sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Abhay Pradhan
Hi

I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
The distro I am using is debian.
I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

regards
abhay



Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello abhay...

Received at 2003-06-11 / 11:03 by Abhay Pradhan:

> I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
> Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
> The distro I am using is debian.
> I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
> Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

check http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html. there is a report which says that
you have to use i810_audio (or snd-intel8x0 with alsa).

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Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030611] Abhay Pradhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
> Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
> The distro I am using is debian.
> I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
> Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

I'd suggest to use ALSA if your sound card is supported.
Do :
$ lspci -v

to find your sound card's exact type and check the card matrix
at www.alsa-project.org to see if it's supported.

Then check these pages for how to install alsa (the debian way):

http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1

http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html

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Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Mauro Darida
On Monday 09 June 2003 12:35, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I needed hotplug _and_ pci hotplug support in the kernel, IIRC (sorry,
> the whole thing was a bit confusing sometimes. In any case, I have now
> both compiled in and it works)
>
I have the same situation: both hotplug and pci hotplug in my 2.4.20 and the 
cardbus is seen as a pci device (Texas Instruments PCI1420).

> Remove the "auto eth0" (or whatever interface you use) from
> /etc/network/interfaces
>
I do not have an ethernet pcmcia card; my understanding is that probably if I 
get/use a cardbus (not pcmcia) card then I don't need pcmciacore (the hotplug 
doc even says pcmcia-cs may *interphere* badly with the code; on the other 
hand, somewhere in the kernel helps it is also said that with some "pcmcia" 
cards you need the pcmcia-cs package, so your understanding is also probably 
correct. All in all, the whole thing IMHO is a real mess.

Thanks anyway for your notes. I have also noted in /var/log/syslog the 
following error message about hotplug:
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
modprobe: can't locate module usbcore
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver usbcore

I do have usbcore not as a module but built directly into the kernel. Do you 
think I can simply ignore the message or do I need to compile usb support 
(usbcore) as a module ??
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ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread José Manuel Pérez
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Hi all.

I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to PAL 
format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.

I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18

Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread KryptoBSD
I also have tried atitvout with my ATI Radeon 7500-c mobility with very little 
success. I was able to get the picture onto my television, but when I moved the 
mouse, the color would do an invert effect with the colors and make it pretty 
much unusable to bother with.

I do believe also, that the maintainer of the project has since stopped working 
on it (not good).

Anyone have any insight into fixing my problem or my European friend here?

(Debian unstable, 2.4.20 - Sony Vaio GRZ660)

-Mark

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:09:24 +0200
José Manuel Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 
> (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
> Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
> Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to 
> PAL 
> format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.
> 
> I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18
> 
> Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread Werner Heuser
> It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to 
> PAL 
> format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.

Often there is a BIOS option to switch between PAL and NTSC, it
might be also possible that the XFree86 settings offer an
appropriate option.

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Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mauro Darida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thanks anyway for your notes. I have also noted in /var/log/syslog the
> following error message about hotplug:
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
> modprobe: can't locate module usbcore
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver usbcore
>
> I do have usbcore not as a module but built directly into the kernel. Do you
> think I can simply ignore the message or do I need to compile usb support
> (usbcore) as a module ??

Yeah, it's fairly typical for programs to modprobe "just-in-case".  It shouldn't
be a problem.



Install linux

2003-06-11 Thread daniel.diniz
Hi people,

I´d like to kwon, how to install linux and recognize PCMCIA
ETHERNET 10/100??
I created a boot disc with pcmcia.img, but didn´t recognize
my PCMCIA...
My notebook don´t ve cdrom!!
I know that i´ve compile kernel with drive or module but
idon´t kwon how?

thanks
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
Try the following:
Boot with the tv connected to the svideo port.
Start X with the 'vesa' driver, and with a resolution < 1024x768
Do:
#atitvout -f pal*
#atitvout -f t

*I use ntsc so I have no idea if this will help, it's the -f (or -r depending 
on your chipset**)

**Don't believe the man page section entitled 'MISC' which says to use -f for 
Rage Mobility and -r for Radeon. If one doesn't work try the other.

