I'm haveing 3 problems, not sure it's wise to put them all in one post but... I have a Averatec 3120V (formerly Sotec) . I'm running Red Hat Linux 8.0 and Windoze XP Pro on it.
1. The first problem is when playing DiVx's off cd or DVDs the video is choppy, it stops every few seconds for about 0.5 seconds. If I copy the DiVx harddrive, or the DVD using "cat /dev/hdc > ~/Movie" then specifying ~/Movie as the path to the DVD device in mplayer the playback is fine. Is it the DVD drive drivers? Or someone mentioned it might be the videocard drivers?
2. The seconds problem is PCMCIA hangs on boot unless LAN is plugged into the ethernet port. I've read that this happens on all Averatec/Sotec 3120Vs however haven't found a good solution. What I did up til now was just turned off the PCMCIA, but now I want to get wireless LAN.
3. I had only Linux on this laptop, but decided that since school was starting I should make a Windoze partition so I could play games while bored in class
So I figure no problem got out Partition Magic tried to shrink my ext3 by 8 gigs. (It has plenty of free space). I set it to shrink the free space move the swap partition, and format the new partition fat32. It spends half hour or more resizing the partition then when it's about to format it says that it can't because the partition does not exist... the partition it spend half hour creating. I tried various things including not formating the free space: the result I got this way was that it spent half hour resizing it, said all operations are complete. But, absolutely nothing changed. on my 9th attempt I succeeded... by resizing it only 5 gigs smaller. I installed windoze on that and everything works. But I can't resize the ext3 part to be any smaller! and as Windows stands for Will Install Needless Data On Whole System. 5 gigs isn't enough for the greedy bastard to be comfortable. Considering I want to put my 3.9 GB of mp3s on the fat32 part so they're accessible from both, and XP takes about 2 gigs by itself and since 2+3.9>5.... Why won't ext3 shrink more? BTW it's important to note, this laptop has no floppy drive.
Thanks for all your help ahead of time. I wouldn't be surprised if it has already been answered, but I couldn't find it. I'm running on like no sleep (who isn't) so forgive typos things I forgot to say what have you. Thanks bye.
AI
