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Hi all. Since we've a semi-topic about laptops on at the moment, I thought I'd throw my small problem in the hat. I have inherited a reasonable laptop. It's a Mendocino Celly @ 300MHz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HDD. It functions perfectly, albeit it runs slightly slower than that to which I have become accustomed on my desktop machine. However, speed is not the issue here - afterall, I only really use it for classes at College... more on that later. First thing first, though. The system comes with an ESS1869 sound controller. Try as I might, I can't get this thing to work without it causing a complete kernel freeze at some point or other (usually if I try using mplayer with it). I can't get the ESS module(s) to work at all, and the SB module is the only things that works... but then causes the freeze. It's picked up nicely with *lspnp* but isn't listed with *pnpdump* (infact, nothing is listed with pnpdump). Anyone got any ideas? Secondly. College use a lot of "interactive whiteboards" (Promethean ActivBoard). Hence, I use them a fair bit. The room in which I take most of my classes (if not all) has the VGA splitter in the far corner of the room. This makes it really quite hard to have a smooth-running class... having to keep going back to the laptop in order to move something that's projected onto the board. It would be really nice if I got use the IWB as it should be used. Obviously the placement of the PC to which the IWB is normally connected isn't a problem... guess which system that runs on? Now, the IWB connects to the PC using a standard serial connection (9pin). I have tried connecting to both the serial port on the laptop and to a USB->Serial adaptor I bought (originally purchased to facilitate easy access to the routers in the labs), and I have tried all of the driver/protocol combinations that I could find for serial "mice" under X. All to no avail. Finally getting to my point: has anyone had any experience with these IWBs? Any thoughts on how I might be able to get it to work? I've been onto Promethean about it, and have a guess what the response I got was! Surprisingly it wasn't "sod off, we don't support Linux", but the guy thought that I might like to consider using VNC to project the Linux session but use Windows for interactivity. I don't. Cheers all. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.