Also, if you lose both displays, try typing atvtvout -f l to force the lcd 
back on. 

Even when it works for me, it's not perfect (I have the M9), but good luck.
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 6:43 am, KryptoBSD wrote:
> I also have tried atitvout with my ATI Radeon 7500-c mobility with very 
little success. I was able to get the picture onto my television, but when I 
moved the mouse, the color would do an invert effect with the colors and make 
it pretty much unusable to bother with.
> 
> I do believe also, that the maintainer of the project has since stopped 
working on it (not good).
> 
> Anyone have any insight into fixing my problem or my European friend here?
> 
> (Debian unstable, 2.4.20 - Sony Vaio GRZ660)
> 
> -Mark
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:09:24 +0200
> José Manuel Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:
> > 
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 
LY 
> > (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
> > Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 
11
> > Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
> > Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
> > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > 
> > It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to 
PAL 
> > format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.
> > 
> > I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18
> > 
> > Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
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Re: Welche?

2003-06-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Lajos, 

Am 15:21 2003-06-04 +0200 hat Lajos Mester geschrieben:
>
>Hallo,
> ich spiele gerade mit dem Gedanken, einen Laptop mir zu kaufen. Da ich 
>nicht allzu viel Geld ausgeben möchte, habe ich die Sache schon begrenzt:
> entweder Maxdata M-book 1000T oder IPC Archtec Power Socket 14 2000+ 
>Basic.
>
>Die Frage ist, welche von Beiden? Oder liber keiner, und sollte ich mal an 
>Dell, Toshiba und Co. denken?
>Hat jemand schon Erfarung mit irrgendwelchem? Worauf sollte ich unbedingt 
>achten?
>
>mfG
>Mester

Hmmm, - Ich denke, das es besset ist, wenn Du die Frage in englisch stellst. 

English translation: 

Hmmm, I think that it is better if you ask in englisch. 

Have a nice Night
Michelle



Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
Hi all,

I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 

My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
but absolutely illegible at the bottom.

This is really annoying!  Reseating the video connection inside didn't
do anything, and I wouldn't expect it to -- this only shows up when
Linux starts to load (in LILO and before, it's normal).  The RedHat
and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this machine look
fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with this video card.

Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right
direction?  It's especially annoying because I'm the sole developer at
work who uses Linux, and I'm currently getting a lof of sh** about my
OS of choice.  

Thanks!



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of your 
video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:  vga=ask (or 
vga=normal).  will be whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 1:41 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
> little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 
> 
> My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
> redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
> 3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
> but absolutely illegible at the bottom.
> 
> This is really annoying!  Reseating the video connection inside didn't
> do anything, and I wouldn't expect it to -- this only shows up when
> Linux starts to load (in LILO and before, it's normal).  The RedHat
> and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this machine look
> fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with this video card.
> 
> Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right
> direction?  It's especially annoying because I'm the sole developer at
> work who uses Linux, and I'm currently getting a lof of sh** about my
> OS of choice.  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Infamous Mouse Wheel Problem

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Rasmussen
Alright, update.

Once I learned which of my XFCONFIG-4 mouse settings was USB, I ended up
attacking it from that angle.  I took the PS/2 connector off my
IntelliMouse, got the "hotplug" package (not really sure what part that
played, but a friend suggested I needed it), changed protocol for the
USB mouse to "ImPS/2" and removed the Emulate3Buttons option, and bingo,
I've got scroll wheel capability.

I hadn't realized that my builtin eraser mouse was a PS/2 mouse, despite
numerous things hinting at it.  Feel a bit dumb now.  Anyways I still
think that would be the best setup possible, as my laptop has only one
USB port, and it's nice to just be able to pop my card reader into the
port and not have to juggle around with changing the mouse back to PS/2
whenever I want to do that.  I like how Windows handled it- when I boot
up with my MS mouse on PS/2, it disables the internal and gives me
scroll wheel.  Optimally that's what's going to happen on the Linux side
eventually too.

Do you have examples of X programs that don't use the scroll wheel?
GTK and QT apps of course handle it, other X programs probably have to
be compiled with "libmousewheel" or something with a similar name?  

