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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 2:46 pm, Matt Lee wrote:
Second machine, another Toshiba... Toshiba Satellite 4000CDS. My new baby, bought for £250 on eBay, it's a Pentium II 266Mhz, with 96mb of RAM, a 4gb hard-disk and it came partitioned with 2gb free for Linux. On this machine, I decided to install Mandrake 8.1 from a bunch of CDs I'd been given, the installation here was just a matter of booting from the CD (the Toshiba laptop BIOS screen appears to have barely changed in 10 years) and running the Drak installer from Disc 1... a bit of disk swapping, and bit of a weird one on the graphics card detection (auto detected the card, but only allowed 640x480 which distorted on the screen, so I clicked Change Hardware, chose the card again a C&T 653035 i think and now it's fully working in 800x600 which isn't as bad as I thought it would be)
hmm, i have a 4000 CDS (i think) in germany (adrienne, my fiance is 'looking after it' ;)) and tried a few times to get X running on it - i never managed to get it to use any bigger than 640x480, so gave up and put win2k back on it . I'd like to get adrienne to use linux, she can only just use windows as it is now, so if i can teach her linux + gimp from scratch rather than windows + fireworks mx all the btter ;) mind you, those were the days when i was a harcore console g[r]eek, until this year i refused to touch X for the life of me, so my knowlege of how it works may make it a bit easiet this time. ~ Theo, *boom*. - -- Theo Zourzouvillys http://zozo.org.uk/ Everything will be just tickety-boo today. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9DDg0448CrwpTn6YRAuhcAKCJF8Tdpnpj6SE80eRNxq66n8cUIQCgqD/R wH4wnTtg8aB6wkVGzUwad+A= =TnsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.