Re: accelerated ATI Rage Mobility SOLVED

[Mauro Darida]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:38:40PM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote:
> > I confronted mine with yours and noticed two differences:
> > 1. DefaultDepth 16 (mine is 24)
> > 2. Section "Device"
> > you don't have Option "UseFBDev" "true"
In /var/log it seems telling the board is not using it.

> > Is it worthwile to stay down to 16 dpp ??
>
> I don't see any difference in quality 16 vs. 24.
> 24bps is slower, uses more memory, so I'm using 16bps.
Ok, I will follow your advice.

> > I have also noticed in /var/log the following error:
> > (WW)ATI(0):Failed to set up write-combining range
> > Do you have the same error?
>
> Yes, the same, but this is only a warning, drvier is quite stable:  my
> current uptime is 31 days (not continous, sometimes I use APM suspend to
> disk :-) and Xserver is running all the time.
Thank you very much for your help, I now have DRI working!
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annother Xfree-synaptics problem

[Christian Stalp]

Hello together,
I have also a problem with my synaptics-Driver. 
I have an Asus3500-D Notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad and an AthlonXP-M.
On this machine I run sarge with kernel 2.6.10. The touchpad and every and 
feature works very fine accept for the synclient and syndaemon-applet. That 
means, I can use the tapping and scrolling-funcionallity but cannot switch 
the touchpad off, while I use the keyboard.

When I start the syndaemon it informs me about it status, writes on the 
console that the touchpad is disabled ( while Im writing ) or enabled ( after 
two seconds of stop writing ). But it does'nt matter if its dis- or enabled, 
the touchpad is allways enabled. If I touch the touchpad in the same moment I 
write on the keyboard the mouse is moved or whatever happends... 
If I call "synclient -h" I get this responce:
[code]
 Hardware properties: 
No touchpad found 
Do you use a newer kernel than 2.4? 
Than browse the messages or boot.msg for the hardware info
[/code]

My xf86config-4 is:  ( for the touchpad )
[code]
Section "InputDevice" 
   Driver  "synaptics" 
   Identifier   "Touchpad" 
   Option  "CorePointer" 
   Option  "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900" 
   Option  "Finger"  "35 40"   #"25 30" 
   Option  "MaxTapTime"  "100" 
   Option  "MaxTapMove"  "220" 
   Option  "VertScrollDelta"   "100" 
   Option  "MinSpeed"  "0.02" 
   Option  "MaxSpeed"  "0.20" 
   Option  "AccelFactor"  "0.0008" 
   Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux" 
   Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2" 
   Option  "Repeater"  "/dev/ps2mouse" 
   Option  "SHMConfig"  "on" 
EndSection
[/code]

Where ist the problem ?

Thank you

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Re: Problems Mounting

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Monday 28 Feb 2005 11:01 am, Devraj Paul wrote:
> Hello,
>I'm a newby to debian and have installed sarge on a Sony Vaio TR5GP. I'm
> facing a weird problem, whenever I'm shutting down the system
> the /media/cdrom0 directory gets deleted. So when I try to mount the cdrom
> after restarting the system I get an error : /media/cdrom0 does not
> exist.Then i've to create the directory and everything works fine but again
> when I shutdown the system the cdrom0 directory gets deleted.
> Thanks,

Are you using hald and dbus ??

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Re: Problems Mounting

[Kai Hildebrandt]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:01:35 +0530
Devraj Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
>I'm a newby to debian and have installed sarge on a Sony Vaio
>TR5GP. I'm
> facing a weird problem, whenever I'm shutting down the system
> the /media/cdrom0 directory gets deleted. So when I try to mount the
> cdrom after restarting the system I get an error : /media/cdrom0 does
> not exist.Then i've to create the directory and everything works fine
> but again when I shutdown the system the cdrom0 directory gets
> deleted. Thanks,

Are you using an automounter (e.g. autofs, amd, ... )?

I had such an automounter installed and while the installation I was
asked if this tool should configure its mountpoints unter /media. Say
'n' if you don't like it or uninstall the automounter!