So I guess I'll check out gpm sometime soon, and maybe before too long
get in the mood to play with XF86 settings and restart X a million times
before I get it all right :)  Maybe I'll get around to making a Thinkpad
560x Linux page sometime too, although it's a really old laptop it's
nice to see support pages newer than 1999..

Thank you and Jason Kraftcheck and Thomas Hood for the help and
pointers.



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> "Dan" == Dan Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Dan> That's all I can think of right now.  Eagerly awaiting being
> Dan> able to scroll through documents without moving my
> Dan> arms/wrist, Dan
> 
> Dan,
> 
> You might want to try
> 
> Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
> 
> instead of "PS/2" for /dev/psaux. I use almost exactly the same
> settings as you do (the exception is that my mouse is connected via
> /dev/gpmdata because I run gpm). I know longer use a serial mouse, but
> I could swear it used to work before I got a USB mouse
> 
> Also, all X clients do not understand the mouse wheel. I know the
> Mozilla, XEmacs and XTerm certainly do since I use them all the
> while. 
> 
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
> 

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Portable Laptop-Friendly Keyboards

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Rasmussen
Greetings,

I think I might be in a fairly uncommon situation here.  I have a rather
old laptop, and one of the problems with this laptop (among others ;) )
is its keyboard, which has several broken keys (home row, a few numbers,
some that work *usually*, etc).  When I want to take it somewhere and do
something useful with it, I have to take my laptop, full-size PS/2
keyboard, and docking bay with me.  Of course, it's silly to always be
reaching far over a PS/2 keyboard to play with an eraser-style mouse, so
I bring the external mouse along too.

So I'm wondering if any of you can recommend a good laptop-compatible
keyboard.  My dream keyboard would be USB (if it were PS/2 I'd need my
docking bay), not unnecessarily large, have a built-in
pointing device and maybe a scroll wheel as well.  It'll also
come with a rugged lightweight case and be dirt cheap.  Extra bonus if the 
Dvorak
keyboard layout is printed on the keys :)

Suggestions appreciated.
Dan

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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do: 
> vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be whatever image/kernel you'd
> like to use.

Hm, neither of those work.  I went through all possible options
offered me by vga=ask, too ... they all resize the font for a bit, but
then when they actually start booting the kernel, they switch back to
4-way overlapping.  Are there other boot parameters, perhaps, that
could modify this?

thanks a lot!



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:
>  vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be
> whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.

what do you mean by DEFANGED?



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
I didn't write DEFANGED, just .
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 4:33 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> > I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> > your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:
> >  vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be
> > whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.
> 
> what do you mean by DEFANGED?
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:41:12 -0400
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
> little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 
> 
> My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
> redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
> 3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
> but absolutely illegible at the bottom.

I have a I8000, and I found a similar problem (not exactly the same) when I
"upgraded" the BIOS. I reverted to A17 and the problem disappeared.

We have two things to contend with that many others don't -- Dell BIOS and
NVIDIA video -- which may be interacting in a weird way.

Kevin



Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Gabor FLEISCHER
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:35:35PM +0200, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> I needed hotplug _and_ pci hotplug support in the kernel, IIRC (sorry,
> '/etc/init.d/pcmcia start' must run to load the pcmcia core modules.

Ok, I decided to try this out, 'cause I have some problems with stopping
cardmgr (needed before suspend).

I modprobed pcmcia_core, yenta_socket, ds. pci_hotplug, then
/etc/init.d/hotplug start.
/etc/hotplug/pcmcia_socket.agent is a softlink to /etc/pcmcia/serial

But it doesn't do anything when I plug my pcmcia modem in.

What do I miss?

Or is it just some types of cardbus that can be used this way?

Gabor



sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Abhay Pradhan
Hi

I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
The distro I am using is debian.
I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

regards
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Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello abhay...

Received at 2003-06-11 / 11:03 by Abhay Pradhan:

> I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
> Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
> The distro I am using is debian.
> I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
> Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

check http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html. there is a report which says that
you have to use i810_audio (or snd-intel8x0 with alsa).

