What's the make and model of your laptop? BTW all, I have 2 486 laptops. Both are Compaq's. Moria plays really well on old laptops ;-) Both are for sale... Sam. Chris Schumann wrote: >>From: Shawn Fertch <sfertch at gmail.com> >> >> > > > >>On Apr 4, 2005 2:32 PM, Chris Schumann <cschumann at twp-llc.com> wrote: >> >> >>>It looks like not everyone got my earlier message, but I >>> >>> >>have Debian running >> >> >>>just fine on the ol' gal. >>> >>> > > > >>Couple of recommendations: >> >>Use a light window manager such as fvwm2 instead of KDE. >> >> > >Excellent. I will try that once I can get either a 640x480 or larger virtual >screen or an actual 640x480 display. > > > >>Try apsfilter instead of CUPS. The configuration is really quite >>simple. I tried doing CUPS via command line, but found apsfilter to >>be by far easier to setup. >> >> > >Now that's something to bite into. apsfilter... Thank you. > > > >>What was the inteded use of this system again? I'm curious as to the >>reasoning behind loading such an old laptop up. >> >> > >A few uses. > >1) It's my first PC ever, so I'd like it to run. Something. It's not worth >SELLING anymore. >2) I'd like it to be a print server for Windows machines (I know) to print >on my HP DeskJet 560C... which is about the same vintage, but works great. >Too bad some shops like Best Buy don't carry my ink any more. I might even >put some tertiary file storage on it. >3) Serve as a bad example. "Don't try this at home... here's why" >4) I would *love* to dig into X.org and port the video driver. I find it >hard to believe that no one else wants this done. Thing is, there's so much >other stuff in the real world intruding on my hacking time. >5) I'd also like to get the audio driver working. >6) Then the pen... and have a totally p1mp3d out laptop... that's slow as >dirt... unless I put a PDA desktop on it. > > > >>From: Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> >> >> > > > >>Think you could run a PDA window-manager at all? >> >>Matchbox: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5966737838.html >> >> > >Another great suggestion. I will definitely look into that. Thanks Chad. > > > >>And... GNOME Palm Environment (GPE) http://gpe.handhelds.org/ >> >> > >So much to learn. > >Thanks again, guys. > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005