Re: ipw2200 Acer TM 4100
On Thursday 13 October 2005 08:57, Koen Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:54 +0200, Miguel Alvarez Ramirez wrote: > > About ipw2200 > > I have tried led=1 when insmod ipw2200.., echo 1> wirelessled ... but > > nothing > > Did you try acerhk? According to the website, it works with the TM 4100. > > Koen Has anyone produced a deb for acerhk so that it could be used with module-assistant? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X
On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't > get X working. When I try to startx, it doesn't bounce back out, but > just goes into a black screen, after which I can't shut X down with my > keyboard. > > The default install seems to be xserver-xorg, and so I ran through > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > a couple of times, trying different screen resolutions, turning frame > buffering on and off, but with no changes in the results. > > The graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, which is recognized > when installing x-windows. > > I upgraded to unstable, and retried everything, but the results were > the same. > > I can get it working with Knoppix (and I suppose I can revert to my > old Sarge installation if necessary), but I'd prefer to run a straight > Debian system with Etch, and if possible, Sid. Why not start up Knoppix, copy the X configuration to the hard disk, reboot with Debian and copy the X configuration file into /etc/X11. It may require a bit of tweeking, but it should have the right settings for the resolution etc in it. David > > Any suggestions? > > Chuck > > --- > Charles Muller > > Toyo Gakuen University > Faculty of Humanities > 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi > Chiba 270-0161 JAPAN > Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 > > Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought > http://www.acmuller.net > > > > > -- > > > --- > Charles Muller > > Toyo Gakuen University > Faculty of Humanities > 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi > Chiba 270-0161 JAPAN > Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 > > Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought > http://www.acmuller.net > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X
On Friday 30 December 2005 13:10, Charles Muller wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > >>After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > >>Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't > >>get X working. When I try to startx, it doesn't bounce back out, but > >>just goes into a black screen, after which I can't shut X down with my > >>keyboard. > >> > > Why not start up Knoppix, copy the X configuration to the hard disk, > > reboot with Debian and copy the X configuration file into /etc/X11. > > It may require a bit of tweeking, but it should have the right > > settings for the resolution etc in it. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I gave this a shot, but since Knoppix 4.0 > is still using XFree86 and Debian/Etch is using xserver.xorg, the > structure of the entries in the configuration files is different. I > tried pasting some of the extra stuff provided by Knoppix into the > xorg.conf file but it just crashes. The format may be wrong, but that is fixable. Somewhere in the X.org package there is the function to migrate from XFree86. I have no idea what the script might be, but I am sure I remember being asked if I wanted to upgrade my old configuration when I upgraded. So maybe if you remove the x.org version, put the XFree86 config file in the right place (the one you got from Knoppix) and then install it might do it for you. David > > Does anyone happen to know if Mepis is using xserver.xorg? I tried > (K)ubuntu, and it sets up into the same problematic situation as Debian. > > Chuck > > --- > Charles Muller > > Toyo Gakuen University > Faculty of Humanities > 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi > Chiba 270-0161 JAPAN > Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 > > Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought > http://www.acmuller.net > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip
On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote: > Hi, All - > > Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am > wondering if anyone has/had: > > a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in development w/ the > above system &/or the above wireless card. > > b) any knowledge/experience of an acpi/ acer_acpi patch for the 2.6.15 > kernel? I've got the source for the driver itself, but it doesn't like > to install. > > c) any new ideas for getting the 4318 to work under ndiswrapper, *other* > than the usual ones involving ndiswrapper -i, for conffile...do, and the > like? > > thanks for any hints, clues tips or tricks. > > Steph Although it is for a slightly different Acer one thing I found was that I could enable the wireless card (a mini-PCI one) by interrupting pin 13 on the edge connector. I did this with a permanent marker pen. Then the card was visible to lspci and I could point a driver at it. That way I did not need the acer_hk driver to enable the wireless card. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip
On Monday 30 January 2006 15:04, Barry, Christopher wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:57 AM > > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip > > > > On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote: > > > Hi, All - > > > > > > Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am > > > wondering if anyone has/had: > > > > > > a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in > > > > development w/ the > > > > > above system &/or the above wireless card. > > > > > > b) any knowledge/experience of an acpi/ acer_acpi patch for > > > > the 2.6.15 > > > > > kernel? I've got the source for the driver itself, but it > > > > doesn't like > > > > > to install. > > > > > > c) any new ideas for getting the 4318 to work under > > > > ndiswrapper, *other* > > > > > than the usual ones involving ndiswrapper -i, for > > > > conffile...do, and the > > > > > like? > > > > > > thanks for any hints, clues tips or tricks. > > > > > > Steph > > > > Although it is for a slightly different Acer one thing I > > found was that I > > could enable the wireless card (a mini-PCI one) by interrupting pin 13 > > on the edge connector. I did this with a permanent marker pen. > > Then the card was visible to lspci and I could point a driver > > at it. That > > way I did not need the acer_hk driver to enable the wireless card. > > > > David > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cool! > How the heck did you know to do THAT!? > > > -C A combination of Googling and finding the pin outs for the mini-PCI spec which specifically reserve pin 13 as a "suppress wireless" pin. I suppose they thought that wireless addon card was a likely use of mini-PCI and there was all the fuss about wireless cards interfering with aircraft systems (which largely seems to be wrong) at the time the spec was being written. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > > Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) kernel > installed. > > > Just asking. > > Cheers, > > Juanjavier Martínez. lspci is your friend here. It will list all the PCI attached devices on your laptop. But it is possible that the wireless chip is either USB in which case use lsusb or is behind an "enable wireless" button. The acerhk package might help with the enable wireless button, otherwise more extreme methods may be needed. David
Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> > >> Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) > >> kernel installed. > >> > >> > >> Just asking. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Juanjavier Martínez. > > > >lspci is your friend here. It will list all the PCI attached devices on > >your laptop. But it is possible that the wireless chip is either USB > >in which case use lsusb or is behind an "enable wireless" button. > >The acerhk package might help with the enable wireless button, > >otherwise more extreme methods may be needed. > > Is there a way to know if lspci or lsusb is needed? Apart from try and > error, y'know...:-) What about the "enable wireless" button? What is that > all about? > Where can I find information on this? You know, I've just purchased the > laptop and feel naturally worried:-) > > Thanks in advance... > > Juanjavier Martínez. Firstly the button. Look in the manual (there will be one online if you do not have a physical one). If it talks about a wireless enable button then you have one. If not you do not. If you do it is worth installing the acerhk package to see if it enables the button. lspci and lsusb are very general utilities. The first one to try is lspci and look in the output to see if there is anything that looks like a wireless card. If there is nothing then try lsusb. Both produce work descriptions of what they find (unless you tell them not to). If you do not understand the output, paste it into a reply to this note. David
Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:06, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> >> > >> >> Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) > >> >> kernel installed. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Just asking. > >> >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> >> > >> >> Juanjavier Martínez. > >> > > >> >lspci is your friend here. It will list all the PCI attached devices > >> > on your laptop. But it is possible that the wireless chip is either > >> > USB in which case use lsusb or is behind an "enable wireless" button. > >> > The acerhk package might help with the enable wireless button, > >> > otherwise more extreme methods may be needed. > >> > >> Is there a way to know if lspci or lsusb is needed? Apart from try and > >> error, y'know...:-) What about the "enable wireless" button? What is > >> that all about? > >> Where can I find information on this? You know, I've just purchased the > >> laptop and feel naturally worried:-) > >> > >> Thanks in advance... > >> > >> Juanjavier Martínez. > > > >Firstly the button. Look in the manual (there will be one online if you > >do not have a physical one). > > Where? > > >(...) is worth installing the acerhk package to see if it enables the > > button. > > I found it in the «unstable» debian repository in www.kanotix.com. > > I am currently running «sarge» on the notebook. Is there any chance I could > install it w/no updates? > > >lspci and lsusb are very general utilities. The first one to try is lspci > >and look in the output to see if there is anything that looks like a > >wireless card. > > lspci told me I have got a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [Airforce One] 54g > 802,11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02), as you can see in the attached > lspci.txt file. > > >David > > So the questions stays still there: How do I install acerhk? As I recall acerhk is installed using modules_assistant. It is shipped as source so you will need a relatively recent kernel and then you can install. To get this sort of function working you will find unstable much better than stable. Almost certainly it will not work with a 2.4 kernel, but you might be lucky. I have only tried on a 2.6 kernel (.12 I seem to recall). There is a web site which describes acerhk, Google will find it for you. Unfortunately the Broadcom wireless chips are badly supported by linux due to Broadcom not making the relevant information available. There is a closed source driver which has been around for a while, but there is also an open source one which is being reverse engineered. I am not sure of its state. David > > Thank you so much, > > Juan Javier Martínez.
komnibook
Has anyone used komnibook under Debian, if so is there a .deb for it anywhere. It does not seem to be part of the regular tree, and apt-get.org could not find one, but I thought I would ask. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA wireless on kernel 2.6
Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for 2.4.26) you need the hostap-source package, along with wireless-tools and hostap-utils. Then build the modules you are done. David On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:16, Marcus Will, FG MUCOSA, +49(431)597-1487 wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > What's been working for me so far: > > - Build your kernel 2.6.8 > - install the pcmcia_cs sources from sf.net > - just run the >configure< of the pcmcia_cs sources > (The 2.6 relies on the pcmcia kernel infrastructure: don't >build anything here.) > - get the wlan-ng sources and build the >prism< modules > > Hope this helps, > > Marcus > > > As far as I understand the documentation, the 2632W should be > > supported > > by the orinoco_cs driver. (It's the old version of the card, of circa > > 2001 or so, not the new Atmel based one.) This driver is built, and I > > can load it with modprobe, but to no further effect. > > > > I'm using the yenta driver for the PCMCIA subsystem itself. > > This driver > > loads ok, according to the boot messages, although I'm not > > entirely sure > > that I have a yenta socket. In my previous (kernel 2.4) > > installation of > > the same laptop, the PCMCIA driver was some "i.", where > > ... was some > > string of numbers. lspci reports the PCMCIA controller as "CardBus > > bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)". > > > > The yenta driver can't be all wrong, though, because my cardbus > > Tulip-based ethernet card is recognised and loaded properly > > (up to the > > point that I can see the network interface with ifconfig). > > > > I'm thoroughly confused about the whole process of detecting PCMCIA > > cards and loading the appropriate modules in Linux 2.6, and I > > can't find > > any documentation that would explain how to fix my problem. > > > > Can somebody help me out with this? I'd be happy to send you config > > files and debugging output, only I don't know what to put here and I > > don't want to spam the list more than necessary. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Alexander. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Amilo A1630 - Somebody with this laptop out there
On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:15, Christian Bjälevik wrote: > Tobias Krais wrote: > > Hi List Users, > > > > I search users with a Amilo A1630 Notebook out there. At the moment I > > have serveral problems, maybe somebody of you solved one: > > - IrDA / FIR > > - Modem > > - Ralink Wireless > > > > I would appreciate to collect your information. I suggest to open a > > howto for this notebook and I offer space on my Website. > > > > Greetings, Tobias > > Well, I haven't got THAT notebook, but what I do have is one of Ralinks > WLAN mini-PCIs (MSI MP54G2). They have a driver for it on > http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm. The driver is really odd and IMHO > would need to be GPL to be fixed. I haven't even seen the license, but > anyway... I have to hack the driver AND/OR the kernel itself to be > actually be able to use the damn thing. > I have a Cardbus version using a realtech driver (RT2500), and it works much of the time, but some operations (iwlist scan for one) generate a segmentation failure somewhere nasty, and you need to reboot after that. Perhaps we need to collect any patches somewhere accessible, although it would be far preferable to get it GPL and incorporated into the kernel. David > Sincererly > -- > Christian .-.Bjälevik > Eskilstuna/v\[SWEDEN] > ICQ UIN // \\ 60036598 > Linux User /( )\ [344682] > GPG Key ID ^^-^^ 23FE8EB7 > Jabber & Email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ThinkPad T30, ACPI: backlight stays on during suspend
On Thursday 07 October 2004 23:14, eddyp wrote: > Hi, > > Juergen Stuber wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > > Steven Ihde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have a ThinkPad T30 I just installed with the latest stuff from > >> testing. When I try to suspend with ACPI (echo "3" > > >> /proc/acpi/sleep), the laptop appears to suspend, > > > > it does suspend, I think. > > My laptop (a Toshiba Satellite S1400-103) it wants to go to suspend, but > returns an error to return back to the previous state. > > the messages I get are: > PM: Preparing system for suspend > Stopping tasks: > === >=| Could not suspend device :00:02.0: error -5 > ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:04.0[A]: no GSI > Restarting tasks... done > > the device in question is : > :00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) > > does it have to do with the fact that I have an USB mouse? > > How can I put my laptop to sleep in this case? Have you tried unpluging the mouse first? David > > > I have a self-compiled 2.6.9-rc1 here. > > Here a 2.6.8 (Debian version) compiled by myself. > > > Jürgen > > PS.: Sorry Jürgen! > -- > > Regards, > EddyP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alsa HP zv5000 ATI IXP150 AC'97
