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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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> Because I have exotic hardware (Sony TR2). Notably, I have a 1280x768
> display that XF86 can only use 1024x768 of.
Change the settings by hand in the Xcoonfig file
> 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
>
> Forget about 3D acceleration.
Playing quake?
> One of the big things for my everyday
> laptop use is being able to sleep/hibernate the machine and put it in my
> bag. I can't reliably do this on Linux. Maybe that's possible: maybe
> it's my fault.
This is not particulurly hard. I believe SUSe 9.0 will set this up for
you without trouble.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> Seems really miraculous somehow, except that dates
> get screwed up for some reason. Anyway, I run that, and it uses
> a ethertap driver to present a virtual NIC on whatever LAN my laptop
> is on and get itself an IP address. I can ssh to that address and
> start running X programs on my Windows desktop. Not very easy to do,
> the X buttons are screwed up, it's and kind of an unwieldy process,
> but that's what I'm doing.
>
And apps crash alot.
Ruben
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