Re: dell inspiron and cpx hardware qualities
mw, 2002-Oct-22 19:48 +0200: > Hello again. > One more question is about Dell Laptops. > According to information from linux-laptop.net, they are in common ok for > linux. I watch especially for insprons from 4000 and the cpx-series from 500 > onward, which seem to be 'recent' enough and well supported. > But there's one report about a cpx 750 which showed many hardware failures. > Dell changed some pieces ( like HD and mainboard - i don't refer to the > batterie-callback action ) regarding to warranty. > However, i look for a used one, so i can't claim warranties... > > Is there something well-known about any hardware lacks on dell's, especially > the cpx-series ? > And also, is it true that ibm-HD's are suspicious in this way ? > > I think it's quite a common task, and i should read up the archives. > But i'm not very good in recherche, and are supposed to act soon. > Perhaps someone could provide me at least a good link > > > -- > Michl. Hey Michl, I've had a cpx 750 J series for 2.5 years now. It's running woody, 2.4.19 kernel (custom), and it runs very nicely. I've had the mb replaced 2 times, once for a keyboard problem where certain keys stopped working (I'd tweak the case and they would work again) where I the keyboard was replaced as well; and once for a suspected problem with the battery contacts (but that was a false alarm). The HD has had no problems, but it's load. I use noflushd to spin it down. XFree86 4.1 with the ati driver is solid. USB works perfectly for mouse and smartmedia reader. APM works nicely as well. I usually suspend it when not in use and when I'm on the road. I've gone up to 3 months without rebooting and had over 30 days of uptime (the time not suspended) during that timeframe. I've gone through a bunch of batteries, but when I had 2 good 3600mAh batteries I could go 6-8 hours continued usage. The video isn't the best with only 8Mb of video memory, don't expect to run gltron in it's full glory. However, for production work, it's fine. I hope this helps, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Modem problem
(inspiron 2600 with kernel 2.4.19) I have a winmodem on it,i tried pctel driver for it with a self compiled kernel(2.4.19) and it worked fine. Then I want to compile it with a apt-gettted kernel but it failed due to some missing symbles(I installed the kernel header) So I returned to the self compiled kernel but it is not working anymore! It can found he moem but says that it is busy! Help me please?!
Re: Modem problem
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:55:01AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > I have a winmodem on it,i tried pctel driver for it with a self > compiled kernel(2.4.19) and it worked fine. Then I want to > compile it with a apt-gettted kernel but it failed due to some > missing symbles(I installed the kernel header) So I returned to > the self compiled kernel but it is not working anymore! It can > found he moem but says that it is busy! Help me please?! You should reboot your computer before recompiling modem driver package and then maybe even reboot once more just to be sure, that all modules are well in place. BTW, you did compile your kernel using make-kpkg, didn't you? Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Why should I travel, when I'm already there? -- Bostonian lady, when being asked why she never visited other places than Boston
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > de|ire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the >> rpm of the standard drive? 4200 rpm is the standard. > (I don't actually have an answer, but I strongly suspect that drives > with a higher rotation speed [and better performance] will suck up > noticably more battery life. It seems like for PC hard drives, 5400 > and 7200 RPM are the standard options.) I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.) >> has anyone played arond with kernel support for fast DMA on their >> lappie? keen to know if i can get any better on my dell i8k. > > I've played with it some on mine (a Dell Latitude C600, not an > Inspiron). I didn't notice any particular performance improvement > from playing with the options; I got a factor of 4 speed-up as measured by hdparm -t by doing hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda Dan
Re: sony vaio losing disc space
"Jodi Fodor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_001B_01C279D8.984A7AF0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > HI! > > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C = > drive even when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded = > anything?? In the past week it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My = > Norton Virus Scan finds nothing. > Thanks! > Jodi > No clue, but you could try to find what files get modiefied during, say, a week. Don't know how you do this from wintendo, but if you have your c: drive mounted on /dos/c you do the following from your real os: find /dos/c -type f -mtime -7 -ls (rtfm for more options to find, but the ones above should be sufficient...) Regards Tobbe -- ## Torbjörn Pettersson # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vattugatan 5 # Web www.strul.nu/~tobbe S-111 52 Stockholm, Sweden # ##
Re: sony vaio losing disc space
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:37, Jodi Fodor wrote: > HI! > > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C drive > even when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded anything?? In the > past week it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My Norton Virus Scan finds > nothing. > Thanks! When talking about "C" does that mean you are talking about a Windows installation?? If not - check for logs that run out of hand (/var/log) or just use "find" to, well, *find* alle files, say - larger then 1 or 2 MB (man find). That would be a good start for diagnosing. Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 16 5563 / Tel private: +49 6155 899393 / mobile: +49 163 4712037
Re: Modem problem
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:02, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:55:01AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > > I have a winmodem on it,i tried pctel driver for it with a self > > compiled kernel(2.4.19) and it worked fine. Then I want to > > compile it with a apt-gettted kernel but it failed due to some > > missing symbles(I installed the kernel header) So I returned to > > the self compiled kernel but it is not working anymore! It can > > found he moem but says that it is busy! Help me please?! > > You should reboot your computer before recompiling modem driver > package and then maybe even reboot once more just to be sure, > that all modules are well in place. BTW, you did compile your > kernel using make-kpkg, didn't you? > > Best, > Matej All modules are in place and I can insert them. I rebooted my box hundred times but still not working! No! I compiled kernel by myself!
Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Oleg wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:35 am, Juergen Stuber wrote: > > AFAIK you need XFree 4.2, which is in unstable. > > How can I install XFree86 from unstable on a stable machine: > > apt-get -t unstable install xserver-xfree86 ? That might work, but I normally use % apt-get install xserver-xfree86/unstable > Do I need to modify my sources.list? You need to add the lines for unstable. I have deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free The fr is for France, you probably want to remove it or to replace it by a server closer to you. Also, using stuff in non-US might be illegal for US people. Jürgen -- Jürgen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
You can try XFree86 -configure On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm trying to do this on a > Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110 laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card > (32MB) and an LCD that can do up to 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz. > > When I tried installing Mandrake 9.0 just for kicks, it configured X without > even asking me any questions (I should have probably saved its XF86Config-4 > for reference, but I didn't). Now with Debian on the same machine instead, I > spent all night trying to get ANY graphics to work. WTF? > > I tried > `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`, `xf86cfg` and `xf86configure` basically > trying to select "ati" or "radeon" drivers, "PCI:1:0:0" as BusID (`lspci -vv` > says that the ATI card is at "01:00.0"), and I choose 1280x960 @ 60 Hz > resolution, among other things. The error that X gives me is "No devices > found". > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance > Oleg > > P.S. Please Cc: your replies to me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
Le mer 23/10/2002 à 00:07, Eric M. Winslow a écrit : > Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. > It worked! > > I went with your suggestions first and halelujah, I could actually ping > the base station and the rest of the world with it. That feels good. Nice. That said I have still a problem with the same hardware. There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to? What about the FSF ? Christophe > Good night and thank you again. > > Eric > A happy, hooked-up Debian user. > > --- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > > > auto lo > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > > > auto eth0 > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit > > > > I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't work > > with > > the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid > > first. > > > > > wireless_mode managed > > > > As believe you can (should?) drop this line. > > > > > wireless_key s: #I have tried hex, too > > > > I never get it working using the s: syntax. > > It works perfectly for me with the following syntax: > > > > wireless_enc HEXKEY > > > > I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption. > > Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes to > > find > > it in the MacOS-X config tool. > > > > Christophe > > > > > #end of /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another > > config > > > file that I need to check. > > > > > > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up > > Redhat 8 > > > on this laptop, I promise. > > > > > > Eric M. Winslow > > > > > > __ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for > > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ >
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was > quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. > Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get > a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery > power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.) 3 hours seems to be what customers expect. So faster CPUs and hard drives get combined with advances in battery technology to deliver the same battery life. It's a pity you can't get new tech batteries for older laptops and have 12 hours of power. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages 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/~russell/ My home page
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RFC on low resource machine and debian
Hi, I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would like to use debian to do it. My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a working PPP connection to the internet. So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel it. So what it boils down to is this: 1. Do I have to install X see images? 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make work nano/tiny X. 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine and port the results over to this humble laptop? TIA. Drew
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
> MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when > I > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a > timeout > somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > No, I haven't seen anything of that sort, but I can't say that I have much browsing experience with this setup either. We'll see what I encounter. I haven't come across that on other platforms though. > > Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to? > > What about the FSF ? > Excellent choice. Thanks again. eric > Christophe > > > Good night and thank you again. > > > > Eric > > A happy, hooked-up Debian user. > > > > --- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > > > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > > > > > auto lo > > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > > > > > auto eth0 > > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit > > > > > > I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't > work > > > with > > > the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid > > > first. > > > > > > > wireless_mode managed > > > > > > As believe you can (should?) drop this line. > > > > > > > wireless_key s: #I have tried hex, too > > > > > > I never get it working using the s: syntax. > > > It works perfectly for me with the following syntax: > > > > > > wireless_enc HEXKEY > > > > > > I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption. > > > Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes > to > > > find > > > it in the MacOS-X config tool. > > > > > > Christophe > > > > > > > #end of /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > > > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another > > > config > > > > file that I need to check. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up > > > Redhat 8 > > > > on this laptop, I promise. > > > > > > > > Eric M. Winslow > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C > B41E > > > > > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask > for > > > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
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Re: Modem problem
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:12:52PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > No! I compiled kernel by myself! It is really foolish -- install make-kpkg (it is package kernel-package) and compile kernel using it. You will get neat package of kernel-image, which is probably of better quality, it is easier to maintain. Then let me know. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 If it dies, it's biology. If it blows up, it's chemistry, and if it doesn't work, it's physics. -- University bathroom graffito
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
syslog or kern.log show anything? ifconfig or iwconfig report loads of errors or dropped packets? etc. :) -cyn - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. > MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout > somewhere. Do you see something like that ?
