Ratdude's Tablet Chronicles, Part III

[ratdude747]

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^
well poo then.... since 8 was a flop, feeling lucky and wanting to try 10?

Umm no

[Topcat]

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Umm no

LOL.....then guess this applies more to you than me:

[ratdude747]

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Whatever. I'll keep my eyes open. At least skype and the like works.

[diif]

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Have you tried this one ? http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/...eid=2778826788

[Sparkey55]

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"...ready to take an axe to this junk that Dell created."
Creative had a hand in it too.
The only thing i came up with was an iso of the webcam central ver. 1.40.05 possibly for XP.
I think yer screwed RD.

[stj]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Chronicles, Part III

wait for Linux drivers - coz nobody else is gonna supply any!!

[ratdude747]

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Have you tried this one ? http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/...eid=2778826788

That's the driver. Not the webcam central program.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Chronicles, Part III

wait for Linux drivers - coz nobody else is gonna supply any!!

IDK- the graphics are powerVR so linux is more or less not an option.

[stj]

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from what i'v been reading the m$ video driver may as well be a frame-buffer.

[Sparkey55]

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That's the driver. Not the webcam central program.

Now you see why I hoard software. You never know when you need it.

[ratdude747]

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Now you see why I hoard software. You never know when you need it.

Yeah... knowing my luck the software was on the restore partition I instinctively (and stupidly) wiped.

I have a collection of the harder to find softwares on the file server...

[ratdude747]

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from what i'v been reading the m$ video driver may as well be a frame-buffer.

Yeah I've sorta read that there are no good drivers for any platform. All I know is the linux driver has no 3D support and the rest is flakey (although the information is old). I might try installing arch to it anyway and seeing how bad it is.

[ratdude747]

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No bueno, the gma500_gfx driver is busted and won't even work on the CLI. As soon as it goes to change the resolution, it gives a bunch of i2c HDMI errors and then powers the tablet off, hard.

Shoulda saved for a Surface pro...

[goontron]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Chronicles, Part III

I've had good luck with MotionComputing tablets and Linux. Just sayn'

[Topcat]

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Shoulda saved for a Surface pro...

hmmm....

MS surface....win10....hmmm... didn't I get one of your snide comments in response to that earlier?

[ratdude747]

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hmmm....

MS surface....win10....hmmm... didn't I get one of your snide comments in response to that earlier?

Surface pro 1, 2, and 3 had 8.x out of the box. Surface pro 4 has 10 out of the box.

[Topcat]

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Surface pro 1, 2, and 3 had 8.x out of the box. Surface pro 4 has 10 out of the box.

why would you want either of them?!

[ratdude747]

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why would you want either of them?!

Because I can work with win8; however, I can't do shit with 10.

The surface pro has the power of a laptop, only in the body of a tablet. With modded 8.1 it works well.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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"...ready to take an axe to this junk that Dell created."
Creative had a hand in it too.
The only thing i came up with was an iso of the webcam central ver. 1.40.05 possibly for XP.
I think yer screwed RD.

That sounds like the SoundBlaster Live! fiasco, where Dell conspired to create a corrupted version of the SoundBlaster Live! Where it's literally half-assed!

[ratdude747]

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That sounds like the SoundBlaster Live! fiasco, where Dell conspired to create a corrupted version of the SoundBlaster Live! Where it's literally half-assed!

to be fair, LED webcams are not exactly standard. My beef is that Dell made the software unobtainium. Then again, why support used units when they can force us to buy new junk .