Gateway Solo 1100. It's got a Neomagic 128XD or something like that, and it does 800x600 at 24bpp (which is just fine for it's tiny display). I upgraded to RH7.0, and Xconfigurator set up X on it just fine once I told it to use 4.0 from the command line options. (Xconfigurator --help 2>&1 | less). Everything 'cept the modem (which I don't use, given that I have no modem ISP account. I love broadband!) works just great. It used to die out of suspend, but there's a fix in the apm configuration files to turn off DMA on suspend and turn it on in unsuspend that fixes the problem.
Just to nitpick, XFree 4.0 uses "drivers", not "servers". Secondly, I didn't hallucinate the neomagic driver that I'm using right now on my laptop. It's there. It even supports XRender. Go to the XFree site and take a look.
Erhm, I'm guessing you have an 8MB video card, which would mean X is using only 3.5 MB's of memory. Try stripping out your Load statements (you are using 4.0, right? It's much better with memory, right?) and you should be able to get that down to two.
Keep in mind that the only way for a program like X to communicate with the framebuffer is to mmap() the whole of the buffer into it's memory space, which seems to inflate its consumption. In reality, it's not using all of that.
If you're running GLX, X may even be mapping stuff more than once, and be mapping an MTRR region. Don't trust what top, ps, and friends tell you about what X is consuming. It's really not.
*Ahem* and Linus ran X on a 386, too. I've run X on a 486, and it's really not that bad.
That's right, if the sound is still working at all after you resume from suspend... it's not worth the hassle. And besides, who needs a synth on a laptop these days?
Ha! I went to a Gateway Country store, which is a phyiscal location, and walked around to see their list of products. I don't really use their website, which is why I didn't link to it.
Excuse me? While I don't own a Vaio, several friends do, and their units never work quite right. Between the cheese-o battery life, the incredible PC Card problems (does your PC card slot work right under Linux?). Even tho they use a BX chipset, they use Yamaha sound chips, which are a pain to get working properly.
On the other hand, my Gateway works just fine. I don't know what it is you're talking about, but Sony laptops are the biggest peices of linux-incompatible cow pies that I've ever seen.
Oh, btw: That power management thing is quite ordinary for Vaios, which I'm guessing you have one of. I've never seen a Sony laptop that ever worked quite right under Linux, and I can't understand why people keep recommending them. My unit actually seems to get more battery life in Linux than in Windows. Couldn't tell an exact spec, though: my laptop is plugged in too often for me to tell.
Why is it that people keep recommending the Sony units, despite their incredible number of problems running Linux?
The Gateway Solo 1100 (oops, now it's the 1150)? It's cheap ($999 to $1299), and every feature except the winmodem works like a champ. Including the power management. Including the PC card. Including the USB. Including X, with an Xrender-supported NeoMagic chipset for your antialiasing needs. Including the sound, if you use ALSA. It's never failed me. Heck, it's even mostly supported by Plan 9 from Bell Labs (power management doesn't work, but oh whell!)
You don't need to spend $2000 on a laptop to get one that works with Linux or other free OS's.
You've got it all wrong. We don't need more enterprise stuff; we need IBM to open up (or at least port) their Lotus SmartSuite so we can have another office suite to sell the suits on. We need desktop and workstation tools, people, and IBM should help support that.
I don't think I'm being unreasonable. All I want is an OS that is
easy to use and works the way I want it to, without my having to
go under the hood all the time. The fact that I know how to edit
the Windows Registry and the Macintosh extensions manager
doesn't mean I like doing it.
So, Linux vendors, hear this: If you really want to give Windows
the boot, your OS has to be slick, quick, and slim. Because, after
all, too much is...just too much.
Well, gee. There is an operating system out there that's slick, slim, capable, easy-to-use, easy-to-configure, and "just works" without editing configuration files, if your hardware is supported. Drumroll please.... it's the BeOS!. So why didn't he try BeOS? Perhaps because nobody pays attention to it? Tell ya what. Next time you complain about Linux, try BeOS. It'll make your life easier, and happier.
... a long, long, time ago, there were no professional porn vendors on the web. Just people spreadin' porn on USENET, which you could very well avoid. HTTP was the cleanest protocol, and very useful (as long as you were only looking for research papers or computer programs).
If you remember this internet, please help join the fight by switching to lynx, links, or telnet nameofsite 80 right now!
Me too (RH since 5.0 on a cd lent from a friend was my first intro to Linux and saved me from the evil NT!). Debian 2.1 (haven't tried 2.2) wasn't all that hard to install, except for its twenty gazillion questions phrase.
Most of the time I ditch the graphical installer on RH and just install from text mode. 'Tis easy, quick, and painless.
And waiting to go through a major XFree86 upgrade as well, right? X server upgrades are never fun.
Does anybody know if the CVS code with XRender in it is even module binary-compatible with XFree 4.0.1 (for my poor nVidia drivers... sniff)? I'm guessing that this requires some fairly major changes to the guts of X to implement.
Acrobat Reader runs just fine under WINE, with no Microsoft dll's being used. That fixes everything, doesn't it?
And besides, the Arial, TNR, etc. fonts are all "freely redistributable", according to MS, and so you can take them from a Windows box and put them on your Linux box just fine.
if a book with an "unapologetic unix flavour" would actually use screenshots from UNIX machines, not from Windows and Macintosh machines, to show off their CGI scripts.