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Christophe Barbé wrote: [snip and slightly reformatted] > ... There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless > and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to > download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or > IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem > disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It > looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? MTU problem perhaps? A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see whether it makes any difference. If it is, then using --clamp-mss-to-pmtu on iptables would be a (slightly) better solution. Unfortunately I don't know a solution that feels 100% correct... (yes: I suffered from similar problems in the past...) HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government! -- Mr. Interesting pgp2Vb1MBCaPd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
Drew Cohan, 2002-Oct-23 10:14 -0400: >1. Do I have to install X see images? > >2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? (or >just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) Perhaps a framebuffer xserver? Not the the whole system. >3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense >for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly >included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in debian >stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on this >machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting my hdd >space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is that I >can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make work >nano/tiny X. I suggest using a framebuffer console, no X, and using fbi to view images on the console. I don't know if your laptop's video supports framebuffer, likeyly vgafb16 or maybe vesa, I don't know. >4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something >that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > >5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine >and port the results over to this humble laptop? Just a few thoughts...jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:15:31PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > It's a pity you can't get new tech batteries for older laptops and have 12 > hours of power. I second that. One fuelcell battery for a current asus laptop, please! Hope some 'independant' manfuacturer gets his act together and starts pumping out this stuff. And to those who say 'you don't need more runtime', you haven't actually used a laptop, then ran out of power? It's always there, just waiting for you to be in a produtive mood... -- Greetings Joris [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 25569167 PGP is currently out-of-use
Disable forced fsck
How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. Next, I tried to rename fsck to fsck.ori so it wouldn't be found. The boot takes place but then halts when it finds errors. It tells me to CTRL-D to reboot or enter root-password to go into maintenance mode to manually fix the problem. I want to disable it because my disk stops working when the check gets around 7 %. I know, this is not healthy - I already ordered a new disk but until then I'd like to boot into my system. Are there any bootprompt-arguments or something that I can use to let the system boot normally even when it finds erros? I tried the bootprompt-howto, google and some fora but didn't find my answer. Thanks, Sjon Wijnolst, The Netherlands.
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
Try to get the framebuffer working on your videocard, and use fbi to display the images. There's a framebuffer driver for VESA cards on the kenrel, and I think there's a driver for plain-old VGA cards somewhere on the net ... El mié, 23-10-2002 a las 16:14, Drew Cohan escribió: > Hi, > > > > I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: > > > > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a > ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously > display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would > like to use debian to do it. > > > > My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, > use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. > Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy > drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an > external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via > floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a > little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for > example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux > system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a > working PPP connection to the internet. > > > > So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system > and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest > of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would > leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel > it. > > > > So what it boils down to is this: > > > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? > > 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? > (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) > > 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense > for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly > included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in > debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on > this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting > my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is > that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make > work nano/tiny X. > > 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something > that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > > 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine > and port the results over to this humble laptop? > > > > TIA. > > > > Drew > -- Vicente Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.bisente.com
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote: > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and > a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it > continuously display jpeg images one after the other as in a > slideshow. And I would like to use debian to do it. > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? If you can use a kernel framebuffer like vesafb on your video hardware, you don't need X. All you need is the "fbi" program to display images on the framebuffer. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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Re: Disable forced fsck
> "Sjon" == Sjon Wijnolst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sjon> How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any Sjon> volumes that are found to have errors? I already booted with Sjon> rescue-disk and edited /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for Sjon> the volume. Didn't work. Try changing the last number on the volume's line in /etc/fstab to 0. ,[ excerpt - fstab man page ] | The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter- | mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The | root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other | filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive | will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will | be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the | hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero | is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to | be checked. ` (Apparently the nocheck option doesn't apply to newer kernels.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgp4shM25I3ed.pgp Description: PGP signature
Laptop battery power
Could anybody give some advice on my battery situation. I own an ASUS A1 laptop and a while back I began having trouble with the APM system. The first thing that happened was that my battery would only charge to 60% of maximum power. It was quite suddenly and exactly 60%. After that I have been having increasing problems with recharging and power supply. A lot of times the system seems to shut down quite suddenly and unprovoked, also battery life has decreased to about 30 minutes max, even when mostly idling. Sometimes the battery wont charge when I plug in the power cable, if I remove it and plug it in again it starts charging for a while but then stops. Do I need to replace the battery? Is there something more seriously wrong with my system? I was wondering if the switch inside the power plug is bend so that it does not detect that I plug in the power cord. It also seems if I jiggle the cord it will sometimes start to charge, however if I measure the voltage with a voltmeter and then jiggle the cable it doesn't appear as if there is a breakage in the cable itself. So what to do? Hope this isn't too off topic. Anders E. Andersen
Re: Laptop battery power
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:16, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > Could anybody give some advice on my battery situation. I own an ASUS A1 > laptop and a while back I began having trouble with the APM system. > > The first thing that happened was that my battery would only charge to > 60% of maximum power. It was quite suddenly and exactly 60%. After that > I have been having increasing problems with recharging and power supply. > A lot of times the system seems to shut down quite suddenly and > unprovoked, also battery life has decreased to about 30 minutes max, > even when mostly idling. > > Sometimes the battery wont charge when I plug in the power cable, if I > remove it and plug it in again it starts charging for a while but then > stops. > > Do I need to replace the battery? > Hard to diagnose. Some battery types, especially those before say 1998 - 99, experience problems charging. For whatever reason they are just unable to gain a full charge and often disarge at a more advanced rate. Replacing your battery may indeed solve this. If you know someone with a similar laptop you could also borrow one of theirs for testing. This would let you know if the problem is the laptop or the battery. Most people I know own two batteries just for this reason.