Regards
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Re: Problems Mounting

[briand]

> "Kai" == Kai Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Kai> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:01:35 +0530 Devraj Paul
  Kai> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  >> Hello, I'm a newby to debian and have installed sarge on a Sony
  >> Vaio TR5GP. I'm facing a weird problem, whenever I'm shutting
  >> down the system the /media/cdrom0 directory gets deleted. So when
  >> I try to mount the cdrom after restarting the system I get an
  >> error : /media/cdrom0 does not exist.Then i've to create the
  >> directory and everything works fine but again when I shutdown the
  >> system the cdrom0 directory gets deleted. Thanks,

  Kai> Are you using an automounter (e.g. autofs, amd, ... )?

  Kai> I had such an automounter installed and while the installation
  Kai> I was asked if this tool should configure its mountpoints unter
  Kai> /media. Say 'n' if you don't like it or uninstall the
  Kai> automounter!

Or have the maintainer fix the package so that it does what it is
supposed to :-)

brian


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Re: annother Xfree-synaptics problem

[Mattia Dongili]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Christian Stalp wrote:
> Hello together,

Hi :)

[...]
> My xf86config-4 is:  ( for the touchpad )
> [code]
> Section "InputDevice" 
>Driver  "synaptics" 
>Identifier   "Touchpad" 
>Option  "CorePointer" 
>Option  "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900" 
>Option  "Finger"  "35 40"   #"25 30" 
>Option  "MaxTapTime"  "100" 
>Option  "MaxTapMove"  "220" 
>Option  "VertScrollDelta"   "100" 
>Option  "MinSpeed"  "0.02" 
>Option  "MaxSpeed"  "0.20" 
>Option  "AccelFactor"  "0.0008" 
>Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux" 
>Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2" 
>Option  "Repeater"  "/dev/ps2mouse" 
>Option  "SHMConfig"  "on" 
> EndSection
> [/code]
> 
> Where ist the problem ?

Some things to consider (before filing a bugreport):
- any useful statement in /var/log/XFree86.0.log ?
- why you're not using 
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
or
Option "Protocol" "event"
  since you're using a 2.6 kernel?
- what's the output of 'ipcs -m | grep 0x5d8b' (during a fresh new X
  session)?

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TuxMobil News 02/2005

[Werner Heuser]

Hello,

a few days ago I have got a link to the 3,000th Linux laptop
installation report submitted. This is a milestone showing the
increasing popularity of the installation survey.

Please support our work by submitting news and Linux reports about
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The "TuxMobil News Digest" for February 2005[1] has good news
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If you are missing news, applications or documents, don't
hesitate to contact me.

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Re: Problems Mounting

[Kai Hildebrandt]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:07:02 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Or have the maintainer fix the package so that it does what it is
> supposed to :-)
> 
I think, it does!

I deinstalled the package and mount CDs manually. But I first thougt it
could be useful but it wasn't (for me).


Regards
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Re: Problems Mounting

[Devraj Paul]

Hello,
 Thanks a lot for the help. I ran the command 'dpkg-reconfigure discover1'.
and that has solved the problem.
Thanks & Regards,
Devraj Paul


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RE: PCMCIA USB2.0 Card

[Kaiser, Hans]

Hello Joan,

I reduced the size of the email, therefore you can see my posts under
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/02/msg00219.html

Best regards,
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RE: PCMCIA USB2.0 Card

[Kaiser, Hans]

I'm running on kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, which depends on the latest on
sarge. Under SuSE it was 2.6.5. It tried some different versions without
success.
How I can see, debian connects the USB-HDD to the 12MBit hub, there SuSE
connects it to the root hub with 480Mbit.
Any hints, how to force other hubs? Or any other hints?

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On Saturday 26 Feb 2005 5:20 pm, Kaiser, Hans wrote:
> No ideas to solve my problem with USB2.0 under Debian?

Did you try with the latest/different kernel ??

- From the logs it's quite difficult to guess. :-(

rrs
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Toshiba Satellite, 2.6 kernel and wireless networking

[Darryl Pierce]

When I boot my system (running testing) with a 2.6 kernel, the system
comes up fine. However, the networking never finishes obtaining an IP
address from my WAP. If I boot using a 2.4 kernel all comes up fine
and I have an IP and can work. Any suggestions?

