Re: What to put on SSD

2010-08-15 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:02:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Grumpy Old Man says: sell the SSD and buy more RAM. Already did. Get more RAM that is. I went from 4 to 8 GB. 16 is max and I can go to 12 without swapping out existing memory. It's a work machine, so I can't just sell extra parts away

Re: What to put on SSD

2010-08-06 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > What you might want to find out is whether you have a G1 or G2 device. > G2 supports the TRIM command which helps the SSD to keep up performance. > Otherwise, performance degrades over time, especially when you keep the > SSD nearly full. I h

What to put on SSD

2010-08-05 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
I have this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 37G 14G 22G 39% / tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 640K 9.4M 7% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 328

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-27 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On 2010-03-27, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Intel i5 Graphics are enormously more powerful than a G550. Good to hear that. I just need my xterms and browser. Maybe sometime watch a youtube video, but that's about it. And for people like me this new Intel graphics thing seems like a perfect match. Well

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-24 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On 2010-03-23, Frank Miles wrote: > Sound has worked without any particular intervention - straight > ALSA. I don't do anything complex with the sound system, > though. I tried the sound yesterday and it just worked. That was nice. > As far as the video - while I'm presently

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On 2010-03-22, Frank Miles wrote: > with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the > Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek > driver out of nonfree. I got the same kernel from backports and the network chip started to work. I'm still using old 3c

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-21 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On 2010-03-21, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote: > So the right side of the picture is shown at the left. I just don't > know how I could adjust this. I'm using a vga cable btw, maybe dvi > cable would help? Replying to myself here. Yes, it helps. I searched the closets at the office an

Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-21 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
I just retired my 9 year old machine to home use and got a Gigabyte H55-UD3H motherboard with Intel Core i5 processor. Well, the first impressions are that maybe I should have done a bit more research since there are Realtek net and audio chips that might have some issues. Anyway, I have a 3com car

Re: Lenny upgrade broke dvi on Matrox G550

2009-10-18 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:37:17PM +0300, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote: > But I can't find whether I still need the hal library or should > mga driver support dvi. I have this mga_hal_drv.so which > I think was needed before. Replying to myself here. Yes, I do need the hal library. And i

Lenny upgrade broke dvi on Matrox G550

2009-10-15 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
I've been using Matrox G550 for years. Now I upgraded to Lenny and DVI connection stopped working. I have also vga on my monitor, but I need it for another machine (that's a bit like kvm box without the k and m). X itself doesn't seem to know it's not working. When I command startx, everything ini

Asus P4P800 on Debian

2008-12-01 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
I need a replacement motherboard for tired (capacitors) Soltek SL-865PE-L. As a replacement I'm thinking of Asus P4P800 which are commonly available and which uses the same memory etc. so the upgrade would be limited to motherboard only. However there are many versions of this board and I'm espec

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-25 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:04:59PM -, pgega wrote: > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. Well, the mem-parameter is mainly used in limiting the available memory, not the other way round. I would use that

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-22 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:37AM -, pgega wrote: > Pasi: what was the RAM seend by BIOS , when I use 4 GiB ,bios sees > only 3052 GiB (But the MSI board can hadle up to 8 GiB) > > If I would rise RAM number with GRUB (like you, 3900GiB), could I get > more then seen by bios (3052 GiB) ? In m

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-22 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:13:54PM -0700, pgega wrote: > I tried swaping all of them in any possible order, none of sticks is > broken. I had the same kind of problems with my Soltek motherboard, although 32-bit one, so the following might not apply. But I guess it might be a bios issue anyway, so

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:31:03PM -0400, Gregory Pierce wrote: > I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the > whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a > proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a > small sum, ~$200.

Re: Home button not working in shell

2004-08-04 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:54:55AM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > How do I make the Home button work as expected? Try adding the line *xterm*appcursorDefault: true to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (or XTerm-color). Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "