What kind of computer do you use?- Super Thread

[mstlyevil]

AMD64 3200 @ 2.3 GHZ
Gigabyte K8NSC-939 Motherboard NForce 3
EVGA 6600 GT 128 MB Video AGP
1024 MB RAM
MSI 52x32x52 CDR-CDRW
MSI 16x DVD Rom
Western Digital 80 GB SATA drive

I just built this system and overclocked it a month ago and I must say it rocks. I can now play just about any game out on the market at a decent frame rate. I dual boot Win Xp Pro SP2 and Kubuntu 5.10. Windows loads up in a flash on it but Kubuntu still takes a little time. I may try switching back to Ubuntu and see if it loads any faster than Kubuntu.

BTW, I am going to buy another 80 gig HD and set up raid on it in about a week or so. I will have to find out if Ubuntu supports raid or not before deciding to install it.

[xequence]

ASUS P5WD2 Premium Mobo
4 gig Kingmax DDR2-800 Ram
Intel 3.2ghz P4 Dual Core CPU
Asus nVidia GTX 7800 GFX Card
2 x 200gig Western Digital Sata2 Drives
Asus DVD Dual layer burner
Liteon DVD Player
2 x Philips 190B 19 inch LCD's

Built the rig myself, it runs Breezy like a charm, apart from only seeing 3 gig of my ram. Still trying to figure out how to get Breezy to see the other gig

Ive gotta say, thats the best consumer computer ive ever seen, All it needs to be perfect is a 64 bit dual core AMD processor Seriously, how did you get all that RAM? Is it two 2 GB sticks? (I didnt know they made past 1 gb...) I wonder how I get by with 192 MB RAM...

[WildTangent]

Athlon XP 2400+ (not sure how many MHz)
512MB RAM
64 MB nVidia GeForce2 GTS

I believe they're 2 ghz. The 2200 is 1.8 ghz.

Anyway, my specs are in my sig.

-Wild

[accoleon]

Intel Pentium 4 3.2E 3.2Ghz /w HT 800FSB
Gigabyte 8IPE1000-Pro2 i865PE chipset
1Gb (512x2) Kingston DDR266 RAM
Elsa Gladiac Geforce 6600GT 128mb AGP
20Gb IBM IDE HD (can't remember the model...)
120Gb WD Caviar 8mb cache IDE HD
200Gb WD Caviar 8mb cache SATA HD
TDK 882N DVD/RW Dual layer
TEAC W58 CD/RW
LG Flatron L1750HQ 17" LCD screen (8ms goodness..)

[nocturn]

HP Pavilion ZV5474EA laptop

AMD64 3200+
512 MB RAM
100 GB HD
DVD+RW drive
Widescreen (I love this).

[steevc]

Duron 1200
512MB
Asus A7N266-VM MB with on-board graphics/sound
47GB HD (an old IBM Deathstar)
NEC DVD-RW (haven't got around to writing a DVD yet
All wrapped in a tasy little Antec Aria case

Many years ago I had a PII/350 in a tower case, but various bits got swapped and it ended up as above. Nothing of the original left now, but some of it's parts are in other PCs.

EDIT: I tell a lie, I'm still using the original 17" Iiyama CRT and Yamaha speakers.

One day I shall have a dual-core Athlon monster, but I don't really need it. I don't play many games, but have been getting back into the original Doom and the kids play Tuxracer. When I do some video editing the extra power would help with the rendering.

[jeremy]

My system specs are bifocals with rather nice metal frames.

[dpdt1]

AMD Athlon64 3500+
Gigabyte GA-K8NMF-9
HD IDE IBM 40GB
HD SATA Maxtor 250GB (/music)
1gb RAM
LG dvr-rw
samsung dvd
ATI X550 (still having problems with those drivers...)
soundblaster extigy

going really nice. i built this system a couple of weeks ago piece by piece and since the beginning i thought i would not put ******* on this one. i am proud to say i did it!

[LitnuX]

AMD Athlon64 3000+ 1.8Ghz
Gigabyte nForce 4 Main Board
512Mb RAM
nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB
120GB Hard Disk
WinXP (and soon UBUNTU 5.10 AMD64)

Works Perfect
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My Old Computer
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AMD Duron 850Mhz
128 RAM
ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32MB
20GB Hard Disk
Slackware 10.2 KDE (Works Fine)

[rabeldable]

For the record:

I have Ubuntu 5.10 installed and functioning on a Toshiba M65-S9065. I tried Ubuntu 4.10 with no luck, the install could not see my hard drive. I also tried to install Fedora Core 4 with no luck as X would not load and FC just hangs to the point that I need to do a hard reboot. Solaris 10 x86 did not do any better and just to see I tried RHEL4.0. Still no X, but I had a working system if I wanted my laptop to be a server. Anyways, I downloaded Ubuntu 5.10 and it works great. I have officially replaced my old HP laptop running windowz with a nice new Toshiba, 1.7Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, CDRW/DVDRW, 17 inch wide screen 1400x900 display with wireless support running Breezy Badger!

It literally took all night to get everything to work, however, it works. Here are a few words of advise.

- do not worry about wireless configuration at bootup, it will not work.
- install using the onboard NIC and after the system automatically updates go to system->admin->Networking and configure your wireless interface. Deactivate the eth0 device and reboot.

- when setting up X ctrl-alt-backspace is your friend, use it to go back to the command line when the screen does not load.

Follow these steps as user root in the same order to setup X:
- get and run a program called 915resolution (search google for examples)
- run the following command to reconfigure your X system:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
- I used the Frame Buffer device (i'm not gaming and I don't plan on watching dvd's so this should be fine for me)

(update: I just watched the last samurai, only problem is the sound goes away when I do full screen, however, Ogle allows for maximize window to the entire screen minus the top and bottom icon/tool bars)

- run the command 'startx'

To have X start at system boot, simply echo the 915resolution command with the full path into the following file /etc/init.d/res-fix

here is my configuration:
# echo "/full/path/to/915resolution 3c 1400 900" > /etc/init.d/res-fix

Change permissions for execute:
# chmod u+x /etc/init.d/res-fix

Link the program to all of your rc directories, before gdm starts
# for scriptdir in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do ln -s /etc/init.d/res-fix /etc/rc.$scriptdir.d/S12res-fix;done

(at this point I do not know of a different way to enable a service in ubuntu)

Test it by rebooting, and use caution with the hibernate functionality. If all else fails, get back to a command line and do a fresh reboot.

For those that are interested here is my xorg.conf:

################################################## ##############
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Intel Default Card"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
VideoRam 131072
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation Intel Default Card"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

################################################## ###


I hope this helps someone.

David