If you want to support the "*NIX is for servers, Windows and Macintosh are for desktops" party line, then buy this book. If you don't, then go elsewhere with your money.
What intellectaul property? The stuff in the Iridium system (like the rather, erhm, distinctive vocoder) is all 10 years old. It's old, and it's creaky. The satellite system is really the only reason they want it.
Intellectual property also might refer to their software for running the system, which is quite necessary.
I don't have a problem with OSHA regulating companies' regulations and rules, but they can't complain about what individual employees do as themselves! That's unfair regulation of my individual actions, and OSHA doesn't seem to get that (especially with the recent flap about SOHO standards!).
OSHA has no right to regulate whether I want to get RSI or not. Unfortunately, they treat individuals as official representatives of their company, thus regulating them. This is dead wrong.
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Gateway Solo 1100. It's got a Neomagic 128XD or something like that, and it does 800x600 at 24bpp (which is just fine for it's tiny display). I upgraded to RH7.0, and Xconfigurator set up X on it just fine once I told it to use 4.0 from the command line options. (Xconfigurator --help 2>&1 | less). Everything 'cept the modem (which I don't use, given that I have no modem ISP account. I love broadband!) works just great. It used to die out of suspend, but there's a fix in the apm configuration files to turn off DMA on suspend and turn it on in unsuspend that fixes the problem.
My Linksys 10/100 Ethercard. A friend has a Linksys combo ethernet/modem, and the modem on that one works well with Linux as well.
Just to nitpick, XFree 4.0 uses "drivers", not "servers". Secondly, I didn't hallucinate the neomagic driver that I'm using right now on my laptop. It's there. It even supports XRender. Go to the XFree site and take a look.
Keep in mind that the only way for a program like X to communicate with the framebuffer is to mmap() the whole of the buffer into it's memory space, which seems to inflate its consumption. In reality, it's not using all of that.
If you're running GLX, X may even be mapping stuff more than once, and be mapping an MTRR region. Don't trust what top, ps, and friends tell you about what X is consuming. It's really not.
*Ahem* and Linus ran X on a 386, too. I've run X on a 486, and it's really not that bad.
That's right, if the sound is still working at all after you resume from suspend... it's not worth the hassle. And besides, who needs a synth on a laptop these days?
Ha! I went to a Gateway Country store, which is a phyiscal location, and walked around to see their list of products. I don't really use their website, which is why I didn't link to it.
On the other hand, my Gateway works just fine. I don't know what it is you're talking about, but Sony laptops are the biggest peices of linux-incompatible cow pies that I've ever seen.
Why is it that people keep recommending the Sony units, despite their incredible number of problems running Linux?
You don't need to spend $2000 on a laptop to get one that works with Linux or other free OS's.
You've got it all wrong. We don't need more enterprise stuff; we need IBM to open up (or at least port) their Lotus SmartSuite so we can have another office suite to sell the suits on. We need desktop and workstation tools, people, and IBM should help support that.
I don't think I'm being unreasonable. All I want is an OS that is easy to use and works the way I want it to, without my having to go under the hood all the time. The fact that I know how to edit the Windows Registry and the Macintosh extensions manager doesn't mean I like doing it.
So, Linux vendors, hear this: If you really want to give Windows the boot, your OS has to be slick, quick, and slim. Because, after all, too much is...just too much.
Well, gee. There is an operating system out there that's slick, slim, capable, easy-to-use, easy-to-configure, and "just works" without editing configuration files, if your hardware is supported. Drumroll please.... it's the BeOS!. So why didn't he try BeOS? Perhaps because nobody pays attention to it? Tell ya what. Next time you complain about Linux, try BeOS. It'll make your life easier, and happier.
- Qt changes available here.
- Gtk changes in process.
- twm hacks should never see the light of day.
Does that mean they're in this release? Or not?If you remember this internet, please help join the fight by switching to lynx, links, or telnet nameofsite 80 right now!
Most of the time I ditch the graphical installer on RH and just install from text mode. 'Tis easy, quick, and painless.
And waiting to go through a major XFree86 upgrade as well, right? X server upgrades are never fun.
Does anybody know if the CVS code with XRender in it is even module binary-compatible with XFree 4.0.1 (for my poor nVidia drivers... sniff)? I'm guessing that this requires some fairly major changes to the guts of X to implement.
Can anybody tell me what problems in specific they had upgrading to 7.0, or is this just anti-RH FUD?
They may already have broken discrete log.
Yes, PGP can be broken.
Funny, I bought Applixware 5.0 for FreeBSD. Perhaps you misunderstand VistaSource (formerly Applixware)'s commitment to all variants of UNIX?
And besides, the Arial, TNR, etc. fonts are all "freely redistributable", according to MS, and so you can take them from a Windows box and put them on your Linux box just fine.
If you want to support the "*NIX is for servers, Windows and Macintosh are for desktops" party line, then buy this book. If you don't, then go elsewhere with your money.
No. Anything above movie-fps (25, if I'm not mistaken) is generally wasted, and anything above 60 is very wasted.
Intellectual property also might refer to their software for running the system, which is quite necessary.
Is it just me, or should they be supporting GNU/Hurd instead of GNU/Linux, given that Stallman won't accept Linux as the GNU OS?
Or, better yet, ifconfig eth0 down!
OSHA has no right to regulate whether I want to get RSI or not. Unfortunately, they treat individuals as official representatives of their company, thus regulating them. This is dead wrong.