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Re: PCMCIA USB2.0 Card

[Joan Tur]

Es Dilluns 28 Febrer 2005 20:54, en Kaiser, Hans va escriure:
| Hello Joan,
|
| I reduced the size of the email, therefore you can see my posts under
| http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/02/msg00219.html
I've had a look... no idea on how to solve it, I'm sorry  8-(

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Toshiba Satellite, 2.6 kernel and wireless networking

[briand]

are you sure that the network driver for the correct card is in place ?
for example, maybe it was built-in on your 2.4 kernel and now it is a module

also one annoying thing I've noticed about 2.6 is that mii operation now seems 
to come from a separate module so that even when you have the proper hardware 
modules, LAN will still not working.

quite the user trap

hth

brian
> "Darryl" == Darryl Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Darryl> When I boot my system (running testing) with a 2.6 kernel,
  Darryl> the system comes up fine. However, the networking never
  Darryl> finishes obtaining an IP address from my WAP. If I boot
  Darryl> using a 2.4 kernel all comes up fine and I have an IP and
  Darryl> can work. Any suggestions?

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Copying Debian to another drive

[jb701]

I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a Thinkpad (laptop).  I now 
want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I can try some things out 
without ruining this setup (which took a lot of effort to get running).  How 
do I go about doing that?  The laptop can only run one hard drive at a time. 
I can connect to another Debian machine (running woody).  The laptop started 
with woody (same CDs used as the other machine) and I think I kept all the 
downloaded deb files used to upgrade.  Is there any way to copy the setup 
rather than setting up a new hard drive from scratch? 

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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[Sean Perry]

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I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a Thinkpad (laptop).  I 
now want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I can try some 
things out without ruining this setup (which took a lot of effort to get 
running).  How do I go about doing that?  The laptop can only run one 
hard drive at a time. I can connect to another Debian machine (running 
woody).  The laptop started with woody (same CDs used as the other 
machine) and I think I kept all the downloaded deb files used to 
upgrade.  Is there any way to copy the setup rather than setting up a 
new hard drive from scratch?

What people most often do is remove the hard drive connect them to a 
different pc, image the drive, and then put it back in the laptop.

Removing the hard drive is really easy on thinkpads. On my x31 the hard 
drive is under the right shift key and is held in by one screw.

You then need an adapter to take the mini-ide + power of laptops and use 
it in a normal pc. Another option is to buy an external USB hard drive 
housing. You still need the adapter but then the drive can be hooked up 
without having to rewire things. The adapters are about $7 here in the 
states and most of the places that sell hard drives, motherboards and 
the like carry them. Basically it does 20 pin + power => 40 pin IDE 
standard with a power coupler just like a normal IDE drive.

As for the imaging itself, dd is really simple. Or you could just tar 
the whole thing up and save it.

Personally, I store my /etc and a package list plus whatever is 
important from /usr/src and /home. Lately been using revision control 
for this which makes backups easy. I can then reinstall fairly quickly 
and have all of my tuned configs.

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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[peace bwitchu]

Here is a link with examples on how to clone a hdd
over a network using netcat and dd.  You can also use
mondo rescue with mindi.  Mondo is a opensource Ghost
like utility.

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html

http://www.mondorescue.org/
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> I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a
> Thinkpad (laptop).  I now 
> want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I
> can try some things out 
> without ruining this setup (which took a lot of
> effort to get running).  How 
> do I go about doing that?  The laptop can only run
> one hard drive at a time. 
> I can connect to another Debian machine (running
> woody).  The laptop started 
> with woody (same CDs used as the other machine) and
> I think I kept all the 
> downloaded deb files used to upgrade.  Is there any
> way to copy the setup 
> rather than setting up a new hard drive from
> scratch? 
> 
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Re: annother Xfree-synaptics problem

[Micha Feigin]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:07:47 +0100
Christian Stalp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello together,
> I have also a problem with my synaptics-Driver. 
> I have an Asus3500-D Notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad and an AthlonXP-M.
> On this machine I run sarge with kernel 2.6.10. The touchpad and every and 
> feature works very fine accept for the synclient and syndaemon-applet. That 
> means, I can use the tapping and scrolling-funcionallity but cannot switch 
> the touchpad off, while I use the keyboard.
> 
> When I start the syndaemon it informs me about it status, writes on the 
> console that the touchpad is disabled ( while Im writing ) or enabled ( after 
> two seconds of stop writing ). But it does'nt matter if its dis- or enabled, 
> the touchpad is allways enabled. If I touch the touchpad in the same moment I 
> write on the keyboard the mouse is moved or whatever happends... 
> If I call "synclient -h" I get this responce:
> [code]
>  Hardware properties: 
> No touchpad found 
> Do you use a newer kernel than 2.4? 
> Than browse the messages or boot.msg for the hardware info
> [/code]
> 
> My xf86config-4 is:  ( for the touchpad )
> [code]
> Section "InputDevice" 
>Driver  "synaptics" 
>Identifier   "Touchpad" 
>Option  "CorePointer" 
>Option  "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900" 
>Option  "Finger"  "35 40"   #"25 30" 
>Option  "MaxTapTime"  "100" 
>Option  "MaxTapMove"  "220" 
>Option  "VertScrollDelta"   "100" 
>Option  "MinSpeed"  "0.02" 
>Option  "MaxSpeed"  "0.20" 
>Option  "AccelFactor"  "0.0008" 
>Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux" 
>Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2" 

