<p>That's pretty rare for Asus. They normally make pretty rock solid equipment.. did you get the back ported crunch bang?</p>
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On 05/02/2012 11:53 AM, Eddie Schell wrote:
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<p>Scott, <br>
That's great that you got your monster working,<br>
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:-)
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On 05/01/2012 06:33 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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NMGlug'ers, I am glad to see the conversation continuing. I
hope that<br>
any of us that find a workable solution will share with new
users. I,<br>
too, prefer Gnome 2.x and wonder if any of us is up to
finding the<br>
archive for this. I wonder if it is possible to bring it
into an<br>
upgraded system.<br>
Let's keep talking as we settle on new or updated OS's.<br>
By the way, I have had some issues with some kind of exploit
in<br>
Firefox over the last month. Both at home and at a public
computer.<br>
Homepage and some other settings were changed. Easy enough
to fix with<br>
'<a>about:config</a>' but interesting that it has happened
repeatedly.<br>
Thanks, Ted P.<br>
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Greetings NMGlug'ers,<br>
Ted, I am glad to hear that the Debian install with Xfce is
progressing well.<br>
Just a quick intro for Linux users who have not been to the
last two meetings at the Baking Co.<br>
<br>
I have been working on getting a working install of Linux on
my "monster-Laptop" which I use for<br>
Design Engineering work with Autodesk Inventor (which only
runs on Windows).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
I still wanted to have a current working Linux on my main
laptop so I started looking into some alternative<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I found that I did not care for the gloss of KDE but I felt
good with learning about Debian.<br>
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.....<br>
<br>
Well I think I have finally found my Linux home at Crunchbang
Linux:)<br>
I highly recommend Crunchbang!<br>
<br>
below is a quote from the CrunchBand Web site<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I am using the 64 bit backport version which is like the
debian testing version that used the latest kernal<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Sorry for such a long email but hopefully this will have been
of interest...<br>
Bye for now<br>
Scott<br>
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Hi Eddie,<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Yes CrunchBang is based on Debian I am looking forward to seeing
what you think after your install in Virtual Box....<br>
all the best<br>
Scott<br>
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