My system (a Gateway M685-E laptop) has the opposite problem: Audio works fine in Vista, though only when the external output is plugged in, but in Linux the sound chip (SigmaTel STAC9250) does NOT work. ALSA finds the snd_hda_intel, and I can play things to it, but no sound comes out. Also, the mixer lists no inputs at all.
I absolutely hate when people post porn avatars on tech forums. If I want porn, I will look for it explicitly! If I want tech news, then keeep your pr0n away from me!
So they should offer you 1.5 megabits guaranteed, rather than offering 3 (what Charter offers) but throttling people to 1!
They advertize 256 kilobits/sec up, which is 32 kilobbytes/sec, but if I try to go above 12 it swamps the connection. I'm getting just 1/3 of what's promised. Also, the highest down speed I've ever gotten was 2 megabits on some very popular torrent.
The least they could do would be to say "average 1, peaks at 3," rather than sounding like it should always be 3.
The hard drive is currently NTFS in a USB 2.0 enclosure, so I can just bring the drive and connect it easily. I want to be able to write to the drive from both Windows and Linux. Also, since they are living in the dorms, the firewall blocks many things such as Samba.
I have the MX700 mouse, with 2 thumb buttons and the scroll buttons above and below the scroll wheel. I believe I can use imwheel to capture the thumb button events (8 and 9). xmodmap only works on the corepointer, which I have the touchpad set as. I do like the scroll buttons working as default, though.
My keyboard is the Logitech keyboard that came with the mouse (MX Duo). The buttons I am referring to are the volume wheel and the buttons such as Media, media control (Play, Stop, Forward, Back), Web. These buttons used to work perfectly using lineakd, but some update broke them so they no longer generate events in xev, despite having set the keyboard to the appropriate model, "logiinkse", in xorg.conf. Also, lineakd now just gives me a string of xkbsetmap errors when I start it.
As for Apple, if they come out with a 17" core duo with a keyboard that fits me (like the HP) and an exterior with the right connectors (not that I'd use them all), then I'd love to get one; however, I'd still need to run Windows for games -- and that would have to be Vista. Vista so far has incomplete drivers (current ATI vista drivers have some functions like tv-out disabled). Vista 5270 has moved many options around just for the hell of it -- display control panel tabs are separated into different places, for example.
2 things I hate: IGPs (even if ATI or NVIDIA, I still want more power -- I want HL2 at 1680x1050 if at all possible) Companies moving things around just for the hell of it so you can't find anything
My school has Pepsi-only, and I like Pepsi somewhat better. When I get soda (not too often) I prefer Sierra Mist (I'd assume it's an item of Pepsi brand) over Sprite.
Now, the laptop thing...
My school has only Apple and Dell, but I'd prefer an HP if they ever came out with a dual-core AMD _or_ Intel version of the dv8000z, with a discrete graphics card that is at least X700 level.
Oddly, for books & supplies scholarships you have to use them all at once, thus encouraging unnecessary spending; if I wanted to put that towards a laptop I'd be stuck with Apple or Dell.
Apple is good, but they don't have what I want yet, which would be a Core Duo 17" 1680x1050 with a frickin' TWO BUTTON TOUCHPAD, like that HP. Too bad Apple won't partner with other companies somehow to make it all magically work out.
Also, I hear good things about Apple, but having essentially zero personal experience, I don't have my own opinion. I need my tweakability such as that which registry tools (in Windows, my primary OS*) and YaST (I use SuSE 10.0), and what little I've seen makes me think many settings are hidden or nonexistant.
For Dell, I wouldn't be able to justify an Inspiron E1705 (for MCE), and I probably wouldn't be able to get a discount on one because it's not a recommended model and there is no midrange GPU option. Also, the white with silver is kinda ugly; the HP looks much more elegant.
* there are a few showstoppers that make me not switch to Linux full-time; extra mouse buttons not working right, extra keys not working at all; no shared file system that I can place my torrents on and still have them be readable to my friends' systems (one friend uses BSD, the other uses XP).
Also no more Omega Drivers (ATI and NVIDIA), so you're stuck with whatever the newest set of drivers your laptop manufacturer provides (often over a year old)
Well, you seem to be forgetting something: crappy, sometimes BSOD-inducing NVIDIA chipset drivers. Look around the web, on http://www.nforcershq.com/forum and nvidia's own forums and you'll see the issues people are having. In contrast, I've heard that ATI's northbridge at least doesn't need many special drivers, though I have no personal experience.
Well, for me the Windows XP uPnP implementation still is flawed.
Router is Netgear RP614v2 firmware 6.1RC5NA
uPnP works perfectly...for about five minutes. Then the gateway disappears from Network Connections until I disable and then re-enable the connection. Things like Intel's uPnP tools can still see the router. I am sure it's a Windows problem.
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Okay, so it has tabs...
now give me back my menus! It was bad enough when the menu bar was BELOW the tabs, but to not have one at all?
Also, the New Tab button actually BEING a tab is just silly. It's quite unintuitive to me.
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My system (a Gateway M685-E laptop) has the opposite problem: Audio works fine in Vista, though only when the external output is plugged in, but in Linux the sound chip (SigmaTel STAC9250) does NOT work. ALSA finds the snd_hda_intel, and I can play things to it, but no sound comes out. Also, the mixer lists no inputs at all.