Try using the following instead

Option  "Device""/dev/input/event1"
Option  "Protocol"  "event"

>Option  "Repeater"  "/dev/ps2mouse" 
>Option  "SHMConfig"  "on" 
> EndSection
> [/code]
> 

Disclaimer: I am using an alps and not synaptics, but its the same driver.

> Where ist the problem ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Gruss Christian
> 
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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[João Lourenço]

Be careful!  "dd" only works if the two drives are of the same model
(or, at least, the same size).

I would say "tar" is a better option.  But remember to exclude the
virtual file systems "/proc" and "/sys".

Alternatively, when I do such things, I assemble the new hard drive in
a remote machine, accessible by the network, partition and format it,
and then use "rsync" to copy all the files from source machine to the
remote new disk.

Something close to (please check the rsync man page, I'm reproducing the
command from memory):

#  cd /
#  rsync -aPS -e 'ssh' --exclude 'proc/*' --exclude 'sys/*' \
 . remote_ip:/mount_pint_of_new_disk/"


Remember to **check the rsync man page** and make a few experiments
before trying the whole thing!

João


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:22 -0800, Sean Perry wrote:
> As for the imaging itself, dd is really simple. Or you could just tar 
> the whole thing up and save it.
> 
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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[peace bwitchu]

The drive you are dd'ing to has to be equal size or
larger.  If the second drive is larger you lose the
space it is larger by.  So if oyu have a 40 gig drive
and dd it to a 45 gig drive you lose 5 gig.


--- João Lourenço <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Be careful!  "dd" only works if the two drives are
> of the same model
> (or, at least, the same size).
> 
> I would say "tar" is a better option.  But remember
> to exclude the
> virtual file systems "/proc" and "/sys".
> 
> Alternatively, when I do such things, I assemble the
> new hard drive in
> a remote machine, accessible by the network,
> partition and format it,
> and then use "rsync" to copy all the files from
> source machine to the
> remote new disk.
> 
> Something close to (please check the rsync man page,
> I'm reproducing the
> command from memory):
> 
> #  cd /
> #  rsync -aPS -e 'ssh' --exclude 'proc/*' --exclude
> 'sys/*' \
>  . remote_ip:/mount_pint_of_new_disk/"
> 
> 
> Remember to **check the rsync man page** and make a
> few experiments
> before trying the whole thing!
> 
> João
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:22 -0800, Sean Perry wrote:
> > As for the imaging itself, dd is really simple. Or
> you could just tar 
> > the whole thing up and save it.
> > 
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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[Michael Perry]

peace bwitchu wrote:
Here is a link with examples on how to clone a hdd
over a network using netcat and dd.  You can also use
mondo rescue with mindi.  Mondo is a opensource Ghost
like utility.
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html
http://www.mondorescue.org/
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I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a
Thinkpad (laptop).  I now 
want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I
can try some things out 
without ruining this setup (which took a lot of
effort to get running).  How 
do I go about doing that?  The laptop can only run
one hard drive at a time. 
I can connect to another Debian machine (running
woody).  The laptop started 
with woody (same CDs used as the other machine) and
I think I kept all the 
downloaded deb files used to upgrade.  Is there any
way to copy the setup 
rather than setting up a new hard drive from
scratch? 

