Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 06:01, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > Thanks everyone. > > I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have > played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA > modes ... Try the following: In the Linux config in the "console drivers" section, enable "Video mode selection", "Support for frame buffer devices", "VESA VGA graphics console", "Select compiled-in fonts", "Sparc console 12x22 font" (Linux 2.2.18). Then append at your Lilo kernel command line the following options: vga=0x317 video=vesa:redraw,mtrr,font:SUN12x22 This gives you a 85x34 Characters text console with a very nice font. For X11, I suggest you to use XFree 4.02 with the current driver by Tim Roberts (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html). Works fine here. > I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the > Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and only works 8 > bpp with KDE 2.1 from sid ). Runs fine here with 16bpp on potato. Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Saturday 10 March 2001 15:34, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The > >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drives the allocation unit on > >FAT16 considerably. > > If I'm right, you make space at the end of you harddisk, slightly more > (about 4-8Mb) than how much memory you have. Set the partition ID to > &0xa0 (if I remeber, you want the IBM hibination one) and run the > software you got with your laptop that "format"'s the new partition. > This should sort things out. However as I don't have a T20 you could be > on your own, however all the laptops I have set up use this process for > a hibination routine. I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small amount. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > amount. > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. Alex
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and attributes it'll just work... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. > > I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. > > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. > > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > attributes it'll just work... Nope. The BIOS needs to know the offset of the file, of course. As soon as you move it you're screwed. Andreas Mohr
Re: Weird sound problem
G'Day ! An educated guess here is that the 'Analog to Digital' chip/board and/or your 'Digital to Analog' board has failed Trying replacing the sound card with a new one. cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more important than that !!! Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Debian User , Debian Laptop hmics.com> Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Weird sound problem mics.com 10/18/00 07:05 AM Hi All @[EMAIL PROTECTED] it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that when I boot I get the following message: snd: cs461x: powerup ADC failed snd: cs461x: powerup DAC failed that I don't remember seeing before. Does anyone have any ideas? thanks Richard (See attached file: rblack.vcf) rblack.vcf Description: Binary data
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Hello, I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin disc (the last lines several times): Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? Thanks. -- \ __ Dieter Faulbaum o/ \ <\__,\ "\, \
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > disc (the last lines several times): > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from > safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over. I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels. AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. But OTOH ICBW :-) Andreas Mohr
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--- Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) > Ouch! Please speak plain english. It's hard enough to understand for non native englishspeaking people... Thank you. Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" "Somewhere where they know nothing about computing... where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!" "But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" he whines. The BOFH 1998 - Simon Travaglia (bofh.ntk.net) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to run under debian without running into a bunch of module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade my system without having all of these problems. If there is literature about this problem please point me in that direction and I will follow. Badiane __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
--- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running into a bunch of > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > my system without having all of these problems. If > there is literature about this problem please point me > in that direction and I will follow. > > Badiane > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's package...) - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" "Somewhere where they know nothing about computing... where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!" "But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" he whines. The BOFH 1998 - Simon Travaglia (bofh.ntk.net) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> Thanks everyone. > > I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have > played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA > modes ... > I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the > Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and only works 8 > bpp with KDE 2.1 from sid ). I think TextSVGA depends on SVGAlib being set up properly? Tell it VESA as the chiptype. Even my old beastie had "too new" a chipset to be properly detected by