Archive for August, 2007

ASUS P5B can’t boot from ATAPI optical drive

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

This is probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve encountered with hardware in quite some time, so I’ll write it down here…
Got a box with an ASUS P5B mainboard, four SATA harddrives and an ATAPI DVD drive in it. The task: Install Linux. Simple enough. I switched on the machine and pressed the button on the [...]

Usable settings for DELL E228WFP 22″ TFT monitor

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

I’ve been using this monitor for a couple of days now. The default settings are quite unusable (too bright, too red/yellow).
Settings I found to be usable (probably specific to my exact panel and my graphics adaptor - so this post mainly serves as a place to “backup” those settings for me, in case I accidentally [...]

Problems with ipw3945 on my new laptop

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I’ll use this blog entry to collect all information which could be helpful in debugging the ipw3945 issue I’m having on my new laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-FZ15).
I opened a bug report at bughost.org.
uname -a says:
Linux wang 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 #8 SMP Mon Aug 6 09:20:59 CST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
lspci [...]