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On my thinkpad T23, I've done it a few ways including pulling the drive 
and a usb type drive enclosure.  I also have a ultrabay hard disk drive 
bay and I put the drive in there and it shows up as /dev/hdc here.  Then 
I just follow the hard disk drive upgrade minihowto.  Basically the 
steps are to run fdisk on the new drive, set it up the way you want, 
copy the files over using the command in the howto, run lilo (I don't 
use grub here), remove the old primary drive, swap in the new drive, do 
some minor lilo edits and I am done.  The howto was kinda written for a 
2.4 kernel I think so there are new things which are not showstoppers 
like the /sys file system. When I do the copy, the sys file also fails 
to copy because its kinda virtual.  I've done the same upgrade on three 
different laptops moving up to different drive sizes and on a desktop 
moving from a collapsing ide drive to fast scsi drive.

Works very well for me.

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infos for me

[drking]

Hi,
   I've a laptop airis and thre is a problem with the motheboard. Can you 
tell me what is your number model laptop ?

Best regard

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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[Daniel Pittman]

On 1 Mar 2005, peace bwitchu wrote:
> --- JoÃo LourenÃo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Be careful! "dd" only works if the two drives are of the same model
>> (or, at least, the same size).
>>
>> I would say "tar" is a better option. But remember to exclude the
>> virtual file systems "/proc" and "/sys".
>
> The drive you are dd'ing to has to be equal size or larger. If the
> second drive is larger you lose the space it is larger by. So if oyu
> have a 40 gig drive and dd it to a 45 gig drive you lose 5 gig.

Also, you keep the same fragmented allocation that will have gradually
built up on the old disk, and you have to resize partitions and
filesystems to take advantage of the new disk.

Why would anyone bother, honestly?  Using tar, which will happily stay
on one filesystem, or rsync, is a vastly superior solution.

Either of those will run at around half to two thirds the speed of the
raw dd as well, so unless half an hour of your life is worth that much
to you, I strongly advise against anything but copying files to a new
filesystem.

Daniel

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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[Hubert Chan]

> "Sean" == Sean Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

Sean> You then need an adapter to take the mini-ide + power of laptops
Sean> and use it in a normal pc. Another option is to buy an external
Sean> USB hard drive housing.

Yet another option, if your ThinkPad has an UltraBay, is to get the 2nd
hard drive adaptor.  I think it was on the order of about $60 Canadian,
so it may be a bit pricey if it's just for a one-off thing, but I find
it pretty convenient.

One nice thing about it is you can even boot from your second hard
drive, so you don't have to fiddle with swapping hard drives.  The only
thing that you need to be aware of is that when you boot from the second
hard drive, your BIOS (and hence your bootloader -- LILO or GRUB) will
consider the drive in the UltraBay to be the first hard drive, but
Linux, since it bypasses the BIOS, will consider it to be the /dev/hdc.

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Re: infos for me

[David Mandelberg]

drking wrote:
>I've a laptop airis and thre is a problem with the motheboard. Can
> you tell me what is your number model laptop ?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you're asking for. Are you asking for a HCL
(hardware compatibility list) of laptops that work with a specific distribution
of Debian?

Assuming you looking for what works with sarge on x86 using GNU/Linux (the
HURD/Mach, kFreeBSD, and NetBSD pseudo-ports aren't very advanced yet), try
 and look for laptop vendors. My laptop is from LACLinux
(which I found from that website) and works fine with Ubuntu hoary (a derivative
of Debian) and Debian sarge (from a few weeks ago--before I switched it to 
Ubuntu).


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Medion MD 95400 and Debian GNU/Linux

[Steffen Schuler]

Hi,
I bought this notebook in ALDI at the 02/24/2005. I could resize the 
WinXP-Partitions with QtParted (www.sysresccd.org). First I installed 
Debian Sarge on my Notebook with kernel 2.6.8; the network card was 
automatically correctly configured; but Sarge's XFree86 server didn't 
support the graphics card; so I upgraded to Debian Sid. In Sid my 
graphics card was supported, also my optical microsoft wheel mouse.
(I didn't manage to configure the MEDION mouse correctly.)
I could also manage to get a screen resolution of 1280x800 by inserting 
modelines into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

But now I have serious problems with my keyboard. The keys in the 
overlayed number-keypad produce under XFree86 4.3.0 different characters 
at the same pressed key. It was a great mess. I had serious problems to 
login in graphical mode. So I configured ~/.xmodmaprc and
bound the different keycodes to the same keysym. Now I can work in 
XFree86 but the keyboard problem is only partially solved.

