Comments for alex chiang: web 6.0

Comment on bulldoze ‘em all by PT

PT — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:37:38 +0000

I always thought you should combine cemeteries and golf courses since they botnh waste a lot of land. You just gotta put the coffins deeper than your divots;)

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by babyhuey

babyhuey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:43:50 +0000

@ Lanson

Yeah, my thoughts are the same with the logs.
Suspend doesn’t work either and again nothing in the logs.

The only meaningful difference between my Envy 15 and those that have working shutdown/suspend is the video card and the CPU.
In terms of the video card, I’ve tried the OSS drivers (with and without KMS), fglrx, and vesa. All give the same results.

Comment on bulldoze ‘em all by Randy

Randy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:21 +0000

but I agree with you even though I golf. Chemical polution and gross misuse of water (particularly in arid climates) is a terrible use of resources and land. Although it is true that in many urban and suburban areas of this country, the only “wild” or wetland areas are on golf courses.

Comment on bulldoze ‘em all by Randy

Randy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:36:44 +0000

Article says

“Critics have contended that such a high-consumption pastime runs counter to several of President Hu Jintao’s primary concerns—among them, rural land rights and the widening gap between rich and poor.”

Hypocrisy runs deep when they are ripping homes out from under people in urban developments to build high rent high rises and new construction. Guess they’re only worried about the rural poor. The urban poor can fend for themselves.

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by Lanson

Lanson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:44 +0000

I have not seen anything in the logs (syslog, dmesg), so I am wondering if the logging processes are stopped correctly by that point and the system is indeed halted but just can’t be fully powered off. I haven’t tried suspend / resume, but my guess is it won’t work.

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by gunnar-medial

gunnar-medial — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:38:02 +0000

I assume still you need to boot the Envy 15 with charger unattached in order for it to expose all C states which leads to a cooler operation. Once booted the charger can be connected.
I’ve been using ULV processor machines for a while now so I’m spolied with the silent operation there and 8/10 hours battery.
But once I get the fan speed lowered a bit on Ubuntu (to WIn7 levels) the Envy 15 will be hard to resist there. It seems there’s headroom for some passive cooling now that Alex made it so low temperature.
Rather a bit warmer and more silent is what I would want.

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by babyhuey

babyhuey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:06:26 +0000

@ Lanson

Have you found any errors in your logs that are relevant?

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by Lanson

Lanson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:38:43 +0000

@ babyhuey

I have the same problem here, and same card. I think the system halts okay, but it just does not fully power off. I have to hold the power button down to get it to fully turn off. I think it is safe to do this if you give it 10 seconds or so…

Comment on linux on the hp envy 15 by babyhuey

babyhuey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:28:06 +0000

Anyone else having trouble with shutdown and suspend/resume with fglrx?
It seems most of you are using the OSS driver but I have the 5830 which isn’t well supported yet.
When I try to shutdown it just hangs.
This has happened with my Arch Linux and Ubuntu installs. I’ve tried kernel 2.6.31, 2.6.32, and 2.6.33.

Comment on taiwanese american? by jc77777

jc77777 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:09:15 +0000

Discrimination: Race or Ethnicity?!