A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
You can use lspci -n to analyce what hardware is on your system. My new laptop a HP EliteBook 8540p gives the following output: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0044 (rev 12) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:0045 (rev 12) 00:16.0 0780: 8086:3b64 (rev 06) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:10ea (rev 06) 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:3b3c (rev 06) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3b56 (rev 06) 00:1c.0 […]
I have experienced that my harddrive makes a clicking sound about every 10th second on my Ubuntu 9.10 and a fix to this problem is to disable APM using hdparm. This behaviour comes from very activ APM modes that some drive manufacturers use and that leads to excessive head parking and can reduce a harddrives […]
You can use lspci -n to analyce what hardware is on your system. My new laptop a HP Compaq 8510p gives the following output: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2a00 (rev 0c) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:2a01 (rev 0c) 00:03.0 0780: 8086:2a04 (rev 0c) 00:03.2 0101: 8086:2a06 (rev 0c) 00:03.3 0700: 8086:2a07 (rev 0c) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:1049 (rev 03) 00:1a.0 […]
I experienced problems booting the install-CD for both Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora Core 7 on my HP Compaq 8510p laptop because the kernel didn’t have the correct SATA driver, so I decided to try the beta of Ubuntu 7.10. The booting problem was fixed on 7.10 Beta and the installation process halted at 88% “importing […]
Her er ei samling av tips for å få min bærbare PC til å fungere tilfredsstillende i Linux, oppdateres fortløpende. The solution is editing xorg.conf and adding “HorizSync 36-52” and “VertRefresh 36-60” in “Section Monitor”. Giving a startx, the desktop appears with normal resolution for the vesa driver (cannot use radeon driver on this machine). […]