I'm stuck with this problem. Can somebody help me?
Cheers,
Steffen Schuler
email: schuler [DOT] steffen [AT] gmx [DOT] de
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Help, ALSA and Nvidia

[Rony]

Hi,

ALSA in my Toshiba seems not working. It worked quite sometime ago,
forgot which kernel i was using that time. I reinstall Debian several
times at my laptop, and now ALSA seems not working.

I'm using kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 now. I tried "module-assistant
auto-install alsa". It generate some modules, but when i tried the KDE
to use ALSA, it just sounds not right. Sounds like radio with no
station, some buzzing sound, even i didn't play any sound. Should i use
"module-assistant auto-install alsa" with kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686? Or
the kernel supports ALSA out of the box? This is the msg from kern.log:

ALSA
usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2003:
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xf200)

And about NVidia, how come there's no nvidia-source(forgot the exact
package name) in the Sarge package list anymore? How am i suppose to
install NVidia driver now?

Thanks in advance for the advices.


- Rony -



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Re: Help, ALSA and Nvidia

[Pollywog]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:31 am, Rony wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ALSA in my Toshiba seems not working. It worked quite sometime ago,
> forgot which kernel i was using that time. I reinstall Debian several
> times at my laptop, and now ALSA seems not working.
>
> I'm using kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 now. I tried "module-assistant
> auto-install alsa". It generate some modules, but when i tried the KDE
> to use ALSA, it just sounds not right. Sounds like radio with no
> station, some buzzing sound, even i didn't play any sound. Should i use
> "module-assistant auto-install alsa" with kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686? Or
> the kernel supports ALSA out of the box? This is the msg from kern.log:
>
> ALSA
> usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2003:
> MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xf200)
>
> And about NVidia, how come there's no nvidia-source(forgot the exact
> package name) in the Sarge package list anymore? How am i suppose to
> install NVidia driver now?
>

Nvidia first...  I had the same problem and it would seem there was something 
wrong with the Sarge packages for Nvidia, so they were removed.  Solution:  I 
used the ones in "unstable" and I did not need to upgrade anything that might 
break Debian in order to do it.  I just did an apt-get for nvidia-glx and 
nvidia-kernel-source, IIRC and then compiled the latter for my kernel.

For ALSA, it worked "out of the box" for me except for one thing, I could not 
get oss-emu to work, so I installed alsa-base and alsa-utils and then I ran 
alsa-conf and that took care of the problem.

8)

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Re: Copying Debian to another drive

[Bob Proulx]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Debian sarge loaded and running fine on a Thinkpad (laptop).  I now 
> want to copy my setup onto another hard drive, so I can try some things out 
> without ruining this setup (which took a lot of effort to get running).  
> How do I go about doing that?  The laptop can only run one hard drive at a 
> time. I can connect to another Debian machine (running woody).  The laptop 
> started with woody (same CDs used as the other machine) and I think I kept 
> all the downloaded deb files used to upgrade.  Is there any way to copy the 
> setup rather than setting up a new hard drive from scratch? 

I do that all of the time.  It is my preferred install method.  I boot
a live cd image.  The only real requirement is to get both machines on
a network at the same time.  Use either Knoppix or DFS or whatever to
boot the new machine.

Partition the drives as you wish them to be partitioned.  Then mount
them.  Here is a quick synopsis.  You will need to customize for your
purposes.  But this should be enough to get the idea.

  mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/hda5
  mkdir /target
  mount /dev/hda5 /target

Then rsync the entire system from the original laptop to the new
laptop.  A command like this:

  rsync -av --numeric-ids --exclude /proc --exclude /sys [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ 
/target/

That will use 'ssh' to connect and copy the entire other system to the
new system.  We excluded /proc and /sys in the copy.  Make sure to
create those directories.  When that is done you can reboot into the
new system.  The trick is to get the new system booted.  You can do
this many ways.  I prefer grub.  This is where the DFS bootable live
image is nice.  It has a grub loader.  Tell grub to boot the other
disk.  Then install grub from the running system on the main disk.
Assuming DFS and grub, use the DFS disk to boot from cdrom and then
use it to boot to the system on the hard drive that you just copied
over there.  Example:

  root (hd0,4)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-10-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
  initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-10-686
  boot

Of course the version numbers and partition numbers must match your
systems.  After booting run 'grub-install /dev/hda' and you should be
set.  I have done this many times and it works quite well.  Of course
this is all from memory and I fear I may have forgotten something in
recalling it here.

Bob


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