Am 2008-04-29 22:40:22, schrieb Igor:
> I just noticed an unfortunate circumstance, though. Dell installed a
> 32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb
> thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way
> to migrate to a 64-bit environment. I'm not q
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The laptop is XPS M1330. It's been configured with the
> hibernate/suspend, wireless networking, cpu frequency scaling, >webcam,
> and some other features working out of the box. I haven't tried the
> fingerprint reader yet. I don't really want to spend time break
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you ever hear your fans blow?
Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000
random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU
tempe
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sometime today I will turn off i8k and let you know of the behavior.
Thanks, I'd like to know. I sorta trust the BIOS to shut off the
computer should it ever get too hot, and I don't know if a CP
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you ever hear your fans blow?
Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000
random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU
temperature went up to 70C, a
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know
if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my
Vostro sure does.
Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem t
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know
if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my
Vostro sure does.
Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem t
On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know
> if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my
> Vostro sure does.
Hm, my Inspiron's fans seem to working fine. I can see the CPU
tem
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy, Jordi!
Igor, is that you? If so, you changed your Gmail address.
The laptop is XPS M1330.
Ah, nice. If I had waited a while, a couple of months, I could have
bought one of the same ones. Oh
On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy, Jordi!
Igor, is that you? If so, you changed your Gmail address.
> The laptop is XPS M1330.
Ah, nice. If I had waited a while, a couple of months, I could have
bought one of the same ones. Oh, well. I'm happy enough with the one I
have.
>
Igor wrote:
> However, I'm a little paranoid that this is not entirely
> safe and that it may leave my system in a broken state. Does anyone
>
Hi Igor!
A piece of general advice: Before attempting such grand experimental
operations which may destroy your system, you can do a full backup using
> The obvious thing to do is to change the apt sources and run a
> dist-upgrade. However, I'm a little paranoid that this is not entirely
> safe and that it may leave my system in a broken state. Does anyone
> have experience with this course of action or have better suggestions?
>
i did try this
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:04:47PM -0400, Igor wrote:
> I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled. What I
> like about this setup is that all sorts of nifty things like the
> wireless card and hibernate/suspend features are automatically set up.
> However, I prefer the Debian pac
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:40:22PM -0400, Igor wrote:
> 32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb
> thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way
> to migrate to a 64-bit environment.
reinstall (dpkg --get-selections , debconf-get-selections and g
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:04:47PM -0400, Igor wrote:
> The obvious thing to do is to change the apt sources and run a
> dist-upgrade.
if you really want to do this, you also should configure pin priorities
in /etc/apt/preferences (man 5 apt_preferences ; give a pin priority >=
1001 to debian and
Howdy, Jordi!
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled.
> [snip]
>
> > However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of
>
On 29/04/2008, Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled.
[snip]
> However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of
> updates (I usually run unstable).
I bought one of the same ones. I simply wiped the hard drive and
installed D
> I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled. What I
> like about this setup is that all sorts of nifty things like the
> wireless card and hibernate/suspend features are automatically set up.
If they work in Ubuntu, chances are that they will work fine on Debian Sid
also.
> Ca
Igor wrote:
I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled. What I
like about this setup is that all sorts of nifty things like the
wireless card and hibernate/suspend features are automatically set up.
However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of
updates (I usual
I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled. What I
like about this setup is that all sorts of nifty things like the
wireless card and hibernate/suspend features are automatically set up.
However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of
updates (I usually run unstabl
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