Comments on: Victory: Topologilinux/Debian Hybrid on the M200 http://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/ maybe even me. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thadkhttp://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-3548 thadk Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:24:48 +0000 http://www.thadk.net/wp/archives/2004/06/21/victory/#comment-3548 I seem to recall the dirty startup problem. It might be inherant. I broke my grub a while ago and haven't had a chance to fix it. I seem to recall the dirty startup problem. It might be inherant. I broke my grub a while ago and haven’t had a chance to fix it.

]]> By: Noelhttp://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-3491 Noel Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:06:30 +0000 http://www.thadk.net/wp/archives/2004/06/21/victory/#comment-3491 Thadk, are you able to cleanly shutdown with your setup using a 2.6 kernel? I tried something similar, and it always marks the NTFS drive "dirty" and hence requires a windows boot chkdsk before it can boot back to the hybrid setup. If you succeeded in getting this to work, it would be great oif you could post your shutdown scripts (or a tgz for /etc/rc.* and /etc/init.d) as well as any mods you have done for your initrd and the config file for the kernel. TIA Noel Thadk,

are you able to cleanly shutdown with your setup using a 2.6 kernel? I tried something similar, and it always marks the NTFS drive “dirty” and hence requires a windows boot chkdsk before it can boot back to the hybrid setup.

If you succeeded in getting this to work, it would be great oif you could post your shutdown scripts (or a tgz for /etc/rc.* and /etc/init.d) as well as any mods you have done for your initrd and the config file for the kernel.

TIA
Noel

]]> By: davidmhttp://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-40 davidm Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:54:48 +0000 http://www.thadk.net/wp/archives/2004/06/21/victory/#comment-40 Ahh, another m200/linux user. I repartitioned my disk without any issue but found it easiest to remove the HDD and put it in a desktop for installation. Can you tell me how you got X running? I was under the impression that Xfree 4.4 was required for the correct driver, which is in a political mess, so have been using colinux under winxp, which works mostly brilliantly. I would also like to know if you can rotate the screen without restarting X, as I find that a useful feature. I also use the nvidia virtual desktops, which are fast enough, except for some crazy reason when the system is under high load it refuses to switch desktops, so if you need to kill a runaway process on another desktop you are basically hosed. Checking out tablet pc land has been interesting, but not compelling, and I can't wait to get Debian running fully. Ahh, another m200/linux user. I repartitioned my disk without any issue but found it easiest to remove the HDD and put it in a desktop for installation.

Can you tell me how you got X running? I was under the impression that Xfree 4.4 was required for the correct driver, which is in a political mess, so have been using colinux under winxp, which works mostly brilliantly.

I would also like to know if you can rotate the screen without restarting X, as I find that a useful feature.

I also use the nvidia virtual desktops, which are fast enough, except for some crazy reason when the system is under high load it refuses to switch desktops, so if you need to kill a runaway process on another desktop you are basically hosed.

Checking out tablet pc land has been interesting, but not compelling, and I can’t wait to get Debian running fully.

]]> By: thadkhttp://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-10 thadk Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:01:54 +0000 http://www.thadk.net/wp/archives/2004/06/21/victory/#comment-10 Those nView virtual desktops have always been very slow for me in previous releases. I wonder, have they improved them? I've been spoiled by various linux virtual desktop and can't stand more than a few milliseconds of redraw before I give up on them (and I've given up on at least 3 under Windows). Those nView virtual desktops have always been very slow for me in previous releases. I wonder, have they improved them? I’ve been spoiled by various linux virtual desktop and can’t stand more than a few milliseconds of redraw before I give up on them (and I’ve given up on at least 3 under Windows).

]]> By: davidmhttp://thadk.net/wp/2004/06/21/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-9 davidm Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:55:31 +0000 http://www.thadk.net/wp/archives/2004/06/21/victory/#comment-9 colinux works brilliantly from my experiments on the m200. I use the nvidia virtual desktops to switch between the "windows side" and "linux side." Very nice. colinux works brilliantly from my experiments on the m200. I use the nvidia virtual desktops to switch between the “windows side” and “linux side.” Very nice.

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