For my new computer I bought a ATI HD 2600 PRO with a bunch of memory. This card has some really good 3D results, and works well on Linux. But I run into some issues with de xv extension on this board. In fact the driver (the free or binary one) doesn’t seems to support […]
admin May 17th, 2008
Ok, I decided to change my computer a couple of months right now. But as Intel is doing some strange stuffs with the prices, this took a little longer than exepected. Some friends asked me what I bought, so I decided to write this post.
My new box description:
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core at 2.4Ghz (G0 […]
admin October 21st, 2007
I have for a long time now, a Asus P2BD motherboard with 2 PII 350 on it. After googling a bit, I discover that I can put 2 Katmai PIII at 600Mhz on this board.
I have been looking at eBay for a while, I bought a pair of matched CPUs. Today, I received them. After […]
admin December 9th, 2005
Like a lot of users, i get an issue with my fan on the Shuttle Xpc. In fact, i found a lot of comments over the net, that Shuttle used some bad fan in this boxes. Some users decide to use the waranty, but i don’t want to send this back to Paris, just to […]
admin April 17th, 2005
I now have a Dell Latitude D400 for 1 month. This little (really small) computer is pretty nice to use, but it right now, it’s really hard to have suspend working on this kind of stuff. The main reason: it only support ACPI (no APM), and ACPI isn’t well supported by the Linux kernel.
I have […]
admin October 24th, 2004
I just received my new hard-drive, a Maxtor Diamonstar 90 - 8M (read 80Go and 8M of cache). So I decided to fdisk + cp -a my old distros to the new drive. Everything is ok .. I have something like this:
/dev/hda1 Win (I don’t install this but leave a blank fat32 .. if)
/dev/hda2 […]
admin October 11th, 2004
Yes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours to install several things: OpenOffice, WinSCP, Mozilla etc etc ..
This notebook run really smoothly, it […]
admin August 28th, 2004
I always hated closed source drivers, and ATI is one of the big guy in video card. There is a petition online to ask ATI for specification or better drivers. I sign it because my ATI 9100IGP doesn’t have TVout support right now..
admin August 24th, 2004
Hardware
The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use:
ATI IGP9100 video board
ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller
OHCI based USB 2
Realtek network card
As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a little howto. Look here for more infos
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies […]
admin July 2nd, 2004
My K7S5A motherboard (w/ a Athlon on) burn on fire last week. I don’t know why, when i come back home (after work), i found a blanc screen, try to reboot but nothing.. Damm
I looked a this closer yesterday.. and yes some chipset on the motherboard have burn .. So i need to buy another […]
admin June 27th, 2004