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Skriven 2009-09-22 13:40:48 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Wayne Chirnside
Ärende: to some it might seem creepy
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Hey Wayne!

> Except for moving north, all but the tower must go.

Yeah it's hard to find a decent case these days.

> I finally found a significant use for two monitors on a single
> Linux installation.
> Learning *nix.

Interesting idea.  Best idea I've heard for two monitors.  Usually the second
monitor is for farming out things like movies, tv, or simular silliness.

> 6000 as a package with CPU and fan for $165 U.S.

Pretty good deal.

> Then as a joke installing it in the 1998 IBM Aptiva tower.

Why would that be a joke?  Like I said above, decent cases are hard to fine
these days.  Most of what I see readily available is for the neon light crowd
who are as a rule clueless as to what is good.

Personally I prefer the steel 4U rackmount cases.

BTW the latest eeepc build is sitting at ~550M.  I have a simular one for pure
64 bit but haven't finished yet.  I plan to have a package list by the end of
the week and put it on the ftp site instead of posting it. It is getting way
too long.  Something I've started playing with on the xeon (soon the atom) and
the eeepc;

[drm] DAC-6: set mode 1280x1024 1b
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 [drm] fb0: inteldrmfb
frame buffer device

On the eeepc mode is 800x480 on bootup.  Got it working on the terminals with
fbi for jpegs, pngs, etc. as well as for pdfs and ps with the fbgs shell
wrapper to ghostscript.  Also put it into the links.cfg so that it will farm
out graphics to fbi on the fly.  mplayer doesn't like it ... yet.  However
mplayer works great on xorg with the intel graphics driver so now I have to use
that if I ever care, which I don't but what the heck eh?  I figure it'll all
start working on a fb terminal by the new year if not sooner.  Looks to me that
at least 915 chipsets are required for this as well as onboard graphics.  Needs
work but I figure it'll happen.

Still haven't seen any usb3.0 cards.  I see the driver in the kernel for it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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