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by loafier
Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:12 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Benefits of LCD over CRT
Replies: 57
Views: 45054

I've used a NEC FP2141 diamondtron 22" CRT for the last 5 years, and it's held up pretty well. 1280x960@120hz -- very easy on the eyes. It's like staring at paper (although staring at a 2d surface all day isn't good for one's eyes, anyway). There's a slight misconvergence that's cropped up around th...
by loafier
Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:33 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Received the Intel D945GCLF
Replies: 73
Views: 94820

FYI, Linux users who're having trouble with the r8169 driver for Atom's NIC: There's a patch for Realtek's r8168 driver module to make it work with newer 2.6.x kernels: http://www.jamesonwilliams.com/hardy-r8168.html It was easy to apply it by hand to the r8101 driver, as I've done here: http://loaf...
by loafier
Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:53 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Received the Intel D945GCLF
Replies: 73
Views: 94820

Does anyone else notice that the video on their Atom board is sensitive to power supply quality? On mine, with a generic 80 watt PSU there is noticeable interference/noise in the picture. Using a cheap 300 watt PSU, there is still a little intermittent noise. The noise goes away completely when usin...
by loafier
Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:37 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Received the Intel D945GCLF
Replies: 73
Views: 94820

Wired:
I believe the Atom supports only 100M ethernet.

BTW, on Linux, the r8169 module is completely broken for me. Upgrading to kernel 2.6.25 fixed the crashes, but I had to use Realtek's r8101 driver to actually get the thing to work.