From the old laptop file, tried on a Compaq E500 from year 2000, PIII at 600 MHz with 320 RAM. ATI Mobility video which appears to be sharing 16MB of main RAM. This booted but the desktop was messed up, the top 20% transposed to the bottom. Have seen this with a number of distros, tho' it is OK with...

Posting from RC1 live on a Dell Latitude D610 (pentium m 2 GHz, 1G RAM, ATI X300 grfx). Wifi is working ootb with Intel 2915. One thing I observed, on trying to look at the Startup Guide, evince complains it doesn't deal with 'file type plain text.' This both from menu entry and desktop icon. Also r...

Hmmm. This is a forum for problems with Salix. However I am not sure I am seeing problems with Salix here. What I think I'm seeing is a machine with significant hardware problems which probably needs at least some components replaced. Without wishing to be rude I am also seeing a user who is out of ...

A few questions for you to help try and get a focus on what is up here. What sort of computer have you got? If a laptop/netbook, what maker and model number? If a desktop motherboard details could be useful, eg Gigabyte xxxx. Do you know what the chipset is in your wireless adapter, eg a Ralink 2561...

Interesting, so your young pal in the shop stuck a different component inside your netbook, not something you push into a slot on the side or a USB port? He's right that most Intel wireless is pretty well sure to work with Linux. What model number of Dell netbook do you have there? Now just take it ...

Hi there, Using the terminal is an essential part of the Linux experience. You're missing out if you don't get at least some slight knowledge of using the command line. Open up a terminal and type 'top' sans the commas. This shows you what processes are running on your machine. Just sitting and watc...

8 ball says, outlook hazy, ask again later. But seriously, kinda hard to know on the basis of info provided. Have you tried switching to a console by using CTRL+ALT+Function key 2 through 6? Are you having to power cycle the machine to restart? One possibility could be a screensaver module which doe...

Well, it's kind of like this. For your wireless to work you need to have support for your wireless device in the kernel. Presumably you know Linux has a kernel which makes the whole thing go? Then you also need some firmware to be present so the wireless device can wake up and say I'm a wireless int...

Hmmm, your question leaves me puzzled as to what the problem here actually is? You want to see more networks in wicd? You want to know what is the difference between live cd and installed version? Whatever it is probably you worked out the answer by now. You could try $iwlist scanning. You are proba...

Hi, good to hear final is near. Last version I tried was RC1. With this I was getting some minor video glitches on a ThinkPad R51, some desktop icons were not displaying correctly, it was as if they had a grid superimposed making part of the icon invisible. A minor issue though it was sufficient to ...