ACPI and KDE
I have installed a script which responds to Fn-F7 by issuing a radeontool dac on and off (toggle) on my Thinkpad T40. How can I get some nice message box on KDE just like what I see when I give other ACPI events like echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness (a nice grey box with "Brightness" label and a 100% bar under it) ? I'd like to write the same nice box with External video on/off (and do the same thing for wifi). Thank you, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios
On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 21:09, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote: > Hi, > > I think my Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 does not work with my current Bios > Version. When I start Linux with lilo and the Option: acpi=off they > will run. > So I downloaded a newer Bios Version. It's a ROM file. I don't know > how to update the Bios under Linux. Can anybody help me. Or must I > install a M$ product? You probably have to boot a DOS veriosn, not necessarily MS and you shouldn't need to install it. There's some info at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/10/2004/10/4/147478 HTH Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios
Le Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:13:11AM +0100, Neil Youngman écrivait/wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 21:09, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think my Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 does not work with my current Bios > > Version. When I start Linux with lilo and the Option: acpi=off they > > will run. > > So I downloaded a newer Bios Version. It's a ROM file. I don't know > > how to update the Bios under Linux. Can anybody help me. Or must I > > install a M$ product? For exactly this sole purpose (of flashing newer BIOSes) I installed a FreeDOS on a DOS-FAT partition on my MSI S270 Turion laptop. The uploaded BIOS file is a .zip containing the ROM file and a flashing utility (AFUDOS in my case): % ls -l 1013_370.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 basile basilegr 346867 Sep 28 11:14 1013_370.zip % unzip 1013_370.zip Archive: 1013_370.zip creating: 1013_370/ creating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/ inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/A1013AMS.370 extracting: 1013_370/A1013AMS/A1013AMS.BAT inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/AFUDOS.EXE inflating: 1013_370/A1013AMS/RELEASE.TXT Be sure to boot freedos without any drivers! See also http://freedos.org/ http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/msi_s270_linux.html http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?root=198&SLanguage=en-us I would guess that your A1AFLASH.EXE utility should be FreeDOS bootable. You should try (at your own risk, as usual when flashing BIOSes). Regards -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile(at)starynkevitch(dot)net 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
applet showing the current XkbLayout
Hello I'm using enlightenment without KDE and without Gnome. My XFree86 is configured with three keyboard layout: Option "XkbLayout" "es,il,us" Option "XkbOptions""grp:shift_toggle" My question is how I can cache when ever the keyboard Layout change and which one is the current, this in order to write an applet for enlightenment showing an ensign of the current country Layout. Thank you in advance Gustavo Halperin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing services on my T40
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:21:32PM +, Bob Alexander wrote: > I see quite a few services active on my Thinkpad. Most of them should be > usable only from loopback and not on the eth0 interface. I tried looking > at inetd.conf but it's empty. > > Where do I go to bind some (perl is webmin, exim4 is for local delivery > only, apache do not rem but prolly for webmin ?) of these services only > on loopback ? > > Debian testing. I think you have to do it on a case-by-case basis, in each server's configuration file. For instance, portmap uses /etc/default/portmap, where you can say OPTIONS="-i 127.0.0.1" Exim4 has the local_interfaces directive. Apache has the Listen directive. You get the idea -- Eric 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]
Re: Securing services on my T40
Eric Cooper wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:21:32PM +, Bob Alexander wrote: I see quite a few services active on my Thinkpad. Most of them should be usable only from loopback and not on the eth0 interface. I tried looking at inetd.conf but it's empty. Where do I go to bind some (perl is webmin, exim4 is for local delivery only, apache do not rem but prolly for webmin ?) of these services only on loopback ? Debian testing. I think you have to do it on a case-by-case basis, in each server's configuration file. For instance, portmap uses /etc/default/portmap, where you can say OPTIONS="-i 127.0.0.1" Exim4 has the local_interfaces directive. Apache has the Listen directive. You get the idea Yup ... get the idea :( Maybe tcpwrappers could be a nice band-aid :) Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus M2400: How to update Bios
* Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05.10.2005 10:13]: > I installed a > FreeDOS on a DOS-FAT partition on my MSI S270 Turion laptop.=20 ok thank you. I will try this at the weekend. I think it's much easier than creating a bootable CD-Rom. I've got an old partition with about 20 MB free. I hope this will suffice. Sascha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: CDROM problem!