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Re: sound on dell inspiron 5100

2003-06-11 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030611] Abhay Pradhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100.
> Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card.
> The distro I am using is debian.
> I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful.
> Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help.

I'd suggest to use ALSA if your sound card is supported.
Do :
$ lspci -v

to find your sound card's exact type and check the card matrix
at www.alsa-project.org to see if it's supported.

Then check these pages for how to install alsa (the debian way):

http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1

http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html

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Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Mauro Darida
On Monday 09 June 2003 12:35, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I needed hotplug _and_ pci hotplug support in the kernel, IIRC (sorry,
> the whole thing was a bit confusing sometimes. In any case, I have now
> both compiled in and it works)
>
I have the same situation: both hotplug and pci hotplug in my 2.4.20 and the 
cardbus is seen as a pci device (Texas Instruments PCI1420).

> Remove the "auto eth0" (or whatever interface you use) from
> /etc/network/interfaces
>
I do not have an ethernet pcmcia card; my understanding is that probably if I 
get/use a cardbus (not pcmcia) card then I don't need pcmciacore (the hotplug 
doc even says pcmcia-cs may *interphere* badly with the code; on the other 
hand, somewhere in the kernel helps it is also said that with some "pcmcia" 
cards you need the pcmcia-cs package, so your understanding is also probably 
correct. All in all, the whole thing IMHO is a real mess.

Thanks anyway for your notes. I have also noted in /var/log/syslog the 
following error message about hotplug:
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
modprobe: can't locate module usbcore
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver usbcore

I do have usbcore not as a module but built directly into the kernel. Do you 
think I can simply ignore the message or do I need to compile usb support 
(usbcore) as a module ??
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ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread José Manuel Pérez
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Hi all.

I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to PAL 
format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.

I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18

Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread KryptoBSD
I also have tried atitvout with my ATI Radeon 7500-c mobility with very little 
success. I was able to get the picture onto my television, but when I moved the mouse, 
the color would do an invert effect with the colors and make it pretty much unusable 
to bother with.

I do believe also, that the maintainer of the project has since stopped working on it 
(not good).

Anyone have any insight into fixing my problem or my European friend here?

(Debian unstable, 2.4.20 - Sony Vaio GRZ660)

-Mark

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:09:24 +0200
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> Hi all.
> 
> I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 
> (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
> Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
> Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to PAL 
> format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.
> 
> I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18
> 
> Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread Werner Heuser
> It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to PAL 
> format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.

Often there is a BIOS option to switch between PAL and NTSC, it
might be also possible that the XFree86 settings offer an
appropriate option.

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Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Mauro Darida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thanks anyway for your notes. I have also noted in /var/log/syslog the
> following error message about hotplug:
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: setup usbcore for USB product 0/0/0
> modprobe: can't locate module usbcore
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver usbcore
>
> I do have usbcore not as a module but built directly into the kernel. Do you
> think I can simply ignore the message or do I need to compile usb support
> (usbcore) as a module ??

Yeah, it's fairly typical for programs to modprobe "just-in-case".  It shouldn't
be a problem.


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Install linux

2003-06-11 Thread daniel.diniz
Hi people,

I´d like to kwon, how to install linux and recognize PCMCIA
ETHERNET 10/100??
I created a boot disc with pcmcia.img, but didn´t recognize
my PCMCIA...
My notebook don´t ve cdrom!!
I know that i´ve compile kernel with drive or module but
idon´t kwon how?

thanks
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Re: ATI Radeon TV out

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
Try the following:
Boot with the tv connected to the svideo port.
Start X with the 'vesa' driver, and with a resolution < 1024x768
Do:
#atitvout -f pal*
#atitvout -f t

*I use ntsc so I have no idea if this will help, it's the -f (or -r depending 
on your chipset**)

**Don't believe the man page section entitled 'MISC' which says to use -f for 
Rage Mobility and -r for Radeon. If one doesn't work try the other.

Also, if you lose both displays, try typing atvtvout -f l to force the lcd 
back on. 