Re: Disable forced fsck
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote: > How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that > are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited > /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. Create a file named /fastboot and look in the files /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh and /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh, it will have disabled fsck-check for root FS and every other FS. HTH Fred
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:26:59AM -0400, cyn wrote: > syslog or kern.log show anything? Nothing. > ifconfig or iwconfig report loads of errors or dropped packets? No errors and no dropped in both. > etc. What would be the next check ? Thanks, Christophe > :) > > -cyn > > - > This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way > indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or > "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. > > > MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I > > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout > > somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barb? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la m?me.
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:56:12PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Christophe Barb? wrote: > [snip and slightly reformatted] > > > ... There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless > > and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to > > download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or > > IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem > > disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It > > looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > > MTU problem perhaps? > > A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your wireless > connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see whether it makes any > difference. How can I do that ? > If it is, then using --clamp-mss-to-pmtu on iptables would be a > (slightly) better solution. Unfortunately I don't know a solution that > feels 100% correct... I don't know --clamp-mss-to-pmtu but I know about iptable. Have you a good url on this? > (yes: I suffered from similar problems in the past...) Feels good to not be alone. Thanks, Christophe > HTH > > -- > Karl E. J?rgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://karl.jorgensen.com > Today's fortune: > If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined > them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government! > -- Mr. Interesting -- Christophe Barb? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la m?me.
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
"christophe" == christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> MTU problem perhaps? >> >> A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your >> wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see >> whether it makes any difference. christophe> How can I do that ? ifconfig eth0 mtu 600 #eth0 should be whatever your wireless card is is the standard way of doing it (though I don't recall doing this on a wireless card).
Temperature Monitor
Is there any kind of temperature monitor utility? I'm running a compaq laptop and would love to be able to monitor it. I'm being pretty anal about my system temp after accidentally leaving my laptop on and putting it back in the bag. Two hours later the battery had no juice and I had one hell of a hot laptop =( --Patrick
Re: Temperature Monitor
"Patrick" == Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> Is there any kind of temperature monitor utility? I'm Patrick> running a compaq laptop and would love to be able to Patrick> monitor it. I'm being pretty anal about my system temp Patrick> after accidentally leaving my laptop on and putting it Patrick> back in the bag. Two hours later the battery had no juice Patrick> and I had one hell of a hot laptop =( ~$ dpkg -l '*sensor*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii ksensors 0.5-8 lm-sensors frontend for KDE pn libsensors-dev (no description available) un libsensors0 (no description available) ii libsensors12.6.3-5Library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens ii lm-sensors 2.6.3-5Utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan se ii lm-sensors-2.4 2.6.3-1+10.00. Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f un lm-sensors-mod (no description available) ii lm-sensors-sou 2.6.3-5Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f ii sensor-sweep-a 0.20.0-2 GNOME applet displaying system's health stat pn sensord (no description available) ii wmsensors 1.0.4-3WindowMaker dock applet for lmsensors These work pretty well if you have a supported temp. sensor (i2c based in my desktop). Will any of it work on your laptop? I don't know. Cheers! Shyamal
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:39:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "christophe" == christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > >> MTU problem perhaps? > >> > >> A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your > >> wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see > >> whether it makes any difference. > > christophe> How can I do that ? > > ifconfig eth0 mtu 600 #eth0 should be whatever your wireless card is Thanks. I have tried. I can see in ifconfig that the mtu is changed but It doesn't solve my problem. What I don't understand is why at the exact same time I can see the page with encompass (a very light browser based on gtkhtml) and not with galeon. Mozilla is doing something differently ... Also my laptop is a powerpc so I can trigger something ppc specific. Christophe. > is the standard way of doing it (though I don't recall doing this on a > wireless card). > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barb? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. --Anonymous
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
zgv might be just what you are looking for (no X required). I say "might", because it doesn't work with all SVGA video cards, however with an older machine, the chances should be pretty good (although I never have had very good luck with Compaq boxen): Package: zgv Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 403 Maintainer: Ryszard Lach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 5.6-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libjpeg62, libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libtiff3g, svgalibg1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Conflicts: svgalib1-libggi2 Filename: pool/main/z/zgv/zgv_5.6-1_i386.deb Size: 211914 MD5sum: c21f49aec462a528bfc5bd4f5d6f1ab7 Description: SVGAlib graphics viewer 'zgv' is a graphics viewer, based around SVGAlib, which can display GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG/JFIF, PNG, PBM/PGM/PPM, BMP, and TGA files on a standard VGA and most SVGAs, with a full-screen file selector front-end. It can also be used as a simple command-line file viewer, with 'zgv filename', to do slide shows of a list of files, and so on. On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: > > > > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a > ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously > display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would > like to use debian to do it. > > > > My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, > use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. > Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy > drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an > external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via > floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a > little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for > example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux > system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a > working PPP connection to the internet. > > > > So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system > and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest > of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would > leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel > it. > > > > So what it boils down to is this: > > > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? > > 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? > (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) > > 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense > for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly > included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in > debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on > this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting > my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is > that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make > work nano/tiny X. > > 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something > that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > > 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine > and port the results over to this humble laptop? > > > > TIA. > > > > Drew >
