Re: Mepis & Ubuntu on Compaq Armadas
RRPotratz wrote:
Willie McKemie wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:47:30AM -0600, RRPotratz wrote:
Interesting. Mine worked off the bat with 2.4.x. There are some
issues with it though, as I remember reading something about it on
the Mepis site (either mepis.org or mepislovers.org). My issue
started when I wanted to switch between the "eraser head" on the
road and an USB wireless at home. No easy way. Mepis DOES have a
new recently released iso out there that may address some of these
problems, but I have not had time to take a look at it though.
I've been very happy with mepis overall though, as most things (even
a wireless nic!) "just worked".
I recently bought a D-Link DWL-122 with the intention of using it on
my Compaq IA1 ("internet appliance" flashed to Midori Linux). So
far, it has not worked on the 7400/Ubuntu or the IA1/Midori.
I also bought a USB to traditional keyboard and mouse adapter for the
IA1 (the infra-red keyboard is of limited use). I was surprised to
find that it worked both with the IA1 and the 7400/Ubuntu/2.4.x.
That is, Ubuntu/2.4.x does not work with the eraser head, but has no
problem with a USB mouse.
I posed my 2.4.x eraser head problem on a Mepis forum and the only
response I got was "don't use 2.4.x, use 2.6.x".
You are correct. The eraser head does *not* work with 2.4.x in Mepis.
As I was thinking this through, the reason I started using an external
usb mouse was because under 2.6.x (in which the earaser head worked
fine) I could not access my usb thumbdrives! I would get errors at
startup wondering if the cable was connected no matter if there was
anything there or not. Using 2.4.x I was able to access my thumb
drives, and navigate using the usb mouse.
While this is an irritation, the work around for me works fine. My
larger question is, if usb on Armada 7400 hardware is broke for 2.6.x,
will I have an upgrade path in the future to later 2.6.x, or are there
settings to correct this problem now?
RRP
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Re: Mepis & Ubuntu on Compaq Armadas
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:51:10AM -0600, RRPotratz wrote: > >>I posed my 2.4.x eraser head problem on a Mepis forum and the only > >>response I got was "don't use 2.4.x, use 2.6.x". > >> > >> > > > > You are correct. The eraser head does *not* work with 2.4.x in Mepis. > As I was thinking this through, the reason I started using an external > usb mouse was because under 2.6.x (in which the earaser head worked > fine) I could not access my usb thumbdrives! I would get errors at > startup wondering if the cable was connected no matter if there was > anything there or not. Using 2.4.x I was able to access my thumb > drives, and navigate using the usb mouse. > > While this is an irritation, the work around for me works fine. My > larger question is, if usb on Armada 7400 hardware is broke for 2.6.x, > will I have an upgrade path in the future to later 2.6.x, or are there > settings to correct this problem now? Well, its GOTTA be something simple, since, in general, 2.4.x kernels DO work on 7400s. I haven't tried it, but I suspect that dropping a Debian packaged kernel (one-size-fits-all) in a Ubuntu/Mepis system would work. Thanks for pointing out the USB problem; I seem to have it on 7400/Ubuntu/2.6.x. I had noticed that my USB camera did not work as expected. Closer inspection with "watch tail /var/log/syslog" reveals that the camera is not being properly detected. I have tested USB NICs and attributed the failures to device incompatibility. I do use the USB (still, not video) camera on 7400/Libranet/2.4.28. I may try testing a Debian 2.6 kernel if I find time. I've (at least temporarily) put aside get-ALSA-to-work on a 7400/Ubuntu. My current project is getting CUPS printing to work remotely from a Ubuntu. I have a Libranet CUPS server that works fine with Libranet CUPS clients. With a Ubuntu client, it "sees" the network printer, but does not actually print; print jobs accumulate in the Ubuntu client's spool. -- Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! Good Health: the slowest way to die Linux system uptime 198 days 19 hours 27 minutes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
up arrow key doesnt work in X
Hi, not sure if this is laptop or debian specific. I have 1 key that doesn't work in X - the up arrow key. It works under the console. I am not sure where to start looking to solve. The Xconfig section is below. I am using gnome / metacity I have an asus M6820R and am very happy with it. I used the 100MB minimal debain install cd and only had 1 problem - the kernel panicked on reboot. I am not sure if this was solved by specifying linux26 to install 2.6 kernel, or by configuring with a small swap space (did both changes at same time). Thanks, Mark Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: up arrow key doesnt work in X
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 04:25 +1100, Mark M wrote: > Hi, not sure if this is laptop or debian specific. > > I have 1 key that doesn't work in X - the up arrow key. It works under > the console. I am not sure where to start looking to solve. did you (accidentally) define it as shortcut? (Desktop Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts) cheers, Hp. -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunzCH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- What you don't know won't help you much either. -- D. Bennett signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: poor tft display/misconfiguration. some hints?
