List members: In order to get a head start on my Year 2038 testing I started to modify an olde piece of software I had used during the testing stages of the...
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Charlie Schmidt
ishamael@...
Aug 1, 2001 2:47 pm
- I purchased an i8000 a while ago, and have been pretty pleased with it up until now. About a week ago the touchpad started... tripping out. Holding down Alt,...
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Gary Herron
gherron@...
Aug 1, 2001 6:16 pm
... Yes!! I get this behavior often when the right Shift key is held down. The cursor performs a little Brownian walk on the screen. Before I configured X to...
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fpm@...
Aug 2, 2001 1:14 am
Hi All, I just received my new Dell i8000 last week. It arrived with Windows ME. I promptly installed Windows2000 on one partition and Red Hat 7.1 on another. ...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:21 am
'setup'? i didn't know configuring Linux was so easy as to run 'setup'. ... if you look in the files section you'll see many X configuration files that will...
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mavin
mavin@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:24 am
Look at the files section of the yahoo groups pages. mn ... From: fpm@... [mailto:fpm@...] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:09 PM To:...
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fpm@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:07 am
I know it may seem funny. But there is a 'setup' command you can run from the command line. It brings up a color console window and allows you to chose form a...
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fpm@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:13 am
I was worried about the display resolution vs screen size myself. I agonized over this and oher brands for a month. Once I decided on the Deill I8K I was still...
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Ravi Pratap M
ravi@...
Aug 2, 2001 4:40 am
Hi there, ... Indeed there is :-) It is quite handy when you want to perform simple tasks like set which services should be started etc. Newbies find it nice...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 5:59 am
wow... didn't know such a command existed. i guess Red Hat is tailoring their distribution to a wider crowd now, which hopefully will address the inherent...
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JimBurdickSATX@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:12 pm
Hi, I would bet that someone has already encountered and solved this one. I just got mandrake 8.0 running on my Inspiron. X works fine as a laptop, but in the...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 4:25 pm
Hi Jim, Please check the FAQ at http://www.whacked.net/ldl-faq and look at section 3.3, it has the answer to this. cheers, steve ... -- stephen lau ::...
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prasad_alavilli@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:26 pm
Is there any way to have 1GB of ram on I8000? Need 2 512k modules - anyone makes them? Thanks for any info. Prasad...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:32 pm
You would probably want 2 512M modules, rather than 2 512k modules. :) In any case though, I don't think the I8K supports memory banks larger than 256M, thus...
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Trevor
tman@...
Aug 2, 2001 6:57 pm
The 815 chipset inside the i8000 only supports a maximum of 512MB - Trevor ... From: prasad_alavilli@... [mailto:prasad_alavilli@...] Sent:...
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JimBurdickSATX@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:03 pm
Steve, Thank you very much. I probably should have been more explicit here. I installed Mandrake 8.0 and X works fine, but the problem is with the steps in the...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:11 pm
Hi Jim, Did you install X 4.1.0? Or are you running X 4.0.3? Basically, what *should* happen (I got this working for my I8K under both Progeny and Red Hat...
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jsc3@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:41 pm
To the point, the Intel 815 chipset used in the I8000 is the limiting factor. It only supports 512 MB RAM no matter how it is packaged, so 512 MB is it. You...
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don
don@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:30 pm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C5095114%2C00.html I will be sending a letter letting them know that I would have bought the I8k with linux on...
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Samuele Sangiorgio
samuele@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:42 pm
I don't understand why I must buy a notebook with WindowsME and MicrosoftWorks (and pay for them) if I'm going to install only Linux on it! Also because under...
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JimBurdickSATX@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:45 pm
Steve, Hello again. I am running X 4.0.3 and thought that that would work, but perhaps I need to get 4.1 and try updating. I will fiddle with this a bit and...
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Chris Mauricio
cmauricio@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:47 pm
This discussion is in full swing over at SlashDot. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/02/168248&mode=flat I tried to order a laptop with Linux...
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Stephen Lau
slau@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:57 pm
Hi Jim, Ah...that would be the problem. The "Display" option is only for X 4.1.0 (I thought I had put that in the FAQ, maybe not...in which case I should)....
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Jamie Warren
jbwarren@...
Aug 3, 2001 1:28 am
You guys are lucky. Up here in Canada I couldn't even get a Dell laptop with any Linux installed on it. I had to pay for WinME/2k with MSWorks. As well I would...
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mtidd@...
Aug 3, 2001 5:32 am
I had what may be a similar problem to what you are facing and was reminded that the boot partition of Linux has to be located below cylinder 1024 or problems...
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Chris Chambliss
zeddicus@...
Aug 3, 2001 5:39 am
I guess it's a new version of LILO that comes with RH7.1, but the cylinder 1024 thing is fixed with 7.1... ... From: <mtidd@...> To:...
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degt@...
Aug 3, 2001 6:41 am
Anybody has some idea on how to get Suspend-to-RAM working on an Inspiron 7500 (7000? any other?) with Red Hat 7.0/7.1? also mention what is your kernel...
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-7ater
7ater@...
Aug 3, 2001 5:39 pm
I have an 18k that I have configured to boot with a Linksys 10/100 pc card. Everything seems to be working good. I needed to make 3 more machines identical...
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pp@...
Aug 3, 2001 5:59 pm
Hi all, I'm using the last version of videolan (http://wwww.videolan.org). just specify X11 output (not SDL otherwise you still have the blue screen) with 32...
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Frank Sfalanga
frank@...
Aug 3, 2001 8:22 pm
Oh, I agree. When I bought mine I struggled with the decision to purchase with Windows ME. I wanted RH Linux but the configurations they offered were with...