Re: Disable forced fsck
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote: > How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that > are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited > /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. tune2fs(8) -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was taught to apply himself at intervals to manual labour by a vision of an angel who appeared platting mats of palm-tree leaves, then rising to pray, and after some time sitting down again to work; and who at length said to him, "Do thus, and thou shalt be saved." -- Life of St. Anthony
Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
You can try XFree86 -configure On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm trying to do this on a > Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110 laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card > (32MB) and an LCD that can do up to 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz. > > When I tried installing Mandrake 9.0 just for kicks, it configured X without > even asking me any questions (I should have probably saved its XF86Config-4 > for reference, but I didn't). Now with Debian on the same machine instead, I > spent all night trying to get ANY graphics to work. WTF? > > I tried > `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`, `xf86cfg` and `xf86configure` basically > trying to select "ati" or "radeon" drivers, "PCI:1:0:0" as BusID (`lspci -vv` > says that the ATI card is at "01:00.0"), and I choose 1280x960 @ 60 Hz > resolution, among other things. The error that X gives me is "No devices > found". > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance > Oleg > > P.S. Please Cc: your replies to me. > > > -- > 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: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
Le mer 23/10/2002 à 00:07, Eric M. Winslow a écrit : > Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. > It worked! > > I went with your suggestions first and halelujah, I could actually ping > the base station and the rest of the world with it. That feels good. Nice. That said I have still a problem with the same hardware. There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to? What about the FSF ? Christophe > Good night and thank you again. > > Eric > A happy, hooked-up Debian user. > > --- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > > > auto lo > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > > > auto eth0 > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit > > > > I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't work > > with > > the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid > > first. > > > > > wireless_mode managed > > > > As believe you can (should?) drop this line. > > > > > wireless_key s: #I have tried hex, too > > > > I never get it working using the s: syntax. > > It works perfectly for me with the following syntax: > > > > wireless_enc HEXKEY > > > > I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption. > > Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes to > > find > > it in the MacOS-X config tool. > > > > Christophe > > > > > #end of /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another > > config > > > file that I need to check. > > > > > > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up > > Redhat 8 > > > on this laptop, I promise. > > > > > > Eric M. Winslow > > > > > > __ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for > > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was > quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. > Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get > a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery > power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.) 3 hours seems to be what customers expect. So faster CPUs and hard drives get combined with advances in battery technology to deliver the same battery life. It's a pity you can't get new tech batteries for older laptops and have 12 hours of power. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages 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/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RFC on low resource machine and debian
Hi, I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would like to use debian to do it. My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a working PPP connection to the internet. So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel it. So what it boils down to is this: 1. Do I have to install X see images? 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make work nano/tiny X. 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine and port the results over to this humble laptop? TIA. Drew
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
> MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when > I > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a > timeout > somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > No, I haven't seen anything of that sort, but I can't say that I have much browsing experience with this setup either. We'll see what I encounter. I haven't come across that on other platforms though. > > Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to? > > What about the FSF ? > Excellent choice. Thanks again. eric > Christophe > > > Good night and thank you again. > > > > Eric > > A happy, hooked-up Debian user. > > > > --- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > > > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > > > > > auto lo > > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > > > > > auto eth0 > > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit > > > > > > I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't > work > > > with > > > the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid > > > first. > > > > > > > wireless_mode managed > > > > > > As believe you can (should?) drop this line. > > > > > > > wireless_key s: #I have tried hex, too > > > > > > I never get it working using the s: syntax. > > > It works perfectly for me with the following syntax: > > > > > > wireless_enc HEXKEY > > > > > > I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption. > > > Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes > to > > > find > > > it in the MacOS-X config tool. > > > > > > Christophe > > > > > > > #end of /etc/network/interfaces > > > > > > > > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another > > > config > > > > file that I need to check. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up > > > Redhat 8 > > > > on this laptop, I promise. > > > > > > > > Eric M. Winslow > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C > B41E > > > > > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask > for > > > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Modem problem
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:12:52PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > No! I compiled kernel by myself! It is really foolish -- install make-kpkg (it is package kernel-package) and compile kernel using it. You will get neat package of kernel-image, which is probably of better quality, it is easier to maintain. Then let me know. Matej -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 If it dies, it's biology. If it blows up, it's chemistry, and if it doesn't work, it's physics. -- University bathroom graffito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
syslog or kern.log show anything? ifconfig or iwconfig report loads of errors or dropped packets? etc. :) -cyn - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. > MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout > somewhere. Do you see something like that ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Christophe Barbé wrote: [snip and slightly reformatted] > ... There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless > and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to > download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or > IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem > disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It > looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? MTU problem perhaps? A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see whether it makes any difference. If it is, then using --clamp-mss-to-pmtu on iptables would be a (slightly) better solution. Unfortunately I don't know a solution that feels 100% correct... (yes: I suffered from similar problems in the past...) HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government! -- Mr. Interesting msg09071/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
