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A PowerPC-based system doesn't have EFI. It has OpenFirwmare (IEEE 1275-1994). If he's using an x86 boot image (and I have a sneaking suspicion he is), it's not going to be able to boot.

Um, that's a pretty old machine now. What images are you using to try to install this machine? Machines of that vintage would not boot from USB. Also, if you're trying to boot an i386 image, that'll...

Hey all,

I've recently upgraded to the Wine 1.2rc4 packages on my lucid machines, and found the new "gnome-exe-thumbnailer" package pretty cool. That said, there is a potential issue with the...

The HP Mini 311 (which to my understanding is the same as the Compaq version, just different branding) has 1 GB soldered onto the board, along with the SO-DIMM slot (and I've got a 2 GB SO-DIMM in...

I thought I had a problem like that, but it turned out it was specific to the content I was playing, not the hardware.



You need to use TwinView for it to work like you expect. With my rig, I...

Are you *sure* you were using hardware GL support? If you ran:


glxinfo | grep '^direct rendering:'

what do you get? You might need to add yourself to the "video" group for hardware GL support...

I think that on Ubuntu, you're better off using the 190.42 packages that are part of the vdpau PPA I mentioned earlier in this thread. I've been using them on my Mini 311 with great success, though I...

I suspend my Mini 311 all the time without having to unload any drivers. You should definitely run 9.10 at this point.

I'm using the 802.11n version, and I haven't run into this problem. That said, is the RF kill switch activated? Is the indicator behind it blue (wireless enabled) or orange (wireless disabled)? Make...

I don't know how you'd find the load, but the temperature in Celsius can be determined through the nvidia-settings applet. I'm not sure how you'd get that programmatically though...

Also, I've tested VGA output with my Mini 311 - it also works perfectly (as expected). I haven't felt like wiring everything up at once to do 3 displays (internal, HDMI, and VGA) all at once -...

When I installed my Mini 311 with Ubuntu, I didn't really understand how to make use of the usb stick image set, so I just installed GRUB on it, and used the netinst image set to install with; this...

A friend and I had posited that it was just a different ROM; I guess this makes it not even that. I don't know if DX9 vs. DX10 will make any difference with their Linux GL drivers or not; I'm not...

Erm, the webcam works perfectly for me. What kernel package are you running there?

I haven't run across this myself, maybe due to different Bluetooth hardware (I think it's integrated with the WiFi board)?



I haven't used Jaunty on anything with WiFi, so I don't have a point...

Okay, I was aware of the rotating-cube desktop transition, but I thought since "Ubuntu cube" was the used phrase, that something else was being referred to. I tried it last night, and it seems...

Oh mplayer, you're such a card. It thinks it's being smart by forcing the normal (i.e., non-VDPAU) decode path, even though you have VDPAU on your system. Edit your ~/.mplayer/config file, and add...

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I hooked mine up to my Sony XBR8, and enabled TwinView via the nVidia settings app; VDPAU-accelerated video playback to the TV worked just fine, no glitches or slowdowns. No...

Hadn't tried it till just now. Yes, it works fine, and yes, it's a combined port - apparently for the headsets with an integrated mic with a 4-conductor 1/8" headphone connector.



I purchased...

Everything works 100%. Bluetooth (paired with my BlackBerry 8830), WiFi (after messing with the drivers, the only thing I had trouble with), keyboard, touchpad, all USB ports, card slot (tried with...

Also, on an unrelated note - I've figured out a way to update the BIOS on the Mini 311 (successfully updated mine from the F.02 release build it shipped with to the F.04 release build on the HP web...

Yes, VDPAU works fine on mine with Karmic; however, there's an additional repo you need to add for VDPAU-enabled xine-lib (mplayer is in mainline karmic, I believe). The CPU usage when playing 720p...

It definitely *seems* to be a wpasupplicant issue; I manually associated the WiFi interface with a neighbor's access point that has no encryption, and then ran dhclient against the interface - it...

I've installed Karmic on my Mini 311, and so far everything has worked out of the box except for WiFi. I've tried the 'wl' driver included with karmic, the slightly-newer driver downloaded from...