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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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> > > It also has a camera that's
> > > useless on Linux, and an internal Bluetooth adapter that's useless on
> > > Linux (I think there's hope for that if I wanted to really work on it,
> > > though).
> >
> > >The external display connector which I depend on for getting
> > > real work done doesn't work on Linux except as a 1024x768 mirror of the
> > > laptop screen (on Windows I can use it as a 1600x1200 desktop
> > > extension).
> >
> > You can probibly use X in VESA setting. That's exactly what my sony did.
> > I got the Xcongireation file from Emperorer Linux
>
> No. This is different.. Your picturebook was a Neomagic chip, right?
It's not neomagic, but I called them up for a XConfig file for the
external and it was a VESA driver. I'll look at it a bit later and
tell you. It's not on the network at the moment.
>
> It's pretty easy on Windows.
>
And SUSe :)
> > > I'm tired of struggling all weekend to get stuff like
> > > that to work.
> >
> > Thats another issue, but at least you only need to do that once.
>
> No, this is EXACTLY THIS ISSUE!
>
Hey, I can understnad getting tired of treaking the system for a damn laptop.
That's why I brought my laptop from Emperor, and paid them to do it :)
> > > So what I'm doing is running Gentoo on colinux on WindowsXP Pro, with
> > > lots of help from Cygwin (especially its ssh and X server). WindowsXP
> > > handles all of the hardware, and Gentoo does all of my real work.
> >
> > I've been using that stuff lately at work and it so sucks, although it is
> > much better than ity used to. Their X Server is much improved.
>
> Well, pure Linux sucks a lot worse on this laptop.
>
> > > If you don't know about colinux, it's a usermode Linux kernel running as
> > > a windows process.
> >
> > Windows doesn't have processes. It must run as a Windows Thread.
>
> Ok, why the fuck did you clip my URL to the msdn site
> defining the "Processes and Threads" API?
Hey be Nice :)
I didn't clip it purposefully.
I've make you feel better and look at it. You look at the papers
on cross compiling and porting GTK
> >
> > And apps crash alot.
>
> No they don't!
Yes they do!
Xchat crashes when I just click on a button their X, Mozilla dies
whenever it looks for a plugin, the gimp dies on filters, gvim dies on the
make button etc etc etc ....
Ruben
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