On Friday 26 November 2004 17:20, Mateusz Milian wrote: > Greetz to All! > > I've got a problem with my sound card. I've just install sarge on hp > zv5015ea, but there is no sound. When I try to calls xmms I get: > > melon:~# xmms& > [1] 8941 > melon:~# > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such > device > > so I've changed plugin to alsa and: > > melon:~# xmms& > [1] 8438 > melon:~# > ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such > device > > > So I thought maybe I don't have alsa instaled. and I did : > > melon:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7# lspci | grep audio > :00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 > Audio Controller > > and visited www.alsa-project.org, and I found my devince, and install > howto. I proceed according to the install howto: > > melon:/# modinfo soundcore > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-386/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko > description:Core sound module > author: Alan Cox > license:GPL > alias: char-major-14-* > vermagic: 2.6.8-1-386 preempt 386 gcc-3.3 > depends: > > untill this moment: > > /configure --with-cards=atiixp --with-seq > checking for gcc... gcc > .. > checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux > checking for directory with kernel build... > checking for kernel version... 2.6.8.1 > checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: gcc 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13) > Used compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13) checking for built-in > ALSA... "yes" > configure: error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel. > make all-deps > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7' > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-deps'. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7' > > Please, run the configure script as first... > > rm -f /snd*.*o /persist.o /isapnp.o > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/acore' > Makefile:6: /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/Makefile.conf: No such file or > directory make[1]: *** No rule to make target > `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/Makefile.conf'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving > directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/acore' make: *** > [install-modules] Error 1 > > > so It seems I've got alsa built-in (my kernel is 2.6.8-1, so It's for sure) > I checked my moduls: > > melon:~# lsmod > Module Size Used by > snd_pcm_oss48168 0 > nls_cp437 6016 1 > ntfs 88660 1 > snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss > ipv6 229764 8 > ds 17796 4 > thermal12944 0 > fan 4236 0 > button 6680 0 > processor 17584 1 thermal > ac 5132 0 > battery 9740 0 > af_packet 20872 2 > ehci_hcd 27908 0 > eth139419976 0 > yenta_socket 19200 0 > pcmcia_core63028 2 ds,yenta_socket > 8139too23936 0 > 8139cp 19072 0 > mii 4864 2 8139too,8139cp > crc32 4608 2 8139too,8139cp > ohci1394 32004 0 > snd_atiixp 19880 0 > snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_atiixp > snd_pcm85384 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp > snd_timer 23172 1 snd_pcm > snd50660 6 > snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 9824 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm > tsdev 7168 0 > mousedev9996 2 > joydev 9536 0 > usbhid 28864 0 > ohci_hcd 19460 0 > usbcore 104164 5 ehci_hcd,usbhid,ohci_hcd > pci_hotplug30640 0 > ati_agp 8332 1 > agpgart31784 1 ati_agp > parport_pc 31936 0 > parport37320 1 parport_pc > evdev 9088 0 > capability 4872 0 > commoncap 7168 1 capability > sr_mod 15780 0 > sbp2 22408 0 > scsi_mod 115148 2 sr_mod,sbp2 > ieee1394 100408 3 eth1394,ohci1394,sbp2 > ide_cd 38176 0 > cdrom 35740 2 sr_mod,ide_cd > genrtc 9332 0 > ext3 109544 1 > jbd54552 1 ext3 > ide_generic 1664 0 > ide_disk 16768 4 > atiixp 8472 1 > ide_core 125156 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,atiixp > unix 25908 47 > font8576 0 > vesafb 6688 0 > cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb > cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb > cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb > > There is above snb_atiixp, so everything looks good, but still there is no > sound:( I googled that I can
Re: Alsa HP zv5000 ATI IXP150 AC'97
On Monday 29 November 2004 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thx a lot for advice, but I'll need some more help, (Sorry I'm quit fresh > in Debian only 3 weeks expierance) That means I made syslink, but then I > could't run "dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source", couse I got message:" > alsa-source is not installed", I installed alsa from .deb packeges. (I've > try to install from source, which I download from alsa-project.org, but as > I wrote before There was:"error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel.") > So my question is :Should I install alsa-source? and second: What that > means - "recompile alsa module". I try to find out(google) but I still > don't understand:( regards > Mateusz > > > > -- > Startuj z INTERIA.PL!!! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1837 I had this problem and found a solution yesterday. I upgraded the machine to the latest 2.6.9 (on unstable) and then as sound had never worked from installation I ran alsaconf which now detects the sound card correctly, and sound works. For some reason (I think it may be due to a problem with writing CDs) the default that is installed currently is 2.6.8, but 2.6.9 is available and does seem to solve this problem. This is not an an HP 5000, but on a Samsung P28, but the sound chip set is the same. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filesystem corrupted like I've never seen
On Monday 13 December 2004 10:50, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My /home and /var filesystems just got corrupted real bad and I have
> no idea why.
>
> I leave my (Latitude D600) laptop on overnight at the office normally.
> Except this monday morning I came into the office and tried to read my
> mail, and kmail promptly crashed saying the Mail folder doesn't have
> the right permissions or something.
>
> I closed everything down, rebooted, and at reboot I get tons of ide
> error messages
> dmesg gives this
>
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319017
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319017
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1306
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319021
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319021
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1307
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319025
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319025
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1308
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319029
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319029
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1309
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319033
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319033
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1310
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319037
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319037
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1311
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319041
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319041
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1312
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319045
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319045
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1313
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319049
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319049
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1314
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319053
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319053
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1315
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319057
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319057
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1316
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319061
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319061
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1317
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319065
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319065
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1318
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319069
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 10319069
> Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 1319
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10319090,
> high=0, low=10319090, sector=10319073
Re: Custom DSDT--The Debian Way?
