<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hey, a few years ago, I had my eyes lasered. And they even remembered to change the setting on the laser from "vaporize bulldozer" to "delicate". I can read it just fine. It's pretty nice when trying to view pictures that I've taken with a 7.2 megapixel camera... The scroll regions aren't so bad.<br><br>Well, I need to go back to using my bionic eyeballs to spy on the neighbors :-)<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Bob<br><div> </div>--<br>"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."<br> --Leonardo da Vinci<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;
font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:02:19 AM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] POS BIOS<br><br>
I don't have anything against Dell laptops, your probably thinking of <br>when I always say that we can build a desktop better than anyone (in <br>that the name brands tend to include crapola, ie maxtor, etc).<br> How can anyone hate what just works?<br>p.s. Anyone that can easily view 1920x1200 on a 17" inch display must <br>have bionic eyeballs....<br><br>Robert Meyer wrote:<br>> You know, I have this Dell XPS laptop that everything just works, <br>> too. I loaded Mandriva 2008 on it and everything was there. Just
had <br>> to download the firmware for the wireless but that happened <br>> automatically when I opened the configuration manager to set it up. <br>> It has a 2G Centrino, 2G memory, 100G drive and nVidia GeForce Go
6800 <br>> Ultra running 1920x1200. The thing ROCKS. Unfortunately, it's owned
<br>> by the company I work for. It even has bluetooth in it. I just have
<br>> to figure out how to use bluetooth. It even does the right things <br>> when I close the lid or suspend to disk.<br>><br>> I know Pete hates Dell laptops but this one is pretty nice.<br>><br>> Cheers!<br>><br>> Bob<br>> <br>> --<br>> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth <br>> with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you
<br>> will always long to return."<br>> --Leonardo da Vinci<br>><br>><br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: Dennis Ruzeski <<a ymailto="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com" href="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com">denniruz@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:50:00 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [nflug] POS BIOS<br>><br>> I'll tell you what I like for linux laptops-- Thinkpads! I've had 4
of<br>> them and every bit of hardware worked and the bios is like a desktop<br>> bios. My latest is a Z61m and I even got the fingerprint scanner to<br>> work.<br>><br>> Just my $.02<br>><br>> Happy Holidays,<br>><br>> Dennis<br>><br>> On Dec 14, 2007 9:30 AM, Robert Meyer <<a ymailto="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com" href="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com">meyer_rm@yahoo.com</a> <br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com" href="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com">meyer_rm@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I don't have any help for this but would you mind letting us know <br>> what kind<br>> > of laptop this thing is so that we can all avoid them?<br>> ><br>> > Cheers!<br>> ><br>> > Bob<br>> > --<br>> > "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth <br>> with your<br>> > eyes turned skyward, for there you have been,
and there you will <br>> always long<br>> > to return."<br>> > --Leonardo da Vinci<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ----- Original Message ----<br>> > From: Cyber Source <<a ymailto="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com" href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a> <br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com" href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>>><br>> > To: <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a>><br>> > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:21:42 AM<br>> > Subject: [nflug] POS BIOS<br>> ><br>> > Ok, gotta throw one out for some help.<br>> > Long story short is, I have a laptop that I just purchased for a<br>> > client, has nvidia and
runs perfect with Ubuntu Gutsy except for 1<br>> > little (kinda huge) problem.<br>> > The bios that ships with most laptops lately , COMPLETELY SUCK (I<br>> > hate phoenix). There is absolutely NOTHING in the bios to help
control<br>> > acpi or apic. My problem is that I have NO SOUND unless I boot with
the<br>> > kernel boot option of "acpi=off", then all works perfect except I
have<br>> > no battery monitoring, which on a laptop is pretty huge, if this
was a<br>> > desktop, it would be no biggie (not sure if it would affect ups<br>> > monitoring). I notice that I have ERR=1 from /proc/interrupts. I
have<br>> > tried all sorts of combinations of boot options, including "noapic<br>> > nolapic pnpbios=off" and I forget the rest I've tried, nothing
works<br>> > except for turning off acpi completely and then no battery monitor.
I've<br>> > looked into apm but can't recompile the kernel because then all the<br>> > other "restricted" packages won't work with the custom kernel and
that<br>> > option is basically a pain in the ass. I feel this is probably
related<br>> > to the ERR=1 from interrupts but I can't seem to clear this, it
only<br>> > gets worse with other boot options I've tried.<br>> > Does anyone know how to reroute irq's or make them behave better
(yes<br>> > I've tried pci=routeirq)?<br>> > Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?<br>> > Currently my work around is 2 grub boot stanza's, one is to have
sound<br>> > which runs "acpi=off" and the other is to have no sound and
everything<br>> > else works (battery monitor), without the "acpi=off" option.<br>> > Any help please? TIA<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > nflug mailing list<br>> > <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a>><br>> > <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug" target="_blank">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! <br>> Search.<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > nflug mailing list<br>> > <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org"
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