filling in the form for my Compaq Evo N150

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 02:38 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> > 
> > the refreshrate of your Display. (cat /etc/fstab)
> 
> No, this is untrue. xrandr should tell you your current refresh rate - 
> on laptops, this is basically uninteresting. /etc/fstab has nothing to 
> do with it.
So why is it in the testing scheme? What should I write?

> Also untrue. If you have an nvidia card, you need binary drivers to 
> support 3D. If you have anything else, then 3D should work with a plain 
> Dapper install unless you have certain ATI cards, your card doesn't 
> support 3D at all or it's fairly rare and nobody has written 3D drivers 
> for it.
OK, but how do i know if it's working, simply if glxgears runs?

> > >* What is 'Cpu frequency scaling' and how do I know if my laptop
> > >supports it?
> > 
> > Depends of your CPU
> 
> Does your CPU speed up and slow down depending on how heavily it's used? 
> if powernowd is running, then it's supported.
powernowd does not show in the system monitor, does that mean no
scaling? But how do I know if my CPU supports it? 
 
> > Same as with my EVO N610c. I think that the Fn-keys don't work on any 
> > Compaq-EVO Laptop. But not only with Ubuntu. I've testet with a lot of 
> > Distris and the keys don't work. :-(((
> 
> Have you filed a bug?
If someone can tell me how to refer to these cute little keys with their
wee icons on - I will keep looking into this.

Duncan
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