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:24, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hello all, > > The DSDT on my Dell Inspiron 300m seems buggy--KDE > tells me I "appear to have a partial ACPI > installantion," and I get a bunch of ACPI errors on > bootup. > > I'd like to try to edit the DSDT (or use one from > acpi.sourceforge.net). > > But there are a bunch of different methods listed at > the ACPI project: A kernel patch that statically links > the custom DSDT in, another patch that allows the > kernel to load a custom DSDT in an initrd. (N.B.: > These patches appear to be against a vanilla > kernel...) > > So what's The Debian Way to do it? What do other folks > do? > I asked a very similar question a couple of weeks ago, and got the answer that there was no Debian way, and that the ACPI group preferred way is to statically link the customer DSDT. I have to say that I think this is the wrong choice, as the initrd choice gives the option of using a stock kernel, which the link in choice does not. Until recently building ones own kernel for a laptop was almost required in order to get it to work properly, and actually one of the reasons for this was the ACPI support which seemed to take a while to get into the kernel. But recently I have set up two laptops with Debian, and both of them are running stock kernels. Yes on both of them I have had to add in some modules (the madwifi driver for Atheros wireless support), but that is done without modifying the base kernel. David > Thanks, > > R. > > > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WLAN PCMCIA + USB Bluetooth under Deb
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:45, Hans Kaiser wrote: > Hello list, > > I got irriteted searching and trying different WLAN and Bluetooth products. > Maybe this list could help. > > I need following WLAN-features: > - good support under linux (debian) ideally with open source drivers > directy from the vendor. > - good support for network analysis (kismet, airsnort and so on) > - ideally support for 2.4GHz and 5 GHz bands, but the 5GHz isn't much > important > - support for 11MBps, 54Mbps (if possible on both bands 2.4GHz and 5GHz) > - if available in Europe/Germany, even if not allowed a 200mW Card > - support for an external antenna I would go for the Senao cards, they have both Prism and Atheros based cards (but not Prism54 I think), they have external antennae and go up to 200mW (but not in Europe). Although the drivers are not written by Senao there is very good support using the hostap and madwifi drivers. Actually having the drivers from the card vendor makes little sense, you need it from the chip vendor, and the Atheros certainly encouraged the development of the madwifi driver, and somewhere along the line Intersil (who then owned prism) released enough information for the hostap driver to be written. In Germany, try Freebird as a supplier for these cards. David > > For Bluetooth I need following features: > - good support under linux/debian, ideally with open source driver of the > vendor > - Class1 (100m) if available > > A frustrated user who needs help > > best regards, > Hans > > -- > +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ > 1 GB Mailbox bereits in GMX FreeMail http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP laptop
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 03:01, David Mandelberg wrote: > Dimitris E. Kiousis wrote: > > Will I encounter any problems? > > Probably nothing immediate, most basic things (e.g. keyboard, monitor, hard > drive, etc.) are supported. You may have problems with power management, > the touchpad (increasingly unlikely), and peripherals. The centrino wlan > chipsets don't work well with GNU/Linux, but should be ok with ndiswrapper > (I think). Actually HP are very good about using the proper DSDT compiler from Intel and therefore not producing bad ACPI interfaces. As to the Intel wireless chips they are properly supported by an Open Source driver distributed by Intel. Both the ipw2100-source and ipw2200-source packages are available from Debian. > > > Are HP compatible with Linux and Debian? > > Not specifically, but many of the parts are. HP are vocal supports of Linux, and do have some laptops that you can buy from them which come preloaded with Linux. Unlike many other large companies that support linux, HP do work with Debian. > > > Do I have to download any particular drivers? > > Install first, then if anything doesn't work, use google. E.g. if the > touchpad doesn't work, search for 'linux "HP NX-9030" touchpad' or similar. Most likely you will need the synaptics touchpad driver which seems to drive all of the touchpads I have met recently. It is packaged for Debian. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP laptop
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:12, Steffen Waldherr wrote: > Hi, > > > > E.g. if the touchpad doesn't work, search for 'linux "HP > > > NX-9030" touchpad' or similar. > > > > Most likely you will need the synaptics touchpad driver > > which seems to drive all of the touchpads I have met > > recently. It is packaged for Debian. > > my experience is that on the HP/Compaq nc series, the touchpad > can be used without synaptics. It does not support taps and > drags, but the buttons work and since I mostly use an external > mouse, I do not bother installing synaptics. True, I should have said "for basic support the touchpad will work out of the box, but for extended functions you will need synaptics which works with just about all touchpads I have met recently". David > > Greetings > Steffen Waldherr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?
Not currently that I know of. Sounds like a good use for Kommander. I was thinking of writing something, but have not gotten around to it yet. David On Friday 10 June 2005 12:52, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du vendredi 10 juin 2005, vers 01:06, Matej > > Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > Well, this is KDE-prefering computer, so I will wait until all this > > beauty will be ported to KDE. And yes, I will have to probably wait on > > KDE based on D-BUS. Oh well. > > BTW, is there any KDE based network manager that plays nice with > ifupdown ? > -- > # Basic IBM dingbats, some of which will never have a purpose clear > # to mankind > 2.4.0 linux/drivers/char/cp437.uni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Hi, > > I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable > packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the > screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to > save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on > battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When > ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the > keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the > laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be > offline.) > > Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 > and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). > > I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo > 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) > > Thanks, > Paulo Lopes > > PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker. Are you using the drivers from www.winischhoffer.net, or are you using the ones that ship with the kernel and XFree? If the latter, switch to the former, they work much better. David
Re: fb+acpi(suspend) for sis630
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:34, Albert Dengg wrote: > hi > has anybody an idea if it is possible to get a fb running on a Gericom > Overdose3 (sis630 chipset)? > (the vesa,sis and vga16 ones do not work, anyway not with the standard > parameters...) Are you using the standard kernel fb support, or that from Thomas Winischhofer (www.winischhofer.net). If the former, try the latter it works much better. > > the other problem that i have is quite minor but it would be nice to > find a solution... > does anybody have a clue if it is possible to get a suspend-to-ram > working on that laptop? > I tried both apm and acpi, with the samse result: the notebook suspends > correctly, but in the wakeup-process it juest hangs up(i shows the > sdreen, but it won't take any input. > > > thanks > > greetings, > Albert Dengg
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:05, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of > >>3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the > >>proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last > >>charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop > >>during 30 minutes... > > > >If it's an older laptop it's probably just that the battery is dead. The > >maximum charge on batteries becomes less with use. My own laptop only > >lasted about 30 minutes in the end. After a battery swap (I had a spare) > >i'm back to more then 2 hours. > > The laptop is a clevo 2700c with ~2 years I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. David > > >>Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks. > > > >If it's not an older battery/laptop... try discharging it fully and then > >do a full charge with the laptop turned off.