Then you'll be glad to hear that ATI's new southbridge, the SB600, has AHCI SATA.& ref=y
At least, that's what I read on http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2490
I absolutely hate when people post porn avatars on tech forums. If I want porn, I will look for it explicitly! If I want tech news, then keeep your pr0n away from me!
So they should offer you 1.5 megabits guaranteed, rather than offering 3 (what Charter offers) but throttling people to 1!
They advertize 256 kilobits/sec up, which is 32 kilobbytes/sec, but if I try to go above 12 it swamps the connection. I'm getting just 1/3 of what's promised.
Also, the highest down speed I've ever gotten was 2 megabits on some very popular torrent.
The least they could do would be to say "average 1, peaks at 3," rather than sounding like it should always be 3.
The reason for Vista is that the Core Duo Apple laptops use EFS and don't have BIOS emulation. Therefore, XP won't run (or even install, I believe)
The hard drive is currently NTFS in a USB 2.0 enclosure, so I can just bring the drive and connect it easily. I want to be able to write to the drive from both Windows and Linux. Also, since they are living in the dorms, the firewall blocks many things such as Samba.
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I have the MX700 mouse, with 2 thumb buttons and the scroll buttons above and below the scroll wheel. I believe I can use imwheel to capture the thumb button events (8 and 9). xmodmap only works on the corepointer, which I have the touchpad set as. I do like the scroll buttons working as default, though.
My keyboard is the Logitech keyboard that came with the mouse (MX Duo). The buttons I am referring to are the volume wheel and the buttons such as Media, media control (Play, Stop, Forward, Back), Web.
These buttons used to work perfectly using lineakd, but some update broke them so they no longer generate events in xev, despite having set the keyboard to the appropriate model, "logiinkse", in xorg.conf. Also, lineakd now just gives me a string of xkbsetmap errors when I start it.
As for Apple, if they come out with a 17" core duo with a keyboard that fits me (like the HP) and an exterior with the right connectors (not that I'd use them all), then I'd love to get one; however, I'd still need to run Windows for games -- and that would have to be Vista.
Vista so far has incomplete drivers (current ATI vista drivers have some functions like tv-out disabled). Vista 5270 has moved many options around just for the hell of it -- display control panel tabs are separated into different places, for example.
The HP:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/01/11/hp_pavilio
Vista current build screenshots:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5270
2 things I hate:
IGPs (even if ATI or NVIDIA, I still want more power -- I want HL2 at 1680x1050 if at all possible)
Companies moving things around just for the hell of it so you can't find anything
Now, the laptop thing... My school has only Apple and Dell, but I'd prefer an HP if they ever came out with a dual-core AMD _or_ Intel version of the dv8000z, with a discrete graphics card that is at least X700 level.
Oddly, for books & supplies scholarships you have to use them all at once, thus encouraging unnecessary spending; if I wanted to put that towards a laptop I'd be stuck with Apple or Dell.
Apple is good, but they don't have what I want yet, which would be a Core Duo 17" 1680x1050 with a frickin' TWO BUTTON TOUCHPAD, like that HP. Too bad Apple won't partner with other companies somehow to make it all magically work out.
Also, I hear good things about Apple, but having essentially zero personal experience, I don't have my own opinion. I need my tweakability such as that which registry tools (in Windows, my primary OS*) and YaST (I use SuSE 10.0), and what little I've seen makes me think many settings are hidden or nonexistant.
For Dell, I wouldn't be able to justify an Inspiron E1705 (for MCE), and I probably wouldn't be able to get a discount on one because it's not a recommended model and there is no midrange GPU option. Also, the white with silver is kinda ugly; the HP looks much more elegant.
* there are a few showstoppers that make me not switch to Linux full-time; extra mouse buttons not working right, extra keys not working at all; no shared file system that I can place my torrents on and still have them be readable to my friends' systems (one friend uses BSD, the other uses XP).
Aargh, this makes you use manual breaks br p!
Er, not "forgetting something". It's more like: "Here's a better example"
Also no more Omega Drivers (ATI and NVIDIA), so you're stuck with whatever the newest set of drivers your laptop manufacturer provides (often over a year old)
Well, you seem to be forgetting something: crappy, sometimes BSOD-inducing NVIDIA chipset drivers. Look around the web, on http://www.nforcershq.com/forum and nvidia's own forums and you'll see the issues people are having. In contrast, I've heard that ATI's northbridge at least doesn't need many special drivers, though I have no personal experience.
Everywhere I've tried the plus, it's said IINVALID ADDRESS (on ATI's contest, dealnews, and other such public things)
Well, for me the Windows XP uPnP implementation still is flawed.
Router is Netgear RP614v2 firmware 6.1RC5NA
uPnP works perfectly...for about five minutes. Then the gateway disappears from Network Connections until I disable and then re-enable the connection. Things like Intel's uPnP tools can still see the router. I am sure it's a Windows problem.
Okay, so it has tabs... now give me back my menus! It was bad enough when the menu bar was BELOW the tabs, but to not have one at all? Also, the New Tab button actually BEING a tab is just silly. It's quite unintuitive to me.