Mint Linux

Hi all,

I just installed Mint Linux on my old Celeron 300A computer, with 640 MB of
RAM, and an Intel i740 video card.  I like the speed of Mint on this older
computer, but I'm experiencing a few problems.  1.  I cannot get the refresh
rate to 85 HZ (which is what I had under Win 98); I had this problem when I
installed Xubuntu 7.04 too.  Currently, the resolution is set at 1024 X 768,
with a refresh rate of 70 (max).  2.  The scroll button on the mouse is
extremely slow and choppy.  I think this has something to do with the buffer
size, but not sure how to change it.  3.  Sporadically, when the screen
saver kicks in, the mouse, keyboard, and screen saver all freeze, and the
only way to unfreeze the computer is to cold boot - I know this is not good
to do in Linux!  I checked the Mint Linux forums, and found a few others
that had similar issues, but there was no resolution.

Thanks for your help!

Troy
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Re: Mint Linux

On Sat September 1 2007 02:27, Troy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed Mint Linux on my old Celeron 300A computer, with 640 MB of
> RAM, and an Intel i740 video card.  I like the speed of Mint on this older
> computer, but I'm experiencing a few problems.  1.  I cannot get the
> refresh rate to 85 HZ (which is what I had under Win 98); I had this
> problem when I installed Xubuntu 7.04 too.  Currently, the resolution is
> set at 1024 X 768, with a refresh rate of 70 (max).  2.  The scroll button
> on the mouse is extremely slow and choppy.  I think this has something to
> do with the buffer size, but not sure how to change it.  3.  Sporadically,
> when the screen saver kicks in, the mouse, keyboard, and screen saver all
> freeze, and the only way to unfreeze the computer is to cold boot - I know
> this is not good to do in Linux!  I checked the Mint Linux forums, and
> found a few others that had similar issues, but there was no resolution.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Troy

Regarding the refresh rate, do you know the correct horizontal and vertical 
refresh rates for the monitor or tft screen you are using?? I have in the 
past had to hack the xorg.conf file and enter the monitors details by hand to 
be able to use the monitor at the required refresh rate. Open xorg up in your 
favourite editor and see what it say about your monitor. If the detail are 
wrong, make a copy of the original xorg.conf and then make the changes and 
try restarting xorg.conf.

Hope this helps

Re: Mint Linux

On 08/31/2007 09:27 PM Troy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed Mint Linux on my old Celeron 300A computer, with 640 MB of
> RAM, and an Intel i740 video card.  I like the speed of Mint on this older
> computer, but I'm experiencing a few problems.  1.  I cannot get the refresh
> rate to 85 HZ (which is what I had under Win 98); I had this problem when I
> installed Xubuntu 7.04 too.  Currently, the resolution is set at 1024 X 768,
> with a refresh rate of 70 (max).  

The other things may be related to this.  It could be that the
DefaultDepth is too high.  Windows may have it set lower than it is in
your Linux setup.  I think your card is 8Mb of Video Ram.  The
resolution and pixel depth figure into how much video ram is required.

Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the Screen Section for the
DefaultDepth.  If it is 24, try changing it to 16.  You will then need
to restart X.  You can reboot or restart the X server. I don't know if
Mint uses kdm or gdm.  The command would be done as root or with sudo
and is /etc/init.d/kdm restart.  (or gdm if you are using Gnome).  That
should cause X to blink out and restart your login screen; so close your
applications first. 

Anita

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Re: file encodings on Linux

On 08/20/2007 11:31 PM Emen Zhao wrote:
> Hello Group,
> 
> I was working on some software internationalization project recently. I was
> trying to save a txt file as utf-8 encoding, but without any luck. Changing
> the locale setting or LANG env variable seems not helping. For example,
> 
> 1. export LANG="zh-CN.utf8"
> 2. create a txt file using vi
> 3. file file_name
> 
> It's till displayed as ASCII text.
> 
> Any pointer on this topic are greatly appreciated! TIA
> 
> 
> -- Emen

I just got a chance to take a look into vim and utf.

From: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/mbyte.html

ENCODING

If your locale works properly, Vim will try to set the 'encoding' option
accordingly.  If this doesn't work you can overrule its value:

	:set encoding=utf-8

Additional encoding values:

Re: Richard Wright is out of the office.

It's good etiquette to disable vacation auto-responders to mailing lists.

Richard Wright wrote:
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> I will be out of the office starting  08/31/2007 and will not return until
> 09/18/2007.
> 
> I am on vacation will be incommunicado without my IBM email service untill
> September 18. In case of emergency you may  contact me at
> richardwrightllc@... or 618-401-7814 for the next two weeks.
> Planning on  spending 14 days on a not so deserted Hawaiian island. Mahalo
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Re: Speeding up Firefox

On 08/10/2007 06:10 AM Anita Lewis wrote:
> 
> I'm going to test again. I've just done the 4 things in number 12 of the
> Tip.  I'll try to remember to report back in a couple days, or sooner if
> it breaks again. The link we are discussing is:
> http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever.html

Well, a couple of days (21 to be precise-sorry) have passed.  Firefox
has not crashed once in that time with those 4 things set in number 12.
 It seems snappy enough, though I have no idea if it is faster than
before.    At least it isn't broken.

Anita

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Re: Richard Wright is out of the office.

On 09/01/2007 06:39 AM Billy Pollifrone wrote:
> It's good etiquette to disable vacation auto-responders to mailing lists.

Yes, and it is part of our rules.  I have notified him off list and
turned his account to no email.  This is a good reminder to everyone of
the what will happen if you don't take care of this with Out of Office use.

Anita

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Re: Speeding up Firefox

On Sat September 1 2007 06:44, Anita Lewis wrote:

>  On 08/10/2007 06:10 AM Anita Lewis wrote:
>  > I'm going to test again. I've just done the 4 things in number 12 of the
>  > Tip.  I'll try to remember to report back in a couple days, or sooner if
>  > it breaks again. The link we are discussing is:
>  > http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ev
>  >er.html
>
>  Well, a couple of days (21 to be precise-sorry) have passed.  Firefox
>  has not crashed once in that time with those 4 things set in number 12.
>   It seems snappy enough, though I have no idea if it is faster than
>  before.    At least it isn't broken.

No, it won't.  I've been using these now for some time (a lot longer then 21 
days) and they work great.  If something is going to break by changing the 
setting in 'about:config' then they will break right away.

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Re: Richard Wright is out of the office.

On Sat September 1 2007 06:47, Anita Lewis wrote:

>  On 09/01/2007 06:39 AM Billy Pollifrone wrote:
>  > It's good etiquette to disable vacation auto-responders to mailing
>  > lists.
>
>  Yes, and it is part of our rules.  I have notified him off list and
>  turned his account to no email.  This is a good reminder to everyone of
>  the what will happen if you don't take care of this with Out of Office
> use.

Or better yet, don't use your office email account for a mailing list unless 
it's work related. :)

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