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:58, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the > > point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour > > and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. > > > >I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes > > which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. > > Humm... can you give more info on your battery? brand, references, where > to buy? 3h 40m is pretty cool for me (at least is better than 15 minutes > :-) > > Paulo Lopes I got mine from the same place I got the Clevo in the first place. It is just a slightly greater capacity version of the same thing. If you can not find one locally, I am sure my supplier would ship one to you. David
Re: Problem with hermes wireless card
On Friday 30 May 2003 07:53, niklas adolfsson wrote: > mel kravitz wrote: > >Joel Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>info about the pci card > >>02:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan > >>chipset (rev 01) > > > >this chipset is better supported by the hostap, or linux-wlan-ng > >drivers, ses: > >1)http://hostap.epitest.fi/ > >2)http://www.linux-wlan.org/ > >i use both drivers on different boxes, they support prism2->3 cards. > >-Mel > > When will Debian have a package that fixes this problem with Hermes and > Prism cards, the orinoco driver that is default (i think) is not > updated, the Prism2 card that i have shall work with a newer orinoco > driver but i'm to green to install and get drivers working, every time i > try i end up with no network so now im sticking to the slow orinoco > driver. couldnt anyone otherwise make a really good step by step guide > to install one of the workink drivers for Hermes and Prism cards. > > niklas Try the hostap pacakges. There is hostapd (an authentication deamon), hostap-utils (utilities for hostap) and hostap-source (the kernel driver). You also need to install pcmcia-source. Then use make-kpkg modules_install to build the install deb against your kernel and install the hostapdeb file. David
Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:27, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: > > There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to > > detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure > > various things. [...] I've tried several, and I think I > > advocated whereami to someone at some point > > whereami works but it is harder to configure than ifscout > and (more seriousl) is incompatible with ifupdown, the > standard network-interface management package. I am not at all sure I understand what you mean that whereami and ifupdown are incompatible. I use them both on my machine all the time. > > > but it seems Thomas Hood's > > ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His solution has the > > configuration reside entirely in /etc/networks/interfaces. > > And in many instances needs almost no configuration at all. > > Yes. > > Please note that the features of ifscout are in the process > of being integrated into guessnet by the intrepid Enrico > Zini. The work is not yet complete; the guessnet release in > sid (0.21) is broken and lacks some important features. > However, once the work is done, guessnet will work like > ifscout, only faster. :)
Re: SiS 650 and text mode switching
But are you using the Winischhofer frame buffer driver, or a sufficiently recent (2.4.22 I think) kernel what already has it. Console mode is entirely dependant on the frame buffer. David On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27, Eduardo Gsmez wrote: > Yes, I'm using the Thomas Winischhofer driver, > downloaded and installed via dpkg-reconfigure > sisxdriver. > But the problem seems to be the mode saving and > restoration, I insist. If I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then > Ctrl-Alt-F7, it appears the stripe and then returns to > graphical mode. While in this "banded virtual console" > I can work, I mean, change users, reboot, create > files. But there are no characters available, just > pixels, a reduced, distorted and restricted to the top > of the screen version of the text console. > > > --- Moteuchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribis: > > Hello, > > > I had this problem in SIS M650. The screen blends to > > white. > > > > Visit www.winischhofer.net. > > > > I have one problem only, the Tv output is B/W(PAL). > > > > Sorry for my english, I speak spanish. > > > > Moteuchi > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versisn GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y mas... > http://messenger.yahoo.es
Installing 3.0 (woody eventually) on an ECS A900
I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it. First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but no floppy). This hung just after it had detected the lack of floppy. So I downloaded a BF2.4 ISO, and tried that. This got further, but the box has SIS 630 video, and the SIS framebuffer driver obviously did not like the support chips. So I overrode the boot line with:- linux vga=791 video=vesa and got further. I got a framebuffer with tux up the top, and it powered its was through and put out the message:- Compac CISS driver (version 2.4.5) and hung. >From what I can see the next thing it should be doing is looking for ethernet hardware. This box is supposed to have a RealTek chip in it but as yet I do not know what kind (I will find out shortly). I also had a copy of SuSE 7.1 lying around, so I tried that, and as that does not seem to try to access the LAN hardware, it worked a treat. So at least I will be able to find out what kind of LAN chip I have and whether the driver loads correctly (and which driver) for my next Debian attempt. I would much rather run Debian than SuSE on this box. Any thought welcome David
Re: Installing 3.0 (woody eventually) on an ECS A900
On Friday 16 August 2002 13:50, David Goodenough wrote: > I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the > N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it. > > First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but > no floppy). This hung just after it had detected the lack of floppy. > > So I downloaded a BF2.4 ISO, and tried that. This got further, but the > box has SIS 630 video, and the SIS framebuffer driver obviously did not > like the support chips. So I overrode the boot line with:- > > linux vga=791 video=vesa > > and got further. I got a framebuffer with tux up the top, and it powered > its was through and put out the message:- > > Compac CISS driver (version 2.4.5) > > and hung. > > From what I can see the next thing it should be doing is looking for > ethernet hardware. This box is supposed to have a RealTek chip in it > but as yet I do not know what kind (I will find out shortly). > > I also had a copy of SuSE 7.1 lying around, so I tried that, and as > that does not seem to try to access the LAN hardware, it worked a treat. > > So at least I will be able to find out what kind of LAN chip I have > and whether the driver loads correctly (and which driver) for my next > Debian attempt. I would much rather run Debian than SuSE on this box. > > Any thought welcome > > David Well it turned out that what I needed was the idepci boot ISO. From there on it was a breaze, given that I already had SIS630 chip boxes around and therefore knew to use the vesa driver until I could move to 4.2 (plus latest fixes) of XFree. Ta David
[Ann] ECS A900 Debian install HOWTO
I have posted a mini-HOWTO documenting my experience installing Debian unstable on an ECS A900 (aka Novatech nBook). While it is a tail that is specific to this box and distribution, there are bits of it that are useful to anyone with a SIS630 laptop, and to most Linux distributions. It can be found at http://dga.co.uk/howto along with various other simple HOWTOs for everyday functions.
[Ann] ECS A900 Debian install HOWTO
I have posted a mini-HOWTO documenting my experience installing Debian unstable on an ECS A900 (aka Novatech nBook). While it is a tail that is specific to this box and distribution, there are bits of it that are useful to anyone with a SIS630 laptop, and to most Linux distributions. It can be found at http://dga.co.uk/howto along with various other simple HOWTOs for everyday functions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM + KDE3 bug, i guess...
