filling in the form for my Compaq Evo N150

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Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> 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.

Sorry i mean /etcX11/xorg.conf!! I was currently change things in my 
fstab so that was my fault. So sorry.
Xrandr is realy new to mi.

> 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.

Maybe you'll explain how to use 3D aceleration with a clean 
Dapper-install. I think this can be a realy better answer than that. and 
wich ATI-Cards do not have 3D support? Maby any of those models from 1992 ;)

> 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?

Yes since 4.10 but not for 5.10! Nothing happens. But not only in Ubuntu.

> 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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