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:06:57AM +0100, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > A few months ago I bought a travelmate 291. I'm quite satisfied with it > except for its 15" tft display: view angle is limited (thogh still > decent) and colors and detail are really poor (that's a serious issue > when watching videos or pictures from my camera). > I also own a 17" tft of the same brand (acer) and it's simply great so > I'd expect better performances with this display. I made some tests vith videos and realized the one of the problem was related to totem media player. I get much better results playing the same video with vlc. It's quite strange because I use totem even on my desktop (graphic card is an old nvidia mx200) and both totem and wxvlc provide good results. I tried to tweak configurations but all I found in gnome is gstreamer-properties which is set on Xwindows(X11/XShm/Xv) on both pcs. any idea about this different behaviour? bye PS I'm using non-free nvidia drivers on the desktop -- Leonardo Canducci GPG Key ID: 429683DA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cirrus Logic pd6729 & 2.6 kernel
Hi John, Thanks for the reply when did you post to debian.laptops? I read it quite religiously and didn't see your post After my original post I did some additional trolling around the linux-pcmcia list archives and came away with the distinct impression (perhaps incorrect) that 2.6.8 did not contain full support for the pd6729 and that there were some patches trying to find there way in. So, I went back to my old Knoppix kernel and coaxed it into giving me a network connection long enough to download the latest Sarge 2.4.x and am now running fine with that. Took me a quite a while to wring out all the issues that followed from trying to eradicate Knoppix, though. I won't lightly install from Knoppix again. Since this is a Pentium One I am not currently planning on rolling any home-made kernels, so if that is what it takes I will probably just stick with 2.4 for now on this machine and try my luck with 2.6 on my Pentium III. If you do find the solution, let me know though, I might run with it. :-) Thanks for the PLIP information, I might set that up just for the heck of it, also since I am going to try and set up this Pentium One as a router it might free up one of my PCMCIA slots. (I have been looking for PCMCIA cards with multiple ethernet ports, and they seem not to exist.) Thanks again, Clayton On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:35:57 -0600 John Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you ever get your problem with the pd6729 fixed? > > I am currently struggling with the same problem. I posted a reply to your > message in debian.laptops newsgroup but I was thinking you might not see > it. So heads up. > > Anyway, I think I know the solution to your problem... I think you have to > recompile the kernel and include a driver for the pd6729. I have > been working on doing that for a few days now w/o success. But I think > that's because I don't know what I'm doing not because the solution itself > is wrong. I actually exchanged email with the author of the linux pcmcia > subsystem, David Hinds. > > Another tip I have is that you should try copying the kernel to your laptop > via plip. All you need is an old Laptop parallel cable. If you can find > somebody who used to own a copy of Laplink, they may still have the cables. > Maybe somebody in your local linux users goup would have one. After that, > it's easy to set up. Just read the plip howto. Then you can transfer files > to your laptop at near network speeds. > > Before I got my hands on a Laplink parallel cable, I used a null-modem > serial cable and ppp to transfer files to my laptop. That took me days to > configure though. Plip is way easier to configure. But a null-modem cable > is easy to find. You can buy a null-modem adapter at Radio Shack for about > $5. Or you can use the blue cable from a laplink package. But if you find > a set of Laplink cables, use the yello, parallel one and plip instead. -- John G. Heim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: up arrow key doesnt work in X
> did you (accidentally) define it as shortcut? > (Desktop Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts) Thats exactly what I did. It works fine now. Thanks, Mark. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