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:14, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Hi, > > I've a laptop with Debian Woody with KDE 3.0.5 only with stable > packages, and when i don't use it for a while the KDE turns on the > screen saver, and after a while the APM subsystem turns the LDC off to > save power. This works fine when i'm connected to power. When i'm on > battery it works fine until the time that APM turns my LCD off. When > ever this happends, the LCD turns on and the system crashes! (the > keyboard or mouse does not respond and even if i try to get into the > laptop from another computer from the network, the LAPTOP seams to be > offline.) > > Is this a bug? or do i need any patch to my kernel? i've kernel 2.4.18 > and if i'm not mistache it worked fine on KDE 3.0.3 (not shure for 3.0.4). > > I only get this problem while i'm on batteries. My laptop is a Clevo > 2700C (sometimes it explains everything :-) > > Thanks, > Paulo Lopes > > PS: Sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker. Are you using the drivers from www.winischhoffer.net, or are you using the ones that ship with the kernel and XFree? If the latter, switch to the former, they work much better. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fb+acpi(suspend) for sis630
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:34, Albert Dengg wrote: > hi > has anybody an idea if it is possible to get a fb running on a Gericom > Overdose3 (sis630 chipset)? > (the vesa,sis and vga16 ones do not work, anyway not with the standard > parameters...) Are you using the standard kernel fb support, or that from Thomas Winischhofer (www.winischhofer.net). If the former, try the latter it works much better. > > the other problem that i have is quite minor but it would be nice to > find a solution... > does anybody have a clue if it is possible to get a suspend-to-ram > working on that laptop? > I tried both apm and acpi, with the samse result: the notebook suspends > correctly, but in the wakeup-process it juest hangs up(i shows the > sdreen, but it won't take any input. > > > thanks > > greetings, > Albert Dengg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:05, Paulo Lopes wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of > >>3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the > >>proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last > >>charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop > >>during 30 minutes... > > > >If it's an older laptop it's probably just that the battery is dead. The > >maximum charge on batteries becomes less with use. My own laptop only > >lasted about 30 minutes in the end. After a battery swap (I had a spare) > >i'm back to more then 2 hours. > > The laptop is a clevo 2700c with ~2 years I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. David > > >>Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks. > > > >If it's not an older battery/laptop... try discharging it fully and then > >do a full charge with the laptop turned off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge
On Monday 10 February 2003 18:58, Paulo Lopes wrote: > >I have a Clevo 2700T and mine died after about a year. It got to the > > point of apparently charging fully, and then going down to about 1:04hour > > and then suddenly saying that it only had 4 minutes. > > > >I replaced it with a new 8 cell battery and I now get 3hours 40minutes > > which is wonderful. It cost #80, but it is very useful. > > Humm... can you give more info on your battery? brand, references, where > to buy? 3h 40m is pretty cool for me (at least is better than 15 minutes > :-) > > Paulo Lopes I got mine from the same place I got the Clevo in the first place. It is just a slightly greater capacity version of the same thing. If you can not find one locally, I am sure my supplier would ship one to you. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:27, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: > > There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to > > detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure > > various things. [...] I've tried several, and I think I > > advocated whereami to someone at some point > > whereami works but it is harder to configure than ifscout > and (more seriousl) is incompatible with ifupdown, the > standard network-interface management package. I am not at all sure I understand what you mean that whereami and ifupdown are incompatible. I use them both on my machine all the time. > > > but it seems Thomas Hood's > > ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His solution has the > > configuration reside entirely in /etc/networks/interfaces. > > And in many instances needs almost no configuration at all. > > Yes. > > Please note that the features of ifscout are in the process > of being integrated into guessnet by the intrepid Enrico > Zini. The work is not yet complete; the guessnet release in > sid (0.21) is broken and lacks some important features. > However, once the work is done, guessnet will work like > ifscout, only faster. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with hermes wireless card
On Friday 30 May 2003 07:53, niklas adolfsson wrote: > mel kravitz wrote: > >Joel Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>info about the pci card > >>02:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan > >>chipset (rev 01) > > > >this chipset is better supported by the hostap, or linux-wlan-ng > >drivers, ses: > >1)http://hostap.epitest.fi/ > >2)http://www.linux-wlan.org/ > >i use both drivers on different boxes, they support prism2->3 cards. > >-Mel > > When will Debian have a package that fixes this problem with Hermes and > Prism cards, the orinoco driver that is default (i think) is not > updated, the Prism2 card that i have shall work with a newer orinoco > driver but i'm to green to install and get drivers working, every time i > try i end up with no network so now im sticking to the slow orinoco > driver. couldnt anyone otherwise make a really good step by step guide > to install one of the workink drivers for Hermes and Prism cards. > > niklas Try the hostap pacakges. There is hostapd (an authentication deamon), hostap-utils (utilities for hostap) and hostap-source (the kernel driver). You also need to install pcmcia-source. Then use make-kpkg modules_install to build the install deb against your kernel and install the hostapdeb file. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SiS 650 and text mode switching
But are you using the Winischhofer frame buffer driver, or a sufficiently recent (2.4.22 I think) kernel what already has it. Console mode is entirely dependant on the frame buffer. David On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27, Eduardo Gsmez wrote: > Yes, I'm using the Thomas Winischhofer driver, > downloaded and installed via dpkg-reconfigure > sisxdriver. > But the problem seems to be the mode saving and > restoration, I insist. If I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then > Ctrl-Alt-F7, it appears the stripe and then returns to > graphical mode. While in this "banded virtual console" > I can work, I mean, change users, reboot, create > files. But there are no characters available, just > pixels, a reduced, distorted and restricted to the top > of the screen version of the text console. > > > --- Moteuchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribis: > > Hello, > > > I had this problem in SIS M650. The screen blends to > > white. > > > > Visit www.winischhofer.net. > > > > I have one problem only, the Tv output is B/W(PAL). > > > > Sorry for my english, I speak spanish. > > > > Moteuchi > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versisn GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y mas... > http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with kernel 2.4 on new laptop
I just got myself a new laptop (the old one died). Its a Clevo D410E, with a Pentium IV and Ati 9000 graphics. My first attempt to install was to use Knoppix, but as soon as it tried to load the kernel (a 2.4 kernel) it cleared the screen and stopped. So I tried a Debian 3.0r1 CD, and installed that with a 2.2 kernel, and it works. It boots quite happily and I can run all my normal stuff on it, provided I stick to stable. Normally I run unstable on my laptops as they generally work better and also I get KDE 3, OO, Eclipse etc. So I tried upgrading to unstable, keeping the kernel, but I got into a problem with upgrading libc6, it complained that sleep 1 and ldconfig both caused illegal instrunction exceptions. So I thought well maybe there is something in this P IV that it does not like, and tried to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. I tried 2.4.22, and it failed in exactly the same manner as knoppix. I select the 2.4 kernel from Lilo, and it unpacks the kernel, says that it is now going to boot the kernel, it clears the screen and stops dead. So I thought well maybe this is an apic problem, and tried noapic, no change. So I thought maybe this is a graphics problem, the Ati 9000 being relatively new. So I tried video=vesa, and that made no difference. So I then remembered I had had difficulties with video=vesa with some stock 2.4 kernels on another machine, and set up a serial console. I tested this on the 2.2 kernel, and then tried with the 2.4, exactly nothing came our of the console. I notice that in the 2.4.23 kernel there is a fix that provides a nolapic parameter, but I do not know if that is even remotely relevant. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be the cause of the problem, or how to proceed with debugging? Thanks in advance David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:18, Jan Koch wrote: > Hello, > last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience > linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to > choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the > installation. :( The cd and even dvd (Book: Debian GNU/Linux Peter Ganten) > are booting and i can choose which kernel i would like to install. I type > bf24 and the install seems to start, but not very well. Usually u see Tux > after a few seconds on a new scrren (i tested this with my internet pc) > but my laptops screen stays black. Anyone knows what i can do? Other > distribution work without a problem (e.g. fedora, knoppix). > Hope you can help me. > > MfG Jan Koch If you have knoppix working, then there is a procedure for installing to hard disk from the CD. Knoppix is based on Debian, so after you have installed knoppix you can then use apt-get to upgrade to current testing or unstable (going backwards to stable prbably won't work). Knoppix is build of a mixture of testing, unstable and some uniques. Your problem may be related to one I had with a Clevo 410E, where it would install with a 2.2 kernel, but not a 2.4 kernel (at the time there were no distros with a 2.6 kernel). This was due to the flavour of Pentium IV and support chips which 2.2 did not recognise, so it worked (but obviously things like USB - in particular USB2 did not) after a fashion. 2.4 knew enough about the chips to make a mess, and hung before the boot console log started to appear on screen. So what I did in the end was to install 2.2 and then install a 2.6 kernel on top of that. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVI output?
