[Info-vax] Audio and video technology, was: Re: getting pixel dimensions of monitor

[Paul Sture]

In article <00ACE71E.1879E1BE at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <ancossF5etiU5 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill 
> Gunshannon) writes:

> >In it's defense, I have installed three different desktop Linux
> >distributions on 4 distincly different pieces of hardware and in
> >all cases it correctly identified the video hardware and installed
> >complete working desktops.
> 
> And, in its (Linux) defense, my laptop does have very new graphics and, yes
> it's an HP, it has been, IMO, designed to be as hostile to anything that is
> NOT WEENDOZE.  I can't even change some of its BIOS setting as these values
> were establish with WEENDOZE in mind and they can only be changed using some
> proprietary program that HP provided for WEENDOZE.  Pretty sick, eh?

If you feel adventurous there are sites out there which specialise in 
unlocking BIOS features.  I stumbled across a thread about the BIOS for 
my HP MicroServer recently.  I'm hesitant to go there while it's still 
in warranty though.
 
> I've finally got the BeatsAudio subwoofer to function in this HP too.  Now
> that it (the subwoofer) works, it sounds pretty good.

The tinny sound on many laptops drives me nuts for any prolonged period.

-- 
Paul Sture