SVGAlib... until I did this, JPEGs would do the White Screen of Scaring You (can't be 'death', the machine didn't actually die, but I had to quit zgv and change consoles blind, then suspend and resume to get a video reset - creepy). It should also be able to take modelines, similar to those you might give to X 3.3.6, in otder to avoid doing anything boneheaded. > As for the hibernation partition, I'll investigate it further following > Russel's suggestion to look at BIOS NVRAM. So far I have played with > lphdisk, modified it to support any primary partition, but BIOS remained > completely oblivious to its existence. I'm wondering how much Phoenix > remained in T20 BIOS, IBM may have limited its original functionality. > E.g Dell provides it's own utility to handle the hibernation partition > for Latitude notebooks, supporting multiple data chunks together( like > partition + file ), the partition type is not A0H, but 84H. (hastily checking the tpctl package to see if that looks like any help...) Um, that's no good, it knows how to tell it so, but not how to make it go. Les likely limited, more likely "replaced with less buggy" ... say, IBM says they're so hot to support Linux, why don't we ask them what we're supposed to used since lphdisk isn't doing it. I suppose you could try just changing lphdisk's A0 partition to type 84 and see if it zips onward. On the boxes lphdisk was written *for*, that would make the hibernate volume disappear... > Thanks again > Jacek Best of luck * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Who needs DOS? yeti:~$ grep mkdosfs /pub/debian/Contents-i386 sbin/mkdosfs otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/doc/dosfstools/README.mkdosfs otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/man/man8/mkdosfs.8.gz otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/man/pl/man8/mkdosfs.8.gzdoc/manpages-pl happy hacking :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > > run under debian without running into a bunch of > > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > > my system without having all of these problems. If > > there is literature about this problem please point me > > in that direction and I will follow. > > > > Badiane > > > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: > - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a > warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's > package...) > - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. > > Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... You might want to copy your vmlinuz in case of accidents. It's a bad idea to ever have no kernels on your machine. At least make sure you have a boot disk. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another one is "Class II", as You know, the kind > of a box combine everything, includes a black and white CRT monitor, I'm > sure, both of the Mac is still working fine with OS they still > installed, but it is Mac OS. I 'd like to "TRY" to install debian on it > :-) "Are You out of your mind?", this is the last words I got it > from the old friend who give them to Me! I believe that the PowerBook 5xx machines had undocumented keyboard protocol problems, which nobody has taken the time to reverse-engineer. Furthermore, they used a low-power 68040(LC?) without FPU, so the m68k port won't run on them. So no dice. :-( Sorry, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space > > on > > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > > amount. > > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. > > Alex It also needs the correct preamble - that's what lphdisk (or in the case of "people who couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT partitions" that initial floppy that they probably threw out) is for. Without a preamble that is calculated for at least the size you need, type A0 on some blank space isn't enough. A preamble for a bigger space will do, at least in my tests, on machines known to use the Phoenix partitions. On such systems the hibernate volume also did not need to be at the beginning nor the end of the disk - it was perfectly happy smack in the middle, as long as it was large enough. (If you desperately need a preamble because lphdisk isn't doing something you need, contact me privately. My hubby has a 512Mb machine with decent video memory, of the applicable type, and if that isn't big enough we're jealous ;D ) * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > > attributes it'll just work... > Nope. Nope because it needs the correct beginning contents, not because it wasn't a good thought. > The BIOS needs to know the offset of the file, of course. Yes, but it should be able to figure this out as long as it's in the root directory on the FAT, since that's a fixed size and location to search through. > As soon as you move it you're screwed. > Andreas Mohr If so, that's nasty - a libretto I was messing with was perfectly happy for me to just mess around with it as long as I put its precious file back in the FAT volume at the beginning before I was through. (in ref to my previous note: no, I didn't check whether the libretto was robust about where the FAT partition itself sat on the drive. Sorry.) * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:52:54PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > > > run under debian without running into a bunch of > > > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > > > my system without having all of these problems. If > > > there is literature about this problem please point me > > > in that direction and I will follow. > > > > > > Badiane > > > > > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: > > - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a > > warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's > > package...) > > - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. > > > > Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... > > You might want to copy your vmlinuz in case of accidents. It's a > bad idea to ever have no kernels on your machine. At least make sure you > have a boot disk. > > -- > #define X(x,y) x##y > Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) > > "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! > Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack > my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE > Here's what I do and it works perfectly every time, with 2.2.18: - Install the kernel source and pcmcia source and configure the kernel - compile the kernel # make-kpkg kernel_image - compile the modules # make-kpkg modules_image - this makes a deb of the pcmcia modules associated with this kernel deb - install the kernel # dpkg -i kernel_image.deb - I've already got my system setup to boot to multiple kernels with lilo - I verify that the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old links are set properly - I update my boot message file and rerun lilo to make sure all is good - install the modules # dpkg -i pcmcia_image.deb - this puts the pcmcia modules in the /lib/modules/2.2.18-# directory. - reboot and pick the new kernel at the lilo prompt
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > > disc (the last lines several times): > > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > > > > Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from > > safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? > I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over. > I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels. > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) Translation for non-acronym-speakers: AFAICT = as far as I can tell OTOH = on the other hand ICBW = I could be wrong. I think it's a problem if you see "do_try_to_free_pages failed". The kernel may even have killed off its own kswapd when that happened. Try installing with the compact or the idepci images. They have less stuff compiled in, so they're more likely to not run out of memory before you can set up a swap partition. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:30:44AM -0800, Badiane Ka wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running into a bunch of > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > my system without having all of these problems. If > there is literature about this problem please point me > in that direction and I will follow. > I don't think this is a serious problem. It's probably just a version conflict, coming from pcmcia-modules depending on a particular version of the kernel. At worst you can just uninstall pcmcia-modules (and maybe pcmcia-cs). Then you can upgrade the new kernel and you should get no problems then. After that you can reinstall pcmcia-modules and pcmcia-cs. Note, you probably want to keep a copy of the deb file for pcmcia-cs, since once it's uninstalled you won't be able to download it again with apt-get (your network will be gone!). If you've recently downloaded it but can't find it, try looking in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I presume you created the deb file for pcmcia-modules yourself with make-kpkg modules_image. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...
Hi there! It all begun when I begun installing potato on a toshiba laptop. My objective is to install Sid on it, but since for this I need to have potato installed I thought about putting a basic installation of potato and then do a dist-upgrade on it. I was able to put a basic installation of potato but, for me to do a dist-upgrade I need to configure my pcmcia card. So I installed cardmgr and the modules needed to configure. I checked for the name of the card (Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 REM56G-100) in the supported.cards file and I gladly found it was there. After a reboot I heard a first high beep (cardmgr was starting) and then (after a sec or 2) I heard another one. So far so good. But after about 4 sec I heard another high beep. :/ I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 :(( . The second and third high beeps were due to an autonegotiation that failed. I opened the /etc/pcmcia/config file I couldn't find any entry for my card although it is supported. I then checked my cardmgr version (3.1.22) and found out that the latest one was version 3.1.25 . I though they added the support for this card in latter versions but nothing appears in the Changes file. I copied my config file to another place and removed all cards entries. Then I restarted cardmgr. As I supposed it would happen there was I high beep followed by a low beep that indicates that the card was unsupported (that I confirmed by looking to the logs). But the strang thing is that in the logs and when I do a "cardctl ident" it showed: product info: "Xircom", CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56", "CEM56", "1.00" That lead me thinking that cardmgr got this information from the pc card memory. Now, I'm 100% sure that the card is the Xircom REM56G-100 (CEM is not even a type III card, it's a type II!!), as it's written on the card. So I'm not sure what to do here. I did tried to put an entry on the config file but with what key-words (those are key-words aren't they?) ? When I restored my config file and restarted cardmgr I noticed that the file /var/lib/pcmcia/stab only had two entries. One for the ethernet and the other for a serial. Isn't it suppose to have 3, since I have also an ISDN modem? How should I use the ISDN connection kit then? I saw written somewhere that is just like a serial but I have only a serial for my modem and ISDN adapter... Should I use hisax? Anyway, one thing at a time. Right now I'm not able to put my card being detected. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maximum hard drive limitations?
One more data point -- 335 CDS -- I put a 20 gb drive in it. The bios can only see about 10. I partitioned w/ Debian, left abt. 4 gb for hda2 and played several games to re-install windoze from the lame Tosh diskette. Dual boots fine. Morgan Hall Wilsonville, Oregon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jim Nutt wrote: > Peter Cordes writes: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:18:38AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > This question isn't strictly Linux, but I hope you'll be kind :) > > > > > > I have a Toshiba 490CDT model, which comes with a 3.8GB harddrive, and > the > > > Toshiba docs seem to be saying that the maximum drive that can put in the > > > computer is 6GB. > > > > However, all I've done is to say that I can't think of any good reason why > > there should be a 6GB limit. Borrow somebody's >6GB drive, and see if it > > My guess is that docs were written when a 6GB laptop drive was the > largest available. > > jim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:42:08AM +, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 > :(( . > As far as the software is concerned, RealPort cards are the same as the older credit-card type cards. I presume the chipset inside is the same series. CEM56 is quite correct. Especially if it works (which it does for me). I don't have an ISDN kit, so I can't comment on that. Your computer seems to be identifying your card perfectly fine. If you look at the Window$ drivers, you'll see they're CEM56 compatible too. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 06:01, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > Thanks everyone. > > I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have > played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA > modes ... Try the following: In the Linux config in the "console drivers" section, enable "Video mode selection", "Support for frame buffer devices", "VESA VGA graphics console", "Select compiled-in fonts", "Sparc console 12x22 font" (Linux 2.2.18). Then append at your Lilo kernel command line the following options: vga=0x317 video=vesa:redraw,mtrr,font:SUN12x22 This gives you a 85x34 Characters text console with a very nice font. For X11, I suggest you to use XFree 4.02 with the current driver by Tim Roberts (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html). Works fine here. > I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the > Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and only works 8 > bpp with KDE 2.1 from sid ). Runs fine here with 16bpp on potato. Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Saturday 10 March 2001 15:34, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jacek M. Wuwer wrote: > >- Has anyone managed to successfully persuade BIOS to use suspend to > >disk partition instead of file on FATXX ( active ?? ) partition ? The > >file size with decent amount of RAM on T20 drives the allocation unit on > >FAT16 considerably. > > If I'm right, you make space at the end of you harddisk, slightly more > (about 4-8Mb) than how much memory you have. Set the partition ID to > &0xa0 (if I remeber, you want the IBM hibination one) and run the > software you got with your laptop that "format"'s the new partition. > This should sort things out. However as I don't have a T20 you could be > on your own, however all the laptops I have set up use this process for > a hibination routine. I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small amount. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > amount. > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and attributes it'll just work... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. > > I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. > > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. > > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > attributes it'll just work... Nope. The BIOS needs to know the offset of the file, of course. As soon as you move it you're screwed. Andreas Mohr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello, I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin disc (the last lines several times): Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? Thanks. -- \ __ Dieter Faulbaum o/ \ <\__,\ "\, \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > disc (the last lines several times): > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from > safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over. I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels. AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. But OTOH ICBW :-) Andreas Mohr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) > Ouch! Please speak plain english. It's hard enough to understand for non native englishspeaking people... Thank you. Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" "Somewhere where they know nothing about computing... where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!" "But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" he whines. The BOFH 1998 - Simon Travaglia (bofh.ntk.net) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to run under debian without running into a bunch of module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade my system without having all of these problems. If there is literature about this problem please point me in that direction and I will follow. Badiane __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
--- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running into a bunch of > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > my system without having all of these problems. If > there is literature about this problem please point me > in that direction and I will follow. > > Badiane > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's package...) - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... Francois. = Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" "Somewhere where they know nothing about computing... where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!" "But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" he whines. The BOFH 1998 - Simon Travaglia (bofh.ntk.net) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> Thanks everyone. > > I'll got my new kernel compiled with framebuffer support. Yes, I have > played with vga=ask parameter - T20 just doens't like those old EGA > modes ... > I've not tried the TextSVGA package, it didn't look promising since the > Savage IX card has been supported for about 5 months ( and only works 8 > bpp with KDE 2.1 from sid ). I think TextSVGA depends on SVGAlib being set up properly? Tell it VESA as the chiptype. Even my old beastie had "too new" a chipset to be properly detected by SVGAlib... until I did this, JPEGs would do the White Screen of Scaring You (can't be 'death', the machine didn't actually die, but I had to quit zgv and change consoles blind, then suspend and resume to get a video reset - creepy). It should also be able to take modelines, similar to those you might give to X 3.3.6, in otder to avoid doing anything boneheaded. > As for the hibernation partition, I'll investigate it further following > Russel's suggestion to look at BIOS NVRAM. So far I have played with > lphdisk, modified it to support any primary partition, but BIOS remained > completely oblivious to its existence. I'm wondering how much Phoenix > remained in T20 BIOS, IBM may have limited its original functionality. > E.g Dell provides it's own utility to handle the hibernation partition > for Latitude notebooks, supporting multiple data chunks together( like > partition + file ), the partition type is not A0H, but 84H. (hastily checking the tpctl package to see if that looks like any help...) Um, that's no good, it knows how to tell it so, but not how to make it go. Les likely limited, more likely "replaced with less buggy" ... say, IBM says they're so hot to support Linux, why don't we ask them what we're supposed to used since lphdisk isn't doing it. I suppose you could try just changing lphdisk's A0 partition to type 84 and see if it zips onward. On the boxes lphdisk was written *for*, that would make the hibernate volume disappear... > Thanks again > Jacek Best of luck * Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. Who needs DOS? yeti:~$ grep mkdosfs /pub/debian/Contents-i386 sbin/mkdosfs otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/doc/dosfstools/README.mkdosfs otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/man/man8/mkdosfs.8.gz otherosfs/dosfstools usr/share/man/pl/man8/mkdosfs.8.gzdoc/manpages-pl happy hacking :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > > run under debian without running into a bunch of > > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > > my system without having all of these problems. If > > there is literature about this problem please point me > > in that direction and I will follow. > > > > Badiane > > > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: > - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a > warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's > package...) > - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. > > Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... You might want to copy your vmlinuz in case of accidents. It's a bad idea to ever have no kernels on your machine. At least make sure you have a boot disk. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Toshiba and Macintosh !
Net Shu wrote: > Hi Everyone: Hello, > Question 2: "Are You out of your mind?" an old friend said this to > Me! > > Recently, I got two very old Macintosh computer, one is "Power Book > 520" with only one floppy, gray scale LCD monitor, but luckily have > Ether Talk connector, another one is "Class II", as You know, the kind > of a box combine everything, includes a black and white CRT monitor, I'm > sure, both of the Mac is still working fine with OS they still > installed, but it is Mac OS. I 'd like to "TRY" to install debian on it > :-) "Are You out of your mind?", this is the last words I got it > from the old friend who give them to Me! I believe that the PowerBook 5xx machines had undocumented keyboard protocol problems, which nobody has taken the time to reverse-engineer. Furthermore, they used a low-power 68040(LC?) without FPU, so the m68k port won't run on them. So no dice. :-( Sorry, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the facilities > > that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program which uses space on > > an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM + Video RAM + a small > > amount. > > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > If it doesn't workthen make a DOS partition and live with it. > > Alex It also needs the correct preamble - that's what lphdisk (or in the case of "people who couldn't understand the existance of anything but FAT partitions" that initial floppy that they probably threw out) is for. Without a preamble that is calculated for at least the size you need, type A0 on some blank space isn't enough. A preamble for a bigger space will do, at least in my tests, on machines known to use the Phoenix partitions. On such systems the hibernate volume also did not need to be at the beginning nor the end of the disk - it was perfectly happy smack in the middle, as long as it was large enough. (If you desperately need a preamble because lphdisk isn't doing something you need, contact me privately. My hubby has a 512Mb machine with decent video memory, of the applicable type, and if that isn't big enough we're jealous ;D ) * Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk partition on ThinkPad T20
> > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > > attributes it'll just work... > Nope. Nope because it needs the correct beginning contents, not because it wasn't a good thought. > The BIOS needs to know the offset of the file, of course. Yes, but it should be able to figure this out as long as it's in the root directory on the FAT, since that's a fixed size and location to search through. > As soon as you move it you're screwed. > Andreas Mohr If so, that's nasty - a libretto I was messing with was perfectly happy for me to just mess around with it as long as I put its precious file back in the FAT volume at the beginning before I was through. (in ref to my previous note: no, I didn't check whether the libretto was robust about where the FAT partition itself sat on the drive. Sorry.) * Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:52:54PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0800, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > > > --- Badiane Ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > > > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > > > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > > > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > > > run under debian without running into a bunch of > > > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > > > my system without having all of these problems. If > > > there is literature about this problem please point me > > > in that direction and I will follow. > > > > > > Badiane > > > > > I don't know if there is any documentation about that, but what I do is: > > - remove the kernel and pcmcia packages that are in use (yes, there's a > > warning saying that it's dangerous to remove a running kernel's > > package...) > > - install the new kernel package, and then the pcmcia one. > > > > Simply, do not try rebooting between the two stages... > > You might want to copy your vmlinuz in case of accidents. It's a > bad idea to ever have no kernels on your machine. At least make sure you > have a boot disk. > > -- > #define X(x,y) x##y > Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) > > "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! > Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack > my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE > Here's what I do and it works perfectly every time, with 2.2.18: - Install the kernel source and pcmcia source and configure the kernel - compile the kernel # make-kpkg kernel_image - compile the modules # make-kpkg modules_image - this makes a deb of the pcmcia modules associated with this kernel deb - install the kernel # dpkg -i kernel_image.deb - I've already got my system setup to boot to multiple kernels with lilo - I verify that the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old links are set properly - I update my boot message file and rerun lilo to make sure all is good - install the modules # dpkg -i pcmcia_image.deb - this puts the pcmcia modules in the /lib/modules/2.2.18-# directory. - reboot and pick the new kernel at the lilo prompt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > > disc (the last lines several times): > > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > > > > Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from > > safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? > I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over. > I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels. > > AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. > > But OTOH ICBW :-) Translation for non-acronym-speakers: AFAICT = as far as I can tell OTOH = on the other hand ICBW = I could be wrong. I think it's a problem if you see "do_try_to_free_pages failed". The kernel may even have killed off its own kswapd when that happened. Try installing with the compact or the idepci images. They have less stuff compiled in, so they're more likely to not run out of memory before you can set up a swap partition. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Badiane: make-kpkg PCMCIA conflict
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:30:44AM -0800, Badiane Ka wrote: > I have created a deb package with make-kpkg and upon > executing dpkg -i I get a message saying that there is > conflict between my custom 2.2.18pre1 image and > pcmcia. How do I compile, install and get a kernel to > run under debian without running into a bunch of > module problems. I would like to be able to upgrade > my system without having all of these problems. If > there is literature about this problem please point me > in that direction and I will follow. > I don't think this is a serious problem. It's probably just a version conflict, coming from pcmcia-modules depending on a particular version of the kernel. At worst you can just uninstall pcmcia-modules (and maybe pcmcia-cs). Then you can upgrade the new kernel and you should get no problems then. After that you can reinstall pcmcia-modules and pcmcia-cs. Note, you probably want to keep a copy of the deb file for pcmcia-cs, since once it's uninstalled you won't be able to download it again with apt-get (your network will be gone!). If you've recently downloaded it but can't find it, try looking in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I presume you created the deb file for pcmcia-modules yourself with make-kpkg modules_image. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...