Try taking a copy of Knoppix with you to the shop, and see it they will let you try it. Then you will know if it "just works". On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:34, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > Juraj Ziegler wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>did anyone try Linux on on a laptop with a DVI port (maybe on the port > >>replicator)? > > > > Nope, but my guess is it would just work, out of the box. You connect > > your fancy flat panel to the DVI port, the gfx card notices this and > > sends output there. > > After what I've read on various mailing lists nothing "just works" with > Linux on a laptop (see: Intel WLAN, the problems with 1400x1050 & > i855GM, ACPI suspend, card reader etc.). I definitely don't want to > spend thousands of ¤ on hardware and find that I can't use it. > > > Have you tried it and experienced problems, or are you just asking in > > forward? > > I didn't try it. I'm planning to purchase a laptop which I also want to > use as a replacement for my PC, so DVI & Dual Screen is very important. > The most interesting device is the Acer Travelmate 6003, but it is very > unlikely that they fixed the annoying i855GM bug. Another candidate is > the HP nc8000, but it's far more expensive. > > Regards, > Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with kernel 2.4 on new laptop
I just got myself a new laptop (the old one died). Its a Clevo D410E, with a Pentium IV and Ati 9000 graphics. My first attempt to install was to use Knoppix, but as soon as it tried to load the kernel (a 2.4 kernel) it cleared the screen and stopped. So I tried a Debian 3.0r1 CD, and installed that with a 2.2 kernel, and it works. It boots quite happily and I can run all my normal stuff on it, provided I stick to stable. Normally I run unstable on my laptops as they generally work better and also I get KDE 3, OO, Eclipse etc. So I tried upgrading to unstable, keeping the kernel, but I got into a problem with upgrading libc6, it complained that sleep 1 and ldconfig both caused illegal instrunction exceptions. So I thought well maybe there is something in this P IV that it does not like, and tried to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. I tried 2.4.22, and it failed in exactly the same manner as knoppix. I select the 2.4 kernel from Lilo, and it unpacks the kernel, says that it is now going to boot the kernel, it clears the screen and stops dead. So I thought well maybe this is an apic problem, and tried noapic, no change. So I thought maybe this is a graphics problem, the Ati 9000 being relatively new. So I tried video=vesa, and that made no difference. So I then remembered I had had difficulties with video=vesa with some stock 2.4 kernels on another machine, and set up a serial console. I tested this on the 2.2 kernel, and then tried with the 2.4, exactly nothing came our of the console. I notice that in the 2.4.23 kernel there is a fix that provides a nolapic parameter, but I do not know if that is even remotely relevant. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be the cause of the problem, or how to proceed with debugging? Thanks in advance David
Re: Debian an Acer Travelmate 291lmi
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:18, Jan Koch wrote: > Hello, > last week i bought this notebook (from Mediamarkt) and wanted experience > linux the first time. Because i want to understand linux i wanted to > choose debian. But i have a critical problem. I can't start the > installation. :( The cd and even dvd (Book: Debian GNU/Linux Peter Ganten) > are booting and i can choose which kernel i would like to install. I type > bf24 and the install seems to start, but not very well. Usually u see Tux > after a few seconds on a new scrren (i tested this with my internet pc) > but my laptops screen stays black. Anyone knows what i can do? Other > distribution work without a problem (e.g. fedora, knoppix). > Hope you can help me. > > MfG Jan Koch If you have knoppix working, then there is a procedure for installing to hard disk from the CD. Knoppix is based on Debian, so after you have installed knoppix you can then use apt-get to upgrade to current testing or unstable (going backwards to stable prbably won't work). Knoppix is build of a mixture of testing, unstable and some uniques. Your problem may be related to one I had with a Clevo 410E, where it would install with a 2.2 kernel, but not a 2.4 kernel (at the time there were no distros with a 2.6 kernel). This was due to the flavour of Pentium IV and support chips which 2.2 did not recognise, so it worked (but obviously things like USB - in particular USB2 did not) after a fashion. 2.4 knew enough about the chips to make a mess, and hung before the boot console log started to appear on screen. So what I did in the end was to install 2.2 and then install a 2.6 kernel on top of that. David
Re: DVI output?
