I have an old HP Omnibook XE3 that I want to use for P2P, Sopcast, viewing videos etc. I wanted to set up Ubuntu og Kubuntu but was not sure if the laptop could handle it. What do you guys think? Which distro would suit me best?
View 9 RepliesWhat do folks suggest for the system listed in the title? It is an old gateway box with the original Phoenix BIOS. Currently I have Ubuntu on it and it was working ok till I went from 9 to 10, since then it has been acting up. I run it basically as a backroom server, (file server, home automation, media), but it doesn't get hit hard. I'm looking for something lighter than Ubuntu.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have windows xp.I ran a blue ray rip on my P3 with following options
-lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all
-vf scale=640:272 (because my computer supports max resolution 1024x768 while original video is 1280x528)
Yet the video is slower than audio. Can I do anything else to play this ? Or How can I convert the file to lower resolution video maintaining quality & small size using ffmpeg or mencoder? here are file specifications
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$ffmpeg -i /data/sumeet/video/hollywood/blood diamonds/blood diamonds-2006.mkv FFmpeg version git-1dbd813, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 1 2010 19:28:12 with gcc 4.4.3
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I've been trying to revive an old HP Omnibook XE-3 using Ubuntu. After some installation problems, I've finally managed to complete the command line installation on the system. I then proceeded to update the system and install X.org.
This is where my problem lies:
Everytime I try to use
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To get it running, it fails, no matter what the installed window manager/GUI is. XFCE and LXDE both fail, and even simple WMs like fluxbox fail. Even X.org on its own fails; All of them give me a black screen with which I cannot interact in any way.
Any ideas on what might be causing this? I'll be severely disappointed if it's a hardware issue, since I really want to get that old machine back on its feet. I should mention that I've been experimenting using a virtual machine set up in almost the same manner as the XE-3, and that one runs XFCE (the heaviest one I could possibly use on a less than 256 MB RAM machine) absolutely fine.
I have managed to install Arch linux on an old PIII compaq, now my question is this:
I have seen many fancy pictures of a nice Arch GUI, but all i get after install is
My guess is that it boots up in to a Shell , but how do I get to the GUI form here or have I failed from the start.
Not a guess any more Im in a shell. when i "ls" i see all the folders in "/"
I have an old Omnibook my Dad let me have and I wanted some version of linux on it so naturally I am TRYING to install Damn Small Linux. Here is what I have done so far...
1. I took the hard drive out and used a usb to IDE cable and used the damn small linux live cd on my desktop and installed DSL on the hard drive using the USB HDD tool.
2. I put the hard drive back in the Omnibook and started the boot process
3. When I get to the desktop the screen is full of pink and green lines and I can make it the outlines of the desktop and the icons but cannot read them.
4. When I use the boot floppy to try and boot it and use fb800x600 cheatcode I get all the way to where it is supposed to load the desktop and it gives me this error:
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests ( 0 known processed) with 0 events remaining Does anyone know how I can fix this?
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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I have tried installing a third OS (Windows + 2 distros) in the past but still only got two choices - Windows and the last installed distro. The first distro was still in the machine but not showing on the boot up screen. I've tried to read up about chainloading but don't really understand it.
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The F13 is my home server with a lot of services:
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- Postfix
- Postgresql
- apache (tons of php)
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- dhcpd
- named
- samba
- squid
I am worried that the upgrade will break something. I spent a lot of time setting these things up.
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xmarks has a development version for chrome, which is not working at the moment, and I cannot find any plans for xmarks in midori.
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