is not so much the ability to ship, but the perceived insurance
«in case anything happens». It's easier to send the laptop in the same
country and even monitor the traject. If they are nearby I can even go to the
shop myself. This is why I would like some dealer in France. But I
Thank you GNUser for your input. Only there's no such problem in my case.
Debian 6 is out of the question, the kernel is too old. But Debian 7 does
work, till it freezes. Tails, which is Debian 6 with a recent kernel had some
issues, now it goes without a problem. Ubuntu I don't touch
Yea, but who is going to pay the exchange tax, the VAT, the eco tax and any
other tax the EU is going to put on that laptop? Than who is going to pay for
the price of sending back the laptop if anything happens? And who is going to
pay for a replacement during that time. Y'know,
No problem.
I think you might have misunderstood me, what I meant was that for some
reason, my laptop appears to only accept the Debian based distros. In your
case, every Debian based seems to give you trouble. So, maybe you should go
to another family, maybe Fedora-family,since it works
The only part of the system that has to do with hardware compatibility is the
kernel, Linux. So unless all Debian-based systems are using a different
kernel version than all those other systems, maybe your computer has a Secure
Boot feature that doesn't have keys these other systems are
What you say makes sense... but I never heard of any special signature in
Debian, or even my laptop (which is 5 years old already) having restricted
boot.
I don't really care, because I prefer Debian, but I would like to be able to
run other stuff from times to times.
Hello guys!
My laptop is getting old. And I'm sick of it. I bought it from a supermarket.
It was a great deal. A 17 screen for about 400€. Everything is good as
long as I stick with Windows. On Linux it does not work. Trisquel doesn't
even end the boot process. Fedora 18 or newer runs
According to the product listings on Gluglug's website, they ship worldwide
at no extra cost. Also, I'm pretty sure ThinkPenguin will ship to France, I
just don't know how much it will cost.
Hum... while I can't help you with where to get the laptop, I will tell you
something that came to my mind when reading your post. My laptop, for some
reason, only works with Debian based distros. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian,
Trisquel, Puppy, Tails, all work great. But anything that comes from
ThinkPenguin specifically mention shipping to France:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/improved-support-non-us-customers
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