Try taking a copy of Knoppix with you to the shop, and see it they will let you try it. Then you will know if it "just works". On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:34, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > Juraj Ziegler wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>did anyone try Linux on on a laptop with a DVI port (maybe on the port > >>replicator)? > > > > Nope, but my guess is it would just work, out of the box. You connect > > your fancy flat panel to the DVI port, the gfx card notices this and > > sends output there. > > After what I've read on various mailing lists nothing "just works" with > Linux on a laptop (see: Intel WLAN, the problems with 1400x1050 & > i855GM, ACPI suspend, card reader etc.). I definitely don't want to > spend thousands of € on hardware and find that I can't use it. > > > Have you tried it and experienced problems, or are you just asking in > > forward? > > I didn't try it. I'm planning to purchase a laptop which I also want to > use as a replacement for my PC, so DVI & Dual Screen is very important. > The most interesting device is the Acer Travelmate 6003, but it is very > unlikely that they fixed the annoying i855GM bug. Another candidate is > the HP nc8000, but it's far more expensive. > > Regards, > Andreas
komnibook
Has anyone used komnibook under Debian, if so is there a .deb for it anywhere. It does not seem to be part of the regular tree, and apt-get.org could not find one, but I thought I would ask. David
Re: PCMCIA wireless on kernel 2.6
Better still, use hostap. It has far more function that the orinoco driver, supports the same (more or less) set of chips (the prism 2/2.5/3 set) and runs using the standard pcmcia support in the recent 2.6 kernels. If you are running with a 2.6 kernel (there are only prebuild modules for 2.4.26) you need the hostap-source package, along with wireless-tools and hostap-utils. Then build the modules you are done. David On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:16, Marcus Will, FG MUCOSA, +49(431)597-1487 wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > What's been working for me so far: > > - Build your kernel 2.6.8 > - install the pcmcia_cs sources from sf.net > - just run the >configure< of the pcmcia_cs sources > (The 2.6 relies on the pcmcia kernel infrastructure: don't >build anything here.) > - get the wlan-ng sources and build the >prism< modules > > Hope this helps, > > Marcus > > > As far as I understand the documentation, the 2632W should be > > supported > > by the orinoco_cs driver. (It's the old version of the card, of circa > > 2001 or so, not the new Atmel based one.) This driver is built, and I > > can load it with modprobe, but to no further effect. > > > > I'm using the yenta driver for the PCMCIA subsystem itself. > > This driver > > loads ok, according to the boot messages, although I'm not > > entirely sure > > that I have a yenta socket. In my previous (kernel 2.4) > > installation of > > the same laptop, the PCMCIA driver was some "i.", where > > ... was some > > string of numbers. lspci reports the PCMCIA controller as "CardBus > > bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)". > > > > The yenta driver can't be all wrong, though, because my cardbus > > Tulip-based ethernet card is recognised and loaded properly > > (up to the > > point that I can see the network interface with ifconfig). > > > > I'm thoroughly confused about the whole process of detecting PCMCIA > > cards and loading the appropriate modules in Linux 2.6, and I > > can't find > > any documentation that would explain how to fix my problem. > > > > Can somebody help me out with this? I'd be happy to send you config > > files and debugging output, only I don't know what to put here and I > > don't want to spam the list more than necessary. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Alexander. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkinitrd is already adapted to add the DSDT
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:42, A Mennucc wrote:
> hi there
>
> I am very interested in patches for custom DSDT support (I own
> an ASUS notebook which has a broken DSDT, so ACPI suspend does not work;
> and there is a fixed DSDT in acpi.sf.net that I would love to try);
>
> I hope that they would accepted in Debian's shipped kernel
> (see bug 251023).
>
> So I want to point a very important fact: the command /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
> in Debian Sarge already supports those patches: at the end it
> sports the lines
>
>
> if [ -e /etc/mkinitrd/DSDT ]; then
>echo -n "INITRDDSDT123DSDT123" >>${initrd_file}
>cat /etc/mkinitrd/DSDT >>${initrd_file}
> fi
>
> so the Debian user would just need to put the fixed DSDT in
> /etc/mkinitrd/DSDT and it would be included in mkinitrd, and
> (as soon as the patch is accepted in default Debian kernels)
> it would be loaded at startup: easy and clean.
>
> I guess that for the above mkinitrd snippet , we would need the patch
> http://gaugusch.at/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patches/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patch-v0.7d-2.
>6.9.patch (for kernel >= 2.6.9 ) and the patch
> http://gaugusch.at/acpi-dsdt-initrd-patches/acpi-dsdt-initramfs-fix-2.6.10-
>cleanup.patch (for kernel == 2.6.10 )
>
> Unfortunately this last patch fails on the standard kernel in Sarge, that
> is 2.6.8 ... I will need to look into it ..
>
> a.
I agree that this would be useful. When I raised it several months ago
I was told that this INITRD method was not the prefered route in the
kernel currently as they prefer the route of statically linking the DSDT
into the kernel. I think this is daft as most people do not want to get
involved in building kernels. Actually I think that while this method is
better than a whole kernel build that really the best solution would be
to modify the kernel and LILO/GRUB/whatever_boot_loader to take a
file name for the DSDT and then all that is needed is to create the
file - much easier for Joe User.
The problem obviously is that this has to be done VERY early in the
kernel boot process so no solution is going to be trivial, but it must
be as easy as possible for Joe User as many laptops have these
problems.
David
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Re: USB to RCA and time server
On Sunday 03 July 2005 21:18, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne ne 3. července 2005 20:37 gustavo halperin napsal(a): > > Second, I have a little problem with the clock or time in my laptop, > > maybe the > > battery is dead. The problem is that after each suspend to memory the > > clock loose the really hour. My question is: there are some program that > > is in continuous check with some server that give the time ?? > > # apt-get install ntpdate > > then insert nearest timeservers into /etc/default/ntpdate and add line No, the value in this file should be set to pool.ntp.org (and it is probably set to this already) then you will be get cycled around a pool of suitable servers. There is no need to select a server. David > > /etc/init.d/ntpdate reload & > > into your suspend/resume script and maybe also in root's crontab. > > Regards > Mixi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACER3002LCI - wireless & bluetooth
Use the lspci command to see what it installed. Paste the result into a response to this note and maybe we can help. David On Friday 15 July 2005 20:37, Angelo Zerbetto wrote: > Debian community, > > I´ve bought a Acer 3002 LCI and installed a Debian 3.1ra OS. > Debian identified almost all cards of my notebook, Debian hasn´t identified > the wireless card somebody can help me install my wireless card and the > bluetooth capability... > > Thanks, > Angelo > > __ > Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger > http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prism54, 2.6.8, WG511
On Friday 12 August 2005 19:21, Chris Beggy wrote: > I'm failing to run a WG511 wireless CardBus card, with the latest prism54 > firmware and driver, on a Toshiba 2100. > > The prism54 seems to be loaded with hotplug. > > Is the problem with IRQ, pcmcia, PCI? > Restarting /etc/init.d/pcmcia or /etc/init.d/networking do not > fix things. The entry for the WG511 /etc/networks/interfaces > seems OK. The device gets recognized by iwconfig as sit0, which > seems strange. > > Here's some output from dmesg: > > Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 0 > Socket status: 3020 > PCI: IRQ 0 for device :00:13.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try > pci=usepirqmask PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device > :00:13.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. Yenta: CardBus bridge found at > :00:13.1 [1179:0001] > Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 0 > Socket status: 3020 > Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2 > PCI: Enabling device :01:00.0 ( -> 0002) > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device :01:00.0. > Please try using pci=biosirq. This is your clue. Try using pci=biosirq and the problem should go away. David > eth0: could not install IRQ handler > prism54: probe of :01:00.0 failed with error -5 > > Thanks. > > Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