Drew Cohan, 2002-Oct-23 10:14 -0400: >1. Do I have to install X see images? > >2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? (or >just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) Perhaps a framebuffer xserver? Not the the whole system. >3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense >for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly >included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in debian >stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on this >machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting my hdd >space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is that I >can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make work >nano/tiny X. I suggest using a framebuffer console, no X, and using fbi to view images on the console. I don't know if your laptop's video supports framebuffer, likeyly vgafb16 or maybe vesa, I don't know. >4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something >that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > >5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine >and port the results over to this humble laptop? Just a few thoughts...jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disable forced fsck
How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. Next, I tried to rename fsck to fsck.ori so it wouldn't be found. The boot takes place but then halts when it finds errors. It tells me to CTRL-D to reboot or enter root-password to go into maintenance mode to manually fix the problem. I want to disable it because my disk stops working when the check gets around 7 %. I know, this is not healthy - I already ordered a new disk but until then I'd like to boot into my system. Are there any bootprompt-arguments or something that I can use to let the system boot normally even when it finds erros? I tried the bootprompt-howto, google and some fora but didn't find my answer. Thanks, Sjon Wijnolst, The Netherlands. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
Try to get the framebuffer working on your videocard, and use fbi to display the images. There's a framebuffer driver for VESA cards on the kenrel, and I think there's a driver for plain-old VGA cards somewhere on the net ... El mié, 23-10-2002 a las 16:14, Drew Cohan escribió: > Hi, > > > > I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: > > > > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a > ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously > display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would > like to use debian to do it. > > > > My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, > use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. > Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy > drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an > external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via > floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a > little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for > example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux > system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a > working PPP connection to the internet. > > > > So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system > and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest > of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would > leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel > it. > > > > So what it boils down to is this: > > > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? > > 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? > (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) > > 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense > for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly > included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in > debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on > this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting > my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is > that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make > work nano/tiny X. > > 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something > that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > > 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine > and port the results over to this humble laptop? > > > > TIA. > > > > Drew > -- Vicente Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.bisente.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:15:31PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > It's a pity you can't get new tech batteries for older laptops and have 12 > hours of power. I second that. One fuelcell battery for a current asus laptop, please! Hope some 'independant' manfuacturer gets his act together and starts pumping out this stuff. And to those who say 'you don't need more runtime', you haven't actually used a laptop, then ran out of power? It's always there, just waiting for you to be in a produtive mood... -- Greetings Joris [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 25569167 PGP is currently out-of-use -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote: > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and > a ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it > continuously display jpeg images one after the other as in a > slideshow. And I would like to use debian to do it. > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? If you can use a kernel framebuffer like vesafb on your video hardware, you don't need X. All you need is the "fbi" program to display images on the framebuffer. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Laptop battery power
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:16, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > Could anybody give some advice on my battery situation. I own an ASUS A1 > laptop and a while back I began having trouble with the APM system. > > The first thing that happened was that my battery would only charge to > 60% of maximum power. It was quite suddenly and exactly 60%. After that > I have been having increasing problems with recharging and power supply. > A lot of times the system seems to shut down quite suddenly and > unprovoked, also battery life has decreased to about 30 minutes max, > even when mostly idling. > > Sometimes the battery wont charge when I plug in the power cable, if I > remove it and plug it in again it starts charging for a while but then > stops. > > Do I need to replace the battery? > Hard to diagnose. Some battery types, especially those before say 1998 - 99, experience problems charging. For whatever reason they are just unable to gain a full charge and often disarge at a more advanced rate. Replacing your battery may indeed solve this. If you know someone with a similar laptop you could also borrow one of theirs for testing. This would let you know if the problem is the laptop or the battery. Most people I know own two batteries just for this reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable forced fsck
> "Sjon" == Sjon Wijnolst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sjon> How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any Sjon> volumes that are found to have errors? I already booted with Sjon> rescue-disk and edited /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for Sjon> the volume. Didn't work. Try changing the last number on the volume's line in /etc/fstab to 0. ,[ excerpt - fstab man page ] | The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter- | mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The | root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other | filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive | will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will | be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the | hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero | is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to | be checked. ` (Apparently the nocheck option doesn't apply to newer kernels.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg09079/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Laptop battery power
