[nmglug] The OS progress,

Eddie Schell eddieschell1992 at gmail.com
Wed May 2 21:07:14 PDT 2012


That's pretty rare for Asus. They normally make pretty rock solid
equipment.. did you get the back ported crunch bang?
On May 2, 2012 1:41 PM, "Scott Gamble" <gamblesc at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> 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> 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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