Hi there! It all begun when I begun installing potato on a toshiba laptop. My objective is to install Sid on it, but since for this I need to have potato installed I thought about putting a basic installation of potato and then do a dist-upgrade on it. I was able to put a basic installation of potato but, for me to do a dist-upgrade I need to configure my pcmcia card. So I installed cardmgr and the modules needed to configure. I checked for the name of the card (Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 REM56G-100) in the supported.cards file and I gladly found it was there. After a reboot I heard a first high beep (cardmgr was starting) and then (after a sec or 2) I heard another one. So far so good. But after about 4 sec I heard another high beep. :/ I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 :(( . The second and third high beeps were due to an autonegotiation that failed. I opened the /etc/pcmcia/config file I couldn't find any entry for my card although it is supported. I then checked my cardmgr version (3.1.22) and found out that the latest one was version 3.1.25 . I though they added the support for this card in latter versions but nothing appears in the Changes file. I copied my config file to another place and removed all cards entries. Then I restarted cardmgr. As I supposed it would happen there was I high beep followed by a low beep that indicates that the card was unsupported (that I confirmed by looking to the logs). But the strang thing is that in the logs and when I do a "cardctl ident" it showed: product info: "Xircom", CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56", "CEM56", "1.00" That lead me thinking that cardmgr got this information from the pc card memory. Now, I'm 100% sure that the card is the Xircom REM56G-100 (CEM is not even a type III card, it's a type II!!), as it's written on the card. So I'm not sure what to do here. I did tried to put an entry on the config file but with what key-words (those are key-words aren't they?) ? When I restored my config file and restarted cardmgr I noticed that the file /var/lib/pcmcia/stab only had two entries. One for the ethernet and the other for a serial. Isn't it suppose to have 3, since I have also an ISDN modem? How should I use the ISDN connection kit then? I saw written somewhere that is just like a serial but I have only a serial for my modem and ISDN adapter... Should I use hisax? Anyway, one thing at a time. Right now I'm not able to put my card being detected. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maximum hard drive limitations?
One more data point -- 335 CDS -- I put a 20 gb drive in it. The bios can only see about 10. I partitioned w/ Debian, left abt. 4 gb for hda2 and played several games to re-install windoze from the lame Tosh diskette. Dual boots fine. Morgan Hall Wilsonville, Oregon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jim Nutt wrote: > Peter Cordes writes: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:18:38AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > This question isn't strictly Linux, but I hope you'll be kind :) > > > > > > I have a Toshiba 490CDT model, which comes with a 3.8GB harddrive, and the > > > Toshiba docs seem to be saying that the maximum drive that can put in the > > > computer is 6GB. > > > > However, all I've done is to say that I can't think of any good reason why > > there should be a 6GB limit. Borrow somebody's >6GB drive, and see if it > > My guess is that docs were written when a 6GB laptop drive was the > largest available. > > jim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100O+Modem 56 REM56-100 card...
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:42:08AM +, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > I checked my logs and saw that cardmgr recognized my card as a Xircom CEM56 :(( . > As far as the software is concerned, RealPort cards are the same as the older credit-card type cards. I presume the chipset inside is the same series. CEM56 is quite correct. Especially if it works (which it does for me). I don't have an ISDN kit, so I can't comment on that. Your computer seems to be identifying your card perfectly fine. If you look at the Window$ drivers, you'll see they're CEM56 compatible too. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weird sound problem
G'Day ! An educated guess here is that the 'Analog to Digital' chip/board and/or your 'Digital to Analog' board has failed Trying replacing the sound card with a new one. cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death It is far more important than that !!! Richard Black , Debian Laptop hmics.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: rblack@algorithSubject: Weird sound problem mics.com 10/18/00 07:05 AM Hi All @#$@!# it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that when I boot I get the following message: snd: cs461x: powerup ADC failed snd: cs461x: powerup DAC failed that I don't remember seeing before. Does anyone have any ideas? thanks Richard (See attached file: rblack.vcf) rblack.vcf