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:46 +0100, marc wrote: > One further questions: does that mean that the kernel demands an answer > for every option? So, if there are 100 kernel options, but only 95 in > the config file, then it will *always* ask about the other 5? Thus, if > you didn't have a config file, then you could compile the kernel and > simply sit there and answer every question - hypothetically, of course. Well, compilation is after the make oldconfig, of course. I never tried it without a valid config file, so I don't know how the behaviour would be in that case. I'd rather use make menuconfig if I'd start from scratch. It's easier to go back and fix mistakes. But in general, yes, you're right. It will only ask you the 5 questions that weren't in the previous config. I always first do a make oldconfig, and then, if there is anything interesting, a make menuconfig to fiddle around some more. Koen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Alt Gr" button does't work
Dear all, I have installed Debian 3.1 on my Toshiba Tecra M2 Laptop. It seems to work everything, but I have a small trouble with the combined chars (eg: "ALT Gr + @"). The keyboard is Italian and it seems to be configurated in right way, but "AltGr" doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thank you. Oddbyte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)
Alrigh. Before I was so rudely interrupted by the Evacuation of my College, I had foudn some thing out: The wireless works fine here.This means that there is definitely some thing wrong with the way I set up the Nework at my home: It isn't Linux or the Driver; it is some thing else. Now, cat /etc/resolv.conf gives this at College:search dawsoncollege.qc.canameserver 198.168.48.4And this when at Home: search no-domain-set.bellcanadanameserver 192.168.2.1Now that the field has been lessened, perhaps why can finaly put an end to this.?Some one had mentioned DNS. Me thinks I brushed it off too soon. It sounds very plausible. How can I find out if this is the problem and how can I, moreover, fix it? Thank you Kindly.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)
Here is what can be changed; what I think may be the problem. Home Networking modem IP Network IP Address: IP Netmask:Default Gateway: or Use WAN Host Name: DHCP Server: EnableDisableStart IP Range: End IP Range: Default Gateway: or Self DNS: or Use WANDomain Name:Lease Time (mins): Requires a specified DNS or Infinite timeI hope every one can see that. If not, I'll type it out.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Slow Orinoco Wifi on Sarge
I've freshly installed Debian Sarge (now stable) on a Dell Lattitude CPiR (P-II-400). with a Dell Truemobile 1150 802.11b PCMCIA wifi card. This is a rebadged Orinoco Card. The base station is a Netgear MR814V2 with updated firmware. I apt-get'ed up to the 2.6 kernel. I get really slow performance with the wifi network. Downloading off the web is ~ 150 kbits/sec, and network behaviour is so slow that running remote X applications from other machines on my home network is really painful, with glacial updates. iwconfig indicates normal behaviour. Curiously, I have been unable to change the channel on my card. Then I can hot-swap to a wired Linksys 10/100Mb card, and everything is normal. Speed is what would be expected, and remote X is no problem. I've tried turning off WEP, but observe no difference. This is with a static network assignment. I had some earlier problems with nameservers when I was hotplugging, I think the resolvconf package cleared that up. I have no problems with making connections, but making connections quickly and download data rate are poor. In a previous incarnation, this wifi card worked fine on this laptop with Mandrake Linux (9.1). I assume if I dual boot over to windows 98 it will be fine as well. I'd be interested in hearing of others' experiences on this kernel with orinoco cards, or suggestions for other easily available models that are well supported. It looks like hotplug loads orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes modules when the card is plugged in. At somepoint I downloaded kismet, but I never set it up. Could that be implicated somehow? Thanks -- Robert Neff robert at neffs dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install
I'm having a bit of trouble installing Debian on my inspiron 4100. I've identified the problem. The solution is in a kernel rebuild. I can't get the kernel to rebuild because the system freezes before the laptop can rebuild the kernel. It doesn't usually stay alive for more than two or three minutes before it freezes up. how can I reinstall the whole system using a custom kernel? If anyone could give me a link that would be great. I'm not even sure of what to google, so that would be good too. I don't need my hand held, just let me know what I'm looking for. James Gibbon
Re: Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install
linux24 linux26 bf24 bf22 - Original Message - From: James Gibbon To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:39 AM Subject: Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install I'm having a bit of trouble installing Debian on my inspiron 4100. I've identified the problem. The solution is in a kernel rebuild. I can't get the kernel to rebuild because the system freezes before the laptop can rebuild the kernel. It doesn't usually stay alive for more than two or three minutes before it freezes up.how can I reinstall the whole system using a custom kernel? If anyone could give me a link that would be great. I'm not even sure of what to google, so that would be good too. I don't need my hand held, just let me know what I'm looking for.James Gibbon
