SoulSe Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Since all my other successful threads have been hijacked/'accidentally' deleted/trashed by the (anon has it in for me), I had to come up with something new. So, welcome to the 'I Love My Box' thread. :deal: This is where we show off about our b0xen and what they can do. The things we've achieved in Linux. !!NB!! Do not post to this thread more than once. As your box and it's setup changes, come back and edit your original post so we have a tidy, wiki-like setup going here. Post questions elsewhere or PM them !!NB!! It'll be cool for n00bs to see what's possible in Linux and maybe we'll convert some Windoze users. My box sports the following: AMD Athlon-XP 2500+ Geforce FX5700 512MB RAM (soon to be upgraded to 1GB) LG 8x Cd (re)writer (old skool) 40 GB hdd. (/boot, /swap and / - I will soon be moving /home to a fileserver) I currently run Gentoo Linux with a 2.6.8 Vanilla kernel. Games I have working: Unreal Tournament 2004 (native) Quake 3 (native) Neverwinter Nights (native) Warcraft 3 (Cedega - see http://www.transgaming.com/) Doom 3 (Cedega - will change to native once the client is released) Diablo II (Cedega - play it in a Window) WM: I use Gnome and only Gnome. gDesklets and various applets for Gaim, etc. Big accomplishments: I have my Epox Bluetooth Dongle working. I use the BlueZ stack, gnome-obex-server (part of the gnome-bluetooth package) and Multisync. I use my Sony Ericsson mobile phone to sync all my contacts, calendar events and photos with my box (most of it with Evolution via multisync). I also control XMMS with my mobile. I can change songs, increase/decrease volume - all from anywhere in my loft (very cool party trick). I have an HP iPaq 1910 Pocket PC that I have managed to sync with Linux using Synce and Multisync. It is difficult though and I am currently trying to sell my iPaq. ($110 - any takers?). I also have a HP scanner that I use with Linux via SANE and XSANE (the best scanning gui I have ever used). Everything works perfectly and when I get home today I'll take a few pictures of my box and add them to this post. My box rocks. I have been free of Windows at home for almost three years and everything I could ever want my computer to do, it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 (edited) [EDIT 9/27] OK I guess Ill go next: HP Pavilion ze5185 2.4Ghz P4 512Mb Ram DVD/CDRW Drive ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (32mb / AGP 4x) 60Gb Hard Drive Running Gentoo on a dev-sources 2.6.8 kernel Switched to a pure udev system (UDEV Info) xorg-x11-6.7.0 635fps on glxgears Games I run: Never Winter Nights (native) Baldurs Gate IWD2 (Point2Play) Baldurs Gate II TOB (Point2Play) Master of Orion2 (Point2Play) Classic Game! WM: I have fallen in love with Xfce4 (with GNOME goodness added) Big accomplishments: My Laptop is known for its poor battery life span. I have worked with it to squeeze the most out of it that I can. When I unplug this is what happens: Stuff that shuts down: cups usb pcmcia My laptop LCD screen darkens a little (helps out a lot for power saving) My HD spools down after 20 seconds of inactivity Also got speedfreq working perfectly and set to dynamic mode. My processor runs between 300Mhz thru 2.4Ghz depending on what I need. browseing the net Ill be at 300mhz but when I fire up NWN it powers up to 2.4Ghz Before I could not get thru a 2 hour movie via DVD. Now I can and be at about 15% power left over. Oddities: Not sure if its best but when I compile my kernel I always compile everything into the kernel. No modules. My kernel is about 3Mb now. I have spent hours on it just to have exactly what it needs and no more. Addition #1 - I just emerged KDE3.3. May I say its very very very nice. A bit quicker too. One weird thing is that when Im not doing anythig on my Laptop my cpu "throttles" down to 300Mhz. But in KDE it will never go below 900Mhz. Somthing makes the system speed up. Doesnt take anymore ram than 3.2 though... Added: Installed SuSE 9.0 (download] compiled custom kernel (for DRI/DRM) Running KDE3.3 via apt-get 2nd Puter: AMD K63-400mhz Nvidia MX400 256mb Ram 40GB HD Mandrake 10.1 (via urpmi) Nvidia works after bios update Hardest part on this system is it has the ALI1541 chipset. That shipset dont play nice with AGP. After a bios update and some bios/xorg.conf editing its rock solid now (no AGP) only about 520FPS. Edited September 27, 2004 by ac_dispatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Next is me: PC is an old one. P4 1.5Mhz 256MB RAM CDburner Lite-on DVD Lite-on Floppy 2x 40Gig HD (one is for win XP) My case and best part of the whole PC Antec Sonata(beginning of a new PC, will be some months before the other parts will be coming in) Hauppauge WinTV PVR250 HP all-in-one (Kooka is the best :) ) GeForce4 MX440 Kernel: 2.6.7 (vanilla) Mandrake 10 Games: Galaxian Donkey Kong 1941 Metal Slug Wonder Boy Jungle King Best thing on my PC: Freevo Never have to miss a TV show again. Lirc. It's so nice to start/pause/stop movies from my lazy chair... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imwithstupid Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 (edited) and me: amd 64 3200+ with 512K RAM MSI K8T Neo 80 gig HD 1 agp nvidia 5200 with 1 output 1 pci nvidia 5200 with 2 outputs 1 20" monitor in the center and 2 17's on the sides I'm currently running: Mdk 10 rc1 for amd 64 using KDE. Stuff I got running and had to compile myself/mess with a bit to get to work: Audacity...the rpm version would just segfault gimp-2.0 racer gtkpod...compiled 2X second time the dialogs actually had text hugin...stiches pictures to make a panorama sulu...lets me connect with my old yepp mp3 player Hardware coolness: guitar hooked up to multieffects processor with a balanced line out to the turtle beach santa cruz, recorded all on audacity...sounds awesome. gamepad used to control xmms Stuff i'd like to get working: sodipodi...segfaults or tells me i'm missing packages i have depending how i install it wine pure data...sort of works but it won't load sound files pictures: multiple monitors Edited August 23, 2004 by imwithstupid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Hmm... I have two boxes: Shuttle SN41G2: # AMD Athlon XP2400+ 2.0GHz # DDR 2700 RAM 512MB, 333Mhz # Seagate 80GB ATA100 7200rpm # IBM 40GB ATA100 7200rpm # LG Super Multi DVD Drive # Running Mandrake 10.0 Official Accomplishment: Modd'ed the Shutte a little bit. Created this beatutiful desktop that I just love to work on, and having it set up as a Sambaserver that I syncronise my laptop from work with XP. Dell Latitude CPi: # Intel PII 266Mhz # 128MB RAM # 6GB harddrive # Double set of batteries # Ambicom WiFi card # Running Fedora Core 1 Accomplishment: Tuning the stuffed FC1 distro down to run smoothly and fast, set up this cool Fluxbox enviroment that works really fast on this low spec laptop. Set up the WiFi card After just 8 months of using Linux as my main OS at home, I feel my biggest accomplishment really is managing to do everything I used to do in Windows, just as good AND better... :woops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 There in my signature :ph34r: I'm still a noobie, so I'm not sure what I use them for. Don't believe the distro that is showing up, I'm whats known as a distro HO! the BIG rig is sporting Debian/sid atm. Lappy is running slackware xp-2500 gentoo/fc2 deleted useless post to SoulSe lovely thread ! Anon, Mystified & Darkelve (and SoulSe last post) you have been removed! :deal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Desktop Asus A7V600 AMD XP 2500+ Barton (overclocked to 2200 MHz) BFG MX440SE GeForce4 64 MB DDR Video Seagate 7200 RPM 80GB Sony DRU-500AX DVD+/-R/RW 512 MB PC2700 Kingston ValueRAM (underclocked to 266MHz because it's crap and won't run at 333) Laptop Toshiba Satellite A25 S208 Intel 2.66 GHz 512 MB RAM Toshiba SD-R2412 DVD/CD-RW Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 crap video with shared RAM 40 GB HD Both run Mandrake 10.1 Cooker and Fluxbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSS Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Me next!!!!! HP ZV5000 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Nvidia 440 go Mandrake 10.0 WinXP Home 20gig FAT32 storage everything working except card reader and wireless (working on that) HP ZE4200 Intel Celeron 2.0 ATI Radeon mobile Mandrake 10.0 WinXP Pro 10gig FAT32 storage Custom desktop AMD 2800 OC'd ATI Radeon something or other (newer card, just don't remember specs) Mandrake 10.0 20gig FAT32 storage AverTV card Compaq DeskPro EN Intel 300 something Nvidia (seriously old) Mandrake 10.0 Firewall and ICS Not bad for 1 month of Linux experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kustom Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 yeah ok why not, i have 2 boxs. AMD 2500+ PC2700 768mb RAM 40gb hdd SiS Real256E video-card (64mb onboard) Sis7012 PCI sound-card 17" CRT FLAT --------------------------------------------------- 2.8 HT PC3200 512mb RAM (soon to be 2x80gb hdd's (8mb) FX 5700 (256mb) some creative 5.1 sound-card 17" CRT FLAT (dell) those are just the basic specs i guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theYinYeti Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Laptop: P.150.MMX 32MB 2GB Fast modern (hotplug 'n' all) GUI with Mdk9.1! Thanks to Matchbox window manager. Tower: PII.350 192MB 8GB Added a "myVNC" session to GDM, so when I log, I get a fullscreen vncviewer. Gnome/vncserver is started if not already. That way, I can "pause" (suspend?) my Gnome session for my wife to start her own. Next time I log in, I get my session back. Only one X running at a time! (drawback: no DRI). Mini ITX: Nehemiah.1GHz 256MB 120GB ACPI S3 (suspend to ram) working fine: stop in 1second; start in 10 seconds. TV, video, pictures, digital-camera pictures download, fax... Remote control working. Setup in progress. And all three have SSH server and client so can do remote-anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 (edited) ummm... I'm next. My Monster Dell P4 2.4 Ghz 1024 ram (800 mhz) Gf4 ti4600 128mb 80 Gb 7200 rpm harddisc 250 mb zip drive DVD player phillips DVD burner (RW) phillips Audigy 2 Platinium extern Soundblaster Dell P992 19" Trinitron monitor (running 1600x1200, 85hz) Logitech cordless itorch keyboard. Logitech cordless optical mouse. Logitech THX cinema 6.1 Digital. Motorola sb5100 cable modem. HP Photosmart 7350 Linux Specs Check my sig. Picture: Edited September 27, 2004 by Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Laptop HP zd7260 P4@3.2Ghz 1.256GB ram Nvidia FX 5700 64MB 60GB 7200rpm HD external 80GB 4200rpm Power Workstation Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz 1GB ram Nvidia FX 5700ultra 128MB 200GB 7200 rpm HD Server Dual P3@866 1GB Nvidia GTS 4x36GB 10k scis HD Workstation Duron 1100 256MB ram Nvidia GTS 36GB 10k scsi Sun Workstations Sun Blade 100 500MHz 1024 GB ram 20GB hd 2x Sun Ultra 10's 440MHz 1024/512MB ram Sun Ultra 2 2x400MHz 2x36GB 10k scsi hd Of course they all run Linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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