Could anybody give some advice on my battery situation. I own an ASUS A1 laptop and a while back I began having trouble with the APM system. The first thing that happened was that my battery would only charge to 60% of maximum power. It was quite suddenly and exactly 60%. After that I have been having increasing problems with recharging and power supply. A lot of times the system seems to shut down quite suddenly and unprovoked, also battery life has decreased to about 30 minutes max, even when mostly idling. Sometimes the battery wont charge when I plug in the power cable, if I remove it and plug it in again it starts charging for a while but then stops. Do I need to replace the battery? Is there something more seriously wrong with my system? I was wondering if the switch inside the power plug is bend so that it does not detect that I plug in the power cord. It also seems if I jiggle the cord it will sometimes start to charge, however if I measure the voltage with a voltmeter and then jiggle the cable it doesn't appear as if there is a breakage in the cable itself. So what to do? Hope this isn't too off topic. Anders E. Andersen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable forced fsck
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote: > How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that > are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited > /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. Create a file named /fastboot and look in the files /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh and /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh, it will have disabled fsck-check for root FS and every other FS. HTH Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:26:59AM -0400, cyn wrote: > syslog or kern.log show anything? Nothing. > ifconfig or iwconfig report loads of errors or dropped packets? No errors and no dropped in both. > etc. What would be the next check ? Thanks, Christophe > :) > > -cyn > > - > This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way > indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or > "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. > > > MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem disappear when I > > use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It looks like a timeout > > somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la même. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:56:12PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Christophe Barb? wrote: > [snip and slightly reformatted] > > > ... There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless > > and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to > > download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or > > IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem > > disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It > > looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? > > MTU problem perhaps? > > A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your wireless > connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see whether it makes any > difference. How can I do that ? > If it is, then using --clamp-mss-to-pmtu on iptables would be a > (slightly) better solution. Unfortunately I don't know a solution that > feels 100% correct... I don't know --clamp-mss-to-pmtu but I know about iptable. Have you a good url on this? > (yes: I suffered from similar problems in the past...) Feels good to not be alone. Thanks, Christophe > HTH > > -- > Karl E. J?rgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://karl.jorgensen.com > Today's fortune: > If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined > them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government! > -- Mr. Interesting -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la même. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
"christophe" == christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> MTU problem perhaps? >> >> A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your >> wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see >> whether it makes any difference. christophe> How can I do that ? ifconfig eth0 mtu 600 #eth0 should be whatever your wireless card is is the standard way of doing it (though I don't recall doing this on a wireless card). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Temperature Monitor
Is there any kind of temperature monitor utility? I'm running a compaq laptop and would love to be able to monitor it. I'm being pretty anal about my system temp after accidentally leaving my laptop on and putting it back in the bag. Two hours later the battery had no juice and I had one hell of a hot laptop =( --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Temperature Monitor
"Patrick" == Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> Is there any kind of temperature monitor utility? I'm Patrick> running a compaq laptop and would love to be able to Patrick> monitor it. I'm being pretty anal about my system temp Patrick> after accidentally leaving my laptop on and putting it Patrick> back in the bag. Two hours later the battery had no juice Patrick> and I had one hell of a hot laptop =( ~$ dpkg -l '*sensor*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii ksensors 0.5-8 lm-sensors frontend for KDE pn libsensors-dev (no description available) un libsensors0 (no description available) ii libsensors12.6.3-5Library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens ii lm-sensors 2.6.3-5Utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan se ii lm-sensors-2.4 2.6.3-1+10.00. Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f un lm-sensors-mod (no description available) ii lm-sensors-sou 2.6.3-5Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f ii sensor-sweep-a 0.20.0-2 GNOME applet displaying system's health stat pn sensord (no description available) ii wmsensors 1.0.4-3WindowMaker dock applet for lmsensors These work pretty well if you have a supported temp. sensor (i2c based in my desktop). Will any of it work on your laptop? I don't know. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:39:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "christophe" == christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > >> MTU problem perhaps? > >> > >> A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your > >> wireless connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see > >> whether it makes any difference. > > christophe> How can I do that ? > > ifconfig eth0 mtu 600 #eth0 should be whatever your wireless card is Thanks. I have tried. I can see in ifconfig that the mtu is changed but It doesn't solve my problem. What I don't understand is why at the exact same time I can see the page with encompass (a very light browser based on gtkhtml) and not with galeon. Mozilla is doing something differently ... Also my laptop is a powerpc so I can trigger something ppc specific. Christophe. > is the standard way of doing it (though I don't recall doing this on a > wireless card). > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. --Anonymous -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC on low resource machine and debian
zgv might be just what you are looking for (no X required). I say "might", because it doesn't work with all SVGA video cards, however with an older machine, the chances should be pretty good (although I never have had very good luck with Compaq boxen): Package: zgv Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 403 Maintainer: Ryszard Lach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 5.6-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libjpeg62, libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libtiff3g, svgalibg1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Conflicts: svgalib1-libggi2 Filename: pool/main/z/zgv/zgv_5.6-1_i386.deb Size: 211914 MD5sum: c21f49aec462a528bfc5bd4f5d6f1ab7 Description: SVGAlib graphics viewer 'zgv' is a graphics viewer, based around SVGAlib, which can display GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG/JFIF, PNG, PBM/PGM/PPM, BMP, and TGA files on a standard VGA and most SVGAs, with a full-screen file selector front-end. It can also be used as a simple command-line file viewer, with 'zgv filename', to do slide shows of a list of files, and so on. On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: > > > > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a > ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously > display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would > like to use debian to do it. > > > > My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, > use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. > Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy > drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an > external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via > floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a > little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for > example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux > system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a > working PPP connection to the internet. > > > > So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system > and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest > of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would > leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel > it. > > > > So what it boils down to is this: > > > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? > > 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? > (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) > > 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense > for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly > included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in > debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on > this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting > my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is > that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make > work nano/tiny X. > > 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something > that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > > 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine > and port the results over to this humble laptop? > > > > TIA. > > > > Drew > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable forced fsck
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote: > How can I disable a forced fsck-check during boottime on any volumes that > are found to have errors? I already booted with rescue-disk and edited > /etc/fstab to add 'nocheck' to the line for the volume. Didn't work. tune2fs(8) -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was taught to apply himself at intervals to manual labour by a vision of an angel who appeared platting mats of palm-tree leaves, then rising to pray, and after some time sitting down again to work; and who at length said to him, "Do thus, and thou shalt be saved." -- Life of St. Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk speeds and tweaks
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > de|ire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the >> rpm of the standard drive? 4200 rpm is the standard. > (I don't actually have an answer, but I strongly suspect that drives > with a higher rotation speed [and better performance] will suck up > noticably more battery life. It seems like for PC hard drives, 5400 > and 7200 RPM are the standard options.) I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.) >> has anyone played arond with kernel support for fast DMA on their >> lappie? keen to know if i can get any better on my dell i8k. > > I've played with it some on mine (a Dell Latitude C600, not an > Inspiron). I didn't notice any particular performance improvement > from playing with the options; I got a factor of 4 speed-up as measured by hdparm -t by doing hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sony vaio losing disc space
"Jodi Fodor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_001B_01C279D8.984A7AF0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > HI! > > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C = > drive even when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded = > anything?? In the past week it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My = > Norton Virus Scan finds nothing. > Thanks! > Jodi > No clue, but you could try to find what files get modiefied during, say, a week. Don't know how you do this from wintendo, but if you have your c: drive mounted on /dos/c you do the following from your real os: find /dos/c -type f -mtime -7 -ls (rtfm for more options to find, but the ones above should be sufficient...) Regards Tobbe -- ## Torbjörn Pettersson # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vattugatan 5 # Web www.strul.nu/~tobbe S-111 52 Stockholm, Sweden # ## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sony vaio losing disc space
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:37, Jodi Fodor wrote: > HI! > > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C drive even >when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded anything?? In the past week >it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My Norton Virus Scan finds nothing. > Thanks! When talking about "C" does that mean you are talking about a Windows installation?? If not - check for logs that run out of hand (/var/log) or just use "find" to, well, *find* alle files, say - larger then 1 or 2 MB (man find). That would be a good start for diagnosing. Jan -- Jan Lentfer System Administrator Molecular Cell Biology / AG Holstein, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 16 5563 / Tel private: +49 6155 899393 / mobile: +49 163 4712037 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modem problem
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:02, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:55:01AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > > I have a winmodem on it,i tried pctel driver for it with a self > > compiled kernel(2.4.19) and it worked fine. Then I want to > > compile it with a apt-gettted kernel but it failed due to some > > missing symbles(I installed the kernel header) So I returned to > > the self compiled kernel but it is not working anymore! It can > > found he moem but says that it is busy! Help me please?! > > You should reboot your computer before recompiling modem driver > package and then maybe even reboot once more just to be sure, > that all modules are well in place. BTW, you did compile your > kernel using make-kpkg, didn't you? > > Best, > Matej All modules are in place and I can insert them. I rebooted my box hundred times but still not working! No! I compiled kernel by myself! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thinkpad 760 X windows problem
I have just got woody and I am trying to set it up on my IBM Thinkpad 760EL. After initial problems I have found out that despite XFree86 claiming to support the Trident Cyber 9385 driver, it doesn't work and I need to downgrade XFree to 3.x. I am aware that this can be done from the CD's that I have but don't know how to do it (with dselect I suppose). Can someone point me in the direction of where I can find information on how to do this. I am a linux veteran of 5 days so very basic information is what I need. I think I need to remove XServer-XFree85 4.1 and add XServer-XF86_SVGA (this is the required server for my card). Once this is done does xf96config still work or will I have to make a manual config and if so can someone direct me to where I can find information on doing this. _ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop battery power
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:16:02PM +0200, Anders E. Andersen wrote: > Could anybody give some advice on my battery situation. I own an ASUS A1 > laptop and a while back I began having trouble with the APM system. I've had the problem of only recharging to X% (usually indeed arround 60) a couple of times, it's easily fixed by 'refreshing' the battery. Go into the bios, somewhere in the next-to-last menu screen (on mine it is there, meight be located elsewhere), there is an option to recalibrate the batteries. It takes serveral hours (full charge and full decharge), but after that, things work nicely again. The system shutting down unexpectedly is weird, if it continues to happen after refreshing the batteries, check your warranty status... -- Greetings Joris [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 25569167 PGP is currently out-of-use -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Oleg wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:35 am, Juergen Stuber wrote: > > AFAIK you need XFree 4.2, which is in unstable. > > How can I install XFree86 from unstable on a stable machine: > > apt-get -t unstable install xserver-xfree86 ? That might work, but I normally use % apt-get install xserver-xfree86/unstable > Do I need to modify my sources.list? You need to add the lines for unstable. I have deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free The fr is for France, you probably want to remove it or to replace it by a server closer to you. Also, using stuff in non-US might be illegal for US people. Jürgen -- Jürgen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
