[nmglug] The OS progress,

Wed May 2 12:40:57 PDT 2012

On 05/02/2012 11:53 AM, Eddie Schell wrote:
>
> Scott,
> That's great that you got your monster working,
> I would love to attend meetings but unfortunately I live in lonely old 
> gallup . What kind of machine are you running? I use Linux mint 12 and 
> I'm eagerly awaiting Linux mint 13. I find it to work really well and 
> is pretty up to date. I have heard lots about crunhbang.. I think I 
> will give it a shot in a VM tomorrow. Its debian based yes? Ill let 
> you know what I think:-)
>
> On May 2, 2012 11:45 AM, "Scott Gamble" <gamblesc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gamblesc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/01/2012 06:33 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>
>         NMGlug'ers, I am glad to see the conversation continuing. I
>         hope that
>         any of us that find a workable solution will share with new
>         users. I,
>         too, prefer Gnome 2.x and wonder if any of us is up to finding the
>         archive for this. I wonder if it is possible to bring it into an
>         upgraded system.
>         Let's keep talking as we settle on new or updated OS's.
>         By the way, I have had some issues with some kind of exploit in
>         Firefox over the last month. Both at home and at a public
>         computer.
>         Homepage and some other settings were changed. Easy enough to
>         fix with
>         'about:config' but interesting that it has happened repeatedly.
>         Thanks, Ted P.
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>     Greetings NMGlug'ers,
>     Ted, I am glad to hear that the Debian install with Xfce is
>     progressing well.
>     Just a quick intro for Linux users who have not been to the last
>     two meetings at the Baking Co.
>
>     I have been working on getting a working install of Linux on my
>     "monster-Laptop" which I use for
>     Design Engineering work with Autodesk Inventor (which only runs on
>     Windows).
>
>     I had been using "the monster" - in dual - boot Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
>      but when trying to upgrade to latest Ubuntu my Realtek ALC 1200
>     audio chipset was not recognized in the new ALSA tree in the new
>     Kernal.
>
>     I spent many weeks trying to fix this a few years ago but in the
>     end I had to give up and reinstall Ubuntu 10.04 which worked
>     really well.
>
>     A few months ago I upgraded my wifes laptop to the latest Ubuntu
>     and like many others did not like the Unity desktop and was not
>     sure about Gnome 3.
>     I still wanted to have a current working Linux on my main laptop
>     so I started looking into some alternative
>     Distros. I thought I would give KDE a shot and ended up finding
>     Chakra Linux a fork of the Arch Linux Distro that uses KDE
>     exclusively.
>
>     I installed Chakra and of course had no sound at all. So a month
>     ago I went to my first NM Linux user group meeting. I enjoyed
>     meeting everyone and received lots of support trying to fix my
>     sound problem.
>     Same Nobel and Jason Schaefer(very skillful Linux users)  worked
>     very hard through the night trying to fix this problem ...they
>     managed to get a small squeak from my box around 1:00 am by
>     installing some legacy kernal . On his way out the door Jason
>     jokingly said "you should get a real distro" Thinking that my
>     obscure Chakra Distro may have been compounding my sound problems.
>
>     So the next day I installed Debian proper with the latest KDE. I
>     finally managed to get the sound working by compiling a driver
>     from Realtek also managed to install the ATI drivers which I need
>     for temperature reasons - this "monster" has dual graphics running
>     in crossfire for my 3D Design work.
>
>     I found that I did not care for the gloss of KDE but I felt good
>     with learning about Debian.
>     So I started looking around for alternatives again. I wanted to
>     keep  the connection with Debian but I missed the smaller
>     community that I found in Chakra Linux.....
>
>     Well I think I have finally found my Linux home at Crunchbang Linux:)
>     I highly recommend Crunchbang!
>
>     below is a quote from the CrunchBand Web site
>
>     CrunchBang Linux uses the Openbox window manager. Openbox is
>     lightweight and speedy, and as a result, CrunchBang Linux is fast.
>     Also, while CrunchBang Linux is not primarily designed for old
>     systems, it has been reported to operate very well where system
>     resources are limited. Once installed, CrunchBang Linux should
>     boot-up and operate faster than a regular Debian GNOME/KDE
>     installation.
>
>     I am using the 64 bit backport version which is like the debian
>     testing version that used the latest kernal
>     I am very happy with this Distro. it has a simple "old-school"
>     dark them that lets you focus on the applications you are using.
>
>     I think this would be best for Intermediate Linux users or people
>     who want to learn more of how things are working "under the hood"
>     so to speak.
>
>     I will be at the next meeting .... is it this week  or next?  for
>     any one who wants to take CrunshBang for a ride. Hopefully I will
>     be a little more fluent with OpenBox  by then.
>
>     Sorry for such a long email but hopefully this will have been of
>     interest...
>     Bye for now
>     Scott
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Hi Eddie,
Its an Asus W90 VP -A1 - 18.4" monitor - 6 gigs ram - two 320 gig hard 
drives with - dual ATI HD Radeon 4870 Graphic cards......AKA the 
"MONSTER" they only made them for a short time it was discontinued the 
same year it came on the market i think.  It is my opinion that they 
over reached themselves trying to put all that hardware in a laptop. 
There were a lot of RMA's I sent mine in once. So I think they lost a 
lot of money with this laptop.  I have had it for three years now. I 
have to watch the temperature from the graphic cards. I have opened up 
the back three times to replace the thermal compound on the heat sinks.
The temperature can get as hot as 98 - 100 C. Then after replacing the 
thermal compound (and at the moment) it is running at about 68 c.

For anyone noticing there fans  running full speed I recommend a good 
cleaning with compressed air and replacing old thermal compound with 
Artic Silver I have seen a massive heat reduction of 20 to 30 c.

Yes CrunchBang is based on Debian I am looking forward to seeing what 
you think after your install in Virtual Box....
all the best
Scott

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