Even when it works for me, it's not perfect (I have the M9), but good luck.
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 6:43 am, KryptoBSD wrote:
> I also have tried atitvout with my ATI Radeon 7500-c mobility with very 
little success. I was able to get the picture onto my television, but when I 
moved the mouse, the color would do an invert effect with the colors and make 
it pretty much unusable to bother with.
> 
> I do believe also, that the maintainer of the project has since stopped 
working on it (not good).
> 
> Anyone have any insight into fixing my problem or my European friend here?
> 
> (Debian unstable, 2.4.20 - Sony Vaio GRZ660)
> 
> -Mark
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:09:24 +0200
> José Manuel Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I've got a laptop with an ATI Radeon, lspci says:
> > 
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 
LY 
> > (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > Subsystem: Mitac: Unknown device 8170
> > Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 
11
> > Memory at 9000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
> > Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
> > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > 
> > It has tv-out, and I can use it but only NTCS format. I can't switch it to 
PAL 
> > format (I live in Europe). I've tried atitvout without success.
> > 
> > I use Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.18
> > 
> > Someone has this adapter and use it with PAL TV format.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
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Re: Welche?

2003-06-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Lajos, 

Am 15:21 2003-06-04 +0200 hat Lajos Mester geschrieben:
>
>Hallo,
> ich spiele gerade mit dem Gedanken, einen Laptop mir zu kaufen. Da ich 
>nicht allzu viel Geld ausgeben möchte, habe ich die Sache schon begrenzt:
> entweder Maxdata M-book 1000T oder IPC Archtec Power Socket 14 2000+ 
>Basic.
>
>Die Frage ist, welche von Beiden? Oder liber keiner, und sollte ich mal an 
>Dell, Toshiba und Co. denken?
>Hat jemand schon Erfarung mit irrgendwelchem? Worauf sollte ich unbedingt 
>achten?
>
>mfG
>Mester

Hmmm, - Ich denke, das es besset ist, wenn Du die Frage in englisch stellst. 

English translation: 

Hmmm, I think that it is better if you ask in englisch. 

Have a nice Night
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Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
Hi all,

I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 

My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
but absolutely illegible at the bottom.

This is really annoying!  Reseating the video connection inside didn't
do anything, and I wouldn't expect it to -- this only shows up when
Linux starts to load (in LILO and before, it's normal).  The RedHat
and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this machine look
fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with this video card.

Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right
direction?  It's especially annoying because I'm the sole developer at
work who uses Linux, and I'm currently getting a lof of sh** about my
OS of choice.  

Thanks!



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of your 
video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:  vga=ask (or 
vga=normal).  will be whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 1:41 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
> little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 
> 
> My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
> redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
> 3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
> but absolutely illegible at the bottom.
> 
> This is really annoying!  Reseating the video connection inside didn't
> do anything, and I wouldn't expect it to -- this only shows up when
> Linux starts to load (in LILO and before, it's normal).  The RedHat
> and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this machine look
> fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with this video card.
> 
> Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right
> direction?  It's especially annoying because I'm the sole developer at
> work who uses Linux, and I'm currently getting a lof of sh** about my
> OS of choice.  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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Re: Infamous Mouse Wheel Problem

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Rasmussen
Alright, update.

Once I learned which of my XFCONFIG-4 mouse settings was USB, I ended up
attacking it from that angle.  I took the PS/2 connector off my
IntelliMouse, got the "hotplug" package (not really sure what part that
played, but a friend suggested I needed it), changed protocol for the
USB mouse to "ImPS/2" and removed the Emulate3Buttons option, and bingo,
I've got scroll wheel capability.

I hadn't realized that my builtin eraser mouse was a PS/2 mouse, despite
numerous things hinting at it.  Feel a bit dumb now.  Anyways I still
think that would be the best setup possible, as my laptop has only one
USB port, and it's nice to just be able to pop my card reader into the
port and not have to juggle around with changing the mouse back to PS/2
whenever I want to do that.  I like how Windows handled it- when I boot
up with my MS mouse on PS/2, it disables the internal and gives me
scroll wheel.  Optimally that's what's going to happen on the Linux side
eventually too.

Do you have examples of X programs that don't use the scroll wheel?
GTK and QT apps of course handle it, other X programs probably have to
be compiled with "libmousewheel" or something with a similar name?  

