[Preston] April meeting

[Stephen Johnson]

im running nvidia chipset and gpu on a amd64 pit machine and it runs out
of the box fine on Ubuntu


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:14 +0100, Georgina wrote:
> Hi Guy and all
> 
> I wouldn't want to get in the way of a man and his beer! <smiles>  But I
> don't have any ideas of a specific topic for demonstration.  However, I
> wondered if you could have a workshop type session?  Without any guarantees,
> well only to brake it! <giggles>
> 
> I've just built a computer and I can't build a kernel for it.  I've got
> Fedora 8 and debian installed.  We could time the booting time between the
> two distros and if we can crack the kernel issue, we can time that boot
> time.  My problem is that the board has a Nvidia chipset.  I've never had an
> issue with arch=i386 Via chipsets but this arch=AMD64 Nvidia is driving me
> crazy.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gena
> -----Original Message-----
> From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Heatley
> Sent: 31 March 2008 16:12
> To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
> Subject: [Preston] April meeting
> 
> 
> Tomorrow is the 1st Tuesday of the month, and I'm afraid I've had no 
> time to prepare a new topic for discussion!
> If no-one has anything up their sleeve maybe we could just go to the 
> Greyfriar for a few beers?
> I've been pretty busy in the last few weeks, unfortunately...
> 
> Here are some links concerning things we discussed at the last meeting:-
> 
> Encrypting data with the device mapper and LUKS.
> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EncryptedDeviceUsingLUKS
> http://feraga.com/node/51
> http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-disk-encryption-with-dm-crypt-luks-and-
> debian 
> 
> 
> Writing UDEV rules for hot-pluggable devices.
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
> 
> Cheers!
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