Re: Saving battery power
Thomas, this is a nice idea could you tell us if there are any implications running without swap ? Did you ever reach the limit, and what will happen ? And while we are at this, would you post your /tec/fstab line for the /tmp fs ? Again, did you ever reach the limit here ? My laptop is under heavy load, and i launch many apps and swapping happens, and there are big files (multimedia streams) temporarily stored in tmp. But i like to give it a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Saving battery power
Thorsten Schmidt wrote: > But for some reason, disabling the radio on XP gives me 50min while > disableling it on linux give 15min - even if ipw2200.ko is unloaded... I switch it off by # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill according to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2200#Power_Management Unloading the module is not sufficient to turn it off, IIUC. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Saving battery power
Hello, Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:29 schrieb Michael: > Thomas, > this is a nice idea could you tell us if there are any implications running > without swap ? Did you ever reach the limit, and what will happen ? Well, once I opened dozens of big-html pages in firefox. Firefox went crazy, eat a lot of ram and my kernel began killing processes. But apart from that - no problems. I've 1 GB Ram here - I use KDE, Kmail, OpenOffice, etc. But you have to be carefull. At some point, the system is unable to cache HD data, and the HD is spinning all the time. But I guess 1 GB is sufficient for desktop usage. Imho systems with 512MB - 768MB have enough RAM to allow efficient HD caching in typical desktop-use scenarios. Therefore using 100MB-200MB for /tmp/ seems to be appropiate for me. Btw. I created a user tmp (home is /tmp) for vaious reasons (SSH'ing to dfferent hosts with same IPs, etc.) one positiv site-effect is, that I'm able to start a KDE session using my ramdisk only. > And > while we are at this, would you post your /tec/fstab line for the /tmp fs ? none/tmptmpfs noatime,size=100M 0 0 Btw. You might want to set noatime for all HD partitions and you might want to consider linking /var/log/ to /tmp/log as well. > Again, did you ever reach the limit here ? Sometimes, yes. But usually, no. > My laptop is under heavy load, > and i launch many apps and swapping happens, and there are big files > (multimedia streams) temporarily stored in tmp. But i like to give it a > try. Don't store 'em in /tmp? Regards Thorsten
Network Problem
Sometimes, Debian Etch just fails to connect to the access point at my residence. There's no problem connecting with XP. Signal strength was around 80% or more. I had known the Network Selector applet to cause some problems. It was recently uninstalled - however, still no access. Any suggestions? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division
[Revised] Network Problem
On 3/12/07, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometimes, Debian Etch just fails to connect to the access point at my residence. There's no problem connecting with XP. Signal strength was around 80% or more. I had known the Network Selector applet to cause some problems. It was recently uninstalled - however, still no access. Any suggestions? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division OK. I tried the wireless at work, and it, well, works. So, why would XP facilitate access and Debian/Madwifi not? Obviously, a problem lies with the residential wireless set-up - but, why would it work with XP and not Linux. Please note: I'm not dissing Debian/Linux in anyway. My concern is, however, if I can't configure it, Linux/Debian/Wireless, to be reliable, well... I don't really want to go there. Please help... -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division
Re: Network Problem
Baz wrote: Sometimes, Debian Etch just fails to connect to the access point at my residence. There's no problem connecting with XP. Signal strength was around 80% or more. I had known the Network Selector applet to cause some problems. It was recently uninstalled - however, still no access. Any suggestions? Tried ndiswrapper for this ? -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You see? The mysteries of the Universe are revealed when you break stuff. Jamie: When in doubt, blow up a planet. Kiva: It's an 80 foot robot, if we can't see it, absolutely it's not here. Glorft Technician: Unnecessary use of force in capturing the Earthers has been approved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Problem
On 3/13/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baz wrote: > Sometimes, Debian Etch just fails to connect to the access point at my > residence. There's no problem connecting with XP. Signal strength was > around 80% or more. I had known the Network Selector applet to cause > some problems. It was recently uninstalled - however, still no access. > > Any suggestions? Tried ndiswrapper for this ? -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You see? The mysteries of the Universe are revealed when you break stuff. Jamie: When in doubt, blow up a planet. Kiva: It's an 80 foot robot, if we can't see it, absolutely it's not here. Glorft Technician: Unnecessary use of force in capturing the Earthers has been approved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Except for situations just described, which a relatively rare, Madwifi works better than the xp driver. To answer your question, no I have not. -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division
Small, Annoying Problem
Hello. Long ago, when I installed the Assistive Technology packages, I recall the prompt asking me whether I wanted the preferences window to pop up at start-up. I have long since uninstalled all the packages, but still get the pop-up window. How do I change the setting? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division
Installing Debian Etch on a Dell Latitude D620 [howto]
Hello, For those who might be interested, i have successfully installed Debian/Linux i386 on a DELL Latitude D620.. was easy. (intel 945 graphics card, with 14" 1280x800 screen ; Dell 1390 Wifi card) Hints for buyers: - Choose the one with an Intel Wireless card, which has a linux binary driver available : The Dell 1390 Wireless DOESNT NOT have a linux driver. - Modem if possible (and needed), avoid the Sigmatek modem (you you have to pay 20$ for the linux driver) My installation notes are available at : http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Etch_on_Dell_Latitude_D620.html And an installation-report was opened : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414646 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