So I guess I'll check out gpm sometime soon, and maybe before too long
get in the mood to play with XF86 settings and restart X a million times
before I get it all right :)  Maybe I'll get around to making a Thinkpad
560x Linux page sometime too, although it's a really old laptop it's
nice to see support pages newer than 1999..

Thank you and Jason Kraftcheck and Thomas Hood for the help and
pointers.



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> Dan> That's all I can think of right now.  Eagerly awaiting being
> Dan> able to scroll through documents without moving my
> Dan> arms/wrist, Dan
> 
> Dan,
> 
> You might want to try
> 
> Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
> 
> instead of "PS/2" for /dev/psaux. I use almost exactly the same
> settings as you do (the exception is that my mouse is connected via
> /dev/gpmdata because I run gpm). I know longer use a serial mouse, but
> I could swear it used to work before I got a USB mouse
> 
> Also, all X clients do not understand the mouse wheel. I know the
> Mozilla, XEmacs and XTerm certainly do since I use them all the
> while. 
> 
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Portable Laptop-Friendly Keyboards

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Rasmussen
Greetings,

I think I might be in a fairly uncommon situation here.  I have a rather
old laptop, and one of the problems with this laptop (among others ;) )
is its keyboard, which has several broken keys (home row, a few numbers,
some that work *usually*, etc).  When I want to take it somewhere and do
something useful with it, I have to take my laptop, full-size PS/2
keyboard, and docking bay with me.  Of course, it's silly to always be
reaching far over a PS/2 keyboard to play with an eraser-style mouse, so
I bring the external mouse along too.

So I'm wondering if any of you can recommend a good laptop-compatible
keyboard.  My dream keyboard would be USB (if it were PS/2 I'd need my
docking bay), not unnecessarily large, have a built-in
pointing device and maybe a scroll wheel as well.  It'll also
come with a rugged lightweight case and be dirt cheap.  Extra bonus if the Dvorak
keyboard layout is printed on the keys :)

Suggestions appreciated.
Dan

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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do: 
> vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be whatever image/kernel you'd
> like to use.

Hm, neither of those work.  I went through all possible options
offered me by vga=ask, too ... they all resize the font for a bit, but
then when they actually start booting the kernel, they switch back to
4-way overlapping.  Are there other boot parameters, perhaps, that
could modify this?

thanks a lot!



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:
>  vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be
> whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.

what do you mean by DEFANGED?



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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Jordan Lederman
I didn't write DEFANGED, just .
--jordan

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 4:33 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:18:03PM -0400, Jordan Lederman insinuated:
> > I've run into this before, and it's due to incorrect detection of
> > your video/monitor capibilites. At the boot prompt, do:
> >  vga=ask (or vga=normal).  will be
> > whatever image/kernel you'd like to use.
> 
> what do you mean by DEFANGED?
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:41:12 -0400
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  It's being a
> little less cooperative than the desktop systems I'm used to! 
> 
> My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
> redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
> 3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
> but absolutely illegible at the bottom.

I have a I8000, and I found a similar problem (not exactly the same) when I
"upgraded" the BIOS. I reverted to A17 and the problem disappeared.

We have two things to contend with that many others don't -- Dell BIOS and
NVIDIA video -- which may be interacting in a weird way.

Kevin


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Re: do I need cardmgr if using hotplug and yenta_socket?

2003-06-11 Thread Gabor FLEISCHER
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:35:35PM +0200, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I needed hotplug _and_ pci hotplug support in the kernel, IIRC (sorry,
> '/etc/init.d/pcmcia start' must run to load the pcmcia core modules.

Ok, I decided to try this out, 'cause I have some problems with stopping
cardmgr (needed before suspend).

I modprobed pcmcia_core, yenta_socket, ds. pci_hotplug, then
/etc/init.d/hotplug start.
/etc/hotplug/pcmcia_socket.agent is a softlink to /etc/pcmcia/serial

But it doesn't do anything when I plug my pcmcia modem in.

What do I miss?

Or is it just some types of cardbus that can be used this way?

Gabor


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